Tang Dynasty: The seventh rank of official residence, and you will be given the Ten Thousand People

After the battle, the streets of Luoyang returned to tranquility. The carriage drove slowly towards Prince Yan's Mansion, as if nothing had happened.

Prince Yan's Mansion, Fan Family.

As usual, Fan Xin sat in the hall with several of his subordinates to discuss the details of the attack on Luoyang.

During this period, he raised his head and glanced at the sun outside, frowning slightly.

"Li Lang, Hong Ya and Lu Gong went to Prince Shou's Mansion for so long, why haven't they come back yet?"

Li Lang was also a little puzzled. Among the eighteen of them, Hong Ya and Lu Gong were the most reliable. Logically speaking, they should be back after such a long time.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Li Lang replied.

"Go back to your lord, maybe Lao Jiu and Lao Ten are delayed by something. I will go out to greet them right now!" He stood up and left.

Unexpectedly, a Tiangang guard wearing heavy armor strode into the hall, looked around at everyone, and clasped his fists at Fan Xin.

"Your Majesty, Hong Ya and Lu Gong are back."

Bang!
Li Lang slapped his palm on the table and said angrily: "Where are these two bastards? I, the general, will teach them a lesson!"

Fan Xin glared at Li Lang, motioned for him to be quiet, and then spoke to Tiangang.

"Now that these two guys are back, why don't they come in? Did they go to Baihua Tower to drink wine?"

Tiangang shook his head and said with a sad expression.

"My lord, they were killed instead of drinking wine, and their bodies are in the carriage outside the door!"

As soon as these words came out, the temperature of the entire hall instantly dropped to freezing point, everyone's smiles froze on their faces, and there was deep shock in their eyes.

The Nine Taibao and the Ten Taibao are top-notch masters with great skills. Speaking of ordinary killers, even the strongest guards in the palace are no match for them.

Even Liuzi had to put a lot of effort into dealing with the two of them. How could he die like that?
The next moment, more than a dozen eunuchs stood up, stared at Tiangang with murderous intent, and spoke out word by word.

"How did they die!"

"I don't know." Tiangang shook his head, "When the general found them, they were both lying in the carriage, without any injuries on their bodies."

Hearing these words, the sixteen Taibao took a deep breath.

The two masters were killed at the same time, and there weren't even any wounds on their bodies. This is too unbelievable.

"Your Majesty, Lao Jiu and Lao Ten have always been stable. Now that they died tragically, it is obvious that the other party came for you. Maybe we will send a team of experts to Prince Yan's Mansion in the end?" Liu Zi said with a worried look on his face.

"No, there is no sword in this world that can kill me. Come on, let's go take a look!"

Fan Xin shook off his sleeves and robe with a gloomy expression and strode towards the courtyard, while the others followed closely.

A group of people came to the yard and saw a lonely carriage parked here, surrounded by dozens of Tiangang guards wearing armor and holding swords in their hands.

Seeing Fan Xin's arrival, they all knelt on the ground with their hands clasped in fists.

"I will finally meet the prince!"

"Everyone, get up." Ordering everyone to get up, Fan Xin walked straight towards the carriage. Just as he was about to lift the curtain with his palm, he was stopped by Liu Zi.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, so we'd better be careful."

Fan Xin naturally would not show off his strength at this time. He told him to be careful and took a few steps back, but was blocked by the Sixteenth Taibao behind him.

After the arrangements were made, Liu Zi pulled out the purple gold hammer, jumped into the air with his toes, and directly split the carriage in half.

Amidst the smoke and dust, two bodies rolled to the ground.

The moment the bodies hit the ground, dozens of hidden weapons flew out from the clothes of the two men and shot at the surrounding guards. .

Fortunately, everyone was prepared and blocked the hidden weapon with iron shields the moment it was fired.

After confirming that there was no danger, Liuzi walked to the two bodies and squatted down to check their injuries.

"How is it? How did Lao Jiu and Lao Ten die?" Fan Xin asked with concern.

Liuzi touched the bones of the two people, considered his words, and then sighed.

"To be honest with you, my lord, brothers, Lao Jiu and Lao Ten died after their internal organs were shattered, and all the bones in their bodies were broken."

"What did you say! He died after his internal organs were shattered?" Fan Xin and the Sixteenth Taibao were shocked and subconsciously looked at their bodies.

They never expected that the two masters would die in such a miserable way.

What's more, I didn't expect that the murderer would openly return the body to Prince Yan's Mansion after killing the person.

This is a typical provocation to them.

Liu Zi nodded solemnly.

"Judging from the injuries of the two of them, they were probably killed by one blow. It's hard to believe that there is such a thing in the Tang Dynasty."

