Shaking into the cold moon, Li Xia also lightly drove Jian from Lingyu County, Gu Du passed a letter to her, saying that she wanted to invite Shangguan He to Lingyu County for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Li Xia understood that Gu Du already had the intention of killing Chu Qin, and this meeting was probably the last meeting.

At a family banquet, five people gathered, Shangguan He drank too much, took Gu Du's hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "Senior brother, you have been fighting for many years, killing countless spirit troops, Jin Lan's revenge is also avenged, and you married Xia Lan again, don't fight anymore, okay?" ”

Gu Du held her hand and said a little sadly: "Senior sister, you are drunk, I will let someone help you to rest, right?" ”

Shangguan He cried, Chu Qin half helped and half hugged her and pulled her up, Shangguan He leaned on Chu Qin's arms, closed his eyes and wept.

Chu Qin said: "It's not early, let's disperse." ”

Gu Du nodded, got up and said, "I'll send you back to the room." ”

Dongfang Xia Lan came over and hugged Shangguan He and said, "Sister He, I'll help you." ”

Li Xia also came over, took Shangguan He's other arm from Chu Qin's hand, and said, "I'll help Senior Sister." ”

After breakfast the next day, Chu Qin's family set off to return to Linghe County, they couldn't stay in Lingyu County, it was easy to explain when they met, after all, there was a master-servant relationship, but if they stayed for a long time, it would be difficult to explain, after all, it was now hostile.

After sending Chu Qin away and returning to the hall, Gu Du asked Lixia: "Is Chaozhong okay?" ”

Lixia replied with a smile: "With your tiger power, who would dare to make trouble?" ”

Gu Du also smiled, lowered his voice and asked, "Is the emperor okay with you?" ”

Rexia replied, "Okay, you don't have to worry. ”

Gu Du said: "You stay for another day, I will arrange it and send you back." ”

Li Xia blinked and asked, "Are you afraid that Chu Qin will harm me?" ”

Gu Du replied: "I'm afraid that his little concubine will harm you." ”

Li Xia nodded and responded, "Okay, it's all up to you." ”

The next day, Gu Du escorted Li Xia to set off, all the way out of the sunset pass, Xiaoxing overnight, three days later to Zeming County, after staying overnight, Li Xia said: "Brother, you will go back tomorrow, this way is fine, now that you have entered the city, there will be no more trouble." ”

Gu Du replied: "I've come here, let's go back and have a look, I may not have been back for a long time." ”

Rexia smiled and responded, "It's okay." ”

Gu Du said: "Go to bed early, don't leave the knife." ”

"Hmm." Lixia nodded in agreement, and Gu Du left.

On the third watch, Gu Du's heart palpitated for a while, and he sat up suddenly, only to hear the wind whistling outside the window. I got off the ground, walked to the window, pushed the window open a crack, and saw the snow falling outside.

Gu Du frowned, the day was fine, I don't know when the wind blew and it snowed, such a night is especially suitable for stabbing.

Gu Du walked to the door, pulled the latch open, then returned to the bed, took off the knife and put it on his lap, leaned against the head of the bed and closed his eyes.

Outside the post station, the post soldiers on duty at night were holding spears and dozing off against the gate, the gate of the post station was not closed, because there would be an urgent document at any time, so it was open day and night, and the post soldiers were on duty in turn.

Two men dressed in white lay on the ground, crawling towards the post station, and only after a distance of more than a dozen paces did they take out their crossbows.

The man on the left stretched out his left hand and counted three, and two crossbow arrows suddenly shot at the two post soldiers on duty at night, both of which pierced the throat with one arrow, and the two post soldiers fell to the ground silently, since there were some bumping sounds, which were also muffled by the whistling wind.

More than a dozen people in white came in from the gate, bypassed the shadow wall, found the firewood room familiarly, took the firewood out, piled it evenly outside the room, and then poured fire oil.

When the fire started, Gu Du opened his eyes, opened the door and came out, and saw that the guards had rushed out, but there was no shouting, and he should have been shot down as soon as he went out.

Gu Du leaned against the wall, knocked on the door, and called, "Lixia? ”

Rexia replied in the house, "I'm at the door." ”

Gu Du said: "I'll go out, wait for me to call you, and then you come out of the roof." ”

Lixia responded: "Got it." ”

Gu Du walked towards the gate, and he was still four or five steps away from the door, and he had already seen the fallen guard with a short crossbow arrow stuck in his body.

Gu Duwei frowned, short crossbow arrows, this is used for hand crossbows, isn't it a person who respects Xuezhai? Gu Du remembered the situation when he was assassinated in Zhenbei Pass, when Zeguo's fine function was a hand crossbow.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, more than a dozen crossbow arrows broke through the air, Gu Du retracted into the door, and then immediately stepped out of the door again.

The fire was dazzling, and he couldn't see where the people were, so Gu Du could only jump up and go to the roof.

Another row of crossbow arrows was shot, Gu Du controlled the knife to rotate, knocked the crossbow arrows away, and after falling to the roof, he looked in the direction where the crossbow arrows came from and saw the man in white.

Gu Du glanced back, there was no one on the roof, so he shouted, "Come out!" Watch out for crossbow arrows! ”

With a 'bang', Lixia broke through the roof and jumped out, jumping to Gu Du's side, Gu Du said: "Follow me, I'm wearing scale armor." ”

The two jumped off the roof, and more than a dozen people in white ran to the gate of the post station, and the two chased them outside the door and saw the people in white scattering and fleeing.

Gu Du frowned, and Li Xia asked, "Do you want to chase or not?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Don't chase." ”

Lixia asked again, "Is it a person who respects Xuezhai?" ”

Gu Du hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice: "It's more like a person from Zeguo." ”

Lixia frowned and asked, "Why do you want to kill me?" ”

Gu Du replied: "It may also be that he wants to kill me." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the garrison arrived, and when they saw Li Xia, the captain hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "The last general will meet Xia Hou." ”

Rexia replied, "Flat." ”

The captain stood up and glanced at Gu Du with an inquiring gaze, and Lixia asked, "Don't you know Master Gu, the uncle of the country?" ”

The captain hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "It turned out to be Master Gu, and the last general joined the army after the war and was transferred from the imperial city, so I don't know Master Gu." ”

Gu Du said: "Go collect the corpses, and then take us to the barracks." ”

The lieutenant replied, "Yes." ”

Returning to the imperial city a few days later, Gu Duji saw Emperor Ze and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers escorted the Xia Empress back to the court, and was assassinated in Zeming County, the assassin set fire to the post station, and the accompanying guards and post station people were all killed. ”

Emperor Ze hurriedly looked at Li Xia and asked in surprise, "Are you okay?" Is it hurt? ”

Li Xia smiled and shook his head, and Emperor Ze turned to Gu Du and asked, "Uncle Guo, can you catch the assassin?" ”

Gu Du replied: "The assassin just set fire, and did not fight against the minister, the minister and the queen chased out of the gate of the post station, more than ten assassins scattered and fled, the minister was worried about the safety of the queen of the summer, and did not dare to chase it." ”

Zedi asked again: "Did that Jing Xuezhai do it?" ”

Gu Du replied: "It's not good for the minister. ”

Emperor Ze was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and asked, "Could it be someone from Zeguo?" ”

Gu Du replied: "It's not good for the minister. ”

Emperor Ze frowned and said, "I have already chosen a concubine, why do some people still want to kill the Empress Xia?" ”

Gu Du replied: "Maybe I want to kill the minister." ”