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Chapter Six One Secret War

When Wu Qihua realized that he had such a powerful foreign aid among the real power generals, he immediately wrote a secret letter to Ma Bao, explaining the fact that Prime Minister Xia was preparing to shift the responsibility to him, and hoped that he could stand on his side. But what Wu Qihua didn't know was that the death of Wu Sangui was fabricated by Ma Bao, and he arrived in Chengdu two days in advance and quietly lived in a pickle shop in a small town outside Tianming Temple.

In the remote courtyard, the owner of the pickle shop quietly walked in, took out a key from his arms, opened the locked storage room, and there was a large row of pickle jars inside, stacked high, blocking the view outside, but there was a unique world behind the pickle jars. Ma Bao has lived here in the past few days. Seeing that the person coming in was the boss, Ma Bao put away his sword and asked, "How is it, but he is suspicious?"

"That's not. Someone came from Tianming Temple, saying that he would double the share of pickles." The boss said. It turned out that no one knew about Ma Baozang's here, and the contact between the Prince of Pingxi was also the insider of the guards who came to take the initiative. This time, several guards came from Tianming Temple, but they were not familiar. Ma Bao thought the matter was exposed, so he hurriedly hid it in.

The boss put down the food box, brought out the wine and food for Ma Bao to eat, and said, "I just asked those guards, and the guards in Tianming Temple were re-ordered, so it was not ours. The King of Pingxi and Prime Minister Xia Guo, Guo Zhuangtu, lived in. Yesterday morning, my subordinates saw the guards called the doctors in the town, but they have not come back yet. There are still several doctors in the city who have not been released. It is estimated that something has happened."

The boss didn't know about Wu Sangui. Ma Bao only arranged for him to deal with the Tibetan monks from Tianming Temple. Everything was done by Ma Bao and the monks. But after hearing the boss's words, Ma Bao had already made sure that he could succeed. Otherwise, Tianming Temple wouldn't have such a big deal. Ma Bao was eating the dishes and asked the boss how to arrange for the pickles to Tianming Temple. He was preparing to sneak into the temple this way, but he was cautious by nature and did not tell the boss and asked him to prepare in advance. The boss told him the truth and said, "Mr. Jiang, there is another thing. I don't know if it has anything to do with Tianming Temple."

"What's the matter?" asked Ma Bao.

The boss said: "You also know that because the pickle shop is fresh and the spring water is good, it also delivers it to many officials in Chengdu. Yesterday afternoon, when my subordinate delivered goods to several large mansions, he found that someone was watching the surrounding area."

"Who's home?"

"The rest of the Ma Guozhu family and Wu Guogui family are not their subordinates' customers, and they don't dare to see them," said the boss.

Ma Bao nodded slightly, feeling that this news confirmed the news that Wu Sangui was in trouble, but he still didn't know whether it was dead or alive, but he knew that time was precious. Without waiting for the exact news from his insider, Ma Bao needed to know more about it. He said: "You go to the city again in the afternoon and send it to our house to see if our house is being monitored. If it is monitored, is it different from whether there are people in those two families."

The boss naturally agreed. After packing up the dishes, he asked the guy to look at the shop and went to Chengdu Mansion by himself. But what made Ma Bao nervous was that the boss who should have come back to report to the night had never appeared. You know, only the boss knew here, and the guy didn't know at all, so Ma Bao didn't get dinner until the next morning that the boss came back. It turned out that Chengdu had implemented the curfew policy and he didn't have time to come back.

"Master General, the mansion was also under surveillance. Six people were working in two shifts, and most of the people entering and leaving were under surveillance. Moreover, the two young masters were not at home and were called to the royal mansion for discussion. However, after monitoring the royal mansion for a long time, he found that there were only servants and guards, and there were no big names. He asked several servants of acquaintances. It turned out that many young masters from the generals had been called away."

Ma Bao nodded slightly: "Thinking that they are all in Tianming Temple."

Now Ma Bao can be sure that something must have happened to Wu Sangui, and it is not small. Even if he doesn't die, he will be seriously injured. Otherwise, he will not control the family of the main generals. Ma Bao couldn't help but regret it. When he gave Wu Sangui medicine, he got not only Wu Sangui's favor, but also the worship of the monks. In order to please Wu Sangui, the monk also asked for medicine from Ma Bao and pretended to offer the treasure medicine for Tantric Buddhism. In order to clear his suspicion, Ma Bao naturally enjoyed this. This time, he killed Wu Sangui was delivered through the monks. However, in order to avoid Wu Sangui's death from poisoning, the medicine he gave was not a very poisonous death, but the heat-sufficiency effect caused by the matter in the room, which made him lose his energy and lose his mind. Therefore, Ma Bao couldn't figure out whether Wu Sangui was really dead.

