In the middle of the night, the carriage stopped outside the palace gate, and a guard opened the curtain and let Cai Yan get out of the car.
"Your Highness."
Cai Yan tied Yuhuang around his waist as he walked, and the guard whispered, "Wuluohoumu drove to the river and threw a body down the river."
Cai Yan asked, "Have you ever made a stopover?"
The guard shook his head, Cai Yan nodded, and another guard stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty is awake and is looking for you."
"After Wuluohoumu returns to the palace, he sleeps with him, and he doesn't have to come to see me."
Cai Yan hurriedly went to see him and disappeared into the darkness.
A tributary of the Minjiang River, with rocky beaches.
The sound of horse hooves came from far away, a girl in men's clothing was riding a horse, her robe was raised, and two hounds ran along the river bank, sniffing a corpse that was swept ashore by the river on the rocky beach, the girl had a face Doubtful, looking at the grass.
The hound barked, sniffing Duan Ling's face, and another man chased after him on horseback, saying, "County Lord!"
That girl was Princess Duanping and the daughter of Marquis of Huaiyin, Congping County Master, named Yao Zheng. She came from the city this morning, dressed as a man, rode a horse by the Minjiang River, entered the mountain road, and her two pet dogs walked along the road. The hillside galloped for a while, running away without a shadow, Yao Zheng chased after him from a distance, and saw the body of a young man on the rocky beach, inexplicable.
The man was wearing a black robe and his belt was flying. He was chased by a horse. The sun shone on his face and stabbed him so much that he couldn't open his eyes. It was Wu Du.
"The county master." Wu Du had no choice but to say, "The mountain road here is difficult to walk, there are many snakes in spring, it is not safe, go back."
"What is your identity? It's your turn to take care of me?" Yao Zheng said, "If you don't want to accompany you, go back by yourself!"
Wu Du saw that there was no one on the rocky beach, the sun was shining brightly, and the flowers were in full bloom, so he had to dismount and look around. When he saw that there were no snakes and scorpions, Fang nodded without speaking, and stood by the river with his arms folded.
With Yao Zheng's "chi" sound, Wu Du tried his best to calm his anger, frowned deeply, looked around, saw two dogs barking in the grass, and walked there, Yao Zheng got off his horse and stood by the river. , his expression flickered.
"The county master." Wu Du turned around again and said, "Don't get too close to the river, there is a lot of turbulent flow here."
Yao Zheng ignored Wu Du, who found Duan Ling's scarred body in the grass.
Yao Zheng stood for a while, then came over again, and when he saw Duan Ling, he said, "Hey, why is there a dead person here?"
Wu Du knelt down on one knee, went to test Duan Ling's breath, and found that he was no longer breathing.
Wu Du said: "There is no fatal injury on his body, which family's child?"
"It's dead." Yao Zheng said.
Wu Du went to press Duan Ling's neck again, Yao Zheng said, "Let's go."
"Wait." Wu Du said.
Yao Zheng laughed: "If you don't go back, you will be scolded by your master later."
Wu Du turned and glanced at Yao Zheng, as if he wanted to say something, but he held back. At this moment, the meridian on Duan Ling's neck throbbed slightly.
Wu Du frowned deeply and said to himself, "Poisoned?"
Yao Zheng suddenly said: "Hey, Wu Du, I heard that you can poison the living and save the dead. Try it out. If you save a dead person, I will help you if you want. A few nice words in front of my father."
"I'm acting upright." Wu Du said, "I don't want anything. The words in front of Marquis Huaiyin are just facts."
Wu Du knelt on one knee beside Duan Ling with a puzzled expression, took out a porcelain bottle in the medicine bag, and poured out a pill.
"Can it really be saved?" Yao Zheng felt that Wu Du was simply unreasonable.
Wu Du didn't answer, he crushed the pill, fed it into Duan Ling's mouth, pressed his throat, then got up, and said to Yao Zheng, "But if he really lives, will this bet count?"
Yao Zheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Wu Du. After watching for a while, he walked across the rocky beach, got on his horse, rode on it, looked at the river, and said after a while, "This county master is still trustworthy, of course it counts."
Wu Du's expression changed again. He heard the irony in Yao Zheng's words. After a while, he said, "Look, he is breathing."
"That's all." Yao Zheng felt that Wu Du was like a sandbag, he didn't fight back, he didn't fight back, and he didn't speak any words along the way. I."
"Wait!" Wu Du was about to catch up, but Yao Zheng rode his horse along the mountain road like a gust of wind. The two dogs barked at Wu Du a few times, and even the bark was full of schadenfreude contempt. Intention, chasing Yao Zheng away.
In the early spring, flowers were flying all over the Xichuan Palace, and under the breeze, Cai Yan sat outside the main hall and waited.
Li Yanqiu was washing while Cai Yan was waiting outside.
"The prince is here?" Li Yanqiu asked.
"Go back to Your Majesty." The palace maid replied, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was waiting outside for the night."
Li Yanqiu said, "Let him come in."
Cai Yanfang went inside to greet Li Yanqiu and stepped forward to serve him.
"When I came back last night, my uncle slept again." Cai Yan said, "Have you not slept well these days?"
"I had a dream." Li Yanqiu said, "I feel restless when I think of you, and want to ask what you are doing."
The hall was busy, Li Yanqiu put his hand on the desk, the palace maid and the eunuch put on a ring for him, Cai Yan took out the other half of the jade from the wooden box, knelt down on one knee, and carefully tied it to Li Yanqiu's belt.
