It was almost early winter, the weather was gradually getting cooler, the grass was almost yellow, and there was sadness everywhere.

I saw Liu Xinyu standing alone on the city wall of Youzhou, and then looked at the cruel battlefield not far away with corpses and burst into tears.

At this moment, he was already white and sad with his temples, as if he had aged by more than ten years all of a sudden.

It's a pity that Liu Xinyu's life is bright and fair, and he is worthy of heaven and earth. However, because of his too upright character, he has never been willing to go with the traitors and rebels against the party, so he has been repeatedly framed and impeached. Today, there are many enemies, and the end is near.

Sure enough, a few days later, Liu Xinyu received a secret order from Tang Xuanzong, ordering him to return to Beijing as soon as possible, and all important military and political affairs were temporarily handed over to Youzhou Assassin Shi as an agent. As to what is so urgent, it is not said.

Seeing this, Liu Xinyu knew that going to the capital would be more auspicious, so he specially wrote a handwritten letter and handed it to his confidant. If he really encounters an accident on this trip, please be sure to hand over this letter to Xiao Qingzhu in person.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Xinyu embarked on a long and arduous journey back to Beijing with the visitors.

Along the way, it was quite peaceful. Seeing this, Liu Xinyu relaxed his original vigilance slightly, but he didn't know that the catastrophe was not far away.

On that day, the cold wind howled and the clouds covered the moon. At the beginning of the day, there was no sign of the market.

Liu Xinyu and the others missed the lodging because they were in a hurry, so that almost all the inns here were closed. There is only a relatively simple remote shop, and there are still vacant rooms to live in.

Everyone saw that it was getting late, and the road was tiring, and the stomach was already hungry, so they decided to stay here for a while, and it was not too late to act tomorrow morning.

When I was young, the meals were ready. When the crowd saw this, they couldn't wait to start eating and drinking.

In this kind of situation, there is no official family at all, but it seems to be reckless and unrestrained.

Looking at the shopkeeper here, his eyes were fluttering and his demeanor was stiff. If you look closely, this person can't even play the abacus. In this way, how do you open a store and make a living? There must be something strange about this.

Seeing this, Liu Xinyu decided to test it further. If there is such an ulterior insider, more flaws will inevitably be exposed.

So, Liu Xinyu falsely claimed to be thirsty, and immediately called the shopkeeper on the side to add tea for him. In this way, Liu Xinyu really noticed a trace of abnormality from it.

If ordinary people do this, most of them are hunched and smiling, and they serve tea to the guests respectfully. Instead of being like now, with an expressionless face and rusty movements. What's more, the man's hands trembled in the process of pouring tea for Liu Xinyu, and he seemed to be a little afraid of him.

Liu Xinyu thought to himself: "I have never known this person in my life, why is he like this?" It's not that there is a ghost in his heart, so he pretends to be like this, it seems that this place is not suitable for a long time. ”

When others saw this, they immediately blew him away on the grounds that the shopkeeper was clumsy, and it seemed that he was afraid of exposing something and did it on purpose.

At night, most of the people in the inn were asleep, but Liu Xinyu, who was very worried, tossed and turned and failed to sleep.

Suddenly, Liu Xinyu, who had been lying flat on the bed with a lot of thoughts, suddenly felt that there was something abnormal in his body.

Seeing this, he wanted to stand up and find out, but found that he was beginning to become weak and numb in his limbs, as if he had been poisoned.

At this moment, Liu Xinyu suddenly discovered that the pot of flowers that had been placed in front of his bed was actually in full bloom. The color and smell of this flower are very strange, and it is by no means what ordinary flowers and plants should be.

Liu Xinyu, who was poisoned by the strange poison, didn't dare to stay here for a long time, so he tried his best to run out of the door, and then went straight to the open space in front of the inn, wanting to ask for help.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he was surrounded by people. These people were none other than the errand officer who had traveled with him a few days ago and the guys from this shop.

As expected, Jiang Xinghe and the others would never allow Liu Xinyu to return to the capital alive.

Originally, Tang Xuanzong had been haunted by the secret letter, and Liu Xinyu's department had suffered repeated defeats recently, which made Tang Xuanzong, who was far away in the capital, even more convinced of Liu Xinyu's fornication with the Khitan.

However, Liu Xinyu is an important minister of the imperial court after all, and as the king of a country, he must not be hastily convicted due to suspicion and suspicion. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong specially ordered someone to urgently recall Liu Xinyu back to Beijing to find out the truth of this matter.

However, if Liu Xinyu returns to Beijing safely, the conspiracy of Zhu Jingqi, Jiang Xinghe and others will be exposed. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the next plan, Liu Xinyu must not be allowed to see Tang Xuanzong alive.

Therefore, they decided to end Liu Xinyu's life halfway. Then, give him the name of committing suicide in fear of sin, and there is no proof of death.

In this way, no matter how many doubts and incomprehensions Tang Xuanzong has, they can only disappear with Liu Xinyu.

But Liu Xinyu was born as a military general after all, and he would definitely not be at his mercy easily, so Jiang Xinghe specially ordered someone to put a pot of Western Regions poisonous flowers in Liu Xinyu's room, so as to lose Liu Xinyu's skills, so as to achieve his goal more easily.

The flower is not much different from ordinary flowers and plants, but it only has a large fiery red flower bone, and it only opens at midnight and gradually releases a poisonous gas hidden in the petals, which then causes people to be infected with poison without even realizing it.

It is known as the saying that "a red flower appears in the dark night, and the life of the person in front of him is gone", so it is named "urging the red spirit".

