After noon, a letter was delivered to Wu Zixu, and there was only one short sentence in the letter: If you want to know the whereabouts of Zipi, come to the camphor forest outside the city immediately.

Seeing the word "Zipi", Wu Zixu's pupils shrank, could it be ...... Is Zipi really not dead? And who is the messenger? Why did you know about Zipi?

Wu Zixu was puzzled, and after reading the letter a few times, he said, "Go and call Gongsun Li immediately." ”

After a while, the two of them came to the front hall, and they were surprised to see the anonymous letter, and Gongsun Li was a little more frightened in his heart. If Zipi is really not dead, then what he secretly did behind Wu Zixu's back is likely to be revealed.

Although Wu has always been suspicious of him, it is one thing to be suspicious, and it is another thing to be exposed, even if Wu Zixu thinks that he is loyal, I am afraid that he will not tolerate it anymore.

"Gongsun? Gongsun? Wu Zixu shouted a few times in a row, and Gongsun Li woke up and hurriedly said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Wu Zixu looked at him meaningfully and said, "The old man asked you what you think about this?" ”

Gongsun Li's mind flew like a wheel, and he arched his hand: "I think that this matter is likely to be a trap. ”

Wu Zixu raised a half-white eyebrow, "Oh? How so? ”

"If the messenger really knows the whereabouts of Zipi, he should come to the door, instead of sneakily sending a letter, which must be strange." As he spoke, he added: "It's better to let the lowly position go and explore the truth." ”

"Of course, the truth and the truth have to be explored, but the old man ......" Wu Zixu narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "I have to go too." ”

Gongsun sank and said, "I'm worried that someone will be unfavorable to Lord Xiangguo. ”

Wu Zixu snorted coldly, and a cold light shot out of his eyes, "There are more people who want to be unfavorable to the old man, what is the result, isn't the old man still alive?" A few clowns jumping off the beam are not worthy of being in the eyes of the old man. ”

Seeing that he couldn't move him, Gongsun Li had to bite the bullet and say, "Then bring more people with you." ”

Wu Zixu nodded, and said: "Bring that Yayu with you, in case she sees Zipi, she can also argue whether it is true or false." ”

"Yes." Gongsun Li bowed down and agreed.

Half an hour later, two carriages slowly drove out of the Xiangguo Mansion, and Gongsun Li followed with a dozen heavily armed soldiers on horseback.

They followed the instructions in the letter and went all the way to the camphor forest on the outskirts of the city, where there was silence, and Gongsun Li shouted several times in succession, but no one answered, but a few birds perched on the branches of the trees were startled.

The camphor tree is tall, the branches and leaves are dense, like a huge umbrella, covering the sky and the sun, only a few sparse rays of sunlight shine through the gaps in the branches and leaves, very dim.

Gongsun Li looked around vigilantly and reminded, "Something is wrong here, you should be careful." Before the words fell, several sharp arrows suddenly shot head-on with a sharp sound of breaking the air, Gongsun Li reacted very quickly, and waved his knife to block while retreating, narrowly avoiding it; But the people he brought with him were not so lucky, one of them was shot in the forehead and killed instantly, and the other was shot in the arm and bled profusely.

Gongsun Li broke out in a cold sweat and said sharply: "Be careful, there are traps!" ”

As if to confirm Gongsun Li's words, after a moment of silence, several more arrows came at a rapid pace, but this time there was a guard, but no one was injured.

"Protect Sangkoku-sama!" Gongsun Li shouted and ran in the direction where the arrows were fired, trying to catch the archers, but when he arrived, he saw a line of crossbow machines, about a dozen of them, and the arrows were shot from here.

Such a trap is a desperate gamble, once it misses, it will be in vain, Gongsun Li frowned slightly, he always felt that something was wrong, where is it?

A spiritual light flashed in his mind, and the cold hair on Gongsun Li's body instantly stood up, and blurted out: "It's not good!" ”

As he spoke, he hurried in the direction where Wu Zixu was, and sure enough, he saw a masked man in black stabbing Wu Zixu with a sword in the carriage he was riding.

Gongsun Li was still a few zhang away, and he didn't have time to save him, and as for the other soldiers, they didn't react at once, and watched the man in black stab his sword into the carriage.

Dongyun never thought that this "assassination" would go so smoothly, but ...... The feeling of the sword stabbing down didn't seem right, it was too smooth, and there was no such thing as the usual block when piercing into the human body.

