Chapter 85: Trusting someone else

After Xu Shide left quietly, Zhao Ji finally emerged from the darkness.

He ate the melon all day long, and gradually formed the outline of the whole incident in his mind.

This is a contest and game between two thousand-layer cakes, Wu Xiaojie and Xu Shide.

First, Xu Shide ordered his men to create confusion, pretending to be gangsters and thieves to make Wu Xiaojie feel threatened.

Wu Xiaojie felt threatened and did not act rashly. Instead, he took out the fake blue shirt mark and sent it to the Prince's Palace, deliberately exposing his flaws.

As Wu Xiaojie expected, a thief came to his house tonight and stole the Blue Shirt Note.

But he didn't expect that there were two groups of people coming, and Zhao Ji got there first.

Xu Shide returned empty-handed and could only threaten Wu Xiaojie again in an attempt to make him reveal his flaws.

But this had no effect on Wu Xiaojie.

After seeing the fake book being stolen, he went to Li Quan's house as planned, left a message, and asked him to meet at night.

But according to the original plot, Zhao knew that Wu Xiaojie was still on guard when he went to see Li Quan and did not bring the real book with him.

This means that Li Quan is still using the tactic of confusing the enemy with his own troops along the way.

Wu Xiaojie is likely to ask someone else to send Blue Shirt away.

Xu Shide's patience over the past year has paid off. He had long understood Wu Xiaojie's overly cautious character and had responded appropriately.

Of course, no matter how smart Xu Shide was, he could not fully guess Wu Xiaojie's plan.

But Xu Shide was able to crack Wu Xiaojie's plan: He said, I want them all.

No matter whether the book is real or fake, I will get them all.

Then he stabbed Wu Xiaojie again, controlling the force just enough to injure him but not kill him immediately, so that he wouldn't feel his life was in danger.

In this case, unless Wu Xiaojie is ruthless enough to give up the oath he made in front of the King of Yue and let the Blue Shirt Record disappear completely.

Otherwise, he would have revealed the whereabouts of The Blue Shirt Record before his death and entrusted the book to someone he trusted.

This can be considered an unsolvable conspiracy.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji completely understood: "Neither Wu Xiaojie nor Xu Shide is an ordinary person."

Wu Xiaojie was cautious in his actions and repeatedly created a trick by sending a book several times.

Xu Shide had an extremely accurate grasp of people's hearts. He almost figured out the personalities and ideas of Wu Zetian and Wu Xiaojie, and used them to make profits for himself.

In the original plot, Xu Shide was better.

Wu Xiaojie crawled to Chongwenguan half dead and entrusted the True Blue Shirt Record to his "close friend", the proofreader Xu Shide, before dying.

Wu Xiaojie lost because he failed to judge people and made friends carelessly, mistaking Xu Shide, an internal guard, for his best friend.

In other words, an undercover agent with heavy responsibilities should not have any so-called close friends.
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The next day, Wu Xiaojie did not make any unusual movements and went to work at the Chongwenguan in the Eastern Palace obediently.

But in the afternoon, when Wu Xiaojie was returning home from Chongwenguan, he went shopping on the street and took a detour to pass by Li Quan's house to see what was going on.

The door of Li Quan's house was open and everything was normal. The stone in front of the door was gone, and the envelope by the wall was gone too.

Wu Xiaojie then felt relieved and thought that everything was normal.

He looked back and found that someone was following him again, the same two thugs from yesterday.

Wu Xiaojie couldn't help but sneer and quickened his pace. This was why he took a detour and made an appointment with Li Quan in the middle of the night.

Unfortunately, all this was in vain, as his actions last night had already been seen by Xu Shide and Zhao Ji.

As night fell, at three quarters past midnight, Wu Xiaojie arrived at the place he had agreed to meet with Li Quan.

A blurry figure came into view, he seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

Wu Xiaojie slowly approached the figure and asked in a low voice, "Is that Li Quan?"

Li Quan didn't even turn around. He coughed softly and said hoarsely, "Did you bring the things?"

Wu Xiaojie became suspicious after listening to what "Li Quan" said, because he didn't say anything about bringing anything over.

