Chapter V: The City Gate Assassination Case (4)

Song Yiyao coughed twice, and heard the overtones in his words.

"Little Marquis Lao is worried."

Although this cough is a little fake, but the face is not fake.

After a closer look, it is not difficult to find that Song Yiyao's cheeks are abnormally red, and his eyes are foggy. I can't say two words before I have to take a breath, and it is clear that typhoid fever is not yet well. The body was really weak, Tang Jingruo couldn't help but persuade.

"Don't run around when you're sick."

Song Yiyao coughed twice, since she had met her, she would first tell Tang Jingruo about it.

"It's a bit windy, why don't we talk in another place?"

Fumanlou, the three of them asked for a secluded private room, and Song Yiyao asked the entourage to guard from afar. After a good arrangement, I entered the private room.

"Cousin, what's wrong?"

Song Yi asked curiously. It must be a big deal to make Song Yiyao look like he is facing a great enemy!

Cousin? Yes, according to what the housekeeper said, Song Yiyao should be the child of Song Yi's third aunt's family. Tang Jingruo thought aimlessly.

"Little Hou Ye, I found out something."

Song Yiyao was simply right about what he asked today

The two said.

Tang Jingruo thought for a while and said the only intersection with Nantian.

"Two years ago, there were rebels in Nantian, and Wang Nantian asked His Majesty for help, and I led the troops there."

"I have seen King Nantian, and it sounds good to be benevolent, and if it is difficult to hear, it is cowardice, I don't have the courage or the ability."

Song Yi had received envoys from various countries, and he still had a certain understanding of King Nantian.

"What about General Xiao? Do you know who he is? ”

"General Xiao, his martial arts are not bad, he is wooden, and he is easy-going on weekdays, but this person is not so easy to get along with. I've seen him embarrass a subordinate, as if the subordinate's man had accidentally soiled his clothes. At that time, he pinched off his arm. ”

Song Yi seriously commented on two sentences, and began to think about whether General Xiao had anything to do with this matter.

It sounds like a must-have. Since Tang Jingruo has no personal enmity with Nantian's people. So it's strange why he had to be assassinated at the risk of so many people's exposure.

Song Yiyao looked at Tang Jingruo. A trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, "Who did the little marquis offend?" For example, General Xiao and Yan Siniang or something? ”

"General Xiao has seen each other twice since he came back. As for that Yan Siniang, I don't know. If I offend someone, even if I offend them, how can I know? ”

Tang Jingruo thought about it and said strangely.

This kid is really annoying to talk about! Song Yiyao resisted the urge to hit someone.

"You should be careful anyway. Don't accidentally end up in the Assassins' lair. ”

Tang Jingruo looked at the two of them and responded casually.

Before, he only thought that Song Yiyao and Song Yi looked similar to Aunt Song, but now that the two are sitting together, they can see that they are different, Song Yiyao's appearance is six points like Aunt Song, but there are three points like Ah Ran, like Ah Ran when he was a child.

And Song Yi is more like his father, Song Wenyan Song Guogong.

This realization made his heart hurt again. It's been six years, if Ah Ran is still here, he should have grown up. I don't know if it will look exactly like him.

On the other side, Song Yiyao glanced at this Song Yi, and then said goodbye.

"I'll send you off."

Song Yi stood up, and the two of them went out of the room together.

Song Yiyao struggled for a long time, but decided to find someone to persuade him.

"Cousin, you have a good relationship with Marquis Mingyuan?"

Why do you ask? Song Yi replied in surprise:

"Of course."

Song Yiyao glanced at the door and said in a low voice:

"Then you'd better enlighten him recently."

"What's wrong?"

Song Yi asked.

"Cousin, what do you think of my martial arts compared to Zhiming Yuanhou?"

"Jing Ruo's kung fu is a fight. Can you compare that little fist and embroidered legs? ”

Song Yi glanced at Song Yiyao with disdain. I don't know where she was stimulated, and she actually wanted to compete with Tang Jingruo.

