"Weichen see the emperor!"

The gate slowly opened, and looking at the convoy driving into the city in the continuous rain, the city lord of Suzhou knelt down.

"See the emperor!"

The soldiers also saluted.

"No courtesy." The emperor's majestic voice came from inside the dragon carriage, but there seemed to be a hint of fatigue in this voice.

The city lord of Suzhou got up and stepped forward, but was stopped by the guards in front of the car, the city lord smiled embarrassedly, and said to the guards: "The saint has been tired all the way, now please follow me to the city lord's mansion to rest for a while." ”

The guard nodded, and relayed the words of the city lord to the chariot, and after hearing the reply from the chariot, the guard said, "You are leading the way." ”

"Yes," replied the lord of the city, adding as if remembering something, "I have already called for a feast to be prepared, just waiting for the arrival of the Holy One." ”

With that, the city lord mounted the horse that the soldiers had led for him, turned back to the guards again and smiled, and walked in the direction of the city lord's mansion. The city lord was a little annoyed, he wanted to take this opportunity to leave a good eye for the emperor, but he didn't know that it was not so easy to see this first side, but he thought again that the emperor should stay in Suzhou City for a while, and he was not in a hurry at this time.

The Lord's Mansion, the dining room.

At this moment, in the dining room, there was a lot of noise, and many cooks were preparing for the emperor's reception banquet. Zhao Wuya was also among them, obviously, this was the opportunity he had obtained at the cost of one eye from Zuo Zongming.

At this moment, he was skillfully cooking, and his movements attracted the amazement of many cooks around him, but if he didn't even have this ability, he didn't need to live—his nervousness eased slightly.

"You listen to me," the door of the dining room was suddenly opened, and the steward hurriedly walked in, "The city lord has already received the saint, and is on the way back to the city lord's mansion, the progress of the reception banquet will be mentioned to me, if the saint arrives at the banquet and the meal is not ready, even if you have a hundred lives at that time, it will not be enough to die!" ”

Hearing this, the cooks replied again and again, Zhao Wuya shook his somewhat tired hands, took a deep breath, and once again picked up the knife and fell towards the ingredients on the cutting board.

Half an hour later.

The city lord settled down the emperor and his party, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't say a few words to the emperor, but he also felt that it was enough, after all, there was a reception banquet soon, and there was almost a chance with the emperor.

"City Lord."

A voice came from behind him.

"How?"

He didn't turn around, just asked. This person is his confidant, he has a good body, and his hiding skills are also first-class, as early as when the emperor has not arrived in Suzhou City, the city lord has sent this person out to observe the itinerary of the emperor and his party in advance, and teach him to prepare for it.

"It's a little strange, when I went to check the emperor's whereabouts before, although the convoy was moving at a normal speed, the horses in the convoy were all panting, as if they had just experienced a wild run. I had just gone to look at the horses and chariots that they had given us to look after, and most of the horses were exhausted, and almost all of the roof of the chariots had been splashed with muddy water, and there was no doubt that before I saw the convoy, they were almost driving their horses to gallop as hard as they could, and they must have slowed down when they were close to the city of Suzhou. ”

"So......" thought the city lord, "I'm afraid it wasn't something that happened before. ”

The Unsullied Inn.

The brother and sister are playing chess.

"Girl, you've lost again."

Haitang smiled, and while dropping the white child, sealing the last corner of the black child.

"Don't play, don't play," Xiao Yue was a little annoyed, "You are obviously bullying me." ”

Begonia smiled and shook her head helplessly.

"Brother, it's time for us to go."

"At this time, it's really about the same," Haitang looked at the dim sky outside the window, "The old friends are almost all here, let's go." ”

"Brother, what about the old city?" Xiao Yue frowned slightly and asked.

"I'll let people go to the small town, the show will be staged, and the small town will be an audience."

Pulling down the hood again, the old town stepped into the streets in the rain.

She knew that the emperor would come to Suzhou City today, but she didn't know when the emperor would arrive, and after struggling for so long, she felt that she had to do something.

She had no destination, but she knew that Begonia must have been sending someone to watch her, and her purpose was to lure this person out.

"I know you're here," she tried to speak into the air, "can you come out and see you?" ”

Empty streets, only the sound of raindrops hitting the ground.

The old city crouched down and looked at a small puddle on the ground not far away.

"You told me before that the emperor would be in Suzhou City today, but even if I know the news, what about it? I can't do anything, so why are you telling me the news? ”

There was still only the sound of rain all around, and the old city was still staring at the small puddle.

"If the emperor goes to Suzhou City, presumably my master will also appear, I just want to do something for my master."

The old city paused for a moment, still staring at the puddle, but the sparkle in his eyes seemed to fade.

