Nightwatcher

The guard didn't answer, showing a look of embarrassment.

He is a little guard, how dare he talk about the affairs of the palace.

Xu Qi'an didn't feel embarrassed, he searched around and said, "Zhong Li?"

"I see, I will go back to Sitianjian first." Zhong Li raised her head from the wall and said obediently.

"Will there be any accidents on the way back?" Xu Qi'an asked.

"Listen, let's resign ourselves to fate." Zhong Li said tremblingly.

The guard looked at the woman in a linen robe with disheveled hair, and always felt that this woman had a delicate and pitiful temperament, which made people feel pity.

"Da da da"

Soon, Tongluo led the little mare back, Xu Qi'an stroked the mane of the little mare, it snorted and gave a nod to its master.

"Show me a light." Xu Qi'an patted Zhong Li's head.

She had returned to Sitianjian alone several times, but nothing happened. Xu Qi'an reckoned that there might be minor disasters, but not major ones, and this place is not too far from Si Tianjian.

Half an hour's journey at most.

Riding on his beloved filly, he drove side by side with the guards of Shaoyinyuan towards the imperial city.

The guards brandished their horsewhips to shout at the passers-by, and from time to time observed Xu Yinluo, the favorite of Her Royal Highness, with a blank face and focused eyes on the road. Although he was speechless, there was a solemn look on his brows.

Emperor Yuan Jing's harem must be in chaos. The queen will never let Concubine Chen go, no, it is Concubine Chen, and the latter has long had a deep resentment towards the queen.

"Damn it, why do I need a little silver gong to worry about Emperor Yuan Jing's family affairs? It's not because your daughter is beautiful." Xu Qi'an cursed secretly.

He hurried into the imperial city, and was stopped by the Habayashi guards at the gate of the palace. Lin'an's guards returned normally, but he was not qualified to bring anyone into the palace.

Xu Qi'an showed the waist jade that Mounting had given at the beginning, and immediately a guard from the Habayashi came over and led Xu Qi'an into the palace.

According to the rules of the palace, when someone in the palace summons foreign ministers to enter the palace, Habayashi Wei needs to accompany him to ensure that he does not run around.

All the way silent, quickly walked through the palace gate, through the square, through the palace wall, and finally arrived at Shaoyin Garden in Lin'an.

Yu Linwei waited outside the gate of Shaoyin Garden, and the mounted guard brought Xu Qi'an inside. After passing through the front yard, he saw Lin'an in the reception hall.

His Highness the Second Highness is still wearing a complicated and delicate red dress, with golden step rocks, agate hairpins and other gorgeous jewelry in her hair, and even a small phoenix crown that does not conform to etiquette.

Round oval face, charming and affectionate peach blossom eyes, sitting there expressionless, like an oriental Lolita doll from the hands of a master.

Seeing that she was fine, Xu Qi'an breathed out silently: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Lin'an waved his hand, dismissed the guards and maids, only Xu Qi'an was left alone.

Mounted stared at him for a moment, then burst into tears with a "wow", and complained in an aggrieved voice: "Huaiqing wants to kill me."

I seem to understand something! Xu Qi'an sighed.

Just to put it bluntly, as the most beloved daughter of Emperor Yuan Jing, Lin'an could be in any danger.

The so-called life and death is such a thing, it is really something she will do.

"Are you looking for trouble with the eldest princess again?"

Zhan Zhan cried and glared at her: "What did you tell me to cause trouble, please speak clearly."

Xu Qi'an reorganized the language: "The Second Highness went to Princess Huaiqing to seek justice?"

Mounting made a "huh" sound, sniffed and said, "That vicious empress is going to kill my mother and concubine, so I went to Huaiqing to make an argument, but unexpectedly she is also a dark-hearted person. She actually hit me."

"Hit you?" Xu Qi'an frowned, looking at Lin'an, "Where?"

"She whipped me with a cane."

Mounting rolled up his sleeves, revealing a white and tender lotus root arm, and there were two shallow welts on the snowy skin.

"Simply hateful!"

Xu Qi'an was filled with righteous indignation, and furiously rushed to the place where he was leaning on the railing. The drizzle rested, he looked up to the sky, and screamed loudly.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely uphold justice for you, and will not spare that Huaiqing lightly."

