The afternoon sun shone in through the carved wooden window, exposing a faint stain on Zhang Ning's snow-white inner shirt collar; he rested in the inn last night and had not changed the lining for a day, and the white collar would be very obvious if it was a little dirty.
In fact, this kind of dress is a bit more comfortable. Because there was no washing machine in the Ming Dynasty, changing underwear every day was actually a very troublesome thing. Fortunately, with his current status and status, he was free to pretend not to pretend or not. If there was no such condition, his habit would definitely be gossiped about.
As the saying goes, all abstract tastes are based on real conditions. If you have no money or status, many things are bullshit, and it is not as good as the vulgar, and it is natural.
He sat in the room for a while, thinking about things calmly, and he also suspected of pretending to be cool, but he didn't notice it himself.
I have to go to the cult chief as soon as possible.It took Zhang Ning a long time to say something.
In his complicated thoughts, he seemed to have returned to a certain point in the past and was facing a more troublesome math problem.
In fact, the situation at this time really has some common points with math problems. Each step is not difficult, but there are many steps that seem a bit complicated; in addition, it requires an entry point and creative thinking to find the key...
Of course, if it's just a math problem, it's fine, so you don't have to think about life.
At this moment, he was thinking, since Queen Ma used such unscrupulous methods as if framed Yao Ji, then she would not do her best to kill Yao Ji when she had the chance?
If Emperor Jianwen removes Yao Ji's power and isolate her from the cults, wouldn't it be an opportunity for Empress Ma to cut meat on the board?
At this time, Fang Ling, who was standing beside him, asked: Lord Zhang is going to ward off the cult, how should Zhan Zhuli, who was tied out of the city and Wu Yong, who was fleeing?
He has sent Taohua Fairy to chase Wenjun and Wu Yong.
Zhang Ning said, I have to go out of the city to deal with this matter first, and then rush to ward off the cult. Miss Fang asked the messenger to stay in the tea garden for a while. When I came back, let the messenger take me to ward off the cult.
Fang Ling couldn't help but ask softly: Do you want to kill them?
Zhang Ning was silent for a moment, nodded, stood up immediately, and said: I'm out of the city now.
For a moment, Fang Ling suddenly felt that Zhang Ning seemed to have become increasingly strange.
She understood Zhang Ning's background. She was originally just a scholar who had been studying hard for twenty years. She was brainwashed and was brainwashed. Then he captured Zheng Qia and killed Peng Tianheng while interviewing in Yangzhou, which changed Fang Ling's influence on him and felt that he was not a nerd. But this time he wanted to kill someone to silence him. Even if Fang Ling stood opposite to the court, she knew the right and wrong of black and white, so she suddenly felt that Zhang Ning became crazy.
Zhang Ning left Yuanshui Tea Garden, and he had decided to kill someone to silence him and deal with him personally, to see the body with his own eyes in order to ensure that everything was foolproof.
When he left the city, he saw Xu Guangsha. The carriage was parked on the side of the road. The groom disappeared, and Xu Guangsha was in the carriage.
Zhang Ning got on the felt car and saw that Zhan Zhuli had woken up from his coma. The eyes on his dry face with wide bones seemed particularly bright at this time. Perhaps because his mouth was blocked and he could not speak and could only communicate with his eyes, so his eyes widened.
The groom is gone?
Zhang Ning asked casually, without waiting for an answer, and said that there are only four people involved in this matter now. In addition to the two of us, there are Xu Wenjun and Taohua Fairy who are chasing Wu Yong. Don’t be known by the fifth person.
Old Xu said calmly: Don’t worry, boss, I had already considered these issues when I promised to follow my boss in Yangzhou.
After hearing this, Zhang Ning felt relieved, nodded with a little praise, and said: Let's walk along the road northeast, waiting for news from Wenjun.
So Old Xu went to the front to catch the bus, and Zhang Ning looked at Zhan Zhuli in the carriage.Zhan Zhuli was tied up and could not move, so there was probably no possibility of breaking free.
When she was late at night, she saw Xu Wenjun returning. She said that Wu Yong had already caught it, so the group joined together and continued to walk north.
