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The noise in the hall of Cao Mansion suddenly disappeared.
The entire hall became quiet and silent. The atmosphere changed from joyful to solemn and tense in the blink of an eye. Dian Wei and Xu Chu stood in front of Cao Cao, looking at Cao Peng and the beautiful maid in his hands warily, their big hands seemed to be
Inadvertently, he placed it on the sword on his waist.
There are a total of three people wearing weapons in this hall.
Apart from Xu, Chu, Dian and Wei, there was only one person named Cao Peng.
Gao Shun was startled at first, then glanced at the Tong Jue on the table, and his expression suddenly changed.
He clearly remembered that the glass of wine in front of him was filled by the beautiful maid in Cao Peng's hand. Could it be that... Gao Shun's eyes narrowed into a line. The big hands placed on the table had blue veins exposed.
He was eager to attack at any time. But Cao Cao's face was as sinking as water. However, he did not say anything and only looked at Cao Peng quietly. He knew very well that Cao Peng would never commit suicide at this time.
In the capital city of Xu, the person who most wanted Lu to surrender to the Han Kingdom was not Cao Cao or Gao Shun.
The person who really hopes to succeed in joining is undoubtedly Cao Peng.
The beautiful maid showed fear and looked pitiful, "Master, how can a slave be able to taste this kind of jade paste?"
"I'll let you taste it."
Cao Peng looked directly at the beautiful maid.
Cao Cao suddenly said: "Eat."
The beautiful maid was startled and her face changed.
Suddenly, she slammed the wine bottle in her hand at Cao Peng.
Cao Peng turned his head to dodge, but he didn't expect the beautiful maid's long skirt to flutter, and one of her feet darted out from the shadow of the skirt. The exquisite bow shoes flashed a cold light and kicked Cao Peng's chin fiercely.
Damn, shadowless feet... Cao Peng was also startled and stepped back. Unexpectedly, the maidservant took the opportunity to wave her hand and shook Cao Peng's palm away. At the same time, Cao Peng's arm used force and suddenly flew into the air.
He stood up, like Ling Yan returning to his nest, and rushed towards Gao Shun behind the desk. From his sleeve, a short sword slipped out, with a blue light on the blade.
Cao Cao was protected by Xu Chu and Dian Wei, so it was quite difficult to kill Cao Cao.
But Gao Shun...
Seeing the beautiful maid rushing towards him, Gao Shun roared, took back the table, and suddenly exerted force on his hands.
The heavy food table suddenly flew up and hit the beautiful maid. However, he saw the beautiful maid calmly in the air, stepping on the table with her slender feet, and her figure grew taller again. Only this time, the one she assassinated
The target is no longer Gao Shun, but Cao Cao on the other side.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu were shocked.
Because the figure of this beautiful maid actually passed over their heads.
"Uncle, be careful!"
Cao Peng was also caught off guard.
He never expected that the beautiful maid was actually a master. Looking at her skills, she was probably not inferior to Leng Fei back then.
In other words, her tactics were similar to Leng Fei's.
Seeing that the beautiful maid was about to arrive in front of Cao Cao, Cao Peng suddenly thought and threw the sword in his hand with a cry.
He threw it with enough strength. The sword flashed with a cold light in the air, and with a clang sound, the maid knocked it to the ground with a short sword. However, in the blink of an eye, Xu Chu had already crossed the line.
Dian Wei stood in front of Cao Cao. Dian Wei roared angrily, drew his sword and stabbed the maidservant.
Cao Cao's face turned pale.
If Cao Peng hadn't thrown his sword to save him just now, he might have been injured in the hands of the beautiful maid.
Suddenly, Cao Cao was furious. Behind Xu Chu, he shouted sternly: "Zhongkang, Jun Ming, please don't let this cheap maid go."
Xu Chu responded immediately, drew his sword and rushed over.
The skill of the beautiful maid was indeed not bad, and her figure and steps were extremely flexible. Even a person like Dian Wei could not end the battle immediately when facing the beautiful maid. He was so angry that he roared like thunder and held a sword in his hand.
Dancing and whirring, the sword flashed and the sound was terrifying.
But Xu Chu joined the battle group from the side, and the maidservant suddenly lost her sense of proportion.
The two masters were attacking each other, and the maidservant was definitely no match.
She took a sneak peek and found that the civil and military officials in the lobby had already retreated.
Cao Cao and Gao Shun were also protected by guards. If they tried to assassinate Cao Peng again, it would be difficult to succeed. However, the maid found that Cao Peng was standing by with his bare hands. A trace of hatred flashed in his beautiful eyes. She
She suddenly turned sideways to dodge, and at this moment, Xu Chu arrived in front of her with a punch. The beautiful maid seemed unable to dodge, and was hit by Xu Chu's punch. Her petite body flew out immediately, and she spurted out a mouthful of blood, but her body was lifted by Xu Chu's punch.
The power of this punch flew out quickly, and the dagger in his hand flashed and rushed towards Cao Peng.
"Afu, be careful..."
Cao Cao was shocked when he saw it.
