Demon detective

Chapter 127 Mistakes
"But...maybe it works?" Facing Xu Zhen's question, Qi Yunzheng answered seriously and hesitantly, "That's an ancient secret road, which may have been used for emergency escape in the past, but part of the passage leading to the south has collapsed. If you want to find the exit, I'm afraid you have to dig..."

"What? You went in?" Song Zhili's eyes widened, and he said in his heart, this is my house?

Qi Yunzheng nodded: "After the second sister found the entrance, I went in to check it. If there is wind inside, there must be an exit."

"Master Song," at this moment, Xu Zhen shrugged his shoulders and said to Song Zhili, "Since you have revealed such an important secret, I have nothing to do with it! If my guess is right, they will definitely come to the Yamen to rob people tonight , if we want to snatch Cui Xiaotian away, we'd better plan ahead!"

Hearing Xu Zhen's words, everyone became more anxious.

"Dare!" Only Hu Niu Shen Yutian was not afraid, "Whoever dares to rob someone, I will use the iron rod!"

WTF?

Iron rod?

Xu Zhen didn't quite understand it, but he could roughly guess that Shen Yu was so powerful that it was obviously not easy to use ordinary wooden sticks.

Most likely, she was playing with iron rods, but Mr. Shen was afraid that the iron rods would cause too much damage and cause trouble for her, so he kept letting her play with wooden sticks.

But... I have to say that with Shen Yu around, Xu Zhen still has some confidence.

"We..." However, Chen Houlu tried his best to make peace, "Can we not use force? Can we think of a comprehensive plan and negotiate with the governor?"

"To tell you the truth," Song Zhili said, "he has already given me a condition. As long as Cui Xiaotian is released, he will not only save our lives, but also get me promoted."

"That's right!" Chen Houlu was overjoyed, "Wouldn't it be great?"

"Impossible," Shen Mingchen emphasized again, "After Cui Xiaotian is handed over, they will definitely find a way to silence us! We dare to burn the grain depot, what are we small people worth?"

"Think about it differently," Xu Zhen said, "If I were the governor, there are only two things I should do right now. One is to catch Cui Xiaotian and force him to reveal what the life-saving mechanism is. Kill them all!"

"Then..." Finally, Cheng Xiao, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said, "What if we kill Cui Xiaotian now?"

"..." Everyone was silent, they were all thinking about the consequences of killing Cui Xiaotian.

Obviously, this way of thinking is wrong, killing Cui Xiaotian is tantamount to dying with the other party.

"Xu Zhen," Song Zhili was still complaining about Xu Zhen, "You know best in your heart that all of this happened because of you, and because of your own selfish desires, you killed all the people in our yamen!
"Since you wanted to bring down Cui Xiaotian from the very beginning, you should have thought of a countermeasure earlier, right?"

what?
Everyone just felt overwhelmed and couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

"What... what's going on?" Chen Houlu was even more puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, "How could it be because of Xu Zhen? Didn't we arrest the wrong person?"

"Break down Cui Xiaotian?" Shen Yu didn't know why.

So, everyone's curious eyes turned to Xu Zhen.

Xu Zhen naturally understood that Song Zhili wanted to instigate hatred for him before he died, and he was still brooding over the fact that he tricked him into the game.

"Yes," Xu Zhen glared at Song Zhili, and started 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 to accept it, "If I don't pry the secret out of Cui Xiaotian's mouth, then we're probably doomed long ago!"

"What ours? If you don't let Cui Xiaotian confess, then it's just you who will be dismissed!" Xu Zhen said mercilessly, "Don't talk so high-soundingly, to put it bluntly, is it because of your own selfish desires?
"You forced the interrogation of Cui Xiaotian just because you want to get the upper-level officials' handle, thinking that you can be the second Cui Xiaotian!"

"You...you're talking nonsense!" Song Zhili was furious.

"Let me ask you," Xu Zhen asked, "before you interrogated Cui Xiaotian, why didn't you discuss it with me first? Now that you have interrogated, why didn't you also interrogate the so-called life-saving mechanism?"

"Hey? 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 go to trial," Shen Mingchen shook his head, "Then they won't let us go!"

"For my own selfish desire?" Song Zhili was so anxious that tears rolled in his eyes, he said angrily, "If I did it for my own selfish desire, then I promised Governor Han just now to join their circle!
"Xu Zhen," he excitedly picked up the stack of papers that Han Wentao tore, "Do you really think that I don't want to be a good official that much? Do I really not think about the common people at all?

"There are four bullies in Yanping County! If I really wanted to be a corrupt official, I would have worn the same trousers with these four people long ago!

"But, what's the use of my blood? It's not easy to shake a tree!" Song Zhili was trembling with excitement, "Look at me now, it's very satisfying for me to eradicate the two bullies, but for me What is it?

"Sacrificing one's life for righteousness sounds nice, but if one really sacrifices one's life, one will definitely be able to obtain that righteousness? This is a worthless sacrifice at all! I want to live... Is it a crime too!?"

Song Zhili's words are true and have some truth.

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 at odds in this world.

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, it would be impossible for Song Zhili to choose to be an enemy of the bullies.

"Originally..." Xu Zhen said with a relaxed tone, "I wanted to use the power of the common people to get rid of Cui Xiaotian, if you hadn't interrogated him, then Cui Xiaotian should have died on the road parading 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 excitedly, "I'll find an iron rod now and kill it!"

"Sit down!" Shen Mingchen quickly pushed Shen Yu down.

"Then dig a tunnel," Cheng Xiao came up with an idea, "Dig the tunnel, take Cui Xiaotian out, and then implement your plan."

"It's useless." Xu Zhen shook his head helplessly, "I said before that my plan is based on the fact that you didn't let Cui Xiaotian tell the secret. Now even if the common people kill Cui Xiaotian, we will still be killed. disaster!"

"Ah? This..." Song Zhili scratched his hair with both hands, regretting, "If I knew this, I should have discussed it with you, alas..."

"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 can only escape! Cheng Butou is right. We have all seen the capabilities of Sima Xin and his gang. If you rush, you will definitely not be able to rush out. We can only think about it." Find a way to dig the secret passage, find the exit, and then take Cui Xiaotian away and fly away first."

"Ah? Then..." Monk Qi Yunzheng suddenly became anxious, "Then what about my elder brother's case? Could it be that the ghost-faced killer was caught for nothing?"

"Great monk," Chen Houlu complained, "All our lives are lost, and you are still thinking about overturning the case? Life is gone, what can we do?"

"Ah!?" Qi Yun was staring at Xu Zhen, as if he was about to reveal the deal between him and Xu Zhen on the spot.

"Then take Li Zhun out too," Xu Zhen hurriedly blocked Qi Yunzheng's mouth, "Let me think about the ghost-faced killer."

"Okay, okay..." Qi Yunzheng also realized that if he dared to target Xu Zhen, then Xu Zhen would dare to involve his benefactor Shen Mingchen, so he quickly accepted it.

"Before the exit is dug," Xu Zhen said again, "They may come to snatch people at any time, we have to be ready to fight..."

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(End of this chapter)