After two full days in a coma, the female assassin Zi Chen woke up.

"You, it's you, I'm the one? Who are you? Zi Chen struggled to sit up, her body was extremely weak because of excessive blood loss, this simple action was so tired that she was panting, her big and godless eyes stared at Yang Hao nervously, hiding a deep hostility.

"I'm the Yang Hao you want to kill." Yang Hao put down the yellowed scroll in his hand and winked playfully, then he handed her the short sword that Zi Chen was using, "Take it, you will feel more at ease." ”

Zi Chen grabbed the hilt of the sword in a daze, she was so weak that it was difficult to even turn over, how could she use the sword? But she is still very grateful to Yang Hao for this kind gesture. According to Mosa's rules, the last thing the killer did after failing his mission was to use this short sword to kill himself. Now that the sword was still in her hand, she had reason to imply that she still had a chance, that she had not yet reached a desperate situation, and that she did not have to be busy with her own life.

"You see, you are taking money to kill people, we don't have a deep hatred, and now that I have saved you, this account can be cleared in two."

Zi Chen was silent for a moment and nodded silently.

Yang Hao took out a small bag wrapped in white silk from the drawer, put it in front of Zi Chen, and after unraveling it layer by layer, there was a piece of dough inside, and he said with a little apology:

"You have injuries on you, and you should have brought you something good. But according to the rules of the Thorn Horse Academy, students can only eat in the cafeteria, and they are not allowed to bring things back without permission......" Yang Hao paused slightly, "It's not that you can't bring it at all, it's just that doing so will inevitably arouse the suspicion of others, I'm afraid it will affect you......"

Yang Hao's voice gradually lowered, and his cheeks were spicy because of shame. The Thorn Horse Academy does have a rule that students are not allowed to bring food to the dormitory, but that is only a rule on the wall, and the implementation is not strict, and he said what he said just now according to Qi Mo's arrangement. Lying to his face, he has not yet cultivated to the realm where his face is not red and his heart is not beating.

"It doesn't matter, you should eat something light after a serious injury. Makes you bother. ”

The woman stretched out her hand to Yang Hao with a little shyness, she was indeed a little hungry. Yang Hao hurriedly put the dough cake in her hand, he admired the woman's straightforward character. The dough was cold and hard, but she chewed it with relish, Yang Hao looked a little unbearable, he got up and poured her a bowl of hot tea.

"What are you going to do with me?"

"You can recuperate from your injuries first, and then I'll try to send you out after your injuries are healed."

"Why did you save me?"

"You don't look like a bad person, and I'm a good person, so ......"

At this time, there was a noise outside the door, Zi Chen was a little nervous, Yang Hao also pretended to be nervous, leaned on the door and peeked out, turned around and said, "Don't worry, it's a routine round." I'll deal with it. "The Thorn Horse Academy will conduct rounds on the student dormitory from time to time, which is a rule-by-law, but this time it was Qi Mo and the eunuch Wang Chun who came to make rounds. Wang Chun's appearance made Yang Hao feel a little weird.

"Is Miss Zichen awake?" Wang Chun asked softly with squinted eyes.

"Just woke up." Yang Hao felt very strange, how did Wang Chun know her name? Qi Mo said that only he and himself knew about this matter, and outsiders were not allowed to interfere. Did something happen?

"Can she walk?" Wang Chun asked again.

Yang Hao didn't answer, he glanced at Qi Mo, who had been keeping his head down, and felt a faint pain in his heart: Could it be that the emperor didn't have a plan to approve Qi Mo, and instead sent Wang Chun to execute her? No, it's not right, now if you want to kill her, He Lao Qimo and Wang Chun will run in person, and send a golden sword guard to bring a rope to solve it.

"Don't be cranky. The Holy Authority immediately released her. Qi Mo rolled his eyes and looked at Yang Hao, and shrugged his shoulders in his style: "The opportunity for meritorious service is gone, wait for next time." ”

Yang Hao pulled Qi Mo aside, lowered his voice and asked, "Why do you want to release people?" Didn't Your Majesty hate Mosha the most? ”

Qi Mo coughed lightly and said firmly: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." ”

Yang Hao's face was full of astonishment, Qi Mo's expression was stiff and strange when he spoke, his eyes were full of anxiety and resentment, and after dropping a few hard words, he turned around and walked out.

