Chapter 732: Outside the Palace Gate
The carriage swayed leisurely, and it was already dark outside the palace. Su Mo lifted the curtain slightly and looked, but saw all kinds of carriages and sedan chairs parked outside the front gate square. The courtiers gathered in groups of three or five and talked in low voices, looking at the well-dressed beasts.
The servants of each family were also busy silently and quickly, and Su Mo saw that many people were carrying food boxes in their hands, obviously there were many people who had not had time to eat in the morning of the court. Each pilgrimage usually takes the whole morning. Coupled with the road from home and waiting outside the palace gate, it is better to say that the closer ones are better, and the farther ones are the same, it is almost a whole day. For such a long time, if you don't hurry up and fill in the gap and eat, I'm afraid that the slightly weaker body will not be able to hold on.
Of course, most of these people who are willing to squat here to eat are low-level officials, and the real adults are staying in the class room on one side. The ancient class hierarchy is vividly reflected in this small corner.
Seeing Su Mo's car coming slowly, many people showed doubts on their faces, not knowing which official's family it was.
At this time, the sky is not yet fully bright, and all the cars are carrying lanterns. The lanterns are pasted with the surnames of each family, making them easy to see at a glance. This is true even for officials from other places who come to see the court temporarily.
But only Su Mo's carriage was carrying a light board. Except for a halo of yellow lights, there was nothing clean.
At the front of the car, the coachman stopped the car in a corner, and the fat man jumped down, his eyes first scanned the crowd, and then he turned around and whispered to the car: "Young master, it's here." However, the palace gate has not opened yet, and it seems that it will take a while, so the young master might as well stare in the car for a while. ”
Su Mo looked at it, hesitated and shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's all here, don't be special, we are quality people, we have to keep a low profile." With that, he got up and got out of the car.
The fat man pouted, are you still low-key? If you really want to keep a low profile, why are you not a whole wordless lantern, and what is it that you don't turn on when a hundred flowers bloom? Who is that who is shouting to have a personality when you go out?
Well, the deliberate absence of words on the lantern was exactly what Su Mo personally requested. The so-called "you don't bloom when a hundred flowers bloom" has any personality or the like, but if he is casually teasing, it is not that he really wants to be a maverick. It's really that he lives in the British Mansion at the moment, and this car is also owned by the British Public, so who is he going to pick the number?
If you pick the British public, then it is called really arrogant. But if you pick him on his own, who knows which egg he is. It's better to be so plain, and it looks bright. It's just that I didn't expect it to backfire, and it was such a plain thing that became a standout from the crowd, which was particularly eye-catching.
You must know that this is a palace, and ordinary people can swing here casually? The lantern with the font size is certainly a kind of manifestation, but it is also a kind of notification.
Well, briefing, to whom? Of course, the forbidden army guarding Miyagi. Otherwise, who knows which cat or dog you are, and you don't know how to live or die here.
Sure enough, when Su Mo jumped out of the car, he was stretching his waist in a big way, and there was a burst of armor, and several guards of the forbidden army had already walked over.
In the car, Xiao Qi was obviously nervous, or rather, as soon as he approached the imperial city, he seemed very nervous. You must know that Qiu Jun, the nominal master of his family, was once an absolute minister, and he had accumulated his merits to the level of Hubu Shangshu and Wuyingdian University. Although he is now deceased, there are countless protégés of the Qiu family, and the power of the DPRK and China is still not to be underestimated.
Who knows if anyone will know about their family's affairs and take action against him? Now that his family is ruined, and he is the only one left, there is nothing to fear even if he is discovered. But if it affects Childe because of this, it is absolutely unacceptable to him.
Su Mo finally noticed his abnormality, but he didn't say much, just patted him on the shoulder and nodded with a smile. Being watched by his warm gaze, Xiao Qi gradually calmed down. But now, suddenly a forbidden army came looking for him, so Xiao Qi's heart suddenly lifted it again.
Outside the car, Su Mo didn't care, but quietly lowered the curtain of the car, blocking the view of people outside.
Inside the car, Xiao Qi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly his eyes moved, carefully got up, moved behind the curtain and pricked up his ears to listen. He secretly clenched his fists and decided that once he found out that it was his own reason, he would immediately stand up and take everything down, and he would never let Childe be hurt in the slightest.
Outside the car, Su Mo knew Xiaoqi's thoughts in the car, he turned around and looked at the person quietly, his face was indifferent and calm. After experiencing several life and death events, he has the power of transformation of the Divine Stone, and now he has a somewhat detached mentality, and he is no longer the little boy who has just crossed over in the past.
There are only a few guards of the forbidden army in front of him, he has faced the Mongol Great Khan, and he has also intersected with the descendants of the current Confucian Sheng, and he has never fallen behind. What's more, he was already on the order of the court today, so where would he be nervous about a few guards of the forbidden army.
Fortunately, these forbidden soldiers also understand that it should not be ordinary people who come to the palace gate at this time, and naturally there will be no bloody dog like in the novel, doing something like showing off their might and then being slapped in the face.
