One of their masters and one servant dug the grave of Pei Xingtian, the second uncle of Pei Valve.

Because Tang Qianxi and Tang Xiaodao suspected that Pei Xingtian was not really dead, and the master who guarded Emperor Hongding in Shu County with sword marks on his face was very likely to be Pei Xingtian.

If he hadn't died, what kind of secret might it be hiding here?

The two frowned slightly, not because of the unpleasant smell of corpses, but because there was no answer in the coffin.

When Tang Xiaodao was about to put it back on, Tang Qianxi suddenly discovered something and said, "Wait!"

Tang Xiaodao looked at Tang Qianxi inexplicably.

Tang Qianxi said categorically: "He is not Pei Xingtian. Look at his face again. ”

Tang Xiaodao's face was swept away with frustration, and he looked back at the face full of corpse insects, although it was a little incomplete, it was still clearly recognizable.

He is not Pei Xingtian.

Lying inside was just a substitute corpse.

Tang Xiaodao couldn't hide his relieved expression, and then he became solemn again, and he suddenly found that there was a small iron box exposed on the man's chest.

He clearly remembered that when Pei Xingtian was buried, there was no such relic.

It's weird!

After Pei Xingtian was killed by Yijian Mei that day, the Tang Sect immediately reported to Pei Xingben, the head of the Pei Valve family.

Pei Xingben only replied with eight words: As a soldier, where to bury him when he dies.

Subsequently, Tang Xiaodao accompanied his uncle Tang Tai to sort out Pei Xingtian's relics and buried them in the Tang Gate tomb.

Regardless of whether Pei Xingtian was the famous No. 2 person of Pei Valve, the general of the imperial court, just because he assisted the Tang Gate to resist the Fire Wheel Cult and the Turkic Mission that night, he was very qualified to be buried in the Tang Gate Tomb.

Tang Xiaodao stretched out his hand and made a move, and the iron box was in hand. When I opened it, there was only one letter inside.

There is no word on the cover.

There are only four simple words in the letter: the guest plan.

"Intermittent guest" is the name mentioned in the tenth chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, also known as spy, meticulous work, and disguiser, which is divided into five types: between causes, between the inside, between the anti-between, between the dead, and between life.

Who is the guest?

Tang Qianxi and Tang Xiaodao were both shocked, looking at each other, speechless, but there were huge waves in their hearts.

Tang Qianxi took the envelope and took a closer look, these four words turned out to be Pei Xingben's handwriting.

What's going on here?

On the way back, Tang Qianxi and Tang Xiaodao didn't speak, and kept thinking about the "guest plan".

The two of them seemed to fall straight down in the clouds, and their whole spine was cold.

Tang Qianxi took a few heavy breaths, and said conclusively: "Second Uncle Pei is a guest. ”

Tang Xiaodao agreed with this and asked, "If he pretended to defect to the enemy, how could he gain the trust of the cult?"

Tang Qianxi's gaze turned to the outer gate of the Tang Gate in front of him, his eyes lit up with a sharp light, and he retracted again, and said in a deep voice: "Tang Gate." ”

Tang Xiaodao was shocked and said, "Tang Gate?"

Tang Qianxi's heart was filled with irrepressible indignation, and said: "If I guessed correctly, Second Uncle Pei's visit to the Tang Sect this time to talk about my marriage with Xi Xi should be a cover, but in fact, he told the cult some important information about my Tang Sect, so that the inside and the outside should be together. ”

It seems that the Tang Gate was attacked by surprise, and there is another secret that no one knows.

Tang Xiaodao sighed with emotion, and said, "Since Second Master Pei sold information to the cult, why was he stabbed by a sword Mei at that time, oh, it was a sword stabbed by Second Master, and he still wanted to fake his death and hide from the world?"

