Su Yu's gaze was retracted from his hand that was slowly lowered again, and smiled at him: "Awake?" ”

He sat up, took the clothes she handed him, and silently put them on.

Su Yu walked out again, and was about to ask He to bring him food, when he heard him say behind him, "No need." I'm not hungry. ”

She stopped and turned her head.

"I'm sorry for you, I ......"

All of a sudden, last night's experiences were reflected in his mind. Countless words were waiting to be spoken, but in the end, he couldn't say a complete sentence, only this half of the sentence remained.

Su Yu slowly walked back.

"Where have you been since last night?"

He avoided her gaze and responded with silence.

"I heard what you said to Ayah. King Kang was not killed by you. ”

He looked up at her.

"What you said to Aya sounds reasonable, but it can't fool me."

Maybe they didn't want to hear him lie to themselves, or maybe they didn't want to embarrass him. Without waiting for him to answer, Su Yu continued.

"After King Kang left that day, you returned in a few moments. In such a short period of time, even if you really killed people as you say, you won't have time to deal with the rest of the matter. Unless you have premeditated and arranged for manpower in advance. But it was an accident that Kangwang joined his peers that day. So I know, it's not going to be you. Or ......"

She looked at Pei Xiaoyuan opposite.

"Refund 10,000 and say, even if it is you, you have accomplices."

"That person is Chengping."

His silence was still the answer to her.

Su Yu waited for a moment, and then stopped asking.

She changed the subject.

"There's been so much going on lately. From the moment the news of your assassination spread inexplicably, something was wrong everywhere. ”

"I can tell you with certainty that the person who released this news was not my Aya. The Imperial Doctor didn't have the courage to do so. ”

"What do you think about this?"

"It's Li Yan." He finally spoke, answering.

Su Yu nodded.

"Yes, I thought so too. That's him. He's always there. The current situation is what he wants. I used to think of him as simple. His identity is his natural weapon. He can use it to deal with careerists and use each other. Inside and outside Chang'an, I am sure there will still be many such careerists. Someone may have been protecting him in the dark, so he could always hide well after all this time. ”

"Pei Er, if I say that Chengping also knows him, and even has some dealings, do you believe it? Or do you think that this is my unwarranted suspicion of your brother Paoze? ”

Pei Xiaoyuan looked at her and didn't speak immediately.

"I'm not saying that Chengping obeys Li Yan and is controlled by him. But the two of them must have known each other for a long time. ”

"Recently, I asked some old people in the palace and asked about something. Chengping came to Chang'an as a proton in the last years of Jingsheng. In the quality hall, because he is the youngest, six or seven years old, he doesn't understand the words of the Central Plains, he doesn't know the etiquette of the Central Plains, of course, the most important thing is that the clan behind him is weak, and his father is still betrayed and despised by the old sage, and he needs to endure humiliation to worship the king of the wolf court who was canonized by the old sage, not to mention him, a young proton? The prosperity and brightness of Chang'an that day, I think he didn't have the opportunity to experience it. He should have suffered a lot of bullying and humiliation in the Pavilion. I heard that one day, when he was being bullied again, Li Yan, who was still the emperor's grandson at the time, passed by, helped him, and ordered others not to bully him again. ”

She looked at Pei Xiaoyuan.

"Maybe since then, Chengping and Li Yan have known each other, and they have maintained a relationship until now."

Pei Xiaoyuan froze, and suddenly, in his mind, something that had happened before flashed out.

He didn't think much of it at the time.

However, at this moment, because of her words, when you think about it again, it is not difficult to understand.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed tightly, and his expression turned cold.

He jerked to his feet, hurriedly put on his boots, and turned to go out, when he heard her voice coming from behind him again.

"Don't go yet!"

He turned and saw her coming towards him, stopping in front of him.

"After leaving the palace during the day, I went to visit Wenjun. I have an idea. ”

"You help me, lure Li Yan out, and then catch him."

Su Yu looked at Pei Xiaoyuan and said.

Chapter 120

The suburbs outside the city at dusk are deserted, and the sunset is like blood. On the side of a wild forest stream, Cheng Ping sat casually on a large rocky face with grassy ground. Not far behind him, in the woods, there was the sound of leather whips slashing against human flesh. Accompanied by the painful sound of forgiveness, Shi Xuan's scolding also drifted faintly out with the wind.

