Shu Tong glanced at You Sifang in a little panic, not knowing how to answer.

I patted her on the shoulder and comforted: "Shutong, you don't need to panic, I have seriously thought about this secret, but I really don't know." Maybe you and Brother You are deliberately concealing it, but I can also understand your hard work, you are afraid that I will fall into this entanglement and die without a place to be buried. ”

The night breeze blew, and Shutong gave me a slight chill, but she was afraid that I would catch a cold, so she turned around and helped me take out a thick shirt and put it on.

Even though You Sifang must have guessed my thoughts, he still asked me, "Sir, what are you going to do?" ”

"I want to go back to the imperial capital, and I can't leave first." I held Shutong's cold hand and said firmly, "In Nanguo Mansion, I licked my face and told Cheng Yu three conditions, but there were only two things to ask for, one was to let go of King Chong'an's guard, and the other was to let go of Lanzhou's little son, I was afraid that she would think I had the idea of escaping, so I asked for an official position for myself and asked her to let down her guard." I have never been a first assistant, and I originally thought that this was a position where one person was under ten thousand people, and it was very cool to have wind and rain in general, but sitting on this person, I felt as if there was a heavy gate on this position, pressing on my shoulders alive. Below this official position are thousands of ordinary people, and if I can't bear them, they will be crushed into pulp. ”

You Sifang's tone was slightly surprised: "So Mr. plans to go back and carry this Qianjun gate again?" ”

"Brother You, do you think I'm a little self-conscious?" I smiled and said, "Don't talk about you, some time ago, when I handed Cheng Yu a fold of streamlining the forbidden army, I also thought about it like this, I am not rightful to rely on certain conditions to come to the position of first assistant, and I will fool around casually for a while, and then find the right opportunity to escape, why do I want to write this kind of excerpt, to touch the brows of His Majesty the Emperor, to make the Manchu Dynasty civil and military unhappy, if they guard against me, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape in this life." ”

"Why did he do it when he knew the danger? What happened to you......" You Sifang asked me.

"On the way from Nanguofu to Dijing, the city should have been prosperous and prosperous, but it was very depressed and even desolate, I thought it would be better to get to the capital, but it turned out that it was still Zhumen wine and meat smelly, and there were frozen bones on the road, I had dressed up to talk to the people in the eastern suburbs, and found that the people at the bottom were poor and difficult, and the heavy taxes and forced labor almost overwhelmed them.

"The people in the north of the village just got a skinny little son, and the child's mother took the child who was less than a month old to the west of the village, and asked the family who had just given birth to a baby over there if they could change it. Brother You, I'm glad I went just right, otherwise this kind of thing would have happened again; But I'm so sad, I just happened to be here, decades but this time, when I was away, where those newborn dolls ended up, I don't dare to think.

"Even at the foot of the imperial capital, their Emperor His Majesty has no idea about it, let alone care, allowing her officials to exploit the people layer by layer, scraping their stomachs and rubbing that pitiful oil and water, but she is addicted to the art of immortality."

You Sifang let out a long sigh: "So Mr. decided to go back." ”

"Yes, don't say that I am Lord Shoufu now, Cheng Yu is still polite to me when he remembers the method of immortality in my body, it is still convenient to do whatever I want, or it is still possible to achieve it, even if I am just a nameless official now, I will go back. I don't have any ambitions, I just think that the Jinguo that was once able to conquer the southern country should not be like this, and this world should not be like this. Brother You, even if the mantis arm is used as a car, I should give it a try. ”

"Xiao Xian ......"

As I said at the beginning, I also had some thoughts of giving up at first, because I was afraid that I would not be able to persuade myself if Chen Lanzhou said anything, so I quickly grabbed his sleeve and said: "Of course I know that I can't carry it alone, but I believe that there are not only Chen Changfeng and Chen Lanting and others in the Jinguo court, nor only those wall grasses that shake in the wind, there must also be some officials with quite a backbone, such as His Royal Highness King Chong'an, such as Zhao Mengqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who often does not go to the court but always asks for the people's life." ”

Chen Changfeng smiled when he heard this, as if he had made up his mind, he held my hand and said, "Since you have already thought about it, then I am naturally willing to stand by your side and accompany you to do whatever you want." ”

I looked at Shutong and You Quartet.

Shu Tong pretended to be angry and said: "I followed a gentleman who didn't let me worry, and I have already developed feelings for so many years, what else can I do but continue to follow." ”

Brother You was still calm, and he couldn't see any expression on his face, but he easily opened the reins on one side and turned the carriage around, just like when Nanguo Mansion went back to find the little prince of Lanzhou, he asked me clearly and respected: "Since it's decided, let's go back." ”

I really, love the three people around me. Although there is little change on his face, his heart has long been full of tears.

Qin Buxian, you must do a good job after you go back. I said to myself.

