When approaching Qipan Street, the Jinyi guard who led the way slowed down his horse speed in advance, and when he turned into the alley, the three of them got off the horse.

"Madam, the mansion in front of you is the Ma Mansion?"

As soon as Zheng Haizhu said "um", another brocade guard shrugged lightly, motioning for his companion to talk to Mrs. Zheng.

He seemed to be listening, and after a moment he spoke in a low voice, "Just now, I seemed to hear the sound of a knife coming out of its sheath. ”

After he finished speaking, he and his companions drew out embroidered spring knives.

As the sun approached, the autumn moon became a thin tooth bend, and the light offered to the earth was really limited, and the surroundings were dark and dreary.

The lantern hanging at the gate of the horse mansion in the distance guides the visitors who are suddenly vigilant and leads the horses forward.

Suddenly, there was a sudden movement on both sides, the tiles were clattering, the branches were swaying, and five or six black shadows were either jumping down or flashing out of the clouds, and in an instant, the road before and after the three of them was blocked.

It is common for Jin Yiwei to handle cases after the curfew, and his night vision naturally surpasses ordinary people.

The brocade clothes and Wei Xiaoqi who escorted Zheng Haizhu have already been identified, and these people who intercepted the road halfway are all wearing all kinds of cloth clothes, unlike the nursing home members who are all uniform.

But what is the boundary of Qipan Street in the capital? It won't be bandits.

Xiaoqi then said in a deep voice: "Jinyi Wei is on an errand, get out of the way." ”

Among the roadblockers, a man who seemed to be the leader did not answer immediately, and stepped forward directly.

Xiaoqi and his companions were about to protect Zheng Haizhu with a knife, when the man suddenly spoke: "Miss Zheng? ”

There was more surprise in his tone than in Sen Ran.

Zheng Haizhu had already held the steel chisel for self-defense with one hand, and the fire fold that Liu Qiao gave her with the other.

At this moment, he took out the fire and blew it up, and shone it on the man, and the memories of the past came flooding up in his mind.

"Are you, Brother Ma Biao?"

Zheng Haizhu recognized him, it was when Li Guozhu and the Spaniards were fighting at sea that year, Ma Xianglin's pawn named Ma Biao.

But since leaving Taiwan, Zheng Haizhu has reunited with Ma Xianglin several times, but he has never seen this Ma Biao again.

Ma Biao inserted the knife back into the leather sheath on his waist and bowed his hand: "Mrs. Zheng and Jinyiwei are on an errand together, what is the matter?" ”

The "Miss Zheng" that Fang had just blurted out was changed to "Mrs. Zheng", and the tone was respectful, but there was an unusual scrutiny in this question, and Zheng Haizhu felt that something was wrong.

She then said lightly: "Are you and these brothers still General Ma's pawns now?" Are you in a nursing home? But he was a hundred steps outside the hospital, and he didn't go in at night, why did he do it? ”

Ma Biao was stunned.

After he went to Shanhaiguan to report to Ma Xianglin, he knew more and more that Zheng Haizhu was still a close friend of the young master, and the young master was full of disdain for the surname Zhu to marry this woman, and he would definitely not allow his subordinates to act rudely to him.

But the message he got from Liu Shimin at dusk, combined with the situation in front of him, made Ma Biao quickly flash a thought in his mind: At least two brocade guards must be killed, and then Miss Zheng will be handed over to the young master, right?

He was about to call everyone to kill in the stone and earth language, when he heard a female voice behind him who was not angry and arrogant shouted: "Why are you making a noise here? ”

Ma Biao doesn't have to look back to know who it is.

Oops, it's still alarmed General Qin who is in the dark!

The frightened and embarrassed coolness had not yet rushed to the heavenly spirit cover, and the sound of horses' hooves faintly came from the direction of Qipan Street outside the alley.

……

Ma Xianglin counted the time, and after only two days in the northern suburbs of the capital, he was sure that his mother Qin Liangyu had entered the city.

He deliberately picked the midnight after the curfew and rushed home, and when he saw his mother, there were Zheng Haizhu and two brocade guards standing beside him, and his brothers who were secretly around the house also appeared, and his brain couldn't help but "buzz".

Qin Liangyu's eyesight and brain power, which had been cultivated in the midst of rapid changes, instantly discovered and realized that what was even more wrong than the scene a moment ago was that Ma and Zheng both had a strange feeling of not knowing who spoke first when they met each other.

This situation is very different from the time when she was in Miss Zheng's Songjiang school.

Qin Liangyu, who was tall and unarmed, still exuded a god-like majesty in the dark night.