"When my order is empty words? Have you ever warned that if you rob money, you will rob money, and you are not allowed to commit adultery and murder at will? ”

He stared at his men on the ground with a fierce expression, and then flicked another whip and slammed it into the man's face. Suddenly, blood splattered with the whip. The man screamed again and rolled on the ground with his head in his hands.

Last night this man took the lead and hijacked a carriage outside the city that had been out of the city before dark and had traveled all night. The owner of the car is a distant relative of the Wei family, although this time the luck escaped the implication, but the head of the family is still panicked, so he rolled up the soft and took the family to think out of Chang'an, but was targeted by Shi Xuan's men at the city gate, because of the restriction order, has not done this thing for a long time, the itchy hands are unbearable, and know that this family can move, and after going out, the car is familiar with the road to make a stroke.

"Wasn't it always like that? Why not now? Besides, in the future, it will be done, and Chang'an will be looted for three days and three nights! Now it's just a woman to sleep and kill a few people, what kind of ...... is it"

Another subordinate who was kneeling beside him finally had the courage to argue in a low voice.

Cheng Ping looked forward indifferently, raised the wine in his hand, and took a sip of wine.

Shi Xuan glanced back at the back of Shuibi and turned around.

"Once upon a time was the past, and the future will be the future! Now what the young master commands, he must do! ”

He pulled out his sword, stepped forward and grabbed one of the man's ears, and the knife fell, and with a terrible sound, a blood-stained human ear that seemed to be still beating fell to the ground.

"It's a first offense, it's a small punishment! The young master's major event is at a critical moment, and no accident can happen! If you can't control your hands and what's under your trouser belts, I'll take care of it for you! ”

Shi Du's two eyes embedded in the whip marks looked fierce like beasts, his gaze swept around the people around him, everyone was terrified, even the hand who had just had one of his ear cut off did not care about stopping the bleeding, struggled to get up from the ground, kowtowed and admitted his mistake.

Shi Xuan walked out of the forest and knelt down with his head bowed to his back.

"It's me who didn't discipline a good person, and the young master forgives my sins!"

His gaze was no longer the ferocity of a moment ago, and in addition to fear, it was also a little puzzled.

For them, it is natural for them to kill indiscriminately or rise up to kill people □□before they kill before they kill money, and it is a matter of course. From the first time they came to the world to understand the first sentence, they were taught that if they won the war, they could kill the men of other tribes, rob them of cattle and sheep, and make their women bear children for themselves. If they lose the battle, they will be replaced by other men who kill them, rob them of cattle and sheep, their mothers, daughters and sisters, and can only go to bear children for others.

What's more, compared with the commonplace slaughter of the city after capturing a place in wartime, last night's incident is simply insignificant, and the robbery is still related to the Wei family's case, and the handling after that is extremely clean, and there will be no problems.

However, this time, for some reason, he touched the scales, and the young master was furious when he found out, which was really an unexpected accident for Shi Xuan.

Could this be the consequence of the young master getting too close to certain holy pilgrims who pay attention to etiquette and law, but are actually almost pedantic in his eyes? He couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

Chengping didn't seem to hear it, only turned his head, looked at a yellow dust road leading to Chang'an in the sunset, and frowned slightly.

"Why hasn't anyone come yet? Did you send the message? ”

Shi Xuan immediately got up and looked for it.

"It was delivered, and I told him to come." He answered.

Chang'an has not yet had time to lift the strict curfew imposed by the series of earth-shattering changes that have taken place before, and recently, another appalling rumor has gradually spread in the Baiguan Office in the southern courtyard of the imperial palace.

In the forbidden garden that day, it was actually a horse waiting for an opportunity to kill King Kang, the purpose of which was to add the crime to the prince's head, so as to force the prince's party into a desperate situation, and hastily fall into the trap, so as to bring down the Liu family and avenge his father. Although he succeeded in deceiving the people and achieving his goal, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and such an act still did not escape the Holy Inspection.

On the morning when the saint woke up, after the hundred officials retreated, he was summoned alone, just for this matter. It is said that at that time, he could not deny it, so he confessed, and the saint was furious, drew his sword and killed, and the sound was transmitted to the door outside the hall, and the palace people who passed by with their ears could even hear some movements. In the end, although because of the princess, the saint did not kill him for the time being and tolerated it, but it should also be a living sin.

