The mountains and rivers are quiet and broad

"Xu... Young Master?"

"Liu Hu, you don't know me?" Xu Qingfeng asked deliberately.

How could Liu Hu fail to see that Xu Qingfeng did it on purpose?Dumbfounding, Liu Hu scratched his head in embarrassment: "My lord, let's go quickly, the prince asked us to pick you up."

"Where is the prince?" Xu Qingfeng casually put the door aside.

"Still in the barracks."

"How is the battle now?"

"Three days ago, 8000 enemy soldiers were captured, but they were all from small tribes. In fact, they surrendered without much fighting."

"En." Xu Qingfeng nodded: "Is the prince still in good health?"

"Ah? Very good." Liu Hu didn't understand why Xu Qingfeng asked such a question, but he answered honestly. "My lord, let's go quickly. The prince is very worried about you being in danger for so long."

Liu Hu thought, Mr. Xu must have not seen the prince come to pick him up, so he was a little disappointed. This is Liu Hu's guess with his elm head and only experience.But obviously, Xu Qingfeng didn't intend to go with them, and had other plans.

"How many of you are here?"

"Four people." Liu Hu replied: "There will be a group of people coming tomorrow, and the prince said they are at your disposal."

Xu Qingfeng quickly comprehended what Chen Ke meant, and he nodded thoughtfully—it should be to use a divorce plan.

Just now he listened to Tasiya's words. It is obvious that these small tribes are not voluntarily joining the alliance between the Kazeyado tribe and the Bumi tribe. Chen Ke's positioning and prediction of the entire battle situation are very accurate. I'm afraid they have already laid out a plan to divide them.

Then what can he do for Chen Ke——Xu Qingfeng reinstalled the door on the side, and signaled Liu Hu and others to hide and wait for his instructions.

"Mr. Xu, your plan is..." Liu Hu quickly took over the task of installing the door, and at the same time asked cautiously, worried that Xu Qingfeng would put himself in danger.

Xu Qingfeng glanced at the people on the ground, "Send someone to watch him first." Xu Qingfeng thought for a while and then added: "Send someone back to tell the prince: the Demon Cult disagrees with other people, and their internal strife is serious, and it will explode soon."

--split line--

The emperor didn't go to court today, and the civil and military officials didn't feel relieved, but worried.

A few days ago, Emperor Xuande began to complain of illness, so he had already missed an early court. In addition to the previous few times, since Emperor Xuande ascended the throne, his performance has exceeded many people's expectations.

But there are also some people who know a little bit about it, knowing that the emperor fell down after eating the soup sent by Concubine Xin, and they talked about Concubine Xin's foot restraint, King Ning's premeditated plan, etc. vividly and clearly, and people in the court talked about it Then, an unexpected thing happened.

——The Prime Minister’s Mansion was raided.

That day after Chen Mao woke up, he went to Tianqi Building, but all he saw was Zhou Zhou lying unconscious in a pool of blood, and Yan Keqing had disappeared.

He immediately thought of the handsome father-in-law he met on the road, he was by no means a real palace man, and that big box was probably hiding Keqing Yan.

Chen Mao immediately ordered the palace gates to be blocked to intercept Yan Keqing, but he still managed to escape.On the one hand, this matter is due to Ouchi's lack of guards, and on the other hand, it is also because Yan Keqing is too cunning.

Chen Mao immediately sent people to hunt him down outside the palace and ordered people to guard the city gates strictly, but after three days passed, there was no trace of Yan Keqing at all, and Zhou Zhou was still in a coma. Chen Mao was worried, so he sent people to search Yan Keqing's prime minister's mansion.

As if it had been prepared for a long time, the prime minister's mansion was already empty.

Yipin Zhao Qu, the guard with a sword, went to the abbot of the Yan Mansion to check the work early in the morning, and then rushed to the palace to face the saint before the sun went down.

At this time, he was standing at the bottom of the steps and reported to Chen Maohui: "I report to the emperor, sorry for my humble and incompetent position, and failed to find Lord Yan's whereabouts."

"What's unusual about the Yan Mansion?"

"Yes..." Zhao Qu hesitated for a moment, not knowing where to start, "There are abnormalities everywhere in this Yan Mansion."

"What's going on?" Chen Mao has always wanted to search the Yan Mansion. Yan Keqing has done so many things, it is impossible to have no clues. To scare the snake away.

But three days passed without any results, Chen Mao couldn't help but judge that he might have missed the best time, Yan Keqing might have fled the capital.

Chen Mao's voice sounded very tired, Zhao Qu didn't think much about it, his mind was full of the shock that Yan Fu brought him.

On the surface, the Prime Minister's Mansion is indeed a normal mansion. When you walk inside, you can see that the three-in and three-out mansion is well-designed and well-designed, but there are many tricks in front of the backyard.

"But Qimen Dunjia?"

Zhao Qu nodded hesitantly, then shook his head: "Based on what I saw, it should be a thing of the same origin as Qimen Dunjia, but its technique layout is not as flexible and weird as Qimen Dunjia, it seems to be a deliberate imitation. "

Chen Mao responded, not intending to dwell too much on this issue: "What's in the backyard?"

