Chapter 33 Rat(1/2)
As a famous six gate captain in the world, Peng Zhenlei naturally did not want to kill the donkey as Wen Tailai thought. On the contrary, he did this to protect Wen Tailai.
"Brother Hu, this letter was handed over to me by Brother Bai. Brother Hu must have heard it just now?"
Holding the envelope in his hand, Peng Zhenlei looked at Hu Xiaolin, who was anxious and said in a deep voice with dissatisfaction.
...
The strong wind that Wen Tailai felt was naturally the sound of Hu Xiaolin who was half a day earlier than Peng Zhenlei and the other two.
After seeing Ye Bi, Hu Xiaolin already understood that Peng Zhenlei and the other two must have come to Bai Shier. Thinking of the previous thing that Ye Bi had covered Bai Shier and the Six Doors, Hu Xiaolin immediately focused his attention on the four people.
After seeing Wen Tailai, who had a lack of a hand and had a breath of martial arts, walked towards Peng Zhenlei, he even put all his mind on the other party and listened with his ears.
Sure enough, the situation was just as he guessed. This man from the martial arts world who had one hand not only knew about Bai Shier, but also had Bai Shier's handwritten letter. So, when he saw Wen Tailai taking out the letter from his arms, he immediately jumped up and headed straight for Wen Tailai, wanting to grab the letter first to see what was going on.
It’s a pity that he is a first-class expert and has good skills, but Peng Zhenlei is not bad either. Otherwise, he would not be praised by Wen Tai. He is called the master among the Six Gates who is second only to the Chief Constable Guo Ju.
In the face of Peng Zhenlei's dissatisfaction, Hu Xiaolin couldn't say anything. If Peng Zhenlei was from the East Factory, then he didn't need to say it. Peng Zhenlei would obediently share the content of the letter with him. Even if Peng Zhenlei was from the Jinyiwei, he could also inform the other party of the truth, and at the same time threatened the other party to keep it confidential and tell him the content of the letter.
But Peng Zhenlei was the Liushemen, the yamen of the outer court. Without the emperor's permission, he really did not dare to inform the other party of the truth. He could not do anything wrong when Princess Xianyou privately fled the palace.
"Ha, Brother Peng, I just want to know the news about Brother Bai, so I was a little impatient in desperation. I hope Brother Peng can understand."
However, it is impossible to force it, and it is actually impossible to sue it. However, after Peng Zhenlei's dissatisfaction and questioning, his brain was running rapidly, he soon realized that he still had a third way to go.
"However, Brother Peng, although this letter was indeed ordered by Brother Bai to give you, it is related to that big case. One more person will give you more effort. Brother Peng shouldn't want to deliberately hide it from me, right?"
The third way Hu Xiaolin thought of was naturally to use his identity as the emperor's personal guard, which made Peng Zhenlei mistakenly think that he had been secretly ordered by the emperor to come to investigate the case on behalf of the emperor.
This made Peng Zhenlei afraid of his identity and dared not hide anything from him.
And his plan did work.
"Brother Hu is talking about this. Of course, I won't hide anything from Brother Hu, but one is one, two is two. No matter what, Brother Hu doesn't seem to be acting arrogantly, right?"
Peng Zhenlei's heart confirmed that the purpose of Hu Xiaolin and others leaving the palace was to be ordered by the emperor to investigate the suicide of the Yangzhou prefect.
Because besides this case, he really couldn't imagine anything else worthwhile to be a big guard such as Hu Xiaolin and others to come to this place thousands of miles away from the capital.
Since Hu Xiaolin was standing behind the emperor, no matter how unhappy Peng Zhenlei was, he would not dare to force Hu Xiaolin to share information back. He had been in the Six Gate for many years, even if he didn't have much talent, just to see. Over the years, he had already seen that he had offended the people close to the emperor, especially those who could talk to the emperor at any time, and the consequences were always the most serious.
Water drops wear stones.
