The night was quiet, and it was quiet in Marquess Qin's Mansion.
Ma Hu tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep.
He had something on his mind.
He wanted to leave the army, and he didn't want to continue to be the Chief Guard General.
As the third Chief Guard General of Xiao Ruxun, his position in the army was relatively high, because everyone knew that it was a good way to be Xiao Ruxun's personal guard. Basically, after a period of time as a personal guard, he could become an officer in the army and easily become a leader of the army.
And being a Chief Guard General was the best way. Xiao Ruxun was very helpful in promoting people he admired. The first one, Wang Hui, was now the Chief Guard General of the firearms unit, in charge of the strongest firepower of the Zhennan Army.
The second generation Chief Guard General Ma Wei was now in the middle level of the army, and he could be regarded as a mainstay. He was the third generation Chief Guard General, and it was time for him to be placed in the army.
But when the war of the Northern Barbarians started, he followed Xiao Ruxun to the north. There were many wars, and he didn't have time to think about it. Xiao Ruxun also didn't have time to think about it, so he was delayed. Now it was a good time.
Seeing that they were going to be incorporated into the Jing Army, in order to control the Jing Army, Xiao Ruxun often delegated officers, so Ma Hu had to pay attention to it.
As a member of the Ma Family General Group, which was as influential as Yuan Cong's faction in the army, Ma Hu was also very ambitious. He didn't want to be a Chief Guard General until he was old. He also wanted to go to the battlefield and dominate the world.
These days, he had been thinking about how to talk to Xiao Ruxun, but he couldn't think of a way. Now, seeing that Xiao Ruxun was going to take office tomorrow, this was the last chance.
But it was so late, and he didn't know whether Xiao Ruxun had rested or not.
Unable to fall asleep, he made up his mind and decided to have a good talk with Xiao Ruxun at night to realize his dream of being sent down to lead troops.
He got up, put on his clothes, and lit a lantern. Ma Hu walked out of the house and bumped into the patrol team.
"General!"
The five night watchmen of the patrol team saluted him. Ma Hu nodded his head.
"I'm going to look for Shiro. All of you continue patrolling and strengthen the security. Don't slack off."
"Yes!"
The patrolling soldiers quickly left, and Ma Hu continued to walk towards Xiao Ruxun's room.
The place where he lived was not far from where Xiao Ruxun lived, but there were a few high walls between them, so it felt very far away. The place given by the emperor was indeed different. Compared to Xiao Ruxun's Manor of Marquis Zhennan in Myanmar, it was more than twice as big and more luxurious, complete with fake mountains and ponds.
Ma Hu himself yearned for such a place, imagining that one day when he became successful, he could also live in such a big house.
The only downside was that there were too many twists and turns. The destination was right behind the high walls, but he had to take many detours to get in. This was more troublesome, and Ma Hu, who was used to going straight, didn't like this kind of structure.
After taking a big detour, he finally arrived at the entrance of the courtyard where Xiao Ruxun was staying. There were two guards stationed there with lanterns lit up. Further back, there was a courtyard wall with another two guards guarding it. Four people were keeping watch for Xiao Ruxun.
Ma Hu came to the door.
The two guards immediately went on alert.
"Who's there?!"
"It's me! Can't you recognize me? "
Ma Hu walked under the lantern, then raised the lantern in his hand to his chest, revealing his face. He looked at the two guards, then looked into the courtyard.
"Is Duke Qin asleep?"
Ma Hu asked the two guards.
The two looked at each other, and the one on the left nodded.
"Yes, Duke Qin is already asleep."
"If that's the case, sigh … forget it, I'll come again tomorrow! You guys keep watch! "
"Yes, sir!"
The two guards immediately answered.
After saying that, Ma Hu sighed and walked back the way he came, his pace getting faster and faster.
After bypassing two walls, Ma Hu stopped in his tracks. His breathing suddenly quickened, and his eyes suddenly flickered.
"Something's wrong!"
Ma Hu said in a low voice, then quickened his pace back to his room. At the door of his room, he bumped into the patrol team of five people.
"Did you patrol the entrance of Silang's courtyard just now?"
The patrol team looked at each other.
"We patrolled once an hour ago, but we didn't find anything."
"Didn't find anything? Then why do I smell blood?! "
"Blood …"
The patrol team turned pale with fright.
"I remember that the guard mission tonight is Li Quanyou and Wang Baocai guarding the outer wall, while Liu Han and Zhang Jing guarding the inner wall. I can't see the two standing inside, but I don't know the two standing outside. All four of them might have been killed!"
The five soldiers of the patrol team were so shocked that they couldn't say a word.
"I thought it was too dark and I didn't see their faces clearly, but they didn't call him Silang, but Duke Qin …"
Ma Hu was already very nervous. "Even if I remember their faces wrong, how can our guards call him Duke Qin! I'm afraid something has happened to Silang. Not good, not good, really not good … "
"Then … General, what should we do?"
A soldier asked.
"…"
Ma Hu's mind was very chaotic. He forced himself to calm down, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Chang Chenghu, Ma Dashou, wake up all the sleeping brothers at once. Tell them not to make any big movements, dress neatly, and gather at my place. Prepare for battle!"
"Yes!"
The two soldiers immediately ran away.
The remaining three also looked at Ma Hu nervously.
What was happening now was too strange and had gone beyond Ma Hu's scope of understanding.
This was the capital, the Mansion of Duke Qin. Why was there the smell of blood in Silang's courtyard? Why were the soldiers who should be guarding Silang's door not the original guards? Who was so bold as to attack the Mansion of Duke Qin?
Ma Hu had never come into contact with these things, and he couldn't understand them at all.
The only thing he could think of now was to gather the people in his hands and kill their way to Xiao Ruxun's courtyard to see what was going on in the room.
"Silang … must be safe!"
He prayed so.
After Xiao Ruxun left the secret door of the Mansion of Duke Qin, he got on a sedan chair. The sedan chair was carried by four men in black. Xiao Ruxun didn't need to walk, which was always standard.
Of course, Xiao Ruxun didn't remember which roads he had taken. Although there were windows on both sides of the sedan chair, there was almost no means of lighting in the dark, so the route he knew was quite limited. He only knew that he entered from a side door of the Imperial Palace and went straight to the bedroom of Zhu Yijun.
On the days when Zhu Yijun summoned him, he wouldn't live in the concubine's place. Instead, he lived in his own bedroom, a low and dilapidated little palace.
It had to be said that the civil officials asked the Emperor to take the lead in saving palace expenses as an example to the world. Whatever the Emperor wanted to do was stopped by them as if it were a scourge or a fierce beast. It was as if the whole world would change its surname if the Emperor built a palace.
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