After Li Zhong took the military uniform, he hurried over, he handed the military uniform to Fan Jun and the three of them, and ordered them to get dressed and stand by. Wei Rui looked at the three descendants of the Fan family in front of him, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, after these loyal and good people, after his father was killed, he could only swallow his anger and want to escape from the capital in order to save his life, Wei Rui couldn't believe that today's Liang had actually reached this point, the emperor was now acting in black and white, promoting and reusing traitorous ministers like He Zheng, and allowing such villains to commit murder everywhere without stopping them, even indifferent people like themselves couldn't bear it, so how could the people in this Liang be patient？

He looked at the gradually whitening sky outside the window, knowing that he couldn't delay any longer, he could only obey Ling Xiao's will and send the children away first.

"Li Zhong, go out of the city with my talisman, mix the three of them in the team, don't let go of anyone's interrogation, just say that I have urgent military affairs to send to General Cao outside the city. ”

"Yes, General!" but ------," Li Zhong said with some hesitation.

"But what?" Wei Rui frowned slightly.

"If I encounter Yu Linwei's investigation, what should I do?" Li Zhong said with some worry, "These days, He Zheng took Yu Linwei to check around the city gate, like a wolf and a tiger, if they meet them, I am afraid that they will not necessarily look at the general's talismans." ”

Wei Rui nodded, this General Li Zhong has followed him all these years, he has experienced a lot of things, and his ability to deal with things is also very different than before, at this time he knows that it is not easy to ask questions.

"Lord Zhao Cao is already waiting for my order at the south gate at this time, as soon as you leave the city from the north gate, he will also go out of the city, so even if He Zheng wants to chase him out to check on your two teams, he is afraid that he will not have time to separate. ”

"Lord Zhao------ he is also in the city?" Fan Jun was moved in his heart, he couldn't imagine that for the sake of a few of them, Wei Rui could be said to have tried his best to cover them to get out.

"Jun'er, without further ado, we can't catch up here anymore, you should leave the capital quickly. Wei Rui hurriedly urged.

Fan Jun had to give a deep salute and swallow the words he wanted to say again: "General, thank you for your great kindness------ Fan Jun will leave!"

"Jun'er------ take care of yourself along the way!" Wei Rui was also full of words that he couldn't speak, he wanted to tell Fan Jun, if he had the opportunity to meet in the future, it would definitely be a different scenery------ at this time, Wei Rui could only watch them quietly leave the Wei Mansion and go north.

When Wei Rui saw that the pillar of incense he had just lit was about to burn out, he asked in a low voice, "Wei Qing, what are those killers outside the door doing at this time?"

"Back to the master, a few of them followed General Li Zhong out of the city, and a few of them were still wandering outside the mansion gate------ these people who killed a thousand knives didn't know how thick the sky was, and they still dared to be strong outside the general's mansion. Wei Qing said angrily.

Wei Rui sneered: "Their heads are still above their shoulders, so they naturally look down on me, General Pingbei." Don't worry about people like them, prepare a car for me, I want to enter the palace to face the saint. ”

"Master------ it's better for you to stay at home at this time, you go to the palace, I'm afraid that Madame won't be at ease. As soon as Wei Qing thought of the tragic situation of Fan Yuncheng when he was dying, his heart began to beat the drum, and now that the emperor is acting perversely, no one can guess his true thoughts, in case he sees that his master is not pleasing to the eye, then it will be a disaster.

"I have something important to report to the emperor, what is there to worry about. Wei Rui said dissatisfied.

"Hey------" Of course, Wei Qing couldn't resist his master, so he had to go out to prepare a car for him.

Wei Rui stood there in a daze, at this time he was most worried not about Fan Jun and them who went out of the city with Li Zhong, he was most worried about Ling Xiao, at this time Ling Xiao had already exposed himself to He Zheng, but he was afraid that the disaster would come sooner than he expected.

At the gate of Fan's mansion, Fan Fu and several people hired to carry the coffin carried Fan Yuncheng's coffin to the carriage, Ling Xiao carefully checked the quilts around the coffin, and made sure that they wrapped the coffin carefully before relieving himself.

