I'm afraid you'll be widowed

Pei Gong met his elder brother Pei Xuan's gaze, and couldn't help thinking carefully.

"Brother Lu was by my side that night, and so were the others..."

"We have been staring at that traitor for a long time, and we were going to attack that night, but the inner guard took the lead. We have never seen the person second brother asked us to find since then."

Pei Gong couldn't help but began to carefully recall that night of lightning and thunder.

That night, when the inner guard appeared, everyone seemed extremely astonished.But from the beginning to the end, it seemed that he was the only one who saw Lin Yuan, the leader of the Internal Guard Association not far away.

But at the beginning, he clearly stood at the farthest position from Linyuan.

According to the military guard's usual style of watching the six roads with eyes and listening to all directions, the first person to notice the distance is probably the little flag officer who is facing that direction.

Pei Gong finally smelled something wrong, and couldn't help frowning at his elder brother Pei Xuan.

"There is a small banner officer surnamed Chen, who was brought by Brother Lu."

"I didn't seem to see him or hear him speak for a while that night."

Pei Xuan sighed softly.

"Even if you say that, it seems that there must be something strange in the cover. I also noticed that this little banner officer surnamed Chen, he is not from Xuanfu, but from Shuntian."

"Furthermore, after Lu Changming and his party returned to Xuanfu, this little banner officer surnamed Chen turned back to Shuntian again. I searched again, but I couldn't find the whereabouts of this person."

"No matter how you look at it, it's really strange."

Pei Gong rubbed his fingertips: "I remember that night, the inner guards tore up the official documents of the Xuanfu guards."

"In this way, Big Brother Lu and the others will be stranded in the capital, unable to return for a while."

"But I pulled out Linyuan's scabbard, but nothing major happened that night. My elder brother said that the co-leader Linyuan didn't seem to want to make trouble that day, but if that's the case, why would he ask his subordinates to tear up the Xuanfu?" Wei's official document? Lu Yin's official document is a big deal, isn't it clear that there will be some disturbance before we stop?"

Pei Xuan was startled, and suddenly took a breath: "According to what you say, it's really strange."

"It's just that the inner guards appear and disappear, and their whereabouts are uncertain, so we can't drag Linyuan out to investigate."

"I can't find Linyuan, and I can't find that little banner official surnamed Chen?" Pei Gong tapped his jaw a few times with his chin propped up, "He will never evaporate from the world. Shuntian, there must be some clues."

"Brother, let's look for it together."

Pei Xuan nodded: "The sorted out things are all in the study."

"If you want to, just ask the housekeeper to show it to you, don't ask me."

"By the way." Pei Xuan said and frowned again, "Father still hasn't calmed down, you know his temper, he is very stubborn. You are also a stubborn cow, why don't you provoke Dad to show you some color? Don't touch Dad's bad luck any more, after a few days, Dad's anger will naturally disappear."

Pei Gong smiled wryly.

Fang Cenxi is like a passer-by who hastily passed away in his life. He only left a glimpse in his twenties before he died in the Lu River without knowing why. Even his last thought was completely lost. Erased.

He really didn't need to make his father angry anymore, so he hastily responded to his elder brother: "Okay, I remember."

Pei Xuan asked again: "I went to pick you up in the woodshed that morning, and saw that someone had given you medicine."

"Who went into the firewood room before me? And covered your wound?"

Pei Gong was slightly dumb, and asked belatedly: "Didn't you help the elder brother to give that medicine?"

Pei Xuan's face was full of bewilderment, and he couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "What? Even you don't know?"

Pei Gong shook his head, and said slowly: "I dreamed that someone hugged me, like the second brother."

"I thought it was you, brother..."

Pei Xuan sighed lightly: "Forget it, this matter is not important, maybe it was my mother who knew about it first."

"At the moment, it's more important to find someone first, and I'll also go find out the whereabouts of this Chen Xiaoqi."

Pei Xuan patted Pei Gong's shoulder lightly, and sighed: "You must have not had a good rest last night, if you feel sleepy, go to sleep and have a rest."

"Don't worry, Big Brother is still there for everything."

"Nowadays we know how to be considerate to others, so big brother is naturally happy, but you also have to eat well, rest well and take care of yourself, so that big brother can really feel at ease."

Pei Gong slightly hooked the corners of his lips, not sure whether he was pleased or self-deprecating.

"Brother, I will take care of myself. I made you and sister-in-law worry too much earlier."

"Second brother has an accident, and everyone in the court is waiting to see our Pei family's good show. I know that only we can wash away the mud splashed on the Pei family."

Pei Xuan looked at Pei Gong, and after a while he patted Pei Gong's shoulder hesitantly: "Jian Rang doesn't need me to say anything more now."

"I go first."

Pei Gong watched Pei Xuan leave before quickly washing and changing clothes.

He bought the yard that Fang Cenxi rented, and yesterday he agreed to bring Bai Langhua back to Duke Liang's mansion to feed him.

After finishing this matter, he still has to go to the study to look through the things that his eldest brother Pei Xuan sorted out for him. He has to find out those people and return his second brother's innocence.

He was used to being with Fang Cenxi before.

At that time, Fang Cenxi always took care of these thoughtful things, but now everything has changed.

The only person he can rely on is himself, and he has to learn to do everything by himself.

Pei Gong knew that there were too many things to do right now, and he had no time to be sad.

Or if you keep yourself busy, you won't have extra thoughts to miss the gentle figure in your heart.

