Powerful ministers are husbands

Xue Weikai limped close to the bushes, his eyes gradually became sharp like eagles, scanning the lush woods.

The injured foot slipped and he narrowed his eyes.

Under a layer of yellow sand, blood seeped into the sand, which was extremely dazzling.

"Hehehe..." Xue Weikai called the young man behind him to come over, and said to the unmoving bushes: "Madam Cao Bashao, come out quickly, the old man knows you are hiding here, don't waste everyone's time, okay?" good?"

His tone seemed to be a kind grandfather trying to coax his granddaughter to eat obediently, but his expression was out of tune.

There was still no sound in the bushes. The young man stopped in the middle of the road and watched the play with folded arms.

Xue Weikai's patience was limited, he stretched out his hand to push aside the bushes, and saw the dirt pit behind him at a glance, and——

"Oops!" The sand all over the sky rushed towards his face, and a lot of it fell into his eyes. He yelled in pain, staggered and waved his hands, pulling leaves when he touched a branch, and scratching when he caught a tree trunk.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the young man was about to come forward to help, when a figure flew towards him, he dodged hastily, and the thoughtful person seemed to be a master, so he opened his coat, and took out a handful of things from behind his waist, He slashed fiercely at the person who came.

With a sound of "Ping", there is a flash of light and flint, and the master makes a move.

The hidden guard of the Cao family was injured, and the sword in his hand barely blocked the sharp guy, and beads of sweat slowly rolled down his forehead.He gritted his teeth and made a move, each move was like lightning, intending to win quickly.

Here, Pang Miao crawled out of the pit, and after lying down for a while, the pain in his body had eased a bit, so he picked up a branch as thick as his forearm and greeted Xue Weikai's thigh.

"Little trick." The figure flashed, Xue Weikai closed his eyes, dodging Pang Miao's attack, "Do you think the old man can't see, so he let others slaughter him?" Kicking off the branch, and then stepping on Pang Miao's abdomen, "Little girl, you are still too tender."

How could Pang Miao catch Xue Weikai's calf with his upper body upright?

I can't move my feet, and I can't match the strength of my hands, but there is always a way to deal with it!

Xue Weikai cried out in pain and rolled aside.

Pang Miao spat out the blood in his mouth, took advantage of the gap to pick up a branch that was half a person tall, endured the pain, and stood up staggeringly. Fortunately, only his left leg was injured, relying on the support of the branch, he could still There is a way to hop to the wagon.

Seeing Mrs. Ba Shao escaped temporarily, Cao's dark guards used all their strength to force the young man away with a slashing sword, leaped onto the shaft of the chariot, pulled Pang Miao into the chariot with one hand, and then urged the horse to move forward.

Xue Weikai crazily got out from behind the bushes, and shouted in the direction where Pang Miao was leaving: "Chasing, chasing! Do you think you'll be fine? Look at what you're holding! If they don't die, We are the ones who die!"

No matter how dissatisfied the young man is, he can only restrain his mind at this moment and chase the carriage with Xue Weikai.

I don't know if it's because of running for tens of miles before and the scars on his body, no matter how he urged, the speed of the horse is still very slow.The hidden guard of the Cao family clutched his chest, turning his head to look at the two scoundrels who were chasing after him from time to time, with worried expressions on their faces.

"Go there!" There are few people here, and it is far away from the main road, so you can't count on it anymore. Pang Miao pointed to a small road. This road is the closest to the official road in front of the South City Gate. Passers-by also come and go like the tide, if you can meet passers-by, you will be saved.Fortunately, he was familiar with the road map outside the imperial capital and knew the various roads opened up by the imperial court, so he had the chance to save his life at this time.

The hidden guards of Cao's family immediately drove their horses towards the path. When the young man behind saw the direction they were leaving, he smiled strangely and gestured to Xue Weikai who was behind him.

No matter how slow the carriage ran, it still had two extra legs. Pang Miao heaved a sigh of relief seeing Xue Weikai and the two were being thrown farther and farther away.

Halfway through the journey, a sharp whistle rang through the forest, and the hidden guard of the Cao family called out "No!" and stepped up to urge the horse, but it was already too late—several figures suddenly appeared in the originally quiet woods, one by one. Strong as a bear, he blocked the road in the middle.

Facing the galloping horses, their faces showed no fear at all. One of them sneered and ran straight. When he was still a dozen steps away from the carriage, he leapt up and tiptoed. Lightly nodded the horse's head, and landed on the roof of the carriage with strength, approaching a beautiful turn, and landed lightly behind the carriage.

Pang Miao and the dark guard watched helplessly as the steed let out a long cry of pain, then raised its front hooves and threw them off the shaft.The steed jumped wildly a few times, fell to the ground and twitched non-stop, foaming at the mouth.

Pang Miao fell to the ground, feeling that his whole body was about to fall apart. He raised his eyes to look at the hidden guard of the Cao family, but saw that the other party was spitting blood, and he had no strength to parry.

Laughter broke out among those people, and they looked at the two men on the ground with malicious intent, as if they were two delicious prey, until Xue Weikai caught up, and they disappeared into the woods together with the young man, like lonely ghosts.