Just when Dong Yun was puzzled, the coachman, who had been hanging his head down, suddenly became troubled, and the whip wrapped around Dong Yun's body like a snake, tying her strongly.

At this time, Dong Yun finally saw the driver's face clearly, and it was Wu Zixu, that is to say...... There was no one in the carriage at all.

"Who sent you to assassinate the old man?" Dong Yun ignored Wu Zixu's question, and threw the thing hidden in his palm on the ground hard, instantly raising a large amount of smoke and blurring everyone's vision.

"Be careful!" Gongsun Li coughed as he came to Wu Zixu's side, looking around the smoke-filled area warily, lest the assassin would make a move.

Strange to say, until the smoke cleared, there was no attack, and the assassin disappeared, and if it weren't for the arrows scattered on the ground, and the corpse, it would have almost been a dream.

"Are you alright, my lord?" Facing Gongsun Li's inquiry, Wu Zixu said: "The old man is fine, you go and search the surroundings to see if there are any traces left by the assassins." ”

Gongsun Li led people to search according to his words, but unfortunately, he didn't find anything except the bow and crossbow machine that he found before, and he was afraid that something would happen again, so he had to go back to the house first.

The coachman parked the carriage outside the Xiangguo Mansion and said, "Girl, it's time to get off the carriage." ”

There was silence in the carriage, no one answered, the coachman frowned, and said the same again, still no one answered, strange, did you fall asleep?

With this doubt, the coachman lifted the curtain and found that the car was empty, and Yalan, who was supposed to be sitting in it, was nowhere to be found.

The coachman's face turned white with fright, and he exclaimed, "My lord! Adults are not good! ”

Wu Zixu stopped, turned around and said, "What's wrong?" ”

The coachman stammered, "Yalan...... Miss Arlan is gone. Hearing this, Wu Zixu's face changed suddenly, and he hurried to the carriage, and sure enough, there was no trace of Yalan.

Seeing Wu Zixu looking over, the coachman hurriedly said: "The villain has been guarding the carriage, and he didn't see Miss Yalan get out of the car, it's just ...... Hell, hell. ”

"Guarded all the time, never left?" Wu Zixu's inquiry reminded the coachman of something, and hurriedly said: "By the way, in the camphor forest before, the villain was really uncomfortable with the smoke, and left for a while." ”

"Bastard!" Wu Zixu's face sank, and he kicked the coachman hard.

At that time, Gongsun left and said: "It seems that he has escaped, so he will send someone to chase him." ”

"Escape?" Wu Zixu sneered again and again, "The coachman is confused, are you also confused?" She eats and drinks well in the old man's mansion, why did she run away? Don't forget, this is Gusu, and she has nowhere to go as a Yue person. ”

Gongsun Li thought about it, but if he didn't run away, then how could the big man say that he wouldn't see it, he would be gone.

"Still don't understand?" Wu Zixu raised the letter in his hand and said coldly: "This is indeed a trap, but it is not aimed at the old man, but her." ”

Gongsun Li was full of excitement and blurted out: "Someone wants to kill her? ”

"It's finally not stupid yet." Wu Zixu snorted coldly and said: "Since just now, the old man has felt that something is wrong, but now he finally knows, it makes the old man think of a person." ”

Wu Zixu suppressed his long-term memories and said: "Go find it immediately, bring more people, and you must find Yayu back." ”

"Yes." Gongsun Li knew that the matter was urgent, and did not dare to slack off, and immediately took someone back to the camphor forest, although he knew that there was little hope of still staying there, but that was the only clue, and the result was that the person went to the empty building, and he did not even find a clue, so he could only look around.

When Gongsun was searching for him from the mountains, a carriage stopped more than ten miles away from the camphor forest, Yiguang jumped out of the carriage, lifted the curtain and said, "Come down." ”

It was Yalan who was sitting in the car, she stepped out of the carriage and looked around suspiciously, "Didn't you say that you went back to Xiangguofu, why did you come here?" Who are you? ”

Smoke suddenly rose in the forest, and she was choked and coughed, and at this time, someone lifted the curtain and said that Lord Xiangguo asked her to change to a carriage and go back to the house first.

At that time, the situation was chaotic, she didn't think about it, so she followed the carriage, but after stopping, she found that it was not Xiangguofu at all, and the woman who brought her had never seen it.

Yiguang smiled slightly, "You don't recognize me?" ”

Yalan was a little familiar with this voice, she should have heard it before, but this face was indeed very unfamiliar, and she was not impressed at all.

