"Tomorrow you take Xuan'er and Madam Zhai to Yuhuangling to find Xu Huai. Xuan'er has been hiding in Yuhuangling incognito for now. I want to get to know each other, and Xu Huai should be able to take care of this last worry for me."
Wang Zhen sat in front of the lamp, and while giving the envelope letter he wrote to Xu Huai, he gave Lu Xiong verbose instructions.
Wang Xuan sat on the couch blankly, her eyes red and swollen from crying; Madam Zhai had served Wang Xuan's mother, and now her hair was gray and she had no insight or opinion. At this time, she only knew how to hold Wang Xuan's weak body and give her a hand.
A little comfort.
"Ms. sir, it's not that we don't have other strategies to come up with..." Lu Xiong couldn't help crying.
"Too many innocent people have been involved. This is my fate. There is no need to struggle anymore - I don't want to die in an unknown manner under their arrangements. After you send Xuan'er to Xu Huai,
Give my suicide note to Wang Yongqi. This suicide note can prove that I died by drinking poison and had nothing to do with anyone else. It can help calm the storm as soon as possible. He should help hand it over to His Majesty. After that,
Brother Lu, you should go to Mobei if you have time. In addition to the scenery of Mobei grassland, the Red Hu people have been rising for thirty or forty years. They are ambitious and need someone to see them with their own eyes. As for the guilds in the court, they will not be alerted by this.
, we can only do our best and obey fate!"
"Grandpa!" Wang Xuan cried.
"You feel miserable now, but one day, you will understand the truth that life and death are bound by common things..." Wang Zhen reached out and stroked his granddaughter's head, comforting her.
"It's just that it's too early for Miss Xuan." Lu Xiong sighed.
"Give me the poison and prepare for tomorrow." Wang Zhen reached out and begged Lu Xiong.
"..." Lu Xiong felt unspeakable pain in his chest. He held the porcelain bottle containing the poison in his hand, but he couldn't hand it out.
"Catch the assassin!"
Guo Caoling screamed at first, and they heard it vaguely here, but they were immersed in the emotion of life and death and did not pay attention for a while, until there was an uproar outside the yard, many people shouted "catch the assassin", Lu Xiong and Wang
Xincai woke up from the emotion of separation and death, with confusion in his eyes.
Guo Caoling is about to officially succeed Deng Gui in charge of the Huaiyuan Inspection Department. Where will there be any assassins?
Hearing the footsteps of a dozen people walking towards here, Lu Xiong and Wang Zhen had just pushed the door open and walked out of the house, when they saw Deng Gui knocking down the courtyard door with a clang, and barging in eagerly with a sharp knife in hand.
"Deng Langjun, what do you mean?" Lu Xiong took off his waist knife and held it in front of him, staring at Deng Gui.
Seeing the death of Guo Caoling and his entourage, Deng Gui's first thought was that it was Lu Xiong's hand, so he rushed here in a hurry, but he didn't think about Lu Xiong and Wang Zhen, who were all normal, and he was also stunned there.
:
Is there another assassin?
Deng Gui turned around quickly and said in a deep voice: "The new inspector Guo Caoling was assassinated just now in the post house. Deng was worried that the assassin would be harmful to Mr. Wang, so he came here to take a look!"
"Ah!" Lu Xiong was stunned there. Unexpectedly, the assassin came to the new inspector Guo Caoling and said, "Guo Caoling is so strong, and the two who followed him are definitely not weak. Who can assassinate him?
Is Guo Caoling in the way?"
Cai Qing was extremely powerful, but if he wanted to arrange someone to take charge of the Huaiyuan inspection envoy, he could only select people from the existing military ministers. It was impossible to just randomly stuff in secretly cultivated dead soldiers.
Guo Caoling is the military envoy under the jurisdiction of the Inspection Department of Yuanbian City in Jingzhou. He does not seem to have a high-level position, but due to the strong worship of literature and martial arts at that time, many of the Forbidden Army border commanders are only the inspection envoys of Yuanbian City of the seventh rank.
