Chapter 201: Tracing
PS: There are two chapters today, and the number of words in each chapter is a little less...... Well, it's actually taken apart, don't laugh at it~
Li Ru set out from the Xiangguo Mansion in the West Haolong Garden of the North Palace of Luoyang, followed by Hua Xiong, with dozens of people, equivalent to an elite team, to serve as an escort and deal with emergencies, they passed through the North Palace along the Upper West Gate, and then entered Buguangli at the Upper East Gate, and then arrived at the Wenhou Lu Mansion here.
Along the way, Li Ru noticed that Hua Xiong's expression was different, so he asked, "What's wrong with Zijian?" ”
Hua Xiong seemed to be stunned for a moment before he reacted, he smiled bitterly, scratched his head and said, "I didn't sleep all night last night, and my spirit was a little sluggish. ”
Li Ru smiled faintly and didn't take it to heart, he knew that Hua Xiong didn't tell the truth, but he didn't ask too much, everyone has some secrets in their hearts, Hua Xiong has followed his father-in-law for many years, Li Ru knows what he will choose.
Hua Xiong really didn't tell the truth, he was a military general with abundant Yuan power, and not sleeping for a night didn't affect anything at all, he was in a trance now completely because of something on his mind, just now he already knew that the target of their trip was actually Lu Bu's mansion.
As soon as the incident of Wang Yun's naked body hanging on the gate of Kaiyang City, Li Ru took himself and others to leave the Xiangfu and rushed to the Lu Mansion, and the fool also knew that there was some kind of connection between it, could it be that Wang Yun's death had something to do with Wen Hou, but what happened to the small words on the cloth?
He sighed and looked at the mansion in front of him, his eyes flickering.
In the early morning, the Lu Mansion seemed empty and quiet, and when Li Ru and his party arrived at the door, they found that something was wrong, not only did there be no doorman at the door nor a servant who led the horse, and even the usual Hou Mansion guards in the past were gone.
Sensing that something was wrong, he dismounted and led the people forward, and had the gate pushed open, and the courtyard was empty and silent.
"Search!" Almost spit out such a word from his teeth, Li Ru watched dozens of sergeants swarm into the courtyard like wolves under the leadership of Hua Xiong, who was holding his breath inexplicably, and went to various rooms and even corners to investigate, Hua Xiong's face became very gloomy at this moment. Li Ru saw this scene, but he was not as optimistic as he imagined.
He walked in the empty Lu Mansion. Looking left and right, it seemed that he wanted to find something, but unfortunately he didn't see anything, and after a while, the sergeants who went in to search everywhere had come out, and behind them there were a group of sleepy-eyed and disheveled subordinates, including men, women, and children, Hua Xiong stepped forward and reported to Li Ruyu: "These are all servants and maids found in the house. They all said they didn't know where the rest of the house had gone, but they didn't sleep soundly last night, and we didn't wake them up until just now. ”
Li Ru quickly understood that Lu Bu was afraid that he had already sent someone to move the people in his mansion away at night, and as for the rest of these people, it didn't matter to him at all, but in order not to bypass them and cause unnecessary trouble. So they were all drugged, so that they slept so hard that they couldn't notice the movement of someone leaving.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but hate it so much that his teeth were about to crush - a little, a little, just a little!
The group walked through the first courtyard, the second courtyard, until the backyard, and when they arrived at the back door, they looked at the open door, and continued to walk forward, almost when they were about to walk out of the wide. Entered a new path. This is a small lane in Upper East Street, and the road is relatively narrow. Only six or seven people could pass side by side, and here they saw in front of their eyes that there were corpses lying on the ground, and blood was flowing.
Li Ru walked over, squatted down and touched it, and felt it, with today's weather, the body temperature of these corpses has already disappeared completely, and the blood has dried up and solidified, obviously the other party has gone away, but according to Li Ru's inference, the time for the other party to leave will not be too early, when it is about three o'clock in the morning.
His heart moved, and he continued to walk forward along this bloodstain, but he walked all the way along Shangdong Street to an intersection, and turned right to Gumen Street, Li Ru sighed, in fact, there is no need to continue walking here, but he is still a little unwilling, or there are still some ridiculous extravagant hopes in his heart, and he wants to continue to move forward.
