When night falls, Tianjing City is a peaceful picture. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and many wine shops are decorated with lights to attract visitors, and Xiao Er greets enthusiastically in front of the door, loudly promoting his own good wine and food.

On the Tianjing River, the painting boats came and went constantly, the lights even faintly overwhelmed the wine shops on the shore, and the sound of the warbler Yanyan mixed with the sound of the piano spread all over the river, I don't know how many bloody men were disturbed.

"How did you choose this kind of place?" The person who spoke was Liu Guang, the head of the household, who was sitting in the box on the fourth floor of the painting boat at the moment, and the opposite person was the man in black who left the eldest princess's mansion in the afternoon, that is, the gentleman under the willow.

"This kind of fireworks place is safe, don't mind Liu Shilang." There was a faint smile in the voice under the black veil, and I don't know if it was because there were outsiders here or something, he changed his voice, and it sounded like a child of seven or eight years old.

"Son, how did you get on our boat of the Nine Light Pavilion and still hide it, are you afraid that the girls will see their true faces and dare not get close to you." The old bustard, who was wearing heavy makeup, gently patted the shoulder of the gentleman under the willow with her fat hands, and she thought that her charming movements were like sow essence in Liu Guang's eyes.

"That's right, how can the prince hide his face!" A group of girls also came up to laugh at the strange dress of the gentleman under the willow, and suddenly a red and willow green covered Liu Guang's sight.

"My cloak is not something that everyone can uncover." Liu Xia gentleman pretended to be mysterious, he looked at Liu Guang's darkening face, handed a silver ticket to the old bustard, and said, "Hurry up and pick two Qingqi people to come up and serve us, and there will be a reward for serving." You can take these girls away, I don't like them. ”

The old bustard took the silver ticket, and when he saw it, it was not only the silver ticket of the Jinli Trading Company, which was common to the entire Han Dynasty, but also the silver ticket clearly said one thousand taels.

The old bustard's voice became even more charming: "Oh, what is this master, wait a minute, the Qingqi people will come soon." Let's go, girls! With that, he twisted her round ass and led a group of girls away, and the pace was so fast that it was not at all in harmony with her stout body, as if she was afraid that the gentleman would take back the silver ticket.

The gentleman came back to his senses, only to see that Liu Guang's face was so black that he could drip water, he had always been strict with others and strict with himself, such a place of fireworks, he had always been disdainful, and today he was invited here just to taste the Qing people?

"Liu Shilang wait a minute, the two Qingqi people are just covering people's eyes. Let's drink first! As he spoke, he raised the wine glass to Liu Guang, and Liu Guang had to pick up the wine glass and take a sip.

Liu Guang smashed his mouth, and found that it made sense that this Jiuguang Pavilion had become the largest fireworks field in Beijing. He Liu Guang has been in charge of the household department for more than ten years, not to mention great wealth, but it is still much better than Wan Kefa, plus he has always liked wine, I don't know how much good wine in Beijing has tasted, even a sip of wine just now, in his eyes, it will never be ordinary.

Seeing Liu Guang's careful tasting, the gentleman of Liu Xia smiled and said: "The wine of this Jiuguang Pavilion is all from Guiping Province, and the wine used here in the Guangnan Palace, this wine is definitely not worse than the wine in the palace." As he spoke, he filled the wine glass for Liu Guang.

The gentleman poured the wine to the full, and before the person sat down, he heard someone knocking on the door and asked delicately: "Second master, can the slave family come in?" ”

"Let's open the door!" The gentleman put down his wine glass, got up and opened the door, and two beautiful women entered the door, one holding the pipa, and the other had nothing in his hand, probably to sing a song.

The gentleman closed the door, walked behind the two women, and took advantage of the moment when the two women did not care, two hand knives slashed at the back of the woman's neck, and the two women did not make a sound, but fell softly into the arms of the gentleman under the willow, he picked up the two women diagonally, put them on the bed in the middle, took the pipa himself, gently stroked the strings, and a beautiful music floated from the house to the outside.

"Will you wake up?" Liu Guang asked.

"Liu Shilang can rest assured, I have a measured approach."

"Tell me, there's something you want me to do." Liu Guang received a secret letter from Wan Kefa, and only then did he come to this Jiuguang Pavilion, looking at the person in front of him who was shrouded in darkness, there was still some distrust in his eyes.

"Liu Shilang, your son is preparing to get married after the Mid-Autumn Festival?" Yanagishita asked.

