Ye Feng took the two righteous brothers to the mansion of Ma Jing, the supervisor of Lanzhou.

Before I reached the gate, I saw from a distance that the road at the gate of the house was blocked by the sergeant and had been forbidden to pass.

Ye Feng and the others were helpless, so they could only wait at the corner of the street, and when they looked around, they saw a luxurious carriage parked in front of Ma Jing's Mansion. This car is beautifully carved and magnificent, and at first glance it is not owned by ordinary people.

After a while, I saw a group of people coming out of the house from a distance.

Among them, a tall middle-aged man with a delicate beard and a majestic spirit, although he was wearing ordinary clothes, he had a dragon and tiger atmosphere between his gestures.

After the man got into the carriage, more than a dozen people around him escorted the carriage and slowly drove away from the street.

Immediately, the sergeants who blocked the street also withdrew one after another, and the street was restored to traffic.

Ye Feng couldn't help but ask the people watching next to him, "Who was in the carriage just now?"

The people glanced at Ye Feng and them, as if they were very surprised by their ignorance: "Guest officer, you are from other places, there is no one here who does not know him, he is the king of our Lanzhou, the brother of the current emperor, Zhu Ao, the king of Su!"

Oh, it turns out that he is Su Wang Zhu Ao. No wonder there was a faint look of dragon and tiger between his gestures just now. Ye Feng nodded secretly.

They came to the gate of the mansion and said to the sergeant guarding the gate of the mansion: "Please pass the word and ask to see Master Ma Jingma in Xia Ye Feng." ”

The sergeant didn't even look at them, and replied somewhat mechanically: "Master Ma is seriously ill and bedridden, and he doesn't see any outsiders. ”

That reaction didn't seem to mean anything at all.

Ye Feng was helpless, at this time, Xie Zhenliang beside him stepped forward, grabbed the sergeant's hand, secretly stuffed a piece of broken silver into his palm, and said, "Please pass it on, just say that the old people of Huashan are here to thank you." ”

The sergeant sighed twice, hesitated, and said, "Then you wait a minute." After saying that, he turned around and entered the door.

Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief, he really didn't expect that when he left the capital, even the sergeant who passed through the door needed to pay some silver taels. I have heard for a long time that Ma Jing is a cautious person and never greedy for money, how come he is so greedy even the sergeant guarding the door at his door when he arrives here?

After a while, the sergeant came out, waved at them, and said, "Come with me, a few of you." ”

So Ye Feng and the others followed behind and walked into the mansion gate.

The mansion is not big, and there is no elaborate decoration, and with the special status of the emperor of Ma Jing's reign, it seems that the owner here does live a relatively simple life.

Walking on the road, Ye Feng casually asked the sergeant who led the way: "You just said that Master Ma is seriously ill, what kind of illness is it?"

The sergeant looked at the face of the ingot of silver just now, looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one else, he lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "That's just rhetoric, where is there some disease, it is clearly poisoned!"

Ye Feng was taken aback when he heard this: "Poisoning?

The sergeant nodded: "Really, it was said by the most famous Imperial Doctor Jian in Lanzhou City, Imperial Doctor Jian used to be the imperial doctor in the palace, and later returned to Lanzhou after returning to his hometown, how could he be wrong?"

Ye Feng asked, "What kind of poison can be found?"

The sergeant shook his head: "Even Imperial Physician Jian has been treating for a few days without any improvement, but it has become heavier and heavier, and it seems that it is not an ordinary poison." Imperial Physician Jian is in Lord Ma's room at the moment, so you can't talk too much for a while. ”

Ye Feng nodded yes, but he was very suspicious in his heart.

Ma Jing came to Lanzhou on the emperor's orders and came to supervise the army on behalf of the emperor. The position of supervising the army seems to be only on behalf of the emperor to assist the commander of the unified army in supervising and supervising the army, and is in charge of some audits such as rewards and punishments for meritorious crimes, and there is no actual content in charge.

But then again, he is the emperor he represents, and he can manage anything without a special content, in fact, he has a lot of power, and he can even monitor the commander of the unified army.

How dare someone poison such a person? Who has the audacity to do so?

Just as he was thinking, he had already reached the door of the room, and the sergeant made a gesture of please and stepped back.

As soon as Ye Feng and the others entered the house, they found that the furnishings in the house were very simple, and it didn't look like the mansion of a court official or a feudal official, it seemed that the rumor that Ma Jing lived a simple life was really true.

There was a middle-aged man with a sickly face lying on the boat in the inner house, with a white face and no beard, deep dark circles under his eyes, and a withered face, which must have been Ma Jing, the Lanzhou supervisor.

There was an old man with white hair and white beard sitting in front of the bed, stretching out his hand to diagnose Ma Jing's pulse, his brows were tightly locked, and he shook his head and sighed from time to time, it seems that this is the Imperial Doctor Jian.

After a while, Imperial Physician Jian let go of his hand and said with a sigh: "Lord Ma's body is still supportable, but the decayed antidote herb doesn't seem to have much effect, it seems that the poison in Lord Ma is not as simple as the old man thought before, and he needs to adjust the prescription and try again." ”

He raised his head and saw Ye Feng and them coming in, stood up and said, "Since Master Ma has a guest here, the old man will retire, so I will go and re-prescribe the medicine and arrange the decoction." ”

Ma Jing struggled to get out of bed and said, "I'm tired of Dr. Jane." ”

Imperial Physician Jian gave a salute and went out.

