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Chapter 121 Loyalty
Zhong Xiqing quickly led the people into Dengxin Lane, and he was accompanied by three capitals, who had already surrounded the entire Tongde Square.

An idle man squatting on the side of the road saw him and got up to meet him.

"Are you staring at it?" Zhong Xiqing asked.

"Yes, according to the vegetable vendor's report, the old man who came to buy vegetables in the past two days has the same figure and appearance as the Han Chengxu we are looking for. He lives in that oil and grain store. Stare."

Zhong Xiqing nodded, and said to the three people beside him: "Thank you for your hard work."

"Miss Zhong is being polite... Search!"

"Listen well, all those who resemble fugitives in stature and appearance will be taken down, and those who dare to resist arrest will be shot!"

A row of soldiers with knives rushed into the alley.

Soon, there was only a shout from the oil and grain store.

"I got Han Chengxu..."

"No, it's the shopkeeper of the oil and grain shop..."

"Don't worry about it, all the suspicious ones are bet! Someone will identify them."

"take away!"

The whole alley was full of cries, and many people were escorted by soldiers and brought to Liu Bing and Bai Mao for identification.

Zhong Xiqing frowned, wishing to avoid involving some innocent people, but when he thought of the errands on his shoulders, he finally turned hard and shouted: "Don't be in a hurry to identify, as long as there are similar ones, you should take them down, Bai Mao, you can do whatever you want." Xu Du went to the end of the alley to watch, don't let anyone run away."

"Yes……"

Soon, Zhong Xiqing walked into the oil and grain store, inspected the old shopkeeper, and suddenly turned around to look at a small house diagonally opposite.

"Oh!"

The courtyard door was kicked open, and soldiers with knives rushed in one after another, smashed open the bed boards, overturned the wardrobe, and searched for every place where people could hide.

"Search!"

Zhong Xiqing stepped into the small house, and saw a ladder erected by the yard, which happened to be able to see the location of the oil and grain shop.

Some eggshells remained by the threshold, ink was dripping on the table, and a few empty medicine jars were left on the ground...

There was also a pair of pants that were only half sewn, Zhong Xiqing picked them up and looked at them, they were quite long.

"For Li Xia?"

He muttered, threw his pants on the ground, and shouted: "They live here, chase after them!"

"Yes."

A soldier rushed out in a single file, stepped on the pair of trousers on the ground, and trampled it into a mess.

After a while, someone came forward and whispered to Zhong Xiqing: "Master Zhong, he's dead, two dead, those who resisted arrest and were killed."

Zhong Xiqing shook his head, and said: "I tell you, the fugitive has killed two civilians. It is really vicious and must not be leaked. Besides, don't do it again."

"understand……"

However, Li Xia and the others were never found until nightfall.

Zhong Xiqing understood that the oil and grain store was probably a bluff by Li Xia, and as soon as someone inquired about the oil and grain store, they would have already fled away.

Although the clues were broken again, Li Xia and the others lost their hiding place, and it will not be difficult to find them later.

Zhong Xiqing arranged for people to search the whole city.

Although his official position is not high, what he got was the letter from the left minister and envoy of the secret council, strictly ordering all the chambers of Lin'an Mansion to be controlled, vowing to kill Li Xia and others.

When it was almost the first watch, Zhong Xiqing had just made arrangements.

He knew that Prime Minister Zuo had just fallen asleep at this time and would only get up in the middle of the night, so it would be appropriate to report at that time.

It's a pity that I failed Xu Hexing's painstaking investigation. I hope that I can find Li Xia and others tonight...

Zhong Xiqing lived in the outer city, and he didn't bother to go home late at night, and had to come back after staying for two hours, so he planned to spend the night at Xu Hexing's house.

He ordered his attendants to speak to Xu Hexing first, and then he took another young man to eat a bowl of three fresh noodles on the street, then got up and walked to the north of the city.

Passing through a dark alley, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a figure suddenly jumping out from the oblique ground.

Zhong Xiqing only heard a soft "poof", he turned his head and saw that the entourage behind him had fallen down.

There was another "poof", and Zhong Xiqing felt cold in his lower abdomen.

He reached out and grabbed the dagger that was about to stab in again.

In front of him was Zhang's handsome face.

"You...you are Li Xia?"

"I'm a Mongolian craftsman." Li Xia said.

The first cut didn't hurt the vitals, but Zhong Xiqing felt blood pouring out of his abdomen, and felt powerless to hold Li Xia's hand.

"Don't kill me...don't kill me..."

Li Xia asked, "Why did Uncle Xie Fang send you to kill me?"

