Gu Yanzhang heard some meaning, although he didn't know what medicine was sold in this person's gourd, but he followed his words and said: "The two of us have known each other for a long time, and it doesn't hurt if you have something to say." ”

"I heard that the cases you investigated involved a wide range of cases, all of which involved the royal family, but I don't know what the situation is." Yang Yifu stopped again, stood beside Gu Yanzhang, his tone was sincere, and his face was full of seriousness, "My father-in-law is already a little old and confused now, he only said that he was a king, but he didn't know that once he lost power, the trees fell and scattered, and he actually looked for a lot of children behind, I can't care about the others, I'm afraid that something will go wrong with the selected family, Yanzhang, I don't want you to say anything, you only give me a real sentence, those cases, it really doesn't matter, and which clans and royal relatives are next to it, if my father-in-law chooses the wrong one, Even if I try my best, I will try my best to dissuade it! ”

Yang Yifu said: "I know that the stakes are very high, and I can't spread it at will, but what kind of friendship do you and I have?" I don't want you to reveal anything you can't say, you just tell me what it will be if things leak out......"

He was only halfway through his sentence when he suddenly heard a rush of hurried and chaotic footsteps from far and near, and hurriedly turned his head in silence, but saw several attendants running from the far side of the corridor, and the man in front of him was walking very fast, and he had already left the entourage carrying the lantern three or four feet away.

Gu Yanzhang also followed the prestige, and when he saw that the people were in a hurry, he was afraid that he would take something wrong, so he gave way to the side, not wanting to block the way of the people.

He only gave in sideways, and before he could retreat far, he only heard someone shouting not far away: "Deputy Envoy Gu!" ”

It turned out that there was a lantern hanging on the corridor, and the two of them were standing still, but at this time, Gu Yanzhang turned his head sideways, his head and face were clearly reflected by the bright light in the lantern, and he was asking the leading chamberlain to look at it.

Gu Yanzhang looked at the visitor carefully, but saw that the other party was actually Zhu Baoshi, who was in charge of the Imperial City Division.

"Deputy Envoy Gu!" Zhu Baoshi ran forward for a while, and he couldn't take a break, panting and said, "The sage has a will, summon the deputy envoy to meet him." ”

He simply announced the decree, and hurriedly looked left and right, and saw that Yang Yifu was on the side, greeted him, and said, "Yang Guanren." ”

Although Yang Yifu's own official position is not obvious, he can't see what makes Zhu Baoshi impressed for a while, but after all, he is Fan Yaochen's son-in-law, and this alone can make the palace attendants pay more attention to him.

Yang Yifu nodded casually and returned the salute as his own.

- Not to mention that if Wenchen does not despise the eunuchs, let others know, he will have a dull face, and Zhu Baoshi was originally in charge of the Imperial City Division, but he has been Zhao Rui's confidant for many years, no matter who succeeds to the throne, he will have no chance of coming out - just look at Zhao Rui's great accumulation at this time, this person will be used by the Empress Dowager Zhang to do some errand work, it is really not worth his effort.

Zhu Baoshi's expression on his face was slightly condensed, and for a moment, there seemed to be a trace of annoyance floating on his head, but he quickly recovered to his original state, as if nothing had happened, he no longer paid attention to Yang Yifu, turned his head and asked Gu Yanzhang: "Have you ever seen Hu Gongshi?" ”

Gu Yanzhang said: "He is in front, when he has already left the palace, he knows that if there is an emergency, hurry up, and maybe he can stop him halfway." ”

Zhu Baoshi hurriedly bowed, left a small yellow door for Gu Yanzhang to lead the way, and led the rest of the people to run out in a hurry.

In front of the yellow gate in the palace, it is inconvenient for Yang Yifu to say more, Rao is heart is like a cat scratching, and he really wants to know what happened to Gu Yanzhang in this big night, whether it is related to those cases, and what is the inside story, but there is no way to do it in the end, so he had to grind his teeth and say: "I will look for you when I leave the palace." ”

The two said goodbye and went their separate ways.

Gu Yanzhang followed the original path of the Yellow Gate and walked back, still thinking about what Yang Yifu's intentions were today, and when he came back to his senses, he had already arrived at the gate of Wende Palace.

He stood still, waiting for the official to go in and pass through, but the strange thing was that in the past, there was a reply in a few moments at most, but this time no one came out for half a day.

Wende Hall is the main hall, there is a special place that is different from the rest of the palace, the door and window hollow place is not sealed with paper paste yarn, but it is a kind of thin piece embedded in it with Chaozhou in, looking from a distance, as if it can reflect the colorful brilliance from it, and then approach and look at it, it seems to be ivory white again.

