In the dark inner hall, the dragon figure was distracted, sitting in front of the portrait of the ancestor in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

With a "squeak", the door was slowly pushed open, and the dazzling sunlight instantly dispelled the darkness and landed on Long Tu's face, making him squint his eyes slightly.

"With you coming forward, the mood of the border soldiers is quite stable, and a catastrophe has finally been strangled in infancy."

Xu Rui walked into the inner hall and said with a smile.

Long Tu closed his eyes and asked lightly, "Your Apocalypse Guard has entered the city, right?" ”

Xu Rui nodded.

Long Tu frowned: "It's so fast!" ”

Xu Rui said with a smile: "This plan is already dangerous, and more than 100,000 border troops are the biggest destabilizing factor, to be honest, if Tianqiwei doesn't enter the city for a moment, I will have no confidence for a moment."

So at the beginning, the plan I set was to let the Apocalypse Wei Li and Wai take the next pass, and then drive to Tianqi City non-stop, if the beheading plan is not successful, immediately attack the city, and contain the main force of your border army. ”

Long Tu was silent for a moment and nodded: "The plan is a good plan, and you are bold enough, it is really terrifying." ”

Xu Rui shook his head, sat down on the Pu Tuan opposite Longtu, and said lightly: "I have ordered someone to protect your family, they will go out with me, and then I will find a place to settle them down, so that they can spend the rest of their lives in peace." ”

Long Tu suddenly laughed when he heard this, looked at Xu Rui with interest and said, "I'm curious, you can't cover up the matter of protecting my family, so I'm not afraid that this matter will spread to the capital and anger Emperor Hongwei?" ”

Xu Rui said with a smile: "Lord Long is too underestimated to be a saint, what he wants is the world, what he wants is the hearts of the people, if he can't even tolerate orphans and widows, how can he talk about dominating the world?"

Lord Long has had it, but it is your own fault, and the crime is not as good as your family, not to mention that you were born and died for the Great Wei in the past few decades, guarding the northern frontier, and the saint has always felt it in his heart, otherwise he would not have been reluctant to do it to you. ”

Long Tu was stunned for a moment and nodded: "Just rushing for him to take care of Wuliji's 300,000 iron horses, and holding back the humiliation I sent him, it is enough to prove his ambition."

But you don't have to make amends for him, I have known him since he was a prince, and I also know his temperament, although he is not a person who must repay him, but he is not a soft-hearted person.

To put it bluntly, it was because you came forward to protect him that he didn't bother to care about the life and death of several orphans and widows. ”

Xu Rui was silent when he heard this, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Long Tu sighed, looked at Xu Rui and said, "Now that everything is over, I will definitely not be able to live, you can do it." ”

"Don't worry, I still have a few things I want to ask your lord."

Xu Rui said unhurriedly.

Long Tu closed his eyes and nodded: "Say it, for your sake, for the sake of protecting my family, what I know, what I can say, will never be hidden." ”

Xu Rui nodded and asked without hesitation, "What did you encounter on the night of the change in New Territories City?" ”

Long Tu's pupils shrank when he heard this, a trace of fear flashed on his face, and his breathing suddenly accelerated.

Xu Rui's eyes narrowed slightly when he saw him like this, and he looked forward to his answer even more.

As if it took a long time to stabilize his emotions, Long Tu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, in fact, even I don't know what's going on."

That night, I led a large army to attack the New Territories City, and as soon as the night fell, I was hit by a sandstorm, and then the soldiers fell to the ground and died inexplicably.

They had no wounds on their bodies, and they died inexplicably, as if they had been directly summoned by the king of Hades, but in a moment, more than half of the tens of thousands of troops were killed and wounded, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

At that time, there was chaos in the army, and when the old man realized that something was wrong, he found that the terrain that should have been flat in the Gobi had turned into a canyon.

The army completely lost its direction, scurrying around like headless flies in the canyon that appeared at some point, and some people fled and disappeared inexplicably.

In the end, the old man was lucky enough to break out of the canyon, but there were less than two hundred people who followed the old man. ”

"So you've never seen an enemy?"

Xu Rui frowned and asked.

Long Tu nodded: "That's right, the old man feels that this matter must be related to the Gobi treasure, and he originally wanted to wait for this matter to find out, but now there is no chance." ”

Xu Rui pondered for a moment, nodded, and shook his head again, as if he already had some inferences in his heart, but he couldn't verify them.

After a while, he threw out all the messy thoughts in his head, and said: "The imperial court system is sound, and if there are any soldiers, even if there is no report, you can see some clues from the transportation of grain, grass, and ordnance from the military department and the household department.

It is not easy for Lord Long to conceal the fiasco in the northwest, it is said that even if the Jinyi Wei and Dongchang Fanzi of Tianqi Pass are bought by you, they will not be able to do it seamlessly, how did you let this matter be concealed from the sky and the sea, and it was not until the envoy of Wuliji entered Beijing that the court knew? ”

Hearing this, Long Tu looked at Xu Rui with interest and said, "What does Champion Hou think?" ”

Xu Rui said in a deep voice: "There is someone in the court to help you, and this person has the means to the sky!" ”

Long Tu nodded unexpectedly: "You guessed right, after the defeat of the grassland, the old man was already ready to be exterminated, if it wasn't for that person to help me, I wouldn't have had the intention of hiding from the world." ”

Xu Rui's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice: "Who is the person who helped you?" ”

Long Tu shook his head with a smile: "I can't say." ”

Xu Rui frowned, and then heard Long Tu say: "This person and the forces behind this person are too strong, even if they die, I can't say it, otherwise even if you guarantee it, my family members don't want to live." ”

Xu Rui's face changed slightly, Long Tu's meaning was very clear, he was not the opponent of those people at all, so he didn't dare to tell the truth.

Xu Rui thinks that although he is not invincible in the world, he has a place in the court, and it is not easy for even the prince to deal with him.

What kind of person could make Long Tu so jealous, and even assert that he was vulnerable in front of the other party?

This person may have something to do with the mastermind behind the scenes who has been hiding in the court, and this behind-the-scenes hand has been stirring everything in secret from the beginning.

But whenever Xu Rui thinks that he has gradually approached this black hand, he will find that what he sees is always only the tip of the iceberg, how big this black hand is and what he wants to do, and he is still a mystery.

It is precisely because of this that this black hand makes Xu Rui feel more and more uneasy.

Just thinking about it, Xu Rui listened to Long Tu say again: "Although the saint's ambition is undiminished, he can't stop the years from fading, and now the battle for the heir has emerged.

I heard that you are swaying left and right on this matter, and you have not been able to make up your mind, for the sake of you to protect my family, I will persuade you, and the two ends of the first rat will eventually be offended by both sides, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Xu Rui's pupils shrank when he heard this.

Long Tu looked at Xu Rui's expression and understood that he had understood his words, so he closed his mouth and said no more.

Xu Rui stood up and solemnly arched his hand at him, Long Tu didn't dodge or dodge, so he accepted it so aggressively.

Xu Rui saluted Long Tu not because of this exhortation, but because Long Tu finally took the risk of revealing a message to Xu Rui.

With the identity and relationship between the two, Long Tu's exhortation was very abrupt, so we have to contact the previous words, Long Tu suddenly mentioned this matter just to tell Xu Rui another thing.

Among the people who helped him was a prince!