Thinking

The next moment, Dai Qin turned his head to listen, and immediately led Qi Si to hide in the corner of the room, conveniently stuffed the letters that Qi Si didn't plan to take away back into the secret compartment, and gently closed the secret compartment on the desk, all in one go , as fast as lightning.

There was a warm candlelight outside the house and the sound of footsteps approaching, someone opened the study door.

The eldest prince is not in the mansion, who would come to his study in the middle of the night?Qi Si and Dai Qin were puzzled.

The two held their breaths, and the visitor didn't find anything unusual.

"Here is the seal, sir." One person said.

Then there was the rustling of paper scrolls—"Thank you, please use this memorial urgently. The old man came to disturb you late at night, and I hope the eldest prince will not be surprised."

crime. "

It seemed that another person checked the content of the letter, and then there was a clear sound of stamping and stamping.

"What's the matter, Mr. Hekey is doing his best for the eldest prince. This is not in vain of the mutual trust between Mr. Hekey and His Highness."

The two left again, and several guards could be heard behind them.

Ji Si felt ashamed, Hekeyi's alliance with the eldest prince was really solid, and he came to the eldest prince's study in the middle of the night to stamp the seal.

But think about it, there are so many guards and stewards watching on the spot, and they have to check the memorial letter, there is really nothing to worry about, this trust is really limited.

The two confirmed that He Keyi had walked away from the house manager and came out from the dark.

"Is there anything else you want to take?" Dai Qin reopened the secret compartment and sorted the letters back to the original appearance.

Qi Si shook his head: "There is nothing to use here."

Dai Qin went out of the study with him, Qi Si asked him: "Are you really going to the eldest prince's concubine's room?"

Dai Qin nodded: "Recall the defense map that A Sigu gave you. Is the small courtyard to the southwest of the flower house the safest place in the mansion?"

Qisi's memory was good, and the situation of the defense rotation in the mansion came to mind, and after a while, his eyes lit up: "It's true!"

"The guards in the mansion are scattered, but this courtyard is guarded in every direction," Dai Qin said, "He dotes on this concubine very much, but he doesn't put her safety above his own. The bucket hid her in it."

Although the arrangements were thoughtful, the subordinates would be lazy if the master wasn't around. The two of them easily hid, circled, hid, and shot down in Daiqin, and arrived at the concubine's yard smoothly.

Dai Qin listened carefully under the window for a while to make sure that the people in the room were asleep, then gently lifted the window, and jumped in one after the other with Qi Si.

The strong smell of balsam in the room made Qi Si almost sneezed, and at this moment he understood Yuan Feng's rejection of the smell of rouge powder.

Dai Qin wanted to go directly to the house, but Qi Si held him back and signaled that if a maidservant was in the house, Dai Qin waved his hand, indicating that the place where things were hidden would not allow any extra people to stay, so he swaggered around to the house middle.

The tent was down, except for the concubines and servants in the tent, there was indeed no maidservant in the room.

Qi Si gestured and asked him how to find it, Dai Qin pointed to the Luo tent, meaning that if there is something hidden, it must be hidden on the bed.

Qisi looked at the closed tent of the fragrant boudoir, and then at Daiqin.

Dai Qin pushed him and motioned him to go.

Thinking: "?"

What was he going to do with a woman who was asleep?

Dai Qin pointed at himself, winked and made a gesture - "I have a family, and I must guard myself like a jade outside."

Qi Si: "..."

He had no choice but to go over gently, first listening to the sound of breathing to identify the direction, then quickly opened a gap in the tent, reached in very quickly and directly hit the acupuncture point, the woman passed out in her sleep, without a trace of movement.

Qi Si's palms were sweaty, and Dai Qin praised him in a low voice: "You are talented."

Dai Qin directed Qi Si to move the sleepy woman aside, tapped and groped around the bed for a while, found a carved pattern, spun it half a circle, and then turned it backwards for two weeks, and there was a crisp sound from under the bed. Voice.

Qi Si moved the woman and the quilt to the carpet, and looked back.

There is a dark compartment where the bracket sound is placed, and there are many miscellaneous things in it.

Qi Si and Dai Qin faced each other and knelt down on the side of the couch to study for a while. There were jade pendants, hairpins, etc., all of which were of extraordinary workmanship, and seemed to be tokens exchanged with others.

Dai Qin rummaged through it a few times, picked up a jade pendant, weighed it and touched it, said: "This is good, it's mine." Then he put it in his arms.

Qi Si smiled and said, "I'm afraid these aren't tokens from the eldest prince and his confidante?"

But then he saw an exquisite gold-thread hollowed-out exquisite ball mixed in a pile of jewels, emeralds, jade, and jade, but he couldn't laugh anymore. After a moment of silence, he murmured: "Well, it's not a confidante."

He has seen this object before. Li Xuanrong, the son of Li Cen, the right prime minister of Yan Kingdom, and his friend, once took this exquisite ball and asked Qi Si to donate it to Kong Yu, but Kong Yu refused without even looking at it, and Qi Si returned it to him. Li Xuanrong.

Li Xuanrong once said that this object is unique, and Qi Si knew after seeing it that it took a long time for a skilled craftsman to make it, and it cannot be imitated.

It is self-evident that the things in the right prime minister's mansion of the Yan Kingdom are in the hands of the Great Prince of Great Liang, and it is self-evident that when he thinks of Li Xuanrong, he is a little worried.

Dai Qin reminded him that it was time to go, Qi Si sighed and put away the Linglong ball, and the two returned the room to its original state.

Dai Qin still insisted on keeping himself clean and not touching the concubine, Yu Qisi moved her back to the couch, and closed the tent, as if to draw the curtain for the night.

