Xuanxia

Chapter 971 Another battlefield

Capital city, Censorate.

"Master Gu! Master Gu!"

A servant hurriedly ran into the Censorate. The officials working in the courtyard frowned and looked up, but soon they noticed the clothes the servant was wearing... On the sleeve, there was a word "Yuan" embroidered on it.

Then all the officials bowed their heads silently again.

Yuan Family...

Even if the person who came was just a small servant, as long as he was from the Yuan family, he could enter and leave the Censorate at will, and no one dared to stop him.

There is no other reason. The highest official in the Censorate, the Left Censor-in-Chief... is a dog of the Yuan family.

To be precise, it is a dog that serves both the Yuan family and the Lan family!
But this dog is very fierce, cruel and extremely scary, and no one dares to mess with him!

"What? In a hurry."

Soon, the door of the innermost room of the Censorate was pushed open, and a slightly plump figure walked out.

Gu Jinchen was wearing an official uniform and had a smile on his face like that of Maitreya Buddha. Clearly, he was just a little servant more than three years ago, and clearly he was only in his twenties now, but his temperament, appearance, manners and tone all made him look like he was in his forties.

"Master Gu!"

The servant stopped panting and shouted, "Master, please go back!"

The master he was talking about was naturally the current master of the Yuan family in the capital - Yuan Ye.

Gu Jinchen chuckled: "Master Ci Fu, is there anything I can tell you about?"

The other censors in the yamen lowered their heads one after another, and some sighed secretly.

If the cabinet vice minister really had official business to attend to, why would he send a servant to call for help? That was clearly a private matter.

It is still broad daylight and everyone is busy with official business, but they call the Left Censor-in-Chief to handle private matters. This shows that they simply do not care about the laws, disciplines and regulations.

However, no one dared to speak.

Three years ago, the aristocratic civil servant group jointly recommended Gu Jinchen to join the Censorate.

It would be extremely absurd in any dynasty for an ordinary person who had no merit, did not belong to any aristocratic family, had no place to be recommended as a talent, and had never made any great achievements to enter the Censorate.

But by then the emperor had disappeared, and the Yuan and Lan families jointly recommended this person. The Ministry of Personnel took only one day to approve the relevant documents, and in less than three days, Gu Jinchen took office.

This was a provocation by the aristocratic civil service group to the royalist faction, and also a display of their own strength... and it was successful.

Less than a year later, Gu Jinchen handled many "major cases" in the Censorate.

He found evidence of guilt in many officials in the capital and sent them to prison; some were even killed or exiled... Even Bai Jin, who was once the youngest and most promising person in the Censorate, was sent to prison by him.

However, Bai Jin has been living well in prison.

There was no other reason. It was because when Gu Jinchen was about to take severe action against him, a group of young people represented by Yue Heng stood up, always trying to protect Bai Jin and constantly questioning the evidence presented by Gu Jinchen. This is how Bai Jin was able to survive in prison until now.

"It's about Bai Jin."

Just as Gu Jinchen was unconsciously thinking about this, the servant happened to say, "But... I don't know exactly what it is."

Gu Jinchen frowned.

He glanced at the censors from the Censorate around him, but no one dared to look up at him.

"Let's go." Gu Jinchen said briefly.

However, his tone no longer had the smile from before.

After leaving the Censorate, they boarded a carriage, which swayed and began to move towards the Yuan family.

In the carriage, Gu Jinchen closed his eyes and thought. He knew Bai Jin was very important because it was rumored that Bai Jin knew the whereabouts of the emperor.

The orders from the Yuan and Lan families were never to kill Bai Jin, but to control him, use his family to threaten him, and slowly torture him in prison until they found out the whereabouts of the emperor.

But Yue Heng and his gang...

Thinking of this, Gu Jinchen couldn't help but snorted coldly.

What an ungrateful guy!
If Lord Yuan Ye had not given him help because Yue Heng married his granddaughter during the chaos in the capital, how could he have gained such a large say in the cabinet and placed so many of his own people in the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Justice!

As a result, within less than two years, this guy turned against him and stood on the side of the royalists!
shameful!
Not only that, his head hurt even more when he thought about the recent events in the Northern Barbarians and Fu Qingzhou's return.

At this moment, Gu Jinchen's heart suddenly tightened and he opened his eyes.

In the carriage, the servant who had come to call him was leaning against the carriage and dozing off, looking lazy.

"who are you?"

Gu Jinchen suddenly said in a stern voice: "I have never seen you in the Yuan family!"

The servant slowly opened his eyes.

Afterwards, he was not in a hurry and grinned: "Master Gu, you are joking. There are so many people in the Yuan family. It is normal for Master Gu to forget a little guy like us."

"I remember every single person in the Yuan family."

Gu Jinchen said coldly: "Also... the master asked you to call me, and you would never say Bai Jin's name... you deliberately said this name in the Censorate! Who are you and what is your intention! "

"Isn't Lord Gu afraid?" the servant asked back.

"Heh, if you're not from the Rebel Army, then you're from the Xuan League, right?"

Gu Jinchen sneered, "Are you here to kill me? It's okay if you kill me. The Chief Censor and the Left Chief Censor were killed on the streets of the capital. You guys who walk on the edge of law and order will be labeled as traitors immediately! Even Prime Minister Yan can't save you!"

"Master Gu is indeed smart."

The servant smiled softly: "That's what Master Yuan meant... Don't worry, I won't kill you, I will just seriously injure you."

Gu Jinchen's pupils shrank!
But soon, he relaxed and laughed: "I see."

"Yes, if you didn't know, you would have acted everything out more perfectly..." The servant said, slowly taking out a dagger from his sleeve: "But you are so smart, I'm sure the master doesn't have to worry too much!"

After saying that, he stabbed at Gu Jinchen with a sword!
……

"What? Gu Jinchen was assassinated!?"

Yue Heng was so shocked that he stood up suddenly and even accidentally knocked over the table, and the inkstone and writing paper on the table fell to the ground.

But he ignored it and ran out of the house, bypassing the mess.

He was not working in the cabinet at that time. Since he stood on Yan Yidonggang's side, Yue Heng experienced three poisonings and five assassinations in one month. After that, his wife Lin Chuchu was taken back to the Yuan family for "care". He could only move to Mingjian Pavilion to work, but here, it was the safest.

The secret envoy of Mingjian Pavilion who came to deliver the news said in a deep voice: "Many people on the street saw him being stabbed several times with a dagger. The assailant was dressed as a servant of the Yuan family. Someone in the Censorate also saw this servant before. He said that when he went to ask for Gu Jinchen, he mentioned Bai Jin..."

Yue Heng covered his face in pain.

Three years later, he has become much more mature and steady, with a mustache and many more wrinkles between his brows. But when he holds his forehead in pain and helplessness, one can still see the shadow of the young man back then.

"Do the Xuanmeng and the Righteous Army have any plans in this regard?"

The secret envoy turned his head and looked at Yue Heng, speaking in a suspicious voice.

Yue Heng said bitterly, "Bullshit! Marshal Ning is not stupid, and Master Baihe is not stupid either! This matter must have been caused by the Yuan family themselves! Brother Fu is back, Beiyi has been settled, and they are panicking!"

"They don't want to drag it out any longer... They want to frame someone and take the initiative!"

(End of this chapter)