Perfect Encounter

Mr. Xie stood in front of the door of the side courtyard, and first listened to the movement inside. There is no sound. He looked around, then jumped in.

This looks like a courtyard for sundries, the door of the hut is open, there are beds and tables inside, simple furnishings, but no bedding, it looks uninhabited, but the cleaning is too clean. What's the use of an empty room if you don't use it for storage?

Mr. Xie walked into the house and looked around, but found nothing. When he came out, he found that some slate bricks on the ground in the yard were relatively new, and the color was different from the surrounding ones. At this time, he found that he had stepped on something like mud at some point, and there were faint footprints on the ground.

Mr. Xie frowned. He jumped out of the yard, and found that there was a layer of grout splashed around the yard, the color of which was similar to that of the floor tiles, and it would be hard to see if one didn't pay special attention.

Mr. Xie didn't care about it, anyway, the fact that someone had been to this temple has been exposed, so he simply started to investigate openly. This Mrs. Jingyuan is really suspicious, even if she doesn't like dealing with people, it doesn't matter if she dislikes being scouted. Min Dongping's feeling was right. He mentioned in the letter that Master Jing Yuan was too uncontrollable, and he needed to replace her with a special new candidate as soon as possible. Now it seems that this Jingyuan is indeed unrestrained, is she hiding some secret?

An Ruofang sat in the secret room under the Buddha statue, watching the silk thread on the roof swaying slightly. This means that someone is walking around the altar. An Ruofang stared nervously at the silk threads, holding the hidden weapon Jing Yuan gave her in her hand.

Master Jingyuan is out. Before leaving, I asked An Ruofang to hide in the secret room. This time it took longer than usual, but the longest time was no more than three days. If she didn't come back after three days, I asked An Ruofang to pretend to be a farmer. Son, go to Ziyun Tower to find An Ruochen.

"This is the worst policy. Don't run around before the time comes. If I can come back, it means that I can protect you for a while. The situation at your eldest sister's side is not good, and it is no safer than mine. I say that, you can clear?"

An Ruofang understood the literal meaning, but An Ruofang didn't understand what happened. Mrs. Jingyuan prepared clothes for her in disguise, and told her the identity of the disguise, such as a child from a village or a family, what to say if she was interrogated at the city gate, and after being stopped by the military master at the Ziyun Tower How to say wait.

Jingyuan even took An Ruofang to her room, and showed her the hidden compartment under the floor: "If I don't come back, I will give you all the money here. No matter what happens to you in the future, if you have money, , is always good."

An Ruofang stared at the coins in surprise, what does the teacher mean? Confess the will? Master is going out, what are you going to do?

"Can't we not go?" An Ruofang only dared to ask this.

"No. If you don't go, they will be even more suspicious." Jing Yuan touched An Ruofang's head, "Don't be afraid."

The words are still in her ears, An Ruofang still remembers the gentle look in Jingyuan's eyes when she spoke to her at the end, just like the way her mother looked at her in memory. The teacher's prediction was right, she left, and someone came through the empty door. An Ruofang stared at the slightly swaying silk thread, praying in her heart for Shitai to be safe.

Mrs. Jingyuan was staring at Huo Mingshan at this moment, she interrupted him, and said: "If it's about killing you, then there's no need to discuss it. If it's not me, there will be others, you will definitely not live."

Huo Mingshan swallowed nervously, thinking of countermeasures. "Who sent you here?"

"King Hui." Jing Yuan confessed the mastermind behind the scenes without hesitation.

Huo Mingshan took a deep breath, and asked again: "Why do you work for him?" The number one killer in Southern Qin Dynasty, famous, rebellious, not greedy for fame and wealth, only for pleasure, how could he listen to King Hui's words.

"I don't work for anyone. He helped me at the beginning, and I wanted to be quiet. He arranged for me and gave me a place to stay. Later, he needed someone to kill, and I just wanted to kill someone."

Huo Mingshan closed his eyes, and quickly deduced King Hui's purpose in his mind. He wants to prevent him from going to Beijing to meet Emperor Xiao? Why? Could it be that the previous series of incidents were all planned by him? He wants the two countries to go to war, and then take advantage of the chaos to seize the throne? Those words of loyalty to the emperor, those feelings of uncle and nephew shown, those words that said that the rumors that he coveted the throne back then were framed, were all false.

Huo Mingshan was very anxious, he couldn't die, he had to stop the war, he had to save the emperor.

