Shengshichun

When Xu Yin arrived at the door of Chu's house, he could still see the bright lights in the courtyard through the crack in the door.

Someone in Xianzhao came from a distance and called "Master", then bowed and said: "The fighting has stopped, the other party has withdrawn!"

"Do you see where you're going?"

"It's heading in the direction of Pei Mansion!"

"Have you ever seen Pei Zhan?"

"He didn't show up. In the middle of the fight, they showed their flaws and someone's face mask fell off. They made an urgent calculation and then hurriedly evacuated!"

Xu Yin took a deep breath and looked at the closed door: "Have the Pei family and Chu Yu colluded?"

The guard thought for a while, shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem like it. Although those people were ambushing Chu Yu, it seems that no one in the Chu family knew of their existence.

"When our people were ambushed earlier, they were all wearing night clothes and masks. All the servants of the Chu family were so frightened that they fled in all directions. Chu Yu also ran out of the room on crutches after hearing the sound. He has not yet recovered from his illness. , it’s supposed to be impossible to get out.”

Xu Yin frowned.

Lian Ruan also thought about it: "If there had been collusion, the Chu family should not be so panicked. Moreover, Pei Zhan's people are not easy to get along with. If Chu Yu knew about it, he would not drop his face and reveal such a flaw. Give to others.

"The most important thing is that Chu Yu is of little value to Pei Zhan. They are lurking here, either for the people in Prince Rong's Palace or for you, sir. They are just waiting for help. There is no need to let Chu Yu know his identity."

In other words, if Pei Zhan wants to do this, there is no need to let Chu Yu know about it.

Xu Yin’s brows became tighter and tighter, and he said in a deep voice: “Go knock on the door!”

The guard turned around and knocked on the door. The steward of the Chu family soon appeared at the door, leaning over with a look of surprise on his face: "Your Majesty the Minister!..."

Xu Yin raised his feet and walked in. He took a look at the situation in the yard and saw that the flowerpots in the yard were overturned, tiles were all over the ground, and it was a mess. The traces of a fight were very obvious.

The butler caught up and said, "I don't know that the Lord Assistant is here late at night..."

Xu Yin glanced at him: "Where is your general?"

The housekeeper hurriedly pointed to the main room: "The general was so frightened that he went back to the house to rest! Sir, how did you know..."

Xu Yin stepped forward and said, "I'm going to visit him."

After saying that, he walked towards Chu Yu's yard.

Chu Yu was sitting on the bedside. There were only a few servants in the room, lighting lamps, sweeping the floor, and adjusting the bedding.

When Chu Yu heard the movement at the door, he raised his head with a look of surprise on his face: "Why are you here?!"

Xu Yin walked to his bed, waved his hand, and the guards behind him stepped forward to drive away the servants present.

"What are you doing here again?"

Chu Yu sat up.

Xu Yin took half a step forward: "I heard that something happened to your house again tonight. It's so uneasy, so I naturally want to come and care about you."

Chu Yu said with a sullen face: "You don't have to be so kind!"

Xu Yin curled up the corners of his lips, sat down and said, "The tone of your reply this time is much tougher. Could it be that there is someone behind you?"

Chu Yu sneered: "My Chu family is like a vegetable market in your eyes. You can come and go as you please. Who else can be behind me?"

"Are you trying to make a fool of me?" Xu Yin raised his eyebrows, "There are traces of fighting in the yard outside. Where did the people come from?"

Chu Yu said: "How do I know?"

Xu Yin sneered: "Last time I asked you who was going to find a doctor for you, you pretended to be confused with me like this. Chu Yu, why do you always fail to pay attention when you should be careful, and when you shouldn't be careful? Is it mental?"

Chu Yu looked at him: "What you said is really incomprehensible. I have been lying in bed for almost a month and I can't take care of anything at home. How can I know who is fighting in my courtyard?

"If I can take care of this, Xu Yin, do you think you still have a chance to come and go freely in my home?"

Xu Yin narrowed his eyes: "You really don't know?"

Chu Yu looked at him and said bitterly: "I didn't know at first, but now you are chasing me so hard, I can guess that the fighting party must be yours, right?!

"You pressed me for the identity of the masked man last time to no avail, so naturally you won't give up, so you will definitely break in and force me!

