Although Lu Zongqi intends to mend the relationship between the two sides, Xi Fuwei has no intention of doing anything like a servant at this time.

She was worried that it would be too late to send news to Shen Weilan at this time.

After all, if the King of Han really colluded with Xing Xingshou and intended to use miasma to sabotage the opening of the river, other places would not know, and here in Shandong, Shen Steallan and Song Li would inevitably bear the brunt.

These two are the Ministry of Engineering who presides over the entire river opening project, and the other is the Jinyi Wei Baihu who is responsible for the smooth progress of this section of the Huitong River.

Su Lu Zongqi also knew this, and after sending his henchmen to report the news, he immediately ordered to enlist several famous doctors in the city to be on standby under the pretext that the lives of important witnesses were in danger under the torture.

After waiting anxiously for two days, Shen Lilan's reply had not yet come, but Song Li sent someone to pick up Xi Fuwei first, saying that she wanted to talk about the content of her previous letter in person, and the sooner she passed, the better.

"Miss Xi, although Song Shangshu is your father-in-law, he is an old man with a high and powerful position, and now he is shouldering a heavy responsibility, so it is better not to let his old man worry as much as possible, what do you think?" When Mr. Lu heard the news, he quietly discussed with Xi Fuwei while arranging someone to escort him, "After all, Song Shangshu is presiding over the opening of the river at this time, and he is tired of going to His Majesty twice in three days." ”

Xi Fuwei understood what he meant, this was because he was afraid that he would tell Song Li that the King of Han did not hesitate to calculate the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in order to seize the prince.

And then Song Li, a henchman of Emperor Yongle, what if one of them can't think of making a report?

"I'll take care of myself." understood and understood, but Xi Fuwei didn't mean to agree, and only said vaguely, "Master Lao is bothered by the guard's side." ”

Lu Zongqi arranged for Yu Kedi and Jinyiwei, who had been called "third brother" by Yu Kedi before, to send her to see Song Li.

When Yu Kedi heard this, he said that there were too few people: "If you meet the remnants of Jianwen who robbed the prison before, my subordinates are afraid that they will not be able to protect Miss Xi well." ”

"There can't be fewer people here in the guard." But Lu Zongqi couldn't help it, "There are traitors in our people, so you can't go to the yamen to borrow someone, right?" If there is a problem with the borrower, won't it hurt you even more? Fortunately, Song Shangshu also sent a carriage and guards to come, thinking that Miss Xi would have good luck and not meet bad people. ”

He thought in his heart that Xi Fuwei was registered on Jianwen Yu's side, mainly because of her relationship with Shen Steallan.

But at this time, men have a group of wives and concubines.

Especially Shen Steallan's identity, it is impossible to say that he wants to die or live for a woman.

Jianwen Yu is not a bad brain, how can he send a master to hunt down Xi Fuwei?

Their master is not a cabbage, a handful of grabbing is always used carefully, and it is impossible to shoot so easily.

At most, it's the same as when I robbed the prison, and I happened to meet it.

So as long as you don't bump into Jianwen Yu on the road, that's it.

In fact, according to Lu Zongqi's idea, it is best for Xi Fuwei not to go out.

However, he was a little jealous of this girl at this time, Xi Fuwei said that he was going, and Lu Zongqi was silent.

What's more, there is not much affection between Song Li and Xi Fuwei, the father and daughter, and in the final analysis, this is for Song Li's biological daughter Song Jianiang...... These Lu Zongqi also know in his heart.

At this time, he suddenly sent someone to pick up Xi Fuwei over, it was impossible to be free and wanted to talk about the relationship between father and daughter, eighty percent of them were serious.

Lu Zongqi is also afraid that after the block, he will have to take responsibility for the big thing.

He is a native of Jining, and he also had a comradeship with Yu Kedi's late father, and he has taken care of orphans and widows over the years.

At this moment, he euphemistically explained his difficulties, and Yu Kedi didn't say anything.

In this way, the three of them cleaned up a little, and they also moved with the people sent by Song Li.

"After the master received the handwritten letter from the young lady, he thought of some things, and originally planned to come to Jining City to meet the young lady, but the old man was really busy with affairs." The old servant of the Song family said to Xi Fuwei on the road, "I can't get out, so let the old slaves come and pick up the young lady...... It's not very peaceful along the way, and I'm wronged. ”

"It is the duty of a daughter to share her father's worries." Xi Fuwei said politely, "What's not hard?" I'm tired of you. ”

The old servant hurriedly said that they don't bother, they do their duty to do things for their subordinates.

After a few words of greeting, Xi Fuwei asked about Song Li's recent situation.

The old servant said: "The matter of opening the river is Your Majesty's intention, and Your Majesty should personally supervise and supervise it on the Tianfu side, so the yamen at all levels are quite cooperative." The project on Wenshui's side was helped by Mr. Bai, and now Mr. Bai is also close to the master, so it is convenient for people to ask for instructions every day...... Everything has been fine lately, but he is busy and inevitably tired. ”

Xi Fuwei said a few words of concern, and seemed to ask unintentionally: "Daddy has been in Wenshui during this time, and the adults also went to Wenshui two days ago, are you going to see Daddy?" ”

"It's a matter in the village by the Wenshui, right?" The old servant did not disappoint her, and immediately said, "The matter was reported to the master at first, but the master was not good at judging the case, and he did not have time to take care of these trivial matters, so after hearing about it, he sent a letter to the Jining Health Office." The Lord of the Hundred Households personally went out to fight, presumably the two days have come to light? ”

Xi Fuwei asked unexpectedly, "What is it?" ”

"It seems like two murders." The old servant said indifferently, "Originally, it was just a trivial matter, just leave it to the yamen." But this murder seems to involve two big surnames, and when the young men of the two families went out of conscription, they almost fought several times! The troublesome old man knew about it, so he simply said that he would find out for them. ”

Xi Fuwei inquired about the details of the murder.

