Chapter 1366 Killer!
Seeing the subtle changes on his nephew's face, Cui Shao did not continue to wait for Cui Hang to give him an answer, but said leisurely:
"Although Li Jian appears to be a low-key person who doesn't participate in any disputes and is quite respectful to me in the court, he actually harbors evil intentions!"

Cui Hang was shocked when he heard what his third uncle said. If Li Jian really had evil intentions as his third uncle said, then what was his purpose?

While Cui Hang was silently thinking about this question, Cui Shao continued:
"As people age, their bodies tend to have problems. This burden will always be passed on to the young people!"

Listening to Uncle San's somewhat meaningful words, Cui Hang seemed to realize something. He hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively:

“Third uncle, have you let the Hu family go?”

Facing his nephew's question, Cui Shao did not answer directly but asked back:
"Do you know what Uncle San admires most about you?"

Cui Hang was a little surprised when he heard this, he had never really thought about this problem. In his opinion, there were no outstanding talents among the younger generations of the Cui family. Therefore, after Cui Zibo passed away, it was natural and proper for the third uncle to train his nephew for the sake of the family.

He had never really thought about what his powerful uncle admired most about him.
After thinking carefully, Cui Hang raised his head and replied:

"humble!"

Cui Shao smiled and shook his head.

Seeing this, Cui Hang thought for a moment and then replied:
"Calm?"

Cui Shao shook his head again, and then said lightly:
"Cui Hang, you are indeed humble, calm, and not impatient. You are a promising talent, but what Third Uncle admires most about you is your ability to understand people's hearts..."

"You are able to sense the change in His Majesty's attitude through subtle words. This is very rare!"

Listening to Uncle San's praise, Cui Hang still said very humbly:

"It's just a small trick. Thank you for your praise, Uncle San!"

Cui Shao changed his tone when he heard this and said solemnly:
"Cui Hang, you are good at guessing His Majesty's thoughts. This is a good thing. If you use it properly, you will be able to have a prosperous career and rise to the top. But this is also a bad thing. If you make a mistake, it may cost you your life!"

Looking at Cui Shao's serious face, Cui Hang also realized something, and immediately nodded and said:

"Uncle San, I understand what you mean! The heart of a saint is unpredictable!"

After listening to Cui Hang's answer, Cui Shao nodded slightly and continued to speak leisurely:

"This group of Hu family members are smarter than I thought. They even know how to fully embrace the reforms promoted by Your Majesty. In this way, they have a talisman for the time being. If I insist on moving them at this time, although I can take their lives, it will affect Your Majesty's reform cause!"

"As the Minister of Finance, I should consider the overall situation! But their actions also brought me some unexpected surprises!"

After hearing Cui Shao's last words, Cui Hang immediately felt confused. What kind of unexpected surprise could this be?

Cui Shao did not seem to want to continue answering this question, and seeing this, Cui Hang tactfully did not ask any further questions. He came to visit his uncle today because he was worried that his uncle was blinded by hatred and misjudged the current situation, and insisted on using the Hu family to commemorate his deceased brother!

Now that he saw that his uncle was still clear-headed, he had nothing to worry about. After finishing his business, Cui Hang chatted with Cui Shao, telling him about some recent events in his hometown of Liaoyang, and then said goodbye and left.

After the butler Cui Fu sent Cui Hang away, Cui Shao opened the drawer of the desk and took out some files from Jiangnan.

Looking at the contents recorded in the file, Cui Shao's face showed a slightly amused expression. He didn't have many days left in the court, so some things needed to be put on the agenda. Cui Shao originally thought that it might take some time!
But Cui Shao didn't expect that the opponent, who had always been smart and cautious, would make a mistake in this regard, which gave him room for maneuver...

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Youyan, Ji County

There was a light drizzle in the night, and in an abandoned farmhouse, Zhang Xinjian was meditating to heal his wounds. He had been practicing martial arts since he was a child and was originally an escort for an escort agency in Qilu. Because of his superb martial arts skills, he once killed eight bandits who tried to rob the escort with a single sword, so he was quite famous in the Qilu escort circle.

But later during a escort operation, he was not only seriously injured because of drinking, but also caused the escort agency's escort operation to fail and the goods were robbed by the Qilu thief Li Wu. As a result, Zhang Xinjian was dismissed from the escort agency.

