Lou Hang whispered: "That's wrong. Going now is a great time for us to take action."

"How to say?"

Lou Hang gritted his teeth and said: "My father built all the secret passages in the Sheriff's Mansion. Although I don't know where they were built, I can find them all as long as I go to the field to explore, and maybe I can help Mr. Lin's bed."

Otherwise, if there are a large number of secret passages in the place where we temporarily live, how can we be safe?"

"This..." Lou Wu looked confused: "Even if Mr. Lin wants to use us now, it will not prevent her from settling accounts in the future..."

Lou Wu suffered losses for half his life, because of the secret, and most of his relatives died before him. Therefore, Lou Wu had difficulty trusting those in powerful positions.

There were many people talking in the teahouse, and Lou Hang and Lou Wu didn't talk here for long, so they left the teahouse one after another and found a deeper alley to talk quietly.

The two of them walked to a remote place where there was no one. Lou Hang narrowed his eyes and whispered: "The Lord Lin Mansion really let us go before, and... he didn't ask us to do anything...

She also beheaded the magistrate of Wan County and the captain of Su County...I am willing to believe her..."

Lou Wu muttered: "You also trusted the magistrate of Wan County before..."

Lou Hang choked and glanced sideways at Lou Wu: "Uncle, do you have a better choice? If we, the people of this sect, can no longer find powerful people who can protect us, our craftsmanship will really be lost.

!Relying solely on the people of our clan who are digging in the dirt for food cannot afford for us, the Lou family, to continue to pass on the art of mechanism!"

Learning machine skills requires a lot of metal materials, and a furnace room is also needed, which is money. People of the Lou family go out to take jobs, and are easily silenced by their employers. If they don't take jobs, they have no source of money to make a living, which makes them

People in this sect are forced into a dead end.

In the first generation, the Lou family gradually grew stronger because they found nobles who trusted them and were willing to protect and support them.

The powerful gentry supported the Lou family and provided them with shelter, so that the nobles who came to work with them did not dare to kill them easily and offend the powerful families behind them. Over time, they

The Lou family, relying on that aristocratic family, has gradually become a wealthy family.

But since the powerful family that protected them began to decline and lost the ability to protect their Lou family, people from the Lou family began to disappear one after another.

Helpless, in order to survive, the Lou family had to leave the old place in a hurry and hide their names to avoid disaster.

After the gold and silver brought out by the Lou family were all wasted by the clan members, the clan members again realized that it was not feasible to remain anonymous.

After that, each generation of Lou's sect leaders began to find a 'master', but no one really succeeded. Although some sect masters went out to work and brought back money from the work, it was just a drop in the bucket, and it was necessary to

Taking great risks, several sect leaders ended up missing in the end.

Lou Wu slumped his shoulders: "Then let's go. If Lord Lin really defeats King Chang, he will be the lord of Kuzhou. We usually have a hard time getting such a powerful person even if we try hard, so we will fight in the end."

A handful!"

Lou Hang nodded solemnly. He didn't believe that someone who could say that the Lou family was "proud" would eventually let down their sincerity.

Sheriff's Mansion.

Lin Zhihuang lay prone on the couch and woke up in a daze. She felt a sharp pain on her back, which instantly made her frown.

"Master Fu, are you awake?" Siji, who was standing by the bed, immediately noticed that Lin Zhihuang was awake. He called to Chunxia and Qiudong, one of whom went to pour water and the other to pass the food outside.

"Huanyan...water..." Lin Zhihuang felt that his throat was going dry and smoking, so he subconsciously ordered in a hoarse voice.

Siji, who had been staying by Lin Zhihuang's bed, took the warm water from Qiudong's hand and carefully served Lin Zhihuang to drink it.

After Lin Zhihuang drank a whole glass of water, he realized that the person serving her was Shiji, who was in charge of her personal belongings. He raised his eyes and glanced at the person serving in the bedroom, and couldn't help but wonder: "Where is Huanyan?"

