Text Chapter 1414: Grief and Anger

Xiang Zhong didn't understand what he meant. Li Li half turned to the side, half propped himself up, and said in surprise: "Of course not. Could it be that the chief manager doesn't believe Xiang Zhong either?"

Shangguan Qing's face darkened, "It's precisely because I believe in you that I gave you the chance. It's still too late for you to admit it now, and I can still find a way to protect you. If you carry it to the end, no one will be able to save you. You But think it over carefully!”

Although he has always been in charge of the Shadow Guard, as the general manager of the Heavenly Court, he cannot only care about the Shadow Guard. Naturally, there must be someone below to help him share his worries, and the person who can help him share his worries is naturally someone he trusts. This person is Xiang. Loyal, so he really doesn't want anything to happen to the people he trusts.

Unexpectedly, Xiang Zhong seemed to have suffered great humiliation. He rubbed his neck and said angrily: "The people who supervise the right department don't have to trust me. Does the chief manager also think that Xiang Zhong is lying?"

"Now you still want to hide it from me?" Shangguan Qing was also angry, and several jade certificates were thrown in front of him, "Then what is this? Could it be that the brothers below are collectively trying to trick you?"

Xiang Zhong quickly took the jade certificate to see what it was, and found that it was the confession of the brother below. The more he looked at it, the more confused he became, with a confused look on his face.

"Do you really not know or are you just pretending to be confused? Do you have to ask me to call the others to confront you so that you, the leader, can't step down?" Shangguan Qing gritted his teeth, feeling a bit like he hated iron.

After being confused for a while, Xiang Zhong suddenly realized and said "Yeah", he raised his hand and slapped his forehead, "I remember that time the six of us were eating and drinking in a restaurant. During the dinner, an old man and his granddaughter were singing. I noticed that a gangster seemed to be targeting him. I met the old man’s granddaughter and saw them leaving the restaurant and walking into the alley diagonally opposite the restaurant window. The rogue followed him in. I guessed that the rogue had some evil intentions, so I left alone for a while and left the restaurant. Entering the alley, as I expected, I found that the thug had committed a crime and knocked down the old man. He had kidnapped the singing girl and was about to escape. At that time, I took action to deal with such a trivial matter, which was not worth it. Mention, I didn’t mention it to the brothers after I came back.”

Shangguan Qing thought he had some private matter that was not convenient for the public to see, but who knew it turned out to be this kind of thing. He immediately said in a deep voice: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier when you were supervising the right department?"

Xiang Zhong said with a bitter face: "When the Sun Tzu, the group of cannibals on the right side of the supervisory department, only mentioned the time and place during the interrogation, they asked me to think about what I had done. It has been more than a thousand years. Who cares about such a trivial matter?" Will you remember?"

Shangguan Qing sneered: "Then why do you remember it now?"

Xiang Zhong: "Isn't this the confession of the brothers that the chief steward showed me? The detailed description of the situation at that time helped me recall it. Xiang Zhong told the truth and there was nothing hidden from the chief steward!"

Shangguan Qing: "I can believe you, but can others believe you? You didn't say anything about the severe torture you endured in the Right Department of Supervision, and even complained that you were wronged. Now that you are released, you remember it. Who can believe it? Can you find out? Do the witnesses and physical evidence prove what you did?”

Xiang Zhong was shocked: "More than a thousand years have passed, and the grandparents and grandchildren are so afraid of death that their bones have turned into ashes. Where can I find witnesses?"

Shangguan Qing: "Who can believe you without evidence? Let me tell you, His Majesty has inspected and personally checked your interrogation records. Now that you have such a reason, do you think His Majesty will believe it?"

Xiang Zhong: "Xiang Zhong's loyalty to His Majesty is a lesson to the world!"

Anyone can say this, but is it useful? Shangguan Qing shook his head.

There are some things that he can't tell Xiang Zhong. Emperors have always been suspicious. There are always things that one person can't see and take care of when he rules the world. Many things are just what the people below say, so emperors since ancient times have always been suspicious. They are afraid of being fooled, so whether they are emperors in heaven or on earth, they are all the same, suspicious by nature!

This is also the reason why he did not forcibly stop the Shadow Guard from being sent to monitor the right department in the first place. His Majesty will doubt his intentions, why not let him check the shadow guards? So he waited until the limelight had subsided, waited until His Majesty calmed down, and then found a suitable opportunity to state the pros and cons and begged Your Majesty to release the Shadow Guard. But who would have thought that the Shadow Guard, whom he thought was clean, would have so many suspicious things discovered by Gao Guan. Who can guarantee that these suspicious things are all right?

Now he really feels that this matter is a bit tricky. The key is that you can't eliminate all these doubts to the point where His Majesty has no doubts at all. Things are really troublesome. If he had known this, he should have stopped His Majesty from handing people over to supervision. Check the right part.

"Hey!" Shangguan Qing sighed, collected the jade certificate and turned away.

Xiang Zhong turned sideways and shouted: "General Manager!"

"You should recuperate here first!" Shangguan Qing waved his hand and went out.

When I came to the courtyard, I saw a group of eager men. Shangguan Qing's lips tightened, and he slowly said: "Beard, Zuo Chang'an..."

