Chapter 206 Come with me

Li Ke cut his hands on his back and walked directly to the main hall of the Assassin House without saying a word all the way.

The couch in the hall is neatly arranged. Obviously, it is already ready to welcome Li Ke in preparation for the wind and dust. Nowadays, the big and small officials can only stand in the hall with their hands down, and they dare not come out.

Li Ke sat in the hall with almost no expression on his face. A pair of eyes swept through the people in the hall coldly. He was silent for a long time, but did not speak.

The atmosphere in the hall was almost suffocating. Although it was the cold weather in early spring, Zhao Chong's forehead was also sweating coldly, and Wu Fa Cao's legs trembled slightly.

Seeing that the atmosphere was so awkward and stagnant, Quan Wanji took a few steps forward to Li Ke, bent down and bowed his hand and whispered, "Your Highness, please calm down your anger... I have heard about what happened before. It's also a misunderstanding.

"The history of Quan Chang, in fact, you are too worried, and I'm not angry." Li Ke suddenly smiled and waved his hand relaxedly. "I'm new here, and I've known you today. In this way, I should not be caught as a water ghost anymore, right?

"Ha ha..." The officials present squeezed out a dry smile, and the atmosphere was at least a little lively. Wu Fa Cao and Zhao Chong became more and more nervous, and their faces with a bitter smile were worse than crying.

Li Ke was relaxed and casual. He touched his belly and said, "Sit down, everyone. I'm really hungry. The food in prison is not what people eat. What are you waiting for? Let's go to the table!"

"Thank you for giving me a seat!" Then the officials breathed a sigh of relief and sat down one after another.

Quan Wanji stood aside and looked at Li Ke in a daze. He was very confused for a moment and didn't know what Li Ke meant. He said to himself: According to His Highness's past character, he has suffered such grievances and humiliations today. He should have been angry and even whipped people. What's the matter now? Why do I feel that he is a little unfathomable?

"Changshi Quan, you can sit down and have a banquet!" Li Ke said with a smile and pointed to the upper seat next to his lower head.

Quan Wanji had to bow back with a wry smile and said, "Thank you for giving me a seat. However, shouldn't this seat be reserved for General Qin?

"No need. He will definitely not come to the banquet today. You sit down." Li Ke waved his hand and smiled mysteriously.

Quan Wanji shook his head with a helpless smile. He knew that Li Ke and Qin Mubai, a pair of best friends, were both smart characters. What are they going to plot with? Can they make a trick or guess a clue? Well, it's up to them to see how Li Ke behaves today.

After a while, the banquet was presented, and you sat down and ate separately. Li Ke was really hungry. He didn't care about it. He ate half full by himself first, and then he had a little heart to deal with the officials who were full of dust for him.

"Gentlemen, I have traveled thousands of miles from the beginning of the capital to Xiangzhou. I am not familiar with the place. In the future, I will rely on your colleagues to help me." Li Ke got up with a cup of wine and left the table and walked to the hall. Everyone else put down their chopsticks and sat down and listened attentively.

"Above all the colleagues here, except for the long history Quan Wanji who came with me, and Wu Fa Cao and Captain Zhao, who met in a hurry, I don't know any of the other kings." Li Ke said with a smile, "Why don't you take the initiative to make an introduction? Well, let's start with the state official. The following is the long history of Sima. Where is Sima in Xiangzhou?

"The humble position is here!" An official in a red robe here hurriedly got up, went to the hall and bowed down to Li Ke. He said respectfully, "I see Your Highness! He was thirty-eight years old, and he was an official in Jingzhao. He held the Ming scriptures for two years. He has been in office in Xiangzhou Sima for more than three years.

"Wesma, well, it's a pleasure to meet you." Li Ke nodded with a smile, thought for a moment, and asked, "I don't know what is the relationship between Sima and Dr. Chang'an Wei's family?"

"To reply to Your Highness. He was born in Guanlongwei and is related to Chang'an Wei. Wei Haochen replied.

