In the last book, it was said that after Lai Junchen was killed, Dugu Shuo sacrificed his father and uncle at night, comforted the two undead who were mutilated by Lai Junchen, and avenged them.

It was late autumn, the night was getting colder and colder, and the brazier was burned everywhere in the teaching department, and there was no one in Dulinfeng's boudoir in the evening, Dugu Shuo asked for one from his aunt, and after wiping it, he found some charcoal.

"Lai Junchen is dead?" Lin Feng sat in front of the window at night, looking at the fireworks in the darkness outside the building, and said slowly. It's not very much at the moment, just because Lai Junchen died, many nobles and people in the market set off fireworks, and some burned paper money on the roadside to pray.

"Hmm!" Dugu Shuo sat flat on the ground, poured the brazier and charcoal, and agreed without looking back, and with a faint light smoke lit, the boudoir gradually warmed up.

"Thank you, Dugushuo!" Lin Fengwan glanced at Dugu Shuo, then looked outside the window and whispered.

Dugu Shuo listened and was stunned for a long time, as if the two of them had suddenly become stranger, and it seemed that the estrangement between the two had suddenly dissipated, the fireworks had dispersed, and the light on Lin Fengwan's face gradually became gentle. "Thanks for what?" Dugu Shuo looked at Lin Fengwan gently, and squeezed out a few words with a smile from his mouth.

"Thank you for avenging my parents, I can't help myself, I can't kill the enemy, but he deserves it after all!" Lin Fengwan turned her head back again, still looking at the fireworks rising in the distance, blooming on her face one after another.

"Lai Junchen did a lot of evil and killed Zhongliang, but God accepted him!" Dugu Shuo stopped what he was doing, not daring to look at Lin Fengwan's eyes, he seemed to suddenly notice Lin Fengwan's gentleness, and a warmth arose spontaneously from the bottom of his heart.

"I know it's you, you promised me that one day you would kill him!" Lin Fengwan got up and came over as he spoke, leaning on Dugu Shuo and slowly sat down, tears falling like beads on the ground.

Dugu Shuo hesitated for a moment, slowly stretched out his hand and gently stroked Lin Fengwan's head, his red face suddenly became happy, and he smiled slightly: "What is the silly girl crying, she should be happy!" As he spoke, he took out the handkerchief of Lin Feng Wanxiu from his arms and gently wiped her tears.

"You know what? There are many people burning incense and praying on the side of the street tonight, they are all to tell their relatives that Lai Junchen is dead, do you know how happy everyone is? Their long-standing revenge has finally been avenged, and they shout long live the emperor, but you know what? Many of their relatives died tragically because of the emperor, and it has only been a few years, and they have counted their hatred on the head of Lai Junchen, and they really forgot it quickly! Lin Fengwan's eyes stared straight at Dugu Shuo, Dugu Shuo heard her say this, his heart couldn't help twitching, when he looked carefully, he felt that Lin Fengwan's eyes were hollow and terrifying, like a bottomless cave, and couldn't help but be intimidating.

Dugu Shuo slowly lowered his hand, got up slowly, took a few steps back, held the knife in his hand, glanced out the window and said, "You rest early, I have to go to Yingzhou to meet Master, and I have to come over to say goodbye to you, it may take a while!" Lin Fengwan, who was already indifferent, listened to Dugu Shuo's words, and suddenly cried softly, and his eyes became soft, but at this moment, Dugu Shuo was not leaving, and he was stunned, and his aunt suddenly broke into the door, shouting with a smile: "Evening, Junchen is dead, and the people on the street are setting off fireworks······ stepped into the door with his front foot, but when he saw Dugu Shuo in official clothes, he hurriedly restrained his smile and said respectfully: "Look at my damn urgency, it's Lord Dugu who is here, the old woman is disturbed, let's go, let's go, I'll accompany the adult at night!" As he spoke, he saw Lin Wan'er crying on the side, and hurriedly said: "Great joy, how to cry, thank you Lord Dugu, killing Lord Junchen is the first achievement!" As he spoke, he smiled, turned around and went out, and closed the door casually, leaving only the two of them frozen in place.

