【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

The day after Wang Kuan and the others went home to accept the confinement, Yuan Zhongxin quietly left the secret pavilion early in the morning, and came to the teahouse where he met Tang Shun last time - the wooden steward told him that their people did find out There was a problem with the Lin family, but it was unclear for a while, so Yuan Zhongxin went to find Tang Shun himself.

As soon as he opened the door and entered, he saw An Lijiu enjoying tea leisurely, Tang Shun quietly lowered his eyes, thoughtful, the two raised their eyes and saw Yuan Zhongxin's arrival, An Lijiu said with a smile: "Here you are!" , take a break with a cup of tea?"

Yuan Zhongxin turned around and closed the door angrily: "You can really hold your breath."

An Lijiu poured Yuan Zhongxin a new cup of tea, blinked, and looked innocent: "Didn't you tell me to follow your orders? You didn't give orders, and I still have to run out to cause trouble for you?"

At the beginning, Yuan Zhongxin tried his best to deliberately leak the execution of drug dealers on the day of An Lijiu's execution to create a commotion, just to force Chang Yi and the others to pull out the prisoners who were executed at the same time to cover up their eyes and ears, and put them in sacks At that moment, An Lijiu's position was replaced by another death row prisoner, and An Lijiu was unscathed, waiting safely in the prison for Yuan Zhongxin to find someone to pick him up.

On the day of execution, in order not to arouse Chang Yi's suspicion, Yuan Zhongxin failed to go to the execution ground in person, but asked the rogue next to the old thief to bring a sentence to An Lijiu. If he wanted to survive, he had to follow Yuan Zhongxin's orders arrange.

In the eyes of those who threatened him, An Lijiu was like a dead person, with his head in a different place, and he would not be able to survive anyway. In this way, he didn't have to worry about the identity of the nine secret agents being leaked for the time being.

Yuan Zhongxin took a sip of tea: "Come with me tonight, there are some people you want to meet."

An Li Jiu smacked his lips: "Who?"

"Wei Zhuoran, Wang Canzheng, Lord Zhao, Fan Zaizhi, and my brother."

An Lijiu's movements stopped suddenly, and the tea in the cup almost spilled out. He looked at Yuan Zhongxin with a gloomy face: "If you want me to die, tell me sooner."

He hated dealing with people in the officialdom the most. In the past, Cheng Su was the only one who was fine, but now there are five of them at once.

Tang Shun pursed his lips, held back his smile and said, "If he really wanted you dead, he would have left you alone."

An Lijiu sighed helplessly: "Why do you want me to see them?"

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes were deep, and he said thoughtfully: "Since Wushi San is the beginning of everything, let's start with the officials who participated in the smuggling and smuggling of Wushi San. Give them all the clues that come."

An Lijiu raised his eyebrows, and asked meaningfully, "Are you sure all five of them can be trusted?"

Yuan Zhongxin nodded affirmatively.

Tang Shun asked puzzledly: "Didn't your grand lieutenant Wei and Wang Canzheng always get along with each other? I heard that the two of them often confronted each other. There was a deep hatred between the two families. Why are they willing to stand on the united front now? "

Yuan Zhongxin curled his lips into a smile: "The two of them are like children who are angry. Someone will mediate, and it is only a matter of time to shake hands and make peace. What's more, as long as they know how to judge the situation, they should know how to choose."

Yuan Zhongxin once asked Wei Zhuoran who were other trustworthy people in the court. He gave three names, Fan Zaizhi, Zhao Wangye, and the rest was Wang Canzheng, and then Yuan Zhongxin ran to Wang Canzheng went to the government and asked him the same question-the result was indeed beyond Yuan Zhongxin's expectations. Although Wei Zhuoran and Wang Canzheng saw each other's troubles, they still said each other's names.

Yuan Zhongxin looked at Tang Shun: "Where are you, what did you find?"

Tang Shun's eyes suddenly became serious, he nodded, and his expression was a bit troubled: "You guessed right, there was indeed a Xia person in the Lin family, and I don't think any of you would have guessed that the person who contacted Xia was who."

The color of An Li's nine eyes was unfathomable, and he pondered for a moment: "Is it Lin Yao?"

Tang Shun looked at him in astonishment, and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

Yuan Zhongxin smiled self-deprecatingly: "I should have thought of..."

My previous self had always doubted Lin Liang. Although I believed that Lin Liang would not be that kind of person in my heart, I still couldn't help but doubt it. Instead, I ignored the people around Lin Liang. She had very little contact with her, only met three times, but Lin Yao's sense of existence was too weak, and Yuan Zhongxin didn't pay any attention to her at all.