After a year of recuperation at home, Zhang Xinjian wanted to seek revenge on Li Wu and wash away his shame with Li Wu's blood. However, at that time, the Fengwu Army had just captured Qi and Lu. In order to restore stability in Qi and Lu, the Fengwu Army naturally rectified public security. The first step was to clear out some bandits and horse bandits in Qi and Lu.

As a fierce bandit in Qi and Lu, Li Wu committed robbery and committed atrocities many times, causing hundreds of deaths and causing a very bad impact in Qi and Lu. Therefore, he was naturally listed as a key target by the Fengwu Army.

So when Zhang Xinjian came to the vicinity of Li Wu's lair and was ready to go up to the lair with a knife and kill Li Wu, he saw Li Wu's head hanging high in the crowd at the foot of the mountain.

Although he was disappointed that he couldn't kill his enemy, Zhang Xinjian was very happy to see that his enemy was dead. For this reason, he used the few remaining coins on his body to have a good meal at the gathering place as a celebration...

After eating and drinking well, Zhang Xinjian began to think about his future. When he was a bodyguard, he drank and ate meat to his heart's content, and he indulged in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Although he earned some money, he also spent a lot, so he did not save much.

The only dozen or so taels of silver he had saved were spent during the year of recuperation. During the period of recuperation, Zhang Xinjian only thought about healing his wounds and then finding Li Wu to take revenge. As for other things, he did not think much about it. But now that Li Wu is dead, he also needs to consider his own life.

In order to make a living, Zhang Xinjian's first thought was to go back to his old job and continue working as a bodyguard in his escort agency, using his martial arts skills to earn a living!
But unfortunately, he drank too much and made mistakes, which led to the escort being snatched away by Li Wu, five escorts were killed, and seven were injured. The escort agency also paid a large sum of money to the employer, and its reputation plummeted. It lost business and eventually went bankrupt.

Other escort agencies declined Zhang Xinjian's offer of membership because of what happened back then. Even though the Fengwu Army distributed land to Zhang Xinjian, Zhang Xinjian was unwilling to let his martial arts go to waste and become a farmer who had to work hard in the fields to make a living.
Therefore, Zhang Xinjian, who couldn't make it in his hometown, also had the idea of ​​going to Yijing to make a living after hearing that Yijing had changed its appearance and became very prosperous under the rule of Marshal Ye.

Zhang Xinjian left as soon as he said he would, and sold the land allocated to him by the Fengwu Army for five taels of silver to raise money for the journey. Then he traveled all the way to Yijing, and by chance he met Song Quan, a shopkeeper under the Queen...

Seeing that Zhang Xinjian was a martial arts expert and a smart and cautious person, Song Quan recommended him to An Miaoyi. From then on, Zhang Xinjian became An Miaoyi's number one thug, and many shady things were handled by Zhang Xinjian for An Miaoyi.

The reason why Zhang Xinjian brought five or six killers to this abandoned farmhouse near Jixian County, which was far away from any village or shop, was because he was carrying out An Miaoyi's orders.

Zhang Xinjian also took the Queen Mother's order to arrest Wang Shun very seriously. Although he didn't know who Wang Shun was or what secrets he was hiding, as An Miaoyi's number one henchman, Zhang Xinjian had dealt with the Murong family several times!
The two-foot long scar on Zhang Xinjian’s back was caused by the killer from the Murong family!
Zhang Xinjian was well aware of how difficult the Murong family's killers were, so after learning that Wang Shun was being hunted by the Murong family's killers, in order to complete the Queen Mother's order to capture Wang Shun, Zhang Xinjian made full preparations and brought a total of twenty people to carry out this mission!

In Zhang Xinjian's opinion, although the killers of Murong family are powerful, they are no match for them in one-on-one!

But no matter how powerful we are, we are still mortals, not indestructible. So as the old saying goes, a good tiger cannot fight against a pack of wolves, and two fists cannot beat four hands. If one-on-one doesn't work, we can go two-on-one, three-on-one. If that doesn't work, we can go four-on-one, five-on-one. Then we can finally take you down, right?
Although Zhang Xinjian's idea was simple, it did make sense. Relying on their numerical advantage, they successfully snatched Wang Shun from the clutches of the Murong family's killer, and killed a Murong family killer at the cost of five casualties...

