(712) Hidden wounds

- "Why are you here?" Wang Chi raised his hand and held it on the wrist of his second son's injured hand, and saw that there was also a layer of fine sweat on his forehead, and he couldn't help but admonish again: "The injury on his hand has not healed yet, and he is rushing like this, and he doesn't know how to take care of his body."

The second prince, Wang Hong, didn't care about these at all, and didn't seem to feel the pain of the wound on his hand cracking and bleeding again, he just saw his father, first carefully examined it with his eyes, and then grabbed his father's hand and asked anxiously: "Father, are you okay?"

"It's fine." Wang Chi smiled slightly, and looked at the face of his second son, who was already weak, and his face was slightly pale, so he smiled and reproached: "Why do you still have to ride a horse when you came with a chariot?" If you go back like this, your mother should be anxious again. ”

After being reprimanded, Wang Hong was in a relaxed mood, and said slowly: "The son came here to welcome his father back to the palace with the wishes of his mother."

"Okay." Wang Chi nodded, holding his second son's wrist with a little force, "You come up too, let's go home together." ”

Wang Chi's words specifically mentioned the word "home", and the other meaning in this sentence is very clear. The second prince, Wang Hong, heard this, his eyes were slightly hot, and he didn't say any more nonsense on the ceremonial scene, just like the son of an ordinary family when he heard his father's call, he responded very kindly, followed his father's footsteps and got into the car together, and sat side by side.

Leaving Li Gai's hand holding a strong palm, although Wang Chi sat on the spacious and comfortable imperial chariot, and no longer had to expend the strength that had become a burden on his current tired body to maintain his standing posture, he still did not feel relaxed at the moment. There was chaos in his mind, and the hand he held on his second son's wrist suddenly tightened.

The second prince, Wang Hong, felt a sudden bone-splitting pain in his wrist, and the green tendons under the thin layer of skin on the back of his hand were even more prominent, but he just frowned, then took a deep breath and endured the pain.

Silently exhaled, he looked sideways at Li Gai, who had just helped his father into the car, and who was still standing beside the chariot and had not left, and said calmly: "Commander Li." Please come along. ”

Li Gai understood the meaning in the eyes of the second prince, and nodded slightly.

Immediately afterwards, a guard led the horse over, and he stepped up, and took the whip handed by the guard, but he did not use it, but just shook the reins, and controlled the horse's walking speed to keep pace with the imperial chariot, and his one man and one rider always walked on the side of the imperial chariot.

The group walked in the direction of the palace, leaving behind the ruins of the "Yuwu Pavilion" and the only female assassin left alive in today's assassination operation.

The commander of the Kyoto garrison, Li Gai, escorted the emperor back to the palace. But he only took one shadow guard and five swordsmen. Except for one shadow guard, two short knife guards, and two shield guards who were the first to escort several wounded people to the hospital. The ruins are now left with five short sword guards and eight shield bearers.

Obviously, Rigai took this female assassin very seriously. Because when Li Gai had just arrived near the "Yuwu Pavilion" that was already on fire, he left a short time before making a move at the woman, and quietly observed and speculated on her. He believed that the female Assassin was most likely a minor leader among the Assassins, and he was eager to hear some valuable information from her.

The Assassin "clean-up" work in the inner city of Kyoto has been going on for almost half a month. Because the operation process was deliberately low-key, it did not have much impact on the lives of the residents of the city. However, for the sweepers, the harvest in these ten days was not ideal, because all the remnants of the assassins that could be searched were corpses, and those who were not corpses had escaped.

But today, I finally caught a living, and it wasn't the kind of dead soldier who could casually lose his life for the killer organization.

At the same time as this harvest, Li Gai also had a preparatory consideration in his heart. In order to keep the female assassin alive and send her back to the Commander's Mansion to be held and imprisoned pending trial, it is necessary not only to prevent her from trying to kill herself halfway, but also to prevent her from being killed by her peers on the way back.

In the affairs that Li Gai took over, whenever there were two things related to death and life. It is often the two extremes of keeping the mouth alive and extinguishing the mouth criss-crossed, which is also because he has been trained for many years, and his way of thinking is also somewhat accustomed to jumping between the two assumptions at any time.

