"In the second year of Yuanjia, that is, fifteen years ago, His Majesty has not been on the throne for a long time, but he left the imperial capital and went to the northern frontier, resulting in the emptiness of the throne, which is really a big mistake." Mo Zijing spoke again, and while speaking, he subconsciously rubbed the teapot with his index finger: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, His Royal Highness King Kang will not sit idly by, so he joined forces with King Xiyi, and this is the battle of Shizuishan." ”

"In this way, the role of the gentleman is very important." Chen Ying said.

"As you say." Mo Zijing put down the teapot and smiled lightly: "Your Highness's order to me is to defeat the Pei family army at all costs." ”

At this point, Mo Zijing's gaze suddenly threw away a certain void, and the expression on his face was extremely strange, as if he felt ridiculous and incredible: "I'm afraid that you don't believe it, from beginning to end, I have no intention of killing Pei Guang." ”

He frowned, as if puzzled: "I actually...... Actually, I just wanted to shoot him. If the commander is injured, the army's heart will be chaotic, and if the army's heart is in chaos, the battle will be defeated if it is undefeated. I struck it with a bow and arrow, and there was no poison on the arrow, but I didn't expect it......"

He spread out his two hands, his eyes fluttering, and stared at his fingertips, as if he had discovered something from them: "I...... But I didn't expect that arrow to shoot Pei Guang, which is really ...... Providence. ”

"Providence?" Chen Ying asked rhetorically, her clear eyes swept lightly towards him: "Sir isn't joking, right?" The gentleman is proficient in martial arts, meticulous in his actions, and has been hidden in Pei's mansion for a long time, so he must be fully prepared for this thunderous blow. At this time, what Mr. said unintentionally or unintentionally was a bit too child's play. ”

She shook her head disapprovingly, her expression cold.

Mo Zijing's arrow must have been intentional, and there is no such thing as an accident.

Pei Guang died on the battlefield

As the commander of an army, he must be fully armed, and he cannot be injured unless he is heavily bowed and armor-piercing arrows. And the lethality of these two weapons, with Mo Zijing's shrewdness, how can he not know?

This is an elaborate assassination, the so-called unintentional, but nothing more than a quibble.

Hearing Chen Ying's words, Mo Zijing didn't refute it, only stared at his hands with his eyes down.

After a few breaths, he raised his head and a helpless smile hung on his lips: "That's it, this matter has passed for too long, so long that I have forgotten what I thought back then." Perhaps, just as Miss Chen guessed, I just intended to kill Pei Guang. ”

He pinched his eyebrows with one hand, sighed, and continued: "Although Pei Guang died, this battle still caused a great defeat for Dexiyi, and I missed. However, my identity has not been revealed. Because His Royal Highness has an order, no matter whether he succeeds or not, as long as he is not discovered, he must continue to hide in Pei's Mansion and wait and see what happens, so I still stay in Ningxia. ”

"Since no one has detected the true identity of Mr., then later, why did you kill the survivors of the phalanx where Qian Tiandi was located? Did any of them find you? Chen Ying asked.

"Not really." Mo Zijing smiled gently, but the words she said were terrifying: "I killed them just in case." After all, the dead are the best guardians of secrets, and in order to protect myself, I must kill them one by one to prevent future troubles. ”

He held the case with both hands, stared out the window, and looked calm.

The drizzle continued to sweep through the eaves and courtyards. Occasionally, the wind blew, and three or two fell under the porch, wetting the curtain.

The room was quiet for a moment, only the sound of rain came, sometimes sparse and sometimes dense, like the gongs and drums on the stage, when listening quietly, the rhyme was sparse, adding to the loneliness.

After a long time, Mo Zijing said again: "When I killed more than half of the people, Mrs. Pei finally realized it, so she led someone to investigate thoroughly, but it was too late. Later, he was exhausted and finally fell seriously ill. At that time, Ah Shu was too young to be a director, and I have stayed in Pei Mansion since then, until now. ”

He smiled at Chen Ying and picked up the teacup in front of him: "After the defeat of His Royal Highness King Kang, the communication in Ningxia was cut off, until nine years ago, I suddenly received a secret order, and I cooperated with His Highness's secret guard to kill a foreigner. After the incident was over, this man gave me another order, ordering me to stay and not to leave without permission. ”

He sighed, and his voice gradually fell silent: "Since receiving this password, for nine years, His Royal Highness King Kang has not heard from him again. ”

"So, you continue to stay as a staff member, just to carry out this last order?" Chen Ying asked.

Mo Zijing nodded slightly: "Exactly." ”

Chen Ying's eyebrows frowned slightly, and suddenly his heart moved, and he subconsciously asked: "Nine years ago, why did you kill that foreigner?" What did he do? ”

"He's investigating Pei Guang's death." Mo Zijing replied quickly: "Although this person speaks a local dialect and looks like a mountain villager, he is very alert, and we have set up a situation several times, but we have not caught him." Later, I used a fake message to trick him into going to the river and pushed him into the water and drowned. ”

"Drowned...... Chen Ying muttered, her eyebrows frowning more and more: "Then how did you dispose of this person's corpse?" Is it buried in situ? ”

"What's so troublesome." Mo Zijing grinned, his expression relaxed, as if talking about ordinary things: "That river is so turbulent that people drown every year, so you just leave the corpse in the water and let it go downstream." ”

Chen Ying nodded, and the doubts in her heart became more and more serious.

The foreigner Mo Zijing killed should be the same person as the person Pei Shu talked about before.

It's just that, somehow, when she smells it again at this moment, she always has an indescribable feeling, as if something is wrong.

After thinking for a while, she pressed this thought, changed the topic, and asked Mo Zijing: "I still want to ask Mr., who is the person under King Kang who is responsible for contacting you?" ”

"A dwarf." Mo Zijing replied without hesitation, and gestured his hand on the leg of the desk a few times: "His body is about the same size as a six- or seven-year-old child, and his appearance is extremely ugly. ”

Chen Ying's expression was unmoved, but she was secretly shocked in her heart.

I really didn't expect that digging out a Mo Zijing would bring the dwarf in.

This dwarf is responsible for two murders, and he should be a killer among King Kang's remnants. It turned out that as early as more than ten years ago, he had been recruited by King Kang, and it was likely that he was still the backbone.

"In addition to this man, there is also a masked man." Mo Zijing said again, as if he had already let go, without any intention of concealing it: "This masked man is a master of martial arts, and I have never seen his face, but this person has a pair of snake eyes, speaks in a weird manner, and acts grotesquely. ”

He frowned, and there was displeasure in his eyes: "That old white is also murderous and violent. However, it is precisely because of the presence of the two of them that when I first entered Pei's Mansion, I withstood Pei Guang's scrutiny, and I didn't ask him to find a flaw, so I gained a firm foothold. ”