Lin Fengwan was still crying for a long time, Dugu Shuo turned around and put down the knife, took off his cloak, slowly walked over and squatted in front of Lin Fengwan, and said softly: "It's not good to cry into a cat's face!" Although it was a light sentence, it made Lin Fengwan burst into tears and laughed, so he sneered and said: "No one will look at you when you leave, if you don't look good, you won't look good!" Dugu Shuo saw that Lin Fengwan's mood was better, so he hugged him in his arms.

"This is a major concern to Yingzhou, at present, the eight Khitan departments of Yingzhou are eyeing the enemy, coveting the territory of the Great Zhou, His Majesty reprimanded the master for the failure of the secret guard, her old man went to Yingzhou alone, I wanted to go with her, but was delayed by the case of Junchen, now the gods are in trouble, the situation in Yingzhou is unknown, I am worried about the safety of the master, I must rush as soon as possible, His Majesty gave the master a ten-day period, if it drags on for a long time, it will be unfavorable to the master, I came to talk to you tonight, lest you not see me and worry all day!" Dugushuo told him about Yingzhou, but Lin Fengwan hugged Dugushuo tightly and didn't let him leave.

"I don't know the blue sky and the yellow earth, and I don't know that the temples are far away from the rivers and lakes, I only know that the moon is cold and the sun is warm and sorrowful, if you don't tell me, I'm just looking forward to you coming every day, but you said it, but I want to worry every day, it's better if you don't say it!" Lin Fengwan's words seemed to have a strange meaning.

"If I don't make it clear, I'm afraid you'll be the same as last time, I'm afraid I'm urging someone to go to the Department of Internal Security to inquire, if there is no news, you can't cry again, you don't think about tea and dinner, so I want to tell you, you also know where I am!"

"That, that, then you are not allowed to leave tonight, I can't sleep if you leave!" Lin Fengwan turned his head and said shyly.

"Silly girl, the matter of the internal guard has never been decided by one person, if you stay tonight, you will leave everyone with you and wait for one night, it will change later, it is better to go early and return early, and when you come back from Yingzhou, I will accompany you for a while, I will not go anywhere, no one will be seen!" Dugu Shuo said, wiped Lin Fengwan's tears with his hand, and gently stroked the tip of Lin Fengwan's nose with his hand.

Lin Fengwan looked at Dugu Shuo blankly, and said for a long time: "Then you can leave when I fall asleep!" ”。

Dugushuo listened and nodded in agreement.

Until it was almost time, Lin Fengwan still couldn't sleep, the two looked at each other, looked at each other without saying a word, and stared straight for a long time.

"It's almost time, I have to go, and I'll redeem you when I save enough money!" After that, Dugu Shuo got up and picked up the knife and cloak and left, but Lin Fengwan got out of bed again and hugged him from behind, grinding for a while.

"You bring this with you, and it will bless you with a safe return!" Lin Fengwan said, took out a piece of Jade Guanyin from under the pillow and put it on Dugushuo's neck.

"Be careful on the road, take care!" Lin Fengwan said this, turned around and pounced, lying on the bed and sobbing, Dugu Shuo turned around to be appeased, but he stretched out his hand and took it back, he knew that if he was like this, he couldn't bear to leave, so he said the word "good" softly, and went without looking back.

Since the Lin Mansion was raided, it has been four or five years since Lin Fengwan punished and confiscated the Teaching Workshop Division.

In the past four or five years, the Teaching Workshop Division has become a good place for Dugu Shuo, whenever he is upset and difficult to decide, he comes here and tells all his thoughts to Lin Fengwan, at first Lin Fengwan was afraid of him, just like other people in the Teaching Workshop Division were afraid of internal guards, and after a long time, he slowly accepted him, and often talked to him in his heart. It is also because Dugu Shuo has been protecting and giving all his money to the Teaching Workshop Division, so that he can keep Lin Fengwan's innocence, every time he sees Lin Fengwan, he always feels a little guilty in his heart, so he helplessly says, "When I have enough money, I will redeem you!" It was also this promise-like sentence that supported Lin Fengwan and supported him, he knew that if he died one day, according to Lin Fengwan's temperament, he would never be humiliated and steal his life, they seemed to be two people who depended on each other.

After resigning from Lin Fengwan, Dugu Shuo seemed to be a lot more relaxed, and the worrying things were like stones falling to the ground. He led Pei Ce, Li Zeng, and Xu Gao to Yingzhou in the starry night.

There was no word all night, and the fast horse galloped on the official road, like a sharp arrow.