"How did you find out?" Liu Guang's eyes flashed slightly, and he said, "Lord Wan didn't send you here just to tell me about Xiao'er's marriage." ”

"Liu Shilang, if the marriage of your son is not completed, the daughter of ten thousand adults will become the queen of my Han." The gentleman under the willow voice was low.

"Ridiculous!" Liu Guang slapped the table, said loudly, and thought of the two sleeping women in the room, and then asked in a low voice: "The daughter of the Wan family is my daughter-in-law who has not passed the door, how can she go to the palace to be the queen." ”

"At this moment, the candidates for the queen are still in the hands of the adults in Beijing, I say this, Liu Shilang will definitely not believe it, then, Liu Shilang is willing to gamble with me."

"You say." Liu Guang took the wine glass in his hand and looked at the man in black with some interest.

"If the queen is not the daughter of the family, I will give your son a future; If so, I hope Liu Shilang will do something within his bounds. ”

"A future? My Liu family has always been bright and fair, why do you need to give a future? Liu Guang scoffed at the words of the gentleman under the willow.

"This future is not necessarily the career of your son, but it may also save your son's life." Although the gentleman of Yanagi said this, although it was still that immature voice, it was inexplicably overflowing with a yin aura.

"You ......" Liu Guang stood up, pointed his finger at the gentleman under the willow, and thought that he was in Beijing, but he was just a small waiter. At last, he sat down, but his expression changed markedly, and he said, "Tell me what is going on, I'll listen." ”

"Your son and the daughter of the ten thousand families are already engaged, if the ten thousand families regret the marriage, it will naturally be unfair to you Liu, and the ten families are ignorant, I hope that Liu Shilang can seek justice from the emperor."

"Justice from the Emperor?" Liu Guang smiled wryly and said, "I am a courtier, a small squire, and I don't have strong soldiers in hand, how can I seek justice from the emperor?" ”

"Shangshu resigns." Although the face of the gentleman under the willow was pierced through the black veil, Liu Guang still seemed to be able to feel the sharp eyes.

"Don't I have a choice?"

"Hahahaha," the gentleman laughed, his laughter was somewhat weird, and he said: "In this world, no one has to choose, Liu Shilang can promise to gamble." ”

"What can I get."

"The Emperor's Trust After He Came to Power."

"I'm not young anymore. The emperor's trust, leave it to the dogs. Liu Guang got up, saluted the gentleman with a fist, and said: "I don't have enough weight for the big man's affairs, so I don't want to know, I just hope that the adults will keep their promises." ”

The gentleman of Liu Xia got up and returned the salute and said: "Once the word is spoken, it is difficult for the horse to chase, but please rest assured that Liu Shilang!" As he spoke, he raised his glass and said to Liu Shilang, "Another drink?" ”

Liu Guang was relieved at this moment, and he also raised the wine glass, drank it all, and then put the wine glass on the table and said, "Farewell." ”

"Liu Shilang will leave early tomorrow morning, for fear of arousing suspicion." After saying this, the gentleman under the willow distorted his body like a ghost, and before Liu Guang could react, he was slashed and fainted by a hand knife.

"I'm sorry, Liu Shilang." The gentleman smiled and put Liu Guang and the two Qingqi people on the same bed, and in order to be more realistic, he also deliberately stripped off the clothes of the two Qingqi people, one on each side, and put them in Liu Guang's arms.

After doing all this, the gentleman went out of the inner room, but instead of the door, he jumped out of the half-hidden window, fell into the Tianjing River, and disappeared.

At this moment, a man who was holding the girl in the bow of the boat to feed the wine, out of the corner of his eye, saw a black shadow falling into the river through the bright lights, he immediately got up, lay on the edge of the boat and looked into the river, there was no wave at all.

"What are you doing?" The girl who was originally held in her arms pursed her lips to express her dissatisfaction.

"Nothing, nothing, be careful with your liver, and have another glass of wine."

"Nasty." The girl said, and leaned into the man's arms again. The shadow didn't bother anymore and disappeared into the night.

Xu Ge is on the way to the palace at the moment, although he is still dressed in the afternoon, but he already wears a knife on his waist, which he used when he was on the front line, after returning to Beijing, he stayed in the palace of King Qin, and never used it again, tonight, this knife was unsheathed again.

Because it had been useless for too long, the blade was a little rusty, and he carefully sharpened the knife before dark, wanting to use him to cut off the head of the unknown master. Xu Ge was the emperor's bodyguard, and the checks along the way did not affect his speed of entering the palace in the slightest.

