Chapter 289 Bad Premonition
"Zhu Ge? You want to kill me?!"
Yan Ruohai looked at Zhu Ge who walked in through the gap that the black-clad killer had voluntarily made way for and stood in front of him, and asked with narrowed eyes.
Zhu Ge looked at him quietly for a long time before he sighed.
"We have been colleagues for so many years, but I never thought that it would end up like this."
Yan Ruohai looked into his eyes and suddenly said something.
"You can't kill me!"
The Zhu Pavilion was very peaceful.
"why?"
Yan Ruohai said half-truthfully.
"Have you ever thought that this might be a trap set by Chen Pingping to lure you into it?"
Zhu Ge answered very seriously.
"I really thought about it! So I sent all my spies out to keep a close eye on the people in the capital.
I can tell you that up to now, all the experts in the Supervisory Council in Kyoto have not been transferred!"
Yan Ruohai thought about it.
"And there's a shadow!"
Zhu Ge's actions were foolproof, so how could he have missed him?
"Shadow is still outside the dean's door, not even a step away!"
Yan Ruohai was silent for a moment.
"Can your men keep an eye on him?"
Zhu Ge said frankly.
"We can't keep an eye on him, nor can we stop him. But once Shadow leaves the Overwatch Council, news will spread immediately."
After a pause, he added.
"Even if he rushes over now, it's too late!"
Yan Ruohai was still constantly trying to find loopholes for Zhu Ge.
"No one has ever seen Shadow's true face. Have you ever thought that today, he has exchanged identities with someone else?"
Zhu Ge had also thought of this.
"Before leaving the city, I chatted with him for a few minutes to confirm that everything was correct!"
Yan Ruohai was speechless. Although he was in a situation like a lamb to be slaughtered, he still couldn't help but sigh.
"You've always been very thorough."
Zhu Ge remained unmoved. After cooperating for a long time, he decided to directly point out his old friend's thoughts.
"So this can't be a plan set up by the dean. You are just stalling for time and looking for changes!"
He wanted to end it, but Yan Ruohai still wanted to struggle.
"The variables may not be within Kyoto!"
"You mean the Black Cavalry? The Dean's Black Cavalry has been hiding outside the city. What if I tell you that the movement of the Black Cavalry is also under my control?"
This time Yan Ruohai was really a little surprised.
"Do you have spies in the Black Knights?"
Zhu Ge looked at him quietly without saying anything.
Yan Ruohai thought for a moment and suddenly realized.
"You've been on guard against Chen Pingping for a long time?!"
……
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Zhu Ge's patience was almost exhausted. He had said enough and didn't want to let him delay endlessly any longer.
"No one can save you today. Do you have any last wishes?"
Yan Ruohai was shocked when he heard this, and immediately showed indignation on his face.
"Since you are not a direct descendant of Chen Pingping, why did you kill me?"
Pointing to the body lying in a pool of blood, Yan Ruohai said.
"I arrested this man only to find out the truth about Li Yunrui's treason. It has nothing to do with you. Why do you have to..."
As he was asking, the voice suddenly stopped.
Zhu Ge rolled his eyes and remained silent.
Yan Ruohai, who suddenly came to his senses, was shocked and his eyes widened.
"You are protecting Li Yunrui! Are you the eldest princess's man?!"
It's already this late, so what if you discovered the truth? Isn't it a little too late to find out when you are about to die?
Zhu Ge looked at him quietly, with a smile on his lips that was hard to tell whether it was mockery, complacency, or both.
……
Changxin Palace.
The eldest princess was still wearing the black robe dotted with stars. She stood with her hands hanging down in the corridor where the curtains fluttered in the wind, and asked quietly.
"Have you met Yan Ruohai?"
Lanxiang, who was standing behind him, nodded in response.
"I met you once."
The eldest princess looked up at the sky and spoke to herself.
"I have had little contact with him, but I feel that, apart from Chen Pingping, he and Zhu Ge are the two most outstanding ones among the eight departments of the Supervisory Council!"
After a pause, there was a hint of regret in the eldest princess' words.
"It's a pity that such a person will also fall tonight."
Yan Xiang was a little worried.
"I should have gone along!"
Hearing this, the princess tilted her head towards her and spoke softly.
"No need, Zhu Ge's move has been planned for a long time and will be foolproof."
After she finished speaking, she looked straight ahead, a hint of uncontrollable excitement in her eyes, a smile on her lips, and her red lips slightly parted.
"From today on, the Overwatch Council will also be at my disposal! Don't you think it's really like what Fan Xian wrote in his poem, 'It's lonely at the top?'"
Lanxiang's eyes moved, but before she could figure out what was going on, the eldest princess had already walked forward.
The princess walked to the steps and stopped, looking up at the sky where the view was wider, revealing her heart.
"I'm not afraid of the cold! I just want to climb up and take a look!"
Lanxiang walked forward slowly and said with emotion.
"From today on, Your Highness will control both the Overwatch Council and the Treasury. You will definitely be the most powerful woman in Qing Country!"
The eldest princess smiled, her eyes twinkling with a faint look as she spoke.
"I heard that when a person dies, the stars will fall from the sky. I look forward to the night falling soon. I'm waiting to see."
……
"why?"
Yan Ruohai looked at Zhuge and asked in confusion.
"Are you planning to rely on the eldest princess' support to seize the position of dean?" Zhu Ge said solemnly.
"I never thought of it that way!"
Yan Ruohai asked again.
"So you have a grudge against Chen Pingping?"
Zhu Ge was inexplicably angry.
"The dean is the person I admire most in my life!"
Yan Ruohai couldn't understand this.
