man sanctified in death row vest

Chapter 266 Wanted in the whole city
"Enter."

The Red King cherishes words like gold.

Qing Shisan tidied up his clothes and went in calmly.As soon as he entered the door, he saw the master holding a familiar book, and he was stunned: "Ah, master, do you read it too?"

Zheng Xiu and Qing Pi stared at each other, "You too?"

Qing Shisan silently took out the same book from his bosom.

Zheng Xiu sighed: "You have changed."

Qing Shisan smiled sheepishly: "Not really, the main reason is that Ji Hongou likes to read it, so I bought a copy by the way and have a look."

From this point of view, the writing style of the great writer is very popular in the circle of boudoir and resentful women, and has become a school of its own.

Zheng Xiu closed the book calmly, and pressed it under the heavy volume like a hill. After a moment of silence, he said calmly, "Feng Bei bought it."

Qing Shisan came to a sudden: "That's how it is." At the end Qing Shisan gave a thumbs up and praised: "Master is really considerate."

"Okay, don't flatter me, do you think I'm a person who eats this?"

Zheng Xiu was lazily lying on the back of the big back, with his fingers crossed on his knees, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, looking "not very happy", and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"I live up to my expectations." Qing Shisan put away his cynical expression, and said seriously: "It has been found out."

He touched the cigarette rod on his waist and talked.

"Master, do you know about 'Xiaoyaofang'?"

Zheng Xiu thought about it and nodded.

Xiaoyaofang is the name of a gambling shop. It is opened in Xishi Street. On the surface, the boss is a nouveau riche. He is called "Dao Ye" in the street. He is in his early fifties. Qing Shisan told Zheng Xiu a long time ago, This man was born as a bandit when the world was chaotic 20 years ago. Qing Shisan also saw his reward order, but later asked someone to find a relationship, changed his name and surname, and became today's "Master Dao".

Bandits were rampant 20 years ago, and there were quite a lot of them.Zheng Xiu remembered the experience of Baili Village, the bandits all over the mountains and plains were like locusts, traveling on rainy nights, working hard, it was very scary.

Master Dao runs the "Xiaoyaofang" in the capital city, and usually keeps a low profile. He used to have a little friction with Zheng Xiu when he first opened the gambling shop, but later Zheng Xiu asked Pei Gaoya to have a talk, and Master Dao was convinced. The family does not violate the water of the river, and they have not had any contact with each other in these years.

Coupled with the fact that Zheng has been involved in many industries, he doesn't think much of the casino business. Besides, Zheng Xiu doesn't like to make money from the poor, so the gambling house is not big.On the contrary, Xiaoyaofang has become a place where many wealthy businessmen and princes in the city have fun.

"What does it have to do with Xiaoyaofang?"

Zheng Xiu frowned and asked.

"No hurry, master, please listen slowly." Qing Shisan smiled, and asked again: "Master, do you still remember, who is behind Xiaoyao Fang as his backer?"

Zheng Xiu was taken aback, he really didn't remember.

In the cannibal painting, he actually experienced a hundred years of erosion, and these unimportant things were almost forgotten by him and left behind.But Zheng Xiu took a sip of tea, lifted the cup and threw away the leaves. This unfathomable behavior made Qing Shisan take the initiative to say the answer:
"Of course the master will never forget. The backer behind Xiaoyaofang is Zhou Ji."

Zhou Ji?Which Zhou Ji?
Zheng Xiu paused for a while as he rolled the tea leaves, he had an impression of the name.

Qing Shisan shook his head: "But Zhou Ji, the former minister of punishment, died, and Xiaoyaofang lost its backing. Later, Master Dao once asked someone to send a gift to Mr. Jiang Gaoyi's house, but Jiang Gaoyi declined it."

"At first Master Dao thought Mr. Jiang had a big appetite, so he gritted his teeth and gave more. Later, Mr. Jiang was really annoyed, so he said that he always went to Mr. Zheng's house to have a long talk and talk about family matters."

"Master Jiang moved you out, Master Dao, and Master Dao immediately understood. It turned out that it wasn't that he didn't give enough, but that Master Zheng gave too much."

