In order to avoid people's eyes, Murong Ke gave up the official road leading directly to Guangming City and headed southeast.

To the southeast, she will enter the territory of the Shangguan family in the East Mirror, where no one will recognize her, and she can go west to Guangming City by waterway through the free port of Jinwu City.

Before leaving, Murong Ke took off all his jewelry, changed into the clothes of an ordinary peasant woman, and tried his best to keep his eyebrows low and pleasing to his eyes along the way.

She carried the dagger that assassinated her son, and she couldn't help but touch it often, so that it could give her infinite strength.

But all the time, she felt that someone was following her. Maybe it's just the same way, she thought.

"Traveling with her" was a young man of about twenty years old, who did not look handsome but was also pleasing to the eye, with ink-dyed black hair.

When she boarded the ship to Guangming City in Freeport, the man also jumped on the boat, and Murong Ke concluded that this guy was not as simple as coincidentally traveling the same way.

She leaned over to him from behind, holding a dagger against the man's waist through her cloak, "Who are you, what do you want to do?" Murong Ke asked softly.

"Madam, forgive me for the inconvenience, I am a member of the Yuwen family, a vassal of the Northern Underworld, my name is Yuwen Guang, and I was ordered by the eldest prince to secretly protect Madame. ”

"How do you prove that you are from the Yuwen family?" Murong Ke was still uneasy.

"I don't know how to prove it," Yuwen Guang smiled bitterly, "The little boy was killed, and the Yuwen family went to condolence and sent two ginseng sticks, which I personally picked, and they both have three branches, which are about this long." Yu Wenguang gestured as he spoke.

Murong Ke put away the dagger. She has carefully examined everything Bu Yangming ate, and what Yu Wenguang said is true.

"Didn't you say that I would go alone, why did I send you with me?"

"Madam, forgive me, I, Yu Wenguang, am willing to follow the master's mother, besides, this is also a hard work for Fei Gongzi. Yu Wenguang said softly, at this time, there were more and more people on the boat.

"Since you're here, you can only do this, but I'm afraid that this trip will be more auspicious, you ......"

"It is the honor of my Yuwen family to be able to follow my wife. Although Yu Wenguang's voice was small, it was loud.

"Okay, don't call me Mrs., call me Rong's mother, I'll call you Guang'er. ”

"Well, Mrs. Obey," Yu Wenguang clenched his fists lightly, caught a glimpse of Murong Ke's gaze, and changed his words: "Yes, Rong Ma." ”

The boat goes by water and sails with the wind.

For Murong Ke, a woman from the south, she quickly adapted to sailing on the water, but it was obvious that Yuwen Guang kept vomiting.

Especially in Reverse Water Bay, there was a ferocious storm, Yuwen Guang was basically unconscious, but fortunately Murong Ke chose this big ship, with sixty oars and two masts, which was enough to fight the storm, and it turned out to be a wise choice.

It should be almost there, Murong Ke thought. The pain on her fingers, which had been cut by the dagger, was still faintly painful on her fingers in the cotton bandage, and these pains reminded her not to forget what had happened.

The little and ring fingers of her left hand could not be bent, and the other three fingers would never regain their dexterity, but they were nothing compared to the lives of her own children.

In two hours, they will land in the Bright City Shunfeng Harbor.

Yu Wenguang was already able to sway to the deck, to the bow of the ship, and to Murong Ke's side.

"I see you look much better. Murong Ke said.

"Xie Rong's mother missed, these two days have been really comfortable. ”

"I heard from the boatman that we are about to go ashore. Murong Ke's hand groped under the cloak, his fingers stiff and clumsy. The dagger was still at her waist, and she found herself having to touch it from time to time to be reassured. "Now we need to find a reliable person and inquire about the owner of this dagger. ”

"Madam, no, Mother Rong, do you have an old man in Guangming City, do you have an order?" Yu Wenguang waited for Murong Ke's instructions.

Murong Ke didn't speak, his face was as deep as the water in front of him.

She left Wanghai City eighteen years ago to marry Saibei, and has been a good wife and mother in North Underworld for nearly eighteen years, this world is no longer known to her.

But she first had to see her husband in the dust, and she had to avoid people's eyes.

This is not an easy task.

And the time to think about it was fleeting, and there were people on the deck shouting, and the voices of people gradually became boiling.

As the capital city of Guangming City, located on three hills, came into view, the entire huge passenger ship was in a state of chaos.

Murong Ke knew from ancient texts that a thousand years ago this highland was completely covered with forests, and only a few fishermen settled on the north bank of the Heishui River, where the water was panting and pouring into the sea.

The Moyi family conquered the continent and built a crude defensive fortress of wood and earth on top of the highest hill.