Yang Hao asked Wang Chun: "Was he reprimanded by the saint?" ”

Wang Chun squinted his eyes and smiled: "Thunder, rain and dew are all heavenly graces, and it is a blessing for the courtiers to be reprimanded by the saints." Speaking of this, he looked around, and whispered in Yang Hao's ear: "He let Li Xun pickle it, so he was unhappy." "Yang Hao can't tell the truth from the fake, as the captain of the Golden Sword Guard, Qi Mo is only controlled by Han Yue, the general of the Left Jin Wuwei. Who is Li Xun who dares to reprimand Qi Mo?

"Do you know why? …… Why can't Li Xun get along with him? ”

"Hey, isn't it just for the Zichen girl in your house, Qi Mo said that he wanted to put a long line to catch a big fish, Li Xun said that her identity is very special and she can't move easily, he just gave General Qi Mo a meal without asking." Wang Chun kept shaking his head and sighing when he said this, obviously he was on Qi Mo's side.

"Let's send her away and send her to the Chongming Inn in the West Market. General Yang, I'll work hard for you to make a trip. We're still waiting to call back to the saint. Wang Chun said with a sharp voice.

Chongming Inn is a semi-public stronghold of Mosha, sending her back to Chongming Inn is equivalent to returning her to Mosha, a captured assassin is now going to send her back, what is Li Xun's intentions, Yang Hao can't guess, fortunately, he has slowly become accustomed to this kind of chatter in the palace. After returning to the dormitory, Yang Hao said to Zi Chen: "There is a carriage carrying silk cloth out of the palace tonight, I have already bought the escort eunuchs, and they will take you out." Zi Chen nodded silently.

At the end of the day, Chang'an City had already entered the curfew, and Yang Hao's carriage was hung with four bright palace lights in front and back, and he traveled unhindered all the way. After the carriage stopped in front of the inn, the eunuch who was driving the carriage jumped out of the carriage and smashed the door.

"Thank you for sending me back."

"You don't have to thank me, I've been lying to you all along. I already knew your identity, originally we wanted to use you to get close to Mosha, but now Shangfeng has changed his mind, so I sent you back. ”

Zi Chen smiled lightly: "I already knew." ”

The eunuch brought an old woman and a little girl of half age. Yang Hao jumped out of the car first, and when he reached out to help Zichen get out of the car, he was pushed away by her, and then Yang Hao watched in surprise as she jumped out of the car, her movements were so clean and neat, and she didn't look injured at all.

"I lied to you too." Zi Chen snorted proudly, and his cold and arrogant gaze slid over Yang Hao's face.

……

In the ninth year of Datang Dahe, there were three consecutive snows just after November, and each one was bigger than the other.

The snow, which began at dusk on the 17th, continued to fall until the early morning of the 19th, and the snow was three feet thick. This is busy with the eunuchs and palace maids in the Daming Palace. There must not be the slightest snow in the square in front of the three halls; There must be no snow left on the paths that crisscross the inner court; The snow on the roof should not be too thick......

Seeing the eunuchs and palace maids busy, Yang Hao wanted to go up and help them, but the rules in the palace were "everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, and don't care about the frost on the ground of others" Even if it is just a gesture, you are not allowed to reach out without permission.

November 19 is the third day of Yang Hao's duty at Daming Palace. Despite a hundred reluctances, Yang Hao stepped into the Daming Palace again. became Qi Mo's deputy, and the military captain of the Golden Sword Guard.

The total number of Golden Sword Guards is still one hundred and two, but the internal structure has changed a lot from a month ago. The three positions of general, supervising the army envoy, and joining the army are still retained, but they are only awarded as fictitious titles to generals in the army to express their favor, and they no longer actually hold military power. The number of lieutenants was reduced from the original nine to two, from the sixth rank to the ninth rank, as the deputy of the commander of the unified army, and the newly established commander of the unified army became the real helmsman of the Golden Sword Guard. On the basis of the original nine teams, a legal team was added, and each team still had ten people, nine soldiers, and one team officer. Among them, the officer of the Tianzi team is concurrently served by the captain of the unified army in person.

Yang Hao served as the lieutenant of the Right Military Academy, and his responsibility was to lead the three teams of Ren, Lu, and Jing to be responsible for patrolling and guarding the periphery. This is a chore, the area of Daming Palace is too large, and there are only thirty people in the three teams, if the emperor is in a small palace such as Yanying Hall and Taiji Palace, it is fine, if it is in the three major halls (including Yuan Palace, Xuanzheng Palace, and Zichen Palace), these thirty people are all scattered, and the distance between them is too far, and it is difficult to even say a word.