Taking everything that should be taken, Qisi and Daiqin returned to the mansion with ease all the way, while Jiang Xuan waited at the same place.

The three of them met, and Jiang Xuan whispered, "Duji Falcon just left."

Qi Si thought to himself, "Is he alone?"

Jiang Xuan nodded: "Alone, go east, you should be out of the city."

Qisi was a little puzzled, but Xiao Zhi promised to block the transmission of information from the eldest prince to Linhuang for three days. Duji Hubu didn't know that he was coming to Linhuang at this time, maybe the eldest prince assigned him some mission.

"It doesn't matter, what should be obtained has already been obtained, so ignore him for now." Qi Si said.

"I let people watch him, and report any changes." Dai Qin said.

The three of them returned to their foothold, changed into night-traveling equipment, and wanted to let Jiang Xuan go to rest. Dai Qin asked, "Sleep?"

Qi Si smiled, and raised the letter in his hand: "You will be at ease after reading it."

Qi Si opened the letter at the table inside the house and read it carefully, then Dai Qin took a jug of warm wine, sat on the porch by the door, and drank while looking at the moon.

"Elder brother doesn't sleep either?" Qi Si asked him.

"Accompany you, the people in this house have been removed by me, and someone needs to be guarded." Sitting on the porch, with one foot on the railing, Dai Qin leaned on the porch pillar and raised his head to drink, his back was like a river and a lake. guest.

Qi Si lowered his head and opened the letter with peace of mind.

But Li Xuanrong's exquisite golden ball appeared in his mind, as if thorns were growing out of the pocket of his clothes, piercing him, it really made him resist, and he stopped halfway.

"Why? Don't want to watch?" Dai Qin turned his head and looked at Qi Si through the open door.

Qi Si looked up at him, and smiled helplessly: "How does eldest brother know?"

Dai Qin put one hand on the knee of the leg that was stepping on the porch stool, shook the flagon, the moonlight shone on him, as if he was an unreal shadow: "I can tell by listening to your breath - I received a letter before, and I was entangled To look or not to look, that’s how it is.”

Qi thought for a while and said, "I'm a bit afraid to watch it, but I'm actually not ready."

"That's not unprepared. People will never be ready to accept the fact that they don't want to accept. You can only face it directly instead of trying to be ready."

Qi Si was silent, and the exquisite ball in his pocket was no longer hot and piercing. He took a deep breath, looked at Dai Qin at the door, and seemed to have gained some quiet power.

He lowered his head and opened the letter, removed distracting thoughts, and began to read it.

Qi Si brought back three letters, one he hurriedly opened and glanced at when he was in the eldest prince's study, and the other two he quickly picked out had the same style as the first letter.

One copy was sent by Li Cen, the Right Prime Minister of Yan Kingdom, to the eldest prince. When Qi Si saw the inscription, his uneasiness sank completely. He focused his thoughts on analyzing the contents while not thinking about anything else.

Li Cen's letter is very simple. It was written half a year ago when Yan and Daliang sent troops to the Jin Kingdom. It analyzed the deployment of the Jin Kingdom's northern border. Since Rui Chu was in charge of the Jin Kingdom's northern border army, he suggested that the eldest prince should not act rashly.

Li Cen had a private relationship with the eldest prince very early on, and Qi Si was a little puzzled. Emperor Su probably didn't know about it. As the right minister of the Yan Kingdom, he wanted to get close to other princes. Li Cen was really bold, but he didn't know the plan What.

The second letter was still written by Li Cen, and it was three months before the Great Liang and Yan formed an alliance to send troops. Xiang Du is ruthless and venomous, naked|naked and straightforward, intending to ensure that Rui Chu will be killed in one fell swoop, and then he will invade the Jin State with his troops and divide the land and borders.

The three plans are intertwined with each other, and if one action fails, there will be future plans.

One of them was "homesickness"-the poison that silently and secretly killed his father.

Li Cen commented on this: This poison is both strong and slow, strong enough to destroy his life in one blow, slow enough to trap him in a sick bed, and shocking to the army's morale, it is the most suitable.

And what they are looking for is the payment of the frontier army, the unowned wealth after the division of the Jin Kingdom, and the endless glory after the victory.

When the eldest prince was in front of him, the reason why Qi Si was able to calm down was because he could control himself not to imagine the specific process of his father's murder, but to focus on the whole conspiracy.

But in this letter, which lay out, with all its bluntness, ways to make his father die slowly or quickly, Raechu's last days loomed irresistibly before his eyes.

Lu Yingqiu said: "He said at that time that once the war in the northern border is over, he will return to the south of the Yangtze River, or take you to the northern border. Although the whole family cannot be reunited, at least the living will not be separated."

In these meticulous and detailed plans, the father waited for only a few days to gradually weaken and die every moment.There is no April Fangfei in Luyang City, and there is no understanding of her own.

Qi Si's fingers trembled slightly, he tried his best to pull himself out of the memory, and opened the third letter.

The signing of this letter made his heart feel cold.

Pei's.

Pei Namxian - his mother Pei Fengjin's brother, his uncle, also participated in the plan to assassinate Rui Chu.

The only remaining blood relative in the world, with his father's blood on his hands.Maybe even almost stained with his own blood.Right and wrong, black and white, have always been muddled.

Qi Si quietly read every word in the letter, folded the letter and put it away.

The candles on the table were flickering, and Qi Si got up.

At the door, the moonlight was like frost, Dai Qin was still sitting on the porch, each with a sword and a jug of wine.

Suddenly someone came to report, Dai Qin got up, the man looked at Qi Si, and said to them: "The eldest prince is back, and Duji Hubu went out of the city to meet him."