Today, as far as Murong Ke's eye can see, it has become a bustling urban area, high-rise buildings, pavilions, barns, towering high walls, wooden houses, inns and market stalls, taverns, money houses and green buildings, one after another.

Even in the distance, she could hear the noise of the fish market.

Wide boulevards, winding side streets, and narrow alleys that can't accommodate two people walking side by side weave between the buildings.

The stone walls of the magnificent palace surround half of the mountain beams, and seven crystal towers rise in between.

And the entire Guangming City is tightly surrounded by high and wide stone walls piled up with huge stones, which is impregnable.

Murong Ke looked north and found that the palace was not the highest place, the highest place was on the opposite side of the mountain where the palace was located, and the black fortress left by the Moyi family was still on it.

The black fortress consisted of seven massive drum towers protected by steel fortifications, a large and cold fortress, a domed hall with airtight bridges, barracks, dungeons and granaries, and a heavy parapet wall full of arrows, all made of black stone.

When the first emperor of the Moyi family, Moyi Kang, ordered the construction of the castle, and when it was completed, he executed all the stonemasons, carpenters, and architects involved in the construction of the castle to ensure that only the royal family could grasp the secrets of the Black Castle.

Judging from the structure of Guangming City alone, even if the Imperial Palace is breached, it is almost impossible to break through this huge black castle.

Mo Yikang himself probably couldn't have imagined that a thousand years later, the yellow Tuxin Golden Python Banner would float over the Black Castle, and the place where the darkness was shrouded in that year would become the territory of the Huangfu family.

A boat from the Murong family in the south, full of white sails in the wind, was gently passing by Murong Ke's boat, Murong Ke couldn't recognize the people on the boat, and the people on the boat didn't recognize her.

Eighteen years is long enough to change everything.

After going ashore, in order to find the inn recommended by the boat boss, it took a lot of effort, and Murong Ke wrapped the cloak with a hood tightly.

There were no conspicuous signboards in this inn, and most of the regular guests were entertained, and the hot-tempered proprietress looked them up and down suspiciously, and bit the silver coin paid by Murong Ke with her teeth to check the authenticity.

Although it took a lot of painstaking work, the room was quite spacious and ventilated, and the key thing was that the hostess didn't ask the names of the guests at all.

"Madam," Yu Wenguang didn't call Murong Kerong's mother when no one was around, Yu Wenguang changed into the clothes of the village man, "You rest first, I'll go into the city to investigate." ”

Murong Ke was really tired. It was a long and tiring journey, and she was not young.

The window of the room faced an alley between the houses, just in time to see the port, and she watched Yu Wenguang quickly blend into the bustling flow of people.

She decided to take a break.

Before she could reach the bedside, there was a knock on the door.

Murong Ke concluded that this was not Yu Wenguang nor the proprietress who had just entered the city, and the proprietress didn't seem to be so rude.

She had only been off the ship for less than an hour, and there were apparently no acquaintances here.

I couldn't tell if it was friend or foe, and it seemed to be coming too quickly.

"Wait. She replied as she quickly wrapped herself in her cloak. The dagger lay on the bedside table, and she hastily picked it up, then opened the deadbolt.

At the door was a middle-aged man, with a golden ring armor wrapped in a black cloak, which was the appearance of an official family.

When the man saw the sharp blade in her hand, he smiled and said, "Madam, you don't have to be like this, I am here to ask you to speak on the orders of my master." ”

"Who is your master?" Murong Ke noticed that there was a gray spider emblem on the man's clothes, and sighed in his heart, this is the royal internal guard of Guangming City, and the internal guard specializes in doing some shady things.

As soon as I got off the boat, was I already being targeted by the internal guards?

I came to the door in a moment.

The undercurrent beneath the prosperous exterior of Guangming City was unfathomable, and Murong Ke was almost worried about his husband.

"Madame, you'll know when you go. The man said without being arrogant or humble.

"Do you know who I am?" asked Murong Ke.

"I don't know, the master didn't say, we never ask more," the man replied truthfully, "the master only ordered you to be taken to him, and you must not be wronged in the slightest." ”

Murong Ke nodded: "You wait outside the door, I'll change my clothes." ”

She washed her hands in a basin of water and dried them with a clean linen cloth. Her fingers were still stiff and inflexible, and it was easy for her to tie her bodice, and then to tie the brown coarse cloth cloak around her neck.

The internal guards came to the door, which made her wonder why they didn't inform her husband, who was also in the prominent position of the Bright Empire, if they knew who they were.

What the hell is going on?

And the answer to many questions, even if it is dangerous, I am afraid that the only way to do it is to break through it yourself.

The official man prepared a carriage for her. When I set off, it was already the lights of thousands of homes.

