Guan Ya nodded, led the two maids who followed out of the car, and went straight into the Yang Mansion through the middle door, crossed the courtyard and came to the backyard with the rich Jiangnan garden style.

She sent out her trusted palace maids from her rich family and knocked on the door of her father Yang Zhengli's study. Behind the large desk, a middle-aged man wearing a casual suit with a black fish embroidered with gold thread and cloud patterns and a chest-length green beard was holding a book in his hands, concentrating on reading it.

There was a hint of joy between his eyebrows and eyes. He stroked his beard from time to time while reading. It was obvious that he was in a very good mood. "Father, why are you so happy?"

Guan Ya turned around and closed the door!

Yang Zheng put down the scroll and smiled, "It was Ce'er who brought the victory report. The defenders raided the enemy camp last night and wiped out more than 50,000 Northern Dynasty soldiers and money. Such an achievement will surely shock the court. If he can defend Linxia and repel the Northern Dynasty, our Yang family will be the number one family in the Southern Dynasty!"

At this point, he suddenly looked directly at the girl Yang Yun, frowned and asked, "Aren't you going back to the palace? Why did you turn back?"

Guan Ya showed a hint of grace and said, "Father, the palace gates are closed, and your daughter cannot go back. The Imperial City Bureau said that your Majesty was assassinated last night, and the assassin is still lurking in the palace. The Imperial City Bureau is trying its best to hunt down the assassin. Before that, no one can enter or leave the palace. This is your Majesty's order!"

Yang Zheng was stunned for a moment, then his face changed drastically, something was wrong!

Guan Ya said, "Father, why do you say that?"

Yang Zheng sat at the table with a serious expression. He thought for three minutes. Suddenly, he stood up and paced around the study room like an ant on a hot pan. "Your Majesty, you were poisoned a few days ago, and you were assassinated again last night. With the ability of the Imperial City Division, it would be fine if they were careless once, but they let Your Majesty be assassinated twice in a row. This means that the regicide is in the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial City Division is controlled by the Zheng Family Hall."

Yang Zheng took a deep breath and said solemnly, "The Zheng family wants to rebel. How dare the Zheng family rebel?"

The Yang and Zheng families are old rivals. Yang Zheng is well aware of Zheng Wenhan's ambitions and the Zheng family's fear of the Yang family, but he did not expect that the Zheng family would dare to assassinate the emperor.

Guan Ya cooperated and showed a panic expression. "My family wants to rebel? What should I do?"

As a scout, with her ability to analyze intelligence and insight into the situation, she had already analyzed it before returning to the palace. However, Yang Yun, the daughter of the Yang family, was gentle and weak in character, so in order to maintain her character, Guan Ya actively explored and collected intelligence after waking up, and used her identities as the daughter of the Yang family and the Queen to almost understand the situation.

First of all, her main task is to help the Yang family gain the trust of the emperor, and the Yang family, led by Yang Ce, is firmly in the Southern Dynasty camp, which means that her camp is the Southern Dynasty.

Analyzing the identities and camps of her teammates from her own perspective, Guan Ya believed that Yang Ce was most likely Fu Qingyang, both in terms of level and profession.

Fu Qingyang perfectly fits the identity of Yang Ce. As for Yuanshi's identity, the current suspect is a tyrant.

After all, among the characters in the Southern Dynasty camp who meet Yuanshi’s level, there is the most important "king who lost his country". It is definitely impossible for a saint to become one. The only one who can compete with Yuanshi for the position of the tyrant king is Xiahou Aotian.

After all, Xiahou Aotian is also a dominant ruler, but Guan Ya feels that according to the hidden ratings of the two, Xiahou Aotian cannot be labeled as a tyrant.

If Yuanshi was the king, Guan Ya was relieved at first, thinking that it was impossible for a mere assassin to assassinate Yuanshi. But today, when she tried to return to the palace and was blocked, Guan Ya became anxious.

