Chapter 73 - Quid pro quo [2nd Update]
Outside the door of the General's Mansion, a lewd man with a beard and sluggish spirits, almost unable to see his original appearance, his eyes kept slipping around, and he cautiously rubbed towards the back corner door, the corner door opened in response, and the porter poked his head out and looked: "Ouch, Second Master Chen, you are here!" Please come in, the prince has just come back, and I will take you in? ”
"No, I'll just go in by myself." Chen Er's back, which has always been lazy and stiff, immediately straightened up when he entered the corner door, and his face was a little anxious. Almost all the way to the trot, a puff of smoke into Helian Tao's yard. Helian Tao was pinching Helian Ting's letter in his hand, and when he saw Chen Er panting in, he said happily: "When can you kid give Ye a long face, look at your ghostly appearance!" ”
Chen Er's eyes rolled around, and said, "Master, there is something important." ”
"The old man just came to the letter, there are a lot of facts that matter every day, and this one is not bad, let's talk about it tomorrow! I watched the excitement of the day today, but I was tired! Helian Tao folded the letter and sealed it and put it in the box as it was.
Chen Er stomped his foot anxiously, "Master...... It's that girl from the Li family......"
Helian Tao paused, saw that Chen Er's two eyebrows were anxiously pinched together, stiffened for a moment, and a trace of ominousness flashed in his heart, this ominous was like a drizzle that suddenly poured down, drenching Helian Tao's heart. "What's going on?!"
Chen Er told Li Shuci about being robbed from beginning to end, "I heard that the girl of the Li family seemed to blow a whistle, and then it seemed that more than a dozen guards in civilian clothes followed, but those black-clothed people didn't look like ordinary thieves. The fifth girl also had a subordinate who was injured and was saved by Steward Liu of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Prime Minister Li Cheng should already know the news at this time! ”
Helian Tao took a deep breath, he had been staring at this girl for a long time, but he didn't expect that something really happened! "Let's go, take the people, and get out of the city!"
As soon as Helian Tao came out of the house, he saw Ming An get off the horse and almost knelt on the ground with weak legs, Ming An barely calmed down the chaotic breath and mood, and said: "Lord Shizi, our lord ......"
Helian Tao stopped his words and said, "I already know, go back and tell Li Xiang that I am friends with the five girls of your mansion, and I will definitely do my best to save him!" ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for Ming An to answer, and rushed out with a horse's belly. In the dark, there are also several figures rushing towards the direction of Xicheng!
When the young man standing behind the mountain rock heard Li Shuqiao's words, his eyes shrank slightly, such a big little lady had such a vicious mind. But there was nothing to be ashamed, the women in the deep palace, he had seen too many methods, including his mother concubine, a trace of boredom flashed in her eyes, and she raised her hand and waved it towards the emptiness around her.
Dozens of dead soldiers covered with silver masks, with cold light in their hands, fell down from the thick trees in the forest, rushing down the hillside like a gust of wind, and the black-clothed people under the mountain didn't have time to react, they were already surrounded by the dead soldiers and killed in one place. Li Shuci watched as the black-clothed people around him fell one by one in a pool of blood under the masked man's sweeping slash. In this battle, except for the sound of the collision between the swords and the cold blades, there was no superfluous sound.
Li Shuci struggled to pounce on Mu Yun, who was lying aside, and gently tested her snort, there is still salvation! He took out the gold sore medicine he had with him and sprinkled it on her wound, and stuffed two more hemostatic pills into her mouth.
In just a moment, the man in black had been killed, and Li Shuqiao had already been stunned by the first dead man to come to him. Li Shuci's legs were weak, he knelt on the snow, gasping for breath, the thick blood went straight into his nostrils, and the masked man disappeared into the surrounding darkness silently as when he came...
With the creaking of soft boots on the snow, Li Shuci raised his head and saw the Confucian King Jin Sheng walking slowly not far from her......
The Confucian King wearing a moon-white robe, as if she was the only warmth that could be grasped in the dark night blood light, like a god formed by the stacking of the sun and moon, she shook suddenly, her body seemed to be alive at this moment, and then she couldn't stop trembling, Fang Cai's sharp coldness disappeared in an instant, her eyes quickly condensed a thin layer of water vapor, her hands tightly wrapped around her shoulders, and she couldn't say a word.
His gaze stayed on her for a long time before he said, "What enmity do you have with the Shen family?" ”
Li Shuci's eyelashes jumped, and the corners of his mouth moved, but he didn't make any sound. Seeing that she bit her lower lip and was silent, like a lonely and arrogant epiphany full of frost, the Confucian King groaned for a moment, then turned around and was about to leave.
