cpa300_4(); When I looked up, the ship was docked.

Immediately, the attendants and shipwrights on the ship all walked out and began to get busy on the side of the docking, and Wu Yanqiu had been standing far away on the deck on the other side with a few people from the Praetorian Guard, and he also walked cautiously at this time.

I glanced at him.

The originally calm, even a little blank eyes, became extremely clear at this moment, as if they had just accidentally had a dream, and were dragged into the memory of many years ago, which made people a little indistinguishable, but now, looking at the busy figures in front of them, I felt the undulating waves under my feet, and the faint smell of water in the river breeze, and the distance between reality and memory was immediately abruptly highlighted.

Li'er had already walked over with Gu Ping and said happily: "Mother, we have arrived in Yangzhou!" ”

"Hmm."

I nodded, perhaps a little bit of a mind that had not yet been retracted, and I looked up at the pier and the seemingly familiar scenery, and for a moment I was a little dazed.

Back then, I tried my best to leave the city and go to Jinling on the south bank.

At that time, I only wanted to find Li'er and find my daughter, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of me, I had to break through, but now I have forgotten a little, at that time, did I think that what I might face was such a situation now?

How am I going to face this situation?

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The people who followed Pei Yuanhao went ashore, Li'er was already familiar with the way, seeing her jumping over in the crowd, my brows furrowed, and I was about to call her, but Gu Ping next to me had already stepped forward to stop her, and said, "Li-Li'er, there are many people here, don't run around." ”

"Oh!"

Li'er was stopped by him, but he was not unhappy at all, but still looked excited, ran back to my side, and said happily: "Mother, it's fun here!" ”

"Really?" I was worried about Chang Qing in my heart, and I was not in the mood to joke with her for the time being, so I only smiled faintly, but Li'er was still very excited and said, "Really, I like it here!" ”

I said perfunctorily, "So, where are we going to play today?" ”

“……”

She was stunned for a moment, didn't answer me, but turned back to look at Pei Yuanhao: "Where are we going to play?" ”

Pei Yuanhao met her gaze and looked at me again.

Then he said, "Let's go to the market for a while." ”

“……”

Li'er immediately nodded happily, but I was stunned for a moment when I heard what he said.

Visiting the bazaar?

Pei Yuanhao took us across the river to Yangzhou to play, but went to the market?

This is completely out of tune with his identity and his traditional temperament, and it can even be said to be an incredible thing, I even thought I heard it wrong, but he smiled and touched Li'er's head, and then said: "They said it was over there, and I heard that the morning market is still very lively." ”

I frowned even more.

Is he serious?

Tell me what happened next, and he was really- seriously. Wu Yanqiu asked a few guards, who were probably local guards in Yangzhou Mansion, to open the way in front, of course, it was not a big fanfare, but our group still looked mighty and went directly to an abandoned old dock not far from the dock.

As soon as you arrive here, you will feel the bustle of the water, the sound of the water, the sound of people, almost deep into the river deep into the stone bridge directly into a lively market, the early morning fishermen and hawkers are all here. The stone bridge is very wide, about two or three zhang wide, in the middle for people to walk, on both sides there are simple stalls, wet bamboo baskets and wooden boards are covered with all kinds of parallel goods, there are less than a finger wide, crackling small fish, there are almost half a human length of big fish, and live jumping prawns, and spread on the ground a large piece, watery almost transparent peach blossom fish, dazzling, reflecting the sun to reflect the dazzling silver light.

Most of our people here have seen such a market, and even Li'er has seen a lot of them in Jixiang Village, but Pei Yuanhao, although his face is still tense and heavy, but seeing that he was pulled by Li'er to look at those things, he didn't have the slightest reluctance, or felt that it was inappropriate, and he knew that he probably felt very fresh.

I just followed them faintly, glancing at them from time to time.

And Gu Ping, just behind me, the excitement around him couldn't disturb the calm expression on this young man's dark face, he had been looking around very carefully, a vigilant look.

I was about to tell him to relax a little, when I heard Li'er shouting loudly in front: "Mother, come quickly!" ”

I sighed, and walked over, it was a fisherman with a basket of green shrimp to sell, the shrimp are very fresh, lively, several jumped out of the bamboo basket on the ground crackling and jumping, Li'er reached out to pick up and throw it into the basket, laughing non-stop, saw me walking over, hurriedly said: "Mother, the fish and shrimp here are so fresh!" ”

"Hmm."

"I want to eat it too."

I looked at her with a smile: "Didn't you say it yourself just now, don't you beat the carp in the river in March?" ”

She was stunned for a moment.

