Kou Qianzhi is in his early sixties this year, his origin is a mystery, some people say that he is the child of the landlord's family, and some people say that he was taught by the gods on Mount Tai, so he attained the Tao, but no matter which way he said, he could not hide his erudite and talented ability.

He is good at identifying poison and also good at detoxification.

According to him, he had obtained the divine book left by Shennong, and he could know all kinds of herbs in the world.

Tuoba Tao was very suspicious of this Taoist priest, but even so, he would not joke with his life. One of Kou Qian said that it was poisonous, so he called for a sheep and pierced it with a crossbow arrow.

After a while, the sheep vomited and vented, and sure enough, he died of convulsions.

This made the old guard's face pale, and he ran to wash his hands as soon as he confessed his guilt. Tuoba Tao's face was pale, such a violent poison was not an ordinary color, and the poison used by ordinary people was nothing more than arsenic and the like, which could be applied to arrows and had no color, which ordinary soldiers could not get.

It is said that He Mulan was guarding the door, and suddenly Tuoba Tao sent someone to summon her and asked her to meet her. He Mulan asked Mangu to guard the gate and went to Dianjiangtai.

It turned out that Tuoba Tao had already learned about the assassin's assassination last time from Kumoti and Cui Hao, but no one knew the details except He Mulan, so he had to summon He Mulan to inquire again.

He Mullan talked about how he had heard their conversation, how they had waited for more than a quarter of an hour after the secret conversation, how he had gone out after all the people had left, and so on.

"Then why did you go there?" Tuoba Tao asked urgently, "You are Kumoti's personal soldier, and the place where the miscellaneous items are piled up should not be the place you should go......"

He Mulan glanced at Kou Qianzhi, who looked like he had nothing to do with himself, which caused He Mulan to be angry in his heart, and said angrily: "I went to the toilet that day and found that there was a person dressed as a sergeant shuttling in the tent of the Chinese army, how could there be a Taoist priest in the Chinese army?" I wondered, so I followed his back all the way, and when I saw him enter the tent, I followed him too, wanting to question him why he was wandering around the Chinese army......"

Everyone looked at Kou Qianzhi with puzzled eyes, and Kou Qianzhi was also stunned, and then thought about it.

"I opened the tent and found that there was no one inside, and I heard footsteps outside, and I could not explain why I had run into the tent, so I lifted a blanket and got in, and hid among the many miscellaneous objects."

He Mulan smiled wryly.

"I only heard the voice of the person in charge, I didn't see the other person's face, and the other people didn't speak a few times, and I couldn't hear who it was."

The most important thing about this is who the Taoist priest is. Hearing He Mulan's words, Cui Hao immediately stood up and shook his head and said, "It can't be Daoist Kou, Daoist Kou and I have been together that day and have never left."

"Then Daoist Kou, have you brought other Dao boys to the Black Mountain Camp with you?"

Tuoba Tao stared at Kou Qianzhi closely, and when he saw the latter shaking his head silently, he rubbed the corners of his forehead with a big headache: "How can there be a Taoist priest ......?"

"Your Majesty, you are the true son of heaven, maybe the heavens warn, and it may not be ...... to send an envoy to lure the loyal people to relieve their misfortunes," Kou Qian said solemnly: "Although this is unusual, it is not a unique thing. Han Liu Bang beheaded the White Snake and rebelled, and there were also gods and men in Jin who went down to teach Taoism......"

"You are ridiculous." Tuoba Tao interrupted him rudely. Now I'm going to find the group of people who shot the arrows. The crossbow machine is not easy to carry, there must be several people with parts, temporarily assembled on the school grounds, otherwise a person swaggering in with a crossbow machine will definitely be seen by many people."

With a cold face, he pointed to the soldiers under the school field who were accused of not being allowed to go out.

"Check! Check one by one, and let the people who have seen the crossbow shoot identify them one by one! "

Kou Qianzhi took a poisoned arrow, stretched out his finger and rubbed the arrow, took his finger in his mouth, and then spit it out with a "phew".

"Begonias and broken intestine grass, it seems that there are some tuberous roots of Aconitum aconitus...... The materials of this poison are not unusual, they are all common in the Central Plains. This northern aconitum is only produced in the grassland, and it is suitable to be used as a medicine. The person who dispenses poison is very powerful, so many ordinary goods can also be combined with such a big poisonous thing, this poison should have been mixed recently, and there is some astringency......"

