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44. The source of everything

It was the second night when we arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion. We got off the horse at the door and asked Buhui and Jiugui Zhengxiao and others to wait outside the city and did some explanations. I went straight to the city and arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion. After reporting, I was quickly released.

I walked through the hall and arrived at the inner room where Zhang Juzheng met with his private relationship. The Prime Minister took a casual dress and saw me coming in, he signaled me to sit down.

"You rushed all the way from Jinan Prefecture to the capital?" Zhang Juzheng asked in a voice: "What's so anxious? Is it the matter of Qingzhang's land?"

I lowered my voice and said, "Yes! Not really!"

Zhang Juzhengqi said: "How do you say this?"

I bowed my hand and started with the last time Xue Bian and Kong Shangxian. Hearing these two people, Zhang Juzheng smiled on his tired face. He smiled: "These two families have been entrenched in Shandong for generations, and no one can do anything. Unexpectedly, you will solve it! It's a happy congratulations! It's worth commendation!"

I thanked and praised him and continued, "Sir, the Prime Minister, have been assassinated three times in a row in the near future!"

Zhang Juzheng raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "Oh! Tell me in detail!"

I nodded and reported: "The first time I was assassinated on the road when I returned to Beijing from Guangning Camp! The criminals used poison-feeding*!"

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "Qi Nantang told me, I have some understanding."

I stretched out two fingers and continued, "The second time was before I went to Jiaozhou to settle the Xue family, a swordsman attacked me and was killed by me! He used the standard weapon of the East Factory!"

Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "This is the frame-up. What's the third time?"

I nodded, stared at Zhang Juzheng's eyes and said, "The third time was the day before yesterday! Qian Wuqing, deputy envoy of the Shandong Army and the Preparatory Censorate, joined hands with his concubine the day and night before yesterday. It is said that a woman named the Centipede triad worked together to kill me, but I caught them all!"

Zhang Juzheng took a breath of cold air and said in surprise: "There is a court official who ordered him to participate directly?"

I silently took out the paper from my arms, handed it to Zhang Juzheng, and whispered: "This is the confession obtained from the secret review of Qian Wuqing... Sir, please check it out!"

Zhang Juzheng quickly took the paper, moved the oil lamp closer, and looked at it carefully. His hands began to tremble slightly! He looked at it once, then again, and three times in a row, so angry that he wanted to slap the paper on the table! When he was about to touch the table, he suddenly slowed down and slowly placed it on the table.

He pondered for a while, looked up at me and asked, "Qi Lan, you are on the front line, tell me what you think!"

I secretly admired it! When I saw these confessions, my mood could not calm down for a long time, and even riding a horse whip was harder than usual! And Zhang Juzheng calmed down his emotions in less than five seconds! What a concentration!

I calmed down and said, "Sir. These confessions come from the Five Pure Ones of Qian. There is no need to explain the methods in detail, but they should be almost the same. This fully shows that the other party has begun to take action slowly!"

Zhang Juzheng stared at me, but didn't say anything for a long time, but suddenly pressed his right hand heavily on the confession and said in a deep voice: "What do you mean is that you should catch them all in one go?"

I shook my head and replied, "Sir, that's just a Shandong after all. Even if everyone on this piece of paper is caught by everyone..." I looked at Zhang Juzheng and said in a deep voice: "It's just a Shandong!"

This sentence made Zhang Juzheng interested. He was originally testing my reaction, and my words were in line with his expectations.

"Then what do you think, how to deal with it?" Zhang Juzheng looked at me with interest and said.

I didn't know how to answer this sentence. I really wanted to tell him that if you can live for ten years, it would not be difficult to clean up these people and build your iron barrel camp, but... I can't say this, who can face the news of his death so calmly? So I was speechless on the spot.

Zhang Juzheng saw that I was full of confidence just now, and Zhizhu was clenching, but suddenly she looked unspeakable, and couldn't help but feel nervous. He had been ups and downs in the officialdom for a lifetime, and he could guess seven or eight points with a look from someone else's eyes. Seeing my expression, he felt a little nervous. He tightened his fists, let go, and said slowly: "What are you thinking about, but you can say it's okay."

I nodded. Since that's the case, I'll find a statement that makes him believe, at least not reject. So I said in a deep voice: "Sir, my mentor sent me a message, saying that he looked at the scene in close view, and the main position of the Wenqu star is dim, which is very unfavorable to the phase! So..."

Zhang Juzheng suddenly laughed and interrupted me. He laughed exaggeratedly. I could feel that he was not confident enough. After a while, he still laughed and said, "I still think what a big deal is it. It turns out that it was the guess of the people in the wild! Hahahaha!"

He continued to smile, but after a moment, he slowly restrained his smile because he clearly read an emotion from my eyes... pity.

When he was completely at peace, I continued to ask him without any sorrow or joy: "Sir, who can you continue to do so in a hundred years?" I just stared at his eyes without retreating, nor was I afraid.

This Ming Dynasty, who was under one person and above ten thousand people, actually held the power of the world, was suddenly overwhelmed by my seemingly slim aura. He suddenly felt annoyed. He was showing his grand plan. Why did he listen to this hairy child who had not even grown all over here and say in a stern way that there were no such things?

