Two days passed, and on the third day, just after dawn, I opened my eyes with some hesitation.

I'm going to give you the answer today.

"County Lord." The door was pushed open, and the person standing outside the study was backlit, and he could only see the outline clearly but could not distinguish his facial features.

I looked up from the table, but I was still lazily lying on the table, and one movement lasted all night, and suddenly I straightened up, only to feel that my lumbar spine was really painful. "What's so flustered?"

"Something happened again." The guards who rushed over from the palace said in a panic.

Something happened again.

A second corpse appeared in the palace, this time it was still Xiyi's people who died, but it was the personal guard next to the Shangshu lord, and he was still strangled from the back of his neck, but this time he was hung from the old locust tree in the middle of the courtyard of the palace when it was dawning.

When I arrived, Huo Yu was already there, and he looked at me with the same despair in his eyes.

In the previous female corpse, we focused our suspicions on the child in her womb, and we were trying to guess who wanted to get rid of her and her child, but this time, the appearance of the second corpse once again put the truth in a desperate situation. Was it the wrong direction of our investigation in the first place, or was someone deliberately disrupting us?

Huo Yu took advantage of Gong Li's autopsy and walked up to me quietly, and after exchanging glances with me, he didn't say anything, just let out a long sigh, I think I understood what he was going to say.

"Hmph, the three-day deadline has just arrived, and the killing of my Xiyi maid has not yet been clarified, and now even the guards have been killed, is there anyone who specifically targets me Xiyi, you have to let my old life be put here!" Lord Shangshu was even more arrogant, and it was not difficult to guess that Xiyi had died in the palace one after another, which made the old man panic.

"Dad, let's go back to Xiyi." The son of the Shang Shu family seemed to be unable to hold his breath.

"Huo Yu, dispatch elite soldiers to strictly guard the palace." I felt that my brain was blank, a little hypoxic, and I really had no clue and inexplicably added too much pressure. "You and I take turns stationing."

"Yes." Huo Yu lowered his head in response.

Who will it be who can wantonly kill people in the palace? The palace is guarded by some of the most elite soldiers trained in our military camp, who can break through the layers of encirclement and kill these two people in the palace quietly. What does Huang Fuxuan know?

"Ahh I flipped the table with the help of wine, stumbling and barely standing on my feet, with a chill on my chest that was colder than outside, what was going on, what was going on.

In a trance, I seemed to see Yu Wenzheng push the door and walk in.

Ignoring my hostility, he sat down indifferently. "Maybe you're just ignoring something that can tie this qiē together."

I woke up suddenly, and there was no one around.

The table was still overturned, and I fell to the side and fell asleep.

There is some indescribable bitterness and loss in my heart, I can't remember what he looks like, but when I was most helpless, I still thought about him, I thought it was the two years of accompanying practice in the mountains, and I had habitually relied on him in my heart.

"The guest officer walks slowly." Xiao Er shouted behind me.

Walking out of the tavern, it was already dark, and the wind was biting, so I couldn't help but reach out and twitch the shawl.

"We seem to be very close."

The gentle and lovely female voice sounds very comfortable, and you don't have to look back to know who it is. I said, "Inadvertent encounters are fate, and deliberately arranged encounters are man-made." ”

She wasn't annoyed by my words, but she happened to smile with her. "The county lord is not like a drunken guest, I don't know what kind of troubles I encountered, and am I lucky enough to be the one to listen."

Then I turned my head to look at her, who was cloaked in a heavy cloak, supported by the little girl, as if she had just come out of the tavern. "Does it bother you?"

Shen Yi shook his head, turned his head slightly and said to the little girl, "Mo'er, you go back and tell your mother first, I'll accompany the county lord for a walk, and I'll go back later." ”

"Yes." The little girl known as Mo Er is extremely disciplined, she lowered her head and replied, without any cowardice.

"Shen Yi, you are really a smart woman." Her short sentence, though ordinary, carried a lot of weight, and she explained her actions, which seemed to be very respectful, and she could not refuse to move the county lord out, and a woman who could have such a mind in a moment must be extremely wise.

"The general has been in a bad mood lately." Looking at Mo Er's distant back, Shen Yi's tone carried a not-so-obvious loss. "I just want to see if there's anything I can do to help."

