From the first day he stepped into the City of Light, Bu Yangchen set out to investigate one thing.

The mystery of Huangfu Xiong's madness.

He and Huang Fuxiong are not biological brothers, but they are like siblings.

He believed and heard of the absurdity of his big brother of the opposite sex, and he was addicted to alcohol and showed mercy everywhere, but he refused to believe that he would go crazy.

He always felt that there was something else going on in the matter.

Bu Yang Chengui is the lord of the Northern Underworld, and he is currently the prime minister of the empire, these noble identities make him too eye-catching, and it is very inconvenient to investigate.

Many times, Bai Jingting, the head of the internal guard, helped him a lot.

Bai Jingting had helped his wife Murong Ke before, but Bu Yangchen never liked this gloomy person, this person was indifferent in his bones and ambitious in his eyes.

Now, Bai Jingting took him to check the eighteenth Qinglou in Guangming City.

If it weren't for Bai Jingting to lead the way, no matter how powerful Bu Dusty was, he wouldn't be able to find this kind of place.

"You mean, Huang Fuxiong has been to this place before?" Bu Yangchen asked, among the seventeen green buildings that have been surveyed, at least twelve have found traces of Huang Fuxiong.

"Of course he has been here, I'm afraid it's not just here," Bai Jingting gave him a mysterious and meaningful look, "Our old emperor is not as simple as you, my lord, he is very happy every time." ”

Bu Yangchen flashed Bai Jingting's gaze in disgust, "Then who did he order, is there a record of this?"

"Record?haha, sir, do you think this is the court? I don't know who he ordered, but every time he comes, people will die here?" Bai Jingting looked at the happy men and women outside through the crack in the window, "Every time a young girl dies, your eldest brother, he is generous, and when he comes to this kind of place, every time he orders a virgin without budding." ”

"Lord Bai Jingting," Bu Yangchen interrupted him. "Please pay attention to your identity. It's not that I'm grateful for your help, and without you, I'm afraid it would have taken me a few years to find this green house, but that doesn't mean you can just talk about it. ”

"Well, my lord, people are right, the Buyang family has no sense of humor. Bai Jingting pursed his lips exaggeratedly.

As they walked into the stables, a warm rain was falling in the starless black night sky outside. Step up and put on the hood of the cape.

"It's really good," Bai Jingting said on the way, "and sometimes I really want to buy it." I found it far safer to buy a green house than to invest in a fleet, because prostitutes don't sink, and when pirates jump on them, hey, they have to pay. ”

Bu Yangchen let him talk to himself, and after a while, he also calmed down, and they rode forward in silence.

The streets of the City of Light are dark and uninhabited. Heavy rain didn't use a sword, but drove everyone into the house.

The rain kept beating on the head of Bu Dust, warm as blood, merciless as the past sins that haunted his heart. Large droplets of water ran down his face.

"Every time someone dies, no one checks it?" he asked suddenly.

"I've checked, I've checked a few more cases, but who can find out, and who cares how many people die in this kind of place?"

"None of them stayed?" Bu Yangchen continued, convinced that it was safe to speak here, and that the sound of the rain would well drown out the conversation.

"As far as I know, no, but, wait. Bai Jingting stopped his horse and fell into a deep thought.

"What, what did you think?" asked Bu Yangchen anxiously.

"My lord, I'm not sure about this matter, it was more than ten years ago, when I was wronged by you in the Northern Underworld City, and when I came to the Inner Guard Yamen as a small follower, the leader took me on a mission...... Bai Jingting thoughtfully.

"Go on. ”

"That time, we didn't investigate the case, but we went to kill someone, killing a young girl who had just given birth," Bai Jingting glanced at Bu Yangchen, who was listening to him with his ears pricked up. "We tried everything we could to get the ordinary peasant girl to tell her what was going on with the child, and she finally killed herself by biting her tongue. ”

"You mean the kid is still alive, but does the kid have anything to do with my big brother?"

"I don't know if it matters, I wasn't qualified to see the emperor at that time, and I didn't dare to confront him, but there was one thing that was very interesting. ”

"What?" asked Bu Yangchen.

