Chapter 349: The Balance in My Heart Suddenly Tilted!
In the past few days, the knife has always been distracted and absent-minded because of his work, and some small mistakes that should not be made have appeared frequently, which finally made Liang Bo feel good.
Dao Yin has always been very diligent in his work, and he can perfectly complete what he commands, so Liang Bo has always been very satisfied with Dao Yin. And Dao Yin has always loved his nephew very much, as long as he promises a little benefit, the other party will be grateful to him and work more diligently.
In the past few days, Liang Bo's mood is not very good. He was always suspicious of Luo Liang, but he couldn't catch any handles. He can't treat a court official as casually as he kills a civilian, it is too eye-catching, and if there is a trouble, it will also make his subordinates unstable.
Originally, he was very irritable, especially when he received a letter from the capital, saying that the emperor had sent Qin to Beiyan. What is the current situation in the border city, others don't know, but he, as the culprit, is like a mirror. At this time, Dao Yin made frequent mistakes, which made him wring his eyebrows fiercely, and he couldn't help but scold.
The knife was shocked by Liang Bo's hehe, and he was already in a hurry, but now the documents at hand have fallen to the ground.
"You've been absent-minded these days, but what's going on?" Liang Bo felt that the knife was abnormal, forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart, and asked.
The knife seemed to be unable to explain clearly, and even the defense seemed to be pale and weak.
Liang Bo's heart suddenly softened, and said: "I know your ability, if there is nothing in your heart, you will never be so wrong and full of mistakes." When I promoted you to my use, I valued your determination not to be surprised, if there is really any knot in my heart that cannot be untied. Don't be afraid to talk to Ben. ”
The look on his face was a little ashamed because he lowered his head, but he hid it in his lowered eyebrows. did not fall into Liang Bo's eyes.
With a deep sense of guilt in his heart, he raised his head and wanted to say something, so he said, "General, ...... general."
Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock at the door, and a soldier walked in with a small box in his hand and something like an envelope. Instead, he glanced at Dao Yin first, and then bowed to Liang Bo and said, "General Yu, someone outside the door has put down this box and a letter." Said it was for Captain Knife......"
Dao Yin's heart jumped, he glanced at Liang Bo, and saw that the other party nodded, so he took the box and the envelope. I had some bad premonitions in my heart.
He swallowed hard. The hands holding the box trembled a little. Gently opening the lid of the box, two bloody fingers came into his eyes, and his heart almost stopped.
Placing the box containing his fingers on the table, the knife trembled and opened the letter, which contained a few words, which read: The end of disobedience is the gradual loss of everything.
The knife closed his eyes fiercely, allowing the letter in his hand to slide down. The tangle on his face and the trembling of his body betrayed his mood at this time.
Liang Bo sat on a wicker chair. Naturally, he glanced at the fingers in the box, and couldn't help frowning. He got up and picked up the letter paper that had fallen from the knife, and after reading it word by word, he asked, "Who left this thing?" ”
The soldier who delivered the letter replied, "General Hui, it's a child. ”
"Children?" Liang Bo's brows were wrung together.
After the initial shock, Dao Yin finally relieved himself, and then knelt on the ground, the sound of his knees falling to the ground was clearly audible, and he cried: "General...... General, nephew of the last general...... Achen ...... He ......"
Dao Yin's voice choked up several times, and his words were also intermittent, but Liang Bo still sorted out the truth of the matter from these broken and intermittent words.
"When did your nephew disappear?" Liang Bo was a little anxious in his heart. It's a bunch of things, and it's really irritating. And he has always felt a little powerless lately, unable to deal with things calmly. The more critical the moment, the more panicked he became. Don't look at his usual cold-faced posture of the king of Hades, but in fact, framing Fang Jianzhang, who was pulling him in one hand, and slaughtering the people in order to extinguish his mouth, is enough to make people feel pressured.
There will always be times when he is frightened, afraid that the imperial court will notice the clues and send people to quell the chaos, and afraid that Fang Jianzhang will not die and come back to take revenge.
There weren't many people who knew Fang Jianzhang's terrifying situation better than him. This kind of horror is like a kind of talent and talent, which can only be manifested on the battlefield, and the decisive heart of killing and private judgment are like two people.
And he, as Fang Jianzhang's confidant, chose to betray because of his glory and wealth, because of the delicious flatbread he drew for him by his current master.
He was afraid that everything was beyond his control, because he mobilized hundreds of thousands of defenders of Beiyan to betray Fang Jianzhang, and he used some seemingly simple but extremely practical methods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were kept in the dark, thinking that Fang Jianzhang's 'failure' was just a planned thing.