At this time, the sixteen eunuchs had already been blinded by hatred. They couldn't care less about whether it was serious or not, so they immediately clasped their fists and begged.

"Your Majesty, Lao Jiu and Lao Ten died so mysteriously, you must avenge them!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, Ninth Brother and the others died while looking for King Shou. They must have something to do with the Royal Family!"

Seeing that the sixteen eunuchs were getting more and more excited as they talked, Liu Zi shouted: "Okay, this matter is important, please be quiet!" The sixteen eunuchs calmed down.

Under the gaze of everyone, Fan Xin frowned with a thoughtful look on his face.

Hong Ya and Lu Gong only went to contact King Shou on their own orders, and there was no need to kill him.

Unless they know some secret, and this secret is fatal to themselves.

So what could the secret be...

After a long time, Fan Xin let out a breath and said to Liu Zi.

"The two people were killed after coming into contact with Queen Shou. They must be related to this person. You take a few eunuchs and go to the palace to bring Li Ling."

"Your Majesty, your humble position is gone. What will you do?"

"Don't worry, Prince Yan's Mansion has three thousand Niu Guards, plus seventy-two Tiangang Guards. If the other party was sure, they would have taken my head long ago."

"The reason why he used this method to intimidate us is that he does not have the ability to break into Prince Yan's Mansion. Go ahead. I want to see Li Xuan."

Seeing that Fan Xin had made up his mind, the six sons rushed to Prince Shou's Mansion with sixteen Taibao without any more words.

After arriving at Prince Shou's Mansion, Liuzi raised his head and glanced at the plaque above, and then disappeared directly into the high wall with a kick.

Li Lang and others were left looking at each other, and jumped over the high wall.

As soon as everyone arrived at the palace compound, they found that the servants and guards here were all normal, and there was no special behavior.

"You guys will stay in the courtyard while Li Lang and I go into Li Xuan's bedroom to take a look."

After giving instructions to several eunuchs, Liuzi took Li Lang to Li Chan's palace.

When they arrived at the entrance of the palace, the two easily dealt with the guards, opened the door and walked in.

However, when they saw the scene in the palace clearly, their expressions changed.

I saw the longevity king Li Xuan hanging on the beam, his eyes widened, as if he had seen something unbelievable before his death.

"Liu Zi, Prince Shou has probably been silenced. What should we do next?" Li Lang asked, staring at the corpse.

"Judging from the current situation, someone is ahead of us."

Liuzi walked to the corpse and took a closer look. He found that King Shou and the two eunuchs had their internal organs shattered. Apparently they died at the hands of the same person. Just when Liuzi wanted to investigate further, a large number of footsteps suddenly came from outside the hall.

"Quick, the murderer is inside, rush in and arrest him!"

"No! Someone is coming from Dali Temple!" Liuzi's expression changed, he nodded to Li Lang, and the two of them jumped out through the window.

After meeting up with several Taibao who were hiding outside, the group returned to the palace.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, my humble position is useless, I couldn't bring Prince Shou back." Liuzi said with a face of shame.

"It doesn't matter. Since the murderer dared to send the body back to Prince Yan's Mansion, it means that they are well prepared. It is expected that they will silence Prince Shou."

Seeing that several of his subordinates were a little depressed, Fan Xin changed his tone.

"However, this matter is not without gain. Although we don't know who the enemy is, their actions at least indicate that there is a force hiding in the dark that is watching us."

"This force is either Li Longji's trump card or a third-party force. No matter who it belongs to, it is our enemy."

"In this case, Li Lang, you immediately send a group of spies to the market to check if there is anything unusual on the streets recently."

"If you dare to kill people on the streets of Luoyang, no matter how powerful they are, there will be clues!"

"General, I obey!" Li Lang cupped his fists and led the people out of Prince Yan's Mansion.

When there were only six people left in the hall, Fan Xin's face gradually became serious, and his eyes kept flashing.

"My lord, do you have something you want to tell me? But there's no harm in talking."

Master and servant for many years, the two had already formed a tacit understanding, so as soon as they saw Fan Xin's expression, Liu Zi guessed that he had something to say.

Fan Xin thought for a while and decided to tell the matter and let Liu Zi make his own decision, so he spoke.

"After this incident happened, I felt something was wrong."

"Think about it, there are so many royal families and nobles in Luoyang, it is impossible for the court to keep everyone under surveillance."

"The result is that just after our front leg met King Shou, Lao Jiu and Lao Thirteen were both killed. What does this mean?"

"What does it mean?" Liuzi frowned, looking thoughtful.

