Unclean

Chapter 21

Chen Qing pushed open the door of the cubicle and walked to the bed.Yan Yunhe was still lying down like before they left, with her eyes closed and her body reeking of alcohol.

With a solemn face, he slowly raised his hand and picked up the long knife at his waist.

Zhou Ran followed behind him with forbearance in his eyes: "Brother, don't you think about it again?"

Veins appeared on the back of Chen Qing's hand holding the scabbard: "I always want to find a way out for my brothers."

Immediately he unloaded the knife, threw it on the ground, made a heavy sound, and said to Zhou Ran, "Second brother, give me the antidote."

Zhou Ran sighed, took out the porcelain bottle from his bosom, Chen Qing unplugged it, and was about to hand it to Yan Yunhe's nose, when the imperial envoy who was supposed to be unconscious suddenly opened his eyes.

Chen Qing almost missed the antidote in his hand, and backed away in fright.

Yan Yunhe propped himself up slowly, looked at the three people standing in front of the bed, and showed a warm smile: "Congratulations for making the right choice."

Xu Hu panicked: "Brother, I really..."

Chen Qing glanced at him: "Shut up."

Yan Yunhe bent his right leg, put his palm on his knee, his posture was very lazy, like a playboy.

He didn't seem to be overwhelmed by the sweat medicine in the wine at all. On the contrary, his eyes were very sharp and his aura was too frightening.

The three members of the Tsing Yi Gang, who had seen the storm, couldn't help their hearts jumping under his gaze.

Yan Yunhe tapped his knees with his fingertips and ordered: "Except for Chen Qing, everyone else should go out."

Xu Hu stepped forward unhappily, but was stopped by Zhou Ran.

As soon as Zhou Ran saw Yan Yunhe, he knew that the decision made by his eldest brother was the best choice.When encountering such an imperial envoy, they can't escape, so they might as well seek cooperation with the chips in hand.

He pulled Lengtou Qing Xuhu out, and after closing the door, the other party still didn't understand: "I really poured the medicine into his wine, and I watched him drink the wine with my own eyes. The amount of the medicine was almost poured down." Damn, why is he still awake?"

Zhou Ran said angrily: "Idiot, he is playing tricks on us, pretending to be dizzy on purpose."

Xu Hu scratched the back of his head: "Why is he so courageous, there are so many people on our side, he is really not afraid that we will do nothing and kill him."

"With your brain, who else do you want to kill?" Zhou Ran didn't bother to talk to him, so he dragged the reluctant Xu Hu away.

If the imperial envoy hadn't taken the antidote in advance, then the opponent's martial arts internal strength should be unimaginably deep for them to easily undo the antidote.

Xu Hu's three-legged cat kung fu would be dead against this imperial envoy.

I can't beat my kung fu, and my brain can't do it.Thinking of this, Zhou Ran looked at Xu Hu sadly and sighed.

Xu Hu was puzzled, but still followed Zhou Ran obediently. The elder brother said that he should obey Zhou Ran in everything.

inside the house.

Yan Yunhe looked at Chen Qing who was kneeling on the ground: "The goods in the Qingyi gang's village, but the batch of firecrackers that arrived at Yunzhou three days ago?"

He went straight to the point and was too lazy to waste time with Chen Qing.

In fact, I already have a basic judgment in my heart, but I still need to implement it through Chen Qing's dictation.

It doesn't matter even if Chen Qing doesn't admit it, Yu Qin has already taken his troop transfer token to Yunzhou to transfer troops overnight, and he should be able to lead troops into Yunzhou early tomorrow morning.

It is easy to break into the Tsing Yi gang's territory to retrieve the lost firecrackers, but it will be more worthwhile if the entire smuggling line can be seized through Chen Qing's gap.

Now Chen Qing's meaning is very clear, he wants to confess to the upper line, so as to protect the other members of the Tsing Yi Gang.

Chen Qing lowered his head: "In the beginning, we didn't know what those goods were. We just robbed the goods based on the information we received in advance, and then put the goods in the designated place."

Yan Yunhe said thoughtfully: "The name of the bandit is false, and it is true to use it to deceive people."

"The Tsing Yi gang is only in charge of a transportation point from the capital to Yunzhou. The brothers don't know what they are transporting. I can swear on this point. If we knew that this kind of thing was being transported, we would never have participated in it in the first place. !” Chen Qing said eagerly.

Yan Yunhe said: "So what is hidden in the box that Xu Hu knocked over?"

Chen Qing's face turned green: "Gunpowder, it's a batch of gunpowder."

"Bold and bold." Yan Yunhe said with a gloomy expression.

The sweat on Chen Qing's back was drenched layer by layer: "The quantity of gunpowder is very small, and the number of smuggling is not much, and the locations of distribution are all over the country. But in the past six months, the number of shipments It increased all of a sudden, I felt something was wrong, but before I could figure it out, Wei Zhili suddenly reported to the court, requesting to send troops to suppress the bandits..."

