Late at night, Cao's study.

Cao Yong was holding an official document in his hand, and was about to write down instructions, when the hand holding the pen suddenly paused, he noticed the abnormality in the house, looked up, and saw a middle-aged man in a black mask standing with his hands in his hands, standing in the room and looking at himself.

When a person dressed like this came into the study of the prefect of a state, someone else must have already shouted: There is an assassin!!

Cao Yong just glanced at the other party, and continued his actions, he handled more than a dozen official documents successively, and the man in black just watched quietly, without bothering him.

After settling all the official documents that had not been processed during the day, Cao Yong rubbed his eyebrows lightly and said, "I guessed that you would come to me, you must have already met, right?" ”

The man in black said, "I asked my father-in-law where he was going, but he didn't say, so I had to come and ask you." ”

Cao Yong: "Mr. is going to Jinzhou." ”

"Jinzhou?" The man in black frowned, "Why?" ”

Cao Yong knew everything: "He suspected that someone was smuggling armaments to the north by sea, and he wanted to confirm it in person." ”

The man in black was a little displeased: "It's a long journey, didn't you stop him?" ”

Cao Yong said angrily: "Just Mr.'s temper, can you stop it?" ”

The man in black was silent, he knew his father-in-law better than Cao Yong, and was speechless about Cao Yong's words.

After being silent for a long time, the two middle-aged men scolded in their hearts at the same time: old and stubborn.

"Does he have anything else to tell you?" The man in black asked tentatively.

Cao Yong then remembered the letter that Sun Qihao gave him during the day, and the secret letter written by Wei Chi Yangfeng, the commander of the Jin army, to the political envoy of the Northwest Province.

He got up and went to the bookshelf, and pressed down one of the books called "The Book of Heavenly Food", and the hidden compartment on the wall next to the bookshelf was opened, and the letter lay inside.

Cao Yong took out the letter, turned around and said, "This is given to me by Mr. during the day, you can take a look." ”

The man in black walked straight up to him, took the letter, opened the envelope and took out a few pages, looked at him and saw that his eyes were already full of killing intent, and said angrily: "No wonder our army has suffered heavy losses on the front line, it turns out that Liu Pingshan, a dog thief, has been leaking military information!" ”

Suddenly, he was in a trance, and felt that something was wrong: "No, with Liu Pingshan's personality, there is no need for Wei Chi Yangfeng to personally go down to contact him." ”

He seemed to realize something, and when that thought met Cao Yong's gaze, he got a confirmed answer: "King Ning?!" ”

After the man in black learned that it was King Ning who betrayed the country behind his back and buried tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jing army, his reaction was the same as Cao Yong in the daytime.

Feeling angry, ridiculous, and unbelievable.

The prince of a dynasty, even if he has the intention of rebellion, how can he collaborate with the enemy and betray the country? With King Ning's old scheming, how could he not know that he was luring the wolf into the house? On the day when the Jin army's farrier crushes the capital, will he be allowed to ascend to the throne as emperor?

Cao Yong sighed: "I can't believe it either, but the truth is right in front of me, and from the information given by Mr., it is inferred that King Ning has colluded with the Jin Kingdom three years ago, do you remember what I said just now?" Mr. suspects that someone is smuggling armaments to the Jin Kingdom, you are one of the ten commanders of the guilty Changge, you should know that you can use three years to quietly smuggle enough armaments and materials to support hundreds of thousands of troops, in Jingguo, except for Your Majesty, who has such great ability? Who is Qin Guangrong, the secretary of the military department today? ”

The man in black gritted his teeth and said, "I should have killed him with a knife in the first place!! ”

He is talking about the assassination of Sun Qihao eight years ago, that has been plotted for a long time, Sun Qihao was originally a mortal situation, in order to witness this moment, King Ning even came to the scene to observe, even if he was recognized, he disdained.

However, the result was that although the shadow guards responsible for protecting Sun Qihao were killed and wounded, and three of the five commanders present at the time died, but under the desperate protection of the remaining two commanders, Sun Qihao finally escaped.

The man in black is one of the two commanders, and the other is the love of his life, but unfortunately she died of serious injuries not long after breaking through, and passed away, leaving only one of the five people.

