Heaven

Jing Mingquan was so anxious that the corners of his mouth were bubbling, he couldn't even imagine that if these two people both... what should he do? !

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"What? You said Fifth Brother is missing!" Jing Mingquan had been really busy for a while after taking over as the commander of the Tianshu Camp, and finally sorted out all the clues. The news was frightening.

"His Royal Highness hasn't returned since he went out yesterday afternoon, and there is no news!" The guard who came to report the news was also sweating profusely with anxiety.

"What happened yesterday, why did you only find out today?" Jing Mingquan said angrily, his mind throbbing.

"The prince rode out with Captain Ji yesterday, and he didn't come back in the evening. We thought it was because it was late in the camp and forgot to send someone to inform. Who would have known that the person who came up early this morning said that the prince did not go to the court. Only then did I realize that things had changed, and the brothers had all scattered around to search for the villain to report to the sixth prince."

Jing Mingquan took a deep breath and asked, "Did Fifth Brother go out with Brother Ji? Which direction did they go?"

"It seems to be going to the south of the city, and the brothers are looking for it along the way."

Jing Mingquan pondered for a while, knowing that it is useless to worry now, the important thing is to find Jing Mingrui's whereabouts as soon as possible.He took out a small bamboo whistle from his pocket, put it near his mouth and blew it three times.Suddenly, an emerald green bird less than the size of a palm flew in from nowhere with a whoosh, and landed on Jing Mingquan's fingertips.Jing Mingquan wrote a few words casually, twisted them into a ball, put them into the small silver pellets tied to the kingfisher's claws, and flicked them with his fingers.The kingfisher immediately disappeared from sight like an arrow leaving the string.

"You wait with me first. I have sent an order to investigate, and there will be news soon. Um... such a big incident has happened, is there any news from the palace?" Jing Mingquan holds all the information in Chu State As a spy, as long as someone saw Jing Mingrui and the others yesterday, they would be able to find out the news quickly.

"Your Majesty is still sick in bed and there is no news. Prime Minister Xiaolu has ordered the Fourth Prince to send the Shenwei Camp to search around the capital."

Jing Mingquan frowned, the emperor didn't act when he heard the news?The Shenwei Camp can't be counted on, it's not bad if people weren't robbed by them.But the Tianshu camp cannot act without a military order. Could it be that they can only rely on the small number of spies in their hands?

After a while, a man with the appearance of a shrewd businessman was ushered into the camp.

Jing Mingquan suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and asked calmly, "What's the news?"

The man bowed his hands to Jing Mingquan, and said: "Yesterday, the crown prince and General Ji went out before the hour, and went all the way to the southern outskirts of the city. First, they entered the house of a tattoo master surnamed Zhou, stayed for more than half an hour, then got on their horses and walked slowly. Going back. Later, I stopped at a place called Ping’an Restaurant, and ordered some food to have dinner there, but after entering the private room, no one saw them come out. Now Ah Xuan is checking the tattoo master’s house. Xiao Yao led people to control the wine shop and is interrogating people. Also, the brothers monitoring the Shenwei camp reported that there was nothing unusual there yesterday."

Jing Mingquan pondered for a moment, pondered over these few clues, and said, "Fifth Brother never eats in a private room, there may be something wrong with that restaurant, take me to check it immediately."

"I'll go with you too." Lao Gao who was standing aside said suddenly.

Jing Mingquan gave him a puzzled look.

"With the martial arts of the two of them, I'm afraid they won't be captured so easily if they don't resort to some indiscriminate means." Lao Gao explained.

Jing Mingquan nodded. With such a big expert in medicine, he should be able to find some clues.

Ping An Restaurant...

"Then that expressionless guest in black robe asked you for a private room as soon as he walked in?" Jing Mingquan interrogated the waiter with a cold face.

"Yes, as soon as the two guest officers arrived, the one in the black robe handed the younger one a silver ingot, saying that he wanted a private room, and ordered some convenient side dishes, so that the younger one could serve them as soon as possible."

The waiter in this shop never expected that a group of murderous men in black rushed into the shop not long after it opened today.The leader of the team was a little girl with an angry face. With a wave of her hands, her subordinates drove all the guests away. Then she found a private room and called the shopkeeper, the accountant, and the waiter in for questioning. The sleeping proprietress was not spared either.

He frightenedly told the situation of the guest they asked about. Unexpectedly, the other party immediately changed several people and asked him many times.In the end, the girl who led the team asked him again, saying that he had something to hide, and asked him to squat in a corner and recall the memories carefully.He also pointed to a one-armed and one-eyed man beside him and said that it was because he accidentally missed a word that he became like this.The waiter in the shop was startled when he saw it. My god, this little girl is really cruel and merciless. I secretly regretted why I went to entertain the two guests yesterday because I saw that the two guests were dressed well. I knew it would be like this It's better to give it to Xiao Chen.

He squatted in the corner for half an hour. The young man who came back looked stronger than the little girl. The waiter was so scared that he half died, and tremblingly told what happened yesterday.

