Outside the Taiji Palace, a lonely shadow walked on the road, dragged by the autumn sun, like a sharp sword cutting through the palace steps of white marble.

Mu Chengzhi had just met with the emperor, and the saint did not pursue him for the crime of robbing the prison and breaking into the prison, nor did he ask whether the Wujing family was involved in Xiao Jie'an's rebellion, let alone mention the issue of cutting the feudal domain and levying taxes, but asked him with concern whether the old prince could feel at ease if he did not marry the princess in Beijing this time.

He knew that the emperor meant something else, but he didn't expect such a big change to happen to the emperor before he came. Now I am afraid it will be too late to go back and discuss with my father, so I can only improvise. In any case, the father's mission must be completed, otherwise......

"Shizi, you have finally come out." Qing Ning, who was standing outside the Xuanwu Gate, had been waiting for a day and a night.

In fact, after Mu Chengzhi came to the palace yesterday, he stood outside the Taiji Hall until the next morning. It was obvious that the emperor was demonstrating his authority, and of course it was a small punishment.

"Have you found out everything?"

Qing Ning led the horse over and whispered: "Qing Yu has inquired, after Xiao Ge and the other four people were killed, there was a lot of turmoil in the imperial court. Two of the five cabinet ministers died and two resigned, leaving only one. ”

"Who is he?"

"Murong Hai, but he returned to our Daluo Dynasty after the destruction of the Northern Yan Kingdom, and he has almost no power in the court. Only one descendant army was stationed in the Northern Regions. ”

"Who is the loudest in the Cabinet right now?"

"He Youcai, the secretary of the household department, Jing Hang, the secretary of the criminal department, Lang Ning Zhaoyun, the right servant of the ministry, Shi Heng, the general of the Imperial Forest Army, these four people."

"What's going on with Mrs. Jia?" Mu Chengzhi has always been obsessed with this woman, feeling that he has been calculated by her since he entered the imperial capital. When she came to the imperial capital half a month ago, it was this woman who greeted her outside the city. gave a dowry in Xiao's mansion, exchanged the eight characters of the birthday, and left the imperial capital three days later. The day before yesterday, when she heard the news of the shocking change in the imperial capital, she sneaked back to the city and entertained herself with a banquet in the mansion, but she was still her.

She knows everything well, this woman must not be simple.

"Mrs. Jia never came out of the house since she returned home, but a maidservant girl went out of the back door yesterday evening, and she came back soon after inviting Yue Xiaozhu once."

"What kind of place is the Moon Invitation?"

"It seems to be a princess's garden, which princess is still investigating."

"Let Qing Yu find out and see who is behind the scenes? And what's going on with Miss Xiao's side? ”

Qing Ning frowned and said: "There has been no news since Miss Xiao was sent to Genyue Mansion, there is a heavy security there, and there is also a master of the seventh rank of the martial realm, our people dare not approach." ”

"I didn't expect the water in the imperial capital to be so muddy, it seems that we will have to stay here for a while." Mu Chengzhi said coldly.

"So where are we going now? Yingxianyi? ”

"Jieyun Temple."

After speaking, the two people rode their horses and whips, all the way to the west, and then a group of people walked out of the palace gate, led by Fangshan, the Wei Gong Duan of Genyue Mansion.

Looking at the backs of the two people, he asked a little eunuch beside him: "Has the person to be mentioned arranged?" ”

The little eunuch replied: "It was brought up from the Xuan Ming Division, Jiang Siyong, the original valley master of the Absolute Dan Valley, the five products of the Xuan Realm, and the master of making and using poisons. Promise him that he can let him out when the pills are ready. ”

"Ji-Ji-Ji!" Duan Fangshan smiled strangely: "Little guard, you wait, I will make your life worse than death!" ”

A gust of yin wind blew, and the people in the imperial capital felt the chill of autumn, and the Jun Xiu in the Huanyi Workshop felt it even deeper.

The two white and tender hands were already much rougher, but they were still washing clothes in the cold wooden basin. Behind her, a woman in her forties crossed her waist and cursed incessantly. Jun Xiu gritted his teeth and poured out a basin of water in front of him, and was just about to straighten up to catch his breath when he was knocked down by the woman's mallet.

"Tell you to be lazy."

"Aunt Xu, I don't."

"Dare to talk back." Another mallet.

Jun Xiu's soft body had never suffered such a crime, and he was beaten to the ground and couldn't get up. But Aunt Xu was still angry, and she was going to be beaten again.

At this moment, a hand suddenly grasped the mallet firmly in the air. Aunt Xu was stunned for a moment, thinking that who dared to stop herself so boldly, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a woman with a pig's head standing in front of her......