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Chapter 96-Pingxiying
The dark night was already time for curfew, and the entire capital fell silent. The streets that had been cold due to the epidemic became more desolate, and the sorrowful autumn wind swept through and rolled up a few fallen leaves.
Even Wuyi Lane, where powerful and powerful people gather, is no exception.
At such a quiet moment in the middle of the night, suddenly a dark shadow emerged from the corner of Wuyi Lane, like a deep shadow. He hurriedly jumped out of the high wall without making a sound or disturbing anyone, and hurried towards the east of the city. .
Along the way, patrolling soldiers and horses and outposts were skilfully flashed. When he turned over a loft in the middle, he paused slightly and looked back into the distance.
There was silence around, where did this feeling of being stared at? Is the legendary guilty conscience?
In the end, Huo Bin sighed, he raised his hand to hold his chest, it was just a thin piece of paper, but it made him feel tangled and complicated. This is something he has never seen since he was a child, especially after practicing martial arts.
No matter, after finishing this matter, I will no longer owe her anymore, and I can let go of this worry.
Not long after, he turned several times in the quiet streets and alleys, and finally arrived at an unremarkable small courtyard.
He walked in over the wall with ease.
"Who?" A vigilant low voice came from the courtyard.
"It's me." Huo Bin replied immediately.
"Ah? Second Young Master, why are you here?" The two guards came out from the next room and looked at Huo Bin in surprise.
"There are some things, you don't have to disturb too many people, just call Mother Wang." Huo Bin simply ordered.
Although the guard was puzzled, he handled it as instructed.
Huo Bin entered the inner courtyard, and an elderly mother greeted her. Although she got up in a hurry, she was still neat and dignified, without a trace of mess. At first glance, she was a servant woman with a wealth of family history.
"Why did the Second Young Master come over at this time? But what is the order of the Grand Lord?"
Huo Bin was silent for a moment, and took out a small package from his arms, "This is what my father ordered me to send. It is used to prevent and cure the epidemic. You can take it for the little lady according to the method."
Madam Wang took it in surprise, with joy on her face, and smiled: "Thank you for the reward. These days, the servants are worried and worried about what happened to the little lady. Now this disease is so severe that several families around me have suffered. ."
While talking, couldn't wait to go to the room.
Huo Bin didn't stay long and left soon.
Quietly in the small yard, occasionally the cry of a little baby rang, and soon it subsided.
Everything was immersed in the dark night, and the whole street was quiet and serene.
In such an atmosphere, even the night guards slackened down, watching that it was late at night.
The tall guard yawned: "It's all this point, I really want to go back to sleep."
Another black-faced smile said: "Being bored here all day doing nothing, the bones are raised and lazy, have you not got enough sleep during the day?"
The tall man smiled embarrassedly: "Isn't this extremely boring? There is nothing here at all. Why do we have to take turns watching twelve hours a day without closing our eyes? There are only dozens of girls inside. With a little baby."
He glanced at the backyard, lowered his voice and laughed: "Who do you think this child is? Yesterday, Ma also secretly told me that it was mostly the illegitimate son of the Lord of the Country."
"Fart, Lord Guo always cleans himself up, where's the bastard?"
"I also think so, what's the status of Grandpa Guo? Even if he's an illegitimate child or a daughter, no one would say anything when he took him back to the mansion. Hey, Young Master Huo, who came just now, I heard that he was not the second master before..."
"Shut up, be careful to be heard, and send you out."
"Isn't I just curious? If it's an ordinary status, why should our brothers watch day and night and have so many girls watching over."
"Who knows which noble person's child is, let's just say a few words, this is not something we can inquire about."
After being reprimanded by a colleague, the tall guard didn't dare to say more, just stood boringly.
After standing for most of the night, couldn't help but dozed off exhaustedly, leaning on the pillar in a daze, suddenly feeling a chill approaching behind me.
As a warrior's keen intuition, he was awakened in an instant. With a reflex, he flashed back and saw the silver light rubbing his neck, bringing up a puff of blood. Because he retreated in time, there was a three-inch wound on his neck, but it was not fatal.
Someone stabbed! Realizing this, he shouted loudly, and at the same time wanted to draw his sword against the enemy. He only staggered back a step, and suddenly his vest felt cold.
Looking down, it was a short knife that came out from his chest, with a bright red color.
Assassin, more than one...
The last thought flashed, and the tall guard fell heavily to the ground.
One more move than him, the black-faced guard on the opposite side was also cut through the throat with a sword.
