Hearing that Li Qinzai was seriously injured, Zan Xiruo suddenly felt weak and collapsed on the ground, his expression full of despair.
Things are in trouble!
Li Qinzai was seriously injured, and it didn't seem to have much to do with Zan Xiruo. After all, he was not the one who ordered the assassin, and he was also a victim.
But big shots won't see things so easily, and neither will this assassination.
Zan Xiruo knew very well that the target of the assassination was aimed at him. First, the three arrows shot from outside the brothel, each arrow went straight to his vitals. Later, the assassin appeared and rushed towards the stairs with a dagger in hand.
, chased him all the way to the attic upstairs, and when he saw Zan Xiruo jumping off the building to save his life, he gave up the assassination angrily.
Li Qinzai was injured by the assassin because he fell at the stairs and blocked the assassin's way.
Not only that, Zan Xiruo also abandoned Li Qinzai at the critical moment and fled for his life alone.
After careful analysis, does Li Qinzai's injury have nothing to do with Zan Xiruo?
Zan Xiruo jumped from a high place and suffered unbearable pain in his ankles and knees. He didn't know whether he had a broken bone or a broken bone. But at this moment, he had no intention of treating him. Instead, he ordered his entourage to carry him to the brothel. He wanted to see with his own eyes.
Li Qinzai’s injuries.
In the brothel, dozens of members of the Li family were searching around, and there were many others gathered around the stairs. The member of the group, Feng Su, had a livid face and was grabbing a middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper.
Slapping him in the face, the shopkeeper screamed in agony from the slap, but he didn't even dare to block it.
On the ground at the entrance of the stairs, a pool of bright red blood was slowly flowing and spreading. Through the crowd, Zan Xiruo saw Li Qinzai lying in a pool of blood. His lips were so pale that they had lost their color, and his chest was not even heaving.
, as if even breathing had stopped.
Zan Xiruo's heart sank, he was in big trouble. Duke Li had a problem, let alone the relationship between Tang Dynasty and Tubo. Zan Xiruo himself might not be able to escape easily.
The entourage carried Zan Xiruo into the brothel, and immediately attracted the attention of the Li family members. When they saw Zan Xiruo coming in, the faces of the Li family members who had been expressionless suddenly darkened, and their eyes showed murderous intent, staring at Zan Xi fiercely.
like.
Zan Xiruo turned his head and looked away with a guilty conscience.
He knew why the Li family members were looking at him like this. When he was assassinated just now, Zan Xiruo left the drunken Li Qinzai and fled alone. This was a fact seen by countless people. Li Qinzai's serious injury at this moment could be said to be directly related to Zan Xiruo.
Relationship.
But at this time, Zan Xiruo was having a hard time explaining it. He didn't know how to explain it. He couldn't say that he judged that the assassin was coming for him at that time, and leaving Duke Li behind was actually the result of weighing the pros and cons.
However, the current result is that Zan Xiruo has no serious problems except for minor injuries to his legs and feet, but Li Qinzai is seriously injured, and his life or death is uncertain. Zan Xiruo cannot clear himself no matter how he explains it.
Facing the murderous eyes of the Li family, Zan Xiruo said bravely: "What's wrong with Duke Li? The assassin is so lawless..."
His voice became softer and softer as he spoke, because the murderous aura in Li Jiabu Qu's light became stronger and stronger. Zan Xiruo was a little scared. He was afraid that if he continued to speak, Li Jiabu Qu would chop him up on the spot.
Feng Su, the leader of the military unit, had already finished slapping the brothel manager and strode over. He gave Zan Xiruo a cold look and ignored him.
Walking straight to the stairs, looking down at the increasing amount of blood on the ground, Feng Su felt anxious and shouted violently: "Where's the doctor? Why hasn't the doctor come yet? Send someone to invite him, no need to say any etiquette, just kick open the door.
Just rob someone and leave!”
As soon as a Buqu walked outside the brothel door, there was a commotion outside.
"The doctor is here, get out of the way!"
The doctor is not Kim Dayeon. Pingkangfang is too far from the Duke's Mansion, so Kim Dayeon can't come at the moment.
