Chapter 1993 Give You a Loud
Chapter 1993 Give You a Loud
Ding Hengshou lay in bed, tossing and turning for most of the night, and the bedding was crumpled into a ball.
He opened his eyes and moonlight came through the window, illuminating his shadow on the ground.
"Sir, are you still awake?" The master's voice came from outside the door, with a bit of caution.
Ding Hengshou sat up suddenly, his voice hoarse as if it had been rubbed by sandpaper: "Come in."
The lawyer pushed the door open and came in, holding a bowl of tea. Seeing that Ding Hengshou's eyes were frighteningly red, he couldn't help but sigh, "Your eyes will go blind if you keep doing this.
All the people we sent out have returned, and none of them have any news. How can we catch the mastermind behind the burning of the military camp?"
Ding Hengshou took the tea bowl and laughed self-deprecatingly, "How could I not know? Isn't this just an example for Liu Balang and Liu Jiulang?"
He paused, lowering his voice, "Tell me, Su Zhenhai is acting like he's crazy today?"
The lawyer shook his head, he didn't dare to respond.
Everyone knows that Su Zhenhai was suppressed by the Liu family in the past, but today at the door of the Liu family, Su Zhenhai directly drew his sword and killed two people in front of Liu Balang.
The head is still hanging at the city gate, and no one can take it off without Su Zhenhai.
"I actually forgot before," Ding Hengshou said, as if to Lao Zhou, or perhaps to himself, "Su Zhenhai was a man who had actually been to the battlefield, with weapons in his hands and blood on his sword.
But the Liu brothers..."
Before he finished speaking, he sighed heavily - the Liu family was deeply rooted in the local area, and he couldn't afford to offend any of them.
As he was speaking, there was a sudden loud "boom", like thunder cracking from the sky, shaking the tiles on the roof to the ground.
The tea bowl in Ding Hengshou's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and the fragments were scattered all over the floor.
"What's going on?!" He stood up suddenly and rushed out the door without even putting on his shoes.
As soon as I arrived in the courtyard, I saw a yamen runner crawling towards me, his face as white as paper, shouting, "Sir! It's bad! The rockery by the lake in the mansion... the rockery has exploded!"
"Exploded?" Ding Hengshou's head buzzed and his legs went weak. Fortunately, his master helped him up.
He stumbled and followed the yamen runner towards the lake, and along the way he heard the servants' shouts and cries, a chaotic mess.
When he arrived at the lake, Ding Hengshou held onto the willow tree beside him and took a deep breath - the originally intact rockery was blown into pieces, large pieces of stone were scattered in the lake, and the splashing water had not yet subsided.
The old locust tree by the water broke in half, and its crown fell into the water, creating circles of muddy ripples.
"Sir, look!" A yamen runner pointed at the remains of the rockery, his voice trembling, "This wasn't a natural disaster; someone deliberately blew it up!"
Ding Hengshou's fingers were digging into the willow bark so tightly that one of his nails broke.
His mind was in a mess. One moment he saw Su Zhenhai holding a knife, the next moment he saw Liu Balang's gloomy face, and now there was a bombed rockery - who did this?
Is it directed at him, Su Zhenhai, or the Liu family?
"Hurry!" Ding Hengshou calmed himself down and shouted to the surrounding yamen runners, "Go see if anyone is injured! Send a few more people to search around the lake. Don't miss any traces!"
"Yes!" The yamen runners responded hurriedly and dispersed.
Ding Hengshou stood there, feeling his calves go weak.
He originally just wanted to be a peacemaker between Su Zhenhai and the Liu family, and it was fine if he just acted like a gangster on the surface, but now that this has happened, can he still get away with it?
In the dark corner, Yan Ruyu leaned against the brick wall, looking at the chaotic scene by the lake, a sneer on her lips.
She turned her head to look at Huo Changhe beside her, and said with a hint of joking in her voice: "The power of this explosive is greater than I thought."
Huo Changhe crossed his arms, his gaze fixed on Ding Hengshou's flustered back, and said in a cold tone, "If you don't speak louder, how can you help Lord Ding to wake up?"
He paused, then continued, "Su Zhenhai and the Liu family are already at odds. If we add some more trouble to Ding Hengshou and make him feel even more uncomfortable being caught in the middle, it will make it easier for us to handle the follow-up matters."
Yan Ruyu nodded, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve pocket, and wiped her fingers gently: "Wait until they three sides start to make trouble, then we can reap the benefits."
Huo Changhe glanced at her and reminded her, "There are a lot of people here, don't stay for long, let's go."
Yan Ruyu responded, and the two of them took advantage of the chaos to quietly walk towards the back door.
When passing by the Moon Gate, Yan Ruyu looked back at the direction of the lake, and the smile in her eyes deepened - this scene had just begun.
Ding Hengshou was still directing the yamen runners to search by the lake. He didn't know that pairs of eyes in the dark had already seen his panic, and a bigger storm was quietly brewing.
When Yan Ruyu followed Huo Changhe into the corner gate at the back of the Liu Mansion, she happened to see Sun Qing waiting in the corridor.
When he saw the two of them, Sun Qing immediately smiled and walked towards them with brisk steps.
"Your Highness, Princess." Sun Qing lowered his voice, but could not hide the joy in his tone. "I was just thinking that if I waited a little longer, I would have to go to the front yard to check it out - Liu Balang is still awake and is fuming in the house."
Huo Changhe glanced left and right.
Sun Qing went to the side room next door and said, "Let's talk inside."
The three of them entered the ear room. Sun Qing closed the door with his backhand and smiled even more when he turned around.
"Your Highness guessed correctly. Liu Balang has truly behaved himself now. Yesterday, he slammed the table and scolded Su Zhenhai for being cowardly and wanted to teach him a lesson. He's still scolding him now, but you can tell he's become a lot more timid."
"Is he scared?" Yan Ruyu smiled faintly.
"I'm not scared!" Sun Qing lowered his voice. "Even though he was still cursing at the top of his lungs, saying things like 'This revenge must be avenged, Su Zhenhai will regret it sooner or later', I could clearly see that his fingers were shaking when he was cursing.
This afternoon, he even called me to his study to ask about the fire at the military camp."
As soon as these words came out, Yan Ruyu's eyes darkened slightly and she leaned forward slightly: "What did you say?"
Sun Qing’s smile grew wider, and he scratched his chin, “Of course I won’t admit it.
I told him that at the beginning I did want to cause some trouble for Su Zhenhai, and my subordinates had originally found a few people as planned and planned to sneak into the military camp at night.
But before we could do anything, we heard that Su Zhenhai had suddenly increased the number of patrols, and even the number of lanterns at night was twice as many as usual. We thought that if we forced our way in, we might be caught and ruin everything, so we withdrew our troops first.
He paused and added, "I even pretended to be upset, saying it was all my subordinates' fault for being useless and not getting things done.
Liu Balang didn't blame me, but he frowned and pondered for a long time, muttering to himself, "Who did it? How did the news leak out?"
Huo Changhe had been silent the whole time, then he said, "Are you bringing up Liu Jiulang?"
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