In the fifth year of Taihe, in September, Zizheng was a moment.

Chengdu Mansion, somewhere in Yacheng.

"Wei Rong Wei Yuhou?!" Zhang Yijun exclaimed.

Prior to this, Zhang Yijun had many conjectures about the true identity of the secret pile of the Shuaifu, and until the black cloth on Wei Rong's face was revealed, he still put his suspicions on other people, the pastoral supervisor Li Fang, and even the marching Sima Li Huaishen. Only Wei Rong, who is conscientious and loyal to his duties on weekdays, is something he never expected.

After thinking about it carefully, I felt that the code name "Crane City" could indeed only refer to him.

"Jingzhao Wei's Bird City Public Housing......" Zhang Yijun muttered, "You are a member of the clan of Wang Wei Gao of Nankang County?!" ”

Wei Rong looked up at Zhang Yijun and Yabing's surprised expressions, raised his eyebrows and sneered, but his tone was full of respect, and said, "Wei Linggong is the uncle and grandfather of so-and-so...... You are not allowed to call them by their first names......"

"You are the same as Li Jiedu, you are a door shade, Li Jiedu is in Xichuan, and he trusts you a lot, why did he take refuge in the Niu Party and hide in the Shuai Mansion to become a secret pile?"

After hearing this, Wei Rong laughed out loud in an extremely exaggerated manner, as if he wanted to squeeze the breath in his lungs out of his mouth, but because of Fang Cai's fall from the horse, he seemed to have broken his ribs, and he coughed several times in pain.

"What kind of talent is Zhang Yijun? It turned out to be just a vain name......" After Wei Rong said these words with a smile, he gasped as if he was physically and mentally exhausted, but his face became more and more hideous, and the skin on his cheeks trembled like a spasm.

Wei Rong's ridicule made Zhang Yijun's thinking clearer, and Zhang Yijun secretly thought to himself, only to feel that his question was indeed a bit hasty.

Wei Rong is a man in the shadows, even if he does things for the Niu Party, it is difficult for him to be tolerated. Besides, if the Niu Party can really infiltrate Li Deyu's marshal mansion, Wei Rong has been the Marquis of Jiedu Yu since last year, how could the surrender of Victoria be so easy?

"You...... Not Niu Sidian's person? ”

Zhang Yijun said in an almost whispered tone, and after finishing speaking, he felt that his hairs stood up, "Then who are you......?" ”

However, Wei Rong seemed to be unable to answer this question, his head lowered, and his snort became heavier.

Not good!

Zhang Yijun hurriedly handed the fire fold to the tooth soldier beside him, leaned over and raised Wei Rong's head, vigorously opened his jaw, put his left hand into Wei Rong's mouth, and really pulled out a shriveled casing bag from his mouth!

However, he was a step too late after all, the small casing bag had already been broken, and the poison wrapped in it had already been sucked clean by Wei Rong.

Wei Rong's eyes widened because of pain, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the whites of his eyes began to stretch out bloodshots, he looked up at Zhang Yijun, the veins and veins on his face gradually became clear, the green tendons protruded, and the corners of his lips turned up, but he vomited blood from his mouth.

It's exactly the same death as Ling Fox!

And because Wei Rong swallowed undiluted poison, it only took a few fingers to swallow it, and the Yunshan poison had already taken effect.

Zhang Yijun secretly hated himself for being careless, and he hadn't noticed at all when Wei Rong stuffed the intestinal sac that poisoned Li Zhi into his mouth. If this continues, within three breaths, Wei Rong will completely lose consciousness, and his breath will not be more than ten breaths.

"Who the hell are you working for?" In order to keep Wei Rong awake, Zhang Yijun yelled loudly while shaking Wei Rong's shoulder violently, "Say it quickly!" Who exactly do you play for? ”

Zhang Yijun's action had an effect, and it actually restored Wei Rong's pupils to normal, even if it was only for a short moment.

"The ghost soldiers are coming, and none of you can stop ......"

Wei Rong coughed up blood clots, muttering a low and deformed voice in his mouth, and the smile full of blood was extremely terrifying under the reflection of the firelight.

"Ghost soldiers?" Zhang Yijun didn't have time to think about it, and still shook Wei Rong vigorously, "What ghost soldier?" What do you mean by that?! ”

However, Wei Rong's expression had frozen, the deep light that had always been in his eyes disappeared, and his whole body fell back weakly like a stone.

