Sword·Qinxin

Imperial City Chapter 8

Royal study in the palace

The hall was completely quiet, only the rustling of the pages of the scrolls could be heard.

Zhao Zhen slowly closed the handwritten roster that Bao Zheng brought back from Hejian and placed it on the imperial case, closing his eyes in deep thought.

Baxian Wang Liyu shook his head and sighed: "He these years...how can he refuse to give up..."

Bao Zheng said: "Report to Your Majesty, I have one more thing to announce."

"Bao Qing might as well speak out."

"I have something for the sage to have a look at." Bao Zheng took out the sleeve arrow from his sleeve and put it on the imperial case, "Please look at it, the sage."

Zhao Zhen and the Baxian King heard the words and took a closer look, but they didn't see any clues, so the Baxian King pointed to the sleeve arrow and asked, "Bao Zheng, what do you mean?"

"Qizou Shengshang, the Zhan guard once fought against a mysterious man in black when he was in Hejian. There is a gap in the sleeve arrow, which was left by the man in black."

Still puzzled, the Eight Sage King asked: "Bao Zheng, what does this have to do with what we're talking about today?"

"My lord, the weapon of the envoy in black caused damage to the sleeve arrow. The guard Zhan speculated that it was probably caused by the incorporation of rare metals during the forging of this weapon."

"Rare metals..." Eight Wise Kings frowned slightly, muttered to himself, thought for a moment and then said, "I remember that 16 years ago, the Marquis of Xiding found rare black gold ore in Ganzhou. Marquis Ding handles the matter of forging weapons. If Wujin can be smelted into it, the weapons of our Song soldiers will be invincible. Unfortunately, in less than half a year, King Rong secretly reported that Marquis Xi Ding had an affair with Xixia, treason and rebellion. The decree was to execute the entire family of the Marquis of Xiding's residence. Afterwards, the late Emperor became obsessed with alchemy, and the matter of smelting weapons was left alone."

Bao Zheng nodded, and then expressed his doubts: "If King Rong had the intention of treason long ago, took the Wujin Mine as his own, and framed Marquis Xiding, it would make sense."

Eight Wise Kings paused, and then said: "But... as far as we know so far, King Rong has no selfish mines in his hands."

Zhao Zhen asked aloud: "The man in black belongs to King Rong?"

Bao Zheng said: "Returning to the Holy Lord, according to Zhan's guards' guess, it doesn't look like it."

"This king still remembers that a young girl was rescued when the Xidinghou's mansion ransacked the house, and her whereabouts are unknown. The man in black may have a relationship with the Xidinghou's mansion." The eight virtuous king said again, "The guards in the exhibition can capture the black-clothed man." people?"

Bao Zheng sighed: "The man in black is so strong in martial arts, Zhan's guards failed to catch him."

Zhao Zhen said: "Leave this matter aside for the time being. Regarding the spies... It seems that I need to have another secret talk with Lord Liao."

The autumn wind is blowing, the rustling of withered leaves disturbs the mind a little.

Yunying stood leaning against the window, staring in a daze in the distance.

Yinling stayed by her side and didn't dare to disturb her, so she could only sneak a glance at her.A small bamboo tube with a special mark is tied around the ankle of the Tianluo bird that stops on the aviary in the morning.Whenever you see this mark, something must be important.

"Sister." Yunying looked at the short note in the bamboo tube, and her slender eyebrows were frowned, never stretched. Yinling had never seen Yunying like this before, so she couldn't help worrying, "Sister, this time... is it dangerous?"

Yun Ying slowly came back to her senses, lowered her eyes, looked at the note in her palm, and said lightly: "It's nothing."

During the speech, Yunying had already walked to the incense burner, lifted the lid of the burner, put the note in the burner and burned it, looked back and said with a smile: "Come out for a walk with me."

The flames in the furnace devoured the note, and there were only five words on the note: Kaifeng Mansion Zhan Zhao.

In an instant, only ashes remained.

The moonlight is cool and cold, shining all over the place.

The graceful figure in the court seems to be in the mist, faintly seems to disappear.

The person behind him walked slowly, with a gentle breath, Zhan Zhao approached him and smiled slightly: "What are you thinking?"

Yun Ying's face seemed to be covered with a thin layer of ice, her eyes were slightly closed, and her inner strength poured into her palms, she turned around and attacked Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhaoping jumped up and leaned back to avoid the blow.Yunying Lingbo moved slightly to the left, trying to grab his shoulder with his grasping hand, Zhan Zhao stepped aside, pushed away with the palm of his right hand, and with the help of force, he has already retreated a foot away.

Only then did Yunying open her mouth and said, "You are injured."

Zhan Zhao smiled helplessly: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from the girl."

