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"Yes!"

After saying this, Li Xin shook the reins, and Mo Xiao's horse neighed, leading the horse and galloping towards the southwest.

Shen Gang and the others sighed, and each pulled the reins, only following behind Li Xin.

This time, it was their ineffective protection of Lin Hu that led to Li Xin going to the Southwest to wipe their butts in person. Although Li Xin hadn't had time to punish Shen Gang and the others, their old subordinates could tell that his master Hou was angry. up.

And counting the time, at this time, almost half a month has passed since Lin Hu was arrested. It will take seven or eight days to rush to Jincheng from here, even if you don't sleep. It will be ten days before they arrive in Jincheng at the earliest.

Ten days later, that Mr. Lin Hu had been arrested for a month. If the enemy really had malicious intentions, then basically it would be difficult to survive within a month.

If Lin Hu really died in Jincheng, those who were in charge of protecting Lin Hu might have to endure the thunderous wrath of their own Lord Marquis.

Shen Gang was one of the first group, even the first one to follow Li Xin. After more than ten years, he knew very well what kind of ruthless person his Hou Ye, who usually looks harmless to humans and animals, is in his bones!

Along the way, Li Xin basically didn't say a word.

A group of people traveled day and night, rushed for eight days, and finally arrived at Jincheng on the morning of the ninth day.

There were also people from the Jing'an Marquis Mansion in Jincheng, who had notified Mu Ying and Zhao Jia early. When they arrived in Jincheng, these two people had already been waiting at the city gate for a long time.

Li Xin, who jumped down from Mo Xiao immediately, was slightly embarrassed.

In the past eight days, apart from eating and sleeping, he was on the road at other times, and he didn't even have time to wash his face. At this moment, his hair was a little messy, his face was not very clean, and he looked tired.

Not only him, but even Mo Xiaoma, who claims to be able to travel thousands of miles a day, is showing signs of fatigue at the moment.

Zhao Jia and Mu Ying surrounded him and bowed their heads to Li Xin in salute.

"I have seen Hou Ye."

The two of them can be regarded as Li Xin's friends, and when they met on weekdays, they would always smile, but this time, both of them lost their smiles and turned serious.

Li Houye was also expressionless.

"Any clues?"

With shame on her face, Mu Ying bowed her head and said, "Back to Lord Hou, in the past month, Jincheng has been searched almost everywhere, and Brother Lin has not been seen..."

"The woman who made friends with Brother Lin is a nobleman in a brothel in Jincheng. We also checked the bottom of this brothel, but we still haven't found any clues about Brother Lin. He seems to... disappeared out of thin air. .”

Zhao Jia, who was at the side, looked at Li Xin who was full of exhaustion, and heaved a long sigh.

"It's my dereliction of duty, thank you Hou Ye."

Chapter 874

Jincheng, Shu Palace.

This palace was rebuilt by the Mu family on the basis of the original Pingnan General's Mansion after the imperial court conferred the King of Shu. In fact, the Shu Palace could have been placed in the old Nanshu Palace in Jincheng, but for fear that the court would use it as an excuse. With an excuse, saying that the Shu Palace was usurped, another one was simply built.

The current king of Shu is the son of Muying, but he changed his surname to Li and is called Li Xiu. He is nominally a descendant of the Chenghan royal family and the son of Li Xing.

Li Xing did have two sons, but after he was invited to the capital by Emperor Taikang, he was killed by Li Xin directly with a knife. His descendants in Jincheng were also killed by Muying, none of them Leave.

Frankly speaking, Li Xing deserved to die, but most of his family members were innocent, but they died because of Li Xing's stupidity, and they had no one to blame.

After entering the Shu Palace, Li Xiu, the only six-year-old His Royal Highness, bowed to Li Xin and called him foster father.

He recognized Li Xin as his godfather, which Muying and Li Xin had agreed on early on, but it was just a trick of good fortune, and now Li Xin's godfather is still a marquis, and this little guy has already "cracked the earth and sealed the king".

