In the middle of the night on the fourth day of Feng Qing and Chang Ruoli's assassination, the entire imperial capital fell asleep, and there was silence in the prison of the criminal department on the west street against the edge of the city, except for the soldiers who patrolled back and forth from time to time, there was no trace of life here. Suddenly, the guard shouted, "Who is it?"

Three people came out of the shadows silently, one of the leaders took off a waist card from his waist, the guards looked through the dim lights on both sides, only heard a slight "poof" The guard leaned on the left side of the person in a daze, and the other guard did not react when he didn't know what was pricked and wanted to shout, the mouth in the dark night just opened and the person slowly slid down against the wall behind him.

The two people on both sides of the people quickly pulled the two guards into the shadows on the side, and after a while, two people wearing guard armor came out of the shadows, and the two stood on both sides of the gate in tacit understanding. The man at the head disappeared into the gate in a flash.

The black and dark inside the prison emitted all kinds of unpleasant smells, and the person who came covered his body and face in a wide black robe with a hat. The four guards guarding the prison were already lying on the table and were deeply acquainted. As the man silently walked past the four guards, his hand raised lightly, and several silver rays of light flashed in the prison and landed on the four guards. Without looking at the four guards, the man continued to walk towards the depths of the prison.

After a while, someone came from the depths of the prison and brought out a person, and the figure flickered out of the prison and handed over the person who was holding his arm to the door, and the two guards who had changed their clothes at the door, and the group of four disappeared into the dark night in an instant. As soon as they left, the two figures flashed into the prison before and after, and in less than a moment, they came out one after the other and disappeared into the dark night.

At that time, Feng Qing, who had just gotten up, saw the chief eunuch Xia Linhai walking in as usual, bowed over, with a few palace ladies who were waiting to dress and wash behind him. After watching Feng Qing get dressed, Xia Linhai sent a few palace ladies back and said to Feng Qing: "Your Majesty, there is news from Lord Li of the Criminal Department when he is ugly, saying that four of the five assassins have been killed in the prison of the Criminal Department, and one is missing. ”

"What?" Feng Qing's eyes like a deep pool flickered in the light of the lamps and candles, and surprise and anger flashed on his face that was as cold as an ice sculpture.

"Where's Master Li?" he asked, after a moment of silence.

"I'm waiting in the study. ”

With a flick of the sleeves of his robe, Feng Qing strode out of the dormitory and walked towards the imperial study.

"Smack," Feng Qing angrily picked up a book and smashed it on Lord Li, who was kneeling on the ground.

"My dignified prison in the Imperial Capital is like someone's pocket, you can take whatever you want, you all eat what you want. ”

Kneeling on the ground, Lord Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was beaten by the emperor throwing over, he was not afraid but felt a burst of joy in his heart, he has been an official for ten years, and he knows Feng Qing's character, whenever Feng Qing is angry, he will definitely not take his life, if Feng Qing does not say a word, it must be that he is really angry, and he will not leave anyone a chance to live at that time.

"Tell me more about the process. Sure enough, Feng Qing, who had finished scolding, returned to normalcy and ordered Lord Li, who was kneeling low.

"Your Majesty, the two gate guards were killed by a sharp weapon, the guards in the prison were pierced by silver needles in the key points and died, the four assassins were also killed by silver needles, and the last one was the leader of the assassins who disappeared, and the patrolling guards did not see anyone entering or leaving the prison. Judging from the scene, there must be three people, two of them after killing the gate guards, changed their clothes and continued to wait at the gate, and the remaining one person entered the prison and killed four guards in an instant, and then after entering the prison, he killed four assassins in a row and took away the fifth assassin. Master Li said tremblingly.

Feng Qing didn't speak after listening, just sat in front of the desk and looked at Lord Li heavily, not knowing what to think about, Lord Li's heart that had just been put down was raised again, and the sweat on his forehead dropped like rain on the cold bluestone bricks.

"Xia Linhai, it is rumored that Yin Feng will go to the prison of the Criminal Department to check again. There was no emotion in the cold and deep voice.

"He also ordered the four city gates to be guarded and carefully checked for passers-by. ”

At the same time, in the Xuan Palace, Feng Zhao and Yue Ming both received messages from their side: four of the five assassins in the prison of the Criminal Department were killed and one was taken away. It turned out that after Feng Qing was assassinated, Feng Zhao and Yueming were afraid that the assassin would be killed, and at the same time they sent their respective people to keep an eye on the prison of the Criminal Department.

