0228 Evacuate immediately
Just as dawn, Li Zhen led twenty inner guard warriors to appear in front of the gate of Longling Villa. Someone had already rushed into the villa to report. Soon, the Wei brothers hurried out from the villa to greet him.
Wei Bo and Wei Song had a confrontation with the inner guards in the polo competition not long ago, but because Li Chongrun rushed back to Fangzhou early, the Fangzhou polo team suffered a big defeat. They parted in dissatisfaction on the day of the loss. Everyone quarreled, and then disbanded the team and went home.
Of course, the Wei brothers knew Li Zhen, but they never dreamed that among the two unknown forces that ran to the Night Discovery Villa last night, one of which was Li Zhen. They had not slept all night last night, and they were under great pressure, and both of them seemed very tired.
Wei Boyu laughed, "How could Commander Li know that we live here?"
He couldn't hide the tension on his face. Their Longling Villa was very secret. How could Li Zhen know about it? If he knew about it, wouldn't he have known about their secrets in practicing samurai?
At this time, Wei Song poked his brother with his elbow and whispered: "It's Li Chongrun."
Wei Bo suddenly realized that this must be Li Chongrun who told Li Zhen that no one else knew about this except Li Chongrun. He was secretly annoyed. How dare Li Chongrun leak their secrets without authorization?
Li Zhen heard Wei Song's words, he smiled, took out a jade pendant, and showed it to the two brothers, "It was the owner of this jade pendant that asked me to come to you."
The two brothers looked at each other and bowed together, "Principal Li came into the villa and had a detailed discussion."
Li Zhen followed them into the villa and saw many warriors training on the martial arts field from afar. Li Zhen paid attention to the details of these warriors, such as their clothes, all wearing new clothes. Secondly, looking at their training, it was obvious that their martial arts were far from bad and their hands and feet were relatively unfamiliar.
This should be the group of people recruited from the victims last year. Li Zhen thought to himself.
Li Zhen followed the two brothers into a magnificent building. This is the center of the entire villa. There is a huge plaque with gold edges embedded on it, with three big words about dragons and phoenixes dancing. 'Invisible Dragon Hall, Li Zhen frowned and pointed at the plaque and said to the two brothers: "This plaque will become evidence to impeach King Luling, and I will pick it up immediately."
The two brothers were stunned for a moment, and Wei Song quickly arranged for someone to find a ladder to delist. Wei Bo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then he invited Li Zhen to the lobby.
Li Zhen sat down in the lobby, and a maid served him tea. The two brothers looked at each other, and Wei Bo asked tentatively: "Have you ever seen our princess?"
Li Zhen put the gold medal and the jade pendant on the table and said lightly: "The princess said that gold medal alone is not enough to mobilize the warriors in the villa. She must add her jade pendant. I think you should know very well."
The Wei brothers were not stupid. Princess Wei actually gave Li Zhen the jade pendant, which shows that the princess trusted Li Zhen and the seriousness of the situation. Especially last night, someone visited the villa at night, and finally disappeared, which brought great pressure to the two brothers.
At this time, even if the princess did not give them in person, they were willing to accept Li Zhen's order. The two stood up and bowed and said, "I am willing to obey Commander Li's arrangements."
The attitude of the Wei brothers made Li Zhen more satisfied. They were not stupid yet. Li Zhen asked with a smile: "I wonder what abnormal situations have happened in the villa recently?"
Wei Bo sighed and said worriedly: "It was quite calm, but last night, someone sneaked into the villa and captured one of our brothers. It was really worrying.
“What is it?”
The two brothers shook their heads, and Wei Bo said again: "There is no clue, but they left a body, and they couldn't escape because they were injured, and they were killed by their own people."
"Where is the body now?"
Wei Bo hurried out and gave an order. After a moment, several warriors carried into a stretcher. A corpse was lying on the stretcher, and his face was already dark. Li Zhen stepped forward and looked for a moment, then picked up a short arrow from the side, looked carefully for a moment, and turned around and said to the Wei brothers: "I have seen such short arrows."
"What is it?" the two brothers said in unison.
They were far away in Fangzhou and the news was blocked. As the deputy commander of the inner guard, Li Zhen was naturally more knowledgeable than them. So the two believed Li Zhen's words, but they forgot that Li Zhen actually didn't have much time to serve as the deputy commander of the inner guard.
Li Zhen smiled and said, "This arrow is less than one foot long. It should be shot out with a hand crossbow, and it is highly poisonous. Among the several forces in Luoyang, the hand crossbow is the equipment of the General Hall, and almost everyone has it. Moreover, the General Hall is good at using poison. If I am not wrong, this person should be a warrior in the General Hall."
The Wei brothers all showed fear on their faces. The person who came to investigate the villa last night was Wu Sansi's subordinate. Doesn't that mean that Wu Sansi has already mastered their detailed information?
In fact, Li Zhen was just speculating that he had no evidence to explain the identity of the warrior, but his speculation could stand firm, forcing the Wei brothers to believe it.
Li Zhen said again: "I was sent to Fangzhou this time because someone reported that King Luling had privately invested in the Fangzhou disaster victims and had a bad intention. According to my information, it should be Wu Sansi's report. He has been paying attention to the situation in Fangzhou for a long time, and he should also know about this villa."
