Rebellious officials bow their heads

Those who followed him didn't expect him to turn around, exposed to sight, and was about to flee in a hurry, but Xu Yan kicked him into the straw pile, and immediately became dizzy and didn't struggle for a long time.

Xu Yan jumped onto the roof, stepped on the tile eaves, flew over the wall and turned to another street, and ran all the way to Heiji. Just as he fell off the wall and popped his head, an arrow flew past the tip of his nose!

I saw densely packed Jifu guards standing in front of the pavilion, either holding swords or pointing bows and arrows at him, Ah An was being held hostage by two guards, struggling constantly, seeing Xu Yan shouting anxiously: "Don't worry about it, boss!" Me! Let's go..."

The following words were stuffed into the mouth by the guards.

The shopkeeper in the pavilion was staggered and pushed out, and the person who walked out of the door behind him was Ji Han.

He looked at Xu Yan and smiled coldly: "It really is you, Ji Liu."

Xu Yan put his hand on the handle of the knife, and a few guards walked out behind him, blocking the exit of the alley. The guards in front saw him pressing the knife, and clasped A'an tightly like a threat.

"Just relying on you Baijumen, how dare you play tricks on me like this?" Ji Han walked towards him with a cold smile on his face, and the guards around him cautiously followed, but Ji Han waved his hand and stopped him.

After a distance of one zhang, Ji Han stood still, "How is it? Didn't expect to see today?"

When Xu Yan saw him, he understood that it was not a coincidence that he ran into Ji Xun when he was talking with Qing Ci in the teahouse since he left the palace, but that he had planned to wait for him to fall into this trap, so that the entire Baijumen would be under the net.

He said: "Qingci is one of your people?"

Ji Han stared at him for a few breaths, then turned and walked towards the attic, "Come with me."

Xu Yan passed through the guards who were staring at him on both sides, and stepped into the dimly lit room. The guards beside him closed the door.

Ji Han sat down on the red sandalwood chair, "Do you really think that I'm too busy dealing with the Mu family to notice the hands and feet behind this matter? Do you really think that with the help of the Baijumen, you can be in court?" Turning the clouds and rains uprooted the Ji family?"

He smiled sinisterly, "You are too vigilant, and you underestimate Ji's family too much, Ji Liu. Indeed, Baijumen's news network spreads in all directions, and it took me a lot of effort to dig out A'an. Such a spy can use him to catch..."

He looked around the pavilion, "You rats hiding in the gutter."

Xu Yan didn't speak, and was considering the possibility of holding Ji Han hostage from this distance.

Ji Han seemed to see what he was thinking, and his smile became more sinister, "I really want to know, if you send your head to Xie Linze, what expression will he have?"

Xu Yan glanced around at the guards in the room, "It's uncertain who will pick whose head."

"You don't really think that you alone can kill so many of my guards?" Ji Han thought for a while and said, "You still have injuries?"

Xu Yan's expression was extremely fierce.

Ji Han got up from the chair, "Tell me, you told Xie Linze about the removal of the Beizhen government secretary, what did he say?"

Xu Yan's tone was cold: "He didn't say anything, you don't have to think about controlling him anymore."

Ji Han laughed loudly, "If you think about it, he wouldn't say anything to you, don't you really think you helped him? I manipulated him?"

Xu Yan word by word: "What do you mean?"

"Do you know who chased you in Lingbei and brought Xie Linze back to the capital?" Ji Han said without waiting for him to answer, "It's the Xuanxie Guard, but do you know who they were ordered by? "

"A play in the Qinglu Hall, a secret that countless people dare not talk about, you think it is to expose my wolfish ambitions to the world, to coerce the emperor to order hundreds of officials, and to risk the disgrace of the world. But in fact, even The entire Ji family is just a puppet on the chessboard."

Ji Han approached him with a fierce aura around him.

At such a close distance, Xu Yan completely forgot that this was an opportunity to seize the other party. His confused thoughts were immersed in these absurd words, and countless thoughts rushed through his mind.