With this thin window, the hall is big, and it is two zhang away, Gu Yanzhang can't hear the movement at all, he doesn't know how long he has been standing, the door of the hall was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and one person almost rushed out, and he didn't look at Gu Yanzhang who was standing outside the door, and shouted outside: "Someone!" Xuan Taiyi!! ”

——It is Cui Yongchen, who has been with Empress Dowager Zhang all the year round.

The two little yellow men who were standing outside received their orders, and almost ran away and headed for the Tai Hospital.

Cui Yongchen clasped the door of the palace with one hand, and held the door frame with the other hand, as if he was a little dizzy, and his head and face were flushed, he stood for a few breaths before he eased up, and when he saw a small yellow door nearby, he paused, and opened his mouth to order: "Today, Sun Fengyao is not on duty, you take the token, and quickly go to pick him up into the palace." ”

The yellow gate hurriedly took the order and left.

From the palace gate to the two groups of people to the layman, it was only a few words, and when the people were gone, Cui Yongchen finally took a breath, only to find that there was still an official in mourning clothes standing in the waiting place of the yellow gate, and then looked at it, and then reacted, it turned out to be Gu Yanzhang, who was recalled to the palace by Empress Dowager Zhang.

He squinted his eyes, and didn't say much, but only bowed and retreated back to the temple, and closed the door again.

All this happened very quickly, Gu Yanzhang didn't know what was going on inside, but Empress Dowager Zhang announced that he would meet him, and there was no reply at this time, which really made him think too much.

At this time, it was late, and the banquet was already past the end of the day, and it had been delayed for a long time, and the palace gate had been closed early, although he was not the body of Zaifu, and it was still far from the location of the two prefectures, but in the end, it was the deputy envoy of the Criminal Division, and he was holding three major cases in his hands, one of which was that Song Weizi also died on the street on the state bridge, and then there was the case of Li Chengwei, who opened the coffin in public for an autopsy, and the prisoner was guilty of killing his mother and wife, and it was even more rebellious.

He was summoned to the palace in the middle of the night, and he didn't come out all night, and he didn't know what it would be like tomorrow.

Gu Yanzhang stood in place, and waited for an unknown amount of time, the door of the Wende Hall was suddenly opened again, this time Cui Yongchen finally stepped out of the threshold, but did not forget to close the door of the hall with his backhand. He took a few steps forward and said to Gu Yanzhang: "The Queen Mother has something, please ask the deputy envoy to leave the palace first." ”

Gu Yanzhang stood outside the hall, and waited for more than half an hour, at this time, Cui Yongchen went out of the palace, and without a word of explanation, he had to send people away.

However, he only returned a salute, answered, and followed the little yellow door that led the way to turn around and leave.

Gu Yanzhang walked forward for a while, heard the sound of the hinge opening and closing behind him, glanced back, and happened to see the two doors gradually closing. His eyesight was sharper than that of ordinary people, and from a distance, from the gap that quickly closed from large to small, it seemed that he could see a group of people gathered in the temple, and he didn't know what he was doing.

After delaying for a long time, when he left the palace again, the officials gathered outside the Xuande Gate had already dispersed, because Zhao Rui's funeral had just been completed, and there were cabinet envoys leading the guards to patrol the imperial city on all sides.

At this time, it was already dark, Gu Yanzhang walked out, and walked forward for a short while, only to see a few people leading horses and hurriedly greeted them, and it was Rosin Xiang who was at the head.

Rosin Xiang is used to being eye-catching, he first opened his mouth and called "official", did not hear Gu Yanzhang's reply, and hurriedly approached with the lantern, and sure enough, he saw that the other party was slightly condensed, and he didn't dare to say more, so he only handed over the reins and whispered: "The official gets on the horse." ”

He pointed to the few people who followed behind him: "Your Majesty is buried, and Madame is afraid that there will be no one to buy and sell food in the market, so someone sent some over." ”

Gu Yanzhang had already noticed that the number of people was wrong, and when he heard Rosin say this, he looked up in the direction he pointed, only to see three people behind him, all of whom were guards from the house, all of them were tall and big, and only the last one had a small burden on his arm.

The burden was only the size of two fists, and it looked shriveled and shriveled, which was pitiful in comparison.

- This posture, where has always been to send food.

Gu Yanzhang knew that Ji Qingling was afraid of Zhao Rui's new funeral, that Beijing was unstable, and that there were small and disorderly acts, so he sent someone to protect him. His heart warmed, and he didn't say much, but nodded, immediately turned on his horse, and was about to walk forward, when he suddenly heard a voice behind him, and turned his head to look, just in time to see a group of guards coming from the east.

