No one knew how the assassin stole into the palace. He pretended to be a eunuch, holding a tray in both hands, with a box covered with brocade quilts on it, and his steps were rushing, as if something urgent was happening, and he trotted all the way to Qiuxin Palace where the queen lived.

If it weren't for the loss, the assassin could really reach his destination.

He was hesitant at a fork in the road, which made the guards who had already noticed him confused, so he stepped forward to ask. The assassin hesitated and suddenly shouted angrily, threw away the tray, showed off the short knife hidden below, rushed up and stabbed the two of them in a row, turned around and jumped.

The guards were alert and had agile enough to react, but they were still stabbed by one person. The assassin had no special moves, but the speed was too fast to avoid it.

When Wang Helai informed the emperor about this, the entire palace was still searching for assassins.

Han Ruzi was furious. If the palace could not even catch an assassin, it would be a joke to destroy the bandits in Yunmengze.

He wanted to go back to the palace to urge the arrest. Wang He knelt down and advised His Majesty to be cautious. As the leader of the guard, he could not hide the news from the emperor, but he could not watch the emperor take risks.

Finally, Meng E persuaded the emperor, "The assassin went to Qiuxin Palace just to make a bluff, with the purpose of luring Your Majesty back to the palace, and Your Majesty should not be fooled."

Han Ruzi's anger was not gone, "Before dawn, the assassin must be caught, regardless of life or death."

Wang He went out to issue an order, and not long after, more envoys from the palace arrived. The empress dowager and the queen said that there was no danger and told the emperor not to act without action.

It was another sleepless night. The palace was tracing the whereabouts of the assassin, and a large-scale search was also started in the city. In order to prevent accidents, all envoys could only enter the first gate of the Juanhou Mansion to inform Cai Xinghai, Wang He and Jin Chunzhong, and then Jin Chunzhong promptly reported to the emperor.

Although the danger has not yet approached the emperor, it is too much to be cautious in the face of the protection of the emperor.

Lian Danchen, the judicial officer, prepared for many days. Once the action progressed the fastest, he would interrogate the assassin on the spot. Regardless of whether there was any confession or not, he would first arrest the merchant who was familiar with the assassin.

The number of arrests increased rapidly, far exceeding the initial seven. After the fourth update, news came that there were hundreds of people arrested.

The assassin was finally found in the palace, as well as a Sima, a palace sect who colluded with him and five soldiers.

"The assassin is surrounded and is about to be arrested."

"Five accomplices of the Assassin were killed, and only two of them were still fighting stubbornly."

"A guard and two guard soldiers died, and many were injured, and those two... are still fighting stubbornly."

The news that Jin Chunzhong told the emperor quickly turned from excitement and confidence at the beginning to confusion and confusion. He didn't understand how capable the assassin was, and could last for so long under the siege of hundreds of people.

"Sima of the Palace Gate has been captured alive, and only the assassin is left..."

"I'm still fighting stubbornly?" Han Ruzi asked.

Jin Chunzhong nodded awkwardly. Although this was not his duty, he was still ashamed. "Deputy Commander Wang has rushed back to the palace and supervised the battle himself."

Han Ruzi turned her head and asked Meng E, "Is this a master?"

Meng E nodded, "If he could still kill people for so long, he would be a rare master."

"How about you brother and sister?"

"If it were the two of us, we would be killed within a quarter of an hour."

Han Ruzi suddenly felt proud of talent, but the assassin was an assassin, and he had already killed people in the palace, and his crimes were unforgivable. He could not say anything more, not to mention that the Juehou Mansion and the Palace were separated by a distance, and even if he passed the order, it probably wouldn't be too late to pass it over.

"This may be Luan Banxiong's adopted son, the man named Luan Kai? Have you heard of this person?" Han Ruzi asked again.

Meng E thought for a while, "No, although Yishi Island and Yunmengze have been in contact with each other for a long time, I have never heard of the name Luan Kai. He should have been in the army soon."

Jin Chunzhong hurried from outside again, "The assassin in the palace has been arrested."

"Is it dead or alive?"

"The assassin and the collusion between the palace sect Sima should have been captured alive."

“Bring it here.”

Jin Chunzhong was stunned for a moment and did not respond.

"Immediately." Han Ruzi added.

Jin Chunzhong responded quickly and turned around and went out. Han Ruzi called the eunuch again and ordered him to return to the palace immediately to greet the queen and the queen.

The sky was slightly bright, and the palace was still pursuing whether the assassin had any remaining parties. Two survivors were escorted to Juanhou's mansion. The emperor could not interrogate the prisoner himself, but Han Ruzi insisted on listening. Jin Chunzhong made arrangements to interrogate in a room, while the emperor listened in the room next door. Several holes were punched on the wall, and the voice could be clearly transmitted.

Jin Chunzhong understood the emperor's thoughts and first examined the Sima of the Palace Gate. His name was Sun Wenming. He was in his forties and had been in the Guards for nearly ten years and had been guarding the Palace Gate for three years. His betrayal was the most surprising.

Sun Wenming was seriously injured, but refused to give in. "If you want to kill, you will kill me, I have nothing to say."

Jin Chunzhong did not intimidate, and calmly asked for his name, official position, and who else was in the family. Sun Wenming answered one by one, and finally said: "There was an old lady in the family who died of illness three months ago. My wife was divorced by me. My daughter has been married for many years and has no other relatives. If the emperor insists on implicating it, I can't do anything."

"The court has treated you unfairly?"

Sun Wenming said: "You don't have to beat around the bush. Didn't you just want to know why I helped the assassin?"

"Well, your choice is indeed puzzling."

"Hey, you are just a slave around the emperor. You didn't even know who I was before today, of course you are puzzled." After a pause, he asked, "Do you recognize Zhao Mengli?"