However, although this flower is peculiar in toxicity, it also has many drawbacks. For example, the diffusion range of poisonous gas is relatively narrow, and the opening time of poisonous flowers is too short.

In other words, the time for each bloom of the poisonous flower is only the work of a tea, and it can only be poisoned within a radius of about one zhang around the flower. When the petals gradually close and the poisonous gas dissipates, everything around them will be back to normal. And Jiang Xinghe has just started to use this flower, so he doesn't know much about its related characteristics. This time, the right is to use Liu Xinyu as an experiment.

Seeing this, Liu Xinyu knew that he could no longer resist, so he no longer struggled.

However, he was a hero, but he didn't expect to die so tragically in the hands of this group of small people, and he couldn't help but feel unwilling.

I saw the person in front of me say triumphantly to him: "General Liu, don't blame me for being ruthless, we are just acting on orders." Don't worry, I'll try to make your death as comfortable as possible. I hope you don't hold a grudge against us, but if you do, hate those who want to put you to death. ”

"Why are you so verbose today, you can't do it, I'll come!" As he spoke, the man snatched the knife from the hand of the man in front of him, and was about to kill him.

At this critical moment, a white figure suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and then kicked the steel knife in the man's hand.

Everyone looked at it and saw a man dressed in white suddenly appear in front of them, this person was Yue Jichao.

I saw Yue Jichao holding a folding fan in his hand, and said to him unhurriedly: "I don't want to kill people today, if you want to live, hurry up and get out of me!" ”

When the person in front of him saw him dressed like this, and looked at the iron folding fan in his hand, he knew that this person was a free ghost that frightened many people in the rivers and lakes. The killers knew that they were far from being Yue Jichao's opponents, so they left this place with great interest.

After everyone left, Yue Jichao suddenly realized that the poison on Liu Xinyu's body had not been lifted.

Fortunately, Yue Jichao knows this flower and knows its detoxification method. That is, the sap from the rhizome of the flower is taken out, then it is dripping into the spirit, stirring well, and then the poisoned person is swallowed. In this way, once a day, for three consecutive days, the poison can be removed.

I really didn't expect that on the same plant, there is a poison and an antidote at the same time, which can really be said to be a strange thing in the world, and all things are born and overcome each other.

So, how did Yue Jichao suddenly come here?

It turned out that Yue Jichao had infiltrated Youzhou City very early, and had been secretly observing Liu Xinyu and others' every move.

He originally came to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Liu Xinyu, but when he learned more about Liu Xinyu's life and deeds, he gradually dispelled this idea.

It is worth mentioning that although Yue Jichao has killed countless people and is moody, he can still be regarded as having clear grievances. Sui Yuexuan, who has been with him for a long time, has also persuaded him many times to do more good deeds and not do evil, but it is still somewhat effective. If it weren't for Sui Yuexuan being controlled by Jiang Xinghe and blackmailing Yue Jichao to do evil for him this time, he would definitely not agree to this. However, for fear that Jiang Xinghe and others would be unfavorable to Sui Yuexuan, Yue Jichao could only swallow his anger and try his best to deal with him.

In the face of Yue Jichao's various abnormal performances, Sui Yuexuan was also aware of it, but in order to prevent the elbow and armpit, he did not dare to act rashly.

Just a few days ago, Yue Jichao suddenly got the news that Sui Yuexuan had escaped from Jiang Xinghe's control, and hoped that Yue Jichao could help him rescue Liu Xinyu.

Seeing that Sui Yuexuan was already safe, Yue Jichao confidently followed Liu Xinyu and others to this place.

And the person who secretly sent the message was Mei Yuchen, who instructed Yue Jichao to assassinate Liu Xinyu that day.

This matter is a long story, originally Mei Yuchen hated Liu Ruotian very much, and hated that his family would also die, so he obeyed Jiang Xinghe's instigation, so he did so many evil things for him. The reason is nothing more than hatred because of love, and then he wants to take revenge on Liu Ruotian in every possible way.

However, over time, Mei Yuchen's kind heart gradually woke up again. After all, his nature is pure, he is by no means a sinister and vicious person, and it is impossible to join forces with Jiang Xinghe. The reason why she wants to commit herself to Jiang Xinghe is just to use him to achieve her goals. As the saying goes, there is a debtor who is wronged, and the innocent must not be implicated because of this, otherwise wouldn't it be another karma?

Jiang Xinghe, who has always been suspicious, would not easily believe that Mei Yuchen would completely obey him, so he secretly monitored him, and if there was any change, he must be informed as soon as possible.

However, for some reason, Feng Weiran did not inform him of Mei Yuchen's every move according to Jiang Xinghe's instructions, but secretly helped Mei Yuchen many times.

From this point of view, Feng Weiran is not absolutely loyal to Jiang Xinghe. If not, he would not dare to do such a secret thing behind his master's back.

When Jiang Xinghe noticed that Yue Jichao was vacillating and wanted to use Sui Yuexuan to force him to submit, he found that Sui Yuexuan had already escaped from house arrest and disappeared.

Seeing this, Shi Yongning immediately sent a book to inform Jiang Xinghe of the matter. Jiang Xinghe was greatly annoyed when he learned of this, and then demoted Shi Yongning by one level and beat him with twenty boards.

There are very few people who know about this, and Jiang Xinghe once suspected that Feng Weiran had leaked the news. Now Murong Yuping's whereabouts are unknown, Mei Yuchen is difficult to tame, and Shi Yongning is even more unreliable.

This is exactly what "the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind." ”

When you do all the bad things, not only will you turn away from people's hearts, but even this long sky will not tolerate you.