The palace is still under the control of the Zheng family, which means Yuanshi is in danger. How could a seventh-level Sun God fall into such a predicament?

Guan Ya has neither much nor little experience in participating in high-difficulty dungeons, so it is impossible to speculate the reason for the time being, but Yuanshi must have encountered difficulties.

So she went back to the Yang family to ask her father for help. Seeing his daughter panicking, Yang Zheng waved his hand and walked out of the court. He said calmly like a big boss, "Your Majesty has been assassinated twice in a short period of time. The Zheng family has sealed the palace gates and does not allow anyone to enter or leave. This just shows that the Zheng family did not succeed. Your Majesty may be hiding in the palace or not in the palace."

Guan Yaya nodded lightly: "That's why I didn't let my daughter return to the palace. By the way, father, I just came back and saw someone doing something strange in the mansion, so I asked the housekeeper to take it away!"

Hearing this, Yang Zheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, let's ask the butler to come over.

Guan Yaying bowed, opened the door of the festival room and called her personal maid to whisper a few words in her ear. The maid trotted away. Half a minute later, a middle-aged butler in brocade clothes came hurriedly.

"Master, Queen." The housekeeper bowed and Guan Ya immediately asked, "Have you caught the thief outside the mansion?"

The housekeeper bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I was careless and thought that the thieves outside the palace were Green Rats. Six guards were trying to capture them, but they were so skilled that they injured the guards and left calmly."

Guan Ya frowned and looked at Yang Zheng, "What do you think, father?"

Yang Zheng did not answer, but waved his hand at the butler to send him away, and then said in a deep voice, "Several masters disguised as peddlers are staring at my people."

He chewed for a few seconds and smiled after eliminating several guesses in his mind. "It seems that your majesty has escaped from the palace. When the queen mother chose you as the queen, I knew that she wanted to use the Yang family to check and balance the Zheng family. I think she has left a backup plan in the palace, otherwise your majesty would not be able to escape from the palace."

Guan Ya suddenly realized, "After His Majesty escapes from the palace, he will definitely try to ask you for help, so Zheng Wenhan is just waiting."

Yang Zheng stroked his beard and smiled, "Yun'er, please stay in the mansion for a while. Your father will find His Majesty."

On the way back from Yang's house along the main road of the capital, Jiang Jingwei complained, "Why don't you just go in? I'll throw a fireball over there, and we can go through it and get into the Yang's house. Then we can shout that the emperor is here, and those spies won't be able to stop us. Then we can contact the Yang family, right?"

Zhang Yuanqing laughed and said, "Then, the spies lying in ambush nearby will come up and finish us off, and we will escape, and the Yang family will come out to collect our bodies."

The queen patted him and said, "Jingwei is still a child, why laugh at her?"

The queen explained, "Jingwei, this may work, but there is a greater chance that you will be killed by the Yang family's hidden agents. Don't forget that the leader is seriously ill and his physique is weaker than that of ordinary people."

Jiang Jingwei looked dissatisfied, and the queen taught him, "The more difficult the dungeon, the more cautious you must be. You must learn to be cautious at every step, know yourself and your enemy, and don't always think about taking a gamble. If you gamble, you will lose eventually. Once you lose, the end result is to return to the spiritual realm."

"Sometimes we would rather give up the opportunity and maintain a cautious style and principles."

Jiang Jingwei said with an "oh, I understand" expression, but Zhang Yuanqing knew that for most fire masters, these advices and educations went in one ear and out the other, and when it came to actually doing things, they would still do what they wanted to do when they got emotional.

After patting Jingwei's head, the queen turned around and said to Zhang Yuanqing, "Boss, we should look for the missing teammates."

Brother Hongji and the Palace Master are saints. They can use saint-quality tools and items to cure the illness of the leader!

