The two people who were talking were stunned when they heard this, and they all looked up at the tree.

saw a glimmer of light suddenly lit up on the tree, and Li Duan was leaning on a tree trunk at the moment, looking down at the two of them.

One of them reacted quickly, immediately wrapped his headscarf around the lower half of his face, and immediately ran away.

The other person was already stupid on the spot, just looking at Li Duan in a daze, and didn't know how to react for a while.

The fleeing man had not taken two steps when he felt that he had been hit by something his back knee, and he immediately felt pain, and his legs unconsciously knelt forward.

When the stunned person saw his companion falling, he simply stopped struggling, and knelt down to Li Duan on the tree and begged for mercy—

"The general spares his life, the general spares his life!"

Li Duan raised his eyebrows, glanced at the person who knelt down and kowtowed, and then looked at another person who fell not far away, and slowly spoke: "Let me ask again, what's the matter?" ”

In the face of Li Duan's persistence, the man who was rolling on the ground with his legs in his arms couldn't help but gasp in pain, and shouted at this side: "If you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect!" ”

Hearing this, Li Qian retracted his gaze and glanced at the kneeling on the ground, "He was hit by me in the muscles and bones of his calf, and he had numb pain for a while, and he couldn't run, since he didn't say it, then you can tell me." ”

The person kneeling on the ground trembled and turned his head to look at his companion, then raised his eyes to look at Li Duan, and swallowed his saliva tremblingly, "Will ······ General, this matter ······ This matter has nothing to do with the small one, the small one ······ The little ones are just doing what they are told, and the little ones are ······."

Li Duan didn't bother to listen to this man's ramblings, and before this man could finish speaking, he threw a dagger at the man's leg.

The dagger plunged into the man's leg half an inch of dirt, and it was almost the man's leg that stabbed him.

"I ask you, what did you say, and besides, you said that you were ordered, and whose order did you serve?"

The person kneeling on the ground was already pale at this time, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

This general like the Lord of Yama, this inherently terrifying and terrifying momentum is even more vividly displayed in front of him at this moment.

"Yes······"

Seeing that the person kneeling on the ground was about to speak, the person not far away whose legs were numb and painful immediately shot a silver needle at the person kneeling on the ground.

I saw a subtle silver light flashing, and before Li Duan could see it clearly, he saw the kneeling man fall with his eyes wide open.

The words that came to his lips were never spoken.

Li Jian frowned, looked at the man not far away, and saw that the man's face was hidden in the darkness, and he couldn't see what his expression was.

At this time, the light veil in front of the moon gradually peeled off, and the moonlight gradually brightened.

Then the man took out a knife from his bosom and stabbed him in the neck without hesitation.

Li Duan didn't have time to stop it, he stood up from the trunk of the tree, and when he flew to the man's side on tiptoe, the knife had already passed through the man's neck.

Blood poured out like a spike and fell on the dead branches and leaves of the ground.

Li Duan's brows furrowed more and more.

It's my own carelessness.

When Fang Cai followed, he picked up two stones halfway, trying to prevent people from escaping.

According to his own judgment, these two men were not dead soldiers, and they should not have committed suicide by poisoning once they were discovered.

That's what made him a lot more careless.

He really didn't expect that one of them would be so faithful to his lord that even if he didn't have poison in his mouth, he would kill his companion alive and then kill himself.

At this moment, I suddenly heard another noise in the forest.

Li followed the prestige, and saw a horse galloping towards it.

Then, I heard Zhang Sanzhi shouting: "General—"

Li Duan raised the fire fold in his hand and shook it towards the place where he came from.

It was already dark in the forest, and Zhang Sanzhi saw the fire not far away at a glance, and hurriedly hurried away.

When he got closer, Zhang Sanzhi just got off the horse and caught a glimpse of the corpse lying on the ground, and couldn't help but be stunned, "Good guy, dare you come to kill people in the woods?" ”

"I didn't kill him," Li Duan pointed to a tree not far behind him.

Zhang Sanzhi was stunned again, "Good guys, two." ”

Li Duan glanced back at Zhang Sanzhi and said, "Help me search these two people and see if there are any objects that can prove the identities of these two people." ”

Zhang Sanzhi felt a chill in his back when he saw Li Duan's eyes, and immediately did as Li Duan instructed.

First, he groped for a while on the man under his feet, but when he found nothing, he went to the man under the tree to look for it.

"General! Don't even say it, hey! Zhang Sanzhi took out a piece of letter paper from the man's shoe, took the letter paper and walked to Li Duan's side.

Li Duan frowned and stepped back in disgust.

Seeing this, Zhang Sanzhi couldn't help but pout, "If it was before, when you were hungry, you had to eat two bites of this cake in your shoes, but now that you have a daughter-in-law, you love to be clean?" ”

Li Duan suddenly said: "Fart!" When have I ever eaten a cake in my shoes. ”

Zhang Sanzhi snorted lightly, "Just talk about it," he said, opening the letter and handing it to Li Duan.

Li Duan had no choice but to take it.

Zhang Sanzhi watched Li Duan's face become more and more ugly from the side, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, "What's written on this?" ”

Li Duan's face darkened, and he handed the letter back to Zhang Sanzhi.

