Oriole Line

Hand sword, the assassin is indeed not him.Pu Chen remembered very clearly that his father's sword wound was on his left chest, and the direction of the sword wound was also from upper left to lower right. It was obvious that it was the killer of the person holding the sword in his right hand.At the moment of the assassination, Wen Ji couldn't give up his most proficient left-handed sword and use his right hand to assassinate, so the assassin was not him.

Pu Chen thought for a moment and said: "Thank you, Mr. Qi, for telling me this tonight. I know that Mr. Qi is a close friend with him, and I must be eager to save him, but I need to talk to him before making a decision."

Hearing this, Qi Dai said gratefully: "Young General Xie, after the Major General makes his decision, Wan Wang will tell Qi, and Qi will be waiting for the general's news in Jiankang these few days."

Pu Chen nodded, and Qi Dai then disappeared into the night.

Pu Chen thought to himself that the assassin made Qi Dai come from Guangling specially for him, his character and talent can be seen, so he should have a good chat with him no matter what.

Pu Chen entered the torture room alone. Several candles were lit in the torture room. In the light of the candles, Pu Chen could clearly see the bound boy. His body was covered with whip marks, his chest and back Yes, the wound is no longer bleeding, but the color is still bright red.The boy's teeth chattered, and he tried his best not to make a sound.

Pu Chen walked over, knelt down, and looked at the boy's face.Pu's whipping never hit the face, so the young man's face was still the same as when he saw it yesterday, only a little paler.The boy looked back, with a hint of wariness in his eyes.

"It's obvious that you didn't kill the person, so why carry it?" Pu Chen said.

"I said, it's not me." The boy's voice was a little hoarse.

"It's not that you didn't say who you are, do you think I'm a fool?" Pu Chen chuckled, "Mr. Qi wants to rescue you, do you think I should let you go, Wen Ji?"

When Wen Ji heard Qi Dai's name, he knew that Qi Dai had approached Pu Chen, so he turned his head and didn't answer, and hugged his legs by himself.

"Wen Ji..." Pu Chen muttered the name, "Aren't you from Wu County?"

"I came here as a refugee from the north."

"Which family do you come from? Why don't I remember the family named Wen?"

The corner of Wen Ji's mouth twitched: "In the Jing Dynasty, if you were not born in everyone, you would be regarded as an unknown generation. The so-called 'the upper class has no poor family, and the lower class has no noble family'. I am just from one of the many unknown Han families. How dare you bother the major general to remember?"

Pu Chen was dumbfounded.What he said was right, if it wasn't for everyone, it would be very difficult to have a bright future in Jingchao.Back then, when the Wang and Xie families were in the limelight, as long as they came from these two clans, they would be at least a fourth-rank official position, and even if the poor family had outstanding talents, they would only do some common duties.Pu's family is slightly different, starting with military exploits.After moving to the south, Nanjing continued to use clan politics. While using the children of the big families who moved from the north to the south, he joined forces with the local big families in Wu County to control the court.When I asked myself which family he came from, I just wanted to know his details.His surname is unremarkable, and he was named based on a very common ranking, so he must be from the Han clan.If he had a little family background, how could he not even have a proper name?

Wen Ji looked directly at him, his voice was not loud, and his tone was not turbulent, but there was an inexplicable feeling of repelling others thousands of miles away.Seeing that he was covered in wounds, Pu Chen felt a little sorry when he thought of his life experience: "I'll ask someone to help you bandage the wound. I'm not unreasonable. Since you didn't kill my father, then you should kill my father first." Rest in peace in the mansion." After Pu Chen finished speaking, he walked out on his own.

"Will you let me out when I recover?"

Puchen stopped.To be honest, he hasn't thought about this question yet.Wen Ji was indeed not the assassin who killed Pu Yang, but Wen Ji did have the heart to kill Pu Yang.Letting him out now, there is no guarantee that he will be unfavorable to Pu Shi in the future.If you don't let him go out and stay in Pushi, although it is easy to give him a position, if he has deep hostility towards Pushi in his heart, it is also very dangerous for such a person to stay by his side.

"If I can help you catch the real assassin, can you let me go?" Wen Ji's voice came.

"How do you do it?" Pu Chen tried his best to suppress the surprise in his tone.

"Because I was always there that night." Wen Ji said.

Pu Chen made three steps and turned back in two steps, eagerly said: "Who is the assassin?"

"After it's done, you'll let me out and never embarrass me again?" Wen Ji stared at him, his eyes seemed to be piercing his heart, that kind of eyes made Pu Chen feel that any lies would be powerless at this moment, he could only use Real promises come in exchange.

"As long as you don't make trouble for Mrs. Pu, I will never make it difficult for you after the matter is done." Pu Chen said with certainty.

"Okay, it's a deal." Wen Ji whispered in Puchen's ear, "This is not a place to talk, I won't be able to move for two days, after three days, please find a place to hide from others, we will Let's discuss together. In these two days, the major general should not step here again. You should send your trusted soldiers to guard the door. Don't bring in anything except medicine for sores and food, and don't let anyone in. If anyone asks , just say that an irrelevant person was shut down."

