This time, the matter was dealt with quickly, but even this took six or seven days. Originally, Yuan Yi also wanted to stay with Lu Xi and them in the capital for a longer period of time, just so that they could accompany Lu Melo to relax. But when he thought that the capital was not stable, and his father and father-in-law were also worried about the safety of the three, Yuan Yi urged the three to return to the clouds quickly, and Zhang Junwu left the clouds for too long, and he was not very relieved.

Yuan Ke and Lu Xi really didn't want to go back, especially when something like this happened to Lu Meiluo, both of them felt that they were responsible for this matter, but seeing that they couldn't help them here, they felt even more guilty. Yuan Xu didn't feel too much, she didn't understand why Sister Xi's sister suddenly got sick, and she didn't understand why Sister Xi was depressed these days, Yuan Ke and Yuan Yi hid all the news from her, and just hoped that she wouldn't be too small to come into contact with these things.

On the day he left, Yuan Yi took Lu Meiluo to send them out from the main gate of the imperial city, and Yuan Yi said to Yuan Ke, who was about to go home: "Ke'er, Ah Xu, father and mother will rely on you to take care of them, and after returning home, the matter of admitting mistakes to father and mother will be over!" ”

"Okay, big brother, I'll listen to you. Don't worry, eldest brother, I will take care of Ah Xu and Xi'er, and eldest brother will also pay attention to his own safety in the capital. Mother and father miss you too! ”

"Okay." Then he lowered his body and said to Yuan Xu, "Ah Xu, although you haven't been with your eldest brother for a few days, your eldest brother likes you very much, after you go back, take care of your father and mother for your eldest brother, okay?" ”

"Good!" Yuan Xu replied very simply, although she didn't know what to do to take care of what her brother said, but she would do it if she agreed.

"Luo'er, do you have anything else to instruct?" Lu Melo didn't speak, although her emotions eased somewhat, but the pain of losing a child really can't be completely forgotten in a day or two.

"No, it's just that Xi'er must take care of Ah Xu." In fact, some of the words to Lu Xi were already finished by the two sisters last night.

"Sister, don't worry, Xi'er will take care of Ah Xu." When Lu Xi said this, she thought of her sister's words last night, "Don't tell her parents what happened in the past few days, even if they know in the end, you can't tell them the details."

After a brief farewell, the three of them left the imperial city, Zhang Junwu was already waiting for them outside the city, and the people he was carrying had already dispersed in the shadows, or returned to the clouds from other routes. He only had two or three people with him disguised as businessmen and protected him.

On the first day out of the capital, everything went well, and the journey was not very fast, and at dusk, it happened to be the three cities. The three cities are a place where several parties meet, and there are many people coming and going, but it is also very prosperous. Along the way, Yuan Ke and the others did not alarm all the people in the place, but just followed their own course.

Zhang Junwu's people who set off early had already arranged their accommodation, and Yuan Ke and them entered the three cities and went straight to the inn where they lived. The inn is located on a busy street, so that it is convenient for their personnel to hide in the shadows and not be easily discovered.

The inn prepared a very sumptuous dinner, although the night of the three cities was also prosperous, but the three of them were not in a good mood, and still did not come out of the middle of the capital, so no one said that they wanted to go out, only in the room and Yuan Xu played some charades and number guessing games to pass the boring time.

On the top of the moon, seeing that the night was almost deep, the three of them were ready to sleep, but there seemed to be no intention of quieting down outside, and there were still people coming and going, so it was not lively. Yuan Ke also thought that this was the exception of this inn, so there would be so many guests.

But after listening to it for a while, the voices downstairs were not all people's voices, and there were a lot of hurried footsteps going upstairs, and there was an undercurrent surging towards them. Yuan Ke began to feel that something was wrong, and first made a silent jewelry to Lu Xi and Ah Xu, and the two immediately covered their mouths, not daring to make a sound. Knocked lightly on the wall next door three times, and the person next door was extremely alert in his daily training, and when he heard this voice, he immediately cheered up.

In fact, even if Yuan Ke didn't knock on those three times, the people next door had already discovered the regular and compact footsteps downstairs, they didn't want to shoot so early, they wanted to see who it was, who actually discovered their whereabouts, and was so bold to prepare to make a black hand.

The bustle downstairs was still there, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, Yuan Ke walked to the table at this time and extinguished all the candles, he wanted to let the people outside know that they had been discovered. But the people outside were not afraid of the extinguished candle at all, but walked closer, as if they wanted to end the operation tonight urgently, and did not care too much about the outcome of the action.

The door was gently pulled open from the outside, and it was said to be gentle, but in fact it was blatantly opened, and then four or five candles were thrown inward, and the room was instantly brightened. The group of people outside the door was not in a hurry to come in, and there was a pause for a few seconds, as if they were waiting for the person behind, not knowing if the person behind was their own person or Yuan Ke's person.

In the past few seconds, the people brought by Zhang Junwu have already surrounded them, and once they have any action, they can be annihilated in one fell swoop. These people have a very clear goal and are divided into three columns, but there is a big difference in numbers, the number of people on Yuan Ke's side is the smallest, only one or two, and the people on Lu Xi and Yuan Xu's side are a bit abnormal. Among these three, isn't Yuan Ke the most important? Why did you all go over to two girls?

