Chapter 141 In Progress
The north wind was blowing snowflakes, and the wooden house was bleak outside, but the wooden house was warm and pleasant under the warmth of the stove.
Lin Yiyan and Fazhi rubbed their hands. They didn't quite understand what Zhao Jue meant. And Zhao Jue was too lazy to continue explaining. The chess pieces just fell. What the chess player was thinking had nothing to do with them.
He was dry-mouthed after talking for a long time, so he simply ignored the two of them and drank the tea with little tea flavor.
"Lord Zhao, how many days will it take? I don't think Lord Lu will be happy if this goes on?"
Zhao Jue thought about it, and silently calculated the time it would take to get here from the capital, and said, "At most seven days, if it's fast, maybe it will be over in two days."
It took them less than seven days to get here, and if they galloped day and night, it would take at most more than two days, less than three days.
After all, an assassination would not take a day, so his estimate was reasonable, as long as something really happened in the capital.
"What if there is still no result after seven days?" Fazhi asked softly.
After a little thought, Zhao Jue covered the teacup and said, "Then I will go all out. Let's kill the two of them together. Nothing will change."
"It's only seven days. They can't enter the first rank."
This is what the two of them are worried about. They are in a hurry to find Zhao Jue just to make a quick decision. If someone from the other side enters the first rank, it will be too late.
Lin Yiyan nodded slightly. He felt that he had grasped something, but Zhao Jue's last words were unclear and hard to guess. He simply stopped worrying about it. If the sky falls, there will be tall people to support it. It won't be his turn.
"Master Zhao, we still have to be careful. How about this, we can inquire once a day to avoid more accidents?"
"Okay." Zhao Jue agreed without thinking.
Seeing Zhao Jue agreed, Lin Yiyan continued, "Master Fazhi and I will go tomorrow, and Master Zhao will go the day after tomorrow. We will take turns and meet at midnight to inform each other of the situation."
Fazhi and Zhao Jue nodded at the same time and had no objection to Lin Yiyan's proposal. Zhao Jue was good at Qinggong, so he was enough alone, but the two of them were not as good, so it was safer for them to travel together.
It was a matter of life and death, so there was no need to show off. Both of them understood this simple truth.
After the finalization, the two did not stay any longer. After bowing and saying goodbye, they hurried back on the snow. Zhao Jue changed the pot of tea, sipping the strong tea and looking down the mountain.
"Lord Lu, are we all chess pieces? Or... am I the only one?"
Lu Wenyu, who was drinking tea in the tent at the foot of the mountain, seemed to be a little aware of it, and looked up the mountain with a tacit understanding.
The hot tea in his hand floated with wisps of white smoke, covering Lu Wenyu's sharp eyes. At this moment, the eyes of the two seemed to meet in the air, although they didn't know it themselves.
A man in black came into the tent, bowed and said carefully, "Sir, everything is ready."
"Okay, I got it. You can go back to the capital. I'm here, so there won't be any trouble." Lu Wenyu gently waved his hand to send the man away, then walked out of the tent wrapped in a cloak and looked at the mountain from afar.
"It's been two days, and there has been no movement on the mountain. It seems that someone has seen something." He murmured, and naturally felt that the person who could see the mystery was Zhao Jiu.
Although he didn't understand why he had this idea, his intuition told him that it was probably Zhao Jiu.
"He is an interesting person, but unfortunately he is not the right person. A chess piece is a chess piece, even if this chess piece is smart enough, that's all..."
"The farce should end..."
The West Garden of the Imperial Palace in the capital.
The sky was flashing with thunder and lightning, and the red light was diffused, like a strange painting. I don't know what kind of painter can make such a gorgeous painting.
Yuan Zhuo sat cross-legged on a chair, indifferent to the things in the sky, looking down with interest at the thin layer of snow on the ground, and even pretended not to see the tea brought by the eunuch.
As a result, a cup of good tea was changed again and again, hot and cold. The eunuchs could not figure out the emperor's thoughts, so they had to stand on both sides with their hands down and kept silent.
"What a snow! What a red snow!" Yuan Zhuo murmured thoughtfully.
The eunuchs did not understand what the emperor meant, so they naturally did not dare to respond casually. It happened that Chen Jing came back at this time, and the eunuch hurriedly repeated Yuan Zhuo's words and asked Chen Jing for an answer.
After listening to Chen Jing's frown, he could not guess the meaning, so he simply did not answer. He walked quickly behind Yuan Zhuo, "Master, you have been sitting for more than an hour. Have a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up."
"I am not cold! It is you servants who feel cold, go back! Chen Jing, if Daban was here, you would not say these words!"
The eunuchs could hear the displeasure in Yuan Zhuo's tone, and knelt down without thinking. Chen Jing took a step before he finished speaking and knelt down first, "I deserve to die. Master is blessed by the heavens and protected by the Three Pure Ones. How could he be afraid of this little cold wind? It is the slave who can't speak, the slave slaps his mouth."
As he said this, Chen Jing raised his hand and slapped himself twice. He wanted to continue but was stopped by Yuan Zhuo.
"Okay, get up, I am not a tyrant, I will not chop off your heads for a little thing!"
The eunuchs looked at Chen Jing together, and only stood up with lingering fear after seeing him stand up, lowering their heads and not daring to make a sound.
"Chen Jing."
"I'm here, what do you want me to do?" Chen Jing replied hurriedly. He couldn't figure out the man in front of him at all, so he could only listen.
"Go and ask the imperial kitchen to light a fire, this night won't end like this." Yuan Zhuo ordered.
The light in the sky was fading, and the main event was about to begin. He had to sit here and wait for those who had evil intentions.
"Yes, I'll go right away."
"Xiao Lingzi, Xiao Lizi, serve the master well. If anything goes wrong, we will kill you!"
After saying this, Chen Jing hurried out, and the two people whose names were called stood tremblingly behind Yuan Zhuo, with their heads lowered.
The night was dark, and when countless people in the martial arts world were looking at the battle in the palace, a middle-aged man who looked like a butler knocked on the back door of Nuanxiang Pavilion.
"Is the young master here?"
"He's on the top floor and hasn't left yet." The person who opened the door replied.
The middle-aged man nodded and hurried inside.
A moment later, the door on the top floor was knocked. The middle-aged man pushed the door open and bowed, saying, "Master, there is movement from the Third Prince. His housekeeper just quietly went out from the back door and was seen by our people."
"Got it." Yuan Jin waved him out, turned to look at Yuan Yin, and said, "How is it? I said someone would not be able to help it. Haha, they are really anxious."
Yuan Yin put down the wine glass and asked a little puzzled, "Second brother, you are not guessing, are you?"
"No, tonight is the best opportunity!"
"Opportunity?" Yuan Yin was a little puzzled and asked, "What's going on? What does the emperor want to do?"
Yuan Jin looked out the window and said softly, "What's going on? Haha, isn't it just that someone wants to sit on the dragon throne? There's nothing strange about it."
"As for what the emperor means..."
"He just wants to be at ease in the northern expedition."
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