At night, there is still a bit of excitement on the street when the New Year is approaching, but because of the shocking case in the East Palace, the faces of passers-by are also a little less happy, and they are in a hurry.

The secret sentinels arranged by the Jinyi guards were hidden in all corners, like spiders on a spider's web, closely watching any movement in the big web of the capital.

"Someone." Finally, a person in the dark suddenly stared, called his partner beside him, and the two of them shuttled between the eaves and streets like spirit monkeys, the dark clouds covered the moonlight, and everything in the darkness was unknown.

Two brocade guards sneaked to the eaves of a house with a great view, and one pointed to the southeast side of the street and whispered, "Look at that guy, sneaky." ”

The brocade guard referred to a man dressed in gray and black robes, who kept walking through the streets, faster than the others, and looked back from time to time, as if to avoid something.

If it was daytime, it might not be very inconspicuous, but now that it was late at night, and there were not many people on the streets, it seemed very suspicious that he would act like this.

The two brocade guards glanced at each other, one of them stayed where he was, and the other followed in the dark.

The man looked nervous, occasionally stopped to look, and then sped up walking, almost running, and the brocade guard who followed him was tempted, so he simply sold a flaw, and kicked the stones at his feet at will, causing the other party to look back immediately.

When the man saw this brocade guard staring at him, his expression immediately changed drastically, he turned his head and ran, and saw that the brocade guard sneered: "Sure enough, there is a ghost." ”

After that, he also chased after him with an arrow, who knew that the man actually directly took out a string of cannonballs, and threw them to the rear casually, the sound of firecrackers was extremely obvious in the night, and this movement attracted many people to go out to find out.

As soon as there are many people, the scene will be chaotic, and if the scene is chaotic, it will be good to fish in troubled waters, and the person will take advantage of this turbulence to get out.

Don't you know that the brocade guards who were observing from the eaves saw that the fish had bitten the hook. The whistle was immediately blown, and three or two black figures rushed out of the street on both sides and rushed towards the man.

"Be smart. Wrong! ”

The brocade guard was just about to go down, when he suddenly noticed that in the opposite direction of the person's escape route, there was also a figure taking the opportunity to go out against the flow of people.

"Boom, hum!" The brocade guard's face became a little more serious, and he swept down, like a big peng easily catching the figure that fled in the opposite direction.

At this time, the other side of the captor also turned back, and one of them took the sneaky fellow, slipped him to him, and said, "Chief, the man has been caught, but nothing has been found on him." ”

"It's not strange, because it's here." The brocade guard sneered and ordered someone to search the body of the man at his feet, and sure enough, a letter was found from him.

When the brocade guard opened the letter, there was only one date written in it, which was the date of the year-end ceremony.

The brocade guard said with a serious expression: "Take this person back to the edict prison, interrogate him overnight, and make sure he vomits something before sunrise." ”

"Yes!"

Several brocade guards escorted people back, and on the other side, the matter quickly reached Meng Yuan's desk.

The matter of the old man's return to Jinyiwei has not yet been announced, and the news should have been reported to Lu Hanjiang according to the rules, but the reason why it was not reported to Lord Lu. It's because it's late at night, and Lord Lu has already rested.

After listening to the advice of the people below, Wu Qiming frowned and said, "I think that most of this person was sent by the East Palace. ”

Meng Yuan didn't speak, just glanced at him and motioned for the other party to continue, so Wu Qiming continued: "The mansions of all the princes and important ministers in the capital have our eyeliner, and this person can easily come to the street without being noticed by others, he must have come out of the palace." ”

The emperor is dedicated to the matter of sacrifice and immortality at the moment, and has no time to take care of anything else, Cao Yuan's forces are all in the inner palace, and there is no need to send people out, so only the east palace is left with a motive.

Wu Qiming said in a deep voice: "My lord, I suspect that the East Palace also wants to do it, this messenger is afraid that he is going to the Northland, and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess may also be aware of something, maybe she also knows something, so she will also make a move at tomorrow's ceremony." ”

"Expected." Meng Yuan nodded lightly.

"In that case, my lord, why don't we strike first?" Wu Qiming's tone was heavy, and his gaze became fierce.

"No, it's a bit weird."

Meng Yuan frowned and said: "This trip to the Northland, even if it is a thousand miles fast, it will take eight or nine days to come and go, even if the letter is really sent to the Northland, then everything will be settled, since the crown princess is aware, she should have sent someone to go a long time ago, why did she wait until this last day to move?" ”

There is no problem in sending the information out, the key is the timing of the delivery, at this moment, even if the prince succeeds in getting the information, the crown princess and the forces of the East Palace who remain in the capital will definitely not end well, and the other party will definitely not have time to save people.