The names of twenty-six people were called in one breath. The people whose names were called stood up with their bodies that had not fully recovered. They were all waiting for the chief manager to say something. Unexpectedly, Shangguan Qing made a surprising statement: "Here comes someone." , take them down and look after them separately.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of generals he brought rushed over, one for every four people, and led them out.

The Shadow Guards were shocked. Someone blocked the door to prevent people from being taken away. Someone shouted: "General Manager, why is this?"

Seeing that you dared to block the road, Shangguan Qing shouted in a deep voice: "What do you want to do? Do you want to rebel?"

Someone immediately shouted: "General Manager, there must be an explanation for this, right?"

Shangguan Qing: "What's there to explain? The innocent are innocent, the turbid are turbid. If there are doubts about you, but you have nothing to hide, you should accept the investigation openly. It's just a quarantine investigation, what are you afraid of? Get out of my way!"

It turned out that the matter was not over after coming out of the Right Department of Supervision... The people blocking the door slowly moved to make way, but they all showed a frustrated look.

Twenty-six people were taken away like this. Shangguan Qing, who was walking at the back, stopped and looked back, looked at everyone, and looked at the direction where Xiang Zhong was temporarily staying.

According to the interrogation list of the Right Department of Supervision, there were a total of twenty-seven suspicious persons, including Xiang Zhong, the leader of the Shadow Guard, but he only took away twenty-six people and did not take Xiang Zhong away. It's not that he didn't want to execute it, but it was inconvenient to take Xiang Zhong away, fearing that something might happen to the Shadow Guard. He believed that Xiang Zhong could understand the overall situation and help him stabilize the Shadow Guard. If the leader of the Shadow Guard was really taken away, the Shadow Guard would be completely disappointed. Without a leader, it would be troublesome if it got out of control.

Shangguan Qing left rather helplessly, he still had to find a way to explain this to Lord Qing.

As soon as he left, a group of shadow guards immediately ran to Xiang Zhong's room, crowded inside and outside the room, talking about the twenty-six brothers being taken away.

Xiang Zhong looked at his body lying on the couch and sighed: "Everyone stop arguing, the chief steward must have his own intentions for doing this."

But some people were very angry, "Brother, we are loyal to His Majesty. We surrendered when he sent us to the prison of the Right Supervisory Department for trial, and we accepted the torture. Now he wants to isolate the brothers for investigation again. It's endless. How much do you distrust us? What does His Majesty want to do?"

Another person said in grief and anger: "We are practicing The martial arts are destined not to have any disloyalty, no home, no job, no power, like pigs being kept in a pen, we will do whatever His Majesty asks us to do without hesitation, brothers have fought for His Majesty and worked hard, but now they are treated like this, it is so chilling... "

"Shut up!" Xiang Zhong turned back and roared, "Are you tired of living? What nonsense are you talking about?"

Although everyone shut up, the grief and anger on their faces were hard to hide...

In the Sunset Garden of the Heavenly Palace, Qingzhu dismissed the accompanying maids and walked alone in the courtyard.

There are all kinds of rare flowers and plants in the garden, needless to say, slowly walked to a green wall of vegetation, stroked a purple flower growing in the green wall, and asked lightly: "How is the investigation on the right side?"

There was no one around, and I didn't know who he was talking to.

But someone on the other side of the green wall where people could not be seen spoke, the voice was small, and it was unclear who was talking over there. "Over at the Right Supervision Department, the interrogation of the Shadow Guards in the prison was not biased from beginning to end. They were not treated preferentially because they were Shadow Guards, nor were they given extra information because they were Shadow Guards. They were all interrogated according to the old rules. There was nothing out of the ordinary, and the confessions obtained were not falsified."

Qingzhu nodded slightly, and asked again: "What's the situation with Shangguan? Have all the suspicious people been controlled?"

A faint voice on the other side of the green wall replied: "After Shangguan Qing went there, he did not control the people immediately, but dismissed other people and the Shadow Guard leader Xiang Zhong to stay alone in the house for a while. Outsiders could not get close, and they didn't know what was going on inside. After Shangguan Qing came out of Xiang Zhong's house, he ordered the 26 people to be taken away for isolation and custody investigation. As for Xiang Zhong, Shangguan Qing did not touch him. After Shangguan Qing left, a group of people rushed into Xiang Zhong's house and talked a lot..."

It is unknown how this mysterious man got the news. The reactions of the Shadow Guard brothers gathered in Xiang Zhong's house and the dissatisfied remarks they vented were roughly repeated by him.

The Green Lord narrowed his eyes, a fierce look flashed in his eyes. He picked the purple flowers on the green wall and crushed them into slag between his fingers. He didn't say anything more and turned around and left as if nothing had happened.

Miao Yi didn't have anything to do in the Ghost Market. The higher-ups asked him to come just to coordinate his men. He didn't need to do the surveillance himself. In addition, Zhan Ruyi was now a stranger to him and rarely met him. Miao Yi was happy and comfortable. He handed the coordination of the men to Yang Zhaoqing to deal with, and he took Yan Xiu to wander around the Ghost Market all day.

Miao Yi also went to the brothel of Fengyue Wubian several times every now and then. Of course, he didn't patronize the brothel women, but to patronize Yun Zhiqiu.

Yun Zhiqiu didn't stay in the Ghost Market for long, and left in less than a month.

A few days after Yun Zhiqiu left, Gu Duogui suddenly sent a message to Miao Yi, asking him to personally take some people to an auction house. (To be continued.)