There were a lot of people here. There were many people coming in and out of the city gate, and it was not a place to talk. Tu Huaiyu led the people out of the city first.
When they arrived at a spacious place outside the city, Tu Huaiyu reined in his horse and waited for Chao Shenghuai to approach.
"Chao Shenghuai, a disciple of Wanshou Sect, thanks Master Xu for rescuing the siege." Chao Shenghuai, who drove his horse forward, raised his hand and thanked him.
Tu Huaiyu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Since I am a native of the Song Dynasty, it is natural for me, the envoy of the Song Dynasty, to come forward. You are welcome. Your surname is Chao. Do you know Chao Jing, the elder of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect?"
Chao Shenghuai: "Elder Chao is my grandfather."
"Oh!" Tu Huaiyu suddenly realized, stroking his beard and nodding: "I think I met my grandfather Ling a few times in Songjing. I still remember my grandfather Ling's style. I didn't expect to meet Brother Chao here.
grandson."
After talking about friendship first, he asked again: "By the way, why are you here?"
Chao Shenghuai: "Not long ago, I got permission from my master to go out for a trip. Now that I have been traveling here, who would have thought that I would encounter an evil slave who deliberately bumped into someone, but instead falsely accused me of bumping into someone. It is clear that he is in cahoots with the city gate defenders, and a nest of snakes and rats is deliberately blackmailing me.
Money is really irritating! Let them be happy for now, and then we will settle the accounts with them later. They will definitely spit out their capital and profits. How dare they bully me! Mr. Xu should not give it to me, a bunch of blind dogs.
With their money, I want to see what they dare to do to me!"
Tu Huaiyu chuckled, waved his hand and said: "I can understand the mood. Don't be angry about small things. It will be over after it has passed. It is beneath your status to care about such a small person. Great changes are coming, and there will be no unbroken eggs under the nest. These people are crying.
There will be people taking care of it right in front of you, no need for you to take action."
Chao Shenghuai's eyes flashed, "I heard on the way that Zhao State is going to attack Jinzhou. I heard the meaning of Mr. Xu's words. Could it be true?"
"It's possible." Tu Huaiyu didn't say anything. As an envoy of the Song Dynasty, he didn't want to talk about state affairs with outsiders casually, so he changed the subject and said, "Where do you want to go now?"
Chao Shenghuai: "Traveling around, when I come to Zhao State, I can't help but visit the capital of Zhao State. I'm about to go to Zhao Capital. I wonder where Mr. Xu wants to go?"
Tu Huaiyu laughed and said: "We are about to return to the Zhao State Embassy. If you don't mind, we might as well go together so that we can take care of each other."
If ordinary disciples of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect would not invite him like this, Chao Jing's grandson is naturally different and can take the opportunity to get closer to Chao Jing.
Now that Chao Shenghuai's identity and background have been determined, there is nothing to worry about.
Little did he know that it was playing into Chao Sheng's plan, which saved him from having to speak on his own. "It is better to obey orders and listen to Mr. Xu's arrangements."
"Okay!" Tu Huaiyu smiled and waved, and the men and horses continued to move forward.
Along the way, the host and guest chatted happily.
At noon, when the group passed through a mountain forest area, a sudden change occurred.
"Who is it?" It was the guards around Tu Huaiyu who first noticed the abnormality.
It was useless to discover that the people who caused the abnormality did not intend to avoid it at all, but rushed out in droves.
In an instant, more than a dozen masked men in black came out. The attack was so fierce and powerful that the place was in chaos and there were constant rumblings.
The assassin ignored the others and attacked Tu Huaiyu who was protected by everyone.
Here they tried their best to stop him, one person intercepted, and the other protected Tu Huaiyu and quickly flew back.
Tu Huaiyu's old face changed color with fear.
However, at this moment, dozens of masked men suddenly emerged from the retreating area, heading straight for Tu Huaiyu. Their strength made it difficult for them to stop them.
In addition, a group of people were attracted to intercept them earlier, and here they were attacked by a stronger attack, which made it difficult to survive.
