The carriage drove slowly along the empty long street, under the dim light of dawn and speckled with mist.
The sound of horse hooves is very soft, but it travels far, making the old Zhangcheng city even more peaceful and silent.
Inside the carriage.
Guo Baiyi sat on the left side, closing his eyes to relax, his face as calm as ever.
Su Ling was lying on the other side with his arms and legs stretched out, snoring loudly. If the carriage were smaller, it might not be able to accommodate him.
The carriage traveled alone for a while. Guo Baiyi opened his eyes, glanced at Su Ling who was sleeping soundly, smiled faintly, and said softly: "Wake up, we are already far away from the lord's residence, and no one is following you.
Still like this, don’t you even worry about me?”
As soon as Guo Baiyi finished speaking, Su Ling suddenly opened one of his closed eyes, winked slyly at Guo Baiyi, then turned over and sat up, laughing and saying: "No matter what you do, you will escape."
But the discernment of the big brother in white..."
Look at him again, his mind is clear and his eyes are bright, but he is not even a little bit drunk.
Guo Baiyi smiled faintly, pointed at Su Ling with his hand and said: "You, you, you don't cause trouble on the ground, but you want to cause trouble on the top of the sky, that is, you, relying on the lord's favor, no one else would have done it to you.
Life is here!"
Su Ling scratched his head and laughed twice, then said: "When did the white-clothed brother realize that I was pretending to be drunk on purpose?"
Guo Baiyi rolled his eyes at him and said: "What do you mean when you find out? I don't believe you are drunk at all..."
"Uh..." Su Ling felt embarrassed again, scratching his head and saying nothing.
Guo Baiyi's expression became serious and he said: "Now, tell me, why do you do this? Then Shen Zhengnan is an enemy prisoner. Is it worth it for you to do this?"
Only then did Su Ling change
Yan cupped his hands and said, "Young man, I think if you do it, it will be worth it... Big brother in white is actually opposed to the punishment of Lingchi for Shen Zhengnan..."
Guo Baiyi snorted deliberately and said: "He is just a prisoner. He will die no matter what. What does it have to do with me..."
Su Ling chuckled and said, "I may believe it when others say it, but if you say it like this, Brother Bai, I don't believe it either..."
Guo Baiyi raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Why?"
"Because the big brother in white only pretends to be the prime minister, and more importantly, the overall situation..." Su Ling said seriously.
Guo Baiyi waved his hand and said: "Don't put a high hat on me, you have to tell me the truth, why do you take such a big risk and do such a thing? Do you understand that if you have a flaw, you will definitely be doomed!"
Su Ling groaned, shook his head lightly and said: "I am also forced to have no choice... Brother in white, please think about the situation of Shen Jizhou's camp now? Is he afraid of being beaten by our army?
Everyone has become frightened..."
Guo Baiyi nodded and said: "So what? Since they are all frightened birds, delaying the trial of Zhengnan will definitely make the people in Shen Jizhou's camp collapse and be frightened by the news. They will never dare to face our army again. Wouldn't it be better...
..”
Su Ling smiled and said: "If that's the case, it would be for the best... However, everything has two sides. If it really happens that the trial of Zhengnan is delayed and the result is counterproductive, what will happen to the Prime Minister?"
Guo Baiyi paused and said calmly: "How could it be counterproductive?"
Su Ling opened her heart and said seriously:
"Brother in white, please think about it, if the enemy wants to surrender, but our army wants to destroy it with iron-blooded means, what will be the result? The captured Shen Zhengnan has already been detained, and his death is so miserable, but
Is there anyone who is willing to surrender to the Prime Minister? This is second to none. The consequences of not surrendering are not serious. However, has Brother in White ever heard of the principle that a desperate army will win and a desperate force will rebel?"
Guo Baiyi nodded and remained silent.
"If General Zhengnan Lingchi were to judge Zhengnan Lingchi, the rats would naturally be scared out of their wits and would not dare to fight with our army again. But the main general in the Bohai camp we are facing now is a rat? One is Zhang Buyi; the other is Zang Xuanba
, which one is not mighty?
A man who can bend? What's more, Na Shen Zhengnan has a high prestige in the Bohai Navy and has a reputation for loyalty and fortitude. If the news of his being Lingchi reaches the Bohai camp, how will they feel? Will they really give up resistance?
"Huh?" Su Ling said slowly.
"I won't give up resistance..." Guo Baiyi sighed.
"Yes, if a rat like Guo Tu hears this news, his mind will be shaken, his liver and gallbladder will be split, and he will be afraid of being attacked by swords and axes. But the military commanders we face are Zhang Chunyi and Zang Xuanba...
How can they give in? They will definitely use this as an opportunity to incite hatred among the soldiers of the Bohai Navy. When the soldiers become angry, the situation will not be easy to predict!" Su Ling said sincerely.
