"The Empress Dowager." After having lunch under the waiter of the female officials, the Empress Dowager waved her hand and wanted to take a nap.

It's just that she was sleeping groggily, she seemed to faintly hear footsteps outside, the old man's sleep was already very shallow, and he was quietly alarmed at the moment.

The Empress Dowager squinted her slightly cloudy eyes and said quietly. "What's the matter?"

The female official who had been waiting for the Empress Dowager went out to ask a few questions, and then came in and presented a letter to the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager was really too lazy to move, and there was tiredness in her voice that could not be concealed. "How?"

The female officer hesitated. "King Dehuai was assassinated in the dungeon, and the deposed prince Hua Zijing escaped from the prison."

"Escaped?" The Empress Dowager's voice was slightly raised, and I don't know if it was the illusion of the female official, who always felt that there was a faint light in the Empress Dowager's cloudy eyes.

"Yes." The female officer hesitated for a moment before speaking. "I heard that the meaning of the abolished prince before he fled, it was that this matter had some connection with the county lord of Qinghuang."

"Ridiculous." The Empress Dowager gently spit out two words, but her body didn't mean to move at all.

The female officer hurriedly knelt at the feet of the Empress Dowager. "The slave and maid also reprimanded the messenger, but it just so happened that the lord of Qinghuang County escaped from the palace and did not know where to go."

In response to her, the Empress Dowager was silent for a long time.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager did not move, the female officer thought that the Empress Dowager had fallen asleep, and at the moment she raised her eyes cautiously, but she was unprepared to meet the Empress Dowager's half-squinted eyes, and her brows became tighter and tighter.

"Also, this is a letter from the Son." Overwhelmed by the momentum of the Empress Dowager, the female official hurriedly presented the letter in her hand to the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager opened the letter, took a closer look, her eyes flashed suddenly, and she let out a sigh of unknown meaning. "It's finally here, wait any longer, my old bones are almost scattered..."

Because the voice was too small, the female official didn't hear it clearly, and at this moment she subconsciously put her ear to the side of the Queen Mother, but saw the Queen Mother shake her head and sit up with her body propped up.

The Empress Dowager's eyebrows raised slightly, blocking the support of the female official, leaning on the bed, and asked in a low voice. "Yun Xiu is still outside?"

The female officer subconsciously paused before speaking. "Yes."

"Call him in." The Empress Dowager rubbed her sour eyes, looking like she would soon fall asleep.

The female official really couldn't figure out what the Empress Dowager thought.

This King Dehuai was assassinated and injured in prison, and the deposed prince escaped from prison, and the empress dowager was indifferent?

just let the female official keep speculating.

Soon after the Empress Dowager let Hua Yunxiu in, she asked Qian Qian to enter the palace, and the three of them talked secretly for a long time, and Hua Yunxiu and Qian Qian went out of Fushou Palace.

Then, the Empress Dowager issued a decree to close the city gate, only allowed to enter but not to leave, and the whole city searched for the abolished prince Hua Zijing.

The people were in an uproar, and they fell into panic for a while.

......

Night.

"Is the old woman crazy?" Hua Zijing slapped his face on the table, the room he was in was a small bungalow, very narrow inside, except for the usual need for a table and a chair, there was only a simple wooden bed.

Opposite Hua Zijing stood two masked men in black, who were silently listening to Hua Zijing complaining at the moment.

Hua Zijing's originally handsome face was deliberately smeared at the moment, and he was also wearing coarse cloth clothes that he had never worn, unkempt and very embarrassed.

The change of imperial power several times made the people of Ling State panic.

Hua Zijing wanted to take advantage of the old woman's hesitation to sneak out of the city gate first, and then say, the clothes and makeup were ready, but he never thought that the old woman would directly order the closure of the city and search the whole city.

"Can you get in touch with your uncle?" Hua Zijing's heart was full of anger, and his expression couldn't help but be a little distorted and hideous.

Seeing that the two masked men standing in front of him did not move and did not react at all, Hua Zijing became even more angry in his heart.

"Have you ever been dumb?"

The two men in black looked at each other in unison, and then one of them stepped forward and spoke. "Your Highness, this city gate is only allowed to enter but not exit, and there is no news at all."

Only in response to him was a tea bowl that fell hard. "Get out."

Hua Zijing glanced at the man coldly. "Who's going to listen to your nonsense?"

The man almost hit the pure black tea bowl, and he didn't bother to touch Hua Zijing's moldy head at the moment, so he immediately retreated silently.

Seeing that the night was getting darker, Hua Zijing became more and more irritable, constantly walking around the small room, urging the two of them to go out and take a look, the two looked at each other, and Hua Zijing was quite helpless, so he had to let a man go out of the room, leaving only one man to protect Hua Zijing.

Suddenly, hearing the movement outside the window, Hua Zijing glanced out the window vigilantly, his eyes turned, he looked at the only man in black left in the room, and motioned for him to take a look.

The man in black moved under the windowsill a little.

