The journey from Dangtu to Jinling was very smooth, and Li Chunyu and the four guards were very eye-catching, and no state city dared to intercept them along the way.

Li Chunyu and Tianhuo are now like brothers, and the group has accelerated their return speed, and it is only the time to arrive in Jinling City, which is an hour earlier than estimated.

At this time, the gate of Jinling City has been closed, but the small gate for the secret envoys in the palace to enter and exit is still open, and the palace guards checked Li Chunyu's exit from the palace and immediately let him go, and Tianhuo and others went straight to the outside of the imperial city.

When he arrived at this place, the level of the inventory immediately increased several times, and Li Chunyu restrained his arrogant posture along the way, and waited outside the imperial city respectfully.

Waiting until the end of the day, a fat-headed and big-eared big yellow gate came out with a few imperial city guards, and he greeted Li Chunyu with a smile on his face: "It turned out that Brother Chunyu knocked on the door late at night and went out on business? No wonder I haven't seen you for a day today." ”

Li Chunyu's eyes flashed with coldness, it seemed that he didn't deal with this big yellow gate on weekdays, but he also changed his smile and greeted him: "Brother Ding Xiong, are you on duty tonight?

Ding Xiong laughed dryly twice, and said in an official tone: "The emperor has not rested yet, and the ancestor is serving the emperor in the Funing Hall at this time, so it is inconvenient for us to disturb him." Without his old man's order, we wouldn't dare to let you into the palace late at night, or Brother Chunyu would spend the night in the palace and enter the palace early tomorrow morning?"

Li Chunyu said tepidly: "Ding Xiong, I am on an urgent business trip on the order of the old ancestor, and I must send this person to the palace tonight, if you obstruct the transmission of news and delay the matter of the old ancestor, you will explain to the old ancestor yourself tomorrow." ”

Ding Xiong looked at Li Chunyu seriously, and Li Chunyu looked back without showing weakness.

Ding Xiong couldn't tell if Li Chunyu was pretending to be a tiger, but he wasn't ready to take that risk.

"Okay, you wait here, and we'll help you report at the risk of being beaten. ”

"Brother Shetding. ”

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, Ding Xiong hurriedly returned, walked in front of Li Chunyu and Tianhuo with his head down, and said, "Brother Chunyu, go in quickly, the old ancestor is impatient." ”

Li Chunyu glanced at Ding Xiong and found that there was an obvious handprint on his left cheek, and his heart was secretly refreshed: "I told you to deliberately make things difficult for Lao Tzu, and you will be punished." ”

Li Chunyu arched his hand and entered the imperial city with Tianhuo, Ding Xiong looked at their backs, stroked their hot cheeks, and secretly scolded himself for why he had to provoke Li Chunyu tonight, and was punished in vain.

Li Chunyu walked quickly in the alleyway of the imperial city with Tianhuo without saying a word, and Tianhuo couldn't help but ask: "Brother Chunyu, it's so late, will the emperor still see me?"

Li Chunyu's footsteps slowed down, and he lowered his voice and said: "Silence, Brother Tianhuo is inside the palace here, you can't make a loud noise, let alone ask questions casually, if you want to get out of the way, the best way is to not speak without talking, remember?"

"Oh, I see. ”

Soon Li Chunyu took Tianhuo to a side hall, where there were not many lights, and it seemed a little dim, and an old eunuch wearing a black gauze hat and a red embroidered robe was standing in the hall.

Li Chunyu hurriedly stepped forward to kneel down and ask for peace, and found that Tianhuo was still standing still and hurriedly dragged him.

Tianhuo is actually doing psychological construction, and he really doesn't want to let him kneel down to worship an old eunuch, but seeing that the old eunuch is very old, he comforts himself as if he was meeting his elders.

After Tianhuo bowed, he immediately got up and stood, while Li Chunyu continued to kneel on the ground and said, "Ancestor, grandson brought Tianhuo here." ”

Wang Jien said lightly: "The spring rain is hard, go back and rest, just hand it over to me." ”

Wang Jien's voice was not the kind of yin and yang strange sound at all, but a normal old man's voice, peaceful and kind, which made Tianhuo curious.

Li Chunyu didn't dare to raise his head, kowtowed three more times, got up and bowed, and then exited the side hall.

Tianhuo looked at the old eunuch in front of him carefully, and found that he had a square face with Chinese characters, although he had no beard, he looked extremely square, not lacking manhood at all, although there were many wrinkles on his face, but it could be vaguely seen that he was also handsome when he was young.

Wang Jien was also looking at Tianhuo, and only spoke after a while: "You are Tianhuo, old man Wang Jien, you are the head of the inner court here, you are very curious why I arranged for you to enter the palace late at night, right?"

Tianhuo hugged his fists and said: "Manager Wang, student Tianhuo, please solve your doubts." ”

Wang Jien nodded and said: "The young man is very good, although he kneels down to the old man and is displeased, but he can explain himself as an elder, he is knowledgeable but not confined to the form, he judges the situation and is open-minded, and he is really a young talent." ”

"Mr. Wang has won the award, but you haven't solved my doubts yet. ”

"Tianhuo, you don't have to be nervous, the emperor wants to see you, there are many people during the day, and it is inconvenient to have mixed eyes, so I can only invite you to come at night. ”

Tianhuo said strangely: "Why does the emperor want to see him? In addition, although there are many people and eyes during the day, it is not easy to focus, and it is not conducive to secrecy when summoned at night, I don't believe that no one else knows about my entry into the palace tonight." ”

Wang Jien was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Hehe, it's really oh." It's easier to be secretly watched at night, and it seems that the old man also made the mistake of covering his ears and stealing the bell, thank you for reminding me. ”

Tianhuo had already asked the emperor twice about his intentions to summon him, but Wang Jien did not give him a satisfactory answer, so he simply remained silent.

