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Chapter 313 We meet again
Captain Pei stood with his hands folded, inspecting the great capital city with great interest.

Yeah!
It’s just that he had just been out and about for the whole day and it was getting late, otherwise Pei Yuan would really like to look at the capital city again from a different perspective.

Gu Dayong did not leave any food for him, but Pei Yuan did not treat himself badly. He took a few personal guards with him and went to a restaurant to eat and drink his fill.

It’s not that the food at home isn’t delicious.

Just because he was in the mood to have fun with the people, Pei Yuan felt inexplicably close no matter whether he was looking at the diners or the shop owners.

When Pei Yuan was about to leave, seeing that many places had already started to light up the lights, he couldn't help but think of his friendship and missed his good comrade, Tiezi, for more than a year.

Yesterday evening, in the same dim light...

Although the young Captain Pei had just fought for a while in the morning, but isn’t this still young?
Pei Yuan was savoring the dish and slowly walked home.

They were almost at Dengshikou when suddenly someone in a restaurant facing the street poured a bowl of wine and spilled it outside.

Pei Yuan and several guards didn't notice it. They waited until the wine spilled before dodging in embarrassment. Then they looked upstairs in anger, "Who is this blind person?!"

The man was standing at the window of the restaurant, but the room was also lit by candles, so the light became dim when he reached the window, and his face was dark, so his identity could not be seen at all.

The guards started cursing and were about to rush upstairs.

But the man had no intention of avoiding the situation. Instead, he waved his hand and asked someone to bring a candle and wave it in front of him.

Pei Yuan took one look at the man's face and felt a chill run down his spine.

This person turned out to be Liang Ciwei!

Countless thoughts flashed through Pei Yuan's mind, and that person had already taken the initiative to say, "We meet again, Pei Yuan!"

Pei Yuan looked around and saw many shadowy figures lying in ambush in the dark.

Pei Yuan made a quick judgment, looked up at Liang Cifang again, and strode into the restaurant.

Seeing this, several Jinyiwei soldiers hurriedly followed.

As soon as I entered the lobby of the restaurant and was about to take the stairs to the second floor, several people came forward and shouted to stop me, "How dare you! The person who has reserved the upstairs is the son of the current university scholar. Who are you to dare to offend me?"

The commotion here attracted the attention of many diners. They all looked at Pei Yuan, whispering about something.

The noise downstairs naturally attracted Liang Ci's attention. He snorted coldly, "Let him get up here. I want to ask, who ordered him to go against our Liang family!"

Naturally, the extremely arrogant words spoken upstairs were heard clearly by everyone below.

Those strong and sturdy retainers looked at Pei Yuan eagerly and let him in.

Pei Yuan casually touched the Bazhou sword behind him, then strode upstairs.

Just as several Jinyiwei soldiers were about to catch up, the sturdy retainers stopped them again and said with a fake smile, "Do you think you little minions can interfere in the feud between Young Master Liang and your captain?"

Pei Yuan's personal soldiers were the first batch transferred from the Zhenxie Thousand Households when the tax silver was escorted. They had originally belonged to the Nanjing Jinyiwei for generations.

They were not very sensitive to the power order in Beijing. In addition, they had been through life and death with Captain Pei for nearly a year and had long been impressed by his prestige. They did not care about the opinions of others.

Several bodyguards held Embroidered Spring Swords, stared at those people coldly, and made a posture ready to draw their swords and chop people at any time, and walked towards the stairs without retreating a step.

The several strong retainers were a little surprised. They exchanged glances quickly, and someone whispered, "Forget it."

The servants reluctantly stepped back and let them go upstairs.

Pei Yuan stepped onto the second floor and glanced around quickly.

He saw that apart from Liang Ci sitting there arrogantly, there were more than ten guests staring at him warily.

Pei Yuan pursed his lips, said nothing, strode forward, came to Liang Ci's table, pulled out a stool and sat there.

Seeing Pei Yuan being so rude, Liang Ci's deliberate smile froze and his face turned cold instantly.

He said coldly, "When I was in Guangdong, I never thought that something like this would happen."

"A mere captain of the Imperial Guard actually dared to beat up the son of a cabinet minister in the street."

"Now that you see me again, not only do you not know how to show respect and apologize, you even have the guts to sit in front of me so brazenly!"

As he said that, he slammed the table heavily, "Get out of here!"

Liang Ci's hit was so strong that the dishes on the table clinked.

Pei Yuan laughed out loud, "I think you are the bold one."

