"Little grandfather, there is the White Horse Pass in front of you. ”

On an official road south of Gyeonggi.

A majestic cavalry in the robe was marching through the snow in an orderly manner, and when the outline of a tall and majestic city gradually appeared at the end of the line of sight, a black-faced man with a beard on the back of a tiger suddenly shouted behind him.

"Shut up!"

Unexpectedly, an old man's scolding came from the team.

"Guo Lao is angry, I am reckless......"

The black-faced man instantly smiled when he heard this.

"Old Guo, Uncle Hei definitely didn't mean it, just dissipate your anger. ”

The old man snorted coldly, and a clear voice of consolation sounded in his ears.

"Little grandfather, the situation is dangerous now, and we must not be negligent in the slightest before arriving in the capital. ”

The old man followed the prestige and said to a young knight beside him wearing a black robe and armor with a handsome face.

"Old Guo, I know all this. ”

The young knight looked at the faint outline of the city in the distance at Baima Pass.

After passing the White Horse Pass, they were able to drive straight to the capital.

Do the math carefully.

This should be his return to this place that is both familiar and strange after two years.

That's right.

The young knight was Chen Ji, who had intended to invite Xia Fan out of the mountain to help the world.

Shortly after the New Year.

After being grounded in Yangchuan, he secretly went to the capital on his father's orders.

Although his father did not explicitly state the real reason for urgently recruiting him into Beijing, he still sensed the clues from the attitude of Guo Lao and Uncle Hei.

Maybe.

My father's situation in the capital seems to be a bit bad, and even taking him with him may encounter some danger.

Case.

Why did his father rush to recruit him into Beijing?

He couldn't figure it out.

And Guo Lao and Uncle Hei were silent about this, so that he was uneasy along the way.

In the evening.

They finally came to Baima Pass, facing the inspection of the city gate guards, the black-faced man stepped forward and showed his waist card and was able to be released smoothly, and it didn't take long for the team to settle in the post station of Baima Pass.

"Old Guo, now that we are only hundreds of miles away from the capital, you still refuse to tell me the truth?"

After dinner.

Chen Ji couldn't help but sigh lightly at Guo Lao, who was serving beside him.

"Little grandfather, don't embarrass the old man, when you get to the capital, you will naturally know what you should know. ”

Guo Lao couldn't help but say helplessly.

"Guo Lao, in fact, I just want to know my father's current situation in the capital, don't you even want to tell me this?"

Chen Ji said worriedly.

"Alas......" Guo Lao hesitated for a moment and sighed. "Little grandfather, the old man can only tell you that the current situation of the grandfather is indeed a little delicate. ”

"Subtle?"

Chen Ji said with a stunned expression.

"The matter here is too complicated, it can't be explained clearly in a few words, even the old man knows nothing now, if the little grandfather really wants to know, he can ask the grandfather in person when the time comes. ”

Guo Lao couldn't say anything.

"Old Guo, you don't know?"

Chen Ji was slightly surprised.

"After all, the old man is not always with his grandfather as before, and it is normal not to know a lot of things. ”

Guo Lao smiled bitterly.

“...... Will my father be in danger?"

Chen Ji said with a heavy face.

"It depends on how the situation in the capital changes. ”

Guo Lao said speciously.

"What happened in the capital now?"

Chen Ji hurriedly asked.

“...... It is said that this seems to be related to the royal family, but the specific situation is not clear to the old man. ”

Guo Lao said vaguely.

"I understand, thank you Guo Lao for your unstinting understanding. ”

Chen Ji knows.

No further questioning yielded results, so the topic was simply closed.

"Little grandfather, let's rest early tonight, the old man will go outside to inspect first. ”

said.

Guo Lao retired and left the room.

"Old Guo, is the little grandfather pestering you again to find the bottom of the matter?"

Outside the yard.

When the black-faced man in charge of the guard saw the old man who came out, he immediately stepped forward to say hello.

"Are you gloating?"

Guo Lao glanced at the black-faced man angrily and said.

"Hehe, how dare you do it. ”

The black-faced man suddenly laughed.

"Are all the people arranged?"

Guo Lao's face suddenly turned right.

"Of course!" the black-faced man said in an instant, solemnly. "The open and dark sentinels are already distributed in various key positions inside and outside the station, but we can know it all if anyone infiltrates. ”

"Don't forget what happened at the South County Station!"

Guo Lao reminded with a slight bow.

"I know. The black-faced man said in a deep voice. "Old Guo, are you worried about the second son?"

