Chapter 127: True and False Assassins

"Yes, the minion will go." Xiao Yinzi hurriedly walked out with his head down, and after a while, he came in with someone. Xiao Yinzi asked the eunuch to put the wine on the table, put the wine glass in front of the two of them, and immediately withdrew.

"Come, Brother Lian." Fu Beixing said with a wine glass.

"Brother Huang, please." Fu Qinglian also raised his glass.

The two looked at each other and smiled, brought the wine glass to their lips together, and drank it all in one gulp. In the imperial study, the two brothers chatted and drank happily.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Meng Zhendong was sitting in the study practicing calligraphy. Today, I don't know why, he felt tightness in his chest all day, as if something was going to happen.

Although he didn't seem to be very flustered on the surface, after all, someone had already been sent to deal with it, and these things were not very serious, and it was just a capture of a man in black, as long as he killed it, he would be able to destroy the corpse, and they had already sent so many people out, they should be able to solve it smoothly.

But he was still a little uneasy in his heart. And practicing calligraphy is the best way to calm down and forget bad emotions, but his mood today can't calm down no matter what, lest something happen that makes him unacceptable.

"My lord, the Dark Guard is back." Outside the door, the guard guarding the door knocked on the door and said.

"Let him in." Meng Zhendong put down the pen in his hand and sat down. There was a slight silence in my heart, the dark guard came back so soon, presumably things were going well.

"My subordinates meet your lordship." The dark guard pushed open the door and walked in, walked in front of Meng Zhendong, he came back and saluted Meng Zhendong.

"Get up, how are things going?" Meng Zhendong asked, he put down his pen, and his expression was unprecedented summoning.

"Back to my lord, everything is going well." The Dark Guard replied.

"Are you sure the person is dead?" Meng Zhendong still wanted to confirm, he couldn't believe that things could go so smoothly, he originally thought that Fu Qinglian would definitely send a large number of people to guard this person in order to bring this person to the emperor safe and sound, although he took it away a lot, but if they really wanted to protect it, it was not so simple.

So when he heard the news, his first reaction was a little incredulous that these things would be solved so smoothly.

"Sure, he was killed by a sword from his subordinates, and his subordinates pushed the man and the carriage off the cliff, and he must have been smashed to pieces." The Dark Guard swore and explained that it seemed that they had resolved the matter with complete certainty.

"Very good, go down and receive the reward." Meng Zhendong waved his hand happily, signaling that the dark guard could push it down.

Maybe it was too difficult for him to think about everything today, but he didn't expect that this matter had been solved unharmed, and he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Yes, the subordinates retired." The Dark Guard said and withdrew.

After listening to the words of the secret guard, Meng Zhendong was in a good mood. The gloomy expression on his face was gone, replaced by a happy one, and he picked up the pen again, stood up, and continued to practice.

If Meng Zhendong practiced calligraphy just now to suppress his uneasy heart, Meng Zhendong practiced calligraphy at this moment to celebrate the good news he had just gotten.

Because his mood was relieved all of a sudden, he was not in a hurry now, but just started practicing calligraphy calmly, completely forgetting his previous haze.

In Weinan City, Zhang Qian and the guards finally returned.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Zhang Qian took the guards and rushed straight to the prefect's mansion. Pedestrians on the street looked at a group of prefect guards on foot, full of curiosity. Although they didn't know what happened to Zhang Qian and them, passers-by consciously made way for them.

Everyone was talking about what was going on here, but looking at so many guards, they could sense that this matter should be a very serious matter.

"My lord, Zhang Qian's escort is back." The prefect's office, someone reported to Huang Yan.

"Arrange the other guards, let them rest, and bring Zhang Qian in." Huang Yan commanded, a little slower than he imagined, it seems that Meng Zhendong did lead people to kidnap them before, which is why they were delayed on the road for so long.

"Subordinates, see your lordship." As soon as Zhang Qian entered the door, he saluted Huang Yan, looking a little flustered.

"Get up, things are going well?" Huang Yan asked.

"Lord Hui, everything is going well, the other party pretended to be a robber and trapped us, the purpose is the carriage, presumably the prisoner in the carriage has been killed." Zhang Qian replied.

"That's good, Meng Zhendong couldn't have imagined that the real man in black had already been escorted back to Beijing, and I am afraid that he would be able to arrive tomorrow." Huang Yan touched his beard and said with a smile.

That's right, the prisoner escorted by Zhang Qian was not really a man in black, it was just a prisoner who had committed a capital crime in the cell of Weinan City.

How could they send such an important person out with such fanfare so easily? Of course, there is already a way to transfer. So, the person they killed was just a person who had nothing to do with it.

However, this person has also committed a heinous crime, and being able to do things for the country can be regarded as the end of his life.

