"Ghost Face, it's so late, you're not here to have a drink with me, are you?" Su Ruhai put away his madness and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not in the mood right now."
"Ruhai, look what you said." The ghost face came in imperial guard uniform, with a scary mask covering his face. He shook his cloak unceremoniously and sat down opposite Su Ruhai: "Actually, I I’m not here to look for you today.”
"Then who are you looking for? You're not looking for our family Rufeng, are you?" Su Ruhai pointed to Gong Rufeng on one side.
"You are rambling, am I here to question your father Su Xing?" Ghost Face patted the table gently: "It's a pity that I didn't find him, so I had to come to find you."
"Excuse me, Mr. Ghost, what do you want to ask about when you come to see me?" Gong Rufeng, who was standing by, saw that the two of them had been fighting each other since they met, and quickly took over the conversation.
"Li Shu has made a move today, saying that he was ordered by Su Xing to assassinate Si Ruoshui and frame An Dafang." Ghost Face put the iron ruler around his waist on the table: "And the origins of Li Shu's people are unknown. Your father gave you all your fame and money."
"He's talking nonsense." Su Ruhai was furious, and the mood that had calmed down was suddenly ignited by Ghost Face's words.
"Nonsense, what you said doesn't count, and what I said doesn't count." Ghost Face's voice also turned cold: "Please also ask the head of the Su family to go to Tingwei's Mansion to make it clear."
"Ruhai, calm down." Gong Rufeng was obviously much calmer than Su Ruhai: "Master Gui, this Li Shu previously said that Chief An ordered him to assassinate the President of the Division, and now he said that it was my father, how could he ask someone to do it? Clothes!"
"If it's just this matter, that's it." The ghost face stared at Su Ruhai coldly: "The Ministry of Revenue came to report that Yun and Leng from Tianyi Gambling House each deposited two thousand taels of silver at Sanshun Bank. Xiang Yun and Miss Liu didn't I went with you to investigate this matter, why are you the only one coming back?"
"They are trapped in the secret room of the gambling house." Su Ruhai heard Tong Bo's name and slapped her forehead: "Ghost Face, if you hadn't interrupted, I would have asked Rufeng to arrange for someone to rescue them."
"Lord Ghost Face, there is a message from your flying pigeon." The voice of the imperial guard's report came to mind outside the door.
Ghost Face walked out of the house, took the letter, read it for a moment, and then walked into the house again: "Save them? I'm afraid it's too late. The door to the secret room of the gambling arena has been sealed by your father."
"What?" Su Ruhai was shocked: "Rufeng, please let me out quickly; if Dad does this, Xiangyun and the others will definitely die, and this kind of cover-up method will only trap the Su family in injustice."
"Whoosh!" Just as the Ghost Face and the others were talking, several loud arrows shot into the dark night sky, blooming with green light.
"Why are there sounding arrows? I remember this is your signal to capture the criminal?" Su Ruhai stared at the ghost face: "What do you want to do?"
"Master Zhi has an order. If Su Xing does not go to the Tingwei Mansion for trial, the imperial guards from the outer gate will always be guarding the house." Ghost Face picked up the iron ruler on the table and tapped it lightly on his left palm: "Ru Hai, I have official duties and no personal relationships to follow."
"But dad hasn't returned yet, and we don't know where he is?" Gong Rufeng smiled slightly stiffly: "Master Ghost, can we send someone to look for him?"
"Yes, it is limited to twelve hours." Ghost Face put the iron ruler back to his waist, walked to the door of the room, and turned back: "But Lord Zhi still has orders. If Su Xing does not show up by the time limit, Tingwei Mansion will Then we will send people to seize the Su family's property together with the guards from the Jingwei Mansion."
"Ghost face! You!" Su Ruhai was so angry that he raised a cup and threw it at the ghost face at the door: "It's a waste that I have always regarded you as a brother, but in the end you did this to my Su family."
