On this day, at Shen Shi time, Wu Zhi was drinking tea and checking information in the second hall of the county government office. At this time, Ma Bantou hurriedly walked in, approached Wu Zhi and said: "Sir, Master Chen Qi is outside.
He said he was looking for you if there was something urgent!"
Chen Qiye? Isn’t that Chen Shun? After hearing this, Wu Zhi was a little puzzled as to why this Chen Shun came to the county government office to look for him.
"Invite him in!" Wu Zhi put down the information in his hand and sat back on the chair. Ma Bantou quickly took the order and went out.
After a while, Chen Shun followed Ma Bantou and walked in one after another. When he saw Wu Zhi, since there was an outsider like Ma Bantou present, he first bowed to Wu Zhi respectfully and shouted: "Chen Qi pays homage to you, sir."
!" Then he raised his head and winked at Wu Zhi.
Wu Zhi understood and quickly ordered Ma Bantou: "Ma Bantou, you go down first. This county has something to say to Master Chen Qi!"
Wu Zhi didn't want too many people to know about his relationship with the Qinglong Gang.
After Ma Bantou left the second hall, Chen Qi immediately walked to Wu Zhi and said softly with a half-smile: "Master, someone is here at Xiang's house! Do you want to go and take a look?"
"Oh! Let's go then! Let's go and have a look!" Wu Zhi was stunned when he heard this, then his face was filled with frost and his heart was filled with anger. He stood up and walked out. Chen Shun quickly followed after seeing this.
Wu Zhi is not the Virgin Mary. He will not be so kind that he will be indifferent to others. Generally speaking, he will definitely fight back those who bully him, especially those who want to kill him.
"Who is coming?" Wu Zhi communicated with Chen Shun while walking on the way.
"That's the Xiang family housekeeper who came last time. He just arrived!" Chen Shun followed Wu Zhi step by step. When he heard Wu Zhi's question, he answered quickly.
"Humph, what a good Xiangjia!" Wu Zhi smiled coldly in his heart and suddenly accelerated his pace.
It turned out that Xiang Ergou, the young housekeeper sent by Xiang Huaiyu before, came to Weishi County to contact the Qinglong Gang, and paid 2,000 pieces of broken silver in advance. The Qinglong Gang agreed, and saw that the Qinglong Gang had a team of more than 20 people.
When he rushed to Zhuxian Town by boat to carry out the interception and killing mission, Xiang Ergou self-righteously concluded that Mr. Wu Zhi who passed through Zhuxian Town must have never come back, so he took it upon himself to return to the capital and let his little
The master, Xiang Huaiyu, was peacefully waiting for good news in the capital. However, more than a month had passed, and Xiang Huaiyu had not received any good news from the Qinglong Gang, nor could he wait for the beauty he had dreamed of. He couldn't help but feel restless.
I got up and felt that something was not right, so I couldn't hold it any longer, and quickly assigned Xiang Ergou to come to Weishi County to ask what was going on with the Qinglong Gang, and why the beauty hadn't been given to him after so long.
Send him to the capital! In the opinion of Xiang's family, Wu Zhi must have been taken care of by the extremely vicious Qinglong Gang.
Wu Zhi and Chen Shun arrived in front of the former headquarters of the Qinglong Gang, now the "Pan Wuji" Water Transport Company, one after another. Wu Zhi stopped, thought for a moment, and decided to eavesdrop first and see.
What could this young butler of the Xiang family say? So, he turned back to Chen Shun and said, "Take me to the house next door. Let's first listen to what this person from the Xiang family has to say."
So, Chen Shun led Wu Zhi quietly to a small house next to the Juyi Hall and listened attentively to the voices in the hall.
"Master Meng, the young master asked me to ask you. We have clearly agreed that we will pay the family and you, the Qinglong Gang, will help kill Wu Zhi and take away his woman. You have already collected the money.
