Everyone's eyes looked out of the window - but under the cold moonlight, more than a dozen black-clothed figures fell straight from the dark sky into the courtyard and walked towards the study.

"They're coming, rush me!"

The guards were already drowsy, but when they heard my long howl, they all woke up suddenly. The moment everyone broke down the door, I saw the stunned look on Gong Wei's face as I expected.

Thirty guards rushed out of the study and all corners of the courtyard at once, and the dozen or so black-clothed people were immediately alert, and they all jumped on the roof with light skills and fled in the same direction.

"Don't chase me yet! If they run away tonight, you Prince Huan will be the sinners of this Karzhou for the ages! ”

"—Wait, what does this have to do with me......"

The palace curtain came to his senses and chased out of the study slowly. But there was still time, and the thirty guards had already followed me far away in a panic.

At this time, we chased after the dozen or so people in black, and in a blink of an eye, we chased them to Changning Street. It was midnight, and there was a plague, and Changning Street, which was bustling and bustling on weekdays, was empty. When we chased the dozen or so men in black to the city gate, they suddenly turned to us and drew their long swords one after another.

"Return to Hotaru!" Duan Ming, the tallest of the men in black, pulled off his mask and shouted at me, "It's now!" ”

I nodded and recalled, and the next second I pulled out my sword, I suddenly jumped up and slashed backwards, hitting the throats of the two guards of Prince Huan's Mansion.

The rest of the guards were all frightened when they saw me suddenly turn against me. However, there was no chance to breathe, and the man in black had already rushed to the front and slashed at him with a sword.

The two sides immediately fell into a fierce battle.

However, there were only thirty guards, and they were the opponents of Duan Ming, Sarong, Qu Xi and the other men in black. After just a few moves, the terrible screams came to an abrupt end, and the dark Changning Street returned to an oppressive dead silence.

All the black-clothed people pulled off their masks in unison, bowed to me and Duan Ming, and said, "The subordinate and other tasks are completed, so I will say goodbye to the flag master, the deputy flag master!" ”

When everyone's words landed, they put their swords on their necks and wiped them down one by one. Everyone fell to the ground with a muffled voice, and before they could breathe, they all clenched their teeth and did not make a sound.

Changning Street, where the right people are still in the dark, only me, Duan Ming, Sarong, Qu Xi, and ...... stand in a blink of an eye

“… Axe? ”

The axe seemed to be in a trance, and when he heard Duan Ming's call, he took off his mask, revealing a smile that seemed to be tired and relieved.

Then, with a sudden swing of his knife, he stabbed straight into his heart.

In Duan Ming's wail, I saw the axe slowly fall to the ground as if it had slowed down the camera. After that, Duan Ming hugged him, and Sarong and Qu Xi surrounded him, and everything was not real. My eyes were blurry, and I could only vaguely see the bright red blood.

Bright red, bright red, so red that it almost burned the blood of pain.

"Deputy Flag Master..."The axe looked at Duan Ming with a smile, and there was not a trace of tears in his eyes. Deputy Flag Lord, you don't... Don't shed tears for your subordinates. ”

Duan Ming just burst into tears, holding down the wound of the long knife in vain, unable to say a complete sentence.

"Deputy Banner Master, in this world, there are only you... Only you are sincere to our brothers, to treat us... When people look at ......"

There was a sudden throbbing pain in his heart, and his face flashed in his mind for no apparent reason.

The face that was just like his brother's axe, but always looked at me warmly.

"Deputy Flag Master, my brother and I are... Hard-working people. I thought that with your blessing in this life, I could... That's it. ”

"Axe..."

The axe's face turned pale, and a tear slipped out of his eyes the moment he smiled.

"But I didn't expect that after meeting the flag owner, he would be surprised... He still fell in...... After all, he is, a hard-working man, a... The greedy man ......"

Cupidity...? Yes, this life has been misunderstood, and he should be looking forward to a result in his heart.

"You have advised him countless times, and I have advised him countless times. This is this man's heart, as soon as it softens, it can no longer be hard. The voice of the axe was extremely weak, and it was already back to light, "Fortunately, he died for what his heart wanted." As his brother, if I continue like this today, I can be regarded as having an explanation for him. ”

"Axe... Don't say any more......"

"Yes, my subordinates today, but I really said everything in this life." The axe put his hand on Duan Ming's hand for the last time, "Deputy Banner Master, you are the most... The most soft-hearted person. You can... But tens of millions... Don't go... Gone brother's... It's the old way......"

The hand of the axe hung down weakly, like a puppet with a broken thread, like the fallen leaves of an old peach tree, falling crisply, falling silently, and falling without a trace of lingering.

This is the first time I have seen such an axe, with a smile and tears in my smile.

There is temperature, the temperature that gradually drains from his body.

When Gong Wei arrived, Duan Ming had already left with the corpse of the axe.

"Even the return of Hotaru... You! Gong Wei looked at the guards and men in black who fell all over the ground, his face was frightened, and he couldn't stop panting, "It's you, right!" ”

"Yes."

Gong Wei didn't expect me to tell the truth so unabashedly. He glanced hurriedly at the guards who were following him, and then turned his suspicious gaze back on me.

