"Cao Hao, the fourth brother is gone!!" Although the thirteenth elder brother's voice was low, it was still full of anxiety.

The words of the thirteenth elder brother surprised Cao Hao, how could the dignified prince and prince disappear? Now that the situation in the capital is like this, I don't know what the third elder brother Cheng is thinking, if the fourth elder brother is gone, then what should I do about this epidemic prevention matter?

The thirteenth elder brother looked at Tuo Heqi not far away, and said, "I'll send him away first, and then I'll tell you!" As he spoke, he raised his hand and motioned for Tuo Heqi to come over.

Tuo Heqi was confused by the series of changes just now, and when he saw the thirteenth elder brother calling himself, he stepped forward with a smile: "What does the thirteenth master command?" ”

The thirteenth elder brother smiled and said: "You dare to stop even the carriage of the county king, yes, the emperor is not wrong!" This is the practice of smart people, you must know that if the king of the county really goes out of the city and spreads the epidemic outside the capital, someone must come out to take responsibility. No matter how confused the king of Shuncheng County is, he is also a clan, and at most he can only win the title. On your side, it's hard to say! ”

Tuo Heqi laughed twice and said: "The thirteenth master has won awards, awards, this is the duty of the slave!" ”

The thirteenth elder brother said: "Ye is impatient to spend time here, and you, the Admiral of the Nine Gates, are not eating dry food." Don't say it's the king of the county, it's the prince who is here, as long as you don't show favoritism here, you will keep it, right? ”

Tuo Heqi nodded hurriedly: "Thirteenth master, rest assured, the slaves should obey the holy order and do a good job in this access control." Slaves are loyal, where can there be favoritism? If a slave does such a despicable and shameless person, let the slave not die a good death, and after death, he will not be able to break his bones and ashes, and he will not be able to support his life......"

The thirteenth elder brother hurriedly waved his hand: "Come on, come on, even if you don't have to say it better than you sing, you don't have to say it so poisonous!" For your own future, you know how to do it, so you don't talk nonsense about you. If you meet the royal family of the clan, you can't talk well......" paused, called a few guards over, pointed to Tuo Heqi and said: "Lord Tuo, these two people are a little insufficient, you are here to listen to the call." ”

The guards all responded, and Tuoheqi's face was a little stiff. Although these thirteen elder brothers are the prince's elder brothers, they don't have a title, and now they are so big, they can't get rid of him?

The thirteenth elder brother said with a smile: "If there are royal relatives of the clan that you can't stop, let these few summon masters go, but they want to be close to them!" ”

Tuo Heqi understood this, and hurriedly bowed his head to thank the thirteenth elder brother for his "compassion".

The thirteenth elder brother made proper arrangements, and Fang called Cao Hao to leave with him. Tuo Heqi looked at the backs of the thirteenth elder brother and Cao Hao, frowned and wondered: "When did this Cao family hook up with the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother!" In the end, he was not at ease, so he called a confidant to follow him, whispered a few words, and sent him away.

* Cao Hao was worried, and immediately asked the thirteenth elder brother for details after riding away.

It turned out that after Wei Hei left, he was intercepted at the second intersection, and the other party was a little skilled. Wei Hei didn't take the other party to heart, but in a few rounds, he solved a few people. After walking for a while, in another secluded place, he encountered another ambush, and his mount was shot.

Because the other party was injured by a secret arrow, and he didn't know how many were ambushed, Wei Hei was just the power of one person, and he was finally hit by an arrow. After running away with his injury, he was afraid that he would delay things, so he happened to pass by the mansion of the thirteenth elder brother. Before, he had been with Cao Hao twice, and knew that his son-in-law was friendly with this elder brother, so he asked to see the thirteenth elder brother and asked him to send someone to the military camp to find the fourth elder brother to spread the word.

This blue sky is in vain, setting up an ambush and robbery in the inner city is really too arrogant. Even if the thirteenth elder brother has not been bad for a long time, he knows that the people behind this scene have a lot of plans.

No, the fourth elder brother is not in the military camp. Several cronies of the Fourth Elder Brother's Mansion here were waiting outside the guard camp, and they didn't see the master come out, so it can be seen that they are not returning to the palace.

As he spoke, he arrived at the place where Wei Hei was attacked for the second time. The carcass of the horse that fell to the ground after the arrow was still in place, and a team of soldiers from the patrol battalion were inspecting the scene of the murder.

