Chapter 37: In front of the curtain
A dimly lit room, where it is difficult to see people's faces.
"Rubbish, junk......" The man in black was impotent and furious, and the fat man dressed as a merchant shivered in front of him.
"You waste, it's been so many days, and Li Pingyuan doesn't know if he's not there? Do you have to wait until he appears on the battlefield to find out? The angry man reprimanded the fat rich businessman and said.
"Chengguo Mansion is like a bottomless pit, can you send someone who can make things happen?" The man in black glanced at the fat merchant and put great pressure on the fat merchant.
"Dutong, there is really no way, he may still be there, otherwise how could all these practitioners be broken, Li Chengzhi can be sure that he has left Yin Du, where is there such a master in Chengguo." The fat rich businessman shuddered.
"What if it's the other masters? None of you escaped back, too, waste? I don't know how many more people to send, even if one or two people go in, one or two people look, and now I don't even know who will be killed. "The black-clothed people are all bruised.
"Is Chengguo Mansion an iron bucket? Not a single crevice to drill? "The black clothes are all hard with their fists.
"There's really no way, it's all unified, the elites of his subordinates have been scattered, and they really can't be detected." The rich businessman said distressedly, those are the most elite people under him.
Didn't he do it when the black clothes said it, yes?
However, there are many people, and the soldiers stationed in the garrison are directly used, and the few people are not enough to play.
Even if she wants to kidnap Li Ruji, who is going out, she can't do it.
The other party now doesn't show up except for buying medicine, and buying medicine is also a variety of guards and protection.
This kind of cautious and cautious strength is not an exaggeration to say that it is an iron bucket.
"Forget it, waste, watch me do it!" The black-clothed all snorted coldly.
"Next, you have a new mission, the Wanshou Banquet to assassinate King Yu." The black-clothed capital arranged a new task.
"Ah, assassinate King Yu, longevity banquet? How is this possible? "The fat rich businessman is in a hurry.
"How is it impossible, the forbidden army has been transferred, and now the garrison in the city is empty, and there are thousands of sergeants at the longevity banquet, are there no people you have cultivated?" The black-clothed Dutong snorted coldly.
"That can't be done, King Yu is heavily protected, how can there be a chance." The fat man's eyebrows and eyes were wrinkled together, and his embarrassed face jumped on the paper.
"It doesn't have to be to kill him, just toss some movement." The black clothes all said plainly.
"The above means to kill King Yu and let the Yu Kingdom fall into a chaos of dragon fighting, so as to facilitate the front line to capture Chengdieguan, but I also know that this matter is really difficult, so I don't ask you to kill King Yu, but you must make a sound, the bigger the better, so that even if you fail, it doesn't matter, after all, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us."
The words of the black-clothed Dutong made the rich businessman breathe a sigh of relief, he didn't ask for success, then he understood.
"The lowly position understands, so go down and prepare." The fat man and the rich businessman wiped the sweat from his forehead.
It's just coaxing to play, that's a lot to say, it's nothing more than creating a look of trying your best, but you didn't do it in the end?
When the time comes, it will be convenient to shirk responsibility, he understands it too well, so he will go down and write the preparation plan, arrange the deployment records and hand them in, and the accounts will be sorted out, and not a single moth will be allowed!
In this matter, he must deal with this matter with 200% enthusiasm, take it seriously without giving up until the goal is reached, and plan the major event of assassinating King Yu.
Seeing that the fat man and the rich businessman understood what he meant, the black clothes were all bowed.
When the fat rich merchant retreated, the face of the black-clothed leader showed extreme distortion.
"Tao Yuan, you bastard, bastard......" Incompetent rage, that's probably it.
After being betrayed by Tao Yuan, the spies who planned the line of the longevity banquet were almost wiped out, and the plan for the longevity banquet can be said to have been factually stopped.
Originally, he was really preparing to assassinate King Yu and let the princes compete for the throne in order to create opportunities for the front army, but now the generals on the front line are also waiting for news.
Now, he can only make a noise, and in the end, the meaning of the performance is greater than the actual meaning, and he doesn't want to do it, but there is no way, there is no one available.
The black clothes all scolded Tao Yuan for a while, sat on the chair, and waited for the sky to be dark, with many clouds and no stars and no moon, and the dark sky was the most suitable for exploration work.
Opening a small opening in the window, the body shape changes, and the huge human body changes into a crow the size of a palm.
The crow fluttered its wings and flew in the direction of the Chengguo Mansion.
Hovering in the sky and landing on the eaves, the crow's eyes were fixed on the courtyard, especially the main house, which symbolized the envoy's residence.
The lights were burning, but there was no sound, and the silence was terrible.
