The boudoir was quiet, but suddenly there was a cry.
Xia Chengyi woke up from his dream. He was confused in the darkness. In a panic, he stretched out his hand to hold on to the cold and hard mast beside him. He couldn't help himself anymore and began to cry bitterly.
The night is about to die, the morning has not yet come, everything is still and still, and it is this mournful cry that pierces the long dead silence of the Jaw Palace...
"Yiyi! Yiyi!" Xia Chengxuan stood up in response, opened the door and rushed out.
Losing one's father as a young man is extremely painful, especially in an imperial family. It had only been four days since the funeral news came, but the family seemed to have gone through several spring and autumn seasons. The younger ones were getting older and the older ones were declining. The roof beams have fallen, and the building may collapse. Xia Chengxuan is sad about the death of his loving father, and also afraid of the confusion ahead, so he has not rested for three nights.
The front leg just sent Mei Yuanchen away, and as soon as the back leg returned to the room, he heard the sad cry of his sister.
"Yiyi! Yiyi!" Xia Chengxuan didn't care about any taboos. He opened the door and sat beside the bed and hugged Xia Chengyi. "Brother is here! Brother is here! Yiyi is not afraid!" He tried his best to restrain his voice, but Couldn't stop the tears.
This is heartache... I want to protect you, but I can't.
This is resentment...what I should have had has been taken away from me.
"Brother!" Xia Chengyi clutched Xia Chengxuan's sleeves like a life-saving straw and cried, "Where is my father? Brother, is my father really gone? I don't believe it... I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
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In order to make it easier for carriages and horses to travel, the streets in the capital were wide and flat. According to the Ministry of Industry's writings: the longitudinal trunk road was twelve feet wide, the horizontal trunk road was ten feet wide, and the roads were all paved with green bricks; the vertical branch roads were eight feet wide, and the horizontal branch roads were wide. Five feet, all paved with mud and gravel, one foot thick.
At this time, the sky had turned a little white, there were not many people on the street, and the roadside stalls were not open. Yi Qilin and the four of them came out of Yufeng Branch and drove their horses quickly along the way. The road is wide, and there is no obstacle for two riders to ride side by side. Yi Qilin and Yun Xiaomeng are in front, Mei Yuanchen and Yi Qingxin are behind. All four riders are strong and running as fast as the wind.
"We have passed Tingpi Street, and we will reach the city gate after walking for more than ten miles. It is still early now, and we have to wait until we reach the city gate, so we should slow down a little." Yi Qilin pulled the reins of the horse, and the man under his seat The black knight realized what he meant and quickly stopped his steps.
Yi Qingxin deliberately lagged behind Yi Qilin and Yun Xiaomeng by more than ten feet. Mei Yuanchen was worried about her safety, so he had to drive slowly with her.
"Brother Yuanchen!" Yi Qingxin smiled sweetly at Mei Yuanchen and called out.
"Huh?" Mei Yuanchen's heart skipped a beat and she smiled awkwardly.
"Haha... you are so stupid!" Yi Qingxin narrowed her eyes and smiled like a bell.
"Ah?" Mei Yuanchen was stunned. No one had ever said he was stupid since he was a child. "Really?"
"Do you want to know what grandpa asked you earlier?" Yi Qingxin asked with a sideways smile.
Yi Qilin asked, but he was distracted and didn't hear. Mei Yuanchen felt quite apologetic and hurriedly replied: "Well, I thought about it. What did Senior Yi ask me?"
"Haha... I won't tell you!" Yi Qingxin laughed loudly, drove her horse quickly, and caught up.
One can reach thousands of miles with long steps, not to mention that without a horse's hooves, the distance to the city gate is only more than ten miles away. The four riders rode slowly. When they arrived at the city gate, the city gate had not yet opened. Many people had gathered at the customs clearance platform, and there was a long queue of people, all waiting to leave the city.
Although Mei Yuanchen had Xia Muchao's token in his arms, he had no intention of using it. He dismounted and lined up at the end of the queue with Yi Qilin and the other three.
