After nightfall, Yang Weiyuan sent someone to find Xu Rui, saying that he had something to discuss with him.

Since the army entered Lingdong City, Yang Weiyuan had not spoken to Xu Rui, Xu Rui estimated that he must have something important to deal with, and he was also very busy, so he did not take the initiative to find him, and at this time he also wanted to talk to him about his heart.

After the heart-to-heart conversation last time, Xu Rui has gradually accepted this father-in-law from the depths of his heart, and from him, this sixteen-year-old orphan tasted father's love for the first time.

Xu Rui is like a seedling in the desert, greedily sucking the rare nectar, afraid that it will be difficult to be nourished after this season.

He walked through the guard camp and came to the burned backyard of the county office, which was now the location of the Chinese army of the Northern Guard.

Yang Weiyuan was sitting in the study of Linghou Rong in Lingdong County in the past, holding a brush and writing something quickly on the paper, and when he saw Xu Rui pushing the door in, he put the pen down, pointed to the chair in front of the table and said, "Sit." ”

Then he picked up the iron kettle on the charcoal stove and poured a cup of hot tea for Xu Rui: "The weather is getting colder, and seeing that the first snow of the year is about to fall, I don't know if we can return to the north before the snow falls." ”

Xu Rui took the tea bowl and took a sip gently, the bitter tea soup flowed through his throat, and his teeth and cheeks were sweet, so happy.

"In two days, as soon as the 3,000 men and horses arrive, we will immediately enter the Northern Qi and return to Great Wei by the way, if the heavens are beautiful, maybe we can go home to see the snow."

Yang Weiyuan said with a smile: "You kid, you are always so optimistic, what if the 3,000 people on the road have a business trip and can't arrive on time?" ”

Xu Rui's face turned grim, and he said in a deep voice: "Then leave a scout to contact with it, and the main force of the army will set off immediately, and it must not be dragged here." ”

Yang Weiyuan looked at him deeply and did not speak.

Xu Rui hurriedly said: "Father-in-law, although the army is temporarily out of danger, it is still in crisis, and at this time, you must not be kind to women, otherwise your previous efforts will be wasted." ”

Yang Weiyuan sighed: "Of course the righteous father knows, but he really doesn't want to see my Great Wei Erlang buried in the southern country, and too many people have died in this battle." ”

Xu Rui was slightly stunned, and from his words, he keenly noticed that today's Yang Weiyuan seemed to be a little sentimental, and he was interested in it.

In his opinion, although Yang Weiyuan is not a genius, he has always been unfazed, as stable as Mount Tai, and it is the first time he has seen him to indulge his emotions as unabashedly as he did today, could it be that something happened?

"Come on, let's not talk about military affairs today, let's talk about something else."

Just thinking about it, Yang Weiyuan suddenly picked up the teacup and opened the topic.

Xu Rui's heart suddenly sudden, and the feeling of uneasiness became a little stronger.

"What does the stepfather want to say?"

Xu Rui asked.

Yang Weiyuan picked up the teacup, drank it all, and said: "When people are young, they are strong-blooded, and they always want to be happy and revenge when they encounter problems, and they will inevitably make mistakes, but when they react, it is too late to regret it, which is the price of growth."

And the cost of a man's growth is even greater, so big that it is unbearable, because once he makes a mistake, he often does not tolerate the world when he wants to turn back, and how difficult it is to return to the right path. ”

His inexplicable emotion was sincere, but Xu Rui's back was chilled when he heard it.

Xu Rui remembered that when he was under Yishui City, Yang Weiyuan once said a word to him.

"The means and tricks are all small roads, the big husband should have the courage to keep the bottom line for a long time, and he must not destroy his future for the sake of shortcuts!"

At that time, he was very strange, why Yang Weiyuan suddenly expressed such feelings, and later Xu Rui found that there was a high-level dark chess spy in the Northern Wuwei, which was likely to be Yang Weiyuan himself, so he thought that the identity of the dark chess was the source of his feelings.

And now that this dark chess spy has not surfaced, Yang Weiyuan sighed again, and this time his emotion was more obvious and more explicit.

Thinking that the dark chess did not play its due role on this road, when interpreting this sentence again, Xu Rui's first thought was that Yang Weiyuan was the secret chess spy, he wanted the prodigal son to turn back, and this way died down, but at the critical moment when the army was about to return north, he probably suffered a lot of pressure and even threats, so he couldn't make up his mind and sighed.

The so-called growth, the so-called mistakes, the so-called prodigal son is not tolerated by the world, isn't that exactly what he said?

