Rebellious officials bow their heads

Xie Linze's face remained motionless, "How did I know it? You have time to ask me, why don't you send Beizhen Prefecture to investigate?"

"The Beizhen government secretary is already searching." Ji Han said, "Don't you have any other opinions about this black hand who reached into the palace behind the scenes?"

Xie Linze put his arm on the table beside the couch, propped his head with one hand, thought about where Xu Yan was at the moment, and didn't have a clue, so he said casually: "It's easy to insert people's hands in Qinglu Hall, and the people behind them It must be a huge force, and they are very familiar with the capital and the imperial palace, and it seems that it has been planned for a long time to launch an attack on an occasion like the death anniversary dinner."

Ji Han pondered for a while: "You mean the mastermind behind the scenes is someone from the imperial court?"

"I only know that the person who made trouble for you must be the enemy of the Ji family. Don't you know who the enemies of the Ji family are?" Xie Linze smiled, "Master Shoufu, it's late at night, and I have to go to court tomorrow morning." , please go back."

Ji Han glanced out of the dark window, moved back, then stopped, looked at Dingqing, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked, "What's the matter with your mouth?"

Xie Linze's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he laughed immediately: "It's just getting angry, Ji Shoufu has a lot of things to do every day, and you still need to pay attention to my ailments?"

Ji Han snorted coldly, stopped looking at him, and left Taixuan Hall.

The rest, Xie Linze, sat by the couch and waited for a while, but Xu Yan didn't come back, so he stopped waiting for him when he felt sleepy, cut off the candle, covered him with a quilt, lay down and fell asleep.

Quiet darkness returned to the sleeping hall. After an unknown period of time, the window pavilion opened silently. Xu Yanluo came in, came to the side of the bed, and stared at the man for a while under the hazy moonlight.

He took out something from the skirt of his clothes, and slowly bent down, the soft moonlight illuminated the goose-egg-sized pearl in his hand, which was inserted into the red string, exuding a bright luster. A pearl stolen from Taixuan Palace.

Xu Yan's movements were gentle, not waking up the sleeping Xie Linze, tied the pearl around his neck, and raised his fingers to caress the wound on the other's lips.

He stayed quietly with the man for a while before getting up and opening the window to leave.

Dark clouds floated in the sky, half-covering the moonlight, the doors on the long street were closed, and it was pitch black, echoing the sound of the woman's hurried footsteps.

Xu Yanfu looked down from the high eaves, and the woman who was walking hurriedly lowered her head, wrapped in a thick outer robe, and inside was a thin dance skirt, with fine gauze dragging on the ground.

And not far behind the dancer, a group of Jinyi guards stuck in the shadows, following behind her silently.

Xu Yan glanced at it, then quickly turned around and rushed to another street, flying past the main entrance, the word Mu Fu was engraved on the black plaque.

He turned through the back door and came face to face with the servant of the Mu family who was patrolling at night.

The other party didn't have time to scream out, and was knocked unconscious by Xu Yan's hand knife. He dragged the man into the grass, took off the boy's clothes and changed them on. Just as he put on his girdle, there was a knock on the wooden door.

He bowed to open the door and let the dancer in. The guards lurking at the street corner didn't follow after seeing this scene.

When the wooden door was closed, the dancer said to him nervously: "How is it? I didn't let the plan go wrong, did I?"

"You've done a good job. The Mu family will not be able to clean up after jumping into the Yellow River." Xu Yan said, "I'll take you back to Heiji to find Ah An and Fat Cook. You will stay there for a while."

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Han really questioned Yu Mu He for letting the assassin into the palace in court. The two sides argued endlessly, making Xie Linze's ears ringing.

When he returned to the palace next time, he instinctively felt that this matter was related to Xu Yan, but he couldn't find the other party's figure.

When eating at noon, Ji Han came here to eat with him for some reason, and the two sat on each side without talking.

Xie Linze ate the food with wine, thinking about it, there was a round pearl hidden under the lapel of the collar, he couldn't help laughing when he thought that Xu Yan sneaked up to put it on for him in the middle of the night.

Ji Han on the opposite side paused for a while and looked at him inexplicably.

Xie Linze suppressed the raised corners of his mouth.

Ji Han picked up a few vegetables and stuffed them into his mouth, and when he looked up, he saw that the other party was overjoyed again.

He frowned and asked, "Are you in a good mood?"

Xie Linze stopped smiling and told him to leave after eating.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was evening again, and the long street was dimly lit, with colorful lanterns overhead, and the crowds were bustling through it, full of laughter and laughter.

The Yueluo Courtyard located in it is undoubtedly the most bustling and bustling. All the horses parked in front of Feige Liudan come from the mansions of dignitaries. Luo, a flower platform was built at the front of the downstairs, and the Goulan woman was dressed in a Chinese satin, dancing lightly, surrounded by a circle of spectators.

There are tables and chairs on the second floor, and you can clearly see the performance below. Sitting next to Xu Yan is a group of colleagues from Jinyiwei. The woman talked and laughed.

Xu Yan was only holding half a glass of wine, and drank it one sip at a time. He focused all his attention on the downstairs door, until suddenly an arm was put on his shoulder, and Xu Zhenfei, the commander of the Nanzhen government, approached and said, "Come on, Drink! Recently, I have nothing to do in my free time, and I have to stay in the mansion all day to get moldy, but brother Xu is rich enough, please come to this nest of ecstasy!"

As soon as this remark came out, several colleagues in the circle said yes again and again, and toasted him together.

"This Yue Luoyuan is indeed as magnificent as the rumors say. It will cost me ten years' salary for one night here. I would never have thought about it before. This time, thanks to Brother Xu, I have opened my eyes!"

