The furnishings in the hut are very simple, divided into inner and outer rooms. In the outer room, there is nothing except a table and a futon. There are a few books on the table, and a simple bookshelf is placed on the other side. Everything outside the hut.
The inner room is equally simple. A couch that is slightly shorter than the bed is set up. Apparently because the ground is wet, the couch is raised a little higher. There is also a simple wardrobe next to the bed. On the other side is a sword hanging.
Obviously this is where Fan Huaiyi lives. Li Hong looked around casually, while Hua Meng and Cheetah began to browse through it. Others did not step into this hut without Li Hong's permission, so There is no way to know what Li Hong is doing inside.
Quan Shancai and Su Honghui had uncertain expressions on their faces, listening to the sounds coming from inside from time to time, but they did not dare to take even half a step inside.
Fan Huaiyi lowered his head and did not look at the faces of Quan Shancai and Su Honghui. They were old rivals. At the time of the impeachment, Quan Shancai was not as powerful as he is now and had not yet been promoted to Chengdu Prefecture. From the third grade Fu Yin.
But now, one has become a commoner, and the other has become a high-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty, a dignified third-rank official of the Tang Dynasty.
No one dared to speak in the entire courtyard, and there was a deathly silence. Occasionally, birds on the lake in front were frightened by Haidongqing, fluttering their wings and flying towards the mountains in the distance.
Li Hong slowly walked out of the thatched hut. Hua Meng and Cheetah also found nothing. They didn't find anything valuable in the simple thatched hut.
A chair was placed behind Li Hong, and he sat down slowly before signaling Fan Huaiyi to get up.
But Wen Wen, Fan Ning'an, and a dozen other rangers were still kneeling on the ground, not daring to move.
"Do you have anything to say? What is your relationship with them? Why are these rangers here?" Li Hong's voice sounded lazily. He sat at the door of the thatched house and looked over the fence of the small courtyard. The emerald green, and the clear lake surface that can make people calm down.
"Reply to your Highness, this... this son is Fan Ning'an, the son of a commoner..."
"So, you, Fan Huaiyi, instigated all this? How dare you send someone to assassinate His Highness, Fan Huaiyi, what crime do you deserve?" Quan Shancai took a step forward and said to Fan Huaiyi in a cold voice.
When he was impeached, Fan Huaiyi could be said to be high-spirited and confident. Later, he was specially appointed and dismissed by the imperial court as the inspector of Jiannan Road.
At that time, he was being promoted hard by the Yue King Li Zhen, so for the sake of his own career, Quan Shancai chose to be patient and did not take revenge on Quan Shancai at that time. Therefore, when the Yue King Li Zhen went to Yangzhou, he was finally appointed and dismissed by his Majesty. For the sake of the governor of Chengdu.
It was also from that time that he really started to fight with Fan Huaiyi. In order to force Fan Huaiyi to hand over the evidence that the grains in Liyangcang and Hanjiacang were resold, Quan Shancai did not hesitate to seize Fan Huaiyi's wife as a threat.
Fan Huaiyi was eventually forced to resign and return home, but because Fan Huaiyi's wife died in his own hands, Quan Shancai did not get back much of the evidence of the granary reselling.
Li Hong did not stop Quan Shancai from questioning him. After all, all this was true. The fact that his son assassinated him was enough to make all the people in the yard immediately beheaded.
Fan Huaiyi smiled bitterly and shook his head, with a look of despair and helplessness on his face. He ignored Quan Shancai's inquiry and said to Li Hong: "The sins of the common people and dogs are unforgivable. Please deal with it, Your Highness."
"Come here, take them down." Quan Shancai heard Fan Huaiyi's confession and immediately said to Yu Tuqi.
But after he finished speaking, Yu Tuqi didn't move at all, and didn't even look at him. Naturally, the other soldiers didn't move at all.
Seeing that Wei Tuqi and others did not move, and that Prince Li Hong seemed not to hear what he said at all, but still looked at Fan Huaiyi, who was standing numbly in front of him, Quan Shancai felt uneasy again.
After Wen Wenwen and Fan Ning'an heard Quan Shancai's words, their hearts trembled and they wanted to defend themselves. However, they were faced with the ironclad facts that they had personally caused. Moreover, when they assassinated the prince, they were caught by the prince himself. With all of them present, they are not qualified to defend themselves at all.
"Why do you want to assassinate me? I want to hear the reason." Li Hong looked relaxed and said as the old god looked at Fan Huaiyi.
In Quan Shancai's view, this is not consistent with the legendary prince who hates evil. How can this be the prince who faced the majesty and the queen's personal eunuchs in the palace and kicked them whenever they disagreed? !
"Xiao Min... Xiao Min actually didn't know that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who went to Chang Dao Temple two days ago." Fan Huaiyi didn't know how to defend himself, nor how to find reasons to excuse Fan Ning'an and Wen Wen.
This is already an ironclad fact. The assassination of His Royal Highness has been done, and any further explanation is futile.
Ever since Wen Wenwen and Fan Ning'an hurried here with a dozen of their companions, he knew that this time they had met a big shot, and a big shot they could never afford to offend.
