After half a month, Du Bu did not forget that his body recovered, so he said goodbye to Doctor Li and a few people, and went to the capital to find Tao Zhongwen and the Poison King to find Mingxi's bones by the way.

After arriving in the capital, I found that at this time, the guards in the capital were much stronger than usual, especially around the palace, and there were many more patrol soldiers.

Du Bu Bu hurriedly inquired about it, only to learn that there was a huge mutiny in Datong Mansion last year, which not only affected Xuanfu, Jizhen and other important border towns, but even the three major battalions of the forbidden army outside the Beijing Division were also affected by this incident, and many soldiers mutinied.

There are even rumors that Emperor Zhu Houxi, who was in the prime of life at this time, had coughed up blood for several months and was dying.

Because Emperor Zhu Houxi's eldest son had just died and had no heirs under his knees, he ordered heavy troops to guard the palace all around, and even the vassal kings in various places were closely monitored to prevent the tragedy of Emperor Jingtai from happening.

Du Bu naturally lost interest in these things, because at this time, he just wanted to go to the palace to retrieve Mingxi's bones and kill Tao Zhongwen and the poison king Mo Shengqi.

In a teahouse outside the gate of the palace, Du Yi is wearing a hat on his head, and he is sitting on the second floor of the teahouse by the window, drinking tea while thinking about how to enter the palace.

At this time, I saw that suddenly there were two familiar figures under the teahouse and went to the gate of the palace, these two people did not walk like men, and they were slightly nervous, although they changed to a eunuch to serve, but Du Bu could also recognize the two of them, these two people were the White Lotus and the poisonous girl.

At this time, the guards at the palace gate were even tighter, and even Du did not forget that he did not enter without permission, let alone the two of them.

So Du Buyi hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and rushed downstairs, pulling the two from behind.

The two of them were about to resist, but when they turned around and saw that it was Du Buxing, they were surprised, and immediately followed Du Buxing to a sparsely populated corner around.

The White Lotus touched Du Buyi's face with both hands in surprise, looked at Du Buyi and said:

"Brother Du, it turns out that you are really still alive?"

The poisonous girl said on the side at this time:

"I told you that he has nine lives and won't die so easily, you just don't believe me!"

Du Bu didn't forget to smile bitterly and said:

"Let's not talk about it here, it will attract attention, follow me to the inn!"

After a while, several people arrived at the inn room where Du Yi was staying.

I didn't forget to ask first:

"Did your mother save you, why are you in such a hurry to come to the capital?"

The poisonous girl then said:

"Then Miss He told us that we must use the white jade lotus to treat for a year before it is possible to revive our mother, and we naturally only want to come to Mo Shengqi for revenge at this time, so we are in a hurry to come here!"

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"Then don't you know that the capital is now extremely heavily guarded? What's more, you haven't been to the palace before, go to kill the poison king, maybe you will be imprisoned before you see the poison king!"

The White Lotus immediately said:

"But if we don't kill the poison king, we feel really uncomfortable, isn't there an emperor, a few concubines and those dog Taoists living in the palace?

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"Yes, how big is your uncle Xiangwang's mansion, there are 100,000 people in the palace, and if you go in and make a mistake, you will get lost!"

White Lotus hurriedly asked:

"Brother Du, what do you think we should do?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"I'm also thinking of a way, don't worry, there will always be a chance!"

Then he asked the two of them:

"Where do you live now?"

白lotus says:

"We just arrived in the capital this morning, and we haven't found a place to live yet!"

Du did not forget and said:

"Then you can stay here with me tonight, it is not easy to find an inn with many people in the capital!"

The White Lotus asked:

"What about you, Brother Du?"

Du Cheng Cheng said:

"I don't have to worry about you!"

asked the two of them again:

"Have you ever eaten in the capital?"

The poisonous girl immediately said:

"How can I eat, I thought that my sister would go to dinner, but he insisted on going to the palace to find the poison king to avenge him first!"

