Xun Bao came to his senses for a long time, his head was empty, he dismissed all the witnesses, and lowered his head and said listlessly: "Please ask Qiu Taishou to go back first......"

"Go back?" Qiu Shoutai not only lost his decadence at this time, but was simply a little domineering, "It's okay to go back, but I will be under house arrest by you for a few more days, but I have written down this account." You framed one side for no reason, and tortured people to kill them - to tell you the truth, the recital written to the imperial court has been sent to Luoyang, and you will receive a reply in a few days, and none of the three of you will want to run away at that time, and the person who participated in me in the first place. Qiu Shoutai glared at Biyu fiercely, and then walked away.

I really never expected it. Since arriving in Ruyin, checking account books, interrogating subordinate officials, and collecting witnesses, each item has been carried out meticulously and step by step, but each item has ended in failure.

So far, if not to say that it means complete failure, I basically can't think of any way out. If it really ends in failure, Qiu Shoutai's counter-participation will come again, and the Shi family will undoubtedly bear the brunt. It is true that Xun Bao himself was ordered by the emperor to investigate the case, but it is difficult to escape the blame for forcing people to die. But these two families are from prestigious families, and this little thing is at most a temporary dismissal, and it can't hurt the foundation at all. If we go back to the source, we will inevitably correct the letter. Shu Yan knew that Father-in-law Xia and Ruoxin would not be able to escape, and they must be convicted of slander and frame-up. Whipping, and even exile is possible. In addition to the punishment, the reputation of Gonggong Xia and the reputation of my Shu and Han families will also be ruined.

Although he has no direct responsibility, he will definitely not be able to stay in Luoyang, where will he go at that time? Of course, the first reaction was to return to Ruyin, but-"Brother Shu, I want to wait for you to accompany me to wander the world......" Why did this sentence that I had always regarded as ridiculous and never really cared about, suddenly occupy my heart?

On this day, Shu Yan went out of the city and came to the suburbs. This is a wasteland, in the middle of the withered grass, there is a lonely mound, which is the tomb of Tang Gonggong. Every time Shu Yan returned to his hometown, he had to sweep the graves of several relatives and Tang Gonggong to pay respects. Whatever the outcome of the future, this festival is certainly no exception. After buying sacrifices from the city, Shujiazhuang was farther away, so he first went to the cemetery of Tang Gonggong outside the city. Father-in-law Tang's funeral was handled by himself, and the cemetery was also chosen by himself. Although it is a long time in the future, it can be quickly identified and found.

In previous years, the graves of my grandfather Shu Boguang and other family members, because of Ruoxin's care, often swept the graves to pay respects, and took good care of them. But the cemetery of Father-in-law Tang is different, usually no one takes care of it, it is like a barren grave. Shu Yan has to spend a lot of time repairing every time. Today, he brought his hammer and sickle with him, but the situation in front of him was very different from usual. Not only has the tomb been trimmed, but there are also traces of worship not long ago in front of the tomb. This came as a surprise to him. Father-in-law Tang has no other relatives except for a son who has absconded in fear of crime, who will do this for him? His son? Impossible, with that Tang Hui's bad nature, his father didn't fulfill a day of filial piety when he was alive, let alone dead, not to mention that he absconded in fear of crime. If he has a little reliability, why did Father-in-law Tang pass on the peerless treasure "The Book of Music" and the Xuantie Treasure Bow to me?

As usual, Shu Yan added some new soil to the grave with a pickaxe, arranged the offerings, and then fell into deep thought. When Father-in-law Tang just died, he was about to leave Ruyin to go to Luoyang to test and start his real career path. Who would have thought that after many years in Luoyang, although he has won some false fame, the future is bleak. Especially this tricky errand in front of me is like a hot potato, you can't eat it, you can't throw it away. If Qiu Shoutai really turned over and got closer, we would be unlucky; In the distance, he will be more powerful and more unscrupulous in Ruyin......

Shu Yan thought for a while, confused for a while, and unconsciously heard a slight and rapid sound behind him, and when he turned around, the two figures had already arrived in front of him. Two long swords stabbed at him brightly.

The opponent was extraordinary, Shu Yan had no time to react, so he had to pounce forward, although this move temporarily avoided the stab, but he fell to the ground and was at a more obvious disadvantage.

"You are—" In a panic, he looked at the two of them, both dressed in black hats and robes, in addition to their hideous faces, what was even more shocking was that each of them had an empty robe sleeve. And it was the empty sleeves of his robe that made him seem to recognize these two hideous faces - "It's you!" ”

"Even if you are interested, you still know our brothers." The two sneered grimly.

"Who are you, and why did you come to assassinate me three times and twice?"

The two of them respectively put their long swords against Shu Yan's neck and chest and said, "Forgive me for not being able to escape today, and I'll tell you the truth, we used to be known as the three heroes of the Ding family!" ”

"Ding...... For a long time, I have admired the name for a long time, but I remember that there are three of you, why are there only two of you and the other? ”

When the Ding brothers heard this, they gritted their teeth and glared angrily, "Wow wow" and screamed: "It's really hateful!" Knowing that our eldest brother was shot to death by your brother with a poisonous needle, and you still say such cool words, do you think you die slowly? ”

Oh, so that man is really dead! At the beginning, when Shu Yan was on the way to Luoyang to take the test, he was assassinated by three killers. Fortunately, he had already met Xiao Mo at that time, and all three killers were hit by Xiao Mo's poisonous needle, one of them was hit in the throat, and the other two were hit in the arm. The two of them must be the two who cut off each other's arms to save their lives, and the one who died must be the one who was shot in the throat by a poisonous needle, which is the so-called big brother in their mouths.