"You have seen the person who really covered the sky with one hand and imprisoned Xie Linze in the Taixuan Hall."

Xu Yan realized something, and raised his head in disbelief: "Qingci?"

Ji Han smiled coldly: "Yes, it is Dazhao Guoshi—Qingci."

"How could a mere person be above Ji's family?" Xu Yan woke up from the shock, "If it's true as you said, then why did he save me..."

"Do you think it is necessary for me to find someone to take the blame?" Ji Han sarcastically said, "In addition to the rebuke wolf cavalry, he not only has the Black Scorpion Guards in his hands, but also the military power of the three armies that rule the Quartet, as well as the imperial guards in Beijing, the three major Ying, the Mu family is also under its command, why do you think he can surpass the Ji family?"

"As for him saving you, it is because he wants to dig out the Baiju Gate through you, and then use the hands of the Ji family to eradicate you. It was the same before, using you to deal with me, and only sacrificing a dude can remove Beizhen Fusi."

The surrounding air seemed to freeze.

Xu Yan was as stiff as a stone sculpture, only listening to Ji Han's voice and continued: "No one is more capable of killing people with a knife than Qingci, the only force in this world that can contend with him is the Ji family, and now the Ji family has lost because of you." to Beizhen Prefecture."

Ji Han finally looked at him contemptuously and said, "You don't know anything, so you dare to come here?"

Xu Yan, who was silent for a while, finally said, "Is it finished?"

Ji Han was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect such a calm reaction from him.

"Even if you know everything, what have you done all these years?" Xu Yan looked at him indifferently, "No matter whether you and Qing Ci can contend, Xie Linze is still locked in the palace."

Ji Han was stunned for a moment, and then his face was extremely ugly.

"I am the only one who can change the situation." Xu Yan declared, "Since you tell me these things, the result you want will not be to kill me by tricking Zhongqing Ci, Baijumen will help you as you wish. Make up for the vacancy of the Shangbei Township Secretary."

After he finished speaking, he stopped looking at Ji Han, and turned to walk outside. The guards in the room didn't know whether to stop him, and they all looked at Ji Han.

Ji Han asked, "Where are you going?"

Xu Yan kept walking, looking ahead, a throbbing blue vein in the corner of his forehead was extremely clear, his voice was as cold as his eyes: "——I want to kill Qingci."

-

The highest place in the palace is the observatory of the Qin Tianjian. It began to rain lightly, pattering down the sky. Xie Linze held an oil-paper umbrella and walked up the stretch of stone steps. The howling wind filled his robe.

When we arrived at the observatory, the instruments for observing astronomy, deriving calendars, and predicting weather were scattered around, covered with tiny drops of water, and there were puddles of various sizes all over the ground. There was a person standing by the stone railing, without an umbrella, and his clothes were wet. , Looking back at the person who came, he smiled: "I knew it, only you would come here to find me."

"You lured Xu Yan away." Xie Linze looked at him indifferently, and walked to the stone fence, "Ji Han will not kill him."

Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the entire imperial palace, and you can also see the streets of the capital in the distance, and a dark sky.

"Are you so sure that it's the Ji family, not the Mu family?" Qing Ci smiled, "If Mu He avenges his younger brother, he will definitely kill him."

Xie Linze frowned, his eyes turned cold.

"Don't worry." Qingci said calmly, "I led him out only because he was an eyesore. I never thought that Ji Liu would be a sharp knife when he grows up. If you let him stay in the palace, maybe He will not die in the court struggle, but maybe he will adapt earlier?"

Xie Linze didn't speak.

Qingci approached him, smiled and said: "Or are you worried that he will die directly in your hands?"

The man's face turned pale.

The oncoming cold wind lifted their long hair and robes.

"Since you know you are a monster, how dare you follow him out of the palace?" Although Qingci was smiling, his eyes were cold.

