The next morning, Zuo Lie opened his eyes, saw a few rays of warm sunlight reflected on the window flowers, remembered that he had the king's order, and he could not slack off at all, so he got up and dressed up and opened the door. When the two slave girls outside the door saw him open the door, one of them carried a plate of water into the room, and put it on the washstand by the wall, and the other held it on a copper plate and put it on the table early.

Zuo Lie washed his face with water, and went to the table to eat breakfast, while eating while thinking about today's things in his heart, yesterday the young man named Yan'er wore a yellow shirt and a pair of jade dragons hanging from his waist walked in from outside the door, and said with a smile: "Did you sleep well last night?" ”

Zuo Lie got up and said, "In this carved beam and painted building, is there any bad reason? He deliberately did not mention the distress of last night.

The young man didn't sit down either, and said, "There is a dragon boat race in Panlong Lake today, is Wang Cha interested in going to watch?" ”

Zuo Lie is surrounded by murderous opportunities, where is there still a little bit of heart to play in the mountains and rivers, but if he can save a life and send it back to Zujia, it is a great creation, so he said bluntly: "The king of Weichen is in his body, and he only hopes that his father will return today and return to the north immediately, how dare he be careless and greedy for fun." ”

The young man said, "I have instructed the guards to inform me as soon as my father returns home." We also just sit in the pavilion in the middle of the house and watch, so we will not miss the king's mission. ”

Zuo Lie knows that Panlong Lake has to hold a lively dragon boat meeting every New Year, fishermen use wood to carve a dragon head, the dragon tail is fixed at both ends of the fishing boat, and use reeds to weave dragon scales to hang on both sides of the boat, each family has a boat, one person and one oar, driving around the lake for a week. A high pole is erected in the center of the lake, and a red silk hydrangea is held at the head of the pole, and whoever can take the lead in the hand can get a brand-new fishing boat, as well as a boat of silk and satin, and this year can have fish and meat, food and clothing without worry. Because of the rich rewards, all fishermen with strong men will participate in it, and they have formed a folk custom that has been passed down for a hundred years.

Zuo Lie had seen the grand occasion of the dragon boat meeting when he was young, but he didn't expect that in his old age, he could watch the dragon boat meeting in the palace building, but it was also a good opportunity. While going upstairs to watch the game, while waiting for him to come back, it was not contradictory, thinking of this, he went out of the room with the young man and boarded the lake pavilion in the palace.

Guanhu Pavilion is located in the southeast of the palace, there are windows on all sides, sitting in the pavilion, the whole Panlong Lake is in full view, sparkling, fish and dragon play, it is indeed a good place to watch the lake and mountains.

The young man ordered the slave girl standing on the side to go downstairs and invite his mother to come to the pavilion, and asked Lie to sit down at the window, only to see that the north side of the lake shore was already covered with 100 dragon boats, and the men in the boats were all holding pennies on the shore, and they were the first to rush to the flagpole when the principal gave the order.

After a short time, the slave girl went to the young man's side to reply, and the hostess went out of the house, not at home.

At this time, there was a sudden gong sound on the shore, and those grass-bodied wooden dragons rushed to the south shore, seeing that they were about to hit the red line on the shore, and turned around to go east, and the boat and boat you bumped into me, bang

The people on the shore of the lake are surging, shouting loudly, beating drums and cheering, laughing loudly, people are boiling, and the waves of laughter are undulating.

The rest of the boats went around to the starting point, and a willow-leafed boat squeezed out of the group of boats like a snake and rushed to the front, and the boat was a man in a striped shirt. The other two small boats with high heads and tails also rushed to the side of the willow leaf boat, the three boats slid side by side for dozens of meters, and saw that they were about to hit the flagpole in the middle of the lake, the person on the willow leaf boat raised a little on the bow of the left head, and the boat under him jumped up with him as if it was connected to his feet, the head of the boat stood upright in the air, and the people on the boat jumped on the head of the boat with their arms outstretched, and stretched out their hands to take off the red hydrangea at the head of the pole.

The man on the boat next to him was about to rush to the flagpole and then climb the pole, but the man on the willow leaf boat made a strange move, and it was too late to block it, so he swept the willow leaf boat standing upright in the air into the water.

There was thunderous cheers from the crowd on the shore.

The man in the shirt was not panicked, his feet were volleyed in the air, and he poked the penny downward, and the head of the pole rang loudly, and it was inserted into the bow of the boat like mud, and the man in the shirt calmly took off the red hydrangea, and the head of the penny flicked, and the person shot like a projectile towards the attic of Zuo Lie and others.

The man in the shirt volleyed close to the window, squirted a stream of oil into the red ball with a stream of oil in his mouth, shook his hand, and threw it into the attic window, and the red ball flew several feet and suddenly ignited a flame, and went straight to the door of the young Yan'er.

