I glanced at Zhiyong, and in a flash I walked out of the courtyard gate, Zhiyong following closely behind me.

In front of me was the square in front of the second major hall, and I lost my direction for a while, so I stopped where I was, looking around, not knowing where to go.

Zhiyong tugged at the corner of my coat and pointed to a corner not far from the courtyard gate behind us.

I glanced at where Zhiyong was pointing and asked, "Zhiyong, what's wrong?"

Zhiyong's eyes kept looking at that corner, and he babbled for a long time.

I still don't know what he was trying to say.

Seeing that I didn't understand, Zhiyong pulled me towards the corner.

Before he could reach the corner, a cheerful man suddenly turned out of the corner.

I immediately stopped.

Step by step, the man walked towards us. I saw that he was wearing a gorgeous embroidered robe, all with a golden crown, and a jade belt around his waist, on which hung a sword.

"Who are you?" I asked, seeing the man walk up to us.

The man did not answer me, but looked to the right and left, and said, "Come with me." ”

After speaking, he turned around to leave, and saw me and Zhiyong still standing in place, and said anxiously: "I won't harm you, I have something important to ask you for help, come over quickly." ”

Ji-yong and I glanced at each other, followed him hesitantly, and walked forward.

The man led us a few steps, turned around a pond, and came to a pavilion.

He pushed open the door of the gallery and let us in, then closed it again.

Zhiyong and I were at a loss for a moment, and we didn't know what to do, when the man said, "Are you from the manifest world?"

I nodded.

The man saw that we were still a little nervous, so he smiled and said, "Come on, come on, come and sit down here." ”

As he spoke, he moved us to the chair in the center of the pavilion.

Zhiyong and I sat down cautiously, and the man sat down.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person. How did that companion of yours come here to be healed?" said the man.

I said, "He, he's in epilepsy." By the way, how do you know my companion is sick?"

The man said, "Early in the morning, there was a commotion in the area around the front hall, so I went out to see what was going on, and I saw a man being carried into the palace doctor's office from afar. Except for the sick, who will be taken to the palace doctor's office? ”

I said, "You said you came out and came out to see, do you live in this temple?"

The man said, "Who can haunt here if he does not live in it?"

I took a closer look at the man's outfit and suddenly realized, "Aren't you the King of Huandou?"

The man smiled and said nothing.

"Ah, you're the King of Huandou, that's wonderful. We're worried we won't find you. I exclaimed excitedly.

Zhiyong also had a look of surprise on his face at this time, staring intently at the man.

The man put his finger to his mouth and said, "Shhh——! don't be too loud." ”

I immediately stopped.

The man sighed and said, "Well——! the widow is now a dead king. Now in this shrine, it is just a remnant. I don't know which day, I may die in vain. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at us, put away his grief, and said with a smile: "How did you get here in this place where the mountain is now confined like an iron bucket, and not even a fly can fly in?

I said, "This is all General Liao Mi's ploy." ”

When King Huandou heard this, he stood up in surprise, frowned and said, "Liao Mi, what does he want to do?" I thought you were just simple members of the Wa royal family, and the widow still wanted to invite you over, and I begged you to help me take a word out. I didn't expect you to do things for Liao Mi. Hmph! I don't need to ask, the old thief of Chonggang did not dare to kill the widow in an upright manner, but he arranged for Liao Mi, a rebel minister, to use this kind of indiscriminate method to deal with the widow. Okay, let's do it. Early tomorrow morning, the news that the king suddenly fell ill and died violently in a Xuan Xie in the temple will spread throughout the whole territory of Huandou. The old thief of Chonggang will be logical, and Tui Lu'er will be his puppet, so that he can control the whole Huandou clan and do evil. Hey——! this is going to be a pain for my people. The widow is incompetent, the widow is incompetent. ”

King Huandou burst into tears as he spoke.

When Zhiyong heard this, he babbled twice, and before I could speak, he opened his mouth and took out the snakeskin cover from under his tongue, handed it to me, and pointed to King Huandou, meaning that I should show him the letter.

When King Huandou saw this, he looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "God, this is the punishment for my decades of weakness and connivance with traitors. ”

I know he's using the snakeskin envelope as poison to kill him.

I explained, "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood. ”

"Misunderstanding?" said King Huandou looked at me with a confused expression.

I said, "Actually, General Liao Mi didn't really take refuge in Chonggang. He imitated the assassination of Qin by Jing Ke of the Wa royal family, and pretended to take refuge, intending to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Chonggang and eliminate harm for the people. ”

King Huandou stood up again, walked up to me and asked, "Is this true?"

I said, "If you don't believe it, king, there is proof here." ”

As I spoke, I unwrapped the snakeskin cover and pulled out the secret letter.

King Huandou asked, "What is this?"

I said, "This is a secret letter from General Shi Bian of the Three Realms Ridge and General Long Jianzhao of Danshui City. You can tell at a glance whether General Liao Mi is really attached to the rebellion. ”

I handed the letter to King Huandou, who was about to unfold it when he heard the voice of someone not far from the Xuanxie.

