Speaking of this, Wan Dugui also looked innocent and helpless, "Don't say you don't know, even I don't know why Your Majesty wants to put me in prison, I entered the palace to ask to see me after I came to Pingcheng that day, and after entering the palace, I was arrested and locked up here without even seeing His Majesty's face!" ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he was even more puzzled in his heart, why did the emperor want to lock up Wandu? It can't be without reason, Tuoba Tao is young and has no neuropathy, there must be an unknown reason for this!

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and asked: "My subordinates heard that Tuoba Su, a senior official from the foreign capital, is in charge of hearing your case, I don't know if it has been tried?" ”

"I was tried the day after I was imprisoned, but I asked some puzzling questions, and I haven't tried it since."

That's even weirder!

Zhao Junsheng couldn't figure out the reason for this, he remembered Wan Yutong's matter, and asked: "Military master, Miss Wan came to Pingcheng with you, right?" You're in prison now, she must be in a hurry, right? ”

Wan Du Gui sighed: "I haven't seen Tong'er for several months! That day, I took my own soldiers to pass through Shanwu County to take her to Pingcheng, but I didn't expect that the house was empty, I was crazy, broke down the door to check, and found that the house had been uninhabited for a long time, and I sent people to inquire about the neighbors, and they said that the house was uninhabited soon after the beginning of spring this year! ”

"Didn't you send someone to guard Miss Wan there, military master? What about the guards? ”

Wan Dugui said anxiously: "I also wonder why those guards are gone!" ”

Zhao Junsheng hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, military master, Miss Wan may have entered the palace, you should have acquaintances in the palace, right?" Find someone to inquire and it will be clear"

"Impossible, if Tong'er enters the palace, it is impossible not to tell me!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said to Wan Dugui: "Don't worry, military master, I will send someone to look around after I go out, I believe that Miss should be fine!" ”

After a while, a jailer walked in with a food box, Zhao Junsheng took the food box and opened it, took out the wine and food and put them on the ground one by one, poured the wine and talked with Wan Dugui while drinking.

Wandugui's mood was very low and decadent, Zhao Junsheng only drank one cup of wine, and the rest was drunk by Wandugui alone, and after drinking, the whole person was drunk unconscious.

Zhao Junsheng had no choice but to leave the prison and return to the inn with Lu Xuanbo.

On the way back to the inn, the two of them were riding horses and talking about the return of Wandu, and Lu Xuanbo asked, "Young Master, what are you going to do next?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about this matter many times, if Wan Dugui said that Wan Yutong did not enter the palace, then he suspected that Wan Yutong did not have an accident, but left by himself, as for where he went, no one knows, the purpose of leaving is naturally to avoid Tuobatao.

"General Wan has no shortage of people to take care of here, he has a house in Pingcheng, and the general Wan Quan and a cadre of soldiers live in that house, and they go to visit him every day and bring him food, wine and food! Miss Wan may be in the palace, because she angered Tuoba Tao, so General Wan was implicated, I have to find a way to determine whether Miss Wan is in the palace! ”

After Zhao Junsheng finished saying this, Lu Xuanbo said in a calm tone: "Young Master, have you found anything?" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled faintly: "Isn't it just that he was targeted by a few little ghosts?" ”

"Do you want me to deal with them?"

"Don't act rashly!" Zhao Junsheng stopped, "Don't worry, don't look back, let's just pretend to be casual and return to the inn without noticing!" Since we appeared at the gate of the prison and have been targeted by them, I suspect that this matter has something to do with Wandugui, if my guess is correct, then the identity of these people is not simple, it is very likely that they are the people of the egret! ”

The official of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Bailu, this is an official name, which is equivalent to the commander of the Jinyi Guard in the Ming Dynasty, the head of the spies! It's just that Bailu's power and strength are far inferior to Jinyiwei, but this spy agency of the Northern Wei Dynasty is by no means easy to mess with.

Nothing was said all night.

In the early morning, the birds chirped on the branches outside the window, Zhao Junsheng got up with a yawn, he walked to the window and pushed the window open a gap, and the street was full of people, and from time to time there was a shouting sound.

Under the eaves of the opposite shop, there were two idlers, seven or eight feet apart, and their eyes glanced at the inn from time to time.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, closed the window tightly, changed into a regular suit, turned around and went outside the room to ask the shopkeeper to call cold water to wash, and after washing, he called Lu Xuanbo and the others downstairs for breakfast.

Breakfast was a few steamed cakes and two plates of pickles, Zhao Junsheng buried himself in hard work, and said while eating: "Lao Lu, you will stay in the inn with them today, and if you want to go out, you must go out together, you can't be separated!" I've got to do one thing out there with two stalkers! ”

Lu Xuanbo also knew that Zhao Junsheng's skills were extraordinary, and there would be no problems, so he agreed: "Okay!" ”

After breakfast, Zhao Junsheng climbed over the wall from the backyard and walked out of the inn, wandering around Pingcheng alone, and came to the vicinity of the palace while walking.

There are two walls between the palace and the outer city, one is the outer wall and the other is the palace wall. There is also a large amount of open space between the outer city wall and the palace wall, and the Taishe and the Taimiao are built on the left and right sides of the central axis.

The central axis leads to the palace gate, and there are elephant Wei (a pair of tall buildings outside the palace gate, also called que) on both sides of the palace gate.

Zhao Junsheng sat by the window on the second floor of a restaurant on the edge of the outer city wall, drinking and eating, while observing the traffic on the street below.

When the meal was about to be eaten, Zhao Junsheng saw that a person below was walking towards the outer city wall, and immediately dropped a handful of copper coins and ran downstairs to chase after him.

"This father-in-law, wait a minute!" Zhao Junsheng stopped a small eunuch who was walking in front.

