In the afternoon of this day, Han Ruzi got the exact news that Huang Fuyi, the ruler of the palace, had also disappeared, a little later than the assassination of the British king, and claimed that he was going to find a ghost exorcist Taoist priest to treat the queen mother, and he did not appear after leaving the palace.

Of the four prestige people, only Lin Kunshan was left.

Han Ruzi received a letter from the King of the East China Sea, and immediately went to visit the palace, as soon as he entered the gate, the King of the East China Sea greeted him, "I can't hold out for long, Lin Kunshan will soon have to be handed over to Lian Danchen, I think you should meet him first." ”

Lin Kunshan was "locked up" in a small room, with five servants guarding outside to prevent him from escaping.

Lin Kunshan was not afraid, but felt very innocent, and smiled bitterly after seeing the tired marquis, "No unwarranted disaster, this is really a unwarranted disaster." ”

The King of the East China Sea shouted: "Put away your set, Lin Kunshan, it's your bad luck to run slowly." ”

"I didn't want to run at all, King of the East China Sea, I'm loyal to you......"

"Don't say any more, I want to vomit now when I hear the word 'faithful.'" The King of the East Sea made a vomit motion, "Didn't the Qi Seeker follow the trend?" When did you learn to hire Assassins? ”

"I have nothing to do with the assassination of the King." Lin Kunshan said affirmatively.

The King of the East China Sea was about to refute again, but Han Ruzi interrupted him and asked, "Don't you have anything to do with other Qi seekers?" ”

Lin Kunshan smiled but did not speak.

The King of the East China Sea said sharply: "What about asking you, do you have to let Lian Danchen punish you?" 'Guanghua Tigers' is not called in vain. ”

"According to the rules of contention, no one can punish me, only ask me questions."

The King of the East China Sea was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that Lin Kunshan was also subject to the same restrictions and protection as him, "You ......"

"I'd like to talk to Tired Hou alone."

"I'm your master!"

"If I don't talk to the tired marquis, I can only talk to Lian Danchen, who does the king of the East China Sea trust more?"

Of course, the king of the East China Sea couldn't say that he trusted outsiders more, snorted heavily, turned around to leave, and whispered to Han Ruzi: "You will tell me everything later, right?" ”

Han Ruzi nodded.

The door closed, Lin Kunshan walked up to the tired marquis, clenched his fists, and bowed deeply.

"What does that mean?" Han Ruzi asked.

"I officially apologize to the tired marquis for saying goodbye to the broken iron city."

"If you ask for nothing, you have nothing to lose, and I have never blamed you." If Han Ruzi was a little disappointed, it was also aimed at the King of the East China Sea, and it had nothing to do with the Qi Seeker.

Lin Kunshan smiled, "Tired Hou just asked a very interesting question, why did Tired Hou want to know if I was related to other Qi seekers?" ”

Han Ruzi didn't speak, he didn't want to answer the other party's questions before getting an answer.

"Huang Fuyi, Fang Zifan, and Lu Congxin, their names are very similar, but they are not hopeful." Lin Kunshan took the initiative to answer.

"Why didn't you reveal it at the time?"

"Because they are very powerful, exposing them is tantamount to going against the trend, I don't do this kind of thing, I want to see what they want to do, but I didn't expect them to do it so early."

The King of England was assassinated more than four months away, and if it was really the work of those hypocrites, it was indeed too early.

"Forces? What forces? ”

Lin Kunshan shook his head, "I don't know, the Qi Seeker has been planning for many years before they can enter the palace in individual palaces, but these people can easily enter and exit the palace, we are ashamed of ourselves, as for what force they belong to, I don't have any evidence." ”

Lin Kunshan had a guess, he didn't want to say it, and Han Ruzi didn't want to ask, he suddenly woke up to the fact that Lin Kunshan was using the old trick of the Qi Seeker again: quietly tricking others to do things, leading them to the path designated by the Qi Seeker, it might be a trap, or it might be a dead end.

