83 Pretenders
A canopy carriage stopped in front of the State Guesthouse, and a man dressed in a purple brocade robe and wearing a gold crown stepped on the back of the dwarf slave and stepped out of the carriage, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and his eyes were dark and blue, and he was already thin and immature.
With a gloomy expression, he pushed away the black-armored guard who had stepped forward to support him, and as he was about to step into the door, he heard a sharp laugh from mid-air, like a demon roaring in a midnight dream, and as soon as he raised his eyebrows, he saw the black shadow that spread its wings and flew away.
"Crossbow!"
"Yes!" a black-armored guard unloaded his back-mounted crossbow and bowed down.
The accompanying palace slave eagerly persuaded: "King, your illness has not healed..."
Zhen Tengfeng shook off the blood stains on his sleeves in disgust, threw the blade snatched from the waist of the black armor guard, and took a heavy crossbow weighing about fifty catties, his bloodshot eyes stared coldly at the black shadow in the sky, and the flapping black wings were the existence of deep hatred in his memory.
'Whoosh'
'Huh'
At the same time, two sharp rays shot straight towards the Haura.
One light and one darkness will hit a trick.
Hatora's insolent laughter flickered as she dodged the fatal blow of the cloud, and she looked in disbelief at the bronze arrow that pierced her lower abdomen......
Seeing this, everyone at the gate of the state guesthouse knelt down and shouted, "The king is brave!
The close guard, who had been standing beside Zhen Tengfeng, saw that his master's figure trembled slightly, and hurriedly reached out to take the crossbow arrow without a trace, raised it above his head and knelt down to cheer with everyone.
At this time, Zhen Yunze also rushed out of it when he heard the news, and when he saw that it was really Brother Wang, he stepped forward and knelt on one knee, "King!"
"Get up. Zhen Tengfeng glanced at the embarrassed black shadow that disappeared in the sky above, and said to Zhen Yunze: "How sure are you?"
Zhen Yunze looked at Brother Wang's expression as usual, breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "The king can rest assured, the city wall is full of black armor guards and city garrisons, she can't escape, after this incident, not only the internal affairs of Beijialuo will set off a struggle, this peace treaty, who is the host and who is the guest, is all up to the king's mind!"
Zhen Tengfeng took a deep look at this courtier, "Lan Zong's body, take care of the burial, send it back to the city for burial, as for Gu Luoyou, bring her over to see the widow." After speaking, he stepped into the state guesthouse.
Zhen Yunze looked at Brother Wang's fluttering footsteps, revealing a trace of worry, after Qiong Qi's acupuncture and medicine test in the past few days, there has been a slight improvement, but he still can't get a definite answer from the mouth of the divine doctor, and now in order to break the rumors that the people are unfavorable to the king, and deter those enemy troops and foreign guests from the embassy outside the city, Brother Wang is so struggling, will it aggravate the poison? These can't get the answer from Qiong Qi's mouth, which really makes him anxious.
"Lord Wang. ”
After Pingsheng walked into the state guesthouse with the black armor guard, he quietly appeared behind Zhen Yunze, and when he saw the palace slave who fell to the ground, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and lowered his head to offer a letterhead: "There is news in Luocheng." ”
Zhen Yunze took the letterhead, opened it and read it at a glance, and burned the letterhead with the flame of the oil lamp next to the carriage, "How is the situation in Flying Eagle Castle now?"
Pingsheng didn't know the content on the letterhead, so he thought about it for a while, "The Flying Eagle Castle is still being repaired except for the back mountain, everything is as usual, although the Lord of the Flying Eagle Castle has not recovered from his serious injuries, he has already begun to deal with affairs... And..."
Seeing that his words were not finished, he hesitated and asked, "What's the matter, you say." ”
"I heard that he began to meddle in local affairs, dismissed several local officials who believed in the Hora religion, joined forces with Lingduo in the southwest to quell several religious riots, and... There was a conflict with the black armor guard Zeng Xiao's department because of the robbery of grain and grass, and the secret report will soon be transmitted to the throne case. ”
"It doesn't matter, Huai Min County is Lin Zijian's fiefdom, I guess the king knows it in his heart. ”
"That Xiao Fan has been transferred to the Tongguan Lingduo tent, and it is also the arrangement of the Lord of Flying Eagle Castle. Pingsheng said again.
At this time, Feiyan had already paced to his side, the horse's head rubbed his master's arm affectionately, and Yun Ze stroked its mane, chuckling: "Xiao Fan? He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and ordered: "We don't need to meddle in the southwest matter anymore. There is something you need to arrange immediately, send a team of elites from Aoshan to Xiaoluo City to pick up Qingyang, and everything must be dispatched by him without violating the order. ”
"Yes. ”
At the end of the cold and bleak long street, a figure appeared slowly walking, dressed in white clothes and white hair, with a cold expression.