He quickly wanted to go up and pick up Cao Peng's sword and hand it to Cao Peng.
But it's too late!
It was too late, but soon, the beautiful maid arrived in front of Cao Peng.
But he saw that Cao Peng was not in a hurry or dodging. He raised his arm and suddenly turned his wrist. With a snap, a steel crossbow flew out of his sleeve and hit the beautiful maid on the shoulder.
The huge force actually caused the beautiful maid to retreat several steps and fall on her back.
"Thief Cao, I can't kill you now, even if I'm a ghost, I won't let you go."
While the beautiful maid was speaking, she turned her hand and stabbed the sword into her chest. Her body twitched, and her beautiful face showed a look of pain, and she died immediately. The blood on her chest was black and flowed instantly.
Cao Peng wanted to stop her, but it was too late. He quickly took a few steps forward and came to the side of the maid. He stretched out his hand to sniff under the maid's nose, and frowned.
"Afu, how's it going?"
"died!"
As Cao Peng spoke, he raised his head.
"He's a dead man."
He reached out and pulled out the dagger from the maid's chest.
A guard came forward and wanted to take it, but Cao Peng said in a deep voice: "Be careful, it's poisonous."
"Come here, cut this wretched servant into pieces for me."
Cao Cao was really frightened and couldn't help but become angry.
Several guards immediately stepped forward, but Cao Peng said: "My lord, wait a moment."
"Afu, are you okay?"
Cao Peng handed over his hand and said, "Thank you for your concern, my lord. It's all right."
As he spoke, he glanced at Gao Shun and said sternly: "Gao Sima, please don't blame me. I noticed just now that the clothes on this woman's body didn't fit well. The clothes don't belong to her, so I'm presumptuous... This must be done..."
Someone wanted to destroy the friendship with your country, so this happened. When she was pouring wine for Gao Sima, her hands were shaking slightly, so I felt that something was not normal about her."
Tonight's banquet was arranged by Cao Peng.
All the maids who serve have also gone through some preparation.
The clothes were specially made to order; and before the banquet, it was even arranged who each would serve the wine to.
Cao Peng originally did not expect such a thing to happen. He just thought that the maid was a little abnormal, so he stepped forward to stop her. Unexpectedly, this maid turned out to be a specially trained death warrior. He explained to Gao Shun
, and then said to Cao Cao: "Sikong Mansion is heavily guarded, but this woman managed to sneak in. I'm afraid... because of her humble position, it's best to find someone to identify her first."
Yes, the guards at Sikong Mansion can be said to be extremely strict, even stricter than those inside the Imperial Palace.
It is not easy for outsiders to sneak in.
Being able to blend into the crowd without anyone noticing, and also take on the important task of pouring wine... How could this be done by ordinary people? Most importantly, how did this woman know that she was pouring wine for Gao Shun? Not
Others? There must be something wrong inside.
Cao Cao also calmed down at this time, "Then I'll leave it to you, Ah Fu."
Cao Peng agreed, turned around and scanned the women in charge of pouring wine in the hall.
"Come here, get the list."
Since it can be arranged to serve wine, there must be detailed records. Cao Peng stepped forward, came to a maid, and said in a deep voice: "Do you recognize the assassin?"
"Go back to the young master, I don't recognize you!
Xiaoyu was originally responsible for pouring wine for Gao Sima. Just before the wine was served, she suddenly ran over and said that Xiaoyu was ill, so she asked her to take over temporarily. At that time, the maids were busy preparing wine, so they didn't pay attention... Master, I
It really has nothing to do with this assassin."
"This humble servant is cunning and needs severe punishment."
Xu Chu roared angrily, which frightened the little maid so much that she shivered.
Cao Peng looked at her quietly, then suddenly turned around after a while, "Sikong, I'd better ask someone to identify the origin of this woman first."
"Afu, what do you mean..."
"This woman must be a maid in the mansion, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for her to know about Xiaoyu pouring wine for Gao Sima. Also, please Sikong immediately send someone to search the mansion. I estimate that Xiaoyu may have been killed at this time. She is in the wine room.
You will definitely find corpses around."
Cao Cao quickly ordered, "Zhongkang, lead people to search immediately."
"Here!"
Xu Chu rushed out of the lobby without saying a word, walking as fast as flying.
"Who is it that wants to destroy Gao Sima's life?"
Cao Peng did not answer, but walked to the maid, squatted down, and groped on the body. She wanted to find some clues from the woman's body. However, there was no clue left on the woman. Short
The sword was named Fish Intestine, but it was not the fish intestine sword in history, but was specially made according to the style of the Fish Intestine Sword. As soon as Cao Peng stood up, he heard someone asking.
So he sneered, "Of course it's the result of someone who doesn't want my lord to achieve such great achievements."
His words made everyone in the lobby immediately shut up.
Don't you want Cao Cao to get such a great feat?
Opening up territory and expanding the territory is definitely an unparalleled achievement. Even the emperor is in favor of this. But there are some people who don't want this situation to happen, who? In the entire Xudu, if there are people who least want Cao Cao to become powerful, then I'm afraid
There was only one member of the imperial party. Cao Cao's face was uncertain, but he did not speak. His eyes swept over the bodies of several Han Dynasty veterans in the hall, making those people's faces suddenly turn pale as paper.