The carriage carrying Murong Ke went straight to the Black Fort opposite the Palace of Guangming City, which was an important place for the internal guards, Murong Ke watched herself walking through the Black Fort through the curtain of the carriage, and she judged that the person who saw her had an extraordinary status.

The carriage stopped, and under the guidance of the man, Murong Ke entered the hall at the highest point of the Black Castle, the hall of Nuoda was luxuriously decorated, and a man turned his back to himself and looked at the entire Guangming City in front of the window.

The huge hall is the only one, and it is lonely and cold.

The man who led the way saluted with his fists at his back, then bent down and stepped back gently.

Then, the one in front of him is the master he said he wanted to see himself.

Murong Ke didn't say anything, he was the wife of the guardian of the northern border and the prime minister of the dynasty, even if he was the head of the internal guard, his status was below him.

She had to hold her breath, just, just......

This back is familiar and unfamiliar, and Murong Ke has a feeling of being in a trance.

Until the man in front of the window turned around, a clear face was revealed, and Murong Ke's mind seemed to have passed through eighteen years.

"It's you!" Murong Ke exclaimed.

"That's right, it's me. The man's eyes flashed with a hint of complicated emotion, and then he returned to his professional coldness, "If you want, you can sit as you like." ”

Murong Ke had no choice but to sit down casually, looking at Bai Jingting, the "white-clothed showman" who was famous in Haicheng eighteen years ago, who was readopted as a righteous son by his father, and was once a peerless scholar.

Now the white clothes are gone, replaced by dark red court clothes.

"Are you still studying?" Murong Ke had no choice but to find something to ask, if he was by name, he would have to call the man a brother, but this brother had never been called before.

"I used to think that reading could rule the country and level the world, but I couldn't get a woman. The man stood in front of the window, unmoved.

Murong Ke was speechless for a while.

Eighteen years ago, when Murong Ke married into the North Underworld, the person who followed the carriage for 3,800 miles to the North Underworld was Bai Jingting.

Murong Ke didn't know at the time, although she knew that Bai Jingting admired her when she was looking at Haicheng, but she didn't like him.

Feelings are like ghosts, I've heard things I've never seen, but I really can't help anyone.

Until the day before Murong Ke's wedding, Bai Jingting single-handedly broke into the Yin'an Hall in the Northern Underworld City.

Bu Yangchen was angry and funny in the face of his "rival in love", and readily agreed to Bai Jingting's request for a duel.

But Bu Yangchen really didn't know how to swing his fist at the weak scholar in front of him, and he also read his infatuation, Bu Yangchen stood still and let Bai Jingting beat.

Bai Jingting lowered his heart, pounced on him, and beat him up and down, left and right for half an hour, his arms were sore, his fists were red and swollen, and his arms could no longer be raised.

Bu Yangchen tidied up his clothes and turned away.

Bai Jingting, a scholar of the year, wailed for an afternoon in the snowy North Underworld.

From beginning to end, Murong Ke did not show up.

Subsequently, Bai Jingting didn't even have the strength to cry.

But what can he do in the face of the Lord of Saibei's stepping dust?

Only all the tears of his life were shed.

After that, he packed all his books into his bag and sank to the bottom of the sea or burned them.

He picked up his sword.

Whose youth is not confused, who dyes the blood of the sun.

Murong Ke didn't know what Bai Jingting had experienced in the past eighteen years, but presumably he had experienced a sad song like ice and fire in the past eighteen years.

You must know that the head of the royal internal guard is not a hereditary title, not a gentle township, this is one of the ruthless corners among tens of thousands of people, the master of the entire empire's Black Castle, and a place where countless people fight with their lives.

Time is like a thief, and today's Bai Jingting is no longer the reckless and hot-blooded teenager, love and passion have disappeared without a trace.

In its place, it is a peerless martial arts, an absolute status, and ruthlessness.

The world is very fair, what you want to get, but to exchange and trade the most precious things you have.

Bai Jingting stood in front of Murong Ke's eyes, and he didn't see his body shaking, and suddenly appeared in the seat opposite Murong Ke as if he had changed shape, as fast as a ghost.

Murong Ke knew that this was his reaction to the line of sight, this was the kung fu in the martial arts rivers and lakes, which was completely different from the kung fu of the battlefield where the husband was walking in the dust, revealing weirdness.

But no matter what Bai Jingting does, this is his life, what does it have to do with himself?

What's more obvious is that Bai Jingting is not here to catch up with himself.

"Why did you bring me here?" Murong Ke got straight to the point.

"Your hand ......" Bai Jingting saw Murong Ke's injury.