He Mulan looked at Kou Qian speechlessly and said seriously, "There is still some astringency", like a gourmets in later generations, he looked at his mouth curiously, wanting to see if it would swell into a sausage mouth.

Nothing happened, Kou Qianzhi just shook his head and said to Tuoba Tao: "Your Majesty, the roots of the North Aconitum are highly poisonous, and all the flowers and leaves of the North Aconitum are withered in winter, it is impossible to find it, only when it sprouts in spring, this poison has only been prepared recently, maybe it is just waiting for this flavor medicine to lead. Your Majesty can send someone to investigate carefully, and recently there are soldiers who have been sneakily digging grass and wild vegetables, and if you can find out, you may be able to find someone who dispenses poison."

Tuoba Tao was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately called Kumoti to come up, and asked him to join the military tent and find someone to go to all the camp tents and ask if anyone had gone to dig up something that the cause had dug up and brought back.

After a while, the guards beside Tuoba Tao brought forty or fifty people over, each dressed in gray clothes and looking terrified.

The first person to say that the person standing on the stone pier was dressed in gray was dressed in gray, and he could no longer remember what the gray man looked like, after all, he looked from the bottom up, and could only see a chin.

But he remembered that the other party was dressed in gray, with a pair of black-faced and white-soled shoes on his feet, a tall figure, and a crossbow in his hand.

In such a crowded place, it is difficult to want to perform a stab without being noticed at all. But the men in the army were in a hurry, black and yellow. [,！ Clothes, because these colors are the most resistant to dirt, so as soon as they are pulled out, they pull forty or fifty people.

Except for those who were not wearing black shoes, who were short, there were more than twenty out of forty or fifty people.

Some people came in groups, and there were a lot of people in the vicinity to testify, and then half of them were removed, and in the end there were only eleven people who could not prove what they were doing.

He Mullan was originally just patiently waiting for the results of the search, because even in modern times, to check the murderer in a group of people, in addition to the monitoring, it can only be investigated on the spot, so she did not give any opinion.

But when the eleven people all came forward, He Mullan was still taken aback.

Because her original fire was the same fire, and the ghost slayer who was later exalted in Dabi was also among them.

Kumoti was beside Hermulan at this time, and when he saw that her face had changed, he asked her in a low voice, "But what's wrong?"

Hermulan was the only one who had contact with these Assassins, and it was normal for her to notice something wrong.

"It's not...... There is nothing wrong with me in the past, and there is nothing wrong with me who used to eat, live and practice together. He's not a big fan, so I was a little surprised to see him here."

He Mulan's heart was turbulent, but he still tried his best to hide his surprise and show a calm appearance.

"Oh, your fire?"

Kumoti glanced at the man.

This Mulan's expression in the past was very suspicious, as if she regretted why she came here.

A few people who had seen the man in gray stood beside them, carefully looking at their clothes, shoes, and figures, and even asked them to stand on the stone pier to simulate the scene at that time, but these last remaining people were all similarly tall, short, fat and thin, and their clothes were almost the same, and no one could tell who was standing on it at that time.

In desperation, Tuoba Tao ordered people to take care of them all and prepare to "investigate" them carefully.

As for what will happen to them, you can only imagine it.

This made Hermulan even more worried.

Tuoba Tao was assassinated, it stands to reason that he should immediately put up a guard of honor or go to a safe place to take shelter temporarily, but I don't know if Tuoba Tao is too stubborn, or Tuoba Tao likes to face difficulties, not only did he not dodge, but also took a large number of people to swagger to Kumoti's royal tent, ready to rely on not leaving.

He Mulan was strong in martial arts, and he was one of the few credible people in the Black Mountain camp, so he was transferred to serve as a guard, and guarded Tuoba Tao with Kumoti.

This kind of trust naturally makes many people look sideways, after all, it is always surprising that a general can be trusted as a brother. He Mulan only wanted to know what would happen to kill the ghosts, but the king ordered her to protect Tuobatao, and she had no choice but to obey.

The school yard was rummaged through for an afternoon, and finally the disassembled crossbow parts were found in the evening.

Some of these parts were buried in the earth, some were abandoned in hidden places, and they were eventually rummaged through. Except for the smallest spring, which could not be found, everything else was roughly assembled into a crossbow machine and sent to Tuobatao.