"Aren't you afraid that I will tell your father what you said?"

"Of course I'm not afraid." I was expressionless, "You and I both know that the emperor never believes words without evidence." ”

"There is no evidence, my soldiers are all witnesses!"

"It's very likely that your government soldiers won't survive tonight, so how can they testify for you in front of the palace?"

Sarong and Qu Xi behind me slowly took two steps forward, and the guards behind the palace curtain were so frightened that they took two steps back.

"Hand over the muscles."

Gong Wei's face twitched slightly, and he turned to a hideous smile: "Lian Guiying, do you think you won me in this game?" Even if I can't go to your father's front to see you, you don't have any proof that the thief who broke into my house tonight is not yours! ”

"Indeed, the dead cannot bear witness for me. It's just Gong Wei, since there are people in black who are willing to die for me, why do you think that no people in black are willing to testify before the palace for me, are you and Gong Hao instructing them to refine poison prescriptions for the people of Karanzhou? ”

"Okay... Now we are playing the cards. Gong Wei sneered, "Then since you can find someone from your tail sect to frame me, why can't I find someone from my Prince Huan's Mansion to testify for me, it was you who designed this farce tonight!" ”

"Of course you can't, because no one will have a chance to report back to Prince Huan's Mansion tonight." I looked at Gong Wei's face and turned purple with every word I said, "If you don't hand over the muscles and bones, we can kill your guards and throw you into the corpse pile at the old market." When you are tortured by the epidemic to the last breath, your good brother Gong Hao will naturally take out the muscles and bones to cure you. At that time, we will only need to check his movements from time to time to find out the whereabouts of the sinewbones. ”

"You dare to kill the prince of Daxin? Even return to Hotaru, you are not afraid that your father will kill you! ”

"Compared with your life, the emperor naturally values the lives of tens of millions of people in Karzhou." I smiled gloomily at the palace curtain, "Gong curtain, yesterday in front of the palace Xuan Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said something like that to you, you should know that he has actually been afraid of you for a long time." The crown prince is still like this, but what about the emperor? ”

"You..."Gong Wei's face was already extremely ugly, "You are not your father, how do you know his thoughts......"

"Isn't it hard to guess? The Wanshou Day Flame Incident, your wolf ambition, has been exposed. The reason why the emperor ordered the Marquis of Li to kill the wife of the pyrotechnic master and spare your life is nothing more than thinking that the talents of the great heart are withering, and killing the prince is afraid of provoking the ambition of the court. On the other hand, he is also afraid that you will jump off the wall in a hurry and do something stupid that is not good for his precious prince. ”

"No... No, it won't. ”

"Gong Wei, if you keep to yourself, there may be a place for you in the court. But if you do not repent, and continue to do evil and evil, and harm heaven and reason... Then I don't need your father to do anything, and I'll finish you off. ”

Zhuo Yingjiao's words are really effective, I have never seen Gong Wei so frightened, his body trembled, his face was purple and swollen as if someone had choked his throat, and even breathing became difficult.

"Hand over the muscles."

……

We moved the muscles and bones back to the Taopin Building overnight, and the herbs that were sealed and preserved were hidden by the palace curtains and palace guards in the deepest part of the old market, under the piles of charred corpses.

All of us stayed up all night, and Taopinlou found all the medicine jars that could decoct medicine, fried more than 100 copies, and was sent to the old market entrance where the seriously ill patients in Xishi were gathered by the small maid in the early morning. And only at noon, their symptoms magically weakened a lot, not only saved their lives, but even regained their strength, and they could take out their own medicine jars and decoct their own medicines.

After the experiment was successful, I immediately entered the palace with the palace and presented the set of arguments taught by Zhuo Ying to capture the villains and poison prescriptions, and find the muscles and bones to make the antidote. The emperor was so overjoyed that he didn't know why, and with the palace curtain on his side, he didn't seem to have any doubts about my words, not only did he not ask for half a word, but also allocated me more than 100 imperial doctors in the hospital, stretcher medicine jars and other medical supplies.

I didn't dare to expose the Taopin Building, so I set up branch wards all over the city, with an imperial doctor and a number of medicine children in each place. This Wanqiu has printed thousands of copies of the antidote prescription and distributed it to every household in Katazhou. The Prince's Mansion opened a warehouse, set up porridge sheds in the hardest-hit areas such as Jiushikou, and distributed smoked vinegar and gauze towels and clear oil for covering the nose and nose.

In just three days, the plague that had been raging was silently controlled, and seven days later, the last few seriously ill old and weak people also recovered from the ward and returned home.

A turmoil gradually subsided, and I had no reason to stay outside, so I returned to live in the Prince's Mansion, and I could only go out of the house from time to time to visit everyone in Taopinlou on the pretext of inspecting the branch of the hospital.

Zhuo Ying was taken care of by Wanqiu and was already able to take care of her own life. Qu Xi did not get the order of the sect leader, and he was not in a hurry to return to Lingguang Mountain, so he said that he would stay in Jiazhou and Sarong to explore the traces of the traitor Bai Xiaohan. Everyone has their place, and life is back on track.

Only Duan Ming, after burying the axe, never left the door again. Every time I visit, I don't have the happy smile I used to have.