As he said that, he exerted all his strength with both hands and flipped the entire round table towards Liang Ci.

The food, drinks and spirits that were originally on the table immediately splashed towards Liang Ci.

Liang Cihao dodged in panic, cursing, "You're looking for death! Come on!"

Upon hearing Liang Ci's signal, the dozen or so retainers who had been staring at Pei Yuan immediately rushed up shouting.

Unexpectedly, Pei Yuan's eyes were full of ferocity at this moment. He had no intention of holding back and actually drew out the Bazhou sword from his back.

The bright flash of the knife startled everyone.

Liang Ci retreated to the window and shouted angrily, "Pei Yuan, this is the capital, you can't run wild here!"

Pei Yuan's primary target was Liang Ci'e. He didn't care about anything else and chopped directly at him on the head with the Bazhou sword in his hand.

Liang Cihao dodged quickly, then picked up a bench to block the attack, shouting angrily, "Kill him!"

The retainers immediately realized that there was a new change in the plan and took out the hidden weapons from under the bench without hesitation.

As soon as the Jinyiwei soldiers went upstairs, they saw this scene. They drew their Embroidered Spring Swords without hesitation and attacked the nearest guests.

Pei Yuan's target was still Liang Ci'an. After several powerful blows, Liang Ci'an, who had dodged in a panic, showed fear on his face.

"Pei Yuan, let's just talk about what's going on between us. Do you really have to fight me to the death?"

However, his way of hiding was very strange. He did not escape to the guests as quickly as possible, but kept dodging back and forth near the window.

Although Pei Yuan was quite strong, he was only good enough at cutting down small fry. Faced with such a nimble body, he was helpless for a moment.

Pei Yuan laughed loudly, stopped attacking immediately, pulled over a bench and sat down, putting the Bazhou sword aside.

His action was so abrupt that Liang Ci was a little confused.

The Jinyiwei guards and retainers who were fighting on the second floor were also somewhat hesitant and didn't know whether to continue fighting.

Pei Yuan stared at Liang Ci with a fake smile and said, "We meet again."

Liang Ciwei narrowed his eyes and looked at Pei Yuan, not knowing what Pei Yuan meant.

Before he could guess carefully, he heard Pei Yuan say calmly, "You deliberately angered me and set up an ambush around me to force me to go to this restaurant. I guess you had already planned all my escape routes." "You didn't leave the window and kept shouting loudly. I guess you were shouting for the people outside to hear."

Liang Ci's expression changed slightly. He didn't explain anything, but just stared at Pei Yuan coldly.

Pei Yuan looked into his eyes and said seriously, "Guess what I saw before I went upstairs?"

Liang Ci's face was gloomy and he was too lazy to talk.

Pei Yuan said calmly, "Just downstairs outside your window, I saw another Liang Ci'an."

"What?" Liang Ci'e was shocked and subconsciously turned his head to look down.

Pei Yuan immediately jumped up, and the extremely sharp Bazhou sword seemed to jump into Pei Yuan's hand, and slashed towards Liang Cibiao with a bright blade light.

As soon as Liang Ci'e turned his head, he knew something was wrong. When he wanted to dodge, it was too late and Pei Yuan slashed him on the shoulder.

The sharp Bazhou knife and tremendous force directly chopped off one of Liang Cichou's arms.

Liang Ci's face changed drastically, he screamed, and tightly covered his arm which was bleeding like a fountain.

Pei Yuan slashed into his arms without hesitation. The Bazhou sword seemed to have hit the heart guard and failed to directly break Liang Ci's internal organs. The broken bones, the friction between the metal and the Bazhou sword made it make strange movements.

Pei Yuan simply took advantage of the situation and stabbed him directly, almost nailing Liang Ci to the wall.

Liang Ci opened his mouth to say something, but spat out large mouthfuls of blood.

He still had that look of disbelief on his face.

Pei Yuan walked straight forward, rubbed his face vigorously with his fingers, and tore off a human skin mask from his ear.

Pei Yuan looked at the bloody face and smiled, "We meet again, colleagues from the Northern Pacification Division."

The face of "Liang Ci'e" was bloody, but he slowly recovered from his disbelief. He let the blood flow from his severed arm and split chest, grinned at Pei Yuan, and said, "I didn't lie to you!"

After saying that, he turned his head and looked out the window, "Okay, I don't have to worry about anything. I can finally see if Liang Ci is really here to ruin my plans."

However, his body was nailed to the wall by Pei Yuan using the Bazhou knife. After twisting his neck a few times, he could no longer move before he could see out the window.