Yan Yunhe interrupted him: "You have exposed what they are transporting, which will naturally lead to death."

Even if they are not killed now, they will be eradicated when the time comes.

Xu Hu's reckless move was nothing more than advancing the time.

It is also a good trick to use rogues as transport troops.

These bandits were originally outlaws, they could be deceived by gold and silver, and they could be easily killed afterwards.

Yan Yunhe asked again: "You haven't said whether the batch of firecrackers in the capital has been shipped to you."

Chen Qing nodded, but hesitation appeared on his face: "Yes, but this batch of goods is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Yan Yunhe narrowed his eyes.

"This batch of goods was supposed to be gunpowder, but for some reason, it turned into gunpowder." Chen Qing raised his pale face, "How dare we mess with the gunpowder with the official seal, it used to be black powder." , Why did it become an official product this time, is it trying to frame us?"

Yan Yunhe shook his head: "You think too highly of yourself, if you want to get rid of you, it is enough to report to the court just like Wei Zhili did."

That is to say, if it was them who came here, if it were someone else, they would not be able to investigate clearly at all, and they would directly lead the troops to flatten the stronghold of the Tsing Yi Gang, and return to Beijing with the head to receive the reward.

Why bother to replace the black powder with firecrackers to attract the attention of the court?

Wait... In the blink of an eye, the thread in Yan Yunhe's mind finally became clear.

"Ministry Minister Zhao Xiang!" Yan Yunhe's eyes lit up slightly, and he clapped his hands and sighed.

Zhao Xiang took the risk to smuggle gunpowder for money.

But as Chen Qing said, in the beginning, the sale of these gunpowder should only be used for mine explosion and mountain mining.

Dajin strictly controls gunpowder, and the price of gunpowder on the market is high.

There are also strict requirements on the amount of distribution, so that there will be a lot of demand among the people.

Where there is demand, there must be supply, and the black powder channel was born accordingly.

Zhao Xiang must have discovered that the frequency of gunpowder transportation was wrong, and he also guessed that he might die from a murderous hand, so he replaced the gunpowder with firecrackers in advance.

In this way, the lost firecrackers will naturally attract the attention of the court and send people to investigate the case.

No matter what the people behind the scenes wanted to do, they were mostly ruined by his plan.

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is the direct line of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, Jiang Shang.

If someone really wants to use gunpowder to commit treason, Jiang Shang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, cannot escape the blame, and even the Queen Mother will be implicated in it. continent.

Even so, the purpose of the other party's trip is also obvious.

Yan Yunhe's eyes were dim, and he looked at Chen Qing: "If you want to keep your Tsing Yi Gang, you need to do one thing for me."

……

It was getting brighter, and the bandit suppressing troops had already stationed outside Yunzhou City.

Dressed in black, Yu Qin rode to the agreed place with Yan Yunhe.

Last night when Yan Yunhe handed over the troop transfer token to him, he still smiled and said, "Master Yu, my life depends entirely on you."

Yu Qinna would not speak, and at this moment he was also silently watching Yan Yunhe.

The Tsing Yi Gang's territory is located in Heiyu Luanshan, with dangerous terrain and cliffs.

The meeting place is also located on a cliff, overlooking the entire cottage of the Tsing Yi Gang.

At this time, the wind was blowing bitterly, and the winter air was so cold that it was skin-scratching.

Yan Yunhe turned around, only to see that Yu Qin was no longer wearing the fur coat he gave him, but was wearing a black flying fish suit, embroidered with golden silk python beasts, and the python garment was like a dragon, which was given by the Queen Mother herself.

"Master Yu, why don't you wear the clothes I gave you?" Yan Yunhe said calmly.

Yu Qin rested his hand on the scabbard, and slowly approached Yan Yunhe. Hearing this, he lowered his eyes and said, "That kind of thing is not suitable for me."

Yan Yunhe frowned, looking very hurt: "Yu Hanchu, you really hurt my heart by saying that."

This was the first time he called Yu Qin so affectionately, and Yu Qin didn't reprimand him for his presumptuousness, maybe because he thought it was unnecessary.

Seeing that Yu Qin didn't reply, Yan Yunhe said: "Let me guess, is there a large number of colleagues coming behind you?"

Yu Qin pursed her lips: "I'm alone now."

In other words, if Yu Qin didn't get rid of him, then Yu Qin would not be alone.

Yan Yunhe slowly pulled out a sword from his waist. No one expected that Yan Yunhe, who had been on the battlefield, would have a soft sword, as thin as a cicada's wing, and cut off his hair.

This was the first time he took out his weapon against Shang Yuqin, because this time, they all knew the result.

Either you die or I die.