A pair of black calfskin shoes stepped on a caterpillar that had fallen from a tree.
The owner of the shoe seemed to feel a little dirty and his feet were itchy. After lifting his foot, he wiggled his toes a few times on the stone road in front of him.
These shoes look ordinary, but the leather is soft and thin, so they must be very comfortable to wear.
In another alley, a middle-aged man was looking in the direction of Mo Yuan with sharp eyes.
Suddenly, he felt an inexplicable sense of threat again.
This feeling is similar to the feeling of a poisonous snake suddenly appearing behind you when you are lying in ambush in the grass and watching the enemy cavalry.
This feeling has occurred once before.
So he didn't think it was a coincidence.
He turned around.
He is on the second floor of the teahouse, behind him is a staircase.
There is no one on this staircase.
At this moment, his face suddenly turned pale, and he suddenly and clearly sensed that this dangerous feeling came from the teapot that was in front of him but was behind him at this time.
He opened his mouth, wanting to scream.
However, faster than the gushing of his true essence, the teapot that was calmly placed on the tea tray shook slightly, and a drop of water flew out of the spout and stretched into a sword, easily piercing through the back of his neck and directly into his chest. brain.
His eyes widened suddenly, his pupils were filled with blood, and his body froze.
No one in the teahouse noticed anything unusual on the second floor.
Among the tea drinkers at the tables on the first floor, there were also subordinates of this middle-aged man, but even they didn't feel anything unusual.
It's just that behind the wall of this teahouse, in another alley, a tall woman selling flowers with a flower basket is walking by.
This woman's clothes are very simple and elegant. For some reason, no one who walked by her can see her face clearly.
…
The news of the middle-aged man's death spread to the central army camp of the Tiger Wolf Northern Army immediately.
A young man in casual clothes knelt on one knee and told Liang Lian, who was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the large tent, in detail all the details of the middle-aged man's death, including his own speculation.
Liang Lian looked at the young man coldly.
There was also genuine indifference in his eyes.
He doesn't like to add too much of his own emotions and speculative subordinates when reporting, and he also knows that after the military adviser who has followed him for many years was killed by himself, this young man is too eager to express himself and wants to become The new military division beside him.
It's just that even though he really didn't like this young man in his heart, he still had enough tolerance.
Because the other party is loyal enough to him.
"It cannot be Bai Shanshui who killed General Zuo."
He shook his head, looked at the young man whose face was stiff because of his denial, and said slowly: "Even in my prime, I couldn't kill General Zuo silently."
The young man didn't know that his naive judgment in Liang Lian's eyes was actually correct. Hearing Liang Lian's words at this time, his face paled, thinking he understood something.
"The boy from the wine shop is now a member of the Minshan Sword Sect, and the Minshan Sword Sect members are known to protect their weaknesses. Only those few people from the Minshan Sword Sect have such strength."
Liang Lian stood up and walked slowly out of Zhang Kai. He coughed a few times, looked at the outline of Changling, and said indifferently: "Many people want to force me to leave Changling quickly. I can ignore them, but I can't ignore the Minshan Sword Sect."
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In the southern outskirts of the city, there are tea gardens.
After Ding Ning left that day, most people in Changling wanted to know what happened to the middle-aged tea master who knelt for a whole day in this tea garden.
Especially the vast majority of people in Changling began to know that the middle-aged tea master and the maid named Rong who forced Xue Wangxu to death were actually underground lovers.
It's just a guess, whether it's the maid surnamed Rong or the matter itself, it's too high for most people in Changling.
So after Ding Ning left, no one dared to enter the tea garden again.
On this day, an unwitting farmer driving an ox cart entered the tea garden.
He is Zhang Luyang's old acquaintance. He raises chickens and geese in the outskirts of Changling, and transports fertilizer to this tea garden several times a year. Because he is not in Changling City, he doesn't know what happened here.
After entering the tea garden, the farmer suddenly found that no one lived in Zhang Luyang's bamboo hut, and the charcoal ash in Zhang Luyang's stone stove seemed to have been cold for a long time, not recently.
The farmer felt puzzled, he looked around, and when he turned to the pond where Zhang Luyang washed his clothes and washed rice on weekdays, he was stunned, and then he couldn't help making a sound of surprise.
He saw a lot of bones.
These white bones are just ordinary goose bones. The remaining meat on the goose bones has been eaten away by ants, but these fine white bones have some words on the ground.
What this row of bone characters spelled out is just a date.
The farmer thought about it, it was a day three years before Emperor Yuanwu ascended the throne.
He clearly remembered that three days after this day, it was the day when the late emperor passed away.
The farmer found it strange that he couldn't find Zhang Luyang. He went out to inquire about Zhang Luyang, and he couldn't believe it when he heard what happened here a few days ago. The characters of bones.
No one can explain it to him.
Everyone who heard about it felt that Zhang Luyang might have left this row of bones, and wanted to say something, but no one knew what such a date represented.
But the maid named Rong knew it.
In other words, only she and the queen knew about the entire Changling Tomb.
When the news of the tea garden came to the courtyard where she lived in the imperial palace again, she no longer stood under the eaves, but sat numbly at the window, and she trembled uncontrollably again.
She remembered the date very clearly.
Because on that day, that person came back and spent the night with the Queen in a courtyard in Changling.
The queen's trip was very secret, it was arranged by her, and only she knew about it.
At that time, the queen was already with Emperor Yuanwu, and she was already preparing to launch a mutiny against that man and Bashan Sword Field.
That night, the queen was still extremely tender to that man.
But that night, Emperor Yuanwu didn't know.
On the day represented by that date, there may be many other things that happened, but she naturally thought of that night.
Because she knew that the queen would naturally think of that night.
That person is dead.
How could Zhang Luyang know what happened that night
The body of the maid surnamed Rong kept trembling.
Her clothes began to soak with sweat.
She knew that she would never talk in sleep logically, but at this moment, she began to wonder if she really talked a lot in sleep on weekdays.
She couldn't believe that even if Zhang Luyang knew what happened that night, he would use such a method to revenge herself.
However, she was certain that the queen would feel that the words left by Zhang Luyang represented that night.
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"What does he mean?"
Ye Celeng walked back to the small courtyard where he lived a little tired, looked at the "flower girl" who was sitting comfortably on the bamboo chair, and asked.
"It seems to mean dealing with Liang Lian and the palace maid Rong at the same time."
Bai Shanshui sneered at Ye Ce, and said, "Everything seems to be more interesting."