When he asked Wen Wen and Fan Ning'an some details about the assassination, and why Yuanyou let them go, Fan Huaiyi began to doubt whether the person Wen Wen and the others assassinated might be His Royal Highness!
Because judging from the description of the young man by the two of them, the Tang Dynasty was a man of literary and military skills, and a bloody and violent man who could live in the two halls and three courtyards of Changdao Temple. His status was definitely one of the few in the Tang Dynasty. number.
So the first person Fan Huaiyi thought of was Prince Li Hong.
As for the purpose of letting them go, there is no need to guess. They must be looking for the person behind them who instigated Genn Wen. However, he was only delayed for a short time before he was surrounded by His Highness the Crown Prince.
"Who is the mysterious man they are talking about?" Li Hong looked at Fan Huaiyi and then at Quan Shancai. At this time, he felt that the situation in front of him seemed like Fan Huaiyi and Quan Shancai were working together to assassinate and test him.
Fan Huaiyi let out a long sigh, then lowered his head and said: "Your Highness, I don't know. I'm afraid Quanzi... doesn't know either. But... I suspect that it is the four wealthy families in Chengdu Prefecture who have been secretly supporting Star Reaching Watch. Baiyun Temple, Quanzi and others are studying martial arts in the two temples, and from time to time they will do something... to eliminate violence and bring good peace. Every time, there are inexplicable rumors leaked out in the Taoist temple, and sometimes it will be a mysterious person covered with a veil. , will come over to compete with them in martial arts, and then tell them some things about the government’s oppression of the people.”
"The four wealthy and aristocratic families in Chengdu Prefecture? Haha, this is the first time I have heard that there are four great aristocratic families in Chengdu Prefecture, where Jiannan Daozhi is located? Quan Shancai, have you heard of these four great aristocratic families?" Li Hong was asked by Chengdu The so-called four major aristocratic families in the government made them laugh.
But it is not impossible to think about it. The protection of officials is the inevitable basis. In addition to making profits for themselves, if they want to transfer the benefits to Jiannan Road, they must deal with the local wealthy families. Using them is less convenient than the government. Conspicuous resources.
"These... four great aristocratic families... I'm afraid they don't exist, right? This is the first time I've heard of them today." Quan Shancai stammered as he was thinking hard.
But my heart felt like it was overturned. Fan Huaiyi, a thief, really deserved to be a royal censor. He was able to figure out the details of Zhaixingguan and Baiyunguan so clearly.
Looking at the girl in red kneeling on the ground and Fan Huaiyi's son, Quan Shancai now understood why he went to the Star Reaching Temple and Baiyun Temple to learn martial arts. He was afraid that Fan Huaiyi would have discovered something was wrong between the Star Reaching Temple and Baiyun Temple. The place is right
Afraid that he would not be able to get close enough to understand the inside story, and that he might alert others and be discovered, he put his son on the mountain, under the guise of learning martial arts, but in fact he was trying to find out the details of Zhaixing Guan and Baiyun Guan, right
Otherwise, how could it be possible to know that the four members of the Chengdu Prefecture have been secretly supporting the two concepts of Star Reaching and White Clouds, such a hidden thing!
"Since you know that your son and these dozen others have been enemies of the government and have been doing so-called justice for heaven, why don't you stop it? Even if you have resigned and returned home, the court will not stop you until you resign. I treated you well before, right? Why did you go against the imperial court?" Li Hong stood up and picked up the sword that Wen Wen had dropped on the ground, holding it against Fan Huaiyi's chin.
This move made Wen Wen and Fan Ning'an, who were kneeling on the ground, so frightened that their hearts rose to their throats, fearing that the Crown Prince would stab his father to death in anger.
On the night of the assassination of the prince, they had witnessed with their own eyes the coldness and cruelty of His Highness when he fought with them, let alone facing his assassin now.
So when he saw Li Hong placing the long sword on Fan Huaiyi's chin, Fan Ning'an wanted to speak, but facing two hundred Guards soldiers and the shimmering arrows, he really didn't have the courage to speak in front of His Royal Highness. , plead for his father.
Fan Huaiyi raised his chin slightly, feeling the cold edge of the sword on his chin, but his heart was filled with calmness. He believed that His Highness the Crown Prince would not kill him just like that.
So just when she was about to open her mouth to speak, she heard the trembling voice of the girl next to her: "Min... Minnu Wenwen has met His Highness. Minnu knew that her crime was unforgivable, but... But Minnu didn't know the person she wanted to assassinate that night. Your Highness, if..."
"If it were other officials of the Tang Dynasty, would you be able to assassinate them at will? Who gave you the right to assassinate officials of the Tang Dynasty? Are you doing justice for heaven or using force for personal gain? Which of the laws of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that you The knight can perform official duties for the government? Why don't you report the injustice to the government? Or have you been disappointed by the Tang government and officials? Do you need to use force to solve it? Didn't you ask about the merits? Did you decide whether every official you killed deserved to die? If I was successfully assassinated by you that night, would it be a crime or merit in your hands? The long sword passed by, and a strand of hair between the gentle eyebrows was instantly cut off by Li Hong, and slowly floated to the ground.
(End of chapter)