Your Majesty, I know I was wrong

Although the hidden arrow dodged, a group of people suddenly rushed out behind them, and surrounded Yu Xiao and Lin Zijin with bows, arrows and long knives.

Just seeing the situation clearly, after Lin Zijin pulled out the sword in his hand, the group of people rushed up and attacked the two of them involuntarily.

"Yu Xiao be careful!"

Because of the camouflage, Yu Xiao didn't bring any weapons before he went out, but he was very skilled and escaped the slashing of the person who came, and he walked around behind the person with a knife to the back of the head, knocking him out, and then He snatched the weapon from his hand, and stood facing Lin Zijin with his back.

The two focused on the enemy in front of them, and more than half of the dozen or so people who rushed forward were knocked down by the two, while Yu Xiao and Lin Zijin were almost unscathed.

"Let the arrow!"

Suddenly, a man's voice came from behind the group of people. The archer had already put the arrow on the string, ready to go, just waiting for this order.

Then hundreds of arrows flew towards the two of them, and Yu Xiao, who became the target of everyone's criticism, pulled Lin Zijin who was still fighting, and jumped up to the roof, narrowly dodging the volley of arrows.Seeing that they missed the two of them, the archer put another one on the string and pointed it towards the roof.

"stop!"

The arrow stopped amidst the sound of scolding.

"Hong Wu! Why did you act without my back?"

"I told you before I acted."

"But I didn't agree, did I?"

The person who scolded came closer and quarreled with the person who gave the order.Lin Zijin on the roof gradually saw his silhouette and the face he had known for so many years, it was undoubtedly his childhood friend!

"Xu Zhao!"

Xu Zhao responded and looked back at him.

"Zijin, long time no see~"

Xu Zhao smiled at him, with a relaxed attitude. If it wasn't for such an occasion, in the eyes of others, it would really look like friends who haven't seen each other for a long time are greeting each other.

The enemy's attack seemed to have stopped because of Xu Zhao's appearance, and after there was no danger, the two jumped off the roof.

"Why are you here? When did you come back?"

Lin Zijin wanted to ask him a lot of things, and walked quickly, impatient to ask him to understand, but before he reached Xu Zhao, Lin Zijin was grabbed by Yu Xiao's arm behind him.

"Don't get too close to him, the man behind him is Li Hongwu, the court's wanted criminal."

"I didn't expect the emperor to recognize him so quickly~"

Xu Zhao stopped Li Hongwu, who was about to draw his sword with fierce eyes, and looked at Yu Xiao with a smile.

"How do you know he is the emperor?"

If Lin Zijin remembers correctly, he never told Xu Zhao about Yu Xiao's real identity, besides, Xu Zhao only met him once, and he was just an ordinary businessman, so how could he have the opportunity to contact the current Holy Majesty? Would he know that the Holy Majesty is Yu Xiao?

"Didn't Zi Jin just ask me when I came back? In fact, I haven't left since the beginning. I came here after I left the Lin Mansion."

"What? Xu Zhao, I treat you as a friend, yet you lied to me?!"

"Don't get excited, I also treat you as a friend, and I never want to hurt you, but this time, alas... let's go into the room and talk."

After finishing speaking, Xu Zhao ordered all the assassins in the village to retreat, leaving Li Hongwu alone by his side, and led Lin Zijin and the others into the main room with him.

The furnishings in the house are extremely simple, nothing more than a tea table, two stools and chairs, a few vases and a few cabinets, which is no different from the decoration of ordinary rich families.

Yu Xiao stepped into the house, looked around, and finally locked his eyes on a hanging painting. The painting depicts a landscape, and there is a poem on the upper left. It seems that there is nothing wrong with it at first glance. .But what caught Yu Xiao's attention was its placement.Because there is only this one painting in the whole house, and the left and right walls are obviously more empty than here, and the table for receiving guests is behind the screen on the right. If you want people to appreciate it, this position is too strange.

So Yu Xiao reached out to open it and look at the back of the painting. The moment he was about to touch it, there was the sound of closing the door and lowering the latch behind him.

"Your majesty has good eyesight, that's exactly the secret room of my bank."

Xu Zhao stepped forward and rolled up the painting. There was a small square hole hidden behind it. Xu Zhao inserted something like a key in his hand into the hole. The key matched the shape of the hole.

Mechanism is about moving the whole body with one hair. Xu Zhao just turned the knob in the direction of the small hole, and the bookcase on the side opened to both sides, revealing a secret passage.