"It's March [-]rd, and the grand ceremony of worshiping the ancestors is imminent. There are open and secret struggles in the upper echelon. Even if Xiaoyaofang has no backing, it has indeed been happy for a while."

"Later, the emperor established a reserve, and the higher-ups were idle, so people began to stare at Xiaoyaofang, a piece of fat that no one was looking at."

Qing Shisan explained the cause and effect in a few words.

But Zheng Xiu still didn't realize that this matter had anything to do with Er Niang's troubles.

Qing Shisan pulled out the rod of the cigarette, played with it back and forth in his hands, but was reluctant to smoke.

"Later, Dou Jiuyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, asked Master Dao to meet in private. Hehe, he wanted [-] percent."

Zheng Xiu couldn't help laughing, a little uncertain: "Eighth Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Second Master Dao?"

"Hee hee, master really understands."

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, nodded and hummed, and casually twisted the bends in the water, and said leisurely: "The Minister of Rites has been an official for many years, how can he not know the truth that' earning the hair of the poor is better than cutting the flesh of the rich'? How much money can the poor make? Wei Yangzun is not a vegetarian either. In the past, the Ministry of Secrets inquired about the news for him. How could he hide the big and small things in the city? The greed is too much, the leeks are ripe, Wei Yangzun issued an imperial decree, Cut off everything, so that corrupt officials can be punished to win the hearts of the people, and the national treasury can be enriched. Isn’t that the reason for raising corrupt officials? An official who can sit on the position of minister is not stupid, how can he be corrupt But Gambling House is different, the source of the money is not very clean, the Minister of Rites refills a portion of the treasury, and keeps some for himself, Wei Yangzun will turn a blind eye to this, Zhou Jiding did the same in the past, In this way, everyone is happy. Eighty-two shares, hehe, only the master of Xiaoyaofang has suffered. But the guy who calls himself Master Dao, can he agree to this loss-making deal?"

Although Xiaoyaofang is small, it is still a piece of meat. On the surface, the water looks shallow. If the Minister of Rites dared to talk to Master Dao, there must have been a storm.

"Of course we didn't get it right." Seeing Zheng Xiu's understanding of the officialdom, Qing Shisan secretly admired him, shrugged and said, "But Dou Jiuyi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, is not a kind person. Master Dao is being condescending and abusive. , Overtly and secretly, it caused a lot of trouble for Lord Dao."

"At this moment, hehe, it's a coincidence that an old couple entered the city in a hurry."

"Xiaoyaofang is divided into three kinds of bureaus: 'heaven, earth, and people'. From top to bottom, it corresponds to the rich and the poor. As long as there are acquaintances to take the lead, ordinary people can also enter and play both hands."

"Husband and wife, the man likes to gamble, spent some money, found a relationship, and entered Xiaoyaofang, thinking of using the last money to turn over there, and gain a foothold in the imperial city in one fell swoop."

"There are 'thousand gatekeepers' sitting in Xiaoyaofang. Ordinary people have money in their arms, how can they take it away safely? The man tasted the sweetness at first, but foolishly didn't see the clue, but he still bumped into it. After a few days I lost a few hundred taels of silver."

"Master Dao of Xiaoyaofang...well, although he acted in a low-key manner under your lustful power, master, but these days because of the tight pressure from above, he gradually brought out some shady methods in the past. Defrauding gambling debts, changing Selling land, forcing good people into prostitution, in short, these are all despicable methods."

"However, the couple are so poor that if they want money, they will die. Master Dao is so angry that he has done a loss-making business."

At this moment, Qing Shisan couldn't hold back any longer. He bit the pipe in his mouth and puffed on, but there was clearly no fire in the chimney. What Qing Shisan was smoking was not cigarettes, but loneliness.

He was silent for a moment, breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "At this moment, the woman couldn't help but say that they sold their own daughter into the city many years ago, into the Zheng family... .”

