The prince is seriously ill

The closer to the capital, the busier it is.

That night, Xun Yu and others rested at the inn.

Shen Jun said: "How does Fuchen plan to obtain the antidote?"

Xun Yu said: "If you can solve it yourself, then don't ask others first."

Shen Jun thought for a while and said: "Wang Tiandao is a member of Xun Jin, so he will definitely not easily come up with the antidote. Fuchen has a special status, so even if he goes to ask others, no one will dare to help. In my opinion, Fuchen is still rare. Good to show up, wait in the inn. Akun came out of Wang Tiandao's mansion, familiar with the layout there, and Akun and I went to steal the antidote."

"I'll go with you. I don't have crutches, so no one will recognize me. Wang Tiandao has hundreds of dead soldiers in his hands. In case of conflict, multiple people will take care of them." Xun Yu said with his head bowed in thought, for a long while, He raised his head and asked Akun, "Do you know where Wang Tiandao's pharmacy is?"

Akun drew the layout of Wang Tiandao's mansion with a pen, and drew a circle on the southernmost big room, then put down the pen.

Xun Yu said: "The circled one is his pharmacy?"

Akun nodded and wrote again: "There are all kinds of antidote and poison/medicine in the pharmacy, but there are many traps inside. Once the trap is touched, there will be no escape. Hey, you stand up to the dead men, and I will steal it. When does the second prince want to act?"

Xun Yu glanced at him suddenly, restrained his expression and said: "This matter needs to be considered in the long term, and we must not act impulsively."

Akun shook his head, frowned, and wrote: "I have inquired, Wang Tiandao will not be here tomorrow night, and he will go out to worship the heavens. We can act while he is away."

Xun Yu's eyes sharpened when he heard the words, and he came over and said, "Wang Tiandao will go out to worship the heaven tomorrow? Have you found out?" Seeing that Akun nodded affirmatively, Xun Yu waved him to go out, picked up the table and put Akun's picture on it. After looking at the map carefully, he turned around and handed it to Shen Jun, "Go check it out tonight and see if there is any change in the layout."

Shen Jun glanced at the pattern, then looked at Xun Yu, raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't Fuchen believe in Akun?"

Xun Yu nodded first, then shook his head and said, "I'm not worried about other things, but if it involves Wang Tiandao, I won't worry about it. Wang Tiandao is very good at the mechanism of the Mohists, and he is also good at refining poison. Although his martial arts is not high, he can He used poison/drugs to control people's hearts, and sent pills to buy the emperor, and refined hundreds of powerful dead men who only obeyed his orders to protect his own safety. Akun is his failure, because of his good lightness kung fu , and gave it to Jiang Weiping. Akun’s younger brother was one of the hundreds of dead men, and I’m worried that he is so impatient this time because of his younger brother.”

"Your worry is not unreasonable." Shen Jun said, and put the drawings into his arms while talking, walked to the door, then turned around and smiled with squinted eyes, "I'll come when I go, Fuchen remember to take a bath together when I come back." Throw a wink.

Xun Yu just pretended not to have heard of it.

The door creaked, and footsteps sounded far away.

Xun Yu's complexion gradually darkened, and he was thoughtful: Wang Tiandao will go out of the city to sacrifice to heaven tomorrow, so he must be with that person.I haven't seen him for many years. I don't know if returning to the capital this time is a surprise for him?Thinking of this, he sneered, poured a cup of tea, and took a sip.

When Shen Jun came back, he brought back three death uniforms.

At Choushi the next day, there was no moonlight.

Taking advantage of the darkness, the three slipped into Wang Tiandao's mansion.After passing through a long corridor, Akun stopped suddenly, Xun Yu and Shen Jun stopped one after another, and followed closely behind him.Akun looked around, walked up with a strange pace of taking three steps and two steps back, and led the two people behind him to a tightly closed iron door.

There are three ropes of different lengths hanging from the door. The ropes sway gently in the wind, and there is a shoulder-width distance between them.Akun held the three ropes at the same time and squeezed them carefully. If only one or two were pulled, the mechanism would be activated.Akun took a breath, held his breath again, and pulled it down violently. With a bang, the iron door opened.