Fan Fu took out the silver taels prepared in advance and handed them to the hands of the people who came to help, and after those people dispersed, he wiped the tears from his face and walked in front of Ling Xiao: "Madam, what you ordered the villain to do, the villain has already done it." ”

"Fan Fu------ I haven't saved anything with my lord over the years, and there really is nothing valuable at home------ this mansion was purchased by Brother Yunzong for us, you lock the courtyard door in a while, and send the key to Brother Yunzong. ”

"Yes, ma'am. ”

"What I'm most worried about at this time is Lord He'------"

"Brother and sister. Before Ling Xiao's words were finished, He Chen was already calling her behind her.

What Ling Xiao was most worried about was that this senior brother insisted on sending her, but the more she worried about something, the more she came, and the thieves who were probing their brains had already disappeared at this time, so they must have hurried to find their master and report their whereabouts. She knew that she was separated from the children in order to attract He Zheng's attention, and the person He Zheng wanted to kill most at this time was herself, she was not afraid of people like He Zheng at all, but what she was afraid of was that if this senior brother insisted on sending herself, she was afraid that it would affect him.

"Senior brother, why are you here again?" Ling Xiao said puzzledly, "I left the capital with Yun Cheng because I didn't want to bother you and my sister-in-law, why don't you understand at this time?"

He Chen sighed: "How can I not understand the hard work of my brother and sister? It's just that when I think of you being alone with him------ how many tribulations there must be along the way." ”

Ling Xiao replied with a faint smile: "I am fortunate to be married to Yun Cheng, it is already the luckiest thing in my little girl's life------ if I go to get more, I will not be satisfied." I will marry him, and I will definitely bring his bones back to my hometown and bury them properly. ”

"Brother and sister, take care of yourself all the way------ I can only do so much------" He Chen's eyes turned red, and he couldn't go on.

"Senior brother, please go back, and be more careful in the future. Ling Xiao urged.

He Chen was most worried about He Zheng at this time, and there was always an unclear relationship between He Zheng and the Fan family, especially when he knew that Zhang Qifeng was Fan Yuncheng's fiancée, but he still cruelly defiled her and did such bad things, but he could still become the commander of Yulinwei, which shows that today's emperor is really confused. He Chen thought hatefully, but he didn't have the slightest way to deal with He Zheng.

Ling Xiao settled everything in the mansion, and after saying goodbye to Fan Fu and Xing'er, he knelt down in front of He Chen, He Chen was shocked, he hurriedly reached out to help Ling Xiao up: "Brother and sister, what are you going to do?"

"Since the Fan family came to the capital, she has been taken care of by Senior Brother for so long, and the little girl has nothing to repay, so she can only thank Senior Brother. ”

"Alas------ brother and sister, although you are not Zhang Qifeng, but when it comes to this life, this talent, and this way of dealing with people, you are better than that Zhang Qifeng, I also admire the talent of my brother and sister very much------ but you and me, there is no chance to get to know each other anymore, and ------ will not know when to see each other again in the future, brother and sister, I can only say that I cherish it for my brother. ”

"Thank you, senior brother!" Ling Xiao said gratefully.

He Chen had to turn around and leave her, Ling Xiao looked at him stretching out his sleeves to wipe away the tears on his face, the tears in his eyes endured for several endurance before swallowing back, she slowly drove the hearse to the south gate.

Outside the south gate, the black-clothed man led by Zheng Shuo was staring at the passing people carefully, and Ling Xiao was dressed in a vegetarian body, driving the hearse to come, and the target was naturally very large.

That Zheng Shuo looked at the hearse in front of him, frowned, and said in his heart that the car carrying the coffin of the dead was indeed a very filthy thing, but General He's orders he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to step forward and stop Ling Xiao.

"Stop!"

Ling Xiao slowly reined in the horse, the carriage gradually stopped, she looked coldly at the fierce Zheng Shuo in front of her, and asked lightly, "I don't know what to stop me?"

"What's the matter? This entry and exit from the city gate is now to be strictly investigated, Mrs. Fan, this Lord Fan has just died of a violent illness, and you are in a hurry to leave Beijing with the coffin, I don't know what the reason is?"

