"I first checked the junior brother's injuries. There were both internal and external injuries. He was almost exhausted. He fell into a coma after taking out the sword. I could only help him stop the bleeding first, feed him some elixirs, and prepare to bring him back.
I went back to the customs and tried to find a way to treat him. At that time, there was still a living person on the ground, whose legs were cut off by Qi Gen. I recognized him as the leader of the former Kongtong sect that had just been disbanded. I had no choice but to threaten the lives of his family members.
Asked him to name his accomplices, the guy repented before he died and told what he knew. Unfortunately, his status was too low and he didn't know much.
Because the sect was ruined by his own hands, he harbored a grudge against the Six Demons, especially Yang Zheng, but was powerless to do anything about it. Just then, a masked man came to his door and asked him to join an organization called "Moon Shadow", saying that he could join forces to deal with Yang Zheng.
The premise is to serve as an assassin for this organization.
He agreed, and after that, someone would send him thousands of taels of silver notes every month. Because the Six Demons were so powerful, this organization was extremely secretive. His code name was Youyue, and his first mission was to send him on a starry night.
We set up an ambush here and received ten thousand taels of silver before setting off.
After lying in wait for a day, Yang Zheng was discovered. As for the others, he didn't know anything about them. Originally, there were only nine people under siege, but seeing that it was difficult to win, there were many more people who raided the formation. These people's martial arts were even better than the nine who were killed.
People. And these seven people probably know each other, and there should be the mastermind among them!"
Lu Baogen thought for a while and then said: "The other eight corpses on the ground, two are also masters of the disbanded sect, four seem to be from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and I don't know the other two. I was afraid that the enemy would return
I had a backup plan, so I hurriedly took my junior brother back to the pass. When someone went to investigate again, there were only blood stains left.
Because there is a shortage of doctors and medicines at the border, the effect of injecting Qi into my junior brother several times was not good. In addition, it was difficult for me to survive, so I wanted to take my junior brother to Jinyang City to heal his injuries. On the way, my junior brother woke up several times, and he said
After receiving He Qingshan's letter, he did not suspect that it was a fake because the handwriting was similar. After sneaking into Zhongjing, he was besieged as soon as he entered the imperial city. He knew it was a fraud.
The capital's iron guards in the Northern Zhou Dynasty were extremely brave, and most of them were masters of the Tianlong Sect. Your adoptive father immediately decided to evacuate. After being slightly injured, he returned the same way. Only later did he find out that the real trap was set at that place.
In the canyon, although they all had their faces covered, and some people never took action from the beginning to the end, your adoptive father still believed that among the people who escaped, there might be people from the Yunmen Sect! There was also one person who was most likely the usurper Emperor Helian of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Qingfeng! It was a spy who colluded with the Northern Zhou Dynasty to deal with him!"
"Besides you, has anyone else told you beforehand that your adoptive father will leave confinement?" He Qizhou asked.
"Your foster father is a steady man. He is the deputy commander of the vanguard. Of course he told the then Jinyang Governor Chang Feng and Bingzhou Commander Mo Dezheng before leaving the customs. Moreover, the officers and soldiers of Yanmen Pass where he was also knew about this.
Yes, the junior brother had explained the deployment of defense before leaving. Because He Qingshan had been identified as a traitor at that time, he set out in the name of countering the rebellion, but we all know that He Qingshan has never really betrayed Daqi before.
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"Why do you say it was before? Could the traitor be one of Chang Feng and Mo Dezheng?" He Qizhou asked.
"Impossible, because the masters of the siege come from all over the world, and they will never gather so many people in less than ten days. The person who arranged the killing plan is the person who sent the letter to your adoptive father. He knows that your adoptive father will never let go.
I lost my friendship with He Qingshan, so I started planning from the time I sent the letter, or even before the letter was sent. Chang Feng and Mo Dezheng only knew about it five days before the incident at most, so it was unlikely that they informed me. I once
After investigating the clearly identified deceased persons, we found that they indeed set out ten days ago."
"Have you read that letter? It seems that it was really the traitor He Qingshan who did it!"
Lu Baogen showed an extremely painful expression and said: "I have seen it. There are only six characters in the letter, 'I am in the Imperial Palace of Zhongjing'. It is very similar to Junior Brother He's handwriting. But I still don't believe that Junior Brother will harm your adoptive father, or he will be killed by someone."
If you imitated the handwriting, you were either fooled or..."
"Either he really surrendered Helian Qingfeng, joined forces with the Daqi royal family who was afraid of my adoptive father, and harmed my adoptive father?" He Qizhou said through gritted teeth.
"I still don't believe that Junior Brother He is that kind of person! But we can't deny the possibility." Lu Baogen became more and more painful.