Because they were not familiar with the environment of the capital, they did not set a meeting place when they fled separately yesterday. They only agreed to leave a code word near where they were hiding, with odd numbers changing but even numbers remaining the same, and the symbol depending on the quadrant.

Of course, even if Guo Duzheng left a secret code, he didn't know if he would be able to meet successfully, so the team had another way to meet, which was to meet at Tianji Tower before the end of 72 hours.

Because Tianji Tower is the place where the national master observes the stars and worships the heavens, Zhang Yuanqing knows that the capital is too big to be found, and now the police are strictly checking, so he will definitely not be able to visit the entire capital during the day.

"If we are still wandering around before dusk, we have to stay in an inn, but staying in an inn is too unsafe. Inns and restaurants are the Zheng family's key search targets. The safest scenario is to get to Tianji Tower before the end of 72 hours." Zhang Yunqing said.

"What if our arrival at Tianji Tower coincided with the 72-hour crisis?" the Queen said anxiously!

You are trying to converge the world line, Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself, if this is really the case, there is nothing we can do.

After walking for a few minutes, Zhang Yuanqing was exhausted, so he found a restaurant to eat. After eating and drinking, he continued to walk towards the outer city.

When passing the city gate, I saw a surging crowd of people. In front of the notice board next to the city gate, people in cloth clothes blocked the notice board tightly. The crowd's discussions were accompanied by angry curses of "the foolish monarch's desolation and prosperity".

"This will bring eternal infamy upon the national teacher!" The local soldiers with swords standing by the notice wall turned a deaf ear to the angry curses of the people outside the knot.

Zhang Yuanqing came over and patted Jingwei on the shoulder, saying, "Get out of the way."

Jiang Jingwei plunged into the crowd like a loach, and the crowd was staggering. Jiang Jingwei relied on the brute force of the fire master to forcibly open up a passage.

Zhang Yuanqing and the queen took the opportunity to sneak in and finally came to the notice wall. There were three notices issued by the central government posted on the wall. The handwriting was not consistent and was in regular script. Zhang Yuanqing read the notices while listening to the clerk's recitation.

Suddenly, they understood the reason for the people's anger. It turned out that Emperor Zhao Shun wanted to recruit 300 boys and girls from the people, hold a ceremony to worship the heaven, burn the 300 boys and girls with sacred fire as a sacrifice to the Heaven, and pray for the generals and soldiers on the front line of the Southern Dynasty.

Zhao Shun also designated the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony to be presided over by the Imperial Master!

"Outrageous," Zhang Yuanqing muttered to himself.

The Zheng family was desperate. They used this unethical method to attract hatred for Zhao Shun, and then launched a coup d'état in a grand manner, and forcibly usurped the throne with the support of the national teacher.

Given the style of a tyrant monarch, it is impossible that he would fall into the trap because of 300 boys and girls. Therefore, the notice was not to force Zhao Shun to show up, but to forcibly create an enemy to pave the way for usurping the throne.

Amidst the shouts of "tyrant", Zhang Yuanqing led Jiang Jingwei and the queen out of the crowd, and walked through the inner city gate to the outer city. After walking a long way, the queen said, "Boss, do you know the history of the Han Dynasty?"

"If you have something to say, please speak up"

"In the Han Dynasty, there was an emperor named Liu He. He reigned for 27 days and did more than a thousand absurd things. Seeing how incompetent he was, the powerful minister Huo Guang summoned all the ministers, deposed the emperor and established a new one!" The queen looked back in the direction of the city gate.

"Zheng Wenhan wants to do something similar. He wants to find puppets to disguise themselves as you, and then control the imperial city to prevent any ministers from entering the palace. He wants to quickly burn three hundred boys and girls to death and forcibly depose the emperor."

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and said, "The enemies of the Zheng family will not allow him to do this. This kind of behavior is like killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of your own. All the civil and military officials in the court will definitely oppose it. Even if Zheng Wenhan is powerful, he will not be able to suppress the opposition. The only way to get to the throne is by mutiny!" said the queen.