"What you said makes sense..." Guo Baiyi nodded.
"When the time comes, their bloody nature will be aroused. Regardless of whether they win or lose, if they are defeated and captured by our army, will they still be willing to surrender? The incident of Shen Zhengnan Ganglie has been branded in our history.
When the time comes, they will most likely want to die... Then where can the Prime Minister find these two generals?"
Su Ling paused and then said: "So, in order to be able to recruit General Zhang Zang to surrender, and to give reassurance to those who are hesitant to surrender, the treatment of Shen Zhengnan should not be too cruel or too cruel.
kindness!"
Guo Baiyi nodded and said, "Keep talking."
"If it is too cruel, it will be tantamount to cutting off the path of those Bohai people who are waiting to see whether they will surrender, and it will also provoke a desperate battle among the Bohai soldiers; if it is too kind, it will not be coercive enough to scare people's hearts...
Therefore, the most appropriate treatment is to push him out of the gate and kill him, and to bury Shen Zhengnan generously to show the Prime Minister's kindness!" Su Ling said word by word.
Guo Baiyi couldn't help but nodded and said: "Yes, your idea coincides with mine..."
Su Ling shrugged and said helplessly: "It's just that we think this way. That sour-faced old man doesn't think so, so that's weird. The prime minister actually accepted his proposal. There is no other way. No matter how risky it is, I have to go."
Do it..."
Guo Baiyi then smiled and said: "So, you just set fire to the death row? Su Ling, although the death row is not as big as Longtai, how can you set such a fire on your own?"
Su Ling waved his hand and said with a smile: "The boy doesn't know magic, how can he set off such a big fire...The boy has an accomplice...ah, he has an accomplice...
.”
Guo Baiyi glanced at him and said with an insightful expression: "But the cell leader Chen Yang and the jailer are for your use.
Did you set this fire?"
Su Ling laughed and said: "The big brother in white guessed it right...it's true..."
Guo Baiyi then said clearly: "Then what Xiao Jianshu said is true. Then Chen Yang is really hanging out with a fan named Dou Yunniang. Did you catch him?"
Su Ling quickly shook her head and said: "Don't put it in such a bad way. What do you mean by hanging out with a fan? They are a legal couple, okay... It's a coincidence that I was originally following that Chen in the dark night.
Yang, I wanted to hold him hostage and do things for me... but I found out that he went to a private house... Only then did I find out about him and that Dou Yunniang."
Su Ling briefly told Guo Baiyi about Chen Yang and Dou Yunniang.
Guo Baiyi then sighed and said: "They are also a pair of hard-luck mandarin ducks... But then, why did Xiao Jianshu send his guards to search for Du Dou Yunniang, but in vain?"
Su Ling waved his hand and said: "Forget it, you all know that I did this anyway, so I will tell you the whole story..."
It turned out that after Su Ling and Xu Youzhi finished interrogating Shen Zhengnan, they both came out of the death row and saw Qin Yu pulling a large cart with several large wine jars waiting in front of the death row door.
After Su Ling inquired, he found out that Huang Kuijia went to his residence and asked him for wine, but he happened to be away. Huang Kuijia couldn't wait for the wine, but he couldn't wait for a moment. Under the noise, Xiao Cangshu really couldn't
So he sent Qin Yu to a restaurant to buy wine.
Qin Yu bought wine and found that the restaurant was not far from the death row, so he came to the death row and waited for Su Ling to finish his work.
return.
This is also the reason why Xu Youzhi said that he and Su Ling and Qin Yu did go together in a carriage carrying wine.
Xu Youzhi arrived at his residence first, got out of the car and left.
Su Ling then asked Qin Yu to return first to prevent Huang Kuijia from shouting when he got anxious. Instead, he went to the prime minister's palace to report to Xiao Yuanche that Zhengnan refused to surrender and wanted to die.
Next, Xiao Yuanche listened to Xiao Jianshu's words and asked Lingchi to execute Su Ling.
When Su Ling was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he thought of a way to put Zhengnan to death without letting him suffer the punishment of Lingchi.
In the camp, Xiao Yuanche couldn't listen to what Su Ling said. Su Ling knew that talking more would be useless, so he resigned first.
Su Ling walked all the way, thinking of a solution, and finally came up with the idea of first assisting the trial of Zhengnan's suicide, and then burning the death row.
Originally, Su Ling just wanted to let Shen Zhengnan die, but then he thought about it, if Shen Zhengnan's body was discovered by then, whether it was cut with a sharp knife or poisoned, it would cause unnecessary trouble.
Xiao Yuanche will definitely ask the Military Advocate to investigate, and secretly ask the Shadow Division to investigate. By then, many details will inevitably arise.
