The night ban began at the beginning of the year, but the gates were closed much earlier than at the beginning of the year. During the day, when you look at the capital from outside the city, you can only feel the majesty of the capital, but at night, when you look at it from the night, it looks more like a behemoth standing on the plain. On the four walls, through the lanterns hanging high on the towers and the torches stuck in every few arrow stacks, the figures of patrols can be faintly seen walking back and forth. Occasionally, someone would look down from the battlement, and the walls and arrow towers above the urn gate were also dark shadows.

Therefore, when a rapid sound of horses' hooves gradually came from the west of Fucheng Gate, the well-trained sergeants immediately reported layer by layer, and Li Zi, who was on duty in the city tower this night, immediately came to the city wall on the gate of the urn of Fucheng Gate with a few personal soldiers.

Before he could shout, someone shouted loudly: "Uncle Jingyang escorts Uncle Qin Chaping Beibo back to Beijing, quickly put the hanging basket!" ”

Li Zi was stunned at first, and then immediately startled, however, this duty of guarding the gate of Fucheng was extremely important, and after a little thought, he ordered the deputy Qianhu who accompanied him to sit in the hanging basket and go down. When the confirmation message came from below, he gestured to his subordinates, and when the first two people climbed the city wall, he looked at it by the light of the torches, and saw that it was an old man and a young man, the old one was obviously seventy years away, and the young one seemed to be less than twenty, standing there with such a strong contrast that he muttered in his heart.

The old one he knew, it was Shenying, and he hadn't seen the young one, but since he came up with Shenying, he must be the most favored Pingbeibo in front of the Son of Heaven.

"See Pingbei Bo, Jingyang Bo."

"Hmm."

Xu Xun nodded, and then said with a smile: "You are cautious, and you sent someone down to investigate, which is good." ”

This sentence sounds bland, but Li Zi is still smiling. When about one or twenty servants under the city went up to the city tower one by one, and the rest led the empty mounts back to the Xishan camp, Xu Xun glanced around at the sergeants who turned the roulette wheel and pulled the hanging basket back up, and gave Cao Qian a look: "I encountered some twists and turns on the road, so I had to enter the city overnight. Tonight, everyone on duty, tomorrow at noon, I invite you to have a drink in the Fuqing Building of the West Fourth Archway! ”

After saying this, he said to Shenying: "It's not too early, Uncle Jingyang, let's go into the city!" ”

Because the Fucheng Gate has also been closed, the stairs on the inside of the city gate cannot enter the city even if they go down, so Li Zishao had to take everyone to send Xu Xun and his party down with hanging baskets. When everyone was sent away, he thought about what Xu Xun said, please eat and drink, and saw that more than a dozen sergeants were all climbing the city wall at the battlement and looking at the fast walk along Fuchengmen Street to the east, and couldn't help coughing dryly.

"Look at what, Pingbei Bosu is the same, tomorrow's lunch is indispensable to yours, and you don't want to return to their places!"

"Li Qianhu, are these Pingbei Bo and Jingyang Bo and their party ready to walk home?"

Hearing this, Li Zi was stunned for a moment, and then reprimanded angrily: "Don't forget that there are still patrolmen from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division on the road, and they will meet in a short time, so you don't need to worry about it." If you dare to be lazy, you don't have to eat tomorrow's wine! ”

When the people on the castle tower ended the short commotion and returned to their places to continue to defend the palace, Xu Xun and Shenying and the group soon met a team of patrolling guards from the Xicheng Terracotta Division. Xu Xun and Shenying's homes are in Xicheng, and it is common to travel at night, and the deputy commander of the soldiers and horses who recognized them not only happily lent his own mounts, but also pulled out the horses of several subordinates and borrowed them together, and even went to help knock on the two shops on the north side of Fuchengmen Street, and directly opened the door to borrow horses. And Xu Xun directly left the silver as a pledge, coupled with his name is really good, the two originally reluctant shops immediately pulled out the horse. …,

Although he was like an arrow, Xu Xun did not rush home as soon as possible, but galloped straight to Lingji Hutong with Shenying and his party. When he jumped down neatly in front of the West Factory, he only glanced at the person who came out to check after listening to the movement, and immediately turned his head and ran away like a gust of wind.

"Father-in-law Gu, boss, Uncle Pingbei is back!"

This burst of shouting and shouting immediately alarmed the people inside. When Gu Dayong and Huitong came out one after the other, what they saw was the figure of Xu Xun striding in with a horsewhip. The two sides looked at each other, Gu Dayong first stopped and looked at Xu Xun for a while, and then he stepped forward in three or two steps, and hugged Xu Xun's arms with a smile.

"Okay, I came back from a circle in the northwest, and I looked dark and thin, but it turned out to be a lot stronger!"

"Do you need to say that? Eating sand all day long, it's strange if you're not thin or dark! Xu Xun looked at Gu Dayong with a smile, and then quipped, "It's that you don't know how much you have eaten in the capital, and the person looks fat again!" ”

"People are wide-hearted and fat, but I'm dry and fat, I can't do it!" Gu Dayong smiled, and then said to Shenying, "Uncle Jingyang, let's look up and see you all day long, so I won't greet you." Anyway, Brother Xu has been out for almost three months and has come back, and the big fat girl at home hasn't been hugged yet, so I have to comfort him first! ”

Shenying suddenly smiled bitterly: "You should comfort him, but you should also comfort me!" He had already entered Juyong Pass, but he was blocked by a big stone tree on the road that he didn't know where he came, and then he was attacked by another assassin, God knows that when I heard the word assassin, my heart was about to jump out of my throat, and I was afraid that it would be so thrilling again! ”

Huitong followed Gu Dayong, but only met Xu Xun's eyes.

