Placid Chang'an

The golden scales shook the sun, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Su Cen rushed into the tent with a team of people, and finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the man sitting on the table intact.

Xie Chung, the commander of the imperial army, arrived immediately and knelt down on one knee: "My minister Xie Chung's escort came late, I hope the prince will forgive me."

Li Shi came down from the case, waving his sleeves to calm people down, "Good job."

Immediately, she walked up to Su Cen, tucked her messy lock of hair behind her ear, and said, "Good job."

Both are doing a good job, but they have two completely different tones.

"You... you really..." Xiao Yan pointed at Su Cen, his beard trembling, and the emotion in his eyes couldn't tell whether it was anger or hurt.

"My lord," Su Cen bowed to the person according to the etiquette, "I broke my promise, I went to rescue the soldiers."

Without waiting for anyone to speak, he continued: "But I said that I would bring back the murderer who killed the son, and now he is here."

Xiao Yan was taken aback: "Who?"

Su Cen nodded at Li Shi, and slowly walked in front of the black-robed man, "Why did your Excellency kill the prince, and you still don't plan to tell us?"

"It's you?!" Xiao Yan glared angrily, rushed forward and was blocked by Qi Lin's sword.

"Oh?" The black-robed man raised his lips and smiled at Su Cen, "Where did you start? The person I was lurking in the Dali Temple prison came to tell me in the middle of the night that my son had hanged himself in the prison, and I was just telling the story. How can you become a murderer if you give it to the lord?"

Su Cen frowned slightly, thinking that this person is really difficult to deal with. Knowing that he was able to pin the suspicion on him in such a short period of time, he must have limited the scope of the murderer by blocking the news, so it is better to act first. There were spies in ambushes in the prison of Dali Temple, and the news might indeed have leaked out before he blocked it.

Looking at the confident smile on the man's face, Su Cen shook his head lightly, "You know, your biggest problem is that you are too self-righteous."

"Huh?" The man in black gave Su Cen a cold look.

"I'll convince you to lose," Su Cen continued, "Do you know where your biggest failure is?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he continued, "It's the four characters 'Su Cen wronged me' written by you."

"What?" The man in black frowned.

Su Cen then went on to say: "I know that your original intention is to use those four words to draw the resentment of the King of Beiliang to me, and then bring me back. It would be best if I can let Beiliang stay silent again." If the king is beaten to death, then the two princes will turn against each other, and the fight will hurt both, Da Zhou will hurt the country, and Longyou will have no one to take over, you Turks can do whatever they want, right?"

After finishing speaking, Su Cen turned his head to look at Li Shi, and seeing the man looking at him softly, couldn't help but smile.

If in the past, he didn't dare to say such a thing, it seemed that he took himself too seriously.The Li Shi he knew was calm and restrained, he knew how to take care of the overall situation, and would never put himself in danger for the sake of his children's private relationship.

But he just appeared in front of him, with a gentle tone and affectionate eyes.

It was also at that time that I suddenly understood that this person didn't bother to hide it before, and didn't show it deliberately after others, and he treated him the same from beginning to end.

Turning around, he continued: "And the biggest problem lies in these four words. I don't want to talk about how the people in ambush in Dali Temple saw the word on the moldy wall of the cell , You have left a fatal flaw when you just write."

The man in black didn't care.

Su Cen lowered his eyebrows slowly, "In the final analysis, this clue was given to me by the prince."

"Chen'er?" Xiao Yan suddenly raised his head.

"When you hung him on the beam, he was still alive, right? You just watched him hang there, struggling, begging for help, and being indifferent, right?" Su Cen's eyes gradually became sharper, "Do you still remember the last time he Is it despair? Or anger? You just watched him die and die with regret, right?!"

"What you don't know is that at the last moment, he left clues."

Su Cen breathed a sigh of relief, and stopped being tricky: "He recorded your location with his eyes, and I sent someone to check it later. At that location, you left a piece of paper that was stuck with blood when you took blood and wrote. shoe prints!"

"Because of standing for a long time, the shoe print is clear and deep, and the sole pattern can still be seen clearly. Just take off his shoe, verify the blood stains in the groove, and compare it with the mark of Dali Temple, and you will know it at a glance."

Li Shi motioned to Xie Chung, Xie Chung understood immediately, and went to the man in black robe to take off his boots.

"No need," the black-robed man smiled helplessly, looked at Su Cen and sighed, "I really underestimated you, I should have killed you at the gate of Dongshi if I knew that."