They came here just because it was their duty to make an inquiry. After all, they were guards, or at least they needed to know who was here every day.
There were always seven or eight people in this forbidden army, which was exactly the number of a group. Everyone wears a red robe inside, a bright light armor outside, and an embroidered spring knife tied around the waist. A group of people are tall, short, fat and thin, and Su Mo knows that these people are actually the same as the honor guards of later generations, playing with a bright appearance and real combat power, but they are several grades worse than the border army.
A group of people walked closer, left and right, one of them strode forward, came to Su Mo, crossed his hands and was about to salute, but when his eyes looked at Su Mo's face, he was suddenly stunned, and couldn't help but shout: "Why are you!"
Su Mo couldn't help but be stunned by this shout, and couldn't help but stare at it carefully. The fat man took a slight step forward without moving, and secretly raised a breath of internal vigilance. It is absolutely unexpected that a big internal forbidden army would know the young master. In this huge capital, except for a few special friends, the rest of the people who can know the young master are not all enemies. Beware of this man!
"You...... Are you the ...... Relatives?" After looking at this for a while, Su Mo finally recognized the person who came, and couldn't help but hesitate to call out.
Relatives? It's not like Su Mo is messing around with friends. Because this title originally came from the mouth of the person in front of him. It's just that at that time, this person was very proud, saying whether he could really become a relative, and he had to wait and see what happened in the future.
That's right, this person is the Jiang Zheng who went to Wuqing with that Dan Gongzi in the past and presented the token of the Grace Alliance.
The two met in a hurry in Wuqing that day, and then a series of things broke out, and they didn't see each other again until today. And when Su Mo fled all the way west, the token of the Enmeng also really helped, saving him a lot of trouble, and he was very grateful in his heart.
He now knows that the so-called Enmeng is actually the power of his cheap daughter-in-law. Then if this Chiang can be sent to his home one day, it at least means that he is not an enemy. At this point, he didn't believe in Jiang Zheng, but in that elf-like woman who was wise and wise.
The only thing he can't be sure about now is whether his daughter-in-law knows about the relationship between the Jiang family and King Xing, or how much he knows. And what kind of status does this Jiang Zheng occupy in the Jiang family, and how does he get involved with his daughter-in-law.
The thoughts in my heart turned, but there was not the slightest hint on my face. Soon he piled up a sincere smile, and took the first step to clasp his fists and salute: "Sure enough, it's Brother Jiang, I didn't want to say goodbye for nearly a year." Brother Jiang's gift in the past is of great help to the younger brother, so I should thank you!"
Jiang Zheng also came back to his senses at this time, and dodged sideways in a panic, not daring to accept his salute. His face was embarrassed and purple, as if he was constipated, and he waved his hand to say something, but he opened a few sheets, but he still didn't know what to say. It wasn't until the end that he held back a sentence sullenly, "Su Gongzi is also here to go to the court?" But when this sentence came out, he couldn't help but want to slap himself.
Isn't this nonsense, can't you come here if you don't go to the court? Su Mo returned from the mission, and before he entered the city, he was ordered to go home and stand by, and it was not until the day before yesterday that he sent an order to meet today, and this matter has long been known to everyone, so he came to ask more questions.
Su Mo didn't seem to notice anything, and when he asked, he just nodded casually and said with a smile: "Yes, I finally waited until His Majesty summoned me." This time I don't know the etiquette, is it any trouble for Brother Jiang?"
Jiang Zheng looked at this young man with a complicated expression, and in a trance, the scene when Wu Qing first saw him seemed to be yesterday. But who would have thought that the person who faced him with absolute condescension and tried to persuade him to flee would reach this level today and be summoned by the emperor in the name of it. And where are those cold knives and dark arrows today?
Thinking like this, I couldn't help but be slightly distracted for a while, and I even forgot to reply. The brother next to him didn't look right, and quietly pulled his robe to remind him, and then he came back to his senses suddenly.
"Ahem, no...... It's nothing. Oh no, it's not a hassle...... Well, I just came over to inquire, what is the responsibility...... Ahem......." he said in a slightly flustered voice, a little embarrassed. I can't wait to give myself a mouth, I am aggrieved and ashamed, this person is lost.
After explaining the intention, he couldn't hold his face anymore, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and turned around and left. It's just that he didn't take two steps, and Su Mo's enthusiastic voice behind him came into his ears, making him immediately stumble under his feet, so that he could hang and fall to the ground.
"Brother Jiang walks slowly, and when I turn around, my brother will look for you to drink. Oh, by the way, don't forget to call Mrs. Shang, it's that Dan Gongzi......"
Go slowly, turn around and drink, I'll go, are we so acquainted? Wait, what sister-in-law? Dan...... Mrs. Dan?!Mrs. Dan...... Dan Gongzi !!
At this moment, all the guards had a strange face, and the look on their faces was wonderful.