Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 133: Cooking fish in hot pot

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After waiting for three days, the emissary of the imperial court has not yet arrived. This is somewhat beyond Qin Mubai and Li Ke's expectations.

For these three days, the two of them continued to do their work as usual. Li Ke presided over the overall situation of disaster relief, Qin Mubai | led people to inspect the dams. The floods in Jishan have been fully controlled, and the water is declining in the late autumn, and the victims of all roads are almost settled.

But on the emperor's side, there is still no movement.

In the past few days, Qin Mubai has been sending people to secretly monitor Zhang Tianci, Cheng Songnian and Ma Kun. They are obviously a little nervous, and often get together from time to time to conspire to discuss some things. He kept sending people to Jinju to find the king of Jiangxia, Li Daozong, but he always stayed behind closed doors.

In this situation, they are like fishes caught in the net in the same nest, making their last dying struggle, looking up or holding a trace of luck, thinking that Li Ke, Qin Mubai and others have not found any flaws.

In the early morning of the fourth day, Li Ke confessed his day's work in Wang's account as usual. Qin Mubai and officials from Jiangzhou and Jiangzhou arrived, but Ma Kun and Cheng Song have not been there for a long time.

This is obviously extremely abnormal. Cheng Songnian was the Jiangzhou governor, and Ma Kun was the captain of the Jiangzhou government. These two were in charge of the essay and the military, and Li Ke directly assigned them to them. In the past, they never dared to be half a minute late.

"Wait, maybe they were delayed for a while." Li Ke patiently said to everyone.

After waiting for another moment, before Cheng Songnian and Ma Kun came, a small official from Jiangzhou Mansion came to see them. Li Ke announced that he was coming in, and the little official bowed to his head, and said in a panic: "Bing reported to His Royal Highness King Wu, Cheng Cishi suddenly committed suicide by taking poison last night!"

"What?!" When these words came out, Li Ke, Qin Mubai and others were taken aback together.

"Why is this?" Li Ke looked at Qin Mubai in shock and blankly, and Qin Mubai could only shake his head in confusion.

Just as everyone was puzzled and surprised, a small school hurriedly came to report that Ma Kun was in his military account and drew his sword and killed himself!

"Huh?--" This time, a louder exclamation sounded.

"Where is the gift of heaven?" Li Ke and Qin Mubai looked at each other, and asked each other in a low voice almost at the same time.

"I will come as soon as I go." Qin Mubai walked back to his military tent. The hundred horse soldiers who had been sent to Shengnanhou Mansion to take turns have returned for a few minutes and reported to Qin Mubai together. Said that early in the morning when he defeated Nanhou Mansion, Zhang Tianci suddenly committed suicide last night!

Qin Mubai took a deep breath: This matter is so mysterious!

How could this be? The three culprits suddenly committed suicide overnight! ——Do you commit suicide in fear of crime or murder by others?

This is good. Jiangzhou is about to explode!

The governor is the biggest official here, the captain is the highest military commander, and Zhang Tianci is a powerful man who covered the sky with one hand, and the three died at the same time!

Qin Mubai was not eager to report the matter to Li Ke, but sat down and thought quietly.

After a long while, he asked the attendant, "Where is Chen Yan?"

"I'm here." Before the voice fell, Chen Yan walked in from outside the account.

"I've heard about everything. But I promise, I didn't do it." Chen Yan said without waiting for Qin Mubai to ask questions. She looked at Qin Mubai calmly, staring straight into his eyes with beautiful eyes, apparently without any guilty conscience.

"If it weren't for you, who else could there be?" Qin Mubai shook his head in confusion.

"There will be a lot of people wanting them to die." Chen Yan said, "Don't you want it? Don't Li Ke want it? Does King Jiang Xia want it? There are also princes, emperors, and even those officials who interact with Zhang Tianci and others. , Don't they want to?"

Qin Mubai's heart trembled a little, and nodded: "It makes sense...it seems that this matter will be easily settled only if they all die together. Otherwise, the emperor may dispose of the prince if the trouble is too big. , It is also possible to turn against the king of Jiangxia. It is also possible that most officials in Jiangzhou, large and small, have been implicated, killed or demoted. In short, many people will suffer. In this way, the court will be chaotic, and Jiangzhou will suffer. The disaster-stricken places will be even more chaotic. If so many officials are gone, everyone is in danger, and the normal order of the entire state will be broken, and the whole state will be in trouble."

"So these three people are worthy of death. What's more, they should be damned." Chen Yan said coldly.

Qin Mubai took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, nodded, and stopped speaking. He was wondering, who was it and what method was used to kill these three people, or let them commit suicide together?

Li Ke? Li Daozong? Prince? emperor? ...It seems possible!

"I don't care about this matter." Qin Mubai said, "The three damned people die when they die. Whether it is a homicide or a suicide, this is not the scope of my care."