Seven or eight figures walked in over the wall and silently fell into this remote little courtyard.
Occasionally, several guards were awakened by surprise, and their throats were cut before they screamed. Most of the servants lost their lives just in their sleep.
In a short period of time, the assassin walked from the front yard to the back yard. Then seven or eight people gathered in the front yard. The head of them held a bulging package in his arms, with a little soft skin exposed at the corners, which was unique to babies.
Holding the child, his movements were gentle and gentle, but his words were not gentle at all.
"Check it again, if there are no fish that slip through the net, burn it."
Soon after, this secluded small courtyard suddenly burst into flames, which was extremely eye-catching in the dark night.
And those seven or eight figures had already flew out of the small courtyard and disappeared into the vast night.
The fire was so strong that it rose into the wind and quickly awakened the surrounding residents.
The whole neighbourhood was noisy, and the firefighters and runaways turned into a pot of porridge.
A whole street was separated from the place of the fire, and a figure stood quietly on a secluded roof.
Fang Yuan hesitated for a moment, finally turned around and disappeared into the vast night.
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Qin Nuo stood in the hall, quietly listening to Fang Yuan's report.
After he left the palace, he watched the Huo Family, and then discovered that Huo Bin quietly left the house in the middle of the night, went to an inconspicuous small yard far east of the city, and then to the last small yard that suddenly happened.
Fang Yuan's voice is refreshing, the description is simple and straightforward, without any extra words or feelings.
After that, he followed the murderous group of people in black a long way, until they arrived at a mansion and disappeared, then returned to the palace and reported the incident to Qin Nuo.
After listening to Qin Nuo from beginning to end, after a long silence, he finally said, "I have been working hard for these two days. Go back and rest first."
Fang Yuan bowed his head.
As a subordinate, this person has one of the greatest benefits, that is, no matter how much doubt he has, as long as he doesn't want to talk, he will never ask questions casually.
Including the fact that he ordered him to follow Huo Bin before.
After releasing Huo Bin from the palace, Qin Nuo immediately gave Fang Yuan a task.
The affair of Huo Bin and Wise Concubine Lin's fornication is ostensibly over. A tragic love story that is as deep as the sea when entering the palace, a pair of unlucky wild mandarin ducks calculated by a grudge.
But is it really that simple? Wise Concubine Lin stole the talisman paper because of fear of death and fear of disease infecting himself and his family. This reason sounds very sufficient. In fact, since it was discovered that the talisman paper was indeed effective against the disease, countless dignitaries inside and outside the palace have used various methods such as begging for bribes to get a life-saving talisman for themselves, especially after the disease caused many powerful families to suffer.
It was Qin Nuo who supported the Imperial Medicine Court and rejected all requests. He knew that this opening could not be opened. Once opened, the talisman would be consumed instantly, and the real solution would be difficult to study. Except for making a few pills to appease the civil revolution, which consumed some talisman paper, all the requests from inside and outside the palace were strictly rejected.
These days, the Imperial Medicine Court is under unparalleled pressure, not only day and night research, but also coveted from all sides. For this reason, even the closet keys stored in the talisman paper were specially handed over to the Ouchi guards for safekeeping.
In order to survive, fear the disease and risk stealing.
The person who was so afraid of death wanted to commit suicide after being discovered that she had an affair with Huo Bin that night.
A person who is afraid of death will commit suicide?
Even if it can be explained as the despair of a woman after sex, there is always something wrong.
So after releasing Huo Bin as agreed, he immediately arranged for Fang Yuan to watch him. If there is really any inside story about this matter, then Huo Bin only has two days left. He is about to set off to the border.
Sure enough, the next day, there was an unexpected harvest.
It's just that kid...
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When Huo Youjuan arrived at the Beginning-of-Creation Palace, he was startled by the gazes of Xu Mincai, Lee Maru and others.
It was the first time she saw the expression of this kind of suffering people eagerly looking forward to the great savior.
She immediately realized that what had happened to the emperor?
"What's the matter? What's the matter with the emperor?" she asked anxiously.
"The emperor seems... angry." Lee Maru lowered his voice.
Huo Youjuan paused and glanced at him with a complicated expression.
The atmosphere was so strange just now, she thought Qin Nuo had a sudden illness. It turned out to be just angry... angry... uh, well, it is really rare, at least I have never seen him angry. Looking at the reactions of people like Lee Maru, I should rarely see them.
Good-tempered people are angry, but it is even more worrying.
It's no wonder that someone was so anxious to call himself over.
