Among the three forces vying for letters, Li Zhen's power was the weakest, he was alone, and Lai Junchen was the most powerful, with more than a hundred people coming.

But when they entered the backyard where the Scripture Pavilion was located, there were only five people, and Lai Junchen and Yu Pinlong each brought one of their subordinates, all of whom were afraid of alarming Lan Zhenyu in the building.

Li Zhen ran all the way, seeing that he was about to reach the entrance of the attic, Zhao Yin, a subordinate of Lai Junchen, suddenly rushed from the oblique direction, shouted, and stabbed Li Zhen with a sword, Li Zhen was forced to stop, he took a step back, dodged the sword, he was very angry, and scolded angrily: "Are you crazy? It will alarm the people inside." ”

Zhao Yin ignored him, brushed and stabbed several swords, forcing Li Zhen to retreat again and again, Li Zhen was helpless, and drew his sword and stabbed back.

Li Zhen was intercepted by Zhao Yin, Lai Junchen and Yu Pinlong rushed into the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion one after another, and another of Yu Pinlong's subordinates also rushed into the attic.

At this moment, a blue figure suddenly flew out of the window on the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion, and dozens of people who rushed into the backyard saw it at the same time and shouted, "Come out!"

The man in blue curled up in a ball, his head was scattered, his face was dark, and his face was hideous and terrifying, although his figure was extremely agile, what made everyone exclaim was that the man in blue was actually flying in the sky, flying out of the gable like a gust of wind.

Lai Junchen had already stabbed Yu Pinlong's subordinates to death, kicked Yu Pinlong over with another kick, slammed the door open with his shoulder, and rushed into the room first.

I saw that there was a big incense burner in the room, and there was a pool of black blood under the incense burner, which was the poisonous blood that Lan Zhenyu vomited, and a few pieces of bezoar, the window was wide open, and the person was gone.

Lai Junchen stomped his feet in hatred and ran to the window, but suddenly there was a thin wire tied to the foot of the incense burner under his feet, and the other end extended out of the window, until it extended into the dense forest of the back mountain, and the blue figure used this thin wire to slide outside the gable wall of the temple.

Lai Junchen immediately made a decision, and cut the thin wire with a sword, but it was too late, and the man in blue jumped up the gable and jumped into the dense forest behind the wall.

Lai Junchen was so angry that he yelled at his subordinates under the Hidden Scripture Pavilion: "Go chase after him immediately, don't let him run away!"

The shape was critical, Lai Junchen had no time to take the stairs, jumped out of the window, ran a few steps on the glazed tiles, and jumped to the cornices on the second floor, but the fish dragon behind him had no ability, so he had to run down the stairs again.

Li Zhen also chased out of the temple and ran in the dense forest, and there were not many people in ambush behind the temple, because there was a mountain cliff not far behind, and there was no way to go.

Lai Junchen and Yu Junlong's other subordinates also rushed from the east and west, and more than 100 people searched in the mountains and forests within a radius of more than ten acres.

Everyone followed the footprints and ran towards the mountain, but after running less than a hundred steps, everyone was so frightened that they stopped, and there was a cliff in front of them.

Although the cliff is full of plants, but the slope is extremely steep, below is the surging river, although Longmen Yique is known as a hundred zhang cliff, in fact it is not high, at most more than 30 zhang, you can clearly see the Yishui under the mountain.

"Look!"

A guard pointed to a tattered blue coat not far from the mountainside and shouted, "That's his clothes!"

At this time, Lai Junchen also rushed over, he was already mad with anger, seeing that Lan Zhenyu who was about to be caught was run away by him again, the guard pointed to the blue clothes hanging on the bushes and said, "Zhongcheng, that's his clothes!"

Lai Junchen stared at Lan Yi for a long time, and shouted, "Fish it up!"

Several guards held hands, and finally hooked the clothes with flying chain claws, and dragged them up, Lai Junchen picked up the blue shirt that was hung in tatters by tree branches, and there was a pool of black blood stains on it, and he smelled it again, a smell of bezoar.

At this time, Lai Junchen looked to both sides again and asked, "What about that Li Zhen?"

One of his subordinates stepped forward and reported: "I saw him and Yu Pinlong here just now, it seems that both of them have gone down the mountain, but Zhao Yin is still staring at him and following him down the mountain." ”

Lai Junchen was so angry that his eyes were dark, he slammed the blue shirt to the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "Go down the mountain to search, you want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death!"

The people who came to Junchen and Yu Pinlong searched for Lan Zhenyu's body by the river, while Li Zhen escaped Zhao Yin's tracking in the monastery and left Longmen Mountain by another path.

He and Di Yan's horses were stored in an inn, he took the horses, and waited at the door of the inn for a while, only to see Di Yan come out of the deep alley next to her, she had torn off her mask and mask, took off her men's coat, and wore a purple skirt.

