Cao Hua stood behind the door, held the door bolt and then walked up the lights until the whole city was silent, and then turned white in the east.

‘Gee...’

The sound of rooster crowing sounded.

He suddenly woke up, stood up again with the door bolt, waiting for the prey to appear.

A faint smell of blood floats.

This body is very sensitive to the smell of blood. Cao Hua sniffed and felt something was wrong, so he gave up and squatted down and searched along the smell.

I was idle and entered the house, with weeds and some fallen leaves left on the ground.

He followed the smell all the way to the back house, and he saw a blood-red figure lying under the yard wall from afar.

Two crossbow arrows were inserted on his back, and he was covered in wounds. I don’t know how long he had been lying in the yard, and the blood flowed out more than a meter away.

He hurried over and squatted down to check.

The blood stains blurred her cheeks, but from her figure, it can still be confirmed that Xie Yijun was tied to him.

At this moment, Xie Yijun seemed to have just come down from the battlefield and had no good parts on her body.

Cao Hua was born in modern times, not Kyoto Tai Sui, so it was impossible to take the opportunity to kill someone because he was beaten and sneered.

He quickly picked up the woman in blood and ran back into the room.

Although I am not a doctor, I still have some common emergency treatment to stop bleeding.

Without any gauze on the medicine, he went out to the street outside Shiquan Lane. After searching for a long time, he found a clinic. He knocked on the door and showed the Diankuis waist card. He took some white cloth for the medicine and ordered some dry cakes and bacon.

The clinic dared not say much about Diankui's business, so it gave you whatever you want.

Back to the courtyard, I drew a basin of clear water from the well, cut open the back of the woman's red skirt, and didn't have time to appreciate the skin. I carefully wiped the blood around the crossbow arrows.

"Woo..."

The crossbow arrow was pulled out, and the woman lying on the bed let out a muffled groan, her fingers instinctively grabbed his thighs, and almost twisted off a piece of meat.

He grinned in pain, but he could only endure it. He quickly covered the wound with a white cloth with the wound medicine. Now he could only hope that the wound would not be infected without poisoning, otherwise he would definitely die.

The blood soaked in the white cloth and dyed the white back red in an instant.

But in a moment, he was already sweating profusely, and finally understood how high the mental quality of the nurse occupying the land was.

Apart from the two crossbow arrows, Xie Yijun's face turned pale, without any reaction, and even breathing was inaudible.

At this moment, we can only leave it to fate.

His body was covered in blood and his face was covered with sweat.

I ate a few bites of dry cakes in this clear water and placed the rest on the table. It was already dawn.

He covered Xie Yijun with a quilt, then left the yard and ran towards Diankuis.

I'm going to be late to work!

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The morning light rises, and the red sun hangs over the palace city.

In the Diankuisi Yamen on Yonglu Street, all the Black Feather Guards scattered into the city to search for the whereabouts of the thieves.

Cao Hua disappeared all night, and several officials in the middle of the department were busy and kept telling Han'er behind the screen.

The room smells of medicine.

The maid Han'er sat behind the screen, unbuttoned her left cloak and exposed her arms and shoulders. The doctor carefully wiped the scars under her clavicle.

After a moment, the minor official outside the door shouted: "The governor is back!"

Several masters Bo breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly went out to greet him. Han'er hurriedly drove the doctor away, put on her clothes and walked out of the screen.

"I've seen the governor!"

Seeing that he was covered in blood, everyone was a little puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask. Han'er stepped forward and bowed and said, "Young Master, last night..."

"I already know."

He gasped, called on people to take their clothes, frowned and said, "How many people came in yesterday? The door was broken... Han'er, are you injured?"

Seeing that Han'er's face was slightly pale, he looked up and down a few times, but there was no external injuries.

Han'er looked lonely and lowered her head slightly: "I am incompetent and no match for Xie Yijun. She forced her to break into the main hall and found that the young master was no longer there."

She is also the top expert in Diankui. A thief broke in and couldn't stop him. At this time, facing the young master of Wuyi, he naturally felt that he had no shame to see others.

He patted Han'er's shoulder comfortably: "It's not your business. Let everyone outside come back, and it's a storm. What should I do if the people are scared?"

"No!"

Han'er was anxious and quickly spoke up to dissuade him: "This is an order given by his adoptive father."