The maid bent over and lifted the bead curtain. Huo Youjuan walked to the inner hall, bypassed the ink-washed glass screen, entered the apse, and saw at a glance that Qin Nuo was sitting there beside the table.
He seemed to be thinking deeply, with no expression on his face.
"The emperor..." Huo Youjuan couldn't help but also became anxious, all to blame Lee Maru and the guys, making him nervous too.
Fortunately, Qin Nuo had calmed down, and the short-lived anger came and went quickly.
"You are here." He nodded.
Hearing Qin Nuo's peaceful voice, Huo Youjuan relaxed. "Just now Grandpa Xu said that the emperor was angry?"
"I was a little angry, but now it's ridiculous when I think about it." Qin Nuo had a chill in his eyes.
She said she was not angry, but she was still aggrieved in her heart. Huo Youjuan thought secretly.
"Is it because of the government?" she asked cautiously. She was really curious, why did Qin Nuo get angry?
She also knew about the entanglement between him and his officials in the court these days. Her father kept his promise and made concessions to the emperor on several important matters. Could it be that the second elder brother returned home, and his father turned back and wanted to go wrong again? Wouldn't it be so unlimited?
Or did Qin Nuo get angry with other government affairs? Whoever has been in the court for a long time is not a human spirit, even if the emperor touches a nail, it is a soft nail wrapped in eight and nine layers of cotton cloth, and there will never be any bruises or unpleasantness.
"It's not government affairs. It was an accident." Qin Nuo said, suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face.
He knew that this matter should not be said too much, it involves the royal face and majesty. But he really needs someone to tell the secret.
He tried his best to use the most plain tone to tell what Fang Yuan had seen before.
Huo Youjuan's eyes were confused at first, why did Huo Bin secretly go to see a baby in the middle of the night? Is it the illegitimate child of someone in the family? No, even if you are an illegitimate child, there is no need to cover it up. And, what happened to the killer afterwards? Killed all the people in the small yard and took away only the baby.
The identity of this baby...
"Just now, I ordered people to inquire about the ownership of the residence where the assassins last disappeared. It was the other courtyard where Pingxi Camp commanded Cui Qian."
Qin Nuo said lightly, Pingxi Camp is also one of the five guards in the capital, and its commander Cui Qian was Qin Cong's companion at the time and the queen mother's confidant. It's just that now the Pingxi Camp is in the south army, and now the main force is not in the capital.
Cui Qian... Suddenly hearing this familiar name, Huo Youjuan trembled.
Gathering the thoughts back, Cui Qian's men robbed a baby...from Huo Family's hands...
Huo Youjuan suddenly remembered a terrible guess, she didn't even dare to say that sentence.
She looked at Qin Nuo, hoping to get a negative answer from him. Unfortunately, Qin Nuo disappointed her.
He sneered and said: "If I guessed right, the child should have been born to Wise Concubine Lin. It turns out that the emperor brother gave birth to a baby girl."
Huo Youjuan suddenly turned his head! The people around the palace were screened out!
She shivered and breathed a sigh of relief.
A rare anger appeared on Qin Nuo's face, "What do they regard the royal blood and the patriarchal etiquette?"
In an instant, Huo Youjuan had already thought through everything.
Wise Concubine Lin gave birth to a baby girl at the beginning, but disappointed by the queen mother, she concealed herself and replaced a baby boy. Does she want this baby to be on the throne? No, Queen Mother Huo, no matter how frantic, would not be so contemptuous of everything, even the royal blood dared to be confused.
She should have decided to adopt it at that time. So deliberately adopted a baby, and this baby is just a pawn of the queen dowager, a pawn used to deal with their three eye-catching guys.
A poor pawn that was destined to be sacrificed from the beginning.
Qin Nuo was still speculating before, who was the person who framed himself and Little Imperial Prince with the gold collar layout?
It is nothing more than Qin Xun and Qin Ze, one of the two.
Later, Queen Mother Huo dealt with Qin Xun with a tough hand, and even Liu Taibi took care of it. He speculated that it was Qin Xun's strategy.
Now it seems, ha ha...
I have disliked the Queen Mother Huo to the extreme! Acting so insidiously, at the expense of countless lives, but also the names of innocent babies, just for their own selfish desires.
Does she want to adopt it just for the incense behind Qin Cong? not necessarily! I'm afraid that more is to keep in power and listen to politics!
After all, neither he nor Qin Xun Qin Ze are already old, and it is impossible to give her rights anymore.