C286 Flowery smoke powder

In this battle, out of the thirty personal guards that Fang Lingan brought over, more than half of them were injured, while the other five or six that were severely injured were lying in rows on the pit floor. Some of them had their legs injured, some had arrows stuck in their chest, some had their arms stabbed through, and some had their backs stabbed.

Morong Gan inspected their injuries one by one, comforted them a little and then went to the neighboring room.

Fang Lingan was the only person living in the room next door. His arms and waist were covered with bandages, but his injuries were not considered severe.

Seeing Morong Gan come in, he hurriedly stood up and bowed. "This subordinate is incompetent and was unable to protect the wangfei well.

"Get up," Morong Gan walked to the side of the chair and sat down, "This matter is not your fault, the other party obviously came prepared. Do you have any leads? "

Fang Lingan had been pondering about this all along, because this matter was indeed strange.

"According to this subordinate's view, if the other party came prepared, could it be that there was a problem with Miss Lv He's plan? Otherwise, if Princess Hua-Yang decided to leave the house on the spur of the moment, outsiders would not know."

This king has asked, and Lv He was the one who told the wangfei about Lv He's family matters. Based on what I said, Qi Hong and Lv He should have colluded to drag the wangfei out of the mansion before that thief took care of everything and took her life.

"This …" Fang Lingan started to hesitate, he believed in Qi Hong's character, if it was just Lv He, he did not dare guarantee, but if it involved Qi Hong, then it would be difficult to explain.

Morong Gan leaned on the chair, and tapped his knees with his slender fingers, "They have been following this duke for a long time, and are reliable people. This time, it might just be a coincidence, do you know who the other party is?"

"There aren't many personal guards and disciples in the Linan City. The other party should know who we are, and if they know, they would still dare to poison us. They should be people who are going against the Prince."

Morong Gan squinted, "You mean Prime Minister Bai?"

"Subordinate thinks that anyone who meets these requirements is suspicious."

"In the past, the Madame Bai always wanted to take away the life of an imperial concubine. Do you think that it was done by the Madame Bai?"

"The training of those men in black are very good. They are all practitioners and are clearly an organization. This subordinate thinks that it would be difficult for a woman to take on this role."

Morong Gan muttered to himself for a moment, "The imperial government forbids officials to raise warriors and soldiers. Since Prime Minister Bai has raised these men in black, he will definitely not let them appear easily.

"Your Highness is right, Prime Minister Bai is always cunning, he would never expose himself like this, it shouldn't be him." Fang Lingan sighed, walked to the window and looked outside, suddenly thinking of something, "My prince, I heard that Ma Cui Er is on good terms with a tyrant in the city, could she be one of his subordinates?"

"That's possible," Morong Gan stood up, "Go and investigate, who is Ma Cui Er's sweetheart?"

"Yes," Fang Lingan saluted with one hand. "This subordinate will immediately send someone to investigate."

Morong Gan stood up, and glanced at the piece of cloth on his arm, "Forget it, let Ning Jiu settle this matter, you should rest."

However, what was strange was that when Ning Jiu went back to look for Ma Cui Er, the courtyard was still a mess, but the Ma Family's mother and daughter were nowhere to be seen. With such quick movements, the person behind the scenes must not be simple.

Coincidentally, Ning Jiu did not manage to find Ma Cui Er, and left people to stand guard in the courtyard. In the evening, he caught the gambler Ma Lao Liu who had not returned for a few days.

Ma Lao Liu was the father of Ma Cui Er. He was addicted to gambling and slept at the casino, so he treated the casino as his own home. If he didn't lose and get thrown out by the casino employees, he wouldn't have come to the casino.

Old Ma was a coward. Ning Jiu casually threatened him, and he poured out the beans.

It turned out that Ma Cui Er's lover was none other than Prime Minister Bai's brother-in-law, Li Gang.

Last time, he suffered a loss at the hands of the Prince Chu, and after thinking about it many times, he felt that he should recruit people to fight against the Prince Chu by raising a group of warriors by his side. Of course, he couldn't come out in the open, so he could only come out in the dark. He had been waiting for an opportunity.

When he found out that Ma Cui Er was pregnant, he told her to find an honest man to marry and give the child a title. That man was naturally what he had been looking for since a long time ago, and was Lv He. Because of this, he wouldn't be able to get a wife even at his age. He sent his people to talk about marriage, how could the Lv He family be unwilling? They were very satisfied with the arrival of the young lady, so they paid for the betrothal gift and chose a day to get married. He revealed a little more about this matter, letting the Lv He family hear of the rumors. This kind of wife obviously could not be married off, thus there was a conflict.

He had heard from the Yang Liniang that Lv He was a servant from the Prince Chu Palace and knew that Bai Qianfan and her relationship was not bad. It was just that he did not expect Bai Qianfan to bring so many Pro-guard with him, causing him to have to go through so much trouble, and that one of the Pro-guard that was stuck in the alley still ran out. The moment the Prince Chu arrived, the situation could not be controlled by him, and he hid in the shadows, waiting for the people from Prince Chu to leave. As long as he couldn't find out who did it, he wasn't afraid. However, he didn't expect that the bad news would happen to that old gambling addict.

In the past, the emperor would only turn a blind eye to Li Gang's affairs, nothing more than a penalty of silver, or a symbolic strike on a few boards. But this is different, private warrior, it is against the emperor's taboo.

Emperor Long Yan was furious and personally sent an order to capture Li Gang. After considering the fact that Li Gang had a black-robed warrior by his side, he was afraid that he would cause too much trouble, so he added another one and killed him on the spot.

When the Prime Minister Bai heard this royal decree, he knew that he was unable to redeem himself. Because of his lack of discipline, he was also implicated and suspended at home, waiting for the matters to come to an end before making his decision. He wanted to enter the palace but the guards stopped him at the entrance, they knew that it was the emperor who didn't want to see him. The emperor had always been gentle. Since he had gotten angry this time, he had no choice but to return home.

Madame Bai was scared out of her wits when she heard the news. She crawled and rolled from the buddhist hall to his room, wailing and crying as she kneeled in front of him, begging him to save her younger brother's life. He sighed to the sky and shook her head.

As Li Gang did not have a official position, his family members might have been implicated, but the crime did not stop him from dying. Li Gang's father, Li De Hai, was also stripped of his position as a Vice Minister for Rites, and the entire family moved back to their hometown.

All of Li Gang's possessions were taken as official, his wife and concubine left, and the place was scattered open. Only the young children followed their grandparents back to the countryside, where the once illustrious assistant minister's mansion had undergone a drastic change overnight.

The Ma mother and daughter couldn't bear to bear the pain, so they sneaked down the mountain to the village to look for food. When they were caught by the soldiers at the foot of the mountain, the Ma mother and daughter were afraid of being punished, hence they exposed Li Gang's hiding place. Zhou Ziming led the Iron Flag Camp up the mountain and captured Li Gang, killing him on the spot. However, he did not capture all of the black armored warriors.

At this point, the private warrior case, which had caused a huge uproar, officially came to an end.