"The few people who entered the palace were watching closely to see what they were doing. Look at what Luo Qingyan wanted to do. I expected that after Luo Qingyan settled everything, he would find ways to make it easy. palace."
"Yes." Someone responded: "I have sent people to keep an eye on all the movements in the palace. Not long after Hua Guogong left the palace and returned to the mansion, Hua Guogong's third son left the mansion and went to the city defense camp outside the city. Dispatched about 300 city defense battalion soldiers and went to the place where the incident happened. Do you want to send someone to stop them? All... dealt with?"
"Heh..." There was a sneer: "If you die, you will die. No matter how many people are sent to search, they will find nothing more than a cold corpse. There is no need to stop this team. Our purpose is to Luo Qingyan said, if you act rashly and casually, you will expose us instead."
"Li Qianmo and the others are still in the palace, and Luo Qingyan should still be arranging the affairs of the court, but they have to keep an eye on Li Qianmo and the others. I suspect that after Luo Qingyan arranges it properly, he will easily become one of these people. One of them went out of the palace. After these people left the palace, send people to follow them all the way, carefully watching to see if there are any people entering or leaving the palace, or even the city, and if so, report back immediately. Then, we can prepare to do it... "
"yes."
Plotting is going on here, but in the defense camp outside the city, Duke Hua's third son, Hua Ziyang, has dispatched people and is on his way.
"What's the situation in the palace?" After getting on the horse, Hua Ziyang lowered his head to look at the soldiers in front of him who were leading the horse for him.
"Reporting to Master, Master Li and the others have already left the palace. The secret guards are watching secretly, and there are people following behind the several adults."
Luo Qingyan, who was pretending to be Hua Ziyang, nodded: "Everything is going according to plan, let's go."
"Yes, let's go!"
Because the place where the accident happened was to be driven out, the three hundred elite soldiers were dispatched cavalry. With an order, they all galloped away on horseback.
After two days of marching, Luo Qingyan arrived.
"This mountain is called Dangnan Mountain. It stretches for about two miles and is more than seven hundred feet high."
The dark guard was reporting to Luo Qingyan in a low voice, Luo Qingyan pursed his lips, and raised his eyes to look at the mountain not far away.
The stretch of the mountain was cut off in the middle, and the place below that was originally covered by vegetation has now become a yellow bulge, full of mud and gravel.
"At that time, the hidden guards who were inquiring in front had already walked out of Dangnan Mountain. On the day my mother passed by here, the sun was a bit harsh. My lady and the others should have rested somewhere in the forest on the mountainside, and then the hidden guards who were exploring the way in front heard There were a few loud bangs, and when they turned back, they saw that this was already the case."
"The dark guards checked carefully, and there was a large amount of explosives buried on the mountain. After the incident, the dark guards immediately dispatched troops to seal the mountain, but they didn't find any suspicious people."
Luo Qingyan pursed his lips: "It's been three days, but what did you find?"
"I found it..." The dark guard was silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "I found the corpses of eleven dark guards. They were checked by someone. They were buried alive in the earth and suffocated to death."
Luo Qingyan opened his mouth, and after a while he said hoarsely: "Graceful burial."
"I also found out..." The dark guard bit his lip, and handed over the thing in his hand: "This. It seems... It's the empress's belongings."
Luo Qingyan looked over, and saw a bead flower in the hand of the dark guard.
Luo Qingyan's fingers trembled slightly, before he raised his hand to take it, his voice was a little hoarse: "Yes, it belongs to her, I... I saw her wearing it before."
Seeing Luo Qingyan's trembling hands, the dark guard felt a little shaken in his heart. He has been with Luo Qingyan for a long time, nearly ten years, but he has never seen Luo Qingyan like this.
Countless times, life and death are at stake, but I have never seen this person flustered in the slightest. He is always calm and steady, making people feel that as long as he is there, there are no problems that cannot be solved, and there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome.
But now...
"Although we found Empress's bead flowers, but no one saw Empress. This may just mean that Empress must have broken out. Master, don't worry too much."
Luo nodded lightly: "I'm not worried, I trust her, she will be fine."
As Luo Qingyan said, he held Zhuhua tightly, and Zhuhua felt a pain in his palm, but Luo Qingyan didn't say a word, and only tightened the hand holding Zhuhua.
"You said just now that the bodies of eleven hidden guards were found? Where were they found? Take me to have a look."
The dark guard responded and took Luo Qingyan to go.
The rocks and mud slipped and covered the original road, making it extremely difficult to walk. Fortunately, the two days of search by the dark guards cleared up the original official road.
"The corpses of those hidden guards were found near here, and they were relatively concentrated. Judging from the situation at that time, the empress and the others probably had an accident while they were resting near here..."
The corpse has been removed, but some white ash has been sprinkled on the place where the corpse was found for marking according to the appearance of the corpse at that time.
Luo Qingyan nodded, and walked around the white gray marks, frowning slightly.
"At that time, these hidden guards probably didn't find any place to take shelter. They were smashed by the pouring rocks and soil. Four corpses were found here, and a few more were further down. The position should have been pushed down by the rocks. Master, do you want to go down and have a look?"
Luo nodded lightly, walked steadily down, and after walking a certain distance, he could see a white gray mark.
Luo Qingyan carefully checked the places where the eleven corpses were found, and then went back to the top place where the four corpses were found.
After walking back and forth there twice, Luo Qingyan said in a low voice: "The placement of these four corpses is a bit strange, two by two, it seems that they are lined up on both sides, let's see Looking at the appearance of this corpse, it seems that it was squatting when it died?"
"Squatting?" The guard who followed Luo Qingyan was stunned for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "When my subordinate saw the four corpses, they were lying down, but curled up into a ball. I felt a little strange, but after listening to what my master said now, I realized that the shape of the corpse really seemed to be caused by squatting, and then it seemed to be..."
The dark guard wanted to say that he was overturned by rocks and mud, but he felt that something was wrong. When he just died, the body was still soft. If it was overturned by rocks, it shouldn't look like that.
"It looks like it was deliberately put down by someone."
As the dark guard spoke, his eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Luo Qingyan: "Master..."