Chapter 133 Cooking Fish in a Hot Pot

After waiting for three days in a row, the envoys of the court had not yet arrived, which was somewhat unexpected by Qin Mubai and Li Ke.

In the past three days, the two of them are still working on their hands as usual. Li Ke presided over the overall situation of disaster relief and comforting the people, and Qin Mubai led people to inspect all the embankments. The flood situation in Jishan has been fully controlled. At that time, the water situation is also falling in late autumn, and the disaster victims from all walks of life have almost settled down.

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

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 plot to discuss something. He kept sending people to Jinzhou to find Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, but he always closed the door.

In this situation, they are like a fish in the net, doing the 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 handed over a day's work in the king's account as usual. Qin Mubai and officials of all sizes in Jiangzhou arrived, but they didn't see Ma Kun and Chengsong come before the New Year.

This is obviously extremely abnormal. Cheng Songnian is the assassin of Jiangzhou, and Ma Kun is the lieutenant of Jiangzhou. These two are the main text and the other is the main martial arts. Li Ke directly assigned them for big and small things. In the past, they never dared to be half late.

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

After waiting for a while, he didn't wait for Cheng Songnian and Ma Kun, but a small official from Jiangzhou Prefecture came to see him. Li Kexuan announced that he came in, and the little official bowed down head-to-head and said in panic, "Your Highness the King of Wu, the assassin has suddenly taken poison and committed suicide last night!"

"What?" As soon as he said this, Li Ke, Qin Mubai and everyone else were surprised.

"How could this happen?" 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 booed, a primary school hurried to report that Captain Ma Kun drew his knife and committed suicide in his military tent!

"Ah?--" At this time, a louder exclamation sounded.

"What about 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'll come as soon as I go." Qin Mubai pulled out his legs and walked back to his military tent. Several batches of soldiers sent to Shengnanhoufu have returned. Together, they reported to Qin Mubai that Shengnanhoufu was mourned early in the morning, saying that Zhang Tianci suddenly committed suicide last night!

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

How could it be like this? The three culprits suddenly committed suicide overnight! - Did they commit suicide for fear of crime or murder by others?

That's good. This place in Jiangzhou is going to explode!

The assassin is the largest official here, the lieutenant is the highest general, and Zhang Tianci is a powerful person who covers the sky. The three of them died at the same time!

Qin Mubai was not in a hurry to report this matter to Li Ke, but sat down and thought quietly.

After a long time, he asked the servant, "Where's Chen Yan?"

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

"I've heard all about it. But I promise, I didn't do it." Before Qin Mubai asked, Chen Yan took the initiative to say. She looked at Qin Mubai calmly, and a pair of beautiful eyes stared straight into his eyes. Obviously, she was not guilty at all.

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

"There will be a lot of people who want them to die." Chen Yan said, "Don't you want to? Doesn't Li Ke want to? Don't you want to be the king of Jiangxia? Don't they want the prince, the emperor, and even those officials who have dealings with Zhang Tianci and others?

Qin Mubai's heart trembled slightly and nodded: "It makes sense... It seems that this matter will be easy to calm down only if they all die together. Otherwise, if there is a big deal, the emperor may abolish the prince, or he may turn against the king of Jiangxia. It is also possible that most of the officials in the area of Jiangzhou have been implicated, killed or demoted. In short, they must have suffered a lot. In this way, the court will be in chaos, and the disaster-stricken place in Jiangzhou will be even more chaotic. After so many officials, the wind is in danger, and the normal order of the whole state is about to be broken and fall into a predicament.

"So these three people are worth dying. What's more, they are damned. Chen Yan said coldly.

Qin Mubai took a deep breath and slowly spit it out, nodded, and stopped talking. He was thinking, who and what method did he use to kill these three people, or let them commit suicide together?

Li Ke? Li Daozong? Prince? The emperor? ...It seems to be possible!

"I don't care about this matter." Qin Mubai said, "Three damn people will die when they die. Whether it's a murder or a suicide, it's not within my scope.

"You are finally smart once." Chen Yan hugged her sword and smiled lightly, "Do you think you can really care about these affairs of the princes and nobles? When we are used to being a small people, we have the nature and awareness of being a small people. The world of the Tang Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, it is the world of the emperor and the world of the royal family surnamed Li. No matter how great you are as a minister, you can't take care of everything, especially the contradictions between their royal family.

