Hearing this, Zhao Xianye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thankfully, Mr. Wei, you are all right. I'm afraid I'll have to go with you."
Having said this, Zhao Xianye smiled bitterly, because he had been very close to Qin Wenyuan and Wei Zheng recently and were considered friends, so he could afford to joke.
Of course, this is no joke.
If something happens to a dignified first-rank minister and a noble lord within the jurisdiction of Jing Zhaoyi, he will definitely lose his hat.
Coupled with Li Shimin's cherishment of Qin Wenyuan, his life may be in danger.
At this moment, what Zhao Xianye didn't know was that once something happened to Wei Zheng and others, he really wouldn't be able to save his life!
A famous lord of the Tang Dynasty, a first-class official, and a princess. None of these three people is simple!
"Okay, okay, Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry too much about us."
Wei Zheng chuckled lightly and continued: "Master Zhao, you'd better take someone to search the area to see if there are any traces left by the assassin, so that we can trace the forces behind it."
"Oh! Yes, yes!" Zhao Xianye reacted suddenly, "You dozen or so, quickly search the area. The few of you are here to protect..."
"Master Zhao, don't! Let them search too." Wei Zheng interrupted quickly.
He didn't know Qin Wenyuan's abilities before, but now that he knows, why does he need others to protect him?
Hearing this, Zhao Xianye glanced at Wei Zheng more and knew that Wei Zheng had something to discuss with Qin Wenyuan, so he held up his hands and said: "I understand, Mr. Wei, Mr. Qin, I will take people to search and assassinate you two."
Assassin!"
After saying that, Zhao Xianye turned around and flicked his right hand, "Let's go!"
"promise!!"
Under his leadership, a group of Jingzhaoyi government officials gradually left.
Wei Zheng watched them go away and turned around to continue talking to Qin Wenyuan when he saw him and Chang Le whispering and smiling from time to time.
Wei Zheng:……
He was stunned for a while, then coughed a few times, "Ahem, Mr. Qin, now that the outsiders are gone, do you think we..."
Qin Wenyuan stopped talking, looked at Wei Zheng, and said with a smile: "Master Wei, I'm afraid you already have an answer to this assassination, right?"
"No..." Wei Zheng said weakly: "Mr. Qin, to be honest, I only know a rough range. Don't think of me as a genius. I'm not as smart as you."
Forehead……
Qin Wenyuan's tone paused.
It was rare for Changle to see his husband stunned, so he couldn't help but smile, and then said: "Husband, you'd better tell Mr. Wei everything, so that we can quickly take stock of the recent income of the Qin Mansion."
"Okay, that's right."
Qin Wenyuan could still listen to his wife's words.
He nodded and said, "Master Wei, do you know where the s.h.e. arrow pointed at you just now came from?"
Wei Zheng shook his head.
Qin Wenyuan chuckled, slowly came to the dead giant, stretched out his right hand, and pulled out the arrow with ease.
He raised it in front of his eyes, looked at the drops of blood on the arrow, and said calmly: "The structure of this arrow is very complex. The arrow has a barb. It can kill the enemy with one arrow. It is a typical war weapon."
"The length of this arrow is much longer than ordinary arrows. Based on the length, there is currently only one kind of bow that can shoot it s.h.e."
"What is it?" Wei Zheng asked quickly.
"Complex Reflex Bow!!"
Qin Wenyuan said seriously: "Only this kind of bow can make the archer use 75 kilograms of force to fully exert the effect of this arrow! And this kind of bow, as far as I know, our Tang Dynasty and even the Ministry of War,
They are all sharp and angular, and the number of bows can be counted."
According to later records, the main long-range weapons equipped by the Tang army were bows and arrows, and the equipment rate reached 100%. Like sabers and guns, everyone had one weapon.
At that time, the style of Chinese military bows had long been fixed. They were all composite reflex bows. The range varied with the bow power. The power of the bow used was equivalent to about 75 kilograms today, which was difficult for ordinary people to pull.
Shoot this kind of bow.
But that was the situation after the Tang Dynasty became wealthy. Now it is still the early Zhenguan period, and the complex reflex bow has not yet become popular. Only the elite of the Ministry of War can use this kind of bow.
At this moment, Wei Zheng's eyes suddenly widened and he took a deep breath and said: "Master Qin, so we only need to investigate which complex reflex bow is missing from the military department, and we can find the person behind the assassin?"
