No one could have imagined that the assassins would be so rampant that they attacked the inn at night, although they failed to succeed, but after all, more than 200 people were killed and wounded! In just two days, nearly 300 people died in Luzhou, and all of them involved the safety of King Heng, the prefect of Luzhou was like ashes, and after seeing Song Chen again, he wrote an excerpt as soon as he went home, and sent it to Beijing overnight.

The dead bodies inside and outside the inn were cleaned up, and the remaining blood stains on the ground were washed away, but despite this, the smell of blood lingered in the air, especially on this sweltering summer night.

People are desperate for a heavy rain to wash away the darkness of the night.

Chu Xue never likes to use incense, but tonight she also burned Song Chen's commonly used Su Hexiang in the room, which is the smell that he often wears on his clothes, and the smell always reassures her.

Song Chen returned in the middle of the hour, because the weather was really hot, Chu Xue served him to bathe again, and the two of them lay down and fell asleep. The bed was covered with a silk mat to escape the heat, and the room was still filled with dry ice, which was actually very comfortable, Chu Xue stayed up for two days, and was really sleepy, and fell asleep unconsciously on his shoulder.

Her breathing gradually slowed and quiet, but he still didn't feel sleepy, I don't know what the situation is in the capital at this moment?

Capital.

The weather has been particularly dreary these days, and although it has been a while, it has not been cool. Qin Yuan walked out of the yamen of the guard house on Quting Street, and talked with Zhu Xun, a thousand households in the guard house beside him.

In the past few days, Qin Yuan has been inspecting the health center, Qin Yuan is an official who takes care of this matter full-time, and there are hundreds of health centers in the capital, he is serious in his work, and he has to personally inspect it, and he has been busy until this o'clock unconsciously. The inner city has long been curfew, the roads are empty, and the occasional lights in the houses facing the street have not yet been extinguished, pulling the figures of the two people long.

After explaining some more matters, the two were walking to the intersection of the eastern section of Quting Street, and were about to say goodbye to each other and go home, when they heard a noise from a mansion in front of them.

The people living in this area are all powerful people with heads and faces in Beijing, and the two vaguely feel that things are not good, so they hurriedly go to check.

The mansion where the riot took place was the home of Lord Shi Chulin. In the dreary darkness of a moment ago, a dark shadow suddenly flashed, and he jumped into the high wall of the Chu Mansion. But coincidentally, the guards patrolling at Zishi were passing by, and the guards in the front row happened to see this scene, so they were alert and hurried to the gate of Chufu.

As soon as the guards knocked on the door of the Chu Mansion, and before they could explain the situation to the servants guarding the door, they suddenly heard an exclamation from the mansion, "There are assassins!" ”

The guards were immediately alert and rushed into the courtyard to capture the Assassin. Unexpectedly, the black-clothed assassin was extremely arrogant, and when he encountered more than 20 guards, instead of having the slightest intention of escaping, he continued to run towards Lord Chu's room, with obvious intentions.

Everyone watched, and of course the guards would not let him succeed, and immediately fought against him. But the assassin was not an ordinary person, his martial arts were very strong, and the sturdy guards of more than 20 people could not take him down, and the scene was stalemate for a while, and there was chaos in the Chu Mansion.

When Qin Yuan and Zhu Xun arrived, the black-clothed assassin had already put down seven or eight guards, and stabbed the important ministers of the imperial court under the noses of the guards.

Seeing that there was a master, the man in black knew that he had no chance of winning, so after more than a dozen moves, he withdrew and disappeared into the night. Zhu Xun wanted to chase after him, but Qin Yuan hurriedly stopped him, "Be careful to turn the tiger away from the mountain!" This person's martial arts are not weak, if it is just to distract you and me, then it will be dangerous here. ”

Zhu Xun suddenly understood, nodded, turned around and went with Qin Yuan to check on Lord Chu Lin's safety.

Fortunately, Chu Lin has been in the room, and there is no danger, seeing Qin Yuan and Zhu Xun coming to the rescue, he thanked them repeatedly, Qin Yuan politely bowed his head and hugged his fists, "My lord is serious, he works in the Beijing Health Department at the lower level, and it is his duty to protect the people of the capital." Besides, you are an important minister, and protecting you is also loyal to the court. ”

The young man in front of him was handsome and handsome, Chu Lin admired it very much, so he asked him his name, Qin Yuan smiled humbly, "Don't dare to be, don't have your surname Qin, and have a single name." ”

Hearing his name clearly, Chu Lin paused slightly, it turned out to be Qin Mu's son.

