In the Xiazhou Mansion, Xia Hongsheng held the letter sent back by Duan Zan from Chang'an City in his hand. The news of Li Zhengbao's surrender made Emperor Long Yan happy, and the reward for Li Zhengbao had already been decided, and he would immediately announce it to the world when Xia Hongsheng sent the letter back.

Xia Hongsheng was silent after reading it, folded the letter, and then sent it to the oil lamp next to him, and it burned into a piece of fly ash in an instant.

Seeing that the flying ashes gradually settled, Xia Hongsheng suddenly stood up, then walked to the door and opened the door, and Qi Yong stood up outside.

"Qi Yong, go and call the liaison officer, there is a task for him to convey." Xia Hongsheng said to Qi Yong, who was standing outside the door.

Qi Yong took the order, and soon, the spy who was responsible for conveying the news between Xia Hongsheng and those who had infiltrated Shuofang City was brought to Xia Hongsheng by Qi Yong.

"In the past, the news that Liang Shidu heard that Li Zhengbao wanted to rebel was widely spread in Shuofang City, so he was ready to get rid of Li Zhengbao, and Li Zhengbao was already under house arrest. Xia Hongsheng leaned over and whispered to the spy in his ear.

"Humble duty, this will be conveyed overnight!" The spy answered, and immediately turned away.

Xia Hongsheng watched the spy lead the horse out of the mansion, and then returned to the back hall.

Li Zhengbao's family members, after the transfer of the past few days, the main family members have been transferred. There are already rumors in Shuofang City that Li Zhengbao is going to surrender, and through the news that the spies have returned, it can be known that these rumors are only spreading in the market, and few people in the army believe them. After all, Li Zhengbao's prestige was there, and what he had done for Shuo Fang before, those soldiers all saw it in their eyes, and knew that if it weren't for this general who had been holding the stage in Shuo Fang's army, I am afraid that Shuo Fang would have been destroyed long ago.

Now, all the times are ripe, and it is time for all the Shuofang soldiers to know. Liang Shidu has a small belly and chicken intestines, and his gas is narrow, and he can't tolerate meritorious officials, so he eradicates meritorious ministers by using rumors. Therefore, he turned against Li Zhengbao, forcing Li Zhengbao to escape from Shuofang and return to the Tang Dynasty!

The night was already deep, there was not even a trace of moonlight, and it was quiet. Xia Hongsheng went back to his house, ready to end the unknown first few nights in Xiazhou.

Suddenly, he heard a sound outside the door, as if something had fallen, Xia Hongsheng was startled, and hurriedly walked to the door, just about to reach out to open the door, but suddenly stopped moving.

Xia Hongsheng didn't open the door again, but held his breath and gently took a few steps back. Looking left and right, he raised his hand and picked up a wooden stool, and after passing the door again, he lifted the wooden stool with one hand and gently pulled the door open with the other.

Clinker, as soon as the door opened a crack, suddenly a force came from the outside, and the door was closed tightly with a "snap".

"Childe! Don't come out! Qi Yong's voice came from outside the door: "There are assassins! ”

Xia Hongsheng's heart jumped, and he immediately looked at the window, and the oil lamp in the house had not yet been blown out. The windowsill was locked, and he was the only one in the room.

Xia Hongsheng breathed a sigh of relief, Qi Yong was outside the door, and the master brother must also be there. The windows in the house were locked, and it was safe, no wonder Qi Yong didn't let him go out and show up.

After a long time, I heard another gentle sound of landing outside the door, and then I heard Qi Yong's voice outside: "How is it?" ”

"No one, it's gone." This voice is from a master brother. Qi Yong said: "You can let the adults come out." ”

When Xia Hongsheng heard this, he was about to open the door, but the door had already been pushed open from the outside. Qi Yong flashed in, followed by the master brother.

"What's going on?!" Xia Hongsheng asked.

"There's an assassin, Childe, why don't you come out and have a look!" Qi Yong and the master brother glanced at each other, and then said to Xia Hongsheng, "The assassin has left. ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded, raised his hand and picked up the oil lamp and walked out of the door, Qi Yong and the master brother were on one side, protecting Xia Hongsheng tightly.

By the light of the oil lamp, there was a person lying on the ground outside Xia Hongsheng's door, lying face down on the ground, Xia Hongsheng's heart was beating wildly, Qi Yong went over and picked it with his toes, turning the person over, it was the spy who had just ordered him to go to Shuofang to deliver Xia Hongsheng's order!

Xia Hongsheng only felt a tumbling in his stomach, and suddenly retched, this was the second time he saw a dead person, the first time was when he passed Lu Hun on the way from Luanzhou to Luoyang. Although the appearance of this corpse was far less terrifying than the one he had seen in Lu Hun before, it still made Xia Hongsheng feel sick to his stomach for a while.

"Cut your throat and kill with a knife." The master brother looked at Xia Hongsheng, whose face was pale, and said in a deep voice: "The opponent is extremely powerful. ”

"Qi Yong, call the two Lord Liu over and tell the two of them what happened here, don't alarm the others for the time being." Xia Hongsheng stabilized his mind and said.

