Xiao Bei told Zhang Zhinan everything he knew, and Zhang Zhinan listened quietly, repeatedly asked some details, and then sat with a solemn expression and sat on the side in a daze. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Bei knew that he was bothering to think about it, so he didn't bother him, and closed his eyes to recuperate. After a short while, Zhang Zhinan suddenly stood up, frowned, and walked out of the door without saying a word. Xiao Bei asked repeatedly, but Zhang Zhinan ignored it.

Later, Hongyan came back and carried a bunch of medicinal herbs. She claimed to be proficient in medical skills, and wanted to make a prescription for Xiao and Zhang, but Xiao Bei refused again and again, but how could Hong Yan give up? After a short time, she fried ten decoctions and forced Xiao Bei to drink it. Xiao Bei would rather die at first, but after all, he couldn't resist Hongyan, drank a bowl, and found that this decoction was much better than the food cooked by Hongyan, so he made several bowls in a row, feeling refreshed and depressed.

If another day passed, Zhang Zhinan still did not return, and Wang Yangming came to visit early in the morning and asked Xiao Bei to return to the palace with him.

Xiao Qiqi said: "Lao Wang, have you found the whereabouts of the assassin?"

Wang Yangming smiled awkwardly and said, "Of course not, but presumably Chongzhen will not use this to cure my crime." This martial arts competition will be held tomorrow, and I am worried that the Jianxiao Palace will take action, so we must stay in the palace today to prevent accidents. ”

Xiao Bei hesitated for a moment, and said to Hongyan: "Sister Yan, you can enter the palace with me! I am always a little worried when you are alone." ”

Hong Yan smiled and said, "What are you worried about me? Could it be that I will steal men behind your back?"

Xiao Yan snorted: "It's not like it...... I just feel panicked all the time......"

Hong Yan thought for a while and said, "Okay, but if the emperor takes a fancy to me and wants to accept me as a concubine, how should you deal with it?"

"If you rob it, you run. Xiao Bei said categorically.

Wang Yangming coughed and said: "The two of you are too worried, although Chongzhen is impatient and suspicious, but he is a man of all opportunities, not close to women, and he is quite decent." We entered the palace this time to meet with each other, precisely to deal with the Jianxiao Palace, and the more people we have, the better. The Wild Goose Fairy has magical powers and must be indispensable. Without further ado, I've got the carriage ready, and we're off here. ”

After speaking, Wang Yangming picked up Xiao Bei and hurriedly walked out of the door, Hong Yan pursed his lips and smiled, closed the door, and followed slowly.

The three of them got out of the royal residence, got into the carriage, and galloped towards the Forbidden City.

Hong Yanqi was in the car and said, "Mr. Wang, your carriage looks chic, isn't there anything famous?"

Wang Yangming stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This car was specially assigned to me by Chongzhen, which is equivalent to a second-grade officer, and it can enter and exit the palace unimpeded." so that I can go with me. ”

"Lao Wang, you are still a sage, why are you so arrogant? Xiao Bei was blunt.

"My heart is bright, what can I say?" Wang Yangming said with a smile.

The carriage traveled quickly, and soon came to the outside of the Taihe Palace. At this time, it was the time of the early dynasty, and the civil and military officials were divided into two columns, the civil officials were located on the left side, and the military attache was located on the right side.

Wang Yangming and Xiao Hong got out of the carriage and said, "Fairy Hongyan, you have no official rank, you need to wait outside the palace, but it's okay, I'll explain to the emperor later, and I will announce your audience." ”

Hong Yan smiled disdainfully and said, "I'm not uncommon, it's fun to stand stupidly in the hall and be trained?" Xiao Lang, you are not allowed to go in. ”

"Okay!" Xiao Jie replied without hesitation.

Wang Yangming had no choice but to enter the palace on his own and stand at the end of the ranks of civil officials.

At this time, all the officials were already in their places, Chongzhen slowly walked out of the back of the hall, sat on the dragon chair, and a eunuch shouted at the top of his voice: "The emperor has arrived!"

The ministers bowed down one after another and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Zhong Aiqing is flat. Chongzhen said lightly.

"If you have something to do, please play, if you have nothing to do, you will retreat!" the eunuch shouted again.

Before the words fell, at this moment, a cold wind suddenly blew, and an extra person appeared out of thin air in the middle of the main hall.

I saw that this person covered his face with black silk and a graceful figure, and he was the woman who had assassinated Chongzhen several times before.

