Hard to be a shadow guard

Time flies, and it has been more than three days since Xuanying and his party of 21 arrived at Fengluo City in Lingnan area.

Although Xie Yiqian didn't expressly stipulate how long it would take Xuanying to complete the task, but on the way Xuanying came, he remembered something that was hard to talk about...

In the past two months in the palace, I haven't heard that Diren detoxified the Lord, so it is probably less than a month before the next attack of the Lord's love poison.

Xuanying hasn't heard of other detoxification methods yet, so as the master's detoxifier, he should rush back before the master's poison occurs in the next month.

In the same way, it doesn't mean that Xuanying will resolve the Lingnan matter within one month.

It's just that the affairs here are too difficult to take an overview. So many shadow guards have returned here without success, and he, Xuanying, has such virtue and ability that he can guarantee that he will achieve the results the Lord wants within a month.

In such an urgent situation, Xuanying became impatient on the road.

The original tens of days' journey was abruptly reduced by him to less than five days, and countless horses fell down on the way, and the shadow guards who followed couldn't hide their fatigue.

Under the endless rush day and night, Xuan Ying and the others were on the go even if they were eating dry food. Except for the two-hour rest time every day, they never stopped the process at all.

In the end, when they arrived in Fengluo City, one of the shadow guards following Xuanying even staggered and fell off the horse: "My lord, forgive me..."

A weak voice sounded behind Xuanying, he frowned and looked over, but his eyes were bloodshot.

Xuanying was about to reprimand him displeasedly, but Huang Mei who was beside him hurriedly stopped him, her voice was inevitably hoarse: "I said Xuanying, you are too anxious, no one can bear it if this goes on."

"Now that Fengluo City has arrived, it's time to find a place for the brothers to rest."

Xuanying was unwilling at first, but when he looked around, he could only see the approving eyes of others. Seeing this, he had no choice but to swallow the refusal in his mouth.

After thinking about it, he had no choice but to say, "Then take a rest... Each of the three will form a team to find a place to stay, and we will meet at the gate of the city at Zishi today."

After finishing speaking, Xuanying also seemed to cherish the so-called rest time, and turned around to lead the horse into the city first.

And the group of people behind him looked up at the setting sun approaching the top of the mountain, and they were speechless for a while.

But what surprised Huang Mei and the others was that the crazy rush of the past few days was quite comfortable!

After Xuanying found a place to rest in the city and rested for a few hours, he assigned tasks one by one that night, and immediately disbanded and followed orders.

Xuan Ying seemed to have gained experience from the previous trip to the Prince Liang's Mansion, so she changed into women's clothing without hesitation in front of Huang Mei, and then walked towards the local prefect's mansion.

Huang Mei stood motionless on the spot, and after a long time, under Ying Yi's reminder, she stretched out her hand and dragged her chin that fell to the ground.

Even so, Huang Mei still couldn't believe it: "That, that, is that Xuanying?!"

The elegant young lady wore a veil and passed through the crowd without haste. Except for the fact that "her" was taller and more abrupt, there was no abnormality about "her" in other places.

If Huang Mei hadn't seen it with her own eyes, he really wouldn't know...

"Amazing!" Huang Mei sighed with emotion, and a sensual obsession flashed in her eyes.

But in the blink of an eye, Huang Mei suddenly woke up, and looking at Xuanying who had gone a long way in the distance, he shivered suddenly.

Huang Mei couldn't care less about admiring Xuanying's elegant figure, so she just greeted Yingyi: "Let's go, don't look! Let Xuanying hear something you shouldn't hear later, you and I don't even want to live , Carefully the lord peeled off our skins!"

After finishing speaking, he ran out quickly, catching up with Xuanying's back, not forgetting to pay attention to the people around him, but don't gossip about the affairs of Wangjing.

As for Yingyi's "Obviously you are watching", he could only sink in his stomach in the end, but he dared not challenge Lord Huang Mei's authority.

Soon, Huang Mei understood Xuanying's plan.

Seeing that the other party easily sneaked into the prefect's mansion as a temporary cook by virtue of his strange power, Huang Mei and Ying Yi, who were in the same group as Xuan Ying, could only squat on the tree, watching the situation below from afar.

Squat on a tree trunk together, pretend to be a big bird together.

Before the person behind the eunuch was caught, all plans of Xuanying and the others had to be put on hold, except for constantly monitoring the daily banquets of the local eunuch, they basically had nothing to do.

Xuan Ying and Huang Mei could still contact the hidden piles in Lingnan, but the other shadow guards could only monitor them day after day.

Day and night rotation, people collapse.

Although this can be regarded as a necessary quality for them to come out of the shadow pavilion, but this kind of surveillance is really grinding people's temper.

However, apart from that grinding patience, what made Xuanying even more irritable was undoubtedly the uncontrollable worries in his heart.

Every night before going to bed, Xuan Ying sorted out what she had seen and heard during the day and what she thought in her mind. Afterwards, she should be tired and drowsy.

