"Hmm...... Gentle and reliable stronger than me. Zuo Xianyun said softly, and she glanced at Ye Qiu unintentionally.

Ye Qiu stood in place like a sculpture and watched their brothers get into the car one by one, the breeze blew, his head fluttered with the wind, and there was a hint of a smile on his handsome face.

In the car, Du Yang asked suspiciously: "Young master, do you really want to go to the palace?" That prince is just a whim, those thieves are okay, with your relationship with him, if you don't go, it is not good to force you, as long as you don't agree, we will definitely follow you (shēn)." ”

"They're not bandits now, and you're not night guards anymore. Ye Qiu said, "At least you won't continue to wander around, it's good for all of you." ”

"What are you kidding, we are born as night guards, and dead are ghosts of night guards!"

"I just can't call yourself a night guard now, give me some time, and when I settle you down, I'll go find the whereabouts of the master, and we'll reorganize the night guard when the master and the brothers come back. Ye Qiu glanced at Ye En, who was still unconscious, "Ye En still needs your care, besides, Shi Yuan can definitely cure him when he moves him in the palace." ”

"Young master, do you mean that you will leave after placing us in the palace?"

Ye Qiu nodded, "You know, I'm going to find the whereabouts of my master and my brothers, and it's not convenient to take you with me." ”

There is a saying that the world is unpredictable, Ye Qiu didn't know that he was going to stay in the palace for a long time.

Yuanzhen Yamen.

When he got up in the morning, he came to his mansion humming a song with a round belly. He was stunned when he saw Steward Li, who originally belonged to the seat.

"Why are you sitting in my place, hello (sāo)!"

"You're not a county magistrate now!" the butler shook the letter of appointment in his hand, "I am." ”

"Round and rolling" was stunned, and he sat down on the lin, "How can this be?"

"The former county magistrate, have you ever heard a saying that the world is unpredictable?" the new county magistrate stood up and said solemnly.

He sent the former county commander away, looking in the direction of the imperial city, and muttered: "The world is unpredictable......"

That prince is sure to be a Ming monarch in the future, and his (shēn) side has Ye Qiu's lion-like eyes on his side, and the future is even more promising.

The gears of the times are in action.

Wan Hongyu seemed to see his extraordinaryness hidden in mediocrity, and gave himself the position of county commander.

It is time for me, who has long been tired of the current malaise, to show his ambitions and transform his territory into a place that can adapt to the new era.

The Imperial Palace, the Emperor's Bedchamber in the evening.

Du Yang and his men had changed into the attire of the palace's senior guards, and his men lamented the comfort of the gray-white uniform, each with a tào (fingerless hand (enhanced friction and handguard), armed with a spear, carrying a sword at his waist, and a longbow and quiver with fifty bows and arrows on their backs.

The Nightguards were very pleased with their new clothes.

There were two royal guards standing on the edge of the stone courtyard in the garden, and they glanced at the ten new guards directly under Shi Yuandong standing outside the gate of the dormitory with disdain.

"Tut-tut, what kind of birds are the trees so big, what kind of birds are the cherry blossoms, where do you like these country dirtbillies?"

"Look at their excited and funny looks, and when they put on their uniforms, they look like they're really senior guards of the Imperial City. ”

Du Yang, who was standing at the front of the dormitory, had the blessing of the soul power of the wind genus (xìng), so he could clearly hear the conversation between the two soldiers.

"Who are you hillbillies!" a member of the night guard snapped at the two men.

Du Yang's head hurt instantly, he forgot that there was another transparent person here who broke through to the first level of Xuanyu last night after being too excited, and this guy was also a wind genus (xìng) like himself.

The two palace guards also glared at the transparent air, and the smell of gunpowder smoke filled the air.

"Transparent," Du Yang (tǐng) (shēn) stopped in front of the transparent (shēn), "Don't get into trouble when you first arrive." ”

"But......" muttered Transparent.

Du Yang said in a low voice: "Think about the young master, don't make trouble for him." ”

"Yes......" Transparent muttered in a low voice, "Vice, I'm not called Transparent, I have a name......"

Can I go back to this? I can't remember it all of a sudden.

Looking at the ten people who turned around (shēn) and continued to stand like wood in front of the dormitory, the two soldiers snorted coldly: "What about you, you transparent! With your strength, you are also worthy of being the guard of the prince (diàn)?"

Du Yang frowned, these two soldiers didn't know the proportions of their speeches at all. Just as he was still talking, he only heard a loud scolding from the dormitory.