Qi Yong hesitated a little: "Childe ......"

"Go, my lordship has my protection." The master brother saw that Qi Yong was worried about Xia Hongsheng's comfort, so he said.

Qi Yong gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I'll go back when I go!" ”

With that, he immediately rushed out with a whoosh, and the speed was extremely fast, like a bow and arrow off the string.

Xia Hongsheng raised the oil lamp, under the reflection of the flames, there was not much blood on the ground around, and looked up at the roof, but the flames of the oil lamp were too small to see clearly.

"It was thrown from above." The master brother looked at Xia Hongsheng's actions and seemed to understand Xia Hongsheng's intentions, so he said, "He was already dead before he threw it down." ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded, and it could be seen from the fact that there was not much blood on the ground next to him. Cutting the throat will hurt the major artery in the neck, blood will spurt out, and the amount of bleeding will be very large, and there is not much blood here, which can only mean that when it was thrown here, it was already a corpse.

After a while, I heard a rush of footsteps outside the courtyard, and soon the courtyard was illuminated by a fire. Liu Min and Liu Lan took the guards around them to the courtyard with torches.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, Liu Min and the others immediately walked quickly in front of Xia Hongsheng, and immediately bowed down in fear: "It's all the negligence of the lower officials, who failed to do a good job of defense, and actually asked the gangsters to sneak into the mansion and disturb the adults, and they deserve death!" ”

Xia Hongsheng's own grade is one level higher than them, and he is the title of the founder of the county man, and he is personally assigned by His Majesty, if there is an accident in Xiazhou, then the two of them will be guilty, and it is possible that the head of the person on the item is not guaranteed. When the two of them heard that there were assassins in Xia Hongsheng's courtyard, they were shocked into a cold sweat, and they were about to bring troops over, but they were stopped by Qi Yong, saying that Xia Hongsheng had told not to alarm everyone for the time being, so they had to bring a trustworthy guard and hurried over.

"You can't blame you." Xia Hongsheng waved his hand, made the two of them stand up, and said: "I just sent him to Shuofang overnight to convey the order, and it was only a cup of tea before and after, and I thought that there was an accident not long after he went out. ”

Liu Min and Liu Lan got up, wiped the sweat on their foreheads, and Liu Min said, "It must be an assassin sent by Shuo Fang!" ”

"But if the assassin sent by Shuo Fang heard the order of the adult, and chased him out to kill the horse, why didn't he go back to Shuo immediately to report to Liang Shidu, but instead turned back and threw the body outside the adult's door?!" Liu Lan frowned, looked down at the corpse on the ground, and then wondered.

"For demonstrations." Xia Hongsheng glanced at the corpse of the spy on the ground and said in a deep voice.

"Demonstrations?" Everyone was stunned and looked at Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng glanced at it and explained, "The assassin will turn back and dump the corpse outside my door, and he will deliberately make a noise to attract me and Qi Yong and the others, just to demonstrate to me. At the same time, it also shows that at least the assassin already knows my identity and what happened to Shuo Fang, which was planned by me. It's just that I don't know if I found out about the order I just gave at that moment. ”

Liu Min was taken aback: "Your Excellency is saying that the assassin may have learned your adult's orders from this spy?!" ”

"These spies are all trained, and I'm sure they won't leak them. Moreover, from the time I gave the order to the time his body was dumped here, it was no more than a cup of tea, which was not enough time for the Assassin to torture him. Xia Hongsheng frowned and said, "What I'm worried about is that if I can catch up with him and kill him so quickly, that assassin may have been staring at me when I gave the order." Although I kept my voice down when I gave him the order, I was still not sure if the Assassin had overheard my orders. ”

"It's likely that I've heard it, otherwise, I wouldn't have caught up with that spy and killed him so quickly." Liu Lan said.

"It won't be heard, Qi Yong and I were both outside the door when the Lord gave the order, and I haven't heard it, so the assassin can't be closer to the Lord than me, and he definitely won't hear it." Brother Hao spoke at this time.

Qi Yong also nodded, and echoed: "Yes, I am waiting outside the door, only a few steps away from Childe, if we can't hear it, then the assassin will definitely not hear it." However, the possibility that the Assassin had excellent ear power cannot be ruled out. ”

"A certain family's ear power is already good." The master brother said lightly: "If you haven't heard it, then you dare to assert that the assassin will not hear the orders of the adults." ”

Xia Hongsheng didn't say anything, just thought quietly.

If Shuo Fang's people had such strength, why didn't they capture the spy alive and interrogate him, but killed him and threw him back in front of the door as if demonstrating? But if it wasn't Shuo Fang's people, then why would he kill the spy?

Xia Hongsheng frowned, for a long time, and suddenly felt a shock in his heart, could it be that in addition to Xiazhou and Shuofang, there is another force here? ! (To be continued.) )