Emperor Que Shaohua

The room fell silent for a moment.Everyone was thinking that leaving Ji Tinghui alone was not reconciled, and could the Kunlun Mansion really keep its promise to release the hostages safely?

Feng Jingyi was a little hesitant: "Since the Kunlun Mansion dared to openly threaten the Palace, it must be fully prepared. If they find out and secretly investigate, Jiang Han or Wei Qing may be in danger." He didn't believe King Ning, but he thought of If the fingers, ears, or even the corpses of the younger brothers are sent to the front next time, I can't help worrying, "Sect Master Jiang and His Highness the Fifth Prince have been in Luo City for a long time. I wonder if there is a proper way?"

He only felt that Luo Pingyuan was too young, and it had been less than half a year since he returned to Luocheng. As for King Jing, even though he was indeed famous, he was sick all the time, so even though he said so, he didn't have much hope in his heart. .

King Jing had been thinking about it after seeing Bai Bu's letter, and then slowly said: "Ji Tinghui must not be handed over to the Kunlun Mansion."

As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned, not to mention Luo Pingyuan, even Qin Shuang and Yang Yue who had been with him for many years rarely heard him speak in such a non-negotiable tone.

"What does Sect Master Jiang mean?" Feng Jingyi said, he was usually calm, but now that the situation is critical, his voice did not feel raised, "Unless the two juniors can be rescued safely, then Yue Gan will not be let go. What about life?"

King Jing's expression remained calm, as if he didn't care about his attitude: "Several young heroes came to my residence from afar, but something happened in the capital. We rescued him before, but we can't let Yue Gan go tomorrow, let alone let him go back to Kunlun Mansion."

"Sect Master Jiang," Feng Jingyi stood up suddenly with anger in his heart, "I, Huashan Sect, have never met you in the past, but I have always respected you because of the benevolent handling of Huaibi Village and the relationship with Langhuan. Xinhuashan asked me to go to Yumen Pass first and then go to Luocheng. Feng did so, and asked the three of us to stay temporarily until after the Mid-Autumn Festival. I also agreed, but how to deal with Yuegan is my Huashan internal affairs, which is a matter of concern. If there is no reason for the life and death of my junior brother, Shu Jingyi will not be able to follow his orders. Or is Jiang Zong mainly using his identity and Langhuan to suppress me, or let His Highness King Ning hold me tight?" At the end of the sentence, his tone had turned stern, He said again: "Human life is at stake, no matter what the reason is, Sect Master Wangjiang is careful!"

The atmosphere in the room was stagnant for a moment, Guan Ling flashed out from nowhere, stood behind King Jing, and looked at Feng Jingyi coldly.

"Xiao Ling, please don't offend me." Wang Jing said, he gave a slight signal, Guan Ling's figure flickered, and disappeared to nowhere, Gu Yu retreated without making a sound, and closed the door from the outside.

"Feng Shaoxia, please don't get angry," Luo Yanhua said in the silence, his expression had an unquestionable solemnity, "I am willing to abandon the safety of the two young heroes, but if Yue Qian escapes , the lives involved are more than tens of millions. This is a big matter, I can only tell the reason and discuss it with Feng Shaoxia."

Feng Jingyi didn't want to lose his face at first, but when he heard King Jing's words, his heart trembled slightly, so he sat down again: "What's going on, Sect Master Jiang, please speak clearly."

Among the people present, Qin Shuang knew the cause and effect best. Seeing King Jing nodded his head slightly, he told in a low voice how he found out the location of Piaoxiang Restaurant from Ji Tinghui a few months ago, and how he used this clue to lay out a conspiracy afterwards. , The false information led the Liao army in the northern border to take the bait, thus helping the Yuzhou army to gain the upper hand in the battle.

He spoke clearly and concisely, without mentioning details such as the connection between the crown prince and the Kunlun Mansion. At the end, he said: "The reason why the Lord asked Feng Shaoxia and his party to wait for a few more days is to stabilize the situation until the end of the battle."

After hearing this, Feng Jingyi already understood: Ji Tinghui thought that Lurui had notified his fellow disciples to try to save him, so that he survived, but Piaoxiang Restaurant didn't know about it.As long as this person escapes and meets his fellow disciples, after two rounds of comparison, he will know that the restaurant has already been exposed, and the information transmitted to the border through it may be untrustworthy because of this.Now that the war situation in the northern border is about to break out, how can it be allowed to change at this stage.