Zuo Lie was looking at it, but he didn't expect the red ball to shoot in front of Yan'er in the blink of an eye, and it was too late to help him, so he just said that it was over. Unexpectedly, Yan'er leaned on her back, and a kick popped up from the bottom to kick the red ball out of the window. Before the red ball hit the ground, there was a loud bang, and it exploded to pieces, until everyone's ears were deafened, and the spark rags were scattered all over the ground, and the crowd on the shore of the lake was frightened, crying, shouting, making a pot of porridge, and running in all directions.

Zuo Lie saw that Yan'er was rolling on the ground and was not injured, and said that this assassin might be the killer last night, so he jumped out of the window and landed outside the building, but saw the man in the shirt flashing in the crowd and running towards a remote place. Although the man's body method was also fast, Zuo Lie could still keep up, and when he turned to the back of a mountain, the man turned around and knelt on the ground with his fists clenched, and said in a crying voice: "General, I can find you!" ”

Zuo Lie took a closer look and recognized that it was one of the leaders of the armor soldiers he had brought out.

The soldier looked at the bushes on the side and shouted, "Come out." ”

A few people dressed as fishermen came out of the bushes, and they were the secret sentries who had been hiding behind the camp by Zuo Lie's order the night before.

Zuo Lie has been in danger many times in the past two days, and he is worried that there is no one around him to help him, and he can't help but be overjoyed when he sees these people.

The leader in the striped shirt told the truth about the night before.

It turned out that after Zuo Lie left the camp, these sentries hid behind the bushes, and suddenly saw a dark cloud rising from the hillside, rolling towards the mountain.

By the time the darkness had passed, the camp was in shambles, except for a few of them who had escaped by hiding in the bushes, and everyone else was lying in a pool of blood. Seeing that the enemy was in good formation and there were many enemy troops, several people did not dare to squeak. When the curtain was closed, a young man in a yellow shirt led the enemy to look at the bottom of the mountain. These secret sentinels saw General Zuo Lie going down the mountain, and estimated that he would not go far, so they came out of the forest, met in one place, and followed the direction of Zuo Lie's ride, but when they arrived at the courtyard mountain, they saw large and small courtyards built around the mountain, and there were many people, and they didn't know where to find it for a while, because they recognized the appearance of the yellow-shirted young man, so they discussed secretly visiting.

The next day, a few people entered the Panlong City, smelled that Panlong Lake opened a dragon boat meeting today, pondering that the thief head of the yellow-shirted boy may appear on the conference, so he disguised himself as a fisherman to hide in the dark, the leader considered that the lakeshore was meandering, the audience gathered, it was not easy to check, and because he was born in the south, the water was still good, so he rented a light boat to join the dragon boat race, so that he could gallop in the lake to the shore to check, I didn't want to see the yellow-shirted young man sitting upstairs, next to Zuo Lie, and thought that Zuo Lie was kidnapped by the young man, so he used such a plan, I want to kill the boy and rescue Lie. Unexpectedly, the young man in the yellow shirt was very skilled, and he fell to the ground to dodge.

When Lie heard this, he said suspiciously: "That young man Mingyan is the son of Zu Jia, the younger brother of Shang King Zu Geng, how did he become a murderer?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and said, "Is it wrong for us to see it with our own eyes?" ”

Lie remembered that when the young man flicked his leg and hit the fireball just now, half of the bandage was exposed on his calf, and he said that it was him who was the assassin last night, but he didn't see the truth in a hurry, and he was not sure, so he said: "This matter is not trivial, and you must not be mistaken." If that young man is the son of Zu Jia, there is no reason to prevent Zu Jia from returning to the north to be crowned king. But if that young man was a killer sent by Fang Guo, Zu Jia didn't know that there was an ambush around him, and he would be worried about his life. He instructed a few subordinates to still act like fishermen, lurking outside the palace, pretending not to know, entering the mansion and waiting for Zujia to return to the house, and by the way to find out the details of the young man.

Everyone went their own way.

Zuo Lie returned to the palace and looked around, but he didn't see the young man, so he had to wait for the return of the ancestor while drinking tea in the post house, but until it was dark, he didn't see these two people, and he saw that it was the fourth day, and he was very anxious. At this moment, only the sound of footsteps outside the house was heard, and the young man walked in hurriedly.

Zuo Lie didn't know the details of this young man, he was afraid that he would suddenly attack him, holding a short knife behind his back to be on guard, and he was afraid that there would be accomplices behind him, so he didn't dare to make a rash move, so he could only wait and see what happened, and asked, "Has your father come back today?" ”

The young man took two sips of tea on the table, raised his eyebrows impatiently and said, "Father will not go to the Central Plains with you." After speaking, Gu Zi went out.

Fearing that the boy would kill Zu Jia and find an opportunity to end his life, Lie followed him incognito. I saw that the young man walked in the porch for a while, and met a few slaves and maids who were sweeping the floor, and stopped to ask where his mother was. The slaves and maids all shook their heads and said they didn't know.

The young man came to a small room on the north side of the house, pushed the door and walked in.

