Beijing.

The fire was soaring into the sky, and on both sides of a street, two groups of people stood, each holding a lot of fire folds in their hands.

Residents living on both sides of the street were hiding in their homes, and no one dared to show up.

On such a night, two armies suddenly appeared on the streets. The residents of the capital city were not afraid. Many people still remembered the chaos that happened in the capital city many years ago, with bloody storms and corpses everywhere. They did not want their own family to

People fell to the ground and became a heap of corpses.

"Ji Lianyin, you have made arrangements." The speaker was a young man, riding on a black horse, with long hair and slightly raised eyes, rough and smart. He was the talker of the Li family.

Li Qingyan is of the same generation as Li Qingyuan, both are from the "green" generation.

"You are doing well, how can I not be good?" Ji Lianyin sneered.

Ji Lianyin has a thin body and sunken cheeks, but this is not because he is malnourished, but because he is born like this. He is older than Li Qingyan.

"Li Qingyan, your personal guard is very special. You are a woman and you are wearing a black veil. Did your concubine bring you here?" Ji Lianyin continued to mock.

"What I do is none of your business. You are not qualified. Take care of your Ji family's affairs." Li Qingyan waved the long whip in his hand and snorted coldly.

"Okay, you two, stop arguing. This operation requires the sincere cooperation of the Li family and the Ji family. If you want to argue, let's talk about it after today."

At this moment, the person speaking was a woman in her early thirties, wearing a light blue robe, and looking ordinary. But after what she said, Li Qingyan and Ji Lianyin fell silent.

After a while, Li Qingyan rode up to the woman and said, "Master Cao, what are the specific arrangements for us to wait here?"

Cao Zhiyan looked back at Li Qingyan. She was not used to Li Qingyan being too close, but she had no other expression, she just frowned unnoticeably.

"Don't worry, instructions will come soon." Cao Zhiyan said.

Li Qingyan took two steps back and deliberately glanced at Cao Zhiyan. The woman on horseback following him did not speak, but followed closely, only missing a horse's head.

No one on either side spoke, and it fell into silence.

After waiting for a while, a bird flew quickly from the sky and landed on Cao Zhiyan's arm.

Cao Zhiyan took off a paper tube from the bird's paw and took out a note from it.

"The Lord has instructed us to rush to the palace now." Cao Zhiyan's face showed joy.

"Okay, let's set off"

Li Qingyan waved the whip in his hand.

"Let's go, it's our turn to play." Ji Lianyin narrowed his eyes slightly and showed a weird smile.

The two men gave orders, and the troops of the Li family and the Ji family, who had been waiting quietly behind them, began to move forward slowly. This time they were going to the palace to do important things. Even Li Qingyan and Ji Lianyin were well-informed, and they

To avoid breathing aggravation, hold the horse rope tightly with your palms.

After walking for a while, we saw that we were getting closer and closer to the palace.

At this moment, Li Qingyan suddenly stopped and stopped moving forward. Instead, he shouted towards Cao Zhiyan.

"Master Cao, do you think there is something wrong with our horse?"

"What's wrong with your horse?" Cao Zhiyan also stopped, turned the horse's head, and looked towards Li Qingyan.

"Master Cao, look at this horse. It's sweating all over and its legs are trembling. What's going on?"

"This horse is my favorite horse. I have been raising it for three years and have feelings for it. I heard that Master Cao's horse-reading skills are unparalleled in the world. Can you give me a look?" Li Qingyan turned over and dismounted, with a look of anticipation on his face.

He looked at Cao Zhiyan imploringly.

Cao Zhiyan frowned, but she never expected that such a change would happen at a critical moment.

However, taking a look at a horse is not an excessive request.

She managed the horses in Fengtai and had already reached a very high level in the art of looking at horses.

Li Qingyan said that she was unparalleled in the art of horse-reading. This was obviously an exaggeration, but she just liked to hear it.

"Just take a look."

Cao Zhiyan got off his horse and walked towards Li Qingyan.

Walking to the side, she stretched out her palm and pressed it on the black horse's body. As expected, what she touched on her palm were large beads of sweat. There was indeed something wrong with this horse.

"It may be a stomachache. What did you give it to eat before setting off?" Cao Zhiyan glanced sideways at Li Qingyan and said.

"I don't know, Meng Niang, come here, what did you feed the black horse when you went out?" Li Qingyan waved to the masked woman sitting on the horse behind him.

The masked woman didn't say anything, she just dismounted and walked over.

When he got close to Li Qingyan, something unexpected happened suddenly.

The figure of the masked woman was like an electric light, and a dark red dagger in her hand had pierced Cao Zhiyan's body at an extremely fast speed.

"you you"

Cao Zhiyan cooed twice, and only had time to say two words before he fell to the ground, black blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

This dagger is actually soaked in poison

"Li Qingyan, what do you want to do?" Ji Lianyin, who was not far away, was shocked and angry. He never expected such a change. How could such a thing happen?

Cao Zhiyan was assassinated in front of him. What should I do?

"kill"

Li Qingyan only shouted, and then turned around and rushed towards Ji Lianyin. Because the distance was close, Ji Lianyin was in a dazed state, and now he was approached by Li Qingyan and the masked woman.

The masked woman used a sword, and the sword's light flashed like a dragon, flashing out a stream of light in the dark night.

Li Qingyan was using a long spear, which shot out like the wind and struck Ji Lianyin quickly.

"Save me quickly"

Ji Lianyin seemed to see death waving towards him. In this hurry, he had no way to deal with it.

He could only wait for his confidants behind him to come and rescue him. Logically speaking, the distance was not too far and he should be able to be rescued in time.

But out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his confidants were being killed one by one by his cousin Ji Lianqi.

And in just such a delay, Li Qingyan's spear and the masked woman's sword both pierced his body.

"Why?" He spit out a mouthful of blood foam and shouted.

"Cousin, don't blame me. I only blame you for blocking my way. Only if you die can the Ji family have a chance for me to stand out." Ji Lianqi held a bloody long knife in his hand and looked at Ji Lianyin with a sinister smile on his lips.

"Ji Lianqi, you must die a good death." Ji Lianyin spit out a mouthful of blood and shouted in grief and anger.

"What are you waiting for?" Li Qingyan glanced at Ji Lianqi and said.
Chapter completed!