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After sending the envoys of Qi Chu away, he entered the palace to meet Ying Zheng and told Ying Zheng about asking for craftsmen from the two countries.

Ying Zheng just asked: "Just asked for a craftsman?" He did not mention it again, nor did he mention that he had recruited the Mo.

The school palace did not open, and Fusu had nothing to do for the time being, except for occasionally going to the court to listen to the government affairs of the princes of the court, just staying in the prince's mansion, learning martial arts with Li Shang every day, and thinking about how to prevent mercury poisoning and make metal movable type in his spare time, but he always had a bad feeling and was restless.

"Childe, Mr. Cheng Qu is here." As soon as he returned from the palace, Xiling came to report.

"Where?" Fusu said eagerly.

He finally remembered why he was so upset, the half-month deadline he set for Tao Gu had long since passed, but Tao Gu still didn't show up.

"I'm waiting in the living room, with Liang An and Le Peng."

"Liang An? Lepeng? The Inker is back? Fusu muttered to himself.

"Mr. Cheng Qu, but Tao Gu is back? Why is it just the two of you, Taogu? ”

Fusu didn't wait for Cheng Qu and the two ink men to salute, and asked eagerly.

Cheng Qu, Liang and Le listened to Fusu's words, their faces were a little unsightly, and Cheng Qu said: "Son, the ink people that Tao Gu brought out, only they came back, Tao Gu did not come back." ”

Fusu was a little surprised, and said, "I didn't come back, what's the matter, I'm afraid of my punishment?" ”

"Taugu is dead." Cheng Qu looked a little guilty and a little worried.

"Dead?" Fusu was a little distracted, although he told Shang Ping that Tao Gu would come back within fifteen days, and threatened to kill Tao Gu, but he didn't really send someone to kill him, how could he die, could someone call the shots without permission. Fusu couldn't help but look at Meng An, who shook his head.

"Come on." Cheng Qu gestured to Liang An and Le Peng behind him.

Liang An and Le Peng glanced at each other, knelt down in front of Fusu, and said, "I didn't wait to say goodbye, I betrayed the trust of the son, it violated the way of the Mo family's faith, and I asked the son to punish me." ”

Fusu looked at the two of them, and couldn't help frowning, if he didn't explain the matter clearly, what kind of guilt would he be.

"Get up, and tell me about Taogu first."

Liang An and Le Peng looked at Cheng Qu, but saw that Cheng Qu had already lost his mind, and did not pay attention to them, and glanced at each other again, but no one got up.

"Get up and speak, you have followed me for two years, and you should know that I don't like people to kneel." Fusu couldn't help but aggravate his tone.

"Yes." Liang An and Le Peng stood up.

"Steward Liang, you can say it."

"Yes." Liang An answered, and muttered for a long time, as if he didn't know where to start.

"The rest doesn't matter, just say how did Tao Gu die?" Fusu frowned.

Tao Gu said that in order to preserve the Mozi people, inherit the skills and ideas of Mozi, and lead us to escape from Xianyang, we left from Bowangyuan, and it was okay at first, with the help of shops along the way, it was also smooth. When we left Hanzhong Nanzheng, some of us began to get sick, we all thought it was caused by the fatigue of the journey, and we didn't care, and continued to go south, but when we arrived at Guangyuan County, Shu County, Bao Linsheng's steward died, and Tao Gu was also sick, and the sick people accounted for more than half of all of us. ”

Tao Gu felt that something was wrong, so he called a doctor to see a doctor, but the doctor said that he just felt cold and infected each other. Tao Gu was even more suspicious, reminding us to pay attention to safety, we all thought it was ......" Liang An glanced at Fusu and didn't dare to say.

"Why?" Fusu said impatiently.

"Some people say that it was the back hand arranged by Childe to prevent us from escaping with the craftsmanship passed down by Childe." Le Peng added on the side.

Fu Su snorted, his face was a little unsightly, although the cooperation between the ink and himself brought him a lot of gains, but he never had anything to do with the ink man, and he was even more polite to the steward in Bowangyuan, but he didn't want anyone to doubt that he would be so ruthless.

"Tao Gu said that Gongzi was not in Xianyang at all when we left, and Gongzi trusted the ink master, never hid his selfishness, and never restricted the ink master from passing on his skills, so he would not do such a thing."

"He also said that this thing will not be done by the king, if the king wants to kill the inkman, he will kill it directly, there is no need to use this method."

"When we left from Guangyuan, we paid special attention to our diet and whereabouts, trying to find out who was not good for us, until Cheng Adu, no suspicious person was found, there were more sick and dead among us, only the two of us and Chai Guang and Jiao Gongzhi were still healthy, everyone was even more panicked, some suggested returning to Xianyang, and some suggested fleeing separately, but they were all vetoed by Tao Gu."

"Tao Gu said that the person who wants to kill us must be very powerful, so that he can be so untraceable, and escaping separately is tantamount to killing himself, he said that obeying Shang Ping's words and leading us away from Bowangyuan is the biggest mistake in his life, and now only the four of us can survive, and the four of us must return to Xianyang alive and ask Gongzi for him."

"Tao Gu found four servants in the stronghold of the shops and merchants of Bowang in Chengdu, dressed up as us and followed them to the south, attracting the people in the shadows, and the four of us went to Linqiong, Pixian and Ba County respectively shortly after their departure. After we left Chengdu, we didn't even dare to go to the stronghold of the shop, so we could only pretend to be merchants and follow the other caravans back to Xianyang. ”

After Liang An finished speaking, he sighed deeply.

"What about Chai and Jiao?" After listening to Liang An's words, Fusu asked.

"Since Cheng Ah was separated, we haven't seen each other again." Liang An replied.

"Mr. Cheng, do they still have any news back?"

Cheng Qu didn't seem to hear Fusu's words, and he still lost his mind.

"Mr. Cheng?" Fusu raised his voice and asked.

"Childe?" Cheng Qu looked up at Fusu.

"Do they have any other news from Taogu?"

"No, no, nothing!" Cheng Qu began to cry as he spoke, as if he had returned to the state of lying sick in the child's mansion.

"Did the news of your illness come back to Xianyang through the shop?"

"I don't know about that." Liang An replied cautiously.

"Spread back, when we left Guangyuan, Tao Gu told the caravan steward that someone might have poisoned us." Le Peng added on the side.

After Cheng Qu's mood slowly stabilized, Fu Su asked again: "Old Mr. Cheng Qu heard Shang Ping mention this matter?" ”

"Shang Ping?" Cheng Qu was stunned, and said with some disbelief: "No." ”

"What about Shangping now?" Fusu asked murderously.

"Two days after Gongzi returned to Xianyang, Shang Ping found me, saying that he offended Gongzi because of the departure of the ink artist of Bowangyuan, and was kicked out of the shop by Gongzi, and he wanted to find a way to find Taogu and them, so he left the Xue Palace, and I never saw him again."

"And he has any news coming back?" Fusu asked unabashedly.

"Nope."