After King Shen left, Xiao Yan thought for a while.

If someone wanted to use the sword formation to kill her, it was to calculate a qiqi beforehand, including Wei Chihao's advancement, and the impact of the drums on the Great Zhou Tian Sword Formation when he broke through.

The sound path is really powerful, no wonder although there are few people in the way of music and martial arts, but those who have achieved cultivation are all "big killers". For example, Dugu Jing, although it is not the way of sound killing, but in group battles, he can treat his own injured with his voice, which is equivalent to preparing the Rejuvenation Pill and Blood Rejuvenation Pill at any time, the effect is fast and there are no side effects, everyone is "unable to die", can the enemy not have a headache? A sound attack like Wei Chihao is even more powerful, with her cultivation on the verge of breaking through to the Extreme Realm, she will even be infected by the sound of drums, not to mention those swordsmen who are not as good as her in terms of cultivation?

So Wei Chi Hao......

If you want to doubt, he is the one who doubts first.

But both generals were loyal only to the saints. Just like the Murong family and the Dugu family, because of their identity as a Xianbei family, they have never been involved in the battle for the storage position, and are only loyal to the emperor. Of course, Xiao Yan didn't believe that the saint had murderous intentions towards her, otherwise there would be no need to bother cultivating her so much, and King Shen would not have recommended her to Tiance Academy. Taking a step back, even if the saint wanted to kill her, he would not use Wei Chixiao, who was clearly marked as "the emperor's man".

Xiao Yan got up and paced a few steps in the house, and gradually walked to the flower stand, staring at the beautiful petals of the phalaenopsis unconsciously with his eyes, thinking to himself: There must always be a motive for killing, what is the benefit of killing her?

Only by looking at the source can we peel back the cocoon and speculate the most likely mastermind behind the scenes.

If the purpose of killing her was to intensify the conflict between the royal family and the Xiao family, it would be best to provoke internal strife between Chang'an and Hexi—the most suspicious ones were, of course, Yan Zhou, Oghuz, Turkic Imperial Court, Da Shi, and Euroton, which harbored evil intentions against the Tang Dynasty.

But this is Tiance Academy!

The swordsmen who formed the formation were all children of the clan, and they would collude with foreign countries to provoke civil strife?

This is too unlikely.

Even if the clan is down, they don't expect the Li clan in Longxi to fall from the throne of the imperial family, what they are eager for is to have a greater level of advancement in the Li dynasty, so it is possible to fight inwardly, but they will rarely collude with foreign enemies, unless their brains are in water.

In this way, the mastermind is most likely to come from Datang China.

So will it be the Maison?

Xiao Yan thought to himself, other families with the surname A may not be willing to see the Xiao family produce a martial arts genius, but to assassinate her, this may not be very likely, after all, once it is found out, not only will they have to face the assassination revenge of the Xiao family, which is second only to the martial arts power of the royal family, but that family has also blatantly broken the unspoken rule of "not assassinating children", and it will inevitably be feared by other families and take the opportunity to swarm and suppress - unless the other party can do it seamlessly, and self-confidence cannot be found out behind it.

The most common thing in the family is to borrow a knife to kill people, and if you are willing to make a price, you can also hire Donghai to assassinate and kill people, no matter whether you succeed or not, you can't find your own head.

In addition to the family, the second suspect is King Qi.

In the eyes of King Qi, she has been branded by Li Yuzhen's party, and it is not surprising if King Qi wants to deal with her. Of course, this premise is that King Qi is not dead set on the throne.

Xiao Yan thought about the person of King Qi in her heart, her understanding of King Qi was only a summary of all kinds of heard, not specific, and she could only assume that this premise existed.

If the King of Qi still has plans for the throne, then what is the benefit of killing her for his great plans?

If she dies in Tiance Academy, regardless of whether Wei Chi is suspicious or not, she will be involved, and Murong Jue will also make the Xiao family suspicious because of the untimely rescue, and the planners will also calculate Murong Jue's will definitely make a move at the last moment, and Yu Khotan's Wei Chi clan and Liaodong Murong clan are both loyal to the emperor's family, no matter what the truth of the sword array's plot is, the result will definitely divide the Xiao clan and the saint - even if the King of Qi can't take the opportunity to win over the Xiao clan, it can also make the Xiao clan stand by in the future battle for the throne.

But Xiao Yan thought about it and felt that it was too difficult for King Qi to seize the throne.

After the sage has established the succession of the crown prince and Li Yuzhen, the king of Qi wants to seize the throne, that is, he is rebelling, without the support of Tiance Academy, and without military power, even if the king of Qi succeeds in causing civil strife, how can he usurp the throne?