"Who's there!" A guard guarding outside the Ansheng Palace saw Xu Ge coming from the Dao Duo West Gate at a glance, and he was the first person to check on Xu Ge tonight.

"I, Xu Ge."

"Ah, aren't you going home?" The guard held the torch, got closer, saw that it was really Xu Ge, and asked.

"I'll come back and see." Xu Ge's voice was flat and indistinguishable from usual, but he walked in front of the guard, and the extra knife on his waist was clearly seen by the guard.

"My lord, this ......" The guard was full of surprise, they were Xu De's people, and they knew Xu De's thoughts best, and when they saw the knife on Xu Ge's waist at this moment, they couldn't help but think about those places.

At this moment, the two walked outside the Ansheng Palace, across the palace wall, Xu Ge could already see the light coming from the palace, and he said to the guards behind him: "You withdraw everyone outside the palace wall, and I will go in alone." ”

"Yes." The guard took two steps forward, then suddenly turned around and said, "The prince wants to ......."

Xu Ge didn't speak, just shook his head. When the guards saw this, they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and went in to call people, and after a while, all the guards were withdrawn to the outside of the palace, and along the palace wall, the Ansheng Palace was full.

Xu Ge took off the knife in his hand and pulled the blade out of the scabbard. It may be because it has just been sharpened in the afternoon, and the blade of the knife is flickering in cold light under the double illumination of light and moonlight, and the atmosphere is overwhelming.

Xu Ge approached the gate of Ansheng Palace step by step, and the scabbard was thrown on the ground at will, but the tip of the knife dragged along the ground, shooting out two or three sparks, and the noise made was harsh and terrifying in this harem.

"Under the command of King Qin, the general Xu Ge, please show up and see him." Xu Ge stood still outside the Ansheng Palace, and said loudly to the palace.

At this moment, in the Ansheng Palace, the little emperor was holding Na Wan Jiao'er and making love, listening to this movement, he got up to look, but found that the two little eunuchs by the door were kneeling on the ground and trembling, so he also looked through the gap, and was attracted by the knife that Xu Ge dragged on the ground.

The cold light of the knife seemed to penetrate the emperor's chest through the emperor's eyes. The emperor, who was originally ruddy, turned pale in an instant, ran back to the bed in a few steps, and hugged Wan Jiao'er.

"What's wrong with the emperor." That Wan Jiao'er didn't know what it was outside that could make the emperor so afraid, and after listening to the voice just now, it was not Xu De who led the troops to force the palace.

"Knife, knife, that Xu Ge is going to kill me." The emperor buried his head and said vaguely.

When Wan Jiao'er saw such an emperor, she felt a little ridiculous, she was not afraid of the female stream, and only said: "The emperor is not surprised, how do you know that Xu Ge is coming for you, you ask first." ”

When the emperor heard this, he got up from the embroidered pillow, went to the door, and asked in a trembling voice: "Xu Ge, you, what are you doing!" There was a hint of crying in his voice. 、

"Minister Xu Ge, I came late at night to protect the emperor, and there are traitors around the emperor." Xu Ge's voice was not loud or small, not only the emperor heard it, but even the people in the Ansheng Palace and the guards outside the palace walls heard it.

The guards began to panic one by one, and they guarded it all day, and there were even people mixed in this Ansheng Palace? And the people in Ansheng Palace are also confused, in this Ansheng Palace, what is mixed into the traitor, everyone knows it, Xu De, your master, is the biggest rebel in the world!

Wan Jiao'er reacted vaguely, she knew who Xu De was talking about, but she couldn't speak.

"If Your Excellency doesn't show up again, don't blame Xu for being vicious." After Xu Ge said this, he waited and waited, but the surroundings of Ansheng Palace were still quiet and there was no sound.

At this time, Xu Ge moved, he raised the knife he was dragging in his hand, and the cold light of the blade was reflected on the pillar by the palace gate. Xu Geping raised the blade of the knife, then held the handle of the knife with his right hand, stepped back with his right foot, and the whole person stabbed towards the door of Ansheng Palace like an arrow.

At this moment, the emperor was watching Xu Ge's movements behind the door, and when he saw Xu Ge stabbing with a knife, he subconsciously stepped back, but because he stepped on the little eunuch guarding the door, he tripped and fell to the ground in embarrassment, holding his head in his hands, and screaming uncontrollably.

