Personally sent Ye Qing out of the lonely mountain, Guan Li almost trotted back to the Chonghua Palace, and at this time Zhao Yan was still sitting where he was just now, as if he had never moved.

"Back to the emperor, the slave maid has inquired clearly, Ye Qing plans to stay in the Yan family's courtyard for a day, and then return to Lin'an tomorrow." Guan Li stood not far away and said respectfully to Zhao Yan.

"Are you ready?" Zhao Yan put down the teacup and raised his eyes, as if with a murderous intent.

"Back to the emperor, the slaves and maids are ready, a total of seventy-four people." Guan Li said calmly.

"Don't let me down again." After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he slowly got up and walked to the rear.

The West Lake under the sunset seems quite quiet, the breeze sweeps across the lake and ripples, the boats on the lake are still shuttling, and the sound of silk and bamboo can be heard from time to time floating from the lake to the shore.

As Ye Qing returned to the Yan family's courtyard, the sky gradually darkened, and the lanterns were lit in the courtyard in a timely manner.

At the same time, a fast horse galloped into the Dali Temple quickly, and then Meng Hui and Bi Zaiyu looked quite dignified, looked at the night outside and sighed silently, and then looked at each other and nodded silently.

Zhao Ruyu seemed to know that his deadline was approaching, and the whole person seemed extremely peaceful today, the small room was neatly cleaned up by him, and even the books he had read in the past few days were also rearranged by him.

Picked up a letter in the center of the table, but in a few days, Ye Qing had already arranged his family, and this letter was sent by Ye Qing.

After carefully watching it from beginning to end again, it was like saying goodbye to his family again, Zhao Ruyu's face always had a faint calmness and smile, giving people a feeling of light and breeze.

As the knock sounded, Zhao Ruyu turned around, the door opened, and the door was not Meng Heng and Bi Zaiyu, who had often met in the past few days, but a subordinate beside Ye Qing, as well as a few soldiers with gloomy faces.

"General Jia?" Zhao Ruyu was slightly surprised and said, "What, is it up to you to send me on the road?" ”

Jia Shi nodded silently, and then the soldiers behind him handed a small pot of wine to Jia She's hand.

Jia Shi doesn't have a good impression of Zhao Ruyu, and now he knows that the battle of Guanshan was done by Zhao Ruyu, and now Jia She, even more than Zhong Qing, wants Zhao Ruyu to die immediately.

"How about handing over this letter to Lord Ye personally?" Zhao Ruyu stretched out his hand to take the wine jug handed over by Jia She, and then handed the letter that had just been written in his sleeve pocket to Jia Shidao.

"The last general must be handed over to Lord Ye himself." Jia Shi said expressionlessly.

Zhao Ruyu looked at the wine jug in his hand, then at Jia She, who walked to the door and slowly covered the door, and then said something inexplicable: "I hope." ”

Jia Shi has been standing outside the door, he is not in a hurry to go in to see if Zhao Ruyu is dead or not, in short, within half an hour, no matter whether Zhao Ruyu has drunk the poisonous wine or not, he must see a completely dead Zhao Ruyu.

As the crude oil armillary sphere above the Jiahui Gate sounded the thick drum again, the queen Li Fengniang, who was sitting on the chair of the Ciyuan Hall and closed her eyes to recuperate, suddenly chuckled in her heart for some reason.

With a somewhat confused look, she looked at the direction where the footsteps sounded, and saw Zhu Ye'er walking over to meet her inquiring gaze, and said, "Queen, Zuo Jiao has just come to play, and news has come from Dali Temple that the Duke of Yi is dead." ”

"Where is Ye Qingren?" Li Fengniang's first reaction was to ask Ye Qing's whereabouts at the moment.

"Back to the queen, Lord Ye is still in the West Lake, and he has not returned to Ancheng today." Zhu Ye'er said respectfully.