"You are finally smart." Chen Yan smiled lightly with a sword in her chest. "Do you think you can really manage these affairs of the emperors and nobles? We are usually used to being small people, just You have the duty and consciousness to be a petty citizen. This Tang Dynasty is so big that, to put it plainly, it is the emperor’s world and the world of the royal family surnamed Li. You are a courtier, no matter how great, you can’t control everything, especially The contradiction between their royal family and their own people."

"Good point!" Qin Mubai sighed for a long time. "It is unexpected that a small Jishan mountain can be pulled and shocked to the royal family and Saji. I am a little one. Characters, why bother about the game between the emperor and his relatives? I don’t care! These three people, suicide or homicide, I don’t want to find out."

"It’s like we’re walking through the rivers and lakes. No matter how famous you are and how powerful you are in martial arts, don’t take care of the internal affairs of other sects." Chen Yan said, turning and walking outside, saying, "This will let you Die very quickly and miserably!"

"I see, Chen Woman." Qin Mubai shook his head and smiled, thinking: This woman is as careful and smart as she is, and she is cold and hot on the inside. She is obviously caring for and helping people, but she wants to show her bluntness. And cold faces...

After a short while, Qin Mubai returned to Wangzhang and said to Li Ke in public: "I just received the news that Zhang Tianci, Shengnan Hou, committed suicide at home."

This time, not many people screamed, and many people showed a "sure enough" look. Among those present, many officials and generals showed fear and some anxiety.

"Strange, why did these three people suddenly find short-term views?" Li Ke frowned with an expression of incredible surprise, and shook his head embarrassedly, "At this moment, what are they doing? The officials will listen. Although the news of their deaths is a bit shocking, the overall situation is still to help the people. Regarding the cause of their deaths, this king will report to the court and ask someone to check it out. For this moment, don’t be bothered by this matter. This messed up our deployment. This king ordered that Jiangzhou Sima temporarily replaced Cheng Songnian as the governor, Jiangzhou Fu Guoyi temporarily replaced Ma Kunzhechong, and he could take over their work and continue to help the people. , The construction of dykes and dams will continue!"

"Yes!" The officials and generals accepted the promise together, and finally felt relieved for a while. They were afraid that Li Ke would try to catch it all at once. I don't know how many people among them, who used to be under their door. This will have to suffer if it is to be traced.

The attitude of Li Ke also made many people feel fortunate: Listening to him, it seems that they are not going to investigate deeply... Everyone is sensible, and these three people died strangely and violently. There must be hidden secrets in them. . However, Li Ke didn't seem to care very much, and his attitude was ambiguous--could he take the initiative to calm things down?

For a while, everyone was guessing. Although the scene was silent and nobody spoke, the atmosphere became a little weird invisibly, as if everyone was thinking about it in secret.

"This is the arrangement for the time being. You and others all step back and go busy, and if you have any questions, you can come and ask the king." Li Ke waved his hand and signaled everyone to exit.

A moment later, only Li Ke and Qin Mubai were left in Wang's account.

The two of them stared at each other for a long while, then both chuckled at the same time.

"This is too unexpected!" Almost unanimously.

"His Royal Highness, how are you going to behave right now?" Qin Mubai asked.

Li Ke twisted his brows, thoughtfully, and shook his head: "I don't understand this situation a bit, but I don't want to pursue it at all. Investigating homicides is not my specialty. It’s not my scope of responsibility either. I just report it to the court as it is. Whatever is going to be done there. I don’t call the shots."

"His Royal Highness is right." Qin Mubai smiled.

"So many things have happened in the small Jiangzhou small place. Mu Bai, this is a troubled place. We should leave as soon as possible!" Li Ke raised his eyebrows half-jokingly and half-heartedly. , Pretending to be horrified and exaggerated, "I will draw up a memorandum immediately, and tell your majesty what happened today, please make his decision."

"Good." Qin Mubai nodded in approval. I thought, Li Ke is indeed a smart man with a city and a heart like a mirror. He probably also thought that the death of these three people was either related to the emperor, or the prince, or King Jiang Xia, or it was the hands and feet of Li Ke himself.

In short, it's not worth continuing to toss for the three mortal people. Although human life is greater than heaven and there is no law to be followed, but the law is dead and people live. Sacrificing three villains in exchange for the peace of the court and Jiangzhou is worthwhile.

In this way, the deaths of these three people will surely be unsurprising. The imperial court may send someone down to investigate, but it has not been able to find out any results. ]

In this way, the Jiangzhou case is like a live fish thrown into a hot pot, which has been tossing around, causing a splash of oil. Now, suddenly it was covered with a big pot, and everything was peaceful.

Although the fish in the pot was still bouncing and didn't really calm down in an instant, the boiling oil could not splash out, and it could not burn people.

You won’t be scalded by oil, which is a great thing. Who would have to ask clearly, who covered this pot lid?