No. 1 Girl in the Imperial City

Chapter 459 Blood Order!

Huo Shan hasn't been in a good mood recently, in fact he hasn't been in a good mood since years ago.

Years ago, the eldest son of the family was killed in Shangyonghuang City for no reason, and he had a faint bad feeling in his heart.

Because of this matter, the Patriarch has not been in a good mood for the past six months, and the people around him are often to blame.A few days ago, news came back that the person sent to investigate the death of the eldest son had died in Shangyong. Many hidden stakes in the Fang family's strongholds in Dasheng had been pulled out, which added fuel to the fire.

He was just severely scolded yesterday.

Huo Shan was very aggrieved, but when Fang Changyun sent someone to ask him to go over, he still didn't dare to delay for a moment, and went over respectfully.

"Patriarch." Huo Shan walked into the study and said respectfully.

Fang Changyun waved his hands impatiently, and said, "What's the news about Shang Yongke recently?"

Huo Shan knew what he wanted to ask, and replied, "Go home, everything is normal."

Hearing this, Fang Changyun frowned and said, "Are you sure?"

Huo Shan was taken aback, "What does Patriarch mean?"

Fang Changyun said: "The imperial court suddenly ordered all coastal areas to exterminate pirates!"

"How could it be?" Huo Shan was a little surprised, now that the Empress Dowager is still in mourning, according to the rules, the court will not use weapons unless it is absolutely necessary.However, just suppressing the bandits is not counted as the imperial court raising troops, maybe it doesn't matter much?

Fang Changyun glanced at him coldly, and said, "Why not? How many things have happened to Shangyong in the past six months? Are you sure that the Zhen Guojun and the Prince Regent's Mansion didn't find anything?"

Huo Shan was also taken aback, and said with some hesitation: "Should...no? The things about Shangyong before have nothing to do with us." In Huo Shan's view, Fang Shuo was purely looking for death on his own, a big shot who died in Shangyong years ago There are too many, the eldest son of the Fang family really can't be ranked.

But this obviously cannot be said in front of Fang Changyun. Although Fang Changyun has many heirs, this eldest son who is incapable of writing and martial arts is his favorite son.

As for why, because I have a good life and a good mother.

As for a son-in-law like Huo Shan, it is not worth mentioning.

Huo Shan knew his status very well, and never dared to really treat himself as a member of the Fang family.

Compared with his sobriety, his other companion seemed somewhat dazed.

Because his surname happened to be Fang, and he recognized Fang Changyun as his adoptive father, he really thought he was the young master of the Fang family, and he had really worked hard all these years.

However, Fang Changyun's words still made Huo Shan wake up a lot, after all, they had betrayed the Zhen Guojun in the first place to have their current status.Once discovered, I am afraid the end will not be so good.

"I heard that the eldest son of the Cao family is in Shangyong, but what news is there?" Huo Shan asked.

Fang Changyun glanced at him and said: "There is indeed some news. People in the Cao family said that the person who killed Shuo'er and attacked our Fang family these days was a teenager named Dongfang. He claimed to be a descendant of the previous dynasty."

Huo Shan was a little surprised, and said, "Miss Luan?"

Fang Changyun snorted lightly and said, "Since when did Luan Ceremony serve as the main descendants of the previous dynasty?"

That's right, Yisi Luan has always acted in the name of Yu Ji, and now most of them have been wiped out by the court, and the remaining forces can only retreat in southern Xinjiang.

As long as it's not the Zhen Guojun and the Regent's Palace, Huo Shan heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, and at the same time began to think about what to write in the next letter to the Zhen Guojun so that no one would find his flaws.

"Since it has nothing to do with the imperial court, we just need to find out this boy surnamed Dongfang and kill him to avenge the eldest son!" Huo Shan hastily expressed his loyalty: "After the birthday of the Patriarch, I would like to take someone out of the island myself, and I will definitely take him out." Bring this person's head back to pay homage to the eldest son."

Fang Changyun's expression softened a little, and he sneered, "That kid's ambition is not small. Forget it, Cao Mian will come over in two days, and he will know more details. I will decide what to do after I talk to him."

"Yes." Huo Shan replied respectfully.

Fang Changyun said in a warm voice: "Okay, you go back. Ah Mao is heavy now, you should go back to accompany her earlier."

"Yes, my son-in-law is leaving." Huo Shan bowed respectfully and exited the study.

After coming out of the study, he straightened up slowly, looked back at the study behind him, turned and walked out of the mansion.

After Huo Shan got married, he lived in a courtyard next to the Fang family. As the son-in-law and confidant of the Fang family, he naturally lived in a good place.

Except for the first year or two when he joined Fang's family, he was often anxious. In the following years, he has always been very proud and satisfied with his life.

If he hadn't joined the Fang family, he was just an ordinary spy under the command of the secret camp. He might be sent to a place like Yingzhou for decades. What good would he do?
But now it's different, he only needs to deal with the Zhen Guojun every once in a while, and he can live a life in Yingzhou that he couldn't even imagine before.