"It's over, I'm afraid this minister is going to make a mistake." Li Fengniang stood up suddenly, with a hidden worry on her face, and muttered, "Doesn't he know?" Executing Zhao Ruyu so early, does he have to take a big risk himself? Dare to ...... in West Lake Zuo Yu immediately secretly took someone to the Yan family courtyard in West Lake to see if there was any movement, and if he saw Ye Qing, no matter what, he must protect him to Xingyuan and go immediately. Li Fengniang's eyes flickered, her expression looked a little nervous, looking at Zhu Ye'er just leaving, and then before she could recover from her own speculation, Zhu Ye'er, who had just gone out, went and returned, and at this moment, there was one more Zuo Yu behind her.

"What's the matter?" Li Fengniang frowned, and a bad premonition instantly rose in her heart.

"Back to the queen, it is said that this afternoon, the saint is located in the Funing Hall lost something, I am afraid that it was the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, so the saint first asked the people in front of the palace to block the palace, and then after nightfall, outside the Jiahui Gate and Donghua Gate, the army led by Han Yanxuan has blocked the city gate, saying that it is the will of the saint to strictly investigate the thieves who steal the treasures in the palace." Zuo Yu was behind Zhu Ye'er, and saluted and said to Li Fengniang.

"How many?" Li Fengniang instantly had a trace of anger between her eyebrows, and the ghost would believe that the palace would suddenly lose something at this time.

"There are not many people, but at the Jiahui Gate, Han Yanxuan is in charge, and at the Donghua Gate, it is Han Cheng, the left minister

Take it personally. Zuo Yu looked at Li Fengniang, whose expression changed from nervous to a little depressed, and then became a little depressed.

"One step too late." Li Fengniang sat back on the chair, frowned and muttered: "The praying mantis catches cicadas and the yellow finch is behind, this is a combination of inside and outside." ”

"Queen, if you are sent, the last general will ...... even if you break through." Zuo Yu didn't understand why Li Fengniang had become so nervous, after all, as soon as he saw Zhu Ye'er who walked out of the palace, he didn't have time to speak, so he came in with him to explain the situation outside the palace.

So at this moment, he didn't know that Li Fengniang was worried about the safety of Ye Qing in West Lake, she was worried, Ye Qing was afraid that she had fallen for the emperor and Han Cheng, and Zhao Ruyu was the bait to lure him Ye Qing into the bait, which can be described as ...... exchanging Zhao Ruyu's life for his Ye Qing's life, and the clan for important ministers, for Emperor Yu and Han Cheng, it can be said that it is worth it.

"No need, let's see his creation, see if he still has enough good luck." Li Fengniang interrupted Zuo Yu's words, shook her head and muttered: "Zuo Yu, Zuo Jiao, this palace orders that from now on, no one is allowed to enter the palace, and trespassers will be executed on the spot." ”

Zuo Yu's voice in response was automatically skipped by Li Fengniang, who was confused, she needed to think about it now, if something happened to Ye Qing in West Lake, what should she do next? Is it possible to join forces with Han Cheng again, if not, do you want to give Shi Miyuan some rumors.

She didn't expect that Ye Qing would execute Zhao Ruyu so soon, she thought that even if Ye Qing wanted to execute Zhao Ruyu, she would do it again after returning from Gushan, but now, Ye Qingren is still in the West Lake, and Dali Temple here has already done it, which is obviously enough to show that Ye Qing is afraid that he can't wait, or is it ...... Did you completely fall out with the Emperor? So you have to start first?

But can't he see it? This is obviously a set trap, just wait for him to execute Zhao Ruyu, and then use him Ye Qing as a scapegoat?

"In order to avenge Zhong Qing, a woman, can you Ye Qing really do everything and ignore everything? Hero! From the point of view of this palace, it is just a joke! There was a sneer on the corner of Li Fengniang's mouth, more or less with a hint of jealousy.