That line of about thirty people, more than the previous establishment of ten, most of them are carrying long sticks, and a few people wear long knives at their waists, and then look back at the Xuande Gate, you can vaguely see the eight-step crossbow reflected by the torches on the city gate, thinking that in case of accidents, Empress Dowager Zhang ordered to strengthen the guard of the imperial city.

Gu Yanzhang stared at it for a while, and then hit the horse first, this time, he didn't take the Liangmen and Zhou Xiwazi, which he usually walked from Xuande Gate, but he grabbed the horse's belly and went in the direction of the Zhou Bridge.

Rosin Xiang patted the horse behind, ran a few steps, and followed Gu Yanzhang and said, "Official, are you going to West Street today?" ”

Gu Yanzhang said: "No, follow the Vermilion Bird Gate today." ”

He just heard that Cui Yongchen said that he was going to Xuansun to serve medicine, for some reason, there was always an indescribable premonition in his heart, as if something big would happen, because he thought that in the past, he had inadvertently said that Sun Zhaohe lived between Baokang Gate and Suzaku Gate, according to the road, as long as he entered the palace, he would go to the royal street, so he simply went to Suzaku Gate.

Gu Yanzhang walked all the way, no matter the houses or shops, almost every house hung white, and every household hung flags, although from time to time he could bump into a team of guards, but there was no curfew in the city, and there were often pedestrians and merchants on the road, but the business was really scattered compared to usual.

Because he had to spare his energy to pay attention to the way he came, whenever he encountered people, he had to take a look, but after walking for half an hour, he walked very slowly, but he had already crossed the state bridge, and he still did not see the Huangmen attendant who was ordered to summon people into the palace, nor did he see Sun Zhaohe.

When he was about to reach the Vermilion Bird Gate, Gu Yanzhang grabbed the reins, suddenly grabbed the horse, drove the horse to another path and walked a few steps, listened attentively, turned his head and asked the guard behind: "But what is the sound?" ”

Rosin was unprepared, and hurriedly dragged the horse to a halt, while the group stopped one after another.

This place is far away from Fang City, it is a piece of dwellings, and there are no pedestrians in sight, and when they hear Gu Yanzhang speak, everyone is suddenly silent and listens.

After more than a dozen breaths, Rosin asked tentatively, "It seems to be the rumor?" ”

The winter wind is strong, and the leaves on the side of the road are about to fall, and the north wind blows the bare treetops, and it is inevitable that there will be some whistling.

Another person behind him frowned and said, "I can hear you...... There are voices in a trance. ”

For a while, someone said: "I'm afraid that the sound of the wind in my ears has been pouring out of the wind after running for a long time?" ”

If it was usual, Gu Yanzhang would have gone with him, but today for some reason, starting from Zhao Rui's funeral ceremony, his whole person was a little uneasy.

He looked back at the road, the road was dark, and there was no light, and he looked at the place again, but he didn't see a figure, so he asked to the left and right, "Where was the last time you saw the guards?" ”

Rosin thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that there will be a tea journey." ”

When Gu Yanzhang heard this, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

The first emperor was buried, even if there was no curfew in the capital, martial law must be imposed, even if the dust has settled today, but the inspection is stricter than in the past, and the number of patrol guards has more than doubled. Although this place has almost reached the junction of the inner and outer cities, in the end it is still in the inner city, and it stands to reason that there should be patrol shops within 500 steps.

Although he is not as good as Yang Kui and Chen Hao, he has generally experienced dozens of large and small battle formations, and he has personally gone into battle ten times, and his body already seems to have given birth to an indescribable sense of smell, as if he can smell the smell of danger in advance. ”

He led the other two, and he didn't dare to run fast, but carefully pulled the reins of the horses to a path more than ten feet away.

At this time, it was the middle of the night, and this was not a familiar road that he was used to walking on weekdays, but fortunately, Gu Yanzhang had recently walked in the streets and alleys of the capital in order to repair the ditches in the city, but he slowly recognized it, frowned and said, "Isn't this the way to Xiangguo Temple?" ”

One of the guards who followed on the side said, "It's a little like it, it's just that it's too dark to see the place clearly - you should be able to recognize it in the daytime." ”

The three of them hadn't gone a few more feet ahead, and the road had already split into two forks in front of them, one was a residential house, and the street was at the gate, and the other was by the Bianhe River, both of which were dark and painted, and they couldn't see anything.

Gu Yanzhang was about to speak, when a guard on the left suddenly said "Huh", beat his horse and walked forward for more than ten steps, turned back suddenly, pointed to the road leaning against the Bianhe River with his right hand, and shouted: "Official, is there someone ahead?" ”