Chu Lin praised with a smile, "Qin Yanshi is very respectful, and the tiger father has no dogs, which is enviable." ”

Qin Yuan admired him very much, and he sincerely complimented Chu Lin while being modest.

After a brief greeting, Qin Yuan ordered Zhu Xun to increase the number of guards patrolling, and sent additional personnel to be stationed in Chu Mansion. After some tossing, another hour passed, and tomorrow morning he would report tonight's events to the imperial court, Qin Yuan did not delay any longer, and then left.

The capital at night repeated the tranquility, Chu Lin and his wife returned to the room, Chu Lin patted his wife's shoulder, and sighed, "Tonight is safe." ”

Mrs. Chu nodded. Her husband is a court official, and there are not a few people who have offended him for decades, but Chu Mansion has always been peaceful, and it is the first time that such a blatant assassination is done tonight, and the woman is inevitably frightened, but when she saw her husband say this, she didn't say anything.

The couple lay on the bed again, and suddenly heard Mrs. Chu whisper in the dark, "That son of the Qin family seems to be a really good child, if Xue'er doesn't ......" Before she finished speaking, she sighed, "It's a pity." ”

"There's nothing to be like anymore, Xue'er is Xue'er, there is no other possibility, sleep!"

Chu Lin closed his eyes and thought back to the scene tonight.

Catch up with this hour to assassinate, the other party is either too stupid or too well planned.

Let's see how tomorrow morning goes.

Early in the morning of the second day, the court shook, but what shocked the Manchu Dynasty civil and military was not the assassination of the imperial history, in addition to the news of the second assassination of King Heng from Luzhou, there was still a person assassinated last night, but this person is no longer a powerful person in an important position, but a criminal in the prison - Yin Cao Qian of Shuntianfu who was participated by Chu Lin because of the enclosure case.

The officials in Beijing speculated that in just two days, King Heng, who was about to enter Beijing to receive the reward, was assassinated twice, and the second time happened at the same time as the assassination of Chu Lin and Cao Qian.

Emperor Jianhe on the Jinluan Palace turned pale, and retreated back to the imperial study without saying a word.

"Rebel!"

A pile of brand-new folds was thrown to the ground, and the eunuchs in the study fell to their knees again.

The fury in Emperor Jianhe's heart at this moment is comparable to the thunder of the Nine Heavens, and the son-in-law who he has worked so hard to cultivate for more than 30 years is so confused!

Emperor Jianhe didn't want to believe that the prince was really related to the Cao Qian enclosure case, who didn't know that after a hundred years, the whole world would be his, why did he bother to instruct Shuntianfu to expel the villagers? What's the use of him asking for such a large piece of land?

Therefore, even if the handwriting of the prince in the secret letter was identified, Emperor Jianhe still had some hope, so he let the three divisions secretly interrogate, and he was not allowed to leak a little news before the truth was revealed, if he was really wronged, it would not let him fall into the mouth. Emperor Jianhe's move can be said to have left enough way back for the crown prince.

But now that the truth has not been found out, he is so impatient to do it?

He thought that except for Chu Lin, if he killed Cao Qian, he would be able to get rid of it?

It's simply that there is no silver here, covering your ears and stealing bells!

Also, he assassinated his compatriots and siblings twice!

He thought that in addition to the third child, he would be able to sit firmly in the future?

Once there is no third child to guard Yanzhou for him, Beihu in the north will be ready to move, and when he is a new king, how can he resist the barbarians who are as powerful as jackals?

He only had the flies in front of him in his mind, and he didn't care about the longevity of the world at all.

I'm finally wrong!

At this moment, Emperor Jianhe had mixed feelings in his heart, he thought that he would give his son-in-law the best environment, the best teacher, and the most justifiable reputation, and finally be able to raise a Ming Jun, but he insisted on it for more than 30 years, which was still wrong after all!

Now it seems that the stupid second brother is not only far inferior to the third and fourth children, but even the indifferent boss is much stronger than him.

