In Luming Villa, several big men tied Suo Ying to the wheels, and Lai Junchen jumped like thunder, pointing at Suo Ying and yelling: "Beat me, fight to death"

Suo Ying's hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was covered with rags, and he was so frightened that his face was pale, 'Woo, shouting, looking at his eldest brother Suowen pleadingly.

Suo Wen avoided his gaze and twisted his head to the side, the carriage escorting Zhuang Wenzhong was intercepted, Zhuang Wenzhong was snatched away, and the other party grasped their movements so clearly, it was impossible to have no spies in the manor.

Just when Lai Junchen was tracking down the ghosts in the manor, someone exposed his brother Suo Ying, saying that he personally told everyone that the convoy was going to be intercepted, which made Lai Junchen furious.

Suo Wen also understood in his heart that his brother had always been casual, and many rules were not taken seriously, and more importantly, he and Lai Feng had a deep grudge, and if the other party tried to win him over on the condition of killing Lai Feng, it was difficult to guarantee that he would not be confused for a while.

At this time, a big man tore off Suo Ying's clothes, and his back was completely exposed, and the big man waved his long whip and whipped Suo Ying's back fiercely, Suo Ying howled and almost fainted to death.

Lai Junchen's face turned pale, although Suo Ying refused to admit that he had leaked the news, but the anger of Zhuang Wenzhong's robbery and the heartache of his nephew being shot made him vent all his hatred on Suo Ying.

At this time, a warrior rushed to report: "Qi Yu Zhongcheng, Liu Yushi came from the capital and said that there was something important to report." ”

"Take him to my outer study"

Lai Junchen commanded his subordinates, and then pointed at Suo Ying and scolded fiercely: "Call me"

He turned around and walked to the outer study, and when Junchen walked away, Suo Wen stepped forward and begged several executioners: "I hope that Brother Tai's subordinates will be merciful."

Several executioners actually knew that since Zhongcheng didn't kill Suo Ying directly, it meant that he didn't want his life yet, and of course they wouldn't really kill him.

The lead executioner nodded, and whipped at Suo Ying again, but his men visibly relaxed their strength.

Lai Junchen took the first step to come to the outer study, and after a while, Liu Guangye, the servant of the imperial history, hurriedly walked in, bowed down and said: "See Zhongcheng for your humble position"

"What happened?"

It's a little strange to come to Junchen, Liu Guangye actually came from Luoyang to find him, something must have happened?

Liu Guangye took out a note and handed it to Lai Junchen, "This is a message from King Liang to Zhongcheng, he said it is very important, let me hand it over to Zhongcheng immediately." ”

Lai Junchen hurriedly took the note, and was immediately frightened, Wu Sansi gave him only one sentence in the note: King Xiang was assassinated.

Lai Junchen was stunned, and after a while, he asked Liu Guangye: "Did you hear about Li Dan's assassination in Luoyang?"

Liu Guangye shook his head, but nodded again, and Lai Junchen frowned, "What do you mean by this?"

"Back to Zhongcheng, I did hear that Li Dan had an accident, but I didn't know what happened to him, but I just heard that he didn't die. ”

Lai Junchen fell into contemplation again, the reason why he was very concerned about Li Dan's assassination was because he was going to take Li Dan to open the knife first, during this time he sent people to collect all kinds of news about Li Dan, and even Wu Sansi also sent a warrior from the palace to help him.

At this time, the news of Li Dan's assassination came out, and the most direct consequence was that all the efforts he had made for his time and effort would be in vain, and Lai Junchen simply suspected that Li Dan was using a bitter trick in order to get rid of his own investigation of him.

Lai Junchen looked up at the sky, night had just fallen, and there was still time, he stood up and immediately said: "Return to Luoyang immediately"

In a hut near the lake in Luming Villa, Suo Ying, whose flesh and blood were blurred, was lying on the couch, his back was dripping with blood, and the scars were terrifying, he was whipped fifty lashes, and if it weren't for the special mercy of the executioner, his life would not have been saved.