Passing by a market, Zhang Ning asked someone to buy hoes, shovels and other tools and threw them on the carriage.
Seeing this, Lao Xu and Wenjun were silent, probably guessing the use of these tools.
Zhang Ning originally thought that it was the cleanest to burn the corpse with firewood, but realized a problem: it might take hundreds of kilograms of firewood to cremate two corpses. Where did the firewood come from?
If you cut down on the mountain, you will need labor and time. There are two women in the group, one old man, and Zhang Ning himself is a civil servant. It is a bit difficult to cut a few hundred firewood; if you buy it, you will have more witnesses and clues.
And then the fire will soar, which will easily attract the attention of people around you.
So he decided to give up this way of destroying corpses.
The peach blossom fairy led the way, and Old Xu drove the car into a forest on the side of the road. Xu Wenjun was standing next to a tree with a short sword. Wu Yong was tied to the tree, and the reins of the two horses were also tied nearby.
Zhang Ning ordered Wu Yong to be untied from the tree and tied it back to the horse.They temporarily abandoned the carriage in the woods, took the horses and camels, and walked along the woods to the mountains as far as possible away from the post road.
After walking for an hour or two, it was completely dark and everyone had not had dinner. After struggling for a long time, they were already hungry. When they walked to a land temple, Zhang Ning saw that there was no light nearby and that the mountains and forests were sparsely populated, so he asked everyone to stop.
Xu Wenjun raised a fire to keep warm in the Land Temple, so Zhang Ning asked someone to entrust the two prisoners into the Land Temple.
The few people were very silent. The Peach Blossom Fairy looked calm and didn't say anything.
During the process of armed trafficking of private salt, Taohua Fairy had conflicts with the government and her peers, and she inevitably had no murder case. Her expression gave Zhang Ning encouragement. Perhaps the murder was just like this?
So Zhang Ning said: Just strangle them to death here to avoid bleeding, and then find a secluded place on the mountain to dig a hole and bury it.
This sentence made Wu Yong and Zhan Zhuli struggle for a while. Wu Yong shook his head with his eyes wide open, and he was whining in his mouth.
Zhang Ning thought to himself: He had a few years of friendship with Wu Yong, and now he is about to die. If he doesn't give him a chance to say a few last words, there is no need to let him hold back all his words into the grave.
Zhang Ning ordered: Take off the things in their mouths. It’s useless to yell in this wilderness.
After the cloth in Zhan Zhuli's mouth was pulled out, he immediately said: The criminal who was about to be beheaded and displayed in public still had a good meal before he died, but he didn't even have a drink of wine?
Zhang Ning was stunned and said helplessly: I didn’t remember this. Why didn’t I buy things at the market before and buy you a pot of wine.
At this time, Wu Yong was able to speak, took a big breath, and hurriedly said: Zhang Ping'an, if you kill us, we think it's okay?If something happened to us at the same time, you can be so foolish as Mr. Hu is a three-year-old child!Sooner or later, we have to settle the score with you... It's better to discuss it well, why do we need to get such a land?As long as you let me go, I swear to the sky and never tell me that.
Zhang Ning didn't say anything, thinking that if everything had to be discussed, how could the entire human history become a history of war?
He thought about it, but did not answer positively, and just asked: Since we are talking, I have something to do.Why was it that Zhan Zhu left the yamen to report it, and the person who sneaked out of the city was Mr. Wu?If Zhan Zhuli had not fallen into the trap and walked away by himself, it would probably be much more difficult for us to chase after Mr. Wu.
Without waiting for Wu Yong to answer, Zhan Zhuli said: Lord Wu said that the prefect of Changde would report the matter of the report and dare not hide it; and we have no real evidence. If I went to Beijing to report it and did not know how to deal with the bureaucrats, I might backfire.So I asked Lord Wu to come to Beijing and I went to the Changde government for help... Unexpectedly, Changde government was so dark, the prefect arrested me without saying a word, and handed the letters and letters to you. This...
It's indeed a cheating father.
