On the tenth day of the first month, there was rain.

The afterglow of the Dragon Boat Festival is still in Jinling, the fragrance of zongzi leaves spreads on the streets, most of the poor people save some glutinous rice to make two zongzi for the child to satisfy their hunger, take out some lumps of white sugar from the corner to make the child's face sweeter by two points, the family is more solid, it is to add a lot of things to the zongzi to not make the taste so monotonous, as for the rich family...

That thing has a bit of an atmosphere, who really eats it?

There is a dinner party in Mochou Lake today, and the Zhongshan Palace, which has been reserved for many days, finally put down his body and invited the three sons of King Yan, it is said that the Duke of Wei who has been busy with political affairs and the Zuo Governor of the Five Military Governor's Mansion will both attend, and many of the magnates of Jinling naturally also received invitations, and Mochou Lake, which is known as the first lake in the south of the Yangtze River, has also set up a lot of brocade accounts early.

It is still a picnic banquet commonly used in this era, acquaintances are in groups, the food and wine in the pavilion are excellent, the poems are written and the chatter is chatted, the younger officials and scholars are throwing pots for fun, the big men are tasting the taste of power in the high places, there are painters painting in the corners, and the skirts of the maids are swaying, adding some brilliance to the already beautiful scenery by Mochou Lake.

The atmosphere reached its peak after the arrival of the third son of King Yan, these days Zhu Gaochi and the three of them have made friends with a lot of Jinling magnates, compared to the deep residence when King Yan entered Beijing, it can be said to be extremely active, so even if he knows that King Yan's mansion is now in danger, there is no shortage of people to sell this face.

What if something goes wrong with the imperial court's cutting of the feudal domain? What if His Majesty extinguishes the mind of cutting the domain?

Officials must learn a truth, that is, eggs cannot be put in the same basket.

There was a neighing sound of horses in the distance, it should be someone comparing equestrianism, Zhu Gaoxi and Zhu Gaosui The two brothers seemed to be pulling out their heads, and Xu Huizu, whose face was extremely unnatural, was rewarding his two nephews.

A bunch of literati surrounded Zhu Gaochi, the chubby figure was too conspicuous, listening to the fragmentary words, it should be a test of knowledge, a lot of scholars from the Guozijian came, and they were looking forward to taking out their proud works to ask the prince of Yan to comment.

"If you are talented, this son can not be the head of Beiping, everyone is afraid that they don't know, at the beginning of the year, there is one in Beiping..."

In the distance, next to the figure in a green shirt, there was a little guy in a green shirt and a small hat, who was holding a zongzi and stuffing it into his mouth.

Why is that little guy's figure a little familiar?

But I can't think about it, these words are just taken as modesty by the scholars, and the next poem soon comes back...

By the lake in the distance, Gu Huai looked at the zongzi that was stuffed into his mouth, and was a little helpless: "Why don't you eat it yourself?" ”

"I can't eat it," Xu Miaojin held up the zongzi, "It's so greasy." ”

"You still peel so much if you can't eat it?" Gu Huai took the zongzi and took a bite, it was actually wrapped in meat, "It's a little greasy..."

He glanced at Xu Huizu in the distance: "You can also go back to Zhongshan Palace, and see your eldest brother and third brother... Then remember to listen to me. ”

"Okay, okay," Xu Miaojin nodded again and again, and the little hat on his head almost fell off: "Can I go and talk to the third brother?" ”

"If you really reveal your identity, you won't be able to leave today," Gu Huai shook his head, "I don't know where you learned your stubborn temperament." ”

On the path in the forest, Dong Liangcai's figure appeared, nodding towards Gu Huai, Gu Huai looked up at the sky, it had already begun to darken.

Almost.

The tall building boat approached the shore, the candle flame was lit, the continuous brocade tent was like a brilliant sea of stars, the people who had the identity to go upstairs to the boat called friends, surrounded by the protagonist of today's banquet bustling on the pedal, the guards of the Zhongshan Mansion and the guards of the Yan Wangfu were on both sides, holding knives on guard.

Like an outsider, the scholar in Tsing Yi also got on the boat with the little guy in Tsing Yi, standing on the deck and listening to the sound of silk and bamboo coming from the ship, and in the invisible place, there are also some things quietly happening.

Xu Miaojin noticed something, and pulled Gu Huai's sleeve worriedly: "What's wrong with you?" ”

The green-shirted scholar's body was a little tense, and the fog rising from the dusk lake was a little shaky between exhaling and breathing, and he slowly shook his head: "It's okay." ”

Before the words fell, the sound of silk and bamboo in the building boat was broken, and several high-pitched shouts came out:

"Wait!"

"There are assassins!"

"Someone!"

I couldn't tell whose voice it was, but I could hear the tension and panic in the voice, and I didn't know when more than a dozen black-clothed people were climbing around the building, and one of them pulled the face towel higher, and his eyes were full of fierceness.

A knife was thrown over, Gu Huai took the knife in his hand, and looked at the stunned Xu Miaojin: "Wait for me here." ”

"Huh?"

"Good, don't run around," Gu Huai's big sleeves fluttered and walked into the cabin, "Or you can go directly to your third brother and stay in the Zhongshan Palace." ”

The light in the building ship is very bright, even brighter than the outside, it should be blood, so the soldiers and their relatives in the ship are running, occasionally there is always a scream at the intersection of blades, you can see that the quality of the individual soldiers of the people in black is much higher than that of the guards, there are already many guards lying on the ground, and occasionally the women who are running will trip hard.

For such a large-scale banquet, there will be no shortage of guards, and the reason why he chose to do it in the center of the lake is just because he thought that this would be the weakest place for vigilance, and the faces that greeted him did not know him, and he could only see those distorted ugly postures in the bright light.

No matter how high the position is, he is still the same person in the face of life and death.

The building ship is very large, but there are only two places that are really used to meet guests, and the people who approach the deck should only be ordinary scholars and officials, Gu Huai's footsteps did not stop, and continued to walk forward.

Such an assassination seems sloppy and crude, but it is the most plausible, the choice of time and place is impeccable, and the only person who can go wrong is the person who carried it out - there are two groups of these people.

That's right, two dials.

One group of people wanted the three sons of King Yan to die, and the other group was responsible for sending them out.

Gu Huai brought the latter.

Pei Xi's heart is indeed quite ruthless, no matter how thick Jinyiwei's family background is, such a dead soldier can't be trained much, and once today's is over, these people are afraid that they will all die.

Walking into the hall, Zhu Gaochi's overweight figure was very conspicuous, the two brothers Zhu Gaoxi and Zhu Gaosui were carrying weapons to protect their eldest brother, and the high-ranking Jinling magnates gathered in a corner of the hall, either indifferently or thoughtfully watching the assassins and guards fight.

In their opinion, the assassination was too child's play.

If you really want to assassinate, in fact, there are 10,000 ways to do it safer than tonight's farce, but these thieves actually chose to do it at the banquet.

The big guys with an extremely sensitive sense of smell soon found out that something was wrong, and those who dared to do it here must not be stupid, so they had to think about something else.

And Gu Huai finally met Zhu Gaochi's eyes.

He nodded.