"It's just that no one expected that there would be someone hiding in the dark tonight!"

Xu Yin inhaled slowly and raised his head: "Then who are they, do you know now?"

Chu Yu pursed his lips and said nothing.

Xu Yin looked around the room with a sneer, and said slowly: "Your house has been heavily fortified during this period, and it has lasted for a long time. This is definitely not something you can do.

"Stop avoiding my words and saying you don't know all this. I already know who they are. But if you don't tell the truth, I will definitely make you miserable!"

Chu Yu lowered his head when he heard this.

Xu Yinhan said: "Who are they? Have you ever colluded?"

"What qualifications do I have to collude with them?" Chu Yu suddenly raised his head, "If you can't even look down on a loser like me, who else can look down on me?"

Xu Yin said: "You mean, these people have bigger backgrounds than me, right?"

Chu Yu pursed his lips and stopped talking.

Xu Yin continued: "They are ambushing here. If I sincerely don't let you know, you may not know. But in the previous fight, I heard that you walked out with a cane.

"You, General Chu, are also experienced generals. You must have seen the clues in the fight just now, right?"

Chu Yu took a deep breath: "What exactly do you want to do?"

"I want to hear it from your own words, who are those people? Are they the ones who hired a doctor for you to catch the assassin for you!"

"So what if it is? So what if it's not?"

"If yes, I can start to treat you a little better. If not, you may have to suffer a little bit."

Xu Yin spoke slower and slower, and his tone became colder and colder.

Chu Yu lowered his head, as if deep in thought.

After a moment, he raised his head: "I'm not sure whether they are the same person? Even if you force me to death, I can't give you a definite answer!"

"I don't need you to tell me the exact answer, you just need to tell me everything you know!"

Xu Yin stood up and hurriedly walked to the bed: "Or were you lying to me the last time I asked you?"

"What can I say to you?" Chu Yu's eyes seemed to be filled with fire. "Whether you believe it or not, I still have to say that I really don't know who that person is."

"If I already knew who he was at that time, why should I be afraid of you? You, Xu Yin, are not three-headed and six-armed, and you are not invincible in the court. I have the strong backing you mentioned, so I have the need to be afraid. You?"

Xu Yin looked at him coldly in the light and said slowly: "Don't talk nonsense to me, I just want the answer!"

Even as a civil servant, he seemed to have a faint sense of dignity at this moment. Chu Yu pursed his lips, his chest rose and fell a few times, and he blurted out: "Those people tonight are indeed better than your people! They should have formal backgrounds and have rich experience in fighting enemies. It is not that ordinary people can never train such subordinates. "

Xu Yin stared at him closely: "For example?"

Chu Yu's chest rose and fell even more fiercely: "For example, the palaces of several great generals in the DPRK!"

"Be specific!"

"I'm talking about the Pei family!" Chu Yu cast his bright eyes on him, "How can I be more specific? I'm just a useless person. How many clues can I see? How many clues can I capture? I may not know as much as you do. !”

Xu Yin's eyes flashed slightly. After a pause, he said, "Then why do you think it's the Pei family?"

"The day I was injured, General Pei was at the scene! I think since I told you what happened after the injury last time, you must have inquired about the movements of some people at the scene afterwards, right?"

Chu Yu's rhetorical question made Xu Yin look away.

That's right, after getting information about the masked man behind him from him last time, he asked someone to inquire again.

He remembered very clearly that after Chu Yu was injured, due to the sudden incident, the personnel changed quickly. One of the people who left his original position was Pei Zhan.

"If this is not enough, I can also tell you that the doctor who treated my injuries is proficient in metal trauma and is obviously a military doctor who has been in the army for a long time. General Pei has just returned from the battlefield and he wants to use a military doctor. Is it a piece of cake?”

When Xu Yin heard this, he couldn't help but cast his eyes towards his wound, and his eyes became darker.

Pei Zhan could summon ten military doctors, let alone one.

"How long have you been guessing it was him?"

"Earlier I just guessed that he was a high-ranking general. I guessed that he was General Pei. It was indeed tonight."

"Is it?"

"So what if it's not?" Chu Yu's eyes showed no sign of weakness at all, "If I had guessed that he was Pei Zhan, do you think that I, Chu Yu, would not not take the initiative to contact him and surrender to him under the current circumstances? ?"

