cpa300_4(); He walked towards me step by step, the fire behind him casting a thick shadow on his face, but I could clearly see that the eyes were shining in the shadows, like a hunting panther, approaching his prey step by step.

That bloodthirsty look as if it was going to swallow me.

Just when he was about to walk in front of me, suddenly, a herald galloped over, and when he saw Pei Yuanhao, he immediately grabbed the reins, and he had already turned over and dismounted and staggered over: "Third Highness!"

Pei Yuanhao's eyes flashed, and that bloodthirsty look immediately converged, and he turned his head to look at him: "Huh?"

"...... over there at the Nine Gates"

The herald's voice became smaller and smaller, and the last few words were whispered, and when he finished speaking, Pei Yuanhao's eyes burst out with a ray of essence, and said, "What else did he say?"

"Lord Yang said, what will happen next, please ask His Highness to decide, but the opportunity must not be lost!"

Pei Yuanhao didn't speak, but was silent for a while, and then immediately turned around and said to the people around him: "Get on the horse, go back to the palace!"

"Yes!"

Everyone seemed to realize something, and they were all very excited, and hurriedly turned over on the horse, and just when a long entourage led his horse over, Pei Yuanhao was about to get on the horse, and suddenly remembered something and looked back at me.

I was still standing next to Yao Yingxue's corpse, my shoes stained red with blood.

The expression on his face was a little cloudy for a while, as if he didn't know what to do with me, but just a moment, he said to me in a deep voice: "You stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere!"

With that, he glanced left and right.

By the time he finished arranging my affairs, the people around him had already been unable to hold back, and he raised his hand: "Let's go!" The people around him responded loudly, and all the people rode their horses and whips, and galloped away in the direction of the palace at the other end of the long street.

Soon, the dust raised by the horse's hooves slowly fell, and Qian Wu and Mo Tieyi were left here, facing the surrounding corpses, as well as the fire in the other garden, we couldn't say a word, the smell of burning in the air and the beeping sound of the flame burning, making the whole long street seem more silent.

It's like a nightmare.

I slowly squatted down and looked at Yao Yingxue, she was lying in a pool of blood, her eyes were not closed, as if she still wanted to see the figure of that person, but he just turned around and left, never looking back, this woman who broke her body for himself, this woman who betrayed him, but opened all her heart to him, this woman who conceived a child for him, when she died, she didn't even get a little more of his gaze.

I stretched out my trembling hand and gently closed her eyes - I only hope that you will live in the next life, and do not make a mistake.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps ahead.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a familiar figure slowly walking through the deep night.

Under the firelight, his face was as pale as death, and the whole person seemed to be very cold, as soon as Qian Wu and the others saw him, they immediately stepped forward: "Big brother, you are here, you see-"

Before they finished speaking, Huang Tianba waved his hand gently: "I know everything." ”

"Pei Yuanhao went back on his word, he actually did such a poisonous hand, we-we were used by him!"

Huang Tianba's face turned even paler, he was silent for a moment, and then said, "Our people have already arrived at the West Gate, and you should also hurry over and prepare to leave the city overnight." ”

"But—"

The two of them seemed to want to say something, but Huang Tianba said lightly: "Yao Lao is also here." Don't you want to see him?"

As soon as Qian Wu and the others heard Yao Lao's name, their eyes lit up, and they didn't say anything anymore, and immediately turned around and left.

After they left, only me and Huang Tianba were left on the long street, and I slowly stood up and watched him stand at the gate of the annex, facing the fire inside, the flames reflected in his eyes, as if there was also fire burning in his eyes.

I walked up to him: "Huang Ye......"

wanted to say something, but suddenly choked up and couldn't speak, Huang Tianba looked inside, and after a while, he said softly: "He, also inside?"

“…… Yes. ”

"Already gone?"

"Yes, it's gone. ”

"Is it painful?"

"......" I thought for a long time, and said softly: "He was pierced through the heart by an arrow, and he walked very fast, and he didn't feel any pain." ”

"Yes......"

Huang Tianba looked inside blankly, and for a while I couldn't tell what kind of look was in his eyes, so he sent the jade flute to his eyes: "But I saw this on the side of the road, Huang Ye, you - if you want to stay, make a memorial, if you don't want to stay, someone will dispose of it." ”

Huang Tianba slowly turned his head to look at the jade flute in my hand, and I saw that his eyes were already red.

After a long time, he reached out and took the jade flute.

I looked at him and said in a choked voice: "Master Huang, are we all wrong?"

"Perhaps, we are indeed wrong," he said, in a deep voice, with an indescribable hoarseness, but always suppressed, "but I hope that in the eyes of the world, we are not wrong." ”

In the eyes of the world.

Yes, he will help Pei Yuanhao, not for himself from beginning to end, but for the people of the south, for the emperor who may benefit the people of the south in the future, so no matter how big the price is, he is also willing.