Once someone debunks it, rumors will spread at best, and riots will break out at worst, and Beiyan will almost kill itself.
But this is what the master behind him wants to happen, so he can only do it head-on.
For fear of affecting his family, he never mentioned it to his family. And his wife, children, and mother are all in the capital, holding it in the hands of the master behind him, and he doesn't dare not do it. But perhaps in the eyes of his wife, he is still the husband who has made great achievements, in the eyes of his son, he is a majestic general, and in the eyes of his parents, he is a kind and well-behaved son. They don't know what he did to lose his conscience, they don't know that he killed his benefactor unthankfully, and they don't know that he killed the people without mercy for the sake of the future.
One day, when they know the truth, they may be disappointed, or they may agree. He couldn't guess what his relatives would think, but he was afraid that they would despise him, spit on him, and hate him.
But there is no way back. What you do, even if you are mad, even if you lose your conscience, you have to do it to the end.
Because those benefits are just too tempting.
The more he worries about the revelation, the more he can't sleep, and these days he is suspicious and suspicious, looking at everyone like a traitor.
Maybe it's because he is a traitor, and because he is born from his heart, he feels that everyone is as dirty as him. So he doubted Luo Liang and everyone around him. He had suspicions, including the cause of the knife.
But I didn't expect that Daoyin's nephew would be tied up. And the border city of Beiyan is obviously under his control. The other party was able to easily tie up the guards at the city gate, and swaggered to write a letter threatening Dao Yin, telling him to betray him, otherwise he would kill Dao Chen, and call him so ruthless that the Dao family would cut off their children and grandchildren.
Liang Bo knows a lot about Daoyin's family affairs.
Daoyin and his daughter-in-law have been married for many years and have not laid an egg, and the concubine has also married back a few rooms, but none of them have a stomach. Everyone suspected that something might be wrong with the place where the sword was responsible. Unable to conceive an heir, but Daoyin found many doctors to check, but did not find any problems. Even his wives and concubines were checked. None of them found anything wrong, which made Daoyin very frustrated.
The heirs of the Dao family have always been thin, and he also has an older brother, but he gave birth to a son like Daochen. There is also a daughter who died young. Therefore. This Daochen is almost a lone seedling of the Dao family, and he is loved by Dao Yin as a parent, and he never refuses to give whatever he wants.
When he promoted him, Daochen was counted by him. Because Dao Yin loves Dao Chen, giving Dao Chen some tangible benefits is also a good way to buy Dao Chen's heart.
Because of this, he knew what Daochen meant to Dao Chen.
And the other party seems to know these things. So he simply and decisively started from Dao Chen, trying to separate the relationship between him and Dao Yin.
But. Because of this person, he basically still believes it. Although he was suspicious and doubted his loyalty, he had the grace of knowing the knife, and the other party was also grateful, and he had been working hard for him, and he had never missed anything, so he suppressed this suspicion.
Now it seems that the other party was dissatisfied with Dao Yin's refusal, so he actually cut off Dao Chen's two fingers as a warning. The contents of the letter, at first glance, seem to be a little unclear, but in fact they are a naked threat, if he refuses to make up his mind, Daochen will gradually lose everything on his body.
Now it's just two fingers. But there are ten fingers. The rest of the nose, eyes, mouth, ears, head, arms, legs, feet, torso, the other party is trying to use this method of slow torture to destroy Daoyin's loyalty to himself.
What a ruthless means, such a ruthless heart.
"The general has the grace of knowing the last general, and the last general will remember it all his life, and he once swore to the sky that he will follow the general for the rest of his life and never betray. Even if Achen's child suffers so much, even if the last general, who is an uncle, is sorry for him. If he is killed, it will be his life. But the last general is unwilling, and he will never forgive the murderer who killed Achen. He also asked the general to send troops to search from house to house, and if Achen could be rescued, the last general would be grateful. If not, at least avenge Achen! As he spoke, there was only a hideous look on his face.
Liang Bo's heart warmed.
The other party sent Dao Chen's two fingers, which is enough to prove that Dao chose to betray him because he was not threatened by the other party. Because he knew the significance of Daochen to Dao Yin, he did not suspect that Dao Yin would take Dao Chen's life to act in front of him.
He knew all too well what family inheritance meant to a man. If Daochen dies and Dao Yin can't give birth to a child, the incense of the Dao family will be broken, and the lady of the Daochen family just gave birth to a daughter for him, and a female doll is not qualified to inherit the incense of the Dao family.
