Chapter 86 – A Natural Pair

The black caravan was surrounded by stars and torches that lit up the official road, however, the caravan was too long, even though the official government offices in Dazhou City had poured out, the thirteen Yamen masters from Kyoto led by the three inner court eunuchs could only intercept half of the caravan and there was no way to encircle the entire caravan, however, the eyes of these officials had been staring at the imperial court’s prisoner, and they were not worried that this bloodied man with his wife and son would be able to disappear from the eyes of all the people. disappear.

However, no one dared to just rush forward and grab Gao Da, because everyone sensed a hint of abnormality, the person holding the imperial court’s admired prisoner was obviously not an ordinary citizen, and the official uniforms he was wearing made the crowd look a bit familiar.

The most crucial thing was still this long black caravan. Although the style of the carriages all looked very ordinary, but a convoy that stretched over three dozen carriages was not a sight that could be seen anytime, anywhere, and even more stupid people could guess that there must be some big shots in the convoy.

Ministry of Justice 13 Yamen officials secretly spit a mouthful of bad luck, how did not expect, in the remote outside of Dazhou City, their own party has just been lucky to the extreme, finally caught the court secretly searched for a long time of the court’s admired criminals, but actually also bumped into such an odd column of caravan.

The officials of the Ministry of Justice were not alarmed, although they were not clear about the identity of this convoy for the time being, however, they were acting on the orders of the Under Door Zhongshu, which was also considered half of an imperial errand boy, who would dare to stop them under the whole sky? Even if this black convoy contained princes and nobles of the imperial court, yet the other party could not possibly say anything about the imperial court’s action to catch the imperial criminals.

Three inner court eunuchs walked out from the crowd surrounded by torches, and the old eunuch at the head narrowed his eyes as he looked at this odd caravan, looking at the blood-covered imperial prisoner, who was lying on the flat ground in front of the carriage, and a couple of people in black official uniforms appeared to be treating him, while the mute maiden with the pale face was holding her child, looking at the imperial prisoner incomparably nervously.

This inner court expert’s eyes narrowed and his nostrils twitched slightly, feeling a hint of surprise and unease as he easily recognized which side of the caravan the men in black official uniforms were on in terms of strength.

After a battle, although Gao Da had bravely rushed to the official road and had seriously injured two Inner Court experts, he himself had reached the end of his strength, and it was obvious that he had to protect his mother behind him and the child in his arms, and had received many more wounds that should not have appeared on his body.

This inner court expert who was presiding over the seizure matter, his body was also filled with chi and blood, and he could not calm down for a while. He looked at the caravan in front of him and frowned slightly. It was natural that the Inner Court would not act too arrogantly, he was just a little scared.

As an expert of the inner court and carrying imperial orders, even if this train convoy was really a team of the Supervisory Court, he had nothing to fear. The problem is that he does not know the rank of this train team in the Supervisory Yuan, especially critical is that the court today wanted the criminal is Tiger Guard Gouda, and this person back then was Lord Little Fan’s close guard, if the people of the Supervisory Yuan found out about this, if Lord Little Fan is in this train team ……

This eunuch took a deep breath, and under the light of the torches, he slowly walked up and said in a sandy voice to the pure black carriage on the official road, “He Qi Gan of the Inner Court has been ordered to capture the Chin prisoner.”

He didn’t bother to ask the identity of this caravan first, but instead preempted his own identity and intentions, in this way, if the black caravan really did have some strange movements, the inner court side also preempted the stand.

The Ministry of Justice thirteen Yamen masters also gradually see the wrong, no longer as confident as before, but vigilantly scattered around the carriage. And Dazhou City government offices of the soldiers are puzzled, these masters from Kyoto all eyes on the top of the head, even in the face of the ferocious tiger general court criminal, no one will be half a step back, how to face this black caravan, but seem so cautious?

“Qin criminal ah?” The Supervisory Yuan official who was squatting beside Gouda to look after his injuries suddenly furrowed his brows, listening to this sentence from the inner court eunuch, his eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of extremely complex emotions, looking at the unconscious Gouda, whispering to himself, “So you slipped away back then as well.”

