"Zhu Quan, that little ghost? Phew, how could he have hurt you? He can't even beat me, just a hairy boy of fifteen or sixteen. Liao Zhiyuan immediately shook his head and retorted.

Lu Jiangbei said in a deep voice: "Regardless of whether the person who injured me yesterday is him or not, I am very sure that Zhu Quan is a natural martial arts wizard, and he has been hiding his strength. You say he can't beat you, but I'm going to tell you that I'm afraid he will be able to beat you two or three years ago. ”

Liao Zhiyuan still has an expression of disbelief, the so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing, when he was practicing martial arts at Northwest University, he broke Zhu Quan every time, and afterwards the other party deeply admired his martial arts, and invited himself to eat and drink!

Lu Jiangbei reluctantly suppressed the surging blood qi, and continued to say to Liao Zhiyuan: "At present, the clue I have at hand is that the Wu Ying Pavilion Pavilion Master who is fighting against me is a young man who is no more than eighteen years old, and his martial arts are strange, not like the martial arts of the various major sects in the Central Plains, and the lancet he used at that time was probably not his usual weapon, but the weapon he deliberately changed in order not to reveal his identity, otherwise I would not be so easy to defeat him within a hundred moves." His knife technique is simple and smooth, bringing out the murderous intention in the calm and idle brush. Listen well, if you meet this person alone in the future, you don't have to say anything, just run for your life as fast as possible. ”

Liao Zhiyuan was naturally unconvinced at first glance, but when he looked at Lu Jiangbei's half-dead appearance, he suddenly couldn't say anything beautiful to increase his ambition and destroy the prestige of others.

Don't look at their old mainland Jiangbei from the dress to the conversation is like a weak white-faced scholar, the first time you meet his opponents often treat him as a soft-footed shrimp, but as long as you fight with him for a round, you will find that your first impression is really wrong, this white-faced scholar is not only not "soft", but also "hard" to the extent of perversion, even the hardest diamond diamond will collapse a corner when it meets him! Among the factory guards, except for the older generation of masters who retired behind the scenes ten years ago, Lu Jiangbei's martial arts are about the highest, and he can be called "the first person in the new generation of Jinyiwei". In the informal contest after tea and drinking, when the strong and domineering Gao definitely went to Lu Jiangbei, he also had a record of seven losses in ten battles, and Lu Jiangbei also looked like he was at ease.

"Before, Gao Jue asked me if I had any clues about the Pavilion Master of Wu Ying Pavilion, but I hid it from him, Lynx, do you know why I didn't tell him?" The meaning in Lu Jiangbei's eyes was unclear.

Liao Zhiyuan thought about it seriously for a moment before nodding and replying: "Because you have become rivals in love now, you are afraid that he will see your embarrassment, so you pretend to be cool." ”

Although Lu Jiangbei didn't bother with him in order to save his physical strength, he drew two more crosses for the other party in the little black ledger in his heart.

Lu Jiangbei looked at the white sand in the courtyard and recalled: "At that time, I shook him three times, and they were all evenly matched, which shows that his internal strength is by no means weaker than mine." The most bizarre thing is that his light skills are almost the same as Gao Jue's, which can make the opponent have the illusion of visual perception in a very short period of time, constantly changing in a short distance, and the movements seem to be extremely slow, but in fact, the speed is faster than lightning, which often makes the opponent feel difficult to parry, and then lose. If it weren't for the fact that I had been studying with Gao Jue all year round and was already familiar with this kind of light body method, I wouldn't have been able to parry his fast attack and kill moves at that time. ”

Liao Zhiyuan said in surprise: "The superb body technique is a retreat technique practiced in Dongying with the secret method, even if a few of us are interested in learning from him, it is a layman to see the excitement when we learn it." Since you said that the Pavilion Master of Wu Ying Pavilion uses a body technique similar to the Escape Technique, would he be a Dongying person? ”

Lu Jiangbei shook his head: "If he is a strange foreigner, why do you need to use an unsuitable weapon to hide his identity?" After a few encounters, I'm sure that the boy is an acquaintance of you and me, and that he has fought more than once before. And the reason why I didn't tell Gao Jue about this is because the person I suspect in my heart is Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, he is the beloved son of the saint, and you must not rush to find Zhu Quan without full evidence, nor can you go to find out the details of his martial arts. Especially Gao Jue, you have to give him special advice on this. ”

Liao Zhiyuan touched his chin with his knuckles, frowned and questioned: "However, Zhu Quan's kid was newly named King Ning by the Holy Lord in March this year, and the Holy Lord also entrusted him with an important task and transferred him to Daning Mansion to guard the border of Inner Mongolia. ”

Lu Jiangbei wanted to speak and stopped, and finally just said: "What is the motive, we can put it aside first, I only know that there are people who are ten years younger than me, but their martial arts can be compared to me, and there will be no more than five people in the world, and Zhu Quan is one of them." After coming back last night, I have already asked Scud to rush to Daning Mansion at full speed to see if King Ning is not in office. That Wu Ying Pavilion Pavilion's injuries are more serious than mine, and he will definitely not be able to withstand the fatigue of the carriage and horses, and the twenty-second day of this month is the military drill ceremony of the Daning school, and if King Ning appears on the Daning school, he will not be suspicious. Otherwise, you can secretly play the Holy Lord, and suggest that he summon King Ning back from his fiefdom to observe for a period of time. ”

"Okay, I see." Liao Zhiyuan nodded in response, and then asked curiously, "Boss, when did you find out that Zhu Quan has peerless martial arts?" I've never heard you mention it before! Zhu Quan's kid is dressed as a soft-footed shrimp in front of me, and he plays a little master, how can he show his bottom in front of you? ”

"It was when Concubine Yang died two years ago, and Duan Shao and I witnessed this incident with our own eyes."