He watched Li Ruxi walk into the house with the potion, he waited quietly, and the night let him melt into the darkness.
After a long time, the lights went out, and Li Ruyuan also walked out with a sad face, as if Li Pingyuan's condition had worsened again.
Judging from the prescriptions prescribed, Li Pingyuan's illness is indeed getting more and more serious, claiming to be infected with wind and cold, but in fact it is a stomach disease caused by water and soil adaptation.
These all show that Li Pingyuan is now sick and it is impossible to lead Chengguo to the expedition, but there is news that Li Chengzhi rushed to Chengguo and was escorted by the army all the way, and it is suspected that Li Pingyuan returned to China.
Now the generals on the front line are desperate to know the state of Li Pingyuan and give this veteran the necessary respect.
The commander of the army is not, the gap between people and people is bigger than that of people and dogs, if you know that Li Ping is far away from the front line, you will be safer, form a hard battle, fight attrition, and use national strength to drag the two countries to death.
If you are not there, then you can be flexible, and even forcibly take it into a stacked pass, take Yin Du directly, and destroy the Yu State in one fell swoop.
The importance of Li Pingyuan's current state confirmation is second only to the assassination of King Yu causing chaos in the Yu Kingdom.
Wait, wait.
Jumping off the eaves, the crow tried to push the doors and windows again, but the premonition of danger caused him to soar into the air.
"Whoosh......" sharp arrows nailed to the door panel.
"Whoosh ......" was another arrow, and the crow fled in a hurry.
The "Bell ......" was calibrated from the two arrows in front of it, and the third arrow hit the crow's body accurately, but it made the sound of gold and stone colliding.
The fourth arrow was aimed at the crow's eye, and the crow was so frightened that it could dodge it, but shot off a few flying feathers.
"......" The crow did not care about the direction and hurried away from this place.
After flying far away and finding a beam under the eaves, the crow breathed a sigh of relief.
Monsters are suppressed in human cities, not to mention in a royal city like Yindu, and then there is a real heavenly master in this country, he doesn't dare to use any demon magic, if he is caught by the other party, it can only come back for another life.
"It's terrifying, there is no trace of magic, and it can shoot through my feathers." Out of danger, the crow speaks and is still afraid.
He kind of understood a little bit why the original human beings were gone, this kind of dark arrow, his golden and stone body was still faintly painful, and it was difficult to say that the flesh and blood of human beings were not easy to say.
After a long time, calming down, the crow looked in the direction he was flying from, his eyes were a little annoyed, his eyes were spinning, and he looked cunning, thinking about what to do.
"Mother, how can I testify about something that I don't have." The man's voice was full of unyielding and roared.
"If you don't testify, our Zhenguo Mansion won't have a clear relationship with that woman, why don't you understand." The woman's voice was high-pitched.
It turned out that he flew to the Zhenguo Mansion, and the two people here were Lu Buming, the Duke of Zhenguo, and his mother Zhao.
The crow became interested, flew to the window, and stuck to the window.
"But you can't slander Ah Mi's reputation, he's like this, mother, you let her go." Lu Buming pleaded, his tone extremely helpless and pitiful.
"She still has a reputation? The daughter of a traitor. What else should I tell to let her go, she died because of me? Didn't she almost implicate us? Now it's just to let everyone know that it's not our fault that she cut the table with us, and she's dead anyway, shouldn't we make up for her being sorry for our family? ”
Zhao said a series of rhetorical questions, full of moral superiority, as if what she said was the truth, and what she did was justified.
"But this thing didn't happen in the first place, what do you want me to say, mother, this is a bully." Lu Buming sticks to the bottom line.
"Bully? Who of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty does not bully the king, and Siqin Shengjing does not bully the king, what's the matter, isn't he enjoying glory and wealth in the country? Zhao said disdainfully.
"I also gave my own concubine to King You as a concubine, now I am the national abbot, it is much better than hanging myself on the dead tree of Yu Guo, now Yu Guo is going to be finished, take the line of Yang Xiang, even if Yu Guo perishes, he still does not lose his title, such a dead eye, what should I do, what should Luo Fu do, what should Luo Fu do, what should Luo Fu's children do."
Zhao cried, whimpering, and the crow had a chill, but Lu Buming ate it very much.
"Mother, don't cry, our Lu family is favored by the emperor, it's not good for you to say this." Lu Buming persuaded and tried to convince his mother.
"The world is favored by the emperor, how many people have died in our Lu family for their Tang family, and you are the only one who dies directly, and what we take is what we have in exchange for our lives, you don't cherish it, you want to accompany that woman to die, woo...... My mother has raised you for so long, and you haven't raised your mother yet, do you still want you to die with that woman, abandon your son and mother, woo......"
