Qin Xiaowan didn't expect that Gu Baiyi would come back at this time. He didn't expect it, and Qiuniang didn't expect it either.
The two of them turned to look at Gu Baiyi, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
There was a cake gift box on the table, and Qiuniang was holding Bazhen cake in her hand. The door was closed, but it was opened at this time. Seeing such a warm scene between the two of them, I always thought more about it.
"Brother Gu, are you back?" Qin Xiao stood up immediately, unexpectedly, and really embarrassed.
Qiuniang is Gu Baiyi's sister. When she saw her sister talking and laughing with a man behind closed doors, she wondered what Baiyi would think.
"I'm back." Gu Baiyi walked in directly, took a look into the gift box, and without being polite, reached for a piece of pastry and put it into his mouth, eating it happily.
"Actually...Actually, Sister Qiuniang and I didn't say anything." Qin Xiao couldn't help but said.
"I know." Gu Baiyi nodded.
He said this, but even the devil could see that he didn't think so.
Qiuniang was also a little anxious and explained: "Actually, I asked him what he did before, and he said he was a jailer. I didn't believe it, so...!"
"I understand!" Gu Baiyi ate very quickly. After finishing one piece of pastry, he reached for another piece and advised: "Eat together, it tastes good."
Seeing this, Qiuniang couldn't help but glare at Qin Xiao, feeling that if Qin Xiao wasn't here, her brother wouldn't be misunderstood, so she simply said: "Bai Yi, you don't... you don't think
Me and... He and I did something we shouldn't have done, right?"
"Sister, you are worrying too much." Gu Baiyi said: "Brother Qin is a gentleman. Even if you don't care, he will not mess around."
Qiuniang raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "What did you say? I don't care about it? Are you still my brother?"
"For the rest of my life." Gu Baiyi laughed, took Qiuniang's chopsticks, put a piece of pig head meat into his mouth, and sighed, "It's a pity that there is no wine, otherwise the pig head meat will be as happy as a god if you drink it with wine."
"
Qin Xiaozheng was a little embarrassed. After hearing what Gu Baiyi said, he immediately took out the two bottles of wine from the gift box, placed one directly in front of Gu Baiyi, and said: "Although it's not much, it's good wine. If it's not enough, let's go again."
Drinking."
Gu Baiyi picked up the wine bottle and sighed: "Not to mention the fine wine inside, it's just that this wine bottle can't be bought without three or five taels of silver."
"Really?" Qiuniang was startled. She obviously didn't expect that a small wine bottle could be worth half a year's wages for punting the boat. She hurriedly said: "After you two drink, don't throw the wine bottles away." Then she said in surprise.
: "Baiyi, you are not on duty today? Why are you coming back at this time?"
"Yesterday, everyone in Kyoto Prefecture performed their duties and stayed in their own places and could not go home." Gu Baiyi opened the cork of the wine bottle, and the aroma of the wine inside immediately spread out. Qin Xiao knew it was true as soon as he smelled the aroma of the wine.
With the fine wine, Gu Baiyi looked at him and explained with a smile: "The Ministry of Justice took away Fan Budang from the Ministry of War yesterday. Lord Fu Yin was worried that there would be something coming from the Ministry of Justice, so there was not one of the eight hundred yamen in Kyoto Prefecture.
If we dare to leave our posts without authorization, those of us who are responsible for the paperwork will stay there and cannot leave the yamen. Last night, we could not sleep a wink. It was not until almost noon that Mr. Fu Yin ordered some of us to go off duty first, so I
I happened to come back early, but I had to replace someone else in the evening."
Qin Xiao uncorked the bottle and said, "Brother Gu, if it weren't for you this time, Captain Han would definitely have been killed. I'd like to give you a drink."
"Don't be so polite." Gu Baiyi said with a smile: "If you drink, drink, no matter how respectful or disrespectful you are, you are one of your own and don't see outsiders."
Qiuniang couldn't help but give Gu Baiyi a blank look, thinking to herself that this boy really regards her as one of her own. If you regard him as one of your own now, won't you let him in and out of this house in the future?
Gu Baiyi took a sip of the wine, closed his eyes to taste it, and quickly praised: "I have never drunk such a fine wine since I was a child. Brother Qin, I am very lucky to you this time."
"Brother Gu is too polite." Qin Xiao said with a smile: "The person who delivered the wine said it was called Tianren Brewing, which is an arrogant name."
"Not arrogant." Gu Baiyi said: "This name really insults such a good wine. But I am really surprised that the Taiping Association can come up with such a good wine."
"Brother Gu knows it was sent by the Taiping Society?"
"As soon as I entered the alley, someone told me that several people came to my house with gift boxes. As soon as I mentioned the clothes of those people, I guessed that they were from the Taiping Society." Gu Baiyi directly pulled Qiuniang's horse stool.
Come and sit down, "The good thing about this alley is that no matter what happens, the whole alley will soon know about it."
Qin Xiao thought to himself, it seems that I stayed with Qiuniang alone last night, and the neighbors found out about it.
"Wu Tianbao, the second brother of Latus," Qin Xiao said: "He said that the eldest brother of the Taiping Society and I are old acquaintances, but this is my first time in Beijing, how can I recognize their eldest brother? Brother Gu, do you know?
Who is the eldest brother of the Taiping Society?"
Gu Baiyi shook his head and said: "I don't know. People in Kyoto only know Wu Tianbao, the second brother of the Taiping Association. The so-called sitting hall is the apparent leader of the gang. When it comes to the Taiping Association, everyone only knows Wu Tianbao.