Call ~
In an instant, the oil lamp on the table was shaking and almost extinguished, leaving only a faint spark, and the room was dark.The air in the study seemed to be filled with lead, extremely heavy.Qing Shisan looked in surprise at Zheng Xiu, whose expression was as calm as before. The scene behind him was distorted to a degree visible to the naked eye, as if something had been opened.

Qing Shisan took a few steps back in fright, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he subconsciously held the cigarette stick in his palm, and when he recovered, his palm was full of sweat.

What is behind the master?
Qing Shisan is Zheng Xiu's confidant, but he will not go to inquire about Zheng Xiu's little secrets, except that the four golden flowers have become strangers, the cat is not right, and the master often secretly practices with the four golden flowers. Besides, the rest of Qing Shisan didn't know anything about it.

The sudden sense of oppression made Qing Shisan feel like being strangled by the neck, making it difficult for him to breathe, he opened his mouth and panted heavily.After a few breaths, besides feeling suffocated, Qing Shisan's limbs seemed to be locked by heavy shackles, giving him the illusion that he couldn't move.

This strange "illusion" didn't last long, until Zheng Xiu silently took a sip of cool tea, and the spark that was about to extinguish was rekindled and bulged, and the light repeated in the study.

Qing Shisan wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, a little uncertain: "Master, are you angry?"

"It's a bit." Zheng Xiu put down the teacup and looked at Qing Shisan: "It seems that this king is too easy-going in the eyes of outsiders when he becomes the Scarlet Queen."

Qing Shisan put the cigarette stick back into his waist, and coughed twice: "Actually, master, you may have misunderstood something."

"Oh?"

"Master Dao is as shrewd as a ghost, how dare he deal with you blatantly? It's too late to flatter you! When Master Dao learned that the couple were actually Erniang's biological parents, he treated him as a guest and let the men gamble, Change the way to send money."

"After sending it off for a few days, the man went to other places to be chic, and became a pauper again, and then ran back to Xiaoyaofang to gamble. This time and again, he took away several hundred taels of silver from Master Dao."

"The couple originally promised to make friends with Master Dao and you, but they just went to Xiaoyaofang to withdraw money. Later, Master Dao couldn't bear it anymore, so he made a bad plan. He gritted his teeth and gave it to the wife again." It was 100 taels of silver for a person, and the woman wrote a letter when she saw that the money was open, and secretly sent it to Erniang, and staged this "recognition of relatives" drama."

what?
ahh?

At this point, Zheng Xiu was full of anger and became dumbfounded.

The story of this incident is simply that the owner of a small gambling shop was devastated because his backer had collapsed, and wanted to find a new backer; because the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Rites, couldn't agree with him, so the Dao Master wanted to lick the Red King; When Zheng Erniang's biological parents appeared, Master Dao saw the hope of licking. Unexpectedly, the couple was not a good person, and they just plucked the wool and did nothing, which drove Master Dao into a hurry. Zheng Erniang was unhappy.

Why is Zheng Erniang unhappy?The reason for this is very simple. It was her parents who cruelly abandoned her back then. If Zheng Haoran and his wife hadn't taken Erniang away and treated Erniang as their own, and had a deep love for Zheng Xiu's sister and brother, where is Erniang now, or what will happen to her? , are unimaginable.Now, after more than 20 years, her biological parents showed up to recognize their relatives without any precautions, which instantly disturbed Erniang's mind and made her not know how to face it.

In recent years, she has already regarded herself as the blood of the Zheng family. Although the Zheng couple are not blood relatives, they are better than blood relatives;

Having been with Zheng Erniang for more than 20 years, Zheng Xiu has never heard Erniang mention her parents. Obviously, her blood relatives did not leave good memories for her when she was a child.

It is not surprising that 20 years ago, when the people were in dire straits.

Master Dao wanted to use this as a lead to curry favor with the Red King, but he didn't lick the right place.

In short, it was flattering and crooked, and the red king was angry.

Qing Shisan frowned: "This matter is not easy."

Zheng Xiu also understood what he meant, if it was someone else, he would do it.But that couple is Zheng Erniang's biological parents after all, so it's not easy to deal with.

"It's not easy." Zheng Xiu patted the dust off his body, put the tea lid on firmly, stood up, and walked out of the house.