With rich clothes and good food being squandered at will, and a beautiful wife who is not in his arms, who is willing to stay in the dark and scout for information?
This is also his good luck, neither the imperial court nor the Zhen Guojun have paid much attention to Yingzhou these years, otherwise it would not be so easy for him to fool him.

It's just that the recent changes in Shangyong made Huo Shan a little worried.

The Northwest War is over, and after the Regent returns to the court, many things that he had no time to take care of before will definitely be taken seriously in the future. I don't know when it will be Yingzhou's turn.

But...if the great event of Patriarch and Marquis Wen Ding can be accomplished, maybe...

Huo Shan thoughtfully pushed open the door of the study and went in, sat behind the desk and stared blankly for a while.

Suddenly the expression on his face changed drastically, and the pupils of his eyes shrank quickly.

On the table in front of him, there was an envelope neatly placed.

The envelope was clean without any handwriting or seal, as if it was just an ordinary envelope.But Huo Shan clearly remembered that there was no such thing on the table when he left the study, and no one at home dared to enter or leave the study without his order.

Frowning, Huo Shan finally suppressed his frantic heartbeat and reached out to pick up the envelope.

He took out a folded piece of paper from inside, and when he opened it, there was only a huge blood-red writing on the page—Kill!

Huo Shan felt as if his fingertips were on fire, and the letter fell to the table with a shake of his hand.

This is……

Huo Shan's face suddenly turned pale, and he stared blankly at the bloody letter for a long time.

This is the blood letter order of the Zhen Guojun, which is specially used to clear the marks of the Zhen Guojun traitors.Perhaps in the entire Zhen Guojun, no one is more familiar with this word than the people in their secret character battalion.

Because most of the time, it is the spies of the secret word camp who are responsible for cleaning up the traitors.

It is said that this word was written by His Royal Highness the King of Chu after Yu Chen's rebellion.

Huo Shan immediately remembered Fang Changyun's words just now, and stood up abruptly.

Someone from Zhen Guojun has come to Yingzhou!
This is what he is most afraid of, because it means that the Zhen Guojun no longer believes the information he sent back, which means that the fact of their betrayal has been known.

And the fact that this scarlet order could be sent to his home meant that the other party had already locked him in.

escape!Run away now!

This was Huo Shan's first thought.

He wanted to leave immediately, but looking at the quiet but elegant and secluded study room, his feet were nailed in place as if they were stuck.

Wasn't it why he betrayed the Zhen Guojun back then?

If you just give up like this, you can only hide your name and be hunted by the whole world, even if the imperial court really sends people, how many people can there be?

After all, this is Yingzhou, the territory of the Fang family.

Gritting his teeth, Huo Shan grabbed the bloody order on the table and hurried outside.

As soon as he opened the door of the study, Huo Shan's face changed suddenly, and he quickly took a step back and wanted to close the door.

"Wow, does he look so ugly?" A girl in green clothes sat on the edge of the flower table in the yard. The girl looked at him curiously with her big eyes. The feeling of evil spirits and spirits.

Huo Shan's hand to close the door froze. He stared at the girl in green and forced a smile, "Who is the girl? Do we know each other?"

The girl smiled and said, "I don't know you, but you can know me now. My surname is Qin, and my name is Qin Yao'er."

Huo Shan lowered his eyes and said, "Miss Qin, what advice do you have?"

Qin Yao'er said: "Someone asked me to ask you, where is Shen Sui?"

"I don't know what the girl is talking about." Huo Shan said.

Qin Yaoer frowned in dissatisfaction and said, "You are so stupid, why is Fang Changyun willing to marry his daughter to you? Don't you want to delay the time and let someone arrest me?"

Huo Shan said nothing, but the look on his face showed that he meant it.

Qin Yao'er sighed, and said, "But, if I'm caught, what will you do?"

"What do you mean?"

Qin Yao'er pointed to the hand holding the bloody word Ling and said, "Look."

It was only then that Huo Shan suddenly realized that he might have been too panicked just now, but he didn't realize that his fingers had turned jet black at some point.

Qin Yao'er sighed: "I'll just say you're stupid, children know not to touch things of unknown origin."

"You poisoned?!"

"I told you all, my name is Qin Yao'er."

Huo Shan was stunned, and finally remembered.

He stared at Qin Yao'er and said, "Little Poison Immortal!"

"Tell me, where is Shen Sui?" Qin Yao'er asked.

Huo Shan had already thrown away the blood letter in his hand, but the blackness in his hand didn't stop spreading because of it, but it reached his palm in a short while.

Huo Shan held his wrist in some horror, even thinking about whether to cut off the hand decisively.

However, he quickly gave up.

He didn't want to die, and he didn't want to be crippled.

"I don't know! I haven't seen Shen Sui for many years." Shen Sui was the one who betrayed the Regent's Palace with them back then.