"After you served the food, they closed the door tightly and said no disturbing?" Jing Mingquan felt that this was weird. Jing Mingrui was used to staying in the military camp when he was a child, and he liked to sit and eat in the lobby most of all. Could it be that the two of them had a relationship? What should we discuss in private?Or did you discover something strange at the time?

"Yeah, after about an hour later, I went to ask if there was anything else I needed, but I didn't expect that no one answered after knocking on the door for a long time. I pleaded guilty, opened the door and went in to see the room. There was no one there. By the way, the windows were still closed at that time. I wondered how these two people left after eating the Bawang meal?"

"Fart! How can my fifth brother know how to eat the overlord's meal!" Jing Mingquan frowned, and smashed a table of eight immortals with his palm.

Xiao Er's face turned green with fright, it would be a good idea to slap someone on someone's body, and quickly waved his hand: "Yes, yes, those two guest officials looked very handsome, they must have left in a hurry. You can't hold back your mouth, damn it!"

Jing Mingquan asked for a long time but didn't find out why, a little discouraged, he waved someone to take him down.He asked each of his subordinates for their statements, and all of them saw people coming in but not going out, and they didn't notice any suspicious people appearing.He checked the box carefully again, but found no trace of fighting.If it is said that people jumped out of the window by themselves, it is somewhat possible, but what is the reason?If the store waiter remembers correctly, who closed the window?

Jing Mingquan couldn't understand it.He looked up and saw Lao Gao standing motionless in front of the charcoal basin in the lobby, frowning.

"Why did you come here and start a fire?" Jing Mingquan walked over and patted Lao Gao on the shoulder.

"I'm afraid it wasn't done by Chu people this time." Lao Gao said in a deep voice.

Jing Mingquan raised his eyebrows: "What did you find?"

"Someone here once burned the incense of the lost soul, and the person who smelled it was in a trance for a while, and had no memory at all." Lao Gao pointed to the brazier and said.

"You said Fifth Brother was drugged and robbed?" Jing Mingquan couldn't believe it. His elder brother was almost invulnerable to all poisons, so he shouldn't be so easily controlled by drugs.

"Lost Soul Incense is only for other people in the store, so that they can rob people openly. As far as I know, they should have another kind of vicious hidden weapon that may hurt Jing Mingrui and make him lose the power to resist. It's just that It's impossible for Jing Mingrui and Ji Kongqing to be plotted against at the same time..." Lao Gao wondered.

"Who are they...? The foreigners you are talking about are from the south or the east?" Jing Mingquan almost lost control of his anger when he heard the "venomous hidden weapon". He suppressed his anger and asked through gritted teeth.

"They can be regarded as my old acquaintances." Lao Gao's tone was gloomy, "Hey, I heard that since the old sect master died, the entire Nanhua sect has been very close to Ji Xi."

Upon hearing this name, Jing Mingquan gritted his teeth loudly, and after a while, he said: "I will immediately go to the palace to find my father, and only after I have a military order can I send someone to search for Fifth Brother, which is to dig three feet into the ground. I want to get him back!"

Lao Gao thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that they came prepared this time, colluding internally and externally, and His Majesty has not responded so far, and I am afraid that there will be changes in the palace."

Jing Mingquan felt that this remark made sense, pursed his lips and thought for a while and said: "Yes, I will sneak into the palace to investigate first, it would be best if I can contact Father, if even Father is under control, then I will Try to rescue first."

Lao Gao nodded and said, "Take me with you. If His Majesty is drugged by the Nanhua Sect, I should have a solution."

Chu Palace...

Although he brought Lao Gao who didn't know martial arts, Jing Mingquan quickly found the emperor's bedroom.

"Did you see what kind of poison was in it?" Jing Mingquan realized something was wrong shortly after entering the door. Jing Yan didn't seem to be asleep, but rather in a coma, no matter how he called, he didn't respond.

"It's strange...it doesn't seem to be poisoned." Lao Gao checked carefully for a while, and the more he looked, the more confused he became.

"Isn't it poisoning? Is it really sick?" Jing Mingquan also felt very strange.

"If I'm really sick, can I still not see it? The blame is that I'm lethargic for no reason, and my body still shows signs of weakness." Lao Gao checked his pulse for a while, and frowned.

"Weakness for no reason?" Jing Mingquan wondered.

"It seems that something caused His Majesty to gradually lose his vitality in a coma. If this continues for less than ten days, His Majesty will probably..." Lao Gao estimated that the result would not be optimistic.

"What! Do you have a way to treat it?" Jing Mingquan was devastated, his brother disappeared inexplicably, and now his father was strangely unconscious.

"It's weird, it's really weird. Let's take some of His Majesty's blood and go back to study it, but I'm really not sure." Lao Gao suggested.

Without hesitation, Jing Mingquan grabbed Jing Yan's arm and picked up the dagger to draw blood.

"Sixth brother entered the palace late at night, is he planning to assassinate the father?" A voice suddenly sounded.