Suzaku Fury

Chapter 26 [20 Street Dance Building]

Yuchi Zhenjin took a few steps forward, then stopped suddenly.

When Di Renjie saw him stop at the entrance of the alley, he thought that the situation outside had changed, and immediately ran to Yuchi Zhenjin's side, but he just turned around silently and blocked the entrance of the alley.

"Why did your lord stop?"

Yuchi Zhenjin stood against the light, and the red hair that had just been straightened was glowing dark red under the light from the alley.Di Renjie couldn't see his expression clearly, but he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Weird." After saying that, he forced Di Renjie a step in.

Di Renjie took a step back cautiously, and asked, "Strange? What's weird?"

"You." Yuchi Zhenjin said, "everything has been wrong since the Suzaku case. Why do you run after a person you have never met? And this person may be the instigator of the Suzaku case, and is also suspected of murdering the court official You said before that since the other party deliberately lured us to solve the case, you should follow him, so that you can follow the vine. But now that you think about it, you feel that it is really wrong."

"Why is my majestic Dali Temple minister being manipulated by a suspect? It doesn't make sense emotionally or rationally. If he didn't do what you said, but just played Dali Temple in his hands for the sake of getting rid of the crime and delaying time, so that he can't do it again. Some officials died unexpectedly... This consequence cannot be borne by the two of you."

Di Renjie knew that Yuchi Zhenjin still didn't believe him, so he wasn't in a hurry, so he just chuckled and said slowly: "My lord, if you don't believe me, don't you believe yourself?"

Yuchi stopped talking and waited quietly for Di Renjie to continue.

"My subordinates remember that when it was mentioned earlier that we would follow the suspect to investigate the case, the adults also objected, and even stated that they would not act with Di Mou. But why are you and I standing in the same place now?"

Hearing this, Yuchi suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Di Renjie in front of him.

"This can only show that the idea of ​​the adult's investigation of the case coincides with that of Di. The suspect gave many hints along the way, seemingly guiding us, but actually forcing us to investigate the case. On the one hand, he wanted to use the power of Dali Temple to crack down on the smuggling of tributes. The official, on the other hand, wanted to avoid the sight of Dali Temple and plan to kill people. Therefore, he never thought that we could bring him to justice through the clues he provided. Since he wanted to use the power of Dali Temple, why didn't we oppose it? Used him in the past?"

Seeing that Yuchi Zhenjin was silent, Di Renjie said: "Your Excellency also knows that if Dali Temple is in a passive position, it will be very bad. As everyone knows, we are in the same situation as the suspect. It's like wrestling, where is the gamble?" One party can seize the opportunity and then trip the other party. Instead of waiting for him to slowly set the long fishing line and retreat completely, it is better for us to find out in which direction he is setting the line, know ourselves and the enemy, and then have a chance to break through.”

Yuchi Zhenjin rolled his eyeballs, turned sideways and said, "I don't want to enter this building openly. You change your face, you are open; I am in the dark, and I will accompany you."

Di Renjie cupped his fists and said, "Your subordinate obeys."

Yuchi Zhenjin let him go, and after Di Renjie strutted into the white gauze building, he stayed where he was, gently landed on the roof, and waited for an opportunity to act.

Di Renjie strutted into the gate of Baishalou, and as soon as he stepped through the door, a woman in exotic costume greeted him and beckoned him in.He was surrounded by two women on one left and one on the right and entered the hall. The women in exotic costumes smiled softly and persuaded him to go to the upstairs box, then serve good wine and food, and called the piano Maiko, and a beautiful girl by her side.The two women said "official" before and "lord" after, and they glanced secretly while talking, and the fragrance on their bodies kept attacking Di Renjie.

Although Di Renjie had a smile on his face, he couldn't help thinking to himself: It looks like white gauze is fluttering outside, and the plaque on the door is written with such a simple and elegant name as Baishalou, and there are no prostitutes. The restaurant, now it seems, is a place for fireworks, or Yuchi Zhenjin had the foresight to choose an easy job.