"Yesterday your man delivered pickles to Tianming Temple, and I will deliver them tomorrow, right?" Ma Bao asked. The boss nodded. Ma Bao asked this point clearly last night. He continued, "You arrange me in the delivery guy, I want to enter Tianming Temple."

"This is easy to deal with, but I have to feel wronged. This matter is very confusing."

"It's okay, as long as you can go in, you can find someone familiar with Tianming Temple. I want to know where Wu Yingqi lives."

The boss slapped his thigh and said, "It's simple, my subordinates know that as long as you can enter the kitchen and turn around the side door..."

The boss used bowls and chopsticks to make various reference objects and pointed to the most convenient road. Ma Bao silently remembered it in his heart. The next afternoon, the three guys moved the pickle jar onto the donkey cart. Ma Bao mixed in and went directly to Tianming Temple. He was not very big, and the guy only thought he was the boss's relative and did not dare to neglect it anymore. The brother shouted and arrived at the side door of Tianming Temple. The guard recognized the identity of the guy, but did not let him in directly as usual. Instead, a person was led to the kitchen. The donkey cart was parked in the yard and started to move the pickle jar. Seeing the guard leaving, Ma Bao lied that he had a stomachache. On the way to the toilet, he turned over and entered the inner yard.

"Hehe, where is the dog from? I'm blind and dare to break around here!" Just as he was about to find the wing room where Wu Yingqi lived, he was scolded. Ma Bao turned around and saw several guards wearing armor coming out of the side bedroom. They were obviously ready to go on duty. The guards came up and beat him. Ma Bao didn't dare to fight back because most of the guards had seen him, so he could only pretend to be afraid and run around with his head. Although he was not young, he was from a rank and was agile, and the guards also wanted to play tricks. Therefore, he was walking around in the yard, but this woke Wu Yingqi who was still taking a nap.

Wu Yingqi cursed: "What are you doing? You're making noises all the time. What kind of situation is this? You have this thought, so you can't help but be disrespectful!"

While cursing, Wu Yingqi walked out of the main house in his robe. Ma Bao hurriedly ran over, hugged his legs, and shouted: "Sir, please spare me, please spare me..."

Wu Yingqi lowered his head and saw this familiar face. It was like someone was throwing cold water on his head. He woke up directly. Seeing Ma Bao's outfit, he immediately reacted, snorted coldly, and said to the guards: "You all go on duty. Stay this dog, I have to shoot him out of the ox, yellow, dog treasure, who made him disturb my good dream!"

The guards left. Seeing that there was no one around, Wu Yingqi led Ma Bao into the room and asked in surprise: "General Ma, why are you dressing up like this? Did you encounter something?"

But Ma Bao directly pretended to be a servant and said that he had been infiltrated, and asked Wu Yingqi to help him cover up. Wu Yingqi went out and found the other friends. He first slapped him, and then said that Ma Bao bumped into him and asked them to go back to find the shopkeeper and redeem the people. After doing this, Wu Yingqi returned to his room.

"Why are you dressing up like this? General Ma? By the way, why are you here so fast? In less than three days after the messenger arrived?" Wu Yingqi asked in surprise.

"I was going to come back to ask for salary, but I met a messenger on the way, who left his personal soldiers and rode a horse and rushed over night. General Wu, if I don't dress up like this, I'm afraid that as soon as I enter the Chengdu world, I will be taken down and punished." Ma Bao naturally wouldn't tell the truth directly, and lied casually.

Wu Yingqi widened his eyes: "Do you know everything? Did you receive the secret letter from the Second Master?"

Of course, Ma Bao did not receive a secret letter, but judging from Wu Yingqi's performance, the person who recalled him would definitely not say the news that something happened to Wu Sangui was. There was a secret letter written by Wu Qihua and him, which naturally explained everything. Ma Bao deliberately did not answer this. The reason why he secretly sneaked in and directly found Wu Yingqi was because he wanted to know Wu Sangui's life and death. In his opinion, Wu Yingqi, who was guilty, would not deceive himself.

"Hey, the prince has gone. It's all because of the damn Prime Minister Xia. Giving so many women to the prince not only harmed the prince's life, but also ruined his reputation for life." Wu Yingqi cursed.