Zhang Ning blurted out and turned to look at Wu Yong. What else can Mr. Wu say? You have cheated Zhan to death.Don’t say that you can’t expect this result, then will the prefect Changde listen to someone’s entourage and inexplicably set up an enemy in the officialdom?
Zhan Zhuli immediately looked at Wu Yong and cursed: Damn, you are too unrighteous!Mr. Zhan has been with you for many years, but he has no intention of being silly?You are fine. When the matter is about to come, I will push me into the fire pit. Is there any trouble to mess with my own people?
Wu Yong's face turned pale and speechless. He paused for a while before saying: Lord Zhang, you give me a way out. If I report the secret matter, I will be able to die if I thunderously hit the sky.
At this moment, suddenly there was a shiny outside the temple, and there was a dull sound in the sky, as if it was going to rain.Zhang Ning turned around and looked up at the sky outside the door. When he turned back, he saw that the expression on Wu Yong's face was very awkward.
Wu Yong hurriedly said: It’s rainy in the south, and the weather is about to change. God has no other intention...
Zhang Ning nodded and said: This must be true. If God is so effective, why did the evil villains who have never been punished by God since the Thunder Zhi?
He was silent for a while and said: So even if you violate the oath, it is hard to say whether the curse will work.I have something else to say, the time is almost done.
Wu Yong's face was pale and suddenly shed tears: I have a wife and children in my family, and I need to support my family. My children have not grown up yet, so I don't want to die.
After saying that, I struggled to kneel down, but my hands and feet were tied and finally lay on the ground. I chewed the dust on my mouth, and my beard seemed to turn gray. Lord Zhang, for our friendship and the wife and children of the Wu family, let me live...
At this time, Zhan Zhuli said coldly: I just saw Lord Wu’s prospect today. What’s the use of begging? If you encounter this, can you let go of the person and seek death by yourself? Alas... It's just a pity that I didn't have alcohol.
Wu Yong cursed: If you don’t speak, can you become a mute?!
Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhuli was still a man who was ready to die, so Zhang Ning said: After I go back, I will make a whole jar of wine toast you, and you can drink it underground.Two, let’s go on the road with peace of mind.
In fact, this kind of dress is a bit more comfortable. Because there was no washing machine in the Ming Dynasty, changing underwear every day was actually a very troublesome thing. Fortunately, with his current status and status, he was free to pretend not to pretend or not. If there was no such condition, his habit would definitely be gossiped about.
As the saying goes, all abstract tastes are based on real conditions. If you have no money or status, many things are bullshit, and it is not as good as the vulgar, and it is natural.
He sat in the room for a while, thinking about things calmly, and he also suspected of pretending to be cool, but he didn't notice it himself.
I have to go to the cult chief as soon as possible.It took Zhang Ning a long time to say something.
In his complicated thoughts, he seemed to have returned to a certain point in the past and was facing a more troublesome math problem.
In fact, the situation at this time really has some common points with math problems. Each step is not difficult, but there are many steps that seem a bit complicated; in addition, it requires an entry point and creative thinking to find the key...
Of course, if it's just a math problem, it's fine, so you don't have to think about life.
At this moment, he was thinking, since Queen Ma used such unscrupulous methods as if framed Yao Ji, then she would not do her best to kill Yao Ji when she had the chance?
If Emperor Jianwen removes Yao Ji's power and isolate her from the cults, wouldn't it be an opportunity for Empress Ma to cut meat on the board?
At this time, Fang Ling, who was standing beside him, asked: Lord Zhang is going to ward off the cult, how should Zhan Zhuli, who was tied out of the city and Wu Yong, who was fleeing?
He has sent Taohua Fairy to chase Wenjun and Wu Yong.
Zhang Ning said, I have to go out of the city to deal with this matter first, and then rush to ward off the cult. Miss Fang asked the messenger to stay in the tea garden for a while. When I came back, let the messenger take me to ward off the cult.
Fang Ling couldn't help but ask softly: Do you want to kill them?
Zhang Ning was silent for a moment, nodded, stood up immediately, and said: I'm out of the city now.
