Rui Hegui

Zhao Liangyue didn't go back immediately, but took a long detour to the shop in the west of the city to bring Youbai a roasted duck with sauce, bought some dried fish for Abai by the way, and then started to walk back.

When walking to a bridge, Zhao Liangyue realized that there were very few people around today, so he walked a little further and found that Jing Zhaoyin and the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice were near Quqing, guessing that there was probably an important case.

Zhao Liangyue thought about it, and followed at a short distance, changing a group of officers and soldiers every time he walked.

When we got to the streets and alleys where the incident happened, the place was already surrounded by groups. Zhao Liangyue saw that some people were dispersed, so he followed them in.

Zhao Liangyue comforted an old woman, only to realize that Cheng met and stabbed him in this alleyway, he couldn't help feeling strange.

Prime Minister assassinated?

Now that the emperor has become a puppet, Prime Minister Han is basically half an emperor. He is a ruthless character, and his guards have always been capable. It stands to reason that an assassination is simply a fantasy.

Zhao Liangyue thought about it for a while, and realized that this alleyway was very close to Feixia Tower, so he got up and detoured to Feixia Tower. When he arrived at the corner, he saw several groups of people running to the southwest.Zhao Liangyue couldn't run as a horse, so he could only determine the general direction based on the information that the crowd had been evacuated, all the way to a residential area at the junction of the south of the city and the west of the city.

Most of the old houses here are long-standing, many walls have collapsed, leaking wind and rain, those who have conditions have moved out, and there are many abandoned houses left, mostly homeless beggars and fugitives gather here , fish and dragons are mixed, and the lanes here have been changed many times without the approval of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhao Liangyue walked in, and found that there were soldiers chasing him, so he had to take a detour and stagger.

When he reached a collapsed wall, Zhao Liangyue stopped. He noticed that there were new traces of climbing over it, and there was a knife pointing at him in the dark.

At this time, some officers and soldiers happened to come this way, and Zhao Liangyue fell down, completely destroying the traces of the overturning.

"Who are you?" The officers and soldiers quickly came over to question, and when they saw clearly that it was Zhao Liangyue, they immediately withdrew the sword in their hands and helped Zhao Liangyue up. Zhao Liangyue staggered, implying that his foot was injured.

"Master Zhao, are you alright?"

"It doesn't matter." Saying this, Zhao Liangyue staggered again, and the officers and soldiers carefully supported him.

"Mr. Zhao, this is not a good place. How did you come here? No one is scary to follow."

"I wanted to wander around on a whim, but I didn't expect to get lost here, and even fell down unfortunately."

"It's really not good, and it's all dirty tricks." The official said and asked, "Then shall I send Mr. Zhao back?"

"It's troublesome over there, just send it to the exit, and the people in my house will come to pick me up."

So several officers and soldiers helped Zhao Liangyue out, and then entered the residential area. As soon as they left, Zhao Liangyue quickly turned back and entered the nearest abandoned house to the one just now. As soon as he entered, the door behind him was closed , a knife was driven to the neck.

"who are you?"

Zhao Liangyue replied: "I saved you, you shouldn't meet swords."

After a while, the man withdrew the knife, Zhao Liangyue turned around, and saw a man in his thirties with a stern and vicissitudes of face, who seemed to be from a military camp. Deal with it.

Zhao Liangyue was about to ask something, when there were voices from officers and soldiers outside, the man dragged Zhao Liangyue into the abandoned house, opened a painting, pressed the switch on the wall, and entered a secret room.

Zhao Liangyue looked up, and there was a mother and daughter hidden inside, unkempt, they saw the man get up hurriedly, crying, they should be the man's wife and daughter.

"Daddy, Daddy!"

"Okay, I'm not back, dear."

The man comforted his wife and daughter, and sat down on the straw mat with Zhao Liangyue.

"Mother, I can smell the aroma of meat."

"Where's the meat here? Be patient, and I'll buy you whatever you want when you go out."

The little girl nestled in the woman's arms, swallowing uncontrollably. Only then did Zhao Liangyue remember that he had brought food with him, so he took it out from under his sleeve and handed it to the little girl. The little girl looked at Zhao Liangyue in fear, Zhao Liangyue smiled softly, The man nodded to the little girl, and the little girl took it carefully, said thank you, then unwrapped the oil paper, and started to gobble it up.

Zhao Liangyue sighed lightly, and asked the man: "Although there is no need to ask too much, please tell me what I can know, so that I can help you."

