When the evening drum beats at three o'clock in Xushi, it is counted as a curfew.

No matter how prosperous the capital is, the streets are also empty and quiet at night.

Xiao Huangmen folded the letter carefully, put it in his bosom, and poked it out from the North Tuen Gate of Nangong.

The guard Tiqi saw the familiar face, nodded slightly, let him out of the palace gate without seeing him, and then continued to patrol with a gun.

Go out from the side gate on the north side of the Nangong Palace, cross the red bridge in the city to the north, and then go east for a while, until you reach the fork of the avenue in the city, you can see the tall and majestic Middle East Gate from here.

After the first watch, there was no one in the city, only the cuckoo's chirping could be heard, and the night was dim, except for the bright torches burning at the East Gate, which caused Song Heng to look back.

There was silence.

Go north and turn west from Pianlu intersection, which is the agreed meeting place.After the letter is sent back, when you pass by here to look at the East Gate, it is usually the brightest time here—the guards on duty are exchanged in the second half of the night. If you can’t see the way clearly during the handover, you will light two more fires, which can also disperse the front. Tiredness in the middle of the night is also Song Heng's favorite time.

However, today he might not be able to see the handover of the East Gate as he wished.

Since Guanghe's seventh year of Qingliu's death, the prestige of the regular servants has declined greatly. Fortunately, Song Heng and his godfather Song Dian survived, but since then they have had an extra job of "informant".

His godfather served around the emperor, and what he heard that could be said but not made public was filled into the towel in detail, and then sent out by his little yellow door.

The place where the meeting was discussed was very remote, and the person who handed over was a young woman dressed as a maid.Song Heng has been doing this for four or five years, and the connector has never changed, and it will probably continue to be like this in the future.

... tonight may be the only exception.

Usually the connectors from Yongheli are slower than him, and they will arrive in about a quarter of an hour. Song Hengben is also used to this, so when he walked into the alley with his head down, he looked up and saw someone immediately At this time, I couldn't help but "click" in my heart.

—Has the secret been leaked?

He involuntarily took two steps back, just as he was looking for a chance to escape, he suddenly heard the person under the shadow speak slowly:

"Song Dian's people?"

"..."

Although the voice was deliberately lowered, it was still recognizable as the voice of a girl.Song Heng was startled, and then he saw the other person clearly: it turned out to be a young girl of modest stature.

When the girl raised her eyes, her pupils were slightly green, unreasonably reminiscent of wolves, tigers and beasts in the woods, with a somewhat fierce look in her eyes.Song Heng was shocked, and immediately replied:

"Yes, I am Song Heng."

After he finished speaking, he was taken aback for a moment, and at this moment he wanted to slap himself - no one else asked, he first reported his family background, if the other party really came to investigate, it would be a game over!

The other party didn't seem to notice his annoyance. Hearing this, he nodded and spread a hand to him: "Letter."

"You're not..." He faltered.

Song Dian never told him the whereabouts of the letter, and the woman he handed over to never mentioned his identity. Although he could guess the general class from the other party's clothes, but in detail, he really didn't know which nobleman he was acting for. work.

Letters cannot be given indiscriminately, so he had no choice but to say: "You are not the one I should give to."

Unexpectedly, the other party laughed instead, and seemed to nod his head in satisfaction. This time, he finally raised his eyelids and looked straight at him.The girl first took out a letter from her sleeve: "After a while, the person who takes the letter will come, so you give this to her and say it is from her master."

She acted too naturally, as if it should be taken for granted, Song Heng had no choice but to accept the letter.

Immediately afterwards, she instructed Song Heng who didn't know why: "Give me the letter. When you go back, describe it to Song Dian, or talk to your handover later, they will naturally know."

"What the hell are you-"

The other party interrupted him: "I am where the letter is going."

Song Heng hesitated again and again, met those strangely colored pupils several times, and finally retreated, silently took out the letter from his arms, and handed it to the other party.

He glanced at the scabbard sword on the girl's waist, and found that it was still shining with a cold silver light, thinking:

"I'm sorry. She brought a sword. I really don't dare... If I send it to the wrong person, don't blame me. After all, my life is important."

It can be seen that the eunuch burned Situ's mansion back then and suffered a crushing defeat. There are also traces to follow. After all, there was no Qingliu in front of the Beigong gate back then who said "Little life is important".

Qin Chu had no objection to this. He took the letter and stuffed it into his sleeve without even looking at it. He walked straight past Song Heng and walked in another direction.

Luoyang Street leads in all directions, Qin Chu's figure quickly disappeared from Song Heng's sight, Xiao Huangmen tremblingly wiped his forehead, his hands were covered with cold sweat.

Luoyang has not been very peaceful recently... Could it be the reason for the death of the first emperor?

……

After all, Qin Chu is a person with gold fingers, and his scabies disease will be cured in a short time. After resting in the tent for half a day, his physical condition has returned to its peak.

