"The imperial brother suddenly handed over the case to Ben Hou, and Ben Hou naturally had to do his best, so as not to live up to the trust of the imperial brother."

Su Lihe heard the threat in his words, so he had to ask stubbornly: "Could it be that the Hou Ye suspects that this matter is related to the idle pavilion?" ”

"It's not suspicion, it's all signs that point to Xiange. Ben Hou has reason to believe that this Jianghu organization will definitely not be able to escape its involvement. ”

Su Lihe's heart jumped suddenly: Dingguo Hou plans to attack Your Excellency? He looked at Lan Lietian steadily, and asked for a while: "Master Hou, can I trust you?" ”

Lan Lie was noncommittal: "It depends on what is going on." ”

Su Lihe pondered for a long time before speaking: "A woman." ”

"It has a great impact on the idle pavilion?"

"Nope. She just does what she is told. ”

"Since it doesn't matter, it doesn't hurt for Ben Hou to spare her life." Lan Lie looked at Su Lihe playfully, "I can't see it, it's a rare love species." ”

Su Lihe didn't expect him to agree so happily, he was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and he was suddenly overjoyed, and he looked at Lan Lie deeply: "Master Xie is complete." ”

Su Li and the people to be protected are naturally twelve. The Marquis of Dingguo wants to kill a person, and he doesn't need any excuse at all. If he agrees, he really promises it. So Su Lihe didn't suspect that Lan Lietian was deceiving him.

Lan Lie calmly accepted his salute: "Next, shouldn't Deacon Su also say something?" ”

After confirming Twelve's safety, Su Lihe did not hesitate for a moment and began to recount what he knew:

"No one knows when the Pavilion was founded, and the news in the rivers and lakes began fifteen years ago. The first batch of elite killers in Xiange was cultivated. ”

"I heard that their best killers have all grown up in the Idle Pavilion since they were children, experienced the strictest and most cruel training, and have the most absolute loyalty to the Idle Pavilion. They don't have names, only numbers. Those with names have no status, there are ordinary people, and there are also masters of the rivers and lakes. They usually collect intelligence, and they are completely indistinguishable from ordinary people; When the elite is on an assassination mission, it is responsible for covert liaison and response. ”

"Five years ago, Xian Ge cultivated a group of genius killers, a total of nine people, numbered eleven to nineteen by age. Except for twelve and nineteen, the others were men. The man I'm looking for is twelve. She has a wonderful job of changing her face, and she originally had a tear mole in the corner of her left eye. If Master Hou encounters it, he hopes to add more Haihan, and be sure to show mercy to his subordinates. ”

"The real fame of Xiange started from Shacheng three years ago. The two armies confronted each other outside the city, and the 19th successfully killed the two commanders and deputy commanders of the Hu army and the accompanying army division in full view, and the battle became famous all over the world. It is rumored that she has the most stunning face, the most alert mind, and the most agile skills, which is simply a natural killing weapon. ”

Lan Lie listened quietly, the thoughts in his mind gradually took shape, and he blurted out, "How old is she?" ”

"About seventeen." Su Lihe replied very quickly, but he didn't ask Lan Lietian why he asked about his age, "The specific date is not clear, I only know that her birthday is within two months of the year." ”

Lan Lie suddenly remembered the time in early February, when he deliberately left the restaurant and left Xia Nangong Xue Ruo alone, he saw her smile in the distance. Although it was only for a short moment, he was absolutely not mistaken. Every time she went out, she had contact with people, but only that time she smiled.

Birthday? I see. Lan Lietian sneered, almost having already concluded her identity: I didn't expect that she would have such good skills, and it was not humiliating to ambush him in this mansion.

Two years ago, Lan Lie heard fragmentary news, but because he intended to retire, he never delved into it. Since it is related to Nangong Xueruo, he has to think about it seriously: "Why did the idle pavilion appear at the border pass?" ”

"Can Master Hou know Ji Zhongwei Ji Huaiyong?"

"I only heard his name, but I didn't see him. He has a clue in his hand? "When Lan Lietian was still in the army, Ji Huaiyong was just a small border captain, and the two were far apart, so naturally they had no friendship. Lan Lietian had only heard his name mentioned after the Battle of Sand City.

