Zhu Houxi smiled and didn't say anything, and at this moment, the snow eyebrows in Zhu Houxi's arms suddenly let out a terrible scream, and his pupils immediately contracted, and the hairs on his body stood up. The lion cat also stood up at this time, turning back and forth around Zhu Houxi, making a state of alert.

For a while, many cats raised in the palace barked one after another, Zhu Houxi and Chen Hong glanced at each other, and said in unison: "There are assassins." ”

There are three reasons for raising cats in this uterus, the most important is that Zhu Houxi likes it, the second is that it can prevent rodent infestation, and the last point is that it can prevent theft. The five senses and sixth senses of animals are beyond human beings, so once a living person intrudes, the cat in that area will quickly notice and bark, which is the same as dog anti-theft, but unfortunately Zhu Houxi does not like dogs.

For this reason, Zhu Houxi also specially trained these cats, and later tested them with chamberlains and palace guards, which were indeed very effective. People who don't come to this courtyard often, even if they walk in the palace, and there is no malice, as long as they walk into a certain place, the cats here will also bark.

Now, half of the cats in the palace have barked, and there are only two possibilities. First, these cats are not trained well, and a call is followed, but this situation is very small, Zhu Houxi has a way to train cats, and he has long worn out the nature of these cats. Then there is only the second possibility, the assassins have come in, and it is not from one place, there are assassins in all directions of the palace.

Chen Hong shouted to the guards at the throat of the male duck, and everyone protected Zhu Houxi, and went to transfer a large team of people to escort him. Some emperors have been emperors all their lives and have never encountered an assassin. Zhu Houxi had only been on the throne for sixteen years, and he had encountered five assassins entering the palace. Jiang Bin has been here once, and Shaolin Wusu has been here once. The monks of Shaolin Temple led by Wu Chan also came once, and the Shaolin Wendou monk came, and now it is another time. This made Zhu Houxi, who suddenly remembered this incident, extremely angry, and kept swearing in his mouth, Chen Hong had to keep saying: "The saint is angry, the saint is angry." ”

The sound of fighting outside, the sound of guards shouting to catch the assassins. The metal sound of blades colliding, the heart-rending roar after being injured, there was chaos outside for a while.

Originally. It was just night, when the Ouchi guards had changed shifts and had not had time to get used to it, and the assassins were in a somewhat dim state. To say that this is in the middle of the night, the guards must be in good spirits, especially after the Shaolin monks entered the palace and kidnapped people. The vigilance in the palace has been raised by more than one notch. But now it's just getting dark. Who would have thought that the Assassins would now be in the middle of the world, and that the gods who came would appear all over the palace without even noticing. There were assassins in all the halls and harems starting from the Fengtian Palace, and this time it was all messed up, and Zhu Houxi retreated to the Heart Cultivation Hall to be protected by the guards.

Since the last time he killed the world-renowned great master Monk Wendou outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Houxi has been very fond of this place, and he comes here to rest and work when he has nothing to do. The so-called Heart Cultivation Hall was actually built by Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu after he ascended the throne. It's this Heart Cultivation Palace, and he looks exceptionally cool. Not to mention that after the Wendou assassination, the Wendou monk, one of the five great grandmasters, was killed in front of the Heart Cultivation Palace. Zhu Houxi, he regarded this Heart Nourishing Palace as his blessed land.

The Assassins came in large numbers, and they came quickly, and in a short time they were killed near the Heart Cultivation Palace. Even though they used many advanced firearms, and some of the dead soldiers had gunpowder tied to their bodies and died at the last moment or after being injured, which really put a certain amount of pressure on the Ouchi guards and the Imperial Forest Army. However, Ouchi's army is not vegetarian, these are all elite soldiers and strong generals in the country, if it is said that it is difficult to find martial arts masters to assassinate and hide in Tibet, it is reasonable, but if it is said that to deal with this point of assassins, if they can't do it in front of the gong and the drum, then they will work in vain.

After a while, the Assassins began to lose their strength, and a large number of dead bodies fell to the ground, and the Assassins began to retreat. Not to mention, no matter what their combat ability is, these assassins are really not good at assassination, at least they showed their simplicity when they retreated. Those who were injured and couldn't escape, or who had too much blood on their bodies and were easy to leave traces, touched their necks one after another. And the rest of the people were not busy running away, but threw some flammable materials such as fire oil on the deceased's body, and then ignited it and destroyed the corpse directly, in short, they didn't want to leave any clues.

At this moment, the Royal Forest Army chased all the way, but those assassins seemed to have the power to reach the sky, and the fewer and fewer people went, and they didn't know where to dodge. In short, it is destined to be sleepless tonight, and after the assassins have all escaped, the Imperial Forest Army, the Ouchi guards and the people of the inner factory can be regarded as turning the palace upside down, looking for the assassins who may be hiding in the deep palace. But not even the hair of an assassin was turned over, as if when they came, they appeared out of thin air and were not heard from.

The palace brought in the dog to smell the smell and find the route of the assassins to infiltrate, but first, the corpses were destroyed and Yan Zòng could not collect the smell at all, and second, the assassins seemed to have applied some kind of medicine on their bodies to deliberately cover up the smell.

In the end, Zhu Houxi solved the problem and sent Xue Mei and Lion Cat, who brought a group of cats and found three secret passages, which led to the outside of the palace. And Chen Hong also investigated and dealt with it, and a group of assassins came in in the queue of food delivery in the imperial dining room.

