Jiaochu

As night fell, the rain had stopped.

The lights in Zixue Pavilion were bright and bustling. Most of the guests were so drunk that they didn't pay attention to who came in and who went out. Naturally, they didn't notice anything unusual.

I only heard a banging sound from behind, like a naughty child setting off firecrackers in the alley. This was nothing strange, and the guests in the building didn't take it too seriously.

Yanjiang and Yanfei chased each other separately and blocked the masked man in a small alley.

A quarter of an hour ago, the masked man sneaked into the backyard and wanted to kill someone.

After Xu Zilin recovered from his injury, he stayed in Zixue Pavilion to do odd jobs in order to repay the kindness of saving his life. When the masked man sneaked in, he was chopping firewood in the yard. He split a piece of wood several times before hitting the target. He was completely unaware of the danger behind him. Just as he was about to be stabbed by the sharp sword light, with a whoosh, a small stone flew and knocked open the tip of the sword.

Sensing an ambush, the masked man threw out a thunderbolt to create smoke, and quickly flew away with Qinggong. Xu Zilin heard a bang behind him, followed by another bang, and was so frightened that he dropped his axe, and was stabbed immediately. The smoke in his nose made him dizzy. When he looked back, he vaguely saw two figures flying away from the roof. He thought it was a burglar and hurriedly went to the building in front to look for someone.

"Sapphire Sword." Yan Jiang glanced at the ten sapphire beads inlaid on the scabbard, "Could it be that you are Daxia Tao? So you are not dead yet?"

The masked man said in a deep voice: "Tao Bi is dead. He died ten years ago." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly drew his sword, with a murderous look in his eyes. Yan Jiang slipped a dagger from his sleeve and pointed at it. Yan Fei, who was guarding at the other end of the alley, said, "You've got a good idea, kid, let me teach you how to break the sword."

There were flashes of swords and shadows in the alley, and figures flashed.

The sapphire sword wielded by the masked man quickly became famous and occupied a place among swordsmen in the martial arts world. But that was more than ten years ago. Talents have emerged from generation to generation in the martial arts world, and the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. Nowadays, people in the martial arts world have long forgotten He met the character Qing Yujian. As for sword moves that were faster than this, Yan Jiang had also experienced them before. They also used daggers, but they were not inferior.

Yan Fei watched the fight between the two people carefully and noticed one thing. The masked man's right leg seemed to be injured and his movements were slightly sluggish. Although there was no difference in walking on normal days, it became a barrier when he fought with others.

Yanjiang also discovered this and used this to pull off the black scarf covering the masked man's face with a feint. While the masked man was distracted, Yan Fei tapped the other man's acupuncture points from behind. When he walked over and saw the other person's face, he felt a bit familiar, and the next moment he was slightly surprised, "It's you?!"

"There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that this green jade sword was chased by enemies and fell into the water and drowned. Who would have thought that not only did he not die, but he also became the butler of the prime minister's house." Yan Jiang sighed, "It's so unpredictable. ." Then he said to Yan Fei, "You should go back first, lest the old man say that I am not doing my job while taking you, leave the rest to me."

Yanjiang escorted the person into the palace overnight and brought him to Ye Lanchen.

Ye Lanchen had seen the sapphire sword Tao Bi in the Prince Xian's Mansion, and he still had some impressions of it. He also recognized the sapphire sword, but he didn't expect it to be hiding in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After getting the clue about Tao Bi from Wu Peng, Yanjiang thought of a way to lure the snake out of the hole. If it was really Tao Bi who used the soul-leaving incense to make Guo Huai hang himself, it would be possible for a person who had been dormant for more than ten years to do it himself. There is some shocking secret hidden in Guo Huai. Another possibility is that the other party no longer wants to lie dormant. Another possibility is that he is just following orders.

He let people spread the news that Xu Zilin was not dead, but he had lost his memory and was doing odd jobs in Zixue Pavilion.

If it is the first possibility, Xu Zilin and Guo Huai are good friends, and they may also know this shocking secret. The other party took action after dormant for more than ten years, and never wanted this secret to be leaked. Although the person has lost his memory, what if one day? Now that I think about it, I would rather kill him by mistake than let him go. If it is the second possibility, since the other party chooses to show up on his own initiative, he is probably waiting for someone to come to him. If it's the last one, the person behind the scenes pushing out a "dead man" is nothing more than trying to confuse the audience and divert attention or bring up old things again for other purposes.

This week the housekeeper, or rather Tao Bi, after meeting Ye Lanchen, solemnly kowtowed and said: "Please ask the emperor to re-investigate the assassination of His Highness the King Xian."

As soon as these words came out, both Ye Lanchen and Yan Jiang were a little surprised. They didn't expect that the other party would make such a request.

"Didn't you buy Lihun Incense back then with the intention of murdering His Highness?" Yan Jiang said.

Tao Bi said with a gloomy face: "It wasn't me, someone pretended to be me and bought the soul-living incense, and then hid the things in my house to frame me."

"Did you kill Guo Huai?" Yan Jiang asked.

Tao Bi did not deny it, "I was the one who killed him. When I left, I took away the bag of soul-living incense. His father used this thing to frame me, so I used this thing to kill his son. It's fair." He sneered. Finally, he continued, "His father's name is Guo Yi, and he is also a retainer of His Highness's house. I was hunted by my enemies as soon as I left the capital. It was this bastard who spread the news and wanted to kill people and silence him without any evidence. I fell into the river and almost lost him. This leg is also injured, and the pain is unbearable every rainy day. It has not healed for so many years." He glanced at his right leg, with hatred in his eyes, "I have been secretly investigating those events over the years. Regarding the whereabouts of the retainers, I tried to catch one for interrogation when I found one, but none of those people were the same. Guo Yi was the last one. I didn’t expect that when I found his whereabouts, he was already dead. I really took advantage of him. "

"Since you said that Guo Yi framed you, you must have evidence in hand." Yan Jiang said.

Tao Bi took out a gold-inlaid token from his arms. Seeing the token, Ye Lanchen's expression became even colder and horrified.

"I found this Dragon Tooth Token in the secret room of his study. Only then did I know that he was a spy placed by King Sheng beside His Highness."

Hearing the word Sheng Wang, Ye Lanchen clenched his fists. Eunuch De presented the token. Ye Lanchen glanced at it and asked, "Prince Sheng has already surrendered. How do you want me to re-examine it?"

Tao Bi replied: "Your Majesty, although King Sheng is no longer here, he still has close associates, and he still has contacts with Guo Yi, which is inseparable from what happened back then."

"Who is it?" Ye Lanchen asked.

Tao Bi replied: "The father-in-law of Mr. Su, the Minister of Civil Affairs."

Hearing the first few words, Yanjiang showed an intriguing expression, and then hearing the last two words, he was slightly confused, as if it was different from what he had expected.

"This old man Gu has been doing business at home. He is charitable and has never come to the capital to be an official. How can he be a close associate of Prince Sheng?" Yan Jiang said.

Tao Bi sneered, "Where do you think the money for Prince Sheng's private weapons production came from?"