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【Ninety-seven】The key

Jiang Chengjia expressed his guess. Fang Si was listening, feeling sighing: "Lin Mu sold his life for Deng's mansion for the end. If this ended up happening... it would be really sad."

Just as he sighed, the tight stone door of the secret room suddenly loosened, and then a shallow sound of sliding doors and hurried footsteps came. Before he could see the visitor, he heard her shout: "Aluo, you are right! Lin Mu was really hidden in a plain house in the suburbs by Deng Qing. Outside the house was strictly guarded by the soldiers of the mansion and could not get close to him. Yan Ji and I only looked at the outside, and these soldiers of the Deng Mansion were noticed and almost found traces to catch up. In order not to alert the snake, Yan Ji and I did not check again. But I am sure that Lin Mu must be imprisoned there. Tell me, what should we do now?"

Mu Yun ran in panting, with a slight cold sweat on his forehead, and he looked excited.

Fang turned to the four sides, bowed slightly to her, and then set off the seat opposite Jiang Chengjia for her, and stood aside. Without saying a word, Mu Yun lifted up his skirt, sat on the cushion, supported his elbows on the table, widened his eyes, staring at the girl in front of him with concentration.

Jiang Chengjia asked: "How many soldiers from Deng's house are there outside the plain house?"

"I made a rough calculation. There were about twelve people in the front door, three guarded each in the corner, and four people were left at the small door on the back." Mu Yun recalled roughly with his fingers.

Jiang Chengjia: "So, according to what you see... Are the remaining dozen people in Siyinfang confident of dealing with these soldiers?"

Mu Yun thought for a moment and said with a frown: "It's hard to say. Look, these soldiers in the palace... are probably the elites of the Deng family. They are very alert to the movements around them, and do not let go of any abnormalities, and their strength is not low. The remaining people in our Siyinfang are engaged in the work of copying documents on weekdays. If they want to rush into the encirclement of the soldiers and rescue Lin Mu, it may not be realistic."

Jiang Chengjia couldn't bear to frown and fell silent.

Mu Yun looked at her and said in confusion: "A Luo. Why are you... determined to save Lin Mu? Even if you can use him to prove that Su Ren's robbery has nothing to do with Yuan Fu and the Dongfu Department, what can you shake Deng's family? Look, what is the capital's riot at this moment? Emperor Wei still closed his palace and ignored it. This clearly means giving Deng a chance to deal with civil violence. Even if the Dongfu Department cleans up the grievances, Emperor Wei will probably turn a blind eye to Deng's actions. Besides... A Yi has been ambushed with Jing Ting outside the suburbs of the city, and can always capture Su Ren and keep his own innocence. We should not take action. Rescuing Lin Mu... Is there any suspicion of such a move?"

She asked the most critical point. Fang Si on the side also raised his ears and listened, and he had the same doubt in his heart.

Jiang Chengjia shook his head and said, "People's patience is always limited. The Emperor of Wei ordered his brother to cut off the connection between Deng and Su Ren in order to protect Deng. If he knew that Deng Qing failed his painstaking efforts, did the robbery of prison, or even framed the Dongfu Office and slandered his brothers, and eliminated his dissidents, he would be very angry. No matter how the Emperor of Wei condoned Deng, he would not allow them to challenge the imperial power. Execution of Su Ren was the biggest concession made by Emperor Wei to Deng's various actions of taking over power and accumulating wealth in private over the years and ignoring the law. If Deng still refused to give up Su Ren, he would be challenging the bottom line of Emperor Wei."

Mu Yun thought about the details and found that it was indeed as Jiang Chengjia said. No matter how much Emperor Wei defended Deng's family, he would not tolerate anyone challenging the authority of the emperor.

Fang Si suddenly realized, nodded thoughtfully from the side, lowered his head and thought about this matter, and felt more and more reasonable.

"At present, the Emperor of Wei believes that Su Ren was robbed because his brother instructed Yuan Fu to do something, and believed that his elder brother wanted to frame Deng's family through this matter to eliminate the unfavorable factors for the Jiang family. He had lost trust in Jiang family and even the Dongfu Department and the Shui Pavilion. Even if his elder brother and the commander captured the fugitive Su Ren in the border suburbs and took him to the Emperor of Wei, the Emperor of Wei would feel that all this was directed and performed by his elder brother. Therefore, Lin Mu was the key to solving the situation in front of him. Only by persuading him can the Emperor of Wei believe that the matter of robbing prison and framed him was planned by Deng Qing. The Emperor of Wei would lose patience with Deng's family."

Jiang Chengjia continued to explain, and after explaining the cause and effect, he stopped talking.

Mu Yun raised his eyebrows and asked again, "Then what should we do now?"

"At present, I can only start with Lin Mu's connections in the capital." Jiang Chengjia said solemnly.

"Lin Mu's connections in the capital?" Mu Yun said with a strange look on his face: "What do you mean? Can you find a way to save him by looking for his connections?"

