As Cheng Bo said, the summer rain comes very quickly and goes quickly.

The storm and rain stirred up the middle of the night, but the next morning it was a crisp sky and a blue sky, and the rain of last night seemed to have no trace to be found.

Long Shaoyang didn't sleep comfortably this night, tossing and turning, tossing and turning until the fourth watch, and Fang fell asleep in a hazy haze. When I woke up, I felt bitter in my mouth, my head was dizzy, and I knew that it was because of the hangover. raised his eyes and looked out of the tent, and saw that the room was bright, and it was still a familiar situation - Cheng Bo was squatting at the door of the room alone and smoking a dry cigarette, so he smiled and said early.

Cheng Bo turned his head and said with a smile: "Son, the hour is not early, it has already passed the time." ”

Long Shaoyang was taken aback when he heard this, quickly sat up, patted his head, and shouted: "Ah, it's all this hour, it's terrible, I have to go to the East Palace on an errand today." As he spoke, he hurriedly dressed.

Cheng Bo pursed his lips and smiled: "Don't panic, the eldest young master over there in the East Palace has taken leave on your behalf, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has granted permission for the prince to recuperate for a period of time." You might as well take advantage of this leisure time to enjoy the beautiful scenery around Los Angeles, the scenery of Longmen Mountain, the pavilion crane and the breeze...... Touring the mountains and rivers, watching the flowers and enjoying the scenery, is a beautiful thing - the old slave of the carriage has been ordered to be prepared. ”

Long Shaoyang was shocked again: "Brother Xiao Di took leave on my behalf, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also given permission? At this juncture, why do you arrange for yourself to recuperate your body and mind?" was stunned for a moment, and then understood it, and said with a wry smile at the moment: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Brother Xiao can be said to be thoughtful and well-intentioned, let me leave the court temporarily at this juncture to avoid the limelight!"

Cheng Bo knocked the smoke pot and said: "The other party is gaining momentum, so it is not a bad idea to take power for the time being and avoid its edge." ”

Long Shaoyang was about to open his mouth to answer, suddenly heard the sound of footsteps in the corridor outside the room, a person walked quickly, and stopped at the moment, and suddenly saw a person walking into the room quickly with a feather fan in hand, but it was Xiao Yuanying, the king of Teng, and said with a smile: "It's His Royal Highness the King of Teng, what kind of wind blew you here?" A few days ago, I wanted to go to the house to visit, but there was a little change halfway, and I didn't get my wish. ”

"Shaoyang, I just came back from the East Palace, I heard that you took leave, so I came to see you, because you are still so calm and calm, you are so good. Xiao Yuanying sat on the chair, panting heavily, shaking the feather fan in her right hand, her face suddenly became solemn as she spoke, and she said in a low voice, "I just learned that there was an accident at the Xiliang Post House in Los Angeles last night!"

"Xiliang Post House, what's going on?" At this moment, Long Shaoyang was already dressed and was sitting on the edge of the bed, when he heard this, Huo Di stood up. The old slave who was smoking dry tobacco at the door of the house also stopped smoking and stopped there.

"It is said that the Xiliang Mission, which had just arrived yesterday afternoon, was attacked at the post house in the middle of the night, and three envoys were killed and one was injured. I heard that this mission was ordered by Emperor Xiliang to ask for relatives, and now the person has just arrived in Los Angeles, and he died tragically, and now the relationship between the two countries has just taken a turn for the better, and suddenly there is such a thing, how can you explain it?" Xiao Yuanying let out a long sigh.

Foreign envoys were killed in the Jingshi Post House, no matter when and where they were placed, this matter was not trivial, every move involved the face of the country, if it was not handled properly, it would immediately be full of wolf smoke, and when the soldiers met, Long Shaoyang and Cheng Bo couldn't help but be taken aback.

"The envoy was attacked and killed in the post house?" Long Shaoyang raised his eyebrows, and the scene of the gorgeous carriage and the group of mighty guards he saw on the official road in the west of the city yesterday suddenly came to mind, and he immediately became puzzled and asked, "Your Highness, the post houses of other countries have always been guarded by soldiers, and this time the Xiliang Mission accompanied dozens of guards, and all of them are also first-class and first-class good hands, and the guards are not strict, so how did the killers get there?"

"That's the weird part. Xiao Yuanying shook his head, "The guards didn't even see the shadow of the killer - it was said that the guards heard a scream late at night, and rushed into the room of an envoy with the sound followed, only to see the envoy in a middle coat, squatting in the corner with his head in his hands, muttering to himself, trembling. Seeing this, the guards rushed into the rooms of the other two envoys, only to see the two envoys lying on the bed, sleeping peacefully, their clothes intact, but their bodies were already cold. As for the killer, he has long since disappeared. ”

Long Shaoyang was shocked and said, "The technique is so neat?"

"Hmm. It is said that the dead envoys do not seem to be struggling, they all seal their throats with a sword, and kill them with one move. Xiao Yuanying nodded, "It is said that there is an envoy who is still lying in the gentle township, and even the maids on the side have also become ghosts." The beauty is like a flower, withering in the middle of the night, it's a pity, it's a pity. The tone was full of regret.

Long Shaoyang said: "According to this, it must be the work of a first-class master." Your Highness, are there any traces left at the scene?"