"Hey, isn't this the little confused boy from the Fifth Young Master's sect?"
When a retainer was cleaning up the mess, he accidentally saw the body of the maid lying in a pool of blood and said in surprise.
"What did you say?"
When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help being surprised and shouted sharply.
The retainer was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "Little man, little man, I mean... he looks a bit like a confused boy from the Fifth Young Master's sect."
"Look at it carefully for me."
The retainer walked to the body tremblingly.
He squatted on his bed, looked carefully, raised his head and said: "Sikong, it's Xiao Mulu. I've seen... the little Mulu who grinds ink for the Fifth Young Master on weekdays. We don't know what his original name is. But.
She is always confused and loses everything, so we call her Little Muddlehead. Yes, a villain will never admit his mistakes... If Sikong doesn't believe it, you can find someone to identify it."
Fifth Young Master, isn't that Cao Chong?
At this point, even Cao Peng shut his mouth and stepped aside to stop making any sound.
This matter seems to have become a bit complicated. Why did Cao Chong get involved? Didn't Cao Chong have been sent to Yingchuan to study? Could it be that he was dissatisfied with Cao Cao's arrangements, so he sent someone to assassinate Cao Cao?
?This sounds ridiculous, but it is not impossible. Since ancient times, there have been many cases of father and son turning against each other. It is not impossible for a father to kill his son and for a son to kill his father.
Cao Peng believed that this incident had nothing to do with Cao Chong.
But at this time, he did not dare to speak again, because he saw that Cao Cao's face had turned livid...
Cao Cao clenched his fists with both hands, and after a moment he suddenly roared: "Where is Cao Zhen?"
"The end is here!"
Cao Zhen rushed in from outside the hall.
"You immediately take people with you and rush to Yingchuan Academy at starry night to bring that traitor back to me."
"this……"
"Why, are you going to disobey me?"
Cao Zhen secretly complained in his heart.
He hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "I don't dare to do this because of my humble position, so I'll just take the order."
"slow!"
Cao Peng suddenly stood up and knelt down in front of Cao Cao, "Uncle, this matter has nothing to do with Cang Shu. Cang Shu knows the truth, how could he do such a treasonous thing? In my nephew's opinion, this matter is a serious matter.
There's something fishy. I'm afraid even Cang Shu doesn't know the origin of this woman.
It would be best to ask first how this woman got into Master Cangshu's side.
If the lord is doubtful, you can ask your brother to go to Yingchuan Academy in person to inquire. Why make such a fuss, it will not benefit the lord at all."
Cao Cao couldn't help but hesitate.
He also knew that Cao Chong would not do such a thing.
But the assassin was recognized as someone close to Cao Chong. If he didn't make a statement, he might be misunderstood by Gao Shun. He glanced at Gao Shun secretly, but saw that Gao Shun's face was as usual and he stepped forward.
, "Sikong, in my opinion, what Mr. Cao said makes sense. It would be unsightly to pursue it with great fanfare. It is better to find out how this woman got into the house first, and then ask the Fifth Young Master before it is too late."
Now that Gao Shun had spoken, Cao Cao naturally no longer insisted.
After a while, Xu Chu returned and said, "Reporting to Sikong, I found a naked woman in the snowdrift behind the wine room, it was Xiaoyu."
"Check, find out for me how this woman got into the house."
This time, Cao Cao was really angry.
Such a woman sneaked into the house and no one noticed.
If she wanted to assassinate Cao Cao, then Cao Cao would be in great danger... Fortunately, Cao Cao was very vigilant on weekdays, and there was always one of Dian Wei and Xu Chu following him. Otherwise... Cao Cao was furious and struck.
Han Chan couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.
At this time, an old housekeeper came over.
"Sikong, this old slave has some impressions of this woman."
"oh?"
"It must have been at the beginning of the year. One time, the Fifth Young Master went out and brought this woman back with him. The old slave remembered that the wife also asked about it. The Fifth Young Master said that when he and Zhou Buyi went to Fangshi, they saw this woman selling herself to bury her father.
So he couldn't bear it, so he bought him back to serve him.
That’s right, it’s this woman!
The old slave still remembers that the madam initially planned to let her work in the kitchen, but the Fifth Young Master said that she could read, so she stayed with the Fifth Young Master."
"Are you sure?"
"Old slave, it's absolutely true..."
Cao Peng's expression suddenly changed at this moment.
He stood up and shouted, "No!"
Without waiting for Cao Cao to ask, he rushed out of the hall.
"Jun Ming, take the people quickly and follow Ah Fu there."
Although Cao Cao didn't quite understand why Cao Peng reacted so violently, he instinctively chose to believe Cao Peng in this case.
Dian Wei agreed, took ten guards with him, and followed Cao Peng.
Cao Cao stood in the hall, glanced at the corpse in the hall, turned and looked at Gao Shun, a bitter smile appeared on his face...