Li Ke looked at Wei Haochen carefully and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "It turns out that Wesma comes from such a famous family. It's really disrespectful!"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" A smile appeared on Wei Xiaochen's face, and he was vaguely inconsiderately proud. He hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, who has two royal bloodlines, is really precious!"

Li Ke nodded and motioned Wei Xiaochen to sit back. They had met each other.

The Tang Dynasty paid attention to the origin of the family, while Chang'an Wei's is a typical famous family.

Next, a person took the initiative to introduce himself to Li Ke. In the current environment, you don't have to guess that he should be the highest rank among the officials present. Unsurprisingly, this man with Kong Wu's powerful face is a little literary and beautiful. He is Du Chengyuan, one of the deputies under the command of Qin Mubai and the lieutenant of Guoyi in Xiangzhou Prefecture.

Coincidentally, this person is actually a Jingzhao Renshi, a Du family from the Guanlongshi family at the same time as Wei Haochen, and Du Ruhui, the prime minister of the founding of the country, is still a relative!

There is a saying in later generations, "Weidu in the south of the city, five feet from the sky", which is more appropriate to describe Chang'an Wei's and Du's Manmen Enrong.

Wei and Du are both old and famous families in the Tang Dynasty. The family is prosperous and there are many talents in the rich people. Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, there have been many prime ministers and generals, and there are many marriages with the royal family. They also have a close relationship with other famous families. Nowadays, the Wei and Du families are extremely beautiful in Chang'an, because Li Shimin has taken Wei's daughter as his concubine, and the Du family is such a pillar as Du Ruhui.

Li Kewan didn't expect that a small Xiangzhou, the nephew of the Weidu family was an official here! If it hadn't been for his own prince's visit, if he were an ordinary official, Wei Haochen and Du Chengyuan would not have really paid attention to him!

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At this moment, in prison.

Qin Mubai asked the cell to invite Chen Yan to the innermost cell, that is, the prisoners threatened to lock him and Li Ke in the iron cell.

Facing him, Qin Mubai could hardly recognize Chen Yan for a moment.

The heroic heroine in the past now exudes a fishy smell, her face is as pale as paper, and the sound of shackles and shackles, which is so harsh.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" The corners of Chen Yan's mouth gently stirred, as if with a smile, "You are not the expression that your old friend should have when we meet again."

"You sit down first." Qin Mubai said to the door again, "Heizi, let the prisoner untie the shackles."

"No." Chen Yan said lightly, "The prison was ready to be solved for me just now, but I refused."

"Why?" Qin Mubai said in surprise.

"Because I killed someone, I'm a death row prisoner." Chen Yan still said indifferently, "The murderer should die. Since you are an official, the more you can't abuse your official power to damage Wang Fasen."

Qin Mubai was speechless for a moment and frowned again.

"I'm very happy to see you again." Chen Yan smiled slightly, raised her hands to make the shackles bite, and said, "Unfortunately, I'm already a prisoner, and I can't raise my glass to drink with you."

"Tell me, what's going on?" Qin Mubai asked.

Chen Yan smiled at herself and said, "Is it necessary? I killed 17 people in one breath, which is indeed an indisputable fact, and his crime should be punished. Even if it is the emperor, he will forgive me. I know you have the intention to save me, but can you cover your mouth? Isn't it a fire in the end? I'm guilty of death. I don't want to involve you.

"Then treat it as a friend chatting. You should always be able to tell me why you killed those seventeen people?" Qin Mubai asked.

Chen Yan was silent for a moment and nodded: "Since you want to hear it so much, then all right..."

It turned out that after staying in Jiangzhou for a period of time, Chen Yan was ready to take a boat back to her hometown in the south of the Yangtze River to do some things. That night, it was near the Eight Ghosts Ferry in Xiangzhou. Suddenly, there was a sound of screams and fighting above the river, and a boat not far ahead caught fire.