If it weren't for the fact that he was going to send the emperor back to the palace, there would definitely be no more forks in the way, and Li Gai would definitely put the female assassin in his sight, and personally send her back to the Commander's Mansion without leaving at all, so that she could make an exception and taste the treatment of the emperor before being interrogated.

And although Li Gai had more important things on his shoulders and couldn't give the female assassin a ride, he also left more than half of the guards he had carefully trained, plus the officers and soldiers of Kyoto Prefecture were also summoned by him, so the team escorting the female assassin back to Kyoto Prefecture was also lined up with hundreds of people.

This battle was a real battle, and it was several times more than the officers and soldiers who were sent out to detain prisoners on the day Wan Defu, the former official of the Ministry of Justice, was beheaded three years ago.

Three years ago, it seemed that the officers and soldiers who escorted the prisoner cart to the court were sent to the court because of the lack of dispatch, so that Wan Defu, a prisoner on death row, was stabbed to death by several killers on the way to death before he was carried to the place of death by the prisoner car, causing him to eat two more times than beheading.

On that day, seeing that Wan Defu would inevitably die, it seemed redundant for the killers to do so. But only a few officials of the Criminal Department who secretly interrogated Wan Defu knew in their hearts that this death row prisoner still had something that should be spit out and swallowed, so it was up to him to see if he could let go of his mouth after seeing the guillotine. That's why someone has to kill him, even if it's just a little faster for him to die.

Today, it was out of concern that Ligai had sent more men to escort a female Assassin into prison. Thinking that Wan Defu was more or less interrogated in prison back then, and died on the way to execution, for the interrogator who still had a trace of expectation, the loss was almost negligible. But look at this female assassin, the trial hasn't started yet, so you must hurry.

However, there are always many variables in the world that cannot be controlled by manpower, and even many strategists who are accustomed to manipulating events as their specialty are often caught in the middle of events and control the door of instability.

Li Gai felt that the manpower he had arranged for the escort was already too sufficient, even if he encountered a killer who jumped out halfway to kill him, it was enough to deal with it. The worst result may be that the soldiers on his side will be slightly damaged, but with his own trained personal soldiers and attendants in the team, this kind of personnel loss should also be able to be quickly charged.

But what Li Gai never expected was that the soldiers he sent to escort the female assassin were indeed attacked by the killer on the way, but the killer who came was only one person, and it was also a woman.

This woman was not dressed in black and covered her face with a black cloth, she wore the clothes of an ordinary folk girl and walked towards the escort team of hundreds of people. Broke the necks of a dozen soldiers with his bare hands, killed people without spilling half a drop of blood, and then took the female assassin away.

Killing people shouldn't be difficult for her.

But she took the female assassin alive with her.

It's not that a sword is going to kill her.

As he was about to leave the palace and return to the palace as one of his guards arrived at the palace and told him about the chaotic battle he had encountered on the way to escort the female assassins.

As he finished the last word after listening to the servant guard, the bone china teacup in Li Gai's hand had already turned into powder in his palm.

"A group of ......" Li Gai was furious, and he almost re-exported the word "rice bucket".

However, as soon as he thought of it, Wang Chi was resting in the warm pavilion on the south side of this garden. He narrowly suppressed his voice. Explosive anger collided with sudden restraint. It was so exciting that his usual breathing rhythm that was as steady as a mountain rock jumped a little.

The close guard who had paid tribute to him had already changed his face in fright. "Knock" knelt on the parquet stone floor.

After being silent for a moment, Li Gai summoned the guard to get up and said in a deep voice: "Immediately ask the painter to draw the face of the female thief, and the faces of the two female thieves should be painted." A city-wide search. This time the search operation was no longer carried out in secret, and the order was sent to the city gate division, and all the soldiers who had reported for rest today in the city defenders arrived at their posts, and sent additional guards as quickly as possible. Once there is an abnormal movement, the net nail plate array! ”

"Yes!" The trusted guard hurriedly answered the order, but when he was about to retreat to give the order, he turned his face back again when he had just turned around, and asked Xiao Yi: "Great Commander, this time I am alive." Or are you caught?"

"If you catch it alive, you will be counted as meritorious. If you can't catch it, the old and the new will be counted together! Li Gai's eyebrows furrowed angrily, "Go to the Commander's Mansion and send out all the people in the five groups." I want to see it. How can two female thieves escape! ”

When the guard heard this, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat. He knew the methods of the five groups, and he didn't say anything more at the moment, and took the order to run.