Well. I nodded, led her forward slowly, and said as she walked, "We haven't found out who the real culprit is in the death of Xiyi's maid, and now there is another murder in the palace, and it is still Xiyi's people who died, and we are under a lot of pressure now, the queen mother's birthday banquet is imminent, and there will be guests arriving slowly in the future, and the case will not be solved, I am afraid that everyone in the world will laugh at the Zhaohua county lord who has won a false name." ”

"What about you?" She said lightly, with some distressing weakness in her tone, and she looked straight ahead, but the words entered my heart. "Are you afraid of the shame of the world? Or are you afraid that among the guests who will arrive later, there may be people you can't bear to witness your helplessness. ”

My heartbeat unconsciously missed the beat, and I opened my mouth but didn't know how to answer.

"Ayin," she said, turning her head to the side with a bright smile, "I'm older than you, do you mind if I call you that." ”

The inexplicable kindness made me very useful, and I shook my head.

"When I didn't see you, I heard him talk about a lot of things about you," Shen Yi turned his head, walked slowly, and said slowly, "Maybe you don't know that for General Huo, you used to be his admirer, and his childhood was grown up listening to the old general tell stories about going out to fight with you." Before he went on his first expedition with you, he came to me in particular, and he asked me to look at his armor, and asked me if it was okay to greet you like this, and if I would like to greet you like this. Later, you became more and more acquainted, and he said in front of me that you were talking more and more, and I used to have a very bad feeling in my heart, and I was even very afraid that you would snatch him. ”

I was a little stunned, I really don't know this, when I went out for the first time, I specially appointed Huo Yu, just because I knew his father, and it was natural to believe that the tiger father had no dog.

"But the first time I saw you, I was relieved." I can only see her side face, that smile is full of slow happiness, it seems that every time she talks about Huo Yu, she has such an expression.

I laughed too, "Because you know I'm not as good as you." ”

She was a little surprised when she heard me say this, shook her head and continued, "Because I see a deep affection in your eyes that you can't let go, how can you notice other people if you hide a person deep in your heart." ”

I was startled and tried to hide it by pretending to be calm.

"But it's such an obsessive you, dispelling my worries about you, we are very similar, we have an impossible person in our hearts, but we are still struggling to deceive ourselves. So that Sauvignon Blanc, only you can understand. She gradually became a little lost, and I vaguely heard that it seemed that the Sauvignon Blanc did not understand the person who should understand.

But I happened to remember that day, Huo Yu's expression, I thought he understood.

"I once heard that Wen Taowu, the lord of Zhaohua County, is all excellent, and it can be said that she is a unique woman in the world. But if even this kind of case is stumped for you, what about those who are counting on you and hoping that you will fulfill their wishes? Shen Yi seemed to have something to say, she seemed to be deliberately waking me up, she didn't mean to hide, and said bluntly.

I understood the meaning of those words, "You were waiting for me on purpose." You need me to help you, don't you? ”

The chance encounter outside the tavern was really artificial, Shen Yi was as I remembered, she was a smart and absolute woman, but her only mistake was that she overestimated me, now I have no combat effectiveness, I just want to live a stable life, defend Dongfu, guard Ning Wangfu, and find A Ning.

I put an impossible person in my heart, guarding a past that I can't go back to, I have to bear the debt I once made, and use my whole life to repay this debt, and I can't afford to fight against fate anymore.

She stared into my eyes and sensed my evasion.

"Shen Yi is willing to be a slave and a maid for the rest of his life, and beg the county lord to unravel the truth of the year for Shen Yi." She fell to her knees in front of my eyes, and her tone was resolute.

The weather in early spring did not usher in the expected warmth, and it snowed heavily in Leyao City this night.

In this night's dream, I was distressed over and over again, I dreamed that the city was full of fireworks, bidding farewell to my biological father, and suddenly looked back and heard the sentence behind me that His Majesty had returned to heaven, and my heart at that moment was full of self-blame and helplessness. That night's Fu Gong taught me a thorough lesson, and those who accompany me in this world are all deception.

Young Fu Ang cried and hugged my legs, and he shouted, Sister, Sister.

I finally saw the person I wanted to see the most, he sat in the carriage in the middle of the enemy army, commanding the Beishao army to attack the city, the loud sound of crashing into the city gate, still echoing in my ears, becoming a pain that I could no longer speak when I woke up in the middle of the night.

