The first centennial celebration of the dynasty is organized in a low-key manner with the funeral of the first emperor, there is no cheering of the people, and there is no kneeling of the courtiers and officials, on the night of the celebration, there is no one even outside the gate of the right capital city to guard the door, the gorgeous palace gate is hung with white silk, the palace gate is closed, and the streets in the right capital are terriblely quiet when they should be lively and noisy.

At this time, if someone shouted in the middle of the street, the sound might reach the palace walls on the east side of the city.

Bang ~ Bangzi suddenly remembered the sound of bangzi beating the drum surface, which startled the wild cat on the beam of the shop on the street, fell to the ground and quickly got up and fled the scene.

"It's cold, and the fourth watch has arrived." It turned out to be the voice of the watchman, who had a very rough tenor, looked a little tall, walked lame, and was walking towards the east of the city while playing the watch.

When I walked to the palace wall, there was no sound, it was late at night, and I couldn't see my fingers around, only a row of big white lanterns hung high on the palace gate, lined with the white silk on the door, and the silk shade poured into the back with the evening breeze.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the white lantern by the palace wall shivering under the reflection of half of the watchman, he seemed to want to explore something, but on the edge of the majestic imperial city, he was affected by the cool evening breeze, and he was so frightened that he trembled, and ran away without a shadow.

In fact, as long as you are a little bolder, you can see that at the foot of the palace wall is shrouded in shadows, there is a thinly dressed woman, the woman's hair is messily draped on her head, although the clothes on her body are stained with a lot of mud and mixed with some blood, but they look very gorgeous, like the clothes of the palace concubines.

The woman had tears in her eyes, her appearance was not particularly amazing, and her eyes kept looking at a tattered imperial list pasted on the palace wall, and a few words could be vaguely seen on the imperial list, what a centennial celebration, talent recruitment.

On the tattered list, only the seal in the lower left corner is still very completely stamped on it, the woman's eyes are firmly fixed on the place of the seal, her shoulders trembled slightly, her hands tore off the imperial list vigorously, and when she turned to leave, the clothes on her shoulders slipped off, and there was a tooth mark on the white collarbone, a bloody tooth mark.

The entire Youjing City was silent all night, and it was not until the sky was about to dawn that a few vendors appeared one after another, and the streets slowly became lively.

"Drive! Drive! A group of soldiers in red armor were in the dust, and many people on the street who didn't have time to get out of the way were hit, and none of the soldiers on horseback stopped, hurrying towards the palace.

The people complained, and a stall vendor who was injured lay on the ground and scolded: "Is Chaojiaguo going to be finished!" There's no more king's law, ouch my ass! ”

The vendor next door stepped forward to help him up, and covered his mouth in great panic: "This right capital is now full of spies, if you don't want to die, shut your broken mouth." ”

So the vendors shut up, and it didn't take long for the street to return to its original appearance.

"Yuwei, is something happening in the city?" There is a man standing in front of the window on the second floor of an inn next to him, the man is holding a folding fan in his hand, which seems ordinary but hides a mystery.

The woman behind her raised her hand and clenched her fists, this posture was very incompatible with the yarn skirt she was wearing, the woman's makeup and hair were very thick, and her shoulders were slightly leaking, and she said: "Last night, the palace changed, the eldest prince controlled the city guards, and the ones who just hurried to the palace should be the red armor soldiers of the fourth prince." ”

The man frowned slightly, put away the folding fan in his hand, turned around and sat back, and frowned even higher when he saw the woman's posture: "You have to always remember that now you are playing the Qinglou woman, which Qinglou woman have you seen talking with fists?" ”

The woman called Yuwei was stunned for a moment, put down her fist-hugging hand, pretending to be enchanting, very disobedient, the man couldn't stand it anymore, got up and was about to leave, Yuwei hurriedly asked: "What is the matter with Senior Brother's trip?" ”

The man turned around and glanced at Yuwei coldly, Yuwei was immediately silent, the master taught never to talk too much if she shouldn't ask, she was also in a hurry, the senior brother finally got out of the mountain, she didn't want him to leave so quickly.

The man didn't speak, he left the inn with a wave of his sleeves, and a note fell in front of Yuwei, who picked it up and looked at it, on it was the master's handwriting, writing: If you can't find the spruce, don't return.

Yuwei showed a disdainful face, she studied under Linya Villa, Linya Villa is one of the best sects in Chaojia Country, Villa is low-key and secretive, rarely accepts apprentices, the master has lacked energy in recent years, originally said that she was the last apprentice, but last year suddenly accepted another closed disciple, which is this spruce.

She doesn't like the junior sister of Spruce very much, because she worries the master too much, and often secretly goes down the mountain, ignoring the rules in the mountain, and the master sends someone out to look for her every time, and this time she even sent the senior brother, and she will not be punished after finding it, which makes Yuwei very jealous.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded on the street again, Yuwei raised her eyes and frowned, these are the black armor soldiers of the second prince, there have been three princes who have arrived, and the palace is probably already tense, she rolled up her sleeves and pretended to be coquettish, and left the inn.