Meng Yuan didn't believe that the crown princess would treat the prince so wholeheartedly, but it seemed that the truth was like this, whether it was the letter they intercepted, or the information handed over by the person who sent the letter after being tortured, it proved that everything was like this.

After thinking about it for a long time, Meng Yuan finally decided to put this matter down, and he said: "The hole cards of the East Palace in the capital have been exhausted, this is just that they still don't give up, and they still plan to resist stubbornly, don't ignore her, the key now is still in the imperial city of tomorrow How we deal with it." ”

Having said that, just in case, Meng Yuan still ordered: "The general situation in Beijing has been decided, before dawn, you will transfer the remaining manpower to Simen Town to guard, in case someone jumps over the wall." ”

"Understood. Since Commander Wen has agreed, the only ones left are the East Factory and the Insider Factory," Wu Qiming's eyes were full of murderous intent: "Most of the Jinyi Wei masters who were sent to the capital by Lord Lu before have come back secretly, don't worry, Cao Yuan and Xia Zhang, they can't afford to make any waves." ”

"I never worried about them once Your Majesty. At that time, they will be just a group of rootless Ping, Cao Yuan may still have a little blood, but Xia Zhang will definitely not die to the end. ”

Meng Yuan took a long breath, then got up and put on his cloak, pulling the brim of his hat with one hand to cover his face: "Everything is ready, just wait for the east wind tomorrow, whether you are willing to take care of me or not." ”

Wu Qiming took a deep breath and didn't say anything, just bowed down.

Meng Yuan turned around, slowly left the Beisi Yamen, and went straight to the main courtyard of the Great Sect, but when he rode his horse to this place, he suddenly heard a bang, and then saw a fire rising into the sky, almost lighting up half of the sky in the capital.

Meng Yuan's face suddenly changed, he immediately strode forward, and at the same time, he condensed his breath in his palm, and shot forward with a manic wind, directly blasting the door of the main courtyard of the Great Sect open.

"What people!" The hundreds of Jinyi guards who came one after another drew their swords and shouted angrily, Meng Yuan didn't have time to explain to them at the moment, so he slapped back and forced them back, and then flew into the main courtyard of the Great Sect.

These brocade-clothed guards were so shocked that they turned their backs, came back to their senses and looked at the fire, gritted their teeth and said hatefully: "Send arrows!" Go to Jingzhao Mansion alone, patrol the camp alone! Half of the rest of the people are guarding the gate, and the rest are coming in with me!" Don't let a thief go! ”

"Yes!" Jin Yiwei immediately acted separately as instructed.

On the other side, Meng Yuan rushed left and right like a bison in the fire, and finally he found a suspicious figure among the panicked Zongzheng Yuan officials.

Without saying a word, he directly picked up a piece of broken wood from his side, sharpened his head with two palms, and threw it as a hidden weapon.

Meng Yuan's eyes froze, and he quickly chased after him, and at the same time, he condensed his qi in his palm and struck out again and again, and the other party drew his sword to meet the enemy, and the two of them chased after me, and soon arrived at the edge of the wall.

The main courtyard of the Great Sect was built at the foot of the Imperial City, behind which was the Imperial City Forbidden Palace, I saw that the person threw the sword from afar, the sword body rotated like a spinning top, Meng Yuan raised a palm to shoot it down, at this time, this person had already flown up the wall and disappeared into the darkness of the wall.

Meng Yuan's eyes were slightly condensed, but he also stepped on the flying wall and chased after him, but halfway through the chase, his expression changed, and he turned back the same way, avoiding the high walls of the imperial city from a distance.

Because he saw the soldiers of the forbidden army patrolling on both sides of the city wall, and saw the fire in the main courtyard of the main sect under the city wall and was indifferent, these people were obviously the elite of the forbidden army, and it seemed that the emperor had indeed worked hard for tomorrow's sacrifice.

But Meng Yuan was even more shocked that the man in black knew everything about the patrol arrangements of the forbidden army in the imperial city, and as long as he was one second late, he would be able to capture him.

It's just that it is useless to be annoyed at this moment, Meng Yuan looked back at the raging fire in the main courtyard of the Great Sect, and with a single step, he actually rushed into the sea of fire again.