Tongyao Town, the Forging Bureau, people are panicking.

At this time, Jiang Liu was looking at the unknown crowd in the school yard with a gloomy face. In the eyes of everyone, Jiang Liu is cynical most of the time, and he is rarely as serious as he is today. So don't dare to be presumptuous here!

Jiang Haihai was on the side, pondering what to do. Word came from below, saying that the five bodies had been found. Jiang Haihai's heart suddenly sank, and he clenched his fists.

"We're looking for Jiang Liu, please report it."

"This young lady, it's not that I won't let you in, it's that something happened in the forging bureau, and there is really no way to let you in. This will make the little family head angry! The guard at the door looked embarrassed.

"We made an appointment in advance, and I'm full of trouble for you to help me call Jiang Liu."

"Well, it really doesn't work." The guard's face was even more bad, and he heard the person who came out just now say that the little family master was very angry today. At this time, it is always wise to have more eyes.

"Okay Qixia, don't embarrass him." Jiang Ming stopped and wanted to argue with the guard.

"What's going on outside the door?" Jiang Liu looked at a servant beside him, his eyes were very cold.

"Back to the little master, there is a young lady and a young lady who said that they want to look for you, and they have to meet you in the forging bureau at this time."

Miss and Childe, it is not Jiang Ming and Qixia. Jiang Liu said that they would come looking for him, so he left behind the people in the school field and walked towards the door. The gate of the forging bureau is made of thousand-year-old black iron, and even if it is blown up with gunpowder, there is no way to shake the gate. There are three locks in the door, which must be opened in turn, and if it is wrong, the forge will start the self-destruct procedure.

When the heavy door lock was slowly opened, the gears slowly rotated, and the cold air in the forging bureau slowly flowed out.

"Senior Brother Jiang Liu." Bai Qixia waved his hand.

"Sister Qixia. You're finally here! Even though Jiang Liu was preoccupied at the moment, he still showed a smile when he saw Qixia.

Then he walked out and saluted Wei Wei towards Jiang Ming, "Daizong!" ”

"Well, can the five bodies be retrieved?" Will be clear.

Jiang Liu nodded, "I brought it back, and I confirmed my identity, but it was someone from our forging bureau." ”

The three of them walked all the way to the school yard in the forging bureau. Along the way, the general began to walk without squinting, but secretly observed all the buildings around him.

"Wait a minute." When he arrived at the school grounds, Jiang Liu suddenly stopped Jiang Ming and Qi Xia. "This is the weapons factory of Great Xia, and the things inside are state secrets. Ordinary people never have a chance to come here, so,"

"Don't worry." Jiang Ming said.

At this time, Jiang Liu felt a little ashamed that he would be afraid that Daizong and Qixia would betray them.

"By the way, Senior Brother Jiang Liu, I have something to say to you. Can you come with your ears attached? Qi Xia suddenly turned to look at Jiang Liu. Jiang Ming glanced at it and walked towards a farther place.

"What?" After listening to the words, Jiang Liu looked at Bai Qixia in disbelief, his face was full of surprise and surprise.

Jiang Liu took Jiang Ming and Qixia to the school grounds, and after letting everyone disperse first, he called Jiang Haihai to follow, and the group walked towards the morgue. Before entering the house, a foul smell came to their nostrils, and everyone couldn't help frowning and covering their noses.

It had arrived a quarter of an hour before the corpse was examined. Jiang Ming has been staring at Jiang Haihai's every move since he entered the room.

"Yan Yanzuo, how is it? Do you know how these people died? ”

"Back to the little master, I saw the fragments of clothes on the five people, who should have been coated with a layer of phosphorus powder before they died, and then burned alive when they were close to the fire bed."

"Killed?" Jiang Liu patted his face and looked at the five jet-black corpses.

"By the way, Senior Brother Jiang Liu, they were stunned by someone boiling with hemp before they died." Qi Xia added on the side.

"Jiang Haihai? What do you have to say? The more Jiang Liu listened, the more angry he became, there was a murder incident in his own forging bureau, and as the manager of the forging bureau, Jiang Haihai still looked like he didn't care about himself.