"Rebel son, do you want to be angry with your father?"

followed by Wan Hongyu's comforting voice: "Uncle is angry, uncle is angry, uncle is angry......"

Du Yang really wanted to hear what was being talked about inside, Shi Yuandong came here to find his father to clear everything about him, but it didn't seem to be going well when he heard this voice.

In the dormitory, His Majesty the Emperor sat on the dragon chair and took a deep sip of tea, he moistened his throat and continued: "Shi Yuan moves you bastard, I don't blame you for sneaking out every once in a while, after all, the palace is indeed stuffy." You're still out there and got me three hundred people!"

"It's nothing for me to replace them with servants waiting for you and guards to protect you, although they are not as good as the ones I picked, but it was your idea, and I am nothing. ”

"Uncle is angry, uncle is angry......" Wan Hongyu helped the emperor make tea again, went around the emperor's back and gently hammered the emperor's shoulder.

"You're only eighteen years old! You don't study and practice martial arts at such a good age, you bring me a woman? Can you ask your father's opinion? Why don't you look down on people because of the rain in your family?"

Wan Hongyu added: "Uncle, I have someone I like. ”

The emperor coughed dryly, and said to Shi Dong again: "Even if it can't be rain, there are so many good girls in the palace that you don't care?"

Shi Yuandong stood up and slapped (xiōng) and said, "I will not marry Shangguan Xue in my life!"

"You!" the emperor slapped the table and stood up, "unless your son reaches the place of succession to me, I will never agree!"

"I won't talk to you now, I still have important things to discuss with your uncle!

"Yes. Shi Yuan moved (shēn) and walked out.

Watching Shi Yuandong close the door, the emperor sighed and said to Wan Hongyu: "It's still my brother's Hongyu that makes people worry-free, unlike my bastard, but I really want to die as a father." ”

Wan Hongyu chuckled and said, "Uncle Zhengyi, what about your father Chang Shi at the beginning of the curtain, there will always be one of you who will grow up." ”

Shi Zhengyi rubbed the sun (xué), "Well, don't you really appreciate the girl you like and the eldest brother you found outside? ”

Outside the dormitory, Shi Yuandong walked out of the main gate with Du Yang and his entourage, and he said to the two soldiers at the door, intentionally or unintentionally: "At best, it is only a little strength by relying on the resources of the royal family, don't be too proud." My people are weak now, but they will grow up quickly. ”

The night guards looked excitedly at the man in front of them who was upset for them, and in front of the words of the prince (diàn), the two soldiers who were a little arrogant just now were in a cold sweat at the moment.

Outside the door.

Du Yang bowed and said gratefully: "Xie (diàn) takes care of you." ”

"It's nothing, those two guys are at best flower farmers watching the garden, what world have Huang Yuan high-level seen before?"

Du Yang took a breath of cold air, Huang Yuan's high-ranking team is also a good fighting force, and he deserves to see the garden in the palace.

"Don't worry, you have the support of a talented pharmacist like me!" Shi Yuan said, "I have the medicine to increase the cultivation speed, I promise that with my help, you will definitely become a super strong team!"

Shi Yuandong took out a black mask from the space ring, and the mask was carved with deep patterns, glowing with a few traces of iron blue in the dim sun.

Shi Yuandong explained: "This is what I begged my master to do, and you will give this to my eldest brother when you go back." ”

After returning to the residence that Shi Yuandong had arranged for everyone, Du Yang handed the mask to Ye Qiu. He sighed: "Oh, the young master has really made a powerful friend." ”

Ye Qiu nodded silently and put on his mask, he was wearing the black leather trench coat uniform exclusive to the captain of the guard, the moonlight hit Ye Qiu's (shēn), and Tie Qing's mask and uniform glowed with a hint of silver.

The man in the dark night was dressed in black and had a black face, like a rakshasa.

The creation of the mask was proposed by Ye Qiu to Shi Yuandong, the night guard had fought with the people of the Jun team before, and a leader-level figure like him might not have people in the palace who knew him, this was for the sake of insurance. The reason for wearing a mask is to let Shi Yuandong make up a random one.

Ye Qiu asked, "Did that guy decide on the name of our escort team?"

Du Yang shook his head, "No cherry blossoms yet"

Ye Qiu looked at the white moon in the sky, and he said loudly, "From now on, we will call it the Black Moon Iron Rider." ”

"Uh......" Du Yang was speechless for a while, is it really good to decide their names so hastily.

"What's wrong, aren't you satisfied?"

