I was a princess in ancient times

Ji Xinxue, who had been silent all this time, raised her eyelids to look at Jia Wang who was squatting in front of him, and subconsciously wiped the corners of her eyes, "Aye."

King Jia nodded silently, picked up Ji Xinxue and walked towards the inner palace.

Ji Xinxue grabbed King Jia's shoulders, turned to look at Miss Yan who was still lying on the ground, "Yan..."

"She'll be fine, let Yu Heng stay here for you." King Jia strode away without looking at Yu Heng who was following him step by step without stopping.

Unwillingly, Yu Heng chased after King Jia for a few steps before stopping at the same spot, his eyes fixed on chasing King Jia's back, and he refused to look away easily until he could no longer see King Jia.

Leaning in King Jia's arms, Ji Xinxue finally calmed down completely, clutched at the hem of King Jia's clothes and fell asleep.

It was already the second day when he woke up, and the person guarding him was the palace servant next to Concubine De, seeing Ji Xinxue woke up, the palace servant hurriedly said, "Don't talk, the imperial doctor said you hurt your throat last night, When you wake up, you have to take medicine before you can talk."

Seeing Ji Xinxue nodding, the palace personnel went to fetch the medicine that had been prepared earlier.

Ji Xinxue sat up supporting her limp arms, watching the palace servant pour the medicine from the closed jar into the bowl with a gloomy gaze.

Watching the palace man walk up to him with the medicine, Ji Xinxue didn't take the medicine or drink it with the palace man's hand, but still looked at the palace man quietly.

The palace man's scalp was numb from Ji Xinxue's gaze, "Master?"

Ji Xinxue lowered her eyes, "Where's Yu Heng? Let him come and see me."

Emperor Yanguang is still in a state of rest, King Jia, Concubine De, and Su Xian have countless things to deal with, so they will not be able to take care of him at this time.Brothers and sisters can't slack off at this time, but Yu Heng is just a side branch of the clan, so it won't be a problem to leave the mourning hall temporarily.

He will never take medicine unless he sees someone he can trust.

Ji Xinxue raised her hand to touch her throat. He clearly spoke, but didn't hear any sound.

The palace people didn't hear Ji Xinxue's words, but she could see Ji Xinxue's movements, and said quickly, "Master, don't worry, the imperial doctor said that your loss of voice is only a temporary condition, and you will recover soon."

Ji Xinxue was silent for a long time before nodding, still refusing to take the medicine.

He pointed under the bed, indicating that he wanted to put on his shoes.

Before the palace people had time to react, there was a sudden sound of the door opening behind the screen, and it was Yu Heng who walked in quickly.

Seeing that Ji Xinxue had woken up, his tense face eased a little, he naturally took the medicine bowl from the palace maid and brought it to Ji Xinxue's mouth, coaxing, "Drink the medicine first, and then I have good news for you."

Ji Xinxue coughed several times due to the pungent smell in the medicine bowl, held the medicine bowl and swallowed all the hard-to-swallow medicines in one go, lay on the bedside and retched due to the surging smell in her stomach, unexpectedly Immediately, I can make a sound.

Yu Heng supported Ji Xinxue's shoulders, letting Ji Xinxue lean on him, "You can't vomit, the efficacy of the medicine will be reduced by half, so you can only increase the number of times you take the medicine so that your voice can recover as soon as possible."

After hearing Yu Heng's words, Ji Xinxue immediately raised her hand to cover her mouth.

This is definitely the worst medicine he has ever taken since he was a child, bar none.

Fortunately, Yu Heng kept his promise. Seeing that Ji Xinxue was obediently enduring the feeling of vomiting after drinking the medicine, he immediately told Ji Xinxue the good news he promised when he coaxed Ji Xinxue to drink the medicine.

Miss Yan had a fever last night, and she quickly subsided. The imperial doctor said that Miss Yan had already passed the most difficult test.

In the process of looking for Bijuan, Jin Wuwei successfully rescued Bijuan from the assassin.Although she has a broken leg and may suffer from foot problems in the future, her life is safe.

Yan Xiaoniang's maid, Tang Yuan, is also alive. It was she who guided the Jinwu Guard, and the Jin Wu Guard knew that the Lord Ningshu was being hunted down.

