Xu Shou hurriedly replied: "At first, the princess' residence was flooded. Chen Heng flew a pigeon to send a message and put out the fire immediately. Fortunately, the princess was fine, but the sinner Fu Yunqiu was kidnapped from the dungeon."
The night wind blew, making Xiao Langyan's eyes as dark as abyss. His tall figure stood in front of the door, majestic and fierce.
Xu Shou's low voice was a little urgent: "Your Majesty, the deputy commanders left behind in the palace have immediately blocked the gates of each palace. Presumably the sinner may not be able to escape as he wishes!"
There was a bit more harshness in Xiao Langyan's tone.
"While I am out of the palace, anyone who can rob someone from the dungeon must be able to take her out of the palace. I am afraid that she has escaped from the palace at this time. Send my order to seal the city gates and investigate one by one. Send People went to various drug stores to keep an eye on Fu Yunqiu's body, and the person who took her away might look for medicine."
"Yes." Xu Shou hurriedly followed suit.
Xiao Langyan clasped his hands behind his back, his tall figure like a mountain standing in the darkness, like the center of a storm.
At the same time, behind a ruined temple in Beijing, Fu Yunqiu was tied up with her hands and feet, and a rag was stuffed in her mouth. She looked in horror at the surrounding darkness, where dozens of people stood or sat with long knives in their hands. man.
One of them was holding a knife and his voice was full of boyishness. He said to a man leaning against the wall: "Brother, we searched her and there was no talisman. From the look of her, it doesn't look like she really has the talisman." people."
The man hiding in the darkness had only one pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle, and his voice was deep: "If you still can't find out in the interrogation, kill him. Don't forget that Emperor Xiao Langyan of Jin is cunning and wise. If he doesn't kill Fu Yunqiu, he might It’s just a cover-up.”
Fu Yunqiu stared around in panic, watching the masked men in black approaching with knives. The young man who had just spoken walked over, his starry eyes filled with a condescending sneer.
He pulled the cloth from Fu Yunqiu's mouth, and she screamed loudly. The next second, the sharp tip of the knife was pressed against her heart.
The young man said in a stern tone: "If you scream again, I will kill you directly."
Fu Yunqiu's voice stopped suddenly, her eyes trembled with panic, and her black hair was messy: "Masters, you... I have the half of the talisman you want, but it is in the box under the bed where I live in the palace."
When the young man heard this, he suddenly became furious and suddenly grabbed her collar: "Then when I asked you in the palace, you said no? Now you are tricking us into returning to the palace to look for her, just hoping that we will fall into the trap!" "
As he spoke, he used the blade of the blade to draw across Fu Yunqiu's cheek, and a drop of blood emerged. Fu Yunqiu cried and begged for mercy. Through the moonlight outside, the young man could see her face clearly. She had a panic expression, short eyebrows, and a pair of The tearful eyes are pretty, but not beautiful.
Leng sneered: "It's so ugly. Who is this the most beautiful woman in the capital?"
Fu Yunqiu was so frightened that he cried and begged for mercy: "I am not the most beautiful woman, I am Fu Yunqiu, the most beautiful woman, the emperor's favorite concubine Shen Dingzhu!"
Upon hearing this name, the men in black looked at each other.
"Second brother, stop." The man leaning against the wall finally spoke, his voice was gloomy, and his eyes that stared at Fu Yunqiu were as silent as black water.
The boy then put away the knife, and Fu Yunqiu lay on the ground, trembling with fear.
"You said you have a talisman, then describe it. What does the talisman look like?"
Fu Yunqiu recalled with choked eyes: "It's half a red tiger made of bronze, with a layer of gilding on the outside."
After hearing this, the people in black fell into silence. Only the man leaning against the wall gave a low sneer.
Fu Yunqiu was frightened: "That half of the tiger talisman was obtained from King Ming after his political defeat, and I planned to use it to threaten Xiao Langyan. You believe me, this tiger talisman is very important to him. He has not killed me these days just because Ask for the whereabouts of the Tiger Talisman!"
At this moment, the man leaning against the wall slowly walked forward.
He passed by the dark place and finally stood at the half-open door. A tall figure stood in the direction of the moonlight. Fu Yunqiu looked up and saw a pair of eyes as deep and cold as the ninth layer of cold abyss.