"What should we do?" Wei Bo asked worriedly.
"You need to evacuate the villa immediately. Since Wu Sansi has visited the villa last night, he will soon contact Lai Junchen and mobilize the army to surround the villa. Once you are captured, the King of Luling and the Princess will not escape this disaster."
"Will you evacuate now?"
Li Zhen nodded slowly, "Let go now and burn all the evidence. You evacuate from the small road. Don't rush to leave Fangzhou first, hide in the mountains for a month or two, and wait for my news."
The Wei brothers also knew that the situation was critical, so they immediately began to pack up their belongings and burn information. At this time, Zhao Qiuniang hurried into the lobby and whispered to Li Zhen: "There are two surveillance people outside, and we have already lost them."
Li Zhen was overjoyed and immediately said to Wei Bo: "You guys leave now, I'll clean up the villa."
A quarter of an hour later, the Wei brothers and three hundred warriors quickly left the villa and retreated south from a small road. The southern part of Fangzhou was high and densely forested, without a county town, only many small towns and mountain villages, which were very suitable for the hiding of the Wei warriors.
When they walked away, Li Zhen immediately ordered the fire to burn the village. Soon, a fire burned the Longling Villa to white ground, and all the evidence that was unfavorable to Li Xian was burned to Yuyu in the fire.
Lai Junchen was not in Fangling County at this time, but in a small town about thirty miles east of Fangling. At this time, Lai Junchen's entire attention was on searching for Jiang Enxin. He firmly believed that Jiang Enxin had the secret information of the Xingtang Association in his hand, which was what he wanted. As long as he mastered the secrets of the Xingtang Association, the entire Li royal family would kneel at his Lai Junchen's feet.
But Lai Junchen's search was not effective. He brought too few people. Some of them went to investigate the truth about the ambushing of the officials of Dali Temple. He only led eighteen subordinates to search for Gan Enxin. After searching in the mountains and nearby villages for two days, they still found nothing.
Lai Junchen was very worried that Jiang Enxin had escaped from Fangzhou and rushed to Luoyang to report to Wu Sansi. In that case, the credit for seizing Xingtang Association would become Wu Sansi, and Lai Junchen gained nothing.
In the room, Lai Junchen was pacing back and forth with concern. He was considering how to investigate the secrets of the Xingtang Association. Where was his breakthrough?
At this time, my subordinates came from the yard: "Report to the Chief Secretary, someone outside asked for a meeting and was holding the gold medal of King Liang."
This must be Wu Sansi's person. Lai Junchen's heart moved. Maybe they could provide him with some clues or help him.
Thinking of this, Lai Junchen quickly ordered: "Please invite him in quickly."
Soon, a burly man was taken in with a broad face and dark skin. Lai Junchen was stunned for a moment. The person who came was Wan Guojun, the former deputy commander of the inner guard. "Why are you?" Lai Junchen asked in surprise.
Wan Guojun was the first to serve as an judge in the Ministry of Justice and had a good relationship with Lai Junchen. Later, after being transferred to the inner guard by Princess Taiping, he gradually became alienated from Lai Junchen. Unexpectedly, he actually defected to Wu Sansi, which was indeed beyond Lai Junchen's expectations.
Wan Guojun said coldly: "You shouldn't think it's strange to come to Zhongcheng."
Lai Junchen knew the reason, nodded and smiled: "It is really joyful to meet an old friend in Fangzhou. Brother Wan chose a good tree to live in it, which is even more worthy of celebration. Brother Wan asked him to sit down."
Wan Guojun walked into the room and sat down. Before he could drink tea, he opened the right way and said, "Please forgive Wan for being rude, come to Zhongcheng to go in the wrong direction."
Lai Junchen knew what he was talking about, he smiled and took the hot tea from a child. He took a sip of the tea slowly and said calmly: "Brother Wan knows what I am looking for?"
"You are pursuing Gan Enxin"
"Yes, may you have found him?"
Wan Guojun shook his head, "We haven't found this person either, but I think he is either no longer in Fangzhou or has died."
"Why do you say this?" Lai Junchen asked with some displeasure.
"It's very simple that he is the undercover agent who was placed by King Liang next to King Luling. The reason why he ran away was because the other party discovered his identity. Because someone leaked the secret in King Liang's mansion, this matter is hard to describe. Just say that if he was still in Fangzhou, he would definitely come to me for protection. Since he didn't come, it means that he is no longer in Fangzhou, or he died in the forest."
Lai Junchen knew that Wan Guojun's words were reasonable. Since Gan Enxin was Wu Sansi's person, he had no reason not to come to Wan Guojun for help. It is said that this man is very skilled in martial arts, both a eunuch and Li Xian's personal bodyguard, and he is the most likely to escape.
This made Lai Junchen deeply disappointed, and after a while, he asked, "Why did you say I checked the wrong direction?"
"At the beginning, King Liang told Zhongcheng very clearly that he came to Fangzhou to investigate the rebellion of King Luling, but Zhongcheng did not investigate the matter, but instead ignored the root of the matter-"
Chapter completed!