Li Yuan also practiced martial arts when he was young, although he didn't have any achievements, but his instinctive reaction was still a little faster than that of ordinary civil officials, he bowed his head sharply, and the poisonous arrow 'poof!' He shot through his hat and into his hair, and even felt the coldness of the shaft of the arrow on his scalp. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Yuan screamed and fell on the carriage, and the dozens of guards on both sides of the carriage were also taken aback, shouting one after another: "There is an assassin, the saint has been assassinated!" ”

The team was in chaos, nearly a hundred soldiers raised their big shields, surrounded the carriage, and did not show a single gap, two imperial doctors rushed with medicine boxes, and climbed up the dragon chariot with weak legs, and Li Xuan, who followed his father to inspect Fufeng County, was so angry that he ordered the soldiers to close the mountain and arrest the assassins.

Li Yuan was frightened and fainted, when he slowly woke up, he was already lying in the inner hall of Jiucheng Palace, Concubine Yin De, who followed him out on patrol, was sitting in front of him wiping his tears, Li Yuan sighed slightly, Concubine Yin immediately held his hand and shouted: "The saint has woken up, pass the imperial doctor!" ”

The two imperial doctors ran in with a crawl, at this time, Li Yuan had already woken up, and the two palace maids helped him to sit up, Li Yuan touched the top of his head, and asked with palpitations: "I'm okay, right?" ”

An imperial doctor said: "It can only be said that Your Majesty's life is great, that arrow is highly poisonous, as long as it is a little lower, Your Majesty will see blood on his head, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

At this time, Li Xuanba bowed his head and walked in and knelt down and said: "The son is incompetent, he failed to catch the assassin, please punish my father severely!" ”

Li Yuan suddenly said angrily: "Thousands of people can't catch an assassin, I have raised you in vain!" ”

"Father, the sons immediately closed the mountain and searched, and almost not an inch of land was spared, but the assassin really disappeared like a flat sky, and he couldn't find it, father, the sons really tried their best."

Li Yuan was even more annoyed and said, "The final result is that I was almost killed, and then everyone was fine, is that what you mean?" ”

Li Xuanba lowered his head and whispered: "The sons have severely punished the sixteen guards who guarded their father's emperor, each of them beat a hundred military sticks, and then drove them out of the palace, as well as the Yongxian County Decree and the Fufeng County Taishou, the sons and daughters will take them down, just waiting for the father's decree to punish them severely!" ”

Li Yuan lost his temper, and finally slowly calmed down, and said to Li Xuan: "This matter has nothing to do with the county order and Taishou, immediately release them and let them strictly investigate the assassins, besides, where is that arrow?" Show it to me. ”

Li Xuanba walked quickly, and after a while, he came in with a guard, and the guard was holding a plate in his hand, which poisoned arrow was in the plate.

Li Yuan looked at it for a moment, and then ordered: "Bring a dog in to test the arrow." ”

After a while, the guard brought a yellow dog in, and before the dog could react, Li Xuanba stabbed the yellow dog with an arrow, and the yellow dog immediately fell to the ground, convulsed all over, and died of foaming at the mouth in a blink of an eye, and his body was faintly covered with a layer of black.

Li Yuan was furious again, smashed his fist on the imperial case, gritted his teeth and said, "If I don't catch the murderer who assassinated me, I will never give up!" ”

At this moment, a Qianniu straight chief ran in and reported: "Your Majesty, we have caught a woodcutter, and he has a clue there. ”

Li Xuanba asked, "Is the woodcutter an assassin?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, the woodcutter is a local, he has not practiced martial arts, and there is no trace of archery on his hands, so he should not be an assassin."

"What's his clue?" Li Yuan waved his hand and asked.

"Your Majesty, the woodcutter said that he saw a man in black on horseback coming out of the inn this morning, and disappeared after entering the mountain, this man with a bow and arrows."

Li Yuan suddenly remembered the black shadow he saw, and nodded, "This man in black is indeed very suspicious, since he appeared at the post station, then there must be a clue at the post station, go and find out for me!" ”

Li Xuanba agreed, turned around and went down, Li Yuan stopped him and said, "Let Pei Xiangguo go with you!" ”

Li Yuan knew that this son was relatively dull-minded, and he was likely to ignore the key clues, so it would be more secure for Pei Lin to go together.

Li Xuanba hurriedly went, and at this time, Concubine Yin Defei persuaded: "Your Majesty, sleep for a while!" Take a break, and your heart will be at peace. ”

Li Yuan sighed and said, "As soon as I closed my eyes, I thought of that poisonous arrow, and I couldn't sleep!" ”

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At night, Pei Lin returned to Jiucheng Palace and reported to Li Yuan about the investigation during the day.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a bit weird."

Li Yuan stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, and said coldly without looking back: "Tell me everything you find, don't hide anything, just say it as it is." ”

"Your Majesty, this man in black picked up a letter and a nailed wooden box at the post station this morning, Yi Cheng only knew that it was handed over to him by a man yesterday afternoon, and the password was to ascend to heaven, Yi Cheng did not open the letter, and directly handed it and the wooden box to the man in black."

"Why don't you open the letter or the box and look at it?"

"Yi Cheng got this man's ten taels of gold, and he didn't tear it down."

Pei Lin put an ingot of gold on the imperial case, "Your Majesty, this ingot of gold is also a clue." ”

Li Yuan glanced back at the gold on the case, and he recognized it at a glance that it was the official gold cast by Shaofu Temple, which was very standard horseshoe-shaped.