However, rather than letting someone as serious as Yuchi make this snake-stimulating stick, it would be better to let him do it.Surrounded by two girls, Dang even asked for a box at the corner upstairs.

You must know that in the place of fireworks, there are many people and distracting eyes. It is easy to hide people, and it is also easy to leak rumors.If you want to check something here, the first task is to hide yourself.

Several people sat down in the room, Di Renjie pretended to order a few side dishes, and a woman couldn't wait to ask: "This gentleman has such an extraordinary temperament, but is so unfamiliar, he must come to our Baishalou very rarely."

Di Renjie laughed and said: "Wu has been traveling all year round. Although he is from Chang'an, he seldom stays in Chang'an. He left his hometown just to make a living."

One of the women was quite touched, and suddenly said: "It turned out to be Master Wu. Master Wu is not the only one who left his hometown? Master Wu was born in Chang'an but could not stay in Chang'an. We stayed in Chang'an, but we were not born in Chang'an." .”

Seeing her losing her composure, another woman gave her a stern look, then quickly smiled and said, "Master Wu is no wonder, she is still a newcomer and doesn't know the rules."

Di Renjie smiled and waved his hands and said: "It's okay, it's okay, people who leave their hometown will inevitably feel sad when they think of their hometown, this is human nature. Besides, Wu is a newcomer when he first came to Baishalou. .”

The two women laughed when they heard this: "Master Wu is really good at joking, but we sisters are the only ones who offended the guests by doing something wrong. This is the first time we heard that the guests made us feel bad."

Di Renjie saw that the two seemed to be chatting, so he planned to take advantage of the victory to pursue him, and replied: "Wu usually makes a living by retrieving silk. He lives in other places all the year round, but he doesn't know much about the situation in Chang'an. Recently, he wants to do some business in the city. , originally wanted to spend money to manage it, but no one knew where the money should be sent. Fortunately, a friend pointed out that all the dignitaries in the city like to come to this Baishalou for fun, and now I want to come here first. Do what you like, and you will be able to talk in the future, but when you come in, you will be stunned, and you don't know who is in charge."

When the more experienced woman heard this, her smile froze. Although she was still smiling, her eyes had sized Di Renjie several times: "I wonder what business Boss Wu wants to do this time?"

Di Renjie said with a smile: "Wu was passing through Linyi recently, and happened to meet a spice merchant, and was persuaded by him, so he came up with the idea of ​​pouring agarwood."

When the woman heard 'Lin Yi', her expression darkened, and when she heard 'Chen Xiang' again, the expression on her face collapsed.

Seeing this, Di Renjie laughed loudly and said: "Wu Mou knows that he has nowhere to go, and now his work is in vain. It's better to stay in this white gauze building, get drunk and go to the bar!"

The woman heard this, she giggled and said, "The maidservant is going to get the wine now." After saying that, she winked at the other woman, and the two went out together.

Di Renjie nodded, holding up his chopsticks to eat the side dish, and waited for the sound of footsteps outside the door to fade away, then he put down his chopsticks and quickly went out through the window.He got on the roof, and only when he stood firmly, he heard Yuchi Zhenjin said in a suppressed voice: "No wonder you agreed so readily, you really enjoyed this errand."

Di Renjie walked back a few steps, but unexpectedly stepped on a pile of broken tiles.It stands to reason that with Yuchi's real gold skills, even if he had a competition on the roof, he would never break a single brick, unless he stepped on it intentionally...

Di Renjie looked at Yuchi Zhenjin with a complicated expression, but Yuchi Zhenjin avoided him several times when he saw him looking at him.

"grown ups……"

Yuchi turned his back to Di Renjie and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Now that you have released the bait, don't miss the opportunity to reel in the line!"

Di Renjie crushed the broken tiles under his feet with the sole of his shoe, and secretly laughed.Just when I was about to say something, I heard a harsh gong sound from downstairs.

Yuchi Zhenjin paused, leaned over to look, and said: "The Baisha Building is on fire."