Du Yang hurriedly said: "No, no, I think I can." ”

Outside the door, the shadows of Wan Hongyu, Shangguan Xue, and Zuo Xianyun Sanrao (shēn) appeared, and Wan Hongyu waved his hand and said, "Ye Qiu, my uncle and my father want to meet everyone. ”

Watching the four of them go away, Du Yang said leisurely: "This name always feels a bit middle two......

"Well," Du Yang scratched his head and walked back to the room, "Since it was started by the young master, it doesn't matter what it's called." ”

At night, the emperor's bedroom.

When Ye Qiu went (shēn), Shi Zhengyi, who was serving the emperor, had already prepared a sumptuous dinner for them.

Zuo Xianyun and Shangguan Xue's demeanor was beyond Shi Zhengyi's expectations, and their gestures revealed an elegant posture no less than Wan Hongyu, after all, they were all daughters of rich families.

叶秋 (tǐng) 直了 (shēn) board stands outside the door.

The two "flower farmers" who had been talking about the wind and cold before had a chill on their backs when Ye Qiu passed by them, and they no longer laughed at the night guards.

"That person seems to be the captain of the guard under the prince (diàn), which gives me an inexplicable sense of ominous......"

"It's just a little bit more powerful, you see he's still wearing a mask," said the guy with a damaged mouth, "I guess it's a big ugly (bī)." ”

Ye Qiu glanced at them coldly, and the two of them were so frightened by this gaze that they didn't even dare to breathe.

Shi Zhengyi beckoned to the door: "Son, you can come in too." ”

"Zai Xia is just a guard on the side of the prince (diàn) under (shēn), how can He De ascend to the room of elegance?"

"I've listened to it, this son has always called you big brother, and now you are also my guest. ”

At the dining table, Shi Zhengyi kept staring at Shangguan Xue, this girl was dignified in appearance and elegant in manners, although he didn't have anything on his lips, he admired his son's aesthetics a little in his heart.

But if he knew that his son was almost kidnapped, he would not jump in anger when he became a husband.

Ye Qiu glanced at the emperor and the prime minister, both of them had dragon-eyed thick beards and looked quite similar.

Seeing Ye Qiu come in, the chopsticks that the prime minister had just picked up were put down, and he stared straight at Ye Qiu for a long time before saying, "Young man, why don't you take off your mask?"

"This ......" Ye Qiu hadn't thought of a reason when he put on the mask, he looked at Shi Yuandong.

Shi Yuandong raised his eyebrows at him and said to the prime minister: "Big brother, he is ugly, people want to vomit when they see him, he wears a mask to prevent people from being disgusted when they see him." ”

Ye Qiu thought to himself that Shi Yuan's words were really bad enough to move you, so couldn't you think of a more euphemistic reason?

"It's not necessarily," Shi Zhengyi interjected, "Who haven't I met with your uncle?" He said to Ye Qiu: "Take off your mask, although Dong'er trusts you very much, but I can't let go if I don't look at your true face." ”

The emperor's order could not be violated, and Ye Qiu had to take off the mask according to Shi Zhengyi's wishes. He said secretly: This is good, Shi Yuan moved me to see how you round the field for your rotten reasons.

After taking off the mask, what appeared in front of everyone was a delicate face.

The prime minister stood up solemnly, he pointed at Ye Qiu and said, "It's you!"

Everyone looked at the prime minister suspiciously.

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, he quickly thought about when he had seen such a noble adult when he had met in the Zeng Jin Terran Alliance.

"I remember you, you were the one in the teahouse!" the prime minister said excitedly, "Have you forgotten? At that time, I and a few of my subordinates were besieged by a group of assassins, and you took us out!"

Shi Zhengyi looked at the prime minister in shock: "Brother, when did you go to the teahouse, why didn't you call me? ”

The prime minister said embarrassedly: "I was a little depressed, so I slipped out to relax, but I didn't expect to be assassinated by someone who leaked the news." It's a shame for this thing (qíng) to come out. ”

Teahouse?Ye Qiu thought quickly.

Those confused pictures came to his mind, that was when he was still in the Terran Alliance and had just broken through the first level of Digang, when he was ordered to assassinate a ** rich villain as if he had saved a middle-aged man.

"I remembered. You are the uncle who claims to have been hunted down by the enemy. ”

The prime minister said excitedly: "Good guy, I can be regarded as letting me meet you! After that time, I always wanted to recruit you as my subordinate, but I didn't expect you to be brought back by Shi Yuandong!"