His face turned pale for a moment, the safety, honor and disgrace of the country were at stake, and the countless generals and civilians at the border were indeed not something his three brothers could afford.

He was stunned for a while before he said: "Sect Master Jiang, since you have such a plan, you should have informed me earlier, or sent a letter to me to delay the trip, and now teach me what to do." How can secrets be leaked, and how can everything in the world be calculated?

"It turned out that I didn't think well enough to cause today's trouble. Now the top priority is to rescue the two young heroes as soon as possible, and the servants in my mansion also need to be retrieved." Jing Wang said, since he discovered the existence of Piaoxiang Restaurant, Xie Feng's subordinate Qi Bi has been closely monitoring, and has roughly ascertained the distribution of the Kunlun Mansion's power in Luo City, but did not take action because the time was not yet ripe.He stared at Feng Jingyi, and said slowly: "The Kunlun Mansion has sent the ring so far. I think Jiang Han and Wei Qing will not be seriously injured or have life-threatening risks for the time being. Feng Shaoxia, are you willing to entrust the matter to me? Although Jiang Hua is not talented, he will definitely do his best to return you two good juniors."

Feng Jingyi's life is far away, unexpected accidents happened, she was originally in a state of confusion, but after hearing these words, and seeing him in the eye, the whole person gradually regained her sense and stability, and her mind was made up in a blink of an eye. idea.

"There is no other way now. The lives of the three of my brothers and sisters will be entrusted to Sect Master Jiang." He stood up and bowed and said, "If the brothers and sisters are still unable to be rescued when the time comes tomorrow, I will naturally go to the prison and take that Yue Qian Bring them out, and then kill them with swords in the street. If something happens to the juniors, Jing Yi will kill herself and repay with her life."

King Jing bowed his head to return the salute. In the martial arts, trust is the most important thing. Life and death are only in a word, and both of them know that there is no need to say more.

King Jing said: "Jingyi will stay in the mansion and wait for the news; Ping Yuan will withdraw all his subordinates, and don't send people to secretly investigate again, so as not to be discovered by the eyeliner of the Kunlun Mansion. Get ready, let Jingyi and Kongtong send young heroes to escort Yue Gan away tomorrow. As for Xiaoshuang, there are many things to do."

After a short discussion, Feng Jingyi went back to the east courtyard to wait, King Ning rushed to Jingyu Guardhouse, King Jing left behind Qin Shuang and Yang Yue to give careful instructions, and after a while, Qin Shuang left Lancangju.

Half of the morning light has passed, he usually does not go through the door of the mansion when he goes in and out, but at this moment he used lightness kung fu, and the whole person suddenly disappeared among the verdant trees in the mansion.

After everyone dispersed, Luo Yanhua was thinking alone in the study, Jing Yuwei searched overnight and still did not find any trace of the three of them, which shows that the other party was well prepared.He did not doubt that this matter was done by the Kunlun Mansion. In the territory of Los Angeles, other forces had no reason to go to war for Ji Tinghui.

The enemy's methods can be regarded as clever and vicious, but he always felt that something was wrong.The Kunlun Mansion is too arrogant. Knowing that the people in Huashan lived in the Jingwang Mansion, they openly threatened. Even if they use the clutch water to pass the letter without leaving any evidence, but Ning Wang has indeed seen it with his own eyes, so how can he remain indifferent and let things be exposed ?Based on his understanding of Luo Wenxiao, either there was fraud in it, or he had prepared a backhand.

He pondered for a while, then walked to the window and said, "Xiao Ling."

Guan Ling, who was hiding in the tree, floated through the window lattice and fell into the room.King Jing said: "Go to the Jingyu Guard, tell Ping Yuan not to be impatient, no matter what news you receive, don't act rashly, you must discuss it with me first."

He had already told Luo Pingyuan this sentence just now, a trace of doubt appeared on Guan Ling's face, but she still took the order and left without hesitation.

Luo Pingyuan is really anxious at the moment, and Ji Tinghui can't let go, but is he just watching Jiang Han, Wei Qing, and even Feng Jingyi lose their lives?It was also the first time that Qin Shuang had heard about the transmission of false information through the Kunlun Mansion today. Feng Jingyi didn't think too much about it, but he felt chills in his heart and couldn't believe it.The news heard by Piaoxiang Restaurant should be the first to spread to the East Palace, so what role did the prince play in it?But it was hard for him to imagine that as the prince of Yuzhou, Luo Wenxiao would put the overall situation in vain in order to defeat King Yun. Then he thought that Concubine Han Gui should have colluded with the enemy in the early years, otherwise why Shao'an fell overnight nine years ago .