Just about to go in, a gust of wind blew past, and with the shaking of the ground, a strong man rushed out like a beast. The man was eight feet long, wearing a soldier's uniform, opened his mouth and exhaled, and the wind carried it into the air, causing a foul stench.The man shouted loudly: "Stop, who are you?"

Xun Yu lowered his head and said, "We are ordered by the Taoist priest to come to the pharmacy to get the medicine."

"Wang Daoist?" The man's eyes were like lanterns suddenly, "The ignorant little thief dared to steal the master's medicine, how alive..."

The sword was unsheathed, and the light of the sword flashed like a dragon flying into the sky.In a moment, Shen Jun's sword had pierced into the man's heart, and he drew it out like lightning. The world was silent for a moment, and then there was the sound of running water, and the black blood rushed out like a waterfall.The man stood still, touched the leaking hole in his chest, and suddenly let out a loud cry, dust fell from the roof, as if it was about to collapse, just like an enraged beast, rushing over with a red face.Hitting this sword not only did not affect his skill, but his strength increased greatly.

Xun Yu was secretly surprised, and went up with a knife.The man was stabbed a few more times, and the blood splashed all over the ground. After a while, he finally swayed on the spot, his face was pale, all the blood flowed out, his skin shriveled into a ball, like a mummy, and with a ding, the knife fell. People also collapsed.

Seeing him die, Xun Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and walked in through the iron gate, only to see another person stand up from the collapsed building.

The man was also wearing a dead soldier's uniform and a ferocious iron mask on his head. The mask covered his entire face, leaving only two eyeballs exposed. It is strong and powerful, and the convex muscle mass seems to tear through the clothes.

Akun was shocked, his eyes widened instantly, and he subconsciously opened his mouth, but only made a series of babbling sounds that no one could understand. He seemed to realize that he had lost his tongue, stopped his mouth, and walked towards him in a daze.

Xun Yu's consciousness was different, "This man in the iron mask is your brother?" Akun continued to walk forward as if he was deaf.

There was a strange roar, the man in the iron mask swung his knife and was about to hit Xun Yu. Shen Jun swung his sword and forced him back. Standing in front of the sword, he stared at Shen Jun beggingly.

Shen Jun withdrew his sword, frowned and looked at the door, "There are fifty or sixty people outside."

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud bang on the iron door, and there were knocks again and again. Every time there was a bump, the iron door shook.Obviously, this iron door can't resist for a long time.

Akun's eyes followed the man in the iron mask.The man in the iron mask came again with a knife, heading towards the nearest Akun.Xun Yu's eyes froze, and he cut the iron masked man's leg with a knife.

The man in the iron mask bent his feet, knelt on the ground, and stood up again as if nothing had happened. He made a terrible grunt in his throat, raised his eyebrows, stared at Xun Yu with his canthus teeth, and swung his knife more violently. Seeing Xun Yu jumping aside to avoid it, He turned to Akun without hesitation.

Heart sank to the bottom, Akun looked at him fixedly, wanted to say but couldn't, so he was so anxious that he moved his hands and feet.Thinking of something suddenly, Akun retreated to the corner, stood against the wall, clasped his hands, slightly arched the center of the palm, tightly closed his thumbs, raised it to his mouth, and blew lightly, just listening to one song is not pleasant The tune sounded faintly.

The man in the iron mask moved his ears, and suddenly stopped in a strange way. After a while, he finally raised his head and looked at A Kun in the corner, with a confused look in his eyes. They were twisted together, like a hideous big lump, kicked over the medicine jar next to it, and fell straight to the ground.

At the same time, the crumbling iron gate could no longer bear it and fell down with a bang.

Shen Jun stood at the door, and for a while, no one could come in.

Xun Yu was sweating profusely, and shouted, "Akun is going to get the antidote."

Akun glanced at the man in the iron mask rolling in pain, gritted his teeth, turned around, walked to the counter, glanced at the bottles and cans on it, and found that none of them were antidote, bent down to open the cabinet door, saw a black lacquered jar, opened it , was actually empty, and only then did I know that the antidote was not in it at all.

The footsteps outside the door were even faster.

