Sun Lin was alone, walked for two days, came to Xukou, and in a few days he could return to Qinggu, he was ready to rest for a day, and then go again tomorrow.

In Dongyue Jianye City, in the imperial study, Emperor Wen listened to Xiao Cheng's report, and in a fit of anger, he smashed the tea bowl on the table. Emperor Wen was silent, turned around and waved his sleeves, and returned to the inner palace. After Xiao Cheng got up, he sighed, silently withdrew from the imperial study, and returned to the forbidden army camp.

When Emperor Wen arrived in the inner palace, there was already a new eunuch beside him, he turned his head and said to him: "Judge, go and pardon Wu, Tian Li call me, I have something to order." ”

The new eunuch's face was pale, his fingers were thin, but he always had a shallow smile on his face, he promised to retreat, and soon Tian Li and Yu Wu rushed over.

Tian Li described in detail everything that happened in the mouth of the water, but Emperor Wen only cared about the account books of the Wang family, Tian Li informed Emperor Wen that he rushed to the foothold of the mouth of the mouth that day only saw Wang Shumi's Wang Pingyao, after some questioning, Wang Shumi refused to speak, and Wang Pingyao did not know. Emperor Wen thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "What about Cui Ji?" ”

Tian Li and Yu Wuyi were confused, the two did not see Cui Ji, and Jin Huiqun did not mention it. Emperor Wen's face was angry, he was a little disappointed, looking at these masters, it was nothing more than that. After seeing Emperor Wen's face, the judge opened his mouth and persuaded him: "Your Majesty, why don't you let Jin Huiqun return to Beijing and interrogate you." Emperor Wen glanced at the trial and was silent, and Yu Wu said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the elders of my clan have arrived in the capital, and they have fought a big battle with Wei Wuyan in the mouth of the water, and they are now in Jianye, and they are willing to enter Longyuan and serve Your Majesty." ”

When Emperor Wen heard that there was a master who fought with Wei Wuyan, his face softened, and he asked Yu Wu to bring someone over. Seeing that Emperor Wen was already interested, Yu Wu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, wait a minute, and tomorrow the elder will prepare a gift and come to see him immediately." Emperor Wen nodded and motioned for a few people to retreat first.

The next day, Emperor Wen passed a decree to the judge and ordered Jin Huiqun to go to Beijing to report on his work. In the evening of the same day, Zhang Jue, Tian Li, and Pardon Wusan entered the palace and brought a huge wooden box with them. Emperor Wen met with the three of them in the inner palace, and after the battle between Zhang Jue and Wei Wuyan, he was seriously injured, but after he absorbed a lot of corpse qi, he had recovered thirty percent at this moment. As for the gift that Yu Wu said, after Zhang Jue opened the wooden box, Emperor Wen's eyes lit up, and the wooden box was Cao Ji's head. Cao Ji has been hiding in Jianye City after the mutiny, and the Nine Gate Admiral's Mansion has chased his whereabouts several times, but he has escaped, and he has actually been killed by Zhang Jue at this moment. Emperor Wen's face was overjoyed, and Zhang Jue took the opportunity to flatter a few words. Emperor Wen saw that although Zhang Jue's whole person looked weird, there were very few masters who could fight with Wei Wuyan, and he was in a good mood, so he let him enter Longyuan and be regarded as an elder.

Zhang Jue intercepted the Wang sisters and brothers in the mouth of the water before, also in order to be able to get close to Emperor Wen, enter Longyuan and even the court. After he arrived in Jianye, the spies in the city informed Cao Ji's whereabouts, and since the Wang siblings had escaped, they would take Cao Ji as a meeting gift. During the day, Tian Li and he went to Cao Ji's foothold, and the two of them worked together to kill the former commander of the city defense army in one fell swoop, and Cao Ji and Wang Shumi both died at the hands of Jiuli.

Qintian Supervisor Taibu Li Xuanzi has been worried these days, he has the habit of watching the sky at night every day, these days he found that there is a faint fog around the emperor star, he secretly started a game tonight, after the operation of the nine palaces and eight gates, he stayed for a long time, depressed, so he went out alone, found a restaurant, ordered a pot of spirits to drink alone.