Tuoba Tao played with the crossbow machine for a while, sneered and said, "This is the crossbow machine from the south, those things that the Han and the ministers used to defend themselves. They are not good at bows and arrows, so they use machines. Look, how beautifully polished is this shaft? We don't have such a precise hand crossbow in the Wei Kingdom, and we can disassemble it and close it with such a smooth shaft."

"Is it Liu Song?"

A general was stunned, "That's impossible, how could the Song people mix into our army!" "

"It's just that the crossbow machine is from the Song people, not necessarily the assassins sent by the Song people." Kumoti explained: "The craftsmen of the Song people are highly skilled, and although our two countries do not trade with each other, smuggling has been repeatedly prohibited. This crossbow machine is inconspicuous when it is disassembled, tucked into the quilt of clothes, and it is extremely difficult for people to detect."

Tuoba Tao didn't seem to care about his life and death at all, but unfortunately touched the crossbow.

"It would be nice if the spring was still there, this crossbow is good, and I can still have more weapons. This man is so hateful that he would rather take the spring away and cause trouble than give me the complete crossbow machine! "

"Your Majesty, is this what to say after the assassination?" Kumoti looked at his cousin depressedly, and couldn't help but let out a low voice: "Now you should live in the General's Mansion in Black Mountain City!"

"What to do after the assassination? Are you so panicked that you cry?" Tuoba Tao waved his hand indifferently. The assassin wants to see me like this, but I don't. I still eat and sleep well, continue to patrol, and them off! "

He Mulan coughed, stifled a smile, and continued to be on duty.

About an hour later, everyone in the Black Mountain City inn came. As soon as Tuoba Tao, who was not afraid of heaven and earth just now, heard that Gu Bi was coming, he hurriedly ran to the depths of the king's tent, but was chased by Gu Bi with a blue face, and was educated in the tent for half an hour.

Helian Mingzhu was also surprised that he would encounter an assassination when he went to the camp in Montenegro, and saw that He Mulan was on duty in the tent with complete armor, and looked at her with wide eyes, and he didn't know what expression to use to face her.

Emotionally, she thought that maybe Hermulan knew about the kind of thing in a woman's house for some reason, and sent it to her out of good intentions, but reason told her that even if she was as close as a mother and sister, when the men in the family found out about it, no one would tell them what they were doing.

He can know it, either for a reason, or for a wild bee and butterfly.

But she was too embarrassed to ask what was going on.

Seeing that Helian Pearl had glanced at her, He Mulan turned his head away and stopped seeing her, and blinked in confusion. [,！ ].

In the past, this soft girl saw her as if she had met her in a foreign country, why did she teach self-defense and send a little angel, but the other party ignored herself?

Hey, adolescent girls, it's trouble.

Tuoba Tao rested in Kumoti's royal tent, except for Gu Bi and Cui Haosu in the deputy tent, the rest of the people were on duty in the royal tent to protect the emperor's safety.

Tuoba Yan is the most frightened, even if the Eagle Yang army is 8,000 arches guarding the king's tent, he still sends thousands of elites to surround the king's tent as impregnable, even if the general who is not very good at the brain and can't detect anything, he knows that there are big people in the army.

And who can be the two clan relatives in the army who can make Tuoba Yan and Tuobati fight 120,000 points and be on duty in person, the answer is about to come out at once.

This made Li Qing and a group of people who had seen the excitement in the school field scared half to death, especially Li Qing, he also had a direct face with the one, but he couldn't beat the other party and played Lai Pi......

'No wonder Mulan and Dugu Wei are reluctant to fight him......

Li Qing gritted his teeth and complained.

'I actually humiliated myself, and I was disgraced in the eyes of His Majesty! ’

Night.

"Aren't you all going to sleep for a while?" Tuoba Tao looked at the few people standing straight in front of his mattress, "Go and rest for a while, there are so many people guarding outside the tent, it must be fine. Even if there is something, so many people outside the tent can't keep it, what's the use of you?"

"Your Majesty is going to talk about it again, tonight we will act as your bodyguard and accompany you on duty all night. I can't stand it, we'll take turns to rest."

No one knows what the identity of the "general" who launched the assassination is, and it would be bad if the other party tangled up his men and horses and rushed directly to the camp.

He Mulan was Kumoti's personal soldier, and all the guards followed Kumoti's horse, and Kumoti said that he would not leave, and everyone had to continue to stand.

"Question: How do you sleep when you stand like this?" Tuoba Tao patted the pillow, "I don't have so many people standing in front of me like this in the palace!" Either go back to sleep or sleep with me, the choice is yours! "

Kumoti hesitated for a moment, and suddenly opened his mouth and said: "I may not have talked to His Majesty for a long time, and since His Majesty has been warmly invited, then I have no choice but to be respectful and obey."

