The people of the Pei family followed Hu Shang's carriage and horses all the way, and when they saw them galloping overnight, they rushed to the place where they were 100 miles away from Chang'an.

Such exhaustion, if you are not an outlaw, how can it be.

Seeing that they were exhausted, the hidden and well-trained Pei family members around them exchanged glances with each other.

The gang of Hu Shangcai bought an entire restaurant and secretly transported the boxes they brought to the courtyard of the restaurant.

It wasn't until nightfall that the stalkers dared to sneak into the restaurant carefully, and when they saw the dozen or so boxes, the doors had been opened, and they were all empty.

And Zong Huo, who is hiding, naturally doesn't know where to hide in this restaurant.

The shopkeeper in the restaurant kept sending big fish and meat from the kitchen to one of the rooms, and it was Zong Huo, who had been hiding for a long time and was eating and drinking at the table.

There are people escorting Zong Huo on all sides of this room, and the shopkeeper only dares to put the food at the door and let the people inside take it in.

Zong Huo bit the minced meat in his mouth fiercely, and his face was full of red clouds: "This is called meat!" Meat! Give Lao Tzu more! ”

Zong Huo seemed to be half-crazy, and whoever was locked up in the darkness would start to go crazy.

The current Zong Huo has seen the smell of meat for a long time, and when he sees it, he is hungry and hungry.

"Although we have left Chang'an Baili now, we still have to be careful." One of the leaders said coldly, "Until we send Gongzi to Jiangnan, we must not take it lightly." ”

They arranged for a few people to guard Zong Huo's courtyard, and the skills of this group of people were well-trained at a glance, and they were obviously selected by Zong Chuke for Zong Huo.

And the people of the Pei family are naturally cautious everywhere, one of them followed the shopkeeper, and when he opened the door to pick up food inside, he saw the figure of eating and drinking.

"I'm sure it's Zonghuo." The people of the Pei family exchanged glances with each other.

This made the purpose of their trip even clearer.

In the middle of the night, when everyone fell asleep, someone released a purple signal smoke, and the sect family members who saw the smoke exchanged a clear look in their eyes.

"Childe has left the city safely." The staff in the study had a smile on the corner of their mouths and said to Zong Chuke.

Zong Chuke also saw the signal smoke in the air, and his gloomy eyes flashed a trace of coldness at this time: "Before you arrive in Jiangnan, you must let that rebel be honest." ”

The staff did not say a word, and the signal was sent from a place hundreds of miles outside Chang'an City, and this mission would naturally be foolproof.

The so-called knowing son Mo Ruo's father, Zong Chuke knows Zong Huo's virtue best, facing the outside world of flowers, Zong Huo is likely to be unable to help but spend time drinking halfway.

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Early in the morning, Pei Tan opened the door and saw Pei County, who had been guarding all night.

He didn't bring a maid from Pei's family, only brought such an attendant, in addition to protecting him closely, Pei County is actually this Dali Temple, Pei Tan is the only credible and only useful person.

Pei Tan asked him, "How is it?" ”

Pei Xian's eyes were deep: "Childe, someone put off a signal cigarette last night." ”

As a well-trained guard of the Pei family, Pei County can recognize things that belong to the signal smoke, and the smoke screen last night was related to the Zong Huo case nine times out of ten.

Pei Tan said lightly: "Can you judge the specific location of the smoke?" ”

Pei Xian said: "I can only see about 100 miles, but I can't tell the specific location." ”

These smoke bombs are also deceptive and won't let you find the real firing location.

Pei Tan said: "Fleeing for hundreds of miles overnight, it can be said that I am tired of dying. ”

The father and son of the clan disobeyed the will, and now they are going out of the city with fake customs clearance documents, so it can really be said that there is neither a monarch nor a subordinate.

But although Zong Chuke is a first-class Shangshu, his own clan is not like a family with a deep background like the seven sects and five surnames, Zong Chuke is born in Baiding, and his career has been ups and downs to this day, he dares to do this kind of thing to bully the king, it can be seen that he has completely touched the anger of the king, Zong Chuke does not understand, it is he who forced his father and son into today.

Zhongzong ordered Zong Huo to be executed, which was a warning to Zong Chuke, but Zong Chuke ...... He may have understood it, so he was desperate to save Zong Huo.

Between his son and Zhongzong, Zong Chuke chose his son.

It's doomed, he can't even keep his son in the end.

Pei Tan said: "Prepare, I want to go to the palace." ”

The carriage was walking on the streets of Chang'an City, and a gust of wind blew the curtain of Pei Tan in the middle, and he saw that outside, it was Su Shilang's house where he had attended the wedding banquet.

He remembered that the groom Su Shouyu married the daughter of the Boling Cui clan, which can be described as a step to the sky.

Even a prestigious family like the Pei family wants to marry the daughter of the Cui family in the five surnames and seven sects, and it also needs the right time and place, but this opportunity actually favors a side family.

Involuntarily, Pei Tan suddenly realized what he had overlooked.

Even if there is a palace maid outside the palace, she is obedient to Jing Wan'er's envoy, then this palace maid can wander outside Dali Temple, and she can also inquire about the news around Dali Temple, that Zichan'er was once imprisoned in Dali Temple, so she has the opportunity and time to describe the terrain of Dali Temple, and then send it to Jing Wan'er in the palace.

So, what about the Su family?

