It was late at night, the people who had been busy all day had fallen asleep, but on an abandoned village outside Beijing, the fire was bright, and more than ten corpses were neatly placed in the unhappy spacious courtyard, and the snow-white camellia on the side was stained with bright blood stains in this late night.

Shu Heng walked out of the room in a dark robe, his face was as cold as frost, and he followed Shu Qi beside him, he walked to the corpse in two or three steps, frowning, these thirteen people were not all buried under the hands of the Praetorian Guard, most of them chose to bite □□their tongues and commit suicide after knowing that they could not resist, he didn't expect that the people sent to the capital over there were all dead soldiers, and even had already buried poison in their bodies, he had to admit that he lost this battle.

Shu Heng couldn't help but clench his fists and closed his eyes, what went wrong, in the last life, the other party obviously only cultivated the army, and there were almost no dead soldiers, even if there were, they had never sent dead soldiers into Beijing, in this life, what went wrong.

When Shu Heng returned to the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion after finishing these things, the sky was getting brighter, Ning Xi couldn't sleep well without Shu Heng by his side, and when he heard the sound of the door being pushed open, although Shu Heng had been very careful to reduce his movements, Ning Xi still woke up.

Ning Xi rubbed his eyes and gently propped himself up with his hands: "You're back." ”

Shu Heng didn't get close to Ning Xi, just gratitude, and then said, "You continue to sleep, I'll take a bath." ”

Ning Xi nodded, and after Shu Heng left, she couldn't sleep anymore, tossing and turning on the bed, she knew that Shu Heng was doing things for the emperor's uncle, and she also knew that Shu Heng was secretly investigating something, she could faintly feel that Shu Heng's task was dangerous, but she had never felt it intuitively, so she didn't worry too much, but even if Shu Heng deliberately stood so far away from her, she still smelled a faint smell of blood, looking at Shu Heng like that, it shouldn't be that he was injured, but in case, What about the next time his blood is his own?

When Shu Heng returned to the inner room after washing, he saw Ning Xi rolling around on the bed, and couldn't help but step forward to hold her, looked at her condescendingly, and smiled helplessly: "What are you doing?" ”

Seeing this, Ning Xi moved towards the bed again, then lifted the corner of the quilt and patted the sheets: "Come up and rest." ”

Shu Heng shook his head: "It's not early, you have to go to the court in a while, you can sleep." ”

Ning Xi patted the bed harder: "Isn't there still some time, come up and rest for a while!" If you don't come up, then I won't sleep. ”

Ning Xi stared at Shu Heng stubbornly, Shu Heng sighed lowly, knowing that he couldn't say anything about Ning Xi, so he obediently went to bed.

Ning Xi saw that Shu Heng didn't take off his coat, and knew that he wanted to lull her to sleep before leaving, Ning Xi didn't poke him, but approached him and sniffed.

Shu Heng pushed her away with a smile: "When is it the same as Xiaoxi." ”

Ning Xi raised his eyebrows: "What?" I'm afraid I'll smell your blood. ”

Hearing this, Shu Heng frowned, and sniffed his sleeve carefully, why didn't he smell it, was it because he had been there for a long time and couldn't detect this smell?

Ning Xi pulled out Shu Heng's arm: "Don't smell it, you have incense on your body now." As he spoke, he found a suitable position and lay down on Shu Heng.

"Shu Heng, you promise me something."

Shu Heng gently stroked Ning Xi's cheek, and when he heard this, he said directly: "En, you say." ”

"As for me, I don't want to ask what you're doing, or how dangerous your mission is, I just want you to say yes." Speaking of this, Ning Xi paused and looked directly into Shu Heng's eyes, "You must be good." ”

When Shu Heng heard this, he was stunned, and then put his head on Ning Xi's head: "Fool, I worked so hard to marry you, how can I be willing to leave you alone." ”

No one knows the pain of the person left behind better than him, how could he be willing to let Ning Xi try such an experience, they finally started again, he naturally wanted to pay her back and return himself to a satisfactory situation.

When Ning Xi heard this, the corners of her mouth curled, she believed in Shu Heng, as long as he agreed, she would never regret it.

Shu Heng still didn't stay long before leaving, and after the end of the early dynasty, Shu Heng was left by the emperor without exception.

"I think Aiqing has an explanation." The emperor turned the wrench in his hand and said, "You swore in front of me that you would bring back the living mouth, and I only agreed to your action this time, but in the end, what you showed me were the dozen or so cold corpses, and I wanted evidence!" ”

Shu Heng's eyes flashed, this time it was indeed his mistake, the abandoned house he checked in the early hours of this morning was the house of a wealthy businessman in the past, and then the rich businessman's family moved to Jiangnan, and it was abandoned, because it was quite far away from the capital, and it was overgrown with weeds, when he investigated the group of people who came into contact with Ouyang Ling before, that place had always been excluded by him, if it wasn't for this purse, and the abandoned Zhuangzi was full of camellias, he wouldn't have suspected going there at all.

