Qin Niang and Gu Chen returned to Yang's house in a hurry, but the news they got was that Yang Hong had something to do and went out of the city and did not return home.

Qin Niang's heart suddenly became uneasy.

Recently, I haven't heard of any outings from the city patrol camp, why did Yang Hong suddenly go out of the city?

Isn't it really related to Liujiazhuang?

No!

No, it won't!

"Okay, I can't go back tonight, it's going to be curfew in a while, so let's go back to your courtyard for one night." Gu Chen put his arm around her shoulder and said comfortingly.

"yes, I think he'll be back tomorrow, I heard he didn't go far." Lu reassured.

Didn't go far?

Is there anything that needs him to do it personally as a city patrol?

"Well, don't think about it that much, maybe it's not what we think." Gu Chen said, "We all know him so well, I believe that he will not do anything out of the ordinary, and with your eldest brother's intelligence, you should not jump into the trap of others, so don't scare yourself." ”

Out of the Lu family's courtyard, Gu Chen comforted all the way.

"However, even you, the commander in charge of the defense of the capital, know that he has no mission to go out, what else can he do when he goes out of the city at this time? Moreover, he didn't tell his family what he was going to do when he left, how do you say I don't worry. She was afraid that her upright eldest brother would be taken advantage of by others.

Although Yang Hong is smart, after all, he has not been involved in officialdom for a long time, and where is he the opponent of those scheming villains in these intrigues?

If the open fire is coming, she is not afraid of anything, but she is afraid that someone will play yin.

If it weren't for the fact that she had seen a lot in her previous life and had fought with Tang Wan for so many years, she would be a blank sheet of paper now, allowing others to dig a pit for her to jump.

"Xu is a confidential mission that His Majesty has assigned him." Gu Chen said, "Okay, the soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, don't worry." ”

Qin Niang thought about it, too, let's wait for Yang Hong to come back tomorrow.

It's just that none of them expected that they didn't wait for Yang Hong to come back the next day, but waited for a piece of news.

"Master, it's not good, Liujiazhuang was blown to the ground, with countless casualties." Gu Bai ran back early in the morning before dawn to report.

Gu Chen was still wearing a middle coat, and he walked into the courtyard while wearing his outer robe, when he heard the news, the whole person was stunned, and his clothed hand paused and asked, "When did it happen?" How did it blow up? What about our people? Are you hurt? ”

Gu Bai said: "When it was ugly last night, I don't know who buried gunpowder around Zhuangzi, this explosion, the entire Zhuangzi was moved to the ground, those people in Zhuangzi, only a very few people who were far away from the edge of the explosion were still alive, but they were not lightly injured, those nearby villages were awakened, everyone didn't even dare to go over to put out the fire, because I don't know if there is still gunpowder that has not been ignited at all, our people have also been injured, Meiniang waited for the city gate to open the city gate early in the morning before coming in to find his subordinates to report." ”

Gu Chen only felt his eyebrows skip a beat, and he seemed to have overlooked an important issue.

"Yang Hong went out of the city yesterday, do you know where he went?" Gu Chen asked.

Gu Bai held Gu Chen's intelligence network in his hand, and he didn't know anything about the affairs in the entire capital, so as soon as Gu Chen asked at this time, he immediately replied: "He lost his trace after leaving the city, thinking that he deliberately got rid of our people, so we don't know where he went, only that he went in the direction of Liujiazhuang." ”

Gu Chen's eyebrows jumped again, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

"Oh no, is the owner of Liujiazhuang dead?" Gu Chen asked.

Gu Bai thought for a while and said, "Because she was in a hurry to go back to the city to report the situation, she left the little tree there, and I don't know the specific situation so far." ”

He was in the capital last night, so he didn't know much about what was going on dozens of miles outside the city, but after listening to the people below come back and report the situation, he hurried to Gu Chen.

"The subordinates have already sent additional people to go over there, the master can rest assured, the subordinates have told them to pay attention to the owner." Gu Bai saw that Gu Chen didn't speak, so he added another sentence.

The sky gradually brightened, Gu Chen's face looked a little hazy, Gu Bai couldn't guess his mind for a while, so he could only stand there quietly, waiting for his further instructions.

"I'm just afraid that this bombing, the matter of Liujiazhuang, will soon spread to the capital." Gu Chen muttered thoughtfully.

Although Gu Chen's voice was very low, it was still exceptionally clear in this quiet morning, Gu Bai's face froze, and he asked, "The master is worried, is someone setting up a situation?" ”

Gu Chen didn't speak, and Gu Bai also had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't say it.

Meanwhile.

In the prison of the Criminal Department. 77 eBooks

A small figure in a cloak flashed a token to the jailer guarding the door, and the jailer immediately opened the door and let him in.

The figure slowly walked down the steps down the dungeon, and finally stopped outside Song Xi's cell door.

