Retrograde

Chapter 57 Night Guest

After a long period of interrogation, Xu Jinghong has obtained many statements from Cao Mao and the others that he wants to know about the threat to the other party's family. He was quite satisfied with the cooperation between the three at this time, so the smile on his face was much more sincere: "Well, if everything you said is true, then I will consider the time to help you save your family. Also, you can also move out of here and live in the yard in front of you from tomorrow.

Cao Mao and the three looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They knew that their future had completely finished. In officialdom, the least acceptable thing is to sell, and the Fang family's background is so rich that the betrayal of others will inevitably offend many forces. There are still two things to say about whether he can be an ordinary person. But this is a problem in the future. It's always better to see your son being tortured in person.

After a long wry smile, the three said, "Thank you very much for your care. We don't have any other thoughts for a long time. We just want to live and be an ordinary person.

Xu Jinghong took a look at them. If he had known today, why did he do it at the beginning? But he didn't say anything. He just nodded and asked people to read the confessions and hand them over to the three for signatures before getting up and preparing to leave. He has also stayed in this prison for a long time. He has been in for several hours since dusk. It must be midnight now.

"Adebrate someone to prepare some wine and dishes to come in, and also prepare some food for the three adults and their families." After walking out of the prison, Xu Jinghong turned around and ordered the entourage beside him. Naturally, they immediately agreed. They stayed there for several hours without eating, and even these strong men couldn't stand it.

"Are you going to update twice?" Xu Jinghong asked again.

"Look, it should be this day." Wang Liehai beside him quickly replied, "I didn't expect to ask them for so long."

"This has been very smooth. I thought it would only take two or three days to get a result. It seems that these families are not as difficult as we think, which is of great benefit to future actions. Xu Jinghong smiled with satisfaction.

"Dushi, if they refused to be soft before, will you really attack those children?" Wang Liehai put up with it but couldn't help it and said the doubts in his heart. Obviously, he still can't agree with Xu Jinghong to force the other party to submit in such a way.

"Well... I didn't think about it. Maybe I will give that order at that time." Xu Jinghong looked at the sky and said, "After all, the enemy we want to deal with is too strong, and sometimes we shouldn't have scruples and women's benevolence."

Hearing what he said, Wang Liehai was silent. He knew that this was the wisest way, but if it were him, he still couldn't do it. On the battlefield, when facing fierce enemies, he can be braver than anyone else and kills. But if he really wants to do something to some powerless people, he can't do it, which is also what he feels a little awkward these days. The rules of the National Security Department are really different from his previous cognition.

"What, do you have any different opinions on my approach?" Although walking forward, Xu Jinghong still felt the fluctuation of Wang Liehai's mind and looked at him and asked.

"Yes." Wang Liehai had no concealment and nodded, "I always feel that we have gone too much. Although they are in the hostile camp, their families are innocent after all, and we really shouldn't attack these people. This is not what a good man should do.

Xu Jinghong smiled bitterly: "Since we came to the capital, we are no longer good men. In order to live better and defeat the enemy, we must use all means to make ourselves successful. This is not the battlefield of the confrontation between the two armies. As long as we can see the flaw, we should take advantage of it.

"I know that you are actually not suitable for such a fight. Maybe... You are more suitable for the battlefield. If you want, I can let you go back..." When he said this, Xu Jinghong was also a pity.

Wang Liehai was silent for a long time and finally nodded: "It's different, so let's do it separately. As long as our goals are the same, we will always be good brothers.

"Yes, we will always be good brothers!" Xu Jinghong patted him on the shoulder and smiled, but there was something hidden in the smile, as if he was worried that the two might not be as they said in the future.

While talking, the two had walked to the third courtyard. At this time, it was very quiet. Except for their footsteps, there was only a little wind and grass sound. But in this environment, Xu Jinghong's face showed a trace of alertness. His eyes swept around, and then a clear smile appeared on his mouth.

Wang Liehai, who was beside him, did not notice anything wrong and still said, "Then I have to write a letter to my grandfather and father first, and I have to get their consent before going back."

At this time, Xu Jinghong had recovered and replied, "Go to the southwest again?" I'm afraid that there is no merit there. The barbarians have been greatly damaged by that disturbance. It will be difficult for them to pose a threat to me for at least ten years. What are you going there to do?

"What you mean..." Wang Liehai was stunned, but not because of Xu Jinghong's words, but because of the extremely hidden movements in his hand, which were common gestures in the camp. Judging from Xu Jinghong's actions, he wanted Wang Liehai to cooperate with himself to fight against the enemy, but he did not know where the enemy came from.