It seems that Qingyan is right, there is indeed a secret room.

Lin Zijin glanced at Yu Xiao, as if asking him if he would follow or not, Yu Xiao nodded and walked to his side, holding his hand to make him less uneasy.

Li Hongwu brought the candlestick from the room, lit it and walked in front to illuminate the way, Xu Zhao smiled at Lin Zijin, and then walked in.

Lin Zijin couldn't figure out more and more what his childhood friend was thinking. Thinking that he kept so many secrets from him, Lin Zijin felt awkward and even a little annoyed.

The secret passage was not long, and he walked to the small room inside after a short walk. The door of the secret room was very small, so Yu Xiao had no choice but to let go of Lin Zijin's hand and let him go in first.

But after entering, I found that there is something strange. There are various types of weapons displayed on both sides of the secret room, a piece of tiger skin is spread under the main wall, and a huge relief sculpture of a dragon coiled on the top of the wall is engraved.

"You are indeed a member of the Azure Dragon Society."

"The Azure Dragon Society just gave me what I want as a businessman. If I want to leave, who can stop me?"

Xu Zhao was no longer the smiling face that greeted him just now. Although he was still smiling, it was more of a sneer, with a high-profile appearance.

"Zijin, I knew you would definitely come here in the near future, but I didn't expect that even the emperor would come out in person. It seems that I have a lot of face~"

Xu Zhao opened the cup on the table, sat down talking to himself, and poured tea into the cup.

"Is that little guard all right?"

"what?"

"Fever doesn't go down, right?"

"How do you know?! Could it be Xu Zhao..."

"Zijin, why are you always unwilling to believe me? I said that if I don't hurt you, I won't hurt people who treat you well."

Xu Zhao shook his head and took a sip of the tea in his hand.

"It was he who came to my bank by himself to rummage around. Some places here were deliberately disguised as secret doors, and colorless and odorless paint was painted on the organs, so that if anyone came to investigate me, I would naturally know immediately. But don't worry, he has less contamination, so he will only burn for a few more days."

After speaking, he gave Li Hongwu a glance, and then Li Hongwu took out a ceramic vial from his pocket and put it on the table.

"This is the antidote."

Lin Zijin glanced at the bottle of antidote, then at the two of them, it was really unacceptable, the former innocent and optimistic friend turned into such a strange look, when did it change?Or was it just a disguise that was revealed in front of him at the beginning?

"You have changed Xu Zhao..."

"Changed? Ha, Zijin, do you know what I have experienced in the past ten years?"

"..."

"When I was ten years old, I started a business with my father. As soon as I arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, there was a flood. At that time, we had a sum of money in our hands. My father bribed the local county magistrate and told him that if the imperial court released grain for relief, he hoped that there would be more money. Give us a bag so that we can keep it until we leave. As a result, the county magistrate who was warmly received was envious of my father's money in the carriage, and sent someone to assassinate us who were staying in the mansion at night. I think Watching those people rob my father of his hard-earned gold and silver, and watch him kill his father and mother..."

Speaking of this, Xu Zhao's voice trembled slightly, and his chest heaved non-stop. Lin Zijin saw that his eyes were already rosy, as if the murderous night was right in front of his eyes.

"I escaped by chance and fled all the way to the north. I had no one to rely on. When I was hungry, I could only pick wild fruits to eat. At that time, it was hatred that kept me alive! Later, a bank kindly took me in and let me do it. There are many apprentices and people in the bank, and I can get all kinds of news from the people I come and go every day, and slowly I learned to collect information and sell information."

"So you joined the Azure Dragon Club just as an informant?"

Yu Xiao asked.

"Yes."

"Then you also know the purpose of the Azure Dragon Society?"

"Even if they don't tell me, I can easily find out."

"They want to change the dynasty?"

"Half guessed right."

Yu Xiao who got the answer was silent for a moment.

"You joined the Azure Dragon Society just for money. I thought of it for you. How about you come to my side?"

"As the king of a country, you don't know that corrupt officials are rampant, why should I help you?"

"Xu Zhao, how can you blame Yu Xiao for the late emperor's fault?"

Yu Xiao was only in his teens that year and had not yet ascended the throne.

"Father is wrong and son is responsible, shouldn't it be?"

At this moment, Xu Zhao had no smile at all, and looked at Yu Xiao coldly, waiting for him to answer his question.

"What do you want me to do?"

"Give me your left arm and I'll help you."

"...Okay, I promise you."

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