The big red wall has been extended out for hundreds of meters, the palace is lined up in the wall, row upon row, the green tiles on the roof are illuminated by the red sun that has just risen, the gate of the highest palace in the middle is open at this time, and there is a plaque carved from unknown materials, which reads "Mingguang Palace" three gilded characters, one by one the characters wearing precious court clothes are flowing in, and there is no head to ear, they are all just over the placket, a serious and pious appearance. Inside the main hall, it is extremely prosperous, and there is no vulgar style, several pillars carved with coiled dragons hold up the whole hall, and it is incomparably wide from the inside.

There is a ladder at the front of the main hall, there is a dragon chair made of gold at the top, a person wearing a golden dragon robe from the side of the stairs to the top, when this person is seated, everyone in the hall flicked their sleeves twice, bowed and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

On the dragon chair, the emperor's face was calm, and his majestic voice sounded: "All the secretaries are flat." After the ministers got up, a shrill voice of a eunuch standing beside the emperor sounded: "There is a book, nothing to retreat from the court." After that, several adults of different official positions stood up and bowed down to the ranks, and played their affairs with a solemn and thoughtful tone and countenance.

Just after the basic fixed morning court time every day, a middle-aged man wearing a second-grade civil official court uniform walked out of the queue and said in a solemn tone: "Your Majesty, the minister has a play. After speaking, he bowed deeply and continued: "The eldest son of the emperor is already nine years old, and both inside and outside the court believe that he should be canonized as the crown prince, please make a decision as soon as possible. ”

This country-based dispute is something that almost every emperor of the dynasty has to encounter, and now the emperor has five sons on his knees, and because of the gentle and humble concubine, the emperor only loves the three princes, and the ministers in the past have also mentioned it obscurely, but they have all been skillfully dealt with by the emperor in a boxing way.

At this moment, a eunuch in a big red robe ran in from outside the door in a panic, and suddenly knelt on the ground, no longer caring about the pain in his legs, he trembled and said: "Your Majesty, the third prince... The three princes were taken captive. There was an uproar in the hall. The emperor didn't care about losing his manners, stood up suddenly, and said loudly: "What, my Kai'er, send someone to chase after me." ”

The third prince Zhao Kai is eight years old, is the emperor's most beloved son, there is no one, his mother precious concubine has a soft temperament, decent etiquette, and is deeply loved by the emperor. Today, the concubine led the lively and active Zhao Kai to take a walk in the imperial garden, and a man in black suddenly appeared in the flowers, and there were no golden armor guards around him to protect him, and the female officials and eunuchs around him tried their best to protect the concubine and the prince, but he didn't expect that the man in black was not hurting, but he just took a strange step, and went around behind everyone and kidnapped Zhao Kai.

After that, the forbidden army came out together, and there was no shortage of masters with outstanding martial arts and light skills, but every time the man in black skillfully fought his way out of the encirclement, the strange thing was that Zhao Kai in his arms was not injured in the slightest.

The big red wall has appeared in Zhao Kai's field of vision, out of this wall is to enter the inner city, although there has been a soldier to intercept it, but if this man in black is allowed to stand out from the encirclement, with this person's skills, how to find it in the bustling capital.

At this moment, a military general wearing iron armor and a sword at his waist rushed out from among the armor soldiers outside the wall, shouting: "There are many bandits killing the inner city. Suddenly, more than a dozen thieves who were also masked and black-clothed rushed into the formation and slashed indiscriminately, and the formation of the Praetorian Guards was chaotic.

The black-clothed master standing on the wall looked at this scene, the corners of his mouth curled, full of banter.

The man in black, who had broken out of the encirclement and had hidden in the outer city, took off his veil, put down Zhao Kai in his arms, and examined the child with interest. Zhao Kai, who felt his feet touching the ground again, took a few steps back, staring closely at the handsome man in front of him who had taken off his veil and had a beautiful face, his eyes were full of vigilance.

The man in black was about to say something, and suddenly, he looked up at an ordinary yellow finch flying from the side, Zhao Kai followed his line of sight, and saw that the yellow finch stopped on the eaves above the two of them, and his very small eyes looked at Zhao Kai very humanely, as if he was looking at the third prince who was deeply loved by the emperor.

Zhao Kai was stared at with a chill on his back, and took a few steps back, at this moment, something even more stunned happened, only to see the strange yellow finch open its mouth, but it was actually a mouthful, turned his head and said to the man in black: "I know what you are thinking, this son is full of luck, you can't kill him, send him to Longyao Prefecture, there is a creation between heaven and earth waiting for him." ”

It was getting dark, it was dusk, the emperor was sitting in the imperial study, he was nearly forty years old and in the prime of life, but he was like a slowly falling dusk sun, full of twilight sadness, a wonderful woman in a plain dress was sitting with him, was bowing her head and hiding her face and weeping quietly.