The tragic situation in Youyun Sixteen Prefectures described in Lin Chen's letter seemed to come back to his mind, and now the disciples of Huashan had just finished the battle with Pinwutang, but they encountered assassinations in this capital Luocheng.He only felt that the anger was boiling, and it burned his usually calm state of mind to the point that it was difficult to calm down.

Although Jing Yuwei did not find the whereabouts of Huashan's disciples overnight, it was not without any gains.In addition to the inn, the area around the Guandi Temple has been checked in detail.Several restaurants and street vendors heard the description and said that they vaguely remembered a few young people with similar descriptions who had been there, but the temple fair was crowded with people, and the impression was left because two of them were wearing long swords. It's not clear where they went.

Luo Pingyuan ordered people to write down all the shops on the streets that he had checked, and handed them to a secret guard in Prince Jing's Mansion, which should help him figure out the time and the route they traveled. At present, he can only do this. Wang has repeatedly told him not to continue to intervene, and Lang Huan secretly dealt with it in the way of Jianghu.

In the evening of that day, three light vans of the same type left Prince Jing's Mansion and headed in three different directions.Two of them circled for an hour each and returned to the mansion; the other drove to a street about two miles away from the Los Angeles Sky Prison, and stopped in front of the largest inn there.Feng Jingyi and two Kongtong disciples got off the car, Shao Bitu and Chu Huan were already waiting at the entrance, they were ordered by King Ning to accompany the three of them to the prison the next afternoon.

Almost at the same time, Prince Jing was sitting in a carriage that transported vegetables, rice and grain to the mansion on weekdays, and quietly left his mansion through the corner gate.For most of the day, Qibi has already started further analysis and investigation based on the information sent by Jing Yuwei. He needs to meet Xie Feng directly, saving the effort of running back and forth for interrogation.

Luo Pingyuan stayed in the Jingyu guard almost all day, and only took a quick look at the household department when he had time.However, after he returned to the mansion, he failed to see the emperor's brother, only Xi Minghua with a worried face.King Jing asked the owner of Mengxian Valley to stay in the mansion to preside over it temporarily, and even Yang Yue was taken out.

Luo Pingyuan felt both worried and somewhat lost.He had no choice but to enter his own Xiaoxiao Zhai, and said: "Ah Yuan, you don't have to follow me, do you know where Brother Huang has gone?"

A hidden guard appeared from behind the wall, saluted and said: "My lord, if there is anything to do with His Royal Highness, please report it to him immediately." In other words, he knew how to find King Jing.

Luo Pingyuan nodded, he would rather have a lot of things to work on at the moment than wait without knowing the situation.King Jing, who needed to recuperate, couldn't rest, but he couldn't use his strength, which made him very uncomfortable, and he didn't know how the emperor brother was going at the moment.

Since Xie Feng, the young owner of Huaibizhuang, came to Los Angeles to take care of his own property, the business of Xieji Tea House on Qipan Street has been getting better and better. I will invite a storyteller to tell a paragraph.

Going up to the second floor, the environment turns elegant. Each seat is separated by screens painted with landscapes, flowers and birds. The hustle and bustle downstairs becomes far away, and the clear sound of Guqin is heard in the ears. Ordinary guests will stop here .

The furnishings of the several elegant rooms on the third floor are both elegant and luxurious, and they are prepared for regular customers with status. No matter how loud the conversation is inside, it will not be transmitted to the corridor outside.The few guests who have been to the third floor, of course, will not think about whether there is a more secret place in Xie Ji Tea House.

Immediately behind Xie Ji is a small building that is slightly shorter. Because the shape fits well, outsiders can easily see it as one with the teahouse. If there are sharp-eyed and curious tea drinkers asking what is in the building behind, the waiter will say: " That's the residence reserved for our master."

The two buildings are only connected by a short pontoon bridge, and the secret door leading to the pontoon bridge is deep in the third floor of the teahouse.

At this moment, Xie Feng was indeed in the building at the other end of the pontoon bridge, explaining the collected information to King Jing who was sitting at the top, and Qin Shuang and Yang Yue were also beside him.