"Master, what progress have you made in your investigation over the years?"
"Among the seven people who escaped that day, I found one. His name was Luo Tan. He was from the Jincheng sect. When Da Qi destroyed the Tang Dynasty, he rebelled against the Southern Tang Dynasty as a border general. He surrendered to Da Qi. There is still one person left.
One of the conditions for surrender proposed by the Southern Tang Dynasty was his head! I didn’t expect that Daqi would use a fake head to deceive the Li family, but the real Luo Tan became a killer and died in my hands.
"
"How did you find him? What did he tell you?"
"He was seriously injured at that time. After escaping back to Daqi, he bought the most expensive ginseng in Jinyang City. Because your adoptive father and I couldn't walk fast by carriage, we asked someone to go to the city to buy medicine first. I didn't think it would be the best.
The ginseng had just been bought by someone. I became suspicious, so I asked my brother who was loyal to your adoptive father to trace it all the way. The man was indeed very powerful. He escaped capture several times even though he was seriously injured. We never gave up, almost half a year later
, I confirmed his whereabouts and found him personally. At that time, he was injured by the sword energy, and his Ren and Dai pulses were injured, and he never recovered. He knew that he was no match for me, so he committed suicide!"
"Ah? You didn't ask anything?"
"Before I went to find him, I checked his family. He had been living in seclusion in Shanxi, and later married a wife and had children. His children should have nothing to do with this matter, so I threatened his family. He must have seen through life and death.
, actually said to me, 'You and Yang Zheng are both true knights. How can I worry about you harming innocent people? If I say more, they will face unexpected events. Real person, I can only apologize with my life.
!' After saying this, he cut off his meridians and died.
"By the way, there is a man named Chang Sheng in Tianshu Academy. His foundation is the internal strength of Jincheng Sect. Could it be related to Chang Feng?"
"Luo Tan has a son named Luo Ke. Because of his outstanding martial arts, he became a disciple of Chang Feng. I secretly observed it afterwards. Luo Ke didn't even know why his father committed suicide. He was only recruited by Chang Feng when he was recruiting talents in the early years.
The one he likes has nothing to do with his father. Luo Tan has no grudge against us. He would rather die than reveal the person behind the scenes, which shows that that person is definitely capable and cruel enough to hurt his family. Think about it, he can
Who could be the person who knows Luo Tan's identity and can instigate him?"
"It's definitely the Jiang family! Didn't my adoptive father say that there are still people from the Yunmen sect? Have you gained anything in this regard?"
"No, I can't investigate the whereabouts of the Jiang clan, and it's impossible to tell them that there are people from the Yunmen sect among the assassins. This is the real difficulty, but I believe that Jiang Cong is unlikely to be the mastermind, junior brother
A proposal was made to the emperor to weaken the hereditary princes, and those royal family members may be one of the masterminds."
"Later, I went to check the situation of the other two masters of Daqi Jianghu. Most of them were the same as the head of Kongtong. They both avenged themselves and received silver rewards. They were all killers recruited into the 'Moon Shadow'.
Large amounts of banknotes were found in the secret rooms of people's homes. One person also recorded two assassinations. The people killed were all close associates of his former junior brother. They may have been killed after returning home to protest against his junior brother. The killer's family members were not involved.
I didn't know, I didn't even know that there was a huge amount of money suddenly coming out.
I thought that others didn't know about their deaths, but 'Yueying' must have known about it. Maybe someone would come and steal this large sum of money, so he stayed nearby. Sure enough, within a month, I found someone secretly breaking into the secret room to steal it.
After the man was caught by me, he told his boss that he was a postman. I followed the clues and found the postman. The other person said that every message was sent quickly by someone else. He didn't know it, but he knew that he
The codename of the killer responsible for contact was Haiyue. I kept waiting quietly at the post station, but one day the postman suddenly died of poisoning. I knew that the line was broken, so I stopped bothering me. Fortunately, I kept my face covered, so I should
No one knows my identity."
"Master, did you make any new discoveries when you went to Pianguan this time?"
Lu Baogen pondered for a while, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Promise me first that what I said today will not be leaked to anyone."
"I understand this! Seeing so many people targeting my adoptive father in front of Jianji Palace that day, I knew the seriousness of it."
"I did receive news again that He Qingshan is in Zhoujing and has become a national master and has accepted some clan members as disciples."
"I knew it was all done by the traitor!"
"Don't jump to conclusions easily! He is..."
"What is he?"
"He is a man who walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and his wife was killed by Helian Qingfeng. How could he surrender so easily?"
"You mean the princess of the Zhou Dynasty? Maybe you married that princess to save your life! If Helian Qingfeng gives him money, beauty, and the title of national master, how can the traitor He Qingshan not rebel again?"