Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 876 Brothers
"Tell me, what's going on?"

Standing by the long-lost palace window, blowing the sea breeze, the elder brother's cold voice came from behind Zhao Guang.

Zhao Guang looked back and was about to kneel down, Zhao Muren glanced at him coldly, "Come on, it's just the two of us, don't pretend, think about how to explain it."

Zhao Guang smiled wryly when he heard the words, and looked around the deep palaces.The name of this place is Hanzhang Palace, and it is the study room in the depths of the Soochow Palace, which belongs to the Soochow King. Many gray memories of his childhood happened here, until his elder brother inherited the study after his father died. .

Zhao Muren abandoned all the servants, and now there are only two brothers in the whole palace.Of course, as a king, he has special secret guards, and he doesn't know where he is ambush now, even if Zhao Guang knew it with his ability, he would not be able to detect it.

The hall of Hanzhang was extremely quiet, only the elder brother's deep eyes.Although he knew that he hadn't committed any serious crimes, Zhao Guang was still unavoidably apprehensive seeing such a battle.

He has been running outside since he was 12 years old, and he rarely comes back from Soochow.

Zhao Guang has not been alone with Zhao Muren in this study for nearly four or five years.And looking at Zhao Muren's posture, he was planning to take advantage of that person's absence to deal with him.

"What? I think you have a loud voice outside the city gate," said Zhao Muren with a sneer as he looked at his younger brother who kept glancing outside the gate, "Why are you dumb now?"

Hearing that Zhao Muren even changed his name, Zhao Guang was not overwhelmed by flattery, but became even more scalp-numbed, "I don't know what brother Wang wants to ask? If the city gate is damaged, I am willing to use my salary to pay for it..."

"Your salary will be deducted until next year." Zhao Muren stared at the person in front of him playfully, "Didn't the news from Southern Chu say that you came back from the official road with the guards?"

Zhao Guang, who lied before, turned pale, because he was worried that his deep-minded elder brother would become interested in the former Qin princess, and he did not inform Zhao Muren in advance of returning to Soochow with Ying Baoyue and others.In fact, according to his prediction, no matter who he arrived in Ruyang with, no one would notice when he entered the city quietly. Even if Zhao Muren asked on a whim, he could be said to have met him outside the city.

As a result of today's battle...

Not to mention entering the city quietly, the movement of the former Qin girl entering the city can be said to have seen no ancients before and no comers after.

They smashed a city gate of Soochow straight to the ground.

And that's not all that happened to her.

Zhao Muren looked at the letter in his hand that had been delivered by a pigeon from Weicheng fifteen minutes ago, his eyes were like ice, "Very good, not only did he crash into the city gate, but also a city guard died in Weicheng."

"Not only did you not go on the official road, you were with the former Qin princess today, and you rushed into Ruyang with a group of killers from Weicheng." Zhao Muren looked at the pale-faced young man in front of him every time he said, "We Duke Tangling, can you explain it?"

Now that I know that I can't hide everything from my elder brother, and I also have doubts about the group of killers who are chasing after them, looking into Zhao Muren's eyes, Zhao Guang swallowed his saliva and sat them down. The carriage of the Mid-Tang Dynasty departed from Danyang in Southern Chu, lost contact with Ying Baoyue via the Cloud Forest, fled to Weicheng, and rushed all the way to Ruyang.

This time, it was Zhao Muren who had a bad face.Every time Zhao Guang said something, the young overlord of Soochow Wu's complexion became more and more ugly.

Zhao Guang carefully described the dress and actions of the men in black he saw, then gritted his teeth and looked at Zhao Muren, "Brother Wang, do you know who these people are?"

He is engaged in intelligence, and he knows that the few words he provided are not detailed enough, so they can only be regarded as speculation.But he knew that the brother in front of him, who was 13 years older than him, knew that there was far more privacy in the Shanhai Continent than he did.

"This group of people... I seem to have seen similar people when I followed the former Qin princess to Danyang in Nanchu before." Zhao Guang looked at his brother's face, "but this time I feel that people are a little different, and they act more arrogantly. some."

Although the incident this time was aimed at the former Qin princess, it was far more ferocious than when Ying Baoyue was chased and killed in Southern Chu. Not only was he chasing someone on the official road of the Eastern Wu, but he was also suspected of assassinating the official of the Eastern Wu.

"I have a few guesses," Zhao Muren glanced at his younger brother lightly, "but I can't tell you until the matter is confirmed."

"Besides..." Zhao Muren looked at the report in his hand with deep eyes, "The group of people withdrew too quickly, and the imperial army I sent to chase didn't even catch a single wolf hair."

"It's the same over Weicheng. During the death of the city guard of Weicheng, only the guards around him saw a person suspected of pretending to be the chief follower of the city guard from the beginning to the end. Neither the murder weapon nor the poison was found, let alone the murderer."

"Those killers were all masked. When did they sneak in? The captain of the city gate who survived Weicheng pleaded guilty to me, saying that he didn't find out. The records of the interrogation of the city a few days ago disappeared for no reason. Originally, the city guard of Weicheng I am investigating this matter, but the people around me didn't hear the result and the city guard died, leaving nothing behind."

"As for what happened in the cloud forest..."

Zhao Muren didn't finish speaking, but Zhao Guang already understood.

There is no way to find out what happened in the cloud forest.

Listening to his brother's straightforward narration, a drop of cold sweat dripped from Zhao Guang's forehead.He almost understood it now.

Although those men in black acted more arrogantly than in Southern Chu, their ability to destroy corpses and traces was greater than in Southern Chu.

It looks wild, but it is actually watertight.

And being able to clean up the traces so clean also shows a problem.

That is their officialdom in Soochow, and there are ghosts inside.

Zhao Guang watched Zhao Muren open his mouth, but felt that he had nothing to say.Because of what he could think of, Zhao Muren probably already knew it well.

The face of the tall man in front of him was as heavy as water, and Zhao Guang felt that he would never be able to guess what this lonely man was thinking.

"I will send new city guards over to Wei City, but Ruyang City has been in chaos recently, and there are not so many practitioners in the court to send out," Zhao Muren said lightly, "I have strengthened the guards in Ruyang, Now that you’re back, don’t go out anytime soon, it’s safe to stay in the city obediently.”

Hearing these words, Zhao Guang had an ominous premonition that the storm was about to come. When he heard the disturbance in Ruyang City, he shrank his pupils and looked up to his elder brother, who was about to ask, "Brother Wang, I heard that the capital city is the nearest..."

But before he could finish speaking, Zhao Muren interrupted his question.

"I heard that one of the people chasing and killing you was a practitioner who was at least at the fourth level." The man looked him up and down sharply, "How did you group of fifth and sixth level practitioners escape from that master? "

Zhao Guang felt his scalp tingle, knowing that there was something he couldn't hide.

"Alright, stop pretending," Zhao Muren said flatly, "I know he's here."

"Do you know? Zhao Guang, your crimes along the way are enough for the widow to give you thirty punishments." The man deliberately increased his voice, and his cold voice echoed in the palace.

Zhao Guang's legs trembled, and he looked at his elder brother in disbelief.But the man looked at the threshold behind Zhao Guang, his eyes darkened, "Are you finally willing to come out?"

Zhao Guang's eyes froze, he realized something, and suddenly turned around to look behind him.

The man wearing a bronze mask and putting on sacrificial attire quietly stepped into the threshold, raised his dark eyes to look at the young king standing above him.

"Long time no see," Zhao Muren stared into his eyes with a complicated expression.

"You're back."

(End of this chapter)