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Chapter 130 The Princess's Response

Guo Jie, wearing a black robe and a ring-handled sword hanging from his waist, walked into the Sihu Prison, which immediately caused the prison clerks to look surprised, but soon they turned happy.

The prison clerks put down the torture instruments such as foot irons, tongs and whips, gathered together and bowed solemnly to Guo Jie.

"Mr. Guo, please take a rest. There is still a bowl of millet wine in the official's room."

"The clerk immediately went to the clerk's quarters and fetched some vinegar and wax to serve Mr. Guo with his wine."

"Mr. Guo, there is no need to go to the prison. Sit in this guest house and wait for tomorrow's interrogation."

There were many officials with high official rank among the prisoners held in Sihu Prison. Under the stunned looks of these officials, Guo Jie, a minor official whom they used to look down upon, was treated as a distinguished guest by the prison clerk.

This is Sihu Prison, the lieutenant prison of the two major garrisons of the Northern Army in Chang'an. The officials imprisoned here even include military marquises in charge of thousands of soldiers. Entering Sihu Prison is bound to result in a beating by the prison clerks.

No matter how high-ranking an official is, he will be beaten with a stick once he enters the Sihu Prison.

In the eyes of the military marquis, he could easily crush the small subordinate Guo Jie with just a few words.

Unexpectedly, when Guo Jie entered the Sihu Prison, he was not only not beaten by the prison clerk, but was even treated with respect that the prison's Sikong did not even receive.

All the jail clerks came forward to pay their respects, asked about Guo Jie's well-being sincerely, and presented the wine and meat that they usually did not want to eat to Guo Jie.

It seemed to be the Prison Minister, no, even the Prison Minister could not be respected by all the Prison Historians like Guo Jie.

Neither could the lieutenant.

Guo Jie was unique and was respected by the common people in his neighborhood.

Most of the prison clerks were common people with assets of less than 100,000 yuan. They generously took out the millet wine, vinegar, and cured meat that they usually couldn't afford to eat, and crowded into Guo Jie's guest house.

The entrance of the guesthouse was crowded with prison guards.

Densely packed.

There was a lot of people around.

The prison clerk was holding various things in his hands. He brought a black lacquered food table and placed it in front of Guo Jie. He also brought a cattail mat with a green cloth edge. It was relatively dark in the Sihu Prison, so he held a goose-foot lantern and placed it on the black lacquered food table.

Millet wine, vinegar, cured meat and other wines filled the entire black lacquer table.

Officials with a salary of 1,000 stones only had one meal of coarse wheat rice a day, and they would not have any more food after that.

The official with a salary of Qianshi stretched his neck and looked at Guo Jie, swallowing his saliva continuously. He never expected that one day he would envy a minor official in the government.

Guo Jie sat on a cattail mat with a green cloth edge. He did not refuse the kindness of the prison clerk. He took the vinegar, wax, and a bowl of millet rice and began to eat with big mouthfuls, leaving the millet wine aside without drinking it.

When the prison clerk saw Guo Jie eating his meal with big mouthfuls, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, but he was very happy in his heart.

The heroic hero Guo Jie did not mind the crude food they provided.

"Mr. Guo."

A jailer bowed and said, "I will be on guard tonight. Mr. Guo, please go to sleep. If the Zhongdu official from the Qing Temple comes, I will come to warn you. If so, please stay in the prison for a while until the Zhongdu official leaves."

The official temples of the Nine Ministers were called Minister Temples.

The lieutenant is one of the Nine Ministers.

Guo Jie nodded gently and said, "Very good. I will not cause any trouble to you brothers. I will go to the prison as soon as the Zhongdu officials come to inspect."

The prison clerk bowed again and left the guesthouse respectfully.

At Ren Ding (20:15-21:00), the nephew of the host Zhao Tuo took some gold and went to Sihu Prison, found Zhu Anshi who was temporarily staying in the school room, and bribed him to kill Guo Jie.

"Zhu Shangli."

Zhao Congzi took out a chest and lifted the linen covering, revealing gleaming gold cakes. He said respectfully, "These gold cakes represent the money and silk that many powerful people in the Chang'an area have collected. I beg you to ask Zhu Shangli to kill Guo Jie. Given Guo Jie's official rank, the five gold cakes are more than enough to motivate Zhu Shangli to kill him."

Guo Jie had successively executed the entire clans of six or seven powerful families, and the powerful families were already afraid of being killed and wanted to get rid of him.

It just so happened that the thief catchers and prison clerks in Chang'an respected Guo Jie very much. As long as he was in the city of Chang'an, the powerful people could not do anything to him.

Even if Guo Jie was arrested and imprisoned in Sihu Prison, the prison official in Sihu Prison respected Guo Jie and could only ask Zhu Anshi to take action.

The three people in Chang'an who are best at fighting and swordplay.

Chong Huangrou recruited Guo Jie as his guest, so he couldn't take action. Lei Bei was nowhere to be found, so he could only use the gold cake to invite Zhu Anshi to take action.

“Hardware.”

