The light in the stairs is very dark, but when you walk up, there is a light in front of you.?

The spacious third floor is still the same as before, with exquisite and elegant layout, with open windows like a huge picture frame, bringing the most beautiful scenery of Yangzhou City into your eyes.

When I finished the last step, my heart beat, but when I looked up, I saw a group of familiar figures sitting in the middle of the room, not near the window, and there was no figure I remembered in it.

One of them stood up and walked towards us: "Miss Yue."

"Brother Mo..."

I was also a little surprised for a moment. I didn't expect that he was here. Looking at the few standing by the table, they were almost all let go by Pei Yuanhao that day, and the familiar faces he had at the pharmacy that was back at the time.

After a change of thought, I immediately understood.

They are waiting for me here, and waiting for me must have something to say to me!

Originally, Shui Xiu walked up with me with a smile, but it was wrong when she saw this scene. Especially when she saw this man full of fierceness coming over, she was also scared and grabbed my arm: "Auntie, girl, they are-"

"Shuixiu, it's okay."

I patted her hand and signaled her not to speak. I turned to her head and smiled and said to the man: "Why are Brother Mo here too?"

Mo Tieyi glanced at Shui Xiu and said to me, "We really have no choice. The emperor has taken you too seriously. Brothers have worked hard for several days but they have not been able to get close to your house. They can only take advantage of you to come out today and meet you."

Then I remembered that Pei Yuanhao said he wanted to send someone to see me. Although he was scaring Shin Gongyi's people away, he also let them stop. So he smiled apologetically: "Thank you for your hard work."

"It's okay, come and sit down."

I slowly walked over to the table in the middle of the room and sat down.

If you don't know it just now, Shui Xiu understood after listening to our words. She had never encountered such a situation before. She followed me with a look of horror and looked at them carefully.

Mo Tieyi also sat down, but before speaking, he looked at Shui Xiu again: "She—"

"It's okay." I said, "Shui Xiu has been following me."

"oh……"

Mo Tieyi nodded and stopped saying anything. The shopkeeper also came up, but asked the waiter to bring us some refreshments. It was not as good as what Huang Tianba had sent before, but it was also exquisite and fragrant. After the things were delivered, they looked straight and turned around and walked calmly, as if nothing had been born.

It seems that how deep this force has penetrated in the south is really far from our imagination.

I watched the shopkeeper walk down, and turned around and smiled at Mo Tieyi and the others, "Brother Mo is waiting for me here, I don't know what to say to me."

Mo Tieyi glanced at me, but looked at the wound that had not yet dissipated on my face, and sighed: "How are you?"

"Nothing is serious."

"We went back and heard about the matter in the court." He, a big man, became a little hesitant and said for a while: "Thank you."

I smiled.

The reason why I dared to say those words to Pei Yuanhao before was because Mo Tieyi and the others were still there. Although these people did not follow Huang Tianba, I know that they have been influenced by Huang Tianba a bit, and are not the kind of people who just fight hard but don’t know how to advance or retreat. After this incident, I believe they will have some insights.

He took a sip of tea and slowly placed the cup on the table, pinching his fingers against the edge of the cup without putting it in place.

After a long time, Mo Tieyi raised his head and looked at me: "Is what you said last time true? Is the emperor going south this time really going south to depose the untouchables in the south?"

I nodded and said, "Actually, the Emperor had this idea a long time ago."

"oh?"

"At the beginning of the throne, the emperor told me about this. However, some systems in the south were not implemented for a day or two. Rampant revisions would cause great turmoil in the government, so he always wanted to find an opportunity. In addition-"I glanced at them: "There are really not many officials who dared to go south..."

When Mo Tieyi and the others heard this, their faces became a little ugly.

After Liu Yi died, many ordinary people gathered in front of his mourning hall to kowtow. It was said that it was because after Pei Yuanhao returned to Beijing after he managed the epidemic here, Liu Yi went south and was assassinated not long after. But on the day of his assassination, the prefecture issued an order to reduce the current capita tax, which made all Yangzhou people very grateful. Mo Tieyi and the others were released from prison, so naturally they knew what they had.

Sometimes, if you are less impulsive and use bleeding to solve problems, things may be in a completely different form.

And I think the reason why the people in Shengjing are doing so much is that Liu Yi's order to reduce the capitol tax was already very dissatisfied, and they also saw the court's intention to reconcile with the south.

Mo Tieyi gritted her teeth, pinching the cup with her fingers, and then she said for a while: "We did something wrong."

"..." I looked at him.

