She was caught off guard. The moment the box was opened, she was faced with a dead person's pale face and a pair of lifeless eyes.

Xie Zhaozhao felt her bile rising to an extreme level, but she forced herself not to move or cry out, and her expression remained unchanged.

She forced herself to take another look at the head and slowly closed the box.

When I raised my eyes, I saw the inquiry on Ren Jialin's face opposite me, and his eyes quickly avoiding me.

No matter how amazed he was in his heart, people in the martial arts world can be unruly but they cannot lose their morals.

"The assassins' coach!" Ren Jialin said, "The assassins who assassinated you and Gu Gelao during the Lantern Festival, their heads were taken away by the court. I will give you the head of their coach."

"This is a man's head, about 45 years old, with a thin face, his left eyebrow is disconnected one-third of the way from the corner of the eye, his hair is gray, and there is a strand of white hair on his forehead, two fingers wide..."

Xie Zhaozhao carefully described to Ren Jialin the head she saw, and her voice didn't even have any noticeable fluctuations.

She was a delicate woman, but also a calm and steady one. Ren Jialin admired her and said, "From now on, I will serve you like a dog or a horse."

"Thank you! What is the background of this coach?"

"This man was originally the head coach of the Royal Secret Guard Base. Fifteen years ago, he led more than two hundred top secret guards from the base to the border to rescue the emperor, but he never came back. In fact, he surrendered to Lord Cheng'en."

It’s a pity that after the two hundred secret guards realized that Lao Gui had betrayed the emperor, they rose up in resistance. Most of them died from poisoning, and in the end, only one person escaped.

Xie Zhaozhao looked calm and listened to him carefully.

"It's not easy to train a top-notch secret guard. So, the one who assassinated you and Gu Gelao on the Lantern Festival was a half-finished product of the old ghost's training."

Ren Jialin took out a piece of paper, which was a hand-drawn map: Wei's Secret Guard Camp.

It is the secret base of the Wei family’s dark guard camp.

Ren Jialin said that this was the place where Lao Gui trained secret guards for the Wei family. It was easy to defend but difficult to attack. He did not have enough manpower to destroy it, so he asked her to give the address to Lord Gu and ask the court to send people to catch the thief as soon as possible.

Lao Gui bought a house in the city to enjoy himself. He did not go to the Secret Guard Camp every day, but if he did not go for a long time, it would definitely arouse vigilance.

For Xie Zhaozhao, this is a real gift.

The human head was just a test of her courage!

Ren Jialin went out first. He didn't want to meet Gu Shaoyu. He was a man of the world and didn't deal directly with people from the court.

He gave such a roadmap to Xie Zhaozhao, which not only helped the court, but also helped him to avenge himself through the court!

Gu Shaoyu had been waiting for Xie Zhaozhao in the carriage outside the teahouse.

Hearing the waiter calling him, Gu Shaoyu quickly went to the third floor, lifted the door curtain, and saw Xie Zhaozhao sitting at the table with a pot of steaming tea in front of him.

Gu Shaoyu looked into her eyes, looked at the pale complexion beneath her calm expression, and looked at the strong defense built up in her raised eyes.

"Zhao Zhao." His heart suddenly tightened.

She smiled softly: "You're here? Help me up, I can't stand up!"

"Yeah." He came over quickly and tried to help her up, but her hands and feet were so weak that she couldn't stand up at all.

He bent down and picked her up, only to find that she was shaking a little.

He suddenly became murderous: "What did he do?"

She said a friend came to her to discuss something, and he respected her and gave her space. She suppressed her curiosity to know which friend it was and just waited outside, but she didn't expect that she was being bullied?

Xie Zhaozhao pointed at the box on the table and said with a pale face, "There is a head in the box! It is the old ghost, the instructor of the Royal Secret Guard Base who escaped more than ten years ago."

Gu Shaoyu pursed his lips, his eyes sharp. What kind of crappy friend is this? He actually gave me a head to scare me?

He immediately picked her up and went downstairs, and Nanxing, disguised as the coachman, came up and took the head away.

Back at the inn, Gu Shaoyu took her to soak in the steaming hot tub for a long time, relaxing her body and mind, and guided her to tell him about the head.

Speaking out your fears will relieve the tension in your heart, and you will gradually become strong and fearless.

Xie Zhaozhao gave Gu Shaoyu the topographic map of Wei's secret guard camp, saying that the people who attempted the assassination during the Lantern Festival came from there.

That place is more than 300 miles away from the capital. In the deep mountains of the Daqing Mountains, there is a huge valley. Due to the complex and steep terrain and the presence of ferocious beasts, ordinary people rarely go deep into the valley except hunters.

Gu Shaoyu looked at the map for a while, then wrote a letter and handed it to Nanxing along with the map and the box: "Send someone to contact the Imperial City Department immediately, 600 miles per hour, and make sure to hand it to the emperor personally."

Seeing her expression relax, Gu Shaoyu held her hand and praised: "Zhao Zhao, you are very good, stronger than I thought."

She was able to face the dead head without losing her composure due to following the rules and keeping calm in the face of danger.

"Zhao Zhao, Your Majesty and Leng Luo have long suspected that those assassins are from the Wei family, but they have been suffering from a lack of evidence. The Daqing Mountains are endless, the forests are deep and steep, and the court cannot detect them. I'm afraid your friend has been watching for a long time."

When they were assassinated, His Majesty and Leng Luo placed their "corpses" in the Imperial City Bureau in order to lure out the person behind the scenes to detect the news, and then catch the other party and follow the clues to get to the bottom of it.

It is far better to follow the clues and directly get the address of the base camp and wipe it out in one fell swoop.

"This time, if we destroy the Dark Guard Camp in one fell swoop, Duke Cheng'en's family will become blind and deaf, and no more court officials will be killed inexplicably."

Gu Shaoyu held her hand and said with satisfaction: "Zhao Zhao, I'm glad that you can trust me..."

The fact that she took me to the appointment showed that she had taken a big step forward in trusting him.

***

Beijing.

These days, it has been widely rumored that the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion is going to sell Madam Gu's dowry and the palace soldiers.

It is easy to buy an ordinary servant, but most mansions are reluctant to sell special servants like palace soldiers.

So all the gold medal dentists rushed in, wanting to do this big business.

Not long after, four or five people came from the pawnbroker's office. Each of them looked murderous. The leader was a tall man with a beard.

I'm specifically asking, "Are there any palace soldiers who know some Kung Fu for sale?"

Guan Ya took the lead and asked them what they were going to do with the people.

"We are from SF Express Escort Agency, and we are in great need of escorts." The bearded man said, "We have received several large orders and are in urgent need of escorts. If you are good at martial arts and loyal, the price can be negotiated."

As for this big order, we just need to go through the process and there is no need to spend food to support the soldiers.

The gold medal dentist was so excited that he wanted to go to the Pingyang Earl's Mansion to discuss the deal immediately.

Before we set out, another person came to the door.

"I heard someone wants to sell palace soldiers? How many are there? I want them all!"

The man was seen wearing a dark blue robe, with his black hair simply tied up, talking and laughing, like a handsome young man in this world, with a graceful demeanor and a cheerful and upright character.

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