The person responsible for Lin Zhihuang's daily life is the maid Huanyan.

Shiji replied with a sad look on his face: "Master Fu, you were assassinated last night. Huanyan was on duty in the dormitory. She was the first to discover the assassin. She was injured during the fight with the assassin..."

When Lin Zhihuang heard this, his eyebrows furrowed even more tightly: "Where is the injury? Is it important?"

Siji replied: "She was stabbed in the abdomen. The doctor has stitched her up. It will take at least half a year to recover..."

Lin Zhihuang was silent for a moment after hearing this, and whispered: "Go ahead and tell the doctors responsible for treating Huan Yan not to be stingy with good medicine, and not to let her have any sequelae after she recovers."

"No!" Siji responded with tears in his eyes.

"What's the sound outside the door?" Lin Zhihuang turned his head and asked Chun Xia who was standing aside.

Outside the bedroom, Lin Zhihuang had been hearing the dull sound of sticks hitting things since she woke up.

"It's... the sound of the cane being tortured..." Chun Xia whispered back with a pale face.

"Cane punishment? Who is receiving the cane punishment outside the palace?" Lin Zhihuang frowned.

The masterminds of her assassination this time, Zhu Changrong and Gu Juncheng?

No, it won't be these two people.

If Congyuan catches these two people, he will definitely be thrown into prison. There is no punishment in prison, so why take them outside the palace gate where she is recovering from her injuries and execute them with a cane?

Seeing that Lin Zhihuang was puzzled, Chunxia did not dare to delay any longer and quickly replied: "The people who are being tortured outside the palace gate are Sui Junjun and General Hua."

"What?" Lin Zhihuang's eyes opened slightly, and after he realized what he was doing, he shouted sternly: "Let the people outside the palace gate stop immediately!"

Chunxia immediately knelt down and said: "General He joined the army and Hua. I am ashamed that I did not protect your safety this time, causing you to be seriously injured. I knelt down outside the palace door. Please punish me with fifty military sticks!"

Siji also knelt down and said: "Master Fu, it's over with the ten army sticks. You can put away the shame of joining the army and General Hua."

Lin Zhihuang: "......"

Lin Zhihuang looked at the two personal maids kneeling in front of him, and after being silent for a while, he said: "After the cane punishment, let them in."

"Promise!" The four seasons and spring and summer agreed in unison.

After a while, the sound of beatings with sticks outside the palace door stopped. Lin Zhihuang asked Si Ji to cover his wounds and removed the screen in front of the bed.

As soon as the screen in front of the couch was removed, Bian Hong and Hua Ling walked in with a slightly frivolous step, and both bowed to her.

"My lord." Sui Bianhong's normally vermilion lips turned pale white at this moment.

"Lord." Hua Ling's handsome face was also tinged with blue and white at this time.

Lin Zhihuang lay on the couch, raised his head and looked up into Sui Bianhong's peach blossom eyes, which were full of evil intent at this time, and asked softly: "Have you finished dealing with the outside matters?"

Sui Bianhong replied hoarsely: "It's done."

Lin Zhihuang nodded when he heard this: "I think so too. If you haven't dealt with those hidden dangers, you won't come here to punish yourself."

Then Bian Honghan said: "There are four masterminds and 21 accomplices, a total of 1,365 people implicated. These people have been captured by their subordinates and thrown into the government prison."

Lin Zhihuang chuckled when he heard this: "Congyuan's efficiency in doing things is still so high."

"No." Sui Bianhong shook his head: "This subordinate is not doing things quickly this time."

"You mean those people who wanted to assassinate me before the incident happened?"

Sui Bianhong said nothing, but his expression said everything.

Lin Zhihuang didn't speak for a while. After a while, he asked the two people in front of him: "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Hua Ling choked and said, "This subordinate should be punished for his failure to protect his master!"

"It hurts." Sui Bianhong replied expressionlessly, but he said the same thing as Lin Zhihuang: "Only when it hurts, will you remember how not to hurt yourself next time."
Chapter completed!