"Everyone is already dead, and General He still refuses to let us go?" Ling Xiao asked rhetorically, "It seems that you have not been following General He for a long time, and you must not know much about this senior brother of yours, so General He only wants to kill the person he wants to kill, as for why he killed, General He will not pay attention to it, if you have already asked for an order to kill me, please kill me here; if you have not received the order to kill me, please get out of the way, and I will send my husband home for a good burial." ”

"You ------" Zheng Shuo couldn't imagine that Ling Xiao actually had such a sharp pair of teeth, he couldn't find a suitable reason to refute Ling Xiao for a while, but this breath couldn't come out of his heart, he naturally refused to let Ling Xiao out of the city, "Let you say that the sky is broken, it is absolutely impossible for you to want to go out of the city today." ”

"If you block it strongly, the soul of the deceased will not be at peace, and if you entangle this adult in the future, it will be very bad. ”

"Hmph, don't scare me with these words, I, Zheng Shuo, have never been afraid. ”

"Zheng Shuo, presumably your ancestor is Zheng Boyu, right? I remember that Zheng Boyu was scared to death by the dead. Ling Xiao said with a mocking face, "I heard that Zheng Boyu was ordered by the emperor to kill dozens of Emperor Xiao Baorong's family, because those unjust souls who died in vain could not be reincarnated, so they went to pester your grandfather night and night, and in the end, your grandfather was scared to death by these dead people." ”

"Ouch, I really can't imagine that Emperor He's family died like this, then Uncle Zheng is really not a good thing, he deserves to die like this. ”

"Either this person can't do evil things, and if he does evil things, he must do good things to atone for his sins, otherwise he will really provoke those who die to die. ”

"I didn't expect Zheng Boyu to behave amiably, but he was doing such a lewd deed behind his back, hum------ the punishment of being scared to death was still light. ”

"This man is dead and he is not allowed to go home for burial, and I think he is also going to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors. ”

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Zheng Shuo listened to the people around him talking about it, all of them were talking about their ancestors, and he was extremely dissatisfied with his actions at this time, he was angry but it was inconvenient to attack, this thing that stopped the coffin and didn't let him go, he really hadn't heard of it, and the lady Fan in front of him really said it well, how to deal with the lady Fan in front of him, he didn't receive any orders from He Zheng, no matter what, this Mrs. Fan is still the wife of a court official after all, and she killed it casually, and she couldn't afford the consequences.

At this time, a team of people rushed not far away, led by Zhao Cao, who supervised the transportation of grain and grass, and Zhao Cao shouted loudly from afar: "There is a coffin piled up in front of the city gate early this morning, it is really unlucky, let it out of the city quickly, and save the big guy from causing unnecessary trouble." ”

Ling Xiao turned around when she heard this, the adult behind her was Lord Zhao Cao Zhao who had sent a letter to the Fan Mansion, these words spoken by Zhao Cao loudly made Ling Xiao's heart warm, she knew that this Lord Zhao Cao would never appear at the city gate for no reason, it must be General Wei who secretly sent him to help her.

Ling Xiao's expectation was good, Zhao Cao was ordered by Wei Rui to come to the south gate to see if Ling Xiao had escaped. When he saw that Zheng Shuo was embarrassed, he couldn't help but stand up.

"The original Zhao Duyun, I don't know what happened when Zhao Duyun left the city so early?" Of course, Zheng Shuo understood that the Lord Zhao Cao in front of him was an official in charge of grain and grass scheduling, and the power in his hands was no less than that of those generals, so he had to ask politely.

"What do I do, do I need to tell you?" Zhao Cao's eyes widened, and he said loudly: "Hurry up and open the city gate, you can't afford to eat the grain and grass if you delay my conquest of grain and grass." ”

Zheng Shuo had no choice but to wave his hand and ordered the officers and soldiers guarding the city to open the city gate, Zhao Cao saw that the city gate had been opened, so he turned over and dismounted and came to Ling Xiao: "Mrs. Fan, I met you so coincidentally today to help you out of the city, and the lower official asked Mrs. to take the first step." ”

"There's Lord Lao Zhao!" Ling Xiao gave a deep salute before slowly driving the hearse out of the city gate.

Zheng Shuo watched from the side, and the anger in his heart did not come to him, he knew that he was a killer who did not have any official position at all, and he couldn't stop either of these two people, so he could only watch them go out of the city one after another with hatred.

