Nightwatcher

The opponent's strong wrist made the black-robed spy aware of the gap in strength between the two sides. He is a senior intelligence officer, and he will not be thrown into chaos or lose his mind because of a crisis.

On the contrary, years of training have made him calmer in times of crisis.

"Master Xu, there is no need for you to do this. You want to investigate the bloody massacre for three thousand miles, and you are afraid of offending His Highness Duke Huai. These humble positions are understandable. But I advise you not to be impulsive. There are a few things you need to understand.

"First, the princess was not kidnapped by the barbarians, this matter cannot be hidden, hehe, I can't tell you the reason. But you believe me, if the princess falls into the hands of the barbarians, His Highness Duke Huai will eventually know.

"But it turned out that the princess was rescued by you. As long as it is investigated after the incident, it is enough that you left the mission at the same time as the time when the princess was robbed. His Highness Duke Huai does not need evidence for who he wants to deal with, as long as he thinks you are is the enemy."

King Zhenbei is more domineering than I imagined! Xu Qi'an remained expressionless and continued to listen.

"Secondly, you saved the concubine, which is a great achievement. His Highness Duke Huai has been in charge of the army for many years, and he values ​​the words "clear rewards and punishments" the most. If you can catch the line of Duke Huai, Xu Yinluo, you will have a bright future. .Wei Yuan can only promote your official position, but Duke Huai is a prince, so he can promote your title."

"Thirdly, a case is just a case. If you fail to handle one, it will not affect your reputation for repeatedly solving strange cases. The most important thing is your future, isn't it? Why bother to affect yourself for solving a case that has nothing to do with you."

The concubine took another step silently, she didn't go to see the black-robed spy, her attention was all on Xu Qi'an.

Although he is a lecher, his acting style is quite decent, and he is definitely not the kind of scum who betrays others for the sake of his future. The princess has certain confidence in this, but she is still a little nervous and nervous.

After all, what Xu Qi'an is facing now is the pressure of offending the prince, and the prospect of being promoted to a noble.

No matter which world has bureaucracy, Xu Qi'an nodded slowly:

"It makes sense, I'm almost convinced. You're right, the princess is the wife of King Zhenbei, and I don't need to offend a prince because of it."

The black-robed spy showed a smile on his masked face, he was betting that Xu Qi'an would not dare to offend Duke Huai; betting that Xu Qi'an cared more about his future.

Purgatory on one side and fairyland on the other, any fool knows how to choose.

Of course, who cares whether these words can be fulfilled, whether Duke Huai is willing to give Xu a bright future.

As long as he survives this catastrophe and returns to the military camp, Xu Qi'an will be a chopping board fish. As for the qi technique, the black-robed spy is not worried, what he said just now was all the truth.

Duke Huai indeed has clear rewards and punishments.

Looking at the black-robed spy who was obviously relieved, Xu Qi'an said with a heavy tone, "Answer me a question, and I'll let you go. Bloody slaughter for three thousand miles, what's going on?"

The black-robed spy's heart sank, and he said sharply: "Xu Qi'an, if you insist on investigating, all that awaits you is destruction. Duke Huai crushing you is like crushing an ant.

"Not only you, your family, your relatives and friends, all have to sit down. If you don't want them to be buried with you, you'd better let me go obediently."

Seeing that Xu Qi'an was silent, the black-robed spy sneered: "If you kill me, at most you kill me, what's the point? Can you summon my soul?

"Be smart, think about it carefully, what I just said is still valid."

As an intelligence officer, he understands people's hearts and speech skills very well. Threats and lures are combined, with future as bait and relatives and friends as threats.

"You're right." Xu Qi'an grinned.

The black-robed spy froze, filled with ominous premonition, and asked tentatively, "What, what?"

Xu Qi'an stared into his eyes and repeated: "You are right, I really know how to summon souls."

After finishing speaking, he saw the pupils of the black-robed spy shrank sharply, and then he struggled hard, sternly threatening: "Xu Qi'an, I am a spy of His Highness Duke Huai, if you dare to kill me, you are an enemy of Duke Huai. Good end.

"Are you a fool? No, fools are smarter than you. If you don't go on the Sunshine Avenue, you must."

With a click, the roar of anger stopped in summer.

"It's noisy."

Xu Qi'an casually threw the body on the ground. The spy opened his eyes wide and stared at the sky silently, as if he was dying.

Good kill! The princess applauded secretly in her heart.