"What about the other hopefuls? Those who are like you are truly hopeful. ”

Lin Kunshan smiled and shook his head.

There was a knock on the door outside, and the king of the East China Sea said: "Lian Danchen must take people away, and he wants to return to Jing Zhaoyin." ”

"Come in, I don't have anything more to ask."

The door opened, and Lin Kunshan smiled at the tired marquis: "We are just Jianghu warlocks. ”

A few messengers walked in and nodded politely, Lin Kunshan did not resist, and obediently followed them out of the room, Lian Danchen came in and bowed his hand to the tired marquis, he just came over to greet him, and he had to leave immediately.

Han Ruzi hurried up and asked, "Have all the Qi Seekers been arrested?" ”

Han Ruzi remembered that the "Guanghua Tigers" had already mastered the whereabouts of many people inside and outside the capital, and now that such a big thing happened, there should be no need to wait and see.

Lian Danchen hesitated for a moment, but still replied: "Last night alone, more than 300 people have been arrested, not only those who want to look at qi, but also other people from the rivers and lakes, but Fang Zisheng and others still have no whereabouts. ”

Han Ruzi nodded, Lian Danchen withdrew, and the King of the East China Sea walked in, watched everyone leave, turned his head to Han Ruzi and said, "How is it?" ”

"He said that Fang Zisheng and the others are not real Qi Seekers."

"That's it? Needless to say, we can guess it, the king of England has already said that Fang Zisheng was a eunuch in the past, so he must still be a eunuch now. ”

The King of the East China Sea walked to the door and glanced at it a few times, closed the door, and said: "This must be the trick of the Queen Mother, the 'Guanghua Tigers' either participated or guessed the truth, I can feel the change in the attitude of these guys, they originally asked you and me, since the accident last night, they have been a little bit of a hindrance to the Tan family, asking everything is just revealing a little, not as endless as before." ”

Han Ruzi pondered for a while, "Let the Tan family inquire more about the news on the rivers and lakes." ”

"What do you want to inquire about?"

"Any anomaly." Han Ruzi didn't know what he wanted to know.

Back at the Tihou Mansion, it was almost dark, Zhang Youcai greeted him and whispered: "Jingzhao Yin Mansion refuses to let Du Chuanyun come back, saying that he is an important witness, and Old Man Du is also left." ”

"yes, I see."

Seeing the owner's unhurried appearance, Zhang Youcai was both a little surprised and felt down-to-earth.

In the study, Yang Feng didn't know how long he had been sitting alone, and when he saw Tihou, he just nodded and didn't get up.

Han Ruzi sat on the chair behind the bookcase and didn't squeak.

The two sat silently for a while, and Han Ruzi spoke first: "You already know that those people are not real Qi Seekers, right?" ”

Yang Feng has been tracking down the Qi Seeker for many years, and if anyone can recognize the truth from the fake at a glance, except for the Qi Seeker himself, it must be him.

"yes, I know."

"But you didn't warn me."

"There are some things that you don't need to know too soon."

"Too early or too late, up to you?"

There was no lamp in the study, Yang Feng looked at the tired Hou in the darkness, and clearly felt the anger there, he thought of his former students, so he was no stranger to this anger.

"Someone has to judge, and it can only be me."

"You didn't make a mistake?"

"I've made a lot of mistakes, otherwise I wouldn't be the way I am. But it is still up to me to judge, because this is a heavy burden, I have carried it for the longest time, and I have become accustomed to it, and others are either afraid of the heavy, or lack of strength, or have no permanence, and often give up halfway. ”

Han Ruzi was silent for a long time, until Zhang Youcai knocked on the door and entered the house, brought refreshments, lit the oil lamp and withdrew, he spoke, his tone was as calm as ever, he didn't want to complain anymore, Yang Feng was like a treasure, and it was his ability to dig to what extent, and it had nothing to do with the "treasure" itself.

