Jiuxi

Chapter 16 016 [You and I are both pawns]

Huayue Building, located near the window on the second floor.

The 30-year-old waiter was serving Gu Yong wine and serving dishes as usual, with a respectful demeanor that could not be faulted at all. However, his tone was gloomy: "You have been coming here a bit frequently recently."

Gu Yong didn't squint his eyes and said calmly: "Today is just the second time."

The waiter said: "This is the second time in ten days. In the past, you only came once every half a month at most."

Gu Yong was silent.

As an experienced warp weaver inspector who has been working on the territory of Huaizhou for seven years, he certainly knows that this simple frequency change is enough to attract the attention of others.

But now we are at an extremely critical moment, and he must know what the people above are planning to do.

Seeing this, the clerk said again: "Well, it doesn't make much sense to say this now. Let me ask you, why did you give up attacking Lu Chen the day before yesterday? Do you know that in order to transfer Su Yunqing to Taixing Mansion, I created this attack for you? Chance, we lost three good soldiers to kill Zhang Xi’s generals.”

Gu Yong responded calmly: "Because I suddenly want to understand something."

"What's the matter?"

"Su Yunqing put Lu Tong back and only left Lu Chen in the yamen. He obviously realized that the Lu family might be framed."

"so what?"

"Lu Chen discovered the secret letter and hid Sun Yu. These two things must have been known to Su Yunqing. With his experience and scheming, he could definitely discover the strangeness in this process. Therefore, I felt that if I was interested in Lu Chen If you take action, if you can't succeed, you will definitely be captured by Su Yunqing's secret plan."

The waiter frowned slightly when he heard this and asked: "Hidden hand?"

Gu Yong looked up at him and said solemnly: "I have told you before that the most mysterious internal guard of the Sutra Weaving Department is. Taking the Huaizhou Department as an example, the three yamen of Taixing Prefecture, Lai'an Prefecture and Guangling Prefecture are incomparable. On the inner guard, I don’t even know the details of this group of men, and they are only controlled by Su Yunqing. Although Su Yunqing is not in Guangling, as long as he leaves part of the inner guard, I will have no chance to harm Lu Chen."

The guy sighed softly, acknowledging his opinion.

Gu Yong added: "If you think about it this way, it is very likely that I have been suspected by Su Yunqing. If you want to move Hu Lishan to go to Taixing Mansion, he will follow the trend and use Lu Chen as bait."

The man said slowly: "Even so, our goal is getting closer and closer to being achieved, you should be happy."

Gu Yong showed a complicated smile.

The so-called goal is a very complicated situation.

The cause of all this was that at the end of January, Su Yunqing discovered traces of Beiyan Xizuo in Taixing Prefecture to the east. Gu Yong had no time to pass on the news, and those people had been captured by mistake.

Because some of them had apparent identities, and many clues were not destroyed or covered up in time, the exposure of Zhang Xi, the captain of the Taixing Army, was inevitable.

The incident occurred suddenly, and Gu Yong and others had no time to contact Heluo City in the north, so under the planning of the person in charge of the Beiyan Procuratorate who stayed in Huaizhou, a conspiracy to deal with and counterattack was quickly formed.

Zhang Xi revealed the news about another traitor and the Lu family in Guangling at the last moment, attracting the attention of Su Yunqing and the secret agents of the Weaving Department to Guangling.

Ning Li, the captain of Panlong Pass, and Gu Yong, the inspector of the Weaving Department, were responsible for framing the Lu family and further convicting the Lu family.

This could not only mislead Su Yunqing, but also involve Xue Huaiyi through the Lu family, thereby triggering a conflict between the Sutra Weaving Department and Xue Nanting, the right minister of Southern Qi, and ultimately intensify the internal strife in the Central Committee of Southern Qi.

Another purpose of the mastermind was to temporarily get rid of the attention of the Weaving Department, so that Beiyan's agents in the Southern Qi army could start taking action and promote Li Xuan'an's Nantou incident, in order to try to seize Panlong Pass.

Gu Yong felt a thousand twists and turns in his heart, raised his head and asked: "Have you found out at home? Why were the people who were previously hidden in Taixing Mansion exposed?"

I don’t know how much vicissitudes are hidden in this short sentence.

Thirteen years ago, the north and south of Hengjiang were originally one family, both belonging to the territory of Da Qi. They were not split into Northern Yan and Southern Qi as they are now.

After the fall of Heluo and the death of the late emperor, some people sincerely joined Li Duan, the seventh son of the emperor who ascended the throne, and served as Southern Qi's ministers honestly from then on.But when some people were swept into the Southern Qi territory by the Nandu torrent, they were already charged with secret missions, and could not turn back due to various reasons.

Zhang Xi is like this, Ning Li is like this, and Gu Yong is like this.

Most of them have already married and had children in the south, and after seven or eight years of struggle have gained official status, but in fact they are all spies of the Beiyan Procuratorate, and their real roots are still in Beiyan.

The clerk was also a little touched, shook his head and said: "There is no news yet. I estimate that this should be the nail planted by Qin Zheng in the north. Otherwise, Su Yunqing would not be so decisive and ruthless."

Gu Yong asked again: "How is the situation at the border?"

The guy looked hesitant.

According to the internal rules of the Procuratorate, he could not inform the other party of this kind of information. However, looking at Gu Yong's slightly pale complexion, he knew that this old friend had been under great pressure recently.

Thinking of the arrangement for Gu Yong, the clerk secretly sighed in his heart and said selectively: "I don't know very well, but Lieutenant Ning has gained the trust of Pei Sui, the commander of Panlong Pass, and Li Xuanan also pretended to surrender. Under implementation."

