Li Yunze devoted himself to music creation at home, perfecting "Memory of Daming Palace" to be performed in front of everyone when the Daming Palace was renewed.
He fell asleep while listening to it with his headphones on. After all, this majestic and soul-stirring piece of music was indeed very contagious.
When Li Yunze opened his eyes again, the sky outside the window had turned dark.
Lying on the hot Kang, Li Yunze touched his nose and felt something was wrong.
"Where has Mei Niang gone?"
Under normal circumstances, Wu Meiniang would arrange dinner at this time and come over to invite him to eat together.
But he had already woken up, and Wu Meiniang did not appear.
After getting up and tidying up, they went out and greeted people, "Where is Mei Niang?"
"Master of the village, someone from the palace has sent a message, saying that the queen has invited the second lady to the palace for a banquet."
"Queen?" Li Yunze raised his eyebrows and instantly understood Queen Changsun's plan.
We are going to start with Wu Meiniang first.
After all, compared to Li Yunze, who has no worries and doesn't care about anything, Wu Meiniang has her parents and the entire Wu family behind her. She is a real Tang Dynasty person.
Originally he was still a little embarrassed by Wu Meiniang's attitude, but at this moment Li Yunze's eyes lit up and said, "Get ready!"
As night fell, Li Yunze galloped on the best road outside Chang'an City.
I ran all the way to the outside of the city gate, and happened to be about to close the city gate.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a curfew, especially in Chang'an City. It was curfewed every night except for the Lantern Festival. It was inevitable to close the city gate.
Li Yunze galloped forward, ignoring the shouts and shouts of the city gate defenders, and rushed straight into the city gate that was about to close.
"Who is so bold as to break through the city gate!?"
The captain guarding the city was furious and shouted at Li Yunze's retreating back, "If you have the guts to leave your name!"
"So is your Grandpa Li~~~"
School Captain ‘(￣_,￣)’
There are so many people named Li in Chang'an City, who knows who you are!
On Zhuque Street, illuminated by the light of many kerosene lamps along the street, the horse's hooves turned as fast as lightning and headed straight to the palace.
When they were almost in front of the palace, they happened to meet the Lijiazhuang carriage returning.
This carriage is very beautiful, with exquisite workmanship. It suits Wu Meiniang's preference for wealth, and it has always been her car.
Outside the carriage, in addition to Lijiazhuang's entourage, there was also a palace lieutenant with a team of palace guards.
These palace guards all wore woolen coats provided by Li Yunze, and each of them had a tall and straight figure, which looked like they were heroic and mighty.
The carriage stopped, the door opened, and Wu Meiniang, wearing a bright red cloak, stepped out of the carriage.
"master."
Li Yunze took advantage of the light of the kerosene lamp on the roadside and carefully looked at Wu Meiniang's expression: "Queen, are you in trouble?"
Wu Meiniang originally planned to go home from the train station to ask Li Yunze for clarification, but she was stopped by people from the palace on the way, and finally went into the palace to see Empress Changsun.
In the palace, I talked with Queen Changsun for an entire afternoon, during which the Queen specially called Princess Changle over to meet her.
After the Queen's patient persuasion, at least Wu Meiniang was able to accept it.
The words of Empress Changsun that really moved her were, 'Your master has extraordinary abilities. If such a powerful person cannot get close to the royal family, Your Majesty will not be able to sleep well~~~'
Wu Meiniang knew very well that her master had magical skills.
If he really wanted to do something, no one could stop him.
If the royal family cannot form a close relationship with their master, this sense of vigilance and danger will always exist until it breaks out when they can no longer bear it any longer.
No matter what the outcome is then, the satisfying days now are bound to be gone forever.
As for giving benefits to the Wu family and arranging equal wives for her, they are not that important.
Recalling the words of Empress Changsun, and looking at Li Yunze with a look of concern in front of her, Wu Meiniang suddenly had a change of heart, her eyes were red and she turned her back to him.
Li Yunze felt anxious and hurriedly stepped forward, "What's going on? Could it be that the queen bullied you? If she really bullied you, then I will demolish the palace right now!"
These words were said in a domineering manner, but they put the palace guards not far away in a dilemma.
Someone said in front of them that he wanted to demolish the palace. Such a disrespectful thing should have been done, but he was the owner of Manor Li.
After some deliberation, they could only retreat quietly in silence, pretending that the moon was dark and the wind was high, and they didn't hear anything.
Wu Meiniang raised her head and glanced at him, choked with sobs and said, "It was obviously me who came first."
Seeing her micro-expression, Li Yunze suddenly understood.
The master and the apprentice started to argue, "It doesn't matter, you are the most important in my heart."
Trying to recall the performances of the brainless male protagonists in those silly romance dramas, Li Yunze began to imitate the affectionate male protagonist and shouted, "I will go to the palace to find the queen now."
Although she is smart, Wu Meiniang, who has little experience due to her age, is no match for Li Yunze.
She hurriedly grabbed his arm and said, "No, we have already agreed on the Queen's side."
Li Yunze wiped his face and quickly changed his face to look confused, "What did you say?"
Wu Meiniang shook her head, held up the hem of her skirt and walked to the carriage, "If I don't tell you, you will know it in the future anyway."