After hearing the news, Ji Xinxue really felt better. He tried to speak and could make a sound, but it was only breathless and made his throat extremely uncomfortable.

Yu Heng patted Ji Xinxue on the back, "I will slowly tell you everything about yesterday, and if anything is left behind, you can write on my hand."

Seeing Ji Xinxue nodding, Yu Heng first supported Ji Xinxue to lie down, and then stepped on the small stool brought by the palace man, and started talking about what Ji Xinxue was most concerned about.

In the process of escaping, Tangyuan ran into the wall in a panic and passed out.

Fortunately, the assassin didn't go to make up Tangyuan, and just ignored her. Tangyuan passed the most uncomfortable force and ran in the opposite direction to everyone. When he met Jin Wuwei, there was a strange palace man chasing Ji Xinxue. He told Jinwuwei about the matter and pointed him in the right direction.

In contrast, Bijuan's experience was even more thrilling. She ran to the deserted yard in a hurry, but had no choice but to jump into the well.

Fortunately, it was an abandoned well. The water in the well was not as much as Bijuan thought, and the mouth of the well was so huge that even the assassin had long arms and legs and couldn't climb down the well wall. Jin Wuwei followed the traces to find the past, and solved the assassin who was trying to find a way to go down the well.

When they were found among the three, the most miserable one was Miss Yan.

If it wasn't for the fact that there happened to be a well-known god in the Jinwu Guard who could penetrate Yang with a hundred steps at night, he walked over the wall, hit an assassin's vest with one arrow, and when another assassin swung his dagger at Miss Yan, he shot it with his feathers. The arrow changed the trajectory of the dagger, and Miss Yan would not just be seriously injured.

When Yu Heng told Ji Xinxue what happened to the three of them, he tried to speak lightly about the dangers they encountered and the injuries they suffered.

All three of them can live, which is already the best ending.

After talking about Miss Yan, Bijuan and Tangyuan, Yu Heng mentioned what happened elsewhere in the inner palace last night.

Last night, there were many incidents such as Ji Xinxue who left the range of the mourning hall and was assassinated by strange palace people in places where there was no Jin Wuwei.

There are even cases of 'palace people' mixing into the mourning hall and poisoning food.

Apart from Ji Xinxue, the people who were blatantly assassinated were also the clan's head of Cheng'an County, the two heirs of the nobles who had been appointed heirs and other descendants of the nobles, and the family members of the courtiers were not spared either...

A total of 15 people were assassinated, and more than half were found with only their bodies.

Poisons were found in tea water in many places within the mourning hall. Fortunately, after someone was poisoned, the news of the poisonous tea spread throughout the mourning hall as quickly as possible.

Except for the first batch of people who drank the poisoned tea, the rest of the people were fine, and because the first batch of people who drank the tea were treated in time, most of them just suffered, and only one person died of poisoning.

Ji Xinxue listened to Yu Heng's words in silence, her tense body gradually relaxed.

fine……

The assassin cast a wide net and almost indiscriminately attacked, not thinking that something was wrong with him, and came to him alone.

"The person who poisoned you and the assassin who chased and killed you are the original palace people." Seeing that Ji Xinxue's body was relaxed and sleepy again, Yu Heng deliberately pulled up the thin quilt covering Ji Xinxue's body, and his voice became even louder. Qing Rou, "People who live outside the inner palace have to come to guard the spirit of the late emperor. There are not enough servants and things that can be consumed by people in the inner palace. Your Majesty can only allow servants from various families to enter the inner palace. The palace people are just pretending Cheng's servants and Chang'an Palace people entered the inner palace."

"Your Majesty has ordered the Jinwu Guards to enforce martial law, and there will be no more accidents." Yu Heng raised his hand to cover Ji Xinxue's eyes that were staring at him, "The medicine just now contains soothing ingredients, so you can sleep at ease."

Most of the assassins who assassinated outside the scope of the mourning hall were killed by the sharpshooters of the Jinwu Guard, and those who were captured alive took poison to commit suicide.

The Jinwu guards are checking the inner palace and every place outside the inner palace one by one, but all the people in the palace who can be found have committed suicide by taking poison.

In addition, there are also the corpses of those who were replaced by palace palace people.

