Xiao Yan, who was leaning on the trunk of the tree, looked coldly at the female assassin who was tortured by the poison and only had half a life left, from just now, no matter what he asked, the female assassin refused to speak.

Assassins are generally not afraid of death, nor are they afraid of physical torture, so Xiao Yan wondered if he should use some other way to make her spit out the truth.

"You two, come here."

The two guards who were called walked up to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan said to them in a voice that the female assassin could hear: "She won't tell the truth, it's useless to keep it, I see that she still has a little bit of beauty, so let's give her to your brothers to enjoy." ”

The two guards were stunned for a moment, and then when they saw Xiao Yan's eyes, they instantly understood, and hugged their fists and said, "Thank you for the general's compassion, the brothers haven't opened meat for a long time." ”

The female assassin heard the conversation between Xiao Yan and the guards, and scolded angrily: "Xiao Yan, you are shameless! It's a shame that you're still a general in the Northern Capital, and you're ...... You ...... to do such a thing to a woman."

"What's wrong with me?" Xiao Yan looked at her with a contemptuous smile and said, "Anyway, from the moment you assassinated the princess, you were a death row inmate, and I can't do too much to a death row inmate." ”

"Besides, I gave you a chance, as long as you tell the truth, you can open up to you, but you don't know what to do, can you blame me?"

The female believer gritted her teeth and glared at Xiao Yan and said, "You don't want to know the truth from my mouth!" ”

"Huh." Xiao Yan chuckled, raised his chin, and said to the guards: "Go, hurry up, you have to rush back." ”

The guard said with a cooperative face: "Don't worry, general, we will fight quickly and will not delay our work." ”

After saying that, the two guards walked up to the female assassin and said with a wicked smile: "Will you come first in a moment, or will I come first?" ”

"You're my brother, you first."

Seeing the guards approaching her, and hearing what they said, the female assassin knew that Xiao Yan was not joking, but she still bit her lip and did not speak.

It wasn't until a guard grabbed her leg and dragged her to the woods next to her that she looked at Xiao Yan and begged for mercy loudly: "Let go of me, I say, I'll say anything." ”

Xiao Yan looked at her with a faint smile on his face, and wrote lightly: "How do I know if you will lie to me again?" ”

The guards continued to drag the female assassin, and the female assassin was so anxious that she said loudly: "I am telling the truth this time, as long as you let me go, I will tell you who sent me to assassinate the princess." ”

Xiao Yan raised his hand, and the guards let go of the female assassin's foot, then took her arm and brought her to Xiao Yan.

Looking at the female assassin who was already scared and crying, Xiao Yan said coldly: "Say it." ”

"Yes...... We were sent by the concubine. The female assassin looked at Xiao Yan with a cry in her voice and said, "The noble concubine said that the princess has always been against her, so she wanted to take advantage of the princess's blessing in the temple this time and send us to kill her." ”

"You didn't lie to me this time, did you?" Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows and said, looking at her with cold eyes.

Touching Xiao Yan's eyes, the female assassin shook her head again and again in fright, "No, no, what I said this time is the truth." ”

Xiao Yan snorted coldly, and then said to the guards: "Take her back to the backyard of the temple to take care of her first, and then if there is any escape, you can go and get the punishment yourself." ”

"Yes, General."

Subsequently, Xiao Yan and his party went back to the temple, and met Feng Yu who came to find them on the way.

Feng Yu glanced at the female assassin who was holding her arm by the guard, then looked at Xiao Yan and said, "Did you ask it?" ”

Xiao Yan nodded and said to the guards: "You take her back first and guard her strictly, remember, don't let anyone approach her." ”

"Yes, General."

After the guards left with the female assassin, Xiao Yan said to Feng Yu: "She said that she was instructed by Concubine Hui to assassinate you." ”

"Sure enough, it's Lin Hui." Feng Yu's eyes were cold and said, "According to my guess, the first few assassinations should have been instigated by her." ”

"This assassination is not the same group as the previous ones, so we have no evidence against her." Xiao Yan frowned and said.

"Forget it, it's a good thing to catch one this time." Feng Yu sighed and said, it is estimated that someone will stab her in the future.

Xiao Yan lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and then said: "Tomorrow, I will send a few of my subordinates to send her back to Beijing to be detained, and when we return to Beijing, we will go to meet the emperor together." ”

"No, it's not enough." Feng Yu frowned and shook her head, and said, "This one thing alone is not enough to shake Lin Hui's current status, we have to think of other ways." ”

Xiao Yan thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Then I will send my subordinates to imprison the female assassin in the General's Mansion first, and then we will report it to the emperor together when we find other evidence in the future." ”

"Okay." Feng Yu nodded in agreement and said, "But with the queen mother, we have to find an excuse to avoid her suspicion." ”

"Don't worry about this, I will give an explanation to the queen."

Then the two went back to the temple together, and when all the pilgrims had left, and everything had calmed down, they went to the queen together.