Cheng nodded straight at Shi Zhengyi and said, "Big brother, this son is credible, credible!

Cheng stretched out his hand to Ye Qiu and said, "Now let me introduce myself, I am the current prime minister of the Terran Alliance, Wan Hanlin." ”

Ye Qiu was a little at a loss for this (rè) (qíng) man, he stretched out his hand and said, "The current captain of the guard team under the prince (diàn), Ye Qiu." ”

Dinner went on very pleasantly.

Wan Hanlin actually decided to call Shangguan Xue and Zuo Xianyun his illegitimate daughters, and after discovering them, he recalled the two of them to the palace, out of respect for the two hypothetical "two deceased women who had a period of time with themselves (qíng)", Errao's name followed "their mother" with the surnames Shangguan and Zuo respectively.

Shangguan Xue and Zuo Xianyun will be Wan Hongyu's sisters from now on, and they will carry out various studies with Wan Hongyu. As for Ye Qiu, in the name of sticking (shēn) guards, he asked him to follow Shi Yuandong anytime and anywhere, so that he could not only audit in the academy, but also study in the martial arts.

When leaving, Wan Hanlin said to Ye Qiu: "You must be very puzzled, why do I call the emperor the eldest brother and I don't have the surname Shi?"

Wan Hanlin himself was the illegitimate son of the Emperor Tai outside, and when the Prince learned that he had a child outside, he recalled Wan Hanlin to the palace, and Wan Hanlin's biological mother had died at that time. In order to apologize, Emperor Tai told Wan Hanlin that he could be Shi Hanlin or follow his mother's surname and call himself Wan Hanlin.

Ye Qiu finally understood why Wan Hanlin was able to weave those excuses for Shangguan Xue and Zuo Xianyun so smoothly before, dare (qíng) was what he personally (shēn) experienced.

Shi Zhengyi and Wan Hanlin met secretly after the group left.

Wan Hanlin sighed and said, "Big brother, the intentions of those guys in the Jun team are becoming more and more obvious. ”

"Hey, thanks to your efforts to support me all these years, otherwise my position as emperor would have changed a long time ago. ”

"The diseases left by the ancestors of the Shi family can no longer be left to Shi Yuandong and their generation, and we old chatters should create a new era for them. ”

"You're, you want to go to war with those guys on the Jun team......?

Wan Hanlin shook his head and said, "Originally, my intentions were not obvious, but after I saw that young man, my confidence suddenly doubled. ”

Shi Zhengyi said: "Are you so optimistic about that son named Ye Qiu?"

"Big brother, have you ever heard of the night guard?"

"I've heard that there are very famous dart games all over the Terrans. However, I heard that they had violated the interests of the Jun team, and they were solved by finding an excuse. ”

Wan Hanlin nodded and said, "Since I saw that young man for the first time, I have sent him to check on him, and I found out that he is the adopted son of Ye Xiao, the boss of the night guard. ”

"So?" Shi Zhengyi was confused when he heard this, after all, what Wan Hanlin was doing in secret (qíng) was not even finished with Wan Hanlin himself.

"I wasn't optimistic about Ye Xiao before, and I only had a one-sided relationship with him. So I just silently supported him slightly, and I didn't expect the night guard to rise to fame in such a short period of time. ”

Shi Zhengyi nodded: "The rise is fast, and the destruction is fast." ”

"It's too late for me to train the Night Guards as our forces," Wan Hanlin sighed, "They who have violated the interests of the Jun team and the Tao family merchants have been set up in a circle (tào) by the Jun team and the Tao family. ”

"It's too late by the time you notice something is wrong, is it?"

Wan Hanlin nodded and said, "That's right, the time they were ambushed in the Elven Country, the whole monarch was destroyed, and after that, the forces in the human race were all purged by those people in the monarch team in the name of traitors. ”

Shi Zhengyi was puzzled, "What can he do as a teenager......"

"Big brother, you still don't understand, Dong'er brought back a big baby for us. ”

"What do you mean?"

Wan Hanlin said excitedly: "Even if the night guards are purged, but their young master is still there, as long as there is still a trace of the flame of the burning plain, it can rise again, and their power cannot be ignored."

Wan Hanlin swallowed: "And that young man is not simple, the resources of the imperial family are poured on you and me (shēn), although you have some endowment, but we only reached the first stage of Digang when we were eighteen years old. ”

Indeed, the royal family has spent tens of millions of financial and material resources in order to improve Errao's strength, and the amount of resources is not something that an ordinary person can imagine.

