"..."
The "old man" didn't speak, he turned around and closed the back kitchen door tightly, and walked in by himself.
This time there was no one in the room at all, the two stood up slightly, moved their ears, and listened carefully.
"Then why are you back?"
Their hearing is better than ordinary people, and they can naturally hear the following conversations clearly.
"It's Chen... Bah, it's Mo Jinyao, he said to leave someone behind to talk to you."
"Say? Say what?"
"He said he was waiting for you in Shengjing, let you... let you..."
"Say, what did you say?"
"Let you not be a shrinking turtle."
"Mo Jinyao, you bastard, I will definitely tear you to pieces! Just wait!"
The voice of the back kitchen was quiet for a long time, and the air seemed to freeze. "
After a long time, the voice sounded again.
"How did you get out of town?"
"Me? I bumped into an unlucky ghost under the city wall, and he fell off."
"What did you say!"
This time, the voice of the person on the other side not only raised a pitch, but the voice of the whole person turned into a scream.
"Stupid thing, go out and see if you are being followed!"
The hidden guard who was listening to the corner sensed that something was wrong. Although he didn't see what this person looked like, he was definitely not a sage when he heard the voice.
It's just that they couldn't listen anymore, the two of them had disappeared long ago when the kitchen staff rushed out, and there were only two bowls of steaming tea left in place.
"!"
The old man who came out first looked at the two cups of tea and finally came to his senses.
These two people are not ordinary people, they are clearly the people around Mo Jinyao!
"They must not have run far, hurry up and chase after me!"
"yes!"
So in the next period of time, there was a swishing sound in the woods, and accompanied by the screaming of the birds in the woods, there was a sound of exasperation.
"Stop! Don't run!"
The guards who were shuttling through the trees in front wanted to roll their eyes at them.
They are not sick, will they stop if he calls them to stop
On the other side, in the simple kitchen, a man wearing a blue cloak | standing in front of a kneeling man,
"Your companions are all dead, how do you still have the face to live?"
"I... uh..."
The man kneeling on the ground raised his head and was about to explain something, when a knife was already on his neck, and the cold light flashed,
The man's main artery was cut open, blood gushed out, and the man kneeling on the ground fell to the ground, and he lost his breath after a while.
The man holding the knife licked the blood from the sword, his voice was harsh,
"Mo Jinyao, I will definitely return what you brought to me!"
The pursuit in the woods has come to an end, and the secret guards of Prince Chen's Mansion have been trained very differently by Yun Ziyue these years, especially in the woods, these people can't get any benefits.
It took two sticks of incense when I came here, but only one stick of incense when I went back.
The killers who were chasing behind watched the person they were chasing get farther and farther away from them until they disappeared.
Immediately exasperated, he slammed his fist hard at the tree beside him,
"I %#%&*%￥…"
A series of national essence blurted out, followed by a scream.
"what-"
The killer clutched his hand, it seemed that he had just hurt it, and he wanted to kick the tree again, but the people behind hurried forward to hold him back.
"Don't don't!"
The six hidden guards of Chenwang Mansion begged the people behind them, and without a single pause in their footsteps, they went straight to the palace after entering the city gate.
Mo Jinyao was grading papers in the study, it was something Zhou Yuan couldn't make up his mind about, so he had to report to Mo Jinyao.
"My lord, our people are back."
Ye Po appeared beside Mo Jinyao and said respectfully.
Mo Jinyao stopped the pen in his hand, put the things on the table into bamboo tubes and handed them to Ye Po.
"Send these to the palace, give them to Zhou Yuan, let them come in."
"Yes, my lord."
Ye Po bowed and took the bamboo tube, and walked out.
After a while, the hidden guard who was waiting outside came in, half kneeling on the ground,
"My lord!"
"Get up and talk."
Mo Jinyao stood in front of the study window, twirling the wrench on his thumb, looking at the green trees outside through the window he was looking at.
"Back to the lord, we followed that person's whereabouts and indeed found the person behind them, but the subordinates are incompetent and failed to see the true face of the leader. Please punish the lord."
Several people were half kneeling on the ground, not daring to get up.
Mo Jinyao turned his head and looked at the people half kneeling on the ground, his voice was faint,
"Tell me something useful."