So Su Ling came up with the idea of burning the death row and Shen Zhengnan's body together without stopping.
The strategy was decided, it would be easy for Shen Zhengnan to die, it would be difficult for him to escape, and it would be even harder for him to burn down the death row.
Su Ling was thinking while walking, and felt that if this happened, the cell leader and jailer on death row would be the key to it.
When Su Ling returned to his residence, Huang Kuijia and Wu Zhijiao were already drunk, and Huang was so drunk that he could not even lift his head.
Seeing the wine, Su Ling had an idea. Why not buy some wine and send it to the jailers on death row to show them kindness?
Cannibals are short-tongued, and even if they don't help themselves, they will turn a blind eye and make it convenient for themselves.
So he asked Qin Yu to go out again, bought wine and sent it to the death row. He gave it to the cell leader Chen Yang and the jailers and let them drink. He also said that if anyone pursues the case, he will settle everything.
Both Chen Yang and the jailer were alcoholics, so they ate to their heart's content.
However, when Qin Yu returned, he told Su Ling that when he was buying wine at a restaurant, he saw a shadowy person who was covering up, as if he didn't want him to recognize who it was. But Qin Yu still recognized him.
It was Wang Shun, the chief eunuch of the Prime Minister's palace.
Fortunately, Su Ling kept this matter in mind, so when confronting Xiao Jianshu, Xiao Jianshu mentioned the matter. Su Ling adapted to the situation and grafted Wang Shun's seeing Qin Yu buying wine to Qin Yu's first time buying wine.
On top of that, there is Xu You’s ironclad evidence, so Wang Shun’s words are of course of no use.
Su Ling waited until dark at his residence, then put on his night clothes and came out on the street. His original intention was to go to the death row to see if there was any opportunity he could take advantage of, but he didn't want to meet the prisoner who was drunk and singing to Dou Yunniang's residence.
Headed by Chen Yang.
Su Ling secretly followed them all the way and discovered the affair between Chen Yang and Dou Yunniang.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yang was loyal, and Su Ling felt pity for him and Dou Yunniang, so he took him as a confidant. Chen Yang usually showed more kindness to the inferior jailers. When Su Ling and Chen Yang returned to the death row, they would be with those
When the jailer said it, they naturally took the lead in loyalty and responded to every call.
In addition, Su Ling promised to save their lives, so they naturally had no worries.
"So... Shen Zhengnan drank the poisonous wine I prepared and died... and then a fire burned the sky red.
...burn the death row and Shen Zhengnan completely..." Su Ling shrugged.
Guo Baiyi nodded, and suddenly seemed to have pointed out: "I think that if you make such a big noise, others may be aware of it later, but it cannot escape one person's eyes... That Boning, it should be
He knew about it, and he secretly helped you..."
Su Ling laughed and said: "You are really a roundworm in the kid's belly. I can't hide anything from you..."
Su Ling told Guo Baiyi the rest of the story without reservation.
It turned out that Su Ling met Boning in a dark alley. After Su Ling had a heart-to-heart talk with him, Boning made it clear that he was actually here to help Su Ling. If he really came to arrest Su Ling, it would not be him.
Went alone.
Su Ling asked Boning that he had always followed the Prime Minister's orders, so why did he help him hide the Prime Minister's orders this time.
Boning said frankly that everything he did was for the benefit of the Prime Minister. As long as Su Ling did not endanger the Prime Minister's interests, he would help.
Boning also emphasized that this was just this time, and if Su Ling acted alone again in the future, no matter what the purpose, he would never protect him again.
Under Boning's prompting, Su Ling realized that this matter was too big and Xiao Yuanche's character would definitely lead to a killing spree. Then Chen Yang, the jailers, and even all the people implicated in the matter would be killed.
Life is not guaranteed.
Su Ling was helpless for a moment, and Boning solemnly assured him that if Su Ling believed him, he would take the Shadow Division and bring these people back to the Shadow Division in the name of arresting Chen Yang and the jailer, and protect them secretly.
Looking for opportunities to save their lives.
If it were Su Ling
If you don't believe him, then he won't care.
Su Lingxiao said that she had no choice now but to trust Boning.
The two of them made a pair of three palms, forming a gentleman's alliance.
Boning asked Su Ling how to clear away his suspicion, and Su Ling laughed and said that he had his own way.
Before the two of them split up, Boning reminded Su Ling that Dou Yunniang was always a hidden danger in Jiuzhang. According to Xiao Yuanche's methods, Dou Yunniang would never be able to escape. If she was caught, all the previous efforts would be wasted.
The two of them acted separately. Boning led the Shadow Division openly and took Chen Yang and the jailers away before Xu Jinghu and Xia Yuanrang their troops arrived at the death row.
