Hard, firm, faint osmanthus fragrance lingers around, like coiled spider silk, there is a soft but overwhelming feeling of suffocation.

Fang Linyuan's impact on the edge of the bed was very heavy, but he didn't feel the pain at all.

It was only in the chaos after all his senses were □□paralyzed that he heard the sound of the golden beast's face falling to the ground.

Fang Linyuan raised his head in a daze.

saw that under the dim light, Zhao Pu looked down at him. Soft strands of hair fell to his cheeks, and the only spark in the entire space jumped in his eyes.

The next moment, a light, cold hand landed on his waist and pressed it gently.

Fang Linyuan's whole body froze.

It was as if a cold snake was wandering there, hissing breath piercing through the flesh and into his bones, and deeper than bones and limbs.

Then, Zhao Pu's voice sounded in his ears.

"Be careful." Listening to what he was about to say, he pressed down on the hand on his waist. "Did you crash into here? Does it hurt? ”

It seemed to have crashed there, but Fang Linyuan couldn't move.

He looked at Zhao Pu, and saw that Zhao Pu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and his gaze fell downward.

He was looking at Fang Linyuan's waist that had hit the edge of the bed just now.

But the gaze was also a poisonous snake that spit letters, and it moved down from his face, against his flesh and skin, all the way down......

Fang Linyuan was so shocked that he almost bounced up.

He violently broke free from Zhao Pu's embrace, but the toxins left on his body by the traces of the snake did not seem to be easily solved, so that his control of his body was a lot clumsy, and his movements were particularly flustered and embarrassed.

He stood up and turned his head to look at Zhao Pu.

He didn't stretch out his hand to stop him, he quietly raised his eyes at this moment, his body still maintained a half-sitting posture, and the hand that was originally pressed on his waist was still in mid-air, and his slender fingers curled up slightly.

How can a good hand be like a snake?

Fang Linyuan was like a scholar who had broken free from the painting for a while, and he couldn't distinguish between illusion and reality.

But when he met Zhao Pu's eyes, he woke up suddenly.

What is he doing! Startled, he almost fell, Zhao Pu reached out to help him, still concerned about whether he was injured.

But he ...... Still......

It's weird.

Fang Linyuan's heart was pounding in his chest, and it took him a long time to find his voice, and while his chest was rising and falling, he gasped, and said, "Are you okay, did you press your wound?" ”

I saw Zhao Pu pause slightly, and then shook his head.

"I'm fine." He said, pushing the pillow behind him and sitting up as he sat up. "Scaring you?"

Fang Linyuan hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "No, I'm afraid of ......"

At this point, he paused slightly.

What is he afraid of? I have known Zhao Pu for so long, and Zhao Pu's actions just now did not mean to hurt him.

It was himself, so stiff that he couldn't move, and even his skin was numb.

Fang Linyuan was speechless for a moment, and watched Zhao Xuan get up and sit down.

Although Zhao Pu was injured, his limbs were still very strong, and he sat up and leaned on the pillow behind him.

"Just coming back from prison?" I saw Zhao Pu fixed looking at him for a moment, and then shifted the topic to the other side. "How's it going?"

"When you caught the man in the lead, I sensed that something was wrong." Speaking of this, Fang Linyuan's mind finally became clearer.

Seeing that Zhao Pu nodded, he continued.

"After I settled them, I went to test Jiang Huaqing. Sure enough, these people were raised by Jiang Huaqing for others, and presumably today's actions were also Jiang Huaqing's unauthorized decisions to save his own life. ”

"You're right." Zhao Pu nodded.

"But there's still one thing I don't understand." Speaking of this, Fang Linyuan frowned and said.

"What?"

"Raising a dead soldier without permission is a capital crime for the nine clans, and he dares to help someone do it, that person must have the ability to save his life, and what he does must be extremely important to that person." Fang Linyuan said.

"However, it's just a few dozen people, and they spend a lot of time in Yanzhou, what are they going to do?"

Zhao Pu was silent for a moment and opened his mouth.

"Do you remember where those Han people in Beijing who pretended to be bandits fled?"

Fang Linyuan looked at Zhao Pu's eyes and was slightly stunned.

For a moment, his lips moved, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

…… Yanzhou.

The direction in which those killers fled was Yanzhou.

——

Early the next morning, Fang Linyuan went to the prison again.

There was so much evidence found from Shangjia's mansion that Heng Feizhang didn't sleep all night, and sorted them all out early in the morning.

Buying and selling grain and grass, manipulating grain prices, colluding with officials and businessmen, including tax evasion, all these charges can be confirmed for Tan Ji and Jiang Huaqing, and there is no longer a need for trial.

Fang Linyuan went to see the leader of the killer last night.

His shoulder and leg injuries were not serious, and he was no longer in serious condition after being bandaged by the military doctor.

When Fang Linyuan went to interrogate him, he was bound in prison and his mouth was tightly gagged.

The prison guards knew that he was a dead man, so they waited for him, fearing that he would kill himself.

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When Lin Yuan sat down outside the cell door and motioned for the jailer to untie him, the jailer was still a little hesitant: "This ...... General, if he bites his tongue ......"