A maid was applying medicine to his back, the severe pain made him can't help but scream, and it was a slap in the face, the maid was so frightened that she covered her face and stood up, not daring to apply medicine to him again, Suo Ying viciously ordered: "Continue to apply medicine, don't stop"

At this time, the door opened, Suo Wen walked in from the outside, and his brother for many years made Suo Ying very familiar with his brother's footsteps, and he asked coldly, "Why don't you go back to Luoyang."

"Zhongcheng asked me to go back tomorrow, he said spare your life and let me take care of you. ”

"Spare my life?"

Suo Ying sneered and said, "He is afraid of losing the 10,000 yuan that the Suo family supports every year."

Suo Wen sighed and said to the maid, "You should step back first."

The maid saluted and hurriedly retreated, Suowen sat down beside his brother, picked up the ointment and continued to apply it to him, "You tell me the truth, is it you?"

"Don't you believe me either?"

Suo Ying was so anxious that he wanted to jump up, and suddenly his back hurt sharply, so painful that he screamed, and fell down heavily, he gritted his teeth with hatred and said: "They were ambushed and shut down my, even Lai Junchen knew that it wasn't me, otherwise he would have killed me a long time ago, he just vented his anger with me, and now even you suspect it." ”

"It's not that I doubt you, because I know you too well, you have been doing what you want since you were a child, and you don't follow the rules"

"Don't say it again"

Suo Ying interrupted his brother's words unhappily, "I have been beaten like this, not only did you not help me speak, but also came to doubt me, forget it, you can go"

Suo Wen restrained his dissatisfaction and said: "I don't doubt you, I'm reminding you that now the struggle between Lai Zhongcheng and Li Zhen and others has reached the point of life and death, you must not do stupid things and affect the family." ”

Suo Ying said coldly after a while: "I know you want to replace Li Zhen, don't worry, even if I am killed, it will not affect your career, okay, I want to rest, please"

Suo Ying closed his eyes and didn't say a word again, Suo Wen knew that his brother was dissatisfied that he didn't intercede for him in advance, but he was also really annoyed in his heart that Suo Ying's willfulness and recklessness would hurt him sooner or later, he finally couldn't help it, snorted, put down the ointment and left quickly.

When Suo Wen walked away, Suo Ying slowly opened his eyes, his eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he whispered to himself: "If you don't avenge this revenge, I swear not to be a man."

In front of the Luoyang Xiangwang's Mansion was heavily guarded, thousands of Yulin Army soldiers surrounded the palace, in front of the gate steps, a group of officials of the Xiangwangfu were anxiously rushing back and forth, everyone was very worried, they could not have imagined that the Xiangwang would be assassinated.

At this time, a group of Qianniu Guard cavalry in the distance rushed in, guarding a eunuch in the middle, it was the inner servant Gao Yanfu, the assassination of the king caused the anger of the saint, so that he came to check the situation, Gao Yanfu's expression was very serious, the assassination of the king of the prime minister is likely to disrupt the situation that has just stabilized, and it may also damage his interests, after all, he is the king of the prime minister.

A group of officials had already seen Gao Yanfu, and as soon as he got off the horse, the officials surrounded him and asked, "Fujun, what does the Holy Lord say?"

They were even more worried about whether they would be implicated in this matter, Gao Yanfu waved his hand, "I don't know anything now, anyway, the Holy Lord is very angry, let's go back."

He separated everyone and walked into the palace quickly, the palace was even more heavily guarded, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, full of guards with knives, Gao Yanfu walked to the middle hall, Li Chengqi heard the news and greeted him, without waiting for Li Chengqi to speak, Gao Yanfu asked first: "How is the prince now?"

"My father's injury is relatively stable, but he is a little depressed. ”

Gao Yanfu stopped, and said with some dissatisfaction: "What is going on? Now there are three theories, what is the truth?"

Li Chengqi sighed, "It happened this afternoon, my father was walking in the back garden, and two assassins in green jumped out of the woods, my father was caught off guard, and he was stabbed in the left shoulder. ”

"What about the Assassins?"

Gao Yanfu asked, "Did you catch it?"