After he saw Ling Xiao out of the city, he hurriedly got on his horse and rushed to the palace, then He Zheng was on duty in the palace, after hearing Zheng Shuo's report, he was shocked, the person he was unwilling to let go was that Mrs. Fan, whether she was the red mole girl or not, he didn't want to see her alive.

"Then you don't care about Mrs. Fan's affairs, I now order you to take someone to chase Fan Jun and them immediately. He Zheng hurriedly ordered.

Zheng Shuo was stunned: "Fan Jun didn't leave the capital with Mrs. Fan?"

"I just got the news that Wei Rui's general Li Zhong led his men out of the city early this morning, if I expected it, then Fan Jun must have gone out of the city among the soldiers------ they also underestimated me He Zheng, do you think I won't be able to see through this little trick?" He Zheng sneered, "Zheng Shuo, you take a team of 100 people and go to intercept and kill that Fan Jun." ”

"Intercept ------ intercept and kill?" Zheng Shuo was also stunned when he heard the order, he couldn't imagine that this senior brother was actually going to kill Fan Jun.

"If his mother is dead and he is alive, can he not avenge his mother? However, Fan Jun alone can definitely be killed with a hundred people, and if Li Zhong stops him------ you can bring another hundred people. As soon as He Zheng thought of Li Zhong, he understood that the person behind Li Zhong must be Wei Rui, if he wanted to get rid of Fan Jun, then Li Zhong, who escorted Fan Jun out of the city, must also die, otherwise the consequences would be too unpredictable.

"Senior brother, where is Mrs. Fan?"

"I have my own way. "He Zheng knew that if he wanted to kill Mrs. Fan, he had to ask for the emperor's holy decree, after all, Fan Yuncheng was a member of the imperial court, and his wife was not something that anyone could kill if he wanted to.

After he saw Zheng Shuo out of the palace, he hurriedly came to Xiao Yan's place, that Xiao Yan had not slept soundly last night, and woke up early, after reading the scriptures in the palace, when he was closing his eyes on the throne to recuperate, He Zheng hurriedly broke in: "Your Majesty, there will be something to tell you at the end." ”

Xiao Yan had to open his eyes after hearing this, after becoming the emperor, he had no time for himself, he couldn't think of it if he wanted to be quiet for a while, he had to order He Zheng to enter the palace.

"Your Majesty, there will be an urgent matter to report to the Emperor at the end. He Zheng said anxiously.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yan asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, Fan Yuncheng's wife, took Fan Yuncheng's coffin out of the south gate of the capital at this time. ”

Xiao Yan thought of Fan Yuncheng who drank the poisonous wine in front of him, his face was slightly hot, he was silent and did not speak, but He Zheng couldn't bear it anymore at this time, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this woman must not go out of the city." ”

"General He, I don't know why you insist on getting rid of this Madam Fan, can you explain the reason for the couplet?" Xiao Yan really didn't understand why this Yulin Wei commander couldn't get along with a weak woman.

"Your Majesty, this woman knows too many things about the royal family, if she goes out of the capital, if the emperor wants to control her in his own hands again, I'm afraid it won't be so easy. He Zheng said, "Besides, the woman knows that the prince is treasoning, the emperor has always been magnanimous to the prince's affairs, regardless of the past suspicions, but the people in the market do not know the truth of the matter, if the woman adds fuel and vinegar to talk about something that damages the emperor's prestige, the emperor can------'t let such a thing happen, this woman is a great hidden danger, and it must be removed immediately." ”

After Xiao Yan heard this, she really couldn't bear it in her heart, this woman had just lost her husband, and she was going to be hunted down and killed by herself at this time, the world could not know the truth, but in her heart, I was afraid that it would be difficult to have peace in the future.

------ Lian didn't expect this woman to be so harmful, if she really loved what Qing said, she really couldn't be kept. Xiao Yan made a simple calculation between his reputation and Ling Xiao's life, and immediately made a decision, "He Aiqing, I don't know if you have any good solutions." ”

"Your Majesty, there is only one way: intercept and kill!" He Zheng's cold words made Xiao Yan also feel extremely shocked, the great commander of Yulin Wei in front of him, who he had personally promoted, openly proposed to kill her in front of him, which was indeed too unexpected for him.

At this time, Xiao Yan had indeed moved the killing intent in her heart, this woman knew too many things, and when she thought of killing loyal and good people in order to protect the sixth brother who attempted rebellion, if she said it in passing, her image in the eyes of the people would definitely collapse.