Yuan Ke hurriedly got rid of the two people who rushed towards him, and then moved in the direction of Lu Xi, but when he moved to Lu Xi's side, he found that those people's knives did not cut at people at all, and they all slashed accurately on the wall and bed wood next to him. But Yuan Ke didn't care about these strange behaviors at all, he was just trying his best to keep these people out of him.

At this time, Zhang Junwu's people had already taken down those who had not yet rushed into the room, and when they rushed into the room, they saw that there were many people who fell beside Yuan Ke, and immediately joined the battle, and within three minutes, this strange sashimi was over.

But Zhang Junwu dealt with these people in the room, but those people outside the room all swallowed medicine and died. He was about to go out of the door to look, but after only three steps, he suddenly remembered something, and when he looked back, the people in the room were also dead.

This series of suicides is really amazing. This assassination is not like it, but it looks like it was specially for a suicide show in front of them. It's so unusual, even Zhang Junwu, who has seen a bigger scene, is confused at this time, what are they doing here?

By the time everyone cleaned up the corpses, it was already midnight, Yuan Xu was still a child, and he couldn't withstand the toss of this battle at all, and Lu Xi had already gone to another room to rest. Yuan Ke and Zhang Junwu were left, and the two of them withdrew from their subordinates and chatted about the unusual "assassination" tonight.

"Little Lord, before I came in, what was abnormal in the actions of these killers?"

"Anomaly?" Yuan Ke calmed down at this time and recalled the scene at that time, although he didn't think much about it at the time, but now he recalls those unusual things when he thinks about it carefully, "I remember that those assassins didn't seem to be coming at me, they kept rushing towards Xi'er and Ah Xu, but what is puzzling is that when I rushed over to save them, I found that those people were just bluffing, and they didn't want to hurt the two of them at all." ”

"This is really puzzling, when I was outside the door just now, those people didn't kill our people, but why did those people commit suicide together? Since there is no intention to hurt us, there is no need to commit suicide, right? If in order to hide the mastermind behind the scenes, their mastermind behind the scenes is too casual? Sent killers, but didn't kill us, and then committed suicide? ”

"At that time, I thought that those killers were not sent to target Lu Xi, but their behavior was not like it, since it was aimed at Lu Xi, why didn't they hurt her life, this is too unreasonable."

"If, according to the little prince, they deliberately targeted the second lady, then it should still be related to the affairs in the palace, I will pass on these things to the son, and ask the son to investigate these things in the capital."

"Brother Zhang, I suddenly thought about whether these people were looking for trouble with Ah Xu, because after finding out that something was wrong, Lu Xi immediately pulled Ah Xu into his arms to protect him, and they might have taken care of Ah Xu and did not kill the killer. But Ah Xu is just a stepdaughter of Ping Wangfu, so it shouldn't be worth much, right? So it's not very likely at all. ”

Yuan Ke talked about the identity of Yuan Xu, this is what Zhang Junwu wants to hear, Yuan Yi has been sending him to investigate Yuan Xu's identity, but there is no abnormality at all in the Pingwang Mansion, today Yuan Ke took the initiative to mention this matter, and Zhang Junwu went down the river to explore it.

"Little Lord, if these assassins are really targeting Miss Ah Xu, is there anything special about her identity?"

"Ah Xu's identity, you should have checked it, right?"

"Yes, when Miss Ah Xu first appeared, Junwu checked it, but there was nothing abnormal. So when the little prince mentioned this issue again today, Jun Wu would rather think of the most impossible than miss it. Zhang Junwu was blunt about checking Yuan Xu's identity, there is nothing that Yuan Ke can't say, and Gongzi said that he should believe Yuan Ke as much as he believes.

"Brother Zhang is worthy of being the eldest brother's right-hand man, and he is really meticulous, I have also thought about this question, why can my father and mother accept the appearance of Ah Xu so quickly, especially my mother, my mother has never been so quick to accept strangers, and Uncle Lu's family is still very close because they have always been close to each other in the clouds. But I asked on the side, and they didn't say anything, just said, 'Just treat Ah Xu as your own sister.'" ”

"My sister?"

"Yes, that's what my father said at the time."

"The little prince was also frightened today, so rest as soon as possible. Jun Wu will be more careful about the appearance of such people on the road, and he will also investigate the conjectures he talked about tonight one by one, please rest assured, little prince. ”

Yuan Ke also remembered Yuan Xu and Lu Xi psychologically, and the two walked out of the room separately, and then set off at the same time on a pegasus and a carrier pigeon, flying to the capital to deliver the news.

Devil's Theatre

Lu Xi: (sighs at the sky) Tell me why? Tell me why?

Yuan Ke: (exclaims) Lu Xi, Lu Xi, were you stupid by the assassin?

Lu Xi: You don't understand, do you know why I can be unharmed among so many killers?

Yuan Ke: I know, I see that you are too ugly to do it.

Lu Xi: Cut, that's because I'm a woman like a central air conditioner, and they've all melted away from me!

Yuan Ke (vomiting)

Yuan Xu interjected: Brother, what is central air conditioning?

Yuan Ke: (Pulling away Yuan Xu) Forehead, that's not a good word, let's not learn from her, it's easy to die a miserable death!

Lu Xi: Yuan Ke, you stop, who are you talking about is not a good person! You're not a good person! You big pig's trotters! Big pig's trotters!