Before leaving the palace and returning to the Commander's Palace, Li Gai had to see Emperor Wang Chi again. Because of the strange internal injuries on Wang Chi's body, he had to make sure again before leaving. This time, he estimated that he would not have time to enter the palace again in a day or two.

Try to put his steps very lightly, and when Li Gai walked into the warm pavilion where Wang Chi was resting, the first thing he saw was Wang Hong, the second prince, who was also walking lightly.

Wang Hong made a silent gesture towards Li Gai, who turned around and walked out of the warm pavilion side by side with him. After stepping out of the room, Wang Hong waved away the palace people who followed behind him.

Walking slowly between the zigzag garden corridors, and unconsciously walked to the hexagonal pavilion where Li Gai had just sat on, Wang Hong saw the broken porcelain slag on the stone table and the tea on the table at a glance, a trace of surprise slipped in his eyes, and he asked: "What disturbed Uncle Li so angry?"

Leaving the eyes of the people in the maid's palace, Wang Hong naturally changed his official title to Li Gai.

A few years ago, when Li Gai was Wang Chi's shadow guard, he was also the "hide and seek uncle" that Wang Hong saw most often, and the two formed a lot of love in those years in the palace.

For this, Wang Chi, as the emperor, is of course happy to see it. Li Gai is his brother and friend of Jin Lan, if he does not become the emperor, even if he achieves the position of the general of the border, it is very likely that his son will worship Li Gai as his righteous uncle.

As for Li Gai himself, when there were no other servants around him, he didn't need to have too much responsibility for identity rules, so he also calmly accepted the second prince Wang Hong's closeness to his nephew. He has no wife or elder at home, no children under his knees, and he is middle-aged, and sometimes he thinks about this matter, and then transfers some feelings to the young man in front of him who he has watched grow up.

Regarding the rescue of the female assassin, Li Gai was not prepared to say too much to Wang Hong, but he still left everything to do by himself.

After a somewhat reluctant smile, Li Gai only picked one or two words about the female assassin, and then his gaze stopped on Wang Hong's injured hand a few days ago, and when he spoke again, he diverted the topic: "Old injuries become new injuries, but you must not be careless."

The second prince, Wang Hong, said with a smile: "It has been re-bandaged by the imperial doctors, and they have also told it like this, so it will not be in the way."

"Your complexion is not very good, it is still the time you were injured a few days ago, and you hurt your vitality. It's best to heal the injury at once and not recur it like today. Hmmm......" At the end of these words, there was a hint of hesitation in the tone of Li Gai, who had always been concise and clear, "If you are injured on your hand like this, you should hang your forearm with a strap, so that you can get better faster." ”

It had been years since he had been injured in a fight, and his memory of such experiences had blurred a lot.

But Wang Hong laughed when he heard this, nodded and said, "The imperial doctor said the same thing, but I think it's too unsightly to have a cloth ring around your neck." Wouldn't it be enough to just tuck your hands into your sleeves?"

Li Gai looked at Wang Hong's left and right hands intertwined and inserted in the cuffs opposite, and suddenly smiled, and said, "Then it has to be your sleeves wide enough." After Wang Hong, the nephew's generation, Li Gai's mood slowed down a little, so he took advantage of the situation to take a sentence.

The uncle and nephew smiled at each other, and at the same time, they both read the meaning of "something" from each other's eyes, and gradually they both smiled separately. Both of them knew very well in their hearts that what happened in the Hengtai Pavilion neighborhood this afternoon could not be treated easily, and Li Gai at this time did not have any extra time to chat.

"How is Your Majesty's physical condition now?" Li Gai had something to hurry back to the Commander's Mansion to arrange, so he took the first step to ask about the things he was worried about on the emperor's side.

"When I came back, I just washed up and went to sleep. What should I say about what you are asking? The imperial doctor only said that because the emperor was buried in the ruins for a while, he lacked qi and injured his lungs, and choked on fireworks, so although there was no injury on the outside, he was burned in the internal organs, and he would have symptoms of heartache and need to recuperate for a while. When Wang Hong said this, a trace of doubt appeared in his eyes, and after a slight pause in his voice, he continued: "Listening to what Uncle Li just said, it seems that he also knows a little about medical science, so from Uncle Li's opinion, is the diagnosis of the imperial doctors accurate?" -

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