Tang Qianxi's eyes sparkled, and he still said in a calm and cold tone: "I don't know, there must be something wrong here, or there is something else that we haven't figured out yet." In addition, why did he betray the Tang Sect, why did he fake his death, why did he mess up his face afterwards so that others could not see it, and so on, there are many similar doubts, and I have not completely figured it out at present. ”

After Tang Xiaodao pondered for a long time, he suddenly asked, "Young Master, what should we do now?"

Tang Qianxi's eyes shot a complicated look, and said, "Since it is a letter from my father-in-law Pei Xingben, there are some things that can only be consulted with him in person." ”

Tang Xiaodao said: "Do you want to tell the young lady about this?"

Tang Qianxi looked directly at Tang Xiaodao, and said slowly, word by word: "Don't want it for the time being." This matter is very important, don't tell anyone, only you and me. ”

Tang Xiaodao nodded.

......

Shu County, Shu Wangfu.

The door was left open at night, and the inner room was not lit.

Pei Xingtian sat lonely on the ground, he was used to this dark life.

It has to do with his identity.

He used to be the hidden guard of the Ming Emperor Taizong of the Tang Empire, and now he is a guest of a generation of female emperors.

The faint silver light shone through the pane on his terrifying sword, looking a little hideous.

He looked at Di Hongding in front of him, his eyes were empty, his face was expressionless, and he was silent, but he was meditating on what went wrong with the "Interguest Plan".

Pei Xingben personally wrote to him to inform him of the lurking in the Turkic Turks, and designated him to carry it out personally, so that he would re-enter the cult.

He had been lurking in the Turks for many years, and he knew that the Turks had secretly communicated with the Fire Wheel Cult, so he very skillfully revealed the shocking information that "Pei Valve was willing to surrender to him and assist the former prince Zhao Zhen Kuang to restore orthodoxy" to Ye Hu, and finally the Holy Monarch Zhao Zhen learned about it.

Although Zhao Zhen was a little suspicious, he didn't want to lose Pei Valve's power, so he asked him to submit his name.

So, Pei Xing thought of Tangmen.

After discussion, and privately obtaining the consent of Tang He, the master of the Tang Gate, Pei Xingben drew up a guest plan. Originally, it was intended to take advantage of the surprise attack of the Fire Wheel Cult and the Turkic Mission on the Tang Gate, and the imperial court and the Tang Gate joined forces to give them a counter-sneak attack.

Unexpectedly, people are not as good as heaven, and there have been three major changes in the plan.

First, Tang Qianxi left the Tang Gate in advance, and then Tang Xiaodao went to look for it again, and lost the two core generals at once.

Second, no one thought that Yijian Mei would play Tang Qianxi and stab Tang He to death.

The third is that the empress suddenly changed her hexagram and ordered Yan Guogong's imperial court border guards to change from the pre-planned on-site siege to the periphery interception.

It is precisely because of these three points that the plan failed completely, and all efforts fell short.

That night, Pei Xingtian, who was implementing the plan, saw that things had changed, and decisively sent a stand-in, while he secretly followed Lou Chongfeng and Hua Yuxiu until he entered the Shu Palace.

So he will plan and continue the intermittent plan.

In front of Zhao Zhen, he revealed his identity, and sternly questioned why Zhao Zhen crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and killed himself.

When Zhao Zhen suddenly saw Pei Xingtian standing in front of him, he was also extremely shocked, and put all the responsibility on the dead man Yijianmei.

Then, he showed his loyalty again, and did not hesitate to scratch his face, firstly, to show the punishment for the empress, and secondly, to bid farewell to the former empress's minions, and to start back as the general of the Zhao clan of the empire.

Zhao Zhen saw that he was so resolute and determined, so he agreed to him and entrusted him with the important task of guarding Emperor Hongding.

He knew that Zhao Zhen agreed on the surface, but in fact he was still testing him.

However, he didn't care, he just had to pretend to be deaf and dumb and continue to stay in the Fire Wheel Cult.

I thought that I would definitely be lurking.

But once again, Heaven played tricks on him.

