The carriage drove slowly through the silent streets, leaving behind a string of clattering horses' hooves. The days were getting shorter and shorter, as if it were only a moment's work, and the sky had completely darkened.

The Yuan Zhize brothers were sitting in the car chatting with each other, and I was not idle, looking out of the car window curiously, feeling that everything in front of me was so fresh.

Although I have also walked around the city before, but in an area like this where many royal relatives are gathered, for ordinary people, there is never a chance to come in and join in the fun.

As the speed of the carriage slowed down, the carriage slowly turned and drove into another avenue, and my eyes lit up, and I couldn't help but exclaim: "Look, there are so many lights!"

Obviously, my shouting startled the other two people in the car, and Yuan Zhize couldn't help frowning and reproaching me for being too reckless: "Isn't it just the door light, I'm surprised." ”

If a simple door lamp hung alone from the eaves, I would never be so excited.

On both sides of the straight road, there are large and small gates, and lanterns are hung on the beams of each gate, usually two, but there are also four hanging lights, these door lamps of different colors and sizes decorate this quiet street with a bit of fairy tale feeling. Looking ahead, the dots of light seem to extend all the way to the sky, giving people infinite space for reverie.

"As soon as my sister-in-law said, tsk, it's really beautiful. Yuan Zhiyu came to the window to look at it, and seemed to have been assimilated by me, turned around and said to Yuan Zhize with a smile: "Brother, we don't know how many times we have walked this night road, but we actually turn a blind eye to this beautiful scenery. ”

Yuan Zhize picked up the robe I discarded on the seat and put it on me, disapproving Yuan Zhiyu's words: "If we take this road at night, either my father has something urgent to find us, or there is any new news in the border court, and my mind is full of troubles, which is like her, carefree and without any worries." ”

"That's not right," he said, which clearly means that only people who have nothing to do all day will notice this detail, and I won't take it lightly: "As the so-called life is full of beauty, you need to discover it with your heart." ”

I glanced at the wide-eyed brothers in front of me, and Mance said in a logical way: "If a man always has something in his heart, it would be strange if he could find beauty." I raised my tone and hit back at him with a triumphant look.

"Hehe, it's okay if I surrender?" Yuan Zhize was completely defeated in front of my crooked reasoning and heresy, and hurriedly grabbed his tail and begged me for peace. The driver seemed to hear our conversation and deliberately slowed down the pace of his march so that we could spend more time in the wonderful sea of lights.

"The inhabitants of this road must all have a good relationship, otherwise, how could they have done the same thing even with such a small act as hanging a door lamp?" I stared at the doors that came my eyes, and then fell backwards to the doors behind me, and thought to myself, perhaps, behind each door, there is a different story hidden.

"According to what you say, the relationship between the residents here is too good, don't you notice that this road is very wide?" Yuan Zhize stretched out his hand and gestured the width of the road, indeed, it was a lot wider than the previous road.

"This road is called Tongtian Road, through the imperial city Yongding Gate can go straight to the emperor's bedroom Jianzhang Palace, if there is any urgent report or summons at night, people who enter the palace will take this road. The imperial court specially stipulated that the residents on both sides of the road should raise the door lights outside the door at night to facilitate the passing officials. ”

It turned out to be to illuminate the people who entered the palace, and I suddenly realized.

"Huh, why didn't this family hang a lamp, aren't they afraid that the court will punish them?" There was an abrupt pause in the light line on the right side of the road, and when I got closer, yes, this family really didn't hang the door lamp.

The darkness seemed to be squeezed by the light from the lights from elsewhere and there was nowhere to escape, all concentrated here, the huge doorway was shrouded in the darkness that could not be seen, it seemed to be lifeless, looking at the past, as if there was a strange force trying to absorb the souls of the passers-by, I was shocked, and my body involuntarily leaned in the direction of Yuan Zhize.

"Don't be afraid, it's just an old house. Yuan Zhize patted me on the shoulder soothingly, not paying any attention to the mansion that flashed in front of me.

"Why is such a good location abandoned?" It is so close to the palace, and the surrounding environment is good, looking at the façade, this is definitely not an ordinary house, it must be a deep house compound. Where in the world could there be a better place than here?

Just as I was looking at the mottled wall in front of me and wondering, Yuan Zhize slowly spoke: "Because, the owner of this house is dead!"

I was startled, and my body trembled.

"Remember Wen Luozhang? This is where he lived back then," said we, as we spoke, our carriage had left the strange gate far behind. Yuan Zhize said to himself.

Wen Luozhang is so familiar with this name, wait! I remember, at the last dinner in the mountains, I once heard Yuan Zhize and them talk about it, this Wen Luozhang seems to have been the prime minister of the previous emperor, Huang Que lurked in Xiqiang, and the idea of returning to the Central Plains to report information every year seemed to be something he came up with, and then for some reason, he was beheaded by the current emperor.

"He... What crime did he commit?"

"Rebellion and usurpation. Yuan Zhize replied lightly, this reason is enough to erase anyone from this world.

"It's already one person under ten thousand people, what else is there to rebel against, do you have to be the emperor to be satisfied?" I shook my head, feeling very incomprehensible about his behavior.

Listening to my words, Yuan Zhize smiled faintly: "Wen Yang's counter-case is originally full of suspicions, and a lot of evidence is chasing after the wind, there is no real evidence, what you said is so sure, maybe you really wronged the old Mr. Wen under Jiuquan." ”

My heart suddenly tightened, and I couldn't even believe that these words actually came from Yuan Zhize's mouth. "You're saying he was framed?"

"I didn't say that," Yuan Zhize was not as nervous as me, and still had a graceful expression: "I just think that it would be too arbitrary to conclude that two important officials of the court joined forces to rebel based on just a few whistleblowing letters and the confessions of a few subordinates." ”

"Since the evidence is insufficient, why don't you investigate it clearly before making a decision?" I couldn't help but feel a little anxious when I thought that the imperial court might unjustly kill a good person.

"I used to think this way when I was younger, but now I've figured it out, no matter how much I investigate, he will eventually die!"