After that day, the princess drove to the palace, and then stayed with the saint, in addition to taking care of the saint, but also relaying various edicts between the saint and the hundred officials, and never returned, leaving the horse alone under house arrest in the Yongning mansion. The outside of the mansion looked the same as usual, but in fact, in the corners of the four gates and the surrounding dark alleys, there were dark guards day and night, and traffic inside and outside the mansion was strictly prohibited.

Of course, saints have always valued horses, but if such a thing happens, who can really tolerate a son-in-law who kills his own son? What's more, it is still the respect of the emperor.

In the end, no one among the ministers could say what he would do with the colt, whether he would choose someone else for the princess, or whether it would be a matter of no one. I only know that Cui Daosi entered the palace to plead for Cui Lang, but he didn't even see the emperor's face, outside the palace, from morning to night, kneeling for a day, and finally was carried out of the palace by Zhao Zhongfang, and then he was punished by three consecutive demotions, and was deprived of his real position, from a three-grade high-ranking official to a six-grade school scholar of the Hongwen Pavilion, which attracted a lot of ridicule from people who did not vote for him on weekdays, laughing at his nephew's blessing this time.

Shi Xuan knew that the young master had been secretly running for many days for this matter, begging acquaintances everywhere, wanting to see Pei Xiaoyuan, but to no avail. Sent a message to the palace to ask to see the princess, but also fell into the sea - many people have already rumored that the princess is also extremely disappointed in the concubine and ignores it.

It's really this time, what the horse did was too terrifying, and in the final analysis, not only the crown prince, but also the death of the abolished prince had nothing to do with him. The saint lost two sons in a row because of him, and cut off the heirs, how could he be easily forgiven.

Just yesterday, Shi Xuan was ordered to secretly find Chen Shao.

The reason why this person surfaced was because the young master had also sent a message to the Eastern Capital a few days ago to inform Pei Ji of the matter in order to seek countermeasures. Pei Ji was shocked, and he had no good plan for a while, but He Jin, who had returned to the Eastern Capital, secretly passed this name, and this is why today's appointment was made.

"Someone's coming!"

The sunset fell below the horizon, and the sky suddenly turned dark, Shi Xuan suddenly shouted softly, jumped down from a high place, and went up to investigate.

Soon, he brought one person over, bowed down and said, "Young master, someone is here." ”

"The prince did not look for me, but I would have come to find the prince. On the orders of Pei Langjun, there is something important to tell you. ”

Chen Shao bowed and said respectfully.

Late at night, at the water's edge in the same area, Chengping sat alone under the moon.

It's November, and the night breeze brings a bit of chill to the bone. The moon outside Chang'an also seemed a little larger than inside the city, and the cold light like hoarfrost poured down, covering a large field of fields. The bell rang for the third watch of the wild temple from the corner of the barren mountain that was hidden nearby, and for a long time, with the sound of a slight footstep, someone stepped on the grass and walked out of the forest.

"You want to see me?"

The moonlight reflected the pale face of a man with straight sword marks, and he looked at the back of the head of the person in front of him and said in a voice.

Cheng Ping raised his neck, poured the last big sip of wine, waved his arms, and threw the empty mouth away.

"Your Highness has already arrived. Is it fun to hide in the woods? He didn't look back, and said coldly.

The person who came was Li Yan. He naturally heard the irony implied in Chengping's words, and ridiculed him for being too cautious, but how could he care about this, and smiled indifferently.

Chengping turned around, glanced at him through the moonlight, and nodded.

"It seems that you have another master in Chang'an to protect you, you hide it so well, and you can sit on the Diaoyutai and the harvest is not small."

"What did you suddenly look for me?" Li Yan didn't say much, but only asked rhetorically.

"Pei Er was assassinated before marriage, did you do it?"

Li Yan was silent for a moment and nodded: "Yes." There is no hope of being of use to me, and when he lives, he makes me one more great enemy. Even if you don't want to, you have to do it. ”

In Chengping's dark eyes, a reflection of the moonlight like broken ice flashed away. He leaped lightly from the stone.

"Finally, you still know each other, and you haven't touched Pei Gong. Otherwise, you will become an undying opponent, and you will not have such luck. ”

"Pei Gong has an outstanding reputation, kindness and kindness, and he is not half harmful to me, why should I-"

He suddenly seemed to have an understanding, his eyes flickered slightly, and he stopped to look at Chengping.

"What do you mean by that?"