Chapter 560 Visiting the Cui family

The bloody case of Bao'en Temple soon spread to the government. Xu Yiming, the new county magistrate of Chang'an County, heard that the person being killed was a dozen famous rangers in Chang'an County, but the murderer was two women. It is said that they might be the family of King Zhao Li Qing'an, which scared Xu Yiming and rushed to Chongdefang with more than a hundred yamen runners.

But at this time, Chongdefang had been controlled by the Qianniu Guard's army. Thousands of Qianniu Guard soldiers rushed from all directions and closed the gate. Nan Jiyun led the team and searched the dozen or so rangers from door to door.

Xu Yiming then realized that the rumors were true. The more than a dozen golfers teased him were Li Qing'an's family. Otherwise, they would not have mobilized the army like this. Xu Yiming regretted and hated him. In fact, many of these more than a dozen golfers had already come to sue them, especially at the beginning of this year, they were suspected of burning down the Kitchen God Hall in Bao'en Temple. Because they had two relatives of the county magistrate and did not cause murder, the matter was left in the end. It was their indulgence that finally led to today's disaster. Xu Yiming's regret was extremely serious. This matter might completely ruin his career.

He brought more than a hundred people back to Chongdefang, but the gate was closed and no one was allowed to enter and exit. The people guarding the gate had been replaced by Qianniu Guard soldiers. No matter how Xu Yiming called the gate, the inside ignored it.

At this time, a constable reacted a little, and he whispered to Xu Yiming: "Mr. Xu, what are we going to do?"

Xu Yiming was stunned, yes! What did he do? Do you still want to arrest the murderer? He was about to order to turn around, but then he thought again that if he ignored this matter, once the Zhengshi Hall or Li Qing'an investigated it, he would be suspected of dereliction of duty.

Xu Yiming felt very embarrassed. At this time, Nan Jiyun rushed to the front gate after hearing the news and said loudly to him: "Mr. Xu County Magistrate, this matter is solved by our Qianniuwei, you can go back!"

Xu Yiming lowered his head and pondered for a moment. It was best for Qianniuwei to take this matter over. However, he could also explain to the Zhengshi Hall that Qianniuwei intervened, making his power unable to be exercised. The Zhengshi Hall would not say anything about him? Everyone knows that Qianniuwei is the real leader of the Wannian County of Chang'an. Thinking of this, he was about to speak, and a burst of hurried horse hooves came from behind, and someone shouted: "Open the door, the general is here!"

Xu Yiming hurriedly went to the side, and the gate immediately followed. Hundreds of cavalry guarding a carriage and rushed over. A purple banner was inserted into the carriage. This was Li Qing'an's arrival.

Li Qing'an just received a quick step. Gao Wu and Mingzhu had an accident at Bao'en Temple and were almost insulted by bullies. He was furious and rushed to Chongdefang in person. The carriage rushed to Xu Yiming. Suddenly, he stopped in front of Xu Yiming with a 'gala'. Li Qing'an picked up the curtain and asked coldly: "Mr. Xu, are you here to handle the case?"

Li Qing'an was very dissatisfied with the local government at this time. These gangsters bullied women for a long time, and it was because the local government dereliction of duty. Xu Yiming heard that Li Qing'an was cold and was so scared that he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "I heard that there was a Ranger who did evil, so I came to arrest him!"

Li Qing'an nodded, his face calmed down a little, and said, "I heard that these tyrants have been doing evil for a day or two. Your local governments must investigate carefully. What other cases do they have committed should be dealt with strictly together!"

"I understand, so I will start investigating."

"Okay! You can go in too."

Li Qing'an put down the curtains, the carriage speeded up, and went straight to Bao'en Temple.

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In Baoen Temple, Gao Wu and Mingzhu were placed in the guest room for a while. Mingzhu comforted Gao Wu, "Sister Wu, there must be no problem. Since Qianniuwei controlled Chongdefang, then Sister Wu will be fine. Maybe she will be held responsible for those bastards."

At this time, Gao Wu felt a little angry and killed five people. She also regretted it a little. Although these villains were hated, they were not guilty to death, but they killed five of them. I wonder how their wife and children would suffer?

