Han Jian and Gu Xin'er slept together all night, but they slept in their clothes and did not trespass on men and women. When she woke up the next day, Gu Xin's feelings finally improved, and in front of Han Jian, she also recovered the weakness of her daughter's family, and was willing to leave the matter to Han Jian.

In the early morning of the fifth day of October, the rain had stopped, and the group was going to continue to set off. Originally, the distance was fifty miles, and he could rush back to Luoyang City in one day, but Han Jian was not in a hurry. On the way, there is the last post station, named Xin'an Station, which is about 20 miles away from Luoyang.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the group arrived at Xin'an Station, the last stop in Luoyang City, and Han Jian directly arranged for people to rest at the station. The people at the post station didn't expect that in the early afternoon, a large number of teams would come to the post station to rest and sleep, and they were in a hurry to prepare.

As soon as Han Jian sent Gu Xin'er into the room, Yang Li'er came over to Han Jian in a military uniform and said, "The capital sent someone to greet her." ”

"Someone from the capital, it stands to reason that His Majesty sent someone, but now it's uncertain." Han Jian said, and the people went to the post station.

Han Jian thought to himself, Luoyang sent someone, it means that the imperial court already knows that he has arrived outside Luoyang City, no matter what the situation in Luoyang City is, when he, the envoy of the envoy, comes back, it is also a basic etiquette for the imperial court to send someone to greet him.

When Han Jian arrived outside the post station, he saw two officials from the Ministry of Rites coming to greet him, both of whom were very young and Han Jian did not recognize. The two officials of the Ministry of Rites were very polite, and they came forward to greet them, and by the way, they reported to their homes, and Han Jian knew that they were just two inconspicuous officials of the Ministry of Rites, one named Zhang Yu, the other named Zhang Ye, and they were still brothers.

These two officials of the Ministry of Rites also brought a few entourages, and Han Jian still didn't know their intentions. Han Jian invited them into the post station, and Zhang Yu said: "His Royal Highness the East King is tired from the journey, the lower officials will not bother, and the lower officials will accompany His Royal Highness the East King back to Luoyang tomorrow morning." ”

Han Jian nodded, his gaze falling on the backs of the two Zhang brothers. These two people obviously have martial arts, but he knows that most of the officials of the Ministry of Rites are from the Tribute Academy, and the people of the Tribute Academy do not practice martial arts, so there will be people who are both civil and military?

Han Jian didn't care too much, and Han Jian held a small family banquet that night. It can be regarded as letting Gu Xin'er officially meet her elders for the first time. Although Gu Xin'er and Han Jian have no marriage contract. This marriage is not a secret, Han Cui's knew about it before. In addition, Gu Xin'er was born in a famous family, and her family education was very strict since she was a child, and then she practiced in Shangqing Palace. It can be described as knowledgeable. Han Cui's did not reject Gu Xin'er.

After dinner. Han Jian sent Gu Xin'er back to the room. was about to go back to the room, but when he heard the noise downstairs, Han Jian looked down. Zhang Xing and other guards escorted the two Zhang brothers in, pressed them to the ground, and several of them still had blood stains on their bodies.

"What's going on?" Han Jian asked Gu Xin'er to go back to the room first, and asked downstairs by himself.

"Young boy, I found out that these people were sneaky at dinner, and my subordinates went to stare at them in person, they all carried blades, and my subordinates felt that it was inappropriate, and after drinking, the two of them wanted to kill their subordinates and kill them......"

"Assassins?" Han Jian smiled coldly and looked at the Zhang brothers who were covered in blood, "Who sent you?" ”

The two brothers were silent, and they all seemed to be hard-boned.

Zhang Xingdao: "The entourage they brought saw that the situation was not good, and a few of them fled, and it was too late to chase them, so they had to bring the two of them to interrogate the young son." ”

"If you want to kill, you will kill! What nonsense! Zhang Yu spat and said viciously.

"Perfect them!" Han Jian didn't bother to ask, now that Luoyang City is eventful, there will be two people with official dishes of the Ministry of Rites to assassinate him, which is not unusual.

The Zhang brothers were escorted to the outside of the post house by the guards of the Dongwang Mansion, and at this time, Yang Li'er hurriedly came over to inquire and stopped Zhang Xing's murder at the door.

"King Dong, even if the two of them are assassins, they are also instructed by others, you will kill without asking, and when you return to Luoyang and are forced to ask, how to deal with it?" Yang Li'er said with a cautious face.

Han Jian said: "In the lower body of the East King, someone came to assassinate him, and it doesn't matter who sent it, is there any ironclad evidence?" I say kill, kill! ”

"You!" Yang Li'er glared at Han Jian and shouted, "Unreasonable! ”

Yan Yan arrived at the door of the post house with an angry look, and shouted to Zhang Xing: "These two assassins are handed over to our Nanwang Mansion to deal with!" ”

Zhang Xing was a little embarrassed, and looked back at Han Jian who came out.

"Miss Yang wants to deal with the two assassins, so I'll leave it to Miss Yang to deal with." Han Jian said with an indifferent face, "Anyway, there are only two corpses left for us, which are useless, and we have to dig a pit and bury them." ”

Yang Li'er glanced at Han Jian again, and asked her entourage to escort the Zhang brothers to the small camp where the soldiers of Nanwangfu were stationed outside the post station.

Han Jian didn't rush back to the house, but stayed outside and was stunned for a while, he was thinking if it would be Yang Yu who was sent to assassinate him.

When Han Jian learned that Yang Yu was handling the government as a prisoner, he thought that this might be Yang Yu's rebellion. But after thinking about it carefully, Yang Yu's plot is unreasonable. Yang Yu made great contributions to quelling the rebellion of the Northern King before, and his reputation in the court is also rising, as long as Yang Xi does not come back, he is the crown prince.