Chen Hong returned to Zhu Houyu with these reports, and Zhu Houyi touched the two cats that had returned to his side and said: "You are still useful, the sixth sense is much stronger than those stupid dogs, well, sometimes, you are stronger than people." It's strange for you to say, these ancestors of mine will build a palace, and so many secret passages will be left for themselves, whether a son of heaven and a courtier will have to add a secret passage, whether I also have to repair it, this leaves a secret road for the thief. The Son of Heaven guards the country, and he says it fiercely, but in fact, he has not left a way back for himself. I also blame the short-lived emperor, hehe, this guy must know that these secret passages are in existence, and they died before they can explain to me, isn't this leaving me with trouble? ”

Zhu Houxi didn't speak big or small, and he didn't respect the ancestors, but Chen Hong didn't dare to talk. He could only stand silent. Zhu Houxi said: "How are you going to deal with this matter?" ”

"Returning to His Majesty, the minister thought that it was better to bury these secret passages to prevent future troubles. As for those who neglected their duties and allowed the Assassins to infiltrate. Pressed into the prison and the edict prison to torture him, and forced him to ask the behind-the-scenes instructions," Chen Hong talked eloquently.

Before Chen Hong finished speaking, Zhu Houxi waved his hand and said, "Chen Hong, don't bother. Those secret passages don't have to be sealed, I have to leave a way back for myself, right? Besides, everyone probably thought we were buried, but they wouldn't have noticed. Let's pretend to fill it, and we will transfer flowers and trees to hide from the sky and the sea, and I will save myself from digging it. That's what goes dark under the lights. However, you should take precautions in the secret passage and at the exit of the secret passage, and if necessary, make some traps, and when you are done, you must tell me where the traps are and the mechanism of the secret passage. Of course, the Assassins won't go down this path again, but we have to know if we go again, right? ”

"Your Majesty." Chen Hong praised.

Zhu Houxi said again: "As for those who do not fulfill their duties. I thought I would kill it. If we don't leave this kind of waste, there is no need for torture, and we can't ask anything, so we can only work in vain, and it is easy to mislead us when we are beaten into tricks. You think, if they really did this intentionally, how could they not leave a way back for themselves, and not run away before the chaos. Or simply do nothing and help the Assassins to kill me, so they must not know or want to die. At this point, the one who should have run has already run. Just kill the rest, and don't waste the blind light the lamp. ”

Chen Hong nodded, Zhu Houxi was indeed right.

Zhu Houxi suddenly smiled and said, "Chen Hong, tell me, who is behind the scenes of these assassins today?" ”

"The minister thought that maybe it was the traitor Lu Bing, and at this time only he would do this, to say something that would increase the ambition of others, only he could have such a dead man and ability." Chen Hong was blunt at this time, because Zhu Houxi had called him many times before, saying that he couldn't do everything and act without saying anything.

Zhu Houxi shook his head and said, "You also have times when you look away, I don't think it's Lu Bing. ”

Chen Hong tried several times, but he didn't ask what he wanted to say. Zhu Houxi said: "Do you want to ask why?" Because I and Lu Bing are brothers, he can't do such a thing, if he had to assassinate me, then it is estimated that he would have to choose the same path as Wen Dou and kill him from outside the palace openly. Now he is not yet ready to take the risk to use such a method to kill the palace, capture the thief and capture the king first, the war has just begun, and it is still unclear. Besides, if he really knew these secret passages, he would not have let the Shaolin monks break into the palace to kidnap Lu Yin at that time, and he would not have put Lu Yin in my hands as a hostage now. You tell me? ”

"The minister is stupid, and he doesn't have the holiness to think about it." Chen Hong said that the emperor in front of him is getting smarter and smarter, although military affairs are still confused and don't like to worry, and he looks cynical, but his brain is really alive.

Chen Hong wanted to speak again and again, and finally asked another question: "Then the saint thinks that this matter has nothing to do with Lu Bing?" ”

"No, no." Zhu Houxi said: "I guess this matter is really related to Lu Bing, but he doesn't know it, it is estimated that his subordinates did it behind his back, what does this mean, it shows that there is no unity." It also shows that this Lu Bing is actually very fragile, his strength seems to be huge, and it seems that there are hundreds of calls and wolves, but in fact, they are all pieced together, and his heart is not at all aligned. This is what we thought back then, there are articles to be done in it, and we have to do something from it, to destroy the enemy from within, this is the great wisdom, let them eat the dog. Hehe. But then again, when it comes to which of Lu Bing's subordinates did this, I really didn't think about it for a while. I thought that Wei He had to be counted as one, by the way, the widow thought that there must be Jiang Bin's matter in it. Lu Bing mentioned this matter to me back then, saying that Jiang Bin knew some other secrets and did not completely hand them over to Lu Bing, and later there were some things related to his family, and he also came to the palace to set fire through Guò secret channels, and scared the old queen mother. Chen Hong, you still remember this. ”

"Back to the saint, the minister still remembers." Chen Hongdao.

Zhu Houxi nodded and said with a smile: "It is estimated that it is Jiang Bin, why did Lu Bing get together with him again, it is really a big and small thief, no wonder I want to adopt Jiang Bin's son, it turns out that there is this one waiting for me here." Hahahaha, Chen Hong, you order someone to go down and continue to investigate, see if there are any secret passages, if there are any secret passages, set traps for him, and let them die in the secret passages next time. ”

"Obey." Chen Hongdao.

The next day, after the palace was restored to normal, and the people entered and exited freely, Feng Bao went out of the palace, took out a carrier pigeon from behind an inn and flew out, and then shook his head helplessly and sighed. (To be continued......)