In the past three days, Yang Hao has never taken off the golden silk armor on his body, half of it is cold because of the snow, he really doesn't want to take off his clothes, and the main thing is that the pressure in his heart is too great. is also on duty, and being on duty in Xingqing Palace and Daming Palace are not the same thing at all. Fortunately, with Qi Mo's care, the officers of the three teams below are also loyal and honest people, and there was no chaos.

On the morning of the 19th, the sky was clear, the long-lost sunshine sprinkled all over every corner of the Daming Palace, and the concubines who had been dormant in the house for more than half a month began to go out to have fun, and there was laughter and laughter in the gardens around the Taiye Pond. Li Ang was very excited on this day, and after the early dynasty, he invited several important ministers of the court and a scholar of the Hanlin Academy to enjoy the plum blossoms in the plum garden by the Taiye Pond.

Yang Hao was ordered to rush to the periphery of the plum garden early to clear the guard. The plum blossoms in the plum garden are in full bloom very delicately, looking at it from afar, a piece of fiery red, because the emperor is coming, several little eunuchs were ordered to build a brocade shed in the garden, as a place for the emperor to rest. At the four corners of the brocade shed are charcoal braziers, which are as warm as spring, and next to the brocade hut is another shed, in which charcoal stoves are placed to prepare tea and hot wine for the emperor and his ministers.

Yang Hao looked around vigilantly, not letting go of a trace of suspicious things. There are many well-educated people in the Thorn Horse Academy, who are from palace guards and have very experienced experience, and Yang Hao has benefited a lot from seeking advice from many parties after being admitted to the hospital. Of course, Yang Hao also knows the truth that is shallow on paper, and after staying in Daming Palace in the past few days, he asked Qi Mo and several older team officers a lot of things, and roughly mastered the essentials of the Praetorian Guard's duty.

Walking in the snow and appreciating plum blossoms is originally an elegant thing, but it is also a tiring thing for the eunuchs, palace maids and guards. Because there are many people and the flow is fast, the eyes of the golden sword guards are not idle for a moment. Suddenly, the two eunuchs outside the bamboo fence of the plum garden attracted Yang Hao's attention, these two people pretended not to know each other, but when they passed each other, one of them suddenly stuffed something in the other's hands. After stuffing things, the man walked around the plum garden to the Hanbing Hall in the northwest corner, but the little eunuch who took the things followed a group of eunuchs who moved wine jars into the plum garden.

Yang Hao motioned to Wu Cheng, the officer of the Jingzi team, to lead people to follow the eunuch who was going to the Hanbing Palace, and he stared at the little eunuch who followed the plum garden quietly.

It was almost noon, Li Ang and a group of ministers came from the direction of Yanying Palace. The eunuchs and palace maids knelt to greet Luan, and the golden sword guards did not need to kneel to greet them as usual, Yang Hao winked at Qi Mo, who was following Li Ang. This is the code agreed upon by the Golden Sword Guard, and a blink of an eye indicates that there is something strange around, and the inner guards need to be vigilant; Two blinks indicate danger, and it is advisable to advise the emperor not to approach; Three blinks indicate that the situation is urgent and the emperor should be quickly escorted to transfer; If it's safe, nod it instead. Qi Mo blinked his left eye, indicating that he already knew.

After Li Ang and his entourage entered the plum garden, they did not go to the brocade shed but watched the plum blossoms along the path by the Taiye Pond, at this time, the microwave ripples on the Taiye Pond, and the sunlight sprinkles in the water, jumping like gold, setting off the surrounding pavilions and willow trees, the scenery is excellent. Everyone was in high spirits, and the scholars began to improvise poems, leaving laughter and laughter on the path of the plum garden.

Yang Hao didn't have the heart to care about this, his whole mind was on the little eunuch. When the emperor and his ministers were watching the plum blossoms along the lake, several eunuch leaders were in a hurry to direct the palace maids and eunuchs to cook tea and wine, and they were very busy. The little eunuch finally got into action. He first pretended to bend down to pick up something, and when he secretly looked around, and when he made sure that no one was paying attention to him, he stood up and casually covered a pair of tea bowls painted with gold and dragons with his sleeve. His movements were extremely natural, and no one noticed the dozen or so eunuchs walking around him.

After a few moments, he removed his hand and turned to leave, when suddenly he was slapped the shoulder.