The inner court eunuch did not get a reply, but it was also expected by him. The Supervisory Yuan had always acted in secrecy, yet once it had confronted the several major pivotal offices in the court, it was exceptionally arrogant and brutal. Although the inner court nominally had the function of supervising the Supervisory Academy, however, under the deliberate connivance of Chen Pingping and Fan Xian, the two deans before and after, the Supervisory Academy wasn’t very afraid of the inner court.

“I don’t know which lord of the courtyard is in the caravan, do you have any important matters?” That inner court eunuch’s eyes were slightly lowered, and he indifferently opened his mouth to say, “I’d like to trouble your honor to hand over this Chin prisoner to the inner court for processing.”

Enough thirty-odd carriages, do not know how many officials carrying secret agents or important things, can qualify to let the Supervisory Yuan set aside thirty-odd special strange car action, if not to protect a particularly important personage in the hospital, is in charge of an extremely important task, this eunuch although the inner court masters, but also reluctant to affect the Supervisory Yuan’s affairs, especially he was a little afraid, he would not be so bad luck to the extreme, on the met Little Lord Fan outside the city of Dazhou.

The Procuratorate official who had been squatting beside Gao Da slowly stood up, facing the blinding torchlight, squinting at this inner court expert, and after a long period of silence, he suddenly spoke, “This official is the Deputy Organizer of the Second Division of the Procuratorate. I trouble you to show me your decree.”

The inner court eunuch’s temples on his forehead suddenly throbbed hotly, he didn’t expect that after his party revealed their identities, this Supervisory Yuan official actually had to look at the decree he was carrying with him.

The Supervisory Yuan is not afraid of the inner court, the inner court is naturally even less afraid of the Supervisory Yuan, what they are afraid of is only the two presidents before and after the Supervisory Yuan, because the weight of these two presidents in front of His Majesty the Emperor is a little bit heavier than the entire inner court put together, so in the weekday exchanges, the inner court is polite to the Supervisory Yuan, and the Supervisory Yuan isn’t willing to offend the inner court either.

Like today’s situation, this Supervisory Yuan official actually said such a sentence to appear incomparably strong, can not help but let the inner court eunuch’s heart tip trembled up, this and the Supervisory Yuan’s weekday style is very different, is the convoy really ……

“Can the young lord be in the caravan, please allow the old slave to come forward to greet him.” This inner court eunuch clenched his teeth together, the Supervisory Court was certainly powerful, but he was not very afraid, he was just afraid that Lord Little Fan was really in the caravan, otherwise why was this official so cold and stubborn.

“The dean is on business in Dong Yi City.” That Supervisory Yuan official frowned at him, seemingly not expecting the other party to actually start the trial so soon, and spoke indifferently, “Since we are all working for the court, what’s wrong with me wanting to see your hand seal?”

Hearing that Fan Xian was not in the caravan, this inner court eunuch’s heart instantly calmed down. Although the Supervisory Court was terrifying, it was after all His Majesty’s secret service, and they always didn’t have the guts to stop the inner court from doing its work.

“When does the inner court need to report to the Supervisory Yuan when they do something?” This inner court eunuch’s face gradually sank as he said in a sandy voice, “Someone come, escort this imperial court prisoner!”

After issuing this order, his eyes moved to the face of this deputy organizer of the second division, his gaze as if it had substance, intending to shock the other party. At this time, the inner court was working with the thirteen government offices, if the Supervisory Yuan had to force its way in, what was the difference between that and a rebellion?

This more than a year’s time, he was sent by his majesty to the subordinate of the great scholar He, in the mountains and wilderness of the country of Qing to pursue Gouda unceasingly, has not been back to Kyoto, so about the Supervisory Yuan side of the intelligence, know not much, he only knows that the little Lord Fan has indeed been busy in the matter of the submission of the city of Dongyi, but does not know who may be brought in this train of black caravan.

