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Tuoba Shou pretended to smile mysteriously and said, "It's about the news of the Shengshang Weifu's private visit." Let's go, Shi Taishou, let's go to Master Dong together, and the three of us will talk together. ”

"Oh?" Shi Guoliang raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, okay, you and I will go in together and talk about it when we see Master Dong." ”

With that, the two of them walked side by side across the threshold of the gate.

At the moment when he raised his feet, Tuoba Shou suddenly noticed an unusual movement of a clump of flowers and trees not far from the gate in the vestibule. His heart tightened, his eyes lit up, and almost at the same time, he pulled out the saber at his waist with a "bang", turned around and slashed at Shi Guoliang's body!

Shi Guoliang was obviously also vigilant, and hurriedly dodged to the side, and Tuoba Shou's saber slashed down on the doorpost, deeply embedded in half of the blade, and couldn't pull it out at once.

The soldiers behind Tuoba Shou immediately surrounded him, trying to capture Shi Guoliang, but the person who shot the fastest hadn't touched Shi Guoliang's clothes yet, and his chest had been stabbed by an object that suddenly shot out of the flowers, and he fell to the ground with a scream!

Immediately after that, the sound of armor in the flowers rang out, and dozens of armored archers appeared in front of them about ten meters away from Tuoba Shou. Each of them had already drawn the bowstring in their hands and aimed it at each of them. And Shi Guoliang had already taken advantage of the surprise of everyone just now and fled behind those archers.

"Tuoba Shou!" Shi Guoliang stood with his hands behind his back and shouted loudly: "You colluded with bandits outside the city, and you should cooperate with the outside, not only robbing the army rations and killing the food relief sergeants, but also killing Lord Dong Lin, who went out of the city to settle the people, and committed a heinous crime. Now he is trying to murder his own official! Your crimes are unpunishable, and the evidence is ironclad, and this official is here to correct you on the spot! Shoot the arrows! ”

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"Song Guantu."

Zuo Ying listened to the faint screams outside. A hint of uneasiness passed through my heart.

"Wechen is here." Song Guantu was busy and stepped forward and bowed down to obey orders.

"Who is the person outside, shouting 'human life is at stake'?" Zuo Ying asked.

Song Guantu couldn't help but secretly curse those city-guarding sergeants who took anyone to the Taishou Mansion casually, but said with a smile on his face: "Back to Your Majesty, recently there have been strengthened vigilance and checks inside and outside the city. Whether it is the residents in the city or the victims outside the city, Wechen is sending additional people to patrol day and night. Make sure there are no riots. Occasionally, the patrol officers will catch one or two suspicious characters, and they can be handed over to the torture room for interrogation, and His Majesty will not have to worry about it. ”

"I'll go out and see!" Ashina couldn't sit still indefinitely, he felt that these people were really insensitive, someone shouted so badly outside, they could do nothing. These stupid Great Zhou people, when the emperor built a big labyrinth, locked themselves inside. The official built a small labyrinth to stuff himself inside, and as soon as the door was closed, he really acted as if there was nothing outside?

"Imperial husband," Zuo Ying said loudly, "Go and bring the people from outside in." ”

Song Guantu hurriedly stopped Ashina and said, "If you don't get your Royal Highness, you don't have a prison, your Royal Highness, Weichen will go and bring that person." Questioned by His Majesty. ”

After a while, two soldiers came in with a stout young man, kneeling in the middle of the inner hall.

The man was disheveled and covered in mud. He glanced around, anyway, he didn't know anyone, what should he say to the person with the highest status, but when he saw that it was actually a teenage girl sitting on the leader, he was a little confused.

"Get him a bowl of water." Zuo Ying saw the man's chapped lips and the mud on his body that had dried, and he could see that this person must have traveled a long way without resting, and he didn't even bother to drink a sip of water.

The attendant immediately brought a bowl of water and handed it to the man. The man's hands were tied. I couldn't reach out to take it, but when I saw the bowl of water, my eyes lit up, and I stretched out my neck to choke on the mouth of the bowl like a treasure, and drank a large bowl of soup and water at once.

Song Guantu stood beside Zuo Ying and shouted at the man, "Who are you, what is the matter?" Fast ...... This lord is telling the truth! ”

Although the man still had doubts about the little girl in front of him, he couldn't care so much about it at the moment, and immediately said loudly to Zuo Ying: "My lord! The villain is the general of the Tuoba camp in Luoyang City, the subordinate of the general Tuoba Shou, the general of the crossbow, and his name is Tuoba Xuan. ”

In this era, many generals had their surnames given by the emperor to show the honor of the saints. Once the commander of a battalion is given a surname, it is the glory of the whole battalion, and the people of the entire battalion will follow this royal surname as their own surname.

The man who called himself "Tuoba Xuan" continued: "General Tuoba Shou is in danger in Pingzhou City at the moment, so he sent a villain to Ziyang City to borrow troops to ask for help!" ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be very stunned. It is well-known that Tuoba Shou followed Dong Lin to provide disaster relief, but how did this unprovoked encounter danger?