Not a single person was trampled on the street where the black-armored soldiers had just left, nor did they break a single stall, and in contrast, the people praised the second prince in charge of the black-armored soldiers.

On the south side of the city, there is a mansion with a black golden silk nanmu plaque, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dances with four big characters "General Ling's Mansion".

At this time, there was a man standing outside the house, it was the senior brother of Linya Villa who had just come out of the inn, the door of the house was closed, he seemed to be thinking about how to get in, the centennial celebration of Chaojiaguo was an extremely grand day, but the emperor suddenly died that night, and I heard that he did not even leave a will.

It is also a wise move to close the door of the General's Mansion at this time, there are five princes in Chaojiaguo, and the young five princes are not counted, there are also four, and this battle for the throne is inevitable.

The senior brother was frowning outside, when suddenly the side door opened a corner, and a woman dressed as a maid was sneaking out.

The maid made a playful boo gesture at the senior brother, then pulled out of the side door and closed the door again, and walked towards the senior brother, and the senior brother spoke: "May I ask General Ling Mu Ling..."

The maid and the senior brother passed by, but they ignored the senior brother and ran straight to the east of the city, the senior brother looked at the maid's whereabouts and hesitated, that was the direction of the palace.

I saw the maid come to the root of the back wall of a mansion at the foot of the imperial city, and a man dressed as a cook came out of the back door, holding a food box in his hand, and whispered: "This is the food of the three princes in the past two days, five taels of silver." ”

The maid took out six taels of silver from the money bag and handed it to the cook: "Thank you, you are much more reliable than those sweeping maids, and the extra one or two is a reward." ”

The cook's face was smiling, and he was overjoyed with six taels of silver, and said to the woman dressed as a maid in front of him: "Miss Ling, don't come here in the past two days. ”

It turned out that the person who secretly came out of the General's Mansion was the young lady of the Ling family, and I didn't know how outsiders would react when they saw the general's daughter buying leftover meals from the third prince here.

"Why don't you come? I just praised you, and you dropped the chain for me, didn't you? Give me back the money! ”

As soon as the cook heard that he was going to take the reward back, he hurriedly put the silver taels into his purse, and said with a smile: "The emperor died last night, and according to the rules, all the princes must kneel and be filial." ”

Yes, how did she forget about this, her father will go tomorrow, and the holy decree in the palace also called her to go, but who is she Ling Yueyan, the only daughter of the founding general, the palace is already boring, and she has to kneel for three whole days, she doesn't want to.

But this means that she can't get the things used by the three princes for three days, and suddenly she has a flash of inspiration, and she said to the cook mysteriously: "Is there a way for you to place me in the team of the three princes entering the palace?" ”

The cook's face turned pale with fright, even if he gave away these foods, he was taking a great risk, not to mention this kind of thing, he was just a cook.

"You are the only daughter of General Ling, so naturally you can enter the palace, so why let the villain..."

"Hey, forget it." Ling Yueyan interrupted the cook's words, stuffed two taels of hush money into him, and turned around to go home.

She can naturally enter the palace openly, but even if she doesn't bring people, her father will secretly send a group of people to protect her, and the three princes of the country are dignified, and there are more guards and maids around her.

Walking to the door of the general's mansion, Ling Yueyan was stunned for a long time, the door actually opened, she heard Uncle Zhang say that she would be closed for three days, and this half day has not yet arrived, could it be that she found out that she had sneaked out?

"Miss! Miss! Ling Yueyan looked up, and her personal maid's small box was leaning on the wall and whispered to her.

At the head of the wall of the General's Mansion in broad daylight, only her maid could do this, Ling Yueyan hurriedly ran to the base of the wall: "What's wrong?" ”

The reason why the maid is called the little box is because the body shape is very similar to the box, so she was given the name of the little box by her mother, and the little box is holding the wall hard, and the big face is sweating finely, Ling Yueyan can think of the picture of seven or eight little maids supporting her behind the wall at this time, maybe there are guards.

"Miss, run, I overheard the old man talking to the senior brother of Linya Villa, saying that I want you to go up the mountain to be the apprentice of that master!"

"What!" Ling Yueyan's face was pale, she didn't want to learn martial arts, when the time came, how could she be worthy of the third prince if she practiced her big muscles.

As soon as she wanted to run, she heard her father's roar from behind the wall, of course it was not her, it was the little box, if she ran away, the little box would inevitably be beaten, her father has always been strict, she can't let the little box hit the board.

Ling Yueyan hurriedly ran to the house, and was startled when she saw the foot of the wall, which are a few maids, it is actually seven or eight room masters, she glanced at the small box, and said in a dumb voice to the small box: "You should lose weight!" ”