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Wei Junyan naturally followed Qin Jianshen's people, but lost them.

"Lost?"

Qin Jianshen's eyes were dark and his tone was calm, but An Wufeng felt his back go cold. As the head of the secret agents in the Anbu, he was best at tracking and investigating, but he failed repeatedly against the young master of the Wei family. Deserving death, he buried himself on the ground without any limelight, and reported back, "Mr. Wei went to General Li's mansion first, and happened to meet Li Zhan chasing and killing the thief, and Mr. Wei rescued the thief... I am ashamed, and followed Fifty miles away from Beijing, we lost the trace of Mr. Wei." An Wufeng did not return to Beijing immediately after being lost, but searched the place within a radius of [-] miles, and the two rescued by Third Young Master Wei were one It's a baby in swaddling clothes, a person who is seriously injured and dying. Where can ordinary people escape, but Wei Sanshao seems to have evaporated from the world, leaving no trace. Come back and reply, "This subordinate is incompetent, please punish me, my lord."

Qin Jianshen shook his head slightly, "It's not your fault, he does have some weird things."

When An Wufeng came back, he had long been determined to die. Unexpectedly, Qin Jianshen didn't blame him this time, and at the same time his heart relaxed, he was even more determined to Qin Jianshen. He raised his head and then replied, "Master Mingjian... ...If my subordinate reads correctly, the cold light sword that Young Master Wei rescued from the envoy must be King Lingyang."

Qin Jianshen's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, and the jade seal he was playing with in his hand broke into two pieces without paying attention. Eight thousand miles, are you sure it's him?"

An Wufeng kowtowed and said, "This subordinate is sure to read correctly, King Lingyang has robbed the sixth prince."

Hearing that the sixth prince was also wrapped in it, Qin Jianshen tightened his fingertips holding the jade seal, "When did you follow the lost person?"

"Four nights ago."

In the night of four days ago, that is to say, it has been four days since Wei Junyan saw Su Yan, and he has not received any news related to it. Qin Jianshen stared at the black emptiness in front of him. The hanging heart was half cold first.

The narrow room became silent for a while, and he knelt on the ground in the dark without wind, a layer of cold sweat slowly broke out on his back, he didn't dare to look up, his eyes were fixed on the ground, he didn't even dare to breathe. asthma.

Two regular taps came from outside the window, breaking the stagnant atmosphere in the room, and An Wufeng secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't think as much as Qin Jian, and he didn't think much about King Lingyang's return to Beijing. Take it to heart.

Qin Jianshen thinks a lot. What he thinks the most is that it has been more than four days. Why Wei Junyan has not come back? Even if he does not come back, he should send the news back. King Lingyang has returned to Beijing without authorization. If he hadn't put someone by Wei Junyan's side, he might still be kept in the dark when King Lingyang came.

Anbu once handed over the full power to Wei Junyan, and An Wufeng and Wei Junyan knew each other. After speculating secretly for a while, he hesitated and said, "Mr. Wei must be delayed by something. As long as the Wei mansion is still there, Mr. Wei must stand It's on the son's side."

The irritability in Qin Jianshen's heart was suppressed for a while, and when he heard the words, he rubbed his swollen temples, and said in his heart, "There is no need to use someone who is suspicious, as long as Wei Sinian is still around, Wei Junyan will not be able to make a fool of himself." Come."

The people outside the window waited impatiently, and hurriedly buckled a few times regardless of the offense. Qin Jianshen came back to his senses, waved and said, "Let him in."

An Wuying came in, hurriedly bowed to Qin Jianshen, handed the secret letter to Qin Jianshen, kowtowed and said, "Report to my son, things have changed. Li Zhan, that bastard, conspired against him, and falsely passed on the imperial decree to confiscate things." The Empress Dowager, Concubine Hu and others have all been locked up in the Heavenly Prison, and will be executed at the Meridian Gate at noon tomorrow."

Qin Jianshen is very sensitive to the word Hu. When he heard the word Taifei Hu, he sneered and said, "He is not stupid. He guessed my head and wanted to force me to show up. It depends on whether I will take the bait or not." OK."

Hearing what Qin Jianshen said, An Wufeng breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Master is wise, Li Zhan wants to use the concubine to blackmail you, so he must have set up an ambush. This matter... you should leave it to your subordinates. I swear to the death to bring the concubine back..."