After finishing speaking, he immediately took off his armor and shoes, got into Tuoba Tao's quilt in Tuoba Tao's stunned expression, and said to the emperor beside him: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, hurry up and rest in peace."

"You...... You are crazy! "

Tuoba Tao stumbled and said, "You actually asked me to warm your bed?"

Tuoba Tao drilled into the quilt first, and the mattress should have been hot at this time, so Tuoba Tao said so.

It's just that these words are too ambiguous, as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly "poofed" endlessly, and even He Mulan couldn't suppress his urge to be crooked.

"How dare I ask His Majesty to warm my bed for me? It's just that I'm sleeping outside, and if something goes wrong, I'll be able to block it for my majesty. Sleep ......"

Cuomo prompted Mullin to keep watch outside his tent.

"Just have me here."

At this time, they couldn't help laughing until their stomachs hurt, and when they heard Kumoti's words, they immediately withdrew from the tent. Tuoba Tao looks stupid and funny, but he and Kumoti are both tall and big, both of them are lying in the mattress, how awkward it looks, they can only find a place with few people to laugh completely.

He Mulan and the others withdrew from the tent, and Tuoba Tao and Kumoti suddenly changed the expressions on their faces and became serious. Kumoti asked him in a low voice under the quilt: "Your Majesty Xià came to the army on this private visit, in addition to the few people you know, who else did you meet?"

Tuoba Tao has always thought that he is not a faint king, he has sat on the throne for five or six years, and he has sat steadily, and when he encounters assassination, he will naturally not be comfortable in his heart, and when he heard Kumoti's words, he said angrily: "I met the Egret official of Montenegro in Black Mountain City, and I also met Mulan by chance. But Mulan shouldn't be suspicious, he stood with me during the competition. If he wants to kill me, he can do it at any time in the Great Summer Palace."

'Know that Mulan is your confidant......

Kumoti rolled his eyes under the covers.

"You're taking too much risk to do this, and you deliberately went to the school field to draw out these assassins......"

"It's better than when I found out that there were assassins around me when I went north. If the army is drawn out and I die on the front line, then the six armies will really be left without a master, and the army will be defeated like a mountain." Tuoba Tao sighed, "It's just that I didn't expect the other party to be so careful, I only came out with a dozen people, and they didn't dare to go out to assassinate, they only dared to shoot me with a crossbow with their heads and tails."

"Dugu Wei is still careless, almost letting you really be in danger. Hua Mulan didn't know your purpose, and she was afraid that she would rush over immediately when she heard that you were in danger, then Li Qing was a member of the Chinese army, with a simple personality, and he would not be an assassin, and now it seems that the assassin can only be among that group of gray men."

"There are only so many people who want to kill me. It's not Liu Song's people, it's just those old guys in Pingcheng, I have a son now, and I also have a puppet, there must be more people who want to kill me."

Tuoba Tao laughed coldly, "Kumoti, I've been in Black Mountain for a few days, and I feel more and more that Tuoba Yan is getting more and more old now, and he can even do things that humiliate the ghost party in public. The other party's status in Rouran is higher than that of him, the coach of Montenegro, and it is a joke to spread such humiliation."

"The army can be mixed with assassins, and there are a lot of grievances, all of which are related to his'ignorance', my northern expedition this year is imperative, and I am ready to let him sit in the Montenegrin camp during the northern expedition, and not make an inch. When the Northern Expedition is successful, I will let you sit in that seat, can you do it?"

What he asked was,. [,！ During the Northern Expedition, Kumoti may have saved enough military merit to be promoted to the rank of commander.

"What does His Majesty want me to do......" Kumoti replied with a smile, "Just say it, even if I go to the soup, I will definitely do it."

"That's a word." Tuoba Tao patted Kumoti's hand under the quilt. If I am really unfortunate enough to encounter any accidents, protect my son Ah Huang and train him to be a wise man. With 80,000 cavalry in the Montenegrin battalion in your hands, I'm not worried about anyone making any trouble."

"Why did Your Majesty say this?" That's a chill in the back." It's just an assassin, and it can't make any waves."

