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It was the night of Zhongyang City, and the patrolling Jin Chanzi passed by the alley with a lantern, leaving behind a flurry of footsteps.

The soldier at the door was holding the iron gun in his hand, feeling a little sleepy for some reason, he looked up at the gradually fading stars in the sky - it would be midnight soon.

He thought indignantly in his heart, why he came to guard this deserted mansion, after ordinary people escaped from prison, they would definitely fly away overnight, how could they throw themselves into a trap and return to their mansion.What's more, this mansion was raided before, and now it is completely empty.

A gust of night wind blew past, the soldier finally couldn't hold back, and fell asleep leaning against the door frame.

There was a slight "whoosh" in my ear.

Chu Shao glanced back, then briskly swept up to the eaves, and followed Zhou Lanmu back to his mansion.

This week, Mr. Zhou really has the best of hands and eyes, he robbed the prison first, sneaked back to Zhongyang later, Qi Lang deployed heavy troops throughout the entire territory of Great India like crazy to hunt him down, and he was able to enter his house without anyone noticing.

In prison that day when he said that he was the prince's old man, he didn't believe it all. It was only after Fang He's persuasion that he saw the prince Xie's former teacher, Gan Xixin, that he was convinced, not to mention the jade pendant...

After Feng Xie died, he searched the entire Dianxing Temple, but he couldn't find anything left behind by him, even this jade pendant was originally left to someone else.

I don't want to take it away even if I die.

Chu Shao's heart trembled, he forced himself to calm down, and continued thinking.

It turned out that this person was really the old man of the prince, not only that, he seemed to have been planning this matter for a long time.

In the final analysis, he is the culprit who killed the prince in the eyes of the world, and it is really understandable that he returned to Zhongyang to kill himself.

If he hadn't seen the things in the secret room, he would have been killed by this scheming fourth son without a single soldier.After all, with the lessons learned from Jin Mingjing, Wei Qiange and Qin Mu, he has been in the bloody battlefield for so many years, and he will feel such a chilling feeling towards the people around him.

Zhou Lanmu casually led him all the way into the study, and then touched him in a place that was very unfamiliar to him, and the two entered the secret room together.

Zhou Lanmu explained as he walked: "I'm worried that Qi Lang will find your secret room and change to a small mechanism."

Chu Shao marveled at the thoughtfulness of the other party, but hurriedly walked in, Zhou Lanmu lit a candle, followed behind him and said: "I have taken back your military formation diagram and layout strategy here, you What are you going to get back?"

After he entered the second secret room that day, he first saw a map.

The familiar map on yellow paper is the one he had pasted in the Prince’s Mansion before, and Chu Shao re-marked densely on it. In addition, there is a map of the underground secret roads of the Jinting Imperial City and the Xuanjian Camp All the concise name summaries, I don't know if he is picking people, some of them are ticked with a ink pen, and others are crossed out.

For three years, Chu Shao tried so hard to probe alone, filtered the entire Xuanjian camp, and held the military power firmly in his own hands under Qi Lang's suspicious eyes .

When he was rescued that day, he said that if one day he led troops into Zhongyang to force the palace, the confidantes he left behind in the Xuanjian camp would also disregard the Jinting imperial city's decree and follow them to the death.

Zhou Lanmu thought about it silently, but suddenly saw Chu Shao knock on the table where these things were originally placed, and there was a subtle sound of mechanism shifting in his ears.

The table slowly turned out with the half wall behind it, revealing a dusty altar.

A futon that was polished to a smooth surface was placed on the altar, and Chu Shao took the futon down without any hesitation, then turned to him very politely and said, "Fourth Young Master, you can burn incense with me."

Zhou Lanmu stared blankly at the altar, couldn't help holding a candle closer, and saw that on the dark altar, the thick wooden seats were empty, and nothing was written: "This... this yes?"

"His Royal Highness died unjustly, and he is not allowed to enter the ancestral temple after his death, and he doesn't even have a tablet." Chu Shao knelt on the futon and said expressionlessly, "I set up an altar privately, hoping that he can receive some incense from the world."

As he spoke, he bent down and kowtowed deeply, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were a little red: "One day, I will welcome him back to Tongtian Temple."

