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"Old man, are you okay?" Gu Wang recovered from the ballad, and was about to step forward to support the old man, but saw the old man tremblingly looking up at him under the dim lantern, with a voice in his ear. Silver-white broken hair, a pair of eyes sunk in the face of the ravine, dull and dull.

"Ah," she said, her voice hoarse and weak: "Have you seen my A Ling?"

"Old man, who is A Ling?"

The old man was taken aback, then lowered his head dully, knocked the stone on the floor, and murmured: "Yes, who is A Ling?" Hey, A Ling is my youngest daughter, have you seen her?"

Gu Wang and Xie Qiao were speechless for a while.

At this moment, a passerby passed by in a hurry and stopped when he saw them. He waved his hands at Gu Wang and Xie Qiao, and said helplessly, "Hey, hey, leave her alone, she walked this street for a while. , and went home by himself.”

Xie Qiao stepped forward and cupped his hands at the man, and said, "May I ask your Excellency, what happened to that granny's family? Where is her daughter now?"

Hearing Xie Qiao's question, the man sighed heavily, and said, "Her daughter died 13 years ago. Since then, she has gone crazy and has to go to this street every day to look for her. Daughter, leave her alone, her old man will come looking for her after a while."

Xie Qiao frowned slightly when he heard this, and was about to ask something, when he saw the man frowning, with some pain on his face, as if he was sighing, and said: "13 years ago, who didn't die, hey!" He waved his hand and left, ignoring Xie Qiao.His back disappeared into the dim light, Xie Qiao and Gu Wang looked at each other, both of them looked dignified.

"Hey, old lady, it's time to go home!" A hoarse voice came, Xie Qiao turned around, and saw another old man walking towards here with a cane, he was taken aback when he saw Gu Wang and Xie Qiao, Then he went forward and took the old woman's hand, helped her to stand up, looked at Xie Qiao and Gu Wang again, with a kind smile on his face, and said: "My old woman made you laugh, thank you for taking care of her just now. "

Xie Qiao Gu Wang hurriedly cupped his hands at the old man, and said, "We didn't do anything." After a pause, Xie Qiao felt unbearable, but still asked, "Old man, dare to ask... what happened to Yanzhou 13 years ago? "

The old man was taken aback for a moment, he held the old woman's hand tightly, smiled on his face, his eyes turned red, and said: "13 years ago, Yanzhou was a hell on earth, it was a hell on earth! Our A Ling, just die In that hell. Hey!"

half an hour.

In the dim light, Xie Qiao and Gu Wang looked at the old man holding the old woman's hand, walking staggeringly but firmly step by step.Xie Qiao and Gu Wang didn't look at each other until their figures that seemed to be connected together disappeared in an alley. They both looked solemn, and there seemed to be flames of anger burning in their eyes.

……

Jizhou camp.

Lu Jue was dealing with military affairs in the tent, when he saw Ling Daoyuan come in, he saluted him.

Lu Jue said, "What did the trial find out?"

Ling Daoyuan frowned, and scolded: "That bastard's mouth is so hard, he won't say anything!" He knelt down halfway, and said: "The general is not effective in interrogating, and I ask the general to punish him!"

But Lu Jue raised his hand to him to get him up, and said, "It's not your fault. It's normal if he doesn't say anything."

At this time, another soldier came into the account, saw Lu Jue salute, and said, "Report! General, there is news about your investigation!"

Lu Jue's heart trembled, he stood up and said, "Say."

The soldier said: "The general asked our spies to investigate the movement of troops in Beiliang and the recent movements of the nobles in Beiliang. They have always been cautious and secretive in the movement of troops. Something has happened to the nobles recently, their prince Ju Quhun has disappeared."

Lu Jue raised his brows, looked at Ling Daoyuan, and said, "That person has his identity." Although that person was wearing Dasheng's clothes at that time, he wore expensive gold ornaments on his ears, and his face was full of pampering. Because of his arrogance, he must be an aristocrat, but to find out who it is, we can only let people find out.

Ling Daoyuan was dumbfounded: "Damn, a prince and his grandmother came to Dasheng to be a bandit!" After such a comparison, he suddenly felt that Xie Qiao was much better.

Lu Jue asked the soldier again: "Is there any other news I want you to find out?"

The soldier then said: "Our people also went to investigate, but... there are men and women in the Queen's Palace of Beiliang. There are many concubines who are favored by men, and there are a few who are very favored. I really can't confirm the person you want to investigate, General."

Lu Jue smiled, and said, "Go and find out who has a suspicion with Ju Quhun." Now that he knows the identity of that person, he can follow this line to investigate.

"Yes." The soldier said and stepped back.

Ling Daoyuan was a little embarrassed because of what happened that day when he was not on official business, but he has always been careless and didn't know how to relieve the embarrassment in his heart, so he simply cupped his hands and said, "If there is nothing to do, we will go down first."

Lu Jue nodded, and then ordered: "Take care of that man, don't let him die."

"Yes." Ling Daoyuan turned and left after taking his order.

Lu Jue looked at the dark blue sky outside the tent, his eyes were secretive.It seems that people from Beiliang have been mobilized recently, otherwise a prince of Juquhun would not have appeared on the border between the two countries.Since the men and horses were secretly mobilized, that person would act as a bandit and come to Dasheng to plunder, probably on his own initiative—that person's temperament is violent at first glance, and he hates Dasheng deeply, so it's not surprising that he would do this.