"Let you not leave him an inch, what are you doing to eat, and in a moment the person will be gone. ”

"Just now he wanted to relieve him, so I followed him to the door of Gong's room, and he went in by himself and asked me to wait outside the door. After a while, I heard a sound in Gong's window, and I thought he was going to escape through it. I tried to push the door in to see what was going on, but he stuck it inside, so I went around the main hall and ran out of the air window of Gongfang's room to block it. But when I got there, there was no movement, and I was not at ease, so I stood there and waited for a long time, but I didn't see him escape through the window. But when I got back to the front door of Gongfang, the door was wide open, and I ran in to see that it was empty. I ran back to the dormitory, but I still didn't see anyone, so I searched everywhere, but I still haven't found it. I think even if he runs, he won't be able to escape from the temple wall. Even if you run out of the temple, isn't there still a heavy guard on the road? It shouldn't be fine. Rest assured, Chief Guard. Let's keep looking. ”

"This old guy is here, and he is still restless and self-conscious, damn, this is going to kill us. ”

"Kill us, isn't it that serious?"

"Hmph! You're groggy all day long, and you don't know what you're thinking. Do you think this errand is easy? Speaking of which, it's just four or five people staring at a wasted person, standing when they want to fight, sitting when they want to sit, and napping when they want to sleep. But you know, if there is the slightest mistake, we are all going to lose our heads. Even if the prime minister doesn't kill us, if he lets him run out, or if he connects with the forces against the prime minister, the prime minister may end the game, and we will suffer. The crime of rebellion is not a joke, it is necessary to exterminate the nine clans. ”

"I didn't think this errand was so dangerous, I wouldn't have come. I asked someone to ask the celebrity next to the prime minister, Lord Kualuo, and drew a large sum of money to get this errand, I thought it was a beautiful errand, but it turned out to be an errand to die. ”

"You can't think like that, hurry up and find someone, as long as you find someone, take a good look at it in the future, don't let him act rashly, and wait until the prime minister is done, we are all heroes." On that day, the glory and wealth will be at our disposal. ”

"That's what the chief guard said. This is called reluctant children can't trap wolves. Just now I heard the sound of someone talking in the Xuanxie area over there, and I heard like I was talking about the heavens and the earth. ”

"Let's go, go over and have a look. ”

Ji-yong and I suddenly tensed.

King Huandou said: "Calm down, the more you reach the critical moment, the more you must calm down." You two find a place to hide. ”

When he had finished speaking, he took off the golden crown from his head and laid it on the table beside him. Then pull out the hairpin on the head, remove the crown, spread the hair, and hide the secret letter in the middle of the hair. Fu tied his hair in a bun again, put on the hair crown, and used a hairpin. Finally, I straightened the hairline of my temples, reached out and picked up the gold crown, and put it on my head upright.

At this time, the footsteps outside had reached the door of Xuanxie, but Zhiyong and I had already hid behind the two plaques on the beam.

At the moment when the door was pushed open, King Huandou ran to the corner of Xuanxie, pushed open the window and shouted, "Catch the assassin, catch the assassin." ”

The two people who had just pushed the door in, when they saw this scene, they thought that someone had jumped out of the window and ran, so they turned around and ran in the direction that King Huandou pushed open the window.

The two chased after each other for a while, then came back out of breath and asked, "King, what did the assassin look like just now?"

King Huandou said: "I didn't see clearly with my face, but I was tall, and a trace of red and white hair appeared between my sideburns. There is also a birthmark the size of a copper coin on his arm. ”

The man who looked like the head of the army in the two of them muttered, "Isn't this the red-haired old five-hemp turtle?"

Another guard asked, "Chief Guard, who is the red-haired old five-horse turtle?" ”

"That's the Jiangyang thief who has disappeared from the rivers and lakes for many years. He relied on a good martial arts back then, dominated the storm, ran rampant, and no one in the Huandou clan was invincible, and he did all the bad things. Later, the imperial court poured all the strength of the whole clan to suppress it, but it was not caught for three years. But since then, he has not been heard of again. ”

"But how did he end up here?"

"I think he's here for revenge. King Huandou said, "I was the one who ordered his arrest back then." Now that I'm in this field, he can take the opportunity to take revenge. If you hadn't arrived in time, my life would have been here today. But that's fine, if you're dead, you won't be in the way of other people's eyes. ”

"What are you talking about, my lord? What do you mean, are you blaming the prime minister? But it was the clan elders association who moved you here. The prime minister advised you to abide by the law of your ancestors, but also for the well-being of hundreds of millions of people, even if you don't stop, why bother to be so cynical. The lowest-ranking guard of the two said.

"Shut up, who told you to talk nonsense here? King, hurry back to the dormitory. If you make a mistake, we can't afford to be guilty. ”

King Huandou turned his head, walked out of the gate of Xuanxie, and walked away without looking back.

The two guards also ran one after the other.