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Shan Peng traveled with a sword, and soon arrived in the Xilin Kingdom.

This time the country is preparing for a national funeral, and it can be said that there are no idlers in thousands of miles.

Shan Peng held the token given by Xufeng Chenhui and stood uneasily outside the door of the Qi Mansion.

In this cup of tea, there are more than 100 people in and out of this door.

Shan Peng was thinking about whether he would get mixed in, but then he thought that he was carrying the prince's token, although he didn't know what to say to the Qi family, but he was also a 'minister'.

However, if he reported it directly, he was afraid that it would be too high-profile and would hinder the prince's future plans.

Just when he was hesitating, a voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Brother, you have been standing outside for a long time, if you want to condole, please move inside." ”

Shan Peng turned to look.

There were already two people standing behind him, and they were not very kind to him either in tone or look, let alone the knife against his waist.

"Well, let the two of them lead the way. "Shan Peng will also calculate, and under the 'escort' of the two, he entered the Qi Mansion through the side door.

Qi Wei looked at the token on the table in a daze, and then raised his eyes to look at Shan Peng who was held in front of the table.

After a while, he waved and asked the family and the subordinates to retreat.

Until only the brothers and sisters of the Qi family and Shan Peng were left in the house.

"Where did you get this thing?" Qi Wei didn't say a word, picked up the token and questioned Xiang Shan Peng.

"The lower official is Shan Peng, the 'Imperial Saber Officer' of the Guard Division, and he was ordered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to bring this token to the Qi family of Xilin Shu Kingdom. Shan Peng replied truthfully.

"Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have anything you want to bring with you?" Qi Yuelin asked.

Shan Peng shook his head, he couldn't rashly tell the Qi family about the orders that Xufeng Chenhui would give him later: "The prince only asked the subordinate to come to the Qi family with the token, and everything was low-key, and he didn't say anything else." ”

"Will you go to the other two in the future?" Qi Wei asked.

"The prince asked the lower officials to come to Qi's house only, and stay here for the time being. ”

The people of the Qi family glanced at each other.

"Your token," Qi Ran walked up to him and asked, "Can you give me a look?"

Shan Peng fully cooperated and handed his token to Qi Ran.

Qi Ran checked back and forth for a while, then handed it to Qi Wei and nodded slightly.

"Someone!" Qi Wei summoned the two people outside the door in, "Find a clean guest room, let's let this chivalrous man stay in, don't be embarrassed." ”

"Yes!"

"You go and rest first, and we'll talk about the rest later. "Qi Wei only returned the token of Shan Peng's 'Imperial Saber Officer' to him.

Shan Peng was also interested, and after receiving the token, he retreated.

"Second brother, what does this mean?" Qi Yuelin looked dazed.

Qi Wei held the prince's token, thought about it, and did not answer the old man.

"It's the prince - oh no, the crown prince - or the future emperor who is telling us that what he supports in the Xilin Kingdom is our Qi family," Qi Ran said with a smile, "It's just that we don't know if there are two other 'imperial swordsmen' who went to the Liu and Li families and said the same thing." ”

"That's right," Qi Wei raised his eyes to look at the elder and fourth, and then said softly, "Just to determine the final matter of the national funeral, the two of you will go to investigate separately." ”

Qi Yuelin and Qi Ran both nodded in response.

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Capital.

The palace officials are dressed plainly, and there are white curtains hanging everywhere.

Everyone was busy with the funeral.

Fang Fan caught a glimpse of his subordinates who came back to report the situation in the crowd, and came to the side courtyard under the pretext of excuse.

"How's it going?" Fang Fan kept his eyes around to make sure no one would hear.

"Lord Hui, we did meet Master Shan, but he has a ...... The emperor's token said that he was doing things for the emperor, and his subordinates did not dare to touch him. ”

Fang Fan was shocked.

It's not because he doesn't know when Xufeng Chenhui handed over his token to Shan Peng, but because Xufeng Chenhui did this.

"Has he returned to the capital now?" Fang Fan calmed down and asked.

"Nope. ”

Fang Fan hurriedly said, "Where did he go?"

"The lower officials didn't dare to ask, Master Shan was originally on the official road back to Beijing, but after explaining some words to his subordinates, he went in another direction. ”

Fang Fan's mind was in chaos now, in fact, even if his mind was not confused, he couldn't think of where Shan Peng would go.

"Lord Fang, why did you come here, the emperor is looking for you!" the eunuch looked at him from afar with relief.

"Thank you, father-in-law, I'll go right away!"

Because of the great filial piety of the whole country, the enthronement ceremony was also postponed.

Fang Fan had no choice but to put aside Shan Peng and his own interests for the time being, and followed the eunuch to meet the new emperor.

However, this does not affect Xufeng Chenhui's full acceptance of the emperor's power and position.

"Wechen—"

The emperor waved: "Get up, you don't have to salute, now I have something for you to do immediately-change your outfit and go to Beiyuan City immediately." ”

"All the people in the Imperial Pavilion are in the country of Ma Si, their ability is completely enough to deal with it, and now if Weichen also leaves Beijing to the east, what should be the emperor's safety in the capital?"

"The pavilion master is doing other things on the orders of the emperor, and I want you to go to Beiyuan City to quietly pick up someone back to Beijing. ”

Fang Fan was a little hesitant, because judging from the information he had obtained before, the new emperor was already deliberately protecting Shan Peng.

He didn't know if the purpose of going to Beiyuan City was a pit.

"However, Wei Chen's departure - Shan Peng has not yet returned to Beijing, and there is no 'imperial sword officer' in the city, if anyone has bad intentions-"

Fang Fan tentatively refused and refused.

"Lord Fang, Shan Peng is the 'Imperial Saber Officer' that I personally mentioned at the beginning, and he is my cronies, and now he has gone elsewhere at my behest," Xufeng Chenhui already knew what Fang Fan's worries were, and he just took advantage of this to ease his heart, "But it seems that you have forgotten that you are also personally promoted by me, and you are also my confidant." ”