"We heard the conversation between the killer and his boss. The person who heard the voice should not be a person from Tiansheng. When he spoke, he had a Nanling accent, and the voice sounded familiar."
Several people glanced at each other and nodded. The voices really sounded like the voices of Nanling people.
"Nanling?"
"Yes, my lord, the subordinates heard that the voice was indeed from Nanling."
Mo Jinyao was thoughtful,
Nanling…
The current Nanling is just a small subsidiary country. If it weren't for the fact that there is a big river between Nanling and Tiansheng, the folk customs of the two places are also slightly different.
The current Nanling is gone.
But at the beginning, Mo Jinyao issued an order to set up a new supervision office in Nanling, and stationed 40,000 troops in Nanling.
As for the troops in Nanling, they were all disarmed and returned to the fields.
These are all Yue'er's ideas. After all, they are two different places separated by a big river. Unless Mo Jinyao wipes out all the people in Nanling,
Otherwise, sooner or later they will rebel one day, so they simply send people to monitor and station.
"The king knows, you go down."
Several people retreated as promised.
"People from Nanling..."
"What's the matter, my lord? Why do you look so sad?"
"..."
When Mo Jinyao heard the voice, he turned his head and saw Ji Xiaoyao in dark green clothes with a folding fan in his hand.
"Didn't you go shopping with Xu Zhimo?"
The implication is why you appear here again.
Ji Xiaoyao sat on a chair beside him and said with a smile,
"Isn't this here to share your worries?"
"Does this king look worried?"
Mo Jinyao walked behind the desk and sat on a chair with sparkling eyes.
"...Okay, okay, I heard that you were assassinated, so I wanted to see how you are doing."
Ji Xiaoyao put away the folding fan, and finally stopped being amused.
"Assassination? It's just a few salted fish that are not on the table."
When Mo Jinyao said this, his tone was very contemptuous, and he felt a little arrogant, but Ji Xiaoyao knew that he had the capital of this arrogance.
"My lord is right, so what are the origins of these people? I was watching your hidden guards chasing them out on the street, so don't lie to me."
"do not know."
Mo Jinyao told the truth, but Ji Xiaoyao didn't believe it at all.
"You don't know? Didn't you send someone there? Did you let that guy run away?"
Mo Jinyao shook his head,
"The dark guard didn't see what these people looked like. They only knew that they were from Nanling, and we were familiar with them."
"People from Nanling? How could it be possible that people from Nanling came to Shengjing? Could it be that they have enmity with you?"
"Who knows."
"Wait, people we know well, why do you say that?"
"Voice, they've heard it."
"If you say it's from Nanling, it's really hard to find, but we're familiar with it..."
"Isn't the scope narrowed all of a sudden?"
"You mean Yang Xiyu?"
Mo Jinyao looked at Ji Xiaoyao and said slowly.
Ji Xiaoyao nodded, he knew that Yang Xiyu was dead, but when they hit the Nanling Royal Court, they only saw his father who committed suicide, King Zhaowu,
As for Yang Xiyu, what they saw was a charred corpse. Although Yue'er had checked it later, it was indeed Yang Xiyu himself who was not at fault.
But there are so many unexplainable things that have happened in these years, they even think that it is not a strange thing that Yang Xiyu is not dead.
"This... is unlikely."
After Ji Xiaoyao figured it out, his body trembled, and he denied himself again.
"It may not be possible to wait until you see it."
Whether it's a human or a ghost, you can tell just by looking at it. However, it doesn't matter whether it's a human or a ghost. As long as he comes, he will let him come and go.
"Could it be possible that he will throw himself into the trap?"
"Heh, he wants to kill me. If I don't go out to Shengjing, if he doesn't come in, is it possible that he wants to kill me with his mind?"
Mo Jinyao sneered.
Ji Xiaoyao nodded,
"What do you want?"
"The mouse doesn't want to show up because it hasn't had a chance to eat food. Why don't we give him a chance?"
Ji Xiaoyao tapped his chin with the fan handle, thoughtful.
For the next few days everything was quite normal.