"Only when you go to the north can you make great achievements. Hu talents are the real trouble in the Song Dynasty." Xu Jinghong spoke and made a few gestures in his hand, but it was very interesting in Wang Liehai's eyes: there were three enemies two feet in front of the right. After I moved, you went from the left and stopped them.

"Hungren... There have not been many conflicts between them and my border troops in recent decades. How can they become a confidant?" As he continued to talk, Wang Liehai had promised Xu Jinghong with his eyes.

"There is no conflict for decades, because they are accumulating strength, just like... these people!" Speaking of this, Xu Jinghong's body, which had been moving normally, suddenly burst and jumped straight behind a big tree in front of him. At the same time, the Baisheng knife hanging on his waist was also in his hand. When the word "this" is out, others have jumped up, and when the word "ban" is out, the knife has been cut into an uninvited guest in the dark like a practice.

At the same time, Wang Liehai also held a knife in his hand and cooperated with Xu Jinghong to envelop him from the other side. Although he was a little slower than Xu Jinghong in action, he still cooperated and blocked the best way out for those people. This is the tacit understanding between the two who practiced together in the camp, which can never be shown by ordinary people.

The three people over there were also shocked by the sudden attack, but they were not mediocre and did not mess up their hands and feet. They soon realized that the first one hummed and blocked Xu Jinghong's abrupt knife with the long sword with its sheath in his hand.

"Wo!" The swords intersect and makes a sound. The man hummed again and retreated a few steps. The scabbard of the long sword in his hand has been broken twice, and there are cracks on the snowy sword.

"Good!" Xu Jinghong sincerely praised that his opponent could still react quickly when he suddenly encountered an attack, and only suffered a small setback, which showed that he was good at martial arts. But this did not affect Xu Jinghong's subsequent killing moves. Baisheng Dao turned into two knives again and cut down the man's shoulder one left and one right.

At the same time, the other two have also taken weapons, and one of them has fought with Wang Liehai. Because Xu Jinghong made the first move, Wang Liehai's attack was not too sudden, and the man and Wang Liehai became an encounter. However, it is not so easy for the three to retreat.

The remaining man just wanted to support his companions who were already at a disadvantage because of his weapons, but he found that there were also many opponents in front of him. Although the entourage beside Xu Jinghong reacted a little slowly and didn't know what was going on until the four people moved, they still woke up quickly and picked up their own weapons and overtook them.

For a moment, the third courtyard was killed into a ball. Only the shouts were heard, and the sound of weapons were ringing, and the cold light reflected the moonlight, which was dazzling.

The three people surrounded by the crowd of Guoan Division knew that it could not be done today, so they wanted to leave. However, it is not easy to leave under such circumstances, especially the sword, which will soon turn left and right, and there is no choice but to avoid it. Because after a few moves, his good sword was cut in two by Baisheng knife, which made him only play 30% of his skills. How could he be Xu Jinghong's opponent, who became more and more fierce in the Vietnam War?

"Drink!" With another shout, Xu Jinghong went down with a knife. Just when the other party wanted to continue to avoid, the knife suddenly turned into three knives, blocking all the retreat routes of the other party, so that it could only fight for one road. This is exactly the most powerful killing trick Xu Jinghong learned from Tianji Taoist. He has defeated a big enemy like Yue Jinkui with this move, and today he can naturally use it to defeat these uninvited guests.

The man saw that the knife had come to his head, but in a hurry, he also came up with a way to resolve it. He raised his hands, half of the sword body and scabbard faced the left and right knives, and his body curled up into a ball and hit Xu Jinghong's arms. In this way, he dodged the most murderous knife.

If you can come up with a unique way to resolve this move in a blink of an eye, this person's intelligence and martial arts are naturally top-notch. If it were someone else, maybe he would really be fooled by this and turn it back into victory. But Xu Jinghong he faced was very comparable. He was not only good at martial arts in this era, but also better at close capture and fighting. When he rushed to him, Xu Jinghong smiled.

"No, there is fraud!" When he saw the unpredictable smile on Xu Jinghong's face through the moonlight, the man secretly said that it was not good and wanted to retreat. But he moved with all his strength in the collision just now. Does it mean that he can stop talking and retreat? So his body was still rushing forward, and at this time, Xu Jinghong also moved, his right knee suddenly bent, and then lifted it heavily.

"Bum!" With a muffled sound, the man quickly fell to the ground after a muffled hum, his body curled up into a ball, and soybean-like sweat flowed down his face. A good hand like him is not so ugly even if his hands and feet are cut off, but this hit is the most critical part of a man, and his damage is not comparable to ordinary injuries.