Ma Jing turned his head at this time and beckoned Ye Feng and them to come to the bed.

He looked at Ye Feng with a smile in his eyes, and said, "This must be the famous Ye Feng Ye Gongzi?"

His voice was very sharp and a little harsh, but Ye Feng didn't feel funny at all, and lowered his head and responded, "Exactly." ”

Ma Jing's eyes swept Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi next to him, and asked, "I don't know who these two are?"

Ye Feng hurriedly introduced: "They are all brothers-in-law, one is Xie Zhenliang, the eldest son of Lord Xie Jinxie, and this is Zhang Zhenliang, the prince of the British Dynasty. ”

After hearing that these two were both famous ministers in the court, Ma Jing hurriedly struggled to get up and salute them, Ye Feng took a step forward to support him, and said: "Master Ma is careful of his body, we are all juniors, so don't be polite." ”

Ma Jing lay down on the bed, looked at Ye Feng with a smile and said, "Although I have never met your sons, I and your father are old acquaintances." ”

Ma Jing has been in the palace since he was a child, and he has been in the palace for decades, and has been serving in the palace since the Hongwu period of Emperor Taizu, and later accompanied by Zhu Yunwen, Emperor Jianwen.

However, Taizu and Emperor Jianwen were very strict with the internal prisons, and the punishment was strict, so that many internal prisoners had fornicated with the army of King Yan in the Battle of Jingjing. Ma Jing was quite trusted by Emperor Jianwen at that time, so he also sent out a lot of top-secret military information for Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor, he attached great importance to Ma Jing and stayed by his side, so Ma Jing was not only familiar with Xie Jin, an important minister of the Jianwen Dynasty, but also had a good relationship with Ye Zhiqiu and Zhang Fu, who had been following Zhu Di.

At this time, Ma Jing said: "I have already heard about the heroic deeds of several sons in recent years, especially when I heard that you cracked a strange case in the capital a month ago and assisted the emperor to quell the rebellion, which is really a miraculous achievement, congratulations!"

Ye Feng listened to his sudden praise, and said with some embarrassment: "We just did our duty as courtiers, if it weren't for Master Ma ordering the Black Armor Guard Sergeant to rescue in time when I was in Huashan, I'm afraid I would have died in Huashan, where is there anything later? ”

Ma Jing waved his hand and said: "Where is it, at the beginning, because the Chang Wuyi Chang who came to report the news only held your father's handwritten letter, but did not have the emperor's will or military talisman, I didn't dare to privately mobilize the black armor guard to help, but I just sent a team of 100 people to go." Later, I heard that Ye Gongzi was ambushed and buried alive in the secret passage, and I was also anxious!"

He sighed: "Fortunately, Ye Gongzi was blessed and escaped safely, so I breathed a sigh of relief." Ye Gongzi doesn't blame me, he is already generous, how can I talk about the word thanks?"

Listening to Ma Jing's words, Ye Feng's eyes flashed back to the various encounters he had with Tang Da in Huashan, and he couldn't help but feel a little like a world away.

Tang Da, I don't know where he is now?

After a moment, he pulled his thoughts back to reality and asked, "I heard just now that Master Ma was poisoned this time, could it be that someone harmed him?"

Ma Jing stretched out his hand to stop Ye Feng's words, raised his eyes and looked cautiously outside, and only after confirming that there was no one around, did he whisper: "Whisper, be careful that the wall has ears!"

Looking at Ma Jing's nervous expression, Ye Feng couldn't help but be puzzled and asked, "Could it be that Lord Ma already knows who poisoned him?"

Ma Jing smiled miserably and said: "Who else can cover the sky with one hand in this Lanzhou city and dare to poison the Qin Order?

Hearing Ma Jing's words, Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered Zhu Ao, the king of Su who had just left from the Ma Mansion, and couldn't help but be shocked, and blurted out: "Mo Fei, it is him, Su Wang ......"

Ma Jing hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him and nodded silently.

Ye Feng couldn't believe that a dignified prince, the emperor's brother, would actually plot to poison and murder a Qinzhi prison army, why is this?

Ma Jing seemed to see the doubt in Ye Feng's heart, and said softly: "Actually, this is not difficult to understand, His Royal Highness King Su has worked hard and vigorously in recent years, and has built Lanzhou into the first important town in the northwest. ”

"The old slave is diligent and trembling in front of the emperor, although he has no great power, he has no great fault, and more importantly, he has no great ambitions, only a loyalty to the emperor. Therefore, the emperor sent the old slave with the black armor guard to Lanzhou to supervise the army and inspect the territory of Gansu. ”

Ye Feng noticed that when Ma Jing mentioned the emperor, he called himself an "old slave", which also showed that he was really loyal to the emperor.

Ma Jing continued: "In fact, this time the emperor not only sent me to supervise the army, a few years ago Xining Marquis Song Sheng died of illness in Gansu, the emperor ordered his son Song Hu to come to attack the lord, with the former general seal, to pick up his deceased father's class to lead the army to guard Gansu. ”

Song Hu?

Ye Feng blinked, how could this name be so familiar, oh, he remembered.

This Song Hu had dealt with several of them when he was a child in the capital.