Taking advantage of the crowd in the palace and busy everywhere, Liu Kuo was accepting congratulations from all sides, and he was also negligent in taking precautions, so he had no time to take care of it, Gu Haojun found Cheng Mu'an, and the two stole the dragon and changed their identities.

Only Gu Haojun is the most suitable person, one is that he is willing to stick a knife in Cheng Mu'an's ribs, and the other is that he has been a friend for more than ten years, and he imitates Cheng Mu'an vividly.

Gu Haojun had already arranged for Cheng Mu'an to receive him at the back door of the palace.

Cheng Muan followed the carriage delivering vegetables and fruits from the back door, and escaped from the palace without danger.

He rushed back to Cheng Mansion all the way, but Steward Wang said that Wen Xiaomiao was invited by the daughter of Gu Mansion.

Cheng Mu'an showed his true identity, and he didn't care about explaining, so he asked Steward Wang to immediately dismiss all the subordinates in the family, and send Mrs. Chen and Chen Mu out of the city with as many entanglements as possible, he still had to go to Gu's mansion, and everything here would be handed over to Steward Wang.

Steward Wang has seen the world in the end, although Cheng Mu'an appeared in a place where he shouldn't have appeared, he didn't ask in detail, and immediately started to do it.

Cheng Muan knew that he was doing this a bit too much, and it would affect many people, but he really had no choice, Liu Kuo didn't give him a chance to refuse in this matter, and made a big fuss, he didn't want to give in, because if he gave in now, it meant that he would have to obey Liu Kuo in everything in the future, and he would invisibly attach General Cheng's influence to Liu Kuo.

Cheng Mu'an has an estrangement from Liu Kuo in his heart, Liu Kuo secretly forced the emperor to abdicate from him and Gu Haojun, this matter is not something that Liu Kuo can do alone, which shows that Liu Kuo has other helpers, he and Gu Haojun are in the open, and the forces in the secret should not be underestimated, but he and Gu Haojun have never been aware of the existence of this force, which shows that Liu Kuo is deliberately hiding from each other.

This force is only loyal to Liu Kuo, maybe this is what makes Cheng Mu'an scruples.

Cheng Mu'an ran more than half the way and found that there was an abnormality in front, usually there should not be so many people in this section of the road at this hour, he looked up and suddenly recognized the carriage of the middle Cheng Mansion in front of the crowd.

Cheng Mu'an jumped down from his horse and quietly separated the crowd and squeezed in.

A few arresters and servants were busy in the field, and Cheng Mu'an saw at a glance the gray-clothed man lying on the ground and two family members, obviously dead, and a criminal officer was investigating the scene.

Cheng Mu'an was taken aback, and hurriedly looked at the carriage, he clenched his fists, for fear of seeing the familiar figure, Ping'er and the coachman lying in the driving position of the car, Cheng Mu'an's heart suddenly felt half cold.

He walked to the carriage step by step, and a young official drank Cheng Mu'an: "Hey, what are you doing?" Lean back, lean back, don't delay us to do tolerance. ”

A catcher stopped the officer, he once had a relationship with Gu Haojun, and hugged his fist at Cheng Muan and said, "Master Gu, please stay." ”

Cheng Mu'an didn't dare to speak more, and pointed to the carriage of the carriage, "Inside the car?" ”

"Nobody." Catch quickly understood what Cheng Mu'an meant.

Cheng Muan nodded, his heart was still up and down.

As long as he didn't see the body, he still had hope.

Cheng Muan withdrew from the crowd, he looked around, figuring out the psychology of the secret guard, and made a decision in his heart.

He ran to the foot of the hill in one go, jumped off his horse, and tied his horse to the thick trunk of a large tree.

Cheng Mu'an carefully searched for possible clues at the foot of the mountain, and gradually advanced to the top of the mountain.

Of course, Gu Haojun in the palace here will not marry Princess Taishun, even if he is willing, Princess Taishun will not be happy.

Gu Haojun still dutifully carried out the task until the last moment.

The guests arrived one after another, and the groom official needed to come forward, Gu Haojun stayed in the house of Chaoyang Hall and refused to go out, Liu Kuo came over in person, pushed open the door and saw Cheng Mu'an with a smile on his face, he knew that something was wrong, Cheng Mu'an had already come out of his shell, and it was Gu Haojun in front of him.

"Your Majesty, you are wise and will not kill innocents indiscriminately, right?" Gu Haojun put the high hat on Liu Kuo first, this was just his Gu Haojun's behavior, and it had nothing to do with the Gu Mansion.

Liu Kuotie looked at Gu Haojun with a blushing face, and instructed the guards with knives beside him: "Immediately bring someone to arrest Cheng Muan." ”

"Why? I have never treated you and Mu An badly. Liu Kuo's face became even more ugly.

"Your Majesty, if you encounter difficulties, I will also stick a knife in your ribs, there is no ambiguity, I, Gu Haojun, am willing to go to the soup for my best friend." Gu Haojun stood there and said in a rare serious and serious manner.

Liu Kuo looked at Gu Haojun, his face was grim, he suppressed the anger in his heart, he didn't give Cheng Muan a way out, but he didn't expect Cheng Muan and Gu Haojun to have the courage to risk death to disobey his holy will.

"What is my face left by doing this?" Liu Kuo asked coldly.