A glimmer of hope appeared in Gu Yong's eyes, and he said with fascination: "If we can capture Panlong Pass, Xiao Wangzhi can only lead his army back to the south of the Yangtze River. Presumably by then we will no longer have to live such a dark life."

Secret agents like them who have been lurking for a long time will not be able to continue doing this hard work once they are exposed, and will basically be transferred to Beiyan.

The clerk coughed twice and changed the topic: "In addition, the above recently found a very important piece of information."

Gu Yong said seriously: "What's the matter?"

The clerk said: "We originally thought that Lu Tong and Xue Huaiyi only had a relatively deep friendship, which was enough to involve the Xue family, but it was still a little short of the mark. Recently, the higher authorities have discovered something. Before the Yuanjia Incident, Lu Tong actually saved Take Xue Huaiyi's life." Gu Yong's expression changed slightly.

Deep friendship and life-saving grace are two completely different concepts.

He asked solemnly: "Is the news true?"

The clerk nodded and said: "This was found from an old servant of the Xue family, and it has been confirmed with certain things from that year. It can be confirmed to be true."

Gu Yong quickly understood the profound meaning of the other party's words.

Lu Chen is Lu Tong's only son, and Lu Tong had a life-saving grace for Xue Huaiyi. If Lu Chen died in the Yamen of the Weaving Department, Lu Tong would definitely avenge his son at all costs. How could Xue Huaiyi stay out of the matter?

Furthermore, the Lu family business is well-known in Guangling and has a certain influence on merchants in Huaizhou. If the Lu family is destroyed because of this, how can others not be sad?This is also a blow to Huaizhou's stability.

However, when Su Yunqing was already prepared, even if he succeeded in killing Lu Chen, Gu Yong would not be able to leave alive.

After a moment of silence, Gu Yong said quietly: "Old Xu, after you go back, go to my hometown——"

Unexpectedly, the clerk suddenly interrupted him: "It has been decided from above that you don't need to do anything about this matter."

Gu Yong was stunned, with a look of confusion on his face.

The clerk said: "The people we stayed near the Lu residence to keep an eye on him found traces of Sun Yu yesterday."

"Sun Yu?!" Gu Yong changed his expression slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Lu Chen indeed handed this person over to Su Yunqing. Logically speaking, a small character like Sun Yu is not worth mentioning. He shouldn't know much."

The clerk shook his head and said: "But judging from the importance Su Yunqing attaches to him, this person may have some strange abilities. What I mean above is that I would rather believe it or not. We must seize the time to get rid of this fish that slipped through the net. This matter I’ll leave it to you to do it.”

Compared to killing Lu Chen in the Sutra Weaving Department's Yamen, it was obviously much easier to deal with Sun Yu who was hiding.

Even if Su Yunqing held him accountable afterwards, Gu Yong could still pass the blame, or accidentally kill Sun Yu by mistake while chasing him.

For an experienced spy, this kind of thing is very handy.

Gu Yong felt slightly relieved and asked, "What about Lu Chen?"

The clerk considered it: "Since Su Yunqing is doubting you, then the eyes of the inner guards of the Sutra Weaving Department as you just mentioned will definitely focus on you. As long as you lead people to kill Sun Yu, they will definitely follow. At the same time, Huayuelou will also sell a flaw to attract other people left by Su Yunqing."

Gu Yong quickly understood and praised: "In this way, the strength of the Yamen side is extremely empty. We only need a few good players to break in and kill Lu Chen!"

The man smiled and said: "The higher ups have decided to launch it at the same time the day after tomorrow."

Gu Yong stood up immediately and said: "I will make arrangements immediately. You have someone find out Sun Yu's hiding place and inform me in the safest way."

The clerk agreed and then sent him out of Huayue Building uncharacteristically.

After Gu Yong left, the business in the building gradually became busier. The waiter greeted every guest respectfully with a humble smile on his face.

It wasn't until the moon rose above the treetops and the Painted Moon Building closed its doors that the waiter was finally able to rest.But he did not go back to his residence to rest. Instead, after talking to the shopkeeper, he sneaked into the night and came to a house south of Huayue Tower.

In the dark room, a person sat in the shadows, and his face could not be seen clearly.

The clerk told everything about the secret conversation between him and Gu Yong, without any concealment or omission.

The man was silent for a long time after listening, and said slowly: "I know you can't bear it, but Gu Yong has been exposed, and Su Yunqing is now using him as a bait to try to seduce us. You have to remember that Gu Yong is no better than Zhang Xi. He knows many secrets within us, and if we continue to do so, we will be disturbed."

Judging from the voice, this should be a man in his thirties.

The clerk respected and feared him. Although this man did not have a very prominent status in Southern Qi, he was a very trusted confidant of Wang Shidao, the chief officer of Beiyan Procuratorate, and the person in charge of the Procuratorate in Huaizhou. All the planning this time came from him.

The waiter suppressed the sad emotions in his heart, lowered his head and said, "I understand, I understand."

The man nodded slightly and said, "After killing Lu Chen and Sun Yu, send Gu Yong away so that all the clues can end here."

The guy said, "Yes."

The man said again: "That's it. It's over here. You can remain anonymous for a while and I can make arrangements after I finish the border affairs."

On the northern border, another major event is being planned.

If Beiyan can capture Panlong Pass this time, capturing Huaizhou will no longer be a luxury.

When the waiter heard this, his heart trembled, and he bowed respectfully and left.

Walking in the cold night, he looked up at the waning moon and let out a sigh full of emotions.

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