flstandardbreds Chapter 157 Block the city gate?
Chapter 157 Block the city gate?
"What was going through your mind when you killed Wang Cuihua?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Lin Shan's face first showed a confused expression. He obviously did not expect Luo Xiaoran to ask him such a question.
But the answer to this question concerns life and death. Lin Shan thought for a long time before speaking carefully:
“When you jumped off the cliff, I thought you were dead, so I didn’t search the bottom of the cliff immediately.
But the owner of the house said, "If he's alive, I want to find him. If he's dead, I want to find his body." So I led people to search the village at the bottom of the cliff many times, but found nothing.
Later, someone said that Doctor Qi from the city had gone out of town to see patients, and when we asked, he went to the village at the bottom of the cliff, so we found Wang Cuihua's home that we had missed before.
But she said that you walked towards the village after you woke up. How could that be possible? I searched the village so many times with my men, you couldn't have slipped out. So Wang Cuihua must have been lying, and I killed her in a rage."
Lin Shan honestly recounted the events that happened before Wang Cuihua's death, and there was some sincerity in his tone.
"I believe what you say."
"Then will you still kill me?"
"Ha ha--"
Seeing Lin Shan's cautious look, Luo Xiaoran almost cried with laughter, but she still rationally lowered her voice, but the teasing in her tone could not be concealed: "I was just teasing you, and you believed it!"
The bright light in Lin Shan's eyes was extinguished in an instant, and the anger of being teased surged in his heart. He couldn't help but cough up another mouthful of bloody phlegm.
Luo Xiaoran's laughter stopped abruptly, and her face was completely expressionless: "Are you angry? You can kill people when you are angry! Get up, kill me! Kill people and burn the bodies in broad daylight! Come on!"
"you!"
Lin Shan stretched out his limp fingers and pointed at Luo Xiaoran. His strength was fading away. Suddenly, as if with a last burst of energy, he shouted loudly:
"Wang Cuihua died for you. I asked her three times where you were, and she gave the wrong location every time. If not to protect you, what else could it be? So, she deserves to die! Hahahaha..."
A gust of wind flashed by, and the dagger pierced Lin Shan's neck mercilessly, just like the day he pierced Wang Cuihua's neck with a sword, and blood gushed out.
A voice came from not far away.
"Do you have any over there?"
"No."
"This alley hasn't been searched yet. Let's go over and take a look."
"it is good."
"Hurry up, someone is dead here, it's Lin Shan!"
……
Luo Xiaoran used her cloak to cover the blood on her body and hurriedly walked into the grain store she had visited yesterday, wanting to buy some rice, to fulfill what she had said in front of the soldiers guarding the city.
Unexpectedly, due to the previous fire, the grain store was closed. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people on the street, Luo Xiaoran felt a little uneasy, so she stopped worrying about these details and quickly walked towards the city gate.
Kyoto is the capital of Daliang, and many people go in and out of the city gate every day. Luo Xiaoran took the horse back from the old man and blended into the crowd, so he was not conspicuous at all.
The team leaving the city was moving forward little by little, and there were two people in front of Luo Xiaoran.
At this moment, a group of people suddenly appeared from behind. The leader, who was riding on a horse, shouted, "Close the city gates!"
When Qin Guan, a soldier guarding the city, saw that the man on the horse was Li He, a subordinate of Jingzhao Yin, he hurriedly came forward, clasped his fists and asked, "Sir, why are you closing the city gates?"
Li He's face darkened and his voice was stern: "Someone tried to assassinate Prime Minister Lin. I was ordered to close the city and search for the assassin."
After hearing this, Qin Guan showed a hint of surprise. After all, he had worked at this city gate for many years and had never heard of anyone daring to assassinate Prime Minister Lin. It was just...
"Sir, the closure of the city gate requires the order of the commander of the military department. I dare not make the decision lightly."
Li He frowned, "I know your city gate guards open at sunrise and close at sunset, but today's matter is too urgent, and Commander Tang is not in Kyoto, so I can't get the warrant."
Qin Guan bowed again and replied: "It's not that I don't want to help you, sir, but the city gate guards are under the Imperial Guards, and the military regulations are strict. Qin Guan dare not violate them."
"well said!"
A loud shout came from outside the city gate, and everyone made way. They saw another group of people slowly walking towards them from outside the city.
The person who spoke was a young man with a handsome face. Qin Guan saw him and hurriedly went to greet him: "Sir, you are back."
The person who came was the commander of the military department - Tang Hao.
Tang Hao waved his hand. "I just came back and heard your heartfelt words, Qin Guan. I feel very relieved. There is no need to be so formal and polite. You know I don't care about these empty formalities."
Qin Guan... Luo Xiaoran, who was hiding nearby, repeated the name and finally knew the name of the soldier guarding the city who repeatedly called her "dwarf".
Unexpectedly, as soon as Tang Hao finished speaking, Li He dismounted and walked in front of Tang Hao. He did not clasp his fists to salute, but said directly: "It just so happens that Commander Tang is returning to the capital. Please give me the order to close the city gates."
"Close the city gates? Why?" Tang Hao raised his eyebrows.
Li He explained the incident of Lin Xiaotian's assassination again and conveyed Lin Xiaotian's intentions. Tang Hao's eyelids twitched when he heard it:
"So what you mean is: in order to catch this assassin, we must not only block the city gates, but also send troops from the military department to search for him?"
Li He nodded in agreement, his eyes dim and unclear.
Tang Hao had a conflicted look on his face. He glanced back, wondering why the other party hadn't shown up to help him out.
A few horse hoof sounds were heard, and a handsome man in a moon-white robe came from the back of the team to the front. When he appeared, Qin Guan and Li He both bowed and saluted, "Master Huo!"
Luo Xiaoran stared at the man in white with wide eyes, thinking that the world was really small and she would actually meet him again.
I wonder if you remember that when Luo Xiaoran was still fleeing famine, she once had a very long bowel movement not far from Changzhou City, causing Qiu Niang, Uncle Li and Xiao Xingchen to think that she was constipated.
At that time, she happened to meet two Kyoto civil servants who were chatting and heard a lot of gossip.
When she returned to the crowd, she found that a group of people had joined the disaster victims. They should be the companions of the two Kyoto civil servants. The leader was wearing a moon-white gown, and that person was the one in front of her.
In front of the city gate, several adults were negotiating. Luo Xiaoran vaguely heard that the man in white was the commander of the imperial guards.
Luo Xiaoran knew a little about this official position.
The Imperial Guard was in charge of the three offices: the Palace Front Office, the Pacification Office, and the Military Office. It had great power but also caused a lot of controversy.
The Palace Front Department is responsible for guarding the imperial palace. Unlike the emperor's personal guards, the Imperial Guard Department, the Imperial Guard Department is only responsible for the safety of the emperor, while the Palace Front Department must protect the safety of everyone inside and outside the imperial palace.
Simply put, there are a lot of things to do, it's hard work, and I'm not the leader's best confidant. In a nutshell, it's a hard life.