Li Shuci didn't know where he got the strength, so he suddenly stood up from the cold snow and said, "Please send us back!" ”
The Confucian King's footsteps stopped, but he didn't look back, "Reason? ”
Li Shuci said slowly: "It must not be an accident that the Confucian prince appeared here, he must have witnessed the whole process of this matter, but he didn't want to rescue him for a long time, but after hearing Li Shuqiao mention Shen Yuan, I guess although this group of black-clothed people may not be from the Shen family, there must be people from the Shen family among them." Is the prince afraid of startling the snake by doing this? ”
King Confucian's gaze brushed over the unconscious Li Shuqiao: "Really? ”
"Yes! What Li Shuqiao said is related to the lives of many people, of course, including me! Only by killing these people will the Shen family not be alarmed, and will only think that Li Shuqiao is willful, so that he may continue the original plan, I think, the Confucian prince is interested in the secret of the Shen family! ”
The corners of the Confucian King's lips raised slightly: "What else?" ”
"Li Shuqiao was instructed to deal with Sanfang frequently, the so-called is just a concubine, but the Shen family is inexplicably supporting all this, what is it for?" Li Shuci sighed and continued: "Naturally, it is for the entire Li family to be used by the Shen family!" ”
"And then?"
"Shen Hao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is deliberately trying to bring the power of the right minister into his palm, what is his intention? Isn't it obvious? ”
The snowflakes that fell on the body of the Confucian King Qingdu slowly raised his eyes to look at the thin flower in front of him, raised his eyebrows and said, "Li Shuci, you are so bold." ”
Li Shuci stood in front of him, his expression was as usual, and he only looked at the Confucian King with dark eyes, as if the person who was kneeling on the ground and trembling was not her.
"Do you know that it is a felony to berate with the court's loyal ministers?" The Confucian King looked at her coldly, and after a while, he said, "Even if this matter is true, what does it have to do with this king." Or are you going to make a deal with the king on this matter? ”
Li Shuci had completely regained his composure, "Since the prince is quite interested in the affairs of the Shen family, I am naturally willing to share what I found with the prince, and I only hope that the prince can reach out to help the Li family when it is in danger." ”
"You're a deep boudoir woman, aren't you afraid of the wind flashing your tongue?"
Li Shuci didn't mind his sarcasm, and smiled faintly: "If the Confucian prince didn't believe me at all, he wouldn't stand here and talk to me so much." ”
The middle-aged attendant beside King Confucianism looked at Li Shuci with admiration, such a little girl, this calm and capable is really rare.
The Confucian king no longer looked at her, and instructed the middle-aged steward, "Send her back." ”
Li Shuci's tense nerves were finally relieved, and the unconscious He Quan was pulled out of the pile of dead, and the middle-aged steward took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and put it in front of He Quan's nose, Li Shuci cast a grateful look at him: "Thank you." ”
He Quan woke up with a stirring spirit and shouted, "Fifth Master! ”
"I'm fine!" Li Shuci patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, I'm going to hurry up and bring Mu Yun back to the house, she's injured." You go back to the city to find Sun Boy first, be careful, your life is at stake! Later, whether you can find it or not, come and tell me. ”
He Quan saw the Confucian King and the middle-aged man standing aside, and knew that it was not the time to speak, so he agreed and left first.
"That'...... The? The middle-aged steward pointed to Li Shuqiao and asked.
The Confucian King's gaze looked at Li Shuci, "You don't take this opportunity to get rid of her?" ”
"Rather than let her die here happily, I would rather let her live to the end and see those people defeated. Even, I hope to fulfill her and Shen Yuan, and let her know what is the real life is better than death. Li Shuci said lightly: "Just let her lie here, my grandfather will definitely send someone to rescue her, and then he said that the eldest sister was kidnapped by thieves, but fortunately, the Xiangfu guards arrived in time to get out of trouble." Isn't that just right? ”
Helian Tao galloped all the way, out of the west city gate to the left woods and ran out, this road is usually walked by funeral people, so it is very wide, and there is no obstacle to running two groups of horses. The sweat on Helian Tao's head dripped, but he couldn't care about anything, that girl...... Laughing, angry, surprised, all kinds of looks appeared in his mind, and he didn't know when he had remembered Li Shuci's voice and smile so clearly.
Although the winter woods seemed very empty, the sky was already dark, and Helian Tao could only follow the rut marks of the horseshoe in front of him, and he could already see a mess in front of him. The carriages and horses scattered on the ground, the unconscious Li Shuqiao, and the Xiangfu guards and black-clothed people all over the ground, Helian Tao dismounted and galloped over, rummaging through all the corpses, but he didn't see Li Shuci!
Helian Tao's heart was lowered and raised, he lowered his head and carefully examined the wound of the man in black, clean and neat, and the blow was fatal! Someone to help? Who is it? Helian Tao's brows furrowed tightly, and he made a gesture towards the darkness, and a ghostly figure almost floated in front of him. Carefully inspect each person in black, "Lord Shizi, no special marks have been found on these people's bodies. Weapons are also common thin-bladed daggers, all of which are lethal in one hit. ”
"Put this woman into the hands of the Xiangfu guards. Let Jia San/Go to Li Xiang's Mansion to confirm that Miss Li Wu has returned to the house. Go and come back quickly! Helian Tao looked at the dead corpses on the ground with his hands behind his back and frowned.
"Yes."