Han Jian thought: "This trip to Southern Qi fell short, Yang Xi is still a hostage in the enemy country, Yang Yu can take advantage of Yang Xi's absence to develop contacts, why take the risk to launch a rebellion?" ”

The Zhang brothers who were sent to assassinate him were also a little strange, because they were all officials of the Ministry of Rites, which means that the two of them were indeed officials of the Ministry of Rites. It is also intriguing why the two Assassins became officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Han Jian originally thought about the possibility that Yang Yu did not rebel, but after thinking about it again, if it was really Yang Yu's rebellion this time, he would take control of the government, eradicate some officials in the court who were close to the empress, and then send someone to assassinate him Dongwang, which is also reasonable.

Whether it was Yang Yu or not, Han Jian was still not sure.

Han Jian was thinking about it, Han Cuishi got the news that there was an assassin who wanted to be unfavorable to the East King, and hurriedly came out of the house, and saw Han Jian standing in the courtyard, so he said, "Jian'er, where is the assassin?" ”

"The people from the Southern Palace's Mansion took it away." Han Jian said.

"Nanwangfu?" Han Cuishi was stunned for a moment, and said, "Could it be that Yang Luochuan sent someone to kill you?" ”

Han Jian heard Han Cui's name call Nanwang directly, and he knew that Han Cui's attitude towards Nanwang was not good. However, as ministers of the same dynasty, the relationship between the South Wangfu and the East Wangfu is okay, and there is no deep hatred.

"Sanniang, Miss Yang Er escorted us north, and took care of us along the way. Why shouldn't it be the Southern Palace's assassins? Han Jian said with a smile.

Han Cuishi said earnestly: "Jian'er, you have to be careful of Nanwang, although he seems to be loyal and benevolent, he is actually a villain. In the first battle of Jinling City, if it wasn't for the retreat of the King of the South, why would you lose your father so early? ”

Only then did Han Jian know that the reason why Han Cui's attitude towards King Nan was because he hated King Nan and made more than a dozen widows and sons in the East Palace. Han Jian understood this from the time he was born, in fact, even if his father Han Qi was alive, more than a dozen of his aunts would not be able to live a good life, since the empress had chosen so many women to go to the East Palace, he was not ready to let Han Qi live a comfortable life. Who told his father that he failed to the empress back then?

However, Han Jian saw that more than a dozen aunts had a very good attitude towards the empress over the years, and he expected that this should be the empress's "transfer of hatred", which successfully made more than a dozen aunts hate King Nan and not hate herself who started it.

"Sanniang, it's okay, let's go back and rest." Han Jian said.

"Nope." Han Cuishi said with a stern face, "You must return to Jiangdu tomorrow." Luoyang City, can't you go now? ”

"Sanniang. I was ordered to send an envoy this time, if I went back to Luoyang and didn't enter, and went back to Jiangdu directly, how would the court look at me? Han Jian insisted, "No matter what, I will also enter Luoyang City to meet His Majesty before deciding whether to leave." Moreover, there are many loyal people in the DPRK and China who are in prison, how can I feel at ease if I don't rescue them? After all, there are many of them who are also my elders, aren't they? ”

In the family in Luoyang City, many of them are related to Han Jian, which mainly stems from the relationship between more than a dozen of his aunts. According to Han Jian's knowledge, among the ministers who were imprisoned this time, there were also more than a dozen of his aunts' families, including Han Cui's cousin Cui Mingli.

"Save them, how can you save them? You are the king of the east, Jiangdu is your territory, the situation in the DPRK and China is unstable, and if you don't go back, you will be the biggest disloyalty to Your Majesty. Seeing that Han Jian couldn't stop persuading him, Han Cuishi said a little angrily.

Han Jian thought of the empress, and suddenly felt something strange in his heart. He had a thorn in his heart, that is, he had wholeheartedly helped the empress solve difficulties before, but in the end, he was sent by the empress to Nanqi as an envoy, which made him almost die in Nanqi. When he came back this time, if something really happened in Luoyang City, he had a feeling that the empress was to blame.

He just wanted to ask the empress who was your loyal minister?

"Sanniang, I won't leave Luoyang until the situation is completely out of control." Han Jian said in a resolute tone.

"Alas! Jian'er, you have been very tough since you were a child, and Sanniang can't talk about you. It's really not good, I'll find someone to carry you away, don't blame Sanniang at that time, it's you who don't want to think about yourself. Han Cuishi sighed and said, as if angry, and went back to the post station first.

Han Jian's fist suddenly clenched, he really made up his mind this time that he would not leave lightly. He also had a faint hope in his heart, if he could help the empress solve the difficulties in front of him this time, maybe the empress would never teach him the same tone as before, right?

Han Jian was feeling a little looking forward to the situation in Luoyang in front of him, and Yang Li'er came in from the door of the post station with a black face.

"Miss Yang, who are you?" Han Jian looked at Yang Li'er, feeling that Yang Li'er should be bothered by something.

Yang Li'er stepped forward and said coldly, "Those two assassins are dead. ”

"Oh." Han Jian smiled, this was also expected by him. Since someone had sent assassins to assassinate him, and had also deliberately arranged for them to be officials of the Ministry of Rites, how could they let them leak the news?

"What are you laughing at?" Yang Li'er frowned and asked.

"It's good to die." Han Jian smiled, "Aren't we going to have a good night's sleep when we die?" ”

After Han Jian finished speaking, he ignored Yang Li'er's murderous eyes, and went back to the post station to rest first. He knew that if Gu Xin'er didn't have him by his side, he wouldn't know how many times he would cry when he woke up from a nightmare at night. Being able to sleep with his beloved woman in his arms is nothing more exciting for Han Jian. (To be continued......)