Du did not forget to take the two of them to a restaurant outside the west gate of the palace for dinner, and by the way, to see if it was easier to enter and exit the palace at the west gate.

At this time, I saw a group of brocade guards pressing an official wearing an official to the west gate of the palace.

Du did not forget to take the opportunity to ask the inn junior:

"This official seems to be somewhat familiar, do you know who it is?"

Xiao Er replied:

"I heard that the official is Liu Yuanqing, the squire of the military department, because the general system of Datong Mansion is not conducive to the suppression of the rebellion, he has just been dismissed and returned to Beijing, so he should be escorted to the palace to be tried by the emperor himself!"

Du did not forget to ask again:

"Then why didn't these gatekeepers let a few people in for so long?"

小二 says:

"Now that the palace gate is strictly investigated, even if the Jinyi Guard does not enter and exit for an hour, he will never want to enter the palace!"

Du did not forget to ask:

"Why wait so long?"

Xiao Er then said:

"It's not because these guards have to report to the chief eunuch in the palace, and the eunuch has to go to the emperor to ask for orders, tossing back and forth, of course it takes so long!"

Du didn't forget to smile, then stuffed a piece of silver to Xiao Er, and said:

"Little second brother, how do you understand it so well?"

After Xiao Er accepted the broken silver, he said happily:

"Because one of my uncles is a steward eunuch in the palace, of course I understand!"

Du did not forget and asked again:

"Then after they have finished reporting, will they still search these brocade guards and Liu Yuanqing when they come back?"

Xiao Er said:

"Of course you don't need to, because Jinyiwei is the emperor's own soldier, where do you need to search!"

Du did not forget to say:

"Thank you, little second brother!"

Then he hurriedly whispered to the White Lotus and the poisonous girl:

"I have a way to enter the palace!"

The White Lotus whispered back:

"Brother Feidu, do you want to play Jinyiwei?"

Du did not forget to say:

"Yes, but it's inconvenient for you, so wait for me outside!"

Then he went downstairs directly, I don't know where to get a set of brocade sweatshirts, and followed behind the group of brocade guards who were pressing Liu Yuanqing with his head down.

At this time, the poisonous girl said to the white lotus:

"Sister, I'm going too!"

The White Lotus pulled the poisonous girl and replied:

"You are not allowed to go, we can still pick up Brother Du when we are looking for a chance outside, if you go, won't it affect it?"

The poisonous girl said angrily:

"Since we can't kill Mo Shengqi with our own hands when we come to the capital, what's the use of us here!"

directly pushed away her sister White Lotus, and ran down, and White Lotus had to follow when she saw this.

After a while, these brocade guards received an order from a eunuch to enter the palace.

Then the eunuch led everyone through the west gate, through a bridge, and through another gate, and came to a large hall with a plaque from the Wuying Palace, and the eunuch signaled to stop here, and then went to the palace to report.

At this time, all the brocade guards were whispering eagerly, as if they were shirking something, and only one person said:

"Captain Xu, you will escort Master Liu in to meet the emperor later!"

This Captain Xu immediately replied to this person:

"Captain Liu, it's your turn this time!"

Captain Liu then said:

"If Lord Qianhu is not here today, you want to shirk your responsibility?"

Seeing this, Du didn't forget to see this, so he curiously walked over and asked the two of them:

"Two brothers, what's wrong?"

Captain Liu looked at Du Buyi, and asked:

"Brother, who are you, why haven't I seen you before?"

Du did not forget to say immediately:

"I just came, and we asked a few of them to go out to practice!"

Captain Liu said:

"It turns out that the newcomer is here, just waiting for you to escort Lord Liu to see the emperor!"

Then he pointed to another seemingly honest brocade guard on the side and said:

"You're with him, too!"

The brocade guard said:

"You brothers don't dare to go, how dare I go?"

Just now, Captain Xu came over at this time and pointed at this honest brocade guard and said:

"Captain Li, if you don't go, I'll let Lord Qianhu deduct your silver for three months!"

