The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 30 I'm just outside the door
The remaining killers also ran away. Only Li Diudiu and Xiahou Zhuo were left standing in the yard. The people lying on the ground were either fainted or wailing. Xiahou Zhuo did not kill anyone, and neither did Li Diudiu.
Li Diudiu looked around and said, "I thought you would be more aggressive."
Xiahou Zhuo said: "I don't dare to be too heavy-handed because human life is too precious. When I take human life lightly, maybe no one will dare to kill me."
Li Diudiu thought about this sentence carefully and felt that it made a lot of sense and had some cool logic.
Li Diudiu asked: "What should we do next?"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "Just wait. Normally, at this time, the government officials should be late, but they will definitely come. I will just give them a few words and we will leave. There is no need to go to the government office."
Li Diudiu hummed: "Then wait a moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, two constables outside the courtyard gate looked inside like thieves, and seemed a little scared and did not dare to come in directly.
Li Diudiu recognized the two constables at a glance. He had seen them before. They were the two who came over and scolded his master when he, his master and Xiahou Zhuo were having dinner by the river that day.
"come in."
Xiahou Zhuo waved his hand and said, "Come over and explain everything. I have something else to do."
The two constables were scared by Xiahou Zhuo last time. They were all smart people and would definitely remember Xiahou Zhuo's appearance. So when they saw Xiahou Zhuo waving, they hurriedly ran in with their backs bent. Both of them looked unhappy.
Of course, they didn't want to get involved in this kind of trouble. What was Xiahou Zhuo's identity? What was the identity of the person who dared to come and kill Xiahou Zhuo?
They were just ordinary constables, and not the official constables in the yamen, but just assistants of the official constables. Jizhou City was so big, and there were only thirty-six official constables in Jizhou Prefecture. The remaining four or five hundred people were disciples or assistants supported by these constables.
However, in the list reported by Jizhou Prefecture to the court every year, there are a total of more than 120 names of regular constables. Each constable receives a monthly salary of three or four taels of silver, and the empty salaries of more than ninety constables are certainly small amounts of money for those big shots, but when have they ever given up small amounts of money?
The two constables walked cautiously to Xiahou Zhuo's side. The constable who had been beaten before bowed and said, "Master Xiahou, if you have any instructions, just tell me. I will write them down."
Xiahou Zhuo said, "They are a group of thieves who want to rob me of my money. Just take them back."
"that……"
The constable asked cautiously, "Can I write this down? Sir Xiahou, please tell me a few more words. Otherwise... I'm afraid that if the governor asks about it, it will be inconsistent and cause trouble."
Xiahou Zhuo was too lazy to embarrass them, so he nodded and said, "Okay."
The constable said, "Please wait a moment, Master Xiahou. I will take the record and write it down. "
Every constable carries a dossier, which is a notebook in which they record where they went, what they did and what they saw that day. This way of recording dossier was learned from the people in the Recording Law Department, but their authority cannot be compared with that of the Recording Law Department.
The Great Chu had three very special government offices: the Investigation Department, the Internal Affairs Department, and the Law Recording Department.
The people in the Judicial Bureau were managed by the eunuchs in the harem. Their initial duties were to supervise the eunuchs and maids in the harem, and to maintain law and order among the servants in the palace. However, it was unknown when the Judicial Bureau's hands became increasingly extended.
The Internal Affairs Department was specifically responsible for handling the internal affairs of the royal family. Later, its power continued to expand. As long as it was related to the royal family's affairs, the Internal Affairs Department had the right to intervene. Even if it was not related, they could find a way to get involved.
The Lufasi was once a guard of war. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Chu, this guard of war stayed in the capital to garrison. Later, it was transformed into the imperial guards. A group of people were selected from the imperial guards to form the Lufasi, which was in charge of military discipline.
The powers of these three departments are now above those of the Ministry of Justice. They can handle what the Ministry of Justice can handle, and they can also handle what the Ministry of Justice cannot handle.
Moreover, the people in these three departments disliked each other and often fought among themselves.
The constable took out the record from his bosom and opened it while saying, "Please tell me the whole story, Master Xiahou. I will record it and report it to the provincial government..."
Just as Xiahou Zhuo was about to speak, the constable took out a dagger from the open docket and stabbed it into Xiahou Zhuo's chest.
The two men were very close to each other, and Xiahou Zhuo was completely unprepared, so the dagger went all the way in. The constable was obviously terrified, and his hands were shaking.
Li Diudiu, who was standing aside, suddenly widened his eyes. He did not expect that this constable, whom he had met once, would dare to attack Xiahou Zhuo.
This is the killer move.
At this moment, Li Diudiu even thought, could it be that the appearance of these two constables last time was also part of someone else's plan? Was it just to make Xiahou Zhuo relax his vigilance for this day?
Li Diudiu flew into the air and kicked the constable with both feet, knocking him out. Another constable had already chopped at Xiahou Zhuo's neck with a knife.
Li Diudiu gritted his teeth and rushed forward, knocking the constable away with his shoulder. At this time, Xiahou Zhuo looked down at the dagger on his chest, his face pale and his eyes full of disbelief.
"Hurry up!"
Li Diudiu shouted at Xiahou Zhuo, bent down and picked up a long knife from the ground. He was not very tall, and the knife looked so big in his hand.
"Li Chi!"
Xiahou Zhuo looked at Li Chi and shouted, "Go!"
