When several of Zheng Hangsu's guards returned, one of them stood on the side and didn't go in before entering his tent, and soon a soldier came to chat with him.

Since they live nearby, they are already familiar.

The soldier asked, "Where did your son and Lord Zhou Jing go?" It can't be that we wanted to elope together, but then changed our minds, right? ”

One of Zheng Hangsu's guards said, "Elopement? What nonsense are you talking about? ”

The soldier said, "I am not the only one who guesses this, but many people guess this." I just said it. ”

Just now he replied to his guard: "I'll tell you a confidential matter, and your ears will come over." ”

The soldier said, "What's the matter?" So mysterious? ”

The guard said, "I can only say it when you come to your ear." ”

The soldier leaned his ear over and said, "Let me tell you, the reason why Lord Zhou Jing and our son didn't come back for a day yesterday was because they were stabbed on the road. ”

The soldier said, "What? Stabbed by a pedestrian on the road? Who is it? Prince Xiao's people? ”

The guard said: "No, it's the soldiers on my side." ”

The soldier said, "Self-...... Soldiers on their own side? What soldier would be so daring? ”

The guard said: "The soldiers themselves are naturally not so bold, they are instructed by someone. As for who instigated it, Lord Zhou Jing and my son-in-law already know. ”

The soldier said, "Who is it?" ”

The guard said: "It's still a secret, I can't tell you, I won't plan to deal with him until tomorrow Zhou Jing County Lord, you must not spread this matter." ”

The soldier said, "You didn't tell me who it was, who did I pass it on?" ”

The guard said, "That's it, it's late, let's all go back to sleep." ”

When the soldier returned to his tent, he immediately told the other soldiers in his tent the news.

One of the soldiers in his tent was talking to someone about it when he was going to the hut.

In this way, the news came and went, and it was not long before a soldier panicked out of his tent and ran towards a tent in the northeast corner.

He ran to Lu Fang's tent in one breath, Lu Fang was sleeping in the tent, and after the soldier stood still breathlessly, he said to Lu Fang who was lying on the bed: "General Lu, something is wrong!" ”

"What's the matter?"

The soldier walked up to him, bent down, put his mouth on Lu Fang's ear and said, "Zhou Jing and Zheng Hangsu already know who is the mastermind behind the scenes. ”

Lu Fang suddenly stood up and said, "Really? ”

"It's true, it's spread everywhere in the army."

"It's spread everywhere? That's not necessarily true. ”

If the two really knew who was behind the scenes, how could they spread it around before they were arrested?

"But what if it's true?" The soldier said worriedly.

"I know about this, you can go back." Lu Fangdao.

After the soldier returned, Lu Fang lay down for a while, only to feel restless.

He didn't expect that Zhou Jing and Zheng Hangsu would come back unharmed. How did they escape the search of so many soldiers?

He didn't feel sleepy anymore, got up from his bed, and walked all the way to the southeast corner of the barracks, where there was Qilian's tent.

When he arrived at Qi Lian's tent, he saw that Qi Lian was still sleeping, and pushed him vigorously with his hand, Qi Lian opened his eyes and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"They're back, you don't know?"

"What? Are they back? Qi Lian suddenly fell asleep again, and suddenly sat up from the bed.

"You say, what should I do?" Lu Fangdao.

"What to do? Can they find out who did it? We didn't show up. ”

"They said they already knew who it was and that they would deal with it tomorrow."

"What are you nervous about tomorrow right now? Well, go back, we'll talk about it tomorrow, I'm going to sleep now, don't disturb my sleep. Qi Lian said and lay down again.

"You! How can you be so confused! Lu Fang didn't expect Qi Lian to have such an attitude.

This matter is obviously risky for both of them, but he plans to ignore it for the night, and says that he should not disturb his sleep.

Qi Lian said: "It's useless for you to worry now, right?" If they knew, we would have let them deal with it tomorrow, and we would have to take risks when we did this, but now that the risk has become a danger, what is the use of being afraid? Besides, it's hard to say if they really know or not, even if you don't sleep all night, won't you be able to change anything? Why, you still want to stab directly at night? You must know that there are not many people who dare to blatantly obey us like this in front of Zhou Jing. Also, after all, there are still many people in the army who support her, and we can't win. So, you go back. ”

Lu Fang said: "I shouldn't have listened to you in a daze." As he spoke, he walked out of the tent in a fit of rage.

Yesterday, after Zhou Jing and Zheng Hangsu did not return for a few hours, Qi Lian found him and discussed with him something that he didn't even dare to think about before, that is, taking the opportunity of sending troops to find them, he went to assassinate him, because it was his own people, she and Zheng Hangsu would not take precautions, and this matter would definitely be secure.

He asked suspiciously, "Don't you like Zhou Jing?" Why do you want to assassinate? ”

At that time, Qi Lian replied to him with righteous indignation: "She only has Zheng Hangsu in her heart, of course, this is a personal vendetta, I can accept this, and I will not interfere, but she wants to let those who only support Zheng Hangsu come over, and in the future, our Zhou Jiajun will become Zheng Jiajun, can you accept it?" ”

Lu Fang said: "Naturally not. Our Zhou Jiajun has been together for more than ten years, and I am naturally unwilling to be renamed, but we can't stab Zhou Jing to death because of this? ”

Qi Lian said at the time: "If she doesn't die, our army will die." If you are soft-hearted, you will be a turtle with a shrunken head in the future. Think about it. ”

"Then how do ..... stab?"

"I'll give you all the power to do this. All the soldiers are at your disposal. ”

"Hmph, you're the one who betrays you after you want to succeed, right?"

"You're too short-sighted. Think about it, what would the other soldiers think if I sent someone? I have always shown that I like Zhou Jing extremely much, and now I have sent someone to assassinate her, it seems that I made this decision because of personal grudges, but it is different if you send them, you can tell them that this is for the rise and fall of our Zhou family soldiers. The soldiers themselves are not in the company of the group of people who want to join Zheng Hangsu now, and they are all unwilling, and they will obey you if you send them. But if I send them, they will only think that I am going to destroy her because I can't get her. ”

Lu Fang was silent for a long time at that time, and said: "It seems that for the future of the Zhou family, there is only this way." ”

"After the assassination, we can also say that they were assassinated by Prince Xiao's soldiers, transferring their hatred to Prince Xiao. In this way, those soldiers who supported Zheng Hangsu have also become our people. ”

"That's just as well." Lu Fang saw another benefit of stabbing the two.

Qi Lian said again: "Don't worry, if we win the world, we will be equal people in the future." ”

When Lu Fang returned to the tent, he remembered the conversation with Qi Lian that day, and regretted it at the moment.

However, there is no regret pill in the world.

After he had just entered the tent, he found that the candle that had been lit in the tent had been extinguished at some point, and he was a little puzzled, who blew out his candle? Could it be that the wind is blowing in through the tent curtains?

He walked to the bedside, and just as he was about to pick up the flint on the table and light the candle, he suddenly felt a pain in his back.

Before he could react, he had already collapsed in a pool of blood.

A figure then scurried out of his tent and ran into the woods at the foot of a nearby hill in a puff of smoke.

After a long time, when everyone in the barracks was asleep, he came out of the woods and came to Qi Lian's tent.

Qi Lian made a gesture to him, meaning, it became nothing.

He nodded.