"Lord Leng Overseer... Are you—Are you really alive? ”

In the mourning hall, Min Rui stared at the man in front of the incense case in a daze, his face was shocked, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

The eyebrows flew obliquely, the man's smile became cold, and his expression seemed to be covered with a frozen river covered with white mist, so cold and complicated that people couldn't see through.

"Why, seeing that Bendu is safe and sound, Grandpa Guo is not happy?"

"Where, where ......"

Min Rui blinked awkwardly, waved his hands one after another, and slowly moved his shocked gaze to the left half of the other party's face.

On the skin as white as jade, a half-healed scar stretched horizontally, hideously scarlet, like an ugly reptile with a raised old height.

Min Rui's hand trembled and pointed out, slurring and spitting:

"Cold, cold Overseer, your face ......"

The man's eyebrows moved, and he raised his hand to touch the left side of his face very casually, and smiled:

"When we came back, the fleet was shipwrecked, but it was only a minor injury."

The so-called "shipwreck" refers to the persecution of the heroes of the Southern Expedition by the imperial court, and Min Rui knows that it is not easy to say it, and he has more feelings in his heart:

It's a pity that such a handsome face is ruined like this.

Men dressed in four or five fanzi surrounded a girl in a light blue skirt and walked into the mourning hall from outside the courtyard.

"Yunxi, come here......"

The man in Xuanshang beckoned the girl to approach, and then introduced Min Rui:

"Lord Wang, this is the governor's internal dependent, originally went to Weihai with the Dongchang fleet, and didn't want to encounter a storm on the way, so the main ship deviated from the course. But if he hadn't encountered her ship, Ben Du would have been buried in the sea. Yunxi, I've seen Min Guogong quickly. ”

Min Rui's eyes lit up, and without waiting for the girl to salute, he first looked at her carefully from head to toe, and said happily:

"Presumably the girl is Miss Yun Er, and Concubine Yu has mentioned you many times in her family letter to this king. This king knows that your two sisters have a deep relationship, which is comparable to siblings! ”

Gu Yunxi lowered his eyes, there was not much expression on his delicate face, and he floated into a thousand blessings:

"Little girl Gu Yunxi, I've seen the prince."

The faint voice fell, only to see her suddenly raise her long eyelashes, a pair of thin eyebrows frowned, apricot eyes stared straight at Min Rui, two points expanded into the limit of the pupils, and actually burst out of different light ripples, which was inexplicably urgent.

Looking at each other, Min Rui only felt incredible.

His instincts told him that the girl seemed to want to say something to him, but for some reason she couldn't do it for a while.

The scene fell into an eerie silence for a while.

The man in Xuanshang approached Gu Yunxi, and his body was agile, like a ghost floating without roots.

He quickly grabbed her waist and took her into his arms, increasing the force of his palm in the dark.

Gu Yunxi narrowed his brows in pain, let out a slight moan, glanced at Min Rui and looked away, his eyes flushed with wet red.

"Okay, you're tired after a long time on the boat, rest early, I still have something to say to Grandpa Guo."

The man's tone was unusually gentle, but his five fingers with distinct bones patted Gu Yunxi's thin waist twice, with an obvious hint, and the intention was extremely obvious.

Min Rui was busy sideways to avoid the intimate actions of the two, but secretly peeked at their respective strange expressions.

He had a feeling that this pair of men and women, one smiling and peaceful, the other cold and detached, was not at all like the love mentioned in his daughter's letter.

The two stood together, but others couldn't feel any tacit understanding.

"Lord, immediately arrange a place for the governor's relatives, and the governor and you still have important matters to discuss."

"Good, good ......"

Min Rui was stared at by the man's sharp eyes, stopped thinking, raised his hand to summon a subordinate, and ordered:

"You go and take the girl to the Tingxiang Courtyard to rest, so that you can wait."

Gu Yunxi saluted Min Rui again, his face showed a little helplessness, and he followed his subordinates out of the mourning hall one by one.