In fact, her martial arts are very good, okay, but she ended up in the Song family. Song Yiyao didn't bother to argue with Song Yi about this.

"Then I can hear the sound of the bow with my fist and embroidered legs and three-legged cats. Can the Marquis of Ming Yuan hear it? ”

"Of course."

"But he didn't hide when the arrow came that day."

One sentence made Song Yi stunned.

Ten years ago, he couldn't beat Tang Jingruo. Whether it's a simple contest, a sneak attack or a mounted archery while it's unprepared.

"I see."

Seeing that Song Yi's face was not good, Song Yiyao sighed and said another thing.

"There's something odd about the place where the city gate was built. Ask someone to look at it privately, and take the beads I gave you with you when you go. ”

Song Yi nodded almost invisibly, signaling that he knew.

When he returned to the private room, he didn't know what to say, but Tang Jingruo took the lead and said with an obscure expression:

"He was the kid who looked exactly like Ah Ran when he was a kid?"

Song Yi's body stiffened, he didn't expect that after many years, he would take the initiative to bring up this topic.

"Well, it's all the blood of the family, there must be something like it, isn't it like her. However, the temperament of the two of them is very different, after all, Yi Yao is a man. ”

"You're not like her."

Tang Jingruo glanced at a certain person who was usually beautiful and beautiful, but actually died shamelessly.

Song Yi looked at Tang Jingruo's face and asked cautiously:

"You've been looking for her all these years?"

Tang Jingruo's hand on the table slowly clenched.

"She's waiting for me to find her."

Song Yi closed his eyes and covered his blood-red eyes.

"Jingruo, it's been six years."

If I could have found it, I would have found it a long time ago, not to mention that the fire was so big in the first place. A huge Loei province

Only a few porters escaped.

"She will definitely wait for me, and my uncle and aunt are gone. I am the only one of her relatives in this world. ”

Song Yi laughed angrily at his serious words.

"Well, you can't speak, where did you put our family?"

"I'm naturally different from you."

Tang Jingruo was inexplicably confident.

Song Yi took the wine jug and poured out two glasses of wine and handed them to Tang Jingruo.

"Now that you know she's waiting for you. Then you'll have to be good so you can find her! ”

"Hmm."

Tang Jingruo solemnly agreed, and a glass of liquor went down his throat.

Those remembered and forgotten memories exploded in my heart like a firecracker.

In a trance, it reminds me of six years ago.

That time, the two of them rummaged through the ruins with red eyes and sleepless rummaging for days and nights, and finally admitted the reality.

Crying bitterly, tearing hearts and lungs, all the words used to describe that kind of heartache seem pale and weak.

They wept bitterly, and were drunk, and drowsy, and smashed the jar of wine to the ground.

Tang Jingruo, who was drunk and didn't know the southeast and northwest, sat on the roof and blew the cold wind all night, until the sky broke, and finally understood that he could no longer wait for someone who would coax him.

Whether it is the strict Uncle Li or the gentle Aunt Song.

Whether it's Ah Ran, who always calls him down angrily, or the lazy scholar and servant. They will never come again. None of them will ever come back.

The person who escaped said that he didn't seem to see the eldest lady in the house.

There was also one missing skeleton. So Tang Jingruo firmly believed. Li Ran is still alive.

At that time, it was the time of rebellion in the western frontier, the border joints were defeated, and the fire came fiercely and strangely.

Rumors spread in the imperial city that Li Xiang was colluding with the western Xinjiang, and because he was discovered, he knew that he could not escape, so he committed suicide in fear of crime.

There are even letters from unknown sources to testify, but Tang Jingruo doesn't believe it. The Song family didn't believe it, and neither did the people in the imperial city. Li Xiang has done his best for the country and the people, how can he do anything to collaborate with the enemy and commit treason.

At the moment of the national crisis, Tang Jingruo took the initiative to invite Ying to go to the border to quell the chaos. With the momentum of thunder, he quelled the rebellion in Western Xinjiang, and wanted to rehabilitate Li Xiang, hoping to find the murderer who set the fire and killed more than 100 people in Li Province.

