The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 27: Trembling with Fear
In a restaurant in Jizhou City, Sun Biehe invited the group of academy disciples who followed him to dinner. It was not that he wanted to treat them, but he felt that if he did not win them over, their hearts might fall apart.
He had never worried about this problem before today. Even though they all knew Xiahou Zhuo's identity, he was not worried that the people around him would disperse because those people needed him.
However, today is different. Today, it is not Xiahou Zhuo who deals with them, but the Qingyi formation.
"Rugong, try to stay away from Li Chi from now on."
Sun Biehe looked at his cousin. The man who had instigated him to deal with Li Chi was now dejected, but there was still unconvinced expression in his eyes.
"I'm not afraid of Xiahou Zhuo, but... the Qingyi formation is not to be messed with."
Sun Biehe said: "It's fine if they are all officials, no one will do anything out of line, it's nothing more than fighting and playing around, but when it comes to the Qingyi formation, it's not just fighting and playing around, it's fighting and killing."
Sun Rugong nodded: "Brother, you don't have to say it, I know."
"You don't actually know."
Sun Biehe said: "Let me tell you a few things."
He looked at Sun Rugong and said seriously, "Although I have led people to attack Xiahou Zhuo before, the people who asked me to attack him at that time were Xiahou Zhuo's brothers. With their support, why would I be afraid of a bastard?"
"And I know that no matter how arrogant Xiahou Zhuo is, he wouldn't dare to kill anyone... It's different now. Now the Qingyi formation has appeared. You didn't experience the bloody slaughter night when the Qingyi formation was in Jizhou City, so you don't understand."
"If Xiahou Zhuo is a member of the Qingyi formation ... I would not dare to provoke him again, because Xiahou Zhuo does not dare to kill people, but Qingyi formation really dares to kill people, and kills people without being seen."
Sun Biehe said, "After the bloody massacre that year, some of the dead included the governor of Jizhou Prefecture, but the governor didn't even dare to investigate. Just imagine how terrible that was... It is rumored that the owner of the blue-clothed formation might be the governor."
Sun Rugong was startled: "Sir Jiedushi?"
Sun Biehe said, "That was the second year since the Jiedushi arrived in Jizhou City. At that time, the forces in the secret passages in Jizhou City were almost all controlled by the major families in the city. You also know that business matters are very important. Whoever controls the secret passages will get a larger share of the business."
"The governor had just arrived, so it was not easy for him to interfere in the business in Jizhou City. It just so happened that the governor of Jizhou Prefecture wanted to give the governor a warning that year. He wanted to let the governor know that if he wanted to stay in Jizhou, he had to have a good relationship with the local officials."
"As a result, that night, the Qingyi formation fought from the east to the west of the city, and the blood dyed the streets red. The detectives of Jizhou Prefecture had just gathered, and 3,000 prefectural soldiers surrounded Jizhou Prefecture in the name of protecting the government office because there was a riot in the city. They only surrounded Jizhou Prefecture and ignored the Qingyi formation."
"A night of killing..."
Sun Biehe said, "Now do you understand why the Jiedushi has only come for the fourth year, and no one dares to be disrespectful to him. If Xiahou Zhuo joins the Qingyi formation, it should not be difficult for ."
Sun Rugong gritted his teeth and said, "What about Li Chi? Li Chi is just a wild boy. We have given Xiahou Zhuo enough benefits. Is he really going to protect that boy to the death?"
"Listen to my advice."
Sun Biehe said: "Don't provoke him. The only person in Jizhou City who can make the governor bow down is Xiahou Zhuo's father."
In fact, many people in the entire Four Pages Academy knew that Xiahou Zhuo was the son of a certain important figure. Sun Biehe and others once deliberately spread the word that Xiahou Zhuo was an illegitimate child. However, not many people knew the details. After all, the important figure had to be respectable, and Sun Biehe did not dare to name his name.
Sun Biehe is one of the few people who knows Xiahou Zhuo's identity.
"That's the prince..."
Sun Biehe sighed deeply: "Even if he is a bastard, he is still the prince's bastard. Besides, look at his appearance, he doesn't look like a bastard at all."
Sun Rugong said: "Then you dare to provoke him."
Sun Biehe said, "I've said it before, the one who wants him dead is also the prince's son, and he's the legitimate son. What do you think I should choose? If I don't obey, those princes will find a way to make me pay for it. I can only do what they say."
At this moment, the door of their private room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a young man who looked to be in his twenties appeared at the door. He was wearing brocade clothes and holding a folding fan in his hand. He looked quite handsome , but there was a hint of femininity between his brows.
"I heard you were drinking here when I first arrived. I was curious and wanted to see how miserable you were today."
When the young man stepped into the room, Sun Biehe and others quickly stood up and bowed almost at the same time.
"Your Highness."
This person is Yang Zhuo, the eldest son of Prince Yu of Jizhou City. Prince Yu's fiefdom is within Jizhou, and he has lived in Jizhou for a long time. Although this prince has not returned to the capital for a long time, and it is rumored that the current emperor is still quite wary of him, he is still the emperor's younger brother.
No matter how powerful a Jiedushi was, he was not as powerful as the royal family.
In the words of Sun Biehe, this Crown Prince Yang Zhuo was of truly noble blood. His father was a prince and his mother was from the Jianye Li family. Although the Jianye Li family was inferior to the Longyou Li family, it had also produced two queens.
In the Great Chu, the only families that can be compared with the two Li families are the Wang and Xie families, the Jianghuai Wang family, and the Hangzhou Xie family.