Zuo Lie smelled the smell of high incense wafting from the house, turned the corner of the wall, and saw an incense case under the wall in the house, with cigarette smoke on the table, candles flickering, and a fruit bowl, a wine glass, and a tablet, because the tablet was in the dark, I don't know what surname was written on it. Lie secretly thought, this young man's father is Zu Jia, and the spiritual position on this case should be that of the former king Wuding.

The young man bent his knees, knelt down on the futon in front of the desk, kowtowed a few times, raised his sleeves and rubbed his face a few times, sobbed a few times, and sure enough, said, "Grandfather, grandson, please help your grandson." Lie Xin said that this grandfather is of course Wu Ding.

Then I heard the young man say, "Please bless me to kill all the Yingjia troops and prevent Zujia from returning to Yin to be crowned king, so that I can teach my father to return home quickly." ”

When Zuo Lie heard him say that he had killed all the Yingjia Army, he felt that the young man was immature and confused, and he must know that the Yingjia Army was Wu Ding's subordinates, and he was not only Wu Ding's grandchildren, but also killed Wu Ding's subordinates, how could this be reasonable.

At this time, Zuo Lie had quietly turned to the back of the door, and by the candlelight, he could clearly see that the spirit card was clearly written: Therefore, the ancestor left ......, but the words below were blocked by the incense burner and could not be seen. I also thought that if this young man called Wu Ding's grandfather, of course this spiritual position should be dedicated to Wu Ding, and it should be written "the former king", but the spirit card clearly reads "The old ancestor left ......", the title is ridiculously wrong, and it is simply a bull's head and a horse's mouth. muttered in his heart, judging from the surname on the spiritual position, the young man's grandfather actually had the same surname as himself, obviously this young man was not the son of Zujia, I don't know who the father he missed, can he deny it? Then I thought about it, if he was not the son of Zu Jia, how could he have such a status in the palace? ……

Zuo Lie was entangled in these questions, and his mind was full of confusion. Since he is not the son of Zujia, and he has killed my brothers, I will kill him to take revenge. At this time, Lie was only one step away from the young man, and if he raised his hand to stab, the young man would definitely be in a different place. Fortunately, Zuo Lie is not a reckless and murderous person, thinking that he has not yet discovered the identity of the young man, he can't ignore people's lives without knowing it.

At this moment, seeing the shadow of the candle flickering, a woman came out of the darkness, because she was sideways, and could not see her face clearly. I only saw her dressed in plain clothes, with her hair in a bun and dark clouds on her head, with a golden hairpin, and a crystal clear jade hanging from her ears.

The noble lady walked beside her at least the youngest, put her hand on the young man's shoulder, and said softly, "Yan'er, your father will definitely come back alive." ”

The young man complained: "Mother, you have always said that he will come back and will come back, but after many years, I haven't seen half of him. ”

The noblewoman said, "The new merchant soldiers who arrived the night before were eliminated outside the city, and the news will soon reach the royal capital. When the king of Shang learns about it, he will let your father return. ”

The young man said: "At today's Panlong Lake Dragon Boat Conference, an assassin attacked the child with a fireball, I think it was done by the lame general and his group." Unexpectedly, the night before was a hundred secrets, but a few escaped, and they were not all caught. ”

When Zuo Lie heard this, his heart suddenly tightened, and he said that this young man had wanted to take my life for a long time, and he regretted that he didn't make a move to cut off his head just now.

The lady said, "What lame general?" ”

The young man said: "It is the person who came here from the royal capital to find Zujia." Yesterday, he went to the mansion with the king talisman to ask to see Zu Jia, I didn't want to turn my face in person, so I arranged him to live in the mansion, and waited until the evening to get rid of him, but he was ghostly and dodged a knife. Later tonight, while he was asleep, I went to cut him again. ”

The noble lady said: "I will be killed with a knife, don't leave a curse!" ”

When Lie heard this, he said that people should not be good-looking, but such a beautiful woman was so vicious, and on the other hand, he felt that this woman's voice was extremely familiar.

The young man was relieved: "Mother can rest assured. ”

Hearing that this young man didn't take himself in his eyes, Zuo Lie couldn't help but snort coldly, but he was heard by the mother and son, and turned his head to look at the door. Zuo Lie woke up suddenly, regretting that he had forgotten for a moment and exposed his horse's feet, and hurriedly turned his body and dived into the shadows behind the pillars. The boy jumped out of the door and looked, and went into the house again to accompany his mother.

Zuo Lie was afraid that he would be discovered by the young man again, so he didn't dare to approach, so he only opened his ears in the shadows and listened carefully, but the mother and son whispered in the room, so he didn't hear a word.

Zuo Lie expected that the young man was already alert, and it would be difficult to succeed, and if he found out, he would be worried about his life, so he shrank in the shadows and did not move.

After a short time, the young man stepped out of the house and walked through the corridors.

Zuo Lie expected that he must have gone to the post house where he was staying to take his life. If he can't see himself, he will definitely search around the palace, and he can't stay here any longer, so he will prepare to flee outside the palace.