Li Yuan said coldly again: "Don't ask and answer, tell everything you know." ”

"Your Majesty, the man who handed over the letter is a Chang'an accent, according to Yi Cheng, although he is wearing ordinary clothes, his clothes are very thick, not like the appearance of early summer, it seems that he is still wearing a set of clothes inside, and a corner of the collar is exposed, which seems to be the pattern of the guard's uniform, and his left hand is habitually placed on the waist, where the guard's waist card is hung, Weichen first suspected that the man who handed over the letter was a palace guard, and the content of the letter should be a map of the mountain road, as well as the approximate time when the saint came to the Jiucheng Palace, The box should be a guard uniform, and Wechen tracked down the guards who went out on leave yesterday, there were twelve people in total, and Wechen was ready to let Yi Cheng identify these twelve people. ”

"Why does Pei Xiangguo think that this messenger is a palace guard?"

"Your Majesty, Yi Cheng told me that this man in black is from Hanzhong, and his accent is exactly the same as his hometown, and it is precisely because he is from his hometown that Yi Cheng asked a few more words, and he found that this man in black didn't know anything about the terrain here, so he actually asked him where the bridge was? You must know that the post station is called Liqiao Station, everyone in this area knows, Wei Chen deduced from this that this man in black is the first time to come here, but he was able to escape from the search of thousands of people to close the mountain, it is unthinkable that there should be no inside, that letter must be a detailed map, the wooden box is a guard uniform, after His Majesty was assassinated, His Royal Highness King Zhao immediately blocked the surroundings, and Wei Chen felt that there was only one way to get out. ”

"The assassin has changed into a guard uniform!"

"Exactly! Only by putting on the guard's uniform can he escape by mixing in the guards, so Weichen believes that this Nei should be a palace guard, that is, the messenger. ”

"Tell me about this ingot of gold!"

"This ingot gold is official gold, and the bottom generally has the number of Shaofu Temple, but the number has been chiseled off, otherwise you can find clues from the number, but Weichen remembers that the amount of this horseshoe gold casting is not much, you can still go to Shaofu Temple to investigate, I believe there will be clues."

Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "Don't Xiangguo think there are still loopholes in this?" ”

Pei Lin was taken aback, "Weichen didn't pay attention!" ”

Li Yuan sneered, "The loophole is at the post station, bring the post man, and I will interrogate it myself." ”

Yi Cheng has been taken to the Jiucheng Palace, not long after, the guards brought him in, Yi Cheng is a short and fat man in his forties, looking like a winter melon, he entered the hall and knelt on the ground and cried and said: "The villain is guilty, beg Your Majesty to spare the villain's life." ”

"You don't have to be afraid, I ask you a few words, as long as you answer honestly, I won't kill you."

"The villain must answer honestly."

"I ask you, didn't you really see what's in the box?"

"The villain really didn't look at it, but the villain weighed his weight and shook his head, if it felt like it was a hard object inside, the villain would definitely take a sneak peek, but there was no hard object in it."

"What do you feel is inside?"

"The villain's intuition at the time was that it should be a set of clothes inside, but now I'm not sure."

Li Yuan nodded and asked, "I heard Pei Xiangguo say just now, that man in black is from Hanzhong, is he from your countryman?" ”

"Yes! The accent of the man in black is exactly the same as my hometown dialect, and he asked him a few words in his hometown dialect, asking him if he is from Nanzheng? ”

"How did he answer?"

He didn't answer, but asked again how to get off the bridge?

The villain told him that the bridge was at his feet.

Li Yuan immediately asked, "I remember that there is a sign at the post station, right!" ”

"There is a big sign erected at the door, on which are written 'Liqiaoyi' three big characters, the villain pointed to him, he didn't say anything, turned around and left."

Li Yuan asked the guards to take Yicheng down, and then said to Pei Lian: "Does Pei Xiangguo understand?" ”

Pei Lin nodded again and again, "Your Majesty is as careful as a hair, there are indeed loopholes, how can there be an assassin's accent that is heard by others, and he doesn't kill people?" How could any Assassin be careless and not see the big sign at the door? This is knowingly asked, this guard is not from Hanzhong, he learned the Hanzhong accent, and this guard is not the first time to come here, it is deliberately to create the illusion that Yicheng is here for the first time. ”

Li Yuan sneered, "If I say that this assassin is among the guards at this time, does Pei Xiangguo think it is credible?" ”

Pei Lin gasped, he felt that Li Yuan was right, even if he pretended to be a guard, he would show his feet, and only the real guard would not be discovered.

"Your Majesty, maybe the messenger is not a guard, he doesn't need to wear a guard uniform at all, he can hold it in his hand or hide it somewhere, he has created a false impression on us by doing so, and has completely misled us."

Li Yuan nodded, and immediately shouted: "Order King Zhao to immediately collect his troops, count the guards, and see who is missing?" ”

Not long after, Li Xuanba rushed back to report: "Father, the son counted the guards, and found that His Royal Highness's guard Huang Lu was missing, he was responsible for guarding the east gate of Jiucheng Palace, and the people with him said that he asked for leave in the afternoon when he was unwell." ”

"What is the background of this Huang Lu?"

Li Xuanba hesitated slightly, but still reported according to the truth: "Qiqi Father, he turned out to be a guard of the East Palace. ”

Li Yuan's face became extremely ugly, and after a long time, he snorted coldly and said, "No wonder you want to run to Longxi County!" ”