Li Diudiu shook his head: "I won't leave. If I leave, I will no longer be a human being."
He held his sword in front of Xiahou Zhuo.
Xiahou Zhuo shook his head and said, "Go away. This is nothing to . Maybe I should have done this a long time ago..."
Li Diudiu said: "Shut up your uncle's dog fart, you have no choice to live or die!"
After saying that, he held a knife and rushed towards the constable who was coming again. The first constable also drew out his knife and swept it towards Li Diudiu. Li Diudiu lowered his body, and the constable's long knife swept over his head. Li Diudiu poked the knife in his hand upwards, and the tip of the knife pierced into the constable's chin.
Li Diudiu stood up suddenly, and the knife pierced into the constable's head with such force that the constable's eyes widened.
The knife was pulled out, and blood spurted out from the wound, all falling on Li Diudiu. In a moment, Li Diudiu turned into a bloody man.
"Li Chi!"
Xiahou Zhuo covered his wound and shouted: "You are still young, if you kill someone..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Diudiu, whose face was covered in blood, glanced at him and said, "Shut up!"
Xiahou Zhuo was frightened by Li Diudiu's appearance.
Li Diudiu turned around and rushed out, only to come back a moment later and find the second constable already lying on the ground.
After killing the first person, killing the second one seemed to become easy, but even Xiahou Zhuo could not see how pale Li Diudiu's face was covered with blood, because the blood covered the paleness.
Li Diudiu tried hard not to tremble so much, threw the knife on the ground, and went over to support Xiahou Zhuo: "Come on, I took a look, the wound is not at the heart, you can still be saved."
After saying that, he squatted down slightly and stretched out his hands to grab one of Xiahou Zhuo's legs. Xiahou Zhuo wanted to say that he would leave by himself, but Li Diudiu's half-squatting posture made it impossible for him to say it. The short man looked like a giant.
Li Diudiu carried Xiahou Zhuo on his back, but his center of gravity was too forward. He staggered forward a few steps, gritted his teeth to keep steady, walked out step by step, and then started running. He could actually still run.
"Don't send me to the clinic. They may have other tricks up their sleeves. Send me to the Qingyun Teahouse in front and then go back to the academy to wash off the blood on your body..."
Xiahou Zhuo's voice became smaller and smaller, but he was still speaking.
"If a disciple of the academy comes to ask you something, don't speak. As long as I am not dead, my affairs can be handled. If I die, you must leave the academy, the sooner the better."
Li Diudiu said: "Just shut up."
Xiahou Zhuo continued, "But if a teacher from the academy asks you, you just say I'm dead. No matter which teacher asks you, you just say so..."
Li Diudiu was running breathlessly, but he still managed to keep his pace steady. The sweat on his forehead began to wash away the blood, leaving streaks.
"Li Chi...you have to stay alive."
Xiahou Zhuo said one more sentence.
"I will live well, so shut up."
Li Diudiu replied while panting, and ran to Qingyun Teahouse with Xiahou Zhuo on his back. Along the way, the people were all frightened when they saw the appearance of the two of them. Even the old people who had lived for decades had never seen a half-grown child running with a sturdy man on his back.
Both of them were covered in blood.
When he arrived outside Qingyun Teahouse, Li Diudiu took a difficult step up the stairs. The waiter in the teahouse had already seen him and his face turned pale with shock. He greeted him and came over.
After the two waiters took Xiahou Zhuo away, they turned around and ran inside. No one paid any attention to Li Diudiu. He stood there alone for a long time, wanting to see how Xiahou Zhuo was doing. Just as he was about to move, he saw a waiter running out. He thought Xiahou Zhuo had something to tell him, but the waiter slammed the door.
Li Diudiu stood there in a daze, the blood on his body dripping down his clothes, leaving a small bloodstain on the steps.
After waiting for a while, Li Diudiu turned around and ran towards the academy. The government officials might come soon, so he had to go back to wash and change clothes as soon as possible.
When he ran to the gate of the academy, the gatekeeper had a complicated expression when he saw Li Diudiu covered in blood. He wanted to ask something, but Li Diudiu didn't even look at him and ran straight into the academy.
After returning to his residence, Li Diudiu closed the door and sat on the ground, leaning his back against the door and gasping for breath, as if he had lost most of his soul.
At the end of the day, he's still just a kid.
After gasping for a long time, Li Diudiu suddenly burst into tears. He had followed his master through hardships over the years, and he had never cried, but today he cried heart-wrenchingly.
There was a knock on the door, followed by Yan Qingzhi's voice.
"Li Chi!"
Li Diudiu leaned against the door, saying nothing and holding back his tears.
"Are you okay?"
Yan Qingzhi asked outside the door.
Li Diudiu shook his head, but he still didn't say anything, so Yan Qingzhi outside the door naturally didn't know that he had just shaken his head.
"I heard you crying. You should cry. At your age, I told you to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo..."
Yan Qingzhi's voice was somewhat gentle, like a ray of warm sunshine shining into Li Diudiu's heart, dispelling the coldness and fear in Li Diudiu's heart.
"Don't be afraid, the master is just outside the door."
Yan Qingzhi turned around and faced outside, with his back to Li Diudiu's door. He stood there with his hands behind his back, and there was a ridge.
"The gentleman is just outside the door."
Li Diudiu repeated it to himself, then cried again with a cry.