Xu Yin raised his eyebrows but said nothing.

With his words, it can be proved that the person ambushing here is indeed Pei Zhan.

His escort was right.

He raised his hands and continued to ask: "Then why did he save you? It has been so long, why did he ambush you here?"

"Isn't this what I have to ask you?" Chu Yu looked at him, "This should be a grudge between you. Shouldn't you think carefully about where you offended him?"

When Xu Yin heard this, he turned sideways, and most of his face was shrouded in shadow.

Why did Pei Zhan target him? This was what had puzzled him for a long time.

He had made many assumptions before, such as the saying that there is no room for two tigers in a mountain, and Pei Zhan, who has outstanding achievements, cannot tolerate himself, or that Pei Zhan, who was born in a general's palace, looks down on himself, who was born in a poor family, but they are all untenable.

If Pei Zhan only had this kind of tolerance, it would be impossible for him to become a marshal and command an army at a young age. Rather than saying that he is a narrow-minded person, it is better to say that he secretly longed for Liang Ning and regarded him as his love rival. Very reliable.

However, this adds another level of confusion.

First of all, Pei Zhan and Liang Ning don't have much interaction. Secondly, he is now married. Fu Zhen, who is married to his wife, has a temperament very similar to Liang Ning. Even if Fu Zhen is a substitute, it seems that he is already deeply involved. He should not be at this moment. He was still jealous of himself.

For what reason did he target himself like this?

"Did he say anything to you when he hired a doctor for you, or after he captured the assassin last time?"

Chu Yu glanced at him: "Why do I have to tell you?"

Xu Yin said: "Because if you tell me happily, I will give you some benefits."

"for example?"

"I know you are very unwilling to do this. You want to return to Prince Rong's Mansion and make a difference. I said last time that I can do all this for you.

"You told me everything tonight, and I guarantee that Princess Rong will come to see you in person early tomorrow morning."

Chu Yu glanced at him and said nothing.

Xu Yin narrowed his eyes: "How?"

Chu Yu looked at him deeply: "Not enough."

"what else do you want?"

Chu Yu took a deep breath and said word by word: "I want to move to the palace to recuperate. If my aunt really comes, then I will follow her into Prince Rong's palace.

"I can tell you part of it tonight. When I successfully enter Prince Rong's Mansion tomorrow, I will tell you the rest naturally."

At this point, he glanced at Xu Yin: "After going to Prince Rong's Mansion, I became a turtle in the urn. If you want to ask, you can ask me at any time. Whatever you want to do, you can even attack me without any scruples. . You don’t even have this little confidence in me, do you?”

Xu Yin breathed in slowly: "After suffering this loss, you have really gained a lot of brains. Now, I should have known that you would turn around and take advantage of me."

"You came here on your own. I have no intention of doing anything to you. If you don't want to, you can naturally turn around and leave."

"I promise you." Xu Yin was not ambiguous. He said coldly to the front: "I guarantee that you can enter Prince Rong's Mansion and stay before noon tomorrow."

Chu Yu nodded: "Then I believe you. You can start asking if you have anything else to say, but the ugly words will come first. I will only answer the questions you asked just now!"

Xu Yin glanced at him: "Why did he try so hard to save you?"

"Of course I have seen through your conspiracy and don't want you to succeed."

Xu Yin held up the folding fan in his hand: "If you listen to him so much, he must have told you a lot. What did he say?"

Flames gradually reappeared in Chu Yu's eyes: "He told me that Yongping was resigning as my imperial doctor because of you, and he also told me how you were trying to gain fame and reputation in such a sanctimonious manner."

Xu Yin stopped his hands and said for a moment: "So, he understands me quite well."

Chu Yu laughed sarcastically: "What if?"

Xu Yin looked at the night outside the door and said nothing.

……

After walking out of the door of Chu's house, the dozen or so guards lurking in the dark all returned to Xu Yin.

Xu Yin abandoned his horse and got into the carriage.

The night outside the window was dark, with only scattered stars twinkling.

After staring at the dark scene for a moment, Xu Yin said: "Go to Prince Rong's Mansion to deliver a letter, asking the princess to come to Xu's house immediately. Tell the people in the palace that Yongping wants to see his mother."

The guards took the order and went down.

He glanced at Xu Yin who was silent for a long time, and also stopped talking.