After about half a cup of tea, a rough man's voice came from the city gate: "For those outside who are preparing to enter the city, prepare your registration and customs clearance money. The city gate will be opened soon!" People in the capital are usually controlled in and out. Only when important criminals are being pursued, cards will be set up at the exit gate to check the identity of the suspects.
Sure enough, after a few breaths, with a dull "squeak" sound, the city gate opened from the outside to the inside, and a group of guards marched out with guns drawn.
A completely dark place.
Hundreds of black horses, with hundreds of men in black riding on their backs, all stood quietly.
The person in charge of the customs clearance platform was a captain in charge of the capital's imperial palace. However, on ordinary days, it was his assistant officer who was in charge of opening and closing the city gates, a fat man with a short beard.
"Who are you? What are you doing in the city?" Seeing these hundreds of people wearing black clothes and armed with swords, the official man naturally became suspicious and led a group of people to come forward for questioning. Behind him, hundreds of garrison soldiers slowly approached, and even the antler trees were unknowingly placed on the rack.
The garrison at the customs clearance station inspects the past all year round. Not only are they sharper than ordinary people, but they also have much more knowledge. There is no reason not to be wary when seeing this battle.
At this time, one of the men in black jumped down from his horse, walked up to the officer, bowed slightly, took out a badge to show him, and whispered a few words in his ear.
Although Mei Yuanchen had a good ear, she couldn't hear clearly what he said.
"There's something weird!" Yun Xiaomeng approached Yi Qilin and said softly.
Yi Qilinu looked at the group of men in black and said solemnly: "These people are from Xiangyang County."
"Oh?" Yun Xiaomeng asked with eyes wide open, "How can you see that?"
"Look, those black horses are all short and strong. They should be the Xiangyang (*) horses unique to Xiangyang County on the west coast of Honghai. This kind of (*) horses are extremely rare in other places, let alone so many of them!" Yi Qilin He replied softly. He has been a escort for more than 20 years, where has he not been? In terms of knowledge, few people in the world can compare with him.
"Look at how these people are dressed. They don't look like officers and soldiers, nor do they look like people from any Jianghu sect. They look a bit like the Killer Hall of the Nine Halls." Yun Xiaomeng looked outside the city gate and whispered to Yi Qilin.
While the two of them were talking, the group of men in black had already ridden through the city gate.
"Suddenly hundreds of people came here. Look at their appearance. They are all fierce and fierce. They are obviously members of the Lian family. If someone uses them to deal with Prince Jaw's Mansion, then... that would be really unthinkable!" Mei Yuanchen thought more and more. He was anxious and could no longer calm down. He walked to Yi Qilin and Yun Xiaomeng and called them softly, "Senior Yi, Palace Master Yun, why don't you go ahead? I have something urgent to leave for a while. I'll come back as soon as the matter is done." Looking for you."
Yi Qilin glanced at Yun Xiaomeng, saw her nodding, and replied: "It doesn't matter, let's go! These people are not weak in martial arts. If they want to do evil, it is really difficult to resist them. If the Jaw Palace gets the message first, they can prepare in advance. , we are no longer afraid of them. We will practice officialdom all the way. If you come here, you will definitely meet us." Xia Muchao was killed in Anxian, which means that there must be a very powerful opponent in Prince Jia's palace. Yi Qilin knew that Mei Yuanchen was worried Those men in black will deal with Prince Jaw's Mansion, so they won't stop them.
Seeing that the men in black had left, Mei Yuanchen was a little anxious. He said "yes" and jumped on the horse's back to follow them.
"Brother Yuanchen, be careful!" Looking at his retreating figure, Yi Qingxin said to herself with worry on her face.
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"Duanmuchong, what nonsense are you talking about! Go to the west of the city and see the 21 mass graves! Go there at night and listen to the wails of the dead! If you don't avenge this, how can you be worthy of this body? Military armor? If you don't kill Xia Chengcan, how can you be worthy of the 210,000 people who died in vain?" Mu Danqing pointed at Duanmu Chong's nose and cursed, his eyes cracked.