This inference seems to be seamless, but after thinking about it carefully, I feel that something is wrong, if Yang Weiyuan is really a member of the dark chess, King Wuling should be the first to eat Beiwuwei.

With the dark chess as the commander, the Northern Wuwei is definitely the easiest of the 300,000 Wei army elites to deal with, since the army in the hands of King Wuling is not sufficient, then he will definitely give priority to solving the Northern Wuwei, and then free up his hands to deal with several other people, but the actual situation is just the opposite.

What went wrong?

Seeing Xu Rui frowning and falling into deep thought, a trace of obscure relief flashed in Yang Weiyuan's eyes, he suddenly laughed and changed the topic again.

"Rui'er, do you know that there is a kind of person named Dead in this world?"

"Dead?"

Xu Rui was stunned, almost unable to keep up with his jumping thinking.

Yang Weiyuan nodded and said, "By the way, it's a dead man." The families of the powerful often search for children with wonderful roots, devote a lot of resources, and devote all their efforts to training, and when they have learned something, they will become the most loyal domestic servants, and they can not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to assassinate their masters, block arrows with their bodies, and even taste medicine and test poison, which is the dead. ”

Xu Rui suddenly realized that the kind of dead man he said was also common in the world in which Xu Rui lived, Zhuzhu, Qingji, Jing Ke, and Gao gradually left, and every well-known character in "Historical Records: The Biography of the Assassins" is the so-called dead soldier.

In fact, isn't even himself a kind of dead soldier who has been cultivated by the human high-level since childhood and used to deal with alien civilizations? It's just that why did Yang Weiyuan suddenly mention the dead soldiers, could it be that he himself was also a dead soldier cultivated by dark chess?

Yang Weiyuan didn't know what Xu Rui was thinking, so he pointed to the bookshelf a few meters away and said, "Look at that porcelain vase." ”

Xu Rui looked along his finger and saw that there was indeed a printed porcelain vase on the bookshelf, but when his gaze fell on the porcelain vase, the porcelain vase suddenly shattered with a "bang".

Xu Rui's eyes froze, and he suddenly got up.

Pistol? No, not a pistol!

He stepped in front of the bookshelf in a few steps, stared at the porcelain vase, and found that around the fragments of the porcelain vase, a throwing knife the size of an index finger was nailed to the sandalwood bookshelf until it had no handle.

He was very close to Yang Weiyuan just now, but he didn't hear the sound of breaking wind, nor did he see Yang Weiyuan raise his hand, which means that this flying knife was definitely not thrown by Yang Weiyuan, so there is only one possibility......

"There's someone else in this room!"

Xu Rui exclaimed in surprise and looked at Yang Weiyuan in shock.

Yang Weiyuan nodded with a chuckle, raised his palm and patted it gently, Xu Rui only felt a flower in front of him, and a black figure suddenly appeared out of thin air, kneeling in front of the table.

"Shadow has seen the master!"

The voice was soft and glutinous, but it was completely cold.

Xu Rui looked at it and saw that this person had a beautiful face, fair skin and a slender body, and he was actually an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl.

Yang Weiyuan looked at Xu Rui with a smile, and said proudly: "This is the dead soldier of my father-in-law, Shadow Yu." ”

"What?!"

Xu Rui was taken aback, he really couldn't connect the beautiful girl in front of him with the murderous dead man, listening to Yang Weiyuan say this, he found that the girl's eyes were cold, her expression was indifferent, and she exuded a faint murderous aura, like a sharp sword hidden in a sheath, ready to take people's lives at any time, and there was really a bit of a female killer.

Yang Weiyuan sighed: "It is extremely difficult to cultivate a dead soldier, and my father-in-law has only cultivated one shadow after exhausting half of his body, she has wonderful roots, if she does not enter my family, she will inevitably become a generation of martial arts masters."

Now that she has been trained for many years, she is good at camouflage, lurking, listening, assassination, raiding and other shady techniques, but it is a pity that her father-in-law's family is meager, and she is not a martial arts family, and she can't compare with Hong Guangli, one of the six great martial saints in the world, so that Ying Yu has never found a famous teacher, and now she is only second-rate, which is really a waste of her good bones. ”

"The shadow is incompetent, and the master is worried!"

Hearing Yang Weiyuan say this, Ying Yu immediately kowtowed.

Yang Weiyuan waved his hand and looked at Xu Rui, Xu Rui's mind was in a hurry at this time, why did Yang Weiyuan throw out the shadow at this time? Is it for a showdown with me?