Gao Wu lowered her head and said nothing, but she secretly regretted it in her heart, but she had already killed her, so she had no choice.

At this time, there were chaotic footsteps outside, and only the abbot of Baoen Temple heard the voice of "Your Highness, these knights have been evil for many years, and countless good women have been ruined by them. They are not willing to die. My Buddha said: Eliminating evil is promoting goodness. All the monks in the temple are willing to recite scriptures for Miss Gao for one month to eliminate her murderous sins."

"Then I will work hard for the monks in Guizhou. I will give good gifts to Guizhou."

This was Li Qing'an's voice. Mingzhu and Gao Wu stood up at once. The door opened. A large group of people walked into the group, including monks and soldiers. The leader was Li Qing'an. He walked into the room and said to them: "Are you okay?"

Mingzhu was quick-mouthed and hurried forward, chattering like a sparrow: "If Sister Wu hadn't fought the battle, we would have died here today!"

Li Qingan smiled at Gao Wu and praised him with a thumbs up: "I am sure that I am the female general of the Central Army with one person."

Gao Wu's face turned red and he lowered his head and said, "I was anxious at that time and couldn't take care of anything. Now I think about it, I'm still a little scared, not as brave as you said."

Li Qingan laughed and turned to the abbot and said, "Please wait outside the door for a while!"

The abbot was most afraid of Gao Wu's darkness behind him, but he had no choice but to look at Gao Wu with a hurried look and retreated. Li Qing'an gave his own soldiers a wink, and the personal soldiers immediately closed the door. Then he asked the two women: "Why don't you have any guards?"

Mingzhu blinked, not knowing how to answer. Is she qualified to lead the guards? Gao Wu whispered: "I originally wanted to send two people to follow me, but I refused."

"Why?"

Before Gao Wu could speak, Mingzhu rushed to say, "Sister Wu is just living in your house, not your family. It is inappropriate for her to take your personal guards. Besides, when did I take the guards? Sister Wu is the same. She has always been used to being alone. What kind of guards are needed?"

"Is this the reason?" Li Qingan asked as he stared at Gao Wu.

Gao Wu nodded silently, "Mingzhu is right, I am indeed not qualified to take your guard, and if I bring your guard, the news will be unfavorable to my father. Qilang, I am willing to take responsibility for this matter today."

"What responsibility are you going to take!"

Li Qingan sneered and said, "Those bullies are full of evil deeds and are worthy of death. I have ordered the continued search for other fish that missed the net. I will punish everyone strictly!"

Gao Wu sighed and said, "Although they are guilty, they will not die. I hope Qilang will deal with it fairly."

"I know. I will make their malice public one by one."

Speaking of this, Li Qingan asked again: "I heard someone say that you met an acquaintance, who is it?"

"It's Cui Yuan, the right prime minister of Chengdu, and his son. They just left the temple not long ago."

'Cui Yuan?' Li Qing'an was stunned for a moment. Has he come to Chang'an? Why didn't he know at all? He hurriedly asked, "Where do they live?"

"I don't know this, but Qilang can ask the abbot, they seem to be familiar with each other, maybe the abbot knows where he lives."

Li Qingan was anxious. He opened the door and wanted to go out to ask the abbot. After walking two steps, he turned back and said, "My carriage is waiting at the door. You can go back first. You must bring two people when you come out, at least someone will report it."

Gao Wu bowed and said, "Thank you, Qilang, then we'll go back first."

"Yeah, go!"

"Brother-in-law, last time I went to Anxi to report the message, it seems that you didn't have enough compensation to me... Oh! Sister Wu, let me finish my words."

Before Mingzhu could finish speaking, Gao Wu dragged her away.

Li Qing'an thought to himself about Cui Yuan's affairs, so he went out to ask the abbot and said, "Abbot, can you tell me where Cui Yuan lives?"

"This..." the abbot hesitated for a moment, and said, "Their family lives in Anyefang next door."

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Cui Yuan had no house in Chang'an, so his family lived in the mansion of his clan's brother Cui Yu. Cui Yu was the prefect of Longzhou at first, and later transferred to the court to be the chief censor. He is currently the Minister of Taichang Temple and is a senior official of the court of the Cui family after Cui Huan.