He wanted to ask his father-in-law to impeach King Ning for this matter, but his father-in-law shook his head and said that there was no evidence, and then he wanted to sneak into King Ning's mansion to assassinate, but he was also stopped by Sun Qihao, how could the other party be defenseless, if he really went, he would only go and never return, and in the end, no matter whether he was alive or dead, King Ning would take him to the emperor to bite Sun Qihao and murder the prince.

The sense of defeat that knew that there was no hope of revenge was wrapped in the pain of losing his loved ones, which made him sink deeper and deeper, becoming more and more depressed, and finally exiled himself to the place of Qingzhou.

The man in black was in a state of mind at the moment, like cooking oil on fire, extremely tormented, every time he thought of that period of time, he had to experience the pain of his heart like a knife, and now he knew that King Ning had committed such a crime, and regretted that he should have fought for his life in the first place, and slashed him with a sword!

Looking at the man's painful eyes, Cao Yong could only shake his head.

Although he had never seen the face under this man's mask, he also knew something about the events of the past, after all, in addition to Sun Qihao's reasons, two of the three commanders who died were his old acquaintances, and they were also the only commanders he had seen in the true sense, that is, Tang Xiaoyu's parents, Tang Gufan, and Yang Hui.

As for the true identities and appearances of the other commanders, Cao Yong didn't know anything, including the man in front of him, if it weren't for the letter sent by Sun Qihao back then, it would be difficult for him to trust this man who always hid himself under a mask.

After learning about this man's story, Cao Yong knew very well how heavy the things he was carrying,

"Let the past pass, our priority now is to collect evidence that Liu Pingshan and King Ning colluded with the Northern Jin Dynasty, if you really want to take revenge, you should cheer up." Cao Yong said.

Man in Black: "What are you going me to do?" ”

Cao Yong: "Can you still mobilize the shadow guards and dark piles in Qingzhou?" ”

The man in black shook his head: "The father-in-law ordered the entire Guilty Long Song to go underground, only a few shadow guards are still operating, but they are only in one-line contact with the father-in-law, are there still shadow guards in Qingzhou City so far, how many?" I don't know any of this, the only one I can mobilize is myself, and the other commanders are the same. ”

Cao Yong's face was embarrassed: "Mr. said that in two months, the Northern Jin Dynasty and Liu Pingshan will take action, but what they will do is unknown, I wanted to trouble you to mobilize the shadow guard to investigate, but now it seems that this road will not work." ”

"You can ask the city servants of the Street Division to form a secret investigation team and disperse to Dingzhou and Qizhou." The man in black proposed.

Cao Yong frowned: "If it was before, maybe I would agree, but now, it's not appropriate." ”

The man in black wondered, "Why?" ”

Cao Yong: "Du Mingtang transferred people from the street divisions of Dingzhou and Qizhou on the grounds of lack of manpower in Qingzhou, and I suspect that he also transferred to King Ning's sect and deliberately clamped me down." ”

The man in black raised his eyebrows: "Maybe he just thinks that he is short of manpower, but you think too much?" ”

Cao Yong waved his hand and said: "You have to be guarded, now there are many people in the yamen of the Street Division who have become Liu Pingshan's minions, and I can't trust the Street Division anymore." ”

The man in black opened his mouth, hesitated, and then held back what he wanted to say.

The two fell into a dull atmosphere, and the man in black suddenly spoke: "Where is the young man brought by my father-in-law?" ”

Cao Yong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I arranged him in the other courtyard that Humble Jing frequented before his death, and he was an interesting young man. ”

Man in Black: "Interesting? ”

Cao Yong: "Well, although the contact is not deep, he gives me the feeling that it is really interesting, he is a prankster with a bottom line, knows right from wrong, attaches great importance to feelings, and dares to speak up." ”

This is Cao Yong's opinion of him after contacting Wang Ling after a day.

Then he added: "By the way, he seems to be good at fist and foot skills, and today more than a dozen nursing homes in my house have been fighting with him for a long time, and he put down seven of them, which made the people of Qingzhou laugh." ”

After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh himself.

These details had already been reported to the man in black during the day, but he hurried to see Sun Qihao and ignored most of the information about Wang Ling.

"Do you know martial arts?" In the eyes of the man in black, being able to fight more than a dozen ordinary people alone is the strength of the Qi Refining Realm.

