At night, after some affection, Li Yanqing hugged Hu Qing'er and fell asleep, at this time, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside, and Hu Qing'er was suddenly woken up, only to hear a personal soldier report at the door, "Dutong, there is an emergency!" ”

Hu Qing'er hurriedly pushed Li Yanqing awake, and Li Yanqing asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Qiyu Dutong, someone from Cao Mansion is here, it seems to be your father-in-law, saying that there is something urgent."

Li Yanqing hurriedly put on his clothes, Hu Qing'er also put on his clothes, Li Yanqing walked outside and asked, "Did you say anything?" “

"I didn't say anything specific, I just said that there was an urgent matter."

"Where are the people now?"

"Wait in the cabin."

Li Yanqing came back to say hello, and then hurriedly walked to the cabin, as soon as he entered the cabin, he saw his father-in-law was anxiously pacing back and forth, with an anxious face, Li Yanqing walked into the cabin and asked, "Father-in-law, what's wrong?" ”

Cao Xuan turned around and saw Li Yanqing, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and said urgently: "Something happened to the old man!" ”

Li Yanqing was taken aback, "What happened to the old man?" ”

"When he was walking at dusk, he suddenly had a sharp pain in his heart and fainted, and the situation was very serious."

Li Yanqing knew that Old Man Cao had always had heart disease and often had heart pain, but he had never committed it since he arrived in Lin'an, in fact, this situation was the most dangerous, and it was good not to get sick all the time, but once he got sick, the situation would be serious.

"How serious is it now?"

Cao Xuan's eyes were gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "It's time to die, I want to see you again." ”

Li Yanqing felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Okay! I'm going to change my clothes and I'm leaving. ”

Li Yanqing rushed back to his cabin, and just happened to meet Hu Qing'er coming out, he said to Hu Qing'er: "Old man Cao is not good, I want to rush to see the last one, you bring Pu'er with you, and we will leave immediately." ”

Hu Qing'er turned around and left, and after taking a few steps, she suggested: "Take that child with you!" ”

The other child Hu Qing'er refers to is Li Pu's stand-in, both in shape and appearance, very similar to Li Pu, a child born to a party aristocrat and a Han female slave, after the capture of Xingqing Mansion, Wang Gui thought that Li Pu had been abducted to Western Xia.

"Yes, you can arrange it."

According to the principle of entering Beijing this time, as long as Li Pu enters the city, this stand-in must follow, and this stand-in will stay in the capital as a proton in the future.

The two carriages were quickly prepared, and this time they entered the city followed by one hundred and fifty personal soldiers and fifty female guards, a total of two hundred people, who closely protected Li Yanqing, and even squatted on the roof of the car with a personal soldier with light skills.

At this time, it was already one watch, and the city gate had already been closed, but matters involving Li Yanqing would be regarded as special circumstances to open the city gate, so Cao Xuan could go out of the city.

The team entered the city smoothly, along the royal street, there are not many pedestrians on the street, the carriage all the way unimpeded, and soon arrived at the Cao Mansion, the eldest son Cao Yan hurriedly came out to greet him, at this time Cao Yan has been promoted to the Ministry of Works, and then take a step up to enter the phase.

Li Yanqing got out of the carriage and asked, "How is the situation now?" ”

Cao Yan shook his head, "It's no longer good, the doctor said that we can't survive tonight, and we are already preparing for the future." ”

"What's going on?" Li Yanqing is really strange, well, how could he suddenly get sick.

Cao Yan bit his lip and said, "We guess that the old man may have heard the news of your assassination and couldn't bear it for a while." ”

Li Yanqing was speechless, he just said that there was no aftermath of his stabbing, and the aftermath was here!

At this time, the fifth Cao Zhi ran out, "The old man woke up and wanted to see Yanqing!" ”

Li Yanqing didn't have time to say more, so he pulled his son and walked to the inner house.

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In front of the palace, Wang Yuan has a new love these days, he is the top tea prostitute in the second largest teahouse in Lin'an, called Kou Bing'er, who looks like a sinking fish and a goose, snow muscle and jade skin, and Wang Yuan fell in love at first sight, Wang Yuan specially rented a separate house and raised her.

In the past few nights, he spent every day in another house, enjoying the gentleness of the beauty in Beijing, which made him indulge in it and couldn't extricate himself.

However, today Wang Yuan has a task on his body, to search for the assassin, he can't stay in another house for a long time, so he can only hurry up and come to have a good time with Mei Ji.

Kou Bing'er is indeed extremely charming, and everyone likes knowledgeable talents, but she is the only one who likes Wang Yuan, a strong man with five big and three thick, which is incomprehensible and flatters Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan walked into the inner house quickly, and saw the beauty Kou Bing'er sitting at the table making tea, he rushed forward and hugged the beauty for pleasure, but Kou Bing'er pushed him away and said coquettishly: "I haven't drunk the slave's tea, I want to go to the slave's body, it's not okay to break the rules!" ”

This is the rule set by Kou Bing'er, if Wang Yuan wants to touch her body, he must first drink the tea soup she ordered, she is a tea prostitute, not an inferior prostitute.