After snatching Wang Shun away, Zhang Xinjian wanted to immediately interrogate Wang Shun why the Murong family was so determined to kill him, and what secrets were hidden in you, a servant of the Murong family?
Unfortunately, Wang Shun had been shot by the poison arrow of the Murong family, and fell into a coma after being snatched by Zhang Xinjian. Although Zhang Xinjian tried his best to detoxify Wang Shun, Wang Shun remained unconscious. Zhang Xinjian had no choice but to take Wang Shun back as soon as possible.

However, what Zhang Xinjian did not expect was that the killers of Murong family could not forget Wang Shun, and kept following them closely. Because of the burden of Wang Shun, their speed was not fast, so the two sides had fought two or three times along the way, and each time they lost several brothers, but the people of Murong family always stuck to them like a follower!

Whenever he thought of this, Zhang Xinjian wanted to wake up Wang Shun as soon as possible and ask this bastard how he had offended the Murong family to make the Murong family's killers so persistent in killing him. Zhang Xinjian had dealt with the Murong family's killers several times, but this was the first time he saw the Murong family's killers so persistent!

During these several fights, Zhang Xinjian also suffered some internal injuries. Therefore, as the killers from the Murong family may catch up with him at any time, he must race against time to heal his wounds...
Although he is the number one henchman under Queen An Miaoyi, the man opposite him called A Da is even better than him in martial arts!

In order to kill A Da, Zhang Xinjian didn't care about his face and directly asked five of his men to join him in fighting the opponent. He wanted to rely on their numbers to hack A Da to death, but the opponent almost turned the tables. Even Zhang Xinjian himself was hit by a palm!
That seemingly light palm strike directly caused internal injuries to Zhang Xinjian, who had practiced horizontal martial arts for more than 20 years. If it were not for the strength of his brothers, Zhang Xinjian would probably have died there at that time. Thinking about it now makes Zhang Xinjian feel scared.

Just as Zhang Xinjian was taking the time to heal his wounds, a man walked quickly towards him. Zhang Xinjian recognized from the footsteps that the man was one of his men.

But Zhang Xinjian still didn't dare to be careless. He temporarily stopped recuperating and opened his eyes. After experiencing the incident of being robbed by Li Wu that year, he also developed the good habit of being cautious.

Under Zhang Xinjian's gaze, the subordinate who walked into the room immediately reported to Zhang Xinjian:

"Brother! That Wang Shun is dead!"

Zhang Xinjian was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't care about healing his wounds anymore. He stood up and walked to a corner of the room. There was a fire burning in the corner, and Wang Shun was lying motionless beside the fire, while several killers were silently surrounding Wang Shun...
Seeing Zhang Xinjian appear, everyone automatically made way for him. Zhang Xinjian came to Wang Shun and wanted to check Wang Shun's pulse, but seeing that Wang Shun had no breath and his lips were purple, Zhang Xinjian gave up the meaningless action and punched the wall in hatred!
Because Ye Mingsheng encouraged Daqian Medical College to conduct medical research and development under scientific conditions, with the financial support of Ye Mingsheng, Daqian Medical College also developed some detoxification pills, pain-relieving pills and other elixirs. Although these pills are expensive, in order to enable his subordinates to perform their tasks better, An Miaoyi also equipped them with them!

Therefore, after the chaos, when Zhang Xinjian saw Wang Shun was poisoned, he immediately took out his own antidote pills and gave them to Wang Shun. Zhang Xinjian thought that the antidote pills could relieve the toxins in Wang Shun's body and allow Wang Shun to survive until Yijing, but he did not expect that the poison arrows of the Murong family were so powerful. Even the antidote pills developed by the medical school were helpless against it!
With the death of Wang Shun, the mission assigned to them by An Miaoyi to capture Wang Shun alive and find out the secrets of the Murong family was declared a failure!

Thinking of this, Zhang Xinjian was very angry and worried. He also had the idea of ​​working for the queen. In his opinion, the queen was a person who clearly distinguished between rewards and punishments. If things were done well, the queen would reward him with money and property. As a result, Zhang Xinjian bought a house in Yijing and married a wife. However, if things went wrong, the queen would definitely punish him!

Thinking of this, Zhang Xinjian turned around and looked at his silent subordinates and said in a deep voice:
“Now Wang Shun is dead! Our mission has failed, but we need to give an explanation to our superiors…”