Cao Yong shook his head and said: "Although I don't practice martial arts, I am the prefect of a state, and I have seen a few martial arts cultivators, I have not seen his path, and he is more like an ordinary person who knows how to do kung fu." ”

The man in black pondered for a moment and said, "It's me who has a preconceived idea. ”

The top ten commanders of the guilty Changge are all martial arts cultivators with extremely high combat power, and Wang Ling is the person next to Sun Qihao, which makes him subconsciously think that the other party is a martial artist.

The man in black: "In addition to what you said above, does my father-in-law have any other explanations?" ”

Cao Yong shook his head: "No, that's all." ”

"I will be responsible for the investigation of the plan of the Northern Jin Dynasty and Liu Pingshan, and I will leave." The man in black turned around and swept out of the door, flew on the roof and walked on the wall, and disappeared from Cao Yong's sight.

Seeing that the direction of his departure was his own courtyard, Cao Yong smiled knowingly, and returned to the table with his hand, he looked at the official documents that had been approved, and the top one was about the bandits in Qingzhou.

Cao Yong sighed and muttered, "It's really eventful." ”

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Annex.

Wang Ling was lying on the bed with his head in his hands, and after the old grandson left, he always felt as if something was missing, and suddenly there was no ugly snoring, and he couldn't sleep.

In the middle of the night, Wang Ling couldn't help but recall the past, he was a platoon commander of Longyan's special forces, when he was on a mission at the border, the team he led was ambushed, in order to cover his teammates, he was shot several times, fell to the ground and was dying, and his consciousness gradually became blurred, and finally fell into darkness.

With the injuries at that time, he should have died, but now that he has come to this world, has he really crossed over, or is it a dream after returning to the light?

Did you really cross over? Is there really a time crossing in this world? He has always scoffed at the time-traveling plots that are only available in novels and film and television dramas, and he only thinks it is ridiculous.

But if it is a dream, why is the experience of the past three months so real?

Just when he was feeling a thousand sorrows, his heart suddenly jumped, he looked at the door vigilantly, slowly lifted the quilt covering his body, and walked to the door lightly with his body bowed.

Stretched out one hand and slowly reached for the deadbolt, while the other hand hung honestly on his chest.

The moment his fingertips touched the deadbolt, he jerked it open, quickly opening the door and assuming a fighting stance.

However, there was nothing outside the door, and Wang Ling unwillingly poked his head out and scanned the entire courtyard as fast as he could, but still found nothing.

Wang Ling put away his fighting posture, showed relaxation, picked up the deadbolt that fell to the ground, and muttered in a low voice, "Is it my delusion?" ”

And in the next second, his eyes instantly became sharp, and the deadbolt in his hand was thrown above his head.

The uninvited guest on the roof reached out and grabbed the oncoming hidden weapon, and threw it into the yard.

"It's kind of interesting, I'm obviously an ordinary person with no qi fluctuations, how did you find me?"

Wang Ling: "It's just intuition. ”

"Excellent instincts." The man in black in the mask praised him, took a step forward and jumped off the roof, and fell to the ground lightly under Wang Ling's stunned gaze.

Wang Ling frowned and said, "Light work? ”

"Sort of."

Wang Ling: "Looking for me?" ”

The man in black said in a flat tone, "Is there anyone else here?" ”

Wang Ling, who was stunned by this person's words, was speechless, he was a little confused, except for the former housekeeper of the Cao Mansion and the two porters whose legs were broken by him, he didn't seem to have offended anyone, judging from the skills that this person had just shown, it didn't look like a thug that those three people could invite.

Since I couldn't figure it out, I could only ask myself, "What is the matter with me?" ”

"Why don't you guess for yourself?"

What the are you...... What about playing pantomime with me in the middle of the night? Wang Ling scolded secretly in his heart.

He said angrily: "If you have something to say, if you have a fart, let it go, get out of it after you finish, Lao Tzu will still go to work tomorrow morning!" ”

"Going to work?" The man in black was unfamiliar with this word and did not understand the meaning of the royal order.

"Oh, it's Shangya." I don't know where he got his mood, but he actually explained, "Do you have anything to say?" If you have something to say, let's leave if you have nothing to do, standing on someone's roof at night, don't you have to go to work? ”

The man in black subconsciously answered, "I want to go up." ”

Wang Ling raised his bandaged stump arm and said, "I'm a wounded now, you'd better not ink, just say what is going on with me, if you don't say it, I'll go in and sleep." ”

The man in black said, "You, aren't you worried that I'm here to kill you?" ”

Wang Ling was a little impatient, and said angrily: "Although I don't know where you came from, if you are here to kill me, you should do it the moment I open the door, but I can probably guess your identity now, as for the reason why you are looking for me, I haven't thought of it yet, or you will tell me directly?" It also allows me to sleep soundly. ”

"Oh? Guess where I came from? Let me hear if you're right, I'm telling you what I'm here for. They had only met once, and he didn't quite believe that Wang Ling knew his identity.