If Xiao Langyan is the invincible mad fire, this person is the cold nine-foot ice!
Those eyes that see everything so clearly make people with a guilty conscience dare not look at them.
"The tiger talisman you mentioned is not the same as the talisman we are looking for. The half of the tiger talisman fell into your hand and was completely useless. Don't you know that the rules of the Jin Dynasty are that the emperor can only command the three armies if he holds the tiger talisman? And someone else holding a tiger talisman is equivalent to holding a discarded stone."
Fu Yunqiu was hit in the head: "No, it's impossible! Then why does Xiao Langyan keep me here and keep asking about the whereabouts of the Tiger Talisman!"
The man sneered: "Stupid."
He turned back and looked at the young man: "It seems that what we investigated when we came here is that it is true that Emperor Jin was trying to unravel the old affairs of the Shen family. He repeatedly asked about the whereabouts of the tiger symbol in order to use the existence of the tiger symbol to expose the Shen family's original collaboration with the enemy. The evidence of treason is on your head, Mrs. Fu."
Fu Yunqiu trembled all over, his eyes cracked with fear.
Xiao Langyan did all this for Shen Dingzhu? When he ascended the throne three years ago, he imprisoned her and asked her about the whereabouts of the tiger talisman. It turned out that he had been planning for Shen Dingzhu since then!
It turns out that Xiao Langyan already knew that Shen Dingzhu was not dead!
Fu Yunqiu burst into tears, and suddenly laughed hysterically, beating his heart: "I'm stupid, so stupid! When Shen Dingzhu didn't come back, I thought he imprisoned me because of love, hahaha——"
Seeing her crazy look, the man frowned, feeling quite disgusted.
The young man walked up to her and lowered his voice: "Brother, it seems that this woman doesn't know the importance of Fu Ling. The reason why the Jin Dynasty was able to quickly establish a country and compete with us in Beiliang was because she had the secret recipe of gunpowder."
"And we found out that the secret recipe of gunpowder was handed over to a group of dead men by Emperor Jianwu for safekeeping. Only by finding the talisman can we order these hidden dead men to hand over the secret recipe. Didn't the eldest brother know from Xizuo that the talisman might have been stolen by Emperor Jianwu? Did it pass to Prime Minister Shen? Could it be in the hands of Emperor Jin’s beloved concubine Shen Dingzhu? Then, if it is true, Shen Dingzhu should have been given to Emperor Jin Xiao Langyan!”
The man's eyes were deep, staring at the cold moonlight outside the ruined temple.
"If Xiao Langyan had it, he would have used it long ago. After he ascended the throne, he conquered cities and territories. If he really had gunpowder, it would only help him dominate the world faster, and he would not have taken it out until now."
The man thought for a while and said in a low voice: "Back then, the late emperor of the Jin Dynasty punished the Shen family in the name of collaborating with the enemy and treason. For such a big crime, he only exiled the man. It shows that what the late emperor of the Jin Dynasty wanted was this thing. Since Prime Minister Shen No, it must be with Shen Dingzhu, and she probably doesn’t know the importance of this thing, so she didn’t give it to Xiao Langyan.”
The young man felt deeply: "Then I will sneak into the palace again in a few days and bring out Shen Dingzhu."
The man sneered, his lips were cold, and there was ice in his eyes: "Do you think Shen Dingzhu is the Fu Yunqiu you captured? The one Xiao Langyan cares about, we can't even get close to her."
Suddenly, Fu Yunqiu, who was maniacally mocking himself, heard their motives clearly, swallowed blood and tears, and his eyes were full of revengeful intent.
"Shen Dingzhu has a daughter who was just brought back to the palace and made a princess. If you catch her, you will naturally have the opportunity to blackmail Shen Dingzhu. I can provide you with a topographic map of the palace, but I have a request!"
The man and the boy looked at each other, then looked at Fu Yunqiu: "Say."
Fu Yunqiu's nails were broken, and there were bloody marks on his palms. The look of hatred on his face where the white flesh and blood blended together was obvious: "You must save my life and take me away from here. After that, I will tell you everything I know. Help you conquer the Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop and overthrow Xiao Langyan's rule."