Zhou Lanmu silently knelt down beside him, did not kowtow, but his voice sounded a little unnatural: "Have you... stayed here all the time?"

Chu Shao didn't answer, he got up, reached out behind the memorial tablet and fished out a jar. The jar was made of cracked celadon, it was not big, and it was fired very beautifully, but it didn't seem to contain anything.Zhou Lanmu reached out to take it from him, but Chu Shao dodged it sideways.

"This is what I want to take," Chu Shao said with lowered eyes, "Young Master Lan, let's go."

Zhou Lanmu raised his eyes, turned around and walked out, with a hint of probing in his words: "What is this? Is it something very important to the general?" He didn't answer for a long time. A low "hmm" sounded.

Then he asked: "Young Master Lan, do you have any plans for the future?"

Zhou Lanmu turned around and looked at him with a half-smile: "Why don't you call me Hengshu?"

Chu Shao's face remained unchanged: "Don't dare."

Zhou Lanmu laughed, and turned his head nonchalantly: "Let's leave Zhongyang City first tonight, and I have asked Brother Bai to meet him outside the city. Everyone in the Zhou Mansion and Fang Ziyu from your mansion have already been sent back to Lange in Zongzhou , it is bound to be safe, don't worry."

Chu Shao asked: "Then where are we going?"

Zhou Lanmu said: "Southeast."

"southeast?"

"Yes," Zhou Lanmu looked back at him, his small face turned pale under the night, "King Ping Qi Chu laughed three times when he learned that I was scheming against you at the Twelve Bridge, and invited me to go to the southeast immediately to discuss with him..."

His beautiful eyes trembled slightly, and he continued lightly: "...the matter of rebellion."

Chu Shao wasn't surprised: "Qi Chu had already intended to rebel."

"It's just borrowing his hand," Zhou Lanmu heard what he meant, "King Ping is only 19 years old this year, he is not stable in the Great Yin Dynasty, and his subjects are uneasy. He understands it very well."

"Then what is he planning?" Chu Shao asked, "I don't believe he will help you for no reason."

"He wants me to help Emperor Gengtong regent, and give him an iron certificate of Dan Shu," Zhou Lanmu looked at his face, and said slowly, "Although it is difficult, if he helps us force the Qi and Wei family to return to power, it will be easy." It’s a great achievement, and it’s only natural that I will be awarded the Dan Shu Iron Coupon, so I agreed.”

After he finished speaking, he saw that Chu Shao's complexion turned pale as he wished, and even the hand holding the jar trembled unconsciously. After a long time, he spoke again, with a strong nasal voice: "Still Please, Mr. Lan, send someone to help me get this jar intact...to a safe place."

Zhou Lanmu raised his eyebrows and said, "Yuanjia loves you so much, why don't you take it with you?"

Chu Shao replied blankly: "It's not safe to be around me. If it can be safe and sound, I'm willing to stay away from it."

Bai Canglang was waiting for the two of them outside Zhongyang City. Perhaps Zhou Lanmu was so assured of Bai Canglang's martial arts that he didn't bring any other guards with him.

The three of them walked non-stop for five days, and before it got dark, they finally arrived at Huangyang, the southeast outer city behind the Twelve Bridges.

In the evening sky, Chu Shao saw the word Huangyang hung high above the gate of Huangyang City from a distance. The black characters were engraved on the gray stone. The gate was not lit, and it looked drowsy and desolate.

Bai Canglang beside him sighed faintly: "The sunset here is very early and the sunrise is late, so it is called 'Desolate Sun'. When the Great Seal was first established, it was Pingnan Xinjiang, and it once slaughtered the city in Desolate Sun... After King Ping occupied the city, no lights were allowed outside the houses at night, and people in the rivers and lakes called it 'Ghost Town, Wild Sun', this place is extremely dangerous—”

Before Bai Canglang could finish his sentence, the horse he was driving suddenly neighed and fell to his knees to die violently. The other horse also swayed the rein back and forth, looking very anxious.