"Concubine Yang? Zhu Quan's mother? ”

"Yes, that time you and Gao Jue were in Guangxi, so I don't know," Lu Jiangbei sighed and said, "Duan Shao and I went back to Beijing to report on our work, and as soon as we arrived in the capital, we heard news from the palace that the saint had somehow become angry again, and had beheaded Concubine Yang and cut out her heart, and buried the head on the east side of the palace gate, buried the heart on the west side of the palace gate, and hung the body on the flagpole outside the Taiping Gate and ordered the guards to guard it. ”

Liao Zhiyuan's scalp tingled when he heard this, in recent years, the saint's temper has grown with age, and he has become more and more moody, and the most favored object of his venting is the concubines of the harem, even the mothers of the princes are not spared.

In the twenty-third year of Hongwu in the Qianwu Palace, Concubine Li Xian, the mother of King Tang, Concubine Guo Ning, the mother of King Lu, and Concubine Ge Hu, the mother of King Yi, somehow angered the saint, Concubine Li Xian was smashed by the saint on the spot with the jade paperweight on the desk Half of the braincase, Concubine Guo Ning and Concubine Ge Hu were suddenly frightened, and hid everywhere in the hall. After a while, the imperial guards outside the hall only heard two screams from inside, and then the door of the main hall suddenly popped open, and the saint came out and ordered to get a bamboo basket, the largest one, and then retreated into the hall and closed the door.

So a prisoner trotted to the imperial dining room and found a large bamboo basket, and after obtaining the permission of the saint, he pushed open a crack in the door and carefully stuffed the bamboo basket in. After another half an hour, the saint came out yawning and said that he wanted to eat fish and roast lamb for dinner, and asked the imperial dining room to prepare quickly, and then turned his head and pointed to the center of the Qianwu Palace, and said to the guards to carry the bamboo basket to the Taiping Gate and bury it. So the guards complied, carried the bamboo basket covered with black cloth and buried it, and Concubine Li Xian, Concubine Guo Ning, and Concubine Ge Hu disappeared from the harem.

Half a month later, the good news of the border pass was frequent, and the mood of the saint also improved, and he said with emotion, remembering that Concubine Xian and others had been with him for many years, and had raised three princes, which was really a great contribution to the society, so the saint gave the three of them a posthumous title, and asked people to dig out the bamboo basket outside the Taiping Gate and bury it with a good sandalwood carved coffin. The inner prisoners were ordered to dig out the bamboo baskets, lift the black cloth and see that the three corpses had already decomposed and were unrecognizable, so they had to randomly identify the three people according to the clothes and hairpins in their memory, and hastily completed the errand.

Something like this happens once or twice in the palace once or twice. Liao Zhiyuan couldn't figure it out even if he thought about it, after hearing about such a thing, what kind of mentality did those officials who still send their biological daughters to the palace?

Lu Jiangbei's two sword eyebrows that flew obliquely into the temples were knotted, and he shook his head and said: "The court and the harem are inextricably linked, on the surface, it is just that the saint has a temper tantrum and kills a concubine in anger, but under the surface of the water is an undercurrent and treacherous, and the power drama of the various forces competes. Concubine Yang was just innocently a stone thrown at a stone to ask for directions, but when she was alive, there was no maternal clan to support her, and who would collect her body after she died? ”

Liao Zhiyuan also agreed: "Except for those lower-level palace concubines who have not given birth to an imperial heir, Concubine Yang is indeed the most backstage person among the imperial concubines, I heard that she is a woman picked up by the saint among the people." ”

At that time, Concubine Yang's only son, Zhu Quan, was only thirteen years old, and lived with all the young princes in the prince's courtyard behind the East Palace. In his early years, he was not pleased with the saint, who said that a man who looks more squeamish than a woman must be an immature person in the future. In the next few years, his literary and martial arts stood out among more than a dozen young princes, and he gradually received the attention and love of the saints, but after all, because he did not have the protection of his mother, he was isolated and excluded by other princes. Lu Jiangbei sighed, "In that case, Zhu Quan himself is difficult to protect, but he has the courage to run to collect the body of his mother, which is rare." ”

"Oh? Didn't the Holy One get angry with him for disobeying the Holy Decree in this way? Liao Zhiyuan didn't expect such a big thing to happen in the palace, he always called himself "Bai Xiaosheng in the capital", but he didn't know anything about it.

Lu Jiangbei's lips twitched with a smile, and he said thoughtlessly: "I don't know how he came up with such a tricky plan, so no one later connected him with the disappearance of Concubine Yang's body." At that time, Duan Shao and I happened to pass by the Taiping Gate to witness that scene, although we thought it was strange, but we didn't take it to heart. Ten days later, several masters who had guarded Concubine Yang's body died mysteriously, and their heads disappeared...... I pity him for losing his mother at a young age, so I discussed with Duan Shao and hid it for him. ”