"Then I would like to thank you for not killing me." After Su Cen finished speaking, he returned to Li Shi's side and smiled at him, "Return to your order."

Li Shi had a clear smile in his eyes, "I will reward you when I get back."

Xie Chun ordered: "Take him away."

"I'm going to kill you!" Hearing a shout, Xiao Yan broke free from Qi Lin and rushed forward, grabbed the black-robed man's collar fiercely, and swung his fist down.

"It's in vain that I trust you so much. You deceived me and even killed me, Chen'er! I'm going to kill you!"

Five or six imperial guards stepped forward to push him down, but they still couldn't stop Xiao Yan from kicking him a few more times.

The man in black fell to the ground in embarrassment, his head was bleeding, but he didn't know the so-called sneer, until Qu Ling'er picked him up again, he still couldn't stop laughing.

"Xiao Yan," Li Shi walked in front of Xiao Yan and looked down at him, frowned and said, "The Great Zhou Law Society is fair to Yuanchen."

Xiao Yan knelt down on the ground, "It was a waste of my life, but in the end I was used by villains. Chen'er's death was indeed caused by me. No wonder others. The only thing is that the territory of Longyou was lost to me. I know that death is inevitable, but my Beiliang army is innocent. They have no choice but to follow me. I voluntarily go back to hand over the military power. I am willing to obey the disposition."

"But if it's possible, can you let me die on the battlefield? I would like to lead the way. Let me be the first one. I can kill a few little tartars before I die, and I will die without regret."

"I'm afraid you have no chance." Li Shi said.

The expression in Xiao Yan's eyes gradually dimmed.

Li Shi went on to say: "Mo Ji's people are probably kicked out by now."

"What?" Xiao Ran suddenly raised his head.

Li Shi looked at the man in black, "I know what you are planning. Even if you lose here completely, you can still take Longyou. It's a pity that you found the wrong person."

The man in black slowly smiled.

Qi Lin continued: "Moji is just a Turkic Yehu, and their real khan is Mo He. Mohe was still young when he was Khan, and Moji monopolized the power. He tried to replace Mo He many times. Now that Mo He is in power as an adult, he naturally sees Mo Ting as a thorn in his side, but suffers from lack of opportunity."

"When Lord Zai found out that the King of Beiliang was in collusion with Mo Zhi, he had already contacted Mo He, so even if Mo Zhi brought people into the customs, he would not be able to reach Suzhou, Ganzhou, and was wiped out by Mo He's troops who were in ambush halfway. gone."

The face of the man in black was extremely ugly in an instant.

"Hahahaha!" Xiao Yan couldn't help being overjoyed, "You haven't changed after all these years, you're still so sinister and cunning, hahaha!"

Li Shi frowned slightly, "This is called strategizing."

"Whatever he cares, he did a good job anyway!" Xiao Yan laughed and stood up, the tone in his heart finally came out, and he was thinking of patting Li Shi on the shoulder when he realized that he was being restrained , or laughed loudly, "Really, I have never obeyed anyone in my life, but only you! Hahahahaha!"

After Xiao Yan and the man in black were taken out, Su Cen followed Li Shi out of the tent, the mist gradually darkened, and the day was finally over.

The deputy commander of the forbidden army stepped forward to report, "All the rebels have been returned and are waiting to be released."

Li Shi nodded, Su Cen casually glanced at the kneeling rebels, and for some reason, his heart skipped a beat.

"This is all the rebels?" Su Cen asked.

The deputy commander nodded without knowing why: "Yes, it's all here."

No, there is still one less team!

The men in black who attacked them in the dense forest were not among them!

Su Cen turned her head abruptly, looked at Qu Linger and the man in black, and shouted, "Linger be careful!"

It was too late and then it was too late, a hidden arrow roared from the darkness, heading towards Qu Ling'er's face!

Seeing that he couldn't dodge in time, Qi Lin stepped forward and threw out the hilt of his sword to block it, collided with the dark arrow in mid-air, and landed a step away from Qu Ling'er.

The man in black seized the opportunity to drop two smoke bombs and fled quickly.

There was another whistle, and Su Cen felt that she was gently pulled, bumped into something soft and hard, and then something touched the side of her face, warm and slightly fishy.

Slowly raised his head, and fell into those eyes that were like stars in the sky.

The next moment, the man fell headlong into his arms.

"Escort!"

Someone shouted something in his ear, but there was a roar in his ear, and he stood where he was, unable to hear anything.