On this night, a few stars hung alone in the vast night sky. A cold wind blew, and the stretched branches of a row of bare trees swayed in the wind, casting mottled shadows on the ground.

Guan Yu cleaned up and down neatly, dressed in a black night coat, tightened a package on his back, gently pushed open the window, observed around for a moment, and then jumped lightly and flew up to the roof.

Tossing and turning, like a vigorous tanuki, he silently jumped from roof to roof, and soon came to the foot of the tall vermilion palace walls. His eyes sparkled in the darkness, and after carefully observing his surroundings for a moment, he took a light breath and leaped up, quickly crouching down at the top of the wall, looking around.

He didn't notice: not long after leaving the inn, a short and stubby figure fell in the distance behind him, also dressed in black night clothes. The man obviously didn't mean to disturb him, but just followed him from a short distance and watched his every move.

It wasn't until he flew up the tall and wide vermilion palace wall that the black shadow behind him stopped, lying motionless on a roof ridge and continued to watch his movements.

In the warm study, the lights are bright.

Li Hongji put down the red pen in his hand, gently pushed away the piece spread out in front of him, and stretched his waist.

Seeing this, Zheng Decai, the old eunuch on duty, hurriedly walked a few steps and served a bowl of lukewarm bird's nest porridge.

"Holy Lord, the hour is not early, you have to go to the pilgrimage early tomorrow morning, Holy Lord should take care of the dragon body, why don't you rest earlier?" Gonggong Zheng asked in a cautious whisper.

Li Hongji nodded lightly and replied, "Let's finish drinking this bowl of porridge." He glanced back at the pile of unreadable pieces and frowned and sighed: "It is difficult to be a man, especially to be a king, and it is even more difficult to be a diligent and promising king!" ”。

Zheng Decai nodded approvingly: "The saint has indeed been overworked recently, and even the old slave is quite sympathetic. Why don't you select another Dazai from among the hundred officials as soon as possible, so that you can assist the Holy Lord in handling some chores? ”。

Li Hongji raised his eyes to look at Zheng Decai for a while, and sighed softly.

Gonggong Zheng thought that he had accidentally said something wrong, so he hurriedly bowed his head and knelt on the ground, and said in his mouth: "The old slave is talking nonsense for a while, please forgive the saint." ”

Li Hongji raised his right hand lightly and said, "Calm down, my sigh has nothing to do with you." To tell the truth, among the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, I did not find anyone who could be trusted and trusted! In the past, the widow really couldn't believe them, so he had to do everything himself! ”。

Gonggong Zheng got up from the ground tremblingly, nodded thoughtfully, and hung his head silently.

Neither of them noticed: a black figure was silently hanging upside down and sliding to the ground on a stout pillar not far behind them.

As soon as Li Hongji raised his head, he was the first to see Guan Yu, who was wearing a black night suit, and was pacing over in a hurry, and couldn't help but be shocked, and shouted in a creepy voice: "What person?" ”。

When Gonggong Zheng looked back, his hair stood on end as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight, stood up in front of Li Hongji, and shouted as if someone had suddenly choked his neck: "Escort!" Escort! ”。

With his mournful shout, Hula rushed in more than a dozen palace guards with steel knives in their hands, with strong physiques and full muscles.

Guan Yu glanced at them coldly, and said in his heart: Could these be the legendary masters of Ouchi?

He smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Don't panic, forgive me for being abrupt." There was no malice in the following, but he just fulfilled his promise and came to thank him. ”

When Li Hongji saw the appearance of the person who came, instead of calming down, he was even more shocked. On Guan Yu's hippie smile, he didn't seem to notice a greater threat for the time being.

He calmed himself down and said to the guards beside him, "Don't be in a hurry to do it yet, I want to hear what he wants to say." ”

At this time, Guan Yu also stopped, although the two were close to each other, they seemed to be far away.

In the suffocating silence, Li Hongji looked Guan Yu up and down with curiosity. After a while, he spoke: "You can actually pass the layers of guards in this palace to meet me, but you also have some ability!" Why did you come with such a sacrifice of your life? ”。

Guan Yu lowered his eyes, lowered his head and respectfully clasped his fists and saluted: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, the saint has won the award." There is no malice at all, please remove these guards first. ”

Li Hongji hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand calmly: "You all go down first, I have my own sense of proportion." ”

Gonggong Zheng exclaimed in surprise: "Holy Lord, absolutely not! You are the Son of Destiny, and you must not put yourself in danger."

Li Hongji confidently waved to the guards who were standing still and said, "It's okay, you guys stand down." If he had the intention to cause harm, he would have done it secretly a long time ago, and he would never dare to appear in front of the widow. ”

Guan Yu nodded slightly, which counted as an answer. secretly said in his heart: This emperor of Great Qi is also a little bold and knowledgeable.

Those Ouchi guards did not dare to disobey the holy decree, and hesitated to withdraw from the door, but they did not dare to leave, holding the steel knife in their hands outside the door, ready to rush in at any time to rescue the driver.

Guan Yu casually took off the package on his shoulder, put it in his hand and said: "Two days ago, I borrowed a piece of beautiful jade and a few gold bars from the saint, and Ren promised to come to the door to thank you, and these rights should be regarded as a thank you gift. ”

Gonggong Zheng stepped forward very uneasily, took the package, turned back to the table, and gently opened the package.

A pile of gold, silver, jewelry, and jade treasures rolled out, Li Hongji leaned over and looked at it, even more surprised, he couldn't help but look back at Guan Yu and said, "You are so bold, do you know that many of these things are given to you by widows and meritorious officials?" but you stole it and gave it back to the widow! ”。

Guan Yu smiled: "I really don't know this. But these items are enough to offset the jade and the gold bars, right? ”。

Li Hongji said with a gloomy face: "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister!" Do you think the widow cares about these things outside of the body? ”。

Guan Yu replied calmly: "Actually, I didn't pay attention to them, I just fulfilled my promise and talked about my heart." I hope that the saint can ignore the past suspicions and release the girl as soon as possible. Just because she's so innocent. ”

Li Hongji's face became even more ugly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I have never seen a person as bold and reckless as you in my life, and I don't know whether to live or die!" What is the relationship between the Smoke Girl and you? ”。

Guan Yu replied neither humbly nor arrogantly: "It's not a relative, it's not a cause, and we meet in Pingshui." ”

Li Hongji was stunned and asked: "The state has national laws, if the widow beheads her according to the law, what will happen to you?" ”。

Guan Yu smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly: "You won't, you like her!" ”。 As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to a portrait not far away.

Li Hongji glanced back, and couldn't help but blush.

Gonggong Zheng's clothes were already wet with sweat, and he couldn't believe his ears: this thief was blatant, rebellious, and had no king, and had already committed hundreds of major crimes of bullying the king. In the past, even if hundreds of heads were cut off, but today, for some reason, the Holy One did not have a thunderous rage! It's weird!

(To be continued in this chapter)