But at times like this, that figure who shouldn't come out can always appear in front of his eyes to make trouble.

Every frown and smile of the Lord, every stand and sit, every move, every word and deed.

The good, the bad, the kind, the fierce, the gentle, the ruthless, all in different poses and with different expressions.

Any appearance that Xuanying could remember would always pop up a few, making the vivid Xie Yiqian phantom sway in front of Xuanying, even if Xuanying broke it up with a shot, it would always be able to gather again.

In Xuanying's conception, such a thing as longing never existed.

He didn't know that the phantom was caused by his thoughts. After a long time, he just thought that it was him who was delusional again.

This kind of thought made Xuanying startled, but thinking that the person was far enough away from him, he would never know the mess in his heart, and Xuanying always couldn't bear to let the phantom dissipate completely.

In this way, since Xuanying arrived in Fengluo City, whenever he was not required to go out to investigate at night, he often kept his eyes open half the night, staring at the phantom in the night without blinking.

I don't want to watch it, and I can't bear it.

Fortunately, Huang Mei was not only busy with the tasks assigned by Xuanying, but also optimistic about Xuanying assigned by the master. The intertwining of various trivial matters only made him exhausted.

Under such circumstances, Huang Mei would not waste any time to rest, so naturally she didn't know why Xuan Ying, who was staying in the same room with him, did not sleep at night.

As time passed day by day, the prefect, who had been watched by more than [-] shadow guards for several days, did not show any flaws in the end.

But based on Xie Yiqian's confession, Xuan Ying intuitively felt that the prefect was not an honest person.

Xuanying's patience was almost exhausted, so she had no choice but to plan another way to force the eunuch...

At night, Huang Mei, who had been running all day, rested early.

After Xuanying washed up, he was about to take a rest when he suddenly remembered something. He paused as he walked towards the bed, hesitated on the spot, and finally turned around.

He took out a set of clean night clothes and changed into them, looked back at Huang Mei who was sleeping sprawled on the bed, and then quietly jumped out of the window.

At this time, the two shadow guards watching outside the prefect's mansion started chatting.

The two lowered their voices, they didn't know what they were talking about, and the topic fell on Xie Yiqian who was far away in Wangjing.

"Do you want to hide it from your lord like this? I heard from the brothers in Beijing that the marriage between the lord and Miss Zuo Xiang's family has already been decided, and it will be on the third day of next month. When the news of the lord's marriage will be dispersed, can you really hide it from your lord? "

The person who started first squatted on a branch full of sorrow and asked.

The person next to him pondered for a moment, but sneered.

"What's the difference if you can hide it or not? As a slave, the Lord has ordered that you are not allowed to know. Even if you know, you still have to pretend to be deaf and dumb!"

"If you want me to say, my lord is also pitiful, but the four great shadow guards are treated like women. It's nothing more than having no name or title. Now that the Lord is getting married, the whole Wangjing City knows it, so my lord is still kept in the dark." Drum!"

"That may not be the Lord..." The person who started tried to refute.

But the person next to him immediately interrupted him: "Maybe it's nothing? Master Huang Mei is waiting with me to hide the truth from Master Xuanying, so there's nothing to worry about."

"The way I see it, the lord may want to enjoy the blessings of everyone. Although it is normal for the lord to have three wives and four concubines, but in the future, the lord and the princess will serve together, and the lord may not get the benefits."

"This is a man after all. It's useless to gain the Lord's trust without heirs. Could it be that the Lord can still offend the princess for a shadow guard? Stop making trouble..."

Xuanying couldn't listen to the conversation between the two of them afterwards, and only five words remained in his mind——

The Lord is married.

He came so quietly that no one noticed after staying behind the two shadow guards for so long.

Xuanying wanted to open his mouth and ask: Is what you said true?

But when things came to an end, he found that he couldn't open his mouth anymore.

Just listening to what those two people were talking about didn't mean explaining everything.

No wonder he has been under house arrest since he returned to the palace, no wonder the mission given to him by the Lord is Lingnan, which is thousands of miles away from Wangjing.

It's no wonder that even after coming to Lingnan, there are still people by his side. Once he gets close to the citizens, he will always be quietly distracted.

Xuanying had never paid attention to these details before, but now hearing the communication between the two shadow guards is like enlightenment—so it is!

The people behind were still sympathizing with the pitiful and pathetic "Master Xuanying" who had been kept in the dark, but Xuanying walked away from behind the two of them with a flash of figure.

He didn't look at them any more, and he didn't listen to them at all.

What he thought was that Huang Mei knew it too, everyone knew everything, and he was the only one who was a fool...

Xuanying's breathing became more and more rapid, and a faint blood color appeared in his eyes.

The night wind was cold, and it was even more painful to hit him who was flashing extremely fast, but Xuanying didn't care at all.

He just ran in the direction of Luojiao Inn, where the sleeping Huang Mei didn't know what kind of questions were waiting for him.