After two days of unconsciousness, the female assassin Zi Chen woke up.

"You, you saved me? Who are you?" Zi Chen struggled to sit up. Because of excessive blood loss, her body was extremely weak. This simple movement was so exhausted that she was panting. Her big and unconscious eyes stared at Yang Hao nervously, with a deep hostility hidden.

"I am the Yang Hao you want to kill." Yang Hao put down the yellow book in his hand, blinked mischievously, and then he handed her the dagger used by Zi Chen, "Hold it, you will feel more at ease."

Zi Chen grabbed the hilt of the sword at a loss. She was so weak that she couldn't even turn over. How could she talk about using a sword? But she was still very grateful to Yang Hao for this kind-hearted move. According to Mosha's rules, the last thing the killer did after the mission failed was to use this short sword to end his life. Now that the sword is still in her own hands, she has reason to imply that she still has a chance and has not been in a desperate situation, so she doesn't have to be busy ending herself.

"Look, you are killing people with money. We have no deep hatred. Now that I have saved you, the account can be cleared."

Zi Chen was silent for a moment and nodded silently.

Yang Hao took out a small bag wrapped in white silk from the drawer and placed it in front of Zi Chen. After untiing it layer by layer, it was a piece of bread inside. He said with a little apology:

"You have injuries on your body, you should have brought you some good things. But the rules of the Spurs' Horse Academy are that students can only eat in the canteen and are not allowed to bring things back to the house privately..." Yang Hao paused for a moment, "It's not that you can't bring them at all, but doing that will inevitably arouse others' suspicion. I'm afraid that it will implicate you..."

His voice gradually became low, and his cheeks were so spicy because of shame. The Spurs did have rules that prevent students from bringing food to the dormitory, but that was just the rules on the wall and were not strictly enforced. He said those words according to Qi Mo's arrangement and lied to his face. He had not yet cultivated to the point where his face did not blush and his heart would not beat.

"It's okay, you should eat something light after being seriously injured. It's a big deal."

The woman stretched out her hand to Yang Hao with a little shyness. She was indeed a little hungry. Yang Hao hurriedly put the dough into her hand. He admired the woman's straightforward personality. The dough was cold and hard, but she chewed it with relish. Yang Hao felt a little reluctant to see that he got up and poured her a bowl of hot tea.

"What are you going to deal with me?"

"You can recover from the injury with peace of mind first. I will try to send you out after the injury is cured."

"Why do you want to save me?"

"You don't look like a bad guy, and I'm a good guy, so..."

At this time, a noise came from outside the door. Zi Chen was a little nervous. Yang Hao also pretended to be nervous, lying at the door and peeked out, and turned around and said, "Don't worry, it's a routine round check. I'll deal with it." The Spurs will conduct rounds on the student dormitory from time to time. There is a rule to follow, but this time the rounds were Qi Mo and the eunuch Wang Chun. The appearance of Wang Chun made Yang Hao feel a little strange.

"Miss Zichen is awake?" Wang Chun asked softly with his eyes narrowed.

"Just just woke up." Yang Hao felt very strange. How did Wang Chun know her name? Qi Mo said that only he and himself knew about this matter, and outsiders would not let anyone interfere. Did something happen?

"Can she walk?" Wang Chun asked again.

Yang Hao did not answer. He looked at Qi Mo who had been lowering his head, and his heart ached: Could it be that the emperor had not approved Qi Mo's plan and sent Wang Chun to execute her? No, no, now he wanted to kill her now, why did you do Qi Mo? Wang Chun went there personally and sent a golden sword guard with a rope to solve the problem.

"Don't think about it all. The emperor ordered her to let her go immediately." Qi Mo rolled his eyes at Yang Hao, and shrugged as he was like: "The opportunity to make contributions is gone, let's wait next time."

Yang Hao pulled Qi Mo aside and asked in a low voice: "Why do you want to let someone go? Doesn't Your Majesty hate Mosha the most?"

Qi Mo coughed lightly and said hard: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask."

Yang Hao was stunned. Qi Mo's expression when he spoke was stiff and strange, his eyes were full of anxiety and resentment. After leaving a few hard words, he turned around and walked out.

Yang Hao asked Wang Chun: "Has he been scolded by the emperor?"