So when he received the news from Shu Qi that the people who stayed there might be the group of people they had been looking for, he was so excited, and he didn't even do too much investigation before entering the palace and swearing to ask for the order, but he didn't want to be too anxious, and he smashed a good deck of cards, and now the clues in his hands are almost all broken, is all the hard work over the years in vain? He was not reconciled!

Shu Heng is unwilling, there is someone who is even more unwilling than him, that is, the emperor, any emperor who knows that someone has been secretly coveting his throne will not sit comfortably, and he can dig out the person behind him by looking at it, but because of Shu Heng's mistakes, all the clues are broken, which makes the emperor how can he remain calm.

"Shu Heng, with your ability, this shouldn't be done so badly!" The emperor did not hide his suspicion of Shu Heng, and asked directly, which was also his affirmation of Shu Heng's ability.

Shu Heng knelt down suddenly: "This matter is indeed the minister's mistake, it is the minister's lack of ability to take into account the comprehensiveness, the minister is willing to accept any punishment, but the minister has already thought of a way to make up for it, and the minister is willing to make up for it." ”

The emperor squinted his eyes and looked at this child he had seen since he was a child, would Shu Heng really betray him? The Queen Mother said that he should have more trust in the Shu family, but can he really fully trust him? If he hadn't trusted his fourth brother too much, how could he have allowed his fourth brother's power to swell, and finally almost took his throne.

"Okay, you get up, I agree that you will make up for your mistakes and continue to investigate today's events, but if there is still no result, then don't blame me for being ruthless." The emperor considered it several times and finally made this decision.

In King Xian's mansion, Ouyang Ling was so angry that she smashed all the ornaments in the house after hearing the news that King Zhou brought back, and the maids stood aside silently, just afraid that they would be angry.

King Zhou also sat aside with an iron face, looking at Ouyang Ling's angry appearance, his heart was even more annoyed, and he couldn't help but ask loudly: "Didn't you say that the people over there are very powerful?" also said that Shu Heng would never be able to find out where they were, but now it's okay, and they have been taken away. ”

Ouyang Ling was tired, and sat down angrily, and when she heard King Zhou's words, she directly rolled her eyes: "Who knows if it's your bottom exposed." ”

After a pause, Ouyang Ling said again: "But you don't have to worry, now we all know that those people have committed suicide and died, how to say that they are all dead, Shu Heng don't want to get any news from them." ”

King Zhou looked at Ouyang Ling uncertainly: "Really? How do you know that it wasn't fake news released by Shu Heng? He didn't believe that people could choose death without hesitation when faced with the choice between life and death.

Ouyang Ling was stunned when she heard this, to be honest, she has not been in contact with this group of people for a long time, and she actually can't help but beat the drum in her heart, what if they are dug up by Shu Heng behind her, now she and King Zhou are isolated in Beijing, once something goes wrong, they don't want to turn over.

"Then you say, what should I do?" Ouyang Ling was entangled for a moment and asked.

King Zhou twisted his eyebrows and said, "It's better to let them get into trouble as soon as possible to distract the attention of Father Emperor and Shu Heng." ”

"But according to the previous plan, the time is not ripe enough, and those troops are now quite thrilling to enter Beijing." Ouyang Ling was not as impulsive as King Zhou, but was a little hesitant.

"Then you just wait for someone to find out who you are, to find out about the good things we have done, and to trample us into the dust with one foot." After a pause, he walked up to Ouyang Ling, held her shoulder and said, "Don't you want to see Shu Heng's remorseful appearance, don't you want to see Pingle kneeling in front of you, think about it, once we succeed, you can wantonly □□ those who have hurt and betrayed you, don't you want to?" ”

"Yes, of course I do!" She couldn't help but laugh now when she thought of Ning Xi kneeling in front of her begging for mercy, that's right, she was eagerly looking forward to this day, anyway, the world was hers in the end, why did she have to wait for what time, she couldn't wait to see the situation of the soldiers coming to the city now.

"Okay, I'll go to the flying pigeon and pass the book and inform them." Ouyang Ling said immediately.

Hearing this, the corners of King Zhou's mouth rose, and he stopped Ouyang Ling and said, "Make the situation more urgent, and make sure that the people over there understand that if you don't take action, you will be killed." ”

Ouyang Ling nodded, and then went to get a pen and paper, and the corners of King Zhou's mouth slowly rose behind him, he had coveted that position for a long time, and when he ascended the throne, he would see who dared to say that he was a sinner behind his back. (.)