"When Brother Huang left, he kept telling him not to touch Liu Yi, but—"

Looking at his regretful look, I also understood in my heart that he might be brave and ruthless, but the people above them must bleed from the court, which is the crux of the problem.

I thought about it and said, "Brother Mo, you will come to me today, right?"

Mo Tieyi glanced at me and nodded: "Yes. Yichen has passed all the words you said before to Hongye Temple. When we come back this time, everyone has thought a lot, so they want to come to you to confirm with you whether the emperor really wants to depose the untouchables."

"Brother Mo, can you tell me who is talking to the south now?"

“…”

I looked at him: "Is it Lao Yao?"

Mo Tieyi's face darkened: "How do you know?"

I smiled and said, "I guess."

The emperor released Mo Tieyi and the others from the words I said to Yichen. These words and these things are not enough to convince a person who is completely unfamiliar with us. Only those who have established a certain trust will be really moved by my words. Mo Tieyi just said that Huang Tianba has left, so Mu Hua must follow him and leave behind a person with a higher status who knows me, the only one who has met me in Tianzhu.

More importantly, in the Zen room of Hongye Temple, I not only smelled the smell of powder used by women, but also a smell of medicine.

I remember that in the secret edict given to Pei Yuanhao by the late emperor in the past, the people who returned to the pharmacy shop had a deep relationship with the royal family, and Mu Hua and Huang Tianba were both too young, so I guess what he was referring to was Yao Lao, but this relationship could point the whole situation to good or evil, it depends on this time.

I asked, "Why didn't Yao Lao come this time? Don't he want to see me?"

"No, it's not that he doesn't want to see you, it's just--"

"He is with the people from Seungkyung, right?"

Mo Tieyi nodded silently.

I said, "Brother Mo, I don't know what conditions the people in Shengjing have given you, but what I want to tell you is that if you really want to talk to the people in Shengjing, you are afraid you must be prepared to cut your flesh and feed the wolf."

When he heard this, his face suddenly changed: "What does it mean?"

"The untouchables in the south were indeed settled when the royal family entered the pass, but you know, the southerners bear such heavy taxes, where did this money go?"

Mo Tieyi opened her eyes wide: "Where?"

...

When I finished listening to what Pei Yuanfeng told me, half an hour had passed, and the sky outside looked too early.

If they can't continue, those guards will be worried.

I looked at Mo Tieyi, and their faces looked particularly ugly. They sat there like disbelief. After a long time, they looked at me: "What you said is true?"

"I think you should be able to trust me."

"..." They didn't say anything, their faces even more ugly.

I said softly: "He ascended the throne and became the emperor, and he had his ambitions and ideals. Only by allowing the Celestial Empire to usher in a real prosperous era is the goal he wants to achieve. Shengjing is different. They are not the rulers of the Celestial Empire and have no borders with the south. If they cannot obtain benefits, why should they cooperate with you?"

“…”

"This is not easy, don't fall into the trap."

“…”

I slowly stood up, looked at the sky outside the window, and finally said, "Brother Mo, I know that your original intention of doing these things is for the people in the south, but you should not be exploited because of your temporary aura. Otherwise, if the heavens are in chaos, the people will suffer, but you may not be the ones who make profits, nor may you be the royal family."

He suddenly raised his head and looked at me, as if he understood something, and his expression became solemn.

After a while, he said, "Okay, I will take what you said back."

"Thank you." I saluted him gently, then turned around and walked. As soon as I took two steps, I stopped again and looked back at him and said, "Brother Mo."

"What's up?"

"Master Huang..." I asked carefully: "Do you know where he went after he left?"

Mo Tieyi sighed and shook his head and said, "No one knows. It is a big deal for him to leave. The people of the sect didn't plan to give up like this, but Mu Hua, for Mu Hua's sake, let him go." He looked at me again and said, "If you are good for him, it's better not to look for him anymore."

I smiled faintly: "I understand, thank you for telling me."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

.

The carriage was still parked not far from the street. The guards stood for a long time, but they had no expression of impatient at all. They still respectfully invited me into the carriage. It was getting late, so I asked the coachman to go back to the state capital.

In the carriage, I was exhausted because I had just said too much, and I was closing my eyes to rest, but I felt that Shui Xiu was staring at me, so I opened my eyes and looked at her: "What's wrong?"

"Girl, you-"

She had an expression of being too frightened, but she seemed to not know what to say. It took a long time to swallow: "Are those, are they assassins?"

"..." I smiled and agreed.

"Do you know the assassin?"

“…”

"Does the emperor know, too?"

"Shuixiu, don't tell anyone about what happened today for the time being."
Chapter completed!