Chen Yan was originally a chivalrous person who walked around the world. At this time, she jumped off the boat and swam without hesitation, ready to save people. It turned out that there were people fighting on the boat, and it was near the end. Seventeen assassins in black have killed the people full of the ship and searched all the treasure goods on the ship and were about to escape. Chen Yan's appearance surprised the other party and immediately killed people.

At that time, she was in a hurry to save people and didn't want to escape at all, so she fought with the other party. After the fierce battle, all seventeen people on the other side were killed under her sword. At this time, the fire on the ship was getting bigger and bigger. Chen Yan searched hard in the boat, but she didn't find it. Only then did she know that this was a salt shackle boat carrying private salt - that is to say, she inadvertently intervened in the fight between the salt shackle!

Just then, several official ships came over and blocked Chen Yan tightly.

Previously, Chen Yan's boat had fled far away from the ten-mile waterway. There was a raging fire and dozens of bodies at the scene. No one witnessed it to defend her. She didn't have much affection for the people in the government. At this time, she knew that it was difficult to argue, so she decisively dived and prepared to escape. It was expected that the officers and soldiers were fully prepared to scratch her from the water with a deep-water crossbow spear, and a big net caught her.

Later, she was put on death row without interrogation. From beginning to end, there was not even a prison that dared to approach her, and no one dared to talk to her. Therefore, Chen Yan has not figured out what kind of people she is killing so far.

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When Chen Yan said, Qin Mubai was looking at her and saw the scars left by the iron hook, claws and spear sword on her body, such as the shoulder, pipa bone, etc., and some scars were already ulcerated, almost sticky with the clothes and could not be separated.

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After Chen Yan finished speaking, she smiled and said, "That's the story. I know I didn't kill a good person, but whether it's a good person or a bad person, after all, I deserve to die, don't I?"

"You weren't like this before." Qin Mubai frowned and said, "It's definitely not the first time you've killed someone since you've been walking around the world for so many years."

"Not bad." Chen Yan stood up and took two slow steps, turned her back and muttered, "After the Jiangzhou case, I vowed not to try the law by myself, and I was also ready to retire back to my hometown and be a civilian woman. Because from then on, I have learned that there are still feelings, reason and law in the world. It is really not necessary to solve all problems with killing and swords. It was you and the prince who made me understand that the people of the government are not necessarily all stupid and greedy people..."

"Then you don't have to be a scapegoat." Qin Mubai said.

Chen Yan was slightly stunned and turned around and said confusedly, "What do you mean by this?"

"You just killed a group of people who deserve to be killed. What's the crime?" Qin Mubai gently picked up the corners of his mouth and whispered, "If I didn't expect it, you should have killed the water ghost of the West River. This group of people have no way to plunder the river, and even the official grain and salt dare to do it. They are the real prisoners on death row!"

"So what?" Chen Yan smiled disappointedly, "I'm just a civilian. I don't have the right to execute them, do I?"

"I said you have it, then you have it." Qin Mubai smiled mysteriously, "Can't I say that you are the secret envoy sent by someone from my Qin to investigate the case of the water ghost in the West River Trough?"

"This..." Chen Yan's eyes lit up and she still shook her head. "Isn't that appropriate? You haven't taken office yet. How can you send a secret envoy to inquire about the water ghost in the West River? Isn't this hiding your ears and stealing the bell to deceive yourself?"

"Oh! Logically, it is indeed unreasonable. Qin Mubai smiled and said, "However, many things in this officialdom are often unreasonable and reasonable. Because my official is bigger than them, what I say is what it is. In addition, the West River Trough water ghost stinks and kills everyone. Even if others understand that I deliberately found an excuse to excuse you, they have no nonsense to talk about. In this way, it can stand up both in terms of love and law.

"..." Chen Yan was silent for a long time.

"Chen Yan, I have to get you out." Qin Mubai said firmly.

"I hope I won't bother you..." Chen Yan frowned gently, stared at Qin Mubai's eyes, and said solemnly.

"Don't worry." Qin Mubai smiled relaxedly and confidently, "If I can't deal with this little thing, it's really useless - come with me, now!"