Zhen Yunze led Feiyan to greet him, "Senior, what's the matter with coming late at night?"
Qiong Qi handed him the letter with fire paint that had been opened.
Zhen Yunze took it, and couldn't help but be stunned, this was a royal thing, and the familiar seal made him have a bad premonition, but he didn't hesitate and took out the letter.
"That girl once mentioned that she was chased and killed by the Black Armor Guard near Shuoling Mountain, if that time was a coincidence, then how to explain the 'killing' of this imperial pen Zhu Pi?" Qiong Qi said coldly.
There were few numbers on the letter: 'You orphans, kill!' is just five words, but it is shocking.
"Who revealed the girl's whereabouts?" asked Qiong Qi.
"How did the predecessors intercept the letter, and where is the messenger?"
Qiong Qi stared coldly at this young man with a dusty demeanor, it was not that she didn't believe in Yunze, but she understood very well that in the heart of this King Rui, his royal brother was more important than anyone or anything, otherwise how could a generation of Junjie, who should be admired by tens of thousands of people, be willing to take the blame and fall into the dust.
"The day before yesterday, this man sneaked into my room to take my life, and this thing was taken from him. ”
Pingsheng, who was standing on the side, was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee to plead guilty: "Lord, no one has told me about this matter. ”
"They were enchanted by that man, so they don't know, but King Rui, withdraw your people, I don't need that waste. ”
Zhen Yunze glanced at Pingsheng, thoughtfully, and raised his hand to signal him to retreat.
Thinking of the strange feeling when he had a conversation with Brother Wang that day, a few speculations flashed in his heart, and he said quietly: "The king will not attack his seniors, and his seniors should know this." Who revealed the news, I will find out and give an explanation to the seniors, Miss Nanxing, I have already sent additional people to secretly send people to protect her, the seniors can rest assured. ”
"That girl is very ghostly, I'm not worried. A smile spread across Qiongqi's wrinkled face, "But after this incident, I changed my mind." ”
"Did the senior know the identity of the assassin?"
"Heh... I don't know who he is, but I know who commanded him. Qiong Qi's eyes swept over Zhen Yunze and looked at a pair of bronze beasts in front of the door of the State Guesthouse, and sneered: "If that girl knows that so many people want her life, I don't know if she can forget about the past without heart and lungs, and be chic and wanton." ”
"I protect her for a day, and no one hurts her. ”
Qiong Qi retracted his gaze, and a pair of clear eyes glanced at him without warmth, "King Rui, your royal brother has been on the throne for a day, and the truth of You's treason will never have a chance to overturn the case, and that girl will never be able to walk on this land openly, and live in endless killing orders all day long." She hooked her lips and sneered: "This is a dead knot, you can't protect her!"
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At night, the lotus pond is sparkling with torches in the promenade, and sometimes naughty little fish jump out of the water and into the water, causing ripples in circles.
Among the lotus bushes, a slender hollow rhizome slowly moved on the surface of the water, before approaching the stone platform wall, it slowly sank into the water without a shadow, and then, the water surface slowly opened a large circle of ripples, a white and slender hand through the water and climbed the stone platform, and then a head quietly poked out of the water, and kept holding his breath to listen to the movement on all sides, before he poked out the whole head and took a big breath, and a hibiscus face was reflected in the firelight.
As Huyanke said, the water here is living water, and the lotus pond in the front yard connects all the ponds in the house, and this is the koi fish pond under the back window of the Qiuwu Courtyard.
You Xue lightly climbed the convex recess of the stone wall, jumped out of the water, and as soon as she approached the window lattice, she heard the sound of 'Galala' in the room, but this window was not paper paste, and she could not peep into the movement inside, she could only wait for the footsteps inside to be quiet, and then opened a crack in the back window, and saw that there was no one inside, so she opened the window and turned in.
Bypassing the screen, I saw that the mechanism on the desk had moved, and the gate was opened, and the guards guarding the courtyard gate fell to the ground, and You Xue stepped forward to probe the pulse, although it was weak, but it was not fatal.
Who could be as interested as he is in the fake Celestial Ridge Stone in the underground stone chamber?
She suddenly remembered the lip shape that Ye Hui hinted at her when he was leaving, and in a flash of inspiration, she suddenly realized something, it was clearly two words: trap.
Trap? Whose trap? Is the barracks a trap? Or is the night party a trap?
Who will be the person in the underground stone chamber at this moment?
But no matter what, she has to go down, the fake Tianji Stone, and the weird man in the stone, she has to figure it out.
She wrung out the hem of her clothes that were still dripping and walked quickly into the black tunnel.