Three days after Xue Huaiyi's ambush, Li Zhen accompanied Shangguan Wan'er to Shaanxi County to worship his ancestors.

Shaanxi County is the later Sanmenxia, Shangguan Wan'er's grandfather Shangguan Yi was buried in Shaanxi County, she has not returned to her hometown for nearly five years to worship her ancestors, and Shangguan Wan'er's mother Zheng is accompanied by her.

Li Zhen saw Shangguan Wan'er's mother for the first time, she also lived in the palace, because she had been a slave in the Yeting Palace, she worked too hard, her health was very bad, she was afraid of wind and light, and she basically sat in the car, and the curtain was closed.

Only when leaving the Luoyang Imperial Palace did Li Zhen see her appearance at a glance, it was a pale old woman, dressed very plainly, looking like an old servant.

Li Zhen took more than a dozen internal guard soldiers to escort the two carriages to the west, it was early spring, the weather was warm and cold, the weeping willows on both sides of the official road had been flushed green, although the Yellow River had not thawed, but the small river seen along the way had melted the ice and snow, the stream was murmuring, and the fields and forests were full of the breath of early spring.

"What is Commander Li thinking?" The carriage next to him pulled the curtain, revealing Shangguan Wan'er's fair and beautiful face.

"Nothing, I'm feeling the breath of spring. ”

Li Zhen smiled, glanced back at the carriage behind him and asked, "Why doesn't Sheren sit with his mother?"

Shangguan said lightly: "She doesn't like to talk to me, and if she says a few words, she will quarrel, so we will find quiet." ”

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked. ”

"It's okay, everyone in the palace knows it, and it's not a secret. ”

Shangguan Wan'er's slender eyebrows raised slightly, and she lowered her voice and said, "Have you figured it out, why do I want you to accompany me to Shaanxi County?"

Li Zhen pondered for a long time, but still shook his head, "Can you ask someone to make it clear?"

"Killed Xue Huaiyi, but the matter is not over, the next thing is to clean up Xue Huaiyi's forces, those who used to rely on Xue Huaiyi's power to act as tigers are within the scope of the investigation, not only that, but also Xue Huaiyi's heavenly wealth that has been amassed in the past ten years must also be cleaned up one by one, at this time I had better avoid it, lest some people make a fuss about me, of course, I also hope that you will avoid it. ”

Li Zhen nodded silently, he could understand Shangguan Wan'er's good intentions, he brought down Xue Huaiyi's operator, at this time, Shangguan Wan'er let herself leave Luoyang, also to leave a little room for herself.

Although he understood Shangguan Wan'er's good intentions, for some reason, Li Zhen still felt a little confused in his heart, leaving at this time seemed to be a little inconsistent with Shangguan Wan'er's character.

Shangguan Wan'er saw a trace of confusion in his eyes, she couldn't help but smile, her eyes flowed, and she slowly lowered the curtain

In the evening, a group of people settled in a small town called Fengping Town, Fengping Town is not big, about seventy or eighty households, because the Changluo official road passes through the town, making the town quite lively.

Wine shops, inns, green buildings, mule and horse shops, shops, etc., you can see merchants from the south to the north everywhere, Li Zhen found an inn with good conditions in the westernmost part of the town, called Shunfeng Inn, the inn business is good, basically full of guests, they are lucky, and there are two single courtyards without guests, so they were wrapped up by Li Zhen,

On this westward journey, Li Zhen originally wanted to bring more brothers to protect her, but Shangguan Wan'er was unwilling to be high-profile, so she reduced the number of people in her entourage to a minimum Cheng Dù, including Li Zhen, there were only thirteen internal guard soldiers to escort her, and Shangguan Wan'er and her mother Zheng only brought one personal maid each, a total of only seventeen people.

Although they had traveled all the way west smoothly and did not encounter any suspicious people, out of prudence, Li Zhen still arranged several sentry posts around the inn.

Shangguan Wan'er and her mother Zheng had settled down, but Li Zhen came to the front hall of the inn and found the innkeeper, who was a middle-aged man about fifty years old, surnamed Yang, who looked kind and always had a modest smile on his face.

