Chapter 30 Three Tasks
Tianying City!
Zhou Zhao put his hands behind his back, hiding her trembling fingertips.
"Tianying City is located at the intersection of the three places of Dai Zhao and Yan. It is a den of unattended evildoers. The city owner's name is Qin Tianying. Twenty years ago, he bloodbathed his family of forty-seven people and fled here. From a small village , it has become a city today.”
Zhang Ran didn't notice anything strange about Zhou Zhao, and he didn't ask whether Zhou Zhao should choose to be a king or a court official.
He is not as scheming as the Prime Minister, but he is not stupid either.
"This city is divided into seven inner halls and twelve outer villages, and a lot of robberies have been done. Originally, if they didn't jump into the court's face, Your Majesty would have allowed them to be just like grasshoppers. But something happened recently. thing.”
Zhang Ran said and took a deep look at Zhou Zhao, "When you were in Tingwei Temple Prison, did you see the man who was beaten to a bloody pulp?"
Zhou Zhao thought, recalling the situation the night before, and nodded, "It's right opposite my prison. Is he from Tianying City?"
Zhang Ran gave Zhou Zhao an appreciative look, but did not answer the question directly.
"You and Fan Lishen, the son of Princess Changyang's Mansion, are both the Sixth Son of Chang'an. You should know what the Prince Consort of Changyang and General Fan do all the time away from home, right? Since the previous dynasty, the Prince Consort of Changyang has been looking for various secret treasures and the magic of immortality for the monarch."
"Not long ago, Consort Fan sent people to escort the treasure to Beijing, but unexpectedly it was robbed by Yingcheng that day."
"Relying on the secret work I buried in Tianying City, we captured their seventh master, who was nicknamed Chen Qifu by the Jianghu people."
Zhang Ran had a look of disgust on his face when he said this, "Chen Qishao used to be a bandit. He liked to rob homes and houses. He used a wooden axe. He would kill people with seven axes. He especially liked to destroy corpses. He was a very disgusting person. People.”
After Zhou Zhao heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt, "What details did you arrange?"
Zhang Ran was instantly annoyed. He opened his eyes wide and raised his hand to point to his nose, with a speechless expression on his face. "You don't think I really live on His Majesty's food, do you?"
Zhou Zhao looked back without feeling guilty, right?
Zhang Ran was heartbroken: "My good nephew hurt me so much!"
"You don't need much ability to arrange a detailed job. You only need two things: one can act and the other is loyal. Now that you and I are grasshoppers in the same boat, I will tell you the truth."
Zhou Zhao coughed lightly, but he couldn't act.
Zhang Ran knew that Zhang Ruoqing was not his biological daughter, but he still showed that he loved his daughter as much as her life.
I don’t know how much of this is sincere, how much of it is fake, or if there is any other reason.
She thought and diverted Zhang Ran's anger, "The Tingwei Temple prison was robbed the night before, was it because of Chen Qixu?"
Zhang Ran nodded heavily, but his anger did not disappear, but added a bit of resentment, "Yesterday morning you came to tell me that the Tingwei Temple Prison was robbed, and I felt that something was wrong. I immediately went to look for Li Huaishan after leaving the palace. , and sure enough, Chen Qifu was rescued.”
"It is precisely because this matter has been delayed that I asked my unsatisfactory son Zhang Xun to follow you."
Zhou Zhao understood instantly.
She had thought before that Zhang Ran was so eager to find the murderer, why didn't he come when the competition was really going on. He must have been tripped up by something.
"That man worked alone and was very familiar with the structure of the Tingwei Temple Prison. He used incense to stun the jailers, and then opened everyone's cell doors. Not only Chen Qifu disappeared, but many people also escaped. , Li Huaishan suppressed these things.”
"Just when you left Tingwei Temple with your front foot, this happened to your back foot."
Zhang Ran said, looking at Zhou Zhao with a bit of secret pride, mixed with some guilt.
"You will definitely not guess who the man who robbed the prison was! Just last night, he took Chen Qifu out of the city and disappeared without a trace."
Zhou Zhao's heart was shaken, and a name was about to blurt out on his lips.
Before she could speak, Zhang Ran couldn't help but reveal the answer himself, "It's Zhu Li!"