The man in Xuanshang immediately ordered the "Fan Guard" beside him:

"Go along, just keep watch under the porch."

"Yes!"

Those "fans" agreed and followed them to the Tingxiang Courtyard.

Min Rui watched from the sidelines and couldn't help but wonder:

It's been a strange time.

I heard that the internal dependents of the commander of the East Factory used to be the four products with knives, and the martial arts should be good, why do you need a guard to keep vigil outside the bedroom?

And this kind of protection looks more like a kind of surveillance......

When there were only two people in the mourning hall, the man looked at the ranking of the wife Min Xingshi on the incense case, and suddenly asked:

"Lord Wang, Hua Nanxin just climbed on the dragon chair and killed the meritorious minister, so faint, does the prince still have to die for him?"

Min Rui's surprised eyes stared at the man's yin and yang face, motionless, and a pair of deep-set eyes paced a ghostly light:

"What plan does the Overseer have, but it doesn't matter, I, Min Rui, will fully cooperate."

Man Satisfied Hook Lips:

"The Governor rushed to Weihai and received news that the Huanan Xin Imperial Driver had set off, and it would take the waterway from Jinmen to your Dongqingshui Division Camp in less than a day.

Grandpa Guo, in the past few days, I have to wronged you and the prince to disguise themselves as Dongchang Fanwei to convince Hua Nanxin that your Min family was indeed poisoned by him. Ben Dou is also a dead man, and he has to change his way of doing ......."

Min Rui immediately shook his head in denial:

"It's good, it's just that the father-in-law Liu appointed by him was killed by your Dongchang, and if he can't return to Beijing to resume his life, won't it arouse the suspicion of Hua Nanxin?"

"Who said Ben Governor killed Chincha?"

Just as the man smiled lightly and turned around, several more people walked into the mourning hall.

The leader is Cheng Wanli, a thousand households in Dongchang, followed by Liu Gonggong and his three cronies.

Min Rui's facial features immediately tensed, and new hatred and old hatred surged into his heart.

Chest pain, a mouthful of blood spurting out of the mouth and nose.

"Okay, you're not dead with the surname Liu-"

Ignoring the corners of his mouth, Min Rui, who was extremely angry, roared and was about to rush towards the enemy, but was stopped by the man next to him:

"Wait, he is now the Governor's man, and the Governor will let him send a message to the capital."

"Lord Leng, what are you talking about?"

Min Rui stopped, his eyes frightened.

The man's smile was full of mystery and charm, and he shook his head and signaled:

"Grandpa Guo, you can go over and take a closer look."

Min Rui temporarily suppressed his anger, walked up to Gonggong Liu in disbelief, and looked around him carefully.

This eunuch lowered his eyebrows, his hands were clasped between his sleeves, his head was half-drooping, and his whole body was covered by a trace of evil and cold breath, which brought people an irresistible oppression and strange feeling, which was the same as Cheng Wanli's Dongchang people.

Xu was aware that someone was approaching, and this half-male monster never raised its head, and its miserable white lips squirmed into a series of gloomy and strange tones:

"The slave Liu Heng has seen Lord Leng and Lord Min."

"This governor will immediately let you go back to Beijing to resume your life, how to speak, how many of you know it, right?"

Behind Min Rui, the man in Xuanshang gave instructions to Eunuch Liu, and his momentum was really like ordering his subordinates.

Eunuch Liu's posture of bowing did not move at all, only a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and the yin owl was weird:

"Slaves know how to measure."

"Bring your people to pack up and go back to Beijing."