Cao Hao's heart tightened, and he asked, "Thirteenth Master, my long-term follower?" ”

"He is really a brave man, and he doesn't have to worry about his surname, you don't have to worry too much!" The thirteenth elder brother replied: "Where will these fourth brothers go?" If it is diverted by these people who want to get out of the city, then what are these ambushes set up in the middle? ”

Cao Hao is not worried that someone will be able to kidnap or kill Prince Yong, these princes and elder brothers, they are accompanied by dozens of guards in and out. Even when there is a single person, the place where it is located is either in the palace or in the official uniform, how can ordinary people enter. As said in the novel, the princes kill each other by assassination and poisoning, which is really a bit taken for granted.

Suddenly, he thought of another possibility, this side was the most worrying, and he hurriedly said it to the thirteenth elder brother.

* In the south of the Forbidden City, in a small room not far from the Internal Affairs Office, Prince Yong was lying on the kang with a gray face, looking very terrifying. An old lady with a white beard sat on the side of the kang and concentrated on checking his pulse.

Next to him stood a man in his forties, his brows tightly locked, his face full of worry and unease. This capital is in the midst of an epidemic, and if Prince Yong is infected, it will be extremely bad.

The old lady was diagnosing and looking strange.

The man saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Imperial Doctor Bai, how is the fourth master's body, but ...... But ......"

The old lady doctor got up and said with a hint of helplessness: "Lord Long is relieved, the prince is just asleep!" I'm afraid that I have been thinking too much and sleeping too little recently, which hurts my heart and mind, and I am so tired for a while. It's not a big deal, just take care of it for a few days! ”

This is called Lord Long by the old lady doctor, and it is the first-class guard Long Keduo in front of the emperor. He is the third son of Tong Guowei and Kangxi's cousin and brother-in-law. He began to serve as a first-class guard in the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, and was soon promoted to the deputy capital of Mongolia under the Zhenglan Banner. A few years ago, due to the involvement of his subordinates, he was dismissed from the position of deputy commander, and now he is still a first-class guard. Last month, he went to Rehe with Hu, and yesterday he returned to Beijing with the holy decree.

Today, after Prince Yong asked about the defense of the palace city at the side of the military camp, he asked Long Keduo to come to the internal affairs office and call for some anti-epidemic things from the inner treasury. I didn't want to get to the Ministry of Internal Affairs before I suddenly became dizzy, and before I could say anything, the person was already lying on the ground, unconscious.

Before the abolition of the crown prince, Long Keduo was the Eight Masters and knew a lot about the prince's seizure of the throne in the capital. Regardless of whether the fourth elder brother has fallen into a plot or contracted the epidemic, it is not appropriate to make a noise, otherwise there is only one elder brother left in the capital who is the third elder brother in charge, and no one can predict what will happen.

Fortunately, there were rows of rows of houses next to it, so Long Keduo found the nearest one, helped Prince Yong in, stopped a little eunuch passing by, and sent him to take his waist card to the Tai Hospital to ask the doctor to come over.

Long Keduo pinched a cold sweat, but fortunately it was fine.

Prince Yong was in a daze, and he only felt that his head was sinking. He looked around, except for a little light behind him, it was dark in all directions, and he couldn't really see it. He turned and walked towards the light, and stopped after two steps.

There was an abyss in front of him, and he couldn't help but tremble, and he retreated in fear. Suddenly, there was a suffocating roar in his ears, and as soon as he turned around, he was thrown to the ground. It was a vicious dog with blood-red eyes, shaking his furry body, revealing Bai Sensen's sharp teeth, and he came up to bite him, he was weak in his hands and feet, and he was powerless to fight back...... "Fourth brother, fourth brother......" In the call of the thirteenth elder brother, Prince Yong slowly woke up, but he didn't even seem to have the strength to raise his eyelids, and opened his eyes after a few moves.

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, do you think it's better?" The thirteenth elder brother asked with concern.

"Thirteenth brother?" Prince Yong's expression gradually came to his senses, and he looked at the thirteenth elder brother suspiciously, and then looked at the house: "What's the matter?" ”

The thirteenth elder brother breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The fourth brother is really going to scare my brother to death!" The doctor said that you 'think a lot and sleep less', so you fell asleep with a moment of exhaustion. Fortunately, when walking, if it were on a horse......" Speaking of this, it is really scary. Fortunately, it was Cao Hao who reminded him to go to the palace to find it.

Prince Yong rubbed his head, sat up from the kang, and looked at it privately: "Where is my uncle?" ”

Long Keduo is the younger brother of Prince Yong's adoptive mother, Empress Tong Jia, so Prince Yong is in front of his own people and calls him his uncle.

"When I went out to greet me, I was seen by Guan Bao, as if there was something wrong, and went to the Internal Affairs Office!" The thirteenth elder brother replied.