He is the top master among the guests, but he neglected the further study of martial arts, and although he has cultivated for so many years in the Dry Glory Realm, he is only the strength of the Empty Valley Realm.

In the afternoon of that day, Tang Xiaodao suddenly came to snatch Yu Ding, and he was obviously a little defeated.

At the time of crisis, suddenly a masked yaksha appeared in time, although it helped him solve Tang Xiaodao's problem, but it made him faintly feel a little uneasy.

This Yaksha, he had seen it at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, and his cultivation was extremely high.

This time, she appeared in the Shu Mansion again, and her status was not low.

When he saw her, he always felt a little familiar.

He's been thinking about it these days, and he's still wondering, who the hell is she?

At this moment, a tall shadow walked in, stretching longer and closer.

Someone's coming.

Pei Xingtian didn't get up, nor did he look back.

Listening to the sound of his feet, he knew that it was the voice of the Holy Monarch Zhao Zhen.

Pei Xingtian's expression moved slightly, and he said lightly: "The Holy Monarch is finally here." ”

Zhao Zhen's eyes were crystal clear, and the depth was unfathomable, he kept a smile and said, "Do you know that this Holy Monarch is coming?"

Sensing Zhao Zhen's smile, no matter how stupid Pei Xingtian was, he knew that he had been exposed, and he inexplicably felt that everything was out of control, and said: "The Holy Monarch didn't come the day before yesterday, nor did he come yesterday, so he must come today." ”

Zhao Zhen said neatly: "You are very clear. ”

Pei Xingtian said: "I have been in the army for decades, if I don't even have this awareness, how can the title of General Huaihua of Zhengsanpin come for nothing?

Zhao Zhen stopped, stopped stepping forward, looked at his back for a moment, and said, "Don't dare." In his early years, General Pei made a lot of contributions to the Turks, Nanzhao, and Uighurs, and everyone knows about it. But what Ben Shengjun didn't understand was that General Pei was good at commanding front-line battles, but he came to be an underground guest, which was tantamount to a moth to a fire, what was it for?"

Pei Xingtian said lightly: "You are wrong. Ever since the first day I was the leader of the hidden guards for Taizong, I have always been a guest in the dark. Over the years, I've played different roles, I've had different identities, and even a stand-in. ”

Zhao Zhen suddenly said: "It turns out that when the surprise attack on the Tang Sect that day, Yijian Mei killed just your stand-in. The outside world has always called General Pei 'Red Fox', and it really deserves his name. ”

Pei Xingtian closed his eyes and said, "Pass the prize." Even so, you haven't seen through my identity. ”

Zhao Zhen turned his eyes to the crescent moon outside the window, and said, "It turns out that you have guessed it yourself." If it weren't for Yaksha's reminder, General Pei would have almost gotten through the trick. ”

Pei Xingtian opened his eyes suddenly, and a thousand waves turned up in his heart, and said, "Sure enough, it's a yaksha." ”

Zhao Zhen looked at his side face, his eyes shot a resolute look, and said, "Although this Holy Monarch also respects you very much, since you are a guest of the imperial court, I can't leave you behind." You should know that within the Holy Sect, this Holy Monarch will never allow a guest of the imperial court to exist, there was no one before, and there will be no one in the future, and the four secret agents of the King of Wei are also your fate. It's a pity, it's a pity, a generation of famous generals failed to die in the killing field. ”

Pei Xingtian showed a bitter expression and said, "Who is she?"

Zhao Zhen said: "You want to know?"

Pei Xingtian sighed lightly and said, "I really want to." ”

Zhao Zhen understood his mood, walked to his side, whispered a person's name in his ear, and patted him on the shoulder after speaking.

Weighing as much as a thousand pounds.

Pei Xingtian closed his eyes again weakly, he was shocked and a little afraid.

Yaksha is also a guest without accident.

I have been a guest for so many years, but I didn't expect to be defeated by the hands of the guest.

Those who are good at water drown.

That's right.