Shopkeeper Yang is well-informed, although Shangguan Wan'er and her mother Zheng are dressed in ordinary people's clothes, but their temperament is unusual, especially there are more than a dozen high-level martial arts entourage guards, Shopkeeper Yang knows that they are either rich or expensive, not ordinary people.

He smiled at Li Zhen with a smiling face: "Although the scale of the small shop is not the largest in Fengping Town, it is the most clean and tidy, the guys are attentive, the meals are delicious, and many officials and families in Chang'an and Luoyang are willing to settle down in the small shop to rest, and we will definitely satisfy the son." ”

Li Zhen also knew that he was right, the inn was indeed clean and tidy, and even Shangguan Wan'er was more satisfied, but he was more concerned about safety.

In Luoyang, the capital of the gods, it is generally not necessary to use assassination to deal with officialdom and political enemies, no matter whether it is successful or not, the consequences are very strict, but when you get out of Luoyang, you will not have any scruples, Shangguan Wan'er has also made countless enemies over the years, and it is difficult to keep that people will not be moved.

"How many people are in the inn with more than three people?" asked Li Zhen as he flipped through the register.

"Most of the customers in the store are two or three people, mainly businessmen, many of whom come from Hedong and some from Chang'an. ”

"And how many guests are coming to stay today?"

"There are not many today, there are only three groups of guests, in addition to Gongzi and his party, there are also two groups of businessmen who came from Chang'an. ”

At this time, there were as many as six guests in Li Zhenxian's registration book, and they had only arrived half an hour earlier than them.

"They were fur traders who came from Chang'an in company, and it is said that they went to Funiu Mountain to buy furs. ”

"Do you have to go through here to go to Funiu Mountain?" asked Li Zhen with a frown.

"Childe doesn't know, we can go to Nanyang if we go south in Fengping Town, and every year at this time, there will be fur merchants who go to Nanyang to buy high-quality fox skins. ”

Although the shopkeeper's explanation was reasonable, Li Zhen still felt that the number of people was too much, he came back from the front hall, and immediately found two subordinates and ordered: "Go and check the guests in front of you, especially pay attention to the group of people staying in the hotel today, there are about six or seven people, see if they are people who practice martial arts?"

The two subordinates agreed and hurriedly went, at this time, Li Zhen turned around, but saw Shangguan Wan'er walking slowly over with her personal maid Xiao'e, only to see that she had changed into a dress, wearing a yellow undergarment, a lilac wide long skirt, her arms wrapped around red silk, and a string of bright pearl necklaces hanging on her snow-white chest.

I saw her hair combed in a high bun, a white and pink peony silk flower tied in the middle of the bun, a wisp of black hanging on her snow-white pretty face, her eyes were bright like jewels, and her eyes contained a smile.

"Li Gongzi, I want to go for a drink, you can go with me!"

"It's not safe to go outside, this small shop has wine and food, why don't I let the guy send it to the girl's room?"

"Of course you can. ”

Shangguan Wan'er smiled lightly: "I wonder if the son is willing to appreciate his face and have a drink with me?"

Li Zhen said happily: "It is Li Zhen's honor to be able to accompany the girl to drink, how dare Li Zhen refuse." ”

Shangguan Wan'er's eyes fluttered, and she threw a wink at him, then turned around and walked towards the small courtyard, Li Zhen kept looking at her and walked away, and then went to the shopkeeper Yang to arrange for everyone to drink and eat.

The lights in the room were bright, and the two guys brought wine and food, there were seven or eight side dishes, two pots of fine wine, Shangguan Wan'er called Xiao'e to take care of her mother Zheng, and there were only two people in the room, she and Li Zhen.

Shangguan Wan'er drank a few glasses of wine, her face flushed, she looked at Li Zhen with a pair of beautiful eyes and smiled: "What are you thinking, can you sue me?"

