Ahou looked at the inconspicuous gray carriage and walked away until it disappeared in the flow of people, and urged the sister beside him:

"Sister, let's go back."

The girl in Mulan's green skirt seemed to be thinking about something, and when she heard her brother's urging, she suddenly said:

"Okay, let's go home."

Before turning around, she looked at a fair-skinned young man not far away, who bowed slightly to her and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

At this time, she heard a noisy gong in the distance, and the crowd around her also gathered in the direction of the gong, and she was holding Ahou's hand and was also carried by the flow of people.

Several men in the service of the servants opened the way with a gong, and a bearded officer followed closely behind and repeated the phrase loudly:

"The rebel Huda, who committed a capital crime, first exiled 43 members of his family to the west for 1,000 miles, served hard labor for the rest of his life, and was not allowed to return to the Central Plains."

Behind him was a group of unkempt criminals, all of whom wore only shabby cotton clothes in the cold winter, each wearing shackles, men, women and children all bowed their heads and walked forward with their expressions blank, the youngest child was less than a year old, and was frightened by the battle around him, and a woman held the young child with her head down, but did not dare to stop a single step, and moved numbly with the crowd.

"I heard that this Huda left his family behind and fled on his own."

"I don't know what I have committed, I have been wandering for a thousand miles, or I am in the west, and it is not a serious crime to think of it."

"Look at this group of family members, although they are wearing some torn, they all have cotton clothes."

The emperor and Cheng Ye who were sitting in the carriage naturally heard the movement outside, and Cheng Ye smiled and arched his hand to the emperor and said:

"The grace of traveling a thousand miles to the west must be the emperor's handiwork."

Shen Chike does not have this authority, and taking the initiative to reduce the sentence is more likely to be criticized for sympathizing with the criminal.

The emperor laughed a few times and responded, "With such a big movement, I don't know if Huda, who is on the run, will hear and see it." ”

Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes, "He must be able to see it." ”

Huda did see it.

The officers were ordered to let as many people as possible know the news of Huda's family's migration, and they had chosen the most prosperous Jiaolan Lane as the only way to go.

Hu Da, who was hiding on the old tour building of the Jade Belt in Jiaolan Lane, witnessed the whole process through the small window hidden behind the tree.

It was also here that he watched his cousin Li Sansi be killed in his place a few days ago, and today he watched his family members parade through the streets in such a miserable way, and they were to be exiled to Xisai to serve hard labor.

At the beginning of the defeat, he knew the fate of himself and his family, but being able to predict it did not mean that he could accept it calmly after witnessing such an end.

When he saw his only grandson, a toddler under the age of one, crying helplessly in the crowd, he cried out in tears and fainted.

"Old Master, this ......"

A middle-aged man dressed as a servant saw Huda faint on the ground, and cast an inquiring glance at the dragon-headed masked man sitting in the corner of the room, who calmly pondered over a game of chess from beginning to end, deaf to Huda's reaction.

"Put him in bed and rest."

The dragon-headed mask commanded, and he got up from his chair, stretched his arms and stretched out.

"From now on, keep a close eye on him, and he will not be allowed to go anywhere but here."

The servant's eyes flashed with fear, and he hurriedly bowed his head and replied, "Yes, old master." ”

Suddenly, there was a commotion downstairs, and the servant guarding outside knocked on the window:

"Suddenly, an official came in, and the lord hid."

The crowd immediately blew out the lights and gathered Huda and the Dragon-headed Masked Man to hide in the dark compartment of the cubicle.

Sun Laodao stood next to a river building, and the warblers and swallows were fluttering upstairs.

A few servants next to him swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva:

"I said, boss, what do you want us to check?"

Then focus on a few women in colorful clothes upstairs, damn, it's a really good place, but it's a pity that they can't stand it.

Sun Laodao took his eyes off the body of the woman with beautiful makeup upstairs, and said with a straight face:

"Go into the room and look to see if anyone is using a kind of incense, and after the incense is inhaled, it makes the whole body weak and fluttering."

The faces of several of the officers suddenly became unserious, and they laughed together:

"Chief, who of the people who entered this place is not what you said?"

"That thing is different, it's poison", Sun Laodao stomped his feet, and he couldn't understand how he couldn't understand these big bosses.

"After I went in, as long as I saw something that someone sucked through my nose, whatever it was, I was given it first."

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The inner hall of Funing Palace.

Li Gongling handed a jade cup to the Empress Dowager.

"This bowl of cordyceps purple river soup is the best way to moisten the lungs and replenish qi in winter, you should drink it while it is hot."

The Empress Dowager hummed softly, "At this time, the air is dry, the emperor is worried about state affairs all day long, and it is inevitable that there will be times when he is tired and sluggish, you can also send him a bowl." ”

Li Gongling bowed down in response, but did not walk away immediately, but stepped forward and said in a low voice:

"The person we arranged has already seen the emperor outside today."

"Oh?"

The Empress Dowager was a little surprised, "What was decided yesterday happened today?" ”

"It's also a coincidence", Li Gongling said, "The emperor left the palace today, and it happened that he passed by her yard and met her younger brother." ”

"So, the two of them have met twice today?"

In addition to the one they planned, they even had a chance encounter with the emperor.

"Yes", Li Gongling said with some hesitation, "It's just that looking at the emperor's appearance today, I don't have any special interest in her." ”

"How can there be a young man who doesn't love good colors", the Empress Dowager put down the jade cup, "Her appearance is enough, as for the rest, just adjust it slowly, as long as you do what the emperor likes everywhere, don't worry about him not being careful." ”

"In the past few days, Jiahe has often come over, and when I see this child, I think of the first emperor, who suffered those things when he was a child......"

"Empress Dowager, you ......," Li Gongling exclaimed.

The Empress Dowager waved her hand, "Don't mention those bad things, in fact, the mourning family is mainly afraid that the emperor will lose his mind to other women because of Lin Yiqiu, if it is a child of an ordinary family, he will go with him, but he is the emperor, and the emperor must have an heir to pass it down." ”

Only then did Li Gongling understand what the Empress Dowager was referring to, the first emperor only had one daughter and could not inherit the throne, so this was the opportunity for the current emperor to ascend the throne.

However, when the new emperor ascended the throne, the palace changed owners, and Princess Jiahe, the original golden branch and jade leaf, became an orphan girl under the fence, and she deliberately curry favor in front of the empress dowager.

"I heard that in the past, Princess Jiahe was also a proud and flamboyant character, and she was still good at riding and shooting, but now she ......."

The Empress Dowager said, "Jiahe has too much heart for this child, the emperor is a benevolent person, he used to have a good relationship with her, and he will not treat her harshly now, but she herself has to be so ......."

She spread her hands and stopped talking, her expression a little gloomy.

Seeing this, Li Gongling hurriedly joked:

"There are bodhisattva-like grandmothers like the Queen Mother, and they are all blessed children."

The Empress Dowager smiled and glanced at her, "You don't know, the mourning family is also anxious, yesterday a Shen Chi was in the palace to play a report, talking about those dirty medicines, the emperor has never heard of it, at his age, the mourning family really doesn't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing." ”

Li Gongling also pursed his lips, yesterday Shen Chi talked about drugs such as Cnidium monnieri and epimedium, and the emperor asked with a confused face, "Is it poison", and she herself stood aside and laughed for a long time.

"Naturally, it's a good thing, our emperor is a Ming monarch, and he is devoted to state affairs, where do you know those dirty things."