With the support of the Maison?

But how many families can support King Qi?

The sage has completely established the succession of the crown prince and Li Yuzhen, can the king of Qi still give enough benefits to make these families willing to support him on the charge of rebellion? How much benefit does that have to be? For example, Cui's, Pei's, Xie's, Wang's, and Zhang's are at the forefront of the family surnamed A, I'm afraid they have to seal the territory to be impressed, right?

Xiao Yan sneered lightly in his heart, stretched out his fingers to caress the gorgeous petals of the phalaenopsis, and shook his head.

The possibility of King Qi succeeding in rebellion is too small, and if he extrapolates from this conclusion, King Qi is unwilling and has to accept his fate.

But the ambition of man desires. Hope, how can it fade so easily?

Will King Qi be a wise man who knows he can't do anything, or a heroic man who is desperate and fights?

Xiao Yan's pure black eyes flashed with a cold light, no matter what kind of King Qi was, she always had to watch out for him.

After wiping her hands with a handkerchief, she went out of the reading room, went to the study, polished the ink and laid the paper, and first wrote a letter to her father, recounting the incident and mentioning her suspicions. After the ink is dry, fold the letter and put it in the letter, seal it with fire paint, and put it in the letter box with the lock of the Mojia trap. Tomorrow is February 30, and on the last day of the month, Uncle Xiao Song will usually send Xiao Jisi to receive the letter she wants to send.

Xiao Yan wrote to her mother again. With A-Niang's well-informed information, it is estimated that the matter of being born in Sword Array Lane cannot be hidden from her, so it is better to explain it in advance. But she only elaborated on what happened, and did not mention her suspicions. With A-Niang's wisdom, she will only think deeper than herself. Moreover, King Qi is his mother's brother, and if there is no evidence for his suspicions, he should not be in front of his mother. As for whether Wei Chihao is suspicious, she doesn't need to mention it, King Shen and the saint will definitely find out.

After Xiao Yan finished writing the letter, he hesitated for a moment and decided not to tell Shen Qingyi about this matter.

At this time, Shen Qingyi was in Guangzhou.

After the reward decree and the official edict of the capital arrived in Yangzhou, Shen Lun immediately handed over the follow-up affairs of Yangzhou's epidemic control to Yangzhou Assassin Shi, and temporarily handed over the official duties of Huainan Dongdao to the two deputy envoys stationed outside, so he took the doctors and Taoist pharmacists of the Imperial Medical Department, as well as some doctors of Yangzhou to treat the epidemic, to Quanzhou in the south. In less than two days, he received a second urgent order from the imperial court on the road, saying that a violent epidemic had also broken out in Guangzhou, and Shen Lun was ordered to rescue him in two ways. Shen Lun himself led part of the staff to continue to Quanzhou, and the other way, with the imperial physician Cheng Hu Rulin as the person in charge, led half of the doctors and pharmacists to Guangzhou. Among them, some of the pharmacists of Daomen were led by Zhihe and Zhihuan to Quanzhou, and the other part was led by Dao Xiaozi to Guangzhou, and Shen Qingyi was among the people who went to Guangzhou.

Guangzhou is one of more than a dozen coastal cities, although Quanzhou City has become a rising star in the Zhaozong period, the momentum is pressing, but Guangzhou still occupies the leading position, the prosperity of the state city and the number of households are not inferior to Yangzhou, only the government set up the Fanfang, there are more than 300,000 merchants in Fanfang, including the big food and Persian merchants from the West, there are also merchants from Manchuria, Srivijaya and Linyi, Siam, Shilan and other countries from Nanyang, countless merchants enter and leave the harbor every day, and the plague is from the Fanfang and spread.

When Shen Qingyi and his entourage arrived in Guangzhou, the four cities of Guangzhou had been blocked, but because of some of the reasons, when the city gate was blocked, some of the Shishu people had already fled.

However, the observation made the yamen and the Guangzhou Thorn History Mansion no longer care about the hidden dangers outside, because the epidemic in Guangzhou had already made them anxious: two-thirds of the city's fang districts had epidemics

In just a few days, there have been 30,000 or 40,000 people affected by the epidemic, and the number is increasing every day, including the officials of the government and the government soldiers of the Zhichong Prefecture in Guangzhou have been quarantined by half, and the manpower guarding the quarantine area is strictly insufficient, so they have to transfer troops from the Zhichong Prefecture in Chao, Hui, Lian and other prefectures into the city. However, the soldiers would rather go to the battlefield than go to the epidemic area, even if the defense envoy Yamen issued an order to transfer troops, they must not be disobeyed, and the Zhichong Prefecture only sent twenty or thirty soldiers to the palace on the grounds of setting up an epidemic prevention checkpoint to guard the state. The city of Guangzhou, in the case of a thin army, relied on the sergeant bow. The crossbow shot hundreds of people to shake the rioting crowd, but under the bloody suppression was a surging undercurrent, whether it was the people who were imprisoned and quarantined, or the government soldiers in charge of guarding, there was fear or resentment in their hearts, and the death of despair was already spreading, and when the despair reached the extreme, it was possible to destroy a qiē like a mountain flood rushing to the embankment.