At this time, the boss smiled and said, "Ouch, Mrs., it's summer, why don't you say anything about March." Besides, this year, the water is heating early, and the shrimp roe has already fallen. Madam, it's a blessing to be able to eat, how many shrimps are there in this river, and we can eat a little bit, how much can we eat? ”

Pei Yuanhao stood aside and listened quietly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "That's it? ”

The boss said again: "Seeing that the lord and the lady are so decent, and with such a delicate young lady, how can they not eat something fresh?" Look at my shrimp, they are fighting in the mist early in the morning, and they are all alive and kicking. ”

As he spoke, as if to confirm his words, a few more shrimps jumped up and splashed us in the face.

I listened to his words, and the water splashed on my face with a fishy smell, like a cold water poured down, which immediately made me frown slightly, but Li'er didn't notice the strangeness in his words and my displeasure at all, and was drenched in water and giggled, and turned back to me again: "Mother, buy some, okay?" ”

“……”

At this time, Pei Yuanhao also wiped the water stains on his face, and turned his head to Li'er and said, "Let's eat less, and we don't want to eat all the fish and shrimp in the river." ”

Li'er nodded immediately.

He looked at me again, "How's it going?" Shall we buy some? ”

His attitude is half unfamiliar and half close, but in the eyes of the shrimp boss, we are like a family, this kind of close to you, as if the atmosphere of a family makes me a little uncomfortable, or difficult, but looking at Li'er's happy smile, I can't bear to refuse stiffly, so I just reluctantly said: "It's good that you are happy." ”

As soon as she heard this, Li'er immediately happily went to pick shrimp.

Pei Yuanhao glanced at me, didn't say anything, turned around and accompanied Li'er to choose, the two of them chose some fresh shrimp, and after that, Pei Yuanhao turned around and left, Wu Yanqiu immediately brought someone up to pay.

He looked at me and smiled faintly.

At this time, Pei Yuanhao and Li'er had already been attracted by the fish on the next stall, I took two slow steps, landed beside him, and said with a smile: "Lord Wu, this has been a hard time. ”

He didn't know why I suddenly started talking to him, but he immediately said respectfully, "Madame's words are serious. ”

"I've been busy these days, but I haven't had time to talk to Lord Wu in detail."

"I don't know what do you want to talk about, madam?"

I looked at the two figures in front of me, one big and one small, although their mood seemed to be very relaxed, but my mood couldn't help but be a little heavy, and said softly: "I heard Li'er say that there seemed to be some accident yesterday?" ”

Wu Yanqiu immediately glanced at me.

"yes. It was the protection of the lower officials that was unfavorable, but fortunately the emperor did not blame him. Wu Yanqiu said, and said: "I also hope that I didn't scare Princess Li." ”

I was slightly stabbed by the title of "princess", and Wu Yanqiu also felt my face change, but I didn't dwell too much on this detail, but asked, "Did you catch it?" ”

Wu Yanqiu looked at me with a smile: "Madam...... Still concerned about the emperor's affairs? ”

I smiled faintly: "Didn't Lord Wu see that it is my daughter and myself who are following your emperor now." ”

"I'm sorry, the lower official lost his word."

Wu Yanqiu bowed to me weakly, and then said: "Actually, Madame don't have to worry too much, the emperor is going south this time, and it is very safe to be protected by the Praetorian Guards, and yesterday it was also because Du Yan wanted to catch the assassin, and the emperor also said that he was too aggressive, so he would be injured." ”

Too presumptuous......

When I heard these four words, my heart couldn't help but move.

If it is said that Du Yan, as a Praetorian Guard, protects the safety of the emperor and arrests assassins outside of this, this is definitely his duty, why would Pei Yuanhao give him a "too aggressive" evaluation. Could it be that

Pei Yuanhao didn't want him to catch the assassin at all?

By the way, I have guessed before that the origin of those assassins, if Jinling and Xichuan are excluded, then the assassins are likely to be sent by those powerful gentry who were influenced by the New Deal and had a grudge against the emperor. Pei Yuanhao probably knew that he was now opposed to them, but at least he still maintained a superficial peace, and those people only made some small moves and did not make a big splash on the table.

However, if the assassin was captured alive by Du Yan, if the interrogation came out, Pei Yuanhao would not be able to suppress such a big thing, after all, assassinating the emperor, even for the sake of face, he could not ignore it, if he asked those people for the crime, once they jumped over the wall to resist the imperial court, then this apparent calm could not be maintained, and it was very likely that there would be wars like Jinling before.

That is the biggest obstacle to the New Deal.

Therefore, Pei Yuanhao said that Du Yan was "too aggressive".

That is, he was almost certain that the identities of the Assassins who had come to assassinate him were-

I couldn't help but frown.

But after thinking about it, if this is the case, then it shouldn't be me who is worried, and I have other things to worry about - Du Yan is not a person at the center of this power struggle, so he doesn't understand so many secret battles between you and me, but now he is designated by Pei Yuanhao as "too aggressive", I don't know what will happen to him.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked, "Then, did His Majesty the Emperor blame Du Yan?" ”