Like Cao Hua, Han'er was trained by Xue Jiuquan since childhood, but Cao Hua stood out with too much talent. The real person in charge of the Diankuisi was the eunuch Xue Jiuquan, and Cao Hua was just in charge of the emperor. If he really wanted to alarm the emperor, he had to listen to Xue Jiuquan.

He frowned slightly. He originally wanted to make big things turn into small things and not offend anyone, but now it's a bit troublesome if things can't be suppressed.

While thinking, a burst of cry suddenly came from outside the yamen:

"See father-in-law!"

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Outside the Diankui Shi, he stopped slowly, and the red carriage stopped at the door. The little eunuch lay on the ground as a staircase, and someone carefully lifted the curtain.

With the support of the little eunuch, the white-haired old man wearing a red python robe slowly walked off the carriage with a whisk in his hand.

After more than a year, he was thin, with wrinkles on his face and looked kind and kind. Who would have thought that such an old man was the most trusted eunuch by the emperor. Xue Laogou, who was terrified by the government and the country, was in charge of the three thousand hawks and dogs of Diankuis, and was secretly called the "Son of Night".

"See father-in-law!"

Inside and outside the Diankui, Han'er was the leader and kneeled down in one go.

Cao Hua was changing into bloody clothes behind the screen, poking his head out and said, "Wait a minute, come here immediately!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was silent.

The chief clerk buried his head deeply and even suppressed the atmosphere.

"hurry up!"

The elderly Xue Jiuquan walked slowly with the support of the eunuch. The duck sighed: "The emperor got angry yesterday and scolded the old slave for raising a group of rice buckets. The old slave didn't fall asleep all night. After thinking about it, he felt that the Diankui Si had to change a group of people. Cao Hua, do you think these people should be kept?"

"Dear father-in-law!"

More than a hundred clerks and clerks knelt on the ground, touching the ground with their heads and trembling.

Diankui Si was nominally the Emperor's Guard, but in fact he had great power. The imperial guards had to obey Diankui Si's dispatch when patrolling the city and military service. Now that Diankui Si was stabbed in his nest, Xue Jiuquan would not take his anger and Cao Hua. He must have attacked the small officials like them.

Han'er knew that she could not escape the blame, so she knelt on the ground and said silently.

Cao Hua noticed that the atmosphere was not right, walked out from behind the screen, and chuckled, "They are quite obedient, there is no need to change."

"They are obedient and have had such a big mess, that's why there's something wrong with you."

Xue Jiuquan sighed quietly when he heard this, sat down in the main seat of the hall, and looked at Cao Hua.

Everyone was even more silent.

The maid Han'er hesitated a little and knelt forward for two steps: "Young Master last night..."

"Han'er, don't say anything when you shouldn't speak."

Xue Jiuquan picked up the teacup and looked at Han'er calmly.

Han'er's body shook slightly, and she quickly lowered her head and lay on the ground, not daring to say anything more.

When Cao Hua first saw this titular adoptive father, he didn't know how to say hello, so he waved his hand: "You all go out first!"

"promise!"

The chief clerk and clerk retreated tremblingly as if he had received a general amnesty.

Several eunuchs from the palace also left the main hall at the instruction of Xue Jiuquan.

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In the vast yamen, there are scents of incense lingering.

The old eunuch with gray hair, holding a teacup in his hand, only showed some worry at this moment.

"Huazi, you have always been steady in your behavior. I gave Diankuis to you for your father. Last night, a thief broke into Diankuis and left again. This shows that Diankuis is incompetent and only eats but does not do things."

"It was my negligence!"

He was so frustrated that he drew a map. Other things had nothing to do with him, but the blame must be decided.

Xue Jiuquan shook his head: "You can't let this happen again. The emperor wants peace in the world. At least Bianjing can achieve peace in the world. You can't let civil and military officials find the reason."

He sat on his own in the chair, silent.

Speaking of this cheap adoptive father, he had indirectly asked about it and served in the palace for a lifetime. He accepted his adopted son when he was old. Perhaps he also held the hope of someone sending him to death a hundred years later, treating Cao Hua as his biological son, and demanding very harshly on Cao Hua.

In general, he was a very powerful old man. In terms of position, he was very similar to Yang Jian, a traitor in the late Northern Song Dynasty, but Xue Jiuquan was not greedy for money or possessed power. He was just a loyal dog around the emperor, and his only selfish intention was to have an adopted son.
To be continued...