Until they arrived at the valley gate, there was nothing to find along the way, and at this time the valley gate had been opened, and Li Ru stepped forward just as the northern lieutenant Wu Qiong was leaving, and the two met unexpectedly.
Neither side apparently expected to run into each other, they were stunned for a moment and then laughed.
The two have known each other for a long time, Wu Qiong was trusted and reused by Dong Zhuo, and this person is indeed quite talented, and he is also appreciated by Li Ru, but he did not mask again due to fate, but he didn't think that meeting again was here and now, in this situation.
"Wu Beibei, it's been a long time." Li Ru arched his hand with a sincere smile on his face.
Wu Qiong's face was stiff, although Li Ru was delicate, he hadn't seen Wu Qiong for a long time after all, and he didn't know his recent changes, not to mention that he didn't belong now, and he didn't care about the coincidence with Wu Qiong, this sentence was just a politeness, but the "north" set Wu Qiong's injury, but in an instant, Wu Qiong had recovered to normal, and did not show dissatisfaction or other feelings, but smiled and replied: "Tingwei has also been absent for a long time......
From Wu Qiong's name for himself, Li Ru finally sensed something sensitively, but he didn't have the heart to think about it now, but couldn't wait to ask Wu Qiong: "Can Wu Beibei see a train of Wenhou Mansion leaving the city?" He knew very well in his heart that it was impossible for Lu Bu to have a female dependent in the family to show people outside at will, and he didn't see the carriage that Dong Zhuo gave to Lu Bu in Lu Mansion just now, but he could see a rut with a little blood on the road.
Wu Qiong was stunned for a moment, then nodded and smiled: "Yes, there is indeed a convoy at the beginning of the day, they said that there was an abnormal movement in the military camp of Bingzhou last night, and the sergeants were restless, and today Mrs. Wenhou brought people to condole." ”
"Oh, anomalies?"
"It is said that there was a camp roar, last night nearly 10,000 soldiers from the state came to the city, almost launched an attack, but they did not have siege equipment in their hands, Qiong asked his subordinates to give them a rain of arrows to taste, blocking their offensive, and then Wen Hou arrived in time to stop the expansion of the situation, which can be regarded as a false alarm."
Li Ru knew very well what was going on in his heart, this was probably related to Wang Yun and Xun Shuang, last night was a game of chess that he and Lu Bu had planned, but he didn't expect that they would extend their tentacles to the Bingzhou military camp, it seems that they are not all empty talkers, some eyes know how to take advantage of the situation, thinking that if Lu Bu arrived later last night, the defenders of Yigumen would not be able to stop the siege of the Bingzhou army, and I am afraid that it will cause chaos in Luoyang City at that time.
It's okay......
Li Ru said again: "Confucianism wants to go to the city to see, but I don't know ......."
Wu Qiong arched her hand, "Willing to accompany." ”
So the two sides went up to the city tower together, across the city tower, Li Ru looked at the Bingzhou military camp in the distance like a giant dragon hovering in the northern suburbs, he seemed to be able to vaguely see a tall figure standing upright in the wind, sneering at himself constantly, I don't know whether to be more proud or more sarcastic in that smile.
Li Ru punched the city tower hard, and he didn't even notice the blood stains on it.
"Tinghou ......" next to Wu Qiong looked at him cautiously and called in a low voice.
Li Ru looked back at him, he wanted to question, but in the end he just sighed, he knew that no one was to blame for this matter, especially since this Wu Qiong had been excluded from Dong Zhuo's henchmen since he was discussing the matter of Dong Lianjun, and he didn't tell him about last night's incident at all, in the face of Wenhou Lu Bu, who was in full swing, what could he resist?
Wu Qiong was uneasy on the surface, but he couldn't stop laughing in his heart, how could he not know Li Ru's thoughts, and he didn't know what would happen if he knew that he was deliberately letting people go? Of course, he would not say this kind of thing by himself, and he also looked at the outside of the city, and the tents in the distance were connected together, shining in the rising sun, and his heart suddenly had some yearning. (To be continued.) )