But as long as he doesn't mention it, I will definitely pretend not to know, so why rush to a showdown? What's more, he didn't embarrass him, and he had no reason to have a showdown with himself.

The more Xu Rui thought about it, the more incomprehensible he became, but he heard Yang Weiyuan say lightly: "The dead man is loyal, and there will only be one master in his life, unless his master gives him to others." Today, my father-in-law will give you the only dead man, Shadow Boy, and from now on he will be your master, the only master, do you understand? ”

"What?!"

Xu Rui's eyes were round, and he was on the spot with a big mouth.

Ying Yu's pupils shrank, obviously he was also extremely shocked in his heart, but he didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately bowed down to Xu Rui with a fist.

"I've seen the young master!"

Yang Weiyuan was surprised when he saw Xu Rui, and he was in a good mood, and laughed: "I didn't expect it, right? Looking for you today, I just want to talk about it, now that the matter is over, you will hurry back to rest after drinking tea, there are still many sundries waiting for you to deal with tomorrow, and your father-in-law will now entrust Beiwuwei to you, you can't be lazy anymore! ”

This strange conversation ended here, Xu Rui was almost driven out by Yang Weiyuan, until he walked out of the county office, he was still a little confused, he didn't guess the beginning of today's events, nor did he expect the ending, this feeling of helplessness made him very annoying.

"I've seen Xu Zuoling!"

When he was about to leave the county office, a man carrying a food box saluted him respectfully.

Xu Rui came back to his senses and asked subconsciously.

"Where is this going?"

The leader of the gang said with a smile: "I prepared a supper for the marshal, and I was about to send it." ”

Xu Rui nodded, staggered past the gang leader, his thoughts flew in his heart, and he continued to think about his thoughts.

Yang Weiyuan, as the commander of the army who has been galloping on the field for many years, has a calm and forbearant personality, Xu Rui will never think that he will have a whim, no purpose, everything he does today should be with deep meaning.

Xu Rui could clearly feel Yang Weiyuan's abnormality, indicating that something must have happened, and nine times out of ten this incident happened in an unknown dark place, so he couldn't say it.

And giving himself a personal dead soldier shows that he is aware of the danger, and the danger is coming at him, but who would want to be unfavorable to himself? Could it be a dark chess person?

If Yang Weiyuan is really a dark chess person, sensing that his subordinates are gradually getting out of control and wanting to disadvantage himself in order to prevent Beiwuwei from returning to Great Wei, then everything can make sense.

But it still can't explain the previous contradiction.

It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense, there must be something he doesn't know, and without this piece of the puzzle, he can't straighten out the ins and outs of the whole thing.

Xu Rui thought as he walked towards his room, he was still living in the inn he had when he first entered Lingdong, and he walked back unconsciously.

As soon as he stepped into the porch, Xu Rui suddenly heard a coquettish sound in his ears.

"Young master, be careful, there are people in the room!"

Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, and suddenly looked up, only to see the shadow hanging upside down on the beam, with a vigilant expression.

"Why are you here?"

Xu Rui was startled, but Ying Yu fell like a kitten without making a sound.

"Young master, Shadow is good at concealment, and from today onwards, he will protect you in secret."

Covert protection? Could it be that I will be watched by her when I take a shower in the future?

Xu Rui shuddered and felt very uncomfortable, but he didn't bother to pay attention to this for the time being, because his intuition told him that the answer to this strange thing tonight might be about to surface.

He lowered his voice and asked in a deep voice, "You just said there was someone in the room?" ”

Shadow Yu nodded and said: "It's in your room, it's a master, if you carry it head-on, Shadow is probably not an opponent." ”

"Master ......"

Xu Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, Yang Weiyuan said that Ying Yu is second-rate, isn't the master she can't compete with first-class? What is the intention of a first-class master to sneak into his room at night?

"Now that you've discovered him, won't he find us too?"

Xu Rui asked.

Ying Yu shook his head: "The slave and maid have been practicing the Yin and Evil Methods since childhood, so that they can keenly find the traces of others, this person has a strong aura, and most of the martial arts are open and closed, which is just the opposite of the slave and maid, and should not find us." ”

"It's good that we didn't find ......"

Xu Rui muttered faintly, holding his chin and thinking.

The master inside, whether he is friend or foe, should be the key to solving his doubts, as long as he doesn't know that he has discovered him, it leaves room for his calculations.

Tonight, I will use this key to completely open the mystery of Yang Weiyuan's identity!