She slowly stabilized her heart, exhaled a breath of relief, and when she looked at Xu Qi'an again, the appreciation in her eyes was undisguised.

Unknowingly, Xu Qi'an's image in her place became more and more vivid, and her trust in Xu Qi'an also increased. These changes happened quietly, and it was difficult for me to notice immediately.

The princess just wanted to say: Let's slip away!

Xu Qi'an took out a book, tore off a page, and ignited it with an air machine. In an instant, a dark wind blew up out of thin air, and there seemed to be a shrill cry in his ears, and the warm sun in the sky lost its temperature.

Then, the concubine saw unrealistic figures coming in the form of green smoke, floating in the air a foot away from Xu Qi'an.

Concubine Guiguigui's eyes widened a little bit, and her small mouth opened a little bit, she was so frightened.

She has never seen a ghost in her life. She usually makes up her own brains and scares herself. Now that she sees a real ghost, she is a little dazed, has no thoughts, and even forgets to run away.

Xu Qi'an didn't notice that the princess was in a state of fear, and even if she did, she didn't have time to comfort the number one beauty in Dafeng.

There are more important things waiting for him to do.

In addition to the three barbarians who died in Xu Qi'an's hands, as well as the black-robed spy, he also summoned the souls of the dead soldiers.

The new souls were foolish, their eyes glazed over.

Xu Qi'an looked at the black-robed man, was silent for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "What's the matter with the three thousand miles of blood."

The spy's expression was stiff, and his voice replied hollowly: "His Royal Highness Duke Huai's impact on the third-rank Great Perfection requires a large amount of life essence to increase the warrior's blood."

These words were like Jiao Lei blasting into the ears of Xu Qi'an and the princess.

At the moment when King Zhenbei did the bloody massacre for three thousand miles, Xu Qi'an's mind was buzzing, as if he had been hit on the head with a stick.

In fact, I have already expected that if the blood slaughter for three thousand miles was done by barbarians, how could Tang Shanjun and others, the leaders of the tribe, not know about it? How is it possible not to participate?

It's just that Chu Xianglong's ignorance made me ignore this detail, thinking that there is still an inside story in this case, the real reason is that I don't want to believe it.

I don't want to believe that a prince who has guarded the border for more than ten years, the royal family of Dafeng, will slaughter the people who respect and love him for his own selfish desires.

Xu Qi'an's lips trembled, and he murmured: "Unforgivable"

He would rather all this was done by the barbarians. Everyone is in a different camp. Meeting is a life-and-death relationship. Today you slaughtered the people of Dafeng, and tomorrow I will lead an army to crush the barbarian tribes.

Since it is a mortal enemy, there is nothing to say.

But he couldn't accept that it was King Zhenbei, the prince of Dafeng, who caused this tragedy. He swung the butcher knife at his own people, just for the sake of being promoted to the second rank.

brute!

Yes, it was the concubine made by Duke Huai who covered her lips, tears streaming from her eyes.

After a long time, Xu Qi'an heard his hoarse voice ask: "Where is the massacre?"

The man in black robe replied with a blank expression: "I don't know."

I don't know that this answer was beyond Xu Qi'an's expectation, shouldn't it be Xikou County? Isn't everything blocked over there?

In addition, it is unscientific that even the confidant of King Zhenbei did not know about this.

"Who knows?" Xu Qi'an asked the doubts in his heart.

"Commander Que Yongxiu and the spies of the word "Heaven" in Chuzhou know." The soul of the black-robed man said.

Commander Que Yongxiu?

Xu Qi'an pondered for a moment, and recalled the information of this person: Que Yongxiu, the commander of Chuzhou, the Duke of Huguo.

A hereditary title.

The first generation of Duke Huguo was King Pinghai back then, who was later the sworn brother of Emperor Wuzong.

Emperor Wuzong was the prince who joined forces with Buddhism to kill the first generation of supervisors five hundred years ago, and tried to usurp the throne in the name of the Qing emperor.

The lineage of Lord Huguo is a rare evergreen tree among the old nobles, and they are often married to royal family members. In the family history, they have married two princesses and four princesses.

Que Yongxiu has the blood of the Dafeng royal family.

"Que Yongxiu and the King of Zhenbei worked together to create a massacre of three thousand miles and collected evidence to report them. I don't believe that Emperor Yuan Jing could cover up the two of them. Even if he wanted to cover up, Wei Gong would not agree, nor would the court officials agree"

The princes in the court, the civil and military officials in the capital, the good and the bad, the stupid and shrewd, are a force that even the emperor cannot contend with.