The man frowned upon hearing this, cupped his fists and bowed to Zhao Liangyue, and said bluntly: "This young man is a smart person at first glance, he probably already guessed why I am here, but this matter involves too much, helping me is undoubtedly causing trouble for myself, I will never forget the great kindness and virtue of the young master, when the officers and soldiers go far away, the young master will go first."

"Then are you going to hide here with your wife and daughter?" Zhao Liangyue saw that the expression on the man's face didn't change much, and said, "Will someone come to pick you up?"

"Young Master, it's better not to know."

Zhao Liangyue continued to ask: "You risked your life to assassinate Prime Minister Han, did you entrust someone to take money?"

The man's expression fluctuated.

"That's out of loyalty and willingness." Zhao Liangyue was silent and asked, "Do you know Marquis Wu'an?"

The man was obviously taken aback, looked at Zhao Liangyue in astonishment, put his hand on the handle of the knife, and asked, "Who the hell are you?"

Zhao Liangyue replied: "Xuanshan, Maozhou, Zhao Liangyue."

The man was stunned, looked Zhao Liangyue up and down, and said: "If you don't do a good imperial examination upstart, you also want to get involved in this matter?"

Zhao Liangyue looked at the man with sincere eyes, and said, "If I told you that I knew the former emperor and teacher and inherited his legacy, would you believe me?"

The man stared straight into Zhao Liangyue's eyes, clenched the knife in his hand, and finally laughed loudly, saying: "Perhaps, when my life is dying, I should believe you. If I don't believe it, I have no chance, right?"

Zhao Liangyue said: "I will find a way."

"No, I'm just a sinner." The man smiled, as if he was ready to die, and said, "I used to be from the Fan family army. The Fan family army who remained was supposed to share the crime, but under the plea of ​​Commander Sima, the crime was broken up and organized into various ministries. Many people did not want to believe that the Marquis of Wu'an would rebel, so they met outside the gate of Dali Temple to invite the late emperor to re-investigate the case. , but the feat of blood flowing into rivers that day was only exchanged for the anger of the first emperor, who killed all the rest of the Fan family army who participated in the three clans, so far no one dared to bring up the matter of overturning the case."

"As for us, the group of Fan's soldiers who survived at the beginning, were secretly reprimanded by the world for having no backbone, and being dogs who are greedy for life and afraid of death, but who knows, some of them are just waiting for the opportunity with humiliation. It's a pity that we have waited for 13 years For a long time, we... still lost."

Zhao Liangyue clenched his fists, looked at the startled mother and daughter on one side, suddenly thought of something, and asked the man: "It's not easy to assassinate the prime minister, I think your official rank is very low, I'm afraid someone used you to achieve some purpose , who is coming to meet you?"

"It's Wang Xian's people. They have already had internal disagreements and started dog-eat-dog. I took advantage of it to assassinate old thief Han."

Zhao Liangyue immediately understood the whole story, and said to the man: "You have been tricked, Wang Han has always been in a mess, and I am afraid that he will use you to perform this good show to make a fuss, so as to eradicate the alien party."

The man turned pale with shock: "What? Impossible!"

"How is it impossible? Ask yourself, for so many years, high-ranking officials and famous families have never had the chance to assassinate Han Wenyun. How did you get to touch his neck? And if I guessed right, only your former Fan family army participated in this assassination. And Wang Xian himself didn't touch anyone."

The man suddenly realized, his face was full of resentment and pain.

At this time, a voice came from outside the house, and the man said: "No, Wang Xian's people are here."

The incident happened suddenly, Youbai should have already gone to the Wei Mansion in the east of the city at this time, and it was too far away for Piccolo to be unable to contact, so Zhao Liangyue could only ask: "Is there any other exit here?"

"On the wall covered with hay, there is a crack on it, but it can't be passed through. It's not difficult to cut it open now, but I'm afraid there's not enough time." The man gritted his teeth, looked at his wife and daughter affectionately, and said to Zhao Liangyue, " But there is still a chance, I will go out of the secret room to support them, you take them to take the opportunity to escape, my daughter has a letter on her body, it must be handed over to Mr. Miao of Xuefangyuan!"

After finishing speaking, the man took the knife and went out, and closed the door of the secret room smoothly.

Zhao Liangyue pushed aside the hay, looked around the crack, picked up the hammer next to it and began to smash, there was a shout of killing outside, seeing the little girl was about to cry, the woman hurriedly covered it.

Zhao Liangyue's body was covered with dust, his head was covered with sweat, and his arms were so painful from the shock, Zhao Liangyue gritted his teeth and dared not slow down, the gap gradually became wider.

