The man in gray made a long detour, and after confirming that he was not being followed, he walked into a clothing shop and changed his clothes, walked slowly and unhurriedly for a while, and then walked a long way, slowly walked to an alley, and tapped lightly on the door of a very ordinary-looking person's house.

The old wooden door creaked open, and a girl with a childish look on her face opened the door with a grin and let him in. The man in gray saluted her, thanked her, and dodged inside.

There are two very tall sycamores planted in the inner courtyard, and under the sycamore trees there is a stone table, on which is a yaoqin, and a woman with long hair and a shawl is sitting in front of the yaoqin, her fingers gently flirting and playing, playing a soothing tune. The man in gray walked slowly to her, stood with his hands down, and listened quietly.

With a ding, a string suddenly broke on the yaoqin, and the song came to an abrupt end. The girl raised her head, glared at the man in gray with some anger, and complained, "It's you again! Really, can't you just come back at another time?"

This girl is Que Wan'er, and this gray-clothed man is naturally Ling Ye. He was wearing the disguise flour that Que Wan'er had pinched for him on his face, so his face looked a little big, and his expression was blank.

Hearing Que Wan'er's complaint, Ling Ye touched her head and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I didn't mean it, but I had zero trouble today, so I didn't want to wander around, so I ran back early." ”

Que Wan'er glanced at him: "Hanging out? Are you still thinking about hanging out? Aren't you looking for your father, looking for any clues in the imperial capital?"

Ling Ye sighed, and said a little gloomily: "I haven't found any clues so far, the only thing that is certain is that my father also wears a strange ring on his left ring finger, which is almost exactly the same as the spirit fairy." However, a ring is so great that even people who have seen him before may not have the idea of getting it. Sometimes I wonder, am I wasting my time all the time?"

Que Wan'er said: "No." After all, you don't know where your dad went. Who knows where the right direction is? I can't think of any better way than to look for clues. ”

Ling Ye slowly sat down on the stone bench opposite her, and sighed slightly: "I still can't figure out why my father disappeared suddenly, and he didn't leave me a word, so he left in a hurry." If an extremely powerful enemy comes to seek revenge, that person can't find my father, and can completely set fire to our wooden house and kill me together. ”

Que Wan'er snorted. Ling Ye said again: "I waited at the wooden house for seven years, but there was still no news, so I had to go down the mountain to look for it." went down to the eight directions, and I don't know which way he is going. ”

Que Wan'er said: "We have already carefully sorted out these, your father does not show any abnormalities at all on weekdays, nor does he show his liking and yearning for a certain person or something, and it is completely impossible to guess." Brother Ling, it is useless to sigh more, it is reasonable to calm down and continue to search. ”

In the middle of the moment, Ling Ye's stomach suddenly gurgled. Que Wan'er glanced at him: "I'm hungry and reluctant to buy food outside, so I have to find an excuse to run back early to rub Yao's craftsmanship is true!"

Ling Ye hurriedly shook his head: "There is no such thing! It's really because I met zero things, so I came back." "I went through the things that happened to the Hu people I met on the street and the people who were bought by Lu Ming to secretly follow them.

Que Wan'er listened while changing the strings for Yaoqin. When Ling Ye's words were finished, she also changed the strings and tuned the tone.

She stroked the strings casually, pondered for a while, looked up and said, "Hu Rao's matter has nothing to do with us, don't pay attention to it." However, Lu Ming bought people to continue to look for you, so be careful. This old man was humiliated at your hands, and was driven home by the emperor because of this, and he hated you from the bottom of his heart. No, we may have to find a way to kill Lu Ming to prevent future troubles. ”

Ling Ye shook his head: "It doesn't mean much to kill him, he's so old, he can't live much." He'd gotten so much, and if I could let him see what he once had gone away from him, I think it would be even worse than killing him. What about you?"

Que Wan'er smiled and said, "Brother Ling thinks it's good, of course it's good." ”

Ling Ye said: "That ......"

Que Wan'er shook her head: "Don't be in a hurry. ”

She pondered for a while and asked, "You, you saw a notice posted by the Imperial Ministry of Rites on the street, looking for someone who can answer the three questions of the Hu people?"

Midnight nodded. Que Wan'er pondered: "I don't know what kind of problem it is, and it is necessary to spend such a high price on a reward?

Ling Ye said: "If you can answer, you don't need to find someone." In addition, if I guessed correctly, if Hu Rao's three difficult questions could not be solved, the empire might have to suffer some unbearable humiliation, so there was no way, so I spent a lot of money to find people. ”

Que Wan'er smiled: "I suddenly thought of a solution, that is, to pretend to cast it in Lu Ming's name, and with him, you can solve Hu Rao's three problems, so that this old man can happily take you to meet the Hu people's envoy, and then, you will find an opportunity to escape, and let this old man face Hu Rao's three problems by himself." This kind of thing is estimated to be of special concern to His Majesty the Emperor, which just makes this old man lose face in front of the emperor, and lose his life at worst. ”

Ling Ye smiled slightly: "Yes, I think so too! Then without further ado, let's go to the Lu Mansion to explore and see if this old man has been living a nourishing life recently?"

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That night, Ling Ye and Que Wan'er both changed their night clothes, and after changing their appearance, they sneaked into the imperial capital at night when night fell, and came to Lu Ming's Lu Mansion quite easily.

Of course, the two of them didn't knock on the door and entered, but went directly to the roof, deliberately avoiding the guards in the Lu Mansion, and quietly ran to the hall where Lu Ming usually sat and met guests.

In the darkness of the night, the lights in Lu Ming's hall were quite bright. With the light in the hall, the two of them thought it would be easy to remember that there were many guards around the hall, some standing in front of the hall door, some swimming around, and even there were guards standing on the roof, but the hall was guarded.

Looking at this posture, a three-year-old child can guess that Lu Ming's hall must have a very important guest, and now he is talking about something in secret.

What kind of guests are so important?