Zhu Li!
It’s really Zhu Li!
Zhou Zhao couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes. Seeing her like this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but raise his beard as if he had gotten back a win.
"You didn't expect it, right? Zhu Li didn't go on patrol last night. His superior, Lu Dabeard, had a bad temper and went directly to his home to search. The Northern Army found Zhu Li who was unconscious in the cellar. He had been locked up for several days. !" Zhou Zhao's mind was buzzing and he almost lost control of himself.
So her intuition was right. Zhu Li felt a lot of inconsistencies and was very weird.
And last night, she almost caught him in front of her house!
"So Zhu Li, who was supervising the exam together with Min Zangzhi, was not really Zhu Li at all, but someone disguised as him."
At the end of Zhang Ran's words, his voice was almost as quiet as a mosquito. He lamented several times, "I've been really unlucky lately."
Zhou Zhao took a deep breath, his eyes moved, and his mind started to spin rapidly, "Do you think that Zhu Li is your spy in Tianying City?"
Zhang Ran's resentment deepened, he was so evil!
The fake girl is cheating, Zhou Zhao is cheating, and even the meticulous work under his hands is cheating.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ran said sadly, "Yes, I have not reported this matter yet, and there is no definite evidence. I just have a guess in my mind. My spy is good at the art of disguise, codenamed Thousand Faces."
"I did not receive any news that he was coming to the capital, nor did he inform me that he wanted to kidnap Chen Qifu."
"So if Zhu Li is really a thousand-faced person, then I doubt him..."
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"I've said everything that needs to be said, so when you go to Tianying City, you have to do three things in total: The first is to destroy Tianying City and arrest the hidden criminals one by one! This move is better than Ting Wei Everyone in the temple handles many cases a year, who dares to question you?”
"Secondly, we didn't find any useful clues from Chen Qifu. So the second thing is to get the lost secret treasure from Tianying City."
Zhou Zhao frowned when he heard this. Zhang Ran said so many earth-shattering things in one breath that he almost got her involved.
"What is the secret treasure? I don't know what it is, how can I find it?"
Zhang Ran shook his head at Zhou Zhao with a guilty conscience, "It's not that I won't tell you, I don't know what it is exactly. All I know is that it is a black machine box painted with gold. What is painted on the box is the Six Paths of Reincarnation."
"If you get the box, don't open it without permission."
Zhou Zhao looked at Zhang Ran with a bit of contempt, "The third thing is to see if the spy you arranged has rebelled? You didn't even report it, how could His Majesty ask me to do this!"
Zhang Ran chuckled, turned around like a top, and rushed to pour tea for Zhou Zhao.
"Good nephew! Didn't you agree before that you owe me something? Now I want you to give it back to me! If he betrays you, you will kill him directly; if not, he would have died a year earlier, in It’s a huge help to you.”
Seeing him like this, Zhou Zhao suddenly stopped being anxious. She raised her eyebrows, took the tea handed over by Zhang Ran, and leaned against the pillar to take a sip.
"Mr. Zhang, do you think too highly of me? Why should I choose? Your Majesty has promised me that if I win the competition, I will definitely enter the Tingwei Temple. What does it mean to be questioned? Your Excellency has also seen that those who questioned me yesterday were not all Everyone got slapped in the face?”
"I just need to figure it out slowly, why bother going to Tianying City?"
"I choose a city by myself? Your Excellency, you are calling me a wise nephew, but you are holding a knife in your hand and you want me to die!"
"If what I think is correct, Tianying City was originally something His Majesty asked you to do, right?"
She must go to Tianying City.
She had thought before that if she wanted to enter Tingwei Temple, how could she get Li Huaishan to agree to the fact that she, a new official who had nothing to do, had to leave Chang'an for a few months, but now, it didn't take any effort to get here.
But, she thought, she could pretend not to want to.
Zhang Ran was dumbfounded for a moment. He raised his finger and pointed at the tip of Zhou Zhao's nose, wanting to take the tea cup back from her hand, "You, you, you! You don't choose!!"
Zhang Ran wanted to cry but had no tears.
When you hear the secret, you call me Uncle, and after you hear it, you call me Sir. Who wants whom to die?