Captain Li said helplessly:

"Good!"

Du Buyi took the opportunity to come over and whispered to Captain Li:

"Why are you all so afraid to see the emperor?"

Captain Li pulled Du Yi aside and whispered:

"Because when you see the emperor, it's easy to be whipped at every turn!"

Du Buyi was stunned for a moment, and then asked:

"Does the emperor often beat you?"

李校尉 says:

"Because the emperor has been a little moody recently, not only our Jinyi guards have been beaten, but even the concubines and eunuchs in the palace are like this!"

Du did not forget to say immediately:

"Why is that?"

李校尉 says:

"Didn't it happen that not long ago, there was a rebellion in Datong? Your Majesty unconsciously began to be suspicious of those around us, and always suspected that everyone in the palace had different intentions, and it just so happened that Your Majesty's cough was aggravated again, and he was even more moody!"

Du did not forget to say:

"So that's the case, then if we take Lord Liu in to see Your Majesty today, won't we also be whipped?"

李校尉 says:

"I don't know yet, anyway, Lord Liu will definitely be whipped today!"

At this moment, the eunuch came back just now and said to the brocade guards:

"Which of you escorted Liu Yuanqing into the palace, hurry up and follow my father-in-law!"

Du did not forget to walk forward with this Captain Li and escorted Liu Yuanqing into the main hall.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Houyu was sitting at a long table in the middle of the Wuying Palace, reading a book, while coughing, the eunuchs waiting on the side kept holding a handkerchief for Emperor Zhu Houyu to cover the coughed up, it seemed that some blood could be seen from a distance.

After Zhu Houxi saw that the two of them pressed Liu Yuanqing into the hall and knelt down, he held back his cough and asked Liu Yuanqing:

"Liu Shilang, do you know why I asked Jinyi Wei to bring you here?"

Seeing this, Liu Yuanqing immediately kowtowed to Emperor Zhu Houxi and said:

"Wechen is guilty...... Wechen is guilty......!"

Zhu Houxi was a little impatient and said:

"Don't knock, no matter how much you kowtow, you can't compensate for your counterinsurgency mistake this time!"

Liu Yuanqing fell to the ground at this time and did not dare to raise his head.

Zhu Houxi then said:

"I have already found out, in this Datong rebellion, you, as the general system of Datong, shouldered the hope of the Datong army and people, but you did not appease the army well, and threatened the Datong soldiers and people to slaughter the city if they did not surrender, is this what I asked you to do?"

Liu Yuanqing was still lying on the ground, and said resignedly:

"The minister is guilty, and I hope that Your Majesty will spare the minister's life for the sake of the Datong Mutiny that has been temporarily suppressed!"

Zhu Houxi coughed a few more times at this time, and said to the eunuch on the side:

"Twenty lashes first, and then tomorrow!"

The eunuch on the side immediately took out a whip from behind him and threw it in front of Du Yiyi and Captain Li, and said:

"Execution!"

At this time, Zhu Houxi suddenly pointed to the eunuch beside him and said:

"I told you to go to the execution, didn't you understand?"

The eunuch on the side immediately said:

"The slave knows!"

Zhu Houxi then said to the eunuch again:

"Zhang Xin, after you finish your sentence, you will be transferred to the Huanyi Bureau, I don't want to see you again in the future!"

Zhang Xin immediately knelt on the ground at this time, kept kowtowing and said:

"Your Majesty, no, the slave just likes to serve the emperor, if the emperor demotes me to the Huanyi Bureau, isn't it equivalent to asking for the slave's life?"

Zhu Houxi immediately said:

"Are you trying to resist the decree?"

At this time, the eunuch who took Du Buyi and waited for a few people to come in immediately said:

"Your Majesty, you see that Zhang Xin is loyal and serving you, so give him a chance these days!"

Zhu Houxi sneered and said:

"What are these minions who don't listen to me going to do, drag them out and behead them!"