When Xia Yuanrang and Xu Jinghu arrived, there was only a pile of rubble waiting for them, so Xia and Xu knew nothing about the truth of what happened.
After Su Ling returned to his residence, he called Lin Bulang and Wen Fanghua and told them the matter. Wen Fanghua immediately expressed his willingness to take the risk to find Dou Yunniang and take her out of Jiuzhang in the dark night.
Su Ling felt that the city gate was closed, how could she take Dou Yunniang away. Wen Fanghua laughed and said that Su Ling owed Mu Yanqing another favor, so she left first to find Dou Yunniang.
It was not until Xiao Jianshu's bodyguard reported back to Xiao Jianshu later that Su Ling was sure that Wen Fanghua had used a method unknown to him to take Dou Yunniang away at night.
As for what method she used, whether it was authentic or other methods, Su Ling didn't know, but it was always better for people to leave.
This is also the reason why Xiao Jianshu went to find Su Ling, but Wen Fanghua was nowhere to be found.
Fortunately, Xiao Jianshu arrived in Jiuzhang for the first time and didn't know who was living in Su Ling's residence, so he ignored Wen Fanghua.
After listening to this, Guo Baiyi realized it clearly and pointed with his hands.
Su Ling said: "You, you, are also lucky. In many things, if you make even one mistake, you will lose everything..."
Su Ling smiled and said: "I am a gambler... I like to bet on everything, but I have never lost a bet... Do you think it's annoying..."
Guo Baiyi's expression suddenly turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Su Ling, you are not afraid that I will tell the lord the truth about this matter. May I ask you how to end it?"
Su Ling was startled for a moment, then waved his hands nonchalantly and said, "Brother in white, this is not a good performance. In fact, you have already understood all this. Crushing me to death is as easy as squeezing an ant to death. If you deliberately expose it,
Boy, I don’t know how many times I’ve died, why wait until now?”
Guo Baiyi then waved his hand and laughed loudly: "That's all! Su Ling, this matter is because you really think about the Lord, but I want to warn you, if you don't do it again... do you know?"
Su Ling sang to Guo Baiyi: "Boy, I understand, this is just this time, there will be no next time! I still want to live well..."
Guo Baiyi then teased: "Su Ling, you have to think of a way to thank me properly. Now your little braid can be held in my hand. If you get angry and bump into me someday, I will give it to you."
Shake it out..."
Su Ling had a troubled look on his face, and he spread his hands and said, "This is really difficult for me. I am not a young girl. Otherwise, I can still promise to be your ninth concubine..."
Guo Baiyi spat at Su Ling and said: "I think you are not pretending to be drunk, you are really drunk, what crazy things can you say...
.Is it that when you poured a jar of wine on you, you couldn't help but eat the wine?"
Su Ling chuckled, and suddenly seemed to remember something and said: "Hey... Speaking of this, I was doused twice, once with wine by myself, and the other time with cold water.
I got popsicles, but luckily it’s summer. If it snows heavily, I’ll just blow out the lamp and pull out the wax... So, we’re even, we don’t owe each other anything!”
As he spoke, he looked at Guo Baiyi with a rogue expression.
Guo Baiyi glared at him and said: "This is a trivial matter! How can you pretend to be real? I poured cold water on you to make you feel refreshed, so as not to get carried away... This doesn't count!"
Su Ling spread his hands and said, "Tell me, boss, how can I thank you..."
Guo Baiyi thought for a moment, then said seriously: "Su Ling, if you really want to thank me, just help me complete something... This thing is also a good thing for you, and more importantly
It’s your duty!”
Su Ling's heart trembled and she asked, "What's the matter? Brother in white said it so solemnly."
"Su Ling, if my prediction is correct, all your calculations and actions this time have excluded Cang Shu, and you even want to hide it from him... But Cang Shu has gradually grown up, and his heart
You know it all... It's just that this kid doesn't say much... This time, without his strong testimony that you never left your residence, how could you have passed the master's test so easily?
"
Su Ling also said with emotion: "Yes... Cang Shu is the prime minister's son after all... I am also very touched that he can help me like this!"
Guo Bai
Yihu bowed to Su Ling and said seriously: "So...Su Ling, you owe Cang Shu after all! Cang Shu has a pure nature and never lies, but today he wants to
He reluctantly deceived his father for you, how conflicted he must be in his heart!"
"Now behind Xiao Jianshu, I vaguely feel that there is Xu Wenruo standing..."
"So, Su Ling, I want you to promise me that in the future, no matter whether the situation is good or difficult, please do your best...even if you overcome all difficulties and go through hardships, you will still help Cang Shu.
, ascend to that supreme position!”
As he said that, Guo Baiyi looked at Su Ling burningly and said, "Su Ling, are you willing? Can you do it?"