"The day after the peasant girl bit her tongue and committed suicide, I was beheaded by the emperor who followed the head of the internal guard, Lord Liu, who was on this errand," Bai Jingting sighed softly and said with resentment, "Lord Buyang, the errand of the internal guard is not easy to do, the emperor and queen are all masters, and they can't afford to mess with that." ”

"What about the child?" Bu Yangchen thought to himself that if this child was Huang Fuxiong's blood, now that Huang Fuxiong was dead, this child should also be the heir to the throne.

"Who knows, maybe in which corner of the Seven Kingdoms you farmed, or maybe you have died in the famine and war. My lord, the world is changing, and anything is possible. ”

"You know a lot. Bu Yangchen said.

"Do a line of love and love," Bai Jingting smiled, not caring about the old grudge with Bu Yangchen fifteen years ago, "You have five children, but your eldest brother, I'm afraid he gave birth to more than you, but he didn't keep any of them." ”

"Of course there is one left, isn't it Huangfu Zhang. ”

"There is indeed one, there must always be an heir to the throne. ”

At this time, the rain was already lighter, Bai Jingting shook the raindrops on his head, and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, if you know that dozens of children have died in the past fifteen years, what will you do?" ”

Before Bu Yangchen could think about it, a string of thunderbolts sounded in the night sky, and the thunder drowned out Bai Jingting's last few words, but Bu Yangchen heard it clearly.

"And, though you've been secretive about me, you're very funny to me, my lord, count me offended, and I know why you wanted to find that child. Bai Jingting spoke unscrupulously on this rainy night.

"What do you know?" Bu Yangchen looked at Bai Jingting with puzzled eyes.

"There is a problem with Huangfu Zhang's identity, don't you think so, so you want to find the real descendants of the Huangfu family, don't you?" Bai Jingting said.

The surprise brought to me this time was no less than the thunder in the sky just now, and I seemed to have been peeked into the secret of my heart, and Bu Yangchen was deeply shocked.

"My Lord Prime Minister," Bai Jingting saw Bu Yangchen's acquiescence, "Who doesn't know about this matter except for the big fool of Huangfu Zhang? ”

"You, you have long decided that Huangfu Zhang is not the son of Huangfu Xiong, I ......"

"Are you still checking? Haha, as long as you are not blind in this world, you can't see that Huang Fuzhang's appearance is not similar to your eldest brother, so you still need to check?"

"Then, then you are blind and dumb in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty?" Bu Yangchen looked at Bai Jingting with disdain.

"Your Excellency, you don't have to look at me like that. I'm just a dog raised by the emperor, I can't tell the emperor, 'Boy, get out of the Iron Throne, you are not qualified to be the emperor', I will die faster than my leader back then." ”

Bu Yangchen was silent for a while, and the rain wet his whole body, cold and merciless.

"Prime Minister, if there is nothing to do, I won't accompany you in the rain," Bai Jingting turned his horse's head, or turned back and admonished, "It's better for you to stop here, you are the city lord of the Northern Underworld City, not the Bright City." With that, he spurred his horse and headed for the Black Castle.

Bu Yangchen also rode back home, and the rain was still as dense as a bead line, and he had no intention of going fast.

He looked up at the sky, hoping to give him guidance, and the sky lit up with a bolt of lightning that lit up the entire city of light in an instant, and then the whole city disappeared into darkness.

Rolling thunder followed, shaking the heavens and the earth.

After stepping into the house, he walked straight to the study.

He stripped off his shirt, took a burlap cloth to dry his cheeks and hair, changed into his nightgowns, and took out a booklet from the hidden wooden cabinet.

This was quietly given to him by Wen Shanhe, and it was a "Emperor Travel Record" written by Huang Fuxiong's personal eunuch back then. He searched through the booklet, hoping to find some clues.

There are many descriptions of green buildings in it, as well as farms, mountains and forests, and even scandals about the bay and valley, which is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Bu Yangchen closed the booklet, sighed and said: "Big brother, big brother, you are ridiculous enough, and the country is also ridiculous, leaving me with a lot of unsolved cases." ”

Outside the window, the night rain is urgent.