It was snowing all night, and the morning light had not yet appeared. There were a few bright lights in the house. Huo Linfeng was dressing and dressing, and every now and then he turned his face to look at Rong Luoyun on the bed.

Rong Luoyun rolled up the quilt, coveting the warm quilt, squinting, staring at Huo Linfeng with the last layer of filial cloth. He sat up and asked, "Is Emperor Cheng buried today?"

Huo Linfeng said "um": "After the monks of the Fa Temple recited the scriptures, they went to the imperial mausoleum."

The door was pushed open, without knocking first, it was Lu Zhun who was so unruly. The little God of Wealth was radiant, wearing a purple jade crown sensually, walked in, and sat beside the bed.

Huo Linfeng said, "The third palace lord got up really early, is there something wrong?"

Lu Zhun replied: "I want to go out for a walk." He said it seriously, "Chang'an is the foot of the emperor, but it can't be done in vain.

Rong Luoyun asked, "Are you going out to rob the Dao?"

Lu Zhun raised his hand and touched the jade crown. He had asked the master to calculate it. Robbery is a fierce job, and it is easy to cause disaster. If you want to crack it, you need to wear brighter clothes to add a touch of joy. As the saying goes, "beautiful purple and bright red", when the national mourning wears red to seek death, then wear purple.

He also knew that Chang'an was heavily guarded, unlike the Xiganling Mountains, where the emperor was far away. "Brother Huo," he flattered, "you must know where the slack is, can you point out a clear way?"

Huo Linfeng has always held revenge: "Don't call the second sister-in-law?"

Lu Zhun's face changed very quickly: "What second sister-in-law, you are a dignified general, and my second brother became the general's wife."

Inside the bed, Rong Luoyun lifted the quilt and kicked Lu Zhun out with one foot. Huo Linfeng couldn't help laughing. He walked to the bed and leaned over to hold Rong Luoyun's face, and said, "I'm in the palace, you can sleep again. a while."

After speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave, but stopped, Huo Linfeng said again: "San Gongzhu, it's a national mourning right now, and there are countless treasures offered to you all over the place. There is a post house fifty miles outside the city, do you understand?"

Lu Zhun got up and said, "I understand, I understand!"

Huo Linfeng said: "Then take your second brother with you, and let him go around too. He has grown flesh all day in the mansion." He walked out and walked out of the bedroom neatly.

Rong Luoyun froze on the bed, where did he grow? Raising his hand and pinching his arm, he stroked his belly again. He got out of bed barefoot and ran to the mirror stage. He looked at the bronze mirror carefully, and didn't feel fat...

Lu Zhun approached: "Second brother, when I woke up, I heard Du Zheng ordered people to prepare horses. Could it be that Brother Huo and Prince Rui rode to the palace?"

Rong Luoyun returned to his senses: "Only Linfeng himself." Yesterday, Meng Tingyuan came back to explain some things, and he went back to the palace overnight, "Why do you remember and ask Prince Rui?"

Lu Zhun didn't want to mention Prince Rui, he heard other people's secrets and endured it all night. He whispered, "I talked to him yesterday." With an unfathomable expression on his face, "Second brother, you don't know, Princess Rui actually..."

After three or two sentences, Lu Zhun shook Meng Tingyuan's husband and wife secretly, and Rong Luoyun was stunned for a while. After thinking a little, he felt that it should be expected.

He urged: "Don't tell others about this, remember?"

Lu Zhun pondered, this is also considered a royal secret. If this is the condition, will Prince Rui want to reward him with a sum of money...Silver, gold, South Sea pearl and red agate, he leaned on the mirror table with his hands on his cheeks , the more you think about it, the more beautiful she is, showing a silly and silly smile.

Taking advantage of that fool's unrestrained ambition, Rong Luoyun changed his clothes, tied a high ponytail, and when he was dressed, he knocked Lu Zhun's forehead hard, shattering the other's daydreams.

The two brothers left the garden, did not walk through the main entrance of the palace, leaned against the high wall, and when they landed again, they were already somewhere in the south of the city. The city gates were heavily guarded, and all entry and exit had to be strictly checked, and it took half an hour to finally pass the border.