Until the evening of the second day, when the lantern was in hand, the sky suddenly rained heavily, the road was very muddy, people were sleepy and tired, and everyone had to stay at the North Gate Post House in Youzhou.

There was nothing to say at the moment, and after dinner, the four of them went upstairs to rest. Walking here, Pei Ce glanced at it randomly, and saw several unsaddled horses standing outside the post house, muttering inexplicably in his heart, and the rest of the people asked him to pinch his fingers to count a hexagram, and when he arrived in the guest room, he sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and circled his fingers from the left index finger, Li Zeng only stared, and saw that he suddenly frowned, and hurriedly asked: "How is the good luck?" ”

Pei Ce didn't speak, he took out a few copper coins from his sleeve, raised his hand and spread them on the bed, Xu Gao took a candle and came over to take a look, Pei Ce hurriedly swept it into his arms, and reluctantly smiled: "Good luck!" When the three of them saw that they frowned at first, and then laughed and shouted that they were lucky, they thought that he was playing tricks, so they laughed and didn't take it to heart.

At present, everyone sleeps above the two rooms of Tianzi and Xuanzi, and the rain is getting heavier and heavier in the middle of the night.

Dugu Shuo was asleep and didn't realize it at all. I don't know when, Pei Ce gently patted him on the shoulder, Dugu Shuo turned over with a scolding, but Pei Ce motioned for him to speak quietly, Dugu Shuo was sleepy-eyed, and suddenly the shadow of the black-clothed killer on the horse flashed in his mind, and the beads of sweat on his forehead suddenly seeped out, and he took out the saber from the head of the bed, held it with both hands, and asked Pei Ce quietly: "Do you notice anything wrong?" ”

Pei Ce shook his head and said softly: "No, it's just that I have two hexagrams in a row, and the hexagram is a bad omen, I am panicked, I can't sleep well, I want to talk to you!" When Dugu Shuo heard this, he suddenly fell apart, tilted his head on the bed, and stumbled in his mouth: "Don't be suspicious, disturb my good dreams, go to bed early!" Just after saying this, suddenly a vague figure flashed outside the window, and the two of them suddenly became alert, followed by the second and third ·····, Dugu Shuo wanted to say "Ghost!" But it was a long, glowing knife that gently reached through the crack in the door and picked up the deadbolt. Pei Ce's eyes were quick, his right hand pulled up his saber, rushed over, stepped on the deadbolt, the person outside the door suddenly went crazy, three or four people smashed through the door and stepped in, Pei Ce hurriedly dodged aside, saying that it was too late, Dugu Shuo also jumped up from the bed, stood on the table, stared at a group of people, and when the black shadow pounced, he jumped up in the air and slashed down, shouting: "Li Zeng, Xu Gao, there is a killer!" This sentence was shouted, and I heard a loud sound in the next room, and then it seemed like the two of them were knocked down at the door, and then there was the sound of a person falling downstairs, through the dim light outside, Dugu Shuo could see it clearly, and the black shadow was the four killers, the four killers took a few steps back, dodged Dugu Shuo's slash, and lined up in formation, two against Dugu Shuo, two against Pei Ce.

The two of them stabbed in both hands, shook their bodies left and right, stabbed over, Dugu Shuo took a few steps back, suddenly kicked forward sideways and kicked the man in black on the left, the man in black on the right swept it with a knife, Dugu Shuo hurriedly leaned back and fell backwards, supported the bench with his left hand, turned over and stepped on the back of the man in black on the right, the man unexpectedly Dugu Shuo turned back, staggered forward a few steps, turned sideways, although a few hidden weapons attacked, Dugu Shuo picked up the bench and threw it over, the man jumped up lightly to dodge, Dugu Shuo took the opportunity to block the knife of the man in black on the left, The left hand punched over, the man's right hand was pressed by Dugu Shuo's knife, and he couldn't open the block for a while, at this time, Pei Ce was pushed over by the two of them, and hit the man's shoulder, the man in black had the heart to look back, but he was afraid of Dugu Shuo, when he was distracted twice, he was punched hard in Dugu Shuo's chest, and immediately staggered backwards, Dugu Shuo took out the bow and crossbow is an arrow, the man fell back and grabbed the door to block, but this arrow penetrated the door and pierced into the neck, and the blood flowed out when he landed, Dugu Shuo wanted to make another mistake, But he listened to the horizontal knife sweeping behind him, and hurriedly pressed Pei Ce's head with one hand and bent down together. Pei Ce was holding down the knife by the two black-clothed people, and was pressed by Dugu Shuo out of thin air, and fell down in an instant, Dugu Shuo was busy exerting force under his feet, and kicked Pei Ce out, the two black-clothed men were originally holding a knife to press Pei Ce, when Pei Ce fell to the ground, his hand was loosened, and he shook his upright body and slashed according to Dugu Shuo, but he was hit by Pei Ce under his feet and lay on the ground. The man swept the air with a knife, swung the knife and slashed again, Dugushuo couldn't dodge, a knife went straight up from his right arm, his body rolled out, and the knife fell to the ground. The man saw a knife slashed, hurriedly pulled out and cut again, Dugu Shuo stretched out his right hand to hold his left hand, showed the bow and crossbow, only to hear a "whoosh" sound, the arrow went with the sound, the man in black heard the sound and hurriedly leaned over to dodge, the arrow passed by, when the man turned over, Dugu Shuo held the crossbow arrow and approached the front body, only to see the bow body trembling slightly, an arrow has pierced the heart.