We only returned to the imperial capital when it was close to dawn, and on the way back to the house, we saw a large number of forbidden troops holding torches and carrying bows and arrows to the south of the city, we didn't dare to be too loud, I got off the carriage with Chen Lanzhou and Shutong, and walked back to the house, Brother You still couldn't reveal his identity, so he parted ways with us.

Walking but feeling wrong, looking back at the slightly terrifying firelight, pondering the direction, I instantly shook, and said secretly: "Isn't that the way to go to Chong'an Palace?" ”

Thinking like this, the footsteps had already begun to move, and when I turned around, I wanted to go to the Chong'an Palace, but Shutong grabbed me and said with a slight headache: "What does Mr. want to do?" ”

I raised my hand and pointed to the sky-high firelight, and said in a gloomy voice: "Let's go there and have a look." ”

The successive disobedience had already made Shu Tong give up struggling, and he sighed and agreed: "If you are worried about that prince, let's go and see." ”

We didn't dare to approach the gate of the palace, hiding behind a few big locust trees, and watching the movement not far away. The fire was bright, illuminating the gate of the palace as if it was daylight, more than 100 people had drawn their bows and arrows, facing the gate of the palace, and a leader shouted at the gate, saying that someone had reported that King Chong'an had assassinated the court officials, and His Majesty ordered them to enter the palace to investigate the clouds thoroughly.

Ben Shoufu really didn't guess wrong, this group of forbidden troops did come to find the stubble of the guard period. I don't know who reported it, and I don't know which court official was assassinated.

There was a heavy squeak from the door, and a guard in a black brocade robe walked out, his black hair drooping, and he stood with his hands in his hands, but he showed his majesty before he spoke.

The leading forbidden army also had to pay homage first and explain his intention: "Your Highness, someone saw Lord Hou Qin coming to your mansion yesterday morning, and he hasn't gone back yet. There was no one in her house, and they said that you gave Lord Qin ......" said and wiped a knife on his neck, "Did it?" ”

This sentence shocked me: Who is so big in the brain, Tongcheng Yu Hu I was killed by King Chong'an?

But after thinking about it, she realized that the imperial capital should be full of Cheng Yu's ears and eyes, and she was afraid that where did she learn the news that I was sent out of the imperial capital by the guard, so she sent someone to force him overnight and ask him to hand over my whereabouts.

Wei Shi looked at him condescendingly, his posture was serious and cold, but his tone was very lazy and leisurely: "Which person with a bad brain went to tell him in front of His Majesty about this kind of situation?" As he spoke, he raised his hand and plucked his ears, his voice was full of mockery, "If this king really wants to kill a court official, how can he do it in his own house." ”

The leader of the forbidden army clasped his fists and bowed: "But someone saw with their own eyes that Lord Qin entered the Chong'an Palace, and then disappeared, and the housekeeper in her mansion also disappeared." How can this be explained? ”

"Did you see that the housekeeper in Lord Qin's mansion also entered the king's palace?"

"I don't see it."

"Oh, then those two things can't be confused." He straightened his sleeves and lied calmly, "Lord Qin is drunk, and she is still asleep in the guest room of my mansion at this time, I'm afraid it's not good for you to break in, but she's a daughter." Go back. ”

The leader of the forbidden army seemed to be frightened by him, and hesitated: "This ......"

He said, "If you don't want to go back, you can wait in front of the palace, and when she wakes up, I'll send her out." But I see that she is drunk like that, and even when she wakes up, she is already on the rise. ”

I think I should know why he lied like this - he was trying to buy me as much time as possible to leave the imperial capital, even if this lie would be exposed as soon as it was dawn, and he would be arrested and put in prison by the angry Cheng Yu, and maybe even killed, but he still said these words calmly, leaving enough time for me to get farther and farther away from the imperial capital.

That leader should be quite valued by Cheng Yu, and he will naturally not be stupid if he stays by the emperor's side for a long time, so he just heard him say: "Your Highness, this time I came to Chong'an Palace, Your Majesty ordered us to see people in life and corpses in death." Now that we haven't seen each other, we don't dare to go back to the palace to resume our lives, nor do we dare to wait here for a long time, so I also ask His Highness to make it convenient and trouble Lord Qin to come out. ”

I lowered my voice and said to Shu Tong and Chen Lanzhou: "I know that there are individual doors in his house. When you see me come out later, you can go back separately, don't let the forbidden army see it, and don't worry too much about me. ”

After speaking, without waiting for them to answer, he pressed his steps along the path behind the tree, all the way to the back alley of the palace, opened the dog hole covered by weeds, and got into it without having time to think about it. The reason why I told Shutong that this dog hole is another door is because I don't want her to be too uncomfortable, after all, I have grown so big, it seems that I haven't drilled this yet.

Thanks to the fact that I wandered around a few times when I came here a few days ago, otherwise I really wouldn't have remembered this "other door".

It can be seen that life experience is important when saving people.