Feeling that his hands no longer have the touch of eyelashes, Yu Heng said softly, "Don't worry, I will never let these people go."

Yu Heng fixedly looked at Ji Xinxue for a while, then signaled the palace servants in the room to go outside with him, and carefully explained many of Ji Xinxue's little habits to the palace servants before leaving.

Leaving Ji Xinxue's temporary resting place, Yu Heng didn't go back to the mourning hall, but went outside the inner palace. Before he came to see Ji Xinxue, the inner palace had been searched and no survivors were found.

The results of the search outside the inner palace were similar to what Yu Heng expected, but all the palace dwellers who could be found had committed suicide by taking poison. When their bodies were found, most of them were lying on the bed or on the ground, with different expressions on their faces except that there was no fear , looks very strange.

So many shocking things happened last night, and no one in the palace was interested in guarding the coffin for Emperor Yanguang. The people kneeling in the mourning hall were all absent-minded and frequently looked in the direction of the gate.

In the study not far from the mourning hall, King Jia was sitting behind the case and distracted in a fair manner. Compared to watching the courtiers insisting on asking Mo Yao to give everyone an explanation, he wanted to see how Ji Xinxue was doing.

It is rare for Sikong, Situ and Cui Taibao to have the same opinion, and they all believe that the assassination and poisoning of many people last night were all the fault of the Jinwu Guard.

If it wasn't for the negligence of the Jinwu Guards, or even deliberate actions, how could the thieves have the opportunity to cause chaos in the inner palace?

Mo Yao explained coldly, "After His Majesty decides the date to return to Chang'an, I will release half of the Jinwu guards to explore the way, and the rest of the Jinwu guards will guard the dangerous places in the palace and the range of the mourning hall."

King Jia was distracted and listened to Mo Yao's words. Although he was shocked and angry at what happened yesterday, he didn't intend to blame Mo Yao.

King Li and Jiang's family took the first step to prevent them from leaving surprises for the people behind on the road. It was not Mo Yao's decision to allocate half of the Jinwu guards to explore the road, but King Jia's order.

The Xinggong is within the scope of the hunting mountain, so it is necessary to guard against not only people but also wild animals, and there must be no fewer Jinwu guards guarding everywhere, so the number of Jinwu guards in the inner palace can only be reduced.

In addition, when Mo Yao first discovered that Emperor Yanguang had been poisoned, he immediately arrested all the palace servants in the inner palace. After several rounds of interrogation, there were almost no palace servants in the inner palace who could be used.

The people guarding the changing rooms in various places yesterday were servants recruited temporarily from outside the inner palace and palace servants who were transferred to the low-ranking concubines.

These people want to take advantage of the time when the inner palace is in chaos, and leave the dressing room before the time is up. They feel that even if someone wants to care about them, they will not be able to find them. As a result, the range of lanterns at night is reduced, and many people are suddenly lost in it. The direct cause of the assassination in the palace.

What happened last night was not only the negligence of Mo Yao and Jin Wuwei, but also many complicated factors.

Ever since Emperor Yanguang passed away, King Jia could feel the courtiers' attitudes towards Mo Yao and Jin Wuwei were changing. These people seemed to have decided that he was only enthroned by Mo Yao temporarily, and that he would take Mo Yao and Jin Wuwei first after ascending the throne. Wei performed the operation, and treated Mo Yao and Jin Wuwei more and more contemptuously.

For many years, Mo Yao had left an indelible and terrifying impression in the hearts of the courtiers. Although the courtiers looked down on Mo Yao, they did not dare to provoke Mo Yao easily.

Ordinary Jinwu Guards are mostly of commoner origin, even if the elite of the Gyeonggi Guards merged into the Jin Wu Guards, their backgrounds may be better than those who were originally in the Jin Wu Guards, but they are definitely not as good as the courtiers and their families in the palace.

In just a few days, the courtiers and their families had more conflicts with the Jinwu Guard than in the past ten years.

Thanks to the presence of the remaining prestige of the Jinwu Guard and the existence of Mo Yao's sea-fixing needle, there was no major disturbance, but the Jinwu Guard inevitably refused to see the courtiers and their family members because of various conflicts, and they also slacked off on their errands.

