The night was quiet, and the palace of the Qin State was quiet.

Ma Hu tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep.

He had something on his mind.

He wants to leave the army, he doesn't want to continue to be the chief general of the guard.

As Xiao Ruxun's third personal guard general, his status in the army is relatively high, because everyone knows that being Xiao Ruxun's personal guard is a broad road, basically after doing personal guard for a period of time, he can go to the army to be an officer, and easily become a person who leads the soldiers.

And the chief general of the personal guard is the best way, Xiao Ruxun is very powerful to promote the people he admires, the earliest Wang Hui is now the chief general of the firearms army, and he is in charge of the strongest firepower of the Zhennan Army.

The second-generation general Ma Wei is now also in the middle level of the army, and he can be regarded as a mainstay, he is the third-generation general, and when he calculates, it was time to be put in the army.

It's just that the war in the north is together, he followed Xiao Ruxun to the north, there are many battles, he can't think of it, Xiao Ruxun doesn't think about it, so he delays, and now is a good time.

Seeing that these people were about to be incorporated into the Beijing camp, in order to control the Beijing camp, Xiao Ruxun delegated officers to that was a very common method, and Ma Hu couldn't be allowed to care.

As a member of the Ma family general group in Xiao Ruxun's army faction whose influence is comparable to that of the Yuancong faction, Ma Hu is also very ambitious, he doesn't want to just be a pro-guard general until he is old, he also wants to gallop across the world.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about how to talk to Xiao Ruxun, and he has never thought of a way, and now, seeing that Xiao Ruxun is going to take office tomorrow, this is the last chance.

But it's so late, and he doesn't know if Xiao Ruxun has rested.

Thinking about it and thinking about it, he couldn't sleep, he was heartbroken, and planned to take advantage of the night to have a good talk with Xiao Ruxun and realize his dream of delegating and leading troops.

Getting up and dressing, and lighting a lantern, Ma Hu walked out of the house and ran into the patrol head-on.

"General!"

The five guards of the night watch of the patrol saluted him, and Mahu nodded.

"I'm going to find Shiro, you continue to patrol and strengthen your vigilance, don't slack off."

"Yes!"

The patrol soldiers quickly walked away, and Ma Hu continued to walk towards Xiao Ruxun's room.

The place where he lives is not far from where Xiao Ruxun lives, but there are a few high walls, it feels very far away, the place where the emperor rewarded is different, it is more than twice as large as the Zhennan Hou Mansion built by Xiao Ruxun himself in Myanmar, and it is also more luxurious, with rockery ponds and everything.

Ma Hu himself yearns for such a place, imagining that one day he will be able to live in such a big house.

The only thing that is a little bad is that there are too many twists and turns, and it is the destination behind the high wall, but it has to take a lot of detours to get in, which is more troublesome, and the Ma Hu, who is used to going straight, does not like this structure.

After a big circle, he finally came to the door of the courtyard where Xiao Ruxun lived, where there were lanterns lit, there were two guards, and then there was a courtyard wall, and two guards guarded, and four people kept vigil for Xiao Ruxun.

Ma Hu came to the door.

Two guards were immediately on the alert.

"Who?!"

"It's me! Can't recognize it? ”

Ma Hu walked under the lantern, then lifted the lantern in his hand to his chest, showed his appearance, looked at the two guards again, and then looked into the courtyard.

"Did Gong Qin sleep?"

Ma Hu asked the two men.

The two looked at each other, and the man on the left nodded.

"Yes, Gong Qin has already fallen asleep."

"Well, alas...... Forget it, I'll come back tomorrow! Keep a good vigil! ”

"Yes!"

The two guards immediately complied.

After speaking, Ma Hu sighed, and walked back the road he was going back to, and the pace became faster and faster.

Bypassing the two courtyard walls, Ma Hu stopped, suddenly breathing rapidly, and his eyes suddenly became flickering.

"Something's wrong!"

Ma Hu said in a low voice, then quickened his pace and walked back to his room, where he happened to run into the five-man patrol at the door of the room.

"Did you patrol the gate of Shiro's yard just now?"

The patrol looked at each other.

"I patrolled half an hour ago and found nothing."

"Didn't find anything? Then why do I smell blood?! ”

"Bloody ......"

Several members of the patrol were shocked.

"I remember that tonight's guard mission is Li Quanyou and Wang Baocai, guarding the outer wall, Liu Han and Zhang Jing guarding the inner wall, I can't see the two standing inside, but I don't know the two standing outside, the four of them may have been killed!"

The five soldiers of the patrol were already speechless in astonishment.

"I thought it was too dark and I didn't see their looks clearly, but they didn't call Shiro, they called Qin Gong ......"

Ma Hu was already very nervous in his heart: "Even if I misremember their appearance, how could the people of our pro-guard team call Qin Gong!" I'm afraid something happened to Shiro, it's not good, it's not good, it's really not good......"

"That'...... General, what to do? ”

A soldier asked.

“…………”

Ma Hu's brain was very confused, he forcibly calmed himself down, took a few deep breaths, and said: "Chang Chenghu, Ma Dashou, you two immediately call up the sleeping brothers, tell them not to make big moves, dress neatly, gather here with me, and prepare for battle!" ”

"Yes!"

The two soldiers immediately ran away.

The remaining three also looked at Ma Hu nervously.

What is happening now is too weird, and it is beyond the scope of Ma Hu's cognition.

This is the Jingshi, it is the Mansion of the Qin State, why does Shiro's courtyard smell of blood? Why wasn't the soldier who was supposed to be guarding Shiro's gate the original person? Who is so bold as to dare to make a move against the Duke of Qin?

Ma Hu has never been exposed to these things, and he can't talk about understanding them at all.

The only thing he could think of now was to gather the men and horses in his hands, kill them in Xiao Ruxun's courtyard, and go to see what was going on in the room.

Shiro...... Don't let anything happen!

He prayed.

After Xiao Ruxun left from the secret door of the Qin State Mansion, he sat on a sedan chair, which was carried by four black-clothed people, and there was no need for Xiao Ruxun to walk, which was the consistent standard.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun doesn't quite remember which roads he has walked, although there are windows on both sides of the sedan chair, but in the dark night, the lighting means are almost equal to none, so the route he knows is quite limited, only knows that it is from a certain side door of the palace to enter directly to Zhu Yijun's bedroom.

When Zhu Yijun summoned him, he would not go to live with the concubine, but lived in his own dormitory, a low and dilapidated palace.

I have to say that the civil officials asked the emperor to take the lead in saving palace funds as an example in the world, and the emperor wanted to do anything to be stopped by them like a flood of beasts, just like the emperor only needed to build a palace and change his surname in the whole world.

However, they treat themselves very generously, the residence is more beautiful than anyone else, and there are hundreds of rooms at every turn, not the palace is better than the palace, and the double standard of treating others with leniency and self-discipline has always been the case since ancient times.