Lingshi County is located in the southwest of Quanzhou Prefecture remote area, from the capital city of Quanzhou is still seventy or eighty miles, although the official road is relatively flat than the ordinary dirt road, but because of the rainy season, some roads are washed out of large and small potholes by rain, and the carriage is quite bumpy when it goes up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gong Yan considered the two women and children in the car, so he did not let the people riding horses in front of him go too fast, and it was close to dusk before the group arrived at Quanzhou City.

As soon as Fang entered the city, someone ran over panting.

When Gong Yan saw that it was actually the subordinate of the Loyal Alliance that he had sent to explore the path in front of him early in the morning, he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Why are you so panicked?"

The subordinate took a sharp breath before replying: "Palace guard, the subordinate just got the news that Master Li, the prefect of Quanzhou, was killed, and the murderer is likely to be the parting arrow!"

Gong Yan was secretly surprised, but on the surface, he still remained calm and calm, and asked, "When did this happen?"

"Just this afternoon, I heard that it happened in the study of Lord Li in the back house of the palace, and the people in the vicinity heard the sound of arrows, but no one saw the figure of the assassin. ”

Gong Yan was speechless for a long time with a calm face, but he was annoyed in his heart!

Unexpectedly, Ling Qiyu had rushed to Quanzhou City so quickly, and he was still here to kill people with parting arrows unscrupulously. His elusive and arbitrary approach is too unexpected and too dangerous.

That Quanzhou prefect Li Jingbin is not an idle person, let alone an ordinary magistrate, he is a hidden envoy sent by the emperor in the south.

In order to completely eliminate the hermits in Dayu, the emperor specially appointed some cronies and vassals to sit on one side and supervise the local government to arrest the hermits, known as the hermit.

The identities of these hermits are very mysterious, and only those with official positions above the prefect can know who they really are, which reduces the risk of them being retaliated against by the hermits.

This time, Gong Yan was on a mission to go to the south to track down the parting arrow, so he first went to visit Li Jingbin with a secret letter from Zuo Yusong, the deputy leader of the alliance, and only after getting the permission of this southern envoy was able to carry out a tracking operation in the southern states.

However, it is likely that it was precisely because of Gong Yan's visit that Li Jingbin's identity as a hidden envoy was exposed. At that time, Li Jingbin wrote a handwritten letter to Gong Yan allowing him to act cheaply in the southern states, but this handwritten letter was lost by Gong Yan!

Early this morning, Gong Yan realized that the handwritten book was missing, and after thinking carefully, it should have been lost after being attacked by those two masked men on Lingshi Mountain last night. At one point, he suspected that it had been stolen by the two masked men, but he thought it was too incredible. How could they know that the handwritten letter existed, and that they were able to touch it from their bosom in the short moment they came into contact with them?

Although he was still a little uneasy in his heart, he was finally distracted by other things, and he could only comfort himself by saying that the handwritten letter had fallen from his arms when he rolled down the hill last night.

But now as soon as he heard the news of Li Jingbin's death, Gong Yan immediately realized that it was the handwritten letter he lost that hurt him!

But now is no longer the time to apologize for this, and what Miyahiko is really worried about is the practical difficulties he will face.

As soon as Li Jingbin dies, the imperial court will urge the local government to make every effort to arrest the culprit. The people of the Loyal and Righteous League are already a lot of trouble, and now they are also involved in the people of the government. He Gong Yan is just a small envoy, how much role can he play? With those few hermits walking, shouldn't he be hindered along the way?

Thinking of this, Gong Yan couldn't help but glance back at Liu Yifei, but saw that he was laughing with the little boy in the carriage through the window.

Gong Yan thought to himself, this kid must have heard the conversation between himself and the messenger, and he was still acting so leisurely at this moment, he must have known about Ling Qiyu's assassination for a long time, and even this was part of their plan. If they dare to do this, why should they worry about them?

"The affairs of the government are handled by the government, and we only pursue cases related to the Loyalty League. Is the inn where you are going to stay tonight arranged?" he asked, turning back to the subordinate who had reported the news.

The subordinate hurriedly bowed and replied, "Yes, it has been arranged, it is the largest inn in the city, the Fulong Inn." ”

Gong Yan nodded with satisfaction, signaling him to lead the way first, and the group went straight to the Fulong Inn.