After the incident, the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion and the officials rushed to the scene non-stop, and heard that the rain had stopped at that time, and soon after the Marquis of Zhongxin also rushed over. Although the post house is out of the imperial city, after all, he is in charge of Jingzhao Mansion, and the Jingshi patrol is also led by him. Xiao Yuanying pouted and said, "Zhongxin Hou is a martial arts master himself, and a group of people tossed for half a night, almost turning the inside and outside of the post house upside down, but he was still at a loss. ”

"Even General Wujun hasn't found a clue?" Long Shaoyang thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Yes, in my humble opinion, the envoys traveled thousands of miles, and they were very tired, and after the envoys fell asleep, the killer took the opportunity to suddenly kill." One killer is superb in martial arts, and one move kills, and the envoys have lost their lives before they have time to shout. The second is that last night's night was dark and rainy, and there was a sound between heaven and earth, and this sound also covered the slight abnormal sound of the killer, and although the guards were close to the outside of the room, they did not notice it. After the killer fled, the rain washed away, and the traces were hard to find. ”

Xiao Yuanying couldn't help nodding his head. At this moment, Cheng Bo suddenly interjected: "What Gongzi said is very true. Killing people on a rainy night is of great benefit to eliminating the traces, so that people have no trace, but walking through the rainy night, the clothes are wet, and the skin is attached, and it is inevitable that there will be obstacles between one move and one style, but it is also very disadvantageous to be clean and neat. The killer will not be unaware of this before he acts. ”

Long Shaoyang nodded yes, walked to the window, the sunlight outside the window projected in, only to feel that there was a bright flickering in front of him, and suddenly his heart seemed to be hit by something, and he turned his head to Xiao Yuanying and asked, "Your Highness, can there be traces of rain in the minister's room?"

Xiao Yuanying didn't understand the purpose of his question, scratched his head, and said with a puzzled face: "I haven't heard of this." ”

Long Shaoyang muttered: "There are pros and cons to assassination on a rainy night, and the killer naturally knows this, but how can he achieve his goal and avoid his weaknesses? At that time, there were no envoys in the inn, and the garrison was not as strict as it was later, so the killers took the opportunity to sneak in and find a hidden place to hide. Stayed until the mission moved in, until the envoys fell asleep, and in the dead of night, the killer sneaked out, killed people, and then escaped safely by the rain. ”

"Oh, in Shaoyang's words, this assassination seems to have been premeditated. When Xiao Yuanying heard this, she couldn't help nodding her head, with a look of sudden realization, "No wonder Jingzhao Mansion searched for a long time, but finally found nothing." ”

If Jing Si was present at this time, when he heard these words, he couldn't help but praise him, and he would definitely feel a chill on his back, like sitting on pins and needles, although Long Shaoyang had not seen the scene at that time, he guessed eight or nine. Yesterday, he was instructed by his father-in-law Zhu Yunque to kill the envoys of Xiliang, dump the pot of the faithful marquis, and blame Long Shaoyang, and his heart was full of joy. At the moment, he changed his clothes and hurried to Nanshi, a gathering place for foreign post houses.

He observed for a while, took advantage of the change of guard of the soldiers, covered his face with a black cloth, and jumped into the Xiliang Post House. He had already read the map of the post house several times, the pavilions of the palace, and the layout of the courtyard were clear in his chest, and he effortlessly found the Xiliang Zheng envoy wing room at the moment.

Sneaking into the room, he looked around for a place to hide. Seeing that the wooden bed in the middle was very gorgeous and wide, with four legs erect and the bed curtains hanging on the ground, he had an idea, and his body lay flat, carefully sliding under the bed, clinging to the ground.

Quiet thought lay at the bottom of the bed, after a long time, suddenly heard the noise of people outside the room, a group of people came one after another, followed by a squeak, the door opened, and the sound of men and women laughing approached. He fell to the ground and looked out through the gap between the bed and the ground, and saw two pairs of feet approaching, one with a pair of cloud-headed brocade shoes, and the other pair of cowhide pointed-toe boots, apparently a man and a woman. The man seemed to be drunk and talked nonsense, while the woman was coquettish and tired, half-pushing and half-pushing.

The two of them flirted and scolded for a while, and they listened quietly under the bed so that they were not bored, and it was easy to stay up until the dead of night, snoring loudly, and then quietly came out from under the bed, and the poor envoy met the king of Hades in the gentle country.

"But I don't know anything. Long Shaoyang frowned and said, "The killer's martial arts are so high, and the plan is so thorough, why did the three envoys only kill two of them, was it revealed halfway through, and they didn't succeed, or did they deliberately leave a living mouth? If they deliberately left a living mouth, what was the intention?"

Cheng Bodao: "If it's the latter, then this is a big game of chess, and it's just a start." It's hard to predict how it will develop in the future!"

Xiao Yuanying stood up, yawned, and said, "Okay, okay, two, I see that you are more worried about this matter than the Loyal Marquis, let's save it, just stand aside and watch." As he spoke, he turned to Long Shaoyang and said, "Shaoyang, I saw a carriage bolted in front of the door of the Zhu House, this is official business, do you want to go far away?"

Long Shaoyang said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Brother Xiao Di are sympathetic to their subordinates, remembering that I have been working day and night during this time, and specially arranged for Cheng Bo to take me to live among the mountains and rivers around Los Angeles. ”

"It turned out to be going out to play!" Xiao Yuanying patted his thigh and said happily, "This Xiao Di is really, the selection of people is improper, the employment of people is unknown, when it comes to smoking, I am willing to bow down in front of Uncle Cheng, and I sigh to myself." If you talk about traveling in the mountains and rivers, hehe, it's not that I'm boasting, if I call the whole Los Angeles second, no one dares to call it the first! Shaoyang, there is a Zhuangzi on the halfway of Kuishan Mountain outside Los Angeles, surrounded by streams and water, and the moss and forests are deep, so it's best to cool off the heat, let's go live for a few days!" couldn't help but say, pulling Long Shaoyang and walking out, Long Shaoyang felt a little embarrassed, turned his head to look at Cheng Bo, couldn't cry or laugh, and followed.

"Hey, little prince, don't leave the old slave behind!" Cheng Bo hurriedly stood up, knocked the smoke pot under the pillar, and followed after a few steps.