A few experts from the Ministry of Justice’s Thirteen Yamen looked at each other, all seeing the vigilance and uneasiness in each other’s eyes. At this time, they naturally know that the caravan is all the officials of the Supervisory Yuan, for the Supervisory Yuan, the court officials of the six ministries and three temples, there is a kind of innate fear and resistance, if placed in the usual, these Ministry of Justice officials, no matter how, they do not dare to fight against the Supervisory Yuan, but today they are doing the work of the court, and countless pairs of eyes, that the blood-bath criminals are lying in the middle of the Supervisory Yuan officials, they are more confident than usual. The officials of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs slowly and steadily moved to the front of the court.

The officials of the Ministry of Justice moved their feet slowly and steadily, leaning over to the side of the carriage. The few officials of the Supervisory Yuan beside the carriage didn’t make any movements, it seemed like they also felt that it wasn’t worth it to turn their backs on the entire inner court as well as the Ministry of Penalty for the sake of an imperial prisoner.

The people surrounding the car breathed a sigh of relief, and as they watched the several Ministry of Justice officials walk over to Tiger Guard Gouda’s side, take out the shackles, and were about to put them on, the Supervisory Yuan official, who had been in deep thought and frowning, suddenly opened his mouth and said: ”It’s still not right. You say it is a court accomplice is a court accomplice? You’re a eunuch of the inner court, not a proper secretary of the Da Lisi.”

Immediately after, he waved his hand.

Snorting several cold lights, the officials of the Supervisory Yuan who surrounded Gao Da’s body still had their hands on the side without the slightest movement, while from the darkness around the carriage, but like a fast wind, swept over a few swordsmen, pulling out their swords in a flash of lightning and placing them on the necks of those officials of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs.

The faces of the Ministry of Justice officials immediately turned pale. They had always been careful, but how could they have never thought that the torches illuminated around the official road, those seemingly distant darkness, actually hid such a powerful expert, these people of their own were actually restrained by the other party before a single move was made!

That inner court expert slowly raised his head, his eyes narrowed, his pupils slightly narrowed, looking at the movement in front of him, looking at those swordsmen shrouded in black, he also couldn’t help but feel a trace of chill. The assassins of the Sixth Branch of the Supervisory Court were truly worthy of their name.

However, he was not afraid in the slightest, looked at the deputy organizer of the second division and indifferently opened his mouth and said, “It seems that this adult also knows the identity of this admirable criminal, and knows that he was Dean Fan’s close confidant back in the day …….”

What is meant by executing the heart, this is executing the heart. At this time hundreds of people in the field were listening to these words, no one had the means to kill everyone to silence them, as long as the Supervisory Yuan prevented the inner court from arresting this admirable criminal today, then the rumors that were put on Fan Xian would naturally be spread to Kyoto.

The official of the Supervisory Yuan bowed his head slightly, and after a moment of contemplation said, “Dead old eunuch, I don’t care what you say, just that you say you are doing something under the order, I need to see your hand seal, even if you don’t have a hand seal, the Ministry of Justice’s document of the sea arrest, you must bring it to me to have a look at it, or else if I say that you are a mountain bandit who has been wreaking havoc for the towns and villages, what can you have to say?”

After saying these words, the corners of this official’s lips spread a cold smile, looking incomparably cold and confident.

Standing in the crowd after the governor of Dazhou according to rank, is the most senior official, but he knows that this matter is very strange, and the matter involves the Supervisory Yuan, under the door of the Central Committee, the inner court and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, their own district a small state governor, how dare to stay out of the matter, just listening to the sentence of the mountain thieves, the governor could not help but bitterly laugh, the Supervisory Yuan people really shameless and ruthless, in front of so many court officials, actually dare to hard to point to the inner court, but the official said, the mountain thieves. The eunuch is a mountain bandit.

The arrest of Gouda as well as Wang Qinian was originally a secret matter carried out by He Zongwei in secret, he wanted to hide this matter until the end, in order to let the conflict between his majesty and Fan Xian break out without a chance to turn around, so he naturally did not report to his majesty in advance, of course, there can’t be any handwritten seal of his majesty, and he dared not to let the powerful forces under Fan Xian know his own reckoning, so all the actions were carried out in the dark. He didn’t even have the arrest papers from the Ministry of Justice.