"How long have you been waiting for me?" Di Yan asked with a grin, jumping forward and giving him a gentle punch in the shoulder socket.

Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I just arrived, and I was afraid that you would be caught by them." ”

Di Yan winked mischievously and said, "Unless they really think I'm the sick Lan Zhenyu, with my skills, do you think they can catch me?"

Li Zhen was not worried, they had made careful arrangements before, and every detail had been taken into account, even if Lai Junchen was suspicious, it would be a matter of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and Lan Zhenyu had already died of poison at that time.

"They are still searching for Lan Zhenyu's body along the river, let's go!"

The two men turned on their horses and urged them to gallop towards the city

The Pure Land Temple is located in Luoyang City, is the royal temple of the Sui Dynasty, and is also the earliest place of the Tang monk Xuanzang Master to become a monk, and is currently one of the three major monasteries in Luoyang, with more than 2,000 monks.

Xuanzang Pavilion is located next to the Guanyin Hall of the temple, is a small courtyard, here is the temple to commemorate Master Xuanzang and preserved, generally not open to the public, most of the time the courtyard door is closed.

When Li Zhen and Di Yan arrived at Xuanzang Pavilion, Di Renjie had just left, and only Jiuzhi, who accompanied him, was still guarding the courtyard.

The yard is very small, the green bricks on the ground are covered with moss, covered with a layer of withered yellow fallen trees, and there are two faint crows standing on a hundred-year-old apricot tree in the corner of the courtyard, and from time to time there is a piercing hissing sound.

Sitting on a stone pier against the wall, two throwing knives in his hands, he stared blankly at a flock of sparrows foraging in the yard.

Di Yan walked into the yard quickly, the foraging sparrows flew up, she was anxious, worried about whether her father would have any accidents, Lan Zhenyu was an extremely dangerous person, ruthless, and had terrible poisons, everyone was extremely vigilant against him.

"Sakashi, where's my father?"

Jiu Zhi glanced up at her, and said lazily: "Your old man has already left, and he has been talking to Lan Zhenyu for less than a stick of incense." ”

"What about Lan Zhenyu?" asked Li Zhen, who then walked into the courtyard.

Jiu Zhi pointed to Xuanzang Pavilion, "On the third floor, you can go and see for yourself! ”

Li Zhen walked quickly towards the attic door, and as soon as he reached the door, he suddenly remembered an important matter, stopped and asked, "Where is the letter?"

Jiuzhi shook his head and sighed, "The old man burned it." ”

Li Zhen and Di Yan were stunned, "Why?"

"You ask me, I ask who to go, I am more surprised than you, the old man's face was so strict when he burned the letter! I guess Lan Zhenyu was scared to death by him in the end. ”

Li Zhen and Di Yan looked at each other, neither of them could figure it out, the letter was the key evidence to wash away the old man's grievances, and he actually burned the letter.

But the letter had been burned, and they had no choice but to go into the attic, where the doors were locked, and only the stairs next to the door could go up.

The staircase was old, dusty, and creaked as if it were about to collapse as soon as you took a step.

Li Zhen walked to the third floor, the small door was half-hidden, pushed the door open, and there was a person lying in the empty room, it was Lan Zhenyu, who had died.

He was curled up in a small ball, his face black, his eyes closed, as if he was dying peacefully, his long sword in his arms, and in a small furnace beside him, there was a burned letter, which had turned into black coal, but it still remained as it was.

Li Zhen sighed, in Dunhuang, in Gaochang, on Hexi Road, in Chang'an, he and Lan Zhenyu fought all the way, so a person with strong swordsmanship and outstanding martial arts disappeared silently.

The person who is best at poison dies on poison, which makes people have to feel the irony of fate.

"Brother Li, are you going to bury him?" Di Yan asked a little sadly.

Li Zhen shook his head lightly, "I still need him to end a hidden danger for me." ”

The sky was not completely dark, and there was still a hint of green light in the night, and Li Zhen appeared in front of the gate of the Lintoe Temple near the imperial city with a wooden box.

The monastery had been occupied by Hanoi Lao Ni and her female disciples, and had not received funding from the imperial court, and his tens of thousands of followers had to leave Luoyang temporarily.

The open space in front of the temple was full of all kinds of miscellaneous items, and a large number of items they brought had not yet been cleaned up, and several female nuns were giggling and playing, when they suddenly saw Li Zhen approaching, they immediately became vigilant.

"This is already a nunnery, men should not enter!" several young nuns stopped his way with a ferocious attitude.

"There is a palace man waiting for me in the temple!" Li Zhen said in a flat tone.

Several nuns glanced at each other, and one of them asked, "You are Gongzi Li." ”

Li Zhen nodded, "I am!"

