Lai Cheng glanced at the emperor cautiously, and said in his heart, Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not easy to hide Shen Leng's return, but he doesn't dare to say it, if he says it, His Majesty will say otherwise, why did I bring you here? So although this thing is not easy to do, he still has to do it hard, fortunately, his main occupation is to speak with his mouth, and the secondary occupation is the cabinet assistant.

The emperor glanced at the sky outside: "Forget it, don't go back to sleep, it won't be dawn in a while, I ordered someone to get some food, you eat with me, I haven't slept all night and I'm really hungry." ”

Lai Cheng bowed his head: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The emperor asked, "What do you want to eat?" ”

Lai Cheng: "If you don't have a good appetite in the morning, just eat whatever you want, and your majesty will eat whatever the ministers eat." ”

The emperor smiled: "I have given you a difficult matter, so I will treat you as a treat, and let them do whatever they want to eat, just say." ”

Lai Cheng: "It's not good to eat too greasy in the morning, it's lighter." ”

Emperor: "It's fine." ”

Lai Cheng: "Why don't you eat a hot pot?" ”

Emperor: "......"

The sky is still very dark, calculating that there is still about an hour or so before dawn, the opening time of the gates of Chang'an City is not set in stone, the opening of the city gate will be slightly delayed in winter, and it will be earlier in summer, according to the time of opening the door now, it is almost the time of dawn for Shen Leng to leave Chang'an City, and he is looking forward to the silly boy being able to get out of the city smoothly before dawn.

Of course, Lai Cheng understood the reason why the emperor couldn't sleep, Shen Leng didn't go out of the city for a while, and the emperor couldn't come down for a while.

"Hot pot."

The emperor seemed to be suddenly interested: "Then eat hot pot." ”

Lai Cheng: "It's a pity. ”

The emperor asked, "What is a pity?" ”

Lai Cheng: "The old dean likes to eat hot pot so much, especially he likes to eat hot pot quietly, and now it should be the old dean's favorite to be so quiet at this hour, but unfortunately, the old dean can't eat the hot pot rewarded by His Majesty." ”

Emperor: "Sir, I'm old, and I'm sleeping soundly at this hour, it's not good." ”

Lai Cheng: "Yes, it's not good, the minister just talks casually, the minister is not bad." ”

Emperor: "I understand. ”

Half an hour later, the old dean rubbed his eyes and entered the Mao Zhai, glanced at the steaming hot pot on the table, and sighed resentfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for thinking so much about the old minister at dawn." ”

The emperor pointed at Lai Cheng: "Your proud disciple was crying just now, saying that he was sad when he saw such a delicious hot pot that his teacher couldn't eat, and he couldn't control his sadness, and he was crying wow, I was distressed." ”

The old dean looked at Lai Cheng: "The old minister saw it, and he laughed sadly." ”

Lai Cheng sighed: "You can't be a student alone......

Emperor: "You mean you're having a hard time having breakfast with me?" ”

Lai Cheng: "Your Majesty forgives your sins...... The minister means that it is an honor for the minister to accompany His Majesty to dinner, but when he went to the court for a while, how to chat with the adults who were about to participate in General Shen Leng's speech The minister has not yet figured out how to use words, and Mr. also knows that when he was studying in the academy, the minister's writing was the worst, and he never wrote articles well. ”

Old Dean: "So, Your Majesty, Lord Lai means that he didn't even hit the draft when he scolded His Majesty before. ”

Lai Cheng: "......"

Old Dean: "Ginger is still old and spicy." ”

The night outside the Weiyang Palace is naturally the same dark, people walking in the dark will always have a little chill, there is a homeless old cat squatting at the mouth of the alley, it may have been staring at whether there are mice to eat all night, the people on the long street in the distance did not reach the shadow not far from it, the old cat was so frightened that the hair exploded, and the heart said where this is a lonely ghost from the wild ghost, it is definitely not a person, otherwise how can it walk so light that it doesn't even notice it?

Shen Leng walked to the mouth of the alley with a black line knife on his back, glanced at the old cat that slipped into the dark, and thought that maybe he was also a cat.

Cats want to catch mice.

This is the fourth house, according to Cao Chun's confession, he looked for it one by one, the first three were empty, and there was no one in the three hiding places, I hope there will be here, if he can't find it again, he can only leave Chang'an, His Majesty has said it so clearly, Shen Leng can't live up to it...... Although he was resolute when he returned to Chang'an, when he saw His Majesty's white hair on his temples and saw the complexity in His Majesty's eyes, he softened.

Stepping into the alley, the old cat should still be staring at him where he couldn't see in the shadows, Shen Leng suddenly had an inexplicable feeling, and the blood flow up and down his body seemed to be faster, this feeling often appeared before going to the battlefield.

He walked to the end of the alley, the door was closed, and through the crack in the door, he could see that there was light in the yard, and the person in the yard should be a diligent person, getting up so early.

Shen Leng pushed the door, it didn't seem to be forced, but the sound of the door opening was a little loud, and the door shaft was inferred by his palm force at the same time, and the two doors flew into the courtyard and landed not far from the young man who was sorting out his burden.