"He Aiqing, who is the right person to send?" Xiao Yan asked tentatively.

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to personally bring people and horses there. He Zheng hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the last general will handle all things well after receiving the order, and will not bring any trouble to the emperor." ”

"------ He Zheng, Lian ordered you to lead Yu Linwei to intercept Mrs. Fan, if she refuses to return to the capital with you, she will be executed on the spot!" Xiao Yan said coldly.

After He Zheng heard the emperor's message, he was overjoyed, what he wanted to kill most in these years was this Mrs. Fan, and now he finally asked for the holy decree, but he was naturally extremely happy to kill her.

"The last general will obey the order!" He Zheng hurriedly withdrew from the main hall after receiving the order.

When he led people to leave the palace in a hurry, when he saw Wei Rui who had just stepped into the palace gate, the two of them looked at each other, and they were a little surprised by each other. He Zheng knew that the General Wei in front of him was a person who was extremely protective of the Fan family in private, and now he entered the palace and didn't know if he came for the Fan family.

"General He!" Wei Rui said.

"General Wei, I don't know what you're doing here?" He Zheng asked coldly.

"When I came to the palace, I naturally came to find the emperor. Wei Rui didn't have a smile on his face, "What, as a courtier, is it wrong to come to your emperor?"

"Hmph, General Wei, there are too many things between you and the Fan family that can't be explained, don't think that Fan Yuncheng is dead, you can sit back and relax, this disaster will come as soon as it is said, and you can't stop it if you want to!"

Wei Rui faced He Zheng's threat, his face did not change, and his heart did not beat: "General He, this is very suitable for you, General He does not know why he led the team out of the palace? ”

He Zheng knew that he couldn't speak these twists and turns in Wei Rui's mouth at all, and since he was not good at reasoning, he didn't want to talk about it anymore, so he just left Wei Rui angrily.

Wei Rui slowly walked to the front of the main hall, and whispered to the eunuchs waiting outside the door: "If you ask your father-in-law to talk to the emperor, you will say that I, Wei Rui, have nothing to do recently, and I want to enter the palace to play a game with the emperor, I don't know if the emperor can approve it?"

The eunuch didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly entered the palace to report, and after a while, he hurriedly walked out and said to Wei Rui: "General Wei, the emperor is very happy after hearing this, he said that it is inconvenient to play chess in the palace, and asked General Wei to go to the emperor's study and slowly accompany the emperor to play chess." ”

Wei Rui nodded, and followed him to the study, at this time, Xiao Yan was more energetic than when he first met He Zheng, he was extremely fascinated by Go, and he had extremely high chess skills, but there were very few people in this world who could play against him, it can be said that there were very few, and this Wei Rui in front of him was also extremely researched on Go, which of the two of them had higher chess skills, it has always been a mystery, and now that he finally has the opportunity to play with each other, he is naturally excited.

After he saluted, he got up and stood at the emperor's head, and Xiao Yan hurriedly gave him a seat when he saw it, and let him sit opposite him. Wei Rui put the jade bowl containing the chess pieces in front of his eyes and looked at it, and pushed the jade bowl with the sunspot in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, please go first!"

After Xiao Yan heard this, he unceremoniously picked up the sunspot and easily landed on the chessboard. Wei Rui and the emperor played chess very slowly, and when they were halfway through, Wei Rui suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I didn't expect your chess layout to be so exquisite, and your ability to strategize, it seems that I, Wei Huaiwen, am absolutely inferior to the emperor." ”

Xiao Yan smiled after hearing this: "I didn't expect Huaiwen to have a time when he was a sycophant." ”

Wei Rui smiled faintly: "Your Majesty, Huaiwen is just telling the truth, and there is absolutely no suspicion of sycophancy, but although the layout of the ------ emperor is exquisite, there is another person, the layout before playing chess, but it is said that no one in the world can match it." ”

"Oh?" Xiao Yan couldn't imagine that there was another person in this world who was more superb than his own chess skills, "I don't know who among my beams is more powerful at chess than Lian." ”

After Wei Rui gently dropped the white son in his hand, he slowly replied, "Of course it's Fan Yuncheng's wife." ”