Although Jungmu County is located as a fortress on the official road of Gyeonggi Road, it is not an upper county. In this agrarian society, although there are more than 40,000 households in the county, most of them are ordinary farming households.

The county seat is not big, because it guards the official road that enters the capital from the west, there are many foreign merchants who stay here in the county seat, and all kinds of inns and warehouses in the city have also become a landscape with local characteristics.

As the night deepened, there were fewer pedestrians coming and going on the main streets of the county, and many coolies who made a living by carrying bags and goods were in company, wiping the sweat on their faces, carrying the heavy wages of today's hard work in their arms, and rushing home with joy and laughter.

The post station of the government is on the north side of the street that has just entered the east gate, and because it often receives passing officials, the post station is also very decently built.

In addition to a three-storey building facing the street, there are many small courtyards in the spacious courtyard at the back for those dignitaries with status to rest.

The funeral procession led by Yang Huairen had more than 200 people, accounting for almost half of the courtyard of the post station, and the coffin containing the body of the Empress Dowager Gao was stored separately in a courtyard in the middle.

The coffin was too heavy to be unloaded from the wagon, so the four horses pulling the cart were unlasso and led to the stables to be fed and rested, while the body was left in the middle of the yard.

The local officials of a certain county attached great importance to it, summoned craftsmen to rush to work, and set up a large tent in the middle of the courtyard, and the tent was also full of various sacrificial objects and various prayer vessels, which was regarded as setting up a simple mourning hall for the Empress Dowager Gao.

According to Yang Huairen's instructions, in the courtyards around this courtyard, they were all the guards of the Tongyuan County Mansion led by him, and the accompanying officials of the Ministry of Rites and the palace people arranged for them to live in the outer courtyards.

The street outside was quiet, Yang Huairen looked at the sky, and said to Brother Hei Niu and the others beside him, "Tonight, I estimate that Gonggong Ye will come." ”

Brother Hei Niu nodded in approval, but asked suspiciously, "He...... Will it really come? If you come, do you have to carry a corpse on your back? ”

"If I'm right, he's sure he's ready to bring a corpse from someone he doesn't know to steal, that's for sure...... But it's also possible that he's playing tricks on me. ”

Brother Hei Niu fell into thought, as if he felt that what Yang Huairen said was very reasonable. If you think that Ye Gongguild will tell Yang Huairen his true plan, think about it is a little too simple.

Ye Gonggong is a good person, he is resourceful and thoughtful, and if he says it is ugly, he is an old fox, treacherous.

If he wants to rescue the Empress Dowager Gao and come up with such a plan, it will definitely not be as simple as ordinary people imagine, for a person who has ruined his big plan, and confess all his plans, at least Yang Huairen will not think like that.

Between the two people, it is now explained that it is cooperation, and Gonggong Ye also took out Yang Huairen's wife and children as a threat, but to say that the two people can trust each other, it is simply impossible.

Starting from the dispersion of the turtle, it shows that Gonggong Ye has been carefully planned. Yang Huairen also has secret agents in the city who are loyal to him, but in the past few days, these people have not found out the whereabouts of Ye Gonggong.

It is possible that he is hiding in a secret place in the palace, after all, the palace is too big, there are many places where he can hide, Gonggong Ye has lived in the palace for decades, and there are some unknown hiding places, which is not difficult to think.

And the internal guards of the other halls in the city, the known internal guards, although they were a little surprised after Empress Dowager Gao lost power, but the quality of internal guards they had cultivated over the years did not make them panic for a while.

Almost everyone lost contact with the upper echelons of the internal guard, and Gonggong Ye disappeared out of thin air, leaving Yang Huairen, the deputy head of the internal security, who was on the surface, they didn't know if they could be trusted.

It's not that no one came to Toucheng, Yang Huairen was too busy to come out these days, and he didn't have time to meet with these internal guards who came to Toucheng one by one, so he had to appoint Lian Zilu and Lian Zizhou, who were more familiar with internal guards, to meet with them.

When they saw those people, they passed a message to them on behalf of Yang Huairen, which basically meant that the internal guard would not be disbanded, and the internal guard would develop and grow in the future, but the way of development and growth, Yang Huairen let them sell it, only saying that it must be better than the current situation, but did not elaborate.

For them, the arrangement was to let them wait quietly for a while, and at the same time, some people who were originally familiar with Lian Zigeng and his three brothers asked them to observe the movements in the city, especially the movements of other people in the internal guard, and then report the abnormal situation found in time.

With such an order, they are not hesitant at all, but the current situation in the court, they also know in their hearts, Ye Gonggong's side is gradually losing power, and Yang Huairen is a celebrity in front of the official family, who is more promising, they are not unclear.

Of course, there are also some people who are loyal to Ye Gonggong and are his cronies, but most of the internal guards, including many secret agents, prefer to continue to hide in the shadows and watch the changes, waiting for the situation to be clearer before they make their own choices.

The internal guard's ability to spy on the news is not weak, but these days, no one has found the traces of Gonggong Ye and his cronies, which makes Yang Huairen feel that things are starting to get a little complicated.

Because the plan that he knew about Gonggong Ye came out of Gonggong Ye's mouth alone, coupled with Yang Huairen's own reasoning and judgment, he roughly guessed some clues.

However, all this speculation is just speculation, maybe it is very close to the actual situation, maybe Ye Gonggong just deliberately released such a smoke bomb, in order to deceive Yang Huairen's trust.

Therefore, the arrangement of "calculating the plan" prepared by Yang Huairen is also based on this speculation, if Gonggong Ye has other plans, then Yang Huairen's response may be a trap of others.

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement in the courtyard, and Yang Huairen couldn't help but yawn.

As soon as his mouth was slammed and closed, there was a rapid knock on the door from outside the main entrance of the post house.

Yang Huairen became vigilant and let Brother Hei Niu and the others continue to guard, while he took Brother Tianba to the main gate to see what was going on outside.

The guy at the inn cursed some inaudible scolding of the girl in his mouth, and ran to open the door wearing only a pair of calf-nosed pants.

As soon as the latch opened, the knocker outside pushed the door hard and rushed in, shouting, "Oh no, haunted!" ”