Sheathing the sword outside, the woman knew what it meant, tears streaming down her face, her daughter's hands trembling.

The sound of footsteps soon entered the room, and someone began to knock on the walls of the room to find the mechanism.

Finally, the gap opened, and Zhao Liangyue let the mother and daughter pass first.

"The chamber of secrets is here!"

The door of the secret room was opened, and Zhao Liangyue also quickly got out, looked up and looked around, quickly recalled the terrain that he wrote down before, and ran to the northeast with his mother and daughter, avoiding the pursuers.

After leaving the old residential area, they were all short of breath and had little strength left.

"My lord, where are we going next?"

"Take a rest behind this big tree, and then we will take the path to Xuefangyuan."

Suddenly, someone was approaching in the distance, Zhao Liangyue couldn't figure out who it could be, and when he was about to take his mother and daughter to hide in a dark alley next to him, he saw Xing Shuo coming.

Xing Shuo got off his horse and stepped forward, glanced at the panic-stricken mother and daughter, met Zhao Liangyue's eyes and knew what was going on, and said directly: "Han Wenyun and Wang Xian's family dispatched a lot of people, and they are surrounded by iron I'm going to lure them away, and you take them to the Bi Li Pavilion."

"How about going to Xuefangyuan?"

"Wang Xian had already prepared, the road was already blocked."

Zhao Liangyue nodded, Xing Shuo asked several of his men to escort them, watched them enter the dark alley, and turned to meet Wang Xian's men.

Hiding all the way to Tibet, Zhao Liangyue finally brought his mother and daughter to Bili Pavilion, and it was already dark.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Liangyue was half-forced upstairs by the Xuanyi guards whom he saw that day, and the mother and daughter were taken to the backyard. Zhao Liangyue was about to ask questions when he saw Bandit Chu coming out from inside.

Bandit Chu was a little surprised when he saw Zhao Liangyue covered in dust, hurried over and pulled him into the house, asking, "Xi Lin, what's going on?"

Zhao Liangyue made a long story short: "I met the person who assassinated Han Wenyun. He died to save his wife and daughter. Before he died, he told me that there was a very important letter hidden in his daughter, and he told me to give it to Mr. Miao of Xuefangyuan."

Bandit Chu immediately called the guards in Xuanyi.

"What's your order?"

"Jingmo, hurry up and get the letter, and then question him carefully."

When Jing Mo went out, Bandit Chu ordered people to prepare clean clothes and hot water.

"Don't be so particular, it's more important to solve the current matter."

Bandit Chu smiled, and said: "It won't take much effort, and with the cautiousness of the two old men, Wang and Han, they will definitely find out here. When they see Xilin like this, they must be suspicious."

"You are a dignified Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, can you still stop it?"

Bandit Chu showed a somewhat pitiful expression, and said, "Well, now that Han Wenyun is in power, the emperor is afraid of him, let alone me?"

Zhao Liangyue glanced suspiciously at Bandit Chu, took the clothes handed over by the attendant, simply washed his face with hot water, and began to take off the dusty clothes.

"Ahem!" Bandit Chu coughed as if suddenly ill when he saw this, and quickly turned his back on him. Zhao Liang felt puzzled when he saw him, so he took off cleanly and put on the prepared clothes.

"My lord, the letter has been brought!" Jing Mo shouted outside the door.

Bandit Chu asked Zhao Liangyue: "Have you changed your clothes yet? I'll let him in again."

They're all men and still cover up?Zhao Liangyue looked disdainfully at Bandit Chu, who was too upright, quickly tied his belt casually, and went straight to open the door. Jing Mo handed over the letter and left.

Zhao Liangyue turned around and sat next to Chu Bandit, opened the letter and spread it on the table for the two of them to read.

After Zhao Liangyue scanned the contents of the letter, he couldn't help frowning, and was about to discuss with Chu Bandit, but when he looked up, he saw that the other party was dragging his cheeks, and staring at him with peachy eyes, which made his skin crawl.

"Is there something on my face?"

"No, it's very clean." Like uncut jade, it is moist and radiant.

"...Then why does Lord Chu look at me like this?"

Xilin smiled, and said: "I've been battling business affairs for the past few days, especially today, I have one trouble after another, but you unexpectedly appeared, Xilin. .”

The corners of Zhao Liangyue's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help reminding: "Master Chu, there are very important matters ahead of you."

Chu Bandit nodded, and then he looked serious, and picked up the letter on the table to read.