Shen Jun said in a low voice: "The officers and soldiers are here, retreat quickly."

Xun Yu turned around, but saw that the door was blocked by dead soldiers and officers and soldiers, there was no way to retreat, and his face turned frosty.

boom.

There was another loud noise, as if the mountain god was angry, and the walls were trembling.Xun Yu turned his head, but saw a stone gate suddenly appeared on the original intact stone wall.

The man in the iron mask stood up at some point, looked at Akun from a distance, pressed his big hand on the bronze candlestick, and said in a hoarse voice: "Go quickly." It turned out that he opened the stone door.

The sharp arrows were like raindrops, flying from outside the window, bringing a biting chill.

Xun Yu dragged Akun into the door.Seeing Akun go in, the man in the iron mask let go of his grip on the candlestick.The door turned half a turn and was about to close.

Before Shen Jun came in, Xun Yu's eyes sank, he swung the knife horizontally, and with a clang, the knife stuck on the door, and a long spark was drawn out, and the door stopped turning.

Shen Jun came in like a spirit snake, and with his index finger, he tapped hard on Carmen's knife with inner strength. The steel knife snapped into two with a hiss and fell down.The blocked door closed again.

Just at this time, Akun suddenly jumped out from the half-open gap as if he had just woken up from a dream.Xun Yu realized that Akun had gone outside.

A letter on yellow paper shot through the crack of the door like a dart, and landed right at Xun Yu's feet. Immediately, the door was closed heavily without any gap.

Akun chopped off the bronze candlestick with one knife, saw that the stone door was closed and all the organs were destroyed, so he put away the knife and stood up.

The sharp arrow pierced through the intestines, and Akun trembled like a twitch, but his eyes remained motionless, staring at the red-eyed man in the iron mask not far away.Akun shook his head slightly, seeing the man in the iron mask standing with the knife tightly and restrained in pain, but he did not come over, a gratified smile appeared on his face, he opened his mouth again, and spit out two words in silence.Like a human-shaped archery target, the black rain shot in densely, and the arrow hit the bull's-eye, piercing through his hands, feet, chest, heart, eyes, and tongue-less mouth.

Akun opened his mouth for the last time in mid-air, and fell straight back. His life, which looked like a child, was forever poured into a pool of blood.

The rain of arrows stopped.

Trembling, Xun Yu picked up the yellow leather letter under his feet, but when he opened it, it was a crumpled letter. The handwriting on the letter was scribbled, lacking in style, and there were a few typos from time to time——

"I'm a mute, and I can't speak at critical moments. I'm afraid that if I die, no one will know what's on my mind, so I carry this letter with me day and night, and even sleep with it. If the second prince Seeing this letter means that I am already dead. My younger brother A Yang is Wang Tiandao's dead man. A successful dead man must be trained so that he will not recognize his relatives and only obey Wang Tiandao. My life is over long ago, but why? God is merciful, let me meet the second prince, I know that I can't make a fortune by myself, let alone rescue A Yang, I beg the second prince to help me, help me rescue A Yang! I don't ask for anything else, just ask Let him live like a person, even if he lives like that for a day, my life is worth it."

Xun Yu folded the letter and put it in his arms, and said after a long time: "Don't worry, I will rescue him."

Shen Jun raised his hand, gently wiped away the black blood splashed on his face, and sighed: "If he doesn't go out, it will be his younger brother who will die. He exchanged his own death for his younger brother's life. s Choice."

Xun Yu stood up, glanced at the violently slammed door, then turned his head to stare at Shen Jun, and took his hand with increasing strength, interlocking his fingers.Pursing his lips, he walked out of the tunnel step by step.

Outside the house, dark clouds engulfed the waning moon, and the sky and the earth were pitch black.

Suddenly, hundreds of torches appeared, and the pursuers were approaching.

Shen Jun's eyes turned cold, and he put one arm around Xun Yu's waist, quickened his pace, and threw away the pursuers far away.The two stopped in the narrow alley at the corner.

Xun Yu said: "The officers and soldiers were alarmed. You and I have been exposed. You can't go back to the inn. You can't steal the antidote. You can't advance or retreat. The only way now is to ask her."