"I have said that when it comes to matters of right and wrong, I will never show favoritism." The ghost face listened to the wind to identify the position, turned his head to avoid the cup, walked out of the door, and said to the two court guards outside: "You two are guarding this house. Now, if someone leaves the house, you are the only one to ask."
"Yes! Sir!" The two court guards responded in unison.
"Your Majesty, Liu Yuanzhi, is here to see you." In the Nanyuan study, Liu Yuanzhi was so excited that he knelt in front of Xiao Shiyu's case, with tears streaming down his face.
"Lord Zhongshu, please get up quickly." Xiao Shiyu also stood up from the imperial case with excitement on his face, and personally stepped forward to help Liu Yuanzhi up.
"I suffered this disaster, and I thought I would never see Your Majesty again." Liu Yuanzhi stood up tremblingly with Xiao Shiyu's support: "I can return safely this time, thanks to my daughter Ningshi and Jingwei. The guards of the mansion."
"Ning Shi has made great contributions to the Jingwei Mansion. I will reward you based on my merits." Xiao Shiyu raised his hand towards Gao Xian and said, "I won't show Master Zhongshu your seat yet."
"Father, we are safe, but brother Xiangyun got trapped inside in order to let us out first." Liu Ningshi's eyes were filled with crystal tears. She wanted to control it but couldn't: "No, I want to go back. save him."
"Sister Ningshi, calm down." Huan Yu grabbed the emotional Liu Ningshi: "Do you still remember the last words of Guard Tong? Everything must be based on the safety of Mr. Zhongshu and the contents of the box. Evidence counts.”
"Don't worry Ningshi, dad will spend a lot of money to find capable people who can break the formation and rescue Tong Guard!" Liu Yuanzhi twirled his beard and comforted Liu Ningshi.
"Even Brother Ren can't think of a way to break the formation, what else can be done!" Liu Ningshi could no longer control her emotions, covered her face and ran out.
"Your Majesty, Master Zhongshu, Huan Yu is going to chase her." Huan Yu bowed to Xiao Shiyu and Liu Yuanzhi one after another, and then chased her out.
"Your Majesty, please don't blame me. This girl Ning Shi lost her best friend and that's why she acted so rudely." Liu Yuanzhi said this with a look of sadness on his face.
"I have always known that Ningshi is affectionate and meaningful." Xiao Shiyu also sat back on his dragon chair: "I heard that Lord Zhongshu has brought me some good news this time?"
"I would like to apologize to Your Majesty first." Liu Yuanzhi stood up from the chair again and knelt down: "My father was temporarily confused and did what he did to frame his colleagues with the former minister Zhang Peizhi. It is too light to demote me to the third level. Yes, your Majesty, please punish me severely."
"Zhongshu, please speak calmly." Xiao Shiyu gestured to Gao Xian, and Gao Xian immediately stepped forward and helped Liu Yuanzhi sit on the chair: "Zhongshu is my right-hand man. The day before yesterday, I demoted Zhongshu to the third level in court to calm the public anger. , I hope you can understand my difficulties."
"I understand!" Liu Yuanzhi sat upright and bowed to Xiao Shiyu: "I have already heard from my daughter that there are fake tax collectors pretending to be the court to defraud taxes. This is really audacious. This time, thirty tax clothes were found in the stone room where I was imprisoned. The pieces, 30 yuan of fake tax tags and 5,000 taels of broken silver, have been handed over to the Tingwei Mansion for strict investigation."
"Well! Zhi Shan from the Tingwei Mansion came to report that Li Shu confessed that Su Xing, the head of the Su family, gave him a lot of money to frame and assassinate Si Ruoshui and frame An Dafang. In addition, they imprisoned important court officials innocently and kept them in the secret room of their gambling house. Some dirty silver was found, and it seems that these two cases are closely related to them." Xiao Shiyu wrote quickly on a piece of yellow silk.
"Boom! - Boom! Boom! Boom! It's four o'clock in the morning, and it's freezing cold. The streets of Fengyuan Lane are already deserted, and only the bleak autumn wind blows the withered yellow leaves on the road in all directions; a top The sedan wrapped in black cloth was carried by four strong men, running hurriedly, humming "Hey yo, hey yo" from time to time.
