"But... maybe it's possible?" Faced with Xu Zhen's question, Qi Yunzheng answered seriously and hesitantly, "That is an ancient secret passage. It may have been used for emergency escape in the past, but part of the passage leading to the south collapsed. Well, if you want to find the exit, I'm afraid you have to dig..."
"What? Have you ever been in there?" Song Zhili's eyes widened and he thought to himself, is this my home?
Qi Yunzheng nodded: "After the second sister found the entrance, I went in to check. If there is wind inside, there must be an exit."
"Sir Song," Xu Zhen shrugged and said to Song Zhili, "since you have revealed such a big secret, there is nothing I can do! If my guess is right, they will definitely come to the Yamen tonight to rob someone. , if we want to snatch Cui Xiaotian away, we’d better make plans in advance!”
After hearing Xu Zhen's words, everyone became even more anxious.
"Dare!" Only Shen Yutian, the tiger girl, was not afraid. "Whoever dares to rob someone, I will use the iron rod!"
WTF?
Iron rod?
Xu Zhen didn't quite understand, but he could roughly guess that Shen Yu was so powerful that it was obviously not easy for him to use ordinary wooden sticks.
Most likely, she played with iron rods, but Mr. Shen was afraid that the iron rods would be too lethal and that she would get into trouble, so he kept letting her play with wooden sticks.
But... I have to say that with Shen Yu here, Xu Zhen is somewhat confident.
"We..." However, Chen Houlu tried his best to seek peace. "Can we not use force? Can we come up with a comprehensive strategy and negotiate with the governor?"
"To be honest with you," Song Zhili said, "He has given me conditions. As long as Cui Xiaotian is released, he will not only save our lives, but also give me a promotion."
"Yes!" Chen Houlu was overjoyed, "Wouldn't that be great?"
"It's impossible," Shen Mingchen emphasized again, "After Cui Xiaotian is handed over, they will definitely find a way to kill us! If we dare to burn down the grain depot, what are we little people?"
"Think about it for a moment," Xu Zhen said. "If I were the governor, my top priority now would be to capture only two things. One is to catch Cui Xiaotian and force him to reveal what the life-saving mechanism is. The second is to find the insider. Kill them all!”
"Then..." Finally, Cheng Xiao, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke up, "What if we kill Cui Xiaotian now?"
"..." Everyone was silent, all thinking about the consequences of killing Cui Xiaotian.
Obviously, this idea is wrong. Killing Cui Xiaotian is equivalent to dying with the other party.
"Xu Zhen," Song Zhili was still complaining about Xu Zhen, "You know best in your heart that all this happened because of you. For your own selfish desires, everyone in our Yamen was killed!
"Since you wanted to bring down Cui Xiaotian from the beginning, you should have thought of a countermeasure earlier, right?"
What?
Everyone just felt overwhelmed and couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all.
"What...what's going on?" Chen Houlu was even more confused. "Why did it happen because of Xu Zhen? Didn't we arrest the wrong person?"
"Destroy Cui Xiaotian?" Shen Yu was even more confused.
As a result, everyone's curious eyes turned to Xu Zhen.
Xu Zhen naturally understood that Song Zhili wanted to gain hatred for himself before he died, and he was still brooding over the fact that he had deceived him into the game.
"Yes," Xu Zhen glared at Song Zhili and began to fight back, "I had a plan before, but you shouldn't interrogate Cui Xiaotian privately. If you didn't force Cui Xiaotian to tell the secret, we might still have room for change."
"Hey? Are you blaming me?" Of course Song Zhili refused, "If I didn't pry out the secret from Cui Xiaotian, then we would have been doomed long ago!"
"What ours? If you don't let Cui Xiaotian confess, then you will be dismissed!" Xu Zhen said mercilessly, "Don't say it so high-sounding. To put it bluntly, it's not for your own selfish desires?
"You forcibly interrogated Cui Xiaotian just because you wanted to gain leverage from the superior officials, thinking that in this way you could become the second Cui Xiaotian!"
"You...you're talking nonsense!" Song Zhili was so angry that he went crazy.