Mo Puzhi has been asking to see Emperor Wen after retiring from the court in the past few days, but Emperor Wen has been avoiding it, he is also quite depressed at the moment, he went out alone at night, and before he walked long, he saw Li Xuanzi, a restaurant on the side of the road, drinking alone.

He and Li Xuanzi didn't know each other, but the night before the rebellion, Emperor Wen recruited him into the palace and was quite impressed. walked straight into the restaurant and sat down beside Li Xuanzi.

Li Xuanzi saw that it was Mo Puzhi Shoufu, and quickly got up, a little restrained, the two exchanged a few words, and then sat down and drank together.

The drunkenness in the winter was a minute slower than usual, and the two of them drank a pot of spirits, and their faces were already red. Li Xuanzi was no longer restrained, so he asked Mo Puzhi: "Mo Shoufu, do you have something on your mind?" ”

Mo Puzhi was also drunk, and he replied: "I have asked to see Your Majesty several times, but I have been refused. ”

"Your Majesty doesn't even see you?" Li Xuanzi was very surprised when he knew that Mo Puzhi was Emperor Wen's confidant.

Mo Puzhi reluctantly poured himself a large sip of wine and nodded.

Li Xuanzi thought for a moment and said slowly: "After the Wang rebellion, Your Majesty has killed too many people. "Although he has been staying in Qintian Prison, he has also heard about the things in Jianye City.

"Yes, it's too many, but I don't even have a chance to persuade them." Mo Puzhi slapped the table with some resentment, and several people around him looked at him. Li Xuanzi hurriedly pulled him.

The two were silent for a moment, and Li Xuanzi said again: "I heard that Gonggong Zou is gone?" ”

"Yes, now Your Majesty is surrounded by judges, I don't know where this person is from, I heard from the palace that the Internal Affairs Office has changed several fathers-in-law, His Majesty is not satisfied, and finally found one himself, that is, this judge, every time I see this person, I always feel a sense of evil." Mo Puzhi complained a lot.

"Master Mo, I don't know if you want to hear some of my words." Li Xuanzi listened to Mo Puzhi's description of the trial, and suddenly woke up three minutes when he was drunk, and stepped forward in a low voice.

Mo Puzhi had seen this Taibu's methods, and after listening to his words, he was drunk and sobered up a little, a cold wind blew outside the door, the two glanced at each other, Mo Puzhi's eyes lit up, and he replied eagerly: "Tell me to listen!" ”

"I've been watching the sky at night for the past few days, and I saw the haze near the emperor star gradually rising, so I started a game, the Southeast Palace, the door of death, the big murderer, the nine-star canopy fell into the palace, the nine gods and snakes were entangled, and the white tiger was coming to the door."

Mo Puzhi knew a little bit about the common sense of Qimen Dunjia, and cold sweat broke out on his back. A little trembling said, "Are you sure you read that right?" ”

Li Xuanzi shook his head silently, and the two were silent.

This night, Mo Puzhi and Li Xuanzi drank nearly four pots of spirits, trembling and returning to their respective homes, and several black shadows followed them one by one.

The next day, early in the morning, Mo Mansion, Gu Xutang led a team of soldiers from the Nine Gate Admiral's Mansion to the mansion early in the morning, Mo Puzhi had a hangover, a severe headache, and barely listened to Gu Xutang speak, last night a fire broke out in the main mansion of the Qintian Prison, and after the fire was extinguished, a charred male corpse was found, identified from the broken clothes, it was the prison Taibu Li Xuanzi.

As soon as he finished saying this, Mo Puzhi was already sober, and Li Xuanzi died. He was shocked. Gu Xutang opened his mouth and asked, "Mo Shoufu, someone saw you and Li Jian drinking in a restaurant last night, did you find anything abnormal?" ”

Mo Puzhi glanced at Gu Xutang, Gu Xutang's eyes were quite sharp, and he kept staring at him. A chill oozed from Mo Puzhi's heart, he avoided Gu Xutang's eyes, and said slowly: "I was drinking with Li Jian last night, and I didn't find anything abnormal, but I drank a little too much, and I left with a drunken spirit. ”

After all, it was Shoufu, so Gu Xutang didn't ask any more questions, and after looking at it, he took people away.