Zhao Qu hurriedly continued: "In the backyard, apart from the main house, there is also an apricot forest. There is a monument in the forest, and the inscription: The tomb of my beloved wife Jiang Qi."

Behind the yard of a living person, there is a tombstone, which sounds creepy.

Ordinary people, if they have deceased relatives at home, they must keep a memorial tablet at home, but they will never put the tomb in their backyard, and the location is next to the main house, so they can be seen as soon as they go out.

"There's nothing under the stele, no coffin, and it's not a tomb. There's also the main house..." Zhao Qu stammered: "The doors and windows of the house and the inside of the house are all sealed with black cloth. Neither did Erguang."

Chen Mao frowned, unable to understand the situation.

"Who is Jiang Qi?"

"There is no such person."

"Send someone to investigate in Jin." Chen Mao rubbed his forehead, "What did the servants of the Yan Mansion say? Has there been an interrogation?"

Zhao Qu shook his head with a strange expression, "There are no servants in the house, it's just an empty house. And... there is also an anomaly here, which makes the humble official puzzled."

It stands to reason that there should be at least 20 people in a house, from the cook to the housekeeper to the servants to the guards, not to mention that Yan Keqing is the current prime minister.

But in fact, after Zhao Qu's investigation, he found only three servants. He counted the number of bedding and pillows, and there seemed to be only six or seven servants in the Yan Mansion.

Chen Mao knocked on the armrest of the chair, such a situation was indeed unheard of.Have they all been transferred, or are there really less than ten servants?

If they were transferred, why didn't they monitor anything in the past three days?Are they missing?Chen Mao thought of the man pretending to be an eunuch again. If he was Yan Keqing's accomplice, it would be entirely possible to dismiss the people from Yan's residence in advance, and then enter the palace to cover Yan Keqing from the palace, and leave the city directly after leaving the palace!

Chen Mao's face became more and more gloomy.The world is so big, who knows where Yan Keqing will hide?

"My Majesty, there is one more thing." Zhao Qu wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, feeling a layer of cold sweat, "Fifteen corpses were found under the lotus pond in Yan Mansion."

"What?!" Even Chen Mao didn't expect this situation.

"Among the fifteen corpses, nine men and six women are all very young. The degree of decay of the corpses varies. The freshest one should have died a month and a half ago."

"Is the identity of the deceased confirmed?"

"Still verifying." Zhao channeled.

He went to Yan's Mansion early in the morning, and was frightened a lot inside, especially the carrion corpse under the lotus pond.

When he left, his subordinates were still searching in the pool. Judging from the parts of the body found, there should be more than fifteen corpses.

The freshest corpses were already swollen badly, the dead looked horrific, and the whole pool gave off an unpleasant stench.Even at this moment, Zhao Qu could recall that smell.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Yan, isn't he some evil spirit?" Zhao Qu asked cautiously.

When he saw the tombstone in the apricot blossom forest in the afternoon, his back was already chilled, and the main house in Hei Bulongdong was even more weird.

"Do you want to ask the national teacher to take a look?" In Zhao Qu's opinion, how could such a gentle and excellent person as Mr. Yan do such a thing?Must have been under a spell!

Thinking of Zhou Zhou who was still unconscious, Chen Mao took a deep breath, controlled his expression, and naturally rejected Zhao Qu's statement.

"It's nonsense! The laws of heaven are clear and the sky is broad daylight. How come there are evil ways? And the national teacher is busy observing the celestial phenomena recently, so it is inconvenient to disturb. There are many strange things about this matter. Please investigate carefully and don't let go of any clues. If you have any news, report it immediately. "

"Yes!"

--split line--

Chen Mao's guess was correct, Yan Keqing had indeed left the city, but what Chen Mao didn't expect was that Yan Keqing was also in a coma like Zhou Zhou.

"Young master, the doctor is here."

"Come in quickly."

The doctor was held hostage with his eyes blindfolded for a day, and he didn't know what important person he was going to see a doctor, and he was always anxious. Hearing that young man's gentle and pleasant voice, he couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

The doctor reached out to remove the black cloth from his eyes, but he was restrained again—it was the man who tied him up from the hospital, he was strong and strong, and picked him up with one hand. The doctor heard his cry The voice was terrified.

"Please ask the doctor to take the pulse, forgive me." The man said coldly.

"How to see a doctor?" The doctor muttered, while complaining, he stretched out his hand and landed on a well-defined arm.He groped to find the pulse, felt the pulse carefully, and remained silent for a long time.

"How is the situation, doctor?"

"Hmm..." The doctor is not young, has seen all kinds of people and seen all kinds of patients, and he can't diagnose this pulse.

But there is one thing he can be sure of - that is, this person will not live long.It's just that he doesn't know whether to say it properly, maybe a mistake, and his life will be entrusted here.

"This son's pulse condition is weird, the old man has little knowledge and is helpless..."

"What do you mean powerless?" Xiaobie was very calm. Before that, he had already invited three doctors for Yan Keqing, and he had no hope for the fourth one.

Xiaobie gently touched Yan Keqing's face, Yan Keqing was very calm in his sleep, but seemed to have lost a lot of weight.

"Is he dying?"