Su Lihe hesitated, not knowing whether he should tell him out. He thought about it for a while, and with the ability of the Marquis of Dingguo, it was a matter of time before he found out about Ji Huaiyong, so it was better to say it directly, and he could also settle his feelings: "Before the battle of Shacheng, Ji Zhongwei used to have a strategist by his side, named Cheng Ming, who was quite strategic, and left quietly after the war subsided, and he disappeared. According to Xia Guan's speculation, Xian Ge appeared in Shacheng in order to recruit Cheng Ming. ”

Hearing Cheng Ming's name, Lan Lietian's face suddenly became solemn: "The recruitment was successful?" ”

Su Lihe was a little surprised by his solemnity, only to know that Cheng Ming was also a person with a story: "Xia Guan is not sure. It's just that this year, I heard the news from the gossip in the rivers and lakes, saying that there is one more scheming Mr. He in the idle pavilion. ”

Su Lihe did not specifically mention the thirteen. No matter where the little sister Su Wan's mind is, Thirteen is the benefactor of the Su family after all, he threatened to cut off relations with the Su family, if Su Lihe deliberately mentions it, it will ruin Thirteen's plan. Dingguohou stepped in sideways, and with the ability of thirteen, he would definitely find a chance to get out.

After Lan Lietian finished the negotiation, he instructed Zhan Qin to send off the guests, and then stayed alone in the study, leaning back into the rattan chair, and turning up a past event from his memory.

Before the second prince Xia Jingze ascended the throne, Cheng Ming was the adviser of the crown prince Xia Jingde. Lan Lietian remembered this person clearly, and had several contacts. After Xia Jingde lost power, Cheng Ming left, if he really became the strategist of the idle pavilion, then the position of the idle pavilion is quite interesting. When Xia Haojun stepped into the study, he saw Lan Lie's thin lips hooked, revealing a shallow smile, and his eyes were extremely cold. His scalp suddenly went numb: every time his master showed this kind of smile, it meant that someone was going to lose blood luck.

"Master Hou?" Xia Haojun lightly put down the teacup and regained his attention, "This is the Lion Mountain Longjing that was rewarded in the palace yesterday." ”

Lan Lie smiled and lifted the lid, and the fragrance of tea overflowed in the study, refreshing people's hearts. He slowly flicked the tea foam floating on the water: "Has Luoxia Yuan moved in the last two days?" ”

"Nope. The girl over there reported that she had stayed in the room for the past two days and had not left the room. "The girls who pointed out to Nangong Xueruo have been carefully selected, and they are the old men in the house.

"What a coincidence." Lan Lietian still had a warm smile and took a sip of tea, "The person who instructed her seems to be inseparable from the case at hand by Ben Hou." Let's test it again tomorrow and let Lin Yu follow carefully. ”

Xia Haojun wanted to speak and stopped: If Hou Ye plans to investigate carefully, why don't you let Mo Changkong follow, but instead pick Lin Yu, who is not as safe as Mo Changkong? is like this, but I'm afraid it won't end well in the future.

Thinking about it, Xia Haojun didn't say it in the end, and turned around and told Lin Yu to go.

The matter of Lan Lie's return to the court, no one deliberately mentioned it in front of Nangong Xueruo. With her ability, she will notice the slightest movement in the Hou Mansion, not to mention that yesterday Mo Changkong suddenly transferred more than half of the manpower in the mansion, and even her Luoxia Yuan guards were two less. If she hadn't noticed the anomaly, she would have been too dull.

Her mission has finally arrived.

In the afternoon, Lan Lie came to Luoxia Garden, and Nangong Xueruo was sitting under the window, bowing her head and embroidering a handkerchief. She is learning embroidery from the girls around her recently. Although he started learning a little late, he was born with ten fingers and dexterity, and he was willing to humbly ask the girl for advice, and the progress was fast, and he embroidered well in just a few days.

Sunlight shines through the window, casting shadows on her focused side face, obscuring the perfect face at the intersection of light and dark, obscuring the look. Lan Lie leaned over step by step, raising his hand to hook her chin. Nangong Xueruo was startled, and raised her head with the strength of his hand, her long eyelashes blinked, and her dark eyes rolled, falling on Lan Lie's face with questions.

Lan Lie stroked her cheek, with a bit of teasing in his expression: "Go out for a walk with me tomorrow?" He joined the army as a young man, honed on the battlefield for many years, and his military career formed a thick hard callus on the palm of his hand, and he failed to polish off the roughness between his fingers in the past two years, scratching on the delicate skin, slightly tingling. Nangong Xue didn't dodge or dodge, looked straight into his eyes, and smiled innocently: "Okay." ”

The next day the sun was nice. Nangong Xueruo stood on the crowded street, hooking Lan Lietian's hand and smiling. Lan Lietian tilted his face slightly, with a little smile on his lips, and his eyes were as calm as water.

A man brushed shoulders with them. The man looked at them levelly, did not stop at them, and walked forward on his own. Lan Lietian suddenly became alert and looked back. The man, dressed in an ordinary blue robe, didn't seem to notice Lan Lie's gaze, and walked into the pawnshop on the side of the street.

Lan Lieting noticed his footsteps, and landed on his toes first, without making a sound. It is a deliberate practice of light footwork.

