Oriole Line

In the darkness, Pu Chen controlled Wen Tao and threw him on the bed, while he sat by the table and buried his head in his hands. It seemed that with this method, he could force himself not to look at him. You can't smell the hangover soup with the smell of green grass, and you only have a pair of ears to pay close attention to the movement around you.He carried a dagger with him today, and he had already figured it out, if Wen Tao made any unusual noises, he could kill him instantly.

After about a quarter of an hour, Wen Tao didn't say a word, but his civet cat came out of nowhere and let out a "meow".

"Taotao." Wen Tao called softly.

Pu Chen turned his head quickly, and saw the civet cat climbed onto the bed, rubbing against Wen Tao affectionately, with its tail raised high, sweeping Wen Tao's chin.Wen Tao lowered his head slightly, and smiled lightly at the civet cat, the smile instantly melted in Pu Chen's heart, Pu Chen turned his head, stopped the melting warmth, and sighed softly into the void.

Wen Tao shifted his gaze to Pu Chen, he didn't drink alcohol today, his eyes became clearer, but after all, he didn't have the spirit of looking down on the world like before.

"You must be laughing at me in your heart?" Pu Chen seemed to be talking to himself.

Wen Tao's words were clear: "No." Pu Chen stared at Wen Tao, seeing him looking at him fixedly, as if he believed in himself many times before, as if he was real.

Pu Chen turned his head away mockingly, but Wen Tao said, "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. But I have something to give you, about General Xiang."

"Oh?" Pu Chen looked at him suspiciously, and his first reaction was that Wen Tao was playing some trick again, but since he mentioned Xiang Hu, he couldn't help but arouse Pu Chen's mind.After the Wuchang Army was split up, Pu Chen never heard from Xiang Hu. He thought that Xiang Hu would return to Jinyang, where he had allocated [-] mu of fertile land to the Xiang family, but he had never seen Xiang Hu in Jinyang. , Pu Chen asked Lei Xiong and Tang Yu again, but neither the Liangzhou Army nor the Ningzhou Army had any trace of Xiang Hu.

"Do you know where he went?" Pu Chen raised his eyebrows.

Wen Tao nodded: "On the inside of the front of my jacket, there are General Xiang's things. You can get them yourself."

Pu Chen stared at Wen Tao for a long time, his limbs were bound, so there shouldn't be any threat.But, this is Wen Tao after all...

Seeing Pu Chen hesitate, Wen Tao said: "If you don't trust me, you can find a personal guard you trust to get it."

Ask others to get things from the inside of the front of Wen Tao's middle coat, and the inside of the middle coat is obscene clothes... no.Pu Chen made a decisive decision and stretched out his hand to Wen Tao's front.Wen Tao was already cold, and just now he sneaked all the way through the wind and snow. Now, except for the temperature of the hangover soup on the outside of the front, it was not as good as the temperature of Pu Chen's hand when he probed inside.

"Why is it so cold?" Pu Chen subconsciously asked.

Wen Tao drooped his eyelids slightly, as if a little bit wronged.Pu Chen didn't look at him, and continued to probe inside. Before Xiang Hu found anything, Wen Tao's heartbeat was clear, and it hit Pu Chen's palm, beating faster and faster, the familiar frequency All the memories between the beds that he carried flooded into Pu Chen's heart in an instant, making Pu Chen upset.

"What is it..." Before Pu Chen finished speaking, he touched a small thing wrapped in a brocade handkerchief. He took it out and saw that it was Xiang Hu's knuckles!

110, 110.

The one-fingered knuckle tiger was made of fine iron, and it was a gift from Pu Yang back then, so Xiang Hu has been wearing it on his thumb for so many years, not only for self-defense, but also for his old Patriarch.When Pu Chen saw it, his complexion changed: "He never leaves this knuckle, why do you have it?"

Wen Tao frowned.

"Is it Sijian Pavilion?" Pu Chen stood up abruptly, looking down at Wen Tao who was sitting on the bed, with great oppression, "What did you do to him?"

Wen Tao raised his face: "I won't hide it from you, Xiang Hu is dead. Moreover, he died a year ago, the day you saw me for the last time."

Pu Chen narrowed his eyes: "At that time...how did Xiang Hu fall into Si Jiange's hands?"

"He didn't fall into Sijian Pavilion at that time, but before that, two days before Qi Dai called you into the palace, he was already caught by Qi Dai."

"Impossible!" Pu Chen was categorical, "At that time, you hadn't..." Pu Chen didn't continue. He originally wanted to say that you hadn't betrayed me, but he swallowed the words.

"A Pu." Wen Tao wrote clearly, "It wasn't because I pleaded guilty, or...you thought I betrayed you, that Si Jiange arrested Xiang Hu. The order of these two events, and the cause and effect The relationship is reversed."

"Successive... and cause and effect?" Pu Chen repeated, and at the same time quickly recalled what happened in those few days.First, Zhou Yu issued an order to dismantle the Wuchang army, and Xiang Hu was outraged. Then Wen Tao was taken away by Qi Dai because he was suspected of cheating in the imperial examination. The case was closed... In those few days, when was the last time he saw Xiang Hu?It was the day Wen Tao was taken away!After that day, he was basically in the study, and only Tang Yu took care of his daily life. After Wen Tao was arrested, he never saw Xiang Hu again!