At this time, in the courtyard of the Yan family in West Lake, there were still only Fang Fei and Ye Qing in the study, Ye Qing was reading, Fang Fei was watching people with her chin on her chin, and the two were sitting silently in the study, although the atmosphere was a little dull, but it was still a little warm.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ye Qing put down the book in his hand, looked at Fang Fei and asked with a smile.

Fang Fei's little face turned red, and she stuck out her tongue mischievously, and said, "Because the master is a good person." ”

"Because of helping Zhong Qing take revenge?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.

Under the candle, Fang Fei, who had bright eyes and bright teeth, was still holding her chin, and then blinked her eyes and nodded vigorously at Ye Qing, and said: "The master knows that helping the lady to avenge will offend many people in the court, and it will also bring big trouble to himself, but the master still did it, Fang Fei admires the master very much." ”

Fang Fei said one old man, let Ye Qing, who was leaning on the back of the chair, involuntarily touch his white temples, and said with a wry smile: "How many times have you said it, you don't need to call me master, if you continue to shout like this, you will call me old." ”

Fang Fei shook her head mischievously, then got up and said, "The master is tired, right?" Can I give you a massage? ”

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ye Qing's consent, he walked behind Ye Qing, gently put his hands on Ye Qing's temples on both sides, and then pressed back slightly, and the back of Ye Qing's head was pillowed on Fang Fei's elastic chest.

"There's a lot of gray hair, right?" Ye Qing asked with his eyes closed in enjoyment.

"But the old man is not old at all, he is still very young." Fang Fei lowered her head and exhaled like a landau.

Ye Qing smiled, and let Fang Fei help him gently massage his temples.

The angular cheeks are rare to be completely placed under Fang Fei's line of sight, looking at the resolute lips, the straight nose bridge, and the long eyelashes, Fang Fei's hands are becoming more and more gentle at this time.

And just as the atmosphere in the study gradually changed from gentle to springy, there was a sound of arrows breaking through the air outside the window, and even a faint muffled humming sound, coming in from the crack in the window that was not tightly closed.

"What sound?" Fang Fei asked curiously.

"Don't bother." Ye Qing still closed his eyes and said to Fang Fei with an easy-going smile on his face.

"I'll go see ......." Fang Fei's hands left Ye Qing's temples, and she turned around curiously and walked towards the window behind her.

"Danger, don't come closer." Ye Qing was suddenly startled, and hurriedly opened her eyes and got up from the chair, and at this time, Fang Fei had already put one hand on the window.

As Fang Fei had just opened half of the window, she immediately felt that her shoulder was pulled hard from behind, and then there was a snapping sound in front of her eyes, and an arrow was nailed to the window lattice, and the tail of the arrow was trembling and buzzing.

Fang Fei, who was pulled into Ye Qing's arms, turned white, and looked at the still trembling arrow tail with some disbelief, and almost at the same time, Ye Qing held her and moved to the side again, and when Fang Fei hadn't fully reacted, there was a continuous sound of breaking the air.

Holding the soft and boneless Fang Fei in her arms, tight

Leaning against the wall, and at the window where the two of them were standing just now, both windows had been opened at this time, one of them was opened by Fang Fei, and the other window that looked broken was opened by a sharp and fierce arrow.

The broken half of the window became more and more unbearable with the shooting of the arrows, and almost in the blink of an eye, Fang Fei thumped, as if the heart that was about to jump out of her chest had not had time to calm down, the broken half of the window creaked, and then fell to the floor under her feet.

"Master......." Fang Fei looked at Ye Qing with a calm expression with some horror.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, it'll be over soon." Ye Qing held Fang Fei's snow-white cheeks with both hands and said softly.

"Yes...... Who is it? Fang Fei's mind was blank, she couldn't believe that someone dared to assassinate Ye Qing, who was now in a high position.

"Some thieves wandering around the West Lake, I'm afraid they're worried about the good things in our house." Ye Qing kept holding Fang Fei in his arms, and Fang Fei's hand around his waist was still trembling because of the sudden change just now.

Ye Qing even had some doubts that if she let go of Fang Fei at this moment, would this girl directly have weak legs, and then sit on the ground with her buttocks.