I wasn't scared before, but I'm really scared now.

I can't fight fate, I don't want to fight.

"How's it going?" I heard someone ask in the room.

"I tossed all night, and I had a fever for almost a day, and the fever just now subsided." Aunt Li said, took off the veil on my forehead, soaked it in water, folded it and put it on my forehead, very distressed, "Don't look at how strong she is, she is a girl after all, this series of accidents, she is all on herself, how can she bear it." ”

I tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids were burning very uncomfortably, and I opened a slit in a daze, and it was uncomfortable to lie flat on the couch for a long time, and I struggled to turn sideways. "How long have I been asleep?"

"Not long, let's sleep a little longer." Aunt Li helped me up and half-leaned on the side of the bed. "The fever has just subsided, don't move."

"Is there any news from the palace?" I can't wait to ask.

"Not yet." Aunt Li was about to say something, but she saw me struggling to get up, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go to the palace." I think I know what clue I'm missing, and that clue will come up again tonight. Shen Yi's appearance is either thought or providential, but her appearance has solved some of my doubts.

In the middle of the night, there were few lights in the palace, and I had just arrived at the gate of the palace, and I had no time to greet the situation today, when I saw a silent black shadow flying into the darkness.

"There are assassins! Gather the guards to capture the Assassins! I dropped a sentence and hurried into the courtyard.

The shadow ran desperately in front, and I chased after it with all my might.

"County Lord, it's dead!" The guards suddenly shouted in the courtyard.

The shadow and I both paused.

I panicked in my heart, thinking that it was bad, but I still slowed him down and strode to catch up.

He led me to run all the way over the walls of the palace, and I didn't know how far I had gone, until he shook off the palace guards, and he stood still and turned around.

Full of murderous aura.

He could have continued to run, but I had just gotten away from a high fever, and I was so weak that I was about to catch up, but he stopped at this time, and obviously, his goal had changed.

I was only shocked by the flash of silver light in front of me, and I habitually took half a step back and almost dodged it.

Not a knife, not a sword!

It was a weapon I'd never seen before, like a claw in my hand.

He suddenly leaned over, and on both hands were shiny iron claws.

"Who are you?" I was forced by the silver light, so I had to half-squint my eyes and stare at his every move.

He didn't speak, but he rushed straight up.

I habitually stretched out my hand, but I couldn't help but be stunned, and I came out in a hurry, and I didn't even bring a weapon. This instinctive movement is so strange that I almost forgot that I once had a sword.

Reaching out to his right arm, the arms collided, and for we were so close at the moment that I could hear the pain he had swallowed in his throat.

Half leaned back, dodging his other paw.

"County Lord!" Huo Yu rushed over and shouted from afar.

The man in black was shocked.

Without hesitation, I drew a short dagger from my waist and slashed it directly across his right arm.

He was in pain, but he didn't have time to fight, and he jumped and ran.

Huo Yu wanted to chase, but was stopped by me. I put the dagger away and hid it under my clothes. "No need to chase."

"Isn't he a murderer?" Huo Yu was puzzled.

"Let's go see the third dead in the palace first." I turned around first. "If the person who died is the one I just guessed, then I have already guessed who this murderer is."

"Guess?!" Huo Yu was quite surprised, he didn't believe that I was so sloppy.

The palace, which had just been silent, was already very lively and bustling at this time. With the help of the guards to open the way, Huo Yu and I were able to enter the center of the crowd.

"But who you guessed?" Huo Yu looked at the male corpse on the ground and asked with a dark expression.

"Coincidentally, it's him." I watched Lord Shangshu's body lying on the ground, the son of the Shangshu family was holding his father's body and crying breathlessly, I said to the guards behind Huo Yu, "Send someone to ask the Queen Mother to inform her that Lord Shangshu of Xiyi has been killed." He said to Huo Yu again, "Please come to Master Gong and Miss Shen Yi." ”

Huo Yu lowered his eyes, and the moment he leaned over, I heard him say faintly, "Is it really solved?" ”

Really solved? I couldn't help but smile and nodded, until I happened to meet Shen Yi outside the tavern, I didn't have a clue about this succession of murders, but Shen Yi's appearance, the words she said, reminded me again of what Yu Wenzheng said in my dream before I met her.

Maybe you're just ignoring something that can tie this qiē together.

And now, I've figured it out.

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