Wan Hanlin became even more excited, he opened his hands and said, "And that young man has broken through to the first stage of Lin Gang by virtue of his own personal strength, he is the best of the martial arts talents! If all the resources are poured on Ye Qiu's (shēn), this young man (rì) will definitely be a great help for Shi Yuan's son!"

"Big brother, it's time for us to open the gate of the royal family (jìn) land. In the meantime, let these children live a good life for a while. ”

"But you and I have failed to go to the land for two years to conduct trials, and the wealth of the seventh generation of Ancestor Emperor Shi Lian has only been obtained by the Eleventh Generation, how can you be sure that Dong'er and Ye Qiu can succeed?"

"Intuition. Wan Hanlin looked at the lights in the dormitory, "There is a high probability that my intuition will be wrong." ”

second

To the west of the imperial city, there is a place where the descendants of the great officials in the palace are taught.

Tai College is divided into two parts from left to right, the left is the place where the students study, called Lingxuan Pavilion, and the right is the place where the students practice martial arts, called Taiwu (diàn).

At this moment, Ye Qiu was standing outside a room in Lingxuan Pavilion, this was the place where the Taishi gave the descendants of important ministers of the imperial court, and the voice of the Taishi who was over seventy years old was slow and low, and the voice like a fly made Ye Qiu fall asleep.

I only heard the Taishi inside say solemnly: "Shi Yuandong you dozed off again, stand up for me!"

"Yes......" Shi Yuan staggered to his feet, and there was still a hint of haze on his lips.

The Taishi said angrily: "Give me a serious look! Look at you, you will inherit the throne in the future, how do you let everyone think of you like this!"

The classroom was filled with the sound of students laughing.

"Ma Ren, don't doze off, stand up and answer my question, in your opinion, which of the seventeen previous emperors of the Terran Alliance is the one you respect the most?"

Ye Qiu looked through the crack in the door, and saw a boy who looked like an ordinary and somewhat demented scholar standing up: "This ...... I think it's the seventh generation emperor Shi Lian, who is both civil and military, and it is by relying on other races that he has risen by commerce. ”

Taishi nodded, "What about the others?"

"Teacher, I don't agree with him. A neatly dressed and serious guy stood up, "It is precisely because of the Seven Emperor Shi Lian that the aftermath of the decentralization of power has been caused, and I think the eleventh generation of the Former Emperor Shi under the intimidation of force is the strongest." ”

Ye Qiu muttered, "Shi Lian...... Stone ......"

At this time, a student with his back combed stood up, and he applauded: "Good! I appreciate Jiang Yuan's point of view very much, only force is the existence that crushes everything." ”

As soon as he said that, more than a dozen male classmates stood up and applauded.

Taishi frowned and sighed, "Sima Yan, please pay attention to classroom discipline and sit down." ”

"That's the case, but teacher, you still favor your son. The corners of Sima Yan's mouth hooked into a sneer, he glanced at Ma Ren with mockery and then sat down.

Taishi was so angry that his hands trembled a little, this Sima Yan's father was the only son of Sima Ao, the general who had monopoly power in the current imperial court, and he couldn't afford to be provoked by a teacher who had no real power.

Sima Yan crossed Erlang's legs on the desk and said loudly: "Also, the prince Da Rao's exclusive guard outside, have you taken a fancy to which girl in the classroom, what have you been looking at?"

The boy sitting on Sima Yan's left stood up, and he grimaced at Ye Qiu outside the door and said, "Hey, this palace probably doesn't have anyone who can be seen under our prince (diàn), and he actually let a high-level guy from Xuanyu act as a guard, and this strength is on the same level as me!"

The boy on Sima Yan's right also chimed in: "That's it, you see he's still wearing a mask, is this pretending to be cool?

Shi Yuandong glared at Eryang angrily: "Deng Kai, Deng Ge, don't let you and my eldest brother speak ill!"

Deng Kai Deng Ge is Sima Yan's (tiǎn) dog, and the most (ài) in Ping (rì) echoes Sima Yan's bullying. After all, the court is now in power by the general Jun Sima Ao, and these monarchs have no respect for the prince.

Deng Kai snorted coldly: "I'm afraid that the guy wearing the mask is not ugly, and people want to vomit the mask he brought when they see his face, right?"

The classroom burst into laughter.

Sima Yan sneered and glanced at Shi Yuandong with a hint of contempt: "That kind of person, you can call the eldest brother casually, why don't you call me too?"