But on the contrary, Lin Yao is also the most likely person. She has a weak sense of existence, looks very deceitful on the outside, and is cowardly. When Lin Liang went out to find Yuan Zhongxin and others, she had every chance to manipulate With the eyeliner buried in the Forbidden Army, he threatened An Lijiu.

More importantly, Lin Yao has always been the bystander who silently watched the game secretly excited. She watched Lin Liang hug her head in despair, watched Yuan Zhongxin being forced to make a choice against his will, and watched An Lijiu There is no escape from the fate of death.

Until An Lijiu "died", she went home contentedly and prepared for the next game.

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at An Lijiu who was silent, and said lightly: "Do you know that Lin Yao was such a person before?"

The smile on An Lijiu's mouth faded away, and his eyes looked hopeless. He never thought that Lin Yao would be such a person, and slowly shook his head: "I don't have much contact with her, I only know that she is introverted and shy. Well, she seldom goes out, she is always a shy girl in front of others."

Who would have imagined that such a girl would have such vicious thoughts, treating human life as a game.

Yuan Zhongxin suddenly felt strange: "Did Lin Yao be picked up by the Lin family?"

An Lijiu was stunned, then shook her head: "No, she does have the blood of the Lin family in her body. When she was born, we all came to congratulate her."

Tang Shun was very confused: "Lin Yao is just the daughter of a small cloth merchant's family. If that's the case, why did the Xia people find her?"

The Lin family is not in politics, so Lin Yao naturally has no power at all, and even his connections are not as good as Anli's. Since the Xia people wanted to collude with the people of the Song Dynasty, why didn't they choose from among the hundreds of officials in the court? A girl with nothing but family background?

Yuan Zhongxin lowered his eyes slightly, with an unclear expression: "Tang Shun, I think it's better for you to find someone to continue to find out about Lin Yao. There must be something on her that is related to Daxia, otherwise Daxia won't do it for no reason. Pick a girl to work with."

Tang Shun nodded: "I have ordered our people to continue to monitor the Lin family, and report immediately if there is anything wrong."

An Lijiu looked at Yuan Zhongxin, and asked seriously, "What are you going to do next?"

Yuan Zhongxin stared at the teacup with dim eyes: "In the next month or so, I plan to travel far away."

"Where?"

"The underground city of Daxia."

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyes, his eyes were icy cold, and he looked straight at the silent Fan Zaizhi through layers of darkness, and said pointedly: "Master Fan, if I guessed correctly, the frontier cavalry army under your command In the past few months, you should have been exploring the entrance of the dungeon, right?"

Otherwise, why did you think of going back to Kaifeng to report it five months after the problem with Wushi San?

As soon as these words came out, Wei Zhuoran and others looked at Yuan Zhongxin in astonishment. Only Fan Zaizhi's reaction was quite calm, but his eyes were full of astonishment. Soon, Fan Zaizhi's expression returned to normal, and he squinted. Squinting his eyes, his tone was low: "How did you know about the dungeon?"

Yuan Zhongxin said calmly: "As early as half a year ago, our Qizhai received a mission from Qinghe Town, where 36 unidentified spies were hidden. When they were sent to Daxia, they entered the Yin The Bing Pavilion and the Yin Bing Pavilion sent them a mission to search for the dungeon, and then they had nowhere to go, so they took the map of the dungeon and hid in Qinghe Town, and finally they all jumped into the fire pit and committed suicide.”

Fan Zaizhi looked directly at Yuan Zhongxin, and asked in a deep voice, "Have you seen the map?"

Yuan Zhongxin replied calmly: "I didn't look at Qinghe Town, but the person who cooperated with me gave me the map."

Fan Zaizhi asked again: "Who is the person who is cooperating with you?" This is not the first time he asked this question, but Yuan Zhongxin stopped them all.

Yuan Zhongxin shook his head: "Master Fan, as I said, I can't tell you the true identity of the person who helped me for the time being, but I can definitely believe it. When the time comes, I will naturally let you meet."

A dark light flashed across Fan Zaizhi's eyes, and his expression was indifferent: "Since this is the case, naturally I can't tell you what I know, Yuan Zhongxin, to be honest, I don't trust you much, if it weren't for your brother , I won’t be here tonight.”

Hearing this, Yuan Zhongxin was not angry, but heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. Fan Zaizhi finally said what he thought in his heart, and he said calmly: "Master Fan, I hope you can understand that there is a relationship between you and me. The relationship between you and me is not a transaction, but a cooperation, if you don't tell me everything you know, Da Song's situation will be even more unfavorable in the future."

Wang Shenzheng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "Give us a reason to trust you."

Yuan Zhongxin lowered his eyes slightly, pondered for a while, and finally said: "I was poisoned by the poison of half life and death. Several people sent by Da Xia came here specifically to deal with me, and half life and death came from them." hands."