Jiang Han and Wei Qing should have had an accident when they were preparing to return home.At the temple fair, Jiang Han bought sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes and donkey meat to burn. These two packs of snacks were scattered all over the floor in an alley not far from Guandi Temple.Residents nearby heard one or two shouts at that time, but they didn't take it seriously, but after a while, they were attracted by the barking of dogs.Several dogs were scrambling for the donkey meat to be burned, and the rice cakes stuck to the ground were difficult to clean up, so I was very impressed.

"The swordsmanship of the two of them is not weak, but they only had time to shout a few times. If the opponent's martial arts is not too high, the biggest possibility is that they have been tricked, such as Mixiang, hidden weapons and the like."

Xie Feng said: "The subordinate speculates that there should be a carriage at the entrance of the alley. After subduing the three people, they will be taken away immediately. The time can be determined after yesterday's Unitary hour, and they will have no time to leave the city. Currently we are investigating the various properties of the Kunlun Mansion in the city, narrowing down Target."

"To what extent has it progressed now, can it lock the suspicious location?" King Jing asked.

"In order not to be inadvertently missed, including Piaoxiang Restaurant, there are still seven or eight places that are being watched." Xie Feng said, with a look of embarrassment, "The other party has a lot of shops and residences in the city, and recently they have newly tuned them. There are many subordinates here, it is not easy to find out the situation quickly, and it is too time-consuming to check one by one. I am worried that the Kunlun Mansion will create false appearances, so I set up a suspicious battle."

"After the [-]th day of last month, the Kunlun Mansion suffered a lot of casualties, that's why Luo Wenxiao rushed to mobilize manpower. He suffered a loss last time, so he must have calculated more carefully this time." Luo Yanhua said, "It's just a hasty deployment. No matter how skillful the people who come here are, there will always be flaws to be found in the coordination of actions.”

He pondered for a moment: "The other party may indeed create false appearances and change locations, so that we cannot find out where Jiang Han and others are in time. But no matter where they hide them, they will definitely set up hidden stakes nearby to observe the movement as much as possible. New The transferred subordinates are not familiar with the terrain of Los Angeles, and their accents are also problematic, so they can't be a hidden stake, and the people sent by the Kunlun Mansion to do this must still be the group of people we have already figured out."

Xie Feng couldn't help but his expression lifted. Ever since he realized that the crown prince had sent several hidden stakes to monitor Prince Jing's mansion, Qibi made a point of finding out how many such well-trained eyeliners the Kunlun mansion had in the capital, and now there are roughly a few of them.He said: "They have about [-] subordinates in Los Angeles who specialize in stealing. Where do you come and go?"

"The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole is behind." King Jing said, "Xiaoshuang will lead the hidden guards to assist you, and with the clues you have already obtained, you must find out where Jingyi's junior and Mangzhong are being imprisoned before tomorrow morning. "Mang Zhong is the oldest of the servants in the mansion, and he is often ordered to do some foreign affairs, but now he is also taken away together.

Xie Feng took the order, and Qin Shuang had a tacit understanding with him, and immediately sent several secret guards to be dispatched by him.

Luo Yanhua walked to the book case and wrote a note: "Even if the location can be determined, the Kunlun Mansion must be closely guarded, and we have to be cautious. We need someone to sneak in to rescue, and we have to have a master present to intimidate me. I didn't want to disturb Chai. Senior Ming, I have no choice but to ask him to make a move this time."

In fact, it is not impossible not to invite King Shoushan Ming to come forward. He believes that Luo Pingyuan, who is holding a pure Jun sword, is also a sufficient deterrent.King Ning also mentioned that Jing Yuwei would be on standby at any time for help.But after thinking about it, he still decided to try his best not to involve Luo Pingyuan in this incident.Whether Emperor Tianyi left the impression that King Ning was too involved in the Jianghu dispute, or cooperated too closely with him, it would be detrimental to Luo Pingyuan's future.Now that Emperor Tianyi has begun to hand over the government affairs to King Ning, and he can see the meaning of cultivation, he should not be allowed to use force or use Jing Yuwei easily.

Various situations were weighed in his mind, King Jing glanced at the roof beam: "Xiao Ling."

Guan Ling jumped down lightly, took the folded note from his hand, and swept it out without a word.

If it was normal, Qin Shuang might make a joke: "Guan Ling is young, how can she cherish words like gold like my elder brother." But at this time, no one was in the mood to joke.Qin Su fought with the Liao people in Shao'an, a distant border, but in this seemingly peaceful city of Los Angeles, undercurrents surged under the calm water, people's hearts were treacherous, invisible battles or weapons on the battlefield, which one is more serious? sinister?