Wang Jien looked at Tianhuo and said with a smile: "Young people still know how to advance and retreat, and they know the truth of overreach, which is not bad." When the emperor saw you, he just wanted to ask you something about Xuanji Mountain, and you just answered truthfully.

But when talking to the emperor, you still need to be careful, although the emperor has a good temper, but what to say and what not to say, you have to have a weight in your own heart. ”

Tianhuo is very strange, could it be that the emperor wants to know about the Nineteen Princes? Then there is no reason to summon himself late at night, it seems that he can only see the moves.

After Wang Jien briefly taught Tianhuo some etiquette and details that should be paid attention to, he took Tianhuo to another palace.

Emperor Song was energetic, and he was still correcting the recitals when the time came, and when Tianhuo and Wang Jien came in, he didn't look up, and waited until all the recitals at hand were reviewed before raising his head.

"Ji'en, this kid is Tianhuo?"

Wang Jien knelt down with Tianhuo and said, "Back to the emperor, this kid is Tianhuo." ”

"Xiaomin Tianhuo knocks on my emperor, long live long live long live!"

Emperor Song got up, moved his waist and said, "Get up." Tianhuo, I'm really sorry to invite you so late, but I'm busy during the day, so I can only see you at night.

Jien, bring a chair to Tianhuo, he rode a horse for a day, and he didn't have to stand here if he came here. ”

Tianhuo gave in, but still sat down on the chair shallowly.

Emperor Song changed to the brocade couch and sat down and said: "Tianhuo, I don't have anything else to do with you today, I just want to know about the Xuanji faction, you just need to answer the truth, you don't have to be restrained." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Emperor Song first inquired about the general situation of Xuanji Mountain, and Tianhuo reported it concisely and concisely.

Emperor Song changed his words and said, "How is the relationship between your mountain senior brothers?"

Tianhuo said a little strangely: "The relationship between our brothers and sisters is very good, and we are like a family. ”

Emperor Song seemed to say unintentionally: "Then how much do you know about your senior sister Ah Li?"

Tianhuo was stunned, Ah Li's name seemed familiar, but it was definitely not his senior sister, why did Emperor Song ask this, but seeing the other party's serious expression, it seems that the purpose of tonight's conversation is to listen to Ah Li's news.

With the status of the Song Emperor and the king of a country, he naturally will not mistake Ah Li's identity, what is wrong with this, could it be that after he left Xuanji Mountain, the master re-accepted the apprentice?

Tianwei is unpredictable, Emperor Song summoned him late at night, if his answer did not satisfy him, it was difficult to say what the consequences would be, Tianhuo's brain was running quickly.

Tianhuo had a short time to think, but in the eyes of Emperor Song, he felt that Tianhuo was a little stumbling, could it be that this kid really had a personal relationship with Ah Li as said in the intelligence?

Emperor Song was a little displeased, and at this time, a kind of irritability when the father saw his daughter's lover for the first time came to his heart.

Emperor Song frowned and said, "Tianhuo, don't you want to talk to me about Ah Li?"

Tianhuo saw Emperor Song's displeasure, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Xiaomin doesn't dare, it's just that Ah Li is not my senior sister, but my junior sister." ”

Emperor Song looked at Wang Jien strangely, and Wang Jien was also stunned, meaning that he only knew that Tianhuo and Ah Li were in the same door, and he didn't know who was the senior brother and who was the senior sister.

Emperor Song said helplessly: "Okay, whether you are a senior brother or a junior brother, you can tell me about Ah Li." ”

"What does the emperor want to hear about his junior sister?"

"Background!"

Tianhuo's heartbeat began to accelerate at this time, and he saw sweat on his forehead, how could he know Ah Li's life experience, he didn't know this person at all, but he had already opened his mouth just now, so he could only continue to make up lies.

Tianhuo looked at Emperor Song seriously, wanting to see some clues from his expression, and sure enough, Emperor Song leaned forward, the blood vessels on his forehead were a little bulging, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were some expectant eyes.

Emperor Song made a special trip to find him, and secretly asked Ah Li about his life experience late at night, did Ah Li have anything to do with Emperor Song, otherwise why did he care so much about Ah Li? If Ah Li was really a member of the royal family, why did he become the apprentice of the master, there were all kinds of explanations that made no sense, and Tianhuo felt that it was very tricky.

Suddenly, Tianhuo blessed his heart and said: "Senior Sister Ah Li's life experience is very miserable, she is also an orphan like me, she doesn't know who her parents are since she was a child, and she is a hard-working child who was adopted by her master. ”

This is said without leakage, even if Emperor Song wants to verify Ah Li's origin, he will not come out tonight, even if it doesn't match what he said, he didn't know where he was at that time.

Hearing Tianhuo's answer, Emperor Song was obviously relieved, it seemed that Tianhuo's statement was very close to the answer he wanted, and Tianhuo was immediately sure that Ah Li and Emperor Song must have a very close relationship.

As the saying goes, if you care, you will be chaotic, as long as you make up some ambiguous words according to Emperor Song's intentions tonight, eighty percent will be able to pass the test smoothly, and Tianhuo's nervous mood will immediately relax.

Tianhuo saw that Emperor Song didn't speak, and continued to make up: "Senior sister is withdrawn and not very gregarious, and rarely mentions her life experience, we don't want to ask, for fear of making her sad, and she is not often in the mountains, so her real life experience, Xiaomin doesn't know much, but the relationship between us is very good, like a family." ”

Emperor Song couldn't help but nodded, the intelligence said that Ah Li's personality was cold and he didn't like to contact strangers, and Ah Li had been away from the Xuanji faction for a year, and Tianhuo certainly thought that she was not often in the mountains.