So when he spoke again, he said in a very unceremonious tone: "Sun Qilan, what do you mean by these implicit cursed words?"

There was already a sharp look in his eyes.

But I met his gaze and said without any grief or joy: "What I mean is that if Master Sui has no long-term plans, then I will say goodbye!"

After saying that, I stood up, bowed and said, "Take care, Mr. Chief!"

This sentence made Zhang Juzheng completely angry. He slapped the table and pointed the halberd at me and said, "You come to me for your merits to say these unfaithful, unrighteous and unkind words, come and leave whenever you say it! Are you really not afraid that I will punish you and kill your head?" The two guards outside the house rushed in and stood behind me. That's what it means, if you have a disagreement, you will take someone!

I stood still, turned around and glanced at the two of them disdainfully, and smiled contemptuously: "It is naturally not difficult for me to kill me, but please allow me to settle the score for me first."

Zhang Juzheng said angrily. I stretched out a finger and smiled and said, "Kill me, the adults just helped the enemy and made the goal that they tried several times but failed. In this way, the adults lacked a vanguard who only seeks profit but uses any means. Just this one is enough to make the enemy wake up in the middle of the night!"

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, the blue veins on his forehead jumped slightly. The naked aggressiveness and disdain in my tone made the guard behind me furious, and a guard shouted: "Bold!"

I smiled and glanced at him, stretched out my second finger, turned around and looked at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Second, Master Chief, you must have investigated me before using me. All my relatives have long been away from the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a group of dead soldiers with exquisite and strange tricks, and there are also sniper masters on the side. Master, you killed me, and there are a group of enemies lurking in the dark and dying out of thin air. This is absolutely not worth it."

After saying that, after turning around, Li Shuang in my hand was already placed on the neck of the guard who was calling out just now. With a slight move, he would naturally take his life! This is just Ju He's dagger method! I chuckled and said, "Sir, you won't think that these two wastes can control me!"

The air in the room was as cold as it was, and it was so thick that it could not be dissolved. Seeing that the purpose had been achieved, I took back Li Shuang, turned around and continued to turn my back to the two guards, which was so naked that I didn't care! I could even feel the anger that was about to burst from the heavy breaths of the two guards. So, I decided to give them the last straw that broke their spine!

I smiled softly and said to Zhang Juzheng: "Sir, why don't you let these two wastes go to the kitchen to see? All the breakfasts prepared at the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow are enough to make everyone, including Prime Minister, walk peacefully in an incense stick of time! How about it?"

Zhang Juzheng glanced at a guard and the man went quietly. After a while, he returned to the house. I didn't look back, but I knew that he nodded to Zhang Juzheng because the momentum that the Prime Minister had been holding was suddenly leaking without a trace!

"So, Master Chief, you saw that if I think, I have a thousand ways to destroy you, it's really not difficult, right? And I'm standing here and talking to you now means I have no malice."

After a pause, I continued, "It is not difficult to choose whether to cooperate sincerely or to fight to the death. Only a thousand days of catching thieves can you prevent thieves for thousands of days? What is your intention? Master Chief Justice decides!"

As I said that, I raised my right hand and Li Shuang came out of her hand. With a "snatch" sound, she was nailed to the table less than half a foot in front of Zhang Juzheng, buzzing!

The two-person guards were anxious and were about to take action when they came up! Zhang Juzheng shouted first: "Get back!"

I remained unmoved, and the two guards said anxiously: "Sir!"

Zhang Juzheng's face was gloomy, he let out a long sigh, and whispered: "You two should retreat! There is no summoning, so you are not allowed to come in!"

The two guards hesitated for a while and finally retreated.

The door of the house was closed again, and Zhang Juzheng said to me lightly: "Sit down."

I bowed my hand and sat down silently.

Zhang Juzheng held Li Shuang's knife hilt with his right hand, and used a few force to pull it out of the table. He raised his eyes and glanced at me for a while, then lowered his head and played with Li Shuang. After a moment, he asked, "What's the name of this knife?"

I said lightly: "Lishuang."

He gently scraped the blade with his fingers and chanted softly: "The sadness of the thousand nights of separation has caused me to dry up, and the mirror is silent on the opposite side. Li Frost! Seeing the knife is like seeing someone!" After saying that, he sighed, but he didn't know what he remembered.

I didn't answer. He continued to ask intentionally or unintentionally: "Who has taught you your martial arts?"

I replied, "It is my mentor Anonymous."

Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly, turned Li Shuang over, handed me the handle of the knife and said, "Then have you ever said, how long will my life last?"

I took Li Shuang with one hand, inserted it back into the scabbard, and replied lightly: "My teacher once asserted that if the chief assistant was still like this, he would work hard every day and sing every night, I would probably not be able to survive the first tenth year of Wanli!"

It was like a bolt from the blue, and the air in the house solidified again, and almost the needle could be heard, leaving only the heavy breathing of the chief assistant Zhang Juzheng...
Chapter completed!
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