Although Pu Chen was full of doubts, he still said as he said: "Listen to you. I will make arrangements in three days."

9, 9.

Three days later it was a rainy day.In Jiankang, after the cold dew and autumn rain, the weather starts to turn cold.The houses in the south are mostly green bricks, and the moss has grown back after drying for a summer, making it damp and slippery.

In the past few days, Pu Chen slept until the sun was up, and he handed over all the funeral ceremonies to Cai Bo, making him very busy.It was okay at the beginning, but from the third day, Pu Xuanzhi began to spread some unpleasant words.

"Oh? What did he say?" Pu Chen listened to Tang Yu's report with great interest, with his feet on the desk.

"What is the new funeral of the great Sima, the young master is slack every day, and does not ask about general affairs; what the young master has no respect for his elders, and is disrespectful to his uncle." Tang Yu rambled and said a lot.

"Hahahaha." Pu Chen said with a smile, "I heard that he has been in contact with the courtiers every day in the past few days, he must have said a lot of things that I don't like."

"Young master." Tang Yu looked at Pu Chen worriedly, "The young master has not taken any official position in the court at present. If he arranges the young master in this way, the life of the young master will be difficult."

"Oh, he's right. I really slack off every day, and I don't respect him very much. But..." Pu Chen fell into deep thought as he spoke. Today is the day of meeting with Wen Ji. He had better find There is a reason to lure Pu Xuanzhi away, lest he find any clues.

"Tang Yu, are the invitations for the funeral ready?" Pu Chen asked suddenly.

"It was drawn up yesterday."

"The one in the palace, let Tang Shu deliver it." Pu Chen lazily said, "It is estimated that some people in the palace also want to see him, so I will give them this chance."

After noon, the rain became heavier, and the rainwater on the corridor hit the Taihu stones.Pu Chen and Tang Yu led the horses, put on rain hats, and walked out of the gate boldly.Cai Bo came up and asked, "Is the young master going out?"

Pu Chen said: "I've been here for the past few days, I'm so suffocated, go outside the city to loosen my muscles and bones." Pu Chen grew up in Wuchang, and Wuchang is empty.

Cai Bodao: "It's raining heavily today, young master, don't you want to go another day?"

"No need." Pu Chen rushed out of the city without looking back.

After leaving Beili Gate, Pu Chen went around to Yanque Lake. He asked Tang Yu to secretly arrange a cruise ship two days ago, and sent his confidants to pick up Wen Ji quietly in the morning.At this moment, Yanque Lake is hazy with mist and rain, and in the distance, a cruise ship is floating in the mist and rain.The cruise ship docked, Pu Chen took off the rain hat, and Tang Yu got in one after the other. Wen Ji was already sitting inside, and the person who punted the boat was a trustworthy personal guard.Pu Chen waved his hand and told the guards to close the hatch, and propped the boat to the middle of the lake.

"Okay, can we talk now?" Pu Chen cut to the chase, staring at Wen Ji.

Wen Ji wore a cloak, and the skin under the cloak was as white as jade.He poured a cup of hot tea for Pu Chen and said, "It's getting cold, let's have a cup of hot tea first."

Pu Chen took the tea and drank it down. Seeing that the welts on Wen Ji's wrist had begun to scab, a feeling of irritability suddenly rose in his heart.

Seeing Pu Chen's gaze, Wen Ji covered his wrist with his sleeve and said, "I probably guessed the major general's actions in the past two days."

"Oh, guess who is the assassin? Who is the assassin?" Tang Yu went in without knowing.

"Cai Bo." Wen Ji and Pu Chen said in unison, but they looked at each other with a little surprise the moment they said it.

"What?" Tang Yu was shocked, "How could it be Cai Bo?"

Pu Chen sighed softly: "As expected."

"How did you guess that?" Wen Ji asked.

"You said that the mansion is not a place to talk. I went back and thought about it carefully. If it is just to guard against Pu Xuanzhi, there is no need to be so careful. Since you can't talk in the mansion, it must be an inner ghost. And once there is an inner ghost, Uncle Cai can't get away with it." Pu Chen said, "But, how can you be sure that Uncle Cai did it?"

"I was on the roof of the Hussar General's Mansion that day. If other assassins came in from outside, I would be able to detect it immediately. In the middle of the night, a servant suddenly said that there was an assassin. I thought I was discovered Who knows that there is no one in the direction that the servant is pointing at." Wen Ji continued, "That day Da Sima brought over five hundred personal guards and just settled down, when he heard that there were assassins, they all ran out one by one. The scene was very tense. It was chaotic. Then Cai Bo suddenly came out and said that Da Sima had been assassinated. Since there were no other assassins in the mansion, it could only be the work of an insider. As for being able to enter Da Sima's room late at night, Cai Bo is naturally the most suspicious."

"So, you mean that before Uncle Cai entered my father's room, my father was not dead at all?" Pu Chen said.

"Exactly, this may be his own