Wang Chun narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Thunder, rain and dew are all kindness, and it is a blessing for the minister to be scolded by the emperor." When he said that the little eunuch looked around and said quietly in Yang Hao's ears, "He asked Li Xun to pickle it, so he was unhappy." Yang Hao couldn't tell the truth and falsehood. As the commander of the Jindao Guard, Qi Mo was only controlled by Han Yue, the general of the Left Jinwu Guard. Who is Li Xun, dares to scold Qi Mo?

"What is the reason?...Why can't Li Xun get along with him?"

"Hey, isn't it just for the sake of the Zichen girl in your room? Qi Mo said she wanted to fish for big fish with a long line. Li Xun said that her identity was very special and she could not move easily. He just gave General Qi Mo a blow without asking questions." Wang Chun kept shook his head and sighed when he said this. It was obvious that he was standing on Qi Mo's side.

"Let her go and take her to Chongming Inn in West City. General Yang, thank you for your hard work. Our family is still waiting to reply to the emperor." Wang Chun said with a sharp voice.

Chongming Inn is a semi-public stronghold of Mosha. Sending her back to Chongming Inn is equivalent to returning her to Mosha. A arrested assassin is now going to send her back. Yang Hao can't guess what Li Xun is doing. Fortunately, he has gradually gotten used to the divine nagging in the palace. After returning to the dormitory, Yang Hao said to Zichen: "There is a carriage carrying water out of the palace tonight. I have bribed the eunuchs with escorts, and they will take you out." Zichen nodded silently.

At the end of the 19th, Chang'an City had already entered a curfew. Yang Hao's carriage had four bright palace lanterns hanging in front and behind, and he was traveling smoothly. After the carriage was parked in front of the inn gate, the eunuch who was rushing to jump out of the car and smashed the door.

"Thank you for sending me back."

"You don't have to thank me. Actually, I have been lying to you all the time. I have known your identity for a long time. We originally wanted to use your approach to Mosha, but now Shangfeng has changed his mind, so we sent you back."

Zi Chen smiled slightly: "I knew it a long time ago."

The eunuch brought an old woman and a half-year-old girl. Yang Hao jumped out of the car first and reached out to help Zichen get out of the car, but she pushed it away. Then Yang Hao watched her jump out of the car in surprise, his movements were so clean that he didn't look like he had ever been injured.

"I lied to you too." Zi Chen snorted proudly, and his proud eyes slid past Yang Hao's face.

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In the ninth year of the Dahe River in the Tang Dynasty, three consecutive snowfalls fell just after November, one more and one more.

The snow started from dusk on the 17th until the early morning on the 19th, and the snow was three feet thick. This caused the eunuchs and maids in the Daming Palace. There should be no snow in the square in front of the three halls; there should be no snow on the crisscrossing paths in the inner court; there should be no snow on the roofs; there should be no snow on the roofs...

Seeing the eunuchs and palace maids busy, Yang Hao really wanted to go up and help them, but the rule in the palace was "Everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, don't care about the frost on others' ground." Even if it's just a simple task, he will not be allowed to reach out without permission.

November 19th is the third day when Yang Hao goes to Daming Palace to serve. Although one hundred people are unwilling to do so, Yang Hao still steps into Daming Palace again. He became Qi Mo's deputy and the Dianjun Captain of the Jindao Guard.

The total number of Jindao Guards is still 102, but the internal structure has changed a lot compared to a month ago. The three positions of generals, military supervisors, and military officers are still retained, but they are only awarded as empty ranks to generals in the army to express their honor and favor, and no longer actually hold military power. The Dianjun Academy Captain has been reduced from the original nine people to two, from the sixth rank to the ninth rank, and as the deputy of the chief military officer, the newly established military officer has become the real helmsman of the Jindao Guard. On the basis of the original nine teams, the Ruzi team is added, and each team still has ten people, nine soldiers and one team official. Among them, the Tianzi team is personally appointed by the General Officer.

Yang Hao served as the captain of the Right Military Academy, and his duty was to command the three teams of Ren, Lu and Jing to be responsible for the periphery of the surrounding patrols. This was a chore. The area of ​​the Daming Palace was too large, and the three teams had only thirty people. If the emperor was in Yanying Hall and Taiji Hall, it would be fine. If he was in the three main halls (including Yuan Hall, Xuanzheng Hall, and Zichen Hall), he would all be spread out, and the distance between them was too far, and it would be difficult to even say something.