"Fire?!" Di Renjie's face changed when he heard this: the effect of "striking the grass to startle the snake" is different from what he imagined.Just when I wanted to go down to see what happened, I saw a black shadow rushing up to the roof of the opposite building.

The man in black stood still and looked up, seeing Yuchi Zhenjin and Di Renjie on the roof at a glance, he couldn't help but ran away in fright.

"Where are you running!" Yuchi Zhenjin was full of energy, the wind was blowing under his feet, and he flew to the place where the black shadow was standing just now.Before he could stand still, two hidden weapons flew out from his sleeves, and directly grabbed the man in black.The man in black ran very fast, and the hidden weapons were nailed to the tiles with two 'ding-ding' sounds.

Yuchi Zhenjin saw that the concealed weapon that went ahead had smashed into the air, so he snorted coldly, and chased after him vigorously.The footsteps of the man in black were incomparable to his, and after a while, Jiao Yuchi's meteor hammer entangled his right leg.Yuchi Zhenjin pulled hard again, and the man in black who was walking like flying just now taught him to fall down on the roof. His body rolled down the slope a few times on the roof, and was hanged by Yuchi Zhenjin with a meteor hammer with.

Di Renjie ran to the edge of the roof of Baishalou, saw that Yuchi Zhenjin had arrested him, knew that there was nothing to worry about on the roof, so he jumped and landed in the dark box behind Baishalou, lying in ambush near the back door of Baishalou .

Besides, Yuchi Zhenjin restrained the man in black with the meteor hammer, and at this moment he was pulling out the short sword pinned to his waist, and slowly approached the man in black lying motionless on the roof.

The man in black taught Meteor Hammer to cling to his right leg, and now he was lying on the roof without venting his breath, as if he was dead.Unexpectedly, Yuchi Zhenjin was approaching, so he came up with a carp, and the hidden weapon hidden in his hand hit Yuchi Zhenjin like raindrops.

Yuchi had guessed that he wanted to stop with silence, at the moment he moved, he pulled the meteor hammer down and knocked down all the hidden weapons with his left hand.Metal hidden weapons smashed on the tile roof one after another, 'jingling' like hailstones.

"Humph, what a trick!" Yuchi Zhenjin dismissed him, approached him a few steps with his sword, and put the tip of the sword against his throat, "Where's your comrade? Why don't you see him come to rescue you?"

The man in black knew that he was no match for Yuchi's real gold, so he planned not to confront Yuchi head-on, and just stared fiercely at the person who pointed his sword at him.

Yuchi Zhenjin said displeased: "Since you don't want to speak, then I'll pick your tongue. It's okay to write a confession by hand."

Unexpectedly, the man in black still remained silent, only staring at Yuchi Zhenjin.Yuchi snorted coldly, and cursed in a deep voice: "I don't know how to flatter you." As soon as he finished speaking, he used the tip of his sword to pry away the black cloth covering his face.Unexpectedly, when the black cloth was removed, Yuchi Zhenjin was also a little surprised, and his red eyebrows twitched: "It's you?!"

The true face of the man in black was beyond Yuchi Zhenjin's expectation.It turned out that this person was the guard with a knife that he met at Honglu Temple that day, Qin Zhen.

Yuchi Zhenjin pressed the tip of his sword against his throat again, and forced him to ask: "Master Honglusi, did you kill him?"

Qin Zhen still stared at Yuchi Zhenjin without saying a word.

"How much of what you said that day was true and how much was false!?"

Qin Zhen's silence completely angered Yuchi Zhenjin.The strength in Yuchi's hands became stronger, and a blood spot appeared on Qin Zhen's pale neck. Scarlet blood immediately gushed out from the spot and sank into Qin Zhen's collar.

Yuchi Zhenjin stared at him fiercely, seeing that the person under the sword was unmoved, he was about to take back the dagger, intending to take him back to Dali Temple for retrial, but suddenly there was a sound of piercing in the dark night, and the hidden weapon went straight to him Lock Qin Zhen's meteor hammer!