As long as such a shocking tragedy is exposed, all the officials in the capital will not be able to sit idly by.

Xu Qi'an resisted the urge to return to the capital with his soul, because it was not enough, the soul of a secret agent alone was not enough to bring down King Zhenbei and Duke Hu Guo.

He turned to look at the three barbarians and asked, "What is the reason why you intercepted and killed the secret agents of King Zhenbei?"

The barbarian from the Qingyan tribe on the left replied: "Look for the place where King Zhenbei slaughtered people and report to the leader."

The barbarian from the Qingyan tribe in the middle then replied: "The leader also wants to be promoted to the second rank."

The barbarian from the Qingyan tribe on the right finally replied: "During this period of time, we have hunted each other with the secret agents of King Zhenbei, and lost many people."

"Why are you looking for the place where King Zhenbei slaughtered people?" Xu Qi'an glanced at the remnant soul of the black-robed man who stood still.

He immediately grasped the point, thinking that there was a big problem here.

Logically, finding the location of the crime was what he, the organizer, had to do, and it was also one of the criminal evidences he had to find. If the victim cannot be found, the case cannot be investigated.

However, the spies of King Zhenbei did not know the location of the crime, but the barbarians were looking for the location of the crime, which shows that the bloody massacre has not really ended yet.

"Take blood." The barbarian on the left replied.

Xu Qi'an asked the barbarians in the middle and the right again, and got a unified answer.

According to the analysis of the ambush case, the barbarians wanted to seize the good fortune of King Zhenbei, and they started in two ways: first, to seize the princess; second, to seize the essence and blood.

According to the feedback from the second point, it can be known that the Three Thousand Miles of Blood Massacre case is not over, or in other words, King Zhenbei is not yet finished. Otherwise, the spies from the Qingyan Department should have withdrawn their troops long ago.

No wonder there were no experts from the Qingyan Department when the concubine was besieged. If nothing else happened, they all sneaked into Chuzhou to find the place where the bloody massacre took place. And the secret agents of King Zhenbei fought wits and courage with the barbarians in secret, hunting each other.

It's no wonder that when picking up the princess, there were no spies to escort and meet them. They must have been overwhelmed. While hiding the bloody massacre for three thousand miles, they also wanted to hunt the barbarians who sneaked into Chuzhou.

"Only your Qingyan tribe knows about this?" Xu Qi'an asked again.

"Yes." The barbarian replied.

How did the leader of the Qingyan Department know about this? Xu Qi'an pondered for a moment, and said:

"Have you ever seen a warlock in the Horde?"

"I've seen it." Manzi said in a daze.

Well, in this case, the Qingyan Department knows all the inside stories about the three thousand miles of blood massacre, and these were all told to them by the mystic group of warlocks.

Two conclusions can be drawn from this: First, the group of mystic warlocks is supporting the leader of the Qingyan Department, supporting him to seize the fortune of Zhenbei King and be promoted to the second rank.

Second, the mystical warlock gang seized the luck of the Dafeng, supported the barbarian leaders, infiltrated the court, and eroded the national power of the Dafeng. The position is clear at a glance.

Xu Qi'an didn't continue to ask questions, but said in a deep voice, "Squat down and cover your eyes."

The princess cooperated skillfully, and immediately knelt down and covered her eyes.

Xu Qi'an took out the fragments of the book from the ground, put the bodies of the black-robed spy and the three savages into the small jade mirror, opened the gun, and collected their souls.

"Let's go!"

He came to the princess and knelt down, turned his back to her, and said, "Come up."

This time, the princess did not hesitate, she opened her arms and hugged Xu Qi'an's neck. She found that she no longer resisted a little physical contact with this man.

How strange.

The concubine turned her head and looked behind, a gust of wind blew in, and those unreal souls were torn apart and dissipated like dream bubbles in the wind.

She suddenly felt a pang of sadness in her heart, and said in a low voice, "He is not worthy of the title of king of Zhenbei."

"Shut up and hold me tight."

"Yeah." She tightened her arms, and lay on Xu Qi'an obediently.

boom! Amidst the muffled sound of the ground trembling, Xu Qi'an rushed out like an arrow and disappeared into the wilderness.

At noon, a hundred miles away from Sanhuang County, the direction is west.

The princess was sitting by the brook, gnawing on a chicken leg in an unladylike manner, and while eating, she glanced at Xu Qi'an who was in a daze. She was always arrogant, and her voice was rare and gentle:

"What are you going to do next?"