Fang Linyuan only looked at the man, smiled at him, and continued: "It's okay, I know he won't. ”

When the jailer heard this, he didn't insist anymore, and released him according to Fang Linyuan's words, and then retreated under Fang Linyuan's order.

The two of them were the only ones left in the cell.

"How do you know I'm not going to kill myself?"

The man was injured in the leg and couldn't stand up, so he just sat in the cell and looked up at Fang Linyuan.

Fang Linyuan said bluntly: "You didn't die the first time, and it will be difficult for you to have the courage to die again in the future." ”

The man looked at Fang Linyuan and didn't speak for a moment.

Fang Linyuan knew that he had guessed correctly.

He smiled and said, "I knew you weren't a dead soldier. ”

There was a look of surprise in the man's eyes.

"How do you know?" He asked.

"I also know that those brothers of yours did a good job, and after setting fire to the capital, the movement was in front of the emperor."

The man immediately opened his round eyes and stared at Fang Linyuan for a long time before he finally found his voice and asked hoarsely, "How do you know this?" ”

"I know they haven't come back." Fang Linyuan said. "Do you want to know, where did they go?"

The man stared at Fang Linyuan, and after a long time, he asked in a trembling voice.

“…… Aren't they in the Mansion of the Lord in the capital? ”

——

This time it was Fang Linyuan's turn to be surprised.

He resisted the surprise in his heart, and after a moment, asked all the information the man knew.

It turned out that this group of killers was originally a soldier in the army.

They were selected as the best in kung fu, and it was said that they would be organized into a 100-man surprise attack team and stationed on the frontier alone.

But after they were taken away, they were led to Jianghuaqing's mansion.

Jiang Huaqing said that he was picking people for the adults in Beijing, and this group of people was going to be sent to Beijing to serve as guards for the adults and His Majesty in the future. Their families will be brought into the capital together, and the food in the capital is five times that of Yanzhou, but before that, they have to go through another round of training and selection.

In the end, only fifty people were able to enter Beijing.

After more than a month of training, the adults in Beijing sent an urgent letter, saying that there was an urgent matter in Beijing, and the fifty people would want it immediately. And this killer leader is the fifty-first person who is left, and it is logical that Jiang Huaqing manages the rest of the people.

He has done a lot for Jiang Huaqing.

secretly protected him from traveling, delivered letters to merchants from all over the city, and when Jingzhong sent information, he went to contact Jiang Huaqing for him.

He also knows better than anyone else.

Speaking of this, the man gradually stopped and looked at Fang Linyuan.

Fang Linyuan knew what he was hesitating about.

"Since you know that they are responsible for the chaos in Beijing, you should be able to guess where they are now." He said to the man.

"What they are doing is to obstruct the alliance between Daxuan and the alien race, it is to disobey the holy decree, and no matter which adult does it, it will be a capital crime. If they did, they would definitely be wiped out, and the adults in Beijing had no intention of taking them in, and even if they died, they all died on the way back to Yanzhou. ”

He looked at the man, saw his pupils tremble and his face turned pale, and continued.

"Jiang Huaqing didn't leave you for the adults in Beijing. If you were the people of the Ming Road, you would have died with them a long time ago, and he raised you by the hand of the lord in the capital to raise his own minions. ”

At this point, he looked directly into the man's eyes, and although he looked down from above, he did not feel condescending.

He seems to have compassion that cannot be washed away in his bones, so that when he looks at people like this, he always makes the other party feel convinced and reassured.

"You were originally the soldiers of Daxuan, and even if you died, you died with glory in a grand manner." Fang Linyuan said.

"But you have even erased your names, those fifty people were killed as foreign bandits, and you are all Jiang Huaqing's dead soldiers until now, and you are his disposable knife. If you have been deceived like this, and you have to hide it for them, then I have nothing to say, and I will not ask again. ”

The man let out a whimper and raised his hand to cover his eyes.

"It's San-sama." He said. "I once accidentally saw a letter from Lord Jiang, which was sent by an adult surnamed Sang."

“…… Mulberry? Fang Linyuan's eyebrows froze. He wants you to break the contract between the two countries? Why? ”

Mulberry said...... He said...... The matter is done for heaven, so that Lord Jiang does not have to worry. ”

…… Heavenly.

Fang Linyuan's pupils tightened and he looked at the man.

The gods in the sky are clay statues in the mortal world, and they cannot open their mouths to give any orders to mortals...... In heaven and on earth, there is only one person who can be referred to as the blue sky, and there is only one person.

But......

The emperor, the emperor himself nodded and promised the contract and peace, and declared peace for several years or even decades, why did he want to destroy it?

He even did not hesitate to create turmoil and set fire to people in his own capital.

Fang Linyuan looked at the killer, and for a while, he couldn't make the slightest sound in his throat.

He was loyal, sincere, and loved the countless dawns of life in the world, and he also admired the monarch on the throne who ruled the four realms.

But now, the monarch's face no longer seems to be as clear as he remembers.

He has kind eyebrows, Sang Zhixin, who is gentle and honest, and Jiang Huaqing, who hides a knife in his smile...... It seems that they have gradually become a different look.

For the first time, he felt confused and unfamiliar.