Looking at the other side, the two black-clothed people were swept to the ground by Pei Ce, and immediately flipped up, holding the knife with both hands and stabbing at Pei Ce. Pei Ce's arrows were slower, if it was replaced by Dugu Shuo, these two arrows would hurt one person, and the two men in black saw the death of two companions, so they jumped and broke through the window lattice and escaped.

Dugu Shuo hurriedly picked up Pei Ce, asked about the injury, and saw that Pei Ce was fine, so he rushed to the next door with a knife.

When he entered the house, only Xu Gao was chased by two black-clothed people, a teapot and teacup were shattered to the ground, the quilt pillows were torn everywhere, and the two black-clothed people were waiting for an opportunity to besiege around the table.

It turned out that when Xu Gao was woken up by Dugu Shuo's shouting, Li Zeng had already raised his knife and fought with the four of them, so he wanted to lift the knife up, but Li Zeng threw down one person, the two scuffled and fell out of the door, a man in black followed, and the other two came straight to him. He hurriedly picked up the pillow and threw the futon over, and was chopped by the two people, so he ran over and threw the teapot and tea bowl over, and the two people dodged while waiting for the opportunity to besiege them, but they were forced to retreat by him with two arrows in succession, so deadlocked, the two men in black did not dare to rush up, until all the crossbow arrows in his quiver were used up.

When the two of them saw Xu Gao coming to his companion, they jumped up, smashed the window lattice and escaped, and when Pei Ce chased in, there were only Dugu Shuo and Xu Gao in the house, so he asked, "Li Zeng?" ”

Asked by this, the three of them rushed out in a panic, only to see Li Zeng lying in the courtyard, his body twitching from time to time, blood mixed with rain kept gushing out of his mouth, Pei Ce jumped down, picked up and shouted a few times, there was no response, when Li and Duduo followed, Li Zeng's breath was weak, and he spoke intermittently, Pei Ce listened closely, and said intermittently: "Yes, yes, assassins, there are assassins..." After hearing this, Pei Ce suddenly roared, tears flowed down with the rain, picked up Li Zeng and went upstairs.

At this time, everyone in the post house rushed out with torches, Xu Gao saw it, sneered, pounced on the torch, threw it towards the guest room, Dugu Shuo jumped up and grabbed it, and said in his mouth: "Xu Gao, what are you doing?" ”

Xu Gao roared angrily and said: "Now that this official's post house has become a den of thieves, why don't you burn it down and leave him to do anything?" ”

"Destroying the post house is a capital crime, even if you burn down this post house, you can't get back Li Zhang's envoy!"

Xu Gao's eyes widened angrily, looking at the people in front of him, like a crazy wolf, and said fiercely: "Okay, well, burning the post house is a capital crime, then I won't burn it, it's not too much to kill a few post men who collude with thieves!" As he spoke, he pulled out his knife and pounced on it and slashed and slashed around, Dugu Shuo saw that he was like crazy, and hurriedly picked up his knife and ran to block it.

"Xu stomach, you can't kill innocents indiscriminately!"