The doctor is a middle-aged man. Maybe his medical clinic is located near the brothel, so he can come relatively quickly.
The Li family members immediately moved out of the way, and the middle-aged doctor hurriedly walked to Li Qinzai and squatted down, first observing the injury and then feeling his pulse.
Then he opened the medicine box he had brought with him, found a small porcelain bottle from it, poured the medicinal powder on a clean cloth strip, asked Buqu to cut open the clothes on Li Qinzai's abdomen, and wrapped the cloth strip around the wound on his abdomen.
After treating the wound on his abdomen, Feng Su couldn't help but ask: "Doctor, my fifth young master..."
The doctor shook his head: "Stop the bleeding first. The injury is very serious. Don't count on me. Before it's too late, it's better to go find a famous doctor in the city to treat you. My medical skills are mediocre and I really can't bear the responsibility."
Feng Su and Bu Qu's eyelids jumped, and Zan Xiruo's heart sank to the bottom.
What the doctor said so bluntly was like issuing a critical illness notice. They made it very clear that he couldn't be cured anyway, so you should quickly hire someone else.
After the doctor finished speaking, he was still dispensing medicine in his medicine box. While dispensing the medicine, he sniffed and said strangely: "What does it smell like? There is a sandalwood scent, and sandalwood doesn't look like sandalwood..."
Li Qinzai was critically injured. Everyone was only focused on saving him and ignored the faint scent of sandalwood in the brothel. Besides, in the Tang Dynasty, both Buddhism and Taoism were promoted, and there were many good men and women. It was not strange to light sandalwood in the brothel.
Zan Xiruo sniffed subconsciously after hearing this and smelled a faint scent of sandalwood.
Then, Zan Xiruo's face turned even paler, and his eyes were full of panic.
The doctor just casually said that the scent of sandalwood was wrong, but Zan Xiruo was very familiar with the scent of sandalwood.
Sandalwood is not a rare thing. With the popularity of Buddhism in Tianzhu and the Tang Dynasty, sandalwood also spread to surrounding countries along with Buddhism.
There are also people in Tubo who believe in Buddhism, and there are quite a few who believe in it. Naturally, sandalwood, a specialty of worshiping Buddha, has also spread to Tubo.
But the sandalwood that Zan Xiruo smelled was a specialty of the Tubo Plateau. The doctor said that the sandalwood didn't smell like sandalwood because the Tubo people reprocessed the sandalwood from Tianzhu and added saffron and cardamom into it.
and musk, which form a special flavor after being made into sandalwood.
Compared with natural sandalwood, Tubo sandalwood smells a bit pungent and not as quiet and elegant as natural sandalwood.
This kind of sandalwood is a specialty of Tubo, the only one in the world.
Zan Xiruo's eyelids were twitching. He did not believe in Buddhism, and neither did the Tibetan entourage who followed him this time. This kind of sandalwood did not belong to anyone in the Tibetan envoy. So, where did the sandalwood come from?
The black-turbaned assassin flashed through his mind, and Zan Xiruo's face became extremely gloomy.
After eliminating all possibilities, the only explanation now is that the assassin was a Tibetan.
The Tibetans assassinated the Prime Minister of Tibet, so who sent the assassin?
Thinking of the various disputes in the Tubo court, Zan Xiruo had to bear the blood of countless people to get to the position of Prime Minister. To this day, there are still many people in the Tubo court who want to put him to death.
It no longer matters who the assassin is, or even who is behind the assassin.
Zan Xiruo found that he was involved in the conspiracy and became more and more involved.
This conspiracy was terrible, the enemy's timing was very accurate, and an important official of the Tang Dynasty was also involved.
After such a big thing happened, Zan Xiruo was not only unable to explain to the Tubo emperor and ministers, but also to the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
His mind was spinning rapidly, and Zan Xiruo was thinking about countermeasures, when he heard a member of the Li family report to Feng Su that the governor of Yongzhou and the Wannian County Magistrate of Chang'an were coming.
Buqu also reported that people had been sent to Taiji Palace urgently to report the news of Duke Li's assassination.