Yuchi Zhenjin swung his sword to knock out the hidden weapon, but Qin Zhen still had a hand. Taking advantage of Yuchi's unpreparedness, the hidden weapon flew out of his sleeve, broke the metal chain in Yuchi's hand, and flexibly broke free from the restraint of Yuchi Zhenjin .

Yuchi Zhenjin plotted badly, although he was not injured, he was still angry.Now seeing that the suspect who was just captured broke free from his restraints and was about to run away, he ignored Sanqi 21 and tried his best to chase him back.

When Di Renjie heard the sound of fighting on the roof again, his heart rose again.Although he knew that there was nothing to worry about Yuchi's true gold martial arts skills, but as the saying goes, it is easy to hide with a spear and difficult to defend against, so he was afraid that the opponent would play tricks, so Yuchi caught it without checking for a while.

He took half a step outside, and was about to go up to help, but unexpectedly, the wooden door opened again with a 'squeak', and several people sneaked out from the yard.

Seeing this, Di Renjie immediately hid back to the base of the wall, then poked his head slightly, looking over there cautiously.

Only the leading servant over there held a lantern in his hand, and the other well-dressed people only whispered a few words before going to the other side.

Di Renjie looked at it with the weak light, and couldn't help being shocked:

The people who came out just now turned out to be Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi!

You must know that it is not shameful for an official to visit this place of fireworks, but why did the two people sneak out through the back door when the backyard caught fire?With the identities of the two, why do you need to be sneaky when you come to this Baishalou?

Could it be that they have a 'credit' for embezzling tributes?

Di Renjie's head buzzed.After the pedestrian was far away, he came out from the base of the wall, flew up to the house, and within two steps, he saw Yuchi Zhenjin standing on the roof.

"My lord." Di Renjie quickly ran behind Yuchi Zhenjin, but when he took a closer look, he saw the bloody corpse in front of Yuchi Zhenjin.Di Renjie was shocked when he saw this, firstly because this person was not familiar with him, he was the guard who met at Honglu Temple that day and provided them with many clues, secondly because he did not expect this person to be a suspect, and Still dead without evidence.

"Take poison and commit suicide." Yuchi Zhenjin frowned, "There are accomplices."

Di Renjie took a few steps forward and knelt down beside the corpse.

"Di Renjie, it turns out that we were played around by these thieves!"

Di Renjie took a few glances at Qin Zhen's corpse, closed his eyes with his hand, shook his head and said, "I can't see everything."

"What Qin Zhen said to us that day only made us connect the apparition of the Suzaku and the fire in Honglu Temple, so that we started to investigate the minister of Honglu Temple. Now it seems that what he said that day is not false." Di Renjie Standing up straight slowly, he walked in front of Yuchi Zhenjin, and said again: "My lord, the case of embezzlement of tribute by the Minister of Honglu Temple involves a lot, and may even be related to Empress Wu's relatives."

Yuchi Zhenjin raised his red eyebrows upside down: "Di Renjie, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Your Excellency still remembers the case of the Dragon King. His subordinates said on the boat that the truth must be pursued, and justice must be insisted upon."

"I remember." Yuchi glanced at him, "What is the relationship between the two?"

Di Renjie bowed his hands to Yuchi Zhenjin, and said: "It's very related. Dali Temple is in charge of the laws of the Tang Dynasty, which is the foundation of the society. As the minister of Dali Temple, you must be upright and upright, and personally handle right and wrong."

Yuchi Zhenjin was puzzled and said: "As long as I, Yuchi Zhenjin, still sit in the position of Minister of Dali Temple, I will definitely carry out this concept to the end."

Di Renjie put down his hands and praised: "As long as my subordinates still have their lives, no matter where they are, they will always follow you."

Yuchi Zhenjin was noncommittal, only glanced at the corpse on the roof, and said with a cold snort, "Go back to Dali Temple first."

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Minor revisions, no major changes【2013.12.16】