"Zou Yun, I'm not greedy for life and afraid of death, but King Hui intends to rebel and usurp the throne. I must expose his true colors. If you kill me just because you want to kill someone, how about I come to you after I settle the matter properly?"

"Not at all. I don't care whether to fight or not, whoever becomes the emperor."

But she hasn't done it yet. Huo Mingshan suddenly thought, "By the way, I didn't find you when I searched all over the place, and I never had a chance to tell you that you blamed Mr. Huang wrongly. It wasn't that he sent someone to take your daughter hostage. He wanted to deal with King Hui. That's right, but he didn't know how to use it." Such means. After he died, I tracked down the matter and found clues."

Jing Yuan looked at him calmly, and said indifferently: "Next, do you want to say, if I let you go, you will tell me the truth?"

Huo Mingshan choked, he really intended to do so.

"I've already killed him, and his whole family. If you say that I wrongly blamed him, I won't feel bad. At least his family is with him on Huangquan Road, and I am alone in this world. The Emperor Nanqin issued a decree to If you catch me and ask you to kill me, all factions in the Jianghu offer rewards for my head. You are not afraid of death, and neither am I. I just find them annoying and don’t want to pester me. Lonely. King Hui's subordinates are self-righteous and self-righteous, and I am also annoyed. I heard that a general dragon has come, and he is unparalleled. Come."

Huo Mingshan was speechless. Everyone said that Zou Yun was weird and crazy, and that's why he practiced peerless martial arts. It's not that no one is better at martial arts than her, but no one treats human life like she does, not only other people's lives, but also her own. Everything changed after she gave birth to a daughter, she retired to the mountains, and the world was peaceful. Everything changed after the death of her daughter, and she washed the capital with blood, like a demon possessed. In recent years, people have brought up the tragedy from time to time, but Zou Yun herself has no expression, as if talking about other people's affairs.

Huo Mingshan took another deep breath and struggled: "You don't mind killing the wrong person, but at least you can't let the real murderer go free. Otherwise, when you go to hell, how will you explain to your daughter?"

"So, who is the real murderer?"

Jing Yuan looked at Huo Mingshan's eyes, causing Huo Mingshan to swallow the phrase "I'll tell you when I'm done safely" that came to his lips. He said: "I don't know who the real culprit is, but it's definitely not Master Huang."

Jing Yuan said indifferently: "So it's useless to say these things. Prime Minister Huo, you were kind to my daughter at the beginning, although you failed to save her, but when she was dying, you cared and encouraged her, making her feel a little warmer. Fear, that's why I didn't cut off your head directly. You haven't figured out what's going on, right? You don't know your situation at all. Either I will kill you or someone else will kill you. Have you ever thought However, why under heavy guard, you changed houses to find a substitute, and did so many things, but I can still appear in front of you."

Huo Mingshan gritted his teeth, do you even need to think about it? Someone has leaked the plan, and his every move is clear to the other party.

"I even know which room you'll be changing to. I sneaked in before the guards surrounded the yard."

A chill ran down Huo Mingshan's spine. If Zou Yun didn't talk to him so much, and cut off his head directly from behind, he wouldn't even know how he died.

"Today they want to see your body." Jing Yuan looked at Huo Mingshan, "I must kill you, I will not watch my daughter die a second time in front of me."

Huo Mingshan didn't know what she was talking about, and he didn't have time to care about how her daughter would die a second time after she was already dead. "Who are they?" he asked.

"I don't know. There is only one person to connect with me. I heard that you are going to kill me, so I came." Mrs. Jing Yuan said: "It's better for me to come than others."

Huo Mingshan smiled wryly: "Come here, can I still meet my old friend before I die?"

"No. You have a chance to say your last words."

Huo Mingshan looked at Jing Yuan with mixed feelings in his heart.

Was there a spy standing outside the door, guessing what was going on in the room, waiting to see when Zou Yun would make a move. Or further away, outside this courtyard, inside the government office? How far is King Hui's hand, and how can he bribe all these people?

"After killing me, how do you escape?"

"How to get in, how to get out."

Huo Mingshan gritted his teeth, and said with a heartbeat, "I do have a last word to leave."

In Xixiu Hall, An Ruoxi left first. An Ruochen asked Mrs. Xue a few words, the two were talking, Xue Xuran led the young man out of the house, and just heard An Ruochen say: "As long as Madam can make up her mind, this matter is settled, the rest I will take care of." Let's figure it out."