"The only family in the court that has this ability is the Yang family, and the Zheng family can easily get rid of the Yang family. This is the convenience of holding the emperor hostage to control the princes."

"If the Yang family chooses to tolerate the Zheng family, then the plan can proceed!"

Zhang Yuanqing looked at the tall queen in surprise. If she could analyze these things, she was not just a vase!

Sure enough, all the dead who return are talented!

"Then what do you think we should do?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

Queen Wen shook her head. "I don't know, but from this incident I understand the importance of your side quest. Only by winning the hearts of the people can you truly control the capital."

Zhang Yuanqing pondered and said, "Let's take it one step at a time and see how it goes."

He needed some time to think about a countermeasure. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, they returned to his uncle's house in the south of the city. His uncle had not returned from work outside, and his aunt was sitting in the patio doing needlework.

Next to him was a seven-year-old kid, sitting on a small wooden board with a pile of dirty clothes in front of him. His sturdy little hands were struggling to poke at the clothes-poking board, using all his strength every time.

The little butt lifted up from the bench. Seeing the three people coming back, the aunt smiled warmly and said, "You are back. Have you found a job?"

He turned around and told his daughter to get some water for her cousins. The little girl said "Oh" obediently, wiped her chest with her little hands, and ran into the house. After a while, she came out with two cups of water.

She raised her head and handed the kettle to her cousin with a timid expression on her face.

Zhang Yuanqing looked at the girl's big round eyes and touched her head. "Thank you!"

The little girl's name is Wang Xiushu. I didn't see him when the girl checked in, but I just got to know him this morning.

She smiled shyly.

Zhang Yuanqing gulped down a few gulps of water and said disappointedly, "Aunt, I can't find a job!"

The reason Zhang Yuanqing and his two companions went out was to find a job. After all, their hometown was destroyed in the war, so they went to Liang to live with their uncle, but their uncle's family was not rich and could not afford to support three people.

My aunt also sighed in disappointment and said, "If you are strong, you can go to the dock to beg for a living! Ask your uncle to help keep an eye out for it and find a job that saves energy."

At this time, the little girl said crisply, "Mom, the clothes are washed!"

She pointed to the bamboo rack for drying clothes under the patio. Since she was too short, she could only let adults hang the clothes.

The queen took the initiative to help hang the clothes to dry and said, "These are your eldest brother's clothes. I'll ask Xiu'er to wash them. You can wear his first. I don't know if they will fit you!"

"Brother?" Zhang Yuanqing asked, "Is brother home?"

Auntie hesitated, and Wang Xiu beside her said, "Big brother is not at home. Big brother seldom comes back."

"Why?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

Wang Xiu subconsciously answered, "Brother Tai is from the Qinglong Gang. He fights outside every day and doesn't dare to go home!"

"Xiu'er!" Aunt shouted.

The queen's hand trembled and her clothes fell to the ground. Zhang Yuanqing, the only one from the Qinglong Gang, had a frozen expression for a moment. The queen's expression also froze. She turned her head stiffly and tried to look Zhang Yuanqing in the eye.

The Qinglong Gang was the organization that Wang Geji belonged to. The gang was determined to kill the tyrant and save the people. Seeing their reactions, the aunt thought that they had heard of the Qinglong Gang's bad reputation. Knowing that she couldn't hide it, she sighed and said, "That wicked boy is always brave and aggressive. He is afraid of implicating us in his countless enemies' affairs, so he rarely comes home. Every time he comes back, he comes and goes in a hurry, leaving behind the silver and leaving."

"I've been waiting for so long, but you insist on fighting and killing each other. Your uncle and I will just pretend we don't have this son!"

Zhang Yuanqing forced a smile and said, "Aunt, I will be your son from now on!"

Let’s change the place tomorrow!

Just then, a voice came from the door: "Mom, I'm back."