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Seeing Gong Yan and them enter the gate of the Fulong Inn, Ling Qiyu turned out of the shadows, walked to a noodle stall on the corner, asked for a large bowl of noodles, and ate it in a big gulp.

After a large bowl of steaming noodle soup, he saw some sweat on his ruddy face, and he burped contentedly, and his big gentle eyes seemed to casually look at the two sackcloth men sitting next to him.

The two sackcloth men were also eating noodles, but unfortunately they were far less engaged than Ling Qiyu seemed to be. There were still more than half of the soup bowls in front of them, and they only picked up the noodles in the bowl with chopsticks for a while, and didn't put them in their mouths for a long time, because their eyes were busy staring at the other place at the moment.

Ling Qiyu followed their gaze and happened to see the door of an inn diagonally opposite. He took a closer look at the signboard in front of the door, which read "Siyuan Inn". The name of this inn is very elegant, and the words on the signboard are also very well written, presumably by the hand of a famous artist.

But the two men in sackcloth looked like Jianghu people, and they were dressed strangely, as if they were from Miaojiang, but they couldn't tell that they would be so fascinated by the Central Plains culture that they would rather be hungry than appreciate the sign.

After paying the noodle money, Ling Qiyu got up and left, and when he passed by the two sackclothed men, he vaguely smelled a trace of unusual smell, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes very quickly.

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At this time, in the Siyuan Inn, which attracted the special attention of the two Mai men, Shui Xinying's master and apprentice and Gongyu Sarong were also having dinner.

The three of them sat together at a dining table downstairs in the inn they were renting, and the atmosphere was obviously awkward. It's just that the little girl from Shui Lingluo stared at Gongyu Sarong from time to time with her big beautiful eyes, so that he didn't dare to raise his head, and he lowered his eyes and stuffed the rice in the bowl into his mouth.

"Hmph!" Maybe he couldn't stand his eating appearance, Shui Lingluo put the dishes and chopsticks in his hand on the table, got upstairs, and went back to his room.

Gongyu Sarong was stunned for a moment, took the bowl and looked at the back of the little girl hurrying away, and then turned her head and looked at Shui Xinying, who was still eating calmly.

Shui Xinying didn't look at him, but said in a calm tone: "Eat more, we will leave tomorrow before dawn, and we won't have time to have breakfast." ”

Gongyu Sarong buried his head in eating again, but fortunately, Shui Lingluo left, no one stared at him anymore, and he finally had the courage to stretch out his chopsticks and pick up some vegetables to eat.

In fact, his performance was not entirely due to the influence of Shui Lingluo, but he put most of his mind on other things at that time.

Although the internal force was sealed by Ling Qiyu, Gongyu Sarong's wedding dress skills were still there. Along the way, he could clearly sense that his brother Miyahiko had been not far in front of him. And at this moment, he strongly sensed that Gong Yan was also in this Quanzhou City, and it should be very close to him, probably in the Fulong Inn that he had just passed by.

It's a pity that his brother Gong Yan's skills are far inferior to him, and he must not be able to sense that he is nearby at the moment, so he can't arrange his own people to save him.

He wasn't worried about his own safety, because he believed that Ling Qiyu was a man who did what he said, and he would eventually keep his promise and let him go.

In fact, the person he is really worried about is his brother Gong Yan.

Once the people of the Loyalty League or the government find out the identities of those hermits, Gong Yan, who is traveling with them, will definitely be suspected, and even the identities of the northerners may be exposed.

If this happens, it remains to be seen whether their brother will survive. And even if they escaped by luck, failed the mission, and didn't bring back Ling Qiyu, the master would definitely punish them heavily. And for some reason, the master always seems to be a little more strict with his brother Gong Yan than with him.

In addition, there is another thing that is also bothering Gongyu Sarong. In the past two days, he has been having a very strange feeling, it seems that there is always a pair of eyes watching him in secret, extremely strange and extremely dangerous.

He was sure that this kind of snooping was definitely not from these people around him, and certainly not from Ling Qiyu. Because long before he was caught by Ling Qiyu, he already had this feeling of being watched.

Moreover, the people watching him would not be the two masked men from last night, because to be honest, he never noticed the existence of those two people.

And the most chilling thing for him was that he still faintly felt that there seemed to be a taste of obscenity in that prying gaze......