"Well said!" Qin Mubai exclaimed a long breath, "It's really unexpected that a small Jishan actually shocked the royal family and the society. I'm a small person. Why should I care about the battle between the emperor and his relatives? I don't care! These three people, whether they committed suicide or homicide, I don't want to find out what happened again.

"It's like we walking around the world. No matter how famous you are and how powerful your martial arts are, don't care about the internal affairs of other sects." After saying that, Chen Yan turned around and walked out. As she walked, she said, "This will make you die quickly and miserable!"

"I know, Lady Chen." Qin Mubai shook his head and smiled, and he said to himself: This woman is as careful as being smart as others, and cold on the outside and hot inside. Obviously, she cares about and helps people, but she has to put on a stiff and cold face...

After a while, Qin Mubai returned to the king's tent and said to Li Ke in public, "I just received the news that Zhang Tianci, Marquis of Shengnan, committed suicide at home."

This time, not many people screamed, and many people showed a "surprisingly expected" look. Among the people present, many officials looked frightened and a little uneasy.

"It's strange, why did these three people suddenly find a short sight?" Li Ke frowned with an incredible surprised expression and shook his head in embarrassment, "What are they doing at this jux? The officials will listen. Although the news of their death is a little surprising, the overall situation is still disaster relief. Regarding the cause of their death, I will report to the court and have someone to check it. For now, don't mess up our deployment because of this. I ordered that Sima of Jiangzhou temporarily took the position of governor of Cheng Songnian, and Lieutenant Guoyi of Jiangzhou Prefecture temporarily replaced Ma Kun, who took over their work and continued to provide relief to the people and build dams!"

"Yes!" The officials and generals finally felt a little relieved for the time being. They are afraid that Li Ke will catch all of them at this time. I don't know how many of them used to be under their door. If you want to investigate this, you will suffer.

Li Ke's attitude has also given many people a trace of happiness in their hearts: listening to his tone, it seems that he is not ready to investigate in depth... Everyone understands people. These three people died strangely and violently, and there must be secrets. Li Ke didn't seem to care very much, and his attitude was warm - was he taking the initiative to calm people?

For a while, everyone was speculating. Although there was silence at the scene and no one spoke, the invisibly atmosphere became a little strange, as if everyone was thinking secretly.

"That's the arrangement for the time being. You will be busy first, and then if you have any questions, you can come and ask me." Li Ke waved his hand and motioned everyone to withdraw.

A moment later, there were only Li Ke and Qin Mubai left in the king's tent.

The two of them were stunned for a long time, and then they both laughed at the same time.

"This is too unexpected!" Almost with one voice.

"Your Highness, what do you plan to do now?" Qin Mubai asked.

Li Ke frowned and shook his head thoughtfully: "I don't understand this situation, but I don't want to trace it at all. Investigating murders is not what I am good at, nor is it my scope of responsibility. I will report it to the court truthfully. You can do whatever you want to do over there. I don't make the decision."

"Your Highness, it's appropriate." Qin Mubai said with a smile.

"So many things have happened in the small Jiangzhou projectile land. Mu Bai, this is an eventual place. We'd better leave as soon as possible!" Li Ke half jokingly and half seriously raised his eyebrows and said in a frightening and exaggeration, "I will immediately draw up a list and tell your majesty what happened today truthfully and ask him to decide."

"Good." Qin Mubai nodded and approved. In my heart, Li Ke is indeed a smart man with a clear heart. He probably thought that the death of these three people was either related to the emperor or the prince, or the king of Jiangxia, or Li Ke's own hands.

In a word, it's not worth it to continue to toss around for three mortal people. Although human life is greater than the law of heaven, the law is that the dead are alive. It is worth sacrificing three villains for the peace of the court and Jiangzhou.

In this way, the death of these three people will definitely end if it is unexpected. The court may send someone to investigate, but it will never 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 all the time, causing a burst of oil splashing. Now, it was suddenly covered with a big pot, and everything returned to peace in an instant.

Although the fish in the pot was still jumping and did not really calm down in an instant, the oil could not splash out and burn people.

It won't be burned by oil, which is a great thing. Who will have to ask clearly who covered the lid of this pot?