Xue Xuran originally wanted to pretend not to listen, but when he got on the sedan chair, he felt suffocated and panicked. He got out of the sedan chair again, went over to An Ruochen and said: "While Miss An is here, why don't we talk too. It will save the big guys from having endless discussions about this matter in the future, and getting exhausted. I made it clear today, so don't disturb each other in the future."

Mrs. Xue was surprised, and was about to reprimand her son for his rudeness to smooth things over, but An Ruochen readily agreed.

So Xue Xuran led An Ruochen back to the private room where he talked with An Ruoxi just now. When there were only the two of them left in the room, Xue Xuran went straight to the point and said: "Miss An is really troublesome, but I will not agree to this matter. You should give up your mind as soon as possible, and don't tease my mother again."

An Ruochen smiled, and said: "I thought your Xue family had first mentioned this marriage, why did I instigate it."

Xue Xuran frowned, and said: "Miss Anda really doesn't like talking, it's boring to make arrangements around the corner. My mother went to propose a marriage, but your father refused, and the matter is over."

"It sounds like Mr. Xue is very satisfied with the result."

"It was supposed to be like this."

"So Mr. Xue is determined not to marry for life?"

"Who said that you will never marry for life?"

"You told my sister. Didn't you say that you are weak and sick, so you can't spoil the girl, so you refused to marry me?"

Xue Xuran fell silent.

An Ruochen said again: "Master Xue has such a character, my sister admires it very much. But in Madam Xue's heart, Mr. Xue is a good son who is filial and obedient. She is quite surprised that you refused to marry and disobeyed to the end."

Xue Xuran: "We need to report to you, an outsider, about our mother-child love and household chores?"

"Your housework has nothing to do with me. It's just about my sister's marriage, but I have to be concerned. There must be a good reason why you refuse marriage. Of course it's not because you are weak or sick, and it's not because your partner is a vulgar world like An Jia It's so simple to be ashamed." Since Xue Xuran wanted to make a point, An Ruochen also asked directly: "Your parents don't care about my father's reputation, why do you care? What is the reason for the refusal?"

Xue Xuran snorted and said, "So Miss An doesn't know? What kind of horoscopes help each other, and fortune transfer, it's all nonsense. It's because my mother is anxious to believe these things. If I knew that marrying a wife would be manipulated and blackmailed, I married early to save trouble now. What's General Long's idea? If a high-ranking official bullies the people, I'll sue the court, and General Long will be in big trouble. Look at his face, after you escaped, your second sister came looking for you frequently, you are afraid of being dragged down by her, so you want to marry her to an outsider, so you can feel at ease by pulling out your back, right?"

An Ruochen was taken aback, quite surprised. Arranged by the general? She was distressed about the second sister, so he asked Master Jingci to set up this trick to deceive Mrs. Xue?

Xue Xuran stared at her: "You really don't know? I won the game of chess and forced the master to tell the truth. Although he said that he would not admit this to anyone, I can't prove it, but it is true. Really. Your Excellency General has such a great official authority that he actually lured Master Jingci to help him so much."

An Ruochen said: "It is true that you and my second sister are compatible. It is such an easy deception to be exposed. Master Jingci will not be so stupid as to ruin his reputation."

"Chongxi's talk is nonsense, who cares if the characters match or not." Xue Xuran was very annoyed. "I marry whoever I marry, as long as my mother likes it. But if you want to use this matter to cause trouble for my family and drag my family down, I will not agree. Ms. An should give up her mind. You and I It's good to know it well, if it makes my mother worry, General Long won't be happy. Regardless of her own reputation, the girl also thinks about the general."

An Ruochen was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "So, it seems that we have each other's tricks."

Xue Xuran sneered: "What do you have against my family. Our Xue family is not like yours. We do things upright and clean."

An Ruochen said: "If the general really chose you, there would be no reason. You are right, our An family is controlled by Qian Pei, from business to children's marriage, my father will always look at Qian Pei's face. You are a Smart man, you have inquired very clearly, and your deduction is not bad. I escaped, but my second sister is still settling down. Her life is not easy, and naturally I am also in trouble. The general wants to unplug my back and get rid of the culprit , you have to choose someone who is capable. Why did he choose you?"

Xue Xuran was taken aback for a moment, but quickly regained his composure. "I want to find someone who doesn't get along with Qian Pei, who is in the same family, and who is in a hurry to go to the doctor. I can't dislike Miss An Er. Except for my family, I'm afraid I can't find a second one in the whole city, right?"

An Ruochen shook her head: "The general said that if you are smart, you should hide it when you should." She stared at Xue Xuran: "Young master is young and vigorous, outspoken, so he was exposed."