Just as Guan Ya nodded, she led the two maids who had followed her out of the carriage, directly through the middle gate and into the Yang residence, crossing the courtyard to arrive at the back garden, which was rich in Jiangnan garden style.
She sent the palace maid, a trusted confidante brought from Duo Fu, to knock on the door of her father, Yang Zhengli's, study. Behind the wide desk, a middle-aged man with a blue beard reaching his chest, wearing a black fish-embroidered gold-threaded cloud-pattern casual dress, held a scroll in his hand, his mind focused on its contents.
A hint of joy was condensed between his brows. While reading, he occasionally stroked his beard, indicating that he was in an excellent mood. "Father, what makes you so happy!"
Guan Ya turned and closed the door!
Yang Zheng put down the scroll, his face full of smiles, and said with a smile, "It's Ce'er who sent good news. The garrison launched a surprise attack on the enemy camp last night, wiping out 50,000 soldiers and silver from the Northern Dynasty. Such merit will surely shock the imperial court. If he can defend Linxia and repel the Northern Dynasty, our Yang family will be the number one family in the Southern Dynasty!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly stared at his eldest daughter, Yang Yun, and frowned, "Aren't you going back to the palace? Why did you turn back?"
Guan Ya revealed a touch of sorrow and said, "Father, the palace gates are tightly closed, and I can't go back. The Imperial City Division said that the Emperor was assassinated last night, and the assassin is still lurking in the palace. The Imperial City Division is trying its best to search for the assassin. Before that, no one can enter or leave the palace. This is His Majesty's order!"
Yang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and 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 solemn expression, thinking for a full three minutes. Suddenly, like an ant on a hot pot, he stood up and paced back and forth in the study. "His Majesty was poisoned a few days ago, and assassinated again last night. With the Imperial City Division's ability, one careless mistake is fine, but allowing the Emperor to be assassinated twice in a row shows that the regicide is in the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial City Division is controlled by the Zheng family."
Yang Zheng took a deep breath and said with a grave expression, "The Zheng family wants to rebel. How dare the Zheng family rebel?"
The Yang and Zheng families were old rivals. Yang Zheng knew Zheng Wenhan's ambition and the Zheng family's fear of the Yang family, but he didn't expect the Zheng family to dare to assassinate the Emperor.
Guan Ya showed a look of panic in cooperation. "The Zheng family wants to rebel? What... what should we do?"
As a scout, with her analytical ability of intelligence and insight into the situation, she had analyzed it before returning to the palace, but Yang Yun, the eldest daughter of the Yang family, was gentle and weak. Therefore, to maintain her persona, Guan Ya actively explored and collected intelligence after waking up, using the identity of the eldest daughter of the Yang family and the Empress to roughly understand the situation.
First of all, her main mission was to help the Yang family gain the Emperor's trust, and the Yang family was firmly on the side of the Southern Dynasty, with Yang Ce leading the expedition. In other words, her camp was the Southern Dynasty.
Then, starting from herself, analyzing the identity and camp of her teammates, Guan Ya believed that Yang Ce was likely to be Fu Qingyang, whether in terms of level or profession.
Fu Qingyang perfectly matched Yang Ce's identity. As for the identity of The Way of the Extraordinary, the current suspect was the corrupt Emperor.
After all, among the characters in the Southern Dynasty camp that matched The Way of the Extraordinary's level, there was the most important "doomed monarch." A Saint was definitely impossible, and the only one who could compete with The Way of the Extraordinary for the position of the corrupt Emperor was Xiahou Aotian.
After all, Xiahou Aotian was also a Ruler, but Guan Ya felt that according to the two's hidden scores, Xiahou Aotian couldn't handle the card of a corrupt Emperor.
If The Way of the Extraordinary was the ruler, Guan Ya was initially very relieved, thinking that how could a mere assassin assassinate The Way of the Extraordinary? But after trying to return to the palace today and encountering obstacles, Guan Ya became anxious.
The palace was still under the control of the Zheng family, which meant that The Way of the Extraordinary was in a dangerous situation. How could a dignified Level 7 Day Wandering God fall into such a predicament?
Guan Ya didn't have much experience in participating in high-difficulty dungeons, so she couldn't deduce the reason for the time being, but The Way of the Extraordinary must have encountered difficulties.
