A month later.

"Wild Fox Fall" is located on the south bank of Weishui in the northwest of Chang'an City, and is a mass grave that cannot be seen at a glance. Because for more than 100 years, all the people buried here are the old dead palace, helpless palace people and eunuchs, so they were given such a gloomy name by the people of Chang'an.

"Wild Fox Fall" originally belonged to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xi Official Bureau under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But first, this is a graveyard, unlucky; Second, this cemetery is full of lonely ordinary palace people and eunuchs, and they can't see the slightest bit of oil, so the officials of the Xi Official Bureau are all trying their best to rely on their relationships and find a way to avoid being sent here on an errand.

However, since the remains of the Empress Zhang of the Middle Palace of the First Dynasty were moved from the Longshou Canal in the east of the Daming Palace to the "Wild Fox Fall" in accordance with the will of the current emperor, these officials of the Xi Official Bureau have less of this worry. Because, with the grand joining of Empress Zhang, a special person, "Wild Fox Fall" has been taken over by the forbidden army under Wu Bi.

In order to prevent the remnants of the Zhang family from robbing the remains of the Zhang family, Wu Bi specially sent a whole group of Yulin troops to guard the "Wild Fox Fall", and the leader of this group of sergeants who was fortunate enough to be selected to take on this important task was none other than the old Huang who had participated in the strangulation of Empress Zhang with his own hands.

Lao Huang received such a mission to guard the pile of dead people, and when he came out of the camp, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh in his heart: I regret that I shouldn't have been greedy for merit at the beginning, and killed Queen Zhang with my own hands, and now I have ended up guarding the grave for her. His fate is so bad that he can wrestle when he walks, stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water, and hit ghosts when he wears a robe.

But in the past month, Lao Huang has found some comfort from another person, and when it comes to bad luck, he is far worse than this person.

This person is Lai Xing'er.

A month ago, the emperor witnessed that Li Jinzhong not only did his best to save Lai Xing'er, who had just saved his life, but deliberately caused harm, and he couldn't help but be alert to Li Jinzhong, so that he changed his original intention of executing Lai Xing'er. At that time, it happened that the emperor and the most considerate palace people were martyred in the ink, and died in the side hall.

It wasn't until Wu Bi arrived by order and welcomed the emperor into the Xingqing Hall that the emperor remembered Xing'er. As soon as he thought that he had served in the palace as a complete man for many years, the emperor really couldn't swallow this mouthful, although he could temporarily stay with Xing'er for the time being out of the consideration of catching Li Jinzhong's handle, but he couldn't think of a suitable place to place him in his eagerness.

When Wu Bi came, he had already learned a little from Wang Bao'er about the reason why the emperor suddenly wanted to execute Lai Xing'er. He has been leading troops for many years, and he is quite unimpressed with these open and secret battles and dirty deeds in the palace. Moreover, remembering that Lai Xing'er had helped him arrest the remnants of the Zhang family, Wu Bi also had the heart to save his life.

Seeing that the emperor was sitting alone in the Xingqing Palace, with a gloomy face, still in a deep and indecisive mood, Wu Bi glanced at Lai Xing'er, who was kneeling in front of the steps, hugged his fists and saluted, and asked the emperor: "Now is the time of the 100-day sacrifice of the first emperor, the ministers are protecting the palace forbidden, long live the ministers to come, I don't know what the will is?" ”

The emperor raised his right hand, pointed at Lai Xing'er weakly, and asked Wu Bi: "This little slave left the capital for a few days without permission, and his whereabouts are unknown. ”

Wu Bi unexpectedly heard that the emperor's tone had implied the implication of Shu Lai Xing'er's immortality, and immediately said: "Since he refuses to stay in the palace honestly, the emperor might as well hand him over to the ministers to settle down." There's still a shortage of men at Wild Fox Fall, so let him go there and be a soldier. If you do a good job, you may be able to go to the battlefield to serve the emperor in the future, but it is unknown. ”

Wu Bi said as he passed his eyes to Lai Xing'er, signaling him not to refuse.

Hearing Wu Bi's suggestion to place Xing'er on an errand in the 'Wild Fox Fall', the emperor's heart couldn't help but move.

When he transferred Xing'er to Daming Palace to Yanying Hall on an errand, he privately told Wu Bi about Xing'er's origin and origin.

I remember that Wu Bi asked himself with a smile at that time: Your Majesty still feels at ease with this little child in his heart?

In fact, Lai Xing'er's father, Lai Shenxing, was originally on two boats in the court, and was favored by Zhang and Yang at the same time. Although Lai Xing'er was successfully rebelled and used for his own use by exposing the identity of Empress Zhang's eyeliner in Ning Xiangxuan two years ago, in the emperor's heart, to this day, he still can't erase the shadow that Lai Xing'er once was Zhang's eyeliner.

Two months ago, he listened to Jing Xuan's suggestion and agreed to come to Xing'er as an attaché to Luo Xue City, also to take the opportunity to test whether Lai Xing'er still had ties with Furong, Zhang Liang and others. For this reason, before leaving, he specially told Shang Jing to stay by Lai Xing'er, who pretended to be King Mu, and not leave for a moment.

Now Lai Xing'er has lived up to his mission, and in the process of sending to Tibet, it can be said that the emperor has unexpectedly done a good job of the mission, but Shang Jing has not returned so far, so that the emperor has not been able to find out the relationship between Lai Xing'er and Zhang's remnants from the mouths of others, so the emperor is still mixed with a trace of suspicion in his heart while being angry with Lai Xing'er.

There is a new uninvited guest in 'Wild Fox Fall', that is, the former queen Zhang. Now although the remnants of the Zhang family in the Daming Palace have disappeared, the Furong led by them has not been arrested. As far as she is concerned, how could she watch her old master buried in a mass grave and ignore it.

Sending Lai Xing'er to guard Zhang's tomb can keep him away from the forbidden palace, eliminate the adverse effects of being an imposter as soon as possible, and save his face; Second, he was asked to act as bait to catch the big fish of Hibiscus, and at the same time to confirm whether he was faithful and reliable; The three left him alive, and also reserved the next hole card for Li Jinzhong, who was becoming increasingly arrogant and domineering in the future.

In a short moment, the emperor's heart turned a few times in a row. He nodded at Wu Bi with satisfaction, as if he replied out of helplessness: "It's rare for my uncle to open his mouth to me, so let him go like this." ”

So, Lai Xing'er took off the eunuch's official robe, changed into the uniform of the forbidden army's soldiers, came to the mass grave in the suburbs of the near wilderness, and did the errand of guarding the tomb under Lao Huang.

A month ago, in just three or five days, Lai Xing'er experienced the ups and downs that he had never encountered in his previous life journey for more than ten years.

On the mountain road next to Jiucheng Palace, when he had not yet breathed a sigh of relief from the loss of his mother, he crossed an important pass in his life: the first time he killed with his own hands. (To be continued.) )