Imperial City Division.

Under the dim light, Changsun Jinghong sat up and looked at Li Chenan carefully.

"Are you afraid?"

"Afraid!"

"It's okay to be afraid."

Li Chenan curled his lips, "What I'm afraid of is not the open gun, but the hidden arrow!"

After a pause, Li Chenan poured a cup of tea for his eldest grandson Jinghong, "Beiqiu Zuoqiu is unknown. You know this guy, right?"

Changsun Jinghong frowned and nodded, "What's wrong?"

"He is coming to Kyoto."

"Do you think he's here to deal with you?"

"What if that's the case? Amu said that this man is not only an excellent dog-beating stick, but also a good shot with arrows!"

"If he gives me a guy a hundred steps away... Shuangjiao Mountain has tall trees and dense forests. Do you think I can catch an arrow from a half-step Grandmaster?"

Changsun Jinghong grinned. He picked up the tea cup and blew on it, "I'm not worried about Zuoqiu's unknown."

"Then what are you worried about?"

"...I'm worried about General Wu Mian!"

"He has no soldiers in his hands, so why should he be afraid?"

"But there are soldiers in Changle Palace."

Li Chenan was startled and looked at Changsun Jinghong in astonishment. He pondered for three breaths and asked in a low voice: "You mean... the emperor still wants to have a hand in this matter?"

Changsun Jinghong did not comment. He took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and looked at Li Chenan for five breaths. "You know that the former deputy of the Imperial City Secretary promoted Xia Yunhu and betrayed the Imperial City Secretary and fled."

"He knows a lot about the Imperial City Division and also knows a lot about the past."

"I trust him so much, but he did such an inexplicable thing. Therefore, I wanted to ask him face to face why, so I used all the strength of the Sixth Division of the Imperial City Division to find his whereabouts."

"However, half a year has passed and there is no news about him at all, as if he has disappeared from the world!"

"Looking at the entire Ning Kingdom, there are not many places where the Imperial City Secretary can escape, and Changle Palace happens to be one of them!"

Li Chenan was shocked, "Do you suspect that Xia Yunhu is hiding in Changle Palace?"

Changsun Jinghong did not reply to Li Chenan's words. He was just speculating:

"Xia Yunhu, when General Wu Mian was serving as general in the Western Frontier Army, he was Wu Mian's chariot general."

"In the fourth year of Zhaohua, the emperor summoned Wu Mian back to Beijing and took up the post of general. Xia Yunhu returned with him. The emperor did not place him in the general's palace, but in the Imperial City Department."

"In the eyes of everyone at the time, the emperor's move was just to avoid some unfavorable consequences from the incident in the third year of Zhaohua... Wu Mian was Lu Zhanxiao's person, and Xia Yunhu was Wu Mian's person. This

It’s equivalent to being from Lu Zhanxiao’s family.”

"I thought so at the time, because they left the military and no longer held power in the military, so they had no chance to do anything for Lu Zhanxiao."

"But now it seems that I was wrong. This was probably the emperor's deliberate arrangement... The emperor did not kill them!"

"The emperor has elite soldiers but no good generals. These two are both good generals!"

Li Chenan was shocked, "So these two are actually the generals that the emperor is planning to use at the right time?"

"By leaving them idle for so many years and then entrusting them with important tasks..."

There was a look of confusion in Li Chenan's eyes:

"Why does he bother so much?"

"Why is he going through all this trouble?"

"This country belongs to him. This makes no sense at all!"

"Who knows?"

Changsun Jinghong stood up slowly and walked a few steps back and forth under the crooked-neck tree, "Now is not the time to speculate on the emperor's intentions. I will handle this matter. As for the unknown Zuoqiu... Of course you have to be careful too.

Stay focused."

"And the White Clothes League, well... this situation is too chaotic. If we can stew it in one pot, there will be a lot less trouble in the future."

"What kind of feud do the White Clothes Alliance and our Imperial City Division have?"

The eldest grandson Jinghong stroked his long beard and said, "It's not a festival."

"What is that?"

Changsun Jinghong grinned:

"Hateful hatred!"

"...Isn't this nonsense?"

"You will know all this when you take charge of the Imperial City Department. Don't think about it so much now. Let's take care of the Shuangjiao Mountain matter first. The rest... there will be plenty of time to understand them one by one in the future."

Li Chenan did not leave. He looked at Changsun Jinghong carefully. After a moment, he whispered again: "I found that you are doubting the emperor!"

"Tell me the truth, what else are you hiding from me?"

Changsun Jinghong turned his head and glanced at Li Chenan, a little annoyed, "I will hand over this ruined Hell Palace to you, what can I hide from you?"

"Then your Majesty... I don't believe you really don't know anything about Changle Palace!"

Changsun Jinghong stood for a long time. He looked up at the dark night sky and suddenly said: "I have done too many bad things. I am not only afraid of ghosts, but also afraid of people!"

"……What's the meaning?"

"It's not interesting. Let's go back and stay with Ruoshui. We'll set off with Xuanjia Camp early tomorrow morning!"

"Since you have to deal with Xia Yunhu's matter, it would be better for you to leave Xuanjia Camp to you... To be honest, my people from Guangling City are already here."

Changsun Jinghong smiled slightly, "Don't you know this?"

He suddenly sighed again: "I'm old, and I should have died long ago. I can die in peace now, because the Imperial City is in your hand, and now it seems that it is better than holding it in my hand."

More appropriate."

"So I can die, but you must not die!"

"If I die, remember to bury me on the mountainside of Shuiyun Mountain... Maybe the three old men can still brag about the past together."

"Don't use pig tails as tribute. If you eat too much, you'll get tired of it. You can just change it to something else."

"Okay, get out of here, I still have some things to do."

"...Where did that boy Wang Zhenghaoxuan go?"

Li Chenan looked back and saw that Wang Zhenghaoxuan was nowhere to be seen.

In the two courtyards not far away, two dogs barked suddenly at this moment, and Li Chenan curled his lips:

"He is probably going to find some novel tributes for you!"

Changsun Jinghong was startled, and Li Chenan laughed: "Live well, I don't like this shabby yard, it's too dark, so it's best for you to stay here."

"As for me...after the Shuangjiao Mountain incident is over, I plan to do some business to earn some money. I want to live a more comfortable life, and providing you with old age care is not a small expense."

Li Chenan glanced at the second place, and then looked at Changsun Jinghong: "Look at your outfit, it's almost winter now. It's not like when I was a boy, if I wore this tattered linen clothes, I would get cold and sick."

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"When I come back, I will build you a warm pavilion under the crooked neck tree. If you want to lie down, just lie down in the warm pavilion."

"If you leave, please don't die. Wait until I come back to take care of you in old age!"

Li Chenan took a step forward, and Changsun Jinghong looked at his back and suddenly showed a happy smile.

"I have a granddaughter named Changsun Hongyi!"

"If you don't see me when you come back... take care of her for me!"

Li Chenan turned around and said, "Marry her?"

"It's not a bad idea, but you might not be able to do it because she seems to have someone she likes."

"Whose boy?"

"Wang Zhenghaoxuan!"

Wang Zhenghaoxuan, who happened to be walking over carrying a sack, was frightened when he heard these words.
Chapter completed!