Zhen killed Shang very early, because he had to buy goods, if nothing else, his burden would be full after about half an hour, and he would go to Xicheng after two hours, afternoon is the time when people are most likely to be sleepy, and those Taoists in Xiangningguan should be no exception, if there is no accident, he will not be found if he quietly enters the backyard, after all, he knows very well that there is only one person living in the backyard, just like when he was in Fengningguan in Weiyang Palace, Xiao Zhang Zhenren likes to live alone, although he is very timid.

"Early."

Shen Leng raised his hand and shook it to say hello, not perfunctory at all.

"Early."

Zhen Killing Shang greeted him politely, and he was not perfunctory at all.

"Is business good?"

Shen Leng pointed to the burden, the merchant's burden is always larger, and if the two bamboo baskets are full, the weight should not be light.

"It's not easy to do."

Zhen Killer put down the flat burden in his hand, walked to the side of the basin and wrung it out, wiped his face: "It's not easy to do a small business, especially in recent days, in the past, you could get a net profit of about three taels of silver a month, but now it's probably less than one or two silver, so I planned to change my career after finishing today's business." ”

Shen Leng: "I'm really sorry to disturb you to change careers." ”

Zhen Killing Shang looked at the black scarf on Shen Leng's face: "Why don't you take it off and let me see it?" ”

Shen Leng: "No. ”

Zhen Killing Shang shook his head and sighed, "Is it interesting? Even though I cover my face, it's not like I don't know who you are. ”

Shen Leng: "Covering your face is a kind of respect. ”

It's a little hard to understand the Zhen Killer, who is that respectful?

Shen Leng asked, "You don't sell all the things?" ”

Zhen Kill Merchant: "It's more complete than the average merchant, after all, I have a lot of strength." ”

Shen Leng asked very seriously, "Are there any monkeys?" ”

Zhen Killing Shang's face was a little difficult to look at.

He wiped his face, pulled up the cuffs, returned to the burden, picked up the flat arm and weighed it, broke the flat arm with a click, and pulled out a very strange knife from the flat arm, this knife is very thin, the width of the blade is only about half of the Daning standard horizontal knife, and the length is about five inches shorter, but this knife does not look delicate, narrow and sharp, but there is an inexplicable sense of heaviness.

Zhen Killing Shang walked to the middle of the courtyard: "You came back for Ye Liuyun?" I understand that there is a sense of protection in my heart that will make me more courageous...... I'm thinking about how to excuse myself? There is courage when there is a reason, such as...... How do you feel about avenging my monkey? ”

Shen Leng nodded: "Yes, after all, it died so miserably." ”

Zhen Killing Shang looked around, and two figures appeared on the wall on the left, one carrying a knife and the other carrying a long and short sword, and there were also two people on the wall on the right, one who was squatting there like a cat had no weapons, and the other was standing with weapons, but still very large weapons, carrying them on his shoulders as if he was carrying half a door.

Behind Shen Leng, there was a young man in white standing at the door, carrying a blood-colored spear in his hand and a sword on his back, he seemed to be more murderous than Shen Leng, he should be pressing.

Zhen Kill Shang turned around, and there was a man standing on the roof, also dressed in white, carrying an iron hammer in his hand.

"Brought so many people."

Zhen Kill Shang sighed: "It can be regarded as taking me very seriously." ”

Shen Leng replied seriously: "It has always been our decent style to bully more and less. ”

Zhen Kill Shang was stunned: "What you said is really right, I can't argue on behalf of the evil villain." ”

He raised the knife in his hand and pointed at Shen Leng: "I heard that your knife skills are also known as a must in the army, just choose to use a knife, the knife is a man's weapon, as for other things, at most it is a toy, especially a sword, which is a murder weapon?" At most, it is an ornament, which the literati hang to play with. ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "I don't dare to say this, it's easy to be beaten." ”

Outside this small courtyard is about dozens of zhang away, and there are a few people standing in another small courtyard, Qing Cang, who originally noticed that Zhen Killing Shang was being targeted, was just about to leave, someone knocked on the door, he just walked out of the courtyard door from the door of the house was pushed open, and a young girl with a long sword on her back walked in the door, the girl was quite good-looking, with a straight figure and a heroic spirit.

A Taoist came in from outside the courtyard wall, also carrying a sword, but he looked a little clumsy, and the key was that the guy was still very nervous.

On the other side, there was also a person outside the courtyard wall, who looked a little fat, even if it was such a simple thing as jumping into the courtyard wall, it was not easy for him to do it, he was a little panting, holding a peach wood sword in his hand, and he also glued a yellow talisman on the peach wood sword.

On the roof, there was a middle-aged Taoist sitting cross-legged, drunk, probably drunk a lot.

I thought that the people who should have come came, but I didn't expect that there was a middle-aged Taoist outside the door with an old Taoist with a white beard and came in, the old Taoist walked a few steps and trembled, if no one supported him, a gust of wind would blow him down, and I don't know why such an old person came here.

Qing Cang felt a little unhappy.

He pointed to the side of the courtyard where the merchant was killed: "The configuration over there seems to be higher." ”

Erben Daoren shook his head: "You know a fart." ”

He secretly glanced at the tea master and said to himself: "This is the high." ”