"You don't have to worry about this matter." Qin Jianshen shook his head, took out two imperial decrees drafted in advance, one for An Wuying and one for An Wufeng, and said in a deep voice, "The Shen family and the Beiming family The matter is more important, take care of Beimingquan, don't let the news out, take one of the two imperial edicts to Beimingyuan, he knows what to do, and send the other to Shenxing, Wufeng, you carefully watch his Response, if he is willing to act according to the order, then that's fine. If he is not willing, there is no need to be merciful. He should deal with the person cleanly and quickly, and immediately go to Shen Yue, the second son of the Shen family. He wants to be the head of the Shen family. , you can help him."

Qin Jianshen paused slightly as he spoke, and handed An Wufeng a thumb-sized blue and white porcelain vase, and continued, "Shen Yue's idiot is not only greedy for power and profit, but also greedy for life and fear of death. Take a little pain, he will be obedient."

Anbu has always done some shady things. The meaning of their life is to obey orders. There is no right or wrong. , "It's not peaceful in the capital... Your subordinate will transfer Anqing back to protect you?"

Qin Jianshen shook his head, "No need, my martial arts are not weaker than yours, and you all perform your own duties and obey your orders."

An Wufeng agreed, but before leaving, he thought of something again, and said, "Young Master, the prescription that Anqing secretly changed has already been quite effective. Why don't you find time to take a look, Young Master, it's behind the mountain."

When Qin Jianshen heard the words, there was finally some light in his dark eyes, "How is the effect?"

An Wufeng's usually stagnant face showed some expressions, and his tone was excited, "It's really as powerful as the young master guessed, but the amount produced is not much. An Qing asked the subordinates to ask the young master if there are any materials left. After studying it secretly for many days, I couldn't tell what the black powder was made of. If there was no shortage of this thing, let alone Li Zhan's 50 elite soldiers, even the [-] troops of King Lingyang would not be enough. fear."

Qin Jianshen heard the words, shook his head and said, "The powder is gone, there are not many things, it needs to be used on the blade, let An Jing An Qing hide the things so that no traces are exposed, and just stand by."

An Wufeng was disappointed and had no other choice, so he took the order and left.

When An Wufeng left, Qin Jianshen was the only one left in the meditation room. Wei Xiaolang lied to Wei Sinian that Yun Lingzi was ripe and fruit-dropped, and Wei Jun said that he would go to Biyun Mountain to collect herbs. In the Biyun Temple on Yunshan Mountain, wait for the fruit to ripen, and then come back after picking it.

Because Biyun Mountain is on the outskirts of Beijing, the abbot of Biyun Temple and the Wei family are also acquaintances. Wei Junyan was originally obsessed with the art of medicine and poison, and would go to Biyun Temple for a few days every year, so Wei Xiao When Lang said so, Wei Sinian not only didn't doubt it, but felt that the capital is troubled now, Wei Jun said that it would be better to go to the mountain to avoid it, so he didn't ask much, and when Wei Xiaolang reported, he let them go out Yes, it's just that the young master has gone, and the personal servants will naturally follow, so Qin Jianshen and Wei Xiaolang packed up their things and followed to Biyun Temple, planning to stay until Wei Junyan came back.

Wei Xiaolang was very familiar with Biyun Temple, and when he came here, he happily ran to play with the little monk he knew well. After coming here for five days, he had been fooling around with the little monk for five days, and Qin Jianshen was alone in the room of.

Biyun Mountain is also considered a good place for Tibetans. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water on the other. When the spring rains and summer thunders overflow, a Milky Way waterfall can be pulled out, which looks very spectacular.

It's just that this long embankment and dam was not natural, but was built by Tai Zu when Liangzhou was established as the capital in the first year of the Yasukuni.

At that time, Jing Taizu wanted to use the Bianhe River as the defense line of Liangzhou. In addition, the Bianhe River was often flooded, and the imperial court allocated funds for disaster relief every year. A group of people, using the waterfall valley between Biyun Mountain and Qingyun Mountain, built a [-]-foot-high dike wall on the valley for eight years, forcibly cutting Biyun Mountain and Qingyun Mountain across the board. It became two parts, and the Bianhe River changed its course on the boundary of Liangzhou. It circled around Liangzhou City and became a solid moat. The water is too deep, many people have died, and it is inexplicably tainted with some unfathomable smell, and fewer and fewer people come to visit and watch it. Even the Biyun Temple next to it has become a quiet place for people to live in. For ten days and a half months, there were only a few poor monks on the mountain back and forth. For Qin Jianshen, it was much more convenient to do things than in Weifu.