"I was accustomed to marching in front of me, and I also lay on the ground here, and when I heard the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps, I went out of the house to see. Miss Azhu, do you want to move to the house to talk? ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "Okay, but these two officials can't leave me." ”

Ma Xianglin also concealed the surging feelings in his heart, and coldly instructed Ma Biao: "Tie up the horses, the other brothers will return to their positions, and you will follow me into the house." ”

A few people entered the house, and Ma Xianglin shouted in a deep voice and dismissed the housekeeper who came to inquire with sleepiness, and went straight to the study in the inner hall.

Ma Biao and the two brocade guards stopped outside the threshold.

When Zheng Haizhu closed the door, he heard Qin Liangyu's words that had become soft: "Xianglin, Sichuan and Qian are in a hurry, originally, even if Feng Yi is born, I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up, and the guardian of the country and the loving mother of the children cannot be both." Unexpectedly, the children under his command fought for anger and put down the rebellion of Yang Yinglong's old department so quickly. When I entered the house today, Feng Yi said that her stomach was throbbing and aching. I think it should be that the uterus began to contract, but it was calm again, and I fell asleep before the dawn. When my mother gave birth to your eldest sister, she was like this. ”

Mother's blunt chatter is completely inconsistent with her temper. Ma Xianglin's heart softened, forced out a little smile, answered his mother, and lowered his head to untie the robe on his body.

Through the lamps and candles in the house, Zheng Haizhu saw that there was still a pair of weapons hanging on his waist, cowhide grips, and the front end was a sharp blade like a lance, shining with cold light.

The armor is also complete, as if it has just come down from the battlefield.

Qin Liangyu said to Zheng Haizhu again: "Miss Zheng, Feng Yi told me that after Xianglin went to Shanhaiguan, you often came to see her and comforted her. After all, she is the firstborn, and no matter how tigerish a girl is, she is inevitably a little afraid. Xianglin, we would like to thank Miss Zheng. ”

Ma Xianglin finally raised his head, glanced at Zheng Haizhu, looked away, and said slowly: "Mrs. Zheng, what's the urgency to bring Jinyi Wei here tonight?" ”

Zheng Haizhu tightened his brows, closed his eyes and sighed deeply, and after a while, he said bluntly: "General Qin, Xianglin, Ma Xuanfu was framed by Qiu Chengyun's eunuch, but he didn't kill him." The one who killed Ma Xuanfu was the descendant of Emperor Jianwen who went overseas after the Battle of Jingjing, and he is now in Beijing. ”

"Smack......

The lights on the table exploded, and the strange silence of the mother and son in the room was speechless.

Then, Qin Liangyu stepped back, sat down on the chair, and looked at Zheng Haizhu in a daze: "Miss Zheng, this is, has the court finally found out?" ”

Ma Xianglin's breath suddenly became urgent, and his cheeks were also in the candlelight, showing a hideousness that Zheng Haizhu had never seen.

He approached in a few steps, and Zheng Haizhu could even feel the cold night frost on his armor that had not yet dissipated.

"Azhu, who do you say?" The sound is like a whispering beast.

"Descendants of Emperor Jianwen."

"Impossible."

How Zheng Haizhu hoped that her guess was groundless, but the three words she was most afraid of hearing tonight still came out of Ma Xianglin's mouth.

At first glance, when he heard the new answer to the mystery of Ma Xuanfu's death, his reaction was so different from that of his mother!

"Xianglin, whether they are really Jianwen bloodline or not, but Ma Xuanfu was indeed killed by them. They began to sneak back to Daming very early, and when Uncle Ma was unjustly imprisoned, they became the target of their solicitation, but the court suddenly issued a pardon, and they killed Uncle Ma. If you don't believe it, tomorrow, no, today, we will go and ......."

"Shut up! Say no more! ”

Ma Xianglin smashed his fist on the desk, then turned around, opened the door of the house with a "bang", and rushed to the courtyard.

In the faint morning light of the last hour, the desperate young general, like a dead leaf swept up by the wind, swirled, and finally staggered to hold on to the loquat tree in the corner, gasped for a few breaths, and began to smash his fist into the trunk again.

Zheng Haizhu rushed over.

Even in the midst of his sudden madness, this dear friend did not roar heartbreakingly.

But his mournful whispers were more heart-wrenching than his already bleeding left fist.

"Brutes, all brutes. Those brutes killed my father, and I helped them do it, and I'm a brute too! ”

Zheng Haizhu stretched out his hand, grabbed Ma Xianglin's fist, and didn't know where he got the strength, grabbed his shoulder pad, and forced him to turn half of it, facing his distorted face, and said word by word: "Being deceived and used by treacherous people, not a beast." Who can know everything like a god all the time, and see through everything at a glance? Xianglin, my firearms factory, is also their prey, and I, too, have been used. But I'm not a brute. None of us are! ”

Ma Xianglin's bloody fist hung down, his mouth slightly open, and his gaze was distracted.

Zheng Haizhu heard Qin Liangyu's voice behind him: "Xianglin, you really have been hiding something from your mother." ”

(End of chapter)