"Livestock in the wild sun do not enter the city—there have been no visitors from the rivers and lakes for many years, and there is a long way to welcome—" A head popped out from the city gate, and greeted him attentively. It turned out to be a short, black old man with a hoarse voice With a flattering smile on his face, he ran over to untie the reins of the horse that had just died, "I am so lonely as the gatekeeper, a few distinguished guests, the way is to meet the city lord—"

"He just popped out the poisonous powder to poison the horse." Zhou Lanmu said softly.

The old man was not angry when he heard it, he only smiled "hehe": "If you want to ask to see the city lord, you can deal with it outside the city for one night and come back tomorrow. If you don't know how powerful this Huangyang city is, my sixth son will be a good person. Just a piece of advice, it’s still too late to leave, the gates of the city will be closed after sunset, and ghosts will walk around at night, it’s no joke.”

"We want to go across the city to leave—" Zhou Lanmu said to him with a smile, he has not lost his gentlemanly demeanor at this time, and he seems to have a good temper.

The gatekeeper sixth was busy untying the reins, he didn't want to say more, but interrupted angrily: "I told you to see the city lord and come back tomorrow and you can't enter now, you—"

"You old man, don't you understand human language? It's fine if you kill our horse, but you-" Bai Canglang became angry, and if Chu Shao didn't stop him, he would rush forward immediately, "Lao Tzu last time When you came to Huangyang, you hadn’t guarded the gate here yet, so what are you pretending—”

"I said that I can't enter at this moment is for your own good. If I go in and die, I will have trouble collecting the corpse at that time." The gatekeeper's sixth child suddenly turned dark and stopped smiling. come out--"

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly stopped, and then turned his head to look at the four of them as if he had seen a ghost: "What did you just say, you didn't come to Huangyang, but you want to go to Lihentian?"

"Exactly." Zhou Lanmu replied.

"What do you want to do in Lihentian?" The gatekeeper Lao Liu looked as if he was facing an enemy, and he couldn't understand the reins, "Aren't you—"

"We came from the north to visit King Ping of the Southeast." Chu Shao held the sword and said in a low voice, "Please tell me, old man, whether it is possible to go directly into the barren sun at this moment. If not, I will wait."

"Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping... King Ping?" The sixth gatekeeper seemed to be scared out of his wits, "Did King Ping ask you to come?"

"Exactly." Zhou Lanmu didn't want to say more, so he had to say simply.

The sixth child didn't say another word, he didn't even want the horse, and galloped towards the city gate.Not long after, the tall and dark city gate of Huangyang City opened creakingly, and the three of them entered the city. Before leaving, Zhou Lanmu did not forget to say to the gate: "Thank you, the carriage and its contents , the right should be given to the old man as a gift."

"Wow, so generous," Bai Canglang heard, and squeezed next to Zhou Lanmu, "Xiao Lan, can you give me one in the future, I want a bigger one, preferably full of gold, silver and jade, The kind that can be used as a house by tearing it down, two floors is even better. Anyway, I drive, and no one in the rivers and lakes dares to snatch it, so that I can go wherever I want in the future, and I don’t have to worry about not having a place to sleep.”

"There isn't one like this yet, but if brother Bai wants it, I'll go back and reorganize the family business, draw a picture and ask Xixin to build one for you." Zhou Lanmu replied with a smile.

"Xiao Lan is really righteous, so it's settled!" Bai Canglang patted him on the shoulder in a good mood, then turned his head and said, "The last time I came to save someone was at night, because I was too anxious, I was in a deserted place. The most difficult road in the countryside is to go directly to the gate of King Ping, and I have never entered the city, so I don’t know what there is.”

"This place looks very gloomy," Zhou Lanmu looked around and replied, "I think—"

Suddenly, a sharp and long voice came from his ear, directly interrupting his words.

"Turn off—the lights—"

"Turn off—the lights—"

The author has something to say: Xiaolan: I kneel myself(?)

Adhering to the Prince's major, continue to pierce the heart

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The author kicked off the agent Moss fat

Thanks to the little angel who threw thunder for me recently: 1 piece of Yaoyaoyaoyaofu; 2 pieces of taro cake

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the white (?) unknown liquid for me: 12 bottles of Gu Wang; Is my brother there, 10 bottles of Leng Qianshan; 2 bottles of Y

I will continue to work hard, Chumi~