Li Zhen also drank a few glasses of wine, especially tonight, Shangguan Wan'er did not sit opposite him, but sat beside him, which made him feel a strange feeling in his heart, and he sighed low and said, "I wonder if I will be transferred back to Shengshang's side." ”

Shangguan Wan'er smiled charmingly, her fragrant shoulders approached Li Zhen, her body was half leaning on him, and her red lips whispered in his ear, "Do you know why she let you go?"

Li Zhen stared at her plump red lips, a wisp of love in his heart was stirred, and finally leaned in slowly, muttering, "I know!"

The two of them attracted each other's lips and teeth, and Li Zhen was intoxicated by the warm taste, and at this moment, a shout came from the distance, "There are assassins!"

Li Zhen was startled, and his sanity immediately recovered, only to hear a soft sound of 'click!' from the courtyard, and Li Zhen almost instinctively threw Shangguan Wan'er under him.

A wolf's tooth crossbow arrow with a blue arrow flashed through the window, grazed the top of Li Zhen's head, flew past the seat where Shangguan Wan'er was sitting just now, and nailed it to the wall behind Shangguan Wan'er.

'Bang!' With a loud bang, the two black-clothed men slammed open the window and climbed into the room one after another, the long sword in their hands flashed, Shangguan Wan'er screamed in fright, Li Zhenfei pulled out the long sword behind him, jumped up, and the sword in his hand stabbed out like lightning, and a masked man in black couldn't dodge and was pierced through the chest by a sword.

Another man in black pounced on Shangguan Wan'er regardless of life or death, Li Zhen reacted quickly, kicked sideways, hit the man in black in the back, and the man in black was kicked out and slammed his back into the wall.

At this time, the internal security soldiers who were eating in the small courtyard next door heard the movement and rushed to this side, and there was the sound of shouting and swords clashing outside the window, and there were more than two assassins.

Although Li Zhen kicked down another man in black and had a chance to kill this person, he didn't dare to leave Shangguan Wan'er, lest he take a step away and another assassin would kill him, so he pulled Shangguan Wan'er and retreated to the corner.

Sure enough, as Li Zhen expected, at the same time that the man in black was kicked, another masked man in black was killed from the outside, holding a long sword in his hand, copying from the left, and the assassin who was kicked over stood up, and the two men in black looked for a chance to get off the phone one left and one right, and the killing machine was imminent.

Li Zhen held the sword in one hand, grabbed Shangguan Wan'er's arm with the other, and held her close behind him, staring coldly at the two black-clothed assassins, Shangguan Wan'er hid behind Li Zhen, trembling with fright.

At this moment, there was a rush of running in the outhouse, and the supporting guards arrived, and the two assassins looked at each other and slashed their swords together.

The two swords, one left and one right, stabbed Shangguan Wan'er at the same time, and when they were only one foot close, Li Zhen stepped back violently, completely blocking Shangguan Wan'er behind him, and with a wave of the long sword, he sealed the sword stabbed by the man in black on the right.

'When!' There was a crisp sound, and Li Zhen picked up the opponent's sword with a sword, but the two assassins were extremely cunning and cooperated tacitly, although the sword on the right was stabbed at Li Zhen and was blocked by Li Zhen, but the sword on the left was covered, and the sword light flashed, stabbing at Shangguan Wan'er's throat, fast and ruthless.

The shape was extremely critical, and Shangguan Wan'er saw that the tip of the sword was in front of her, and she screamed in fright.

Li Zhen didn't think about it, on the side of his body, he blocked Shangguan Wan'er with his shoulder, and at this critical moment, a crossbow arrow shot in from the window, and the arrow was extremely fast, hitting the wrist of the assassin on the left.

The tip of the sword pierced Li Zhen's leather armor, and he only felt a stinging pain in his left shoulder, and then the stinging pain disappeared, and the assassin snorted, and the long sword fell to the ground along his shoulder.

Li Zhen had already stood firm, and flew up and kicked hard at the assassin's front door, the assassin screamed and rolled over to the ground, and at the same time, an internal guard soldier rushed in from outside the door, jumped up, and threw the right assassin to the ground.

Three assassins were killed and wounded, and several internal guard soldiers rushed in, Li Zhen was shocked for a while, and hurriedly ordered: "Catch them, they want to live!"

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