The palace maid dressed as a man, but she was the guest of the Su family's post in a dignified manner, so could Jing Wan'er really have the means to reach the sky, not only to find out that he would go to the wedding banquet that day, but even to get the official wedding banquet invitation because of this, and enter the guests of the Su family in a grand manner?

Pei Tan's palm suddenly clenched, and the palm of his right hand, which was wrapped in a silk handkerchief, and the wound on his palm were aching faintly.

Just a Jing Wan'er, can you do this?

Just when Pei Tan was shocked, outside the carriage, Pei Xian's voice sounded at the right time, bringing back to reality: "Childe, we have arrived at the gate of Wenchang Gate." ”

The palace gate guard was about to inspect the token in Pei Tan's hand, and after a while, Pei Tan reached out and handed the token out of the carriage.

As soon as the guard saw the token, he immediately solemnly put away the spear blocking the way: "Lord Siqing, please." ”

Pei Xian drove the carriage into the palace road of the palace gate, and heard Pei Tan say for a moment: "Park the carriage outside the Xuanwu Gate this time, and you can go." ”

After entering the Wenchang Gate, even if he arrived in the palace, the attendants who walked around with their heads down came and went, even if there were such an untimely carriage or two in the palace at this inopportune time, no one looked up.

Xuanwu Gate is still a long distance away from Zhongzong's Zichen Palace, although Pei Xian was surprised, he still responded: "Good son." ”

Outside the Xuanwu Gate, Pei Tan got out of the carriage and walked on his own. He has a travel token, and no one dares to stop him wherever he passes.

Pei Tan is like this because he feels that he needs to think.

He walked alone in the quiet palace road, no one came to disturb him, his eyes were deep, and he began to filter every seemingly coincidental clue from the beginning to the end, from the beginning to the end, like a sift of dirt in tea.

After doing so, he found that there was a lot of residue at the bottom of the pot that he hadn't noticed before.

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Zhongzong was also busy during this time, for an emperor like him, who suffered from imprisonment in the first half of his life, if he wanted to completely erase the darkness of the first half of his life, no matter how much he wanted to, he still deceived himself.

So Zhongzong was angry, he was angry with everyone who was intertwined with the first half of his life, even those who ...... The many people who supported him in the darkness and walked step by step.

Pei Tan didn't enter the palace from time to time, he was actually in the palace, and he walked alone to Youshi, and then he let himself go to Zichen Palace.

Zhongzong's face was not very good today, so he asked, "Pei Qing, do you have any good news for me today?"

Pei Tan knelt on the ground as usual: "The good news is that the minister has definitely ascertained that Zong Huo is indeed not dead. ”

Zhongzong's face sank, this was not good news for Zhongzong at all. Knowing that Shangshu Sect Chuke did disobey his orders, it was like slapping Zhongzong in the face.

"Where are the people now?"

Pei Tan said: "Last night, I had already fled from the north gate to a hundred miles away with the customs clearance documents of Captain Fengche, and the people sent by the minister have been following closely. ”

Zhongzong's eyes were extremely cold: "This father and son really impressed me." ”

Pei Tan knelt on the ground and did not speak, and Zhongzong walked back and forth in the hall several times.

said: "You just said, who gave you the customs clearance paperwork?" ”

Pei Tan's eyes were heavy and raised: "Wupin, Fengche Duwei." ”

Sure enough, it was an official position that was so small that even Zhongzong had to react for a moment before he could understand it.

Zhongzong said with a calm face: "A Fengche Captain, what does it have to do with the Zong family?" ”

actually helped to do this kind of bullying of the king, even if it is a fifth-grade official, he deserves to die.

Pei Tan paused, and then said quietly: "The minister thinks that Fengche Duwei may not have anything to do with Zong Shangshu, because the more irrelevant it is, this customs clearance document is the safest." ”

Pei Tan will not implicate the innocent when he solves the case, and the reason why Zong Chuke is looking for a five-rank lieutenant is because he doesn't want people to find out that he is involved.

Zhongzong pondered for a while: "I understand what you mean, you mean that Du Wei is just a pawn to be used. ”

Pei said: "It must be." ”

It is not clear who this Fengche Lieutenant must be used for.

In this way, it is impossible to find out about Zong Chuke.

Because of Zhongzong's attention and the idea of talking with Pei, the two of them actually talked about Zishi overnight.

"Pei Qing, you can rest in the palace tonight, I will let someone clean the palace for you."

If you take a carriage out of the palace again, and when you return to Dali Temple, the sun is already shining.

Pei Tan paused for a long time before he said: "The minister has heard the scenery of the Taiye Pool early, and he will take advantage of the clear wind and moon tonight...... I really want to take the opportunity to go on a night tour......"

The Taiye Pool is in the Daming Palace, and the legend of the Taiye Pool has long been spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Zhongzong's eyes were deep, and he looked at Pei Tan and said, "Since Pei Qing is interested, in the second half of the night, you can play in the palace at will." ”

With the customs clearance token and Zhongzong's words, from this time to the five hours of dawn, Pei Tan can do whatever he wants in this palace.

Pei Tan's eyes had this night starlight in his eyes, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

In the middle of the night, the palace under the moonlight is as quiet as the surface of the Taiye Pond, which can fall to the center of the lake like a pebble, and the bottom is dark and dangerous, like a thousand waves rolling over.