Wang Ling rolled his eyes and said: "You said it yourself, you also have to go to work, then you must be someone from the yamen, who appeared near the Qingzhou prefect's mansion late at night, and had no ill will towards me, most of them were sent by Lord Cao." ”

The man in black's eyes flashed slightly, but he didn't expect that after a short moment of contact, this young man had already explored half of himself.

"You were testing me just now?"

Wang Ling laughed playfully: "Say to each other, why are you looking for me?" ”

The man in black: "Cao Yong said that you are an interesting person, I want to come and see." ”

Wang Ling asked, "How do you feel after reading it?" ”

"It's really funny." The man in black bowed.

"Then you can get out, I'm going back to sleep." After Wang Ling finished speaking, he strode into the house.

The man in black: "Interesting is interesting, but I don't know how to be polite." ”

This is in addition to the four-word comment given earlier.

Wang Ling waved his hand with his back to him and said, "Who would say politeness to a guy who came uninvited in the middle of the night, good night, uncle." ”

After entering the house, Wang Ling suddenly turned around and said to him: "Oh yes, just call Cao Yong's name to you just now, and your identity must not be lower than Cao Yong, I am very curious about your true face under that mask, if I know which yamen you are in the future, I will visit you another day, oh yes, remember to go back and rest early, I have to go to work tomorrow." ”

After saying that, he closed the door with a bang, and really went back to sleep.

Man in Black: "......"

He was a little stunned, and he had a feeling that his emotions couldn't keep up with the other party's rhythm.

At the beginning of the fight, he locked Wang Ling with his qi machine, wanting to test whether he was really just an ordinary person who knew how to do kung fu with a few fists and feet, as Cao Yong said, but he was obviously not affected, but he couldn't see any signs of him urging the qi in his body to break the blockade, which made him very puzzled.

The point is that not only did he not seem to take advantage of the whole process, but he also seemed to fall behind in the verbal exchange.

The man in black looked at the closed door and smiled helplessly, since the other party didn't want to talk more, he just didn't like to be sociable.

That being the case, let's do it for now, after all... Do you still have to go to work······ The man in black frowned, feeling fresh and not too fond of this newly learned vocabulary, how many people like to go to work?

He got up and swept over the eaves and disappeared into the night.

After confirming that the man left, Wang Lingcai, who was lying on the bed, breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little afraid, Fang Cai's relaxed posture was all pretended by him, if it weren't for the other party coming with kindness, he would have been a corpse now.

This was the first time he had seen the so-called master, although the man had never made a move, but just standing there, Wang Ling felt extremely stressed, and the hairs on his whole body stood up and trembled.

That palpitation, only when he was on a mission for the first time.

If it weren't for his professional training and excellent psychological quality, Wang Ling would never have been able to hide his inner panic and pretend to be relaxed.

If the man in black knew that his move of using his qi machine to test was not ineffective, but that Wang Lingqiang pretended to come through, he would probably be depressed for a while.

Wang Ling is not surprised that there are martial arts masters in this world, Lao Sun Tou had talked to him about the martial arts cultivation of this world before, and he asked at that time: Is there a land immortal who can open the gate of heaven with a sword?

The old grandson scolded him for reading too much in his brain, and at most he could beat some more than ordinary people.

This made Wang Ling a little disappointed, he felt that he was quite capable of fighting, so he simply didn't take it too seriously.

Now that he really met one, which is summed up in the sentence 'more than ordinary people can fight'? Just by standing there, he couldn't muster up the courage to resist.

Recalling that the man in black landed as lightly as a fallen leaf just now, and the feeling of oppression that made the hairs stand on end, Wang Ling was both excited and curious.

"Really, just to come and see? Who is he? Wang Ling couldn't help frowning and thinking.

For this man who suddenly appeared, he had a lot of doubts in his heart, but the invisible pressure at that time made him just want to escape, and every hair of his hair seemed to remind him to run away, run away, which made him not interested in asking questions at all.

Wang Ling thought about it and fell asleep.