, why haven't you taken any action until now?" Xiang Ergou was standing in the hall, asking Meng Da arrogantly as he was from the Xiang family, a bit arrogant.
"You can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense! Go and ask, when has our Qinglong Gang ever broken our word and failed to do our part! Seventeen people from our Qinglong Gang died this time because of your troubles with the Xiang family.
Brother, dozens of brothers were injured! Our Qinglong Gang hasn’t even gone to you to ask for an explanation, but you are blaming us, Xiang Jia! Do you think our Qinglong Gang is easy to bully?” Meng Da said with a straight face, coldly.
said.
Li Hongyi, Zhang Xing, Qian Mancang, Hu Kui and Gan Zilin were also present, sitting expressionlessly, without speaking, but staring coldly at Xiang Ergou, with obvious disdain and teasing in their eyes.
"I don't believe it! You are prevaricating! With so many people in the Qinglong Gang, can't you still deal with a scholar? The young master asked me to ask you, why haven't you sent the beauty to the capital? Don't you want the rest?
Did you pay the balance?" When Xiang Ergou heard what Meng Da said, he didn't believe it at all. He felt that the Qinglong Gang must want the lion to open his mouth, so he killed someone before intercepting the beauty his young father-in-law wanted.
Use this as a blackmail.
"We will definitely ask for the balance, but we can't send it to the capital for you!" Meng Da sneered.
Just kidding, Wu Zhi is their master now. Do they dare to touch the master’s woman? They don’t even dare to think about it!
"Rebellion! Rebel! Are you going to go against the Xiang family?" Xiang Ergou yelled angrily.
"So what if you rebel? So what if you rebel against the Xiang family?" A cold voice sounded behind Xiang Ergou. Wu Zhi and Chen Shun strode out of the small house next door. The matter had been clarified. He did not
I'm interested in listening any more.
"Who?" Xiang Er turned around quickly and asked sharply. But when he saw Wu Zhi walking in front, he was shocked. He was as frightened as if he saw a ghost. He was so frightened that he stepped back and exclaimed: "You
!Aren’t you dead? Why are you here?”
The person who originally thought he would die was actually standing in front of him in broad daylight. Even the most courageous person would be scared to death, let alone a villain like Xiang Ergou who is greedy for life and afraid of death. He was completely frightened and at a loss.
.
"I've met the master!" Seeing Wu Zhi come in, Meng Da, Li Hongyi and others quickly stood up and bowed.
"Master?" Hearing this, Xiang Ergou was startled again, and his face suddenly turned earth-colored, as if he were mourning for his heir.
How come Master Wu Zhi has become the master of the Qinglong Gang again? Xiang Ergou is completely confused. He feels that the whole world is becoming unfamiliar and everyone is bullying him and laughing at him.
He said that when he came to Weishi County today, he strayed into a wolf's den and fell into a trap. Xiang Ergou watched Wu Zhi walk to the front seat and sit down, the two sides fighting.
"Master, what should I do with this person?" After Wu Zhi sat down, Chen Shun stared at Xiang Ergou and asked in a deep voice.
"Take him to Shen Tang!" Wu Zhi said angrily. He was just playing a prank.
"Ah! Shen Tang?!" When everyone heard this, they were obviously shocked. They looked at each other and couldn't believe their ears. Isn't this too cruel? The Qinglong Gang has never done such a cruel thing before!
When Xiang Ergou heard the word "Shen Tang", he was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder split. He sat down on the ground, sweating profusely, and looked at Wu Zhi in horror, as if he were looking at a demon.
"Master, do you really want to sink into the pond?" Gan Zilin asked weakly, he was also a little timid.
"You're kidding! We are law-abiding citizens now, how can we do such a thing!" Wu Zhi looked at the crowd, finally couldn't stand it anymore, couldn't hold back his laughter, and said quickly.
After everyone heard this, they breathed out slowly. They all looked at Wu Zhi strangely and murmured in their hearts. They didn't expect that their young master could still joke at this time, and he seemed to be good at joking!