Before, Li Diudiu and Xiahou Zhuo went to Fengming Mountain and met the Xu family’s carriage at the foot of Fengming Mountain. At that time, Xiahou Zhuo told Li Diudiu that the Xu family could rank among the top three in Jizhou City.
In the eyes of the common people, the Xu family was so scary that people kept their distance from them, and a family like the Xu family was like a firefly compared to the moon, or a drop of water compared to the ocean, compared to the Wang and Xie families.
A group of people lowered their heads and no one dared to raise them immediately. This respectful and timid attitude made Yang Zhuo very satisfied. He walked towards the main seat. Sun Biehe quickly made way and stood aside with his head bowed.
"This kid is quite interesting."
Yang Zhuo looked at Sun Rugong and said with a smile: "You are more outspoken than them. I heard everything you talked about just now. Children are more innocent."
When Sun Biehe heard this, he knelt down immediately. After he knelt down, everyone followed suit.
Yang Zhuo reached out and pulled Sun Rugong to his side, and asked kindly, "Are you afraid of me?"
Sun Rugong quickly leaned forward and said, "I can't say I'm afraid, I'm in awe."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Yang Zhuo laughed so hard that he fell backwards. He nodded and said, "You can talk. Then let me ask you again, are you more in awe of Xiahou Zhuo or me?"
Sun Rugong said: "Xiahou Zhuo is just a reckless man. I am a little afraid of him, but I can't say I respect him."
Yang Zhuo was really happy. It was the first time he met such an interesting child. He thought Sun Rugong was much more interesting than his brother Sun Biehe.
"Sun Biehe."
"Yes, yes."
Sun Biehe responded quickly.
"Learn from your brother. He is better at dealing with people than you."
Yang Zhuo looked at the food and wine on the table, seemed to be a little disgusted with these things, and frowned slightly.
Standing at the door was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. His face was always a little gloomy. He was like a person who had always been standing in the fog. Even if you could see his face clearly, you would feel that his face was covered with a layer of fog.
He saw Yang Zhuo's reaction, so he immediately turned around and ordered, "Why don't you go and get another table of dishes?"
Someone came in immediately and quickly cleared all the food and wine on the table. A moment later, they even replaced the tablecloth with a new one.
Yang Zhuo would never come to a restaurant like this on weekdays. In his opinion, this restaurant is really unsightly, both in terms of decoration and dishes.
"I know you are all afraid of Xiahou Zhuo, afraid to the core."
Yang Zhuo's fingers tapped the table gently, one by one, in a very rhythmic manner.
"But have you ever thought about this? If you are always afraid of someone, the only way to solve this fear is not to avoid them, but to get rid of this demon in your heart."
Yang Zhuo looked at the new dishes placed on the table one by one, and seemed slightly satisfied.
He looked at Sun Biehe and continued, "You don't have to guess what you want to know. You can ask me, but you don't dare... Then I will just tell you directly that the Qingyi formation is indeed from the Jiedushi, and what Sun Biehe said just now is indeed true."
"The governor had just arrived, and the officials of Jizhou wanted to show off their status and means, so they made a fool of themselves. The governor dispatched his elite soldiers to form a blue-clothed formation, and killed all the secret forces controlled by the governor overnight."
He paused for a moment, and glanced at Sun Biehe with contempt: "But what you don't know is that the Qingyi formation was trained by my father's men. At that time, the governor personally came to ask for it."
He pointed at the middle-aged man at the door.
"His name is Cao Liehu. He personally taught the first group of people in the Qingyi formation. They are veterans who are naturally well-versed in killing methods, but they don't know much about the underworld. Cao Liehu taught them, and now Cao Liehu is my personal bodyguard. What are you afraid of?"
He drummed his fingers heavily on the table. "I am my father's eldest son. Are the Blue Robe Formation afraid of me or Xiahou Zhuo? Cao Liehu can tear apart the Blue Robe Formation that you are afraid of."
The group of people were really silent, no one dared to speak.
Yang Zhuo glanced at Sun Biehe and ordered, "Stop kneeling, sit up and have a drink with me."
A group of people quickly stood up and sat there with their butts hunched over, but no one dared to make a sound.
"Let me give you something."
Yang Zhuo reached out and picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for Sun Biehe. Sun Biehe stood up with a start, his face turning pale with fright.
Yang Zhuo smiled and said, "Sit down and listen... Find an opportunity to take that little fellow named Li Chi out of the academy. I will find a way to let Xiahou Zhuo know that there is a master beside Xiahou Zhuo. Cao Liehu will deal with him. You lead Xiahou Zhuo to Fengming Mountain, and you don't have to worry about other things."
Yang Zhuo looked at Cao Liehu. This man who looked like a knife took out a stack of silver bills from his arms and placed them on the table.
Yang Zhuo said slowly: "Here are five thousand taels, you can divide them up, and... after you finish this task, I will arrange for you to serve directly under the governor next year."
A group of people looked at the stack of banknotes, and no one dared to reach out.
"Not taking it?"
Yang Zhuo frowned.
Sun Rugong was the first to reach out and take a banknote. He bowed to Yang Zhuo and said, "I am willing to serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Yang Zhuo laughed and said, "I said, all of you combined are not as good as a child, but, what can you do to help me?"
Sun Rugong said: "I can help His Royal Highness to lure Li Chi out of the academy."
Yang Zhuo hummed, raised his hand and patted Sun Rugong on the head: "Very good, I remember your name, you can find me in the palace if you have any problems in the future."
Sun Biehe and the others looked at each other, and finally no one dared to refuse. They each took one silver note, but the silver note was like a hot potato in their hands, and they held it with fear.