"Slow down first." Shu Yan said to the second male of the Ding family, who was carrying a sword, "You haven't told me yet, why did you assassinate me so many times and twice?" ”

Ding Erxiong looked at Shu Yan, who didn't have any threat, and said lightly: "Okay, I'll tell you everything today, let you be a ghost." Our brother has no enmity with you, and the first time he assassinated you, he was actually instructed by Qiu Shoutai. ”

"Qiu Shoutai?" Shu Yan was surprised, "I was a literary scholar under him at the time, and I didn't offend him, why did he assassinate me?" ”

"You idiot, you don't understand until you die. Think about what you did at that time. You have not offended him directly, though. But you are holding on to the two things of preparing for the establishment of the school and the book of the labor army. This is a big problem for his henchmen. You were about to enter the court as an official at that time, and although he temporarily pushed Tang Hui out to be a shield, he was still not at ease after all, so he sent us to kill you. In order to ensure that in case, there were originally arrangements for robbery and killing on land and water, but who knew that your life should not be extinguished, and the killers on both land and water were defeated! ”

I really know people and faces, but I don't know my heart. This Qiu Shoutai turned out to be so vicious. Not only did he put all the blame on Tang Hui, but he also poisoned me! "Needless to say, you are here today at his behest?"

Ding Erxiong snorted and said: "At this juncture, even if you die in Ruyin for other reasons, Qiu Taishou will also be suspicious, how could he send someone to kill you?" Besides, you can't fight him at all, you can't defeat him, you can't threaten him, how can he go out of here? To tell you the truth, we are here today completely because of our personal grudges, that is, to avenge our dead big brother! ”

Shu Yan was no longer so nervous at this time, and smiled calmly: "Aren't you contradicting yourself?" As you said just now, no matter what the reason is, as long as I die at this juncture, it will cause trouble to Qiu Taishou and make him suspicious. If you kill me, aren't you afraid that Qiu Taishou will blame me? ”

"As I said earlier, our brother has no enmity with you, and he doesn't have to kill you. What we hate is your brother with fine skin and tender flesh, that is, the one who killed and maimed our brother with a poisonous needle, and we can't eliminate the hatred in our hearts unless we dismantle him to pieces! ”

It turns out that the other party doesn't want to kill himself! He may not have to die, this was originally an unexpected joy, but as soon as Shu Yan heard that the other party was going to kill Xiao Mo, he immediately became nervous, and temporarily put away the mentality of dying just now - he didn't care about his life and death, but Xiao Mo couldn't be threatened in any way: "What do you want?" ”

"Of course it was to kill him - Jiang Xiaomo. We've got the details of him. It's just that he is in the Forbidden Palace, and we have no chance to do it. Now we want you to write a note by yourself, and we will take it to Luoyang and use this note to ask him out of the palace. Because it was in your name, he would not hesitate and would not have any defense, and it would have been easy to kill him at that time! ”

"Don't you think!" Shu Yan glared, puffed up his chest against the tip of the sword, "One person does things and one person is responsible, your eldest brother's life is paid by me, and no one is allowed to touch a single hair of Xiao Mo!" ”

The two heroes of the Ding clan were overwhelmed by Shu Yan's radical move for a moment, and retracted their swords two inches back. "You have to think clearly, as long as you do what we say, we can consider not killing you."

"I know so well that I don't have to think about it. You two dog thieves, if you want to kill me, you can only come, but if you want to kill Xiao Mo, I will never agree. ”

Ding's two males were originally born as strongmen, and they did all kinds of evil in robbing homes and houses, where did they suffer such insults and persecution, and at this time, they couldn't take care of Qiu Shoutai's overall situation, and their evil eyebrows were raised, showing the nature of the murderer, and shouted: "It's really a toast and don't eat and drink." Since you don't want to live, we are happy to fulfill you, we haven't killed anyone for a long time, and we just want to open the meat with you. Suffer death! ”

Two long swords stabbed out towards Shu Yan's chest and abdomen. Shu Yan is bare-handed, knowing that dodging is useless, and there is no regret about being able to sacrifice himself to protect Xiao Mo. So he closed his eyes and died in peace.

Suddenly hearing the "pop", "pop", "oops", "oops", and the successive unexpected sounds, Shu Yan opened his eyes and saw that the two Ding heroes had taken a few steps back, and each of them had a stone on their wrists. It looked like it was very painful, but since they only had one hand, they couldn't use the other hand to soothe it, so they could only stare at their red and swollen hands and a white-clothed knight wearing a hat turned out from behind the tree.

"It's this hero again." Shu Yan recognized it.

The hero ignored Shu Yan first, but went straight to the Ding brothers.

Some people died, but not completely......