The tooth soldiers beside Zhang Yijun were already stunned, from grabbing Wei Rong to Wei Rong's breath, it only took less than half a cup of tea before and after.

"Your Excellency, the eye ...... What now? ”

Zhang Yijun gently closed Wei Rong's eyelids, slowly got up, lowered his head and sighed. In the end, except for the riddle-like words that Wei Rong said before he died, he still found nothing.

From behind Zhang Yijun and the tooth soldiers, there was the sound of horses' hooves and uniform footsteps.

Zhang Yijun looked back, and Li Deyu was belatedly leading the assembled Wuwei army in the workshop......

Ugly Chu.

Jiedu envoy to the government.

The wounded tooth soldiers in the Tooth City Prison were not much harmed, and the bleeding was quickly stopped, but if the Hidden Blade deviated inward for one more point, it would hurt the major arteries, and it was unknown whether Wei Rong was merciful or unintentional; Li Zhi seemed to be overly frightened, always talking to himself, and he didn't want to stay in prison anymore, Li Deyu was also afraid that Li Zhi would kill himself, so he sent him to the east wing of the Shuai Mansion to be placed under house arrest, and left for the trial of Fa Cao later; The prison guards seemed to have been drugged and kept asleep, and finally had to pour a basin of cold well water one by one to wake them up, and the interesting thing is that after waking up, they all seemed to be broken, and they couldn't think of anything except the "whining" tanuki cat running away.

Wei Rong's body was sent to the Yacheng morgue, and Facao Cui Bo was called for an autopsy again late at night, but in fact, there was no need to check it, just by looking at the dead appearance, he knew that he died of the same Yunshan poison as Ling Huxuan.

In just a few days, counting Li Zhi, who was waiting for the crime, the Shuai Mansion lost three wingmen in important positions one after another, and if the news spread, it was difficult to guarantee that it would not make the people in the city panic. Fortunately, Li Deyu blocked the gate of Yacheng and Jiandefang early, and tonight's matter was suppressed by the Jiedu envoy.

But both Zhang Yijun and Li Deyu know that no matter how much they press, things have happened after all.

In the pavilion in the back garden of the Shuaifu, after Zhang Yijun told all the information he had learned and a series of things that happened when he was a child, Li Deyu sighed: "If Wen Rao had allowed you to investigate this matter thoroughly, maybe tonight's incident could have been avoided, and maybe the fox would have been silenced...... You don't have to die. ”

After listening to the slightly apologetic words of the Jiedu envoy, Zhang Yijun was still thoughtful and silent for a while.

"Having said that," Li Deyu saw that Zhang Yijun had been silent for a long time, and he couldn't help but start thinking about it, "Since you said that Li Zhi is actually Wei Rong's downline, but before tonight, Li Zhi didn't know anything about Wei Rong's true identity, and Wei Rong had no risk of being exposed, so why did Wei Rong have to assassinate Li Zhi?" Isn't that just a risk? Just like what happened tonight, the assassination failed, and in the end, his identity was exposed, and he had to commit suicide? ”

Zhang Yijun frowned, and the question was good, and the two of them had the same idea.

Before questioning Li Zhi yesterday, Zhang Yijun always thought that Li Zhi knew the identity of "Bird City", but the fact is that Li Zhi actually knew nothing about "Bird City" and Wei Rong. In this way, Wei Rong's original intention to assassinate Li Zhi has nothing to do with Wei Rong himself. In other words, Wei Rong took such a risk, broke into the prison of Yacheng, and plotted to assassinate people, in order to make Li Zhi completely silent and protect a secret that Li Zhi and Wei Rong knew together......

"Their mastermind behind the scenes......" Zhang Yijun blurted out.

"What?"

"Wei Rong killed Li Zhi in order to ensure that Li Zhi would not tell the mastermind behind all these actions!"

"Wait......"

On the night when Li Deyu committed suicide by drinking the fox, he had some suspicions, and the fox was entrusted by others to assassinate the envoys, and the forces behind it were unknown. But when it was determined that the person who commanded it was Li Zhi, Li Deyu naturally thought that the force behind it was the Niu Party.