At this time, Huang Tianba took out a piece of paper and handed it to me, I took it, looked at him with some doubts, and said: "I took Mu Hua to diagnose the emperor's pulse, this is the prescription she prescribed, you take it to Pei Yuanhao, if-if he can use it." ”

Hearing the last sentence, my heart sank: "What do you mean-"

Huang Tianba glanced at me and said, "Do you know how the Imperial City is now?" ”

"I guess, Yang Yunhui has already led the Praetorian Guards to take down the nine gates. ”

"Since you have won the Nine Gates, do you think Pei Yuanhao will stop there?"

I was startled, but I suddenly understood, and looked at him with wide eyes: "He's going back now—"

Force the palace and seize the throne!

But--"But the emperor's decree is to pass on the throne to the emperor's eldest son!"

Huang Tianba seemed to sneer: "What kind of person he is, you know better than me." ”

Yes, what kind of person is Pei Yuanhao, he is a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, he won Huang Tianba's favor in Jiangnan, used me to poison Pei Yuanfeng, used Huang Tianba's people to get rid of Pei Yuanchen, and took the opportunity to seize the Nine Gates, what he believes will be done, it has come to this point, he will indeed not back down!

In other words, the emperor's decree to pass on the throne to the emperor's eldest son is just a dead letter.

But-

Thinking of this, I looked up at Huang Tianba and asked, "Huang Ye, is the person Yao Lao looking for the eldest son of the emperor?"

He looked at me, but he didn't seem surprised: "How do you know?"

"When you were in the prison, you told him that, but he refused to leave, but just now you said that Yao Lao was already preparing to leave the city at the West Gate, that is to say, he already knew that the person he was looking for was not in the imperial city, and tonight, the holy decree left by the emperor had just been discovered, and the holy decree said that the six departments were to find the emperor's eldest son. ”

Huang Tianba smiled faintly: "It seems that I can't hide anything from you." ”

I said, "I didn't just guess it, though. ”

"Oh, when did you find out?"

I turned my head to look at the courtyard that had turned into a scorched earth in the sea of fire, and said, "When I knew that this courtyard was actually the old residence of the former queen, I guessed it. ”

This qiē will not be such a coincidence, the painting hanging in the emperor's Yonghe Palace is the scenery here, and Huang Tianba came to Beijing, so he lived directly in this garden; I remember that when I was in Jiangnan, Pei Yuanhao received a secret edict, and the emperor once revealed that the people in the Huisheng medicine shop had a lot of connections with him, and even asked Pei Yuanhao to "not add with swords".

All kinds of signs only show one thing - this group of people in the Huisheng medicine shop has a special relationship with the former queen!

Therefore, the emperor would rather let Pei Yuanhao show mercy to their subordinates than hurt any of them.

"Huang Ye, what do you have to do with the first queen?"

"Qingying, have you forgotten what I told you?"

By the way, he kept reminding me that the less I knew, the easier it would be to get out in the future.

Huang Tianba said in a low voice: "Pei Yuanhao doesn't know about this matter, I hope that if you really stay by his side, it's best never to mention this matter." ”

It turned out that Pei Yuanhao didn't know that this villa belonged to them, and it seems that there are really not many people who know about this matter.

I nodded, "Okay." ”

When I finished saying this, Huang Tianba frowned instead: "Do you really want to stay by his side?"

I was stunned by his question, of course I didn't want to stay with Pei Yuanhao, but I couldn't leave now, because he promised me that when the first qiē was over, he would give me an amnesty, and at that time, I would be able to get out of slavery and leave here openly.

I said, "I already have an agreement with him. ”

When Huang Tianba heard this, he looked at me with a slight frown, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it after all, and I was still thinking about another thing in my heart, so I asked him: "Huang Ye, do you think he can really succeed?"

"I don't know, if it were someone else, I might have guessed the ending. But his opponent is the crown prince Pei Yuanxiu, I can't guess. ”

"Can't you guess Pei Yuanxiu?" isn't he a very simple person?

Huang Tianba said lightly: "There are two people in the royal family, and I have never been able to see through. One is Pei Yuanhao, I can't see where his bottom line is, and the other is Pei Yuanxiu. ”

"What can't you see through him?"

Huang Tianba glanced at me and said, "Qingying, if a mystery is hidden in layers of fog, you can clear the fog and find it, but if a mystery is transparent, how can you find it?"

“……”

"Pei Yuanxiu, this is such a person, I can't see Pei Yuanhao's bottom line, but I can't see what kind of person Pei Yuanxiu is, so no one can foresee the victory or defeat between them until the coffin is decided. ”

I was scorched by the scorching flames in front of me, but suddenly I felt cold all over me.

What Huang Tianba said, is it true?

But Pei Yuanxiu, the man who was smiling and flipping through the scrolls in the inner pavilion, the man who stretched out his hand to me when the assassins were around, the man who said to me, "I never treated you as a slave", was he really an incomprehensible mystery as Huang Tianba said?

Just when I was stunned, Huang Tianba called me: "Qingying ......"

"Huh?"

"Do you want to come with me?"