In the first year of Yongle, the first day of February.

The sky was clear and the snow was fading away. The slightly dazzling sunlight penetrated the window of the inn, and Bao Yuanqian, who was sitting cross-legged and closed his eyes tightly, was dark and bright.

He was so calm and calm, absorbing Zhou Tian's pranayama for a while. His abundant breath roamed all over his body, and his cheeks were flushed, as if his daughter's family had been ashamed, but it was actually caused by the surging qi and blood around his body during practice.

Since he practiced the method of easy bone marrow and pranayama taught by Zhang Sanfeng, he is now in the hall and is gradually getting better. When he practiced ancient books, he was no longer confined to the situation or forced posture, but turned to the intention of keeping.

As long as he concentrates a little, he can practice the exercises with both his heart and mind, whether he is eating, walking, meditating, or resting. @ Although he is calm on the surface, he is practicing all the time.

Now it's only been two or three months, but his martial arts are growing day by day, and they are no longer what they used to be. That day, a spear squeezed Qiu Yue to death, and the domineering majesty of his power was by no means comparable to ordinary foreign kung fu.

I saw that under the silence, Bao Yuanqian Huo Ran opened his eyes and turned from static!

With a slight kick of his legs, he leaped high into the roof beams. He made a knife with a false palm, and slashed forward in the air, and before he could do it, he had already collected it and hidden it under his ribs.

The momentum has been exhausted, and he immediately slammed out of his legs in the fall, swept sharply, as fast as the wind. A strong wind came out, and when his feet landed steadily, the lights not far away suddenly went out.

Bao Yuanqian's toes touched the ground like a bird's nest, and he had already taken root without a sound, and there was no muffled sound of stepping on the ground. He felt the abundant strength in his body, as if nothing could be done.

He dusted off his newly changed clothes, and said in his heart that the subtlety of this immortal exercise could really turn a person with no foundation in martial arts into such a form in a few months.

Now that he has entered the right path of martial arts, he understands why Uncle Bao was able to break stones with his bare hands that night, and why those people could fly the eaves and walk the wall. He is deaf and clear-sighted, and he can even hear the rustling of fallen leaves hitting the ground a hundred steps away, and can hear the whispers downstairs in the noise. Any movement that came at him seemed to slow down, like the soldier who stabbed the spear in the night, allowing him to dodge it calmly.

He knew that it wasn't someone else who was slow, but that his reaction was many times faster than usual.

In addition, the Zoroastrian master who threw arrows and killed people with his bare hands, he had a little experience when he killed Qiu Yue, and this internal kung fu was condensed in one click, which was wonderful!

It's just that compared with others throwing arrows to kill people, he threw a spear to nail Qiu Yue and fell down. He asked himself that although his martial arts were advancing day by day, he was still a lot worse if he wanted to learn from the Zoroastrian master to throw arrows and hurt people.

Bao Yuanqian thought in his heart, if he met that ghost power red again with today's martial arts, although he was still far from his opponent, he would definitely not be beaten by his one move!

He sighed at this point, and when he was about to push the door out, he heard the crisp sound of the nail leaf crashing downstairs, and it seemed that a large group of people came straight to the second floor!

He was shocked in his heart, after all, he had done something shady some time ago. Now that he suddenly heard the sound of the armor, his first reaction was that the assassination of Qiu Yue was revealed, and someone was sent to arrest him.

"Great joy, great joy. The saint immediately wanted to announce that Marquis Wu nominated two people to enter the palace, Brother Bao and Brother Jiang. It's all going on today! ”

Just as Bao Yuanqian clenched his fists slightly and was on guard, he saw the door being pushed open with a "bang", only to hear that the person arrived before the sound arrived, and he stared at it and saw that the person who came was Xiao Yi with a red face!

He sighed, it turned out that Zhu Di was finally going to announce that the two of them had entered the palace to see the driver. He looked at the two rows of neatly armored royal forest troops behind Xiao Yi, and he didn't know which one of the pro-army guards it was, all holding the hilt of the knife and not squinting.

Xiao Yi first looked around when she entered the house, and then said, "What about Brother Jiang?" ”

Bao Yuanqian pointed to the next door and said, "I'm looking forward to it." ”

Xiao Yi hurriedly lifted his hem and went next door, Bao Yuanqian took a deep breath, he had been waiting for a whole month and finally waited for this day!

Under Xiao Yi's guidance, the two of them went straight downstairs into the carriage that had been prepared long ago, and headed towards the Tianfu Palace in the east under the escort of a group of royal forest soldiers.

