klisemfg Chapter 372: Digging a Trap
Chapter 372: Digging a Trap
Chapter 372: Digging a Trap
The red bone bracelet lay quietly on the table. Lu Yunting stared at it for a while, then stretched out two fingers, pinched a bead and crushed it.
The red powder fell down, leaving some on the fingertips, mixed with a little white powder.
It was as if the blood had not completely soaked into the bones.
Lu Yunting feigned disbelief and crushed one after another, but the result was the same. Some were even stained with blood.
It only takes a moment for an adult to collapse.
"Why!"
Lu Yunting swept everything on the table to the ground, venting the emotions that he had been trying hard to suppress.
Red beads scattered on the ground with the sound of breaking.
"Ayue." Jiang Yueyang hugged his arm, "Don't do this, I'm scared."
Lu Yunting calmed down instantly, but stood there with his eyes downcast, not moving at all.
After an unknown amount of time, an extremely cold voice came from above Jiang Yueyang's head.
"I'm going to go back and get to the bottom of everything."
Hearing this, Jiang Yueyang slowly loosened her hand, took off the protective cover from her wrist and put it on his hand.
Lu Yunting knew that it was a protective shield, and immediately grabbed her hand to stop her.
"This should be the thing that helped you defend against the big black bear's attack last time, right? Keep it for yourself."
Jiang Yueyang broke free from his hand, "I won't stop you, but don't make me worry about you. Promise me, wear it."
"You need it more than I do."
"Don't worry, I have something even more powerful. If you don't wear it, we'll break up!"
"separate?"
"It means to cancel the engagement!"
In the end, Lu Yunting had no choice but to wear a protective shield, but at the same time he also arranged more people to secretly protect Jiang Yueyang.
After making all the arrangements, he went back.
***
The next day, Lu Yunting did not attend the morning court and took a long vacation.
Jiang Yueyang sat in her seat with a worried look on her face, and the system did not make a fuss as usual.
In fact, he hasn't said a word from yesterday until now.
At first, Emperor Yuan and his civil and military officials did not notice anything unusual.
But after a quarter of an hour, they discovered that Jiang Yueyang and the system were unusually quiet today.
Normally, even if they weren't eating melons, they would still chat for a while. Otherwise, Master Xiao Jiang would just sleep and slack off.
But today, the two of them neither ate melons, nor chatted, nor slept or played catch-up.
So weird!
After Emperor Yuan looked at Jiang Yueyang several times, he moved his gaze to look at Lu Yunting's position.
Did they have a fight?
At this time, Lord Wei stepped forward to impeach General Qiu for returning to the capital but not entering the palace to meet the emperor. He was simply disrespecting the emperor and defying the authority of heaven!
Lord Wei requested Emperor Yuan to punish General Qiu, and many officials came out to support him.
Jiang Yueyang's attention was drawn to this, and he thought, General Qiu doesn't take His Majesty seriously, no wonder His Majesty would doubt the loyalty of the Lu family army.
Is he trying to rebel by doing this?
In response to Lord Wei's impeachment, Emperor Yuan said in a deep voice, "General Qiu is ill and has requested to return to the palace to plead guilty in a few days. I grant your permission."
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei and the officials who seconded the motion retreated.
Although they suspected that General Qiu's illness was an excuse for him to avoid the emperor, they could do nothing about it.
His Majesty has agreed...
***
On the other side, Lu Yunting and General Qiu were analyzing and investigating who in the Lu family army was most likely to have killed Lu Jinghong.
He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and unfolded it. There was a totem drawn on it.
"When I first returned to Beijing, I encountered two assassination attempts. Those who assassinated me were all assassins, and they all had this strange totem on their bodies. Have you seen it?"
General Qiu picked it up and looked at it carefully, then shook his head and said, "I've never seen it before."
"There aren't many people in the Lu family army who can afford death squads. Who do you think is the most suspicious?"
"Before this, I always thought the general died in battle, so I never suspected anyone. If you suddenly ask me who is the most suspicious among the Lu family army, I can't say."
Lu Yunting suddenly realized something. He seemed to have never called his father "brother-in-law" and rarely called his mother "sister".
He was really as Yangyang said... he loved A Niang.
General Qiu asked, "Does Ziyue have any suspicions?"
"Earlier, I suspected General Shan, but after investigation, I found out that his only son also died in that battle."
"Some people are so cruel that they would even kill their own sons."
"not him."
General Qiu frowned, "Why are you so sure?"
"Last night, the people I sent to Qingyan City to investigate what happened back then brought back news that someone survived the battle."
Hearing this, General Qiu's eyes flashed, but soon returned to normal.
If Lu Yunting hadn't known in advance that he was the murderer, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.
Lu Yunting continued, "That man said he saw my father being killed by a man, but he didn't know the man's name and needed to identify him at the scene.
My people have already brought the people back from Qingyan City. Judging by the speed at which the news is coming back, they should be able to reach the capital tonight or tomorrow morning."
General Qiu was secretly calculating in his heart, but his face was full of joy, "Great, this way, you will know who the murderer is."
"hope so."
The pit has been dug, let's see if you will jump in.
In a blink of an eye, it was late night.
In General Jifeng's mansion, Lu Yunting and General Qiu sat in the front hall waiting quietly.
Seeing that it was late at night and General Qiu hadn't made any move, Lu Yunting mistakenly thought that he hadn't fallen for the trick, so he stood up and said, "Uncle, it's getting late. They shouldn't arrive until tomorrow. Let's get some rest."
General Qiu responded and stood up, "I'm going back to Linju."
"It's so late, you should stay in the mansion for one night."
"No, I'm not used to living here."
Lu Yunting picked up his sword and said, "I'll take you out."
General Qiu nodded, and then the two of them walked outside.
Unexpectedly, as they just reached the door, two arrows shot towards them through the void.
One shot was directed at Lu Yunting, and the other shot was directed at General Qiu.
The two of them quickly dodged sideways.
The next second, many men in black appeared on the roof, and Lu Yunting's men also came out from the dark to meet the enemy.
But in the blink of an eye, the two sides started fighting.
Lin Ji quickly dealt with a man in black and checked the totem on his arm. He then shouted, "Sir, they have totems on their bodies."
Lu Yunting sneered when he heard this, "Sure enough, the murderer has been secretly monitoring my every move."
As he spoke, he drew his sword and walked forward, as if to join the fight ahead.
But when the sword was about to be fully unsheathed, Lu Yunting quickly turned around and put the sword on General Qiu's neck.