Jia Wang coldly watched the contradictions that started from the top but broke out from the bottom up gradually expand, and chose to endure it for the time being.

The more the courtiers didn't want to see Mo Yao, the more he wanted to use Mo Yao.

During the 21 years of his reign, the first emperor spent almost every moment trashing the things left by his ancestors. Among the things left behind, the only things that can be called family property are the sharp sword of Jin Wuwei and the sword master Mo Yao.

King Jia would never allow his courtiers to destroy the only family property he inherited from Emperor Yanguang for his own selfishness.

If it wasn't for these courtiers to fight with the Jiang family's courtiers when he returned to Chang'an, he would never have watched them belittle Jin Wuwei.

It never occurred to King Jia that he just wanted to postpone the resolution of the conflict for a few days, and he almost brewed a disaster that would make him regret it.

Now that the disaster has been accomplished, fortunately the Jinwu Guard reacted quickly so that the disaster did not develop to the worst extent.

These courtiers did not reflect on the mistakes of themselves and their families at all, they only wanted to pin all the mistakes on Mo Yao and Jinwuwei, accumulating charges for Jinwuwei.

Could it be that they have completely forgotten that the safety on the way back to Chang'an can only depend on Mo Yao and Jin Wuwei?

King Jia looked at Cui Taibao who was the most vicious.

I don't know if there will be wild bears in Cui Taibao's frame on the way back to Chang'an.

Feeling King Jia's gaze, Cui Taibao became more unforgiving and aggressive. He argued with Mo Yao, and finally came to the conclusion, "Is it because General Mo misses the late emperor so much that he can't understand the errands? If that's the case, why don't you go?" Accompany first..."

"Cui Taibao be careful." King Jia lowered his eyes, unwilling to look at Cui Taibao's annoying old face, "Emperor Ji has no precedent of letting his life be sacrificed, let alone his adopted son. Don't fall into the injustice of Aye."

Regret flashed in Cui Taibao's eyes, and he lowered his head and said, "This old man is only angry for a while, and I don't want General Mo to stay in the past, so he will speak without choice under excitement. Please don't blame him, Your Majesty."

King Jia waved his hand, and didn't want to say a word.

Cui Taibao stopped talking temporarily because of King Jia's interruption, and Sikong immediately stepped forward, glaring at Mo Yao and said, "If General Mo has no ghosts in his heart, why has he refused to tell us the origins of the people in the palace?"

The bewilderment in Mo Yao's eyes gradually faded, and he said without hesitation, "I don't know, the construction of the palace was not supervised by the Jinwu Guards. When the saint was there, he only told me not to allow the people in the palace to approach the inner palace, but he didn't tell me about the people in the palace. origin."

The aggressive Sikong was speechless immediately, and looked at King Jia with a face full of surprise, "Your Majesty, this..."

How could this have anything to do with the late emperor?

King Jia was also surprised, but instead of looking at Sikong, he looked at Mo Yao, "Brother Yao, can you explain this matter in detail, has Aye ever noticed anything wrong with the palace servants?"

Mo Yao shook his head, "I don't know."

King Jia was not surprised by Mo Yao's answer, how could Emperor Yanguang explain his thoughts to 'dog'?

There was obvious regret on his face.

As early as when Ji Xinxue mentioned to him that something was wrong with the Xinggong Palace, King Jia had someone quietly investigate the Xinggong Palace.

The time is too short, there is no way to determine whether the origin of the palace man is fake, but Song Nian told him firmly that the palace man has the shadow of being from the dark guard camp.

At that time Emperor Yanguang was still there, King Jia didn't dare to investigate further, so he restrained his children in the palace so as not to get them involved in unnecessary disputes.

Originally, King Jia thought that the palace guards were Emperor Yanguang's secret guards, and that they walked around the palace all day to check for unstable factors in the palace, and together with the Jinwu guards, they protected Emperor Yanguang's safety both openly and secretly.

After he got Mo Yao's acknowledgment, he even asked Mo Yao insincerely if the palace servants were from the Dark Guard Camp.But Mo Yao couldn't understand the hint at all, and King Jia didn't want to ask explicitly, so he delayed the matter.

As for the people in the palace who suddenly went crazy and almost indiscriminately attacked the people in the palace, King Jia wanted to ask Mo Yao many questions, but he didn't intend to ask them in front of the courtiers.