"I have a little impression, I'm also a person in the palace?"

Jin Chunzhong did not recognize Zhao Mengli, but the emperor in the next room remembered and immediately sent someone to notify Jin Chunzhong.

"It turned out to be the left general of the former Southern Army. I remembered that he was a famous general."

Sun Wenming saw someone whispering to the interrogator, "Who told you? Someone is outside? Is it the emperor?"

Jin Chunzhong did not answer and continued to ask: "Are you friends with Zhao Mengli?"

After a while, Sun Wenming raised his voice, "Your Majesty, Zhao Mengli and I are friends of life and death. When we were in the Southern Army, he sacrificed our lives to save me. If this kindness is not repayable, Sun is ashamed to be a man!"

Sun Wenming was once a soldier of the Southern Army and had a very good relationship with Zhao Mengli. Later, one was transferred to Suwei Army and the other was promoted to the Left General of the Southern Army. He gradually had fewer contacts, but his friendship was not weakened because of this. However, in the eyes of outsiders, their relationship was not as close as before.

In Yingfeng Village, Zhao Mengli was killed by the trick of Juehou at that time.

"Zhao Mengli refused to obey the order, so he was sentenced to death. Do you want to avenge your Majesty?" Jin Chunzhong asked.

When Han Ruzi killed Zhao Mengli, he was not the emperor. It was not correct to say that Zhao Mengli's "resistance of the order". Sun Wenming did not refute and said loudly: "The king wants his minister to die, but the minister has to die. I will not avenge His Majesty, I will avenge the Cui family!"

Zhao Mengli was once the most loyal general under Cui Hong and was more trustworthy than his brothers. However, after Zhao Mengli's death, Cui Hong did not express any special expression. He neither showed hatred nor regrets, and even ignored Zhao Mengli's family, as if he had completely forgotten this powerful general.

Zhao Mengli resisted Juehou because of his obedience to Cui Hong's order. Cui Hong's indifference made some of Zhao Mengli's friends extremely indignant. Sun Wenming is one of them. Unlike others, he dared to act in addition to indignation.

He didn't hide it and told it all. He had met "Yunxiong" two months ago. After understanding the other party's intention, he did not accept it immediately or report it.

Yunxiong struck while the iron was hot and visited the door three times in a row. He noticed that Sun Wenming hated General Cui Hong even more. He took advantage of the situation and transferred the assassination target. "It is not enough to kill Cui Hong. The Cui family has two foundations, one is Cui Hong himself, and the other is the queen. Kill one person and keep one person. The Cui family is still strong and must be eliminated at the same time to completely destroy the Cui family."

Sun Wenming was convinced that he had five confidants who were willing to die with him and were also attracted to him. The initial plan was relatively simple, and they just put the assassin into the palace, and the remaining things were the responsibility of the assassin.

The assassin failed to enter Qiuxin Palace and ran around in the palace. Sun Wenming knew that the matter would be investigated, and sooner or later he would be exposed. He made up his mind and took five confidants to pretend to pursue the assassin and headed straight to Qiuxin Palace.

The temporary plan was even more likely to be successful. They were intercepted when they walked a short distance. They could not come up with anyone's will, so they simply started to fight and quickly met with the assassin, eventually killing five or two injured.

Sun Wenming had no regrets, "Sun died without regrets. I just want everyone in the world to know that Cui Hong was ashamed of General Zhao!"

Zhao Mengli was an obstacle that Han Ruzi had to get rid of on the way to seize the throne. Due to the situation at that time, there was always one person who would die. Han Ruzi had nothing to regret, but he still admired Sun Wenming's character and sent eunuchs to notify Jin Chunzhong that Sun Wenming did not need to be retried and dealt with according to the law.

The emperor could not pardon Sima, the betrayed palace sect, but he did not want to suffer too much.

Jin Chunzhong asked someone to take Sun Wenming away and replace him with an assassin.

"My name is Luan Kai, and I am the adopted son of the god general Luan Banxiong." The assassin was also seriously injured, but his tone was extremely relaxed, without fear, and even a little curious, "It's all my fault. I've read the map several times, but it still went wrong. Who would have thought that it looked quite small on the map. When I really walked in, the palace was so big! Even bigger than my village! Well, Cui Hong was cut by me, and I killed the people around him. I went to the palace to kill the queen. That's all, I won. I won. You don't care. You don't care. So many people beat me, and I have the ability to fight alone. If I lose, I will help you to get anything. I won. You can let me go."

"I'll go." Meng E whispered in the next room.

"You are not his opponent." Han Ruzi blurted out, but this was indeed what Meng E said.

"He's injured, I can deal with it."

Han Ruzi reluctantly nodded, "Don't use weapons."

Meng E nodded and went to the interrogation room. She spoke softly, but Han Ruzi couldn't hear clearly, so she only heard Luan Kai laughing, "A palace maid? Haha, I only use one arm, let's win or lose."

After waiting for a while, the sound of fighting came from the next door. It was not very loud or frequent, and it seemed that the fight was weak.

A full quarter of an hour later, Meng E came back and nodded to the emperor, with a slightly blue face. It was obvious that it took a lot of effort to defeat the injured assassin.

When the assassin spoke again, his voice became much smaller, and Han Ruzi still couldn't hear it clearly. Not long after, Jin Chunzhong came over and said seriously: "The assassin called Han Chou, and the Holy Military Advisor was also in the Han Mansion."

"You can catch people." Han Ruzi said.

Jin Chunzhong finished the interrogation and took people to the Han Mansion.

When Han Chou heard that the assassin in the palace was caught, he immediately understood that something was wrong. The stupid assassin could not keep the secret and had to find other ways to save himself.

Fortunately, he paved a way for himself and now he can use it. (To be continued.)
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