Zhang Sanzhi took it with a suspicious face, looked at it carefully, and was stunned.

"Will ······ General······ Qi ······ Qi family? Something to do with the second prince? Zhang Sanzhi stammered a little.

You must know that this is the right Xiang Qi family, the mother of the virtuous concubine, and the backer of the second prince.

He also knows the relationship between Concubine Xian and the queen's mother, although he doesn't know what happened in the forest just now, but looking at the appearance of the general, it shouldn't be a good thing.

Besides, he is not stupid, who has to use death to protect the Lord, and what he has done, it is naturally not difficult to guess a rough idea.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sanzhi said: "General, what are you going to do now?" ”

Li Duan looked at the corpse on the ground and did not answer Zhang Sanzhi's words.

How? Just now he heard clearly in the forest, if it was really done by the Qi family, then this time Ah Fair provoked His Majesty's suspicion, and he would also have the Qi family's share.

Over the years, Concubine Xian has helped her aunt and treated him very well.

Rao is that he is not close to the second prince, but for the sake of the virtuous concubine, he can't really do anything to the second prince and the Qi family.

Moreover, there is another point, that is, he has seen since he was a child that his father has affection for Concubine Xian.

At that time, he still resented, but later saw that his father was alone and pitiful, after all, his mother had passed away for a long time, and every time he went to the palace to ask for peace, he met Concubine Xian, who treated him like his own son, and also gave him a lot of concern.

He even thought that if Concubine Xian was not a concubine, it would be excellent to be his stepmother.

He still remembers that he asked his father if he liked the virtuous concubines in the palace.

His father kicked him and told him that he couldn't say such things outside in the future, and that it would ruin the reputation of the virtuous concubine.

"Concubine Xian Niangniang is a very good person."

Yes, my father also said at that time that Concubine Xian was a very good person.

Such a good person is involved in such a thing behind him.

He was even wondering now whether the purpose of the Qi family was not only to make His Majesty suspicious, but also to make things worse.

For example, Ah Gong, and Ah Gong's contribution to guarding the border land for many years.

Another example - the military power in his hands?

"By the way, I didn't let you watch, why are you here?" At this time, Li Duan returned to his thoughts, and suddenly turned his head and asked Zhang Sanzhi.

Zhang Sanzhi paused and patted his head, "I actually forgot!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a small bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Li Duan.

Li Duan took it, looked at what he said, and glared at Zhang Sanzhi fiercely.

Zhang Sanzhi, "I'm not, I'm not scared by the two people on the ground." ”

Li Duan didn't blame Zhang Sanzhi anymore, but said, "Where are people here?" ”

Zhang Sanzhi said: "Roast the fire with the soldiers." ”

When Li Jian heard this, he immediately stepped on his horse, turned his head and said to Zhang Sanzhi: "You can run back by yourself." ”

Zhang Sanzhi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "General, you go slowly." ”

When I returned to camp, I saw a familiar figure.

The people sitting by the fire also saw Li Duan and hurriedly stood up to greet him.

Li Duan stepped forward and said, "Amber, why are you here?" ”

Amber is an old man in the house, and when Ah Gong was not guarding the frontier, he worked as a housekeeper in the Guogong Mansion, until he grew up, he stepped down as a housekeeper and thought about returning to his hometown to care for the elderly.

Unexpectedly, there was a big flood in Amber's hometown the year before last, and his only son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter were all taken away by the flood.

So, Amber returned to Kyoto and continued to stay in the Kokukofu.

He originally wanted Amber to continue to be a housekeeper, but Amber said that the old man couldn't remember anything, and he was afraid that there would be something wrong in the house, so he just wanted to be a miscellaneous servant.

Although he is a servant, the people in the palace get along very well, and they all know that Amber has been in the Guogong Mansion for the longest time and is the longest, and he is also respectful on weekdays.

In the bamboo tube that Zhang Sanzhi sent to him, there was a creed, which was a letter written by his aunt to himself, so that he could rush back as soon as possible.

His aunt also told him that he was inevitably stopped and robbed on the road, so he deliberately let the people in the palace leave two days late, so that the trustworthy people in the palace could take the first step.

He thought that he should let the secret guards in the palace come, but he didn't expect that it was Amber who came.

Amber was old, and he couldn't imagine how he could catch up with his team.

Amber has long been accustomed to seeing the sophistication of human feelings, seeing Li Duan's appearance, he also guessed Li Duan's thoughts, and immediately reached out lovingly and touched Li Duan's head, "You baby, don't you think that the slave is old and useless." ”

Hearing this, Li Duan came back to his senses, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Amber said with a smile," he said, looking around and seeing a horse next to the team.

The horses were very well-behaved, and they were not tethered, but they remained quietly in place.

This is the horse of their Guogong Mansion, and the horses that remain in the Guogong Mansion today are all grown up from young horses domesticated when my father was still alive.

Thinking of this, Li Duan's heart suddenly gave birth to a sourness.

My father passed away, and Amber was much, much older.

He hasn't seen Ah Gong for a long time, and I don't know if Ah Gong is also old.

Thinking of this, he suddenly said to Amber: "Amber, I want to ask you to do me a favor." ”