Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 198 My scalp is numb...

One death and one injury in such a big border city is not a big deal. But the real big deal is that this is the assassination of the imperial envoy. This is a big deal. When Xia Lin shook a person out of the quilt, their scalps were numb.

The body was soon brought back by the officers and soldiers, but the commander and General Guo who were in Yanmen Pass also came at the same time.

When they heard the news that Xia Lin was assassinated, all the high-ranking officials and brave generals in the northern border area were so shocked that cold sweat dripped down their foreheads.

Especially for Commander Chen, it doesn't matter if Xia Lin is investigating the case here. Even if there is a failure or some major mistakes, he can only be charged with the crime of not investigating. After all, the river yamen is not under his jurisdiction. Although he also gets dividends, even if he finds out about that little money, it would be considered dereliction of duty at best. After all, it is customary for the yamen to pay tribute. It is no joke to pay a county magistrate 100,000 silver coins in three years. All the colleagues in the court turn a blind eye, and even His Majesty doesn't care too much. For a frontier official like him, what's the big deal of paying tribute of tens of thousands of taels every year?
But the nature of the assassination of the imperial envoy is different. The imperial envoy essentially represents the majesty of imperial power. Even if the imperial power has no shame, it will still turn hostile if it goes straight up to tear someone apart. This will inevitably be a shocking outrage, and even all the officials in the court cannot stop the emperor's rage.

The imperial power must be supreme. It can be hollowed out but it is absolutely not allowed to be insulted, not to mention that it has not been completely hollowed out yet.

Whenever the imperial envoy of a place was killed, it meant that the place was completely ruined, and everyone involved would be ruined, and everyone would be a suspect.

So Commander Chen rushed to the yamen immediately, but what he saw was Xia Lin, who was jumping around in life. The breath that had been stuck in his throat finally relaxed.

"Check! We must investigate strictly!"

Chen Qi was furious at this moment, his eyes were red. In fact, everyone knew what was going on, but the problem was that you killed him accidentally on the road, but you planned to do it in front of me at my house or after they had already started investigating the case. What does this mean? Isn't it clear that you, Chen Qi, are not worth mentioning in front of us?

To put it bluntly, the central government can just treat Chen Qi as a pawn and let him take the blame. Who would be happy about that? Want to buy his future and fate as a frontier official for tens of thousands of taels of silver a year? Dream on!
Even a clay man would still have some temper. This time, those people in the central government were simply playing with fire in Chen Qi's bed. Even if he had no sense of existence, he was still a commander-in-chief. Once he entered the court, he was a commander-in-chief of the third rank!
Guo Ying, however, didn't pay much attention to Chen Qi at this moment. He just stood beside Xia Lin, looking at the corpse on the ground and the tightly tied female assassin, and asked curiously: "You are alone? Kill one and capture one?"

"Oh, just one person, how many more people are needed?" Xia Lin kicked the frozen corpse: "These two are too weak."

"You still left her alive? How did you do that? Didn't she resist?"

Hearing this, Xia Lin laughed. In such a scenario, it is usually necessary to kill one and leave one. When simulating the scenario during training, if there is a man and a woman, try to kill the man and keep the woman. If there are two men, kill the stronger one. If there are two women, try to subdue them all.

The reason is that the women in this kind of combination generally do not have much combat capability. This is not gender discrimination, because the purpose of this combination is to better conceal and hide oneself. It means that the government will never care what more than 100 women do together, but if more than 100 strong men get together, they will be arrested without reporting. However, in the case of mixed men and women, even if only one in ten women participate, there is no need to report.

Therefore, if you want to keep someone alive, you must give priority to women, because they are weak and easy to control, and it is difficult for them to escape after being captured.

"She can't resist. How can she resist when she's tied up like this?"

Guo Ying looked Xia Lin up and down, with some distrust in his eyes. How could a skinny bookworm easily take care of two killers? It was obvious that they had practiced this technique.

"Show me a performance." Guo Ying pointed at the two soldiers behind him and said, "You two, play the killers."

Xia Lin scratched his head: "Uncle Guo, you still don't believe me."

While talking, the seemingly nonchalant Xia Lin had appeared beside the guards, snatched the weapon from one of them, put a hairpin on the neck of another guard, and placed the scabbard on Guo Ying's shoulder.

The personal soldier whose weapon was taken away stood there in a daze, looking at Xia Lin and Guo Ying in confusion.

"You're already dead." Xia Lin withdrew his hand and patted his chest, only to see a hairpin pinned on his armor.

He subdued three people in an instant, as if it was just a sentence. The skill of this move was swift and simple, without any pre-swinging movements, which scared Guo Ying. "No, aren't you a scholar? When did you practice?"

