The hero bends down

In the early morning of the second day, a guard from the Southwest Army came to report that Ji Munian was wearing armor. When he heard the news from the guard, he frowned and said, "Is it true?"

"Back to the general, the patrol did find his body."

Ji Munian frowned, and after a while he relaxed and said, "Take me to have a look."

After finishing speaking, just as he was about to move forward, he saw a person walking out from the side tent. That person was still adjusting his neckline, and Ji Munian said directly: "You also go with me."

Zhong Su was taken aback, didn't say anything, and followed Ji Munian out of the tent.

This time, the two of them each rode a horse and went to a valley not far from the camp.Ji Munian held the rein in one hand and the knife bestowed by the emperor in the other, wondering what he was thinking.Zhong Su felt weird, but didn't make a sound.

When they reached the depths of the valley, the guard who led the way said, "General, we're here."

Ji Munian regained his composure and dismounted, walking not far away.There were still a few people dressed as guards standing beside that place, Zhong Su couldn't see it clearly, so he also got off his horse and walked with Ji Munian.

A few guards next to him stepped aside, and Ji Munian walked forward, glanced at the corpse, and frowned, "When did you find it?"

"Just this morning when Luo Yi's horse returned to the barracks, we felt something was wrong, so we sent a few patrols to check it out, and reported it to the general after we found it," said the leader of the guards next to him.

When he was speaking, Zhong Su also happened to see the corpse. The corpse was killed by an arrow, fell off the horse again, broke its neck, and turned to one side in a strange posture.He watched silently, staring at the thick red blood arrow dangling in the corpse's throat.

Ji Munian resisted the nausea of ​​the bloody smell, leaned down, groped and turned over the corpse's chest a few times, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and finally said: "When you found him, did you see the letterhead on his body?"

The leader of the Guards said: "I haven't moved since I found the body, just waiting for the general to speak."

Ji Munian got up and looked back at Zhong Su.

Zhong Su also happened to look at him, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Ji Munian glanced sideways at the guards beside him and said, "You guys go down first."

The guards retreated as promised, and then Ji Munian looked at Zhong Su and said, "What did you want to say?"

Only then did Zhong Su lean down and look carefully at the arrow stuck in the guard's throat, with blood-red barbs exuding a cold chill.He frowned and said, "I've seen this kind of arrow before."

After hearing this, Ji Munian asked in surprise, "Have you seen this kind of arrow?"

"That's right." Zhong Su closed his eyes, recalled the scene of the arrow's body entering the ground, and the arrow's tail trembling involuntarily, and said, "I was hit by this kind of arrow before."

Ji Munian was taken aback, he knew that Concubine Xian was killed by an arrow to save Long Yi while hunting, but he was far away in the southwest at that time, so he didn't know the situation at that time.

But this person in front of him is the concubine Xian who once served Long Yi in the Forbidden Palace.

Zhong Su opened his eyes and said, "I don't know if there are many people here who can use this kind of arrow, but this arrow is much heavier than ordinary arrows, and you need someone with great strength to control it."

Ji Munian nodded and said: "I know. There are only a few people in this world who can have the strength of arms." He searched the names of those people in his mind, and finally thought of one person, he couldn't help frowning even more, "I heard that There is a member of the royal family of Southern Chu who has extremely high martial arts skills, I don't know if it is him."

Zhong Su didn't understand what Ji Munian said, but when he thought of his extremely high martial arts, he remembered the guards who broke into Yixi Garden that day.

That person's kung fu is also very powerful.

Ji Munian pondered for a moment, and said: "Although the identity of the archer is secret, but the enemy is hidden from the enemy, this mountain road is the route I specially instructed Luo and his party, it is very hidden."

Zhong Su didn't understand what he meant, and after a while, Fang asked: "Is it possible that General Ji suspects there are spies?"

Ji Munian finally loosened his frown, smiled and said, "It's not sure yet."

Then he said: "Anyway, you can't reveal your identity. The assassin will definitely not suspect you for a while." Although he said this, there was still a worried look in his smile.

He sent two different letters in two different ways before, fearing that someone would secretly intercept the letter and reveal Zhong Su's identity.

For Long Yi, he had to be careful.

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On the other end, Chu Xiyou spread out the crumpled paper again, and looked at the Junxiu handwriting on it.

Letter: "Thinking of the king is always there, Zhongling Yuxiu".