Although Wang Yuan doesn't like to drink tea, but in order to please the beauties, he is happy to obey every time, at this time he saw a cup of freshly ordered hot tea on the table, and the tea surface was still foaming, which was no different from the tea he usually drank.

He picked up the tea bowl and drank it all, put down the tea bowl casually, picked up Kou Bing'er, ran to the bedroom, and said impatiently: "Beauty, let's start." ”

At this time, a murderous intent flashed in Kou Bing'er's eyes, and when Wang Yuan took off her clothes, she smiled again: "The slave family will go and wash it, and it will come immediately, the officials will wait a while." ”

Without waiting for Wang Yuan to catch her, she got up and got out of bed, went to the outhouse, and walked to the door and smiled back at Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan suddenly lost his temper, so he had to wave his hand and said, "Go quickly!" Just go! I'm in a hurry. ”

Kou Bing'er went out, and there was no movement after waiting for half a sound, Wang Yuan was a little strange and was about to get out of bed to find her, but as soon as he got out of bed, there was a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, and Wang Yuan bent down and screamed in pain.

He suddenly understood something, and reached out to grab the sword on the table, but before he could catch the sword, the man was weak and fell to the ground, but the sharp pain in his abdomen became more and more severe, causing him to shrink into a ball of pain, and finally he was killed alive.

A quarter of an hour later, the door opened, Huang Qianshan and Miao Fu walked in, a soldier stepped forward and touched Wang Yuan's snort, turned around and nodded, Huang Qianshan snorted, "It was also his fate to die on a woman." ”

Miao Fu stepped forward to open Wang Yuan's leather bag, which contained tiger talisman tokens and other military power things, all available, he picked up Wang Yuan's sword and said: "Then the humble post will go first." ”

"Go ahead! The two watches were launched on time, the focus was on Caofu, Li Yanqing had already entered Caofu, and was ready to send heavy troops to surround Caofu, and Li Yanqing must not be allowed to escape this time. “

.........

Cao Ping did not survive this hurdle in the end, less than two watches, there was a cry in Cao's mansion, the old man went to the west after explaining his last words, Cao's mansion began to wear linen and filial piety, build a spiritual shed, Li Yanqing also changed into filial piety clothes, and a group of Cao family children sat on the mourning hall to keep vigil, preparing to leave after dawn.

At this time, a domestic servant hurriedly came behind Li Yanqing and whispered a few words to him, Li Yanqing stood up and walked quickly to the courtyard, he saw Cao Yan's face sad and angry, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cao Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Just now the doctor told me that my father may have died of murder!" ”

Li Yanqing was taken aback, "What's the matter?" ”

"The maid who has been taking care of my father did not show up today, and someone came to report just now that the maid hanged herself in the room."

Cao Yan took out a note and handed it to Li Yanqing, "This is the last words left by the maid, saying that she was coerced." ”

Li Yanqing frowned, "What does this mean?" ”

"We didn't know what it meant, but our brothers agreed to ask a doctor to examine my father's body again, and it was found that my father had died of severe angina caused by poisoning."

Cao Yan's gaze was extremely sad and indignant, "Do you understand what I mean?" The old man was poisoned to death. ”

This news came too suddenly, Li Yanqing was taken aback, and took two steps back, he suddenly understood that the other party used the death of the old man as a bait to lure himself into the city, this trick was too vicious.

Li Yanqing immediately shouted and said, "Let's go out of the city immediately!" ”

Cao Yan was stunned for a moment, "Yanqing, what are you doing?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly, "If I don't leave, the Cao family will be finished, there will be a palace coup tonight, and the first person the Emperor will kill is me." ”

Cao Yan's eyes widened, he finally came to his senses, and said urgently: "There must be heavy troops outside, why did you leave?" ”

"I also deployed an army in the city, about 300 men, and I asked them to take the city gate first, and I rushed there."

Cao Yan shook his head, "You don't understand what I mean, there is an underground secret passage in Cao's Mansion, which can lead to the vicinity of Chongxin Gate, and you can easily break through the heavy encirclement outside." “

This news made Li Yanqing overjoyed, he knew very well that Zhao Ji had carefully planned the death of the old man, at this time, at least one to twenty thousand heavy troops were deployed on the periphery of the Cao Mansion, even if he could kill them, most of his men would be killed and injured, not to mention that he was still with his son, how should he get out of the city at that time?

But Li Yanqing was not carried away by ecstasy, he still calmly asked, "How many people know about this secret passage?" ”

"So far, only the old man and I know."

Cao Yan pressed Li Yanqing's shoulder again, looked at him and said, "You leave immediately, as long as you are safe and sound, Zhao Ji will not dare to touch the Cao family, and I will send someone to send you back in a few days with your war horse." ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, and asked again, "How long is it until the two watches?" ”

"It's less than a quarter of an hour, you go now!"

Li Yanqing immediately made a decision, and quickly moved to the backyard with Hu Qing'er, his son, and the personal guards.