King Jia didn't ask, but the impatient courtiers couldn't help it, "Who doesn't know that the late emperor trusted you the most, how could he not?"

Mo Yao lowered his head, neither defending himself nor looking at the person who questioned him.It seemed that the person who was questioning him was just an insignificant existence, not worth his attention at all.

The courtiers were not all people who could only count Mo Yao in detail. The Minister of Rites found the key point from Mo Yao's words, nodded politely to Mo Yao, and asked, "Major General Mo, who supervised the construction of the palace? Old man I have some questions to ask him."

Before Mo Yao could speak, a loud reply suddenly sounded from among the nobles who had remained silent all along, "It's the old man."

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

It was the British Duke who was implicated by his son three years ago and was fined to build the imperial mausoleum. Years ago, Emperor Yanguang had allowed the British Duke to return to Chang'an.

The Duke of England walked up to King Jia and bowed deeply, with a mournful expression on his face, "The late emperor once ordered his ministers to supervise the construction of the palace here, but before the palace was completely completed, the sage called this old man back to Chang'an. I have never seen a palace man."

The trail came to an abrupt end at the British Commons.

King Jia looked around at the expressions of the ministers, and said to Song Nian, "Go and call the eunuch Liang who is guarding Aye's spirit, I have something to ask him."

As we all know, there were only three people who trusted Emperor Yanguang the most during his lifetime, Mo Yao, Bai Qianli and Eunuch Liang.

Mo Yao didn't know, eunuch Liang should know.

If even Eunuch Liang didn't know about it, then the person who had already left the palace should know about it.

Eunuch Liang walked in with a low eyebrow and pleasing eyes, knelt on the ground to pay respects to King Jia without looking sideways, and immediately replied after hearing King Jia's question, "Responding to Your Majesty, the Hunting Mountain Palace was first built by the British public supervision, and finally built by the British government. Master Yuanming reformed. I don’t know where the people in the palace come from, maybe the masters will know.”

Soon after, Mingyuan was brought by the Jinwu Guard.

After Emperor Yanguang was poisoned, apart from the palace people in the inner palace, Mo Yao also doubted the monk who could meet Emperor Yanguang every day and chant scriptures and cast spells for Emperor Yanguang.

When the Jin Wuwei interrogated the inner palace servants, he also interrogated the monks, Yuanming was the first to bear the brunt, and when he was dragged into the main hall, his appearance was really not decent.

The courtiers looked at Monk Yuanming, who had hardly a piece of good flesh on his exposed skin, and stepped back half a step to distance themselves from Mo Yao. They recalled how they pressed Mo Yao just now, and their faces were faint. green.

You must not act rashly anymore, you must wait until His Majesty has made up his mind to deal with Mo Yao before counting Mo Yao's crimes in detail.

otherwise……

Song Nian stood in front of Monk Mingyuan and asked, "Mingyuan, do you know what happened to the palace people in the palace?"

Mingyuan lay on the ground without saying a word.

Song Nian stepped on Ming Yuan's back and repeated the question he just asked.

A ferocious expression suddenly appeared on Mingyuan's calm and tired face, and his tone was extremely weak, "I, I don't know!"

Song Nian put more force on his feet and repeated the question again.

Ming Yuan's fingers that were pressed on the ground jumped up and wanted to struggle, but in the end they didn't move at all, and he said angrily, "I don't know."

No matter how Song Nian pressed him, Ming Yuan's answer remained the same. He insisted that he didn't know the origin of the palace man.

The courtiers looked at each other, observing the expressions of Mo Yao, Duke Ying and Eunuch Liang in turn.

Is it because some of these three people are lying, or is it true that the people related to the palace people are not here, but are on the way to Chang'an?

After watching the excitement for a long while, the prince of Qinghe County expressed everyone's guess, "It seems that only after seeing Prime Minister Bai can we know the origins of the people in the palace."

The clan members who were dozing off woke up one after another, and the voices of "Brother Wang is right", "Uncle Wang is right", and "Uncle Wang is very true" were heard in the study.

King Jia looked at Prince Qinghe Prince blankly.

Why doesn't everyone look smart.