The Lingnan Dongdao Observation made Cui Yanling tired and sick and could not serve as a director, and one of the two deputy observer envoys died of the epidemic, and the other had to be stationed outside the city, so the three chief executives and two officials could not be trapped in the epidemic city, so the heavy responsibility of the epidemic in Guangzhou was pressed on the body of Yu Tingfang, the assassin of Guangzhou.

When Cui Yanling was not sick, as the head of the Cui family surnamed Boling, he could still shake the scene, but Yu Tingfang, who was born with the surname B, was inferior to Cui Yanling in terms of deterrence, especially there are many relatives surnamed A in the city, secretly stirring up the wind and rain, putting pressure on Yu Tingfang, and coercing to let the "healthy people" out of the city, how dare Yu Tingfang release people? Who knows how long the incubation period of the epidemic is, and whether these currently healthy magnates really have not carried the disease? What's more, releasing one person is equivalent to opening a mouth, how can you subdue the hearts of the people in the city? The already irritable undercurrent is likely to pour out like a torrent. Yu Tingfang would rather resist the pressure and offend the lords in the city than dare to let go of this opening. But he can be an iron gatekeeper, but he can't resist the impatience of his subordinates, and he can't tell when someone will collude with the city gate officials to sneak out at night, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Under this internal and external pressure, Yu Tingfang's head turned white by half in just a few days, and he lost more than a dozen pounds, and he couldn't wait to lie down as tired as Cui Yanling. But no matter how tired he is, he has to hold on, as soon as he lies down, Guangzhou will be over, and the crowd will rush out of Lingnan Road, and even harm the neighboring roads...... The Yu family can't afford this consequence!

Yu Tingfang had already prepared for the worst, and sent a secret letter to Song Jideng, the deputy envoy of observation stationed outside the city, with a hanging basket: go out and shoot one person, regardless of background.

When Shen Qingyi and his entourage arrived outside the city of Guangzhou, they saw that the camp tents were one after another, and two-thirds of the soldiers of the entire Lingnan East Province were mobilized here, as well as the temporarily recruited servants, holding bows. The crossbows cruised back and forth, blocking the city of Guangzhou. And the city was already stained with blood, and the dark red blood stains made the officers and soldiers outside the city as if they had been pressed by stones, just like the officers and soldiers on the city. Song Jideng was also like Yu Tingfang outside the city, under pressure: the people in front of him were only sent out to test the waters, their identity was not valuable, and they would be killed if they were killed, but if Yu Tingfang couldn't hold it down, the magnates in the city united to riot, opened the city gate and rushed out, could he really shoot them all? Whether he kills or releases, his career is ruined.

Song Jideng had already locked a stack of notes in the secret box next to his pillow, all of which were handed out by the powerful people in the city: Longxi Li, Lanling Xiao, Qinghe Cui, Hedong Pei, Chen Jun Xie, Wu Jun Zhang, Jing Zhaodu, Fan Yang Lu, Langya Wang...... Except for the Boling Cui clan who did not hand over the note because of Cui Yanling, the twenty-two family surnames, including the royal clan, were like twenty-two mountains, pressing on his head. He eagerly hoped that the imperial court would send a weighty envoy as soon as it received the report, and the responsibility and pressure would be shared.

Therefore, Yangzhou and his entourage came over with the copied edict and Shen Lun's signed order, which was simply a rain from heaven to save people, Song Jideng and Yu Tingfang couldn't help but burst into tears, and said straight in their hearts that God will not abandon me.

Although Shen Lun, the envoy of the imperial order, did not go to Guangzhou in person, and the highest official position of the person who came was only the imperial doctor, this is not important, the important thing is: the plague has been cured! - No important minister is as good as this.

This good news was immediately told to all corners of the city by the beating of gongs and drums from the Assassin's Palace, and the city of Guangzhou, which was shrouded in despair and death, suddenly burst into the spring breeze and regained its vitality, and the embankment that was on the verge of collapse was re-built with dams, and the crisis of the riot was temporarily dissipated.

But the good times didn't last long, and a few days later, the Guangzhou earthquake ......

It is the blessing that is incomparable, and the disaster is not a single line!