Yunying asked with concern: "How bad is the injury?"

Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "I hurt my calf, it's not a problem."

Yunying asked, "Who hurt you?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head: "I don't know either, those two people are using flying knives, their tricks are strange, and their moves are weird."

"Flying knife?" Yunying asked, "Can you catch those two?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Those two cooperated very well, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, they withdrew."

Yunying interjected, "If I don't try you, then you don't intend to tell me."

Zhan Zhao smiled and didn't answer, which seemed to agree with Yunying's guess.

"I'll get you some medicine." Yunying sighed, turned around and walked into the house.

The heart wave has become chaotic, and the cold dew silently wets the sweet-scented osmanthus.

The night wind blows, the dew floats on the ground, and it is cool.

The two figures looked at the marks on the tree and moved forward.These two people are of equal height and appearance, they seem to be twin brothers.

"Brother, it's a cliff any further. Who will lead us here?"

"I don't know either, but the mark is indeed correct, just follow and see."

Not long after walking, I saw a woman in white standing on the edge of the cliff in front of me, with an indifferent expression and a murderous aura all over her body.

A man said: "I thought who it was, it turned out to be Miss Yunying."

Another man wondered, "I don't know why Miss Yunying brought us here?"

"It was you who hurt Zhan Zhao?" Yun Ying's voice was flat, but cold to the bone.

"That's right, the Lord has issued a killing order..."

Before he could say a word, a silver light flashed in front of his eyes, the man immediately leaned back, and at the same time threw a throwing knife with his right hand, blocking the silver light for a while, but unfortunately there was still a fine line on his cheek.

Another man said angrily: "Yunying, don't think that because Qin Mu is protecting you, our brothers dare not touch you. Today you are the one who deceived others too much, and I can't blame anyone!"

A sneer appeared on the corner of Yunying's lips: "It's just you?"

With a flash of figure and a light spin, black hair and white clothes flew up, two men leaped into the air, and threw throwing knives to point at the two vital points in front of her.When the silver-threaded flying knife touches, the light flickers like a fluttering firefly.

The two are not weak in skill, and they have an indescribable tacit understanding between brothers. Although Yunying has the upper hand, after dozens of moves, they have already been stabbed several times, and a faint cherry red has appeared on the white skirt.

After dozens of moves, the two brothers knew that it would not be easy to kill Yunying, so they did not continue to fight with her, they gave each other secret signals, and retreated first.

Although they didn't know what Yunying's purpose was for tonight, they still wouldn't fight her to death, let alone someone who committed a crime would deal with her.

Yinsi entangled a flying knife at some point, Yunying's internal force urged, and the flying knife hit the brother man's neck in the opposite direction. The powder was suddenly spilled, the man didn't expect her to act like this, under negligence, the moment he inhaled it, his eyes were dizzy, and in the gap of this moment, the silver thread was wrapped around his neck, and his head was in a different place.

Thousands of miles away, in a magnificent house, the man sitting in front of him looked livid and his eyes were burning with anger.

"Bang..." The wine glass fell heavily on the ground and shattered.

The man in brocade clothes stood up angrily, and angrily yelled at the jade-robed man who was kneeling on the ground: "The girl is thinking about it?!"

The jade-robed man said in a deep voice: "My lord, please calm down. This subordinate thinks there must be a misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding?" The brocade-clothed man strode up to the side of the jade-robed man: "The girl killed Qingfeng Benwang before and didn't care about her, this time it's good, she refused to do it for a long time, and killed the person I sent out. Tell me! What misunderstanding is there?!"

Qin Mu wanted to defend Yunying a few words, and was thinking about how to excuse her.

"Master, this subordinate thinks..."

The man in brocade clothes waved his hand, and interrupted Qin Mu impatiently: "It's okay, okay, don't think about it, I don't know how much you think about it."

The death of one or two subordinates does not affect his plan, but that girl...

The man in brocade clothes calmed down, and ordered: "Ma Teng was killed in Hejian, and the people in Kaifeng Mansion must die. Since the girl doesn't do anything, you can go there yourself. If the girl doesn't listen, even she will come along with you." killed!"

Qin Mu's body trembled, his pupils shrank deeply, and he agreed lightly.

The drooping hair concealed the expression on his face, and also concealed the gloom in his eyes.

The sound of the piano is intermittent, without any rules, just like a person playing the piano, full of thoughts.

Qin Mu stood in front of the grass pavilion, looking at the beautiful woman behind the qin platform, she was much thinner than two months ago, plucking the strings, her thoughts drifted away.

Qin Mu stepped forward, stretched out his hand to caress Yunying's hair like a waterfall, and looked at her with a gentle expression: "You are so defenseless, if someone comes to take your life, wouldn't it be easy?"