"Then you don't need to make a move"

Seeing Xu Qi'an's righteous indignation and the attitude of the master humiliating his ministers to death, he was very moved, and said: "Huaiqing is also a princess after all, if you do it privately, you will be shot and killed by the forbidden army in the palace."

Thank goodness, Your Highness is still online Xu Qi'an shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness is missing a single hair, which is a shame and a shame to a humble official. Even if the humble official is smashed to pieces, he still wants to trouble Huaiqing."

Mounted nodded slowly, sniffed, and said: "This is why I asked you to enter the palace today. I thought about it. At that time, I was obviously able to resist, and I could pounce on Hua Huaiqing's face, but I It's out of order.

"After thinking about it, it must be because I don't have effective guards around me. You accompany me to the Ivy Garden in Huaiqing."

Xu Qi'an's expression froze, as if he had lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

"Ahem!"

He cleared his throat, "Don't be impatient, Your Highness, and tell me what happened, so I can think about it in a humble position."

He silently thought about how to slip away quietly.

Mounting then told Xu Qi'an about the struggle in the harem after the Concubine Fu case was over.

As expected, the empress hated Concubine Chen Guifei to the core and made things difficult for her everywhere. Only then did everyone know that the empress empress was more proficient in the eighteen martial arts in the harem than anyone else.

It was just useless before.

Every day at dawn, she asked Concubine Chen to go over to pay her respects, and then picked on mistakes vigorously, and ordered the maid under her hand to do it for her, "criticizing" Concubine Chen, making her a joke in the harem.

There are also a series of corporal punishments such as kneeling and handcuffing.

"Do you think the Queen has a heart of snakes and scorpions?" Speaking of hatred, the little girl slapped the table and was furious.

Your mother killed her younger brother, of course the queen will fight your mother to death, although the uncle of the country is more than enough to die, Xu Qi'an frowned and said: "Is there any more?"

"Of course there is. Just yesterday, the concubine mother was suddenly poisoned and was dying. The servants of Jingxiu Palace rushed to invite the imperial physician, but who knew, the imperial physician was snatched away by the servants of Fengqi Palace."

"Ah? Then what happened afterwards." Xu Qi'an was startled.

Zhan Zhan said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, there is a detoxifying panacea in the mother's palace, which saved my life."

Xu Qi'an gave a meaningful "Oh".

Poisoning should be Concubine Chen's bitter scheme to frame the Queen. The Queen, who lost her younger brother, chose to be tough, so she snatched away the imperial physician. Concubine Chen had no choice but to take out the antidote to save herself.

"What's Your Majesty's reaction?" he asked.

"Father didn't say anything." Zhuanzhuan frowned and snorted forcefully, expressing his dissatisfaction.

Well, Emperor Yuan Jing's should be clear, so I don't care, let them make trouble, I can't say I don't care, at least I haven't seen any traces of Wei Gong's actions for the time being.

Xu Qi'an guessed that Emperor Yuan Jing had secretly warned Wei Yuan.

It is my business to kill my women, you, a foreigner, are not allowed to intervene!

Xu Qi'an felt that Emperor Yuan Jing was a scumbag, and he was much better than him, because he was now actively dealing with the fire in the harem.

Xu Qi'an pondered for a moment, and tentatively asked: "Why does the queen target Concubine Chen, Your Highness, do you know?"

Mounting pretended not to hear, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

Xu Qi'an understood, and sighed in his heart.

"Let's go, I'm going to fight Huaiqing."

As he spoke, Lin'an pulled out a cane from under the table.

You are so ready! ! Xu Qi'an was stunned.

"Your Highness, calm down, calm down"

He just wanted to persuade, but Lin'an pursed his lips and stared at him: "I know, your heart is actually for Huaiqing."

"Nonsense!"

Xu Qi'an reacted very strongly, patted his chest and said: "Go as you please."

The two of them went straight to Huaiqing's Ivy Garden with the maids and guards.

In the warm sunshine of the morning, the branches spit out new buds. Huaiqing, who was wearing a simple and elegant palace dress, was sitting in the gazebo, holding a book in his hand.

The back is graceful, the sitting posture is straight, and the black hair is set off by the white palace skirt, highlighting an elegant and intellectual literary atmosphere.