But apart from the fact that the captured Western Xinjiang general Wuka could prove that the letter was fake, nothing was found.

Tang Shao was also hit by this incident, and after grief, he suppressed the rumors and ordered a strict investigation. The matter of Kolhu, because there were no clues and many people were implicated, became an unsolved case that no one dared to touch.

Now, it's been six years.

Six years later. He thought that the wound had become a cocoon and a scar, so he dared to come back to pay respects. But when I came back, I found that it was still there, quietly dripping with blood, growing anger, sadness and hatred, and it had never healed.

The news of Song Yiyao's illness soon spread throughout the imperial city. The officials who also went to greet him that day. Especially in the Wenfu Hall of the Ministry of Rites, there is a person who is scolded by the officials. I couldn't lift my head for a few days in a row.

Meritorious service is not as good as selling miserably, and it can be regarded as an unexpected gain.

As for Song Yiyao, he was not idle, and after drinking the medicine for two days, he began to be alive again.

Since the farewell to the restaurant, Tang Jingruo has not come to visit less, and the tonic supplements are sent to the Song Mansion as if they don't need money.

Of course, the main reason is that the time and place are favorable, after all, the two are neighbors.

Because the case gradually gained some eyebrows, Song Yiyao sometimes simply left Tang Jingruo to discuss one or two.

Although the two are still as bad tempered as ever, they are more or less friends.

On this day, Tang Jingruo was practicing martial arts in the backyard, wielding a double-edged halberd.

Song Yiyao was bored in the garden, heard the sound and jumped on the wall, looked at it for a while, and then smiled:

"Hey, little marquis! I found out what General Xiao has to do with Yan Siniang! ”

Tang Jingruo had already heard Song Yiyao muttering over there for a while, and just after a set of halberd techniques had been practiced, he withdrew his hand. Pick up the towel on the stone table and wipe the sweat. Wait for Song Yiyao to continue.

"Well, why don't you ask me what their relationship is? Aren't you curious? ”

A man grinds and chirps all day long, how did Song Yiyao develop this temper, doesn't the old man care? Tang Jingruo reluctantly responded.

"Curious, then you can say it."

"If you let me try it, I'll tell you."

Song Yiyao pointed to the double-edged halberd. A conspiracy was revealed.

Obviously, on weekdays, his war halberd was not even touched by others, but seeing Song Yiyao sitting on the wall with a sly smile, Tang Jingruo said in a ghostly manner: "As long as you can hold it." ”

What's so difficult about this, Song Yiyao jumped off the wall with confidence.

"Then say it, don't go back."

Tang Jingruo raised his eyebrows and put the double-edged halberd back on the weapon rack. A look of good play.

"What I said, I naturally won't go back."

Once, twice, the smile on Song Yiyao's face gradually froze there. Because she has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, her strength is not small, but this double-edged halberd has not moved at all.

The double-edged halberd is made of dark iron, which is several times heavier than ordinary halberds, and Mo said that this sick and weak champion Lang is afraid that few people can pick it up even if the soldiers in the barracks try it.

Seeing Song Yiyao's unwilling appearance, Tang Jingruo couldn't help laughing.

The big words were promised but not done, Song Yiyao was already ashamed, and when he heard this laughter, he simply took the long sword on the side and stabbed Tang Jingruo.

Still annoyed and angry, Tang Jingruo dodged unhurriedly.

Yo, I didn't expect to have a bit of foundation. Tang Jingruo's eyes lit up, anyway, he was bored, so it was better to just make a few moves.

When Vice President Wang came to the future, he happened to see such a scene.

Because of what happened last time, he was in the stage of worrying and blaming himself.

How can I see it clearly, seeing the little marquis fighting with others, his heart immediately lifted up, and he shouted:

"Where's the Assassin!"

As he spoke, he drew his saber and rushed over.

But Song Yiyao and Tang Jingruo's tricks back and forth between you and me are dazzling, and you can insert it casually.

Tang Jingruo was distracted, pinched the tip of Song Yiyao's sword, and shouted, "Stand down, this is Lord Song." ”