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"However, what I just said is true. Even though I am injured now, even though I am in the city of another country, but now that you are by my side, I just feel happier than I have ever been since the war."

It's just that this happiness is mixed with a bit of guilt, and he brings Yan Yan into danger.

Chu Huanyan looked at Xiao Jinzhi blankly. After a moment, she raised her hand and touched his face, and then... pinched him hard.

"Xiao Jinzhi, please wake up, you are an emperor!"

In this situation, what you should be thinking about is to seize the time to find the man in the dark, get out of danger, and then return to the city to stabilize the situation!

Xiao Jinzhi smiled and held Chu Huanyan's hand, brought it to his lips and kissed it gently.

"Yan Yan, what do you think when we get back, I can start going to court with my daughter in my arms? Let her receive the influence of government affairs as soon as possible, so that she can take over the job as soon as possible!"

"Follow your big dreams, and stop trying to figure out your daughter!"

On the other side, in a ruined temple twenty miles away from Zhengzhou City.

The man in black listened to the report from Xiao Jinzhi that they had successfully entered the city. He stood silently for a while before speaking softly.

"It's good to enter the city!"

……

The next day, Chu Huanyan was invited to the lobby by people from Huangfu Mausoleum.

Xiao Jinzhi originally wanted to go with him, but because he was injured, it was best not to move around much in the past two days, but Chu Huanyan pushed him back.

When Chu Huanyan arrived, besides Huangfuling and Ling Qi, there were two other people standing in the lobby. One was Lin Hu, the general of the Zhengzhou City garrison whom he had seen yesterday.

The other one was a man who looked like a scholar. He seemed to have an air of elegance. When he saw Chu Huanyan looking over, he smiled and nodded in a neither humble nor overbearing manner. He was thin and had a gentle face.

"I wonder if the regent sent someone to invite me here, but what was found?" Chu Huanyan got straight to the point and directly asked what she was most concerned about.

"That's right." Huangfuling said quietly, "But before that, I would like to ask the Queen what she plans to do next."

"The best situation is of course that we can work with His Highness the Regent to find the person behind the scenes and resolve the crisis." Chu Huanyan walked to sit on a chair aside and said leisurely.

"Where is Tianyi's army?" Huangfuling's tone was slightly condensed, "I have received news that Tianyi's 10,000-strong army is rushing to Zhengzhou. It is only two days away from here."

"The regent can rest assured. I sent a message to them to come. I just hope that they can protect the emperor's safety and take us away. There is no other intention. If the regent is worried, I can send an order to let them come. Stop twenty miles outside the city and don’t come any closer.”

Although they now arrived in Zhengzhou City, it seemed that they were safer for the time being, but they could not find the secret person, so they stayed in the city and asked others for protection. After all, they would feel more at ease if they had their own people to protect them.

Hearing what Chu Huanyan said, Lin Hu's face looked better, but he never let go of the guard in his eyes.

Chu Huanyan just glanced at the other party without saying anything, and then spoke again.

"Now, can the regent tell you the information you found?"

"The identity of the person who did this secret work is still unknown to me, but I have found out how he purchased gunpowder, and found the merchant who secretly traded gunpowder with him..."

"Businessmen?" Chu Huanyan asked in confusion, interrupting Huangfuling's words, "I have never heard that merchants can participate in selling gunpowder in Danyue?"

Most of these dangerous items were in the hands of the imperial court. How could a mere businessman have such great ability to obtain so much gunpowder?

"The businessman made a fortune by selling fireworks and firecrackers, but he felt that the business was too slow to make money, so he bribed the court, opened up connections, smuggled gunpowder, and sold fireworks and firecrackers on the surface, but actually sold gunpowder to make money. Huge profits.”

Hearing this, Chu Huanyan did not continue to ask questions, but just motioned to Huangfuling to continue speaking.

"After he was found on his head, he confessed everything during the interrogation. Because once the private sale of gunpowder was exposed, he was determined to meet the buyer behind the scenes. However, when they met, the other party was wearing black clothes, covering his face. , so he still didn’t know what the other person looked like. But he kept an eye on it and secretly drew the faces of the guards beside the man in black."

Huangfuling glanced at Ling Qi, who immediately took out a portrait and handed it to Chu Huanyan.

Chu Huanyan opened it and took a look. The person in the portrait was ordinary, but a black mole between her eyebrows was a bit conspicuous.

"So the regent plans to search for people based on this portrait?" Chu Huanyan withdrew her gaze and looked at Huangfuling Mausoleum again.

"No." The latter shook his head and looked at the young scholar who had been standing next to Lin Hu. "It's a coincidence that he has met this person."

Seeing that he was being mentioned, the scholar cupped his hands and spoke in a gentle voice, lowering his head and saying, "Caomin remembers that this person is the bodyguard beside Crown Prince Changyuan Hou."

The scholar's name is Wei Yan. According to what he said, he went to the imperial city to take the imperial examination last year, but he was kicked out of the imperial city because he unintentionally offended the prince of the Changyuan Marquis Mansion. The person who took the lead in teaching him a lesson at that time was the person in the portrait. He was deeply impressed by this person and will never forget it in his life.

But after failing the scientific examination, he moved all the way to Zhengzhou after leaving the imperial city, and became Lin Hu's adviser at the beginning of this year.

"Master Wei, are you really sure?" Chu Huanyan spoke while looking at Wei Yan.

The other party was wearing a simple gown and looked like an ordinary scholar. Hearing Chu Huanyan's question, he raised his head and glanced at her, then lowered his head in respect and spoke firmly.

"I know that the Queen may think it is too much of a coincidence. I was also shocked when I saw this portrait in the general's study. But I can guarantee with my life that the person in the portrait is indeed the guard beside the Crown Prince of Changyuan House. .”

After hearing what the other party said, Chu Huanyan did not continue to ask any more questions. After thinking about it, she asked Huangfuling again.

"I wonder what the relationship between His Royal Highness the Regent and the Changyuan Marquis Mansion is like?"

As soon as this question came out, there was an instant silence in the lobby.

Huangfuling didn't answer. Lin Hu looked at his regent, then at Chu Huanyan, and finally couldn't help but say.

"The Changyuan Marquis Mansion is the mother's family of the late empress, which is also the mother family of the current Holy Emperor."

The regent coerced the emperor to order the princes, completely ignoring the young emperor. Although Changyuan Hou did not say anything openly, there was no need to say anything about his dissatisfaction behind his back.

After all, if it were not for His Highness, the Marquis of Changyuan might be the one who holds the most power now and is assisting the young emperor.