"I have no father or mother since I was a child, and if I didn't have a master, I would have become a lonely ghost," she recounted the past by herself, "It was the master who picked me up and pulled me up, and taught me what he had learned all his life......"

The old city was silent, and after a while, he spoke again, but there was a little crying: "I just want to help the master......"

"Old City Girl," a voice sounded, and the Old City followed the prestige, and a figure wrapped in a dark blue cloak slowly walked from the rain curtain, and this person said a little helplessly, "In Xia Liang Zhi, if you really want to help your master, I don't think what you should do at this moment is to go to your master recklessly...... Brother Tang has also explained, you can act with me today, I can take you to the City Lord's Mansion, but we can only be bystanders, and neither you nor I can affect anything that will happen next. ”

"That's enough."

The Lord's Mansion, a courtyard.

The graceful and luxurious woman stood in front of the steps, watching the rain falling on the eaves, although she had arrived in Suzhou and had settled down in the city lord's mansion, but she always had this shadow in her heart, she didn't believe that the assassination the day before yesterday had nothing to do with them, her intuition told her that they must be planning something, but all this, she couldn't say to anyone else, even her husband, the emperor of the Qiang Kingdom.

"The queen mother is so good at Yaxing," the voice she didn't want to hear at the moment sounded suddenly, "The reception banquet prepared for you is about to start, why don't you prepare well, why watch the rain here?" ”

"Thank you for what you have given me." She replied lightly.

"What, it's our fault?" The woman walked to the queen's side, "I thought the queen was thinking about things and nostalgic for the past." ”

"What do you mean?" The queen turned to the woman.

The woman smiled faintly and said slowly: "That year, the night you said goodbye to him, it also rained a lot. ”

"You?!" The queen's body shook, "Why are you here?" ”

"If the queen is willing to tell me the truth about what happened back then, maybe I will be willing to tell you," the woman smiled exaggeratedly, and without waiting for the queen to speak, she added, "The truth I am talking about is not only the assassination of the emperor twenty-two years ago, probably, there were some things before that, and it is not as simple as it seems." ”

The "......" queen fell silent.

"Oh," the woman seemed very proud, and her smile became a little enchanting, "The queen doesn't speak, is this a tacit acquiescence?" ”

"I don't know what you're talking about." The queen said coldly.

"Really? But from the information I have learned, it may not be," the woman said, putting her hand on the queen's shoulder, "Queen's mother, you say, how did a good pair of fairy couples end up like this?" ”

"I don't know what you're talking about!" The queen's voice sharpened a little, and she wanted to shake off the woman's hand on her shoulder.

"Girl, stop messing around."

Another voice rang out.

"Brother, I'm not messing around!"

Hearing this, the woman frowned slightly, and withdrew the arm that was on the queen's shoulder. The queen turned to look, but was a little stunned.

"What, can't you see my brother stunned?"

The woman on the side sneered.

"You," the queen looked at the man, and then at the woman beside her, and then realized a question that she had ignored for seven years, "your appearance, why-"

"We're asking you questions."

The woman interrupted the queen's words, and the queen looked at the woman, but subconsciously took a few steps back.

"Queen Mother, I haven't seen you for many years, and you are still so charming,"

The man spoke: "We are looking for you this time, I think my girl has already told you the day before yesterday, I am entrusted by others, and the old rules are old." ”

The queen opened her mouth, speechless.

"I won't go around in circles, I guess it's about half an hour before the reception banquet is ready, we don't have much time, so I'll get straight to the point.

"We have never revealed the identity of our employers, and we ask for the Queen's understanding.

"Well, if the truth of the matter is really what we expected, it doesn't hurt to make an exception. All we want to know is the truth about the assassination of the emperor twenty-two years ago, and of course, as the girl said before, there may be more than this truth. ”

"Did he send you?" The queen finally spoke, but her voice sounded a little unsteady.

"Queen, please answer our questions." The man said lightly, although his style of acting seemed quite reasonable, in the eyes of the queen, this person was more dangerous than the woman on the side.

He ...... How are you doing all these years? The queen did not answer the man's question. The man did not have any expression fluctuations on his face, and was about to speak, but was preempted by the woman on the side: "What do you say?" ”

The man frowned slightly, and then said, "You can take this as a reminder of our employer's identity, or is it the same sentence, please ask the queen mother to answer our question." ”

"......," the queen was silent for a moment, and finally replied, "yes." ”

"Well, then, we'll listen."

Turning around again, the queen looked at the rain curtain again, took a deep breath, and she slowly spoke:

"Twenty-two years ago, the person who wanted to assassinate the emperor was not Prince Mu, but me."