Song Xi couldn't sleep in the first place, in his more than 20 years of pampered life, there had never been such an embarrassing time, so he couldn't sleep at all, he could only lean against the wall and close his eyes to recuperate.

Suddenly, a very light footstep stopped outside the door of his cell, and he subconsciously opened his eyes, at this time, who would come to see him?

"Cousin Xi." A childish and crisp voice rang out in the empty cell.

Song Xi turned his head in surprise and looked at an unfamiliar figure standing condescendingly outside the cell door, he was sure that he didn't recognize the owner of this voice.

The man was surprised when he saw him, and quickly pulled down the cloak and hat on his head, revealing his face that was somewhat similar to Song Xi's, Song Xi's eyes widened, and he opened his mouth: "You...... You ......"

He was so surprised that he didn't say a word for a long time.

"Cousin Xi, I'm here today to talk to you about cooperation." The boy tried his best to make his voice sound more mature, and said in a leisurely tone, "Looking at my face, you must know who I am, let me ask, besides those sons who are born today, who else will call you cousin?" ”

Song Xi's eyes widened, his mouth instantly opened to the extreme, he stretched out a finger and pointed at the boy, he didn't say a word for a long time, at this moment, a message flashed quickly in his mind, and a bold guess came to mind.

He quickly calmed his thoughts, looked at the boy and asked, "What can you give me?" And now that I'm like this, how can I help you? ”

The boy gently buttoned up the hat of the cloak again, and his slightly childish face became hazy, and he stood there quietly, without moving half a minute, but said in a quiet voice: "I heard that you have an iron mine in the Northern Regions?" ”

Song Xi looked at him with round eyes, raised his voice and asked, "How do you know?" ”

The boy sneered: "Not only do I know, but I also know that you used that iron mine to dig a big pit for Cousin Huai, and made him plant a big heel fiercely. ”

The cousin Huai in the boy's mouth naturally refers to Song Huai.

"Those privately made weapons, you made them made, right?" The boy asked again.

Song Xi pursed his lips and remained silent.

"You tried your best to pull Cousin Huai off the horse, but now, you have been served by someone else, are you willing?" The boy's voice was seductive, "How about if you give me that mine, and I will not only save you alive, but also avenge you?" It's a good deal, right? ”

Song Xi was silent for a while, and then sneered: "You kid is not very old, but your ambition is not small, tell me, what are you going to do with that mine?" ”

The boy said undoubtedly: "Cousin Xi is now a prisoner, I don't have to explain to you what I use to do, in short, my usage must be better than yours, more effective than yours, if you don't hand it over to me, it's okay, but when Uncle Huang remembers to pull you out and cut off your head, your gold and silver mountains are not only cheap for outsiders, since life does not bring death and does not bring it, why don't you cheapen my little brother?" ”

Song Xi said: "Your mouth is quite capable of talking. ”

The boy asked again, "Then do you want to consider it?" ”

Song Xi still didn't speak.

The boy was not in a hurry, he smiled and said: "I can give Cousin Xi two days to think about it, but Cousin Xi must also know very well that with your crime, you have no chance of surviving, and Uncle Huang is not even willing to look at you now!" So, are you really willing to give up that position to someone else? Only when you are alive can you have hope, and when you die, there will be nothing, and your family members will also be punished together, even if you are not afraid of death, don't you want to think about them? ”

The boy's last sentence is almost all the weakness, and no one would want to leave even a drop of blood after his death.

Although Song Xi did not marry a wife, he also had a lot of rooms and outer rooms, and there were many women who gave birth to children for him, and he didn't want to be killed by the emperor at that time.

In his opinion, the emperor is the one who does not hesitate to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots in order to secure his throne, and whether those heirs are on the jade plate or not, he will not allow them to live, and one day threaten the status of his descendants.

After the boy finished speaking, he didn't urge him to give an answer immediately, he said to give him two days to think about it, and he really gave him two days to think about it.

He turned and walked out of the prison, and before dawn, he soon disappeared at the end of the night.

This way.

After Gu Chen got the news of the bombing of Liujiazhuang, he immediately asked people to find the owner of Liujiazhuang, who wanted to see people in life and corpses in death.

However, Gu Bai led people to search for it in person, and there was no one who found Liu Zhuang, as for those bloody corpses, it was impossible to identify which one belonged to Liu Zhuang himself.

The owner of Liu Zhuang can't find it, which means that there is still a great hidden danger in this matter, after all, that night Linniang saw Yang Hong and Liu Zhuang meet in private, if there is any hidden secret, only Liu Zhuang himself knows.

Now that there is no one alive and no corpse dead, it will be difficult to do.

Most of the hundreds of people in the entire Zhuangzi died at once, and by the time of the early dynasty, the emperor had already received the news.