When Xiang Ergou heard this, his sadness suddenly turned into joy. He secretly rejoiced and secretly wiped away a cold sweat.
"However, although this man may be exempted from the death penalty, he cannot escape from the crime of living! Just throw him into Weishi County Prison, where he will be locked up for ten to eight years!" Wu Zhi thought for a while, and then added coldly.
He will not be merciful to one of these accomplices, the pawn.
Hearing this, Xiang Ergou felt a sense of sadness in his heart again. This sudden shock had already made him so miserable that he couldn't stand up anymore.
Wu Zhi ordered Hu Kui to find two of his men, get a rope, and first plunder all the things on Xiang Ergou, then tie him up tightly, and then send him to the county prison to be secretly imprisoned.
stand up.
Fortunately, this Xiang Ergou actually had more than 3,000 yuan in silver notes, which really fulfilled what Meng Da said just now, "We will definitely ask for the balance." When everyone saw this, they were very happy and happy.
Therefore, Wu Zhi proposed that the money should be used as welfare and distributed equally to all employees of the water transportation company. This made everyone present ecstatic and elated. They once again experienced Wu Zhi's generosity.
Wu Zhi is now the boss of Weishi County. Although he usually doesn't do anything, everyone in the county government has been completely conquered by him under his sugar-coated cannonball offensive. They obey his words. Therefore, it is easy for him to secretly imprison a person.
, and no one will let him know about it, they will keep it secret.
This Xiang Ergou is of great use to Wu Zhi! He is just a little guy. Wu Zhi can't kill him, and he doesn't want to kill him. Wu Zhi still needs to pry out Xiang Jia and Xiang Ergou from his mouth.
Xiang Huaiyu had to learn some inside information, and at the same time, he also had to get a confession from Xiang that the Xiang family hired a murderer to kill people. Moreover, Xiang Ergou was a relatively important witness. Of course, Wu Zhi wanted to "confess" him secretly.
Reserve it as one of the means to deal with Xiang Jia in the future.
Originally, Wu Zhi was still racking his brains on how to find the evidence that the Xiang family hired a murderer to kill, but this Xiang Ergou came to his door automatically. It was really hard to find anywhere, and it took no effort at all! The enemy beat him by himself
Sleepy pillows were handed over.
As expected, Xiang Ergou is indeed a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death. In the county jail, under the intimidation of Mr. Fan Sheng by some unconventional means, Xiang Ergou can only obediently tell Xiang Huaiyu how to hire a murderer to intercept and kill the imperial official.
He laid out the facts truthfully, confessed, and signed the confession reluctantly.
Wu Zhi finally got the most important testimony! Now that Wu Zhi has physical evidence in his hand, the situation is more favorable to him. But Wu Zhi is not naive enough to think that as long as he has physical evidence in his hand, he can easily
It is completely impossible to overthrow Xiang Jia! Wu Zhi knew in his heart that Xiang Jia was powerful and as long as the Queen Mother Xiang was still alive, Xiang Jia would not fall.
Wu Zhi was well versed in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, but he clearly remembered that the Empress Dowager Xiang died more than three years later, in the middle of the first month of the year 1101 AD. During these nearly four years, Wu Zhi knew that he would
To overthrow Xiang Jia from the ground up is tantamount to wishful thinking, and he doesn't have that much confidence.
But Wu Zhi will not stop there. He will definitely fight with the Xiang family to the end and fight to the death. Wu Zhi is not a person who will seek revenge, but he is not a master who is at the mercy of others.
Of course, Wu Zhi would not foolishly place his hope on a piece of paper and a witness. Moreover, this witness might retract his confession later. The reason why he wanted to obtain the witness and physical evidence was to establish a relationship between himself and the Xiang family.
During the fight, he could use personal and material evidence to silence Emperor Zhao Xu and Queen Mother Xiang. As long as these two people did not interfere too much, he would have a chance of winning.