Fengzhao came to Yueming, it was not yet dawn, Yueming also took the letter in his hand, looked at it twice, and then threw the letter in the small stove next to the table, and a flame suddenly rose.

Fengzhao, who entered the door, sat down at the small table, and when he looked at the moonlight, neither of them spoke, but just sat quietly.

After a long time, Yueming got up and took the chess pieces, put them on the low table in the center of the ground, and the two of them each held the chess pieces and played chess silently. At dawn, Liao Ruze came in and handed a note to Fengzhao. There were only a few sentences on the letter: "The person who came entered a private house in the north of the city, which was once rented by Jiang Xuerong. ”

After reading the letter, Feng Zhao passed it to Yueming again with no expression.

After waiting for Yueming to finish reading, Feng Zhao asked softly, "What do you think about this matter?"

Yueming put the letter in the small stove again, looked at the burning flames and said lightly: "Even if it is thistle, why kill people?"

"Yes, the country of thistle behind Ji Rujin must not be afraid of the name of assassinating Fengqing on his back. But five assassins, killed four, and took one away" After a little contemplation, Feng Zhao continued: "Is that the last assassin still useful?" After that, a pair of eyes as bright as stars looked at the moon on the opposite side, and Yue Ming's calm eyes did not have a trace of waves, and after looking at the wind photo, he said slowly: "Unless that person is useful to thistle Rujin." ”

"But why kill the other four, if I were thistle Rujin, I don't care about the captured assassins, this assassin is very important to me, I will also save him and rescue the other four together, why bother to kill them, and it takes so much effort. ”

"What is the use?" the two fell silent again.

After a long time, Yueming's coachman sent another letter, informing Yueming that Fengqing had sent someone into the prison of the Criminal Department to investigate, and the city gate had stepped up the investigation.

"Pass the word and keep an eye on the houses in the north of the city. Fengzhao said to Liao Ruze.

In the prison of the Criminal Department, next to the four dead guards, a burly middle-aged man with stubble under his cheeks looked carefully, he took out a magnet, slowly shook it between the neck of a guard, and with a small clanging sound, a very small silver needle was sucked out of the neck of the dead guard.

After taking a closer look at the silver needle, he took the magnet and the silver needle in the box and walked out of the prison. The prisoners on both sides of the aisle silently looked at the few people walking, and the prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department were all prisoners with status, some were former officials in the officialdom, and some were Jiangyang thieves. After twisting and turning, he stopped at a row of horizontal prison doors in the deepest part of the prison, and slowly walked through the four narrow prisons, his eyes like owls in the dark night, flashing with the light of coldly catching prey.

"Has it been moved here?" he asked as he walked, and a deep baritone asked coldly to the officer accompanying him.

"No, after discovering it, Master Li gave an order to keep the scene. One of the accompanying officials wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied nervously. The pressure on him from the head of the guard named Yin Feng was much thicker and deeper than this prison.

Yin Feng didn't ask anything more, in front of an empty cell with an open door, he stopped, looked at it for a while, bent down and picked up the lock that fell on the ground, looked at it carefully, and then put it into the box held by the guards in the back. Then he silently walked into the cell, and after looking at it carefully, he came out again to the door of the cell next to it. A dead man was half-lying on the cell door, his godless eyes wide, but he could see nothing more. After Yin Feng carefully looked at his facial expression, he found a bleeding spot the size of a needle's eye on his temple leaning against the iron fence, and then took out the magnet of Fang Cai, and after a while, a silver needle was sucked out. After checking them one by one, he took the box from the hand of the guard behind him, "You can bury it." After saying coldly, he turned around and glanced at a cell with a living person next to him, in the dim corner of the cell, an unkempt man flashed a pair of dull eyes and looked at him, saw Yin Feng look at him again, and suddenly came out of the darkness, drooling something in his mouth.

"Someone, open the cell door," a jailer next to him hurriedly stepped forward and opened the door.

Yin Feng came to the prisoner, and the eyes of the two met for a short moment.

"Take this person away. He commanded. Two soldiers walked behind him and set up the prisoner, and walked out of the prison with Yin Feng in a big stride.