"I practice when I have nothing to do at home." Xia Lin chuckled as he took back the hairpin and returned the weapon to the soldier next to him: "This thing requires the coordination of hands, eyes and brain. You have to observe the surrounding environment and the opponent's weaknesses. It's best to be able to surprise them. If we confront them head-on, I'm definitely no match for the two armored soldiers."

Guo Ying nodded and was about to say something when Commander Chen walked in angrily. It was the first time that Xia Lin saw someone's hair puffed up because of anger.

"Commander Chen."

"Patron Xia, are you okay?" Chen Qi's face looked rather bad. Although he had long since learned not to show his emotions, he was obviously very angry at this moment. "Patron Xia, I heard that you were assassinated. How are you now?"

Xia Lin took a quick look around, and Chen Qi and Guo Ying immediately understood and moved the people around them away. Then the three of them came to sit down next to him. Only then did Xia Lin speak: "Patrolman Xia was stabbed several times and almost died. Now he can only recuperate in Yanmen Pass, and he can continue the investigation after his injuries are healed. But now that he has been arrested, we will know the culprit behind it in time."

Chen Qi nodded gently: "I know what Inspector Xia means. I will report it immediately."

"So what's the point of leaving him alive?" Guo Ying glanced at the female assassin and said, "What can an assassin know?"

"Of course she doesn't know, but there may be someone who doesn't know that she doesn't know." Xia Lin laughed, then stood up and bowed to the two of them, saying, "General Guo, Commander Chen. Now you two understand that we are actually grasshoppers in the same boat. No one in the court treats us as their own people."

It would have been better if he hadn't said this. Once he said it, Chen Qi was really furious. He thought that he had no conflicts with the central government, and he also dreamed of returning to the court in the future to hold a first-rank Sikong position and retire to his hometown. Now it seems that those people really don't take him seriously.

In that case, don't blame him, a commander, for joining in on the trouble.

Xia Lin went back soon and hid in Tang Baoer's courtyard to "recuperate". He did not see guests or go out, basked in the sun every day, and then went to buy spices from the Hu people to study food. Lao Zhang sat there painting every day. His masterpiece was almost two-thirds completed. Using the techniques Xia Lin taught him and his own understanding of the shape and meaning, it can be expected that this painting will inevitably become a treasure handed down from the Wei Dynasty, and its value may even reach or even exceed that of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

As for the lifeless Dong Niang, Xia Lin and Lao Zhang used their free time to make a fully disassembled moving dummy for her. It not only had detailed degree guidance but also internal organs, bones, blood vessels and meridians. Then Xia Lin only needed to tell her some simple medical knowledge, and Dong Niang would sit there and play with the dummy model for a whole day.

In this way, Xia Lin spent a very comfortable Lantern Festival. It should be said that if Yang Yuhuan could really appear a hundred years later, she would probably be modeled after Tang Baoer. However, it is also possible that Yang Yuhuan was the descendant of Tang Baoer. Anyway, Xia Lin had experienced in advance the feeling that the king would not attend the court early in the morning. In short, it was really addictive.

Four days before the Lantern Festival, Guo Da and Chen Qi had already set off for the capital to attend the grand court meeting. The only difference was that this year they did not bring tribute but account books and the assassin.

Trouble was bound to happen, and in order to avoid being implicated, Commander Chen was determined to stand against all the officials in the court. But it was not his fault, after all, it was the people in the central government who pushed the relatively neutral Commander of Hedong Road into the opponent's camp.

In fact, Xia Lin was almost done with this step. He just needed to wait for the incident to explode and transfer the conflict from the river channel government to the assassination of the censor. Then he would have accomplished his mission. Then he would wait for the Ministry of Personnel to send him back to his original post safely.

"Why? Of course they don't dare to let me make trouble again. They can't kill me and I've caused such a big trouble. There's still such a big hole on my butt. Do you think they are not afraid? There are two best ways. One is to reinstate me to my post, and the other is to crush me to death. But crushing me to death is not easy. After all, I am dedicated to the public, and they can't find any faults with me, so they can only reinstate me to my post."

Xia Lin lay on the chair and said to Tang Baoer: "Okay, we can set off now and go back to Luoyang to meet your uncles, aunts and sisters-in-law."

"So what are you going to say here?"

"Just say that you are seriously injured and transfer to Luoyang for treatment." Xia Lin sat up. "There is no time to lose. It's time to set off! I will try to get back to Fuliang before the June exam. The guys in my academy are waiting for me to cheer them up and prepare for the exam."

(End of this chapter)