However, what is the purpose of Beiliang this time, and the extent to which the troops have been mobilized are all worrying.Thinking of this, Lu Jue turned around and went to the case, neatly wrote Feng Junbao, and recruited someone to send it to Jinling urgently - this matter, of course, let the emperor know.

……

the second day.Yanzhou.The governor of Sucho Mansion.

At this time, servants were everywhere in Su's mansion, but Su stood in the courtyard to summon the housekeeper, and asked, "Is everything in the mansion ready?"

The butler nodded: "My lord, don't worry, all the old slaves in the house have already beaten it once, and there will be absolutely no problem."

Su had a kind-hearted and kind-hearted look, but at this moment there was a cold light in his eyes, and he said: "That's good, His Majesty will come here soon, and those talkative people in the mansion should be dealt with as soon as possible."

The butler quickly said, "It's only natural."

"My lord!" At this time, a young servant ran back to the courtyard from the door with big strides, saying, "My lord, I saw a soldier in golden armor outside the city!"

The personal guards around the emperor were all wearing golden armor, but Su Que shuddered and said, "Here we come."

After a moment.Outside the Su residence.

Soldiers in golden armor lined up on both sides of the street with flags fluttering. A carriage slowly drove into the lane and stopped outside Su's residence.The door was pushed open, and someone was about to get out of the car.But Su tidied up his official uniform, hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute, and said loudly, "Your Majesty, I welcome you!"

The people in the car had already got out of the car, but Su knelt on the ground and saw the snow-white clothes of the person coming.

A voice mixed with a meaningful smile sounded above his head.

"How did Mr. Su know that His Majesty is coming?" After a pause, he said, "I cannot afford such a big gift from Mr. Su."

Even so, he didn't help people up.

Su's eyes widened, he raised his head suddenly, and met a pair of peach blossom eyes with a three-pointed smile.

"Li...Master Li, you, why did you come to Yanzhou?" Although he immediately put away the expression on his face, there was some shock on his face.

Li Mingbei was dressed in white, with his hands behind his back, looked at him with a smile, and said meaningfully: "Then Master Su thinks, how could His Majesty come to Yanzhou?"

Su was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Your Excellency, you are joking. Your Majesty's personal guards in golden armor appear outside Yanzhou City. Your Majesty will naturally think that it is His Majesty."

The smile on Li Mingbei's face was even wider: "The news about Master Su is really fast."

Su quickly said, "Where is it?"

Li Ming's sad smile was even worse, he glanced at the plaque on the Su Mansion, and said: "Master Su is ready, so I will stay at your house for a few days. Is it convenient for you, Sir?"

Su was stunned, and quickly said: "Naturally convenient, naturally convenient." He leaned slightly and raised his hand towards the mansion, saying: "My lord, please."

Li Ming raised his foot and entered the gate of the Su Mansion without letting go of his sad smile, and the golden armored soldiers also entered one after another.As soon as you enter the door, you will see a spacious courtyard. In the courtyard, some servants are doing their work with their heads down.

But Su pointed in one direction, and said: "There is Qingfeng Courtyard in the Xiaguan Mansion, which is used to entertain distinguished guests. I hope you don't dislike it."

Li Ming nodded sadly, then followed Su Que and walked in one direction.

Turning to a clump of flowers and trees, a young man dressed in coarse clothes suddenly bumped into him, holding a water pot in his hand, in such a building, all the water in the pot was sprinkled on Li Mingbei's body.It is winter at this time, and the water is naturally cold when it is sprinkled on the clothes.

After such a thing happened, the boy still lowered his head and stood there dumbly without speaking.Su Que frowned suddenly, pointed at the boy and cursed: "How do you do things! Steward! Steward!"

The steward hurriedly stepped forward, but Su pointed at the young servant and said harshly: "Who is this person?! How could he be so ignorant! Mr. Li is our distinguished guest, but he treated Mr. Li poorly on the first day when Mr. Li came to our house , it's time to fight!"

Hearing the words, the butler kicked the boy on the leg, and the boy knelt down, and the butler replied: "This is Ah Ying, who has been dumbfounded." He turned around and smiled sadly at Li Ming: "My lord , don’t worry, this old slave will find someone to teach him a lesson.”

But Li Mingbei raised his hand and said: "I'm fine." After speaking, he leaned down and supported the boy's arm to help him up, looked at the housekeeper and said: "He will be spared this punishment. "

Li Ming spoke sadly, but Su Que and the butler naturally didn't dare to disobey.

Li Mingbei nodded and was about to leave, but saw the boy who had kept his head down suddenly raised his head. He had a fair complexion and black and white eyes. He looked straight at Li Mingbei and said, "Thank you, sir." The voice was clear and clear, with the slight hoarseness of a teenager.

Li Mingbei looked at his pair of small animal eyes and smiled: "No thanks." After saying that, he left.

As he walked, he thought, the young man's eyes were clear just now, it's a pity to be a servant in this mansion.But he didn't have any extra sympathy, so this idea disappeared after a while in his mind.