Near the East China Sea, there are two adjacent state capitals, one Fengzhou and one Nanzhou.
Since the port of Nanzhou is closer to the island where the Haidong Army is stationed than Fengzhou, the East China Sea Shipping Department is also established in Nanzhou.
One day in May, Yue Dansheng had just returned from work with the official ship, and behind him was a mighty group of people. This time when they were sailing, they intercepted a group of black ship dealers. Catch them all.
Yue Dansheng stood at the gate of the yamen, directing his subordinates to detain the prisoner, and waited until the people around him began to get busy one after another, he looked around, but he couldn't find his master, so he asked the guard: "Where is Master Zhang?"
The guard replied: "Master Zhang had an accident in his hometown, so he had to go back temporarily, but before he left, he hired a substitute worker, who was said to be his classmate back then. He said that during his absence, the lord has something to do, so you can ask That gentleman."
Yue Dansheng nodded: "Where is that person?"
The guard said: "It's been placed in a side courtyard. Your lord wants to call him?"
"Let him come over, the yamen arrested a few people and asked him to draft documents."
The guard is going here.
Yue Dansheng asked again: "What's that man's name?"
The guard turned his head and said, "My surname is Zhong..." Yue Dansheng paused.
"It's called Zhong Pingya."
Yue Dansheng exhaled, shook his fingertips, and waved: "Go."
After a while, the guards brought that Zhong Pingya over, who was thin and about the same age as Master Zhang, about forty.
Yue Dansheng was sitting in a high position, watching Master Zhong bowing his head and saying hello to him, he put down his official duties and said, "I'm going to trouble you for a while, Master Zhang told you before he left."
Zhong Pingya nodded: "It's all said."
His voice is a little hoarse, I don't know if it's natural or he has a throat discomfort.
Yue Dansheng didn't care about his subordinate's private affairs, he pointed to the desk on his right and said, "Sit here."
Zhong Pingya bowed his head and sat down, and saw that some paperwork had been placed on the desk.
He read them one by one, and knew that many people were captured today.
Yue Dansheng, who was at the top, said: "If you don't know anything, you can ask Li Baotou, or you can ask me. The newly arrested black ship traffickers will be strictly investigated. As much as you can, you will do your best."
Zhong Pingya agreed, and the only sound left in the study was the sound of flipping through papers.
After working for half an hour, Yue Dansheng got up to go to the prison, and when he walked to the door, he frowned when he saw Zhong Pingya sitting on the teacher's seat and writing.
The guard who had been guarding the door of the study coughed and reminded: "Master Zhong, you have to follow your lord."
Only then did Zhong Pingya come back to his senses, he hurriedly put down his brush, stood up cautiously, pulled his clothes again, and hurried over with his head down.
Yue Dansheng hardly saw him look up, so he couldn't help asking: "Can you see the way?"
Zhong Pingya was stunned for a moment, then he barely lifted his chin, and Yue Dansheng finally saw his face.
A very ordinary face, gentle, popular.
I saw the face, but this Master Zhong was probably too nervous, his eyes were flickering all the time, and his eyelids were drooping, Yue Dansheng couldn't see his eyes, he just felt that this person was not very flexible, even a little dull, but I don't know why Master Zhang would find such a person. people take over.
The two were sent to prison, and Yue Dansheng intervened in the interrogation process.
Pirates in the East China Sea have been breeding recently, and the pair of black ship traffickers have some skills, so when arresting people, Yue Dansheng suspected that these people were one of the pirates, but there was not enough evidence, and more trials were needed.
Yue Dansheng asked the jailer about business matters, and Zhong Pingya was beside him to record that he was far from Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang was mature and prudent. During the interrogation, he occasionally had some tricks to promote the progress of the interrogation, but Zhong Pingya didn't say a word the whole time. Just burying his head in writing, as if he wasn't on the field.
By the time he was released from prison, Yue Dansheng's dissatisfaction with the new master had already manifested on the surface.
He asked Zhong Pingya to go back to his study and continue working.
He himself asked the leader of the guards: "When did Master Zhang leave?"
The leader said: "It was noon the day before yesterday."
"This Zhong Pingya was really brought by Master Zhang himself?"
"Indeed."
"The timing is too coincidental."
Yue Dansheng said with a sullen face: "I just caught a black boat dealer at sea, and suddenly there is a stranger here in the yamen, who looks like he has never worked as a master. Are you sure that Master Zhang left by himself at that time, not missing?"
The leader's expression froze: "My lord is suspicious, Mr. Zhang was kidnapped, and that Zhong... Zhong Pingya is a pirate
He wants to save people? "
"It's not impossible."
Yue Dansheng said, pondering: "I'll try to find a way."
In the evening, partial courtyard.
Zhong Pingya fell asleep early.
Yue Dansheng was outside, seeing the candles in his room extinguished, and getting close to the door, and heard the sound of even breathing inside, so he quietly sneaked in through the window.
The people on the bed were still sleeping peacefully, and they didn't notice anything strange.
Yue Dansheng glanced at the bed, walked to the closet on the other side, opened the closet, and rummaged inside.
Just after finding one space, there was a sudden movement on the other side of the bed, the sleeping person woke up, and asked vigilantly, "Who?"
Yue Dansheng's first reaction was to jump out of the window, but suddenly he felt something was wrong.
During the day, when Zhong Pingya spoke, his voice changed, it was a little hoarse, and the timbre was a little long, but he used another voice for the sentence "who" just now, which may be his original voice. .
Yue Dansheng clenched his fist violently and stood still.
The naked Zhong Pingya jumped out of bed in a hurry, quickly lit the candles in the house, and suddenly the light came on... As soon as he raised his head, he saw an extremely familiar face on the opposite side, staring at him intently.
Zhong Pingya panicked, and the hand holding the candle shook, almost smashing the candlestick.
Yue Dansheng and Zhong Pingya met each other's eyes, the other party still had the same ordinary face, but the eyes, these eyes.
He won't admit it.
In fact, as early as two months ago, Yue Dansheng received a letter from Jingli, which was sent by Liu Wei, saying that Zhong Ziyu had already served his sentence and was released from prison.
But for two months, he didn't see him, he thought he wouldn't come to him, after all, he didn't have nowhere to go, he could go to Dingzhou, Wei Yu was in Dingzhou.
Looking at the person in front of him now, Yue Dansheng was in a complicated mood. He had a lot to say, but in the end, he only reduced it to one sentence: "Is it interesting to play tricks?"
Zhong Pingya, no, Zhong Ziyu hurriedly lowered his head, annoyed and ashamed, his whole body was shrouded in loss.
Being seen through, in just one day, he was seen through.
He tried to open his lips, murmured, and justified his weakness: "I'm just... afraid of you..." "Afraid of me?"
Yue Dansheng sneered: "Aren't you not afraid of nothing?"
Zhong Ziyu gritted his teeth: "I'm afraid you don't want to see me."
Yue Dansheng didn't make a sound, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Where's Master Zhang?"
Zhong Ziyu hurriedly said: "He really has something to do in his hometown, and he has already gone back, but before leaving... I pretended to be an old friend of his, and offered to take over for him, and he thought I could entrust... so I agreed."
Zhong Ziyu's disguise technique is superb, Master Zhang was deceived, and he can't be blamed.
Yue Dansheng stopped talking and turned to leave.
He supported the window lattice with both hands, and was about to turn out again, when Zhong Ziyu called him again from behind.
"Brother Yue..." Yue Dansheng turned his head displeased.
Zhong Ziyu pointed behind him nervously: "... let's go."
Yue Dansheng: "..."