Chao Shenghuai, who was among the crowd fighting fiercely, was frightened. He was surprised by Niu Youdao's strength. He didn't expect that Niu Youdao had so many masters in his hands.
"Ah!" During the hurried and fierce battle, Tu Huaiyu screamed and was cut into two pieces by a sword energy.
His eyes widened, and before he died, he regretted not summoning a bird mount to go to Zhao Jing.
Little did he know that it was useless to summon bird mounts. The number he could summon was limited, and the guards could not keep up with them. The same was not true for the assassins, who would only be in danger faster.
It should be noted that what someone used was not an ordinary assassination force, but manpower deployed against the strength of a group.
"Let's go!" As soon as the assassin succeeded, someone immediately shouted, and a group of assassins quickly gathered and retreated, taking away the bodies on their side under cover.
"Chase!" the guard here roared.
A group of people immediately pursued him. As soon as they chased him into the forest, the assassin escaping in front waved and threw a dense black shadow, which exploded in the air.
A burst of smoke filled the forest and the air. It was unknown whether it was poisonous or not. The people here were frightened and quickly stopped or retreated, not daring to get close.
That group of assassins obviously had a lot of assassination experience. After this attack, when they got around the smoke, they could still see the silhouette of the assassins. They had already hidden somewhere deep in the mountains.
If you can't catch up, you can only come back.
Lu Chenghai, the leader of the retinue of mage masters, slowly squatted in front of Tu Huaiyu's dead body. He couldn't help grinning, and even his scalp was numb. How could he report to the Song Dynasty court?
A group of guards and members of the mission were a little confused, and they didn't understand. How could they encounter such a powerful attack? With the strength of their guards, they were beaten to the point where they were unable to resist!
Chao Shenghuai, who squeezed into the crowd, raised a mask in front of the squatting Lu Chenghai, "I just knocked this off the assassin's face. I have seen the assassin whose face was exposed before."
He had been fighting tooth and nail just now, and he had never fought so fearlessly in his life.
Of course, he also had this confidence, he knew that the assassin would not kill him.
Everyone looked at him quickly, and Lu Chenghai stood up suddenly, with a ferocious expression on his face: "Who is it?"
Chao Shenghuai said: "If I remember correctly, his name should be Xu Gao."
"Xu Gao?" Lu Chenghai's eyes widened and he said in a deep voice, "Brother Chao, are you sure it's Xu Gao?"
Everyone looked at each other in shock, Xu Gao? There was a monk named Xu Gao among the monks who were in the Yan State mission.
Envoys from various countries have been competing with each other for a long time. How can they not know every member of the other side's envoy?
Chao Shenghuai said: "I have met this man before in Wanxiang City. I saw him teasing a woman on the way. I stepped in to stop him, so I have an impression."
It was pure nonsense, but he had really seen Xu Gao, just last night. He was in Niu Youdao's hands. Niu Youdao didn't do much to pry Xu Gao's mouth open, he just said something casually.
, as long as Chao Shenghuai can play a role for him.
"Gao Shaoming, you bastard!" someone yelled on the spot.
Everyone in the group remembered an incident. During the night banquet at Liufang Pavilion, Master Xu and Gao Shaoming had a conflict. At that time, Master Xu mocked each other about the death of Song Long, the former Yan envoy, and warned the other party to be careful about following in Song Long's footsteps.
I thought that Gao Shaoming actually held such a grudge.
Thinking about it, such a powerful assassination force cannot be used by ordinary people. If there is a country's power behind it, that is another matter.
Lu Chenghai stared at Chao Shenghuai and said word by word: "Brother Chao, you have to know that the person who was assassinated was our envoy of the Song Dynasty. The matter is very serious and the words cannot be ambiguous. Are you sure it is Xu Gao?"
Chao Shenghuai raised his sword, and there was blood on the blade. "I slashed his arm with a sword. As long as I find him, the sword wound on his arm will be the evidence."
Lu Chenghai said again: "Brother Chao, do you know who Xu Gao is? Are you willing to come forward as a witness?"