"You come with me!"

A nun led him into the side gate of the monastery and into a small courtyard where two palace guards drew their swords to stop him, looking at him warily.

At this moment, a handsome young man walked out of the room, saw Li Zhen at a glance, and hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Auntie, he's here!"

"Let him in!" came the voice of a young woman in the room

"Childe, please come into the house!" The young man took Li Zhen into the room, this was originally a monk's room, the monks had moved away, the room was empty, there were no items, and it was very clean.

In front of the window stood a young woman wearing a hood and a white palace skirt, when Li Zhen walked into the room, the young woman immediately turned around, lifted the light veil on her face, and revealed a beautiful face, this young woman was Wei Tuan'er.

Although Wei Tuan'er didn't wear makeup or any accessories today, she seemed to be naturally beautiful, but she left a vulgar impression on Li Zhen last time, which made Li Zhen not have any good impression of her.

Wei Tuan'er looked at Li Zhen and asked lightly, "Did you bring anything?"

Li Zhen put the wooden box on the ground and put Lan Zhenyu's sword next to him, "The box is his level, the letter has been burned by him, and the letter ash is also in the box, as well as his sword." ”

Wei Tuan'er slapped his palm lightly, and a guard walked in quickly and saluted Wei Tuan'er, Wei Tuan'er pointed to the box and said, "You can identify it!"

The guard squatted down in front of the box, slowly opened the wooden box, he frowned, looked at it carefully for a moment, nodded and said to Wei Tuan'er: "Aunt Qiqi, this is the person!"

"All of you go down!"

The handsome young man and the guards all bowed and retreated, and only Wei Tuan'er and Li Zhen were left in the room, Wei Tuan'er slowly circled around Li Zhen, looking him up and down, with a smile on his face like a peach blossom.

"You are indeed very capable, much more capable than Yu Pinlong's stinky skin, I like it very much, and I should also fulfill my promise, Li Gongzi, you say, what do you want?"

Li Zhen pointed to the box, "I want this box, I'm afraid I have to have an explanation when I come to Junchen." ”

"Lai Junchen is just a dog, what should he do!"

Wei Tuan'er pursed her lips disdainfully, her willow eyebrows raised slightly, and she smiled in a low voice at Li Zhen: "If you are willing to be loyal to me, I think, maybe you can replace Yu Pinlong, what do you think?"

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head, "Miss Wei, you have to discuss this matter with Gao Fujun, I asked Gao Lishi to send you a letter, I thought you would understand." ”

Wei Tuan'er was stunned at first, and her face slowly became gloomy, she stared at Li Zhen coldly for a long time before waving her hand and said, "You go!"

Li Zhen hugged his fists and saluted, picked up the box and the long sword, "I'm leaving!"

He slowly exited the room, Wei Tuan'er just watched him leave coldly, and didn't say a word from beginning to end

In the night, Li Zhen and Di Yan led the horses slowly in the security industry, Di Yan sighed and said: "I asked my father today why I burned the letter, my father just smiled and didn't answer, he said you understand, do you understand?"

Di Yan looked at Li Zhen with a pair of beautiful eyes, and under the moonlight, her beautiful eyes were very bright, shining with a jewel-like luster.

Li Zhen smiled: "If your father says I understand, then I think he should be taking care of the face of the female emperor, or that this is related to some kind of power struggle in the imperial court." ”

Di Yan snorted lightly, "My father thinks magnanimously, and he cares about the face of the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will not appreciate it and will not spare him in the end." ”

Li Zhen lowered his head and stared at his toes, and said in a deep voice: "Ah Yan, in fact, I think the female emperor has understood the truth, otherwise she would not have ordered the suspension of the investigation of the Imperial Historical Observatory, let alone lifted the house arrest of your father." ”

But my father said he was going to go home and farm. ”

"Isn't it good to go home and farm?"

Di Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't know!"

At this time, the drum that closed the door rumbled, and Li Zhen smiled: "I have to go back, otherwise I won't be able to catch up with the closure of Nanshi." ”

Di Yan waved her hand impatiently, "Go, go, as if someone else wanted you to stay." ”

Li Zhen turned over on his horse, glanced at Di Yan with a smile, and urged the horse to gallop away, Di Yan looked at his back and went away, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy!"

She stretched out, turned around, and ran merrily towards her home

Three days later, Wu Zetian issued a holy decree, dismissing Di Renjie from the post of minister of the state on the grounds of improper handling of government affairs, and demoted to the rank of county lieutenant of Pengze.

Two days later, Wu Zetian issued another decree, and Wu Chenghe, the king of Wei, offered false relics, deceived the king, and the crime was unforgivable, so he took away his title, removed him from his official position, and imprisoned him in the Eagle Dog Fang

[End of Volume 2]

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