He asked vigilantly: "Your voice is not right, why is it so hoarse?" At this moment, "Li Quan" turned around suddenly, revealing the face of one of the two gangsters in the daytime.

Wu Xiaojie remained calm and composed, "You are not Li Quan!"

The thug was obviously an internal guard. He pulled out a dagger and slowly approached Wu Xiaojie.

Seeing this, Wu Xiaojie shouted loudly: "Help! Help! Help! Help!"

At this moment, a night watchman "happened" to pass by, and when he heard the sound, he rushed over here.

The houses around seemed to be alarmed and their lights were lit up one after another.

When the gangster heard the sound, he seemed to be at a loss and stabbed Wu Xiaojie "casually".

Wu Xiaojie let out a scream and fell to the ground.

The gangster quickly searched Wu Xiaojie, snatched the volume of "Blue Shirt Notes" from his arms, and hurriedly left the scene.

Wu Xiaojie certainly didn't die, he was just wounded in the abdomen and bleeding profusely. He just felt his life slipping away.

It was already midnight, and Wu Xiaojie was covered in blood, so there was no way he could enter the East Palace.

Li Quan did not show up for the appointment, which probably meant that something bad happened to him.

In desperation, Wu Xiaojie thought of Xu Shide. He could only pray that Xu Shide was at home and rush to his residence.

All of this was seen by Xu Shide who was hiding in the dark. He knew that his arrangement had worked and Wu Xiaojie was going to his home to entrust the Blue Shirt Record.

So Xu Shide went ahead and returned home to wait for Wu Xiaojie's arrival.

Fortunately, the place where Wu Xiaojie met Li Quan was not far from the Eastern Palace. As a subordinate of the Eastern Palace, Xu Shide's home was also near the Eastern Palace.

Wu Xiaojie struggled slowly and walked to the door of Xu Shide's house, with drops of blood spilling on the road behind him.

At this time, Wu Xiaojie had lost too much blood and fell to the ground. He used up his last bit of strength to knock on the door of Xu Shide's house.

After hearing the knock on the door, Xu Shide hurried out without wearing his coat to open the door.

He held a candle, opened the door and looked out, but there was no one.

But Wu Xiaojie grabbed Xu Shide's feet with one bloody hand, and Xu Shide was so frightened that he screamed and fell to the ground.

Only then did Xu Shide see clearly that it was Wu Xiaojie, and he quickly hugged the seriously injured Wu Xiaojie.

"Brother Xiaojie, Brother Xiaojie, what's wrong with you?"

Wu Xiaojie took a breath and said, "There's no time to talk nonsense. I have something to entrust to you."

"What is it? I will definitely do it!" Xu Shide said, suppressing his excitement.

The severe pain and weakness made it extremely difficult for Wu Xiaojie to speak: "There is a secret compartment under the south wall of the Chongwenguan Library. There is a book inside, called... called Blue Shirt Records..."

"You...you take it to Huzhou, find...find Liu Chali...Liujiazhuang, and hand it over to him personally."

"This matter... this is related to Li Tang's plan to restore the country. You must... do it in person..."

Xu Shide repeated: "Blue Shirt Record, Huzhou, Liujiazhuang, Liu Chali, I wrote it down."

Wu Xiaojie nodded: "Yes...it is related to Li Tang's plan to restore the country..."

However, before he could finish his words, Wu Xiaojie took his last breath.

Xu Shide breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned as he looked at the blood that Wu Xiaojie had left along the way.

A moment later, Xu Shide dragged Wu Xiaojie's body into his home and began to falsify the scene.

He brought out another corpse from somewhere. The corpse looked somewhat similar to him, with a wound on its abdomen and a dagger in its hand.

Xu Shide placed the two bodies in a row, with each of them holding a sharp knife in their right hand and grabbing the other's shoulders with their left hand, as if they were stabbing each other.

When it was daytime, the internal security guards came to the door and insisted that Xu Shide and Wu Xiaojie stabbed each other to death.

Then he can return to the sea and go to Huzhou to achieve financial freedom.

(End of this chapter)