Marquis Dingbei stroked his palm and said, "If Prime Minister Bai has the heart to disobey me, I can still lift the treasured sword left by my ancestors. This treasured sword was bestowed by the empress herself, and it is specially designed to kill disloyal and unrighteous people!"

The other dignitaries were unwilling to decide that Beihou was more beautiful than before, so they immediately said that they had some treasures left by their ancestors that could kill the courtiers.

As long as it was honored in the Wuning and Qianyuan dynasties, who doesn't have ancestral treasures?

The courtiers who had quarreled the most earlier couldn't tolerate the clan and nobles stealing the limelight, and even some civil servants could compose a poem in a short period of time, scolding Bai Qianli for his infidelity and injustice.

The stagnant atmosphere in the study room gradually relaxed, as if everyone had already determined that Bai Qianli was the culprit who made the palace people suddenly go crazy, and all the frightening things that happened last night were Bai Qianli's fault.

King Jia waited patiently for all those who wanted to express their loyalty to finish speaking, and then said to everyone, "Zhu Qing was frightened last night, and tomorrow he will help the coffin to enlighten the spirit at the rooster crowing. Today, we will go back to the residence to rest earlier. The mourning hall is just me, Uncle Lu Wang, Brother Xiang, and Brother Yao."

The courtiers quietly looked at Mo Yao's face, seeing that Mo Yao's expression was normal and there was no sign of going crazy, so they couldn't help but easily agree to King Jia's words, and left the study one by one.

After everyone else had left, King Jia asked Mo Yao the question he wanted to know the most, "Are the people from the Xinggong Palace from the Dark Guard Camp?"

The dark guard camp was established from the Qianyuan Dynasty and built in the Jianxing Dynasty.

During the Qianyuan Dynasty, the dark guard camp was called the personal guard camp. As the name suggests, it was the place where Emperor Qianyuan trained his personal guards for his children. guard.

After Emperor Jianxing ascended the throne, he abolished the personal guard battalion on the surface, but secretly set up a dark guard camp. The people in the dark guard camp were selected and trained in the same way as the previous court's training of dark guards. The difference is dozens of times, Emperor Jianxing will only give each son and daughter ten secret guards.

In the Yanguang Dynasty, the Dark Guard Camp naturally became the exclusive property of Emperor Yanguang.

Jia Wang was "favored" since he was a child, and he only got one chance to choose a hidden guard when he was 12 years old. He was still an immature and flawed hidden guard. Jia Wang chose the strongest among a group of people who were about his age at that time. I named that person 'Song Nian', hoping that this person's life would be tougher.

Until now, King Jia didn't know if there was anyone beside the prince who came out of the dark guard camp besides him.

"Not from the Dark Guard Camp." Mo Yao habitually answered other people's questions and answers, and found that King Jia was staring at him and refused to look away. He thought hard for a while before hesitantly said, "Jin Wu The inner guards are divided into Junwu, Neiwu and Outer Wu, and anyone from the dark guard battalion will enter Neiwu when they come out."

It was the first time King Jia heard such a statement, and asked with great interest, "Junwu is the elite of the capital? What about Waiwu? Who are they?"

If there is a clear question, Mo Yao's answer is more than twice as fast, "In addition to the elite of the capital, Junwu also has people drawn from other guards in Chang'an city defense. The younger brother of the same surname recommended by the Jinwu Guard can act as a foreigner."

"Who owns the Dark Guard Camp now, and how many people are there in the Jinwu Guard?" King Jia asked again.

Mo Yao said without reservation, "The dark guard battalion is in charge of the minister, and there are 660 people in Neiwu."

King Jia smacked his face with his hands, looked at Mo Yao thoughtfully, and asked minutely, "How many people are there in the dark guard camp? How many people are there in Junwu and Waiwu?"

"There are a total of 300 people in the dark guard battalion, 480 soldiers, and [-] outsiders." Mo Yao still had something to answer, and he never thought of hiding it, let alone saying that King Jia didn't. question asked.

King Jia was not surprised that there were more people in the Dark Guards than Neiwu, this only showed the cruelty of the Dark Guards, he was more surprised by the number of Jinwu Guards.

6 people?

If he wanted the throne, he would naturally not care about the Jinwu Guard. There were staff in his house who were responsible for calculating the number of the Jinwu Guard, and he had promised him that there were only 5000 Jinwu Guards at most.

