The back alley of the rice noodle shop that had just gone through a major cleaning was splashed with a lot of blood.
There were thirty people, far more than before, and their weapons were mainly long swords.
As soon as they appeared, they were stopped by Shen Lie's secret guards before they even got close to the rice noodle shop.
The two sides met at war, and Xia Zhaoyi arranged for his men to join the battle in the backyard of the rice noodle shop, disguised as clerks and handymen.
After nine of the thirty people fell, a slender masked man who looked like a woman suddenly raised his sword and stabbed his seriously injured companion in the throat, then whistled with his finger, and the others immediately turned around and ran away.
Other seriously injured people who could no longer run away were also stabbed to death by the masked woman and her followers.
In the chaos, the masked woman's entourage was entangled and unable to escape, so they committed suicide as quickly as possible.
The blood spurting out from his neck killed him instantly.
Before the figure of the masked woman disappeared from sight, the sound of armored men running could be heard from the other side.
The secret guards and the "men" of the rice noodle shop looked to the west. It was the Jingzhao Patrol Guards or Xia Zhaoyi's old enemy, Yan Yunwei.
They were not in one or two teams, and the leader was not the leader of the team. The soldier in his armor and uniform was the captain of the Yanyun Guards School.
When the captain saw the blood on the ground, he shouted: "This is a great disaster for the country. You dare to make trouble here! Take them all down!"
Yu Yanchi stood in the attic window in the distance with his hands behind his hands, staring here motionlessly, his eyes deep.
So far, he has not seen anyone who can take charge come out, not even the shopkeeper of this rice noodle shop has shown his face.
I don't believe that even Yan Yunwei is forcing them to the door, and they can still keep calm.
Following the captain's order, the Yanyun guards quickly surrounded him.
"Wait a minute!" a voice sounded.
Everyone looked and Yu Yanchi also turned to look.
A tall, middle-aged man walked quickly out of the backyard of the rice noodle shop.
When he came to the captain, Gao Zhou raised his hand and said, "Captain Zhai, you are polite."
Colonel Zhai looked him up and down: "Who are you?"
Gao Zhou said: "If my identity is revealed like this, there will probably be a bloody storm in Hejing. Lieutenant Zhai, can you lend me a step?"
Captain Zhai frowned and looked him up and down. Although he looked unattractive, his burly body did not look like an idler.
Colonel Zhai lost his patience: "Who are you?"
Gao Zhou deliberately lowered his voice: "People from the palace."
Captain Zhai was slightly stunned.
"Take a step to speak?" Gao Zhou looked at him closely.
This momentum, this temperament, Captain Zhai thought about it for a moment and followed him aside.
Everyone looked at them.
Yu Yanchi in the distance couldn't hear their conversation just now, but since Gao Zhou came out, his eyes had not left him.
Is this the person behind the scenes?
But Yu Yanchi’s intuition doesn’t seem like it.
At this time, Captain Zhai's body language and expression changed obviously.
Yu Yanchi frowned, not knowing what happened.
Captain Zhai looked up at Gao Zhou, who was half a head taller than him, with a serious and frightened expression: "Sir, please stop talking, I won't listen!"
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"So, who asked you to come here?" Gao Zhou asked back, "Usually there are only one or two teams of patrol guards, so how can we get your dignified captain to take action? Captain Zhai, don't you think it's too deliberate?"
Captain Zhai looked at the corpses lying on the ground and said: "Then these corpses..."
"I will find a place to deal with them. As for Princess Yangping I just told you about..."
"Young ones don't know anything," Colonel Zhai said in a nervous voice, "Young ones can forget these things very quickly!"
"Hmph," Gao Zhou sneered, "we were going to catch those few who slipped through the cracks, but you got in the way."
Captain Zhai also hates it.
He never expected that this person was sent by Concubine Mu and Li Hao, and that he actually told him everything about the transaction between Princess Yangping and Shu Yuezhen as soon as he opened his mouth.
The incident caused by Princess Yangping in early spring still affects officials in the capital to this day.
No, even Yu Shiling's uncle and nephew Yu Chuancai had his house confiscated a few days ago.
Unexpectedly, he had just heard about the death of the maid next to Concubine Mu outside the palace this morning, and ended up getting involved in the matter in the afternoon.
Can he hear this?
If they were to be implicated in the future, how many heads would he have to pay for it?
Colonel Zhai's heart was filled with regret: "Sir, if you have nothing else to do, why don't you take the others away first?"
Gao Zhou said: "Wait a minute, you will personally lead a patrol around this area in the past few days."
Colonel Zhai said: "Ah?"