If he had caught Gouda or Wang Qinian, it would have been easy for him to complete the formalities afterward. However, the Supervisory Yuan official really had a poisonous eye, and saw the problem at once, and with one sentence, he forced the officials of the inner court and the special department of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to the foot of the mountain.

The inner court eunuch was silent for a moment, he had no way to take out his majesty’s decree or the Ministry of Justice’s arrest document, but he was even more unlikely to watch Gao Da’s imperial criminal slip away from his eyes.

“Our identity is naturally witnessed by all the lords of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, who all have their tokens in their possession.” This inner court eunuch indifferently turned things the other way, “At this time, we are going to take someone, if the Supervisory Court wants to stop us, they might as well kill us all.”

As soon as these words came out, the entire official road went quiet, and a stern and cold atmosphere began to permeate amongst the crowd. Seemingly tense, in fact, the inner court eunuchs were at peace with themselves, it must be that at this time, the officials in the convoy of the Supervisory Yuan, have already used the shortest possible time to know the identity of the Tiger Guard Gouda, and they certainly know the relationship between Gouda and their dean, no matter whether or not they have found out that the imperial court would like to do something with this matter, but they certainly will not just let the people of the inner court catch Gouda so easily.

The problem was that the inner court and the Ministry of Justice had to rush to arrest Gouda back to Kyoto before the Supervisory Court could pass the information on to Fan Xian, so they had to play hardball because this inner court eunuch believed that the Supervisory Court, no matter how tough they were, wouldn’t dare to kill all of the people here in this mountainous wilderness of the Kingdom of Qing.

This eunuch believed that this thirty-something vehicles convoy of the Supervisory Yuan must have the strength to kill all of their own people, but he believed even more that if the Supervisory Yuan didn’t want to rebel, it naturally wouldn’t be possible for them to exert such a hard hand.

So he very coldly and slowly walked towards Gao Da.

That Procuratorate official turned sideways and looked at him coldly with his afterglow, as if he was still mentally calculating how to deal with the situation at hand. If it were any other time of the year, this official would have already come up with countless sour ideas at this time, suffocating the inner court and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to eat shit, however, tonight, he met Gouda abruptly, and suddenly heard that the court was arresting the criminal, especially noticing the hidden risk of this matter, which might involve the Lord of Tisch, the official’s mood was so agitated, that he didn’t come up with any decisive ideas at the moment.

No one down on the carriage, all the officials of the Supervisory Yuan secret agent, including hidden in the darkness of the Sixth Office of the swordsmen, are waiting for his words.

And he had not spoken until the inner court eunuch came up to Gao Da’s side.

Right at that moment, a cacophony of noise suddenly broke the tranquility and solemnity outside Dazhou City, and a sound of women laughing and making noise suddenly resounded through the night sky. Just like the fox fairy stories told in the novels, the long quiet night suddenly turned into a paradise of trekking.

Everyone’s ears perked up, their moods tensed up, where would there suddenly be so many women in the middle of the night?

Immediately after, these people’s eyes all straightened up, they had never imagined that one day, no, one night, they would actually see so many beauties at the same time!

Countless beautiful daughters with various colors of dresses, looks like the wind, body style, and different makeup, chattered and surged over from the rear of the caravan towards this solemn field, they didn’t seem to be aware that the front was in the middle of a tense atmosphere of sword fighting, and were still buzzing about the annoyance of the journey, and whose rouge was stained with gray.

The road back home seems to be quite far, after sitting in the car for so long, some internal urgency, want to go to the bushes to squat, but these courtyard of the barbaric men how none of them like a small Fan adults as informed and sensible, but also do not say stop stop stop, it is not easy for this fleet of cars to stop, but there is no one to help their own little hands, this car …… is quite a master.

All people are staring at this scene with jaws agape, all feel that they are caught in an unreal environment, especially those officials of the Ministry of Justice at the forefront, looking at this curtain Ying Ying Cui Cui, like seeing a ghost.

