The decoration is simple and elegant, without the slightest sense of luxury, but in the antique living room, Tong Pingzhangshi Wang Duo is sitting and drinking tea with others, and the tea doctor who is making tea beside him is not a graceful woman, but a old servant.
The middle-aged man sitting opposite Wang Duo, in his early forties, behaved well, possessed both the bravery of a general and the elegance of a Confucian. Known as the Double Wall of the Dynasty, General Gao Pian of Right Jinwu.
"So, Li Guanshu shot himself in the foot this time?" Gao Pian took a sip of tea and chuckled.
Wang Duo's face was full of joy, and there was a smile in his wrinkles. The old man looked very happy: "Not only did he shoot himself in the foot, but he dug a grave for himself."
Gao Pian's eyes were deep: "But he didn't dig this grave for himself at first."
Wang Duo put down the tea bowl and sighed leisurely: "Duke Xing and King An have had a deep grudge, but we will never let go of any chance."
Gao Pian turned the edge of the tea bowl, put it down again suddenly, and looked at Wang Duo: "How did King An survive that day? Who killed Li Guanshu?"
"In the first battle in Nangong, the Niu Shou Mountain became a mess, and the clan's children took refuge everywhere. No one knows how King An survived... Afterwards, according to what King An said, he did not meet Li Guanshu." Wang Duo said slowly.
Gao Pian sneered: "Li Guanshu went to the Sanqing Temple himself, if he can't even find King An, he would be too useless."
Wang Duo said: "Of course Duke Xing is not a fool."
Gao Pian said again: "Although Li Guanshu only has the sixth level of Qi training, there are many people who can kill him, but there are not many people who dare to kill him."
Wang Duo suddenly said: "After King An returned from Niu Shou Mountain, there is one more person beside him."
Gao Pian asked, "What kind of person?"
Wang Duo's face was strange: "A person who can't see through."
Gao Pian frowned: "Can this person kill Li Guanshu?"
Wang Duo thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I have never seen this person before."
Gao Pian fell silent.
The tea in the bowl was already cold, and Dr. Tea replaced them with two new cups of tea. Wang Duo took a sip and continued: "There is one more thing, which is quite strange. Prince Gong's son was seriously injured, and his entourage died."
"Oh? Why?" Gao Pian raised his brows with interest.
Wang Duo smiled wryly: "There is not a single word from Prince Gong's residence."
"So, this matter has been sealed." Gao Pian picked up the new cup of tea, put it to his mouth, paused, then put it down again, and asked Wang Duo: "This matter is strange. What does Princess Li say?" ?”
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Wang Duo shook his head: "There is also no word."
Gao Pian propped his hands on his knees, and leaned forward slightly: "Then what did King An say? After King An returned, did the prince go to see him?"
"I have seen it." Wang Duo's tone was inexplicable, his voice seemed a little hoarse, "King An said, I don't know."
Gao Pian fell silent again.
Wang Duo drank the tea, put it down, picked it up again, drank it again, and so on, a cup of tea was drunk in a short time.
"What happened on Niu Shou Mountain is too weird. Needless to say, the water here is very deep. Although the matter of Nangong's first battle against the heroes has also been sealed, the Qin Tianjian has many eyes, and there is still a lot of trouble. Just a few words came out... Even if there is no such a few words, just this big battle, it will be extraordinarily strange—who is the other party? Why do you want to stop Nangong No. 1 in Sanqingguan?" Wang Duo said a lot of words Now, when he saw the matter of Niu Shou Mountain, it was like looking at flowers in a fog, and everyone who came back from Niu Shou Mountain seemed to have become weird and mysterious, and he had too many questions in his mind.
Gao Pian spoke slowly: "Now I can only be sure of one thing."
"What's the matter?" Wang Duo asked immediately.
Gao Pian said in a low voice, "King An...not to be underestimated."
Wang Duo was startled, then nodded in agreement.
Being able to see through Li Guanshu's plot in Luoping Village and survive in Niushou Mountain is enough to illustrate this point. The death of Li Guanshu undoubtedly added a lot of mystery to Li Ye - after all, he was Li Ye's enemy. Regardless of whether this incident has anything to do with Li Ye, it is very intriguing.
Wang Duo said: "Before the assessment, I didn't expect that King An could achieve such a result. I originally thought that if he can perform well, he should not be too far behind the other clan leaders. Unable to practice, mediocre intellect, nothing worthy of praise. Over the years, there has not been a single admirable thing... Unexpectedly, once King An received the inheritance of Yuan Tianshi, he would be completely reborn, cultivated as a diligent and intelligent root Not to mention, even his personal luck is not what it used to be... Fortunately, King An is one of his own."
If such a person is an enemy, it will be really troublesome.
Gao Pian chuckled: "My own? The prince thinks so, and King An also thinks so?"
Wang Duo frowned slightly: "What does the general mean by that?"
Gao Pian's voice was slightly cold: "After the fall of the old King An, when King An was in distress, did the prince ever help? He didn't give people any benefits, so why should he make people his own? Only with the little help that the prince gave to King An before, That's nothing more than a familiar face."