"Let me ask you," Xu Zhen asked, "before you interrogated Cui Xiaotian, why didn't you discuss it with me first? Since you interrogated Cui Xiaotian, why didn't you interrogate the so-called life-saving mechanism as well?"
"Huh? Right?" Chen Houlu's eyes lit up, "If we know what the life-saving mechanism is, can we borrow it?"
"Chen Xiancheng, it's useless to interrogate us," Shen Mingchen shook his head, "Then they won't let us go!"
"For my own selfish desires?" Song Zhili was so anxious that tears welled up in his eyes, and he said angrily, "If it was for my own selfish desires, then I would have just promised Governor Han to join their circle!
"Xu Zhen," he excitedly picked up the pile of papers torn by Han Wentao, "do you really think that I don't want to be a good official that much? Do I really not think about the people at all?
"There are four big bullies in Yanping County! If I really wanted to be a corrupt official, I would have worn the same pants with these four people!"
"But, what's the use of my empty blood? It's not easy to shake a tree with a worm!" Song Zhili was so excited that he trembled all over. "Look at me now. I am very happy that I eradicated the two bullies, but for me, it's different. What is coming?
"Sacrificing one's life for righteousness sounds nice, but if one really sacrifices one's life, will one be able to obtain that righteousness? This is simply a worthless sacrifice! I want to live...am I guilty of that too!?"
Song Zhili's words are true and have a certain truth to them.
It is not easy to be an official, and it is even more difficult to be an official in the Daxuan Dynasty where power is in decline and power is at odds.
Xu Zhen also knew that Song Zhili was not a good official in the strict sense, but he was definitely not a corrupt official.
Otherwise, no matter how perfect Xu Zhen's previous plan was, Song Zhili would not be able to choose to become enemies with the bullies.
"Originally..." Xu Zhen said in a gentle tone, "I wanted to use the power of the people to get rid of Cui Xiaotian. If you had not interrogated him, Cui Xiaotian would have died on the street in the end.
"But it's too late to say anything now, we can't even get out of the Yamen!"
"Why can't you get out?" Shen Yu stood up and said, "I'm going to find an iron rod right now and fight my way out!"
"Sit down!" Shen Mingchen quickly pressed Shen Yu down.
"Then dig a tunnel," Cheng Xiao came up with the idea, "dig the tunnel, take Cui Xiaotian out, and then implement your plan."
"It's useless," Xu Zhen shook his head helplessly, "I said, my plan is based on you not letting Cui Xiaotian tell the secret. Now even if we let the common people kill Cui Xiaotian, we will still be killed. disaster!"
"Ah? This..." Song Zhili grabbed his hair with both hands and regretted, "I should have discussed this with you if I had known this, ugh..."
"Then..." Shen Mingchen asked Xu Zhen, "Can you think of any other way now?"
"For today's plan," Xu Zhen shook his head and said, "We have no choice but to escape! Cheng Captou is right. We have all seen the capabilities of Sima Xin and his gang. If we rush out, we will definitely not be able to escape. We can only think We need to dig out the secret passage, find the exit, and then take Cui Xiaotian far away first."
"Ah? Then..." Monk Qi Yunzheng suddenly became anxious, "What about my elder brother's case? Could it be that the ghost-faced killer was caught in vain?"
"Master monk," Chen Houlu complained, "all of our lives can't be saved, and you still think about overturning the case? If our lives are gone, what can we do to overturn it?"
"Ah!?" Qi Yun was glaring at Xu Zhen, as if he was going to tell him about his deal with Xu Zhen on the spot.
"Then take Li Zhun out too," Xu Zhen quickly blocked Qi Yunzheng's mouth, "Let me think about the ghost-faced killer again."
"Okay, okay..." Qi Yunzheng also realized that if he dared to target Xu Zhen, Xu Zhen would dare to involve his benefactor Shen Mingchen, so he quickly gave up.
"Before we dig out the exit," Xu Zhen said again, "they may come and rob people at any time. We still need to be prepared for battle..."
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(End of chapter)
