A pair of black calfskin shoes stepped on a caterpillar that had fallen from a tree.

The owner of the shoe seemed to feel a little dirty, as if it were a little itchy, and after lifting his foot, he twisted his toes a few times on the stone road in front of him.

The shoes look ordinary, but the leather is soft and thin, so it must be comfortable to wear.

In another alley, a middle-aged man was looking sharply in the direction of Moyuan.

Suddenly, he had an inexplicable sense of threat.

This feeling is similar to the feeling of lying in ambush in the grass and watching the enemy horse, and a poisonous snake suddenly appears behind you.

This feeling has been felt once before.

So he didn't think it was an accident.

He turned.

He was on the second floor of the teahouse, and behind him was a staircase.

The staircase was empty.

At this moment, his face suddenly turned pale, and he suddenly clearly sensed that this sense of danger came from the teapot that was originally in front of him, but was behind him at this time.

He opened his mouth and wanted to let out a loud roar.

However, faster than his true yuan gushing, the teapot calmly placed on the tea tray shook slightly, and a drop of water flying out of the mouth of the pot elongated into a sword, lightly piercing the back of his neck and straight into his brain.

His eyes widened suddenly, his pupils filled with blood, and his body froze.

No one in the teahouse noticed anything unusual on the second floor.

Among the tea guests on the table on the first floor were also the middle-aged man's subordinates, but even they didn't feel anything unusual.

It's just that behind the wall of this teahouse, in another alley, a tall woman carrying a flower basket is walking by.

The woman was dressed very plainly, and for some reason, no one who walked by her side could see her face.

......

The news of the middle-aged man's death reached the big tent of the Chinese army of the Tiger Wolf Northern Army as soon as possible.

A young man in civilian clothes knelt on one knee and spoke heavily to Liang Lian, who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the tent, detailing the details of the middle-aged man's death, including his own speculation.

Liang Lian looked at the young man coldly.

There was also real indifference in his eyes.

He didn't like to add too many of his own emotional and speculative subordinates to his reports, and he also knew that after the military advisor who had followed him for many years was killed by himself, the young man was too eager to become the new military advisor by his side.

It's just that even if he really doesn't like this young man in his heart, he still has enough tolerance.

Because the other party is loyal enough to him.

"It can't be Bai Shanshui who killed General Zuo. ”

He shook his head, looked at the young man whose face stiffened because of his denial, and said slowly: "Even in my heyday, it is impossible for me to kill General Zuo silently. ”

The young man didn't know that his judgment that seemed very naïve to Liang Lian was actually correct, and when he heard Liang Lian's words, his face turned slightly pale, thinking that he understood something.

"This wine shop boy is now a member of the Minshan Sword Sect, and the people of the Minshan Sword Sect are known for protecting their shortcomings. Only those people from the Minshan Sword Sect have such strength. ”

Liang Lian stood up and slowly walked out of Changling, he coughed a few times, looked at the outline of Changling, and said indifferently: "Many people want to force me to leave Changling quickly, I can ignore them, but I can't ignore the Minshan Sword Sect." ”

......

The southern suburbs of the city, tea plantations.

After Ding Ning left that day, what happened to the middle-aged tea master who knelt for a day in this tea garden, most of the people in Changling wanted to know.

Especially the vast majority of people in Changling began to know that the middle-aged tea master and the palace maid surnamed Rong who forced Xue Wangxu to death were actually underground lovers.

It's just speculation, whether it's the palace maid surnamed Rong or the matter itself, it's too high for the vast majority of people in Changling.

So when Ding Ning left, no one dared to go into the tea garden again.

On this day, an unwitting farmer driving an ox cart entered the tea plantation.

He is an old acquaintance of Zhang Luyang, who raises chickens and geese in the suburbs of Changling, and transports fertilizer to this tea garden several times a year, because he is not in Changling City, so he does not know what is happening here.

After entering the tea plantation, the farmer was shocked to find that Zhang Luyang's bamboo house was no longer inhabited, and the charcoal ash in Zhang Luyang's stone stove looked like it had been cold for a long time, not recently.

The farmer was puzzled, he looked around, and when he turned to the pond where Zhang Luyang washed and washed rice on weekdays, he was stunned, and then involuntarily let out a suspicious sound.

He saw a lot of white bones.

These white bones are just ordinary goose bones, and the residual flesh on the goose bones has been gnawed clean by ants, but these fine white bones have some words on the ground.

This row of bone characters spells out only a date.

The farmer thought about it, it was one day three years before Emperor Yuanwu ascended the throne.

He clearly remembered that three days after this day, that was the day of the death of the emperor.

The farmer felt strange when he couldn't find Zhang Luyang, he went out of the garden to inquire about Zhang Luyang, and when he heard what happened here a few days ago, he felt incredulous, and then naturally casually mentioned this row of white bone characters that made him feel puzzled.

No one can answer his questions.

Everyone who heard about it thought that this row of white bone characters might have been left by Zhang Luyang and wanted to say something, but no one knew what such a date meant.

But the palace maid surnamed Rong knew.

In other words, the entire Changling Mausoleum, only she and the queen know.

When the news of the tea garden came to the courtyard of the palace where she lived again, she no longer stood under the eaves, but sat at the window indifferently, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably again.

She remembers the date very clearly.

Because on that day, that man came back and lingered with the queen in a courtyard in Changling all night.

The queen's trip is very secretive, she arranged it, and only she knows.

And at that time, the empress was actually already with Emperor Yuanwu, and she was actually ready to launch a mutiny to deal with that person and Bashan Sword Field.

That night, the queen was still extremely gentle with that man.

But that night, Emperor Yuanwu didn't know.

That date represented the day, and there might have been many other things going on, but she naturally thought of that night.

Because she knew that the queen would naturally think of that kind of night.

The man was dead.

How could Zhang Luyang know what happened that night?

The body of the palace maid surnamed Rong continued to tremble.

Her clothes began to get soaked with sweat.

She knew that she would never talk in her dreams, but at this time, she began to wonder if she really talked a lot in her dreams on weekdays.

She couldn't believe that even if Zhang Luyang knew what happened that night, she would take revenge on herself in such a way.

However, what she can be sure of is that the queen will definitely feel that the words left by Zhang Luyang represent such a night.

......

"What does he mean?"

Ye Ce Leng walked back to the small courtyard where he lived a little tired, looked at the "flower girl" sitting comfortably on the bamboo chair, and asked.

It seems to mean to deal with Liang Lian and the palace maid surnamed Rong at the same time. ”

Bai Shanshui sneered at Ye Ce and said, "Yiqiē seems to have become more interesting. ”