Xu Qi'an and Lin'an came aggressively, and the cold and cold Princess Chang didn't realize it. She lowered her head to read a book, and only ordered the guards on both sides in a flat tone:

"If idlers disturb my interest in reading, they will be killed."

Several guards pressed their knives with one hand and greeted them aggressively. They did not dare to use force against Duke Lin'an and transferred their hostility to Xu Qi'an.

Of course Princess Lin'an is not an idler, but this little silver gong is someone who can be shot and killed.

Xu Qi'an stopped immediately.

When Lin'an saw Xu Qi'an being forced to retreat, she faltered on the spot, without the support of the dog servant, she would not dare to fight Huaiqing single-handedly.

So he pointed at Huaiqing with the cane, and scolded, "Smelly Huaiqing, come out for me."

"Huaiqing, get the hell out of here."

"Shameless Huaiqing, if you have the ability, come and compete with me."

Princess Huaiqing didn't pay attention at all, and read with relish.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhuan Zhuan took Xu Qi'an and left in a desperate manner.

Xu Qi'an turned his head and looked at his stern face, gritted his teeth aggrievedly, and sighed: "Forget it, Your Highness, the gap is too big."

The IQ gap is too big.

Huaiqing broke the game with a simple order.

That's good, it will save me from being a bad person when the time comes, Your Highness Huaiqing is really my caring little padded jacket, who easily solved the problem for me, but it's too much for you to hit Lin'an by hand Xu Qi'an thought gratifiedly.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Zhan Zong stomped her feet, and the hem of the fiery red skirt dangled.

Send His Highness Lin'an back to Shaoyin Garden, play backgammon with her, and tell her stories. It was near noon before Xu Qi'an bid farewell and left.

He is a foreign minister, and Lin An is a princess who has not left the cabinet, so they cannot hang out for too long, let alone have dinner together.

"Change to the Japanese palace and invite you to play in the palace." Zhuanzhu said.

In the same way, she can't often call a foreign minister into the palace, which is easy to cause gossip.

After leaving the palace gate, Xu Qi'an took back his little mare from Yubayashi Wei's hand, and Xu Qi'an rode her out of the imperial city with a "da da da".

"The conflict between the Empress and Concubine Chen must be irresolvable. Concubine Chen is a woman who can't beat the Empress by herself, so she will definitely encourage Lin'an to use her as a spear against the Empress."

"According to Huaiqing, Lin'an in Girls' Generation was even stupider than she is now. She would hit whatever Concubine Chen pointed at. If Huaiqing didn't fight back, she would only be bullied. If she fought back, Lin'an would be beaten. Concubine Chen is happy to see it.

"Because Lin'an was favored and she was bullied, Emperor Yuan Jing would not sit idly by and let Lin'an be bullied again, the situation like today will definitely happen again.

"I'm a majestic Neptune, I shouldn't be led by the nose, I have to find a way, think of a way"

Going all the way back to the prison guard's office, Xu Qi'an couldn't think of a way out, he patted the filly's butt angrily, and blamed it, it was so upset that he couldn't calm down.

After lunch, he took two gongs to patrol the streets of the outer city. Because the distance was too far, he had to ride a horse instead of walking.

What Xu Qi'an is most familiar with is Nancheng, the Xu family's old house is just to the south, and there is also a Yangsheng Hall here, which is the site of No. 6 Hengyuan.

"Hey, I don't know when I will be able to restore my Ouhuang passive skills. I still have to send money to Master Hengyuan for charity on a regular basis."

Thinking of this, Xu Qi'an felt extremely melancholy.

The white marble arena in Nancheng was built on the square near the river. In just two or three days, the surface of the arena has been pierced with hundreds of holes: there are footprints from fighting, and cracks from knives and axes.

There are two quacks fighting in the arena, one is a muscular rough man wielding a black iron rod in his hand; the other is a young swordsman with good facial features.

The two sides come and go, and the fight is exhilarating.

A lot of melon-eaters and experienced quacks gathered around the arena.

When it comes to weapons, ordinary Jianghu people will have their weapons confiscated before they enter the city, and then the yamen will issue you a voucher. When you are going out of the city one day, you will take the voucher to retrieve your weapon.