At this moment, anger, disappointment, and regret all came to his heart, and the iron-blooded king was a little overwhelmed.

But he didn't think much about it, and after listening to another news from the trembling eunuch, he hurried to his harem.

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Luzhou.

The heavy rain fell in the middle of the night the previous day, and it took two hours to stop, accompanied by the rumbling thunder, Chu Xue slept extraordinarily fragrantly, and did not wake up until the sun was shining on the second day.

When she opened her eyes, Song Chen was no longer there, she touched the empty bed beside her, and couldn't help but sigh, it seemed that she was so tired that she didn't even know when he got up, you must know that she always woke up before him in the past.

As soon as she stretched her waist, Yanling, who heard the movement, opened the door and came in, seeing her lazy appearance, Yanling's face was heavy for two days with a slight smile, and asked her softly, "Is the master awake?" ”

She nodded and asked, "What about the prince?" ”

Yanling helped her out of bed and replied, "The prince is discussing with someone in the next room." ”

She hummed and sighed to herself: "It seems that I was really tired yesterday, and I don't even know when the prince got up." ”

Yan Ling smiled, "The prince got up before dawn, and when he went out, he told the slave and maid not to disturb you." ”

Chu Xue looked at Yanling in surprise, "Why did the prince get up so early?" ”

Yan Ling shook her head, "The slave doesn't know either, but it seems that the prince seems to have something on his mind, as if he is waiting for someone...... By the way, that Lord Xing Feng came to ask to see him this morning, and the prince went next door until now. ”

"Hmm." Chu Xue nodded, and suddenly remembered, as if she hadn't seen Xing Feng for a day yesterday.

Just thinking about it, Song Chen pushed the door in, saw her get up, and asked her with a smile, "Got up so early?" Why don't you sleep more? ”

"The prince is laughing at the concubine, you are up, why don't you call the concubine?"

Seeing that Song Chen was smiling very easily, and she was in the mood to make fun of her, Chu Xue was relieved, and vaguely felt that the matter should have passed.

Song Chen habitually wanted to pinch her face, but when he stretched out his hand, he found that he was still injured, and he was so focused these days that he even forgot the pain on his hand.

Chu Xue still remembered, she hurriedly asked him, "Has the prince changed the medicine today?" ”

"Not yet." He told the truth.

"Go to the doctor." She turned her head and instructed Yanling.

Since their arrival, the most famous doctor in Luzhou has been invited to stay in the post house to take care of his injuries.

It didn't take long for the doctor to rush over, and Chu Xue retreated to the inner room, waiting for Song Chen to come out after changing the medicine.

After the heavy rain, the weather was much cooler, Song Chen was really in a good mood, he stayed with her for most of the day, and played a few games of chess after listening to the piano, although his left hand was injured, but it did not affect the chess road at all, and he won several games against Chu Xue, Chu Xue saw that he was happy, and he was also much more relaxed.

But when it was nearly evening, she learned the news of her father's assassination in the capital and couldn't help but be shocked.

She overheard it when the prefect of Luzhou came to pay homage to Song Chen, and as soon as the visitor left, she hurriedly ran out and asked him, "Lord Wang, my father was assassinated?" Is there anything wrong with him? ”

She had just passed by the door, and she had only vaguely heard a word, and she had not heard the extra words clearly.

Seeing that her face was pale, he hurriedly comforted, "Master Chu is fine, the assassin was stopped by the guards who happened to be passing by." ”

She was relieved, and asked eagerly, "Then, who is that who wants to kill my father?" ”

Song Chen paused faintly, "The imperial court has sent someone to investigate, don't worry." ”

She nodded, but her eyebrows frowned slightly.

Why is even the father in danger? Is it still because of Song Chen's relationship?

It turns out that this road has spread so widely, and it is already so dangerous before it has even stepped out.

She looked at Song Chen worriedly.

You must be safe.

Song Chen originally planned to stay in Luzhou for another two days before leaving for the capital, but he had to change his mind in the early morning of that night and entered Beijing overnight.

Because the guards from the Hengwang Mansion in the capital brought him a piece of news - not long after the news of his second assassination was delivered to Beijing, Concubine Jing was poisoned and fell into a coma.