Qing Shisan was taken aback, and followed: "You mean?"

He made a gesture of wiping his neck, his hands trembling slightly.

Qing Shisan was on fire.

Zheng Xiu shook his head, and said as a matter of course: "How can it be? This king has always been kind, law-abiding, and self-disciplined. Now that you are the Red King, can you do things that violate the law?"

Qing Shisan was a little disappointed.

But in the next second, Zheng Xiu let out a sharp whistle, which echoed loudly in the Red Palace.

Qing Shisan was completely stunned, this is the brotherhood's... assembly call!

The Red King is shaking people!
On the high wall of the Scarlet Prince's Mansion, there are many figures, wearing black clothes with hoods, with swords in their sleeves whistling softly.

"Good guy!" Qing Shisan was shot in the sleeve, raised his middle finger, and the sleeve arrow popped out from between his fingers.It turned out that he had already prepared.

The Red King swaggered out of the palace, got into the carriage, and drove to the West Market.

"The Red King goes out to eliminate harm for the people!"

……

late at night.

Jiang Gaoyi, who had just returned from the Disaster Prevention Bureau with a tired body, rejected his wife's plan to shake it, and fell asleep on the bed after washing.

Who asked Chi Wang to leave him a note, asking him to sort out the cases of the Disaster Prevention Bureau in recent months.

Thinking of this, Jiang Gaoyi wanted to cry without tears, and even had the urge to resign from the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, so as to be the little secretary next to King Chi with peace of mind.But he took up the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, and he didn't resign just because he wanted to.In the court, if he dared to show the slightest thought of resigning, he would face the risk of being beheaded.

In the above words, it is: it is not that you have ghosts in your heart, why do you want to take off your hat and return to the field for no reason?There must be something wrong, take it down and put it in prison, waiting to be released!
Jiang Gaoyi was honest and straightforward before he was imprisoned, so he was imprisoned.He was awakened by Zheng Xiu's actions in prison, and now he has been promoted all the way, and he is on the rise. He became the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and he can clearly see the curves and straight paths in the officialdom.

People in officialdom can't help themselves.

While closing his eyes and sighing with emotion, the "Chang Shihua" that Zheng Xiu had assigned to him flickered at this moment, turning on and off like a light bulb.

[The Red King calls, do you want to meet? 】

【See? 】

【See? 】

In Chang Shihua, the call of the Red King does not have the option of "not seeing".

Jiang Gaoyi quickly washed his face, raised his spirits, and connected the call.Just as he was about to say that the case was almost sorted out, in the screen, Zheng Xiu said with a smile that he accidentally discovered the fugitive, and Jiang Gaoyi issued an arrest warrant overnight.

"What?"

Jiang Gaoyi was dumbfounded.

What time is this, and he was actually asked to issue an arrest warrant overnight?
Boom!Boom!Boom!
Late at night, the city was eerily lively.

The six door gods arrested Guo Zifei, and received a secret order overnight, saying that there was a fugitive fugitive hidden in the city, and he was burdened with numerous murders.

In less than half an hour, the bulletin boards of the city gates in the east, west, north, south, and middle were covered with the same "arrest warrant".

This arrest warrant is very strange, each face is drawn differently, and some even have only one circle and two nostrils, barely looking like a face, it seems that it was drawn overnight by a temporary worker, and it is not professional.

But the focus is obviously not on the portrait. There is a drunken dandy passing by with his pants up, squinting his eyes, and drunkenly reading the words on the arrest warrant:
"Hiccup~"

"What the hell?"

"The perpetrator Zhang San, alias Master Dao, robbed homes, murdered and robbed property, heinous crimes, six doors offer a reward of a thousand taels of silver, wanted by the whole city..."

……

When the arrest warrants were plastered all over the city, Zheng Xiu arrived in the West Market slowly in a carriage.

In a short period of time, even the wanted person did not know that he was wanted.

Zheng Xiu got off the carriage, hung the Scarlet King Mirror on his waist, and smiled at Qing Shisan:

"Look, isn't that legal?"

Qing Shisan was very impressed.

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