When he first opened the letter and saw Ji Munian's handwriting, he thought it was a "love letter" from Ji Munian to Long Yi, but after careful consideration, he felt that this was absolutely impossible.

Ji Munian was found to have an affair with Long Yi, but according to this person's past behavior, he would never put his personal feelings before the two armies fought, and even sent a trusted aide to personally escort him.

He read it again carefully, but still couldn't understand the key points.

And the next letter that caused Chu Xiyou to fall into deep thought, that is, on the letterhead sent by Ji Munian with a flying pigeon, there were eight other words written on it.

"Suye sighed in sorrow, and returned after a long time."

Three days later, these eight characters entered the imperial city of the capital directly from the carrier pigeon.

Seeing that it was Ji Munian's carrier pigeon, Defu quickly took down the letter box containing the letterhead and walked into the bedroom of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

In the bedroom, the emperor was lying on the bed looking at the book, and there were all kinds of medicine jars beside him. While looking at it, the emperor took a medicine cup and took a sip.Although the juice was thick and bitter, Long Yi only took it as tea. If Defu hadn't tried the medicine himself, he would never have believed that this medicine could make the dignified emperor drink it without blinking.

When Long Yi heard footsteps and saw Defu entering the room, his face turned dark.

Telford has been nagging all the time these few days, and he has been persuading him to take a good rest all day long.In fact, he has nothing to do with himself, but according to Tonghua's words, he let go of some blood, and he can regain his spirit after a while, but the first one in the palace is Defu, the other is Cheng Fengnan, and the one on the left "the emperor must take good care of himself", The one on the right said "the emperor's dragon is not in good health" and forced him to the bed.

These people are all loyal, and he can't say anything, so he has to lie down on the bed.

Right now, his favorite bed is tired and disgusted by such frequent contact.

In the bed, there would have been someone else, who was quite pleasing to him.

But right now, there is still no news about that person.

Long Yi simply turned his back directly, leaving a view of Defu's back.

Knowing Long Yi's temper, Defu had no choice but to say behind Long Yi's back: "Your Majesty, General Ji has sent a letter."

Long Yi was bored inside and said: "Read."

Defu said: "General Ji only wrote eight words, saying that it was 'sorry at night, returning late'."

Long Yi let out an "oh" and continued to revise the notes.

Telford stood aside.

After a while, Long Yi slightly raised his head: "Defu, read the content of the letter just now."

Telford groaned and read it again.

Long Yi stared, turned his face, turned to Defu, and asked, "Did Mu Nian send any other letters?"

"If you go back to the emperor, it's gone." Defu said.

Long Yi's eyes were still wide open, and he said, "Su Ye sighs sadly, which Su is it?"

Defu replied: "It is the Su character that the emperor ordered to seal."

Long Yi got up from the bed with a "chuckle" and stretched out one hand towards Defu.

Defu hurriedly handed the letter paper to Long Yi, and Long Yi just took the letter paper regardless of the pain behind him. Although there were only eight characters on the letter paper, Long Yi stared at the line of words and read them over and over again for more than ten times.

Then he raised his voice and said, "How far is it from the capital to the southwest?"

Defu didn't know the approximate number, so he lowered his head and recalled: "I remember that when General Ji led his troops to the southwest, it took half a month before the pigeons returned to safety."

A light flashed in Long Yi's eyes, and he said bluntly, "If it's a fast horse, how long?"

Defu was slightly startled, and said: "Your Majesty, the dragon body is important."

"..."

Long Yi glanced at Defu, feeling that the excitement he had just arrived was completely extinguished by the father-in-law in front of him, he rubbed his brows helplessly and said: "Defu, I just wanted to send Nighthawk Go find out the news."

"..." Telford stopped at the side.

Then Long Yi said again: "But Defu, your words just woke me up."

"..." Telford was startled.

Long Yi said: "If I want to come, I should also go for a walk."

"..."

"I'm not in good health, so I can relax by going out for a walk." Long Yi directly found an excuse.

"..." Defu was about to speak, when he heard Long Yi "humming" twice: "This matter is tentative, Defu, you don't need to persuade."

At the end, he added another sentence: "I've made up my mind, tell Cheng Fengnan not to drag Mommy in front of me."

Defu was completely speechless at this meeting, so he stood aside and had no choice but to agree.

After Long Yi finished these few words in one breath, his complexion immediately improved, and the old disease on his back also seemed to have disappeared a lot.