But at this moment, when he heard that he had really met an assassin, his face suddenly sank, and he couldn't help but interject and said: "Jingyang Bodu personally led troops to greet him, or did he meet an assassin?" ”

"Genuine." Xu Xun spit out these four words concisely, and then said, "Let's talk inside, it's inconvenient in this courtyard." ”

Gu Dayong invited Xu Xun and Shenying into the room together, and Huitong called a few stewards of the West Factory to greet the rest of the people. However, when he was about to go in, he suddenly noticed that there was a capable-looking man next to Cao Qian, and he couldn't help but take a few more looks. After he had been delayed for a while, when he came to the house where Gu Dayong usually handled official business, as soon as he stepped into the threshold, he heard a bang, obviously, it was one of the three who didn't know which one slapped the table.

However, after he actually entered the house, none of the three of them showed any hint of slapping the table. Before he could say something, Gu Dayong suddenly turned his head to look at him and ordered: "Old Zhong, you go to the palace to deliver a message, just say that Pingbeibo is back, be sure to go to the emperor's side to deliver a letter, so that the emperor can sleep peacefully." The emperor has asked countless times from afternoon to evening, but Uncle Jingyang has not sent the rest of the news except for saying that he will meet! ”

"I was too busy cleaning up the mess at that time, how could I have the time to say anything else, didn't I send people back?"

Seeing that Huitong agreed to go out, Shenying said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law Gu is right, this thing can't be done by Father-in-law Liu!" ”

Xu Xun also spread his hands helplessly: "I know it's impossible, everyone knows it's impossible, but the matter has already happened, even if I ordered it to be sealed, but at that time, there were still some passing cars and passers-by around, and this kind of news can't be hidden." You all know Lao Liu's temperament, and nine times out of ten you will think that I am tricking him to carry the black pot, not to mention, Lao Gu, you have just said that An Weixue has already arrived in the capital this morning. ”…,

"Yes, it's hard for him to be a civil official, but he can gallop 300 miles to the capital, and it's not a trivial matter to toss along the way."

Gu Da sneered, and then explained the big and small affairs that happened in the capital in the near future in an orderly manner, especially the previous Yudao left a book to accuse Liu Jin, as well as the matter of Liu Jin's heat stroke this time, he focused on picking it out and told Xu Xun in detail, and then said with a smile: "The previous incident made Lao Liu Da angry, but as a result, Ruisheng was clever, instigated the emperor to go around our future queen, and then went to the empress dowager of Qingning Palace, and finally it was over." If you want me to say that Lao Liu is smart and confused for a while, the virtues of this civil official are all eager to be admonished, who would be so sneaky? It was either Luo Xiang or Wei Bin Ma Yongcheng who did this, and when Luo Xiang came back from Huaiyang before, he was gray......"

Xu Xun listened to Gu Dayong talk about these major events in the capital, and on the other hand, he asked Liu Jin in detail about the decrees he had made in recent days, and heard that in addition to the ridiculous tuntian order in Shaanxi, he also measured the acres of land and determined the canal banknote tariff law...... There are no less than 20 new policies, and he can't help but smack his tongue secretly.

This Liu Jin's mind is really too big and too anxious!

Huitong has always been a resolute character, since Gu Dayong gave the order, he immediately sent a message to Xi'an Gate at three o'clock, so even in the middle of the night, the sound of galloping horses immediately came from Xiyuan. When the news finally reached the Chengqian Palace from the Xihua Gate layer by layer, Latham was relieved, walked to the door of Xinuan Pavilion and gently opened the curtain to take a look, and saw that the figure who had tossed and turned on the bed was now not moving, he hesitated for a moment and tiptoed in.

He was going to stay at the head of the bed, in case Zhu Houzhao woke up, he would be able to report immediately, and he didn't want others to stand in front of the bed, but Zhu Houzhao, who was originally facing away from him, suddenly muttered: "It's so late, what's the matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, Pingbeibo has already entered the city, and he is in the West Factory of Lingji Hutong at this time."

"Huh?!"

Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao suddenly lifted the quilt and sat up, stared at Rayson for a moment, and made sure that the other party was not lying to him, he suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, and then opened his mouth to complain: "I rushed back all the way, and I didn't go back to see my daughter-in-law and children, why did I go to Lingji Hutong West Factory first, it is better to come to see me first!" ”

"Your Majesty, the palace gate has been keyed, and Pingbei Bo is also going to Xichang to report safety, so that Gonggong Gu can send a letter into the palace......"

Being reminded by Latham like this, Zhu Houzhao snorted lightly, and then said with blazing eyes: "Latham, others can't get in under the palace gate, and I can't get out?" ”

Facing Zhu Houzhao's excited eyes as if he was about to do it immediately, Ruisheng hesitated for a while, and finally said helplessly: "If the emperor wants Pingbei Bo to be announced to the palace by the queen mother of the two palaces to reprimand him angrily just after he returns, then the slave will give up his life to accompany the Son of Heaven." ”

Zhu Houzhao stared at Ruisheng for a long time, and when he saw the little guy's inaccommodating look, he couldn't help but fall back in anger at the end, and then grabbed the quilt and covered his head.

This brainshit!. ）