On the bustling streets of the capital, the atmosphere at this time seemed extremely dull, without the slightest laughter, only people's evasive eyes and frightened looks.

Originally, everyone thought that after the toss of last night's half-night, since the Prime Minister's Mansion had collected its troops, it meant that the assassin who infiltrated the Prime Minister's Mansion had been subdued, and everyone could continue to return to the quiet life of the past.

But they were wrong, everyone was wrong, and the tranquility lasted only a morning.

From noon, rows of neatly walked guards with swords in their hands reappeared in the streets and alleys of the capital with serious expressions, their sharp eyes constantly scanning the crowd of people coming and going, and the people who were touched by their eyes all felt cold all over their bodies. Occasionally, when they encounter some unfamiliar faces, they will stop and carefully investigate, and most of the people who make trouble are panicked again.

At first, people didn't know what was going on, and then they didn't know where the news came from, saying that the assassin who slipped into the Xiangfu last night not only almost opened the sky in the Xiangfu, but also tossed around in the middle of the night, and didn't even figure out what the assassin looked like.

Therefore, early this morning, as the prime minister, Ahma hurriedly ran to the emperor Lao'er to complain, adding oil and vinegar, and playing the events of last night, but he disturbed the clean affairs of the capital in the middle of the night, and said that he was as aggrieved as he was.

After hearing this, the emperor Lao'er was naturally furious and furious, and within the jurisdiction of the imperial court, he broke into the mansions of important officials of the imperial court, which was not tantamount to trampling on his own face in disguise? Therefore, as soon as Chrysostom opened, the battle to arrest the assassins again began in a grand manner.

As for the truth or falsity of the emperor's attitude, no one knows, after all, the holy will is unpredictable. It's like last night, when there was such a big movement, the emperor Lao'er didn't say anything, as if he didn't know it at all.

Later, this incident was full of wind and rain in the city, and although everyone in the capital city complained bitterly, they were helpless, and everyone could only endanger themselves, after all, neither the prime minister nor the imperial court could compete with them, so what if they did not compromise?

Now that the emperor Lao'er has personally given the order, the prime minister's mansion is naturally even more unscrupulous, and where he passes, he is restless again. In addition, in order to catch the assassin as soon as possible, the emperor also assigned a lot of close guards to help, and everything went in an orderly manner. Everyone thought that they could easily catch the assassin, but they were all wrong, although for a whole afternoon, whether it was the men of the prime minister's mansion or the palace guards, they did not relax in the slightest, but until noon, not even the shadow of the assassin was seen.

This made all of them irritable in their hearts, and their forms became more and more nervous, especially the people in the capital, who were very cautious, for fear that one of them would accidentally implicate themselves.

The rain gradually became heavier, and the entire capital city showed a hazy posture, the majestic scenery of the Qiankuling Mountains in the distance gradually faded, and the water surrounding the capital city in the near distance was vast.

Although the capital city is called a city, and it is the capital of the imperial court, this capital city is a bit strange, because it is not surrounded by walls on all sides like other cities, but there is only one wall that is not very tall, which is on the side of the drawbridge that crosses the water around the city.

The overall height of the city wall is less than half of the city, and perhaps the reason why it built this wall was only to install the city gate and hang the huge plaque at the city gate.

At this moment, in the corner of the street not far from the city gate, Mu Yuan, who had already taken off his disguise, pretended to wander around the street at will, either in front of this stall or in front of the shop, but his eyes were always glancing at the location of the city gate, intentionally or unintentionally.

Seeing the closed and heavily guarded capital, he couldn't help but sigh, a little helpless.

Originally, he was going to leave the city early this morning, but when he thought that last night's night visit to the Prime Minister's Mansion did not produce the slightest result, he hesitated. According to the information he intercepted, Nie Chengfeng was trapped in the Prime Minister's Mansion nine times out of ten, but last night because of the intervention of another man in black, he had to temporarily change his plan.

Originally, he wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, find someone who was familiar with the Prime Minister's Mansion, and then threaten and intimidate him to see if he could find some clues, but Sun Han's unexpected appearance made his plan completely fail. As for Yang Chen, he didn't think about getting any clues from him at all, because he was very sure, even if Yang Chen knew, he would not be able to pry the slightest clue out of his mouth.

It's just that he didn't expect that after last night's large-scale search, Ahma still didn't give up the pursuit of the two of them, and what he didn't expect was that the emperor would cooperate with Ahma so much, could he really be completely reduced to a puppet?

After secretly observing for a moment, before the next wave of patrol guards arrived here, Mu Yuan quickly blended into the crowd and disappeared.

Since he can't get out of the city now, he fortunately won't go out for the time being, so he just took advantage of this time to think about how to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find out what was going on.

At the same time, in the waters around the city not far from the capital, an official ship was slowly sailing away from the capital, on the deck of the official ship, a very rough-looking man stood casually, the man was dressed as a crew member, and was wiping the sweat on his face.

"Lao Yang, it's time to go home this time, right?"

On the deck beside him, sat a middle-aged man of a similar age, thin and with a pair of bright eyes, and at this moment, he was smiling and staring up at the rugged man.

Hearing this, the rough man's hand suddenly moved, and then he pretended to be very casual and said, "Yes, it's time to go back." ”

The thin middle-aged man said with a smile: "I said Lao Yang, you see that you are not young, don't be so hard-working in the future, right?"

Lao Yang smiled indifferently, "After a lifetime of hard work, what else can you do?"

The thin middle-aged man's eyes rolled and he smiled inexplicably, "That's not necessarily!"

Lao Yang turned his head to look at him and did not speak.

Seeing this, the thin middle-aged man didn't say much, lowered his head and looked at the waves stirred up in the water, thoughtfully.

The third floor of the "Jusan Inn".

Zhongyitang.

In front of the huge bronze incense tripod, the old man bowed deeply to the incense tripod, and then gently took the incense sticks handed over by Zhan Bai, and carefully inserted them into the incense tripod.

Bowing, receiving incense, making incense, and putting incense, the old man looked solemn and meticulous throughout the process.

After doing all this, watching the incense in the incense tripod emit wisps of smoke, mixed with bursts of fragrance, the old man suddenly closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he was sniffing the smell of the incense.

"After so many years, I didn't expect that things have long been different. ”

After a moment, the old man opened his eyes, stretched out his shriveled right hand and gently stroked the bronze incense ding, and said something that made Zhanbai and Yu Jiang puzzled.

At this time, the old man's eyes gave people an indescribable pain, and looking at his eyes, it seemed that he could see the ups and downs of a lifetime.

"Your Excellency, ...... this?"

Zhan Bai stretched out his hand to stop him, but when it touched his eyes, he hesitated, he had never seen such a pair of eyes, which could no longer be described as full of vicissitudes, it seemed to be integrated into the ups and downs and hardships of a lifetime.

Yu Jiang also frowned, did not stop the old man's movements, he could feel it, the old man had a special feeling for the "Zhongyi Hall", this kind of feeling seemed to be something he couldn't experience, although he didn't know what kind of emotion it was, but his intuition told him that he could trust the old man in front of him.

The old man gently stroked the bronze incense ding, if he was so gentle, so clear, without a trace of impurities mixed with it.

It's like an infatuated man caressing the cheek of his sleeping lover, he is afraid that she will suddenly wake up from a dream, he is afraid that he will accidentally wake her up.