Although this carriage is far inferior to Zhu Di's Jingen car, it is quite spacious and atmospheric, and the three of them are not crowded when they sit in it.

Xiao Yi was still the same as before, chattering endlessly.

Introduce them to the rules of the palace, which taboos should not be said, such as Jianwen and other words, let alone mention.

Bao Yuanqian was curious when he heard him mention Jianwen, that day Zhengyangmen took over, and Geng Bingwen was difficult to distinguish between true and false. Is Emperor Jianwen, who was defined as missing in history, dead or alive today?

It's a pity that this strange case is taboo today.

After crossing the middle bridge in the swaying of the car, he checked his identity at the station of the right guard of the government army, and went straight to the gate of Xi'an. Bao Yuanqian thought that Xi'an Gate was the entrance, but he didn't expect the carriage to turn and head north. The carriage crossed the Xuanwu Gate in the north, and then turned to the south to wrap half of the imperial city, although they were curious about the palace in the chariot, but on both sides were the mighty and solemn royal forest army, and they really didn't dare to raise their heads out.

This Xiao Yi saw that the two of them were strange and said: "Today, the Holy Lord summoned you in the Chunhe Temple, and naturally entered from Dong'anmen. ”

Bao Yuanqian was a little puzzled when he heard this, this Chunhe Hall should be the residence of the crown prince and grandson in the Ming Dynasty. It stands to reason that grass people like themselves enter the palace because of their merits, and they should be in Wenhua Hall if they are not in Wuying Palace.

What is the intention of this Zhu Di to abandon these two halls and choose a Chunhe Palace? Now that the crown prince has not been established, this Spring and Harmony Hall is uninhabited, does he want the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to speculate on the holy will? Therefore, it is neither in Wuying nor in Wenhua, and it is really interesting to choose the Chunhe Hall that does not have the attributes of civil and military.

The carriage traveled for half an hour before it stopped. Xiao Yi lifted the curtain and looked at it, and said, "When you arrive, quickly dismount and follow me, don't make a noise." ”

"Hey, what's on your back?" As soon as Xiao Yi was about to get off the horse, she noticed that Jiang Wei was carrying a piece of baggage, and couldn't help asking.

"A gift to the Holy One." Jiang Wei said with a smile.

This bag is naturally filled with the blackened jade seal of the country that has been burned by the flames, and the two of them have already brought this jade seal with them when they heard the summons, ready to go straight to Zhu Di's imperial front.

"What?" Xiao Yi frowned slightly, "You must know that when you enter the palace, any personal belongings must be kept at the palace gate." This thing is dedicated to the Holy One, what is it..."

Jiang Wei smiled faintly, glanced at Bao Yuanqian and said, "Lord Xiao doesn't need to panic, this thing is indispensable to the Holy Being. ”

Now that they have arrived at the palace gate, they do not need to hide it, the Son of Heaven is close at hand, and no matter how mysterious things are, they can unveil it. @·error-free start~~ He took off the burden and slowly unfolded the heirloom jade seal in the middle.

The three of them jumped out of the carriage, and what was imprinted in the eyes of Bao Yuanqian and the two of them was a pair of Zhongfu dragon pans, glazed flying tiles, and the buildings of Guidian Lan Palace. The high wall of vermilion lacquer, the green tile cornice, the heavy eaves rest on the top of the mountain, and the top floor of the heavy eaves hall is endless.

This palace wall is quite tall, but I didn't expect the Qionglou Yuyu in the middle to be as good as it, only to see the halls standing arrogantly, so that the two of them can see the glazed tile roofs in the middle outside the palace wall, and the rules are scattered.

The ancients divided the stars into three stars and 28 nakshatras. Because the crape myrtle wall is in the middle, the ancients mostly believed that the crape myrtle wall was the residence of the Son of Heaven, so the palace was placed in the middle of the crape myrtle wall.

And the ancient man-made palaces are not only here, they value the heavens, and the way of the unity of heaven and man. Therefore, there is a moat around the palace, implying the Tianhan galaxy.

Every few steps on the palace wall is a tall Dawei scholar holding a big axe and halberd, wearing a guard of honor Xuanhua, standing on it like a mountain, not moving at all.

Jiang Wei sighed a little, although he was quite strategic, he always had a low starting point. Don't say that it was him, even if it was Bao Yuanqian, who was a later generation, was still shocked when he faced such a magnificent palace complex and a terrifying armor warrior for the first time. He only felt that this momentum was pressing here, and he didn't even have the courage to lift his head.