Qin Yao'er curled her lips in disgust and said, "Then the second question, besides Fang Changyun, who is most likely to hold all the military power in Yingzhou?"

Huo Shan was taken aback, Qin Yao'er said: "I advise you to hurry up, otherwise..."

Huo Shan gritted his teeth and said, "You want to ask this, which means that you are not sure that you can take Yingzhou smoothly. I can help you, but you must promise to forgive my sins."

Qin Yao'er blinked her eyes, "Ah? But...I'm only in charge of asking questions, why do I still have to negotiate terms?" She doesn't understand these things, can she agree to this?
Suddenly there was a chuckle from the side, Qin Yao'er turned her head and saw Gu Jue quietly floating in the corner.

"How did you come?"

Gu Jue walked up to Qin Yao'er, patted her on the shoulder and said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it, so I'll follow you all the time, I'll do it."

Qin Yao'er was a little unhappy, but she still nodded and said: "Then you come."

"Who are you?" Huo Shan stared at Gu Jue who suddenly appeared.

Gu Jue smiled and said: "The Zhen Guojun still has such a genius, and three of them came out at a time, which is an eye-opener for me. Gu Jue."

The corners of Huo Shan's eyes twitched, and he stared fixedly at the handsome young man in front of him.

Of course Gu Jue knew who it was. He was only in his 20s but had already made great achievements as the leader and general of an army. Together with Lingchuan Hou Shizi Wei Changting, he was also called the two youngest and most outstanding generals of the Zhen Guo Army.

It's just that unlike Wei Changting, who was born in the Hou family, Gu Jue, like Luo Yun back then, came from a pure grassroots background.

They were all very lucky, Luo Yun followed Gaozu, and Gu Jue followed the Regent.

There is no doubt that Gu Jue is the one who makes him jealous.

Even though he has been well-clothed and well-fed all these years, it is not so easy to be the son-in-law of the Fang family.

If it weren't for Fang Changyun who had just ascended to power and eliminated a large number of people who opposed him in the Fang family and was in urgent need of employment, he might not have reached his current position.

If given a choice, between a general who is praised by the world as a majestic general, and a son-in-law who can only hide his name and hide under the fence of others on the island, everyone will choose the former.

If he had the opportunity like Gu Jue, why did he betray the Zhen Guojun in the first place?
When he was jealous, Gu Jue's appearance undoubtedly brought great pressure to Huo Shan.

You must know that a person of Gu Jue's status would never appear in Yingzhou casually.

His appearance meant that the Prince Regent's House not only knew of their betrayal, he even knew that it was three people who betrayed them back then.Therefore, the imperial court may have known about the Fang family's plot, and had already made preparations to pacify Yingzhou if necessary.

Gu Jue looked at Huo Shan's fluctuating expression, and said, "Huo Shan, delaying time won't do you any good, so choose."

"What to choose?" Huo Shan's voice was dry and authentic.

Gu Jue said: "Tell us what we want to know, and you can choose a way to die. Otherwise, we have to let our little Qin girl choose for you."

Qin Yao'er raised her head upon hearing this, and made a face at Huo Shan.

Huo Shan ignored her, stared at Gu Jue and said, "I just said my conditions."

Gu Jue chuckled and said, "There should be quite a few people who know about these things, right?"

Huo Shan closed his mouth.

Gu Jue sighed lightly, and said, "Forget it, Yao'er, let's go."

A bright smile appeared on Qin Yao'er's face, "Well, I'll poison him to death right now!"

Gu Jue smiled and said, "Don't let people see it."

Qin Yao'er said dissatisfiedly: "Why did I show my flaws when I started? I went to the sea to fish some things to make medicine last night. I promise that no one will see that he was killed."

Gu Jue raised his eyebrows and said, "Alright then."

Huo Shan looked at the girl who stood up and walked towards him, and couldn't help taking two steps back.

Seeing that the jet black color had spread to the wrist, Huo Shan seemed to have completely lost consciousness. Huo Shan swallowed and said, "Wait! I can tell you what you want to know! As long as I can save my life!"

Gu Jue was noncommittal, Huo Shan continued: "Your soldiers and horses are definitely not enough to capture Yingzhou, I can help you! I also have some soldiers and horses under my command, I can definitely help you!"

Gu Jue said, "How do I know, are you trying to delay?"

Huo Shan closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said: "I just want to live, I can tell you something you want to know first, and no one knows about it except me and Fang Yuan."

"what?"

Huo Shan said: "Shen Sui, the whereabouts of Shen Sui! He, he went to Qingzhou, he changed his name, and his current identity in the Central Plains is Cao Mian's right-hand man. At the beginning, he was the one who persuaded us to betray the Zhen Guojun!"

Gu Jue frowned slightly and asked, "Why?"

Huo Shan said: "He is originally from the Cao family, he is Cao Mian's illegitimate son!"

(End of this chapter)