Zhu Anshi glanced at the box and sneered, "A gold cake worth five pieces of gold is worth killing someone. However, although I only care about money and not people, I also care about trust. After accepting Guo Jie's money, I will not take anyone else's money."

What’s more serious is that Guo Jie was buying on credit.

No matter who killed Guo Jie, Zhu Anshi would lose everything.

Under normal circumstances, Zhu Anshi would simply reject Zhao Congzi, drive him away, and not take the money or make things difficult for Zhao Congzi.

Things are different nowadays.

Zhu Anshi needed to protect Guo Jie and keep him alive until he got back the 30,000 coins that Guo Jie promised him.

"Snapped!"

Zhu Anshi swung the ring-handled sword in his hand directly at Zhao Congzi's face, knocking him to the ground. He said in a deep voice, "Arrest this man and hand him over to the prison officer. Tell him that he came here to hire someone to kill Guo Jie. Imprison him and keep him under strict supervision. Hand him over to Zhang Tang for interrogation tomorrow."

Zhao Congzi did not come alone, he was followed by several members of the Zhao family. Before the host Zhao family members could react.

Several bandits rushed forward, wielding ring-handled swords, and knocked down the Zhao clan members who tried to resist.

Without exception, all of these people had their hands tied behind their backs and were sent to the nearby Sihu Prison for imprisonment.

"The thief killed Mr. Guo?"

The prison official was furious and lashed the Zhao clan member with the whip in his hand. "Beat him, beat him hard! Find out who is the mastermind behind this, who hired the killer, and who actually paid someone to kill Mr. Guo."

"what!"

"Ah, spare my life!"

"Ah, it's all the powerful people in Chang'an who hired assassins to kill people."

In the silent night, screams of pain were heard from the temple prison. Zhao Congzi did not bribe Zhu Anshi to kill people, but was tortured instead.

He lasted less than an hour before being tortured to death by the prison guard.

Several other members of the Zhao family were also half dead and could not hold on for long. They would die in Sihu Prison within three to five days at most.

The powerful people did not lie down and sleep, but were waiting for news. When they heard the news that Zhao Congzi was tortured to death, their faces turned pale and they felt even more afraid.

Missed this opportunity.

I don’t know when I’ll see Guo Jie imprisoned again.

hateful!

Zhu Anshi didn't know what was wrong with him. As a guest of Prime Minister Dou Ying, he actually protected Guo Jie, who had repeatedly executed Dou Ying's guests.

It must be that Guo Jie gave Zhu Anshi thirty gold, no, fifty gold, to make him desperately protect that damn villain Guo Jie.

Obsessed with money.

"Thunder Lord."

A powerful Ji Zi found Lei Bei. In order to invite Lei Bei, who didn't care about money, to go to Sihu Prison, he took great pains to find the sword that Ju Meng had used and gave it to him.

"Just killing someone."

Lei was living in the prison of Huainan State. He got used to it, so the King of Huainan hid him in a county prison. When the rumors of his killing of subordinates died down, he personally helped him buy a title to atone for his sins.

"Yes, it is Ju Meng's sword."

Lei Bei took Ju Meng's sword and looked at it carefully. It seemed that he couldn't let it go and treated it as a precious treasure.

Indeed. For the Rangers, anything used by Ju Meng, who once commanded the Rangers of various counties and kingdoms, would become a treasured treasure.

Ji Zi and several powerful sons were filled with joy, as if they had already witnessed the scene of Guo Jie being killed.

Lei Bei is a man of his word. As long as he accepts the gift, he will kill Guo Jie.

What's more, the thing given to Lei Bei was the ring-handled sword used by Ju Meng.

"Crack!"

Before Ji Zi could be happy for long, he heard a crisp sound. Ju Meng's ring-handled sword was directly chopped by the two-foot sword at Lei Bei's waist, and it was cut in two on the spot. The two pieces, one large and one small, fell to the ground.

"This"

Ji Zi was stunned on the spot, with a look of surprise on his face, not understanding what Lei Bei's intention was.

"Ah."

Lei Bei glanced at Ji Zi and the others with a sidelong glance, still with a look of contempt as if he was the best in the world: "If Ju Meng were still alive, I wouldn't be cutting off his sword, but would be competing with Ju Meng in sword fighting and chopping off his head with my own hands!"

"Let's go."

Lei Bei held his head high and walked out of the prison: "If I want to get out, no one can stop me. If I take Ju Meng's sword, I will help you kill people, no matter if the sword is intact or broken into two pieces."

Ji Zi and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Guo Jie can be killed, it will be fine.

They didn't care whether Ju Meng's sword was broken.

"Who killed him?"

Lei Bei walked out of the prison cell of the County Prison and suddenly remembered that he hadn't asked who to kill. "If it's an official, then that's fine. However, a saber used by Ju Meng isn't enough for me to kill an official. It would be best if I could find Qu Chenghou Chongda's sword."

Chongda, the swordsman of the Western Han Dynasty, was a knight who became famous earlier than Ju Meng.

Ju Meng became famous during the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.

Chongda was well-known as early as the Chu-Han Contention.

Lei Bei had tried Ju Meng's sword and was eager to try Chong Da's sword.