And Xiao Yi's shocked look on the side was no less than the two of them, he didn't know whether he had been in the palace a hundred times or a thousand times, so naturally he would not be shocked by this palace that he was accustomed to.

He just saw a black and swarthy thing from Jiang Wei's hand, and he only took a cursory look at it, and then he understood Jiang Wei's indispensable thing as if he had just woken up from a dream.

He originally thought that these two people had military merits, and when they were summoned by the saint, they would already be chicken dogs ascending to heaven, but he didn't expect that the two of them would still hold this thing to meet him, which was really eye-catching.

"These two sons will be extremely popular ministers in the future!" His heart was beating wildly, and he said secretly.

He led the two of them, hunched over and hurried to himself.

A small gate in Dong'an Gate enters the palace. The three of them walked through the long side passage and entered the Donghua Gate, and the things they searched were really entering the palace.

The three of them went all the way from the north to a canopy hall in front of them. @·No mistake start~~ Bao Yuanqian strode up, his heart was surging, and he was unconsciously even breathing a little disordered.

For this moment, he was chased north by Warat and trapped in a lonely city. For this moment, he fought thousands of miles from the north of the Saibei and escaped from danger. For this moment, he took the lead at the gate of Yanmen and did not avoid artillery fire.

Now, he is finally going to meet the Yongle Emperor in history and enter the highest power place of the Ming Empire.

I don't know how long it took to arrive at the entrance of the hall, Xiao Yi led the two of them to wait from the side door. Bao Yuanqian looked at the Imperial Forest Army guarding around him, obviously this place was unusual.

Xiao Yi first bowed in, and after a while, he came out with a suspicious face, and greeted the two, and Bao Yuanqian and the others followed.

The hall was hot, but it was extremely empty. Carved gold and jade pillars, the inky black transparent floor is neat and bright, just... Why is there no one in this spring and temple?

To be precise, there should be only one monk, he is dressed in a black monk's uniform facing the three people, and he is sitting on the main seat with his legs folded and looking at the crickets in the cup.

Now that the crown prince has not been established, there is no place to dare to sit on the throne except for the Son of Heaven, no wonder Xiao Yi looks puzzled.

Bao Yuanqian looked at this black-clothed monk strangely at first, but in an instant, an astonishing thought popped up. There is a monk in this palace, this black-clothed monk is not ....

"Xiao Yi, the general secretary of the Chinese book, was ordered to bring Wu Hou to recommend the two of them to meet the saint!" Xiao Yi led the two to the front and knelt down to the monk who was fighting the crickets.

Xiao Yi turned his head sideways, and Bao Yuanqian and Jiang Wei knelt down in understanding.

"Grass people Bao Yuanqian!"

"Grass people ginger for!"

"I would like to face the saint, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The two of them said that their hearts jumped, and they saw Xiao Yi turn her head and look at the two with reproachful eyes. Originally, these words had been taught by Xiao Yi several times in advance, and they had already formed muscle memory.

It was already discussed, and I knelt down from the side door to the main hall, and bluntly said that long live long live this process. Who knew that Zhu Di did not play cards according to the routine, and he was not in the Chunhe Palace, but he left a black-clothed monk in the main position.

The two of them were a little nervous, so they blurted out but did not stop the half of the sentence. They were right, but they were wrong about the person who said it.

The emperor is not here, long live you mountain shout, long live for whom?

Bao Yuanqian thought of the damn thing here, and he was timid! I haven't had an interview yet, and I've been convicted for my words, which is really unlucky!

"Hehehe... Lord Xiao and retreat first, today the Holy Dragon is not safe, so I will meet the two of them. Unexpectedly, the black-clothed monk didn't blame, but just waved Xiao Yi away with a warm smile.

The black-clothed monk got up and came with his hand, and said slightly hoarsely: "You are the righteous warriors who helped the Marquis of Jiangyin quell the civil strife and repel the southern movement of Arutai?" ”

Bao Yuanqian knelt down and said, "Yes, but not all!" ”

"Oh?"