He hastily ate his breakfast, and before leaving the house, he didn't forget to ask the old housekeeper to go to the study to prepare something for him.

It was still early, Pei Gong's eyes were black and blue, but he didn't say a word, just drove towards Tianshui Lane with his head down.

The early sun was rising, and the city was still full of chills.

Pei Gong was dressed in a white shirt, with a smoky blue jacket on the outside, the plain clothes didn't have any patterns, and the gold belt that was expensive before was no longer around his waist, only a ribbon was tied on the outside of the clothes as a cover.

It's just that this ordinary clothes was illuminated by the warm sunshine, which made his appearance extremely handsome, making him stand out even more when walking in the crowd.

But three or two steps, can also attract women's shy eyes.

Pei Gong is still pondering

He suddenly saw the crowd gathering towards the Lu River again.

"Yo, what's going on these two days?"

"Is this the third one? Why are all the dead drifting towards us?"

"It's a very unlucky New Year's Eve, so we must find a Taoist priest to do rituals, let alone something wronged in our area."

Hearing the words in the crowd, Pei Gong couldn't help but cast a glance towards the Lu River.

There was indeed a floating corpse in the river.

It's just that today's body seems to have just fallen into the water not long ago. Although there are horrible blood holes all over its body, its face is clean, unlike Fang Cenxi who was picked up yesterday, who has been soaked to death Sample.

The body seemed to be caught by the stones by the river, but it just moved up and down along the current, but did not float away.

Only then did Pei Gong take a closer look, and the corners of his eyes twitched.

The person lying in the river was none other than the banner officer surnamed Chen that Duke Liang's mansion was looking for.

Pei Gong saw him, so he couldn't help being even more surprised at this moment.

People who were alive at the time are now like bamboo shoots floating in soup, like fluffy catkins floating in spring, like a piece of garbage that no one wants.

In the icy Lu River water, the corpse kept floating with the current, and then sank again.

The people from the Wucheng Bingma Division came forward again cursing, and were about to go down the river to fish for people with their sleeves rolled up.

"Where did this lunatic come from? Killing people one after another, and still daring to throw the corpses into the Lu River, thinking that there is no one in the government office?"

"Didn't you see the blood hole all over the body? It's scary."

"Stop talking nonsense, fish it out, who dares to fetch water from the Lu River now? I think the water seller on the street has made a fortune, why don't we add up and do some business..."

Pei Gong's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

The death of the person in front of him was too coincidental, not to mention if he was an inner guard hiding in Xuanfu Guard, he should never have died so easily.

Those injuries looked new, but where did they come from?Could it be that the inner guard did it?

A look of surprise flashed across Pei Gong's eyes.

Before Fang Cenxi was alive, he was reminded to be careful of the internal guards. Could it be that he was killed and silenced after finding out some clues?

Pei Gong felt as if a knife had been stabbed in his heart.

But he knew that he wanted to find out the "lunatic" who threw his body in the Lu River, and find out the murderer who killed Fang Cenxi in his inner room.

Then he paid back the blood debts owed by that person to the Pei family and Fang Cenxi one by one.

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At the same time, the Xiangling Pavilion in the north of the city had just opened for cleaning, but it had already welcomed guests.

Xiangling Pavilion is located on the street outside the Daming Gate of the Forbidden City.

The furnishings are luxurious, the dishes are rare, the rooms are independent, and the privacy is excellent. It is the banquet place that dignitaries and dignitaries have always liked.

Zeng Zhe saw that the person he was waiting for entered the room, so he crossed his hands and made a bow.

"Men, don't worry, Pei Ying is dead, and no one will ever tell what happened the night the [-] troops on the Xuanfuwei Road were annihilated."

"The nails of knowledge have been thoroughly cleaned up. No one will know that Xuanfuwei's letter of defection to the enemy was written by us."

"He was imprisoned in the dungeon in Linyuan. He had already thrown a dead person in the Lu River before, and now he picked up a few more from the Lu River. Whether it was the Thirteenth Division or the side, thinking of him, wouldn't it make sense? As it should?"

The person opposite Zeng Zhe sat down on his own, and laughed softly when he heard this.

He was dressed in a crimson round-neck gown of Crane Buzi Xiangyun satin, a gold belt made of white jade from rivers and sea water around his waist, and a high soap gauze official hat on his head, as if he had just returned from court.

He was over fifty years old, and he stroked Zeng Zhe's lowered head like petting a dog.

The black gauze wings on the gray hair on the temples trembled and trembled with his laughter.

"As expected of Zeng Zhe, the co-leader of the Thirteenth Division, it's really good."

"This time, I will feel sorry for the old brother of the Pei family in Duke Liang's mansion. In the future, don't forget to burn more paper money and gold treasures. Thank you for helping me on Qingyun Road."

Zeng Zhe sneered again and said respectfully: "Students would like to follow the teacher's teachings."

The man called "Mentor" sneered, and then sipped the tea in front of him, "The only thing left now is the letter, get it back for me."

"Only by letting the emperor see the letter with his own eyes, can the emperor make up his mind to eradicate Liang Guogong's mansion. The Pei family has a traitor who betrayed the king and the country. Either the nine clans will be exterminated, or the family should be ransacked. What else will happen? "

"At that time, the affairs of the frontier army will not be decided by your Ministry of War? Don't you think so?"

Zeng Zhe nodded: "Students rely on their mentors to guide and promote them in the court. The mentor's business is the student's business."

"Teacher, don't worry, the students will definitely try their best."

"Duke Liang's mansion, we won't be staying for long."