Qin Wenyuan shook his head, "No, the assassin and the complex reflex bow carried by the assassin are probably not recorded. In other words, they were secretly manufactured."
"Why do you say that?" Wei Zheng was surprised.
Changle's beautiful eyes flickered slightly, "Yes, husband, did you think of something?"
When asking, Changle's beautiful eyes suddenly widened a bit, "Is it... is it because of Mr. Zhao?"
Hearing this, Qin Wenyuan was stunned.
He chuckled and said, "Madam, how do you know?"
As he said that, he even leaned a little closer to Chang Le.
Changle's face turned red, and he lowered his head and said, "This... I have been following you for a long time, and you often solve cases. As your wife, I can learn a lot no matter how stupid I am."
"That's it." Qin Wenyuan nodded slightly.
Wei Zheng watched the couple singing together and was so anxious that he quickly asked: "Mrs. Qin, what's wrong with Mr. Zhao?"
Chang Le curled his lips and replied: "Master Zhao came too quickly."
"No... To be more clear, he seems to have known that there were assassins here for a long time, so he came fully armed and brought many government officials."
"Of course there will be no problem with Mr. Zhao, because my husband and I know who he is. The mastermind behind the scenes must have told Mr. Zhao that something was going to happen to us, so Mr. Zhao rushed here in a panic."
"The three of us were assassinated less than three-quarters of an hour after we left the Cheng Mansion, and Mr. Zhao's Jingzhaoyi residence is far away from here, and it would take four-quarters of an hour at the fastest to arrive. This shows that Mr. Zhao received the news first.
While we were saying goodbye to Mr. Cheng, we already brought people to rescue him."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "After that, Mr. Zhao found us so accurately. Obviously the mastermind behind the scenes had long guessed that we would take this road. This road was led by Mr. Wei and our couple.
so……"
Changle looked at Wei Zheng and said weakly: "So, Mr. Wei, the mastermind behind the scenes, he is very familiar with you..."
"I'm familiar with it? And you want to kill me??"
Wei Zheng frowned.
If he was familiar with himself, Wei Zheng knew that he could basically rule out Five Surnames and Qi Wang.
He has a deep understanding of the five surnames and seven wishes, and he has no friends at all.
"If it's not aristocratic families like Wu Xing Qi Wang, then who could it be..."
While murmuring, Wei Zheng's eyes widened in a daze.
"Mr. Qin, Wei has some matters to attend to, so he will leave first."
Upon hearing this, Qin Wenyuan knew that his wife's words had already awakened Wei Zheng, so he didn't bother to ask who the suspect was, so he nodded and said, "Well, Mr. Wei, walk slowly all the way."
Wei Zheng left.
Changle immediately looked at Qin Wenyuan angrily, "Husband, Mr. Wei was here just now. It's hard for me to say anything bad to you because it will make you look bad."
"Uh?" Qin Wenyuan was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Why do you want to condemn me, madam?"
"What...you still have the nerve to say that."
Chang Le rolled his eyes at his husband angrily, and said calmly: "Master Wei, he must have someone to suspect, and you and I don't know it, why don't you ask for more information? This feeling of being kept in the dark is really terrible.
It doesn’t feel good.”
Qin Wenyuan chuckled, "Madam, why do you think I don't know who is behind this?"
"Huh? Husband, do you know?" Changle suddenly became extremely curious, like a curious baby, and looked sideways at Qin Wenyuan.
Qin Wenyuan's mouth twitched.
Well, he doesn't know...
The reason why I blurted out that I knew it was just to show off in front of my wife, but I didn't expect that I overacted.
"Ahem..."
Qin Wenyuan coughed dryly and quickly picked up his wife.
"ah?"
Changle screamed in surprise, Xiaoli hit Qin Wenyuan, laughed and cursed: "Husband, what are you doing!"
Qin Wenyuan smiled and said: "Madam, let's not think too much about other people's affairs. We have more important things."
"For example, it's getting dark and it's time to go home and pack your clothes!"
After that, Qin Wenyuan hugged Changle like a princess and ran out towards the Qin Mansion.
"Husband, put me down! I have feet!"
Chang Le laughed and scolded for a while, despising her husband's excuse to change the subject.
But he didn't say anything more. After several attempts to dissuade her to no avail, he happily enjoyed the hug of his husband's princess.
He just closed his eyes and lay quietly in Qin Wenyuan's arms, not hearing anything outside the window.
…………
Royal Palace.
Da'an Palace, the residence of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan.