For a moment, Fang Ling suddenly felt that Zhang Ning seemed to have become increasingly strange.
She understood Zhang Ning's background. She was originally just a scholar who had been studying hard for twenty years. She was brainwashed and was brainwashed. Then he captured Zheng Qia and killed Peng Tianheng while interviewing in Yangzhou, which changed Fang Ling's influence on him and felt that he was not a nerd. But this time he wanted to kill someone to silence him. Even if Fang Ling stood opposite to the court, she knew the right and wrong of black and white, so she suddenly felt that Zhang Ning became crazy.
Zhang Ning left Yuanshui Tea Garden, and he had decided to kill someone to silence him and deal with him personally, to see the body with his own eyes in order to ensure that everything was foolproof.
When he left the city, he saw Xu Guangsha. The carriage was parked on the side of the road. The groom disappeared, and Xu Guangsha was in the carriage.
Zhang Ning got on the felt car and saw that Zhan Zhuli had woken up from his coma. The eyes on his dry face with wide bones seemed particularly bright at this time. Perhaps because his mouth was blocked and he could not speak and could only communicate with his eyes, so his eyes widened.
The groom is gone?
Zhang Ning asked casually, without waiting for an answer, and said that there are only four people involved in this matter now. In addition to the two of us, there are Xu Wenjun and Taohua Fairy who are chasing Wu Yong. Don’t be known by the fifth person.
Old Xu said calmly: Don’t worry, boss, I had already considered these issues when I promised to follow my boss in Yangzhou.
After hearing this, Zhang Ning felt relieved, nodded with a little praise, and said: Let's walk along the road northeast, waiting for news from Wenjun.
So Old Xu went to the front to catch the bus, and Zhang Ning looked at Zhan Zhuli in the carriage.Zhan Zhuli was tied up and could not move, so there was probably no possibility of breaking free.
When she was late at night, she saw Xu Wenjun returning. She said that Wu Yong had already caught it, so the group joined together and continued to walk north.
Passing by a market, Zhang Ning asked someone to buy hoes, shovels and other tools and threw them on the carriage.
Seeing this, Lao Xu and Wenjun were silent, probably guessing the use of these tools.
Zhang Ning originally thought that it was the cleanest to burn the corpse with firewood, but realized a problem: it might take hundreds of kilograms of firewood to cremate two corpses. Where did the firewood come from?
If you cut down on the mountain, you will need labor and time. There are two women in the group, one old man, and Zhang Ning himself is a civil servant. It is a bit difficult to cut a few hundred firewood; if you buy it, you will have more witnesses and clues.
And then the fire will soar, which will easily attract the attention of people around you.
So he decided to give up this way of destroying corpses.
The peach blossom fairy led the way, and Old Xu drove the car into a forest on the side of the road. Xu Wenjun was standing next to a tree with a short sword. Wu Yong was tied to the tree, and the reins of the two horses were also tied nearby.
Zhang Ning ordered Wu Yong to be untied from the tree and tied it back to the horse.They temporarily abandoned the carriage in the woods, took the horses and camels, and walked along the woods to the mountains as far as possible away from the post road.
After walking for an hour or two, it was completely dark and everyone had not had dinner. After struggling for a long time, they were already hungry. When they walked to a land temple, Zhang Ning saw that there was no light nearby and that the mountains and forests were sparsely populated, so he asked everyone to stop.
Xu Wenjun raised a fire to keep warm in the Land Temple, so Zhang Ning asked someone to entrust the two prisoners into the Land Temple.
The few people were very silent. The Peach Blossom Fairy looked calm and didn't say anything.
During the process of armed trafficking of private salt, Taohua Fairy had conflicts with the government and her peers, and she inevitably had no murder case. Her expression gave Zhang Ning encouragement. Perhaps the murder was just like this?
So Zhang Ning said: Just strangle them to death here to avoid bleeding, and then find a secluded place on the mountain to dig a hole and bury it.
This sentence made Wu Yong and Zhan Zhuli struggle for a while. Wu Yong shook his head with his eyes wide open, and he was whining in his mouth.