Military ministers at the level of military envoys and inspectors are already considered figures in the military.
"Envoy Guo Jun has been poisoned." Deng Gui still suspected that the assassin had contact with Lu Xiong and Wang Zhen, so he walked straight to the corridor as he spoke.
"Deng Langjun, what do you mean?" Lu Xiong asked in a deep voice.
"The safety of Mr. Wang is not a trivial matter. I have to be careful about the assassin hiding in a corner before he strikes!"
The moment he saw Guo Caoling die, Deng Gui felt as if the sky was falling. He didn't know what kind of huge waves would be stirred up. If he couldn't catch the assassin, he didn't know how he would follow Guo Caoling behind him.
Someone to confess to?
Will the people behind Guo Caoling think that he deliberately condoned the assassins' actions, or will they mistakenly believe that he was just perfunctory from beginning to end, and even cooperated with the assassins to set them up?
Deng Gui's heart and lungs were about to explode. He never thought that something like this would happen when he was about to leave office and escape from the vortex of right and wrong.
Who was so idle that he killed the inspector who Cai Zheng had tried every possible means to arrange for him, just two days before the formal handover?
Killed today!
Seeing Deng Gui peeking into the room rudely, Lu Xiong was also angry. He stretched out his hand and grabbed his shoulder like a pair of iron pincers. With the other hand, he held a knife against his armpit and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Deng, please don't bully others."
Too much!"
There were no decorations in the study room that Wang Zhen and the others had just walked out of. There was only a couch, a table, and several chairs. There was no obstruction, and everything could be seen clearly at a glance. Except for Wang Xuan and the wet nurse, Lady Zhai, there was nothing else hidden.
people.
Deng Gui also knew that Lu Xiong was a dead soldier beside Wang Zhen, and Wang Zhen was already willing to die. If Lu Xiong was really annoyed at this time, he might really not even think about drawing his sword to fight with him, but
He may not be able to command the soldiers below to come to help in the battle.
Deng Gui took a step back and cupped his hands and said, "I am also concerned about Mr. Wang's safety, and I ask Mr. Lu for your understanding."
"Get out!" Lu Xiong pointed his knife at the door of the courtyard without politeness, asking Deng Gui to leave.
Deng Gui originally did not dare to see Wang Zhen, and after confirming that the assassin was not in Wang Zhen's courtyard, he did not dare to return the favor to Lu Xiong, so he ran away in despair to hunt for the assassin elsewhere - Guo Caoling's announcement of the assassination alerted the people in the post house.
The postman, the postman did not dare to step forward, but he gave a warning in time. The assassin was most likely still in the military camp at this time.
There were not many military soldiers in the military stronghold except for the rural soldiers who assisted in the defense. Deng Gui was eager to seal off the military stronghold to search for the assassins, and did not say that he would leave one or two people to straighten the collapsed courtyard gate.
Lu Xiong walked over and held up the courtyard door, but the door shaft was broken, so he could only wait for someone to repair it tomorrow.
"Who do you think it could be?" Wang Zhen asked after Lu Xiong came back.
"To be able to kill these three people with strong skills in such a short period of time, either several people sneaked in at the same time to attack, or their skills are far superior to mine," Lu Xiong did not see Guo Caoling follow him in.
, guessing that they should also be dead or injured, knowing that Wang Zhen suspected that Xu Huai might have taken action, but he felt it was not the case and said, "Xu Huai can't do this yet."
"Master Lu, you are looking down on me!"
The door to the side room suddenly opened, and Xu Huai sat on the ground behind the door, facing this side and saying with a smile.
Wang Xuan was so frightened that she almost flew out of her mind. She covered her chest for a long time. With the dim light, she could clearly see Xu Huai who was picked up from the ground by Lu Xiong. His left arm was hanging down weakly and there were bloodstains all over his body. She hurriedly talked to her grandfather.