Xue Weikai kicked the dark guard who passed out, and said with a sneer, "I told you that you brothers are not my opponents, so why do you want to kill yourself like this?" He walked over and grabbed Pang Miao by the back of the neck with one hand , Lifting the person up, "little girl, let's stop playing, anyway, sooner or later you will see Lord Yan, why do you have to make yourself so embarrassed to see him?"

Pang Miao couldn't speak because of the pain all over his body, and he didn't even have the strength to attack Xue Weikai, so he had to calm down temporarily, saving enough energy to make another plan.

"If you don't speak, it's as if you are willing to listen to the old man obediently." Xue Weikai laughed in satisfaction, and dragged Pang Miao into the woods.

In the evening, when Cao Lv returned to the yamen of Dali Temple, Song Zi's expression was not very good. The case has not progressed for a long time, and it seems that this day has been wasted.

"The person who went to Lianbao, has he come back?" Cao Lv asked, flipping through the file in his hand.

Song Zi shook his head, "Not yet, it will be after dark at the soonest, just in time for the city gate to close." He thought for a while, feeling curious, "Why did the general want to check those corpses all of a sudden?"

"There are no useful clues in the case now, so it's better to think about something else and find another way." Cao Lv thought of Pang Miao, "Someone told me that if this case was not done by King Yan's men and horses, but by an inconspicuous person , will this happen? I was thinking, under the ingenious layout of the mastermind behind the scenes, what we see and think of is only what he wants us to think of under his arrangement? But King Yan just happened to grasp Given this opportunity, he really wanted to frame him so that he wouldn't make the same poor mistake as last time, because this time there was no chance of a frontier war, and he had to be killed thoroughly.

"If we want to take the opportunity to frame King Yan, we must find out the truth of the matter."

Song Zi smiled wryly, "Above the government and the public, no one will attack you except King Yan and the others. Also, the time and route of the escort team's departure are all confidential in advance. How can ordinary thieves know except for collusion with traitors? And those The knife wounds are obviously made by trained soldiers."

"You see, your thoughts have been entangled." Cao Lu looked out the window at the gradually darkening sky, "We are all too confident in ourselves, and we don't know who has two hearts."

"Hey, who has two minds?" Jia Shangshu came in from outside with two jars of wine, and smiled obsequiously at Cao Lu, "General, I know that it must be distressing to think about problems, so I specially brought two jars of wine, I will relieve your boredom for the two of you. Just have a drink and enjoy yourself, don't drink too much."

"Didn't Xue Weikai, the former servant of the Ministry of War, invite you to have a drink today?" Song Zi frowned.

"I don't know where this old boy went. I waited at his house for an hour and didn't see anyone." Jia Shangshu yelled unhappily, "His son came back, and after asking, he found out that he had been with General Cao's wife since he left this morning. , I haven’t seen it before. If it weren’t for the sake of being a colleague before, I wouldn’t drink his wine, but he is fine and put on airs.”

Cao Lu suddenly asked: "He and my wife left Cao's house?"

"That's right, your wife is going out to see the old guy for a ride." Jia Shangshu said as he lifted the red cloth that sealed the jar, "Hmph, in fact, after getting drunk with the old boy last time, you shouldn't have any more contact with him It's..."

According to Pang Miao's personality, he would not decline the request of a crippled old man, so Cao Lv didn't think about it any further.

Song Zi glanced at him indifferently, "Your official position is about to be lost, and you're still in the mood to drink?"

Jia Shangshu spread his hands, "What else can I do? Kneeling in front of the Liangyi Hall, crying for my father and mother, begging the emperor not to dismiss me? How embarrassing for those villains surnamed Zeng and Lu to see it!" ?”

Song Zi shook his head and sighed, relying on General Cao, this guy was bound to find out the truth, so he had nothing to worry about.And they are still having a headache about the truth of the robbery.

After half an hour, two young men rushed into the house carrying a stretcher.

"General Cao, Minister Song Siqing, I have brought back the corpse."

Cao Lu and Song Zi walked over and lifted the straw mat that covered the corpse. The disgusting stench of the corpse wafted into his nostrils, but Cao Lu didn't take it seriously and leaned down to carefully observe the wounds on the corpse.

The scar stretched from his right shoulder to the heart of his left chest, killing him with one blow, vicious and cruel.

"How could it be..." Song Zi suddenly opened his eyes wide, staring at the scar in disbelief. He was afraid that he would lose sight because of the dim candlelight, so he asked the yamen servant to light two more lamps, and took a closer look at the corpse.

And what he saw in front of him told him that his guess was correct.

"General, this..."

Cao Lv closed his eyes, "It seems that we did..."

At this time, a yamen servant trotted in and handed Cao Lv a letter, "A child came to the door just now, and he said someone handed it over to him. Please ask General Cao to take a look at it immediately."

Cao Lv handed over the letter to Jia Shangshu who was doing nothing next to him, and he, Song Zi, and Wu Zuo repeatedly examined the corpse.

Jia Shangshu opened the letter casually, glanced at it, and was stunned, "General, General..."

Cao Lu glanced displeasedly at Jia Shangshu, who was stunned, and his eyes fell on the letter with only a few numbers——

"City east cliff, see your wife for the last time."