"Exactly!" A bearded man laughed heartily, squeezed the slender waist of the woman in his arms, and said something in his ear, which caused the woman to giggle.

Xu Yan smiled faintly, and drank the wine, "My little brother is new here, and he has to rely on you brothers to be able to enter the Nanzhen government office. This is the right thing to do. Today is a beautiful day and you must have a good time."

Xu Zhenfei said: "Brother Xu, don't worry, we are a family in Nanzhen Prefecture, but everyone is beautiful, why, you don't like these women? Shall I call you another one?"

"No need." Xu Yan said.

Xu Zhenfei insisted on saying more, but suddenly there was a noise in front of him. It turned out that a young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks was dragging a woman in purple clothes upstairs by her hair. He went up the stairs, persuading with sweat profusely.

Xu Zhenfei spat: "Why did I meet this guy here? It's unlucky."

Looking at this scene, Xu Yan thought of something, and a vein appeared on the back of his hand holding the wine glass.

Seeing that something was wrong with him, a colleague at the side hurriedly said: "You must not go up, this happens often, it is a member of the Mu family, Mu He's younger brother Mu Wen, we can't afford to go around if we offend them."

Xu Yan calmed down and nodded, "I understand."

Another colleague said angrily: "This bastard bullies the women of the people and kills the common people. He does all sorts of crimes. When he comes to the Goulan Station, he will do this kind of thing."

Mu Wen stood at the top of the stairs, dragged the purple-clothed woman up for a while, let go of his hand furiously, kicked her hard on the chest, and immediately kicked her down the stairs!

The madam was frightened out of her wits, and she opened her mouth to scream.

Mu Wen's ear was disturbed, and he shouted: "Shut up!"

He turned his head and ordered his subordinates: "See if you are still angry, if you are angry, send it to my room, I still don't believe how stubborn this stinky bitch can be!"

Zishang was picked up by her subordinates, she fell to the point of bleeding, looked at Mu Wen tremblingly, tears rolled from her eyes: "Mr. Mu, please forgive me..."

Mu Wen laughed out loud.

Xu Yan turned his eyes away and looked at the quiet door. The next moment, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps, and more than a dozen Jinyi guards rushed in aggressively. The leader was Cheng Pei. He drew his knife and pointed at the crowd in the lobby. He shouted: "Beizhen Fusi handles the case, and the idlers leave as soon as possible!"

Xu Zhenfei standing next to Xu Yan suddenly stood up, and said incredulously, "Why did Cheng Pei get here? Who is to do? Could it be..."

Cheng Pei said to Mu Wen: "Mr. Mu, come with us."

After a moment of silence, Mu Wen recovered from his astonishment, and said contemptuously, "Who is Beizhen Fusi, you dare to let me go with you?"

Cheng Pei's expression was serious: "I'm following the order of the chief assistant, and please ask Mr. Mu to come with me."

"Ji Han?" Mu Wen smiled, "Why did he arrest me?"

Cheng Pei said: "Because you have the suspicion of letting the assassin into the palace privately."

"Ha, go back and tell Ji Han that I haven't done it. If he has any questions, let him go to my brother Muhe!"

More than a dozen brocade guards were waiting in formation, and Cheng Pei stood with a knife in his hand, "Master Mu is determined not to leave with us?"

Mu Wen looked at them condescendingly, and said a word: "Get lost."

Cheng Pei raised his hand and said to Jin Yiwei behind him, "Catch Mu Wen!"

Mu Wen clapped his hands calmly: "Cheng, don't you see where I'm being caught? This is my family's prostitute!"

As the words fell, more than 30 guards came out from all directions, all with weapons in their hands, and surrounded Cheng Pei and the others.

Seeing this posture, the spectators in the lobby and the Goulan woman hurriedly avoided them and fled.

On the second floor, the person from Nanzhen Mansion Division asked: "Commander, what should we do? Do you want to help Cheng Pei and the others?"

The bearded man said: "What are you doing to help them? I wish Cheng Pei would be slaughtered by the Mu family. Boss Xu, don't you think so?"

Xu Zhenfei looked at the movement below without turning his head, and smiled on his face: "Help, we must help, but we have to wait for Cheng Pei and the others to lose more than half, and then we will go again. The credit for this time is ours!"

He patted Xu Yan on the shoulder, "Watch more later!"

"Yes." Xu Yan also smiled, but it was a little more meaningful.

While a few people were talking, the people from Beizhen Prefecture had already wrestled with the guards. The tables, chairs and benches were split by swords and swords.

"It's time for us to go, let's go!" Xu Zhenfei waved his hand and led the crowd to rush over, a group of people fighting together in chaos.

Xu Yan turned the blade casually, turned around the guard's neck, heard the yelling from behind, turned around expressionlessly, and stabbed the man through with the knife. The two died in a blink of an eye. The crowd walked towards Cheng Pei.

Mu Wen was in a crowd of people. He obviously didn't expect it to develop into such a situation. There were blood and stumps flying around him. He had long since lost his arrogance and fled to the side in a panic. Suddenly he felt Someone shoved him hard from behind!

He staggered forward, and in front of him was Cheng Pei, whose back was turned to him. Cheng Pei felt someone approaching, and quickly turned around holding the knife. There was a scream.

—someone bumped into his knife.

The sound of the blade scraping against flesh and blood was so clear, the screams made everyone stop fighting, and Qiqi looked at him.

I saw Mu Wen's nail piercing Cheng Pei's knife, and the tip of the knife shone coldly from the back.