"You keep saying that you are appointed by General Tuoba Shou, why don't you have tokens or tokens on you?" Song Guantu frowned and asked, "General Tuoba Shou only left from Ziyang City with Master Dong a few days ago. Now you are saying that he is in danger without any evidence, and it is hard to believe him. Could it be that you are a fellow party of the thieves and bandits, and you used such a reason to make money for the soldiers and horses of my Ziyang City to go out of the city, and to divert the tiger from the mountain, and have a plot against my Ziyang City? ”

Song Guantu's speculation is not unreasonable, which makes everyone feel a little more vigilant.

"My lord! The villain never lies half-heartedly! Tuoba Xuan looked excited and annoyed, "The villain originally had the token handed over by General Tuoba on his body, but when he was rushing to the night road, he didn't pay attention to the pit on the road and the horse lost its front hooves, and the villain even rolled on the ground with the horse and the token, and the token fell out of his arms, and he couldn't find it in the dark." The villain was afraid of delaying for too long, so he didn't continue to look for it, so he rode on his horse and rushed here, so he didn't have a token to prove his identity, so he was arrested by the guards here! ”

Zuo Ying seems to be able to stand up to hearing him say this, and the mud on his body and the traces of his long journey can also confirm his statement.

"What danger has Taoba Shou encountered, you can tell me about it." Zuo Ying said.

"Hui sir," the man replied in a slightly hoarse voice, "the villain followed General Tuoba Shou to protect Lord Dong to the disaster county, and recently stayed in Pingzhou City with two adults for disaster relief. Recently, the military rations sent from the Sanyong Army to Pingzhou were robbed halfway through, and the PLM troops were completely wiped out. So, General Tuoba led the villain and others to trace the place where the robbery took place and find out the truth. Pingzhou Taishou Shi Guoliang also allocated dozens of men and horses to go with us. Unexpectedly, Na Shi Guoliang had a bad conscience, colluded with bandits, and plotted to harm General Tuoba halfway. Fortunately, General Tuoba saw through it, so they couldn't do harm. But General Tuoba knew that since Shi Guoliang had murderous intentions, Pingzhou City must not just go back, otherwise he would be killing himself. That's why I sent the villain to ask for help, hoping that Song Taishou could send troops to help! ”

Colluding with bandits, murdering court officials, and being appointed by the emperor to supervise disaster relief, this is not a trivial matter. Everyone frowned.

"You said that Shi Taishou wanted to murder General Tuoba, is there any real evidence?" Subo asked.

Tuoba Xuan hurriedly nodded and said: "Before leaving, General Tuoba asked Shi Guoliang if there were any bandits and bandits nearby, Shi Guoliang, as a parent official who has served in Pingzhou for five years, actually prevaricated when answering this question, and at that time General Tuoba began to have doubts about Shi Guoliang. On the way, we also noticed that the Pingzhou soldiers who were with us looked a little strange, so General Tuoba sent villains to design a trick to get the news. When he stopped to drink water halfway, the villain privately complained to a Pingzhou soldier about how strict and harsh General Tuoba was, and pretended that he had the intention to kill him. The man couldn't help but say, 'The opportunity will come soon.' After repeated questioning by the villain, he learned that Shi Guoliang had made an agreement with the nearby bandits, and ambushed people in a place called Drinking Horse Stream, and when General Tuoba passed there, he started to murder him. The soldier said that as long as the villain also drew his sword and killed General Tuoba, those bandits would not harm the villain. So General Tuoba's guess was confirmed. ”

"For no reason, why did Shi Guoliang murder Tuoba Shou?" Song Guantu was still skeptical.

Tuoba Xuan swallowed his saliva with difficulty, moistened his dry throat, and replied in an indignant tone: "When the villain subdued Shi Guoliang's men, he also interrogated them, it is said that it was because after Lord Dong and General Tuoba sat in Pingzhou, they opened a warehouse to help the victims and forcefully demanded donations from the wealthy, cutting off Shi Guoliang's financial route, so he held a grudge and wanted to get rid of General Tuoba and Lord Dong. ”

Song Guantu bowed to Zuo Ying's side and said: "As far as Weichen knows, Shi Guoliang Shi Taishou has been serving as Taishou in Pingzhou City for more than five years, and he has been politically and well-governed for many years, unlike the insidious villain who is greedy for money and has no virtue described by this person. ”

When Tuoba Xuan heard this, he said angrily: "My lord! What the villain said is true, if there is a little falsehood, the villain is willing to be thundered by the sky! ”

"Where is Tuoba Shou now?"

Su Boti's key question, Zuo Ying also thought of it. Since Pingzhou City can't go back, why didn't he come here in person to ask for help?

When Tuoba Xuan heard this question, his eyes immediately turned red, "General Tuoba is worried that Lord Dong, who is still in Pingzhou City, will be poisoned by Shi Guoliang, and he knows that he can't do it, so he insists on going back to the city to rescue him. He wanted to go back alone, but the villain and the others were willing to live and die with the general. In the end, it was decided that only one person should rush to Ziyang City for help, and the others would follow General Tuoba back to Pingzhou to find a way to rescue Taishou. So......" Speaking of this, Tuoba Xuan's voice was already a little choked, "If you don't believe the villain's words and can't send troops to save General Tuoba and Lord Dong, they, together with dozens of brothers, must be more than lucky, and the villain doesn't want to live alone in this world." ”

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