"Yes...... It can never happen before ....... Fang Fei rolled her bright and somewhat nervous eyes, but compared to the moment of shock just now, at this time, she had gradually calmed down in Ye Qing's arms.

Although some of the people in their minds didn't come back to their senses because of the sudden situation just now, their little faces gradually recovered a little blood color under the gentle care of Ye Qing's hands.

"Don't worry, Zhong Silkworm will solve it." Ye Qing lowered his head and kissed on the seductive and still a little cold lips and said.

Hooking his feet across the chair, and then sitting down against the wall, Fang Fei was placed on his lap by him, and then continued to hold in his arms.

"Master, could it be because of ......." Fang Fei's frightened eyes suddenly looked at Ye Qing and asked, for such an ambiguous posture between them, Fang Fei has long been accustomed to it now, but on weekdays, most of the time, Zhong Qing sits in this man's arms.

"Don't think about it, it's okay." Ye Qing smiled and pinched Fang Fei's nose and said.

When Guan Li entered the Lonely Mountain, he had whispered to remind him to be careful, and the reason why he did not return to Lin'an, but chose to stay in the Yan family's courtyard, was to see if the current Emperor Taishang would be like Zhao Gou back then, and he would also kill himself.

And now, he also has some understanding of why the Empress Dowager Xie wants to keep Zhong Qing in the palace, instead of letting him follow him back to Lin'an, it seems that the Empress Dowager also knows this matter in her heart, but ...... Zhong Qing was also kept in the dark.

The arrows had stopped at the window, and in the courtyard at this time, there was the sound of more and more rapid footsteps, and muffled grunts, and even the clanging of knives and guns, which seemed crisper than ever in the middle of the night.

The sound of the window being broken downstairs sounded, and Fang Fei, who was sitting on Ye Qing's lap, couldn't help but be startled, and then felt Ye Qing gently pat her cheek and motioned her to stand up.

The candle in the study was extinguished by Ye Qing, who got up, casually picked up the chair cushion, and then put one hand around Fang Fei's waist, and the other hand took out the Yanling knife hanging on the wall.

"Don't be afraid, just follow me closely......." The moment Ye Qing pushed open the door of the study, he said to Fang Fei.

Without waiting for him to finish talking to Fang Fei, at the moment when he opened the door, under the candle outside, a black-clothed masked man had already rushed to the front, Fang Fei's mouth opened wide in fright, but before she could scream in fright, the black-clothed man who ran up alone obviously didn't expect that he would find the main owner all of a sudden.

It's just that before he put his hand on his waist, he felt that a bright light appeared in front of his whole person, and then he suddenly flew up, and the woman who was held in Ye Qing's arms opened her eyes even more in fright, looking up at herself...... of the skull.

"Close your eyes if you're afraid." Ye Qing swung out the knife, and did not immediately withdraw the knife, but stopped his arm in front of Fang Fei's eyes, helping Fang Fei cover a lot of splashing blood.

Footsteps sounded at the staircase again, Fang Fei's whole heart was already tightly pinched together, originally thought that another man in black would appear in front of her, but when Fang Fei saw the figure, it was two unmasked strangers.

"Your Excellency......."

"It's okay here, how many people are out there?" Ye Qing pointed to the corpse under his feet and asked.

"Lord Hui, there are about 100 people, the exact number is not clear, but there will be no more fish that have slipped through the net here. General Zhong deliberately asked the last general to ....... ”

"Go down to one person and tell Zhong Silkworm that there is no need to report to the official, let alone alarm others, and all the corpses will be moved to the courtyard." Ye Qing pointed to the corpse under his feet again, and then said to the soldier of the Flower Planter on the opposite side.

The assassination of Ye Qing was taking place in the courtyard of the Yan family at this time, and the two thousand soldiers of the Hua family who had arrived in Lin'an at the beginning, under the leadership of Jia She, were rushing in the direction of Jiahuimen.