The enemy can learn about the meeting between the two parties at the first time and arrange an ambush in advance. It is obvious that it cannot be an outsider, so there is only one possibility...

Liu Zi's eyes lit up when he thought of this, he raised his head suddenly and said in disbelief.

"This shows that the enemy is hidden within us!"

"Yes, I only have one day to contact King Shou. I am afraid only insiders can know the news and make preparations in such a short period of time."

"This explains why Lao Jiu and Lao Ten looked in disbelief when they were about to die."

"Because only those who are familiar with them know where their fatal weaknesses are!"

In fact, Fan Xin is not sure whether the murderer is an insider, but other than this, there is no other explanation.

After the initial shock, Liuzi quickly calmed down. He had seen too many fake princes and princes over the years, so it was not surprising that there was another spy.

Soon his mind began to replay the scene.

The person who knew such an important secret and was familiar with the two deceased people must be a senior person present.

At that time, there were more than thirty people in the hall including him, including the Eighteen Taibao, Commander Li Tiangang of the Tiangang Guard, General Han Xiao of the Qianniu Guard, and Mu Yuwen of Luozhou took the opportunity...

Who could be this mysterious master hidden inside? Everyone is similar, but everyone is different.

After realizing that he couldn't tell the difference, Liuzi sighed and cupped his fists.

"Your Majesty, there is no evidence and no reason for this matter. I am really unable to judge due to my humble position. You should tell me what you think."

Fan Xin nodded, walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looked at the corpse in the courtyard and said.

"The enemy is in the dark and we are in the clear. If we want to know who the mysterious murderer is, we can only use one trick to lure the snake out of its hole!"

"However, this matter is too dangerous. Once the murderer learns that we have left Prince Yan's Mansion, he will most likely choose to kill us."

"When the time comes, there will inevitably be a fight. With the opponent's skill, I'm worried that you are no match for him."

Unexpectedly, Liu Zi burst out laughing after hearing these words.

"Your Majesty, I was already a master of the first and second attributes when I was young. Now ten years have passed and it has changed. You can rest assured to carry out your plan."

"I promise to avenge the two brothers by cutting this mysterious killer into pieces!"

Seeing that Liu Zi had made up his mind, Fan Xin no longer hesitated and immediately informed him of the plan to lure the snake out of the cave.

After Liu Zi took the plan to heart, he quietly left the room and disappeared into the darkness.

Looking at the dark night, Fan Xin's eyes were filled with endless killing intent.

If his prediction was correct, the brothers who were killed should not be two, but three!

The reason why the remaining one didn't reveal his secret was because he was replaced by the murderer!
"Whoever dares to kill my brother Fan Xin, no matter who you are, I will make you pay with blood!"

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The next day, early in the morning.

"What, Your Majesty is going to Hanguang Temple to worship the Great Sage Emperor Zetian? I'm afraid this isn't appropriate, it's so dangerous outside."

One morning, all the subordinates were very surprised when they learned that Fan Xin was going to burn incense for Wu Zetian's spiritual tablet.

"My lord, the killer has not been found yet. If you go out rashly at this time, it will inevitably attract the attention of the killer. It is better to go there in a few days."

Faced with everyone's dissuasion, Fan Xin smiled and said calmly.

"I am not even afraid of thousands of Turkic troops. How could I be so frightened by a few killers that I hide at home?"

"There is no need to mention this matter again. The fifth day of every month is the memorial day for the Great Sage Emperor Zetian. I, the king, must renew the incense."

Everyone saw that the prince had made up his mind to go to Hanguang Temple, so they had no choice but to agree. However, in order to protect his safety, they brought eight hundred thousand cattle guards with him.

"Your Majesty, where is the Sixth Son? Why isn't he with you?" Li Lang glanced around and suddenly said.

It was only then that he realized that Liuzi was not in the hall.

"The Sixth Son has been sent to the palace to monitor Concubine Wu Hui to see if she has any clues."

"So that's it." Li Lang touched his head and said to Fan Xin.

"In this case, let the last general protect the prince and go to Hanguang Temple. It will be safer this way."

"Okay, I leave my safety to you and Li Tiangang!"

After everyone discussed the route to Hanguang Temple, they opened the gate of the palace and headed towards Hanguang Temple under the protection of Qianniu Guards.

Along the way, people saw Fan Qingtian, who had not been seen for a long time, and retreated to the roadside to salute respectfully.

After greeting the people, Fan Xin lowered the curtain of the carriage with a sneer on his lips.

After being delayed for so long on the road, Hanguang Temple may have turned into a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, waiting for him to break in.

"Okay, let me see who you really are!"

(End of this chapter)