Very few people know about that eldest brother." Then he smiled and said: "But the backer behind the Taiping Society is extraordinary, and the identity of that eldest brother is naturally also unusual." He picked up another piece of pig head meat and thought of something, Xiang Qiu
My mother said: "Sister, you go buy a jar of wine early. I didn't sleep well last night, so I need to drink to refresh myself."
Before Qiuniang could speak, Qin Xiao had already neatly taken out a broken piece of silver and handed it over.
"I haven't drank in the past few months, and I haven't heard you talk about refreshing yourself." Qiuniang said angrily: "You guys have been drinking every day for the past two days. When he leaves, who will you ask for a drink? I can't afford it for you.
Drink money." Although he said this, he still took the money, put the silk and satin into his room, and then went out.
Gu Baiyi sighed: "Although my sister is frugal, she has a good heart. Sometimes she says the wrong thing, so don't blame her."
"Brother Gu is wrong. In fact, Sister Qiu Niang is smart, smart, diligent and thrifty. Whoever marries her will be really virtuous." Qin Xiao said seriously,
Gu Baiyi smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, it's all my fault. I should have let her get married a long time ago, but...!" He hesitated, looking a little guilty, and said: "Sometimes I also think,
If one day she gets married, can I still live alone? I have no other talents except reading and writing, and I can't even cook. Without her, I would really starve to death."
Qin Xiao also knew that without Qiuniang, Gu Baiyi's life would indeed be even more miserable.
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Gu Baiyi frowned and said, "Why did you leave the Criminal Department? The case has just started, why didn't the Criminal Department settle you?"
Qin Xiao immediately recounted what happened after he rode a horse and pulled a cart to the Ministry of Punishment. He was assassinated last night and told the circumstances of his coming here. However, he broke through to Zhongtian Realm and naturally did not tell him.
Gu Baiyi looked solemn and said: "Lu Junzhong is indeed sinister and ruthless. He is going to kill someone with a borrowed knife."
"Kill someone with a borrowed knife?"
"Why do you think Lu Junzhong wants you to leave the Ministry of Justice?" Gu Baiyi said solemnly: "He has already expected that as long as you leave the Ministry of Justice, someone will definitely assassinate you, whether it is Qingyi Hall or the forces behind Fan Wenzheng.
I won’t let you go and want to kill you.”
Qin Xiao had never thought of this before. Gu Baiyi's heart trembled when he mentioned it like this. Then he realized that Lu Junzhong had already had murderous intentions towards him when he let him leave the Ministry of Justice so quickly.
"Why did he want to kill me?"
"His purpose is not to kill you." Gu Baiyi said calmly: "He wants to make this case bigger and involve more people. You escaped death last night, that's God's eyes open. If you
Dead bodies on the street, the outcome would be different."
Qin Xiao now fully understood.
"I went to the Ministry of Punishment to file a complaint, which led to Fan Wenzheng being detained by the Ministry of Punishment. Many people already know about this." Qin Xiao sneered: "So in everyone's eyes, Fan Wenzheng's party members will definitely be regarded as a thorn in the flesh. If I am killed,
On the street, the first murderer that everyone thought of was Fan Wenzheng's gang."
"That's right." Gu Baiyi nodded and said: "At that time, Lu Junzhong will announce your identity to the outside world. You are a black-feathered night crow. You went to Beijing to report military intelligence, but you were killed in Kyoto. If this matter spreads,
Woye Bianjun was the first to give up, and Lu Junzhong would also take the opportunity to expand the case. The Ministry of Punishment has not made any big moves in the past few years. Lu Junzhong couldn't hold it back and finally waited for this case. Naturally, he didn't want to end it simply, at least.
We should take this opportunity to involve some officials and forces that we dislike."
"So I became a tool for him to use?" Qin Xiao sneered: "He is indeed a cunning, sinister and ruthless person."
Gu Baiyi frowned and said: "But you were assassinated last night, and you killed an assassin. Logically speaking, the Kyoto Prefecture should be able to report such things, but when I came back, there was no such news from the Kyoto Prefecture."
He took a sip from the wine bottle and said: "I understand. After the assassination last night, when you left, the assassins should have cleaned up the scene, and the bodies of the murdered assassins have been properly disposed of. In this way, after dawn, too
Then no one would know that a murder occurred in the alley, and Kyoto Prefecture would not get any news."
"Those assassins were probably worried about the consequences, so they quickly dealt with the scene." Qin Xiao said: "Brother Gu, based on your guess, the assassin last night was Fan Wenzheng's person?"
"It's possible, but not sure." Gu Baiyi smiled faintly and said: "Lu Junzhong thinks he is very smart, but in fact he is too confident. He only thought that after you were killed, someone would report the murder. In fact, if they succeeded in the assassination last night,
Your body will also be cleaned and no trace will be left. In this way, no one will know that you were killed. It is just that a messenger from Xiling has lost his trace. Of course, it is possible that Fan was responsible for the assassination.
Wenzheng's gang members are planning it, but Qingyitang is also suspected. Both groups want to kill you." He looked at Qin Xiao and said: "I told you that night that if you want to rescue Captain Han, go to the Ministry of Punishment.
It's a risky move, because if you can rescue Captain Han, you will also forge a deadly feud with Fan Wenzheng's forces. If you stay in Kyoto, your situation will only become more dangerous."
Qin Xiaodao: "Captain Han also asked me to leave Kyoto as soon as possible, but how can I leave him alone? Although he left the tiger's den, he entered the wolf's den. Now in the hands of the Ministry of Justice, Lu Junzhong is sinister and vicious. I am really worried.
Captain Han’s safety.”
"Don't worry, the Punishment Department will never dare to touch Captain Han." Gu Baiyi said with certainty: "Even in the open, the Punishment Department will not dare to provoke you."
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