"We originally wanted to use the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain to trick Yin Ji out of the room, and then send someone to the room to kill Lu Zuo, but they didn't get fooled first, and we didn't chase him out, so we killed him back in his room, but a few brothers still died, and at that time it had already alarmed the servants of the Tao Mansion, so we retreated again. When it was almost the fourth watch, we infiltrated the Tao Mansion again, this time we did not make a noise, but used fire attacks, and lit a few fires outside Lu Zuo's room, even if he put on his wings, he would not be able to fly out of the sea of fire. Deng Zhuo said proudly.

Xun Mou nodded with satisfaction and continued to ask, "The dead assassins didn't show any feet, right?" ”

"General Xun rest assured, when we went to Taofu, we didn't bring anything with us except a sword, and the swords in our hands were all ordinary things, and we didn't use the swords of the government." Deng Zhuo said very proudly, "Not only that, but when we returned to Tao Mansion later, we found out that they had thrown the bodies of several brothers in the firewood room of Tao Mansion, so we also set a fire outside the firewood room. ”

"Hmmm! Very good! Xun Yu also applauded, "This time General Deng should be the first to remember!" ”

Xun Mou was still a little worried and asked, "Then how is it burning now?" ”

General Deng patted his chest and said with confidence: "General Xun can sit back and relax, his subordinates also specially sent two brothers to pretend to be the surrounding people to go to Taofu to fight the fire, according to the two of them came out to report that two corpses were pulled out of the main house, which had been burned to charcoal, and those two corpses must be Lu Zuo and Yin Ji." ”

"Well, when you turn back in front of the prince, General Ben will definitely ask for credit for you!" Xun Mou smiled at Xu Bingde and his father with satisfaction, "Now that the matter has been dealt with, let's all go back to our own house to rest!" ”

Dawn broke, the sky was already bright, and the maid in King Ning's mansion went to King Ning's bedroom to wait for a change of clothes, and the housekeeper Liu San'er whispered to Liu Xun outside the door to say goodbye. Liu Xun asked unhurriedly: "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the prince, the Tao Mansion was on fire last night!"

"What?" King Ning waved his hand and motioned for the maid to go down, while he strode outside the door and came to the housekeeper with a grim face, "What's the matter?" Why didn't you tell me until now? What about Lao Pan? ”

Liu San'er whispered a few words in King Ning's ear, and King Ning suddenly said, "That's good, what about him now?" ”

"Lao Pan said that they had been taking refuge in our Xinghua Restaurant last night, and there was no danger?"

"That's good, this king will enter the palace in the morning, and the saint may summon Mr. Tao at that time, you send a few more people to protect Mr. Tao secretly, there must be no mistakes, this king hopes that he will not be a dead man when he enters the palace, he is now the lifeblood of our palace!" Just go! ”

Since the death of King Wei, Funing Palace has become more and more quiet, the Queen Mother originally liked quiet people, and now she doesn't like to see people, the emperor has come to ask for peace a few times, and they have eaten closed-door soup, and the emperor also knows that the Queen Mother is because of Liu Xu, the King of Wei, and he feels ashamed, and he does not dare to provoke the Queen Mother, so let alone meet other imperial relatives. The Queen Mother sometimes feeds the fish and admires the flowers in the Yiwan Pavilion, or is chanting the Buddha in the Buddha Hall, and today it is the same as in the past, the Queen Mother is chanting in the Buddha Hall of the Ear Room of the Funing Palace.

In front of the Buddhist shrine, the Queen Mother was kneeling on the futon, closing her eyes and concentrating on chanting, a palace maid behind her walked to the side, and saw that the Queen Mother was chanting without distractions, and did not dare to interrupt, so she had to stand by and wait.

"What's the matter?"

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and knocked on the wooden fish, and suddenly this sentence came out, which really startled the palace maid, and hurriedly replied: "Back to the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness King Ning asks to see her!" ”

The Queen Mother said coldly: "Didn't you say it!" Nobody is seen! ”

"The slave maid said, but His Royal Highness King Ning has to see you today, saying that he is asking to see you for a person named Lu Zuo!"

"Nope!"

The Queen Mother blurted out impatiently, and when the palace maid turned around and was about to go down, the Queen Mother suddenly looked stunned, Lu Zuo? Isn't it Shanzhou Lu Zuo who gave advice to King Wei! I had already heard that he was dead, how could King Ning come to see him for him? So he opened his eyes and said sharply: "Slow, let King Ning wait outside the palace!" ”

"Yes!" The palace maid walked out of the palace to report.

Liu Xun, the king of Ning, waited for a long time in the main hall of Funing Palace, only to see the queen mother wearing a regular dress and sitting on the throne tremblingly. Liu Xun saw that the Queen Mother's complexion was much paler than before, and he also felt a little sorry for her in his heart, after all, she was also her own grandmother, so she hurriedly knelt down and saluted to say hello to the Queen Mother.

The queen sank like water, and still said coldly: "Xun'er, get up!" Let's get straight to the point! ”

Liu Xun slowly stood up and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, my grandson has nothing to do with coming today, just to visit you, and then pass on the word for an old man!" ”

"The deceased?" The Queen Mother's wrinkled brows condensed, "You mean that the person named Lu Zuo, everyone is dead, what is there to say!" ”

Liu Xun said with a smile: "It's Lu Zuo, yes, but it's not a deceased person, but an old friend." ”

"Oh?" The Queen Mother exclaimed, almost unable to believe her old ears, "What did you say?" ”

Liu Xun stretched out his voice and said loudly: "Queen Mother, grandson is saying that this old man is not dead!" ”

"Not dead?" The Queen Mother originally wanted to continue to ask, but after thinking about it, it didn't seem to have anything to do with herself, "Xun'er, what are you talking to the mourning family about?" ”

"Because my grandson is also upset for the ninth brother!"

The Queen Mother sighed and was silent for a moment with a sad expression, "Everyone is gone, what else is there to say!" ”

"Does the Queen Mother know how the ninth brother died?" Liu Xun asked rhetorically.

The Queen Mother's cloudy eyes became more and more bleak, yes, Xu'er's death was reported by Du Zongting, her own nephew, it was really a creation to make people, but if she hadn't let Xu'er get involved in this battle for succession, maybe this result would not have happened, thinking of this, the Queen Mother was silent for a long time.

For a long time, it was Liu Xun who broke the heavy atmosphere, "The Queen Mother doesn't have to blame herself, even if Du Zongting didn't denounce the ninth brother, it would be difficult for him to succeed." According to his grandson's knowledge, in fact, the prince had already calculated that the prince would rebel at that time! ”

"Really?" The Queen Mother's tone was slightly disdainful, "So what, as long as it is a rebellion, no matter who it is, it should be on the spot!" ”

Liu Xun smiled embarrassedly, "What the Queen Mother said is extremely true, but ......"

"Alright!" The Queen Mother interrupted Liu Xun's words impatiently, and there was a trace of unhappiness and helplessness in her sour tone, "The mourning family has said that as long as there is an idea of rebellion, it should be punished, no matter who it is, no exception." Yan'er is not wrong what he did, if His Royal Highness King Ning came down today just to say this to the mourning family, then retreat! ”