Seeing that there was no movement outside the windowsill for a long time, Hua Zijing's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and finally snorted coldly. "Who?"

"Me."

After Hua Zijing heard the voice outside, his heart jumped, and he couldn't help but show a touch of ecstasy behind him, and hurriedly pushed away the black-clothed man in front of him, and stretched out his hand to push the door open.

"Uncle."

There were two people who came in sideways, and seeing Hua Zijing dressed like this through the dim light, Tang Jinyuan frowned slightly.

"What are you dressed up in?"

Hua Zijing was reminded by Tang Jinyuan that he noticed his current outfit and couldn't help but smile awkwardly. "I originally wanted to take the opportunity to sneak out of the city, but I didn't expect that the dead old woman suddenly closed the city gate, and she was only allowed to enter but not to leave."

After that, Hua Zijing lowered his eyes slightly, because the lights were dim, so Tang Jinyuan didn't see a strange look in his eyes at the moment.

Tang Jinyuan tilted his head slightly, and the man who followed him behind him immediately put the package in his arms on the table.

Hua Zijing took a look and found that it was some silk and satin, although it was not as good as the royal tributes he wore in the past, but it was also a first-class material that ordinary people could not afford to wear.

"Uncle, this?"

"Let's talk about it, you can't stay here for long." Tang Jinyuan's gaze glanced around the room, and then after seeing that there was only one man in black in the room, his gaze couldn't help but condense slightly, and he said in a deep voice. "What about the other one?"

If Hua Zijing hadn't wanted to get out of the imperial city, he wouldn't have wanted to wear such clothes in death, and he would have wanted to take off his clothes early.

At this moment, he was trying to change his clothes, and when he heard Tang Jinyuan ask, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, and looked back and asked. "Uncle, you haven't met?"

Hua Zijing saw that Tang Jinyuan came so quickly, and thought that Tang Jinyuan was connected with the man in black before, but when he heard Tang Jinyuan ask like this, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Tang Jinyuan's complexion changed slightly, he glanced back at Hua Zijing, and said in a deep voice. "What did you say?"

Hua Zijing froze slightly, as if he had also noticed something.

"Don't stay here for long, quick, let's leave first!"

It's just that at the moment when Tang Jinyuan spoke, the man in black who had been standing quietly in the corner suddenly moved, and ran towards Hua Zijing, who was getting dressed.

Tang Jinyuan had sensed something wrong before, so he had naturally been vigilant about the man in black in the corner, but his face suddenly sank at this moment, and he hurriedly rushed forward, and reacted very quickly to stop the man in black's movements.

The man who came with Tang Jinyuan saw Tang Jinyuan make a move, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to block Hua Zijing behind him.

"Let's go!"

Tang Jinyuan's movements were too fast, and the original injuries had already shown signs of faintly cracking, and the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he shouted in a deep voice.

"Uncle." Hua Zijing put on his coat in a panic, and followed the man to go outside.

Tang Jinyuan took a few deep breaths and quickly spoke. "After turning out of the alley, there's a carriage parked there, you go first, I'll be there later."

Hua Zijing hesitated and paused, and when he heard Tang Jinyuan explain like this, he nodded hurriedly, and his heart couldn't help jumping suddenly, feeling a burst of uneasiness.

Seeing Hua Zijing shake his head so obediently and leave, Tang Jinyuan breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt some faint strange emotions spreading.

It's just that the attack of the man in black in front of him is getting more and more fierce, so that Tang Jinyuan can't be distracted at all, and he can only try to force that person to take a step back.

Thinking that Tang Jinyuan's goal was too conspicuous, the man in black naturally would not let him succeed, and the entanglement became tighter and tighter.

Tang Jinyuan tried hard to breathe, the place where he was originally stabbed by Sikong Ao was faintly painful, thinking that blood had oozed out, and he faintly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Desperately defeated, he tried hard to injure the man in black, and he was so fast that he wanted to break out of the window.

It's just that for some reason, when approaching the window, Tang Jinyuan actually stopped, and subconsciously thought about taking a step aside.

As if to accept the uneasiness in his heart, the windowsill was split open, and Tang Jinyuan slapped the outstretched hand in a panic, and took a few steps back.

Now that there are wolves in front of him and tigers in the back, Tang Jinyuan Meiyu almost frowned in one place, he took a few steps back vigilantly, and found that the man in black in the room didn't attack him anymore, but just stared at him with burning eyes, giving him some respite.

It's just that Tang Jinyuan's heart sank a little bit after seeing the person who pushed the door in.

Although the woman who pushed the door in said that there was a shallow smile on her face, but in the end, the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, and she looked very mad.

"Xiangye, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I hide it quite deeply, but it makes me easy to find for a while."

"Where are you going?" When Tang Jinyuan's heart was pounding, he saw that the person turned around slightly to make his debut, and then someone threw Hua Zijing, who was supposed to escape, into like a dead dog.

Hua Zijing's elbow turned outward, and the angle was very distorted, and at a glance, he knew that it was twisted off by life.