Wang Duo was silent.
Gao Pian said again: "I have already missed the opportunity to give charcoal in the snow, and it is irreversible. Although this icing on the cake is not as popular as giving charcoal in the snow, there is still a huge difference between doing it and not doing it—and this is our last chance to give a big gift."
Wang Duo understood Gao Pian's meaning: "This time, King An ranked first in the official assessment. There is no suspense. Regarding the specific official position of the official..."
Having said this, Wang Duo stopped talking and didn't say anything clearly.
Wang Duo wanted to find a good job for Li Ye, but he and Li Ye's opponents would naturally not agree, so a game was needed. Wang Duo is calm and dignified. Although he has decided at this moment to find Li Ye an official position with real power at any cost, he still won't say anything definitively before the matter is done.
Gao Pian suddenly smiled: "The matter of Niu Shou Mountain is certainly incomprehensible to us, but there are others who have a headache ten thousand times more than us."
Hearing this, Wang Duo also smiled again.
After a while, Gao Pian withdrew his smile and said seriously: "It's not too late, we need to make plans for King An's appointment as an official."
Wang Duo nodded: "I will call everyone together and make arrangements in advance."
At this time, the prime minister's mansion.
"It's been so many years, how did I never realize that Li Guanshu is so useless, he is a guy who has more than accomplished nothing?!" Wei Baoheng seldom gets angry, but at this time, he was so angry that he paced back and forth in the room , the snuff bottle that he likes to play with the most on weekdays, was also crushed in his hands at this time, and turned into powder.
"Duke Wei calm down, there is no need to get angry because of this person." Standing in front of Wei Baoheng was a man who was not yet forty years old, with a slick face and a big belly. Yu Wei Baoheng's second person, Tong Ping Zhangshi, Lu Yan, Minister of the Ministry of War.
The same is true for the affairs of the same chapter, and the same is true for the affairs of the Tongzhongshumen. The person who is awarded this title is the same as the prime minister, and has the power to participate in the affairs of the state before the imperial court. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were as many as several prime ministers, which is the reason. But no matter how many prime ministers there are, there is only one ruling prime minister. The current ruling prime minister, who leads all officials to handle daily political affairs, is Wei Baoheng.
"Everyone knows that Li Guanshu is my lord's right-hand man. Now that he has committed a crime, he has been accused of defilement and rebellion, and my lord has also been implicated. Because of this incident, my lord has been questioned a lot in front of His Majesty in the past two days. This official, Han Wenyue Liu Xingshen and his like, is even more yin and yang, pointing at Sang and cursing Huai, I really can't bear it!"
Although he has not been angry for a day or two, Wei Baoheng is still in a state of mind. Of course he cares whether Li Guanshu lives or dies. Wei Baoheng obviously cared more about the stigma brought to him by the rebellion of the Sanqingguan. After all, he is the prime minister in power, and he already holds great power.
After a long time, Wei Baoheng calmed down and sat down on the main seat: "Did you find out? How did Li Guanshu die?"
"I can't find out. The people who followed Li Guanshu at that time were all dead, and the disciples of Sanqing Temple and the monks of Qin Tianjian didn't see what happened... It was only found that Li Guanshu died The place should be in front of a waterfall, there are still sword marks on the cliff of the waterfall, and the surrounding forests have also been damaged a lot by the sword energy, it is obvious that the one who made the shot was a real master, and his sword skills are very high."
Lu Yan continued: "The weirdest thing is that there are more than a dozen corpses of Sanqing Temple disciples in front of the waterfall, including Xu Qingfeng, the master of Sanqing Temple... According to the existing evidence, there can only be A result."
Wei Baoheng frowned and said, "Xu Qingfeng killed Li Guanshu?"
"To be precise, we all died together." Lu Yan pondered, "On Niu Shou Mountain, except for the masters who fought against Nangong No. 1, only Xu Qingfeng could have that kind of strength and mastery of swordsmanship. And the sword array of Sanqing Temple , and also a little famous... "
"Xu Qingfeng has the strength of the sixth level of Qi training?" Wei Baoheng frowned, "Li Guanshu took Wei Tianhe there, the latter's cultivation has also reached the fifth level of Qi training, and it is said that he is a quack killer with quite good fighting skills. outstanding."
Lu Yan thought for a moment: "Xu Qingfeng's cultivation reported in the Qin Tianjian is the fifth level of Qi training, but it does not rule out the possibility that he hides his strength. There are indeed masters who appeared on Niu Shou Mountain that night and fought against Nangong No. 1 The strength to kill Li Guanshu—after all, he can fight Nangong No.1 head-on. But according to Nangong No.1, these people fled one after another after he killed them, so there is no chance of beheading Li Guanshu."
Wei Baoheng asked patiently: "It's unusual for those masters to appear on Niu Shou Mountain. They came too fast, so they can only be people from the Zhongnan Mountain Taoist sect. The question is why these people came to Niu Shou Mountain and did not hesitate to expose their identities. Do you want to fight Nangong No. 1 too?"