"I dreamed of the day you came back." Li Yanqiu smiled gently and said, "You are the only one, hazy, and you can't even see your appearance. I'm so anxious."
Li Yanqiu smiled sadly, but Cai Yan did not smile, his eyes were full of sadness.
The palace maid held the medicine and raised it above her head.
Li Yanqiu didn't even look at it, so he took it and drank it. Cai Yan said, "I couldn't sleep well last night. I dreamed of my father."
"Maybe he's entrusting you with dreams." Li Yanqiu sighed and said, "These days, he hasn't come into my dreams, so he must be blaming me."
Cai Yan said, "I won't think so, my uncle is overthinking it."
"Never mind." Li Yanqiu smiled and said casually, "Has your cousin ever looked for you?"
Cai Yan shook his head, and Li Yanqiu instructed the guards, "Send someone to summon the county master and have lunch together."
After noon, Yao Zheng came back to the palace still dressed in men's clothes, with mud on his boots. He said hello to Li Yanqiu and Cai Yan, but Cai Yan didn't sleep well last night and was groggy.
"Hey, Rong." Yao Zheng said, "Where's Wuluohoumu?"
Cai Yan replied, "I couldn't sleep last night. I went out for a walk. He wanted to accompany him. I told him not to wait. I'll pass him here. Where can I play with you in the afternoon?"
Yao Zheng replied: "I didn't think about it. Let's talk about it later. If you want to go up Wenzhong Mountain, do you want to go?"
"I'm not going." Cai Yan said, "I have to criticize the book."
"Hey." Yao Zheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Li Yanqiu asked Yao Zheng again, "When will your father send someone to pick you up?"
Yao Zheng said: "I want to stay or not leave."
Li Yanqiu said, "Then, I just happened to tell you about the marriage."
Yao Zheng's face changed. After thinking about it, he smiled awkwardly and said, "Hey, uncle, that..."
Li Yanqiu said, "You were forced to get married at home. When you come to my uncle's place, you are going to marry blindly and dumbly. You can do it yourself."
Yao Zheng didn't dare to speak anymore, just lowered his head and ate pick and choose. Someone outside reported that Wuluohou Mu was coming, Cai Yan asked him to wait outside the door, and Li Jianhong gave him some dishes and let him Eat in the side hall.
Another humane said: "Wu Du asks to see the county master."
Li Yanqiu said casually: "Let him go back, what are you doing so diligently here?"
The man went down and sent Wu Du.
At that time, Wu Du did not have a badge to enter the palace, and waited outside the palace gate, leading a horse with something on its back and a piece of cloth covering it.
After waiting for half an hour, the guards in the palace sent a message and told him to go back. When the county master disappeared, Wu Du led the horse, walked around the street, and returned to his residence - the side courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The prime minister's mansion has four major entrances, forty-eight courtyards, more than 100 rooms, and raises a lot of doormen. A partial courtyard is opened at the farthest corner, with three bedrooms, a courtyard, a horse stable and a firewood room. After Li Jianhong's sacrifice, the Xichuan people and others stood in line again, and Wu Du was recruited by Mu Kuangda and got a place to stay.
People often joked that he was a "slave of three surnames". He first followed Zhao Kui, then briefly joined Li Jianhong's command, and finally went to Mu Kuangda's house and became a diner. Over the years, the four major assassins have become famous, Wuluohoumu has made great contributions in protecting the prince's return; Zheng Yan has lived in seclusion in Huaiyin, saying he doesn't care about the world, but he is actually the confidant of Yaofu, the Marquis of Huaiyin; Lord Changliu has always been Mu Kuangda was used for great use; only Wu Du had bad luck, every time he performed a mission, he ended in failure.
Menke also reminded Mu Kuangda that Wu Du hit the master, and such servile people should not be better off. Some people even suspected that Li Jianhong was assassinated by Wu Du. There were various opinions, but Mu Kuangda smiled and accepted Wu Du's allegiance, leaving him a place among the three thousand disciples.
After all, Wu Du knew too much about Zhao Kui. These people would either kill or recruit, and it would be inappropriate to throw them away. Besides, although he was almost removed from his name, the title of one of the four assassins is still somewhat useful.
On the surface, Mu Kuangda treated Wu Du with the courtesy of a sergeant, but in fact he did not pass on him much. Most of the time, it was like raising an idler, and Lord Changliu even looked down on him, so Wu Du lived in the prime minister's residence like this, and also Nobody cares about him.
Lord Changliu had reminded Mu Kuangda that he was afraid that Wu Du would sneak in and one day he would take revenge for Zhao Kui, Mu Kuangda’s answer to this was: “No plan, from beginning to end, Wu Du can’t even count. Your opponent, just because he never knew what he wanted, was confused."
Changliu-kun thought about it too. People like Wu Du didn't have much persistence and were not good at martial arts, so they didn't pay much attention to him. At first, there were several servants in the courtyard, but later, seeing that the Mu family did not value Wu Du, they would be lazy every day. Finally, Wu Du lost his temper and expelled all the servants, leaving him to live alone.
Wu Du returned home, uncovered the cloth, put Duan Ling down, put it in the courtyard, scooped a bowl of spirits and poured it on Duan Ling's face, Duan Ling gasped violently, but did not wake up, Wu Du left Look to the right, there is someone from outside, and the Prime Minister has an invitation.
Wu Du had to turn around and leave.