However, after tonight's events and listening to Zhang Yijun's description, I suddenly felt that what was hidden behind all this was probably far beyond what Li Deyu had thought before.

LI Zhi,WEI Rong...... These are just the tip of the iceberg.

"Do you mean...... The murder of Sima Zhu, Li Zhi's confession, Ling Hu's assassination, and Wei Rong's assassination of Li Zhi, all of these were the masterminds behind the scenes? ”

Zhang Yijun pondered for a moment, stretched out his slender left index finger, stroked his chin, stared at Li Deyu's side face with clear eyes, shook his head slightly, and said, "Li Zhi's confession...... I'm afraid it's indeed his consciousness as a bull party. And the other three things that Li Gong said should have nothing to do with the Niu Party, but someone else behind it......"

Li Deyu's eyes glanced away, and nodded his head slightly, Zhang Yijun could clearly see that Li Deyu's tenacious eyes were still secretly burning with a scorching flame, "Niu Dang, it's just a convenient identity, a pretense ......"

Zhang Yijun nodded.

"However, the only possible clue - 'Bird City' has also committed suicide, so what exactly does the person behind this scene want? I'm afraid I don't know for a while," Zhang Yijun lowered his head, gave Li Deyu a serious cross-handed salute, and said lightly: "It's Yijun who was careless, I didn't notice that he hid poisonous ...... in his mouth."

"It's not your fault," Li Deyu hurriedly waved his hand and sighed: "It's Wen Rao's decision-making mistake, and he should have led a few guards in the palace to rush directly to the dental prison at that time." ”

"That's right," Zhang Yijun suddenly remembered what Wei Rong said before he took his last breath, "After Wei Rong took the poison, he once spit out a word, which seemed to be...... Ghost Soldier ......"

"Ghost soldiers?"

"The original words seem to be 'The ghost soldiers are coming, and none of you can stop them'......"

"Wait a minute, are you sure he's talking about ghost soldiers?" Li Deyu was suspicious, looking elsewhere, this word obviously stirred up a thousand waves in his mind. After Li Deyu pondered for a long time, his voice was as low as a whisper, and he carefully considered the words he said, as if he was also figuring out whether his judgment was correct or not, "The word ghost soldier, Wen Rao is in a legend of modern mysteries...... I've seen ......."

"Mysterious Legend?"

This really touches on Zhang Yijun's knowledge blind spot, and market literature has never been Zhang Yijun's involvement.

"The content is insinuating, but it is roughly about ......" Li Deyu swallowed, as if what he was going to say later was some kind of taboo, "In the last year of Yuanhe, Xin Pingping, the lieutenant of Gao'an County, Hongzhou, witnessed the ghost soldiers in the underworld and went to Chang'an Daming Palace to greet him. That night, Emperor Xianzong ......"

Li Deyu paused, and then continued softly: "...... Yan Jia. ”

Zhang Yijun was stunned when he heard this, raised his eyes to see Li Deyu's equally solemn expression, and a word flashed in his mind.

"Ghost soldiers, are you alluding to the mutiny?"

Li Deyu nodded silently.

If the "ghost soldier" in Wei Rong's mouth refers to the same as this mysterious novel, then the political situation in Chang'an can be described as dangerous. However, unlike what Li Deyu was worried about, what came to Zhang Yijun's heart at this moment made him faintly worried about the safety of another person in Chang'an.

"Yingwang ......" Zhang Yijun's voice was as low as a gnat, and after he said it, his heart trembled.

"Yijun, it is very necessary for you to return to Chang'an...... According to Wen Rao, this matter is not only far from over, I am afraid it has just begun. The people behind the scenes and the resources and forces under their control are by no means something that a small Xichuan can car......ry" Li Deyu took a deep breath, and then said in a slightly more accentuated tone: "Chang'an, something big must happen......

This is the second time that Li Deyu has proposed to let Zhang Yijun return to Chang'an, and this time, Zhang Yijun is no longer speechless, just because his intuition coincides with Li Deyu. And he also knew in his heart that since the matter had been traced to this extent, he had no way out.

Zhang Yijun faced Li Deyu and bowed for a long time.

Yi Jun ...... Just choose a day! ”

What Zhang Yijun and Li Deyu don't know is that what they unveiled today is actually the prologue of a major case that will shock the heart of this empire......