Everyone was silent for a while, and they all stared blankly at the scene in front of them. It is only because of this fact that it is too strange, it stands to reason that there were the largest number of people in the early dynasty, the most heavily guarded, and the Taihe Hall had nowhere to hide, how could any assassin choose this place to carry out the assassination? But now in full view, the woman still came, and without warning before she appeared, as if she had come out of the ground.

The woman took a step forward and walked towards Chongzhen unhurriedly.

"Escort! Escort!" The hundreds of officials in the hall began to panic, and the sharp voice of the eunuch pierced the silence of the hall and continued to resound in the hall.

Soon, the forbidden soldiers poured out from both sides of the main hall and behind Chongzhen, killing the woman like a tide.

The woman ignored it, and continued to walk forward, and as soon as the soldiers of the Forbidden Army reached the woman's side, they let out a scream, their armor cracked, blood burst out, and they suddenly fell to the ground. I couldn't touch the woman's body at all.

Hong Yan saw it clearly outside the hall, and hurriedly used the manifestation of the spirit, and after some investigation, his face showed surprise, and said: "That woman has more than ten fire silks flying around her, no wonder no one can get close to her." ”

"Fire silk!?" Xiao Bei had already had doubts before, but hearing Hongyan's words at this moment confirmed his previous guess. At that moment, the evil sword was unsheathed, with a long roar, his body flashed, and in the blink of an eye, he swept a distance of dozens of zhang and slashed straight towards the woman.

As soon as the evil sword was handed to the woman half a foot in front of her, a purple lightning flashed on the ground, and it circled several times along the woman's body, and then the purple lightning extended towards the top of the temple.

As before, seeing that the purple lightning was about to touch the beam on the top of the temple, it suddenly fell into the air like a broken kite. The purple lightning surrounding the woman also flashed a few times, and then disappeared.

The woman lost her defense, no longer in love with the war, took out a handful of beads from her arms, threw them on the ground, and suddenly a burst of black fog broke out in the Taihe Palace, everyone could not see anything, and there was a rush of chaos.

Xiao Bei sensed the electromagnetic signal, found out the female assassin's position, and picked up the long sword, only to feel that the tip of the sword was in the flesh, as if it had stabbed someone. Then he let out a loud shout, and purple lightning came out along the long sword, entering the man's body, making him temporarily unable to move.

Soon after, the smoke cleared, revealing the form of the woman in black. And above her left shoulder was Xiao Bei's long sword, which flickered with purple light.

"Xiao Aiqing, it's a loss to you!" Chongzhen was overjoyed, and then waved his hand and shouted, "Quick, quick, lift her veil and take a look." ”

Xiao Bei hesitated for a moment, thinking: "What if it's really Guan Zhong's newlywed tomb puppet......"

But at this time, under the public, Xiao Bei couldn't hide it, so he could only let the forbidden army press the woman to the ground, and everyone lifted the woman's veil.

I saw a woman with a pale face and a mediocre appearance appear in front of everyone. Xiao Bei had never seen this person before.

"It's not Guan Zhong's ......, then who is this?" Xiao Bei was puzzled in his heart.

Li Daao, the commander of the forbidden army, rushed forward, pressed the woman's neck, paused for a moment, and then showed regret on his face and said, "She is dead." ”

"Dead?how could it be?I didn't stab her to the point......" Xiao Bei was shocked.

"Forget it! This person is a big trouble in my heart, it is better to die! Xiao Aiqing, you have made meritorious contributions to protect this time, and I will definitely reward you well. Chongzhen said happily.

Xiao Bei was silent, looking at the corpse, and the doubts in his heart were like thick ink that could not be dissolved. Then he remembered something, raised his head, and looked at the top of the Jinluan Palace.

It was still empty.

Xiao Bei's heart went down and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I'm offended." After saying that, he jumped straight onto the temple beam several feet high, causing the surrounding ministers to exclaim.

Xiao Bei came to the place where the purple lightning was pointing, took a deep breath, made up his mind, and leaned over to touch it. Who knew that when I touched it, I actually touched the void, and there was no one hiding here.

"Whew! Looks like I'm overthinking. Xiao Bei wiped the sweat from his forehead.

But Xiao Di soon dispelled this idea.

I saw that the beam was full of dust, almost an inch thick. But only the place that Xiao Xiao explored just now was not much dust, and two marks were formed on the surface of the dust.

The imprint resembles a pair of shoe prints. Xiao Bei carefully discerned and found that the shoe print was moving towards the other end of the beam.

"Sure enough, someone manipulated the fire silk on the top of the temple to hurt people. Xiao Bei thought to himself, and then said in a low voice, "Guan Zhong...... Why are you doing this?"

"Master...... This is my private matter, and you'd better not worry about it. Familiar words came from the end of the empty beam.