Li Yunze, who controlled his expression carefully, played the role of an unconventional idiot and shouted, "What's going on? Tell me~~~"
This trick is okay against Wu Meiniang at this age, but it would really become a joke for a girl in the modern world who has gone through countless lessons with sticks.
Li Yunze rode his horse and carriage towards the city gate.
Although there is Li Ersong's mansion in Chang'an City, Li Yunze prefers to live in Zhuangzi.
After arriving at the city gate along Zhuque Street, the accompanying imperial edict showed the emperor's imperial edict and tiger talisman to the captain guarding the city gate.
Don't be fooled by movies and TV shows. Except for the emperor's decree and the tiger charm, no one can make the defenders open the city gates after they are closed under curfew.
The fact that this prince or that princess could open the city gate with just a word only existed in the imagination of the sand sculpture.
The captain looked at Li Yunze and finally knew who Grandpa Li he was.
Just as he was about to leave the city, Li Yunze turned his head in confusion and looked in the direction of the palace.
This was unbelievable, there was a fire shooting into the sky from the palace!
The palace is on fire!
Everyone also saw this scene, and the imperial concubine who was accompanying him was shocked. He turned around and ran back in a hurry, but was stopped by Li Yunze.
"Think carefully about the order you received."
After calming down, the captain raised his hand and patted his forehead.
The order they received was to escort the Wu family's wife back to Lijiazhuang safely.
Now they are just leaving the city gate. If something unexpected happens along the way, even if they transform into rain masters and extinguish the palace fire, they will still die.
"Of course someone has to do the work of putting out the fire." Li Yunze on horseback called to the school captain guarding the gate, "Close the city gate tightly. No one is allowed to enter or exit without the imperial edict and the tiger charm."
A fire in the palace at night will inevitably cause turmoil, but as long as the gates of Chang'an City are closed, everything will gradually calm down after dawn.
The most terrifying thing at this time is panic, because in panic, you will do many things you shouldn't do.
Glancing at the blazing palace again, Li Yunze turned to look at the carriage.
'The last time Wu Meiniang went to the palace, the appearance of the Tengu eclipsing the sun must be superstitious. But this time it was a bit too coincidental.'
The motorcade exited the city gate, and there was a dull "creeping" closing sound behind them.
Li Yunze rubbed his chin, wondering whether the fire was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.
The road back to Lijiazhuang was very quiet, even too quiet.
Li Yunze, who was on horseback, suddenly turned around and called out to the palace guards, "Are you wearing armor?"
The captain was stunned for a moment and responded quickly, "They all have inner armor."
The woolen clothes provided by Li Yunze look very good and are in line with Li Er's aesthetic sense.
Therefore, all the palace guards have been replaced, but they still wear inner armor as protection.
Li Yunze smiled, stretched out his hand and picked up his bow, "Get ready. Just protect the carriage after the fight starts. I will take care of the rest."
The carriage stopped, and the palace guards quickly surrounded the carriage.
Li Yunze raised his bow and nocked an arrow, and released it in one go.
The sharp arrow roared out and rushed directly into the darkness on one side of the road.
Originally, the palace guards thought Li Yunze was suspicious, but when a scream came from the darkness and a large number of men in gray hurriedly rushed out from both sides, they were shocked to realize that there was actually an assassin.
Li Yunze raised his bow and arrows, and arrows rained down like arrows. In the blink of an eye, he killed thirty people.
When the arrows are exhausted, he simply holds the handle of the horizontal sword, draws it out, and rides forward.
In a flash of lightning, a fast horse passed by a person, and his head flew up!
He truly fought his way out among thousands of troops.
Even though he changed careers and became a behind-the-scenes job in this world, his skills were not lost.
The horse rode back and forth among the crowd, constantly harvesting the lives of the men in gray.
The men in gray who planned to make a surprise attack even arranged a trap on the road not far ahead.
But he never expected that Li Yunze would be so alert. Not only did he discover their traces in advance, but he also killed almost half of them with one move.
The leading assassin shouted a few times, calling for the men to attack the carriage first, while the people around Li Yunze were responsible for trapping him.
Finally someone thought of killing the horse first, the sharp arrow flew towards the horse, and the ax struck the horse's leg.
Li Yunze, who felt sorry for the horse, pulled the rope between his belly and jumped directly into the air to attack. Then he got off the horse and patted the horse's butt to let it run away. He rushed into the crowd with a horizontal knife.
Li Yunze's skills were honed on the battlefield, and he focused on killing with one blow.
There is no pretentiousness at all, just use speed and strength, and use experience to make predictions to destroy the opponent.
When he cleared the assassins on one side of the road and stepped back onto the road, there were a large number of hurried footsteps at both ends of the road.
The palace guards guarding the carriage were a little panicked, thinking that reinforcements from the assassins had arrived.
Li Yunze shouted loudly, "This is Chang'an City, where are there so many assassins? Reinforcements are coming."
Those who came were indeed reinforcements. On one side were people from Baiqisi, and on the other side were the government soldiers stationed in Lijiazhuang to protect them.
They killed the assassins who were blocking them and hurried over.
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, the leading assassin shouted hello and was about to run away, but Li Yunze threw the sword over and hit it on the back, breaking his spine.
He stepped forward, knelt down next to the assassin leader, pulled off his scarf and asked curiously, "From your accent, are you from Goguryeo?"
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