Lu Chu rode to the palace, and on the way found that the soldiers on Luoyang Street were coming and going frequently, as if something had happened.

He hurried all the way, but found that the gate of Luoyang Nangong had been controlled by the Praetorian Guards led by Duan Da and turned him away.

He rode outside the palace gate and shouted angrily: "Who is guarding the palace gate, come out and reply!" ”

A general dressed in a whole body appeared on the tower of the palace gate, and replied loudly: "Lord Lu, the emperor has decreed, from today onwards, Lord Lu has been relieved of his position as the commander of the Praetorian Guard, and he will take over all of them, Lord Lu, please go back!" ”

As soon as Lu Chu saw this person, he immediately had an ominous premonition, and shouted: "I want to meet the emperor in person!" ”

"Didn't I already say it, the emperor has an order, and no one will see it!"

"Duan Da, you dare to hold the emperor hostage and falsely pass on the holy decree! Believe it or not, I'll immediately lead my troops into the palace! ”

Duan Da sneered: "You should try it, breaking into the palace is a capital crime!" ”

Seeing that the other party was already unscrupulous, Lu Chu was in a hurry and said, "Do you think that if this matter is known to the General of the Dark Guard, do you think he will stop there?" Immediately let the official enter the palace to face the saint! ”

Duan Da on the city tower was slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect Lu Chu to threaten with this, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Lord Lu will wait a moment!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and went back to the castle tower. After a while, he came out of the city tower again and said with a smile: "Since Lord Lu can't believe it, the general let you enter the palace, if the emperor blames it, don't say that the general let you in." ”

Lu Chu shouted: "This official will bear all the responsibilities!" ”

Duan Da waved his hand, and the palace door slowly opened. Lu Chu took more than a dozen personal guards and entered the palace gate.

When passing through the hollow-shaped city defense road, the surrounding city towers. Hundreds of archers suddenly appeared, and before Lu Chu could react, they had already fired a hundred arrows, shooting all the guards behind him into hedgehogs.

Lu Chu's expression changed greatly, he never thought that Duan Da would dare to do something to him in the palace. A group of men poured out from both sides of the corridor and surrounded him.

The leader is Wang Xuanying, the eldest son of Wang Shichong.

Lu Chu understood, and was dragged off the horse. tied up a sturdy and escorted it to Wang Xuanying's horse.

"Wang Xuanying, if you want to rebel, you can't do it!"

Wang Xuanying looked at him with an angry face. sneered: "What about rebellion? If you rebels and thieves dare to conspire to murder my father, I will let you die without a place to bury! Come on, give me a discount on his leg! ”

A group of people rushed up. pressed the scolding Lu Chu to the ground. One of them picked up a stick and struck him on the knee, and Lu Chu let out an earth-shattering scream, fainting in pain.

Wang Xuanying spat at him, "Hold down, and the day my father ascends the throne will be when they die!" ”

Duan Da had been standing on top of the city tower, looking at Lu Chu who had been dragged down like a dead corpse, with a blank expression.

The corpses in the corridor were quickly dragged out of the city. The blood on the ground was also cleaned up, and it looked as if nothing had happened.

Deal with these aftermaths. Wang Xuanying rode in the direction of Xiangning Palace.

……

In the Taiji Hall, Yang Tong was listening to Duan Da's return with an angry face.

"What do you people eat! It's been three days, and you haven't even found out who kidnapped my sister, a bunch of rice buckets! If the eldest princess of prosperity has a little accident, you will all have to lose your heads! ”

All the officials under the stairs were silent.

Three days ago, the eldest princess of Changsheng disappeared into the Xiangning Palace for no reason, and the palace maids in the palace died one by one, and the guards guarding Xiangning were all missing.

Soon after he took office that day, Lu Chu, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, was nowhere to be found, and his family disappeared in Luoyang in one day.

"General Duan, how did I ask you to investigate? What about General Huangfu and Lord Lu? Did you find it? ”

"Back to the emperor, after the minister sent someone to investigate, he found that Huangfu Wuyi had escaped from Luoyang with his family a few days ago, on the day of the incident, Lu Chu had a meeting with him, and the shopkeeper and men of the tavern could testify, after the two separated, Huangfu Wuyi defected from Luoyang, Lu Chu returned to the palace, and after that, there was an accident in Xiangning Palace...... The minister guessed that this matter had nothing to do with Lu Chu. ”

Yang Tong listened and listened, slapped the dragon chair angrily and stood up, and shouted: "Good you Lu Chu, I treat you well, you dare to cooperate with outsiders to calculate me, General Duan, give me an order to go down, immediately block the whole city, track down the whereabouts of the eldest princess, and offer a heavy reward, who can provide the news of the kidnapping of the eldest princess, the reward is 10,000 taels!" ”

"Yes!"

A few days later, Lu Chu was ambushed, according to Duan Da's report, Lu Chu hid in the cellar of a five-grade petty official in Luoyang City, and when he was searched, he resisted stubbornly and did not surrender to death, so that he had to be shot on the spot, and Lu Chu's family was also arrested.