The crying became heartbreaking, and the more I talked, the more sad it became, and the topic expanded.
"No, no, I don't want to die, Mother, don't cry." Lu Buming said guiltily that he was also a filial son.
"Then you promise your mother, don't think about that woman, and live a good life with Luo Shi." Crying is nothing more than a means of making demands.
"I promise, I promise......" Facing the crying old mother, Lu Buming could only be forced to agree.
"Well, since you promised not to want that woman, then you will testify and completely cut ties with that woman." The crying stopped, and the palace began to press.
Lu Buming lost his voice, and his tone seemed hesitant: "There's no need, she's all dead." ”
"Woo...... Unfilial son, woo woo ......"
"I promise, I promise, mother don't cry, but what if the emperor gets angry with Yang Xiang like this."
Lu Buming gave in and voiced his concerns.
"Your father, your uncle died in the rebellion twenty years ago, and the emperor won't do anything to you if he is angry, but through this time, you can be regarded as Yang Xiang's person." The Zhao family can be regarded as figuring out the emperor's temperament.
"But it's fake, what if it's exposed! We have no evidence. Lu Buming was still worried.
"Who said that there is no evidence, and human witnesses are not witnesses? The word "one voice" is true. Is there anyone else who proves to him that it is not a fake? How to prove it? ”
Zhao Shi was not worried and said that a large net had been weaved, just waiting for the prey to enter the net.
"Miya-sama and Natsu-sama are ......"
"You don't have to worry about this, it's all clear stream, Yang Xiang is the bull's ear, just listen to Yang Xiang."
Zhao didn't care.
"Besides, to confirm that story, they didn't neglect it, after all, they didn't know about this kind of thing, and they couldn't be implicated."
"Okay then." Although apprehensive, Lu Buming still agreed.
"Okay, go and see Luo Fu, everyone is pregnant, you still snub her so much, that woman is in the past, no matter how much you keep it, it's useless, cherish Luo Fu." Zhao's tone also became kind, and he said to Lu Buming.
"Hmm......" Lu Buming replied sullenly.
The crow didn't listen to it, he fluttered and flew into the sky, and flew towards the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion.
Zuo Xiang is a spirited old man, and when the crow finds him, he is looking through Ziyan.
"Yang Xiang is in good spirits, he didn't go to bed and rest at this time." The crow transformed into a human and pushed the door out.
"People can't sleep when they're old, and they want to learn more and review their knowledge." Yang Zuoxiang was not surprised that the black-clothed Dutong arrived, or that all the guards and maids were just waiting for him to arrive.
"Today is not the appointed time." The black-clothed all shook their heads.
"The crow capital is not here yet, someone told the old man that the inspector guard destroyed the spy agency of the hidden country, and the old man thought that the crow capital was also unfortunately killed." Yang Zuo is light-hearted, obviously related to his collaboratorship and betrayal of the country, but he does not seem panicked.
"It's just a subordinate organization, and there are several more down there, and if you catch it, you can catch it." The Raven Commander pretended to be calm.
"Yang Xiang is very powerful, and he has already attracted old nobles like Zhenguo Gong, but I don't know if it is appropriate for them to know that you have fornicated with foreign countries." The crows were dissatisfied.
"I don't know this news, how could such a top nobleman take refuge in the old man, and then take refuge in the secluded country, at least the effect has been seen." Yang Zuoxiang smiled dumbly.
"Okay, this is a great achievement for Yang Xiang, I will enlighten my emperor, and now there is an important matter, and I need to ask Yang Xiang for help." The crow capital is just to express dissatisfaction and take the initiative.
"Please say that they are also ministers of the Holy Dynasty, and they will do their best." Yang Zuoxiang was complacent.
"I want to ask Yang Xiang to help see if Li Pingyuan, the envoy of Chengguo, is still in Yindu." The Raven Commander pleaded.
"This is a foreign minister, and the old man is not easy to visit, but the old man will try his best to tempt." Yang Zuoxiang didn't have a big package, and it was difficult for him to do this.
Now the Chengguo Mansion is closed, and there is no chance for others to visit at all, and even King Yu's summons are called sick, not to mention their ministers, after all, the other party is a foreign courtier.
"Thank you Yang Xiang, there is still something that Ya Yu doesn't understand, please Yang Xiang to solve your doubts." Ya Yu thought of the conversation he heard in the Zhenguo Mansion today.
"New filial piety and inquirement, is it necessary for you to target it like this?" Ya Yu felt incredulous and said that listening to the dialogue of the Zhenguo Mansion meant to confirm the rumors, and it was instructed by Yang Xiang.
"There are enough knives in King Yu's hand, no more is not good, the household is everyone's money bag, and it is not good for an outsider to go in."