Ma Bao completely relaxed. Not only did Wu Sangui die, but he was also considered to have been killed by a woman. Then the poisoning matter would obviously not be revealed. In addition, several monks have already dealt with, so only Li Jundu and others know this secret.

Ma Bao sneered: "I know that the bad guy, Xia Guoqian, is a wolf-like ambition. He obviously harmed the prince, but he still blamed others. Brother, I can only believe you now. I have given you precious medicine to the prince. You are responsible for the prince's safety. If the villain of Xia Guoqian succeeds, we must die without a place to bury him."

"General Ma, you and I really want to go together. Don't worry, I expected this to happen. The second brother also knew that he not only sympathized with you, but also wanted to get help from the general. You don't know that when the prince was dying, he met everyone but did not leave a will. It's not known who succeeded the position of King Pingxi. The prime minister of Xia wanted to be dictatorial and assisted the government, and established Huangkou children as the main body. It's ridiculous. The prince has more than one son. At this moment, of course, wise men are the best. How can we only look at the eldest son?" Wu Yingqi persuaded.

Ma Bao did not expect Wu Qihua to participate. He secretly met Wu Yingqi in order that he had the only army around Chengdu, which was the most usable, but it was more convenient for Wu Qihua to participate. Many things were justified. Ma Bao hurriedly said: "What the general said is very true, I will definitely support the second young master."

"Okay, okay, I'll invite my second brother now!" Wu Yingqi was in a much better mood and hurriedly went to invite Wu Qihua.

In fact, Wu Qihua had already arranged for someone to go south and was about to intercept Ma Bao, and then took him to Chengdu secretly for discussion. Ma Bao came to the door, which made things much simpler. When Wu Qihua entered the room, Wu Yingqi closed the door and looked outside at the door. The atmosphere in the room was a bit weird. Wu Qihua signaled Ma Bao not to be polite and asked directly: "General Ma Bao, what do you think of the current situation?"

"I heard from General Yingqi that you are ready to challenge the Prime Minister of Xia and Wu Shifan to inherit the throne of Pingxi?"

Wu Qihua frowned and looked at Wu Yingqi at the door, a little dissatisfied. How could he say such a thing in advance? But then he thought that Wu Yingqi did not hide it from Ma Bao, which shows that Ma Bao could be trusted.

"Yes, the Prime Minister of Xia was in a rebellious manner and should have been responsible for the death of his father. Now he still dares to seek power and decree. It is really abominable. As the son of his father, I, Wu Qihua, should seek justice for millions of people in the southwest and hundreds of thousands of children of the Pingxi vassal state!"

"Oh, you're confused, the second young master!" Ma Bao said slapped his thigh, with an extremely excited expression. He asked, "Although the prince clearly stated that Wu Shifan ascended the throne, it was because the prince still existed. After all, Wu Shifan was appointed as the grandson very early. There is a difference between legitimate and illegitimate lords, and the throne has been decided long ago. You intervene at this moment, it's not right to be good!"

Wu Qihua's face changed drastically: "Ma Bao, do you think I can't do it? Wu Yingqi, what's going on? Aren't Ma Bao support me?"

Wu Yingqi was not panicked and said, "Second brother, this is Tianming Temple. General Ma will not talk nonsense, so why not let him finish his words."

Wu Qihua then felt relieved. If Ma Bao couldn't tell a reason and did not support him, he simply killed him with one knife to avoid endless troubles.

Ma Bao said directly: "The grandson Wu Shifan is still a child of Huangkou. The main generals of each division can be manipulated to make profits for themselves. What about you, you are already an adult and have no authority, how can you get the support of the generals of each division? Do you have to rely on the thousands of soldiers under General Yingqi and the family in Chengdu to force them to submit?"

Wu Qihua didn't say anything, this was his worst plan. Ma Bao continued: "Can you write a secret letter to inform me of the details? Why can't he, Prime Minister Xia Guozhu, Wu Guogui and others? Do you really think they will come alone? This group of people don't need to act as the main force, everyone brings three or five hundred personal soldiers. What can these people under General Yingqi do?"

Wu Qihua and Wu Yingqi's expressions changed. No wonder the Prime Minister of Xia Guo didn't make any noise these days. He has been much better at the two of them. It turned out that he was to stabilize the two and secretly dispatch troops. His own way had been understood by someone. As Ma Bao said, these powerful figures wanted to support a well-controlled Huangkou child, not to mention that they were still holding the title of righteousness. Wu Qihua asked: "What should I do?"

"Of course we should start first!" Ma Bao said.

"But...but you said that they have a great reputation......" Wu Qihua hesitated a little.
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