"It's impossible for the Sheng Man family to disappear for no reason." Jiang Rong's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, and he said firmly: "And even if they are afraid that Benhou will be unfavorable to them, it is impossible for a family of five to leave Fujian without knowing it!"

Zhu Qi's face was also extremely solemn at this moment: "You mean Sheng Man confessed in the edict?"

"I don't rule it out." Jiang Rong nodded and said: "Sheng Man's ancestor is the family member of the Dingxi Hou Mansion, and there is no doubt about his loyalty, but what kind of place is the edict prison, and it is not impossible for Sheng Man to betray us if he is tortured."

Zhu Qi's eyes flashed and said: "In Benhou's opinion, Sheng Man can't survive the punishment, and finally compromised, and an agreement was reached with the emperor!"

"What agreement?"

"Protect his family!" Zhu Qi said coldly: "According to Benhou's opinion, Sheng Man should not have betrayed us at this time, otherwise, Jin Yiwei would have come to the door a long time ago, and the most direct reason why Sheng Man did not betray us should be to see his family, and then ask the emperor to pardon his family's sins, and at that time, it is estimated that Sheng Man will explain all the estimates."

Jiang Rong trembled lightly and said, "That...... So what to do? ”

"When did the Sheng Man family go missing?"

"A month ago." Jiang Rong said in a deep voice: "Ben Hou is worried about leaking the news, so he has been prohibiting the people of the Hou Mansion from contacting the ancestral house in the countryside, in the final analysis, even the ancestral house, including the Sheng family itself, does not know where Sheng Man went, and now the Sheng family has suddenly disappeared, it is very likely that it is the hand of Jinyiwei!"

Zhu Qi trembled and asked: "It has been more than half a year since the assassination of the Dog Emperor to today, why did the Sheng family disappear only a month ago, could it be that Sheng Man spent several months of torture in the Imperial Prison and was about to die before deciding to compromise?"

"The reason for this, Ben Hou does not know." Jiang Rong shook his head and said: "It's a long way from Fujian to the capital, but if it's really Jinyiwei who finds the opportunity to rob people, I'm afraid there will be some premeditation, but anyway, one thing is certain, that is, Jinyiwei already knows about the assassination of the Dog Emperor, and he can't get rid of it, maybe the Dog Emperor already knows."

"This possibility is not impossible, so how does Brother Jiang plan to deal with it!"

Jiang Rong gritted his teeth and said: "Ben Hou Zu has fought for the Ming Dynasty in a bloody battle no matter what, no matter how vicious the Dog Emperor is, it is impossible to uproot the Dingxi Hou Mansion for no reason, he needs evidence, Sheng Man is his only evidence, and the key to Sheng Man's opening is his family, Ben Hou thinks that he can be robbed and killed halfway!"

Zhu Qi nodded after thinking for a while: "After arresting the Sheng Man family, Brother Jiang has been exposed, so most of the Dingxi Hou Mansion has also been monitored by Jinyi Guard, fortunately, you and my brother have opened this passage, otherwise I am afraid that even Benhou will not be able to escape, but since he wants to rob the road and kill people, then Benhou is duty-bound!"

Jiang Rong agreed, and then said in a condensed voice: "But since Brother Zhu has not been exposed, then he should also think of a way out after robbing the road, to be honest, Benhou has long been on guard against the Dog Emperor, once Jinyiwei comes to the door, the whole family will immediately take poison, so as not to be unbearable and confess Brother Zhu."

"Good brother, good man." Zhu Qi laughed, took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and said: "Don't hide it from the virtuous brother, my brother I have already prepared, and the old and young in the family are also ready, assassinating the dog emperor, this matter is too big, as long as it is exposed, it will not be a Ling Chi, but it is better to solve it yourself!"

The two laughed, and at this moment, they heard the bell ringing, and their faces changed, this bell is a means for the outside world to notify the secret passage, and generally there is no urgent matter that will not be pulled, and it rang at this time, which suddenly gave the two of them an ominous premonition.

Without hesitation, Zhu Qi and Jiang Rong nodded to each other, and quickly returned to their respective Hou Mansions.

"Where is Dingxi Hou!" Yan Tianyuan led hundreds of Jinyi guards to rush into the Dingxi Hou Mansion with murderous spirits.

"My grandfather is in the study, and he has already been announced, so I have come to greet the commander." The housekeeper of the Dingxi Hou Mansion replied cautiously.

Yan Tianyuan snorted and waved his hand, and hundreds of brocade guards suddenly blocked the water around the Dingxi Hou Mansion.

As Jiang Rong calculated, Sheng Man didn't see his family, so he naturally wouldn't confess, but it doesn't matter if he confesses or not, because the Sheng family is the hermit of Dingxi Hou, so Sheng Man is naturally the dead man of Dingxi Hou!

In other words, Dingxi Hou must be the black hand who planned to assassinate the emperor, but I don't know if there is only one black hand or if there is other conspiracy.

However, Dingxihou couldn't escape, so Dingxihou was arrested and tortured, if there was, he would naturally take it together.

Jiang Rong hurriedly returned to the study, and learned that Yan Tianyuan, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, led hundreds of Jinyi Guards to the door, and his face suddenly turned pale!

In fact, Jiang Rong expected this day after learning that Sheng Man's family was missing, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

Jiang Rong didn't know why Yan Tianyuan didn't have the vicious Da Suo Dingxi Hou Mansion when he came to the door, but he knew that his time was running out, so he hurriedly returned to the back house, called all his wives and concubines, and children, and then said in a deep voice: "The East Window Incident, the destruction of the Dingxi Hou Mansion is inevitable, if the men of the Hou Mansion don't want to die miserably, if the women don't want to be charged into the Jiaofang Division, they will commit suicide."

"Master Hou." Dingxi Hou's wife Feng Shi rushed over and hugged Jiang Rong's thigh with a miserable cry: "Master Hou, it's not a pity that the concubine died, but Yun'er is still young, he is only five years old!"

Jiang Rong ignored his wife, looked at his concubines and shouted: "You are not dead yet, do you have to wait for Benhou to do it!"

Several concubines wept and wailed, and finally unwillingly took out the porcelain bottle that had already been carried and swallowed the venom in the bottle.

"Are you afraid of death?" Jiang Rong said to several of his children: "Father knows that you are afraid of death, but father told you, there are more terrible things in this world than death, you don't die now, and you will only live better than die later, they all say that tiger poison does not eat children, but what was committed for the father is the great crime of exterminating the nine clans, and now the clansmen can't take care of it, and the father can only watch you go on the road with his own eyes, don't be afraid, the father will come later."

"Father." Several children cried heartbreakingly, but in the end, in Jiang Ei's cold eyes, they drank the venom one by one, vomited blood and died, leaving only Jiang Yun.

It's not that Jiang Yun is afraid of death, it's that he doesn't understand anything at all, and he doesn't have poison on his body.

"That's it, that's it." Jiang Rong sighed and walked to his son's side and said: "Emperor Jiajing is a benevolent king, I hope he can let my son live, blame my father for being blinded by lard and embarking on this road of no return, madam......"

Feng smiled with relief and drank the venom directly.

Jiang Rong took out the porcelain bottle from his arms, uncorked it, and sat down among the corpses on the ground, waiting for the last moment......

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