Where are the extra 5000 people?

King Jia had already seen through that it was impossible for Mo Yao to take the initiative to answer the questions that were not asked, so he asked Songnian to move a chair, asked slowly about the Jinwu Guard, and finally got all the answers he wanted to know before dark .

The Jinwu Guards in Chang'an are not all Jinwu Guards, not even half of the total number of Jinwu Guards.

There are only 5000 Jinwu guards guarding the palace all the year round, and most of the rest of the Jinwu guards are in the hidden Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Chang'an.

Every once in a while, the Chang'an Jinwu Guards on both sides and the Jinwu Guards on Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing will exchange some people quietly.

There is a secret passage in the bedroom of Emperor Yanguang in the Chang'an Palace, which leads directly from the palace to Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, so that Emperor Yanguang can join the Jinwu Guard in the suburbs of Beijing at any time.

This time when he came to the Lieshan Palace, Emperor Yanguang only brought more than 2 Jinwu Guards on the bright side, and half of the remaining 3 Jinwu Guards were left in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Chang'an, and the other side was outside the palace, which was the opposite of Chang'an. direction.

When King Jia heard this information, he really didn't know what expression to make. Fortunately, the person in front of him was Mo Yao who didn't know how to look at people's faces, so he simply kept his face expressionless.

He wanted to ask Mo Yao a lot, but felt it was unnecessary.

Ask Mo Yao why he didn't tell him that there are more than 1 Jinwu Guards on the other side of the Hunting Mountain Palace?

If he had known about the existence of those people, he would never have allowed Mo Yao to divide the Jinwu guards in the palace halfway to explore the path that King Li and Jiang's family had walked. The Jinwu guards on the other side of the palace would just come in handy.

He is still young, so he doesn't think about the way to escape like an old father wherever he goes.

In this way, there is a great probability that the shock of last night can be avoided, at least the Jinwu Guard will not sneak away in the middle of the night like the servants of various families, giving the palace people a great opportunity to assassinate.

Without actually asking, King Jia could think of Mo Yao's answer.

Mo Yao would definitely tell him 'Your Majesty didn't ask'.

The sudden accident did not disrupt King Jia's plan to carry the coffin back to Chang'an.

Before dawn, Ji Xinxue, who had been groggy all day, was woken up by Yu Heng. Yu Heng personally retreated out of the room after wiping Ji Xinxue's face.

After Ji Xinxue washed and dressed again, Yu Heng entered the door again covered in cold air. He stood at the door and refused to approach Ji Xinxue, fearing that the cold air on his body would make Ji Xinxue uncomfortable.

When Ji Xinxue was tightly wrapped by the cloak, he supported Ji Xinxue's arm and brought Ji Xinxue to the frame where the bike was ready to go.

The imperial physician told the outside world that Ji Xinxue's situation was extremely serious, so that Ji Xinxue was exempted from participating in the ceremony of raising the spirit of Emperor Yanguang, and just waited in the carriage to return to Chang'an.

"Go back quickly, cough, cough, don't, don't miss it." Ji Xinxue finished this sentence with difficulty holding back her cough, and couldn't help but turn her back to cough.

Hesitation appeared on Yu Heng's face.

He knew that such an occasion should not be absent, but...

After Ji Xinxue stopped coughing, she immediately turned around, stretched out her hands and pushed Yu Heng's shoulders, "Go, I'm going to be angry."

"I'm leaving now." Yu Heng grabbed Ji Xinxue's arm and pushed it on Ji Xinxue's leg, "You better sit in the innermost position, so as not to be blown by the cold wind."

Seeing Ji Xinxue nodding, Yu Heng lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage, and returned to the mourning hall to participate in the process of raising the spirit.

Ji Xinxue drank a pot of warm water to moisten his throat and took the pills Yu Heng gave him in his mouth. His burning throat finally felt more comfortable.

He closed his eyes and leaned against the cushion, recalling every bit of what happened yesterday.

Because the temporary gatekeepers of the courtyards ran away lazily, he, Yan Xiaoniang and others lost their way not far from the mourning hall, and gradually moved away from the mourning hall.