"What Fuchen said was..."

"The current queen."

Shen Jun frowned and said, "The imperial palace is heavily guarded, where can Fuchen get in?"

Xun Yu thought for a while and said, "Let's go to Xu Mansion first, and find the queen's elder brother Xu Zhishan." Xun Yu had been to Xu Mansion before, and he remembered where it was.

Xu Mansion, rich man Biwa.

The stone lion stands majestically, slightly whitish in the deep night.

The two entered through the wall and came to a luxuriously decorated bedroom unimpeded.

Snoring loudly.

Xun Yu lifted the curtain, and suddenly, a pair of dazed eyes opened. Xu Zhishan bounced off the bed with a bang, and stood barefoot on the ground.Just about to yell, his eyes stopped on Xun Yu's face again, then he opened his eyes wide, wiped them vigorously, as if he didn't believe what he saw before, and opened them again, only to see that the two were still there, and finally knew Not dreaming, he opened his mouth wide and said, "You are Xun..." His eyes slid to his left foot, he covered his mouth in a hurry, looked him up and down, and stopped at the seemingly intact left foot again. feet, "Who are you?"

Xun Yu smiled and said, "Master Xu doesn't know me anymore? I even called you uncle."

Xu Zhishan's eyes widened, "Are you really Xun Yu?" With a look of incredulity, "Your feet are alright?"

Xun Yu lifted up his trouser leg, revealing a piece of iron limb, and then put it down again.

Xu Zhishan came to his senses, opened the door hastily, looked left and right, saw no one was outside, quickly closed the door again, and said in a low voice, "Did someone see you coming in?"

Xun Yu shook his head and said, "It is precisely because we are afraid of being seen by others that we purposely visit Mr. Xu in this way. I hope Mr. Xu will not be surprised."

Xu Zhishan gave him a vigilant look, "Why are you looking for me?"

Xun Yulue pondered for a while and said, "I want to see the empress."

Xu Zhishan was slightly stunned, his eyes flickered and he said: "The Empress is going out with His Majesty to sacrifice to heaven, what do you want to do with her?"

Xun Yu's eyes narrowed, "It's a matter of life and death for me and her."

Xu Zhishan seemed to have heard a joke, and said with a sneer: "The 20 troops of the imperial court are besieging you. Now that you are in danger, how can you have the right to discuss important matters with the empress? If she sees you, she will fall faster. You go, For the sake of the past, I will not report you to the emperor. If I don't leave, I will drag me and my empress down, and I will drag you to be buried with me."

"As far as I know, the emperor did go to offer sacrifices to the heavens, but the person he brought with him was obviously Concubine Shu, and the empress did not touch her face at all. I am afraid that it is the Yuluan Palace that is sitting on pins and needles at this time. Xun Jin will come soon If you want the teacher to return to the court, the emperor will definitely make him the crown prince at that time, and the mother is more precious than the son, and the son is also more precious than the mother. At that time, no matter how cautious the empress is, the position of the mother of a country will not be able to sit for a few days. Master Xu He is a smart person, instead of waiting for the enemy to step up to the sky and surpass himself, it is better to fight hard, maybe he can win some hope."

But Xu Zhishan was unmoved, "If you are not a traitor, everything is fine. Since you have caused trouble and offended the emperor, you will also cut off your own retreat. It is useless to talk, go, go. If you don't Let's go, I'll sue the officer."

Xun Yu stared at him for a long time, then cupped his hands and said, "Master Xu, don't rush to make a decision, think about it for two days, and I will visit Master Xu again in two days, and leave."

Coming out of Xu's mansion, the east is already white.

This trip hit a wall again, and Xun Yu's face turned frosty.

In a trance, suddenly a figure bumped into him. Xun Yu didn't notice it for a while, and went straight back a few steps, but was firmly protected by Shen Jun in his arms.Taking a closer look, the man's face was already in front of him.

Only an old voice sounded, trembling with excitement and surprise that was too late to suppress: "It's you! I recognize you, you are Xun Yu, you are actually the second prince Xun Yu!"

The author has something to say: Now comes the climax of the full text, and the next chapter will reveal the truth~