Chapter 261: What a big commotion

There were a lot of people coming and going in the palace late at night.

Liu Renyuan came out to inquire about the news late at night, so he naturally wanted to go back to the palace.

Outside the imperial city, Liu Renyuan saw his old troops and happily threw over two meat buns and a bottle of wine.

"Liu Zi, that's good. After I went to the Hou Mansion as an errand, I heard that you were promoted."

The man Liu Renyuan called Liu Zi was Liu Renyuan's old subordinate, and he was also Liu Renyuan's favorite young man before. He was smart, agile, and daring to fight. At critical moments, he was really willing to risk his life.

"Hey, Commander, you're back!"

"Um?"

"Bah, bah, bah, general, you're back." Liu Zi patted his mouth repeatedly, "Look at my mouth, hey hey hey."

"You guy, you don't know how to wear thick clothes at night. Can't our Jinwu Guards afford clothes?" Liu Renyuan looked at Liu Zi's look, feeling a little distressed.

Liuzi grinned: "It's mainly because I spent too much this month. Our Jinwuwei's clothes and uniforms are pretty good, so I didn't buy anything else."

Liu Renyuan shook his head and sighed: "You should go to less brothels. If you have nothing to do, find a girl to marry and give birth to a fat boy. That is the key."

"Hehe, the general is right, hehe, this thing I..."

Liu Renyuan nodded: "Eat, eat, it's okay tonight, it's just snowing. Come and see you, I know you are on duty here."

Liu Renyuan sighed: "You are a real person. You are not happy when I ask you to go on inspection. During inspection, you can go anywhere, but you prefer to be outside the gate of the imperial city. How cold it is."

Liu Zi wolfed down the meat, and the juice from the roujiamo flowed out from the corners of his mouth and onto his beard.

But Liuzi didn't seem to feel anything at all. He just stuffed the beard into his mouth and sucked it gently. The juice instantly became clean, and the beard was also clean, as if it had never been contaminated by anything.

"It's delicious, it's delicious. It's really nice to eat this hot food on such a cold day. General, please don't come out at night. It's great to have a fire in the Marquis' Mansion."

Liu Renyuan rolled his eyes. If nothing happened, do you think I would be willing to come out?

"Liuzi, let me ask you, are there many people entering the imperial city tonight?"

Liuzi, who was eating Roujiamo, was stunned for a moment and then came to his senses.

"General, that's you. If others ask, I don't dare to tell."

"It's going to be lively tonight."

Liu Zi's eyes flickered and he said a bunch of names in front of Liu Renyuan.

For a moment, Liu Renyuan couldn't hold himself any longer.

His Majesty's confidants were naturally expected by Liu Renyuan. After all, Yaya had worshiped so many godfathers. At this time, he heard that Yaya was being bullied and could not stand up.

But many of the Emperor's veterans and those who have retired have come out. What are these people doing?

"General? Would you like some too?"

"I won't eat, you can eat." Liu Renyuan was thinking whether his lie was too big, but the next moment, he thought of one thing. What if this was intentional by the Marquis?

…

There was a lot of snow outside the Datang Hotel. It had been cleared up early in the morning and was piled up on both sides of the street.

The weather is slightly cold, and the snow has not yet melted. It is piled up in front of the streets on both sides, like two rows of hills.

The people in line were in the shed, each one poking his head.

"Should it open today?"

"Probably. I had a rest yesterday. I didn't mention today. But I saw a few women going in this morning. They should be getting ready to go early in the morning."

There are still a lot of people waiting today, even though the weather is a bit cold. People in the shed look at each other and drink hot tea. The discussion was relatively secretive at first, but gradually it became louder.

"Have you heard that several people were arrested last night?"

"Oh? What's going on? Brother, you live in Xinghuafang. Did something big happen?"

The man smiled mysteriously: "Yes, I saw it by chance last night. I couldn't sleep at night, so I read for a while, then got up and looked at the snow outside. Then, I saw the snow outside Xinghuafang from the attic. Piles of people and horses hurried past, wearing black armor, tsk tsk, black armor."

The black armor in Chang'an made people panic for a moment.

"You know the last time Black Armor appeared."

The last time Black Armor appeared, it was the ninth year of Wude.

"Do you know the person who was arrested? Do you have any gossip?"

When the people around him heard this, they started to hold their breath and asked cautiously.

The people of Chang'an are naturally sensitive to gossip.

"Um, this..."

"It seems like they are from Xingyang..."

boom!

For a moment, people were silent for three seconds.

Suddenly, the sound sounded again, louder than before. With a pot of tea and a box of cakes, they could sit in the small tea stall for a whole day.

You can vaguely hear that many people in the crowd are talking about those who were arrested.

The movements last night were considered silent, but even the slightest step would leave footprints on the ground, especially on a snowy night.

On the attic of Datang Hotel, Liu Renyuan and Xue Rengui were greeting people to clean the snow on the eaves.

"The same goes for Mr. Marquis. Such a big thing happened last night, and he had no idea at all."

Xue Rengui muttered. It was obvious that he couldn't sit still last night.

There was a lot of movement in Xinghuafang.

"You know shit."

"Old Xue, it's okay to have sharp ears when living in Chang'an, but you can't grumble."

Liu Renyuan's eyes flickered: "It was very lively last night. Those who had family backgrounds in Chang'an were arrested by the Dali Temple. I don't know why, but they were arrested and questioned."

Xue Rengui glanced at Liu Renyuan silently: "Do you think I don't understand this?"

"All the people of the Zhaojun Li family were arrested. I heard from the doorman last night."

Liu Renyuan nodded: "Not only the Zhaojun Li family, but also the Xingyang Zheng family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Taiyuan Wang family..."

At the beginning, they were relatively large surnames, but later, they were all some inferior families that had only existed for one or two hundred years.

Liu Renyuan looked at the gray sky outside the window: "See, our Marquis is not that simple."

...

At this time, in the Lantian Marquis' Mansion, Liu Xuan was lecturing the maids.

"I, Liu Xuan, am a relatively simple person. The Lantian Marquis's Mansion is also a relatively innocent place. There are not so many intrigues, and there is no need to compete for favors. Just do your own things well."

"Of course, if you hear something on weekdays, just pretend you don't know, that's naturally the best."

When Liu Xuan emphasized that he was a simple person, Zheng Liwan was already faintly excited.

I heard that some black-armored soldiers went to Zheng's mansion last night.