Murong Ke deliberately ignored this implicit problem that could easily lead to entanglement. "I'm not your internal guard, I'm called by you. She said coldly: "When you were a child, you still knew a little bit of politeness. ”

"Madame, I have absolutely no intention of offending you. He seemed to be full of remorse, this was Bai Jingting's greatest apology, and this look also evoked Murong Ke's vivid memories, in his memory, this was a cunning and clever child, and he would always look remorseful whenever he made a mistake, he was born with this ability.

It seems that he has not changed much over the years. Bai Jingting used to be a weak scholar, but now he doesn't look like a strong man, he is slender and agile, and his face is as sharp as she remembers.

"How do you know I'm coming to Bright City?" asked Murong Ke.

"Because Halder is well-informed. Bai Jingting showed a narrow smile, "One of his little sparrows found out about your arrival, thank God, after Halder found out, the first person to find me was me." ”

"Why did you come to you first? My husband is respected as Xiangguo. ”

"Why not, the adults are dealing with the big things, and the small things are better for me. Bai Jingting's eyes changed, and he suddenly asked, "Why did you come to Guangming City?"

With the taste of interrogation, "As a wife who misses her husband, and as a mother who misses her daughter, what's wrong with me coming to Guangming City?"

Bai Jingting smiled, this is the look that Murong Ke should have had eighteen years ago in his memory, this is not a simple woman, and there is something fascinating.

"What are you laughing at?" asked Murong Ke.

"Let's get down to business," Bai Jingting suppressed his smile, "Can you let me see the dagger over there?"

Murong Ke looked at him in amazement, he couldn't believe his ears, the man in front of him was really pervasive, could it be that he could probe his own mind?

He would know something that no one else knew.

"You, you arrested Yu Wenguang, what did you do to him?" Murong Ke asked.

Bai Jingting was confused. "I feel like a scholar who took the exam without a pen, I just want to see the dagger, who is Yu Wenguang?"

"Yuwen Guang is the eldest son of Yu Wenxiang, a vassal of the Northern Underworld City," a person who looked like a eunuch in splendid clothes flashed in at the door, it was Halde, the chief administrator of the Great Interior, "Madam, you can rest assured, this good boy is wandering around the City of Light, visiting several old friends of the Yuwen family in the city, and at this time he is probably returning to the humble inn where you stayed, maybe he will arrive in a while, and find that you are not there, and he is very anxious." ”

"How do you know these things?"

"The little sparrows are chirping. Halder smiled, "Honorable lady, perhaps we can take a look at the dagger." ”

Murong Ke took out the dagger from his cloak and threw it on the table in front of him, "Take it and see, maybe your little sparrow can find out the owner of this dagger." ”

I didn't see how Bai Jingting got up, but he was already standing in front of the table, he picked up the dagger, played with it gently, and then he threw the dagger into the air, and then caught it from his back with his other hand.

"This dagger is from Gan Tiesheng's handwriting, there is no doubt that this is the best dagger in the Seven Kingdoms," Bai Jingting looked at Murong Ke, and asked with a hint of confusion in his eyes, "Could it be that you came to Guangming City so much to find out the owner of this dagger?" ”

Murong Ke disembarked from the port of Guangming City, and it seemed that all the surprises in his life were about to be exhausted at this moment, but Bai Jingting was now the head of the royal internal guard, and Halde, who was standing beside him, was the head of the Inner Department of Guangming City, and her lifelong curiosity was simply ordinary for these two of them.

"Do you know whose dagger this one belongs to?" Murong Ke was nervous and excited.

"I'll tell you that there is only one dagger in the Seven Kingdoms," Bai Jingting put the dagger into his palm, waved his arm slightly, and threw the dagger towards the candle lit on the wall. "This is my dagger. ”

"Did you do it?" Murong Ke changed color.

"Ke'er," Bai Jingting suddenly changed the name he had given to Murong Ke eighteen years ago, "You let me finish speaking," Bai Jingting dodged in front of the wall and pulled out the dagger, "This is the dagger I ordered from Gan Tiesheng, but I made a bet with someone to lose it." ”

"Who did you lose to?" Murong Ke asked, her mouth dry with fear, and her fingers aching from memories.

"Qingqiu is sick. Bai Jingting replied crisply.

"That cripple of the Qingqiu family, that ugly monster?" Murong Ke stabbed Bai Jingting with the light of his eyes like a dagger, "Are you telling the truth?"

"Sister Ke'er," Bai Jingting walked in front of Murong Ke step by step, put the dagger on the table, looked into Murong Ke's eyes, and said, "In this life, have I ever told you a lie?"

Outside the Black Castle, the moonlight was as clear as water, and the silver light sprinkled throughout the City of Light.

And in Murong Ke's eyes, the flames of revenge were burning.