Wang Zhen also walked over and helped lift Xu Huai, who seemed to be seriously injured.
"Ms. Zhai, keep an eye on the door. If someone breaks in, she will scream loudly!" Lu Xiong asked the wet nurse to guard at the door of the courtyard. He carried Xu Huai to Wang Xuan's bed and asked, "Where are you injured?"
"The injuries were not serious. The left arm and left shoulder were hit twice, and the armpit was slashed twice. However, in order to kill Guo Caoling quickly, the left elbow hammer was used in conjunction with the right knife to cut horizontally, which tore the back vertebrae.
, and then killed two more people in a row, you may have to hide here for a day before you can recover a little!" Xu Huai said weakly.
"Why don't you ask me to take action together?" Lu Xiong complained.
He knew how powerful Guo Caoling was, and his two guards were definitely not weak. Xu Huai was going to assassinate Guo Caoling today, and if anything went wrong in the slightest, he would definitely end up being surrounded and killed.
"Deng Gui is willing to be manipulated by others just to escape from Huaiyuan. Why don't I guard against him sending people to watch you, Mr. Lu?" Xu Huai said with a smile, "Besides, Wang Xianghui will allow you to accompany me to assassinate the imperial official? All I ask now is
Prime Minister Wang, just don’t go to Deng Gui to report me.”
"Brother Xu's words really put Wang Zhen to shame." Wang Zhen said with shame.
"Don't worry about the Prime Minister, I'm just joking," Xu Huai said with a smile, "I assassinated Guo Caoling not because of the Prime Minister, but because I was angry at Zheng Hui for bullying me. There are no heroes in Tongbai Mountain. Zheng
Hui thinks that everyone in Tongbai Mountain can be manipulated by him, so I want to show him a little bit today. Another thing, I guess the Prime Minister may want to entrust Miss Xuan to me, but I am waiting for the rude warrior
, I am really looked down upon by Miss Xuan, I am afraid it will be difficult to take good care of her, so I have to ask Prime Minister Wang to take good care of Miss Xuan yourself."
"Why do I look down on you..." Wang Xuan defended in a low voice.
"You were injured and climbed over the wall. Did you leave any traces for others to see?" Lu Xiong thought that Xu Huai climbed into the yard injured and might not be able to cover up all the traces.
"Deng Gui just didn't use his anger to break in and conduct a search. Now his anger was exhausted. Even if he saw the traces, he didn't dare to come in again," Xu Huai said with a smile, "Guo Caoling died, and he panicked.
, he doesn’t know how to deal with the anger of the person behind the scenes, but he dares to bear the crime of forcing the king to die? In the final analysis, Deng Gui is a coward, poor guy, we don’t need to be afraid of him!"
Wang Xuan's beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Xu Huai. Who dared to imagine that he had just assassinated three people? Who dared to imagine that he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, chatting and laughing so innocently, and even regarded the fierce and evil Deng Gui as nothing?
Lu Xiong thought about it. If Deng Gui broke in again at this time, he would rather be bloodied than open his eyes and watch Xu Huai being captured. And Deng Gui must be able to consider the consequences, even if he changes his mind and identifies the assassin.
Hiding in this courtyard, what would he dare to do?
He handed over the assassins and had an explanation for Cai Zheng and Zheng Hui. But for forcing Wang Zhen to death, who in the government and the public would let him go? Even Cai Zheng would be more willing to crush him to ashes. It would be best if he handed over the assassins.
Decide on a major crime that would kill the entire clan, so as to clear your own suspicions.
Of course, that's what I thought, but it would be better if all the traces could be erased without Deng Gui noticing.
Lu Xiong confirmed that Xu Huai was not seriously injured, then took the knife and walked out.
There were three soldiers watching in the yard, but Lu Xiong almost drew his sword on Deng Gui just now. They all saw it, so of course they didn't dare to step forward to stop him, or even follow him. They just arranged for one person to rush to report Deng Gui...