Prince Yong paused for a moment by the kang, his spirit was better, and he got up and said, "I'm also going to the Internal Affairs Office, let's go and take a look!" Uncle is really, since I'm fine, what are you bothering to do? ”

The thirteenth elder brother roughly talked about the situation of Fuchengmen, and Prince Yong listened to the green tendons on his forehead, and he was really angry, and said angrily: "When is this happening, it is still calculated, it is really something that is not as good as pigs and dogs!" ”

"Fourth brother, you can't go down like this, not only to prevent the spread of the epidemic, but also to take precautions against others, otherwise this is a lethal force, and if you are hit in the back, you will be really wronged!" The thirteenth elder brother persuaded.

Prince Yong gradually calmed down his anger, but his face was still gloomy, and he nodded: "I can save it!" After pondering for a moment, he looked at the thirteenth elder brother and said, "Cao Hao, I'm okay with him!" ”

* Because the holy driver was not in Beijing, the palace ban was stricter than usual, and even Cao Hao was inconvenient to enter and leave at will, so he did not enter with the thirteenth elder brother. Fortunately, the news that came later that the fourth elder brother was unharmed, and he just went to the Internal Affairs Office. Cao Hao left the palace gate and hurriedly went to the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion to see Wei Hei.

Thirteen Elder Brothers' Mansion, the guest room in the front yard, looking at Wei Hei who was wrapped in several places on the bed, and looking at the gauze covering his right eye, where can Cao Hao's mood still be better? His face was pale with rage, and his face was a little frighteningly stiff.

Due to excessive blood loss, Wei Hei's face was bloodless, but he still smiled at Cao Hao and said comfortingly: "Childe, this little injury is nothing!" Don't worry, just raise it for a few days! ”

"Brother Wei, who is the other party, do you have a spectrum in your heart?" Cao Hao's expression gradually calmed down, although he looked like he was just a teenager, but his state of mind was much more mature after all, if he repeatedly showed his worries, it would only make Wei Hei have to reassure himself.

Wei Hei thought for a moment: "Looking at his skills, he doesn't look like he was born in the market, in action, he has his own charter, if he is not from the army, he is a nurse who has been uniformly trained!" After a pause, he added: "From the arrows, you should be able to find some clues!" ”

Cao Hao nodded, secretly remembering in his heart, because he had just asked the doctor, knowing that Wei Hei was so injured, it was not suitable to move for the time being, for fear that he would have to bother the thirteenth elder brother. He turned around and explained a few words to Xiao Man, leaving him here to take care of Wei Hei.

Cao Hao's calmness not only did not reassure Wei Hei, but became more and more worried, outside Yangzhou Wangfeng Village last year, the child's expression was also like this. Although it looks calm, it gives people an indescribable sadness and coldness.

"Childe, Lao Hei is fine! You don't have to ...... for Lao Hei" Wei Hei was in a hurry, and couldn't help but sit up from the bed, accidentally pulling the wound, and immediately sweated in pain.

Cao Hao hurriedly took two steps forward and held him down: "Brother Wei, don't worry, you don't know what kind of surname I am?" The most annoying troublesome, let's investigate the murderer slowly, and everything will be said when you are injured! ”

Wei Hei nodded in disbelief, but he felt guilty in his heart. In the end, the comfortable life in the past few years has been lazy, if it was left in previous years, how could it be so embarrassed, but it would be tiring the son to worry about himself. It's just that the sentence "You don't know what kind of surname I am", but he has no bottom. Although he has been by Cao Hao's side for nearly ten years, he still can't see through his actions.

He wanted to say more, but the medicine came up, and he heard Cao Hao say something more in a daze, and finally closed his eyes.

When I went out in the morning, there were still five people, and everyone was still thinking about how to protect the safety of everyone in the house.

The Wu brothers lost their father since they were young, and they followed Wei Hei for the past two years and treated him like a father and brother. Seeing him end up so miserable, it was very uncomfortable. Wu Mao was fine, he just looked at Cao Hao's face and didn't say much. Wu Sheng was young after all, and couldn't help but be angry: "Uncle, can we just endure it like this?" Could it be that Brother Wei's knife was in vain, and his right eye ...... Right eye ......"

Cao Hao just looked at the street in front of him, ignoring it. Wu Sheng wanted to say more, but Wu Mao whispered: "Shut up, are you uncomfortable?" What are you talking about, the uncle has his own arrangements! ”

The conspiracy and calculation of the capital have nothing to do with him, but since Wei Hei was injured because of this, this debt must be recovered.

Back in the house, Cao Hao went straight to the Banyan Courtyard.

The two sisters, Lianqiu and Xiqiu, were talking with Mr. Zhuang in the upper room, but when they saw Cao Hao coming, they got up and avoided after giving a salute.

Cao Hao walked directly in front of Mr. Zhuang, looked into his eyes, and said solemnly: "Mr.'s identity, I should also tell Cao Hao!" ”

(To be continued)