Zhang Ning thought to himself: He had a few years of friendship with Wu Yong, and now he is about to die. If he doesn't give him a chance to say a few last words, there is no need to let him hold back all his words into the grave.
Zhang Ning ordered: Take off the things in their mouths. It’s useless to yell in this wilderness.
After the cloth in Zhan Zhuli's mouth was pulled out, he immediately said: The criminal who was about to be beheaded and displayed in public still had a good meal before he died, but he didn't even have a drink of wine?
Zhang Ning was stunned and said helplessly: I didn’t remember this. Why didn’t I buy things at the market before and buy you a pot of wine.
At this time, Wu Yong was able to speak, took a big breath, and hurriedly said: Zhang Ping'an, if you kill us, we think it's okay?If something happened to us at the same time, you can be so foolish as Mr. Hu is a three-year-old child!Sooner or later, we have to settle the score with you... It's better to discuss it well, why do we need to get such a land?As long as you let me go, I swear to the sky and never tell me that.
Zhang Ning didn't say anything, thinking that if everything had to be discussed, how could the entire human history become a history of war?
He thought about it, but did not answer positively, and just asked: Since we are talking, I have something to do.Why was it that Zhan Zhu left the yamen to report it, and the person who sneaked out of the city was Mr. Wu?If Zhan Zhuli had not fallen into the trap and walked away by himself, it would probably be much more difficult for us to chase after Mr. Wu.
Without waiting for Wu Yong to answer, Zhan Zhuli said: Lord Wu said that the prefect of Changde would report the matter of the report and dare not hide it; and we have no real evidence. If I went to Beijing to report it and did not know how to deal with the bureaucrats, I might backfire.So I asked Lord Wu to come to Beijing and I went to the Changde government for help... Unexpectedly, Changde government was so dark, the prefect arrested me without saying a word, and handed the letters and letters to you. This...
It's indeed a cheating father.
Zhang Ning blurted out and turned to look at Wu Yong. What else can Mr. Wu say? You have cheated Zhan to death.Don’t say that you can’t expect this result, then will the prefect Changde listen to someone’s entourage and inexplicably set up an enemy in the officialdom?
Zhan Zhuli immediately looked at Wu Yong and cursed: Damn, you are too unrighteous!Mr. Zhan has been with you for many years, but he has no intention of being silly?You are fine. When the matter is about to come, I will push me into the fire pit. Is there any trouble to mess with my own people?
Wu Yong's face turned pale and speechless. He paused for a while before saying: Lord Zhang, you give me a way out. If I report the secret matter, I will be able to die if I thunderously hit the sky.
At this moment, suddenly there was a shiny outside the temple, and there was a dull sound in the sky, as if it was going to rain.Zhang Ning turned around and looked up at the sky outside the door. When he turned back, he saw that the expression on Wu Yong's face was very awkward.
Wu Yong hurriedly said: It’s rainy in the south, and the weather is about to change. God has no other intention...
Zhang Ning nodded and said: This must be true. If God is so effective, why did the evil villains who have never been punished by God since the Thunder Zhi?
He was silent for a while and said: So even if you violate the oath, it is hard to say whether the curse will work.I have something else to say, the time is almost done.
Wu Yong's face was pale and suddenly shed tears: I have a wife and children in my family, and I need to support my family. My children have not grown up yet, so I don't want to die.
After saying that, I struggled to kneel down, but my hands and feet were tied and finally lay on the ground. I chewed the dust on my mouth, and my beard seemed to turn gray. Lord Zhang, for our friendship and the wife and children of the Wu family, let me live...
At this time, Zhan Zhuli said coldly: I just saw Lord Wu’s prospect today. What’s the use of begging? If you encounter this, can you let go of the person and seek death by yourself? Alas... It's just a pity that I didn't have alcohol.
Wu Yong cursed: If you don’t speak, can you become a mute?!
Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhuli was still a man who was ready to die, so Zhang Ning said: After I go back, I will make a whole jar of wine toast you, and you can drink it underground.Two, let’s go on the road with peace of mind.