He walked towards me step by step, and the burning fire behind him cast a thick shadow on his face, but I clearly saw the eyes shining in the shadow, like a hunting black panther, approaching his prey step by step.

That bloodthirsty look seemed to swallow me.

Just when he was about to walk in front of me, suddenly, a messenger rushed over and saw Pei Yuanhao and immediately tied the reins, turned over and got off the horse and staggered over and ran over: "Third Prince!"

Pei Yuanhao's eyes flashed, and his bloodthirsty eyes immediately restrained, and he turned to look at him: "Hmm?"

"On the Nine Gate..."

The messenger's voice became smaller and smaller, and the last few words were spoken with his ears. When he finished speaking, a ray of light burst out in Pei Yuanhao's eyes and said, "What else did he say?"

"Mr. Yang said, what will happen next? Please decide on your Highness, but - the opportunity must not be missed!"

Pei Yuanhao did not speak, but was silent for a moment, then immediately turned around and shouted to the people around him: "Get on the horse and go back to the palace!"

"yes!"

Everyone seemed to realize something, and they were extremely excited and quickly turned over to the horse. Just as a Changsui led his horse over, Pei Yuanhao was about to get on the horse when he suddenly remembered something and looked back at me.

I was still standing next to Yao Yingxue's body, and my shoes were stained with blood.

The expression on his face was a little gloomy for a moment, as if he didn't know what to do with me, but just for a moment, he said to me in a deep voice: "Just stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere!"

After saying that, he winked at the left and right.

After he had arranged my business, the people around him could no longer hold back. He raised his hand and said, "Go out!" The people around him responded loudly, and everyone rode their horses and whipped them, speeding towards the other end of the long street and the palace.

Soon, the dust raised from the horse's hooves slowly fell, and only Qian Wu and Mo Tieyi were left here. Facing the surrounding corpses and the fires in the gardens, we couldn't even say a word. The burnt smell in the air and the beating sound of the burning flames made the whole street look even more silent.

This seems like a nightmare.

I slowly squatted down and looked at Yao Yingxue. She was lying in a pool of blood, her eyes were not closed yet, as if she was still persistent in seeing that person, but he turned around and left without looking back. This woman who broke her body for him; this woman who betrayed him but opened her heart to him; this woman who gave birth to children for him, even when she died, she did not even get any more eyes from him.

I stretched out my trembling hand and gently closed her eyes - I just hope that you will not be fooled by the next life.

At this time, a sound of footsteps came from the front.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a familiar figure slowly walking towards the deep night.

Under the fire, his face turned pale as if he was dead, and his whole body seemed to be very cold. As soon as Qian Wu and the others saw him, they immediately walked forward: "Brother, you are here, look--"

Before they finished speaking, Huang Tianba waved his hand gently: "I know everything."

"Pei Yuanhao turned his back on his word, but he actually used such a cruel move. We - we were used by him!"

Huang Tianba's face turned paler. He was silent for a moment, and then said, "Our people have arrived at Ximen. You should hurry up and prepare to leave the city overnight."

"But--"

The two of them seemed to want to say something, and Huang Tianba said lightly: "Old Yao is here too. Don't you want to see him?"

As soon as Qian Wu and the others heard Yao Lao's name, their eyes lit up, and they stopped saying anything, and immediately turned around and left.

After they left, only Huang Tianba and I were left on the long street. I slowly stood up and watched him standing at the gate of the villa, facing the fire inside, the flames shone in his eyes, as if the fire was burning in his eyes.

I walked to him: "Master Huang..."

He wanted to say something, but he was sobbing that he couldn't speak. Huang Tianba looked inside, and after a while, he said softly: "He is inside too?"

"……Yes."

"Already gone?"

"Yes, I've left."

"Is it painful?"

"..." I thought for a long time and said softly: "He was penetrated by an arrow and walked very quickly, and he didn't feel any pain."

"Is that..."

Huang Tianba looked inside blankly, and for a moment I couldn't tell what his expression was in his eyes, so he sent Guan Yuxiao to his eyes: "But I saw this on the roadside. Mr. Huang - if you want to stay, just serve as a souvenir; if you don't want to stay, someone will deal with it."

Huang Tianba slowly turned his head and looked at the jade flute in my hand. Only then did I see that his eyes were red.

It took a long time before he reached out and took the Guan Yuxiao.

I looked at him and said in a choked voice: "Master Huang, are we all wrong?"

"Maybe, we are indeed wrong," his voice was very low, with an indescribable hoarseness, but it was always suppressed, saying, "But I hope that in the eyes of the world, we are not wrong."

In the eyes of the world.

Yes, he would help Pei Yuanhao, not for himself from beginning to end, but for the people of the south, and for the emperor who might benefit the people of the south in the future. Therefore, no matter how much the price he paid, he would be happy.