Even something as hard as a rock cannot withstand the impact and corrosion of water droplets over the years, not to mention the trust that is much weaker than rocks.
However, indignation in her heart, Peng Zhenlei still couldn't help it and said softly.
"Yes, Brother Peng taught me a lesson. I will punish myself three times and apologize to Brother Peng."
Hu Xiaolin could naturally understand Peng Zhenlei's resentment, but he also heard the other party's idea of surrendering from Peng Zhenlei's words, so he naturally would not deliberately emphasize his identity and use his power to suppress others. On the contrary, he immediately picked up the wine pot and the wine glass and said to Peng Zhenlei.
"Hey, Brother Hu is just worried about that case, so he did such impulsive things in a hurry. How can this be considered a sin?"
Sure enough, after getting the steps given by Hu Xiaolin, Peng Zhenlei's attitude immediately softened a lot.
"I'll give you a cup and this matter will be revealed."
Peng Zhenlei said as he raised his wine glass and said to Hu Xiaolin.
"Brother Hu, please."
"Haha, Brother Peng is indeed a cheerful person, please!"
Seeing that the originally nervous atmosphere between the two eased with the glass of wine, both Ye Bi and the three Tie brothers and sisters, and Hu Xiaolin's guards couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Only Wen Tailai, who originally became the focus of the audience because he was holding Bai Shier's letter, became a little anxious because the letter was grabbed by Peng Zhenlei and turned into a little transparent person.
Obviously, he was worried that his credit would be forgotten, and he was even more worried that he would not be able to join the Six Doors.
However, even if he was anxious, he did not dare to speak out rashly.
As a gangster, he knew Peng Zhenlei's identity well, but Hu Xiaolin suddenly appeared, even Peng Zhenlei did not dare to offend him. When the other party took action first, he did not dare to let the other party punish himself for three cups, but instead gave him one cup. The other party's identity must be more prominent than Peng Zhenlei.
Although he was very eager to get himself a six-door official uniform, he was not blinded by it.
So he stood there like a wooden sculpture, quietly watching Peng Zhenlei and Hu Xiaolin in front of him, as if they were gathering an old friend who had not seen him for many years.
Fortunately, whether it was Peng Zhenlei or Hu Xiaolin, they were still thinking about the contents of Bai Shier's letter. Therefore, after three cups, the two of them put down their wine glasses at the same time as if they had agreed.
"Since Brother Hu is anxious, let Brother Hu read this letter first."
"Hey, since this letter was written by Brother Bai to Brother Peng, then Brother Peng should read it first."
"Since that's the case, let's watch it together."
“That’s right.”
The two of them who had just taken action for this letter became humble at this time, but the expressions on their faces made the subordinates of the two of them feel embarrassed and unable to help but turn their heads at the same time, chatting or drinking, as if they wanted to separate themselves from them.
The two people involved were not embarrassed at all, because their whole mind was attracted by the letter in front of them at this time, and they could not take into account how embarrassed their behavior just now seemed to others.
The two of them looked at each other and quickly finished reading the content of the letter.
Because the two people have different purposes and different viewing points, they only read in detail after finding the content they want on the letter.
Hu Xiaolin wanted to know where Bai Shier had gone, while Peng Zhenlei was more concerned about what new news Bai Shier had investigated.
Therefore, the first thing Hu Xiaolin noticed was Quanzhou Prefecture, and the first thing Peng Zhenlei noticed was Mu Yixing.
"Mu Yixing, is it the murderer who sent you to assassinate Chen Wan'an?"
Peng Zhenlei finally had Wen Tailai's "position" again in his eyes. After looking up and down, he asked in a deep voice.
"I did accept his entrustment before coming to assassinate Chen Wan'an. As for whether he is the murderer behind Captain Peng, the villain is not very clear. This should have been stated in the letter of the Baiqi Officer."
After hearing Wen Tailai's answer, Peng Zhenlei looked at him deeply and nodded.