Mo Puzhi saw Gu Xutang leaving, and hurried back to the house, he tried his best to recall everything last night, this sudden fire was definitely not a coincidence, Li Xuanzi should have only told himself about this game, he vaguely felt that he was in danger. At present, Mo Buyu and Mo Liu have not returned, and Dong Yun is not in Jianye City, he thought for a long time and wrote two letters, one was sent to the border of the Western Wei Dynasty immediately to be handed over to Mo Buyu's father Mo Changqian, and the other was for the housekeeper Mo Tong to keep, if he had an accident, when he met Mo Buyu and Mo Liu, he would hand it over to the two.

After explaining everything, Mo Puzhi put on his court clothes and entered the palace. Today's footsteps into the palace are particularly heavy.

In the early dynasty, as always, after Gu Xutang briefly reported Li Xuanzi's death, Emperor Wen ordered him to thoroughly investigate the cause of the fire. Mo Pu didn't say a word to this day, and several protégés were quite strange when they saw the teacher, and they came up to ask what happened after retreating. Mo Puzhi was silent, turned around and was about to leave. Suddenly, the judge hurriedly came from the palace and stopped Mo Puzhi, and His Majesty asked Mo Shoufu to go to the imperial study to talk about things.

Mo Puzhi came to the imperial study with the judge, Emperor Wen had a gloomy face, he opened the examiner, and asked in an indifferent tone: "Did you see Li Xuanzi last night?" ”

Mo Puzhi nodded and replied, "We drank together last night." ”

Emperor Wen frowned and continued to ask, "What did you say?" ”

Mo Puzhi hesitated for a moment, he gritted his teeth, looked up at Emperor Wen, and spit out clearly word by word: "Your Majesty, last night Supervisor Li Zheng informed that the emperor star was shrouded in haze, the snake was entangled, the white tiger was coming, the big murderer, look at Your Majesty's relatives and virtuous ministers, far away villains." ”

"Bold!" Emperor Wen was furious and slapped the desk hard. Hearing this, the judge quickly came, and when he saw Mo Puzhi kneeling on the ground, Emperor Wen looked angry.

"Mo Puzhi, you are getting bolder and bolder, you think that your protégés are all over the court, so I don't dare to touch you." Emperor Wen stared at Mo Puzhi with wide eyes.

Mo Puzhi stopped talking, Emperor Wen also fell silent, and the judge looked at Mo Shoufu coldly on the side. The atmosphere in the study room was cold. Mo Puzhi thought for a while, slowly raised his head, his eyes showed helplessness, and he said in a very calm tone: "Your Majesty, the minister is old, I want to tell the old man to return to his hometown, and I hope that Your Majesty will approve it." ”

Emperor Wen didn't expect Mo Puzhi to resign, he thought of Gonggong Zou, his eyes softened a little, and said, "You decided?" ”

"Your Majesty, you and I have known each other for many years, and the old minister is dedicated to Dongyue Sheji, but I am almost old and tired." There was a trace of sobbing in Mo Puzhi's words, and when Emperor Wen heard this, the whole person was also stunned for a while, and the judge was unmoved on one side, and he had faintly gathered strength behind him with one hand.

"Let's go."

"Thank you."

Mo Puzhi turned around and left the imperial study, without looking back all the way. Emperor Wen looked at Mo Puzhi's old back, he felt a little sour in his heart, and left alone. The judge approached Emperor Wen and asked softly: "Your Majesty, the spies who followed Mo Shoufu last night didn't come back, did you really let him return to his hometown like this?" Emperor Wen glared at the judge, and the examiner quickly bowed his head and retreated. The two were silent for a long time in the imperial study, and Emperor Wen finally spoke: "Let Lei Hong and Bai Mei follow him back to their hometown." Hearing this, the judge smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and Ying Nuo left the imperial study.