"Innocent, hehe, the internal guards were robbed and killed right under their noses, they hid in the shadows, only waiting for the thieves to leave before they came out, dare to say that they are not a raccoon dog, killing them can be regarded as revenge for Li Zhangchen!"

"Xu stomach, the current matter is not clear, don't kill recklessly, and when the matter is clear, it's not too late to care!" Dugu Shuo raised his knife in front of Xu Gao and said hurriedly.

"Dugu Shuo, Xu Gao is right, when we came in, I saw a few horses at the door of the post station that had not yet been unsaddled, this is the post station of the official family, if it is not for the people in the official mansion, they must not be able to stay, they must have secretly colluded with each other, and they are determined to kill us tonight, so they dare to be so rampant!"

After hearing this, Dugu Shuo turned around and stared straight at the people in the post house, and the post man hurriedly grabbed up and knelt down and said: "Your Excellency misunderstood, those horses that don't take off their saddles are from the inner guard uncle from the gods, and they originally left to avoid a burst of rain!" Hearing this, the three of them looked at each other for a moment, only to be shocked as if they couldn't believe their ears.

"What did you say?" Dugu Shuo waved his knife on the man's neck and said.

The post man wiped the rain from his face, trembled and said anxiously: "The next official's sentence is true, when these people came, they showed the waist card of the internal guard, and the lower officials did not dare to slack off, they were all dressed in the official uniform of the Shendu Guard, arrogant and domineering, how can my small post house have so much courage not to serve!" Adults, please be clear! As he spoke, he fell to his knees.

The three of them glanced at each other again, Pei Ce put down Li Zeng, got up and jumped upstairs, and in a moment a piece of the internal guard waist card was thrown down, and then Pei Ce walked out of the guest room slowly like a lost soul. Dugu Shuo picked it up and looked at it repeatedly, but he couldn't believe it in his heart, and handed it to Xu Gao, who looked at it and shouted in surprise: "It's really the waist card of the internal guard!" Dugu Shuo's heart suddenly felt a sense of foreboding lingering in his mind.

After a long time, Xu Gao said to the people at the post station: "Okay, you guys go down!" ”

Waiting for Xu and Du to go upstairs, they sat in a circle with Pei Ce. I only heard Pei Ce say: "When I came in, I noticed that those horses should not be raised by the officials of the Shendu, those horses have thick legs and bright coats, they should run often, the horses do not take off the saddle, and it is not the habit of the officials of the Shendu!" ”

Dugu Shuo listened, and then said: "What Brother Pei said is reasonable, I think those people should not be from the capital, they may be from Yingzhou, and they are specially here to rob and kill us!" ”

"What, kill us? Why did they kill us, and how did they know about our itinerary and time, so they ambushed us here in advance? When Xu Gao heard this, his back was numb in shock.

"They shouldn't know the time, but they know that if they go from Yingzhou to Luoyang, they will definitely bump into us if they take the official road, but it's just a coincidence that we are at the post station!" Dugu Shuo thought about it and said, Pei and Xu nodded in agreement, and Dugu Shuo continued: "It stands to reason that we are dressed in disguise all the way, and others will not know that we are internal guards, and our itinerary is only known by the commander of the internal guard and the commander of the duty difference that day, and others have no way of knowing, but now they not only know that we are internal guards, but also internal guards who go to Yingzhou, so they should have known that we are going to pass through here under the guise of internal guards." And the waist card they used was indeed from the Internal Security Division, and these clues all point to one place, indicating a problem..."

"There was a problem in the internal guard of the Shendu, and someone leaked our itinerary!" Before Dugushuo finished speaking, Pei Ce and Xu Yu said in unison.

"Yes, that's the only way to do it at the moment!" Dugu Shuo hesitated for a moment and then said: "Those who can know our actions, know where we are going, and can also take out the waist card, there are no more than three people in the internal guard, and one of these three people can be excluded!" ”

"That's right, it's Wu Gengji and Guan Yuexian, and they're sure they can intercept and kill us here tonight!"

"That means that one of the two of them is in collusion with the rebels in Yingzhou!"

The three of them said, they didn't feel their scalps numb, and they didn't dare to guess any further, and suddenly, Dugushuo shouted, "Not good!" Pei and Xu shouted almost at the same time: "Commander Yan is in danger!" ”

The three of them hurriedly picked up the knife and ran downstairs, while settling down and restraining Li Zeng's body, they got on their horses and galloped to Yingzhou.