auspicious time has come

Actually, she did it.

Looking at that young face, Heng Yu read out his name——

"Wang Ming."

The man in black, who had hardly any expression on his face, suddenly changed his expression, staring at Hengyu with wide eyes.

"So that's how it is..." Heng Yu looked at him: "It turns out that those people who disappeared after escaping military service in the North were secretly recruited as dead soldiers."

The military service case in Yingzhou that was dug up by Mrs. Miao "Kefu" before, after finding out that Wang Ming and others were robbed, they cut off the clues. Unexpectedly, there was an answer here and now.

Xiao Mu also looked at that person.

For these dead men who have lived in the dark all year round and have been turned into cold tools that only know how to kill by unimaginable means, and who can't even have a name, a name that bears the past can make the other party rediscover Relying on "returning to a human being".

"Your grandmother is still waiting for you to go back—if you confess truthfully, I will make the decision to save your life and allow you to go home and reunite with her." Xiao Mu promised.

The mouth of the dead is the most difficult to pry open, but the "living" is different from the dead.

Wang Ming's eyes repeated violently upon hearing this.

"Send it to Dali Temple." Xiao Mu confessed to Wang Jingyong: "You send it yourself, and you must keep alive."

Beware of the possibility that the other party sends someone to intercept and kill the mouth halfway.

Wang Jingyong responded sternly, ordered several confidants, and escorted the three dead men to Dali Temple.

The fire in the alley had been extinguished, and amid the thick smoke, Ji Nanxian walked in with a somewhat vain footstep.

The faces of those scorched black corpses could not be discerned at all, and they could only barely identify their identities from the jade crowns used to bind their hair.

Beside a charred corpse, Ji Nanxian knelt down tremblingly with red eyes.

The pale-faced Nanya Shaoyin and others also knelt down one after another.

Xiao Mu walked over and looked at the corpse with the jade crown and hair, silently sizing it up inch by inch from head to toe.

The dignitaries in the workshop rushed to hear the news, crying all around.

Amidst these cries, Heng Yu gradually calmed down looking at the back of the only standing figure in the alley.

"What happened?"

A familiar voice came, full of tension and anxiety.

Heng Yu, who was being supported by Cuihuai, turned her head to look.

It was Qizhen who came over with the servants of the eldest princess mansion to inquire about the situation. Seeing Hengyu's appearance, her eyes tightened slightly: "Miss Heng is injured?"

Hengyu looked at her: "His Royal Highness was assassinated and burned here, so can Aunt Qizhen care about my injury?"

Qizhen's complexion changed: "It really happened to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?!"

Surprised but not afraid, flustered but not flustered—Heng Yu looked at her quietly, but she still couldn't see any flaws on her face.

In the past, she only felt that Aunt Qizhen had a cold temperament, was unsmiling, and was neither humble nor overbearing in front of anyone. Such a person must be the one who disdains hypocrisy and pretends in front of others——

Hengyu didn't say anything, turned around supported by Cuihuai, and left here slowly.

It is meaningless to ask stupid questions in public at this time.

Looking at the back of the dress that was slowly leaving with blood stains on it, Qi Zhen's eyes were complicated.

Soon people came from the palace.

After checking by Xiao Mu's subordinates, there were 12 palace people who died this time, including the "Prince", and thirteen bodies were found. After checking with the number of people who left the palace this time, there were quite a few of them.

The thick smoke seemed to cover the scorching sun, and dark clouds gathered from nowhere, covering the capital.

Only two days after the emperor's funeral, the crown prince was openly murdered and burned by assassins in the imperial city——

As a result, the ownerless court fell into chaos, the voices of sorrow, anger and mourning were endless, the various factions were secretly fighting, and the voices of mutual suspicion and crusade were also endless.

Even if the court is like this, the situation among the people is even more difficult to control.

At the beginning of the emperor's death, the majestic prince was killed in the city, and the assassin's methods were ruthless. The fire in the alley, which was quite shocking, burned not only the prince's life, but also the court's prestige in the hearts of the people.

The next day, Xiao Mu turned back from the palace, and when he was riding slowly through the long street, a few people saw someone passing by on horseback, and they were frightened and ran away in a hurry, lest they would cause disaster.

Looking at the shops and restaurants on both sides of the street, it was also very deserted.

When the emperor passed away, the soldiers and civilians had to pick off their crowns and tassels, wear plain onyx, and all the marriages and pleasures stopped. This time, the prince was assassinated again, and most of the ordinary street shops in the city were closed.

Yin Hai sighed: "In just a short period of time, the hearts of the world have become like this... The way the people behind this play chess really has no mercy for the world..."

Xiao Mu's face was serious, he shouted "drive", and drove his horse away from this gloomy place.

……

"Girl, today...are we still going out to Yan's pawn shop?"

Seeing the young girl who has been sitting by the window in a daze since early in the morning, Cuihuai asked softly.

The girl shook her head slightly: "I won't go."

No need to go.

In the short three days she agreed with Yan Min, first the emperor passed away, then the prince was killed, so many earth-shattering events happened in succession, for Yan Min, the best time has come.

At such a juncture, there is no need for her and Xiao Mu to look for him, it is his turn to see Xiao Mu in a hurry.