He rushed forward is a force, and Xu Jinghong's bent knees are another force. The two forces converged in that fragile place, and the damage to that place is naturally imaginable. Unless he is a caste who has gone to power, it will be unbearable for any man to suffer this. So after this, this guy, who is very good at martial arts and intelligence, lost his ability to resist, and could only be forced into the throat with swords by the government officials who came here and could not move.

As soon as this person fell down, the remaining two martial arts were far less difficult than his natural resistance. There were already more helpers to come to the Guoan government. After some tampling, the two were also knocked to the ground one by one, forced by knives and guns to dare to move again and tied with ropes.

After that, the torch was also lit. Xu Jinghong carefully looked at the three intruders. All three of them were 40 years old, and their appearance was very strange - what he hit with his knees was a slender eyebrow and had a majestic person. The other two were as short and fat as winter melons, and the other was as thin as firewood.

"Turple, what's your way? Why did you come to Ansi Yamen in our country?" Xu Jinghong looked at the three people for a long time, but still couldn't guess their identities before asking.

"Well, we are not as good as others. It's okay to be caught by you. But what you want us to say is delusional!" The short fat man said coldly that even if he fell into people's hands, he was still very arrogant.

"Mom, how dare you talk like this at this time? Where is our national security division!" Xiong Geng shouted angrily and picked up a long gun and slapped it on the other party like a stick. But the short fat man didn't even frown, just looked at Xiong Geng with disdainful eyes.

"You..." Seeing that he dared to do this, Xiong Geng pointed the gun at him and thought about it. But it was still stopped by Xu Jinghong's eyes: "Take them to the dungeon first to see, and wait for me to find out their identity before dealing with them."

"Yes!" After the officials answered, they took the three people to the dungeon.

"Team Zheng, why don't you let me teach him a lesson?" Xiong Geng is not convinced.

"They are unknown, so it's better to look at them again. What we are going to deal with now is the Fang family. There is really no need to build more enemies. Xu Jinghong said, "Although these three people are extraordinary in martial arts, they are obviously not here to save people. This should not be sent by the Fang family, so you'd better be careful."

"Brother Xu, is what you told me just now to go to the north true?" When everyone returned to the front yard, drinking wine and eating vegetables, Wang Liehai thought of the conversation just now and couldn't help asking.

"It's true. If I couldn't come to the capital, I also wanted to go to the north." Xu Jinghong nodded solemnly: "Hu people have lived such a quiet life after suffering a big loss 30 years ago. I think their strength has been restored, and their ambition will inevitably recover, thus posing a threat to our northern border.

"In this way, it is easier for us to make military achievements than the southwest?" Wang Liehai came to be interested.

"Yes. We warriors want to be successful. In addition to being used by the family and becoming their thie, we only have military merit. And the situation that may occur in northern Xinjiang is the most favorable opportunity.

"Unfortunately, no matter how many military achievements can we really replace the status of the family in the dynasty..." Wang Liehai obviously thought of his grandfather Wang Chong. With Wang Chong's credit, in fact, he should have stood in the court and been respected by thousands of people. But as a result, he is still just a general in the southwest, and he still wants to look at the family.

"It's not so absolute. I don't think the situation in the army is necessarily as pessimistic as you think." Xu Jinghong shook his head disapprovingly and said, "It is only because everyone thinks and does differently that the current situation will occur."

"You mean... there is still a chance in the army?" Wang Liehai asked excitedly.

"What do you think? Otherwise, why did everyone join hands 30 years ago? As long as we have such an opportunity, maybe everything will be different. Xu Jinghong's words were a little vague, but the meaning was still revealed. Wang Liehai was silent because of this. He didn't have such an idea in his heart, which was caused by his education and influence since childhood, which could not be changed for a while.

"Well, everyone is tired. Let's take a rest today." Xu Jinghong knew that this topic would not have much effect, so he got up after swallowing the meal.

In a short time, Guoan Division fell into tranquility again...

Unlike the quietness of Guoansi, the lights in the Ye family's mansion have not been extinguished, although it has been updated for four. In the backyard study, someone was very worried and walked back and forth. This person was Ye Mingyuan. After a long time, he looked at his brother and said, "It's almost dawn. Why haven't they come back? There won't be anything wrong."

"I don't think so. All three of them are first-class masters, especially Xue Muyao. Both martial arts and tricks are the strongest among our subordinates. Ye Mingyang comforted his brother, but his face was also worried.

"The National Security Department is just a new government, not a prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. They should be able to do it." Ye Mingyuan added another sentence, as if he was self-affirming.

The three uninvited guests who were taken down by Xu Jinghong and others were sent by the Ye brothers, and what is their purpose?