Early the morning of the next day after her night visit to Mei's house, Master Xinyi summoned twenty former court concubines who had become monks and practiced in Wanshanni Temple to recite the "Heart Sutra" with her in the Ming Jing Hall. At the same time, I am also worried that the "Goose's Nest" and Guan Zizai will attack their hearts and kill people.

Yang Guangyin had to go back to the palace that night to take people to patrol the night, so he told Li Hun that he no longer had to monitor his mind in secret, and informed the abbot of the temple, the empress dowager, to change the darkness to the light, and ordered someone to openly guard a nun temple tightly, and told Li Hun to personally take people to watch the night in Wanshanni Temple, in case someone entered the temple to assassinate his mind.

Li Hun faintly heard something about the whereabouts of his daughter Lichen during the day, he visited Mei's house last night, and had a dispute with Mei Er, knowing that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders this night, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, except for the three hundred hussar battalion sergeants who were transferred by Yang Guangzeng to monitor the movement of his heart, he was divided into two shifts in the first half of the night and the second half of the night to keep an eye on the movements in the Mingjing Hall, and he didn't dare to close his eyes all night, and every half an hour he would take someone to check the movement outside the Mingjing Hall.

It was okay to wait until the fourth watch had passed, seeing that the eastern sky had been flushed with a touch of fish belly white, listening to the chanting sound in the Mingjing Hall gradually weakening, Li Hun and a team of sergeants were just about to turn around and go back to the temporary duty room not far from the Mingjing Hall to rest for a while, when he suddenly heard someone in the Mingjing Hall shouting hoarsely: "Oh no, it's water." ”

Li Hun turned his head to look into the Mingjing Hall when he heard the sound, but he saw that thick black smoke was coming out of a small building. He secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly shouted at the sergeants under him: "Rush into the Mingjing Hall and protect the mind master." Before the words fell, he turned around and rushed into the Ming Jing Hall.

Li Hun took three steps and made two steps to rush into the Mingjing Hall, where the fire had risen, only to see the figures in the building shaking, and the frightened monks and nuns were fleeing outside the building like headless flies.

Li Hun casually grabbed a monk or nun who wanted to run out of the building, and asked sharply, "Where is Mrs. Xinyi?" How did this fire start? ”

The monk and nun turned around with a white face, turned around with trembling hands and pointed inside the building, taking advantage of Li Hun's unpreparedness, struggled to break free from his pull, and ran out of the building with a smoke.

Li Hun looked in the direction of the monk's and nun's fingers, and saw that the flames rising high in the building were about to seal the door of the chanting hall.

The fire in the chanting hall has not spread for the time being, and under the light of the fire outside the door, it can be faintly seen that there are two people fighting in the hall.

"Is Master Xinyi here?" Li Hun couldn't see the faces of the two people who were beating in the hall for a while, so he drew his sword and asked the two.

"The general save me." One of them turned his head and shouted at Li Hun for help.

Li Hun no longer hesitated, and immediately leaned forward, swinging a sword and slashing at the back of the other's head.

The man didn't look like he was carrying martial arts, he just cared about tearing his mind with both hands, and he didn't notice that Li Hun had already laid down his hand behind her, and he was slashed in the back of the head by a sword, snorted, threw himself forward and fell to the ground, and died on the spot.

"Mrs. Shi, come with me." Li Hun pulled up the frightened mind Shitai, and half-pulled and half-dragged her out of the Mingjing Hall.

At this time, the monks and nuns in the temple and other soldiers also got the news of the fire in the Ming Jing Hall, and rushed to save the fire, and the fire in the building was extinguished after a while.

Hearing the news, the heart of the strict master who rushed to the place clasped his palms, kept reciting the Buddha's name, and pleaded with the heart master who was rescued from the Ming Jing Hall by Li Hun: "Senior sister, I beg you, don't fight for victory again, and cause trouble to the temple." ”

The mind only had a gloomy face and did not say a word.

Li Hun saw that the fire in the Ming Jing Hall had been extinguished by everyone, so he ordered his sergeant: "Go and drag out the person in the chanting hall who was cut to the ground by my sword, and ask the two masters to identify this person." ”

Several sergeants said yes and rushed into the building, and in a short time dragged out a half-dead young monk and nun from the building.

"What's the matter, why are you?" Xinyi recognized this person for the first time and couldn't help but be surprised.

"Why did you set fire to the Ming Jing Hall and stab the heart master?" Li Hun saw that although the young monk and nun had been hit by his own sword in the back of the head, because he had not struck the vital point, he was still conscious, so he asked her sharply.

With a hideous face, he raised a bloodstained hand, pointed at Xinyi, gritted his teeth and scolded: "You are ungrateful, you only hate that I failed to kill you tonight, and I have the right to keep you alive for half a day, and someone will come to take your life tomorrow!" After speaking, the upper and lower rows of teeth bit hard, spit blood, and actually bit their tongues on the spot and committed suicide.

Xinyi's face turned pale, and he stared blankly at the limp in the arms of the sergeant, and muttered: "I only want my daughter to enjoy the rest of her life in peace, but why do you want to kill me like this...... Could it be that you really ignore the old love......"

Li Hun leaned over and put his hand on her neck, making sure that she had swallowed her breath, so he turned around and asked solemnly, "Master, who is this assassin?" ”

Xin Yan recited the Buddha's name and replied: "She was originally a maid who served her sister in the palace in the past, and she had already left home in the temple with her sister Xinyi, but she didn't expect it to be ......."

"Senior sister, let's leave a cemetery behind the temple." Xinyi Shitai choked up and pleaded with Xinyan Shitai.

"This is not the place to speak, Mrs. Shi, let's go to the abbot and talk about it." Li Hun said in an almost commanding tone, and then ordered his sergeants to escort Xinyi to the abbot, and at the same time sent someone to immediately report the news of Xinyi's assassination in the Ming Jingtang to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang was in the Lanzhi Palace was puzzled by the fact that he had not received any reports from Zhang Heng and Qu Tutong for a day and a night, and wondered if Mei Er's gang had any other plans for ignoring Xinyi's warning, and suddenly got Li Hun to send someone to report that Xinyi had been assassinated in Mingjingtang in the early hours of this morning, and he couldn't help but feel that Mei Er's gang really had murderous intentions for Xinyi.

However, this also made Yang Guang more convinced: Xinyi must have the major secrets of the "Goose's Nest" and Guan Zizai, and judging from the current situation, she is likely to fall to the side of the imperial court.

Princess Xiao Er accompanied Yang Guang to listen to the report of the sergeant, insisted on acting as a lobbyist, and rushed to Wanshanni Temple with Yang Guang to persuade Xinyi to tell the secret in his heart.