Originally full of calm walked up to Gouda’s side of the old eunuch of the inner court, suddenly his eyes jumped up, Huo Rise, looking at these beautiful women, suddenly thought of Kyoto is known to all that garden.

Then he saw a solid black wheelchair being carried down from a solid black carriage.

On the wheelchair sat an old cripple, and the old cripple’s knees were covered with a woolen blanket. The old cripple looked at the head eunuch and harmonized in a hoarse, slightly pointed voice, “Why did you stop for so long? It seems that when you don’t become the dean of this labor, your words just don’t work as well as that boy’s.”

The inner court master looked at Chen Pingping like he was looking at a ghost, how could he not understand how this boss man suddenly appeared outside the city of Dazhou, his knees subconsciously trembled, and his whole body and mind were occupied by a kind of fear.

He knew that he had made the biggest mistake, he just thought that if Little Lord Fan was not in the caravan, then no one in the entire Supervisory Academy would dare to challenge the authority represented by the inner court head on, however, he did not think that while Little Lord Fan was not there, the old dean was …… in the caravan.

With a poof, he knelt down, deeply bowed his head, and respectfully and incomparably said, “The old slave has seen the dean lord.”

The jaws of all the officials yamen and soldiers immediately guessed the identity of this old cripple. The decades old Yin Wei of Qing Guo, pressurized them not to dare to have any action, straightly kneeled down, including that Dazhou governor, there is no one exception.

On both sides of the official road, the officials were densely kneeling down towards that old cripple beside the carriage. Chen Pingping looked around, her face calm, suddenly clenched her fist and coughed gently twice, a trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in her eyes, muttering to herself, “Ye is right, Qiaoqiao’s mom, really gave birth to Qiaoqiao.”

Four days ago at the Kyoto Imperial Palace. The entire stately palace was shrouded in the light diffuse sunlight of late summer and early fall, a clear and peaceful. The Kingdom of Qing was in the midst of a great joyous day, and from His Majesty on up, down to the peddlers, the body exuded a fresh and charming upward breath from the inside out. The formerly morose and cool palace also seemed to have changed its flavor, and those spots of light that moved slowly on the Taiji Hall all seemed so mischievous.

The only flavor has not changed the place is the imperial study, this winter furnace, summer storage ice basin, four seasons like spring, the lack of change, it is tiresome. The owner of the Imperial Study Room, His Majesty the great Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing, was precisely such a terrifying figure who had remained the same for decades, unchanged in the slightest.

“The people from the Ministry of Justice should have arrived in Dazhou, find time to deal with this matter.” His Majesty the Emperor indifferently put down his teacup. At this time, the eldest prince had already arrived in Dongyi City and started to deal with the rebellion in Xiao Liang Kingdom, the secret message had just been sent back to Kyoto from Fan Xian’s side, the emperor just glanced at it briefly for a couple of moments, then he stopped bothering about it, his own two sons, dealing with the small matter of Dongyi City, should not have any difficulty.

“Grand Maester He has put in a great effort.” Eunuch Yao’s eyes watched the nose, the nose watched the heart, and said a sentence in a very ordinary manner.

Although the words were ordinary, they were actually unusual. Although He Zongwei had been trying to make good relations with the eunuchs in the palace, and had bet a lot of passion and money on it, yet somehow, the eunuchs and ladies in the entire palace respected and loved Fan Xian from the bottom of their hearts, and there was no diversion at all.

Eunuch Yao’s words were undoubtedly a stab in the back for Grandmaster He, however Emperor Qing did not move, but only let out a slight laugh and said: ”He Zongwei is also afraid of death. But that person called Gouda has already lived for so much more time, I have also given An Zhi enough face, although …… he doesn’t seem to realize that the traitor is still alive.”

Eunuch Yao suddenly said in a trembling voice, “The old abbot will be passing through Dazhou in three days, so I ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment.”

“Allow me to think again.” Emperor Qing’s eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of fatigue and confusion as he slowly spoke.