In the past three days, Yang Hao has never taken off his golden armor. Half of it was snowing and cold, he really didn't want to take off his clothes. What's more, the pressure in his heart was too great. Both of them were on duty, and on duty in Xingqing Palace was not the same as on duty in Daming Palace. Fortunately, with Qi Mo's care, the officers of the three teams below were all loyal and honest people, and there was no trouble.

The morning of the 19th, it cleared up. The long-lost sunshine spread across every corner of the Daming Palace. The concubines who had been dormant in the house for more than half a month began to go out for fun. The gardens around Taiye Pool were laughing and laughing. Li Ang was very excited this day. After the morning court, he invited several important officials in the court and a group of scholars from the Hanlin Academy to enjoy the plum garden beside Taiye Pool.

Yang Hao was ordered to arrive outside the plum garden early to clear the ground for warning. The plum blossoms in the plum garden were in full bloom. From a distance, they were fiery red. Because the emperor was about to come, several small eunuchs were ordered to build a brocade shed in the garden as a place for the emperor to rest. There were charcoal braziers on the four corners of the brocade shed, and the shed was warm as spring. There was another shed beside the brocade shed, with a charcoal stove and a kettle inside to prepare tea and hot wine for the emperor and the ministers.

Yang Hao looked around vigilantly, not letting go of a trace of suspicious things. Many well-educated people in the Spurs are from palace guards and have very experienced experience. After Yang Hao was admitted to the hospital, he asked many advice and benefited a lot. Of course, Yang Hao also knew the truth that he could finally realize it. After staying in the Daming Palace these days, he asked Qi Mo and several older team officials for advice, and roughly mastered the key points of duty of the imperial guards.

It was originally a graceful thing to watch the plum blossoms on the snow, but it was also a tiring thing for the eunuchs, palace maids and guards. Because there were too many people and they were moving quickly, the eyes of the Golden Sword Guards were not idle for a moment. Suddenly, the two eunuchs outside the bamboo fence of the plum garden attracted Yang Hao's attention. The two people pretended not to know each other, but when they passed by each other, one suddenly stuffed something into the other's hand. After stuffing things, the man walked around the plum garden and towards the Hanbing Hall in the northwest corner. The little eunuch who picked up the things followed a group of eunuchs carrying wine jars into the plum garden.

Yang Hao signaled Wu Cheng, the officer of the Jingzi team, to lead someone to follow the eunuch who was heading to Hanbing Palace, and stared at the little eunuch who followed the plum garden quietly.

Nearly noon, Li Ang and a group of ministers came from the direction of Yanying Hall. The eunuchs and palace maids knelt to welcome the imperial carriage. As usual, the Golden Sword Guard did not need to kneel down to greet Qi Mo who was following Li Ang. This was the secret code agreed by the Golden Sword Guard. Blinking a glance indicates that there is something strange around and the inner guard needs to be vigilant. Blinking a few times indicates that there is danger, and it is advisable to advise the emperor not to get close; blinking three times indicates that the situation is urgent, and the emperor should be escorted quickly to transfer; if it is safe and nothing can be done, it will be changed to nodding. Qi Mo blinked his left eye and signaled that he already knew.

After Li Ang entered the plum garden, he did not go to the brocade shed to watch the plum blossoms along the path beside Taiye Pool. At this time, the waves rippling on the Taiye Pool, and the sun shines in the water, making it look like gold, setting off the pavilions, towers, flowers, willows and trees surrounded by silver. The scenery was very good. Everyone was in high spirits, and the scholars began to recite poems improvised, leaving laughter and joy on the path in the plum garden.

Yang Hao had no intention of caring about this, and his whole heart was on the little eunuch. When the emperor and the ministers were watching plum blossoms along the lake, several eunuchs were in a hurry to command the palace maids and eunuchs to cook tea and wine, and they were so busy that they could not do it. The little eunuch finally started to act. He pretended to bend down to pick up things, and secretly observed the surroundings. When he confirmed that no one was paying attention to him, he stood up and covered a pair of gold-painted tea bowls with his sleeves as if nothing had happened. His movements were extremely natural, and no one of the dozen eunuchs walked around him.

After a while, he moved his hand away and turned around and was about to leave when suddenly someone slapped his shoulder hard.

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Chapter completed!