"Do you remember that dysentery?" Hearing this, a flash of inspiration flashed in Yalan's mind, and he finally remembered the owner of the voice, "Shi Yiguang? ”

Yiguang smiled slightly, "Looks like you remember." ”

"How did you become like this?" Without waiting for Yiguang to answer, Yalan remembered something more important, "Why did you bring me here?" ”

Yiguang said with a smile: "What do you say? ”

"How can I ......" Yalan wanted to say how she knew, but in the middle of her words, she suddenly stopped, because she saw the looming killing intent in Yiguang's eyes, and her expression suddenly became frightened and frightened, she subconsciously took a step back, and said with a hint of trembling: "You want to kill me?" ”

Yiguang nodded calmly, "Not bad." ”

Arlan looked at him like a madman, "You're crazy, I didn't provoke you." ”

Yiguang raised the smile on the corner of his mouth and said coldly: "You didn't provoke me, but you know something you shouldn't know, so you must die." ”

Yalan was about to ask, but suddenly understood, and pointed at Yiguang excitedly: "I know, Zipi is not dead, you, and Zheng Dan, are all in the same group as him!" As she spoke, she said, "I'll go tell Xiangguo-sama now!" ”

Yalan said as she stepped back, seeing that Yiguang didn't chase after her, she quickly turned around and fled, but before she took a few steps, her legs were weak and she fell to the ground, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stand up, and those two legs were like they weren't hers, so she couldn't move.

Arran thumped her unconscious legs in horror, "How can this be?" ”

Yiguang walked up to her and said with a shallow smile: "Does the aroma in the car smell good?" ”

When she mentioned this, Yalan suddenly remembered, when she was in the carriage, she had smelled a faint fragrance, and at that time she thought it was something like a sachet in her heart, but she didn't go to her heart, but now it seems that ...... It's clearly poison under the light!

"What the hell do you want?" Arran said as he struggled to move back.

"Don't you already know, why bother asking?" With these words, Yiguang took out the dagger in his sleeve, and the sharp blade shimmered in the sunlight.

"Nope! You can't kill me! Yalan tried to think of the reason, "I promise you that I will not tell Wu Xiangguo about Zipi, please let me go for the sake of our fellow Yue." As she spoke, she hurriedly said, "I'll leave now, leave Gusu, and never come back." ”

Yiguang's mood is complicated and indescribable, although Yalan is not a good person, but at least she is a living person, and it is really cruel to kill her like this.

When his father was alive, he once said that Queen Yayu was a very kind person, and he was kind to him; But now she wants to kill her only sister......

Seeing Yiguang's hesitation, Yayu quietly moved his wrist while begging hard.

Yiguang didn't notice her subtle move, gritted his silver teeth and said, "Are you really willing to leave Gusu and never come back?" ”

"As long as you don't kill me, I'll leave immediately." Yayu was afraid that he would not be able to win the trust of Yiguang, so he raised his hand and said, "I swear, if there is half a lie, I will not die well immediately!" ”

Yiguang looked at Yayu fixedly, and after a long time, she put away her dagger, "Remember your words, if you disobey, I will definitely kill you!" ”

Yalan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will not break my promise, thank you." ”

Yiguang took out a finger-sized bottle, lifted the lid and put it under Yalan's nose, let her take a deep breath, and as a wisp of incense burrowed into her nose, her legs gradually regained sensation, and she was able to stand up after a while.

Yalan said happily: "Thank you sister for sparing your life, I will definitely repay you if you have the opportunity in the future." ”

"Let's go." Under Yiguang's urging, Yalan immediately left, and after walking for a while, she stopped, turned her head to look behind her, and saw that Yiguang really didn't catch up, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then her beautiful face showed a fierce look, and said in a low voice: "Want to kill me?" Hmph, when I go back, tell Lord Xiangguo that I'll kill you all! With that, she took a detour of the other way and walked briskly into the city.

However, she didn't go far before she stopped, not because she didn't want to go, but because someone in front of her blocked the way.

Yalan looked at Yiguang standing in front in disbelief, didn't she follow up, how could she be here?

Yalan pressed down the chaotic thoughts and forced a smile: "Why is my sister here?" ”

Yiguang looked at her coldly, "You want to go back to the capital?" ”

"How so?" Yalan hurriedly denied it, "I...... I just thought that this road was easier to walk, but I didn't expect to get the wrong direction, it's really confusing. ”