Min Rui drove a horrified gaze to look in the direction where the group left, and pointed out the door:

"Lord Leng, this Gonggong Liu is a person from South China, and now he says that he is against the water, he is against the water, he... Can he be trusted? ”

The man's smug smile expanded more and more, and he sneered:

"It may not have been possible before, but it is enough to trust the Governor. The prince didn't know that Ben Du had a secret technique on several of them, so that they would obey Ben Du unconditionally. Wanli, have you arranged everything over there? ”

Cheng Wanli bowed his hand quietly, his head hung down like Eunuch Liu without moving for half a minute, and when a sentence came out, it was like an evil wind, fluttering out from between his lips and teeth, and the speed of his speech was obviously slower than normal:

"Back to the Governor, everything has been completed, and tomorrow the goods can be unloaded and placed in the nine-story pavilion of Wangxiantai."

Min Rui was confused when he heard it beside him, and his heart was already shrouded in an extremely ominous premonition:

"Dare to ask Lord Leng, what do you Dongchang want to do on Kunhuang Island?"

The man replied calmly:

"It's not a big deal, the governor's three ships are full of gunpowder, and all the gunpowder needs to be unloaded and loaded into the various floors of Wangxiantai before the South China Xinyu arrives at Guiping. When South China Shindeng came to Sendai, it was when he was blown to pieces by gunpowder......"

The man approached Min Rui step by step, slowly raised his hand, and made a thunderous gesture:

"Think about it, just one moment, all grievances can be wiped out in an instant, isn't it happy?"

Min Rui didn't say a word, and the man who looked at Xuanshang in astonishment became more and more excited, and the phoenix's eyes became intoxicated, as if he was immersed in his mind to construct a magnificent landscape. Just as he was looking up to the sky and laughing wildly, the eye-catching scar on the left side of his face was stretched to the limit, highlighting the ugliness and horror.

A heart clenched to his throat, Min Rui trembled and clenched his fists, and the doubts in his heart were even worse.

In his memory, although Lord Leng had not worked with him for a long time, Min Rui was impressed by his courage in galloping through the killing fields in southern Xinjiang and his invincible pride in commanding thousands of troops.

However, at this time, how did the cold overseer in front of him seem to be a different person? Not only did he lose the slightest courage and pride, but inside and out, including his people, his whole body was filled with indescribable evil spirit?

Anyway, what's wrong?

"Grandpa Guo, Grandpa Guo!"

Min Rui was called back to his senses, and looked at "Leng Qingtang" in embarrassment:

"Oh, is there anything else going on with Lord Leng Duge?"

The smile lines on the corners of Leng Qingtang's lips pressed a trace of coldness, and a pair of narrow-squinted phoenix eyes firmly pressed Min Rui's face:

"The governor is fine, but seeing that the grandfather of the country looks sick, I am worried about you... Something. ”

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay......"

Min Ruixin was perfunctory, his panicked eyes flashed, and he was inexplicably nervous, so that he didn't know where to put his hands to be comfortable.

He squatted down to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, desperately threw paper money into the copper basin, and chattered:

"This king... The king will continue to keep a vigil for his wife, and if there is nothing important, please let the overseer take care of himself. As for the bombing of Wangsendai, this king and this king should not know, and the governor will arrange it himself. ”

"Leng Qingtang" looked directly at Min Rui, and smiled coldly:

"That's the capital crime of killing the king, isn't the prince afraid?"

"What's the use of being afraid, being afraid, if he doesn't die, my Min family will suffer......"

"It is very good, let the Governor arrange everything. No matter who changes hands, this governor assures you that you are still Min Guogong, who is in charge of the East Qingshui Division. ”

Silently watching the man and Cheng Wanli walk out of the mourning hall one after another, Min Rui sighed and stared at the red light that danced in the copper basin, and Meng Meng fell into deep thought:

"Madam, where is this king going? The new emperor wanted to exterminate the old ministers of the previous dynasty, but the Leng Duzhu did not die, and he wanted to assassinate the new emperor by blowing up Wangxiantai.

Not to mention how much effort the 100-foot high platform condenses this king, even if there is no new emperor, there is still Empress Dowager Xiao at the head of the palace, she will not let go of our daughter......"