Yunying didn't raise her head, she played a string of the qin: "Would you..."

Like coaxing a child, Qin Mu said softly, "Why are you bothering? If he knew your identity, he would definitely leave you."

Yunying felt a pain in her heart, bit her lower lip tightly, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Love is a thing, so much that you can't stop it, it will only make you suffer." Qin Mu sighed lightly, turned and walked down the piano stage, and said lightly, "The Lord is already furious, you don't care about the Kaifeng mansion. If you want to intervene, I will take care of it for you."

Yunying stood up suddenly, looked at Qin Mu's back and said in surprise, "Brother Qin, you..."

Qin Mu waved his hand to signal her not to continue talking, jumped onto the steed in front of the door, whipped away.

Tuk... tuk tuk...

The watchman carries a lantern and knocks on a bamboo clapper. The idle sound echoes faintly in the middle of the night. There is no sound in the street, and people have already stopped.

Inside the Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao's bedroom was still lit, and there were people moving from time to time.

Yunying crouched on the big tree in the courtyard, waiting quietly...

She disregarded the order and did not attack Zhan Zhao, and she also got rid of the flying knives who assassinated him. The Lord would not let her do what she did. Now that even Qin Mu came, she was even more worried about his safety, so she came to have a look.

Among the few of them, the only one she fears and does not want to be an enemy is Qin Mu. She knows Qin Mu's style of dealing with things best, if he wants him to die, he will definitely not live.

Although the room is far away, with Yunying's hearing ability, everyone's words can be heard clearly.

"Mr. Gongsun, Brother Zhan, what happened? It was fine three days ago, why..."

"Ma Han, Brother Zhan was injured three days ago and came back from the field, have you forgotten?"

"I haven't forgotten, but when Brother Zhan came back, he seemed to be fine, how could he not be able to sleep at night..."

Gongsun Ce sighed, "Guard Zhan must have been poisoned."

"Poisoning? Why is the poison so powerful? Can you cure me, sir?"

Gongsun Ce sighed again: "This poison is very strange, I have never encountered it before. Zhanwei has been deteriorating in the past three days, which is really worrying. My lord has already entered the palace to invite the imperial doctor."

Yunying waited for more than an hour before seeing that everyone had left the house and quietly jumped into the house.

Zhan Zhao was lying on the soft couch, his breathing was weak, his brows were slightly furrowed, he was sleeping very restlessly, probably the poison had entered his body, the pain was unbearable.

Thinking of his gentle and smiling appearance on weekdays, I couldn't help feeling like a knife piercing my heart, and unconsciously, two lines of tears slid down my cheeks.

Yunying gently wiped the sweat off his forehead for him, and leaned into his ear and whispered, "Zhan Zhao, I won't let you have trouble."

The Tianzi Room on the second floor of the Fortune Inn.

The man in the jade robe inside the room seemed to have expected a visitor, although he did not light the lamp, a pot of tea had already been brewed on the table.

After he finished drinking a cup of tea, a black figure sneaked in silently like a ghost, and he asked, "Was it you who stabbed Zhan Zhao?"

The jade-robed man didn't answer, for a moment, he seemed to sigh: "You're still here."

"It really is you?!"

"In less than two days, he will die from poison, and he will have an explanation to the Lord." Qin Mu put down the teacup, speaking lightly.

Yunying's body trembled, and her voice choked up: "You...you don't want to hurt him."

Qin Mu didn't take it seriously, and said quietly: "If I can protect you well, the life and death of other people has nothing to do with me."

Yunying's deeds have already made the master want to kill her. One is someone who must die, and the other is someone he cherishes. After killing Zhan Zhao, she will no longer hesitate to stay here.

Yunying looked at him steadily, and raised her voice slightly: "If he is even half damaged, I will definitely not give up!"

"You and him are not in the same way, why bother?"

"I have my own measure, give me the antidote!"

Qin Mu didn't say anything more, just quietly staring at the stubborn figure in front of him.

The room is all quiet, you can hear a needle drop.

After a while of silence, Yunying said slowly, "Brother Qin... don't force me to do it..."

The voice is soft, it is indeed the meaning of pleading.

Qin Mu's heart trembled, he lowered his eyes, hesitated for a moment, sighed, and placed a small porcelain bottle in his hand on the table.

He couldn't bear it.

Yunying picked up the small porcelain bottle, turned around and jumped out of the window, and disappeared into the night in an instant.

Qin Mu raised his eyes to look at the place where Qianying disappeared, and he didn't take it back for a long time. He stood there for a long time, his eyes were dim, and only a deep pain was left in his eyes:

"... I can't compare to him..."

Asking her is also asking yourself.

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