Bao Yuanqian took a deep breath and said slowly: "Our brothers and others are indeed the ones who helped the Marquis of Jiangyin break the enemy, but they are not the righteous people of Saibei. ”

The black-clothed monk seemed to expect him to say this, so he said, "Oh? It's not a righteous man in Saibei, where is it? ”

Bao Yuanqian said: "Several of us are Shaanxi Xingdu Division, Suzhou Weiren!" On that day, the rebellion in Yanmen suddenly broke out, and it became between elbows and armpits. In a hurry, in order to gain the trust of Wu Hou, we had to use the identity of Saibei Yishi. ”

His words are quite reasonable, and they have been thought of a long time ago. If it is clear that several of them are Suzhou Wei's people, then Wu Gao will naturally be suspicious, and Suzhou Wei's people came to Datong, which is the same as that Zhou Wuxian.

Even if there is Ying Hao, a brocade guard, but a group of Suzhou guards and a Suzhou Wei brocade guards have traveled thousands of miles to Datong, it is impossible for Wu Gao not to suspect it. simply lied, saying that several of them were from the north of the country, and cooperated with Ying Hao, a brocade guard, to spy on the military situation on the Datong border all the year round, so that in a hurry, a lot of trouble was saved.

"I see." The black-clothed monk nodded, but he was not surprised and said, "Since you are a Suzhou guard, why did you appear in Datong, thousands of miles away?" ”

Bao Yuanqian said slowly.

"It's not a secret, the grass people were originally a pawn of Suzhou Weiyi. My brother Jiang Wei is just a small official of Suzhou Wei, and the rest of the brothers are also Suzhou guards. The reason why we appeared in Datong was because of Deng Pingyu, the commander of Suzhou Guard, and Li Chengen, the same acquaintance! ”

"Oh? Let's hear about it? ”

Bao Yuanqian's mouth was like a river, and he talked endlessly. I inadvertently intercepted my group to the princess of Beiyuan, and got the news of the jade seal of the country. Later, Deng and Li made peace with Warat in private, and then besieged Warat, and his party was forced to go north to envoy Helin.

It's just that he himself has done artistic processing, such as omitting a series of incidents such as a few people forging holy decrees to deceive Mahamu, and the Kerebu. It is only said that Mahamu and others deceived them and gave them away with fake seals, but they were all killed halfway.

A few of them escaped by chance, but because of the guidance of the princess, they accidentally got the true seal from the palace of Helin Khan, and when they passed through the Tatar Department all the way south, they accidentally discovered the movements of the Aru *** team, and then went straight to Datong to inform Wu Gao.

He finished speaking half-truthfully, and these words were also discussed by several people a long time ago. The people and soldiers of the Daming Guard are all registered in the register, and they are summarized in Yingtianfu.

Several of them are regular soldiers, and the little officials are all recorded in the Yingtianfu Treasury. If you want to make up your identity, that is to light a lamp in a pit and look for death.

In addition, Li Chengen is Li Jinglong's cousin, and sooner or later he will respond to the report of heaven, and if he and a few of them enter the court to deceive the court, they will be easily punctured by Li Chengen, and they will not be able to eat and walk around at that time.

Speaking of Zhu Di's delay in not seeing him, it is naturally impossible to drink tea and play cards. Since he named the two of them into the palace today, he must have investigated the origin of his two identities a long time ago.

Instead of taking risks, it is better to be honest. Originally, it was an expedient measure for them to call themselves the righteous warriors of Saibei, and the envoy and Lin were also persecuted by Shangguan, but now that they got the true seal, it was a great achievement, and who would care about some flaws?

The black-clothed monk asked knowingly, and listening to the tone, he knew who he was from and how many people he was.

Sure enough, the black-clothed monk finally heard something he didn't know, his face did not change, but his voice raised by three points: "You say... Heirloom jade seal? ”

Jiang Wei immediately took off his burden after hearing this, and untied it to reveal a black jade seal inside. Zuo said: "This jade seal is the jade seal of the country that disappeared since the late emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, and it is the treasure of the Han people. It is also the thing that a few of us and others sacrificed their lives to get from death, and it is also the reason why this trip should be in heaven. _o_m ”

The black-clothed monk strode forward and picked up the jade seal of the country that had been destroyed by the years, and he put it in his hand and watched it repeatedly.

Bao Yuanqian took advantage of him to look at the jade seal, secretly raised his eyes and glanced at it a few times, only to see that the black-robed monk was about seventy years old, quite thin, and weak. The eyes are like triangles, shaped like a sick tiger, the hook nose hangs in the middle with three points of yin qi, the thin lips are like knives, the lack of kindness and righteousness, and the ruthlessness that can't be hidden between the eyebrows makes people shudder.