"It's fine if you don't go out, there are not a few people who take the opportunity to make trouble outside..." Gu Tingnan who was on the side said, "You are injured, so you can rest at home in the next few days."

Ning Yu also said softly: "Miss Gu is right... It is not appropriate to enter the palace again these days, so take care of your wounds."

Speaking of recuperating, Heng Yu asked, "How is Uncle Ping doing today?"

Cheng Ping was seriously injured yesterday, and he was sent to the hospital in time to save his life. He fell into a coma and did not wake up until night.

Seeing that he woke up safely, Heng Yu, who had been standing by the side all the time, went back to the courtyard to rest.

"I can bring in some light things. Before that, I asked in a daze, 'Is there any wine'... Both my grandmother and my elder brother went to see it in person this morning. There are servants who will take care of me personally, so you can rest assured."

Heng Yu nodded slightly, and looked out of the window again.

Seeing her like this, Ning Yu and Gu Tingnan looked at each other, and left the inner room after a while.

Cui Huai also followed out under the gesture of the two people's eyes.

"Why do I feel that something is wrong with Ah Heng? It doesn't look like he was frightened by the murder of the prince..." Gu Tingnan said in a low voice in the corridor.

Ning Yu asked Cui Huai carefully about the details of what happened yesterday.

"... When leaving the palace, the girl got a note left by the envoy Xiao in the carriage, and then continued to rush to the eldest princess's mansion. The girl and the gentleman hurried to check, and told the servant girl to go to the government office to ask someone to come to help..."

Cuihuai roughly said: "Later, when the servant girl came back, she saw that the girl was injured, His Royal Highness had an accident, and Jieshi Xiao was also present, but the girl never said a word to Jieshi Xiao from the beginning to the end."

"Then...couldn't it be because of Xiao Jie's attitude of being close and distant?" Ning Yu guessed.

"Impossible?" Gu Tingnan subconsciously said: "Zuo Zuo is just a man, he was the one who said he wanted to break up with Ah Heng before, Ah Heng has always been able to afford it, how could he be so distraught because of this matter? "

"But...that's Jieshi Xiao." Ning Yu whispered euphemistically: "It's not an ordinary man..."

Gu Tingnan choked when he heard the words, thought for a moment, and had to admit: "Xiaohou's beauty...it's true...it's hard to let go."

The "quite handsome" Xiaohou had just dismounted outside Dingbeihou's mansion.

But as soon as the front foot returned to the mansion, before he had time to go to the inner courtyard, he heard a message from his subordinates: "General, there is a gentleman who came to ask for an audience. He claimed that his surname was Yan and his name was Jin."

Xiao Mu paused slightly.

"Please meet in the study."

Outside the rear window of the outer study of the Dingbeihou Mansion, there is a bamboo forest.

In the alternating seasons of spring and summer, bamboo leaves are green and dense, and the rustling sound of the wind blowing by seems to soothe all dryness.

When Yan Ming was invited into the study, what he saw was the back of a young man standing by the window.

The absurd idea that flashed through his mind before, and was immediately brushed away by him, and he didn't dare to think about it at all, at this moment reappeared in his mind uncontrollably——

Yan Ming expended a lot of effort to temporarily drive away that thought again, with a smile as usual on his face, and raised his hand in salute: "Xiao Hou, we finally meet again."

The door of the study was closed behind him, and Xiao Mu turned around: "Dong Yan's family is finally willing to show up."

"The time has come, we should meet as promised." Yan Ming smiled: "I didn't wait for Ah Heng in the first half of the day, so I had no choice but to look for Xiao Jieshi. This time Yan came to visit alone, and the sincerity in this is enough. The moon can be used as a lesson, and I hope that the envoy Xiao Jie will not do what he did in Qianyingzhou again, and wait for Yan to be polite first and then serve—"

"Sit down." Xiao Mu didn't say much, and there was no coldness in his voice that he usually treats others.

Yan Min raised his eyebrows slightly, and the smile in his eyes deepened: "It seems that Xiao Hou has finally figured it out now."

When he sat down, he suppressed his smile and sighed: "If Xiao Hou could see the true face of the court earlier, and if he had agreed to cooperate with Yan earlier when he was in Yingzhou, Madam Xiao would not have died in vain... ..."

In his words, he silently provoked the hatred in Xiao Mu's heart: "Nowadays, the world is in chaos, and there is no master in this world, and everyone can fight with their own skills--and Xiao Hou is already in the game, and he has no one to protect himself If there is no possibility, why not take this opportunity to take the world into your pocket? After that, you will no longer need to hand over your life and the lives of those around you to others."

Xiao Mu's eyes were blank, he just asked: "Since you think that the world is in chaos and everyone can fight, why do you insist on me alone?"

"The most powerful contenders, apart from Lord Hou, are mostly those clan princes." Yan Ming smiled frankly: "The Li family, I don't like it."

While speaking, he tilted his head slightly and picked up the teacup on the small table beside him: "Yan has nothing else to ask for, not even wealth, power and power. What he wants has always been to change his surname in this world."

He picked up the teacup and took a sip, praised "good tea", and said in a chatty way: "It's such an interesting story, why don't you invite Xiao Shiqi to discuss it in detail? Speaking of which, she promised me that today she would talk about an old story Listen to me."

Xiao Mu looked at him: "This old matter, it's the same for me."

Yan Ming couldn't help but look up at him.