So she rushed 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 hall, calm like a big shot, and said, "His Majesty was assassinated twice in a short period, and the Zheng family blocked the palace gates, not allowing anyone to enter or leave, which just shows that the Zheng family didn't succeed. His Majesty may be hiding in the palace or not in the palace."
Guan Ya nodded slightly. "That's why they didn't let me return to the palace. By the way, Father, I saw some people acting suspiciously outside the mansion just now, so I asked the steward to arrest them!"
Hearing this, Yang Zheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, summoning the steward to come over.
Guan Ya bowed gracefully, opened the door of the room, summoned her personal maid, and whispered a few words in her ear. The maid ran away, and half an hour later, the middle-aged steward in brocade clothes hurried over.
"Master, Empress." The steward bowed and saluted. Guan Ya immediately asked, "Have the thieves outside the mansion been captured?"
The steward bowed. "Empress, please forgive me. This old servant was negligent. I thought the thieves outside the mansion were just petty thieves, so I ordered the guards to capture them. But the thieves were very skilled, injured the guards, and left calmly."
Guan Ya frowned and looked at Yang Zheng. "Father, what do you think?"
Yang Zheng didn't answer, but waved his hand to dismiss the steward. Only then did he say in a deep voice, "Several experts disguised as peddlers are staring at the Yang family."
After chewing for a few seconds, he excluded several guesses in his mind and smiled. "In this case, His Majesty has escaped from the palace. When the Empress Dowager chose you as Empress, I knew she wanted to use the Yang family to check and balance the Zheng family. I think she still left a backup plan in the palace, otherwise His Majesty would not have been 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 waiting for a rabbit to come to him."
Yang Zheng stroked his beard and smiled. "Yun'er, you should stay in the mansion for a while. Father will find His Majesty."
On the way back along the main road of the capital after leaving the Yang family, Jiang Jingwei complained, "Why don't we just go in? If I throw a fireball over there, we fire practitioners can go into the Yang residence. At that time, we can shout that the Emperor is here, and the spies won't be able to stop us. Can't we get in touch with the Yang family?"
Zhang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Then, the spies lurking next to us will come up and solve us, and escape. The Yang family will come out and collect our bodies."
The Queen patted him. "Jingwei is still a child, why laugh at her."
The Queen explained, "Jingwei, doing so may succeed, but it is more likely to be killed by the Yang family's hidden agents. Don't forget that the leader is now seriously ill, and his physique is weaker than ordinary people."
Jiang Jingwei looked unconvinced. The Queen educated her again, "The more difficult the dungeon, the more careful and cautious you must be. Learn to proceed step by step, know yourself and your enemy, instead of always thinking about taking a gamble. Gambling always loses. Once you lose, the ending is returning to The Way of the Extraordinary."
"Sometimes we would rather give up this opportunity than maintain a cautious style and principle."
Jiang Jingwei said "Oh, oh" with an expression of "I understand," but Zhang Yuanqing knew that for most fire practitioners, these exhortations and education go in one ear and out the other. When actually doing things, when emotions come, they will still do whatever they want.
After patting Jingwei's head, the Queen turned to Zhang Yuanqing. "Leader, we should look for the lost teammates."
Red Rooster and the Palace Mistress are Saints. They can use Saint-quality props and items to cure the leader's illness!
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 secret messages near where they were hiding. Odd changes, even doesn't change, the sign depends on the quadrant.
Of course, the capital was very large, so even if they left a secret meeting code, they might not be able to meet successfully. Therefore, the team had another first meeting method, which was to meet at the Tianji Building before the end of 72 hours.
Because the Tianji Building was the place where the National Master observed the stars and made sacrifices, Zhang Yuanqing knew that the capital was too big to find, and now the search was strict, so he would definitely not be able to finish wandering around the capital during the day.
"If we are still wandering on the streets before dusk, we will have to stay in an inn, but staying in an inn is too unsafe. Inns and restaurants are the key search targets of the Zheng family. The safest situation is to reach the Tianji Building before the end of 72 hours." Zhang Yunqing said.
"We rushed to the Tianji Building, which just confirmed the crisis of 72 hours," the Queen said worriedly!
You are playing with the world line convergence, Zhang Yuanqing thought in his heart, if that's the case, then there's nothing he can do.