Chapter 317: Eve

Li Tengjiao is the name of a literati surnamed Li, he was originally a man in Sichuan, after the Qing army killed, his parents, wife and children all died in the war, only one infant son and he survived, when he was desperate and his young son was about to starve to death, it was Zhu Jingli, the king of Han, who took him in and accepted him as a close staff.

Since following Zhu Jingli, this literati with the same name and different surname as the general He Tengjiao secretly swore that he would do his best for King Han and dedicate all his values.

Therefore, after King Han decided to attack Su Yan in Shandong, Li Tengjiao took the initiative to take over this grim task, swearing that if he did not succeed, he would become a benevolent, if there was no way to kill Su Yan, he would kill himself in Shandong, never return to Nanjing, and expose King Han.

Zhu Jingli was extremely moved, and he also said that he would try his best to raise Li Tengjiao's young son to adulthood, find a good master for him, and cultivate talents, but Li Tengjiao's worries.

In addition to the literati surnamed Wang, who was also a close confidant of King Han, there were also five warriors with superb martial arts backgrounds, all of whom were loyal men who had killed from the north to the south with King Han, and they would also carry out this assassination operation.

For this reason, each of them carried a crossbow and crossbow machine coated with poison with arrows, and their assassination method was determined at the beginning, and they would try to snipe at a distance, as long as they could determine Su Yan's itinerary and ambush him in advance, the success rate would actually reach half.

The remaining half can only depend on the will of heaven, if the will of heaven decides to let them succeed, the five people will shoot at the same time will definitely be able to take Su Yan's life, but if the will of heaven is not on their side, then there is nothing to say.

Kong Xingxie's task is to find out Su Yan's itinerary in advance, he only needs to get these, and what happens after that has nothing to do with him, this is exactly what Kong Xingxie wants, he immediately patted his chest and agreed, and then left the place where Li Tengjiao and his party stayed.

After Kong Xingxie left, a staff member named Wang Shouli came to Li Tengjiao's side, and he and the latter stood behind the windowsill on the second floor, looking at the back of Kong Xingxie and the others leaving in a hurry, and raised his inner question:

"Wenfu, how can you be sure that this Kong Xingxie will not sell us in exchange for Su Yan's pardon?"

"If he was smart enough, he wouldn't have done such a foolish thing that harmed others and himself." Li Tengjiao shook his head and replied, and then he explained to Wang Shouli in his puzzled gaze: "Su Yan will not let him go because he betrayed us, and with my understanding of Su Yan, he will not let the Kong family continue to entrench in Qufu and bring disaster to the people."

The same question also appeared in the mouth of the outer Kong housekeeper next to Kong Xingxie, he also raised the same question, listening to his question, Kong Xingxie didn't think about it, he showed an expression of hatred for iron and steel, and said:

"You have followed me for so many years but you have not made the slightest progress, so how can Su Yan be the one who can be settled by me betraying King Han? If he is really so easy to deal with, how can I be forced to take a risk with the tiger?"

The butler was speechless for a moment by this rhetorical question, so he had to put on a teachable posture, and nodded resignedly to indicate that he had listened.

After returning to the place where he was staying, Kong Xingxie began to think about how to grasp Su Yan's itinerary, Su Yan temporarily lived in the governor's ministry and there were no people from him, and even if he bought the subordinates in the ministry, most of them would not get any results.

Therefore, the only feasible way is to make a fuss outside, let Su Yan leave the heavily guarded governor's headquarters and go to the open street, no matter how powerful the guards around him are, they can't stop the murderous opportunities hidden in all directions.

Kong Xingxie thought about it again and again, but a feasible plan was gradually formed in his mind.

At the same time, Su Yan didn't know that he had fallen into the center of the whirlpool of conspiracy, and he sent Jinyiwei, who had followed him to the north, to go around Qufu County to collect the Kong family's accusations of stealing and bullying men and women over the years, and strive to solve the behemoth of the Kong family in this place within a month.

However, it seems that the Kong family has long taken precautions against this, and the Jinyi Wei who infiltrated Qufu has been investigating for many days but has never collected relevant crimes, and the inquiries about the locals have also been touched, and the local people seem to be very afraid to talk about this kind of thing, as soon as they hear that it is about the Confucian Mansion,

Immediately, his face changed drastically, and he hid far away.

Not only that, not long after the Jinyi guards touched their noses, a large group of people wearing the costumes of the Confucian family ran towards them with weapons, obviously menacing and ill-intentioned, and the Jinyi guards also knew that they couldn't fight each other, so they hurriedly fled the boundary of Qufu County and came back to report the matter to Su Yan.

The reason why the people of the Confucian Mansion were so arrogant was nothing more than getting Kong Xingxie's instructions - he ordered people to return to Qufu overnight, and ordered the servants and servants of the family to attack the outsiders who appeared in Qufu to inquire and had suspicious appearances, hoping to intensify the conflict and let Su Yan go to Qufu in person.

Through the reports of the Jinyi guards, Su Yan became more aware of the local power of the Confucian family in Qufu County, and he originally wanted to ban the Confucian Mansion by more moderate means, but now the arrogance of the Confucian Mansion has successfully made him feel dissatisfied.

Therefore, on the twenty-fifth day of April of the second year of the prison state, Su Yan ordered Zhang Huangyan to stay in Jinan Mansion, and he personally led the army to leave Jinan Mansion and go to Yanzhou to suppress the bandits under the pretext that there was a bandit in Yanzhou Mansion.

Su Yan's decision was not deliberately concealed, and soon the city was full of turmoil, and the common people simply believed that Su Yan's trip was to pacify the bandits, and they were full of praise for Su Yan, but Kong Xingxie and other Kong family members knew very well that it was the actions of the Confucian family that successfully alarmed Su Yan, and he wanted to destroy the Confucian Mansion in this trip, but he was actually preparing to attack the Confucian Mansion directly.

In addition to worrying in his heart, Kong Xingxie hurriedly found Li Tengjiao again, but the latter had a calm and breezy appearance, he softly calmed Kong Xingxie's emotions, and said confidently: "Yan Shenggong, please rest assured, the contemptible people have already set up an ambush, so that Su Yan will die in the city before he leaves the city."

"What are you going to do?" Kong Xingxie asked worriedly.

The arrow was ready, but he was still full of worries, because he still didn't know whether these people were skilled or not.

"We don't bother with this, we are fully prepared, we just need to stay at home and wait for the good news that we are waiting for."

Where can Kong Xingxie really calm down and wait for news, but he didn't pull down the shelf and argue with the other party, turned around and returned to the place where he stayed, while sending someone to monitor the movements of Li Tengjiao and his party, and also pay attention to the situation in the city and when Su Yan will leave.

Two days later, on the twenty-seventh day of April, Su Yan officially set out, and he decided to set off with the soldiers and horses of the First Brigade of the Third Town and the Guards Regiment.

When he set off, Su Yan set off from the governor's ministry on horseback, and then joined the soldiers and horses outside the city, and he went out of the city under the escort of the general's guards and some of the guards infantry, walking on the main road, and the people on both sides stopped curiously to watch, vying to see the rumored high king of Chu in prison.