The horses trotted all the way down the hill. When I got to the streets of the city, I slowed down.

It was dark, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street.

It was not a fifteenth full moon night, and the stars and moon in the sky were not very clear. The horses' hooves slowed down and struck on the stone slabs of the city's streets, making a "clattering" sound.

Gao Ming remembered that Luan Modu lived in the Duting Palace. After descending the mountain, we headed east.

Before he had gone far, a column of night guards from the Weitong Mansion stopped Gao Ming.

"Who is it, running horses in the city at night?"

Gao Ming grabbed the reins, looked left and right, and confirmed that the road was horse-riding.

Gao Ming took out the token of the law enforcement team, handed it over and said, "A student of the Beijing Normal School, Gao Ming, the captain of the small flag of the law enforcement team, has just come down from the school. ”

The law enforcement team's token is able to prove Gao Ming's identity.

The captain of the night patrol on the opposite side took it, looked at it carefully, looked up at Gao Ming with a suspicious look, and then lowered his head to look at the token over and over again.

Gao Ming wondered, does he look like a bad guy like this?

The captain even tapped on the token and checked its material.

Gao Ming rolled his eyes on the horse's back.

The captain didn't find any problems, threw the token back to Gao Ming, and said, "Since you are a student of the academy, let's go home quickly after class!

Gao Ming suddenly realized, no wonder the captain looked at him with such strong prejudice. The conscience of heaven and earth, I didn't hold it, but I was afraid that she would fall off the horse, so I held on a little.

Gao Ming couldn't cry or laugh for a while: "No, big brother, I haven't seen a carriage all the way." It's weird!"

Not only was there no horse-drawn carriage, but there was not even a pedestrian on the road.

The captain on the opposite side glanced at Gao Ming and said, "There is martial law in the city." If you are a student of the academy and don't know about it, I won't ask you about your sins this time. Go home and don't hang out outside. Be careful of what happens and gets into trouble. ”

With this reminder, the captain led the team away and continued to patrol along the street.

Gao Ming urged the horse forward, muttering in wonder: "Martial law? so early? Why is it suddenly under martial law?"

There is a curfew in the city late at night. However, the bustling place of the capital is more lively even at night, so the curfew has been postponed to very late. It's night, but it's still a long time before the usual curfew, but it's been advanced for some reason.

Gao Ming walked all the way east, and along the way, he encountered several groups of patrol teams to investigate.

When he got to the back, he didn't even use the token of the academy's law enforcement team, so Gao Ming had no choice but to find out the waist card of the inner court guard that the emperor gave him to prove his identity.

But I don't want to, this waist card seems to be a bit big, and all the members of the patrol team knelt directly on the ground and called "adult" respectfully, which startled Gao Ming.

While being refreshed by the call of "adult", Gao Ming also pondered in his heart: When will the curfew be so severe?

It has been peaceful in the capital for a long time since Bai Sheng washed the streets of the capital with the blood of the assassins many years ago. The daily work of the Weitong Mansion turned out to be a trivial matter of resolving the old mother's scolding, and the five big and three rough heroes in the Weitong Mansion were a little melancholy.

However, the last time there was a case of monster murder, it was during the school entrance examination. At that time, there were many visitors to the capital, and there was a mixture of fish and dragons. There was anger from above, and anger spread layer by layer, and for a time several officers were dismissed.

However, overall, the capital is still peaceful. Therefore, the curfew is not strict either. The strictness of the Weitong Mansion was all used in the inventory of entering and leaving the city gates.

There was something unusual tonight, and Gao Ming felt a little uneasy in his heart. So he gradually increased the speed of the horse and went to the Duting Palace as soon as possible.

On the way, he met the patrol of the Weitong Mansion, and Gao Ming also quickly reined in his horse and cooperated with the interrogation. Don't dare to make the slightest misleading move, the waist knives and crossbows in the hands of this group of iron-blooded men are not a joke.

After countless checks, I finally arrived at the Duting Palace.

There was a depressed scene in front of the gate of the Duting Palace. The fallen leaves at the door were swept away, but only the door was cleaned, and even the fallen leaves were casually piled up on the side of the street not far away. The night breeze blew, and half of the street was sprinkled with fallen leaves.

The gates and pillars were covered with dust, and the four golden characters of "Duting Xinggong" directly above were obscured by dust.

The gate was open. The lights inside were dim. The two lines of lights continued into the middle, just illuminating the middle road, and the rest of the place on either side was completely dark and dreary, and there was no light at all.

Gao Ming dismounted in front of the door, took the woman on horseback, and stepped forward to knock on the door.

Although the door is open, we have to ask for instructions, don't we?

A touch of the knocker, a hand of dust.

The brass knocker slammed on the door, making an empty sound that rang far away. But it is like throwing a pebble into a pool of stagnant water, except for the ripples, the small fish and shrimp have not even shown up.

The woman apparently couldn't wait any longer, and as soon as she got off her horse, she walked inside the gate.

He lifted his skirt and raised his leg over the high threshold.

At this moment, in the darkness inside the door, an old man bent his back and slowly broke into the light, and hurried towards the door.

"It's coming, it's coming. The old man's voice was hoarse.

As soon as the old man looked up, he saw the woman, and hurriedly said, "Yo, girl, you are back, but the master is in a hurry, and now he is in a rage, you can go and have a look." ”

The old man spoke in the words of the ever-day, and the woman could not understand it. Gao Ming understood, and when he heard this, Luan Modu was indeed back.

The woman anxiously asked the old man.

The woman spoke in Xijin dialect, and the old man was also ignorant when he heard it, and pointed to it half-incomprehensibly: "Yes, yes, yes, you are angry inside, go and take a look." ”

Gao Ming stepped forward, stuffed the reins into the old man's hand, and said, "Uncle, I am a friend of your master. ”

So he went straight with the woman to the inside.

These two lines of lights continued to the door of a palace, and Gao Ming and the woman also followed the lights all the way to the palace.

The door of the temple was open, and it was full of lamps, and it was shining brightly.

From afar, I saw a mess inside.

The table was overturned, and the chairs and stools were thrown into a mess.

When I got closer, I could see four or five handmaidens kneeling tremblingly at the door. The maidservants buried their heads and did not dare to move. However, this huge Duting Palace, with just these four or five maidservants, is also very strange. No wonder Fuchu even did the cleaning work so sloppily.

Gao Ming and the woman got closer, only to see a tall man sitting on the only chair standing inside.

The man was slumped on the chair, his forehead propped up on the arm of the chair, and the whole person was depressed.

The room was deathly quiet, and everyone didn't dare to pant loudly under the heavy air.