Different from the black-faced Mu Ying, this "young" King of Shu has a fair complexion and a rather handsome face, it seems that he has been favored by many mothers.

His mother is Li Xing's younger sister, the little princess of the Li family, and his surname Li is also the mother's surname, it's not that the Mu family changed their surname out of thin air.

After this little princess was brought back to the southwest from the capital by Mu Ying, the two gradually hooked up, and because Li Xing planned to kill Li Fu, she never had any contact with her elder brother Li Xing again. , didn't even know that her two nephews had been killed by her husband Mu Ying.

Although Li Xin was exhausted from the journey all the way, when he saw the junior, he knelt down and reached out to touch the little guy's head, and said with a smile: "In a blink of an eye, it has grown so big."

Mu Ying, who was following behind Li Xin, frowned slightly: "Go and find your mother, adults have something to talk about."

Li Xin groped around in his sleeves, and finally found a rather exquisite telescope, which was hung around the young prince's neck. The telescope was only about three or four inches long. The Marquis of Jing'an smiled and said, "This is the telescope." The latest batch of binoculars produced by the craftsmen in the workshop in the capital city was originally for my own use, but now it is useless, so let me play with it for you."

Children like novelty things. After he took this thing, he looked at it with his eyes and immediately smiled.

"Thank you godfather."

Mu Ying waved to him.

"Okay, let's go down and play."

His Royal Highness the King of Shu bounced away.

Both Mu Ying and Zhao Jia followed behind Li Xin, and the three of them crossed the front hall of Shu Palace, walked to the back garden, and sat down under a gazebo.

After sitting down, Mu Ying took a deep breath, lowered her head and cupped her fists towards Li Xin: "Master Hou, I was negligent about this matter. Speaking of which, I invited Brother Lin to come over for dinner and sing a song Son, they just met, and they didn't expect things to turn out like this."

Lin Hu's task in Jincheng is actually very boring. It is simply to master the secret recipe of Tianlei. He will only have work when Zhao Jia asks him to make Tianlei. He is very leisurely on weekdays. Mu Ying is also worried about this important The character was bored in Jincheng, so he often invited him to drink.

Because Mu Ying and Li Xin were friends, Lin Hu didn't refuse much, and often came to Shu Palace to drink.

After Li Xin sat down, he rubbed his swollen eyes and said, "It was the hands of the Plum Blossom Guard in the capital, and it has been planned for more than a year."

"It must have taken them a lot of time to find Huzi, otherwise they wouldn't have started after the late Emperor's funeral."

He had traveled for eight or nine days and only slept two or three hours a day, so he felt extremely tired at the moment.

"Go get a pen and paper."

Mu Ying nodded immediately, and quickly ran to fetch a pen and paper, and spread it in front of Li Xin.

Li Xin picked up the pen, frowned and thought for a while, then drew three symbols on the paper.

Each of these three symbols is just a few strokes, but they look like three plum blossoms of different shapes, representing different meanings.

These symbols were shown to him by Xiao Zhenghua.

Of course, the meeting between him and Xiao Zheng was taboo in the first place, and it was even more impossible for this kind of thing to appear on paper and pen. It was all up to Li Xin to write it down by memory. Afterwards, he also drew several times in the Jing'an Houfu. He burned it after painting.

"The Plum Blossom Guard existed during the reign of Taizu of the Great Jin Dynasty. In the early years when the Great Jin was founded, the Plum Blossom Guard successfully assassinated many generals. This organization has a single-line connection. It is meaningless to find one or two people. At most, it will only hurt their branches. "

"These are the three secret marks used by the Plum Blossom Guard to communicate with each other. In the past few days, Brother Mu has arranged some elites to investigate these marks secretly in the capital. They should be able to find some clues."

"After finding the clue, don't startle the snake, try to find as many Plum Blossom Guards as possible, or know where the tiger is being imprisoned..."

Having said that, Li Xin closed his eyes.

"Dead or not..."