"One Assassin escaped, and the other was surrounded by guards who rushed to him, and as a result, he committed suicide by poisoning, and there are no clues at this time. Li Chengqi sighed

Gao Yanfu glanced at the guards on both sides and didn't say anything, when they walked into a long corridor, there were no guards in the corridor, Gao Yanfu asked in a low voice: "You tell me the truth, is this assassination yourself-"

Li Chengqi was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't dare to hide it from Fu Jun, it's really not this time, there are indeed assassins." ”

Gao Yanfu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he initially thought that it was an assassination designed by Li Dan himself, which made him very worried in his heart, if it was really a fake assassination, once it was discovered by the saint, the consequences would be unimaginable, but now that he was really assassinated, it was another matter, maybe it would be a blessing in disguise.

"Let's go see your father first."

The two walked through the corridor and entered a courtyard, which was the ward of Xiangwang Li Dan, the courtyard was full of guards, several maids and the imperial doctor were waiting in front of the door to summon

"How is His Royal Highness the Prime Minister's injury?"

"Back to the palace, it's no big deal, and you can recover in a few months, but-"

"But what?" Gao Yanfu asked a little nervously.

Wang Chunhe invited Gao Yanfu aside and said in a low voice: "This assassination is very vicious, there is a high poison on the knife, fortunately, it was fortunate that the snow clam pill of Gongsun Auntie was used in time to dissolve the poison, but the meridians of his left shoulder were damaged, and it may affect his left hand slightly after recovery." ”

Gao Yanfu stretched his face, "You just said that it might affect the left hand, right, but it's also possible that it won't have any effect, isn't it?"

Wang Chunhe is also a shrewd person, he immediately understood what Gao Yanfu meant, and hurriedly said: "The prince is right, the humble position is just speculation, and of course the guess cannot be written in the injury report." ”

Gao Yanfu was still not very relieved, and said: "You want to show me after you finish writing the injury report, do you hear?"

"Humble duty understands. ”

Gao Yanfu was very worried about Li Dan's injury, once Li Dan fell into any disability, the saint would not consider making him his heir, and his hopes for him would be in vain.

He told Wang Chunhe a few more words, and then walked into Li Dan's ward, the ward was filled with a strong smell of medicine, and there were eight fierce guards standing outside, seeing Gao Yanfu come in, the eight hurriedly bowed and saluted, Gao Yanfu nodded, and went directly into the inner room, the curtains in the room were closed, the light was very dim, and the two concubines sat at the head of Li Dan's bed on the left and right, carefully serving him to drink medicine.

Li Dan's face was pale, particularly eye-catching in the dim light, but his spirit seemed to be okay, not as sluggish as Gao Yanfu imagined, Li Dan saw Gao Yanfu come in, and hurriedly asked the two concubines to retreat.

"Your Highness is really worried," Gao Yanfu stepped forward and sighed.

Li Dan smiled bitterly, "I'm causing trouble to Gaofujun." ”

"There's no trouble, it's just that the Holy One is very concerned about His Highness's situation, so let me come and visit. ”

Gao Yanfu asked with concern, "How is Your Highness feeling yourself, is the injury serious?"

"It was very bad at first, I thought I was going to be able to survive, but after the poisonous blood flowed away, I felt better again, Aunt Gongsun's snow clam pill is really a panacea"

After a pause, Li Dan asked in a low voice, "What is my mother's attitude?"

"She is very angry, so to speak, she will not give up on this matter, and will definitely investigate it strictly. ”

Li Dan was silent, and after a moment he asked again, "Have you decided who will investigate this matter?"

"Not yet, the Holy One is waiting for my reply before deciding who will investigate. ”

Li Dan was worried, he was very afraid that Junchen or Wu Yizong and others would investigate the case, so the final conclusion must be a bitter trick concocted by himself, and his mother would never spare him.

"Fu Jun, can you convince your mother to let the internal guard investigate the case. ”

Gao Yanfu understood his thoughts, but it was not for him to decide, he smiled and said, "I can't be sure, I can only try my best to persuade the Holy Lord to agree to let Li Zhen investigate this case." ”