"Your Majesty," Gu Haojun sighed, "You should know that Lao Cheng will not be vain, if he has to reach the last step, I am afraid that he will fight his way out, and that situation may not be better than now, what do you say?" ”

Liu Kuo walked to the table and sat down, "Then what do you say I should do now?" Isn't it possible to announce the cancellation of the marriage to the world? ”

"Well," Gu Haojun touched his nose, "you can announce that Lao Cheng died suddenly."

"Nope." Liu Kuo disagreed.

If Cheng Muan marries Princess Taishun, he can not only let him follow Liu Kuo with all his heart, but also raise Liu Kuo's influence in the army, which is Liu Kuo's wishful thinking, but now it has become a joke.

"Then the emperor has a better way?" Gu Haojun probed Liu Kuo's bottom.

"Hold him first." Liu Kuo stood up, apparently planning to leave, and said to Gu Haojun: "You just stay here honestly, you are not allowed to go anywhere without my instructions, otherwise you will be punished for resisting the decree." ”

Yes, this time Gu Haojun was placed under house arrest.

Gu Haojun was very satisfied, he originally thought it was a matter of losing his head, but now it seems that he may be able to survive a little bit of flesh and pain.

He nodded again and again, "Your Majesty, rest assured, without your will, this Chaoyang palace minister will never take half a step." ”

"Reassured? Hum! Liu Kuo glanced at Gu Haojun and left.

Gu Haojun lowered his head and sent Liu Kuo out of the door, watching Liu Kuo walk away, he couldn't help but worry about Cheng Mu'an, if it was only Cheng Mu'an, he wouldn't be so worried, with Cheng Mu'an's ability, he should be able to escape, the problem is that he also brought Wen Xiaomiao, maybe there are Mrs. Chen and Chen Mu, it's too hanging.

Cheng Mu'an followed the faint marks left by the dark guard in a hurry, and chased it all the way to the mountain, and saw the body of the dark guard on the side of a big rock with obvious traces of fighting, a sword to seal the throat was a fatal injury, Cheng Muan squatted down and touched the dark guard still had body temperature, it seems that the time interval between being killed was not long, and on the ground beside the dark guard, there seemed to be scratches on the ground with his hands when he struggled uncomfortably before he died.

Cheng Mu'an looked carefully, walked to the top of the secret guard's head, and looked at the seemingly messy marks on both sides at the position under his feet.

The top master of Ouchi, Wen Xiaomiao is fierce and auspicious, this is the message left by the dark guard with his last breath.

Cheng Muan immediately thought of Liu Kuo, could it be that Liu Kuo wanted to get rid of Wen Xiaomiao in order to make him die?

Cheng Muan looked at the distribution of mottled blood stains on the ground, it seemed that some of the enemy were also seriously injured, Cheng Muan took the long sword of the dark guard in his hand, and he immediately continued to chase after it.

The mountain roads are rugged and the woods are dense, and it is not easy to find a person like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Cheng Mu'an found the mark left by the secret guard again, this is the place where the dark guard and Wen Xiaomiao are separated, it seems that the dark guard arrived here safely with Wen Xiaomiao at first, and then separated here, and the secret guard returned to delay time.

Now that the dark guard is dead, what about Wen Xiaomiao? died, or was taken captive, Cheng Mu'an was a little anxious.

Cheng Mu'an followed the suspicious footprints, he knew that maybe this was just the traces left by the woodcutters or herb pickers who went up the mountain, but it could not be completely ruled out that it was Wen Xiaomiao, and he could only search a little bit in a hurry.

Halfway up the mountain, Cheng Mu'an saw a shocking red next to a tree, the color of this piece of blood was obviously the color that appeared after poisoning, Cheng Mu'an was relieved of a contraction, and the feeling of suffocation made him a little breathless.

Cheng Mu'an took this piece of blood as the center, quickly expanded the search range, and in the green grass in the direction of the cliff, he found a few more drops of splashed blood, and Cheng Mu'an's brain suddenly went blank.

He rushed to the edge of the cliff in a few steps, and looked at the bottom of the valley in horror, the branches and needles of the pine tree on the cliff showed signs of falling off and impacting, and Cheng Mu'an was stunned.

If Cheng Mu'an still kept a trace of sobriety, he should have wondered why there were so few blood stains on the way to the edge of the cliff, why there were no drag marks, and why the footprints on the edge of the cliff were so messy.

Cheng Muan only felt that his whole person was like being in an ice cellar, and it was biting cold.

He suddenly felt the urge to jump along with him.

Cheng Mu'an tried to control this impulse, and he decided to climb down the cliff, no matter how he lived, he would see people and corpses.

The men and horses sent by the emperor here also chased them to the mountain in one go, and they only saw the lone sword on the edge of the cliff.

The guard with a knife looked at the craggy cliff, and a figure could be seen, I don't know if it was Cheng Mu'an.

"Lord Cheng—" The guard with a knife shouted down from the edge of the cliff.

The figure glanced upwards, then climbed down, and ordered a few soldiers to guard it with his sword, and he and the rest of the men planned to go around the foot of the mountain.

Cheng Muan was a little anxious, and almost fell off his hands several times, but finally climbed to the bottom, his hands were worn out.

The sun at the bottom of the valley was tightly covered by leaves, full of thorns, and Cheng Mu'an saw from time to time that there were white bones scattered on the ground, there were people, most of them were beasts.

Cheng Mu'an tightened his trousers and cuffs, and broke a thicker branch from the tree to remove the branches to explore the way.

Cheng Mu'an kept shouting "Wen Xiaomiao", and then listened attentively, but except for the birds and beasts, there was no response at all.