Marry the villain and the whole court kneels down and calls her the queen

"Is he really someone close to Jiang Jiu?" Lu Yunyang felt that something was strange, but he couldn't explain it clearly for the time being.

three years ago?

Jiang Jiu started his business three years ago, using the name Xiaojiu.

Zhao Li joined Cangjiu three years ago.

Cangjiu is a killer organization trained by Lu Yunyang. They usually carry out assassinations and other shameful business.

His men have checked the background of every person who joins Cangjiu, and they must be clean.

The kung fu skills don't have to be very high, but the background must be clean, for example, you can be a beggar or an orphan.

If one's kung fu skills are not high enough, he will be eliminated during the mission. After his death, he will give some pension to his family, but if they are orphans, forget it.

However, their organization is a single-line contact. Every time there is a task, a notice will be posted. Those who want to accept the task will go to the designated location. The earlier they arrive, the earlier they will be accepted. It is also based on voluntary participation.

Anyway, if you accept the task, you will get a bounty, and if you don’t accept it, you will get nothing.

Zhao Li is one of them. He takes on missions every month, some of which involve killing, some involve assassination, some involve delivering things, and so on.

One of the killer rules of the eagle is not to ask the reason, but only the result.

Zhao Li did have an elderly mother. When they were still in Xiang County, their family lived not far from the home of Jiang County Magistrate.

There was no one else at home except my old mother.

Now with Jiang Jiu moving to Sucheng, Zhao Li also brought his mother to Sucheng and lived in Xicheng.

This time, Zhao Li was injured while carrying out a mission.

This mission was more difficult and was worth three hundred taels. Three days after the mission was sent out, no one took it up, and it was Zhao Li who took it up.

But he hasn't returned yet.

This time the mission is to go to the capital and find out what happened to Jiang Jiu's mother in the capital.

It seems that someone didn't want others to know, so Zhao Li was injured.

But if he was really the person planted by Jiang Jiu's mother to protect Jiang Jiu, how could he not know the truth?

I'm afraid they found something else.

The Condor Organization did not mention any punishment for killers who failed to complete the mission. If they completed the mission, they would receive the reward. If they failed to complete it, that was fine.

Because they all wore masks, no one knew each other in private, but they all had a token. They used the token to complete the task and handed in the token to receive the bounty.

If the token is lost for more than a month, their people will go looking for it.

Until the token is retrieved.

Lu Yunyang never expected that Zhao Li had such an identity.

But what is there to hide with such an identity? Why not appear openly beside Jiang Jiu?

"Investigate further, and assign people to keep an eye on him constantly. I want to see what he's planning to do."

He actually wanted to bring Jiang Jiu directly to Beijing...

Lu Ming was a little embarrassed: "Master, his skills are quite good. If he really returns to the mansion with Miss Jiang, please be careful."

Just now, Lu Yunyang just exchanged palm strikes with him, but he already realized that Zhao Li was a very skilled person. Even though he was seriously injured, his internal strength was unfathomable.

Lu Yunyang remembered Jiang Jiu’s words. Instead of being alert everywhere, it is better to keep him by his side.

It seems that Jiang Jiu doesn't have much trust in him.

Zhao Li was injured. Jiang Jiu applied medicine to him and then left without staying with him for too long.

In comparison, Jiang Jiu spent the longest time in the Buddhist temple.

After dinner, it is time for the monks in the Buddhist temple to have evening classes.

Lu Yunyang wanted to find Jiang Jiu, but found that she was in the Buddhist temple. In such a big place, she was the only small person. She sat there quietly with her legs crossed, looking up at the Buddha statue that was dozens of feet tall.

On the surface, she seemed neither sad nor happy, but when she saw the tears in the corners of her eyes, she realized that she was immersed in deep sorrow.

"Don't disturb her. She is different from the women around you. If possible, please let her go."

At some point, Zhao Li appeared behind him silently.

Not far, not near, about ten feet away.

A distance of ten feet is a distance that is both safe and unsafe.

If Zhao Li had attacked him at that time, Lu Yunyang would have been seriously injured and the secret guards would not have been able to protect him in time, but he would not have died.

Lu Yunyang felt a chill down his spine instantly and turned around abruptly. Zhao Li hid herself in the darkness.

"How many years have you been with her?"

Lu Yunyang turned and came to a wider place. It was obvious that Zhao Li had no ill will towards him, but he still had to be on guard.

Zhao Li: "Ten years."

Lu Yunyang was incredulous: "So long? But ten years ago, you were just a young boy."

Zhao Li: "Ten years ago, my master was still alive, and he took on this task."

The master died, and the apprentice continued to complete it.

This is considered benevolence and righteousness in the world.

"Ten years, you actually followed her for ten years? Then you must know her life experience?" Lu Yunyang asked again.

Zhao Li's expression was cold: "I know, and I know everything about her, but I can't tell you a single thing."

Lu Yunyang was unable to catch his breath and nearly choked to death.

"Since you know her identity and my identity, why did you allow her to marry me?"

Zhao Li's face looked a little unhappy: "I was not in Xiang County on the wedding day, and I didn't know that she had swapped marriages with the girl from the Jiang family."

Lu Yunyang lowered his eyes and chuckled, "What was her original plan?"

Zhao Li was silent for a moment. Just when Lu Yunyang thought he would not speak, he suddenly heard him say, "Originally, she was going to marry Chang Zhili. When Chang Zhili passed the imperial examination, she would go to Beijing with him. If she wanted, she could return to her ancestral home..."

Lu Yunyang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the stars slowly appearing in the sky.

So this was her plan. It was indeed peaceful and stable.

"A small boat, isn't she going to keep it?"

Zhao Li's expression remained cold and indifferent: "Mrs. Jiang only wishes for her a peaceful life, nothing else."

Lu Yunyang was a little puzzled: "Why did she open a shop to make money and still try to find the ring?"

Zhao Li raised her chin proudly and looked at the starry sky like him.

"Let it be. I'm just responsible for keeping her safe. As for what she wants to do, it has nothing to do with me."

As a bodyguard, he has his own professional ethics.

Lu Yunyang recalled the days he spent with Jiang Jiu, the quarrels, the fights, the happiness. It seemed that only when he was with her did he live more like an ordinary person.

"Why did you let her come to Beijing with you? Didn't you say you wouldn't interfere with her life?"

Zhao Li glanced at Lu Yunyang with a sidelong glance: "Because she is even less safe following you."

Lu Yunyang frowned: "Why? Don't you believe that I will protect her anyway?"

Zhao Li's cold eyes turned back to the starry sky. "Because many people want to kill you... Ninth Prince Qi, whether you have ambitions to become emperor or not, your brother will always regard you as a thorn in his side."

"Besides the Emperor, there's also the Princess. The Princess controls the imperial treasury, yet she's always being suppressed by a private merchant. Furthermore, after all these years, she still hasn't found a way to check and balance this merchant."

Therefore, Princess Qiyang came to Sucheng for a purpose.

Although Lu Yunyang claimed to be seriously ill and lustful, it was well known that only the dead could make people feel at ease.

After hearing this, Lu Yunyang was silent for a long time. After a long, long time, he finally said, "I won't give her to you unless I die..."