As soon as they left the city, several important official roads were filled with Xiaowei troops. Hugh said they were robbing the road, and even driving on the road was in plain sight. Rong Luoyun and Lu Zhun judged the situation and chose a no-man's-length path to travel south through the desolate forest.

No one was seen along the way, and after about twenty miles, Rong Luoyun paused and sniffed, smelling a rancid, bloody smell. followed the smell, and gradually, walked to a withered and yellow bush, covered with thick snow, and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Lu Zhun covered his mouth and nose, took a machete to push aside the bushes, the stench became stronger, and used the knife to grate away the snow, only to see a few corpses lying there.

"Second brother, look!"

Rong Luoyun stared at it, moved his eyes farther, and said, "It should also be in front." He broke a branch and approached, grate away the covered snow all the way, exposing the corpses one by one.

There are sixteen people in total, without weapons, all dressed as ordinary people, including old and young women and children. This road is secret, who committed the murder, and why were these helpless people killed?

"That..." Lu Zhun swallowed, "Isn't it because he was killed by robbery?"

It was impossible, but Rong Luoyun had sharp eyes and used a branch to pick up a bag, and two pieces of silver fell out of it. Looking at the others, many people's luggage is still there, it can be seen that the murderer is not trying to make money, but simply killing.

Rong Luoyun said, "The third child, let's keep going."

They were facing south, and the smell of dead people was thick or weak, but it never broke, and bodies were found one after another under the bushes. After walking forty miles, Lu Zhun wiped his face and muttered, "There is no one along the way."

These words reminded Rong Luoyun that it was unusual to see only dead bodies and no living people in the forty miles away. After a moment, he realized that this road was not guarded by officers and soldiers, and that some people had walked, but they lost their lives in a row, and now no one dared to walk.

It seemed that Huo Linfeng knew something was different, and he deliberately asked them to investigate.

Rong Luoyun said: "The third child, go up the tree."

A few swirling withered leaves, Rong Luoyun and Lu Zhun immediately hid, and waited for ten miles to pass, fifty miles away from Chang'an City, to reach the exit of this dense forest. Outside the forest is a deserted road, and there is no post house at all.

Rong Luoyun leaned against the branches, his ear bones moved slightly, and he used the six-way Sanskrit sound to detect a little movement. The sound of hoofs, the rolling of wheels, and the orders to drive, he waited with bated breath, not knowing which group of people was walking on such a deserted path.

After half a column of incense, nearly a hundred people approached, all dressed in ordinary clothes, but their appearance could not be concealed. Rong Luoyun had seen it in Saibei, and that was the unique momentum of soldiers.

When the team came and passed under the tree, Lu Zhun wanted to fly to intercept it, but Rong Luoyun grabbed his back. He pressed his voice and asked, "Second brother, will you meet them if you don't go down?"

Rong Luoyun said, "Don't startle the snakes, let them go."

When a group of soldiers and horses gradually moved away, Rong Luoyun jumped off the tree and patrolled along the rut. Suddenly, he leaned over to pick up a feather and put it on top of the snow, indicating that it had just fallen, and there was no bird frozen in the deep forest in this scene.

It can only be... it fell from the carriage.

Rong Luoyun woke up and said, "It's Feather Arrows." That truck, bags of sacks, must have been loaded with weapons and food and grass, and so many people died along the way, indicating that these soldiers of unknown origin were by no means the first batch. .

Knowing this, Rong Luoyun and Lu Zhun continued to ambush. In one day, three groups of people passed by, and it was almost dusk when the last group arrived. The brothers followed, and when they reached the outside of Chang'an City, the soldiers did not go through the main gate, but entered the city through the corner gate on the west side.

Such a suspicious team, three batches a day, were able to enter the city smoothly, showing that the inside and outside were fundamentally united. Rong Luoyun and Lu Zhun did not delay any longer, walked through a few alleys, and returned to Prince Rui's mansion after a while.

Turning over to the ground, Lu Zhun was startled: "Oh!"

Under the tree beside the wall, Huo Linfeng stood with his elbows crossed, and said with a smile, "I guess you will show up from here, come and wait." Then Rong Luoyun turned over, he took a quick step forward with his eyes and hands, and opened his arms to catch the person .