"Lei Jun must want to kill this man."

Ji Zi thought that if Lei Bei wanted to challenge Ju Meng, he must also want to kill Guo Jie of Shoubian Menghu. He said with a happy face, "The man he killed was not someone else, but Guo Jie of Shoubian Menghu."

"Guo Jie?"

Lei Bei suddenly turned around, gripping the hilt of his two-foot-long sword tightly, and said with disdain, "You think you can kill Guo Jie? Ha, what a joke! You're a bunch of ignorant scoundrels."

Under the astonished gaze of Ji Zi and other powerful sons.

The two-foot sword in Lei Bei's hand drew out sword lights, cutting the necks of Ji Zi and others on the spot, leaving a line of blood.

Ji Zi covered his neck with his hands and widened his eyes. He could not understand until his death how he could die under Lei Bei's sword when he had clearly come here to ask someone to kill Guo Jie.

"Pooh!"

Lei Bei put away his two-foot sword and said contemptuously, "Until I kill Guo Jie, no one can even touch a hair on his head."

"Ugh."

An assistant official from the Huainan State came out, holding the broken pieces, sighed, and said, "Let's move Lei Bei to another prefecture prison. Throw these people's bodies out in the open and bury them. Remember, don't let anyone know that these people looked for Lei Bei. Just assume they were robbed and killed by bandits."

The assistant official had already helped Lei Bei clean up several messes, and his face was filled with resentment: "Guo Jie, Guo Jie, when will you accept Lei Bei's challenge? A carefree Lei Bei can follow me back to Huainan State, and I won't have to clean up every mess."

"Sister-in-law!"

Wearing a lace robe, holding a golden guard and carrying an eight-stone bow, Wei Guang happily rushed into the temple prison. "I sent the betrothal gift to Princess Pingyang's main chamber. The princess was very pleased. She said that her status made it difficult for her to punish the Maoling Magistrate. Not only should she not punish him, but she should be lenient. The human pig you sent put the princess in a very good mood. She said it was beyond her expectations and a valuable gift."

He admired his sister-in-law Guo Jie more and more.

He had never seen Princess Pingyang, but he knew what Princess Pingyang wanted better than he, a riding slave.

You are so good at giving gifts.

Guo Jie laughed and said, "How is it? Princess Pingyang agreed to marry her private servant to me, a lowly official."

A woman.

No matter how magnanimous you are, you will encounter someone who spreads obscene rumors.

I wish I could pull out that person's tendons and bones.

Because of her status as the emperor's eldest sister, Princess Pingyang could not use torture to avoid affecting the emperor's reputation.

Guo Jie made the Maoling magistrate into a human pig and sent him over.

Princess Pingyang finally let out a sigh of relief.

Guo Jie understood very well that people like Princess Pingyang and Chong Huangrou, who were destined to have a life of luxury, had everything they needed and what they needed most was emotional value.

Sending the human pig this time provides a lot of emotional value.

"accepted."

Wei Guang said happily, "It's more than just a promise. Princess Pingyang was in high spirits when she saw the Maoling Magistrate's appearance as a human pig. She also knew that my brother-in-law wanted to set up some beacons, so she sent him a generous gift and awarded him a document to set up beacons."

When Guo Jie heard about Princess Pingyang's reward, he was surprised even though he knew there would be a reward.

Princess Pingyang actually gave such a generous gift.

In the eyes of any emperor, the most untouchable thing is military power.

Beacon towers involve military power.

Even with Sang Hongyang's close relationship with the emperor, he could only help Guo Jie set up a beacon once, and he could not help him set up a beacon again.

In the entire Han Dynasty, there was only one person who could set up a beacon tower without arousing the emperor's suspicion.

The eldest sister, Princess Pingyang.

From then on, in the eyes of the emperor, the beacon towers set up in the river area were actually a way for his eldest sister Princess Pingyang to show her bravery and arrange her private servant Wei Junru to go to the river near the Didao Great Wall to attack the Huns.

It's like playing a game.

Guo Jie clapped his hands and smiled: "So, I have put on another vest, the fifth vest."

"Brother-in-law."

Wei Guang carefully took down the eight-stone bow, and said lovingly, "Besides, I have long coveted the eight-stone bow that Princess Pingyang displayed in the main room. It is also the best bow in the main room. The princess was so happy that she gave it to me as a reward."

Eight stone bow!
The range reaches an astonishing 240 steps.

The strong bow that Li Guang had always used was only eight stones.

Guo Jie suppressed his excitement and asked, "Who is the better archer, you or Li Guang?"

Wei Guang said proudly: "With this eight-stone bow, I dare not say I am better than Li Guang, but I am on par with him."

Others who heard this would just think Wei Guang was bragging.

If it weren't for the fact that his name contained the character "Guang", his archery skills would be almost as superb as Li Guang's.

However, Guo Jie believed what Wei Guang said.

Wei Guang, who destroyed several countries, had far greater military achievements than Li Guang.

Guo Jie was not a results-oriented person.

But as a professional soldier, what matters is the results, that is, how many military achievements he has made.

(End of this chapter)