Cui Yu did not attend court today, so he took sick leave to rest at home. At this time, he was talking to Cui Yuan about what happened in Bao'en Temple. They didn't care about Gao Wu's murder, they cared about the relationship between Gao Wu and Li Qing'an.

Cui Yuan and Cui Yu are both old politicians, especially Cui Yuan. Gao Wu almost became his daughter-in-law, but Gao Wu herself refused to do so. Cui Yuan didn't understand. According to Gao Wu's age, it was difficult for her to marry again. She married her second son. From the family, she was Gao Pan, and her son liked her very much, but she refused to marry her and turned against her father. If she wanted to marry the royal family as a concubine, when Li Longji was about to marry her as a princess, she ran away. This made Cui Yuan puzzled. It was not until now that he suddenly realized that Gao Wu liked Li Qing'an.

No wonder this is! Li Qing'an was a general under Gao Xianzhi before, and it was normal for Gao Wu to like him. If Gao Wu really married Li Qing'an, then the pattern of the Southern Tang Dynasty would become subtle, and the key here is Gao Xianzhi.

Cui Yuan sighed and said, "If Gao Xianzhi defected to Li Qing'an, then the army of Southern Tang would be taken away by Li Qing'an at least half. Don't think that Li Heng wanted to replace Gao Xianzhi with his son and seize his military power. It is actually difficult. Gao Xianzhi has a very high prestige in the army. Even if there are no confidant generals such as Xi Yuanqing, as long as he raises his arms and calls out, more than half of the officers will turn against him."

"Is it okay to kill him?"

Cui Yu took a sip of hot tea and asked, "If Li Heng knew that Gao Wu married Li Qing'an, he would definitely not be able to support Gao Xianzhi again and would trick him into Chengdu and kill him. What do you think?"

Cui Yuan shook his head and said, "How can you be so easy to kill? If Gao Xianzhi is killed, the army will mutiny. If he can be killed, Li Heng would have killed him long ago and he will be afraid of the rat!"

Both of them fell silent. At this time, Cui Yu sighed and said, "Gao Wu married Li Qing'an, and Pei Wan'er quickly married him. Everyone wants to rely on Li Qing'an, a big tree. Yesterday I told my elder brother whether to give him the daughter of the Cui family!"

"Why does the Cui family also have to join such a marriage?"

Cui Yuan said a little unhappy. He has never liked such political marriages, especially the Bu Pei family's world, which made him even more disgusted. However, when he saw Cui Yu a little worried, he asked, "Why, do you have to marry?"

Cui Yu shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter whether a marriage is connected or not. The key is that the momentum of the Pei family is very strong now, especially after Pei Zunqing was the right prime minister. You know that the full sect of aristocratic families have unscrupulously expanded the power of the Pei family. I counted yesterday that the power of the Pei family was a little worse than that of our Cui family, but after Pei Zunqing's expansion, it has surpassed the Cui family. It has only been two months. What if he is the right prime minister a year? At that time, our Cui family will definitely have no place to live, and the entire court and place will be controlled by his Pei family. Alas!"

Cui Yu sighed heavily, but Cui Yuan smiled and said, "I think you are a little worried."

"Why?" Cui Yu was stunned.

Cui Yuan stroked his beard and smiled and said, "Do you think Li Qing'an is a fool? Will the Pei family grow up? Let me tell you, this is absolutely impossible. Originally, he married Pei Wan'er to suppress the Dugu family. The Dugu family has little power and is easily suppressed, but the Pei family is different. If the Pei family is indulged in the Pei family, it will bring endless disasters to him in the future, and the situation of "Wang and Horse, Sharing the World" that year was definitely not what he, Li Qing'an, would like to see, so I dare say that he will soon support the Pei family's rival."

Cui Yuan had just finished speaking, and only heard a family member outside the door report in a hurry: "Master, King Zhao is coming down, I want to see Master!"

Cui Yu was shocked and quickly said to Cui Yuan: "Second brother, you should hide quickly."

Cui Yuan shook her head, he knew it clearly that Li Qing'an must have known that he was here, but in fact he was here to visit him. "Third brother, this may be the opportunity I mentioned in the Cui family. You go out to greet him! I will meet him with you."

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To be continued...