When the little eunuch heard the voice, he stopped and turned to look at Zhao Junsheng, frowned and asked, "What is the matter with your person calling our house?" If you have nothing to do, leave quickly, don't delay our family to go back to the palace to send rouge gouache to the mother! ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at the little eunuch, and saw that he was holding a bottle of high-grade rouge gouache in his hand, looking at this bottle, he knew that it was not an ordinary thing, it should be worth a lot of money, and this little eunuch should be someone next to a nobleman in the palace.

He arched his hand and said: "This father-in-law, Zhao Junsheng is polite!" In the palace, there is a township named Zong Ai, who is on an errand by the side of His Majesty the Emperor, and wants to ask my father-in-law to do a favor to send a message to Zong Ai, which is a little careful, and ask my father-in-law to help this in any way! After saying that, he handed over a golden cake.

The little eunuch was a little surprised, he didn't take the golden cake, "You are a fellow villager of the father-in-law?" ”

"Exactly, we are both fellow villagers and classmates!"

Zhao Junsheng looked at the reaction of this little eunuch and felt that he should know Zong Ai. Those who are on errands beside the emperor, not to mention the eunuchs and palace ladies in the palace, which of those ministers is not stammering? How can they not even know each other?

The little eunuch smiled and said, "I see, your name is Zhao Junsheng, right?" There is no need to pass on a word, what do you want to pass on to him? ”

"The troublesome father-in-law told him that Zhao Junsheng came to Pingcheng and lived in the Xinglong Inn on East Erfang Street, and wanted to meet him, I was at the Xinglong Inn for the past two days, and if he was free, he would come here!"

"Okay, we'll bring the words! Our family's name is Jia Zhou, and we are on an errand beside Mrs. Helian, if Zhao Gongzi sees Zonggong, please ask Gongzi to say a few good words for our family in front of Zonggong! ”

It seems that this love should be mixed well in the palace, Zhao Junsheng muttered in his heart, and he immediately agreed: "Certainly, definitely, this little meaning is also asked to accept it by Father-in-law Jia, if you don't accept it, you won't be at ease!" ”

Jia Zhou was stunned, immediately smiled, picked up the gold cake and put it in his sleeve, arched his hand and turned away.

Zhao Junsheng watched Jia Zhou quickly pass through the outer city gate, and he muttered, "Jia Zhou? How familiar is this name? ”

Turning around and walking for a while, Zhao Junsheng suddenly stopped, he suddenly remembered who Jia Zhou was, "I said, it seems that when Zong An killed Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao, the third son Tuoba Han and the fourth emperor Tuoba Yu, there was a henchman eunuch named Jia Zhou by his side, could it be this little eunuch?" The cake seller, listening to Jia Zhou's words just now, he shouldn't have become Zong Ai's confidant yet, didn't I bring the two of them together? ”

"What a sin!" Zhao Junsheng was really speechless, he could meet Jia Zhou if he met a eunuch on the street, what else could he say?

However, it was said that Jia Zhou passed through the outer city gate all the way and returned to the palace through the palace gate.

This Pingcheng Imperial Palace is in an inverted "convex" shape, and the convex area of the Imperial City District, the Imperial Court Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Secretary Province, and Zhucao Ya Office are all located here.

After passing through the Imperial City, Jia Zhou entered the real palace city, which was divided into the front palace and the back palace. The front palace is the place where the emperor deals with important military and political affairs, receives the envoys of Fanbang, and worships, and is divided into the east palace, the middle palace, and the west palace.

The emperor dealt with important military and political affairs in the east hall on the southeast side of the Taiji Hall in the middle palace every day, and sometimes went to the west hall opposite to rest, and was generally in the Taiji Hall during the official court meeting.

At this time, when he first arrived, Jia Zhou thought that the emperor should now review the music in the East Hall, so Zong An, as the emperor's close attendant, should also serve by the emperor's side, so he went directly to the door of the East Hall to find an old eunuch and asked: "Is Grandpa Zong here?" ”

The old eunuch was very vigilant, "Who are you and in which palace are you on duty?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, the younger one is Jia Zhou next to Mrs. Helian, and I have something important to report to my father-in-law!"

The old eunuch saw that Jia Zhou didn't look like he was lying, and ordered: "You wait here, don't walk around!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The old eunuch turned around and walked to the gate of the east hall to look inside, and saw that Zong An was holding the dust on the side of the emperor's imperial case, so he quietly glanced at Zong An.

Zong Ai saw a figure shaking outside the door, raised his eyes and saw that it was his eunuch, so he turned to Tuoba Tao and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, let them send some more refreshments!" After speaking, he retreated and walked out of the east hall.

Coming to the door, Zong An asked the old eunuch, "What's the matter?" ”

The old eunuch pointed to Jia Zhou not far away: "That little cub's name is Jia Zhou, serving by Mrs. Helian's side, he said that he has something important to see you!" ”

Jia Zhou walked up to Jia Zhou with a dusty face: "Your name is Jia Zhou?" What do you want to see us? ”

"Jia Zhou visited Zongzhong Cao, the villain does have something important to report to Zhongcao, but it's just ······"

Zhongcao is an internal court institution that serves the emperor's diet and daily life, and is filled by eunuchs, and the chief official is called Zhongcao Supervisor.

When Zong Ai saw his expression, he knew that he wanted others to know about it, so he pushed the old eunuch away.

Jia Zhou then spoke: "Just now the villain went outside the palace to buy rouge gouache for Mrs. Helian, and met a person on the way back, he called himself Zhao Junsheng, said that he was a fellow villager of Zhongcao, and let the villain pass the word on his behalf, he was at the Xinglong Inn on East Erfang Street these two days, if you have leisure to go to get together!" ”

Zong Ai was surprised when he heard this, "What? Brother Zhao came to Pingcheng? ”