At this time, Huang Tianba took out a piece of paper and handed it to me. I took it and looked at him with some confusion. He said, "I will take Mu Hua to take the emperor's pulse. This is the prescription she prescribes. You can give it to Pei Yuanhao, if-if he knows how to use it."

After hearing the last sentence, my heart sank: "You mean-"

Huang Tianba glanced at me and said, "Do you know, how is the imperial city now?"

"I guess, Yang Yunhui has already taken down the nine gates by the Imperial Guard."

"Since you have won the Nine Gate, do you think Pei Yuanhao will stop here?"

I was shocked and immediately understood, and looked at him with wide eyes: "He is going back now-"

Force the palace and seize the throne!

But—"But the emperor's imperial edict is to pass the throne to the emperor's eldest son!"

Huang Tianba seemed to sneer: "You know better than me who he is."

Yes, who is Pei Yuanhao? He is a person who uses all means to achieve his goals. He took Huang Tianba’s favor in Jiangnan. He used me to poison Pei Yuanfeng, and used Huang Tianba’s people to get rid of Pei Yuanchen, and took the opportunity to seize the Nine Gates. What he believed would be absolute. He has reached this point and he will indeed not give in!

In other words, the imperial edict that the emperor wanted to pass the throne to the emperor's eldest son was just a piece of empty text.

but--

Thinking of this, I looked up at Huang Tianba and asked, "Master Huang, is the person Yao Lao is looking for? Is it the eldest son of the emperor?"

He glanced at me, but it seemed that he was not surprised: "How do you know?"

"You told him that in the Heavenly Prison, but he refused to leave. But you just said that Yao Lao was already at Ximen to leave the city. In other words, he already knew that the person he was looking for was no longer in the imperial city. Tonight, the imperial edict left by the emperor had just been revealed. The imperial edict said that the six tribes were going to find the eldest son of the emperor."

Huang Tianba smiled faintly: "It seems that I can't hide anything from you."

I said, "But I didn't guess this just now."

"Oh? Then when did you know?"

I turned to look at the villa that had turned into scorched earth in the sea of ​​fire and said, "I guessed it when I knew that this villa was actually the old house of the Queen."

All this is not so coincidental. The paintings hanging in the Emperor's Yonghe Palace were the scenery here, and Huang Tianba came to Beijing and moved directly into this villa. I remember that when he was in Jiangnan, Pei Yuanhao received a secret edict. The emperor once revealed that the people who returned to the pharmacy shop had a lot of connections with him, and even asked Pei Yuanhao to "do not add it with swords and weapons."

All the signs only show one thing--the group of people at Huisheng Pharmaceutical Store have a special relationship with the Queen of the First!

That is why the emperor would rather let Pei Yuanhao show mercy to them than hurt anyone else.

"Master Huang, what does it have to do with the Queen of the First?"

"Qingying, have you forgotten what I told you again?"

By the way, he kept reminding me that the less you know, the easier it is to get out of here in the future.

Huang Tianba whispered again: "Pei Yuanhao doesn't know about this matter either. I hope that if you really stay with him, it's best not to mention this matter."

It turned out that Pei Yuanhao didn't know that this villa belonged to them. It seemed that not many people knew about this.

I nodded: "Okay."

When I finished saying this, Huang Tianba frowned: "You really want to stay by his side?"

I was stunned by his question. Of course, I was not going to stay with Pei Yuanhao, but I couldn't leave now, because he promised me that when everything was over, he would give me a general amnesty. Only then can I escape from my slavery and leave here openly.

I said, "I have made an agreement with him."

When Huang Tianba heard this, he looked at me with a frown slightly, as if he had something to say, but he didn't say it after all. While I was still thinking about another thing in my heart, he asked him: "Master Huang, do you think he can really succeed?"

"I don't know either. If it were someone else, I might be able to guess the ending. But his opponent is Prince Pei Yuanxiu, and I can't guess it."

"You can't guess Pei Yuanxiu?" Isn't he a very simple person?

Huang Tianba said lightly: "There are two people in the royal family that I can't see through. One is Pei Yuanhao, I can't see where his bottom line is, and the other is Pei Yuanxiu."

"What can't you see through him?"

Huang Tianba looked at me and said, "Qingying, if a mystery is hidden among the layers of fog, you can clear the fog and find it, but if a mystery is transparent, how do you find it?"

“…”

"Pei Yuanxiu, this is such a person. I can't see Pei Yuanhao's bottom line, but I can't see what kind of person Pei Yuanxiu is. Therefore, no one can predict the outcome of the victory or defeat between them until the final conclusion is made."

I was roasted by the scorching flames in front of me, but suddenly I felt cold all over my body.

Is what Huang Tianba said true?

But Pei Yuanxiu, the man who was smiling in the inner cabinet, the man who reached out to me when the assassin was around, the man who said to me, "I never regarded you as a slave", was really a mystery that could not be seen through as Huang Tianba said?

Just when I was stunned, Huang Tianba called me: "Qingying..."

"Um?"
Chapter completed!