The person sitting in the sedan chair was Su Xing. His eyes were slightly closed, the thumbs of his left and right hands were crossing and turning, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his mind.
In the dark night, a black shadow suddenly flashed out from behind the sedan, and he jumped onto the top of the sedan. With a slight push of his feet, the sedan, which was originally as stable as a mountain, fell to the ground with a "boom".
"Who are you? Dare to block the sedan chair of the head of the Su family?" The bearer on the left side of the front row felt his shoulders numb from the force of the step and shouted angrily at the man in black.
The man in black didn't answer. In just one breath, he jumped off the sedan and tapped the acupuncture points of all four bearers. Then he cupped his hands toward the sedan door and said, "Master Su, please move over."
"Is this how you invite people? Is it rude?" Su Xing in the sedan still closed his eyes and meditated, but the thumbs in his hands stopped turning, and he placed his hands into fists on his legs.
"If the matter is urgent, I will follow the authority. If the head of the Su family returns to the house at this time, I am afraid he will have to visit Tingwei's house as a guest?" Although the man in black was ridiculed, he still responded calmly.
"How do you say this?" Su Xing's expression changed slightly when he heard what the man in black said.
"Is the head of the Su family planning to talk to me across the sedan chair? Isn't this the way to treat guests?" The man in black started to argue with Su Xing.
"Hmph! Your Excellency is really an interesting person." Su Xing lifted the sedan curtain, slowly stepped over the sedan rail, and stared directly at the man in black: "I wonder where you want to take Su?"
"The Su Family Master has misunderstood me." The man in black smiled and said: "As long as you don't return to the Su Mansion and the place is secret and safe, what if the Su Family Master decides where to go?"
"Su has never met anyone like you." Su Xing pointed at the four bearers: "Su agreed to your request. What will happen to these four people?"
"Their acupoints will automatically unlock in an hour." The man in black said sternly: "This matter is confidential, only you and I know."
At three o'clock the next day, the bald man sitting in the first seat on the right side of the Su family's meeting hall and the man sniffing the snuff bottle in the second seat on the right were waiting here early. It was just that the old man of the Su family and the head of the Su family, Su Xing, had been waiting here. Didn't show up.
"Second brother, where do you think this eldest brother has gone? The people from Tingwei Mansion and the Ministry of Revenue have sent people to guard the doors of my shops, which has seriously affected the business." The man sniffing the snuff bottle is Su Su Zhu, the third eldest child in the family.
"Third brother, it's the same at the second brother's shop. Stop complaining. Let's discuss countermeasures together when the eldest brother and the old man arrive." The man with the black and white jade ball spinning in his hand is Su Wen, the second eldest son of the Su family.
"Second uncle, third uncle, grandpa is not feeling well, so he will not participate." Gong Rufeng opened the curtain, slowly walked into the meeting hall, and bowed to Su Wen and Su Zhu.
"What about eldest brother? He won't come either, right?" Su Zhu was a straight-tempered person. When he heard that the old man wasn't coming, he couldn't help but ask Su Xing.
"Dad has not returned since he left last night. Rufeng has sent someone to look for him. If there is any news, must he inform the two uncles?" Gong Rufeng was worried when he mentioned Su Xing.
"What's going on?" Su Zhu couldn't help but stood up from the Grand Master's chair: "Such a big thing happened to the Su family. The old man and the eldest brother are not here. What should we do?"
"Third brother, please don't get excited yet." Compared to Su Zhu, Su Wen's temper was much more serious: "As the saying goes, when soldiers come to block it, when water comes, the earth covers it. Even if father and eldest brother are not around, you and I have to resist this heavy burden." stand up."
"What the second uncle said is absolutely true. Rufeng will do his best to help the Su family overcome the difficulties." Gong Rufeng raised her eyebrows slightly and bowed to the two of them.