Jiang Chengjia nodded and said, "Lin Mu is not a stupid person. He has lived in the Deng Mansion for many years, but he has always been honored and favored. He is deeply trusted by Deng Guozhong. It is not without reason. He is a sleek man in his life, and he knows people and defends things. He has his own way to protect himself. With his insight, he will not be unaware of what kind of person Deng Qing is.

This time, he was willing to obey Deng Qing's order and execute the plan to rob the prison. Most of the reasons must be to repay Deng Ling, who had passed away and Deng Guozhong, who was seriously ill in bed. He probably knew in his heart that Deng Qing would turn against him afterwards. He might even put all the blame on him, so that he and his brothers who survived their lives would bear the anger of Emperor Wei. Since he could have expected this consequence, he would definitely leave a way out for himself. Therefore, as long as we search more carefully, we can get the opportunity to use the life-saving method he reserved to save him safely."

"When it comes to this..." Mu Yun slapped his forehead suddenly, as if he had remembered something: "I remembered something strange."

Jiang Chengjia asked: "What?"

Mu Yun: "When Yan Ji and I quietly searched the Guo District of the suburbs of the city and confirmed the place where he was imprisoned... we found a group of people who had been wandering around the plain house. But the situation in the city was so upright, and people in the suburbs were panic and worried. Many people could not sit at home. They were all dressed as ordinary civilians, so we didn't care too much. Now, it was a bit strange. They didn't look like the permanent residents of the Guo District, and they were just paced back and forth in the streets and alleys, as if they were exploring the terrain."

"Really?" Jiang Chengjia raised his heart and asked carefully: "Do you still remember how many people are there in their group?"

Mu Yun closed his eyes, thought about it carefully, muttered for a while, and said, "There are about twenty or thirty people scattered in every corner of Guo District, walking back and forth. He often bumped into each other, and even talked in a low voice, and was very alert. I see their body shape and movements, they are all skilled in their body."

"That's right." Jiang Chengjia suddenly clapped his hands and said, "These people were probably arranged by Lin Mu before he was imprisoned by Deng Qing."

"Sure enough?" Mu Yun's eyes shone, and hope immediately rose in his pupils.

"In this way, it will be easier to deal with. Although the remaining people in Siyinfang have poor martial arts skills, it is still more than enough to just lead the Deng family's soldiers. As long as half of the elite soldiers are drawn away, the remaining ones will be enough to deal with the twenty or thirty people arranged by Lin Mu." Jiang Chengjia analyzed.

"It's just that, how can we get in touch with Lin Mu? If he can escape, he will inevitably leave the capital immediately." Mu Yun was full of worries.

Jiang Chengjia curled her lips slightly and said, "This is going to... please have a scene with Yan Ji."

Mu Yun was stunned and said with a strange expression: "What does it mean? Doing a show?"

"With Lin Mu's cautious character over the years, he will consider his family before robbing Deng Qing's prison. However, the Guo District in the suburbs of Beijing is already full of soldiers from the Deng family. In order to control Lin Mu, Deng Qing will never allow him to have the opportunity to send his family out of the capital. In this way, Lin Mu can only hide his wife and children in the village of Beijing or in a corner that Deng Qing cannot take care of. If Deng Qing did not take action against his family, Lin Mu would still have a trace of master-servant friendship and would never betray Deng. But... as long as Deng Qing holds his family, what do you think will happen to Lin Mu?"

"Then he will definitely be anxious and completely turn against Deng."

"It's right." Jiang Chengjia smiled mysteriously at Mu Yun.

Mu Yun immediately understood: "What you mean is... let Yan Ji and I pretend to be Deng Qing's personal soldiers... find the place where Lin Mu hides his family, do a scene of robbing people, and force Lin Mu?"

Jiang Chengjia nodded immediately.

Mu Yun said with a sad face: "But...even so, Lin Mu wouldn't take the initiative to come and find us?"

"Of course, we can't just do this scene." Jiang Chengjia said, "When helping Lin Mu arranges to rescue him, we also need to reveal some background so that Lin Mu knows that Jiang Mansion and Shui Pavilion secretly sent people to help him. In this way... he will naturally ask for help from Shui Pavilion when he is desperate."

Mu Yun still hesitated: "It's just... we pretended to be Deng Qing's people and kidnapped Lin Mu's wife and children. Wouldn't he beg Deng Qing?"

"No." Jiang Chengjia replied firmly: "In order to take the blame for someone afterwards, Deng Qing will definitely hand over the Su Ren case to Lin Mu completely. Deng will not have any connection. Lin Mu knows that even if he asks Deng Qing, he will not get a result of both. If he takes the blame for his family, then if the thunder fire of Emperor Wei comes, he will definitely die. After his death, Deng Qing will definitely not bypass his wife, children, and the elders of his wife, children, and weighs twice. Do you think... will he ask Deng Qing?"

"What you said...is something." Mu Yun agreed.

Fang Si was still hesitant: "The Lord of the Pavilion... Lin Mu Conghui, if he guessed that it was Shui Pavilion who tied his wife, children and parents... he would probably turn against each other completely... By then, we might not even have the last trump card."
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