Then they met three weird palace people. These three palace people didn't show much concern for them at first, until Tangyuan said 'Master Ningshu County', these three palace people immediately showed their malice.

Ji Xinxue didn't want to think about the painful feelings during the escape, he clenched his folded hands and recalled the few words he had exchanged with the assassin.

There seems to be something wrong with the assassin's mind. It's the kind of problem that can't be said to be abnormal, but it can't be regarded as normal.

The person who gave him this feeling last time was the palace man who made the county lord Cheng'an angry.

He carefully analyzed what the assassin had said.

'Ji Xinxue is not the highest executive level, if there is a higher executive level, Ji Xinxue can be suspended. '

Higher Execution Levels...

When he suggested that he could trick Ji Jingyu out, the assassin who was even less intelligent hesitated.

Ji Jingyu must be at a higher executive level than him.

And when he casually talked nonsense at the critical moment of life and death, he could tell the assassin who the illegitimate son of Emperor Yanguang was, but the assassin also hesitated.

Is it because the assassin really thinks that Emperor Yanguang has an illegitimate child and just doesn't know who the illegitimate child is, or is it that the assassin or the people behind the assassin are very concerned about Emperor Yanguang's... successor?

Whether in terms of probability or intuition, Ji Xinxue felt that the second conjecture might be more reliable.

And why is the assassin so sure that Miss Yan is the head of Ningshu County?

When the assassin first met them, he didn't make a move immediately but stopped and watched, obviously he didn't know County Lord Ningshu.

Ji Xinxue thought that the assassin would kill everyone except Tangyuan with the principle that he would rather kill by mistake than let go.

However, the assassin let Tangyuan go, but sent someone to chase after Bijuan.

When he and Miss Yan had nowhere to escape, the assassins firmly believed that Miss Yan was the head of Ningshu County, and allowed him to escape when the Jinwu Guard approached and time was running out.

After thinking about it, there is a weirdness everywhere.

Until the wake-up ceremony was over, and Ji Mingtong threw himself on him with red eyes, Ji Xinxue still couldn't figure out the logic behind it.

The journey of the Fuling convoy back to Chang'an was very fast, even faster than when they came to the palace from Chang'an.

King Jia could still hold his breath, but Sikong and Situ couldn't wait to remind King Jia 'you can hurry up' every now and then.

Perhaps because of the influence of Sikong and Situ's emotions, eagerness appeared on the faces of people who were not very anxious at first, and even Qinghe County King specifically asked the Qinghe County Prince's son to tell Jia Wang that "later changes will happen".

King Jia complied with the wishes of the courtiers and ordered the Jinwu Guard to speed up.

Ji Xinxue was still squeezed into the same carriage with Ji Minyan, Ji Jingrou, Ji Mingtong and Ji Baoshan, and was almost shaken out of motion sickness, but no one showed signs of fatigue.

The closer they are to Chang'an, the more obvious the excitement and anticipation on their faces.

During the period, King Jia considered that Ji Xinxue might not be able to bear it. He visited Ji Xinxue at night when the team was repairing, and wanted to leave the Jinwu Guard and the empty carriage for Ji Xinxue so that Ji Xinxue could rush to Chang'an slowly. He also raised his eyebrows. You can let Yu Heng and Ji Minyan accompany Ji Xinxue to walk slowly.

Ji Xinxue rejected Jiawang's proposal without hesitation.

He wanted to know the news of King Jia's enthronement as soon as possible, and it was best to see King Jia's enthronement ceremony with his own eyes.

After the first night's rest, Ji Xinxue's mental state improved at a speed visible to the naked eye. He had already told Jia Wang all the mysteries about the assassin, and asked Jia Wang to promise him that when he had more news about the assassin, he would not hide it. with him.

The biggest thing now is to go back to Chang'an and watch King Jia ascend the throne with his own eyes!

His father is going to be the emperor, and he is the princess!

No longer have to worry about being caught as medicine!

When it was only two hours away from Chang'an, dust suddenly flew in front of the convoy.

It was King Li and Jiang's family who had been living under the city of Chang'an for several days. The courtiers who followed King Li and Jiang's family to leave the Lieshan Palace overnight were also among them.

Both sides stopped at the same time and looked at each other from a distance, neither of them was willing to speak first.