"Xiao Yan, how is the assassination investigation? What is the result? ”

Xiao Yan knelt on one knee, clasped his fists with both hands and said: "If you go back to the queen's mother, the ministers are not doing their jobs well, and those two assassins have already committed suicide while the guards are not paying attention." ”

"Killed yourself?" The queen was a little surprised, and then her face became heavy, "In this way, there is no way to know who made them assassinate Kira. ”

Seeing this, Feng Yu opened her mouth to persuade: "Queen Mother, those are all well-trained assassins, for them, failure in the mission and suicide is their only way out. ”

The queen sighed and said, "That's it, now that the man is dead, it is useless to say more." ”

After speaking, the queen looked at Xiao Yan and said: "Xiao Yan, you still need to pay more attention to the safety of this temple, such a thing as today's assassination, this palace does not want it to happen again." ”

Xiao Yan lowered his head and clenched his fists, and said in a serious tone: "Yes, the minister will definitely do his best to protect the safety of the mother and the princess." ”

"Okay, you're tired all day, go back and rest early." The queen waved her hand weakly and said to Fengyu: "Qiluo, you should be careful in everything these days, and it is best to bring people with you when you travel." ”

Feng Yu bent down slightly, bowed her head and said, "Thank you for your concern, Erchen remembers." ”

"Stand down."

"The retainers retired."

"The minister retired."

Xiao Yan sent Fengyu back to the house, and then went to the backyard where the female assassin was being held, found a few of his trusted subordinates, and instructed them to secretly send the female assassin back to Beijing.

Beijing——

With the help of Li Chengdong, Xie Feng lived in the examination institute as he wished, preparing to take the imperial examination.

Xie Feng pretended to be a rich son, and dealt with other sons and daughters in the examination institute, basically all of them were rich sons who lived in the examination institute, and some were children of official families, and he could hear a lot of things in Beijing with them.

On this day, Xie Feng was drinking tea with a Li son, and Li Gongzi inadvertently revealed when he was talking that he had already bought the preliminary exam questions from Li Chengdong.

Xie Feng was overjoyed, but still pretended to be surprised and asked, "Really?" Where to buy? Is it too late to buy it now? ”

"Oh, this first trial is coming, where are you going to buy it now? It's useless to buy it. Li Gongzi drank tea and said leisurely, completely unaware that he had exposed Li Chengdong.

"Then won't I be able to pass the test Brother Li?" Xie Feng sighed with annoyance on his face and said, "I knew that I would buy it too, and I don't know if other people bought it." ”

That Li Gongzi smiled incomprehensibly, looked around, and whispered to Xie Feng: "As far as I know, many people have bought the preliminary exam questions. ”

"What?!" Xie Feng pretended to look at Li Gongzi in shock, then approached him and whispered: "Then can Brother Li reveal it to me, let me have a good number in my heart." ”

This Li Gongzi and Xie Feng got along quite well, otherwise they would not have revealed to him such a thing as buying questions, so they told him the preliminary exam questions immediately.

Xie Feng learned about the preliminary examination questions, which were indeed the same as those given to him by Li Chengdong, and immediately confirmed that Li Chengdong used the imperial examination to embezzle and accept bribes.

In order to further grasp the evidence of Li Chengdong's betrayal of the exam questions, Xie Feng also disguised himself as a gentleman, and mingled with those sons and buddies all day long, mingling with them.

Soon, the preliminary examination of the imperial examination arrived, and after Xie Feng finished the examination, he secretly stole the preliminary examination questions bought by those sons.

Because as soon as the preliminary exam was over, everyone was focused on the next exam and bothered to prepare for the next exam, so no one noticed that Xie Feng stole their preliminary exam questions.

And after Xie Feng had the evidence again, he hurriedly informed Xiao Yan of the flying pigeon biography, and then waited for Xiao Yan's next instructions.

This time he came to Dali Temple to practice worshipping Buddha, Xiao Yan didn't bring many people, but fortunately, Dali Temple originally had guards, so after the assassin assassinated Fengyu, Xiao Yan strengthened his patrol.

"General, there is a letter from the capital."

The one who spoke was the guard who had been with Xiao Yan for many years, and he was the only person Xiao Yan could trust among all the guards accompanying him this time.

Xiao Yan took the letter and opened it to see that it was from Xie Feng, who said that he had already grasped the evidence of Li Chengdong's corruption and bribery, and asked Xiao Yan what to do next?

Seeing Xiao Yan frowning, the guards were a little worried: "General, but something happened in Beijing?" ”

Xiao Yan shook his head and said expressionlessly: "Li Chengdong's matter has made progress. With that, he walked over to the desk and burned the letter.

"Li Chengdong is really a villain who sees money." The guard said disdainfully, and then looked at Xiao Yan, "General, do you need your subordinates to go back to Beijing?" ”

"Not necessarily."

Now that he had evidence in hand, Xiao Yan didn't want to sit still anymore, so he immediately wrote a letter to the officials who were good friends in Beijing, asking them to join Li Chengdong in the court.

In order to prevent Li Chengdong from making small moves when he found out that something was wrong, Xiao Yan wrote back to Xie Feng and asked him to pay close attention to Li Chengdong's every move.

And Jiang Ye, this is also a difficult guy to deal with, and he must be careful at all times.