In Wang Qingyuan's letter to Huang Yan, he asked Huang Yan to send a few people to escort the Assassins back to Beijing by pretending to be ordinary people who had gone out of the city to visit relatives. On the other side, let Zhang Qian take 300 men and horses to escort the fake assassin back to Beijing.

Wang Qingyuan had already guessed that Meng Zhendong would send someone to Weinan City to pick him up, so he deliberately put on a good show.

The secret guards who answered in Weinan City naturally wouldn't notice the carriage pretending to be ordinary people out of the city, and Meng Zhendong wouldn't have thought that the real prisoner had only sent five people to escort him, and according to common sense, Meng Zhendong would definitely think that Huang Yan would send a large number of men and horses to protect the assassins.

But they didn't expect that they had chosen such a remote place, and they had already sent these five people to escort them back early in the morning, they had just been hidden, and not many people even knew about this team.

Therefore, the real assassin had gone out of the city as early as the night before, and on the second day, Zhang Qian took the guards and a group of people out of the city in a mighty way, which was just a pretense, but fortunately Meng Zhendong did not find out.

He definitely didn't expect them to have a plan in secret, so he let his guard down so easily.

"Are there any casualties?" Huang Yan asked, the reason why he told them not to fall in love with the war before was because this person was of little value to them, and even if they hijacked him, he would not lose anything.

"Back to my lord, the other party's purpose is the prisoners in the carriage, and they are not in love with war, so no brothers died, but some brothers were injured." Zhang Qian replied.

"That's fine, this plan is very dangerous, maybe there will be a danger to your life, thank you for your hard work." Huang Yan said.

"The subordinates are not hard, and it is the responsibility of the subordinates to do things for the adults." Zhang Qian clasped his hands into fists and said to Huang Yan.

The prefect was very satisfied. Their performance this time was indeed meritorious, and it did not make Meng Zhendong suspicious.

"Well, your faithful officer sees it, go down and receive the reward, this is what you deserve, remember to receive a copy for the other guards." Huang Yan seemed to be very happy, he said with a laugh.

"Master Xie, my subordinates retire." Zhang Qian saluted Huang Yan and went out.

Huang Yanzhi sighed that Wang Qingyuan was scheming, and even Meng Zhendong was brushed by him, the most important thing is that Meng Zhendong must have gotten the news at this moment, thinking that the assassin was dead, but he didn't know that the real assassin was on his way to the capital.

The carriage escorting the Assassins into the capital finally arrived at the capital as soon as the gates of the capital opened, and Wang Qingyuan had already sent guards to meet them at the gates. The guards met with the carriage escorting the Assassins back to Beijing, and then returned home with the men from Weinan City.

"My lord, it's not good!" A guard hurriedly ran into the hall of the Meng Mansion and knelt on the ground.

"What's so alarming?" Meng Zhendong was having breakfast, and when he saw the guards making such a fuss, he was a little displeased, and he felt that he should be told that no matter what happened, he should report it before coming in, and he should not disturb his meal time. He put down the bowl in his hand and looked sharply at the kneeling guard.

If this person couldn't tell what was going on, he would never let him go so easily.

"My lord, the secret guard came to report that Wang Qingyuan sent someone at the gate of the city early in the morning, and just returned to the house with the carriage that had just arrived in the capital." The guard replied with his head bowed.

"What?" When Meng Zhendong heard this, he stood up with a "pout", and his face changed instantly.

Wang Qingyuan sent someone to pick up the carriage coming from outside at the gate of the capital? Could it be the assassin he sent to assassinate Fu Qinglian? But the Dark Guard has already dealt with the assassins, what the hell is going on? Meng Zhendong kept thinking about it in his head.

How can it be? Yesterday, that assassin had already been dealt with by him, so how could he still appear in Jinjing City now?

Could it be that the person dealt with by the secret guard is a fake? The real assassin has only arrived in the capital today? Oh no, it's a trick! Meng Zhendong suddenly realized what was going on.

No wonder he had been feeling distraught yesterday, it turned out that this matter had not been resolved smoothly at all, he had fallen for their scheme, the real assassins had been transported to the capital, and they were really in danger this time.

"Damn it!" Meng Zhendong slapped the table and cursed in a low voice. His dignified prime minister was actually turned around by Wang Qingyuan, but he didn't expect him to be in the officialdom for so many years, and this time he actually fell into his hands.

Meng Zhendong's mind was blank at this moment, and he didn't know what to do. I thought that the assassin had been disposed of, but who knew that it had already been transferred.

Now that the Assassin had arrived in the capital, with so many eyes in the capital, it was too late for him to do anything more. Meng Zhendong suddenly felt a little desperate, this case was obviously not enough to kill him, but he faintly felt uneasy in his heart.