Since the emergence of the arena, the Yamen has loosened control. Jianghu players who want to compete in martial arts can go to the Yamen to apply for the return of their weapons, but they must be returned to the Yamen the next day, otherwise they will be wanted by the whole city.

And some young heroes and heroines from famous sects can rely on the endorsement of their own sect and not surrender their weapons, but if they commit murder, the sect will bear the responsibility.

Xu Qi'an glanced across the audience, but he didn't find a better female hero.

"My lord, the people who watch the theater outside are ordinary people, and those with status and status are all in the surrounding teahouses and restaurants." Tongluo explained.

You know it well, little brother Xu Qi'an immediately glanced at the surrounding teahouses and restaurants, there are indeed many spectators on the observation deck on the second floor.

"Let's go, let's find a restaurant and that's the one." Xu Qi'an saw a particularly beautiful female hero.

He had just started to take a step when he suddenly felt a hard lump on his foot. He looked down and found it was a purse.

This pouch is light green, embroidered with patterns of the same color, and embroidered with an orchid. It has a faint fragrance, and it seems to be a woman's personal belongings.

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Xu Qi'an was stunned for a moment, thinking that my pick-up money buff was not imprisoned by that bad old man 404.

"Thick, and the portion is quite sufficient."

Xu Qi'an put it in his arms with a smile, and then found a child beside him looking at him, as if he was annoyed why he didn't see the purse, but someone else got there first.

"What are you looking at, which family's child?" Xu Qi'an raised his hand, trying to hit him, and the child turned around and ran away in fright.

Xu Qi'an laughed out loud, and said to himself that he was really timid, and I wanted to buy you bunches of candied haws.

After entering the restaurant, he found a table on the second floor and ordered the waiter to serve the wine and food. Xu Qi'an was not interested in the fighting in the ring, and squinted at the heroine at the next table.

She was wearing a pink gauze dress, revealing her fair neck, her delicate collarbone, and her thin clothes, which highlighted the size of her towering chest.

The dressing style is very bold, the makeup is also exquisite, the flaming red lips, the big almond eyes look bright, and the facial features are naturally very beautiful, but the charming and coquettish is the most attractive to men.

If you are a serious nightclub queen, then this woman is a serious nightclub queen.

The seductive woman noticed Xu Qi'an staring at her nakedly, and she was not angry, but instead cast a winking look at her. The young heroes who were at the same table with her turned their heads to look at her.

After seeing Xu Qi'an's police uniform, he pretended to be fine and turned around.

The shop waiter was holding beef, peanuts, mutton and other appetizers, as well as a jar of fine wine.

"My lord, please use your food and wine slowly."

"Little Er, give a jar of 82-year-old Lafite on the opposite table. I'm treating you." Xu Qi'an winked at the coquettish woman.

Xiao Er didn't understand and was stunned.

"An altar full of spring."

This is the most expensive wine in the restaurant.

"okay."

Sensing the interaction between Xu Qi'an and the "Goddess", the young heroes were sour in their hearts, and they didn't dare to get angry at the beater, so they took their anger out on the waiter and said angrily:

"Xiao Er, I have another five catties of beef."

"Guest officer, the shop doesn't have that much beef anymore."

"Why can someone order two catties, but with so many of us, we can only order one catty?"

Beef is a luxury item in this era. They are old, dead and seriously ill cows, and they have to go through the inspection of the government office before slaughtering them. In addition, the business has been very good recently, so there are not many stocks in the restaurant, Xu Qi'an ordered two catties here.

Unexpectedly, the waiter in the shop rolled his eyes, with the arrogance of the people of the capital: "He is a servant in the yamen, guest officer, you must have not looked in the mirror when you went out this morning."

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The two gongs laughed loudly: "These idiots."

At this time, Xu Qi'an saw a woman ascending the stairs. He glanced around the hall, then walked straight to his side, condescending, and stared at him menacingly.

"Give me back the purse."

PS: Change first and then change. I updated 9600 words today, hahahaha, begging for a monthly pass.

PS: Thanks to the leader of "Gun for Run" for the reward, and I owe another chapter to add more.

Well, at your request, the "Little Mare" character card is online and I hope it will not become the most popular supporting actress by then.