"Go..." Jing Yan was startled for a moment, and when he was about to go find Gu Qiancheng, a servant's voice sounded outside the door, "Sir, Master Chengyi is here to see you."
Agreed?
Jing Yan didn't expect that Gu Chengyi would dare to bump into him, so he said with a smile on his face, "Let him in."
However, Gu Chengyi stood at the door and said, "Brother Jing Yan, I'm not going in. I just came over to take a look. Just hope you're okay."
Although Gu Chengyi is not as smart as Jing Yan, he is not a fool. Jing Yan clearly has a problem. He is stupid enough to enter Jing Yan's room. He is here to deliver medicine to Jing Yan.
Gu Chengyi gave the medicine wrapped in a wooden box to the servant outside the door, "This is for brother Jing Yan."
After leaving these words, Gu Chengyi left without looking back, and waited until dawn to find the dean of the academy.
He wants to take leave and go home.
At this time, although the capital was in turmoil and everyone was in danger, people were not allowed to go out. Because of the incident of the virtuous hermit, everyone in the academy knew that Gu Chengyi was different now. He was injured in Donglin Academy and wanted to go home to recuperate. The dean
It was not easy to force him to stay, so he sent two strong men to escort Gu Chengyi back.
When Jing Yan received the news, Gu Chengyi was already on his way back. Jing Yan frowned anxiously and said dissatisfied: "Why did you let him go?"
"Sir, I was negligent for a moment. I really didn't know that Young Master Chengyi would come home suddenly." The young man said with a sad face and uneasiness, "Sir, do you want to send someone to prevent Young Master Chengyi from returning?"
"No need, everyone has left. If you come back, you will arouse suspicion." Jing Yan pressed his temple with a headache, "You let the Gu family's spies keep an eye on Chengyi, and don't let him have the opportunity to say anything to Qian Cheng."
Jing Yan stayed at Gu's house last time and bought a few servants at Gu's house. How many of them can help a little.
"I understand, little one." The boy bowed and stepped back, his face looking solemn as never before.
The less people know about Jing Yan's injury, the better...
The soldiers brought out by Yan Jiang were all cautious and attentive. When Yan Qing led the troops to the ruined temple, the ruined temple was still in its original state, and no one entered without permission to damage the scene.
"General, there are only traces of blood and leftover wound medicine, and the person is missing." A general saw Yan Qing approaching and stepped forward and said.
"Yes. Let the hunting dogs smell the scent and search for the person." Yan Qing waved his hand, and the soldiers led four hunting dogs forward.
These four hunting dogs were specially obtained by Yan Qing from the Xihu people. After special training, they were very good at finding people.
The hunting dog sniffed around the ruined temple, and then ran northwest. Yan Qing ordered people to look for it, while he walked around the ruined temple.
The ruined temple has been abandoned for an unknown period of time. There are cobwebs and dust everywhere, and a layer of dust will fall off even when you say hello.
There was no sign of anyone staying in the ruined temple. The medicine and blood drops seemed to have fallen accidentally, but they seemed to have been done deliberately.
Yan Qing did not leave in a hurry. She rubbed her chin and stared at the few drops of blood in a daze.
"General?" The soldier came forward in a low voice. Yan Qing responded, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, and then returned to normal. He waved his hand and motioned for the soldier to come forward, "Go and find the commander of the Royal Forest Army."
"Ah?" The soldier thought he heard wrongly. This was an obvious opportunity for meritorious service, but the general actually found someone to share it with him. The general must have been stupid.
Yan Qing's face darkened, "Ah, what? Why don't you go quickly?"
"Yes, yes." The soldier did not dare to say any more, and ran out crawling. Because he was walking too fast, he almost tripped over the threshold.
Yan Qing turned around and walked out of the ruined temple, and said to the soldiers outside: "You guys, surround this ruined temple and not even a fly can be released."
"As ordered." Hundreds of people responded in unison, while Yan Qing stood motionless outside.
It was already daybreak, and the soldiers who were chasing people with hunting dogs had not received any news yet. Instead, the commander of the Royal Forest Army came with people.
"General Yan, what did you find?" The commander of the Royal Forest Army walked in a hurry, showing great gratitude to Yan Qing for calling him at the critical moment.
Yan Qing briefly told what happened. As soon as he finished speaking, the commander of the Royal Forest Army said impatiently: "General Yan is going to accomplish a great feat this time. This medicine must have been left by the assassin."
"Commander Zhao, you're welcome. The assassin was discovered by me and Commander Zhao together. If we really want to find the assassin, I have to take credit, and Commander Zhao's contribution will not be small either." Yan Qing generously gave up half of the credit without any hesitation.
, Commander Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he almost stepped forward to hug Yan Qing and called him brother.
"Okay, okay, brother Yan is indeed upright. Don't worry, brother Yan, he will not treat you badly." Commander Zhao was older than Yan Qing and had a good family background, so he asked him to recognize himself as his brother.
Yan Qing was cold-hearted and just nodded lightly and called Brother Zhao.
Commander Zhao was not angry either. He patted Yan Qing on the shoulder and walked into the ruined temple. "There may be something strange about this ruined temple. Brothers, we'd better look for it. Maybe we can find something else."
"Waiting for Brother Zhao to come together to investigate." Yan Qing was very polite inside and outside his words. Although it was his people who discovered the anomaly in the ruined temple first, they did not take action alone, but waited for Commander Zhao to come together.
When Commander Zhao saw the ruined temple with no trace of rummaging, he thought more and more that Yan Qing was a good man, no wonder he could climb so high at such a young age.
Yan Qing gave up half of the credit he had received, and Commander Zhao also showed a good face by bringing half of his men in to inspect the ruined temple with Yan Qing's people.
The ruined temple is not big. A dozen people can inspect it at the same time, and one stick of incense is enough time.
"General, nothing was found." This was Yan Qing's soldier.
"Sir, there is nothing unusual about the ruined temple. Have we been tricked?" This is the person led by Zhao.
When Commander Zhao heard this, he became angry and kicked the other party, "Get the hell out of you, how did you say that?"
"What nonsense."
"Bang," the soldier was kicked away by Commander Zhao and crashed into the broken bronze statue in the corner. He only heard a muffled "thong" sound...
Originally, no one in the crowd paid much attention to such a little soldier, but this sound made everyone look at each other: Is there something wrong with the bronze statue?
"Let's go and take a look." Commander Zhao took the lead. Whether intentionally or not, his people lined up in a row, blocking Yan Qing and his people behind them.
Yan Qing's soldiers were not angry and wanted to rush forward, but were stopped by Yan Qing.
The people led by Zhao rushed forward and knocked down the bronze statue, and then...
Three men in black rolled out of the bronze statue. Without giving the soldiers time to speak, they swung their swords and the few soldiers at the front fell to the ground with a scream. Commander Zhao was protected behind him.
But even in this way, he was scratched by the tip of the sword.
"Quick, assassins, the assassins who stabbed the emperor, take them down, take them down." Commander Zhao ignored his injuries, drew his sword and went forward. Yan Qing no longer evaded, raised his sword and stepped forward, and at the same time let the soldiers
They wrapped up the ruined temple and could not let these three people escape no matter what.
"Take them down and keep them alive."
This was Yan Qing's order, and the three men in black who were forced to have sex with the official looked at each other blankly: What kind of assassin? Have they been tricked?