"You must keep an eye on this rice noodle shop, and don't let anyone use it as a knife again."
Colonel Zhai reluctantly agreed: "Yes, yes, yes."
"Also, twenty people are left here to wash the floor, and my people have to move the corpses." After saying that, Gao Zhou turned around and left.
Colonel Zhai was wiping cold sweat behind him, but he was not as majestic as before.
In the distant pavilion, the door behind Yu Yanchi was suddenly pushed open. Wen Dai came in and said, "Sir, what's going on over there?"
Yu Yanchi said coldly: "See for yourself."
Wen Dai heard that his tone was wrong, and when she got closer and looked at it, she was shocked: "How could that be!"
I wanted to lead the officers and soldiers to raid this place and dig out the people who were hiding deep. Who would have expected that when I saw Colonel Zhai's frightened look, the men who came with him actually went over to wash the floor. Washing the floor?
Wen Dai asked: "Could it be that the people who sell this rice noodles are people from Li Qian's court?"
"We won't guess," Yu Yanchi said, "Let Shu Yuezhen guess."
All the doors of the neighborhood around the rice noodle shop were closed, and no one dared to come out. Occasionally, people passing by would turn around and run away when they saw corpses on the ground and soldiers wearing Yanyun Guard armor in the distance.
When the place was finally cleared, the guys at the rice noodle shop brought out warm tea and talked about their hard work.
The soldiers were exhausted and full of anger, but they didn't dare to show it. They took the tea and drank it.
Zhan Ning stood by the window on the third floor and watched as none of them fell down and drank all of them in one gulp. He said to Xia Zhaoyi with some anxiety: "Second Miss, I shook my hand and the medicine was a bit strong."
Xia Zhaoyi said calmly: "It doesn't matter."
Zhan Ning nodded, paused, and then said: "When I came back, I saw General Shen and Ye Zheng beside him at the window on the second floor."
Zhan Ning stretched out his hand and pointed towards it.
Xia Zhaoyi looked around and his voice was still calm: "Yeah."
Time passed slowly, and a soldier who was sitting on a small stone pier outside the backyard suddenly tilted his body and fell to the ground.
Others didn't take him seriously and just thought he was tired.
But gradually, more and more soldiers fell down, sitting and standing, outside the courtyard and inside the courtyard gate.
When everyone fell down, Gao Zhou led others up and dragged everyone outside into the backyard.
All this happened right under the noses of Yu Yanchi and Wen Dai.
Wen Dai frowned and said, "What are you doing?"
Yu Yanchi said: "I don't know."
"My lord, they don't look like people from the palace."
Yu Yanchi looked up at the sky. The sky was bright and the sun was shining brightly. And because of heavy rain for several days, the sun was particularly bright today.
He looked back at the rice noodle shop and saw that the bodies had been wrapped one by one and loaded on several carts.
After they were loaded, the people made a lot of covers on the carts, either with bulging sacks, weeds or tarps.
Yu Yanchi said in a deep voice: "Have you ever seen such a crazy person?"
"Crazy?" Wen Dai looked at him.
"There were two waves of assassinations in one day. No matter how stupid you are, you should know that you are being targeted. It is not difficult for them to guess that we are hiding in the dark. The avenue here is wide, people pass by from time to time, and all the nearby neighbors are at home, but
They killed people and collected their bodies in broad daylight, and drugged the officers and soldiers to death. Don't you think this is crazy?"
Wen Dai said: "They are not afraid of being seen by others, nor are they afraid of being seen by us..."
"That's right," Yu Yanchi frowned, "I've only seen one person who can be so crazy."
"who?"
Yu Yanchi gritted his teeth and said, "Ah Li."
Wen Dai was shocked: "She!?"
Although they had never fought each other before, the name already struck Wen Dai like thunder.
The deaths of Cheng Miaode, Sima Wu, and Yu Xiang were all related to this Ah Li.
Chu Zheng's escape was also caused by her. To this day, Chu Zheng's whereabouts are unknown and her life or death is unknown.
Liu Hui and others, including Yu Yanchi, all suffered heavy losses at her hands.
This is just for the people around Wen Dai. Even bigger, Xun Ping Wang Jin Hongkang's reward for her has not been withdrawn yet.
Five hundred taels of gold, the title of Marquis of Guangxuan, and a Chunluo County.
The king and his land were granted a whole county just to capture a woman.
"If it is really her," Wen Dai said, "Sir, what should we do next?"
After being quiet for a long time, Yu Yanchi said: "Hide it and wait and see what happens."
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Thank you again for your great reward today~ Ah ha, I make a New Year's wish, and I will keep updating until the end, and update at least two chapters every day~