"Last time, I was going to come to Montenegro, and I was attacked outside Shuozhou City, and I must have been informed of my whereabouts by the worms and Xia people. Dark ghosts are difficult to prevent, no one knows which way the gods have been thinking about letting me die, I am doing it brightly, I don't think I have done anything to get rid of it quickly, someone assassinated me, it means that I am afraid that I am afraid to the point that I don't want me to live, isn't this the best compliment for me?"

"To deal with this kind of person, you can only treat them as if they do not exist, if you are really scared, you will make the other party have the idea of using despicable means. It's just that I, if I want to die, I will die on the inner ghost, and the enemy will not be able to kill me."

Kumoti suddenly frowned and covered his mouth and nose.

Tuoba Tao smiled.

"Don't worry, you just thought too much about it since you were a child, that's why you grew so old. I'm just casually talking about what might happen. I don't treat you as an outsider, that's why I'm telling you this."

"陛xià......"

"Huh?"

"Can you not fart under the covers next time?"

"…… I didn't do it."

"Who else could you do it! Isn't it me?".

Off-the-books.

"Did you hear anything inside?"

One of the guards asked a few of his companions next to him. Looks like there's a quarrel inside?"

Everyone pricked up their ears to listen to the movement inside, and it seemed that there was a cacophony of noise.

Worried that something was wrong inside, He Mullan took the lead in lifting the curtain and entering the tent, but after seeing what was going on inside, he retreated with a red face, holding down several other guards to prevent them from continuing to enter.

"Your Majesty is very good, and General Kumoti is having a fight."

It turned out that Zhao Ming said that His Majesty likes to sleep naked/slept, but it was true.

It's just naked/sleeping, why do you want to take off the quilt, this big night, even if it's spring, it's never warm enough to sleep without a quilt.

Moreover, General Kumoti also pushed His Majesty's head into the quilt with both hands, saying that it was a bad intention, but His Majesty smiled very proudly......

Could it be that His Majesty is still a shaking?

……

I can't think about it anymore, I'm terrified to think about it.

The next morning, things took a terrible turn again, and what worried Hermulan the most happened.

The ghost killer who was locked up in the torture tent died in the marching tent in the early morning.

Originally, these people were tied up, and they were only allowed to remove things from their mouths when they were questioned, and they were not allowed to come into contact with outsiders. But because there was no conviction after all, and there were several generals, the criminal officials Cao didn't dare to go too far, just kept interrogating them some questions.

It happened that when they were interrogated in the early morning, because the criminal officer let his guard down, the demon slayer suddenly took something out of his bun and swallowed it.

The person next to him thought it was poison, and immediately looked for Lang Zhong in the army to see, but after a while, the face of the ghost killer turned purple, and he died of anger.

There was no mischief in the army, and Lang Zhong could only see that he was suffocated to death. When the Black Mountain City came to see it, it was said that it had swallowed a large piece of something and choked to death.

Tuobatao had him slit open his throat and found a square piece of iron, about the size of a pigeon's egg, which was the missing spring from the crossbow.

At this moment, the person who killed the ghost was almost confirmed. It's just that why he didn't commit suicide yesterday, but he had to wait until the day, and why he chose to swallow the machine spring in front of everyone, has become a mystery.

He Mullan refused to believe what he heard at all, because although the ghost slayer was introverted and did not like to speak, he was by no means a yin owl. On the contrary, because his master gave him freedom, and the Right Army took him in, he has always had a strong sense of belonging to the Right Army, and when he goes into battle to kill the enemy, he is not at all the kind of spy assassin who is wise enough to protect himself.

Such a result is unacceptable to Hermulan, but the spring will not appear in the hair of the demon for no reason. Even if it appeared in the hair of the demon slayer, why did he have to swallow it?

Such a big piece of something, swallowed it, even if it can live, it will never be pleased.

For a while, the fog was heavy, and even He Mullan began to wonder if the ghost killer was the pawn of the "general" hidden in the right army.

After all, the pillar that Luo Hun often leans on is not an acquaintance who will not know, but that Luo Hun is so good that he will not die at that time, and he made a bad plot and injured his shoulder.

The martial arts of killing ghosts in the right soldier are among the best, but they really can't beat Na Luo Hun. After Na Luo Hun was injured, he entered the big competition, but unfortunately lost to Li Qing's men and did not meet Hemulan.

But if he really kills to the end, he must stand on the stage and accept the reward.

Whose slave was the ghost slayer?

Was he an assassin or not?

Whether it's or not......

The person behind the assassination of Tuoba Tao, He Mulan didn't want to let him go.