The place is heavily guarded, and His Majesty Li Shimin, taking the safety of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan as an excuse, arranged for many soldiers to guard here.
In fact, this is actually putting the emperor under house arrest.
This is something that everyone can see, but no one will say anything about it.
After all, if the Supreme Emperor is running around, he will be very threatening to the current emperor.
When Wei Zheng arrived here, because he was the son-in-law of Li Yuan and he occasionally came to visit Li Yuan, he did not arouse the suspicion of the garrison soldiers and went in without any hindrance.
Today, Li Shimin puts the Supreme Emperor under house arrest here, but he does not restrict the Supreme Emperor's personal freedom, nor does he prohibit anyone from visiting the Supreme Emperor.
This was originally made for Li Yuan's old party and the common people to show Li Shimin's kindness and wisdom.
Later, Li Shimin saw the Emperor's behavior and felt that there was no danger, so he never thought about banning people from coming and going.
As soon as he stepped onto the stairs of Da'an Palace, Wei Zheng was filled with emotions.
Wei Zheng has been to Tai Chi Palace many times. It is magnificent and majestic, while Da'an Palace...
Although it is also decorated with splendor and splendor, compared with Taiji Palace, it makes people feel that Da'an Palace is down and out.
Of course, being down and out does not mean that Da'an Palace is small.
This place is also very big, dozens of times larger than Qin Wenyuan's Qin Mansion.
After all, here lived the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, the former emperor, and his many current concubines.
When Wei Zheng entered the inner courtyard, he was still stopped and had to be informed.
Not long after, the eunuch came out to send a message, saying that Li Yuan allowed Wei Zheng to visit and allow him to pass.
The main hall of Da'an Palace.
When Wei Zheng entered the place, he felt the sense of debauchery and excess coming over him.
In the palace, there are more than ten maids in hot clothes dancing gracefully.
Their movements are fiery, and every move seems to have a hint of something bad.
In the center, on a dragon chair high above the sky, an old man in his sixties or seventies was sitting there.
His hair was disheveled, his eyes were blurred, and his old face was red from drunkenness. He placed his hands freely on the girls on both sides.
On both sides of the old man, there were two young and beautiful girls.
The girls look to be around eighteen years old, with good faces, white skin and hot bodies.
How did Wei Zheng, an old man like him, know that they had white skin and hot bodies?
Just because both girls were wearing only pieces of silk clothes, which showed off their hot figures, these clothes were no different from the summer bikinis of later generations.
In later generations, many people wore it, and everyone felt relieved after seeing it more.
But this was the first time I met Wei Zheng, an old antique, and my first impression was that this was because of his excessive debauchery.
There is no doubt that the old man in front of him is the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan.
According to historical records, Li Yuan, including Li Er, had a total of twenty-two sons and nineteen daughters.
Among them, after he became emperor at the age of fifty-three, he gave birth to about thirty-six children, and about a dozen of them were born after he became the supreme emperor.
"I met my father-in-law." Wei Zheng said calmly, staring at Li Yuan.
"Wei Zheng, why did you come here today?"
"Speaking of which, I heard that Xiao Guo and you had a bad temper recently. What do you think? Do you want to marry another one? Do you want a woman?"
Li Yuan's old voice sounded.
He still called himself me, and while speaking, he pushed a woman next to him out.
Li Yuan's eyes were cloudy and lifeless, making people feel that he was completely confused.
Not only did one of his daughters marry Wei Zheng, but he also had to withdraw one of his own women to marry Wei Zheng.
It feels so absurd!
"Father-in-law, this is unnecessary." Wei Zheng said extremely seriously.
Immediately, he found a place for himself to sit down.
The woman introduced by the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan is indeed in good shape, a first-class figure!
But Wei Zheng is not a lecherous person. Even if he likes him, he is not sentimental.
Moreover, she was his father-in-law's woman, and Wei Zheng didn't even dare to have her.
"Haha, Wei Zheng, if you don't want it, forget it. Tell me, why did you come to me today?"
Li Yuan chuckled and poured himself a glass of wine.
The other girl who was not pushed out immediately understood. She first poured the wine into her little cherry mouth, then kissed and orally fed Li Yuan to drink.
Such actions were so sloppy that it made people easily blush, and the two of them were even more shameless, as if Wei Zheng was not present, they continued their actions and fell into a state of selflessness.
Wei Zheng only glanced at it and quickly looked away.
He looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside and said calmly: "Father-in-law, at noon today, my son-in-law and I were assassinated by some assassins."