Seeing that the blade was about to pierce into the wooden door of Ansheng Palace, a boning knife flew out diagonally, Xu Ge immediately stopped, used his feet on the door frame to offset the inertia of the first knife, reversed his waist, and slashed horizontally, knocking the boning knife away and inserting it into another pillar. The blade of the one-foot-long blade was only half left on the outside of the pillar.

"Good means, Commander Xu has left his hand." Liu Baihe appeared, but covered his mouth and nose with a black cloth. He gradually straightened up on the rooftop, his back to the moonlight, exposed to the eyes of the guards outside the walls. It turned out that he had been lurking in the shadows of the second and third floors of the roof of the third floor of the Ansheng Palace, and as soon as Xu Ge entered the palace, someone ran to the imperial dining room to inform him.

The knife he just made was not the limit, originally he didn't expect such a knife to hurt or even end a master like Xu Ge, it was just a temptation, but looking at the extent to which the knife body was submerged into the pillar, he knew that Xu Ge kept his hand, and the knife that seemed to cross the mountains and seas was just an empty appearance, just to force him out, and the knife that stepped on the door frame and turned around was the point.

Xu Ge looked at the boning knife that had not entered the pillar, and said, "It turned out to be the imperial dining room, it is amazing." ”

Liu Baihe didn't care about staring at him outside the wall like a guard of a pack of wolves, landed on the side of the pillar in a few steps, pulled out his boning knife from it, he held the boning knife in his hand, saluted Xu De with a fist, and then said: "How did you know, King Qin knew?" ”

"The loophole is obvious, and it's my rereliction of duty." Xu Ge did not shy away from it, and said: "Let me try, how much ability do you have as a hero who entered the palace alone." As he spoke, Xu Ge raised the long knife in his hand again.

"Please." Liu Baihe turned the boning knife over and looked at Xu Ge.

This time, it was Xu Ge who moved first, his not small knife was all-iron and weighed thirty-six catties, but at this moment he waved it like he was wielding an ordinary sickle, he stepped forward with both feet, and in an instant he was in front of Liu Baihe.

Liu Baihe took a step back, and the slender and weak boning knife faced the big knife with the power of thunder. The two knives with huge gaps collided together, making a tooth-aching sound, and sparks shot out before the two of them, just as the sparks in their eyes took shape.

Seeing that the blow missed, Xu Ge leaned back with his knife and slashed sideways at Liu Baihe's waist with the inertia of the big knife. Liu Baihe saw Xu Ge put away the knife, but he didn't take the initiative to attack, but jumped up, as if he knew Xu Ge's next knife, and with the weight of his body, he pressed the knife on the knife that Xu Ge picked up diagonally.

Xu Ge's momentum was stagnant, Liu Baihe seized the opportunity, the boning knife slid along the blade to Xu Ge's hand holding the knife, between the lightning and flint, Xu Ge let go of the hand holding the knife, but the other hand smashed into Liu Baihe's heart with a fist, Liu Baihe immediately retracted the knife, jumped back, Xu Ge's punch, only smashed in the air, the falling long knife was caught by Xu Ge firmly with his toes, and then picked it up, and held the big knife in his hand with his right hand.

"Are you still coming?" Liu Baihe stood a few steps away and asked.

"Ugh." Xu Ge sighed first, and then plunged the knife into the ground beside him, the stone was as soft as tofu under his knife, "I can't help you, you are very strong." ”

"Commander Xu is not weak." Liu Baihe thought for a while and said, "If it's just to lure me out, King Qin's move is a bit excessive. ”

"I'm here to make a deal with the emperor on behalf of the prince, and it's just an incidental task to fight with you."

"Whose assignment are you?"

"I'm sorry, Commander Xu, I can't say." Liu Baihe looked helpless.

"It's okay, I know it too." Xu De actually smiled at this moment, the scar on his face was like a twisted dead vine.

"Will you kill the Emperor?"

"No, it won't."

"Then I'll take my leave, Commander Xu." After saying that, Liu Baihe jumped back, like a bird, and landed on the eaves of Ansheng Palace, followed by a few ups and downs, and disappeared between the palaces. The guards outside the palace wall all looked at each other, they only saw one person falling into the palace wall, and then, there were a few clear sounds of blade impact, and then the person who had entered the palace wall before actually crossed the palace wall and left.

This group of guards never imagined that in the past days, every night, there would be such a figure flying around their heads, and everyone had a yellow face, not knowing how to face King Qin.

Seeing that the man was far away, Xu Ge didn't pull out the knife, just walked to the palace gate in a few steps, knelt down and saluted, and said: "The emperor atoned for his sins, and the ministers were too late to save him." ”