As if he suddenly remembered something, he lifted a food box from his feet and put it in Xie Linze's arms, leaned over and said, "Open it."

The umbrella in Xie Linze's hand fell into the rain. He lowered his eyes and looked at the food box without moving. Qingci took his hand and opened the lid. A strong smell of blood came over his face. It was Cheng Pei's head.

He closed his eyes.

Qing Ci clung to his ear, with a soft and gentle tone: "Aze, you don't want to try the taste of dark blood again?"

He took out a sealed imperial decree from the bottom of the food box, and handed the wolf hair to Xie Linze, "write it, as compensation to the Mu family, give them the position of the commander of the Beizhen government."

Xie Linze held the wolf hair, rubbed the ink, looked at the imperial decree for a long time, and suddenly smiled, "Qingci, I have never seen you make such a big move before, and you always do things without showing your face. Why are you so eager for success this time? Is it Jichen?" The flying cloud dance of the day, is it rare for you to feel jealous?"

Qing Ci was about to speak, when he suddenly raised his head, his calm expression changed slightly, and he took a step back.

A sword light as white as thunder and lightning pierced through the rain, tearing apart the imperial decree between the two like a bamboo.

Xu Yan turned over from the stone steps and landed on the fence with a knife, his brows were frosty, and his eyes on Qingci were no different from those of a dead person.

Xie Linze was stunned: "Xu Yan?"

Qing Ci smiled slightly and said, "Young Master Xu, we meet again, it wouldn't be a good idea to rob him without saying hello?"

Xu Yan stood in front of Xie Linze, and said to Qingci: "What do you need to say hello to someone like you who plays tricks behind the scenes?"

As he said that, he raised his sharp long knife, and instantly slashed at the opposite man like thunder!

Facing the tearing and shrieking cold wind and the unstoppable blade, Qingci's figure evaded to the left, and at the same time swung out the waist knife in his sleeve. Swipe in the middle!

"--clang!"

When the Jin Ge resounded, Xu Yan showed a look of astonishment, only to see that the long knife in his hand was broken into two pieces in mid-air.

The collision of the blades happened in an instant, and Qing Ci's waist knife was intact, without even a slight gap, which shows that the strength and speed of that blow were grasped with extreme precision.

"In the palace, you can do whatever you want without relying on martial arts." Qing Ci put the knife back into its sheath.

Xu Yan coldly raised the hand wearing Tian Shijie, Xie Linze behind him leaned against the fence and looked down, "The people from Ji's family are here, do you want to continue beating, Qingci?"

Qingci shook his head with a smile, "I am not the one who made the first move. For Mr. Xu, I have always regarded you as a friend."

Xie Linze pressed Xu Yan's raised hand, "Don't fight with him here, let's go."

Xu Yan couldn't help but frowned. When he saw his eyes, he suppressed his anger, swept Qing Ci coldly, turned and followed Xie Linze to leave.

Qingci didn't stop them, and watched their backs go away with a smile.

-

Leaving Qin Tianjian and walking back along the green forest, the two of them were drenched in the rain without speaking, and a group of guards from Ji's family followed them not far away.

Xie Linze turned around, and saw Xu Yan lowered his head, staring at the ground and shuffling forward, his expression was hidden in his damp black hair, and he was faintly depressed.

"You're so frustrated that you can't kill Qingci?" Xie Linze walked beside him, "He was on par with me in martial arts a long time ago, and now, the people in this world who can kill him can be counted on one hand come over."

Xu Yan didn't say a word, the eyes in the silk hair looked at him.

"Are you blaming me for not telling you about Qing Ci earlier?" Xie Linze stopped and looked at him, was drenched by the rain for a long time, and couldn't help sneezing.

Xu Yan sighed for a moment, raised his sleeves to cover the man's head, and protected him from the rain.

Xie Linze frowned, and suddenly made an unexpected move. He raised his head and kissed Xu Yan's side face.

Xu Yan opened his eyes wide.