The whereabouts of the eldest princess of Changsheng are unknown.

……

Late at night.

A panicked and hurried figure walked through the alleys in the south of Luoyang City.

From her graceful figure, a young woman could be seen, and her heavy long skirt dragged a long trail of blood on the ground.

There was a faint clatter of chains dragging on the ground.

"Gotta tell him, gotta let him know!"

Behind her, there was a faint sound of hurried footsteps, as well as some stray human voices.

Out of the alley, a soft light shone through a courtyard not far away, and the sound of a woman singing and a man clapping his palms could be faintly heard inside.

500 meters, 400 meters......

Her steps grew heavier, and the people behind her got closer and closer, just as she was about to open her mouth and shout......

A crossbow arrow swished through her chest, strangling her voice in her throat.

She slowly fell more than a hundred meters away from the fence of the yard, one hand stretched forward, with reluctance and unwillingness in her eyes, the divine light gradually dimmed, and finally stopped breathing.

There was a slight sound of footsteps, and two feet in iron-clad combat boots appeared beside her, and a cold snort sounded, as if to mock her inadequacy.

There was a trace of disdain on the face of the person who came: "Don't blame me for being ruthless, who let you eavesdrop on something that shouldn't be heard, originally I just wanted you to be a hostage and force Yang Tong to abdicate, I didn't think about killing you, but I don't know what to do, and I almost ruined my big thing...... Someone, bring her body back. ”

More than a dozen black-clad masked men emerged from the darkness and carried the woman's body away.

The night soon quieted down, and the man in his combat boots stood a hundred meters away from the house, looked at the men and women dancing and singing around the courtyard, and said to himself, "Let you live happily for a while, maybe before long, you won't even have a chance to cry." ”

With that, he turned around and disappeared into the night.

……

The big yellow dog in the yard seemed to smell something, ran to the fence of the yard, looked at the dark intersection in the distance, and barked desperately.

"Rhubarb, what's wrong?"

Zhen Mingku stood up from the moon viewing pavilion in the courtyard of the courtyard, walked to the side of the big yellow dog, and looked ahead with some confusion.

In the darkness, it was impossible to see what was there, the clouds obscured the moonlight, and the road was so dark that nothing could be seen.

He took out his mobile phone and turned on the infrared detector, and the images of heat sources within a radius of one kilometer were presented on the screen one by one.

Dozens of rapidly moving red dots quickly disappeared into the range of infrared detection.

To his surprise, within a radius of a few hundred meters, there was no movement except for those red dots that were far away.

In the past, at this time, there would be more than a dozen or twenty spies arranged by Yang Tong around the house to monitor him.

Today, these people are all gone, which makes him feel a little abnormal, he has been operating within the confines of his own house, in order not to embarrass Yang Tong, he tried not to contact those sentinels of the Dark Guard, and was ready to evacuate Luoyang at any time.

So what happened in Luoyang City recently, he really didn't ask, and he didn't want to worry about it anymore.

He gently touched Rhubarb's head, calmed its emotions, and turned back to the pavilion.

"Xianggong, what's wrong with rhubarb?"

"I don't know, maybe I smelled something, where did I just go?"

"When you talk about the Maldives and Bali, there are blue skies and white clouds, clear water, white sand, coconut palms, tropical indigenous people, sunny beaches and waves, it is a paradise beauty......

"It won't be long before my husband will take you to see it in person, and I guarantee that you will not miss it."

The two women let out a cheer, their eyes full of longing, as if they couldn't wait to set off right now for those places that had been described as human paradise by Zhen Ming's suffering.

In their warbler and swallow words, Zhen Mingku's uneasy thoughts vaguely swelled up, and he looked back at the dark direction where the rhubarb barked just now, thoughtfully.

The eldest grandson Belle noticed his strange appearance and couldn't help but ask, "Zhen Lang, what's wrong with you?" What's on your mind? ”

Zhen Ming smiled bitterly, shook aside the inexplicable irritability in his heart, stood up and stretched, "It's night, let's go back to the house, which of you will help Xianggong wipe his back tonight?" ”

The two girls blushed at the time, and they didn't know what he was thinking, and said in unison: "Let Rhubarb wipe it for you with his paws." ”

………………

When the body of the eldest princess of Changsheng was found, it was three days later.

Yang Tong, who was in pain, lay on her corpse, crying so much that her voice was completely hoarse.

"Wang Shichong, it must have been Wang Shichong who did it! I want to raid his house, and I want to let the people of his Wang family fall to the ground one by one to avenge my sister! ”

Yuan Wendu, Luo Shixin and others rushed to the palace when they heard the sound, and learned that the eldest princess of Changsheng was murdered, and Yang Tong was discussing with Duan Da about leading troops to copy Wang Shichong's family.

Luo Shixin hurriedly stopped and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice!" Deal with it calmly, the eldest princess was killed, obviously there is another inside story, it is better to notify General Zhen as soon as possible to come and discuss! (To be continued......)