"Jiang Liu, listen to me, I really don't know about this. I! Jiang Haihai wiped his sweat and almost knelt down.

"Without your key, the forge bureau only has that one gate, how can the corpse be transported out? Go back and tell your father about this! Someone came and locked Jiang Haihai in the dungeon. ”

The latter thing is Jiang Liu's family affairs, and it is not easy for Ming and Qixia to interfere, so he went down the mountain for a long time as an excuse and prepared to go back. Jiang Liu sent the two of them to the foot of Tongyao Mountain. showed the appearance of a ruffian again: "I am deeply sorry that I failed to fulfill the friendship of the landlord this time." Next time, I will definitely take Sister Qixia to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas. ”

A midsummer night in the mountains is not hot. The sound of insects pierced from all directions, like elves. Qixia's white skirt was covered with a thin layer of silver under the moonlight. Jiang Ming stepped on the mossy slate and walked slowly on the mountain road.

Walking and walking, Qi Xia turned around and walked backwards on the mountain road: "Brother Jiangming, the young lady who is in Fuqin today is really good-looking." ”

"You've seen it?"

"Yes, three years ago, that young lady was seriously ill and went to Hantian Mountain to seek medical treatment, and I helped her get medicine every day!" The little girl said to herself.

The two of them went one after the other, and it was not until midnight that they returned to Zihua Palace. It's not that they can't go back earlier with light skills, it's just that the two of them walked back slowly in unison.

Tongyao Mountain, in the Fuhua Palace, in the Futu Pavilion, in the Sandalwood Room.

Shenlu knelt on the ground in armor, "Princess, now that the previous dynasty is in turmoil, and the Yang clan is eyeing it, it's time for you to go back and preside over the overall situation." ”

Mu Shenghua lowered her eyes slightly, looking at the spikes of the Fuhua Palace on her body, "Lord Shenlu, isn't my father still alive?" Besides, the father has sixteen sons, and there will be a new monarch after all. ”

Shenlu sighed, Princess Ziyi was sent to Qionghua to practice immortal law since she was ten years old, and she has been gone for seven years, except for the birthday of the saint every year, she rarely returns to the palace. She didn't know how serious the situation was now.

"Princess, in addition to the seven princes who have their own fiefdoms, there are also two little princes who died young. The remaining five princes have died one after another in the six years since you left. Now he is qualified to inherit the throne, but the son of the Yang family, and the child of Concubine Xian. ”

At this time, Mu Shenghua didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at all, but the virtuous concubine Niangniang in his memory, his son, Shangguan Shi had been loved by his father since he was a child. Gentle by nature, kind to everyone around you.

"The matter of the crown prince, the father will have his own decision, why should Lord Shenlu be so worried?" Mu Shenghua eats the pastries that Shenlu brought back from the palace.

Shenlu knew that there were some things that could only be told to the princess slowly, so he said, "Here is the letter brought to you by the queen's mother." I also hope that the princess can sympathize with the queen's longing. ”

After saying that, Shenlu handed a thick envelope to Mu Shenghua. In fact, I don't know how simple it is to write a letter from home, which contains the situation of the previous dynasty, the ups and downs of the harem, and the worries of several old ministers. Shenlu knows very well that Princess Ziyi is a good hand in both Wen Taowu and Wu strategy and power checks and balances. If she was born a man, where would the turmoil come from today's Great Xia.

After Shenlu left, Mu Shenghua looked at each line of the letterhead one by one.

It turned out that his innocent "home" had long been unrecognizable. Until the last sentence was read, Mu Shenghua's heart seemed to have fallen into a cold pool. The place where I used to frolic and play has become a game arena for deceit. The uncle who has been fighting the horse field all his life, for the sake of the world of Great Xia, how many souls have been trampled under the horse's hooves. In the end, he was framed by others, and ended up with a wife separated and a different body. Now there is no one who can take on the heavy responsibility of the three armies, the south Yi is eyeing the tiger, and the Khitan in the north is ready to move, but he is completely unaware of it.

Mu Shenghua looked at the jade pendant around her neck and sighed softly: "The four halls will be examined, and it's time to go back and take a look." ”