Holding firmly for half a circle, the jacket brushed off the snow on the tip of the head, like falling flowers in spring.

Huo Linfeng asked, "What did you gain from the robbery today?"

Rong Luoyun snorted coldly: "I'm too embarrassed to ask." He raised his legs and jumped down, grabbed a palm and slapped Huo Linfeng's chest, "General Huo, you are really cunning."

Huo Linfeng let it beat: "I'm afraid that I'm too clear, but it will make you lose interest."

As he spoke, he walked to the Zhe Garden, and when he closed the door and entered the house, he dared not to be relieved. He said it more clearly, Rong Luoyun said: "Fifty miles outside the city is connected to the deserted mountain road. Today, three teams of soldiers and horses entered the forest, armed with weapons and forage."

Huo Linfeng asked, "How many people are in the team?"

Rong Luoyun thought about it for a while: "The minimum is nearly a hundred, and the maximum is two or three hundred."

He raised his face, Huo Linfeng dipped a damp cloth to clean his face, and the killing hand with the sword was so gentle that it even made him a little itchy. He asked, "Sneaky, whose soldiers are those people?"

Huo Linfeng said, "You forgot? Chen Ruoyin has recruited soldiers and horses over the years, and now it finally comes in handy."

On the small couch, Lu Zhun was so hungry that his chest was pressed to his back. He was holding a box of snacks and gobbling down. Hearing the words, he stopped and said, spraying the scum of the dim sum, "What's the use? He wants to rebel?"

Huo Linfeng said lightly: "Wrong, he is afraid that someone will rebel."

Huo Linfeng will not give up on collusion with the barbarians, even if the new emperor protects him, he will force Chen Ruoyin to pay the price. At that time, Chen Ruoyin will be able to buckle a hat of "treachery", and then send troops to suppress it, which is justifiable.

Rong Luoyun asked, "What are you going to do?"

Huo Linfeng shouted outside the house: "Du Zheng, ask Tian Che to come over."

It was already dark, Du Zheng carried the lantern and called to Tian Che, Huo Linfeng sat at the table and waited, not long after, Tian Che came in uniform and waited for orders by the door.

"Let's arrange it," Huo Linfeng instructed. "The ten elite horsemen are divided into two teams, and they are ambushed in the deserted forest forty miles outside the city, taking turns. If there are soldiers who join the forest, no one is allowed to go out alive. "

Tian Che took the order: "Yes, I will do it immediately."

This is about to kill and see blood. Lu Zhun put down the lacquer box, walked to Rong Luoyun's side, and asked, "Second brother, is something wrong?"

Rong Luoyun said calmly: "Everything is as expected and within the plan, and it doesn't count."

Lu Zhun went to ask Huo Linfeng again: "Brother Huo, Chang'an won't fight?" He was unavoidably apprehensive, as Dingbei Hou was so powerful that he died in battle, so he knew it was dangerous.

Huo Linfeng heard cowardice, and said deliberately, "In order to get rid of traitors, it is natural to fight fiercely."

Lu Zhun thought to himself, one more of him is not more, one less of him is not more, if he loses, he will die, and if he wins, he will not be awarded an official title... He hesitated for a moment, then said sternly: "Second brother, the New Year is coming, I want to go back to Xiganling."

Rong Luoyun broke it down: "Why are you so greedy for life and fear of death?"

The most taboo thing for Jianghu people is "greed for life and fear of death". Lu Zhun covered it up and said: "No...so much money in the Tibetan Gold Pavilion has not been spent yet. If something happens to me in Chang'an, wouldn't it be impossible for me to rest my eyes..."

Huo Linfeng and Rong Luoyun couldn't help but burst into laughter. Lu Zhun was so embarrassed, he added, "Actually, I miss eldest brother. When he came here, eldest brother told me to teach me how to do it..."

The room was lively, when there was a knock on the door, it was the housekeeper of Prince Rui's mansion.

The housekeeper reported: "Young Master Rong, someone from outside the mansion is looking for him."

Rong Luoyun asked, "Who is that?"

The housekeeper replied, "He said his name was Duan Huaike."