Xu Qi'an looked at her, smiled, and fiddled with the bonfire, "Actually, the reason why I took you to the north was to use you to blackmail King Zhenbei and make him be wary of rats. The original intention was bad."

She pursed her lips and said sadly, "I know."

She is not a fool either. This man went north to investigate the case and brought himself by his side. You can guess what the picture is by using your brain.

Xu Qi'an was surprised and said, "Hey, you're not angry? This doesn't fit your usual personality."

The concubine shook her head and said softly: "I was born good-looking since I was a child. When I was nine years old, I went to the Jade Buddha Temple with my parents to burn incense. The abbot of the temple saw me and wrote a poem. Well, you should know that poem.

"From then on, I became famous, and my parents worked harder and harder to cultivate me, hoping that I would become a talented woman who is well-versed in books, chess, calligraphy and painting.

"When I was thirteen, my family was under more and more pressure because I was too beautiful. Not only did I have to deal with high-ranking officials who came to ask for marriage, but even some clan members who had no blood relationship looked at me strangely.

"My parents and elders protected me very well, not because they loved me so much, but because they didn't want any flaws in the precious goods. Finally, in that year, the emperor sent someone to find me and asked me to enter the palace .

"The parents and elders were overjoyed, with tears in their eyes, yes, the goods they worked so hard to cultivate were finally sold at the highest price.

"After I entered the palace, I only met the emperor once, and then I was left out in the cold. Later, I learned that the emperor had already started to practice Taoism at that time, and he was not close to women. This is a good thing for me. The palace is delicious and comfortable. Yu Shi, you don't have to wrong yourself to cater to the stinky man.

"After the Battle of Shanhaiguan, I was donated to King Huai and became his main concubine. I lived in Prince Huai's mansion for twenty years. I know exactly what the two brothers are up to.

"But what can I do? I'm just a weak woman. Not to mention guarded by guards and guarded by maidservants, even if I don't have any restraints, let me run. I ran from Duke Huai's mansion to the outer city gate, and I ran away with my life. in half.

"I have been a commodity since I was a child, and I was constantly being given away. When the day is worthless, I will be abandoned like a shoe."

By the campfire, she hugged her knees, her voice was soft, and there was no sadness or joy on her face.

"So you use me as a bargaining chip, as a commodity, and I won't blame you. Compared to those two brothers, I think you are a good person."

This, this is too miserable, isn't it? Xu Qi'an felt pity in his heart, it had nothing to do with beauty, this pity was the same as that for Zhong Li.

Out of sympathy.

He looked at the princess and questioned, "Is it really not strange?"

The princess was very honest this time, and nodded her head: "It's strange, I thought you were going to betray me just now, and I was so angry."

Xu Qi'an smiled, "Women are like this, they don't mean what they say."

She laughed herself, and then asked: "How do you plan to deal with King Zhenbei's matter, since he did it, its nature is much, much more serious than lying about the military situation.

"If you insist on fighting against him, I'm afraid it won't end well."

The mountain wind was blowing, the bonfire was shaking, and in the quiet atmosphere, after a long time, Xu Qi'an said slowly: "Find the place where the blood slaughtered three thousand miles away, stop him, punish him, and if possible, I will kill him."

The princess looked at him obsessively.

Sanhuang County, Yayin Building.

"Boom boom"

Cai'er, who was leaning on the soft bed and reading idle books, heard a knock on the door, followed by the laughter of the old bustard: "Cai'er, master Zhao is here, please treat me well."

Cai'er received the book, and responded sweetly: "Okay, Mom."

The door of the room was pushed open, and a middle-aged man dressed as a rich man entered with a lewd smile on his face.

He stepped over the threshold, turned around and closed the door, and when he turned around, the smile on his face was gone, serious and serious.

The middle-aged man looked at Cai'er, nodded and said, "Did you tell him the news about Xikou County?"

Cai'er saluted and said respectfully: "Yes, he has no doubts."

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, sat at the table, poured a cup of tea, and said leisurely: "But with his quickness, he will definitely realize something is wrong afterwards, but at that time, the matter will be over."

Cai'er didn't speak.

The middle-aged man continued, "I'm going north in the next few days. You should leave Sanhuang County in the near future. If I die on the way, you will never come back."

After a pause, he said in a serious tone, "A servant in Tsing Yi."

Cai'er lowered her head: "A hundred deaths without regrets."

PS: Ask for a monthly ticket for 5,000 words, and correct the typo after half an hour.