Biyun Temple is a Qing temple. There are only five or six people in the temple, including presiding officers and monks. They don’t receive any incense money, so life is very tight. One nail will be used, to save the little money for food, even candles are rarely used in the temple, Wei Xiaolang used to bring Wei Junyan alone, now that Wei Junyan is away, Wei Xiaolang eats and lives with his companions Together, how can I think of Qin Jianshen.

The meditation room was pitch black, and it was a bit like Wei Junyan's hidden secret room.

Qin Jianshen went to bed in the dark, turned around and moved twice, the wooden bed that had been in disrepair for a long time was worse than the couch in the secret room, it rattled as soon as it moved, and Qin Jianshen shook it twice , found it meaningless, came across the booklet next to the pillow, picked it up and flipped through it boredly, and read two lines of scrawled characters that he knew so well by heart under the moonlight leaking from the roof, and saw that it happened to say Beimingyuan His natural preferences were thrown aside a little irritably. With such a thick book, the sentence "Bei Mingyuan has a good relationship with Taoduanxiu, and has a deep friendship with his fourth brother Beimingquan" can come in handy. Useful, others are useless nonsense, Wei Laosan hopes that he will use the art of benevolence, and he must be given enough time.

Qin Jianshen drove everything related to Wei Junyan out of his head, and went through the news sent by Anbu in his mind. After making sure that there was nothing missing, he slowly relaxed. He was busy with the Shen family for three to five days. He basically didn't sleep much with Beiming's family. He was lying on the bed with cicadas singing and birds chirping in his ears, and he fell into a drowsy sleep after a while.

Qin Jianshen didn't sleep very well, he was half awake and half confused. On the one hand, he still remembered that he was an adult, but on the other hand, he was pulled back to his childhood, and he fell into a quagmire. He has been outside the high wall countless times.

It was a living tomb specially prepared by the emperors of the past for their disobedient harem. Inside it were buried dead, alive, awake, unconscious, countless withered bones and beauties, separated by a high scarlet wall. The world, with its back against the Hunting Mountain, is often filled with thick mist, cold and damp, and looks like a cold-blooded and ruthless monster, with its bloody mouth wide open, waiting to swallow someone in, and then spit out bones.

Normal people can go in and out like crazy, not to mention Hu Meiren who is already delirious.

Qin Jianshen's impression of this place began when he was four or five years old. At that time, he was lying on the ground working for his royal brothers, and his ears were full of low breeds, raised by lunatics. He didn't quite understand the purpose of his brothers and brothers at that time, he just knew that he had to endure this kind of time, and when his brothers had had enough fun, he would I can live in peace for a while.

At this time, he saw the crazy Hu Meiren.

She rushed out with disheveled hair, with amazing strength, she threw the woman who was in charge of her to the ground in twos and twos, cursing and uttering some languages ​​that humans could not understand, and baring her teeth and claws at the group of Huangtian nobles Throwing stones, but in the blink of an eye, frightened a group of princes in the rich nest to run away like beasts, and Qin Jianshen was beaten to the ground and couldn't get up. Shouts and curses, "Crazy Hu killed someone! Beauty Hu is really crazy! Crazy killed someone!"

That was really fresh in my memory.

He hears the name "little bastard born of a lunatic" countless times every day. It's hard to know who Hu Meiren is. Fantasies, but often come back to nothing, so this time suddenly his wish came true, and the impression was very deep. He lay on the ground and raised his head, looking at the pale beauty face in front of him, and stretched out his hand to him with crooked eyebrows and eyes, "Can you still get up?"

That hand was pale in color, like ice, stiff and cold, freezing directly into the heart, Qin Jianshen stared blankly, but blood red gradually gathered in those crooked eyebrows and eyes, more and more gathered, slowly Slowly, it oozes out from the eye sockets, more and more, covering the whole face as white as snow, like a ghost, terrified and frightening, and the hand holding him is getting tighter and tighter, as if wanting to take him too into the endless abyss of hell.

The bell that sang in the temple sang "collapse" resounded throughout Biyun Mountain, and the fluttering sound outside the window creaked like a talisman, Qin Jianshen sat up from the bed abruptly, gruffly. The sound of panting was clearly audible in the dark and small room, and his heartbeat was like a drum. Qin Jianshen tugged on his uncomfortable neckline, sat there panting, and waited for his sweaty clothes to dry slowly, then opened the window continuously. The fluttering pigeon came in, pulled out the mailbox on his lap, and pulled out the secret letter sent by An Wufeng.