When she came out of the hall, the woman in red had returned to her usual graceful and luxurious appearance.

But there was a little sadness between her eyebrows. She waved to the highest palace servant not far away, and said sadly, "The Prefect... has passed away..."

As he spoke, he shed tears. He looked at the palace servants around him who were kneeling on the ground and crying indifferently. Then he was so energetic that he said, "All up, my husband has given me many gifts to you when he was alive. Now that he has left, please help all those who are loyal to your husband and Luo family to take care of his funeral. Don't let those who have ulterior motives in the palace take advantage of the loopholes." She lowered her head with a sad face and looked at the highest court attendant. "Yun'er has already gone to the city to recruit the city garrison troops outside the city to maintain the security of the palace inside and outside the palace. Before Yun'er leads his troops into the city, Minister Cao must guard the inner court well and not make any mistakes at this critical moment..."

The palace servant, known as Chief Cao, looked at the woman in red for a moment, then he was shocked and fell down again and shouted, "Cao Shiqing obeyed the order of his wife, and ordered people to block the porches of the inner court. Without the order of his wife, no one could enter and exit at will..."

"Okay," the woman in red tried to squeeze out a smile while sad, "I will inform Yun'er of Master Cao's loyalty to the two generations of prefects in detail. I think he will also be grateful to Master Cao for his loyalty and righteousness at this moment..."

"The villain has been serving in the prefect's palace since he was a child. This is the duty of the villain. The wife and the prince... can handle major matters with the Lord. There is no possibility of any trouble in the palace." The leader of the palace servants pressed his head tightly against the cold stone floor without any wavering.

"Okay," this time the woman in red deliberately increased her strength on the word "good" and then ignored the people who were kneeling on the ground. She turned around and the sedan chairs raised by a few strong men, and trotted away in the direction outside the prefect's palace.

After no one else was heard outside this palace, the leader of the palace servants raised his head slightly, lowered his head and glanced at the surrounding area. He slowly raised his head. After confirming that there was no one around, he slowly stood up, looked out of the palace outside the palace, and looked back silently at the main hall with the door closed. After thinking for a while, he rushed to the palace waiters who were still kneeling around and said, "Get up."

Only then did the court attendants dare to stand up, but no one dared to look up at the Grand Assistant Cao.

Chief Cao glanced around, and after another silence, he pointed to the two of the palace guards and said, "Cao Man, Cao Fu, you two go to the porch of the inner court to close all the gates, and shouted the palace guards who were not on duty today, guarding the doors outside the door with swords and armor. There was no order from the lord or the chief minister, even the tall minister of the front court was not allowed to enter!"

The two palace guards bent down deeply and saluted, and then turned around and ran away. Especially the younger one named Cao Man ran away, silently but with amazing speed.

After watching the two men leave, Grand Master Cao spoke again to the other palace servants present, "From now on, no one here will leave this hall, and they will still be practicing here as a prefect, but they will not be on the turn. The news that the prefect has passed away cannot be told to anyone, otherwise they will be killed by a stick. Do you hear it clearly?!"

"I heard it clearly!" The palace waiters quickly knelt down again.

After Grand Master Cao waved his hand to let the palace attendants enter the palace, he walked to the steps in front of the palace and sat down. While knocking on his sore and swollen legs, he looked out of the direction outside the palace in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking...

But the woman in red left the palace all the way, and there were already a group of 100-person palace guards waiting here on horseback. There was no communication between the two sides, so the 100-person cavalry guards advanced in the sedan chair.

There are few pedestrians on Licheng Street today. The silent pressure has covered the city for several days. People close their doors and doors and cannot guard them, so the streets seem too cold and clean.

While this team of 100-man cavalrymen was walking, the sound of horses trampling on the stone slabs was extremely loud, adding a three-point iron-blooded atmosphere to the already solemn city.

The cold wind is fierce, and the sky is cloudy and there is no snow.

The 100-man cavalry team walked straight to an alley not far from the Prefect's Palace. This alley is relatively spacious, with tall porch courtyards on both sides of the alley, which is extremely noble.

The alley seemed crowded at this moment, because there had been a group of soldiers from the garrison troops leaving the city, causing the entire alley to be invisible.

The cavalry slowed down and went deep into the alley from the passage given out by the garrison. Finally, they stopped in front of the deepest hall that looked not too rich and extraordinary. The sedan chair landed on the ground, and the woman in red bent down and walked out of the sedan chair.

After she glanced at the soldiers around her, she rushed to Luo Yun, who was waiting not far away on a pure black war horse, waved her hand. The latter reacted and quickly turned over and got off the horse and came to the woman in red, and accompanied her to knock on the gate of the yard.

After only three light knocks, the door opened from the inside. The old man who opened the door glanced out of the crack in the door, opened the door without saying a word, and let the mother and son lead the lead, bringing more than a dozen soldiers dressed in the behind him into the mansion.

The woman in red walked into the inner courtyard without encountering any obstacles from anyone. She was extremely smooth and guided her silently to a small courtyard. When she opened the gate, she saw an old man with white beard and white hair, wearing white clothes, sitting upright on the stone steps in front of the main hall, staring at Luo Yun beside the woman in red with an angry face.

Luo Yun, who was already a little restless, glared at the old man when he saw the old man, and he didn't dare to look at him. He quickly lowered his head and even hid behind the woman in red intentionally or unintentionally, not daring to say a word.

The woman in red frowned slightly, then smiled and looked at the old man opposite and said, "Mr. Jun. Master, my husband is not dead yet, you are dressed like this, but you want to curse my husband to die soon?"

The old man in white was Gongsuncuo, the governor of Lijun County. He saw the old man slowly stood up and said, "How can my wife know that my clothes are worn for the prefect? ​​It's just for a young old friend who makes my old man respect me," he pointed to a coffin made of ordinary pine wood in the corner of the yard and said, "I also prepared a coffin for him. Of course, if it's not the turn of Lao Chen to collect the corpse for him in the end, then this coffin can also be used to hold the old Chen corpse, which is not a waste!"

The woman in red smiled unchanged, "Where is the prince, you are still very strong and you don't need such a thing? It's your young old friend. Since they have their own children and grandchildren, it's really not your turn to collect the body for him."

The old man sneered and looked at Luo Yun behind the woman in red again and said sternly, "The second young master came to Lao I'm at my house today, what's wrong?"
Chapter completed!