"The Queen Mother really has a plan."

"So it seems."

"Didn't you know beforehand?"

"Since leaving the palace, the Queen Mother has never contacted me, and I can only guess about the Queen Mother."

Han Ruzi thought for a long time, "Why did the Queen Mother have to choose to do it at this time?" ”

"I think it's weird too."

Without asking anything, Han Ruzi decided to change the way, "Although Huangfu Yi and them are fake, they have attracted many real hopefuls, and it must be one of the purposes of the Queen Mother to kill them all." ”

"This is exactly what I think is strange, although there are a lot of real qi seekers, but the most important one doesn't seem to have shown up yet, the queen mother started at this time, too early."

The most important person to look forward to qi is Chun Yu Xiao, who always sees the head and does not see the tail.

"Maybe capturing the Qi Seeker is only the secondary purpose of the Queen Mother, her main purpose has been achieved, and she doesn't want to wait any longer."

"It's possible."

"The Empress Dowager's main purpose is to use this incident to put Shangguan Sheng in power, expand the power of the Eight Battalions of the Su Guard, and at the same time get rid of the children of the clan who covet the throne, what will she do? Kill a few of us, or imprison us? Should I escape from the capital? ”

Yang Bong did not answer, he knew that his "students" were already thinking and would soon come up with an answer.

"No, the Queen Mother won't let us escape from the capital, that will cause chaos, but there is no need for her to kill us, it will also cause chaos, for her, the best ending is ......" Han Ruzi thought for a while, "The current emperor is not sick at all, and he will soon be able to 'recover' and continue to act as an obedient puppet." ”

Han Ruzi was relieved, everything made sense, the emperor's uncle Wu Xiu inadvertently became a key figure, and the champion Hou, the tired marquis, the king of the East China Sea and others all guessed that there was a change in the palace through his actions, and they didn't think that Wu Xiu himself would be deceived.

A few days ago, Wu Xiu once went to the palace to visit the emperor, and after leaving the palace, he went to seek refuge with the champion Hou, which made everyone feel that the emperor had little time left, but the queen mother made a move.

Han Ruzi's heart became heavy again, the queen mother's conspiracy was becoming a yang conspiracy, Han Ruzi and others had no way to resist at all, the minister's experience was indeed richer, only a few people directly participated in the battle for the throne, and most of them verbally expressed their support for the champion Hou, but in fact, they maintained a wait-and-see attitude, and the prime minister Yin was harmless, but escaped a catastrophe.

Han Ruzi kept tapping his fingers on the table, Yang Feng was still his important helper, but he no longer needed Yang Feng's guidance and analysis, he had to make his own judgments and decisions.

"The Queen Mother will not immediately announce that she and the emperor are 'cured', so I still have some time. First of all, I have to reconcile with the champion Hou, and if I continue to fight, I will only lose both, and after reconciliation, we will at least have the northern army and the southern army. ”

Han Ruzi's fingers tapped faster, "If Yuan Zifan and the others return to the palace, they will inevitably be killed, and if they escape, they can only hide in the rivers and lakes, and at least one must be found as evidence." ”

Han Ruzi stopped, "I still have to find Meng E, there are not many people trusted by the Queen Mother, and the Meng brothers and sisters can be counted as two." ”

Yang Feng stood up and arched his hand: "I'll go and contact Champion Hou to arrange a meeting." A lot of people are looking for false hopefuls, and I have sent someone to do so, maybe one step ahead of others. As for Meng E, unless she comes to find the Tired Hou, it will be difficult for the Tired Hou to find her. ”

Han Ruzi snorted, for him, this was a moment of "being alone", and Yang Feng was no longer a "master", but an important assistant to carry out orders.

Although the situation was extremely unfavorable, Han Ruzi was still full of fighting spirit, but temporarily changed his opponent from the champion Hou to the queen mother. (To be continued.) )