The person who suddenly appeared replied without humility or arrogance: "Back to the emperor, the minister is Zhuge Qingyun, the guard with a sword in front of the emperor, who was on duty in the Xuanzheng Hall and the Baohe Palace, and was just transferred the day before yesterday to be responsible for the safety of the Jiaotai Palace and the Kunning Palace. ”

Li Guanqi saw that he was answering fluently, and the doubts in his heart gradually disappeared, but he was still not at ease, stared at the saber on the man's waist, and deliberately said: "No wonder I don't have a big impression of you, the foreman of the guard here turned out to be He Ziming." Like him, he likes to use knives. ”

The man's brows furrowed, and he said, "The emperor thinks it's a bad memory." He Ziming is the emperor's personal guard, he has always only served in the Qinzheng Palace, and he has never been to this Kunning Palace, and he was injured a few days ago, and now he is in retreat to recuperate, so he will not come here. In addition, He Ziming used a sword, a sword of the Son of Heaven - Tenglong Sword! ”

"I didn't expect you to be quite familiar with He Ziming." Li Guanqi smiled, he had already removed his vigilance against Zhuge Qingyun, looked up and down again, and said, "Compared with You and He Ziming, whose martial arts are better?" ”

"There is no comparison, the minister doesn't know!" Zhuge Qingyun said dryly.

"Then let me see how fast your knife is!" Li Guanqi found that he had begun to like this cold guard a little.

Zhuge Qingyun frowned slightly, probably not very keen on this kind of performance, but what the emperor said was a holy decree, although he was not very happy, he still took two steps back and stopped at the stone table.

Li Guanqi only heard a click, the knife flashed, and it was already in the sheath, and he didn't see what Zhuge Qingyun's knife looked like, so he couldn't help frowning and said, "It's fast, but I don't know how powerful it is?" ”

Zhuge Qingyun stretched out his right hand and lightly touched the stone table beside him, only to hear a bang, the stone table had been split into two halves and collapsed to the ground. It turned out that the knife had split the stone table in half, but it was only because the knife was so fast that it did not fall.

Li Guanqi's eyes really lit up now, no matter how he didn't understand martial arts, he could see that Zhuge Qingyun must be a rare master in the world. Then he nodded and said: "He Ziming is injured, and there is a lack of personal protection around me, from now on, you will be transferred to the Qinzheng Palace on duty!" ”

In the past few days, the capital can be described as a change, between the ten months, Zu Donglai has a dozen excerpts in a row, not only the commander of the Jiangbei battalion has been changed, but also the six departments of each yamen have also carried out a major blood change.

Yang Bozheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Qin Minzhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, also joined in the fun, and one after another the excerpts of recommendations flew to Li Guanqi's desk, and Li Guanqi also gave the three ministers a lot of face, as long as there were excerpts handed over, they would all approve it, and they would not even frown.

At the same time, the garrison of Hedong Province suddenly moved southward without realizing it, and only stopped when it reached a place more than 200 miles away from the Beijing Division. Although all this is operating silently, anyone who has a heart can more or less see a little bit of the mystery.

In the face of the turmoil in Beijing, Li Guanqi didn't realize it, but was rarely honest, and he never left the palace for many days. According to Zu Donglai's eyeliner report arranged in the palace, Li Guanqi has been annoyed by two things recently: first, the queen He Bijun is unwilling to share a room with the emperor, Li Guanqi is tired of being in Kunning Palace all day long, trying to make He Bijun change his mind; The second is that the two guards of He Ziming, who were responsible for protecting and recuperating from his injuries, were suddenly killed silently, and Li Guanqi was tossing inside and out to find the murderer.

"After all, he is still a child, and when something happens, he panics, and he doesn't know what to do. It's been nearly ten days since the wedding, and even the queen's bed hasn't been able to climb up, which is a big surprise. While listening to the report, Zu Donglai smiled and said to the henchmen who came to participate in the secret meeting, "Everything went according to the original plan. ”

And in the palace at this time, Li Guanqi was indeed having a headache: in the palace Ouchi, the two lively Ouchi guards were actually killed silently, which could not but arouse his attention. Now it is only two guards who have died, and maybe in two days it will be me who will die.

He Ziming and Zhuge Qingyun both looked at the wounds of the two guards, and gave a surprisingly consistent conclusion: a sword kills, and the two killed guards were pierced through the throat before they even had time to unsheath their knives, and the two were killed almost at the same time, so there was no warning.

"With such a fast sword, even if I am not injured, I may not be able to catch it with certainty, if this assassin takes the opportunity to come in and kill me after killing the two of them, I will definitely not be spared." He Ziming frowned and said, "But the strange thing is, why didn't he kill me?" ”

"Maybe he doesn't want to take advantage of others! I want to wait until you're back to recover before I kill you in person, right? Zhuge Qingyun said coldly beside him.

Li Guanqi glanced at Zhuge Qingyun meaningfully, and said, "According to Qingyun, who will this murderer be, are you sure that you will be able to catch him?" ”

Zhuge Qingyun said calmly: "Solving cases and arresting people is not the strength of the Ouchi guards, but in Yichen's opinion, the target of this murderer should be He Ziming, not the emperor." ”

"Why do you say that?" Li Guanqi asked suspiciously.

Zhuge Qingyun took a step forward and said, "If the assassin's target is the emperor, he shouldn't kill others before he succeeds, this will only expose him and make it more difficult for him to carry out the assassination." ”

"But if the assassins are coming at me, why only kill the two of them and not me?" He Ziming also frowned and asked.

"Killing both of them is showing off your strength." Zhuge Qingyun said coldly, "Maybe this assassin didn't know that you were injured before this, but after killing the two of them, he didn't see any movement from you, so he didn't bother to take advantage of the danger!" ”

"Then I really want to get better soon, and learn the ability of this fast sword master in person!" He Ziming said arrogantly.

"There should be a chance!" Zhuge Qingyun shook the hilt of the knife and said, "Since he has killed someone and established his authority, there should be further actions." ”

"Qingyun, your knife is also very fast." Li Guanqi said beside him, "If your fast knife matches this assassin's fast sword, are you sure you can win?" ”

Zhuge Qingyun shook his head and said, "There is no comparison, the minister doesn't know." ”

Li Guanqi nodded at him with a smile and said, "You are really boring!" ”

While the three of them were talking, Xiao Ying walked in and said, "Uncle Yang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is asking for a meeting outside, I don't know if the emperor will see it?" ”

"See you!" Li Guanqi said with an impatient expression on his face, "How many times will these old guys come a day?" I dodged this, I couldn't hide from that; I can hide from the first year of junior high school, but I can't hide from the fifteenth. Simply, I'll see you when I come. You two go down first. ”