It just so happened that this day was the end of the month, and the delivery time agreed with the eunuch was at midnight, so she simply took the letter back to the camp first, and left a handwritten letter to inform Qin Miao of the matter, letting her act according to circumstances.

No matter how many years Song Dian stayed in the deep palace, not to mention covering the sky with one hand, his eyes and ears must also be there.In this troubled time, the information he gave was absolutely crucial to Qin Chujun who had just returned to Luoyang.

Qin Chu lowered his head, and went through all the major events that happened recently in his mind, and his thoughts flew away again.

First of all, when the first emperor passed away, the young emperor Liu Bian managed to find her, and issued an ambiguous secret order to let her return to Beijing.Immediately afterwards, He Jin's secret letter was also sent to her, which meant the same thing, asking her to bring troops back to Luoyang to "support the young emperor".

Also on the same day, Dong Zhuo came to her again, hoping to form an alliance with her, euphemistically calling it "mutual support"... It seems that in Luoyang City, the minds of all parties are not simple.

They were stationed in the outskirts of Beijing, and it was their limit to detain the courier for two days. The news that she brought the troops back had already spread in Luoyang, and tomorrow was the time to enter the city.

Suddenly, her right shoulder seemed to be scratched, and she didn't know what hit it.Her heart tightened, she immediately came back to her senses, put all guesses behind her, raised her head and fixed her eyes, only to find that it was a man dressed as a military officer.

It was pitch black at night, and Qin Chu could only see the general figure of this person. He was holding a long halberd in his hand. He was tall and strong.

During curfew, who else is there besides Zhi Jinwu, who is patrolling?

The night ban in the Han Dynasty was strict, and going out at night was a crime of "committing the night". Some eunuchs' relatives blatantly violated the ban and no one dared to lack it, and some high-ranking people ran into the wall because of this. This thing can be big or small, depending on whether others are willing to take it lightly Take it easy.

In the face of a major event, if she is found guilty of committing crimes at night and gives someone a reason for nothing, that's not her style.

Qin Chu made a decisive decision, walked around behind this person, and gave him a hard push. Just as he was about to strike with a knife, he realized——

Didn't push? !

The man was probably confused by her sudden slap, and he resisted completely instinctively, and seemed to become more and more excited as he fought, and he had already used his weapon in the blink of an eye, and he had a tendency to execute her on the spot and escort her to the government.

"Huh? Interesting." The military officer snorted, "Who are you?"

Since when did Luoyang have Zhi Jinwu who can fight so well?

Qin Chu gritted his teeth, knowing that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he simply ignored the other party's question and stepped forward with his sword drawn.However, after the other party reacted, his movements became more and more agile, and the iron halberd swung horizontally, as if there must be a big commotion.

She only brought this saber, and she backed up and blocked it. She was unable to parry for a while, so she simply shook the system awake in her mind:

"Get up and work!"

The system got up in a daze: "Huh?"

"Turn into a rock and knock him out, quick!"

As soon as the system heard her tone, it immediately woke up for seven or eight minutes, and called up the backstage to start operating.

There was a "pop" sound from behind, followed by the man's muffled groan in pain. The system gasped after hearing this: "Qin Chu, is he alright?"

"It depends on how big a stone you throw," Qin Chu said while running, and walked around Buguangli for half a circle before finding the way he came. "But the guard looks solid, so it shouldn't be a serious problem."

System: "..." I believed it.

It's obviously just a trivial matter that Fang Ye was almost caught. The so-called "doing extraordinary things at extraordinary times" smashed Zhi Jinwu's head because he chased after him. Qin Chu thought that he was still law-abiding, at most That is to say, "If anyone offends me, I will offend him", so he took Song Dian's letter back to the barracks with great peace of mind, and slowly spread it out on the table.

The letter was folded messily, and the sender didn't dare to flip through it randomly, so he left it in such an untidy condition and delivered it to her.

Qin Chu frowned, and pieced together the small script on the letter word by word:

"He Jin... Beigong... Chang Shi..."

Song Dian's handwriting was messy, some words and sentences were deliberately blurred, and only the key words were written, but the general direction was the same as what Qin Chu had guessed.

He Jin was still hesitating whether to punish the eunuch, but the regular attendants had already noticed it: the general was ready to move, and the eunuch was also impatient, and both sides were at odds. The current peace was due to the mediation of the Empress Dowager He—but this could be possible. Is it a long-term solution?

This scene was so familiar that Qin Chu almost laughed out loud as he rubbed the soft lettercloth with his thumb.

When she was eight years old, the marriage was teased by the aristocratic family for a long time. In the end, as they wished, half of the eunuchs went away; Another batch of court officials was changed.

If a dynasty does not make drastic reforms and pull out Shen Ke with its head and eyes closed, then the contradictions of class and party will always exist, no matter what kind of individuals they are, they will eventually become simple "gentry and imperial power".

The aristocratic families promoted He Jin, and the eunuch became the emperor's spokesperson.

And she received letters from both parties at the same time.

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