"You and I both know that the second prince is suspected of colluding with the Yin Demon Sect, and Zhen Wusi and his party died at the hands of the Yin Demon Sect at the Nanjun Post Station. ”

Guo Lao said with a solemn expression.

"Since the mysterious disappearance of the second son, the old man suspects that it was the people of the Yin Demon Sect who rescued the second son, if the second son intends to be unfavorable to the little son......"

"I can't figure out why the second son killed the little boy in the first place......"

The black-faced man couldn't help but sigh.

"That's not something we can care about anymore. ”

Guo Lao shook his head and said.

In fact, Guo Lao was also puzzled, in his impression, the second son has always had a calm personality, moderate manners, and a general's style.

Before that, he didn't expect that the second son would do something to kill his siblings.

At first, he thought that the second son was competing for the position of the prince of the country, but after thinking about it calmly, there were undoubtedly too many doubts in it.

You must know that Wei Guogong is in his prime, and his body has always been free of diseases and disasters, if there is no accident, he can at least live to be over seventy or eighty years old, not to mention that Wei Guogong is in power, and the second son can't pose any threat to his father at all, even if he wants to take over the position of Wei Guogong, it will take decades.

Therefore, even if he wants to compete for the position of the Duke of Guo, he must at least wait until the Duke of Wei is old or dies.

Again.

It's just a state position.

This is not the throne, is it worth the second son to betray his relatives and risk his life?

The most important thing is the attitude of the grandfather.

For the second son who disappeared later, the grandfather completely ignored it, and didn't seem to care about the whereabouts of the second son at all, and he didn't appoint the Zhenwu Division to send people around to search for him.

It's as if I've never had this son.

As a retainer of the National Government's Mansion.

Guo Lao is naturally not qualified to meddle in his grandfather's family affairs, so he can only keep these questions in his heart.

After nightfall.

From time to time, you can see Xuanpao armor soldiers patrolling back and forth in the post station, and Guo Lao lives in a house only one wall away from Chen Ji, always vigilant of the wind and grass around him.

"Enemy attack!"

Until the middle of the night.

Suddenly there was a soldier shouting angrily in the post station, and Guo Lao, who heard the movement, rushed out of the door and came to Chen Ji's room as soon as possible.

"Guo Lao, what happened?"

Inside the house.

Chen Ji, who was still in armor, looked nervously at Guo Laodao who broke into the house.

"The old man doesn't know, little grandfather, from now on, you'd better not leave the old man's side for a moment. ”

Guo Lao said with a solemn expression.

Immediately.

He asked a black-robed armor guard guarding outside Chen Ji's house to find out, and he himself stayed in the house without leaving Chen Ji's left and right.

"Be careful!"

When the fighting outside the post station became more and more intense, Guo Lao's heart moved and subconsciously pushed away Chen Ji beside him, and then the roof cracked and a black shadow fell.

"Come on, leave here with the little grandfather immediately!"

Guo Lao didn't think about it, and suddenly shot at the black shadow, and at the same time he didn't forget to shout urgently.

Taking advantage of the fact that Guo Lao was dragging the black shadow, Chen Ji soon left the courtyard under the escort of several black-robed armor soldiers and fled all the way out of the post station.

"Zhenwu Division! Go to the local Zhenwu Division for help!"

After escaping from the post station, Chen Ji, who had calmed down, immediately made a decision.

"Brother Lu!"

"Dumbo!"

Meanwhile.

In an inn in Hakuba Pass.

Shi Xiaofei and Lu Shaoyang walked out of the room together, glanced at each other and nodded tacitly, and then quickly disappeared into the inn.

"It looks like a post station in Kannai. ”

Above a tall building.

Shi Xiaofei, who was standing on the roof, looked in the direction where the sound of fighting came.

"The post station is a resting place for court officials, what kind of person is so bold to attack the post station!"

Lu Shaoyang, who was beside him, frowned and said solemnly.

Baekma Pass is the most important pass south of Gyeonggi, and it is not only heavily guarded here, but also has a branch of the Jinmuji Division.

Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes will keep to themselves when they come to Baima Pass, and they dare not have the slightest presumptuousness, what they are afraid of is the suppression of the Wusi of Guannei Town.

But right now, someone has attacked the post station, which is obviously not to take the Zhenwu Division in the pass in his eyes.

"Brother Lu, do we need to go and see what is going on?"

Shi Xiaofei Road.

"Well, but we'd better not get too close to each other, lest we get involved in the right and wrong. ”

Lu Shaoyang thought for a moment.