"Who are you..."
Just when Peng Zhenlei was still trying to ask again, he was suddenly interrupted by Hu Xiaolin's shout downstairs.
"Waiter, light a candle and bring it up!"
"Candle?"
Hu Xiaolin's inexplicable request made everyone look at him.
Many people couldn't help looking out the window.
That’s right, it’s daytime now, and the sun is still high, so why do you need candles at this time?
However, no matter how confused it was in my heart, no one asked.
Hu Xiaolin's subordinates and Wen Tailai did not dare, while Peng Zhenlei and the other two were a little embarrassed and worried that it would cause Hu Xiaolin to be unhappy.
So everyone was watching the waiter silently running upstairs with a candlestick on his face, holding a confusion.
However, the doubt on the little brother's face was immediately replaced by surprise, because Hu Xiaolin took out a piece of silver from his arms and threw it to him.
After watching the waiter happily go downstairs and make sure that there are only "people" on the second floor, Hu Xiaolin took the envelope thrown on the table and began to bake it above the flames of the candle with great care.
Looking at his movements, everyone's faces became even deeper. Many of the big guards even felt that their commander had been under tremendous pressure for a long time, so they were a little crazy.
But as he kept replacing the envelope and carefully baking it, everyone's doubts turned into shock.
As he moved, dark brown traces appeared on the back of the originally empty envelope, and soon these traces turned into words.
"This is?!"
Compared to others, Wen Tailai's shock was undoubtedly the greatest. After all, this letter had been lying in his arms for more than ten days, but he never thought that there was such a trick in this envelope.
Immediately, his shock turned into fear and worry.
Since Bai Shier tried his best to do this, he obviously knew that after he left, he would open the envelope to view the content of the letter, so he did such a backup plan and wrote the content he didn't want him to know on the back of the envelope and hid it.
Will these contents...
Wen Tailai, who was so worried, quietly moved backwards, trying to get his body closer to the window, so as to prevent Hu Xiaolin from taking action against him after he finished reading the dark brown text record that was roasted by the fire, and when he took action against him, he could go out directly through the window, making him more confident that he could escape from the sky.
"If it were you, I would be in place now."
But just now he moved only a few inches away, Hu Xiaolin's voice sounded, with a faint sarcasm.
"The content on this envelope is not meant to kill you. Just a clown like you who is just pretending to be a god and making ghosts by armor is not worthy of his use of this method to deal with you."
Hu Xiaolin said as he threw the envelope in his hand at Wen Tailai.
Wen Tailai, who subconsciously took the envelope, naturally ignored Hu Xiaolin's ridicule, and immediately read the content quickly with a glance.
Sure enough, just like Hu Xiaolin mocked him, there was no sentence in the letter to "process" his content. However, Wen Tailai did not breathe a sigh of relief. On the contrary, after reading these contents in a hurry, his whole heart suddenly became raised.
Because on the envelope, what Bai Shier wrote was to warn Peng Zhenlei or the leader of the Jinyiwei that their arrival would inevitably attract the attention of the assassins and spies who were still cruising in Zhangzhou Prefecture. When these assassins and spies saw Wen Tailai who had been regarded as dead before appearing beside them, they would inevitably take huge risks to capture Wen Tailai and ask about the details before.
Therefore, Bai Shier suggested that they might as well use Wentai as bait, maybe they can catch a few fish, and at the same time they can also shock other assassins who are ready to move.
Seeing these contents, Wen Tailai naturally couldn't relax.
Although Bai Shier did not directly suggest killing him, the danger of letting him take the risk of being used as bait to lure those assassins hidden in the dark to take the bait is also not low.
Even if he was not careful, if he was really captured alive by those people, it would be better for him to die happily in the hands of Hu Xiaolin and Peng Zhenlei now.
At least there is no much pain before death.
But even so, he could not resist Bai Shier's suggestion.
To be continued...