Chao Shenghuai glanced at Tu Huaiyu's body on the ground and said, "Master Xu helped me out before, so why don't I even dare to testify? Besides, is it possible that Xu Gao is some big shot, and I, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, are afraid of him?"
"Okay! With Brother Chao's words, I feel relieved!" Lu Chenghai nodded and gritted his teeth: "There is a person named Xu Gao in the Yan State mission, and Brother Chao needs to testify in person!"
"People from the Yan State Mission?" Chao Shenghuai was stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to come to his senses. He seemed to feel that this matter was a big problem, and immediately changed his words vaguely: "Brother Lu, I may have remembered the wrong person."
This remark immediately aroused everyone's contempt.
Lu Chenghai was angry, "Brother Chao, why did you go back on your word?"
"..." Chao Shenghuai became speechless and sighed: "It's not that I'm personally afraid of trouble, but this matter involves national affairs. It's not appropriate for me, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, to get involved. If the matter gets too big, I can't take the responsibility. You guys just treat me as nothing."
You never said that."
Lu Chenghai: "Do you think we are deaf? Brother Chao has already said what he said, and it must be reported. This matter cannot be ambiguous. If Brother Chao comes forward to testify, it will be fine. If Brother Chao does not come forward to testify, I want to retreat now.
It's too late, and we won't allow Brother Chao to retreat, otherwise we won't be able to shoulder the responsibility. We have no choice but to hand Brother Chao over to the court for strict interrogation, and let the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect ask the court for help. How to choose, Brother Chao himself
Decide!"
Chao Shenghuai was about to turn around, but the people around him moved, and they all looked at him with eager eyes, and they had already surrounded him.
"Inform the court immediately!" Lu Chenghai shouted.
Just as a golden wing was flying, there was another rumble of horse hooves. Everyone looked around and saw the Zhao court people galloping towards them. Many of them were wearing eunuch clothes. The one in the middle was Zhao in a cloak.
Sen.
The two parties naturally met together. When they learned that Tu Huaiyu had been assassinated, Zhao Sen, who had always been a cold-faced person, was shocked and jumped off his horse and came quickly.
"With your guard strength, who can easily assassinate Mr. Xu, and who did it?" Zhao Sen stood up and asked after looking at the corpse.
He couldn't understand that under normal circumstances no one would rashly kill a country's envoys, because it would not have much effect, and killing them could be replaced by another one, which would cause a lot of trouble. Once exposed, it would easily lead to retaliation from the power of the country.
Lu Chenghai gritted his teeth and said, "The envoy from Yan State did it!"
Zhao Sen's face darkened, "Do you know what you are talking about? Don't talk nonsense without evidence!"
Lu Chenghai sneered, "The two sides fought. I saw the people from the Yan State delegation here with my own eyes. Can I be wrong?"
"..." Zhao Sen was speechless and suddenly turned back to look in the direction of Jinzhou.
He was holding back a lot of anger in his stomach, and secretly cursed Gao Shaoming for being crazy. He dared to provoke the Song State at such a critical moment. He didn't know how to pick a fight even if he wanted to avenge him. No wonder the Yan State's national power was gradually declining. I am in this position.
In order to win over his son, a high-ranking official would dare to send anyone as an envoy!
He also thought that Gao Shaoming wanted to avenge the humiliation of the night banquet.
"Let's go!" Lu Chenghai waved his hand and shouted.
The group took the bodies of Tu Huaiyu and others, changed direction, and headed back to Jinzhou.
Something flashed in Zhao Sen's mind like lightning. He immediately waved his hand to stop it and shouted: "Don't mess around, there is something fishy about this matter, don't fall into other people's tricks!"
"Ling Zhao, I also feel something is strange, but can I just sit back and watch? Someone will investigate whether there is a conspiracy, and if I don't do anything about the matter in front of me, I can't explain it to the court! Let's go!" Lu Chenghai raised his arms and shouted, and a group of people continued
The original road rumbled and galloped back.
PS: I just found out that Cangshui has become the first alliance, and there is an additional alliance leader. I can’t pronounce the English letters, thank you for your support! Waiter, serve them durian.