-- It's finally here. He didn't know this man, and he didn't know that he was the seventeenth of the idle pavilion, but he intuitively believed that this person was related to Nangong Xueruo.

Lan Lietian suddenly sank his face. Nangong Xueruo noticed that his face was wrong, so she stopped and stopped talking. Lan Lie gave her a meaningful look, with a little warning, but did not speak. Nangong Xueruo looked back innocently and didn't understand what he meant. Lan Lietian didn't explain, just walked along the long street, rolling along the people.

He actually hoped that his judgment was wrong, just a misunderstanding. But when Nangong Xueruo stopped in front of a ready-to-wear shop, pulled his sleeve, and showed him an expectant expression, he was really disappointed.

He didn't stop him, he generously let her in, watched her pick a ready-to-wear, and then walked to the inner room to try it on, out of his sight. He knew that while she was picking out her clothes, someone must have slipped into the shop from behind, hiding in the inner room and waiting for her. It's strange that he didn't want to demolish her to her face.

He wasn't wrong. When Nangong Xueruo tried on clothes, a handkerchief seemed to slip off inadvertently. A man quickly flashed out of the shadows of the inner chamber, reached out and grabbed the handkerchief, and put it away with the utmost care.

Exactly thirteen.

"Let's go." She kept her hands on her hands, urging in a very low voice as she changed her clothes, "He just warned me. ”

"Be careful." Thirteen knew the importance of it, and didn't dare to stay longer, so he whispered to her.

"Yes."

When Nangong Xueruo walked out, she found that there were only two guards left who had been following Lan Lietian not far away, her heart suddenly sank, and she still pretended not to know what to do, walked up to him and stretched out her arms and asked, "Is it beautiful?" ”

Lan Lie glanced at her lightly and stopped looking at her: "If you like it, it's fine." ”

"Then this one!" Nangong Xueruo made a very happy look.

Lan Lietian did not object, and nodded in agreement. Nangong Xueruo was wearing new clothes, and she didn't go in again to change back into the clothes she wore when she went out, so she pulled him away. Lan Lietian knew that she wanted to do her best to get rid of him and create the greatest safety for her joint partner. Pity......

Half an hour later, they sat in the largest restaurant in the capital, and Lan Lie poured out a few signature dishes. Before the dishes were served, his few disappeared guards appeared, and four of them had new faces, apparently the original ones were injured, and they were immediately replaced by new ones, and the total number remained the same, just sitting downstairs, blocking all her retreats, as well as the direction in which Lan Lietian might be assassinated. One of the young men came to their table, it was the newly promoted Lin Yu. He leaned into Lan Lie's ear and whispered something, presenting him with a handkerchief.

Nangong Xueruo sensibly moved her gaze out of the window, and her heart skipped a beat as she swept over the handkerchief. - The one she gave to Thirteen was bloodstained.

After the dishes were served, Lan Lietian sandwiched it to her and asked her if it was to her taste. She also smiled cooperatively and said it was delicious. The handkerchief lay quietly in the corner of the table, as if forgotten.

After eating, Lan Lie asked her where else she wanted to see, and she excused herself from being tired and offered to go back to her house to rest. Lan Lietian also leaned on her. Before the two of them left the table, Lin Yu immediately followed, picked up the handkerchief and put it away carefully. On this, there is the pattern and personnel of the Hou Mansion, as well as Lan Lietian's daily habits, hobbies, and taboos...... Including the snow heme he raised in the house, it is all clear.

Nangong Xueruo has been learning embroidery for several months, not without purpose.

On the way back, Lan Lietian still held her, and the two rode together. When he was about to arrive at the Hou Mansion, he suddenly asked, "Do you know what is on the veil?" Nangong Xueruo pretended not to know: "What veil?" ”

Lan Lietian didn't force her to admit it, and continued to say to himself: "Although the thing was recovered, it failed to take that person's life. I don't know how much he saw. ”

Nangong Xueruo suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and pretended to be innocent and asked, "Idle Pavilion?" Isn't it the legendary killing organization? "-Fortunately, Thirteen did not die; Seventeen is still alive, right?

Lan Lie's eyes darkened and fell silent.

When he arrived at the gate of the Hou Mansion, it was still Lan Lietian who dismounted first, then carried her down, took her hand and went to Luoxia Garden. After the subordinates had served Lan Lie and changed their clothes and withdrew, Nangong Xueruo stared at him and asked meaningfully, "Why did Master Hou bring me back?" "The appearance of smiling and grinning is more like the coquettishness of ordinary women.

Lan Lietian seemed to be talking to himself: "Yes, why did you bring you back?" He beckoned to Nangong Xueruo and motioned for her to come to his side. Nangong Xueruo walked over obediently. When he was two steps away, he reached out and hooked his waist and took him into his arms.

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