Mo Jinyao gave special orders to relax some guards at the city gate, but this man could bear it, he was unmoved by such a great opportunity in front of him,
In the past two days, except for some merchants and civilians, no other suspicious people entered the city.
Mo Jinyao was not in a hurry, the trap was set up immediately, and all he needed to do was give the mouse a signal.
Yun Ziyue has not been idle for the past two days. When Mo Jinyao approached, he saw his little girl writing furiously, not knowing what she was recording.
The man's eyes, which are always cold, were full of tenderness when he saw Yun Ziyue. He walked behind the girl and raised his hand to rub her shoulders.
Yun Ziyue sensed the all-too-familiar breath from Mo Jinyao, and smiled,
"Why aren't you busy today?"
"Come and see what my little girl is doing?"
Mo Jinyao looked at what Yun Ziyue was sorting out, and there were several envelopes that had been opened.
"Jin Yao, it seems that the officials in the court are about to change their blood again. People, I really can't let them be too stable."
Yun Ziyue said while sorting out the contents of the letter.
"Ok?"
Yun Ziyue put down the pen, blew on the entire sheet of paper that she had already written eloquently, and then handed it to Mo Jinyao.
"Jin Yao, this is the information that Zheliu provided in the past two days. I have sorted out some of it. You can take a look first."
Mo Jinyao took the paper and went through it from top to bottom.
"No wonder my brother used to say that sometimes war is just a baptism of filth, and now this king understands."
Yun Ziyue stood up,
"Five years is enough to change a person. However, there are honest and honest ministers in the court. Let's just pull out these moths."
Mo Jinyao nodded, these people are really good at obedience and defiance!
It seems that he must sit on the throne.
But…
"Yue'er, I'm sorry."
"Why do you say that suddenly? You have nothing to apologize for. You didn't do these things."
"We agreed at the beginning that when the war is over, I will take you to live the life of idle clouds and wild cranes, but in the end, I still didn't do it. Instead, I want you to worry about these things here."
Mo Jinyao lowered his eyes, which made people feel very distressed, like a big dog who has made a mistake.
Yun Ziyue looked at him like this, and suddenly smiled, Mo Jinyao raised his head, his eyes were a little puzzled,
Yun Ziyue reached out and rubbed the man's face, and said,
"Jin Yao, these are all my own choices. It is true that I want to live the life of idle clouds and wild cranes, but it is only because I don't want you to get hurt again, and I don't want you to worry about those things. I also have selfish intentions. We've always been together…”
"However, you have a responsibility on your shoulders. None of us can ignore the people, so you don't have to feel sorry. No matter what happens in the future, I will face it with you."
Yun Ziyue stared at Mo Jinyao with eyes full of trust and firmness.
"Yue'er, with you, I will be satisfied for the rest of my life."
next day
Heavenly Holy Chapel.
All the ministers were holding court boards and standing upright on both sides of the hall.
Today's atmosphere is totally different from everyday, Zhou Yu'an stood on the steps and glanced down, then looked away,
The atmosphere in the courtroom today was completely different from the past. Everyone seemed to have been hit with dumb acupuncture points. They didn't dare to say a word, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.
The reason why these people are like this is of course not because of other reasons, but because there is a person sitting on the chair in front of Zhou Yuan. This person is none other than Mo Jinyao.
The man is wearing a boa robe today. Nine pythons are embroidered on the court clothes, which complements the man's stunning face, making him even more imposing.
They had been standing so stiff for a while, and Mo Jinyao just sat lazily on the chair without speaking, only occasionally looking up at them.
But the group of people below, even if they were allowed to stand for a day, few of them would dare to say anything.
Some of them have experienced the war five years ago, and even a few of them were standing on the main hall at that time,
They will never forget the scene of Mo Jinyao wearing armor and killing Mo Wenli with a long sword in his hand, and the blood splashing in the hall.
Some people had fine beads of sweat on their foreheads, and they didn't know whether they were scared by Mo Jinyao or they couldn't stand it after standing for such a long time.
Finally, in the silence, Mo Jinyao finally spoke.
"Tired?"
"Go back to the prince, no, I'm not tired."
The ministers under the steps did not dare to raise their heads, but their voices trembled a little.
"Ah… "