Unexpectedly, the two of them were halfway through the walk, and suddenly found that there was also a fight on a street in the distance.

In a wide deserted street.

A slender figure held a sharp sword to face several armorers wearing Xuan's robes, and within a moment, these Xuan-robed armorers all made the other party stab to the ground with understatement.

"Who the hell are you?!"

Chen Ji did not escape.

Because he knows that with his own strength, he can't escape the palm of the other party's hand at all.

And.

This figure who stopped them on the street made Chen Ji feel inexplicably familiar for some reason.

"Oh, my stupid brother, don't you recognize who I am?"

The other party walked towards Chen Ji step by step with a long sword dripping with blood in his hand, and casually took off the hat that covered his face.

"Second brother?!"

Chen Ji screamed in disbelief after seeing the other party's face.

"Long time no see, Koshi. ”

Chen's second brother.

Chen Yuan, the second son who mysteriously disappeared in the Wei State Mansion, looked at Chen Xuan with a smile on his face.

And Xiao Ji is Chen Ji's milk name.

"Second brother, are you here to kill me?"

Chen Ji looked at Chen Yuandao, who was approaching step by step, with complicated eyes.

"Xiao Xuan, why do you think I'm here to kill you?"

Chen Yuan stopped when he was less than ten steps away from Chen Ji.

"Second brother, you know best what you have done. ”

Chen Ji took a deep breath and aired.

"Oh, do you mean Qingping Mountain that time?" Chen Yuan said with a smile still on his face. "But didn't you die that time?"

"If there had been no superior rescue that day, maybe I would have died in the hands of the people you sent, second brother. ”

Chen Ji stared at Chen Yuandao.

"Xiao Xuan, why don't you think this is a test for you by the second brother?"

Chen Yuan sighed inexplicably.

"Test?!Second brother, you actually said that this is a test for me?" Chen Ji couldn't help but sneer. "What about the death of the eldest brother?Is it also your test of the eldest brother?!"

"Big brother......" Chen Ji suddenly fell silent, and then smiled again. "If I say that I didn't kill my eldest brother, do you believe me?"

"Okay, then tell your father these things yourself, and see if he believes you!"

Chen Ji clenched his fists and said.

"Then you're trying to kill me. ”

Chen Yuan shook his head and said.

"Second brother, I don't understand, why did you kill the eldest brother? Even I refused to let go! Aren't we brothers? Why did you do such a cruel thing!"

Chen Ji's eyes were red and he said sadly.

"Xiao Xuan, do you know? After you left the capital, a lot of things happened in the capital that you didn't know about. Chen Yuan was unmoved. "And these things inevitably have a profound impact on me and my big brother......"

"What exactly is it that I don't know?"

Chen Ji subconsciously asked.

"Oh, someone's coming, and it seems that the old story between our brothers can only end here. ”

Who knew that Chen Yuan quietly glanced at the building in the distance, turned around and was about to leave.

"By the way, I forgot to remind you of something...... Be careful father. ”

The words fell.

Chen Yuan's figure disappeared into the street.

The next moment.

Several people dressed in robes embroidered with goshawk patterns flew up the wall, and when they found the corpse in the street and Chen Ji standing in it, they immediately surrounded Chen Ji from different directions.

"Who are you?!"

One of them asked sharply at Chen Ji.

"Chen Ji, the son of Wei Guogong!"

Chen Ji gradually came back to his senses, reached out and took out a jade plaque from his armor and lit it in front of them.

"We need to check!"

The other party did not dare to relax in the slightest.

"Give. ”

Chen Ji didn't say a word, and casually threw the jade pendant to the person who questioned him.

"Brother Lu, we seem to have met some big guy. ”

Attic in the distance.

Shi Xiaofei leaned back against the shadows, holding his breath and contemplating.

"The assailant seems to have spotted us. ”

But Lu Shaoyang was thinking about another thing.

"Really, you can spot us from so far?"

Shi Xiaofei said in surprise.

"I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always feel that the other party has inadvertently glanced at us. ”

Lu Shaoyang frowned.

“...... Shall we continue to explore the post station?"

Shi Xiaofei thought for a moment.

"Let's go back, now that the people of the Zhenwu Division have already made a move, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings when we get it, let's find out through other channels tomorrow." ”

Lu Shaoyang said without hesitation.

"Good!"

Shi Xiaofei immediately responded.

"Why should they be in a hurry to leave? ”

However.

When they are ready to leave.

A voice full of laughter suddenly sounded in each other's ears.