"Let me take a look." That "Liang Ci'e" looked at Pei Yuan stubbornly.

Pei Yuan ignored him and said to him calmly, "No need, there is no Liang Ci'an. If Liang Ci'an was really here, I would go and kill him, so how could I care about you?"

The "Liang Ci'an" finally couldn't help asking, "I have one question. I think I did it flawlessly, so why are you able to successfully find me every time?"

After hearing this, Pei Yuan felt lucky but also broke out in a cold sweat out of fear.

This guy changed his identity twice to approach me, but I saw through him both times. There was indeed a lot of luck involved.

The first time, this guy pretended to be Cheng Leixiang, and then when the post station caught fire, he wanted to take advantage of the situation and get close to Pei Yuan.

As a result, because Pei Yuan knew Cheng Leixiang's character very well, he was a little suspicious that this guy didn't come to show his courtesy immediately when the post station got angry.

It just so happened that Pei Yuan was very enthusiastic about the system at that time and located Cheng Leixiang.

When he checked the location, he found that Cheng Leixiang was still several hundred meters away from him. Of course, he immediately recognized this imposter.

This time, there were also many unexpected factors.

When Pei Yuan came out, it was just dusk.

So Pei Gou, who was well fed and warm, couldn't help but think of the happy things that happened yesterday evening.

Pei Qianhu walked through two streets with a stiff face, knowing very well that now was not the sage time.

As a result, when he saw Liang Ci'an in the restaurant, he did not have the urge to kill him.

Pei Yuan immediately sensed something was wrong.

What would happen if there was something wrong with Liang Ci'e?
After Pei Yuan returned to Beijing this time, he behaved honestly and did his duty, and thus offended two people.

One was Liang Chu, the Grand Secretary of the dynasty, and the other was Zhang Rong, the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei.

This time, the person involved is either Liang Chu or Zhang Rong!
Pei Yuan then immediately remembered that on the way to Suzhou, he was attacked at the post station by a man who was good at disguise and pretended to be Cheng Leixiang.

He immediately determined where these enemies came from.

This is Zhang Rong’s man from the Northern Pacification Division!
After making a preliminary assessment and looking at the shadowy figures around him, Pei Yuan immediately gave up the idea of ​​rushing out.

He has few manpower now, and once a chaotic situation occurs, he is likely to be killed in the dark by the well-prepared Northern Pacification Division for unknown reasons.

Pei Yuan also quickly figured out why Zhang Rong had deliberately set up this trap.

Pei Yuan has just come into the emperor's sight, and has offended the brothers Zhang Rong and Zhang Yong in front of the emperor.

If Pei Yuan died in such a short time, it would certainly arouse the wrath of the emperor.

Even if everything was done perfectly, Zhu Houzhao didn't need any evidence. Just suspicion was enough for him to choose to alienate Zhang Yong and Zhang Rong.

Zhang Yong is an eunuch. If he loses the emperor's trust, he will be replaced immediately.

Although Zhang Rong was in charge of the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei was now a vassal of the Eastern Depot and was under the control of the eunuchs.

Once Zhang Yong loses power, how can he escape?

Therefore, there must be a completely reasonable person to take the blame.

After what happened today, the well-informed Zhang Rong immediately realized that Liang Chu was the perfect person to take the scapegoat.

Liang Ciwu and Pei Yuan had already been at odds during the day, and both sides had reasons to retaliate against each other.

Liang Chu was of noble status, so even if his son killed Pei Yuan, he might not let the emperor investigate the matter seriously.

Therefore, Zhang Rong, who seized this excellent opportunity, immediately had his men disguised as Liang Ci'ao and wait here for Pei Yuan to come back.

Pei Yuan looked at the man and sneered, "Your tricks are useless to me. Haha, you want to kill me and drag the cabinet ministers into the mess. I will get rid of you and let everyone see the truth of the matter."

"I think Zhang Rong must not have figured out how to explain this to the Grand Secretary."

Zhang Rong asked someone to impersonate Liang Ci'ao and frame Liang Chu. As long as this matter was exposed, Zhang Rong would not be able to withstand the anger of a university scholar.

Zhang Rong plotted against Pei Yuan, but this also gave Pei Yuan the opportunity to disrupt the Northern Pacification Division.

Unexpectedly, the bloody man laughed after hearing this. "Pei Yuan, hearing you speak so childishly, I know that you have underestimated Zhang Rong and Liang Chu after all."

After saying this, he died.

(End of this chapter)