The old servant couldn't say it clearly: "Maybe it's the resentment of the ancestors, and those who love and hate in the countryside are just like that." ”

Seeing that he was reluctant to say more, Xi Fuwei couldn't help but suspect that she didn't say it on purpose, but she was not the real Miss Song after all, Song Li's henchman, she didn't want to ask, so she had to smile and divert the topic.

Jining City is still a long way from the place where Song Li personally stationed on the bank of Wenshui, and because of the need to change the river, the carriage will not work after two days, Xi Fuwei said earlier that he would teach himself to ride a horse by defeating the enemy, but he has not spared time to learn. At this time, she could only sit on the horse, and Yu Kedi took the reins and walked slowly.

Naturally, the speed drops dramatically.

In the evening, the group set up a makeshift camp by the river for the night.

This made the old servants of the Song family very familiar with them, and it is estimated that they have followed Song Li everywhere to inspect the craft of hydrology in the past two years.

Seeing that they had nothing to help themselves, Xi Fuwei wanted to go to the river to wash her face.

Of course, Yu Kedi and the third brother followed suit.

Who knew that Xi Fuwei squatted down by the river, immersed the veil in the river water, and the bushes opposite suddenly shook a few times, and then drilled out a small head!

She was shocked when she saw that face: "Zou Yiang?!" ”

Zou Yiang's nose and face were swollen, obviously he had suffered a lot, but familiar people could still recognize it at a glance, he also saw Xi Fuwei, and suddenly showed a look of joy and anxiety, and wanted to say something, but before he opened his mouth, he was pulled back again!

"Go and call someone!" Xi Fuwei immediately threw down the veil, and hurriedly said to the enemy and the third brother, "They are on the other side!" ”

However, both of them calmly refused: "Jianwen Yu Xian didn't show up at all, but deliberately let Zou Yiang let you see, this is to lure the enemy deeper." We don't know what is laid out on the opposite bank of the river, so we can't rush to catch up. ”

What's more, "We came out this time mainly to protect you, who knows if they threw out the bait of Zou Yiang to target you?" ”

"Zou Zhihan has already opened his mouth, Zou Yiang's value is not important." Yu Kedi said, "This kid just let him fend for himself." ”

After all, the third brother was not too familiar with Xi Fuwei, for fear that she would be unhappy when she heard this, and added: "Jianwen Yu's move is obviously to attract our attention, or even slow down our trip!" It can be seen that Song Shangshu has more important things there that Miss needs to go over to refer to. ”

Xi Fuwei is not a person who can't listen to persuasion, although she is very concerned about Zou Yiang's safety, and after being persuaded by the two for a long time, she had to spit out and said, "Go back first and worry about it with those people in the Song family." ”

When I didn't want to go back to the camp, I saw that a bonfire had already burned in the camp.

The point is that there are two corpses next to the bonfire, both with angry eyes, and a small white feather arrow stuck in the throat, and there are purple-black blood stains in the place where the arrow cluster has sunk into the flesh, which has been coagulated.

The old servants of the Song family and the others stood in front of the corpse with pale faces, and the atmosphere was solemn.

"What is this?" Xi Fuwei was stunned when she saw this.

"They said they would go into the woods to see if there was any game, and give you a meal." The muscles on the old servant's face twitched, and after a while he said, "It didn't come out for a long time, and someone went to the forest to collect firewood, only to find ......."

"An arrow seals the throat." Yu Kedi and the third brother stepped forward to conduct a simple examination, and said, "The murderer should be lurking in the forest, waiting for these two brothers to attack when they are defenseless...... The two brothers died without any resistance. ”

Yu Kedi said and turned his head to look at Xi Fuwei before continuing, "These two brothers...... I think it's only been a long time coming. ”

The old servant of the Song family didn't pay much attention to his last sentence, and said, "The old slave has sent someone to search nearby, but nothing has been found. ”

The third brother asked casually: "What about the tree?" ”

"Would you like to ask this captain to help me take a look?" The old servants of the Song family are waiting for the help of the two Jinyi guards, who specialize in the art industry, and the Jinyi guards are much more proficient in searching and arresting than the guards of large families like them.

While the third brother was invited by them to search again, Yu Kedi walked to Xi Fuwei's side: "Those two people will definitely not be dead for too long, it is estimated that it is when we talked by the river." ”

Xi Fuwei asked him, "What?" ”

"But the blood has clotted." Yu Kedi said, "Including the blood that flowed from the place where the arrow was hit...... And, looks a bit like suffocation? ”

"They were shot in the throat, and it was normal for them to have a bad breath if they injured their trachea." Xi Fuwei said lightly.

Yu Kedi said "um": "I just think it's a little strange, but I didn't take advantage of the things in my hand at this time, so I can only just take a look." ”

After a while, Xi Fuwei seemed to remember something and looked at him: "Among the books I memorized in the adult's study, there is a travel book of my predecessors, which mentions that there is a highly poisonous arbor in Yunnan, and the name is 'Seeing Blood and Sealing the Throat'. The local natives collected the sap of the trees to make poisoned arrows and shot people and animals, and all of them died quickly. ”

Yu Kedi's pupils suddenly contracted: "What are the signs of this poison?" ”

"It's about the same as the two you said." Xi Fuwei frowned, "My heart slowed down, and I died of suffocation." ”

“…… I remember that Yunnan was the vassal state of His Royal Highness the King of Han? Yu Kedi's face changed and changed, he looked at the people left behind around him, and asked in a low voice, "This matter?" ”