"If it's not for power or personal vendetta, then why did you join Li Yunrui?"
Zhu Ge said angrily.
"Of course it's for Qing Kingdom!"
"I'd like to hear more about it."
Yan Ruohai actually said the wrong thing. If he had continued to ask in detail, Zhu Ge might have continued to answer in order to prove that he was not acting out of selfish motives.
But his words "I am willing to listen to the details" clearly meant that he wanted Zhu Ge to speak alone. Zhu Ge didn't have the patience for that. He wanted to delay time and didn't want to waste any more words. There was no such easy thing in the world.
The intention to delay time in his words was so obvious, so obvious that it actually reminded Zhu Ge!
Zhu Ge, who had come to his senses, had completely lost all his patience. He spoke in an impatient manner.
"I've already told you, no one can save you today! What's the point of you delaying like this?"
He took a deep breath and advised earnestly.
"Brother Ruohai, I have always thought that you are extremely graceful. Don't let your demeanor be ruined before you die!"
"..."
Yan Ruohai was speechless. So it wasn't you who died.
But now that things have come to this, he really doesn't know what to say.
Just as he was racking his brains for something to say to delay some time, Zhu Ge had already issued the final order.
He just took a step back, pointed at himself and gave the order.
"Send Master Yan on his way!"
Upon hearing this, the killers immediately stepped forward and surrounded him.
Yan Ruohai was completely panicked now and shouted hurriedly.
"If you don't come out, I will really die!"
When these words were spoken, Zhu Ge and the black-clad assassins were all shocked.
Zhu Ge subconsciously looked around, and the killers turned around and quickly dispersed, guarding the surroundings.
At the same time, four figures turned from a fork in the road onto the bamboo path and slowly approached them.
When Zhu Ge saw who the four people were, especially Chen Pingping who was surrounded in the middle and sitting in a wheelchair, his eyes widened immediately.
The person responsible for promoting Chen Pingping was naturally Fan Xian, while Mei Chengan and Wang Qinian followed him.
As Chen Pingping waved his hand, several people stopped less than two meters away from Zhu Ge.
Fan Xian let go of the wheelchair handle, put his arms on the back of the chair, looked at Zhu Ge and spoke unhappily.
"Master Zhu, you are being unreasonable. You said that all the experts of the Overwatch Council in Kyoto are being watched.
What about me? Why is no one watching me? Why don’t they take me seriously? "
"You already know the answer, so there's no need to ask."
Upon hearing this, Mei Cheng'an couldn't help but look at him and complained in a low voice.
Fan Xian was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't react for a moment.
Chen Pingping, who was quick to react, started laughing.
Fan Xian also came to his senses at this time, and hit his fellow villager on the arm and rolled his eyes at him.
"Get lost! You're so annoying!"
Mei Cheng'an laughed, rubbed his arms and said no more.
Unexpectedly, Chen Pingping smiled and quietly stabbed him again.
"Zhu Ge looks down on you, you should have known that."
Fan Xian snorted, and it was not appropriate for him to curse back, so he could only roll his eyes.
Mei Cheng'an almost couldn't hold back his laughter when he heard that. He blocked Fan Xian's view and secretly gave Chen Pingping a thumbs up.
Chen Pingping noticed it and winked at him with a smile.
Although Fan Xian, who was sitting in the wheelchair, could not see the specific movements of the two people, he knew that what they were doing was definitely not a good thing.
With a frown on his face, he patted the back of the chair and gave a reminder.
"Can you two stop your little tricks? Master Zhu is still waiting."
"oh oh."
Mei Cheng'an quickly put his hands behind his back and looked towards Zhu Ge. Chen Pingping also turned his head and looked at him.
While they were laughing and joking, Zhu Ge kept thinking about what was going on, but he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
He was puzzled and couldn't help but ask.
"Dean, how could you..."
Yan Ruohai, who was a few steps away from him, suddenly spoke up and interrupted.
"I told you, this is his trap!"
After listening to this, Zhu Ge shifted his gaze from him to Chen Pingping again, his eyes full of disbelief.
Chen Pingping looked at him quietly with a smile on her face, with no intention of speaking.
Trap? What trap? Zhu Ge hurriedly reviewed all his action strategies in his mind and found nothing missing.
In other words, there were only four of them, and no other people.
Chen Pingping can be ignored, and the other three...
Wang Qinian is an old man, but he doesn't know much about him. He is not his direct descendant. I vaguely heard that he is good at light work, but I haven't heard that he has any powerful martial arts, so there is no need to be afraid!
Fan Xian... I heard that he could fight against the deputy commander of the palace guards. His fighting power is only at the seventh or eighth level at most, so he is nothing to be afraid of!
As for Mei Cheng'an, during the last turmoil in the Supervisory Council, his subordinates were all very skilled, but he himself did not see them take action. At his age, he is at most the same as Fan Xian, so there is nothing to be afraid of!
In a flash, Zhu Ge had a rough assessment of the situation and calmed down.
"Even if you four are included, it won't affect the overall situation!"
Fan Xian leaned his arm against the back of the chair and looked at Zhu Ge with interest and asked.
"Do you really think it's just us?"
Zhu Ge said coldly.
"Even if Mei Cheng'an's four maids come, there are only eight of you. You can't possibly conjure up people from the sky!"
After saying this, Zhu Ge suddenly turned around, pointed at Yan Ruohai and shouted.
"Kill Yan Ruohai!"
Upon hearing this, Yan Ruohai turned his head and looked at him quietly, his eyes unspeakably calm.
Seeing his indifferent look, Zhu Ge's heart skipped a beat and he instantly had a bad premonition.
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Chapter 2: A Little Later
(End of this chapter)