"Don't worry, Ben will send someone to investigate, no matter whether he lives or dies, he will definitely give you an explanation!" Liang Bo also held his breath in his heart. Someone dared to raise such a moth under his nose, which is enough to prove that his worries these days are not groundless, maybe it is the imperial court, maybe it is Fang Jianzhang, they have already begun to do it.
"Have strangers come into the city these two days?" Liang Bo asked.
"This ......" Dao Yin wiped away his tears, and still choked up a little: "There are some merchants who have entered the city to sell supplies, but there are also two or three waves of such merchants in the past few days, could it be that these people ......?" ”
"Ben will receive a letter from the capital, saying that the emperor has become suspicious of Beiyan and sent Qin to ......" Liang Bo had a headache.
At first, he didn't take the letter to heart. Especially when he saw the candidate for the Qincha, he almost laughed out loud.
The emperor didn't know what to think, he would let a woman lead the troops to support, and this woman was not someone else, but Fang Jianzhang's daughter-in-law, the one who had been straining her face since the beginning, did not smile, did not like to talk, and behaved like a wooden lady Fang Xiaoyu.
He hadn't paid much attention to the movements in the capital, so he didn't know about Fang Xiaoyu's earth-shaking changes. His impression of Miss Fang has always been a wood, and everyone mentions a wooden beauty that everyone has to sigh at.
Maybe the situation in the capital is also very crisis, and the emperor can't send extra manpower, so he sent Fang Xiaoyu, but what can she do as a woman? He couldn't find anything she could do other than come to his death.
"What about Achen...... Did it work with Lord Chincha? Dao Yin said so, but he understood clearly in his heart, it was not Qincha's hand at all, it was a woman, who didn't look very old, one bite at a time, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a person from the rivers and lakes, and his temperament was full of some rivers and lakes.
He has seen a lot of Jianghu people, and the feeling of that woman is very similar to those Jianghu people.
Unless the woman is one of the ministers...... But, is this possible?
"Not necessarily." Liang Bo denied it and said: "The Qin Cha sent by the imperial court this time is a woman, the daughter of General Fang Jianzhang Fang, and the famous wooden beauty Fang Xiaoyu. She led 50,000 Gyeonggi guards to escort grain to Beiyan along the way, and it would not arrive so quickly. Ben Jiang was worried, could this incident be done by Fang Jianzhang? ”
Liang Bo is really worried. The more he knew Fang Jianzhang's ability, the more he was worried about Fang Jianzhang's counterattack.
"General Fang?" Dao Yin exclaimed, and then said: "But General Fang is not already ......"
"To live to see a man and to die to see a corpse. Although he Fang Jianzhang was rejected from the city and lost 50,000 troops, he fought his way out of the city. No one can say that he is really dead when no one sees his body. The loss of 50,000 soldiers, if he lives, this account will definitely be counted on the head of this general. As the henchman of the general, it is not surprising that you will start with you. Liang Bo's eyebrows and eyes were wrinkled together.
"This ......" Dao Yin was shocked, but it was not because of Liang Bo's suspicion that Jian Zhang's counterattack was counterattacked, but because of the information that Liang Bo mentioned before that the Qin Cha sent by the imperial court was a woman.
Isn't the person who captured Achen and threatened him just a woman? She swaggered on the Taishi chair in Luo Liang's study, and turned him around in a few words, he once doubted that this woman was General Liang looking for someone to test him, and he did not agree to betray General Liang because of this, one is that he is really grateful to General Liang for his kindness, and the other is that he is not sure about the origin of this woman. If she were General Liang's man, his hesitation would be deadly.
The woman didn't seem to rush him, and let him go. It's also that the other party has no fear, knowing that he won't betray her existence easily, after all, Daochen is still tied to her hands.
But now hearing General Liang mention this, Dao Yin was immediately shocked into a cold sweat.
Chincha is a woman, and the woman who threatens him is also a woman. Qin Cha is the concubine of General Fang, and she is not very old, and the woman who threatens him is not very old.
He didn't know if the woman was Chin Cha himself, or if it was just a coincidence. But the sword was shaken in his heart.
If Qin Cha arrives and grabs Dao Chen to threaten him, it is enough to prove that Qin Cha already has a certain understanding of the affairs of Beiyan.
The Qincha represents the imperial court and the emperor. If the matter of Beiyan is exposed, unless the Qin Cha is left in the border city forever, otherwise, once it is exposed, it will be a capital crime to destroy the nine clans.
But if that woman is a chincha, with her martial arts, who can keep her?
The knife suddenly tilted because of the balance in his heart!
Betrayal and loyalty, for a man of his own mind, are just a difference between insufficient bargaining chips. (To be continued.) )
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