A warrior dressed in brocade clothes and a sword at his waist walked quickly to the imperial study, walked to the door and saluted a eunuch on duty, the two who needed to greet a few polite words were now silent, the eunuch turned around and walked quickly and carefully to the desk to report, that strange pace looked very funny, and soon, the brocade-clothed warrior was summoned.

After giving a salute, the warrior knelt down heavily, and said in a rough voice: "Humble and incompetent, now that the whole city is under martial law, the capital foot soldiers are basically dispatched, and there are many internal masters and officials who are good at investigating cases, but there is still no progress, and the location of the black-clothed assassin and the third prince has not been found." ”

The emperor raised his head, looked at this military general he trusted very much, and said sharply: "Even you are helpless, it seems that my palace is really raising a bunch of waste, if you can't find my Kai'er before tomorrow, don't blame me for not remembering the old love." The plain woman sobbed even more violently, and the emperor patted her on the back and whispered to reassure her.

The brocade-clothed military general was still lying on the ground, and continued: "Your Majesty, there are many strange things about this matter, not to mention how the assassins infiltrated the palace, just that when we had blocked the way of the assassins, those warriors who seemed to be the assassins' helpers and the appearance of Captain Jia Chen caused chaos in the formation" Speaking of this, he raised his head cautiously, glanced at the emperor sitting behind the desk, and did not continue.

Jia Chen was only thirty years old and served as the governor of Gyeonggi Beiying, the officialdom has risen rapidly, there is no doubt that there are nobles to help, he was the personal escort of the queen in his early years, and the official hat has become bigger and bigger over the years, of course, it is the secret support of the queen, which is well known. As for the emperor who knew about this but let it go, he just read the incense between himself and the queen and the family behind him.

And now, Jia Chen was involved in this matter, and the emperor suddenly raised his head and suddenly said, "Could it be?"

The brocade-clothed warrior's head was buried deeper, and a heavy anger appeared on the emperor's face, and he suppressed his tone and continued: "Yang Huchen, I have allowed you to lead the brocade guard to deal with this matter with full authority, and if necessary, you can enter the harem to search, and it will definitely be investigated." ”

Yang Huchen kowtowed and said heavily: "Yes." ”

In the outer city, on the eaves of a tall restaurant, there were a large and a small sitting on it, and the child, who looked very small, shivered in the cold wind, his eyes were red, and there was a little fear and obvious vigilance in his eyes, but he still stared at the oil cake in the hand of the adult man from time to time, and the child swallowed again, but still did not open his mouth to ask for it.

The man apparently noticed the child's eyes, and he felt more and more amused in his heart, but instead of looking at the child, he swallowed the oil cake even more.

After a long while, the bread in the man's hand was almost finished, and the child finally spoke, "Who are you, and where are you taking me?"

The adult man stopped eating the cake, but his mouth continued to chew, and he said vaguely: "I, but I am one of the best heroes in the rivers and lakes, jealous and hateful, and the people who died at my hands are all great traitors and evildoers, and you don't understand when I tell you." ”

He glanced at the child, wrenched his fingers, spread his hands, and showed a number to the child, "Twenty-eight," he scratched his head, and continued: "I don't remember exactly, it's almost this number." ”

The child pursed his lips when he heard this, and said: "What a hero, it is a hero who will come to the palace to kidnap me, I think he is a robber with good martial arts." ”

The adult man was not angry, didn't he praise his martial arts skills, that was the emperor's favorite third prince, and he was a big man.

He continued: "As for why I came to the palace to do such a thing, it's not that I owe an old man a favor, otherwise I would have come to this troubled water, and I would have paid it off after finishing this time." He didn't hide anything in his words, firstly, because he was the kind of arrogant and bold temperament, and secondly, he was not wary of this child who was usually pampered and pampered for the first time out of the palace.

The child slandered in his heart, then you let me go, and the favor is over, and I am still a hero who punishes the evil and eliminates evil. But he heard the words of the strange sparrow, and knew that there was no escape, but his expression was a little sarcastic, obvious disdain.

When the adult man saw the child's expression, he was not angry, but had some closeness from the heart, this little ghost was eccentric. He took another loaf of bread from his bosom and handed it to the child.

He sighed in his heart: Longyao Prefecture, it is not in the territory of the Dafeng Dynasty, but the enemy country of Dachu located in the confrontation between the north and south of Dafeng. As for the strange sparrow, he didn't know much about it, but he knew that it was an extremely high-ranking elder of the old man's sect, even one level higher than the old man.

As for that sect in recent years, it has been a frequent master, and its strength is strong, and it seems to have existed for hundreds of years, and even some good people say that if this sect is a master, it can compete with some small countries with the strength of a sect, and it may also be completely suppressed.

Thinking of this, the man laughed at himself again, he is really a little person, he has been wandering all these years, and the rivers and lakes he sees are still too narrow.