So what Wen Tao meant was that Xiang Hu was first arrested by Si Jiange before he pleaded guilty, or betrayed him.

Pu Chen grabbed Wen Tao's shoulder and said, "Why did Qi Dai arrest him? Use him to threaten you?" He thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, if you just use him to threaten you, you won't plead guilty. It's not big enough."

"He really doesn't have enough bargaining chips to make me plead guilty." Wen Tao said, "Besides, from the few days when I was taken away by Qi Dai to the days when you were finally called to Luoyang Palace, Si Jiange should have never been to your house. That is to say, Xiang Hu was not arrested in Pufu."

"That's right." Pu Chen recalled, "Qi Dai's people didn't come here in those few days. Therefore, Xiang Hu was not arrested at my house, then he was..." Pu Chen stared at Wen Tao, Xiang Hu Hu was taken to Sijian Pavilion in a place other than Pufu. If he could be taken away quietly and used as a bargaining chip for Wen Tao to plead guilty, it could only be... in the palace!

Pu Chen's pupils constricted, Wen Tao nodded, expecting that Pu Chen had already guessed: "It's in the palace."

"In the palace?" Pu Chen asked suspiciously, "How could Xiang Hu get into the palace? He had a quarrel with Han Ji, the commander of the Forbidden Army."

"If he had entered through the palace gate, he wouldn't have committed such a heinous mistake that I would have to plead guilty to deal with his aftermath."

"It's not a palace gate, could it be..." There was a sudden bang in Pu Chen's mind, as if the long-standing blurred and specious picture shattered to the ground, clearly revealing the cold truth inside, and this truth could explain everything he had. It used to be impossible to explain things that were difficult to distinguish between true and false.

"Is it a secret passage?" Pu Chen's voice trembled from the depths of his throat, "He kept a hand and didn't fill up all the secret passages."

Wen Tao nodded his head: "What he kept was the secret passage leading to the Mingzheng Palace. Xiang Hu was caught by Qi Dai's men as soon as he came out of the secret passage. It is a crime of treason."

Pu Chen took a deep breath, and thousands of clues came one after another.If Xiang Hu had committed the crime of treason, he could still be the commander of the Youzhou Army here, Zhou Yu was too kind to him.And, although Xiang Hu committed the crime of treason, he should have been captured by the imperial army, not Si Jiange... And Wen Tao, what role does Wen Tao play in it?

Seeing that Pu Chen was in doubt, Wen Tao said: "This matter is a long story. Therefore, I came to Youzhou this time to explain it to you. Qi Dai imprisoned me for a year, and once I left Sijian Pavilion , I came to Youzhou immediately. It was the first time I came here three days ago."

Pu Chen thought for a moment and sneered: "You don't think I'll believe you just because of your few words and Xiang Hu's pointing fingers? Did you say anything you said in Luoyang Palace a year ago? It's just fart? You disappeared for a year. Too many, it hurt me the first time it appeared, and knocked me out when I was drunk."

"And feed you hangover soup." Wen Tao added in a low voice.

Pu Chen choked for a moment, remembering the hangover soup and dream three days ago, and felt that his ears were burning for no reason.

"A Pu." Wen Tao said suddenly.Pu Chen raised his eyes. "It's almost time to be ugly, it doesn't seem right." Wen Tao remembered that when he came last time, he spent less time in the room than this time. The last time he left was because the guard was about to wake up. This time there was no movement at all. ?

Pu Chen's ears, which were still slightly hot just now, moved keenly at this moment, and suddenly, he threw Wen Tao into the quilt, lowered the bed curtain, and said in a low voice: "Don't talk." He didn't know where he went for a moment .

Wen Tao's limbs were bound and he couldn't move, and was thrown into the bedding by Pu Chen, and his whole body was wrapped up like a silkworm chrysalis.In the darkness, Puchen's door opened with a "squeak", followed by footsteps.Wen Tao identified it, and there was only one person, definitely not Pu Chen.

Through the curtain of the bed, Wen Tao saw a black shadow moving quickly towards the bed. The man was wearing night clothes and his face was covered, and his identity was unknown.The man stepped up to the bed, opened the bed curtain, saw a person lying on the bed, and took out something from his boots, Wen Tao felt a cold light flash, it was a dagger!Wen Tao couldn't move, but according to what Pu Chen said, he didn't make a sound, but stared fixedly at the man in black.The man in black was about to stab him with a dagger, but suddenly saw that the person on the bed was awake at all, staring at him with peach blossom eyes.

Not Puchen!

The people in black were in turmoil, and in the darkness, he and Wen Tao met each other's eyes.Wen Tao's whole body was under the quilt. He didn't know that Wen Tao's limbs were tied up, so he thought that he might strike back at any time. After a moment of hesitation, the man in black raised his dagger again and stabbed Wen Tao fiercely. go……

In the blink of an eye, the movement of the man in black suddenly stopped.