"you……"

"Don't talk nonsense, I know everything. Just ask why you want to kill me?"

"You guys going north...it's basically a plot set up by the main fighters to overthrow the left minister. Jia Shenzheng and the right minister used you and used you as a pawn to deal with the left minister...that can only kill you."

Li Xia asked again: "Uncle Xie Fang colluded with Mongolia?"

"There is absolutely no such thing." Zhong Xiqing said: "The Zuo Xiang advocates peace for the sake of the overall situation, and is definitely not a traitor. The border wars are endless, the fields are desolate, and the people are displaced... These are the root causes of the Zuo Xiang's peace. "

"Killing Yu Jie is also for the common people?"

Zhong Xiqing snorted twice, and said: "Left Prime Minister acts, and is worthy of the heaven and the earth."

"There is no collusion with Mongolia, how do you know our specific information?"

"Bai Mao confessed."

"Bai Mao?"

"Yes, he came back from the north with Nie Zhongyou. Because Nie Zhongyou has defected, he has been hiding Bai Mao. But Bai Mao pretended to defect, so he reported Nie Zhongyou to the Lin'an government office..."

Zhong Xiqing spoke for a while with difficulty.

Li Xia said, "What else do you know?"

Zhong Xiqing gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know anything else... I'm just following orders."

Li Xia didn't speak any more, drew out the dagger, and stabbed it down again.

Zhong Xiqing turned around and wanted to run, but was kicked to the ground by Li Xia.

He turned his head, eyes full of despair.

"Don't kill me... If you have been wronged, I can clear your name."

Zhong Xiqing said, and begged again: "I am really not a bad person, I have been kind to others all my life... I help the old and the young, and help the poor... If you go to the outer city, go to the north right side of the city to inquire... No one will say that Zhong Sanlang is a good man people……"

Li Xia lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Xia was actually not familiar with those few neighbors in Dimwick Lane.

But there is a man at the opposite door, let his five-year-old son ride on his neck every day, walking up and down in the alley, laughing and laughing, this man was slightly injured in a fight with someone a few days ago, today he saw officers and soldiers coming , he ran a few steps and was killed as Gao Changshou.

Although Li Xia had never spoken to him, he always felt that living in Dengxin Alley for the past two or three days seemed a bit like home.

The pair of trousers that Gao Mingyue sewed was trampled to pieces. Gao Changshou, Han Chengxu, and Han Qiaoer were both old and young, and they are still sleeping on the street.

Thinking of this, Li Xia squatted down and asked, "If you find us today, will you let us go?"

Zhong Xiqing was taken aback.

Li Xia asked again: "The five of us, including the old man, the child, the wounded, and the woman, fell into Uncle Xie Fang's hands. Can we survive?"

"Yes, yes." Zhong Xiqing said as he crawled, "The Prime Minister Zuo is a great loyal minister. He is well-known in the world, and everything he does is for the sake of the community...Really, you can ask, Prime Minister Zuo loves the people like My son, how many good policies have been implemented to benefit the country and the people since he took power, and no one in the public praises them... I know that if you can go north to take risks, you must be loyal people, and we are all the way."

"is it?"

"Yes." Zhong Xiqing seemed to ignite hope, and begged, "Behind me is the head of the court... If you kill me, it will be clear that you are against the left and the court. If you kill me, you will really become a rebel, and you will have nowhere to go. Li Xia, Li Xia...you must not kill people impulsively, and label yourself treacherous and rebellious."

Li Xia had already held Zhong Xiqing's struggling hands.

"Loyal minister and good minister." He snorted softly, and said, "I don't care if Uncle Xie Fang is a loyal minister and good minister."

"Don't kill me, I'm not a bad person..."

Li Xia said again: "I don't care if Uncle Xie Fang's actions are concerned about the country and the people."

"Please." Zhong Xiqing was still struggling, "If you kill me, you are finished too, Prime Minister Zuo..."

Li Xia seemed not to have heard it, and the dagger in his hand went straight down.

With a sound of "poof", Zhong Xiqing's eyes widened, and all his anger disappeared.

……

Until his death, Zhong Xiqing didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.

Zhao Kui, the person who brought up trouble in the Three Capitals; Jia Sidao, a treacherous minister with a nepotism.What good can these two people do in connection with the right ministers and send people to the north?
Only Li Xia stretched out his hands to cover his unwilling eyes, and finally said something to him.

"Uncle Xie Fang is the chief minister and a loyal minister, so if you want to kill me, you can kill me? I'm not Yu Jie..."

(End of this chapter)