When she came out of the hall, the woman in red had returned to her usual graceful and luxurious appearance.
There was just a hint of sadness between her brows. She waved to the highest-ranking palace attendant not far away and said in a sad tone, "The Grand Administrator... passed away..."
As he spoke, he shed tears. Just looking at the palace attendants who were kneeling on the ground and sobbing, he braced himself up and said, "Everyone, get up. My husband has given you many gifts when he was alive. Now he has given you many gifts."
Now that he's gone, I ask everyone who is loyal to his husband and the Luo family to work together to take care of his funeral affairs, and not to let people with ulterior motives inside and outside the palace take advantage of the loopholes." She lowered her head with a sad face and looked at the highest-ranking palace attendant.
, "Yun'er, as a supervisor, has gone outside the city to recruit the garrison from the city into the city to maintain public order inside and outside the palace. Before Yun'er leads the troops into the city, Chief Cao must guard the inner court and not make any mistakes at this juncture.
Anything goes wrong..."
The palace attendant known as Chief Cao Shiqing only looked at the woman in red for a moment, and then he knelt down again in excitement and shouted, "Cao Shiqing is following Madam's order, and hereby orders people to seal off the doorways of the inner court.
No one can come in or out at will without Madam's order..."
"Okay," the woman in red tried her best to force out a smile while feeling sad, "I will tell Yun'er in detail about the loyalty of Chief Cao to the two generations of prefects. I think he will also be grateful to Chief Cao for his loyalty and responsibility at this moment.
..."
"A villain has been serving in the prefect's palace since he was a child. This is what a villain should do. Madam, Duke... and Lord can handle important matters, but there is absolutely no possibility of anything happening in the palace.
"Anything goes wrong," the leader of the palace waiters pressed his head firmly against the cold stone floor without wavering at all.
"Okay," the woman in red deliberately added a little more force to the word "good" this time. Then she ignored the people who were kneeling on the ground and turned around to get on the sedan carried by a few strong men and headed outside the prefect's palace.
Leaving at a trot.
When there was no sound from anyone outside the palace, the leader of the palace attendants raised his head slightly. He lowered his head and scanned the surrounding area for no one. He slowly raised his head and confirmed that there was no one around him before calming down.
He stood up slowly, looked in the direction outside the palace, and then looked back silently at the closed hall. After thinking for a while, he said to the palace attendants who were still kneeling around him, "Everyone, get up.
"
All the palace attendants dared to stand up, but no one dared to raise their head and look directly at the Grand Attendant Cao.
Captain Cao glanced around, and after another period of silence, he pointed at two of the palace guards and said, "Cao Man, Cao Fu, you two go to the corridors of the inner court and close all the doors. Don't forget about today."
The palace guards on duty also shouted and stood guard outside the door with knives and armors. Without the order of my wife, the Lord or this high-ranking chief, not even the tall and tall chief of the front court is allowed to enter!"
The two palace guards bowed deeply and saluted, then turned around and ran away, especially the younger one named Cao Man, who ran away quickly, silently but at an astonishing speed.
After Captain Cao watched the two people go away, he spoke again to the other palace attendants present, "From now on, no one here is allowed to leave this hall for even half a step. Just treat it as the prefect is still cultivating here."
Normally, but you are not allowed to take turns, and you are not allowed to tell anyone about the death of the governor, otherwise you will be beaten to death, do you hear me clearly?!"
"Listen clearly!" All the palace attendants quickly knelt down again.
After Captain Cao waved the palace attendants to enter the palace, he walked to the steps in front of the palace and sat down. While tapping his sore and swollen legs, he looked in the direction outside the palace in the distance.
I'm lost in thought, I don't know what I'm thinking...
However, he said that when the woman in red left the palace, a group of one hundred palace guards were waiting on horseback. There was no communication between the two parties, so the hundred cavalry guards escorted the sedan forward.
There are very few pedestrians on Licheng Street today. Silent pressure has been hanging over the city for several days. People have closed their doors one by one and stayed away, making the streets seem too cold and clean.
As this team of hundreds of cavalry walked, the sound of horse hooves trampling on the stone slabs was extremely loud, adding another layer of iron-blooded atmosphere to the already chilling city.
The wind is cold and the sky is overcast with no snow.
The hundred-man cavalry team went straight to an alley not far from the prefect's palace. This alley was relatively spacious. On both sides of the alley were tall porches and courtyards one after another, which was very noble.
At this moment, the alley seemed crowded, because there were already groups of soldiers from the garrison leaving the city, crowding into it, and the entire alley was completely blocked inside and outside.
The cavalry slowed down and went deep into the alley through the passage vacated by the garrison. Finally, they stopped in front of a hall in the deepest part that didn't look too wealthy. The sedan landed on the ground, and the woman in red bent down and stepped out of the sedan.
After taking a look at the soldiers around her, she waved to Luo Yun, who was waiting not far away on a pure black horse. Only then did the latter react. He quickly got off his horse and came to the woman in red to accompany her.
Go and knock on the courtyard door.
After only three gentle knocks, the door opened from the inside. The old man who opened the door glanced out from the crack in the door, then opened the door without saying a word, allowing the mother and son in the lead to bring a dozen soldiers behind them.
People dressed up broke into the house.
The woman in red and her entourage went all the way deep into the inner courtyard without encountering any kind of obstruction from anyone. With great success, they were silently guided by a palace attendant behind them to a small courtyard. When they opened the courtyard door, they saw a man with a white beard and a white beard.
The old man with thick hair, dressed in plain clothes, was sitting upright on the stone steps in front of the main hall, staring at Luo Yun beside the woman in red with an angry look on his face.
Luo Yun, who was already a little uneasy, saw the old man's angry look and dared not look at him. He quickly lowered his head and even intentionally or unintentionally hid behind the woman in red, not daring to say a word.
The woman in red frowned slightly, then looked at the old man opposite with a smile and said, "Master Jun Cheng, my husband is not dead yet, so you dress like this, but you want to curse my husband to die early?"
The old man dressed in plain clothes was Gongsun Cuo, the Prime Minister of Li County. The old man stood up slowly and said, "How do you know that I am wearing these clothes for the prefect? It is just for a young old friend who makes my old man respect me."
He just needs to wear it," he pointed to a coffin made of ordinary pine wood in the corner of the yard. "I also prepared a coffin for him. Of course, if it is not the old man's turn to collect his body in the end, then this coffin will also work.
It’s not a waste to use it to hold an old corpse!”
The smile of the woman in red did not change, "Sir, Lord Jun Cheng, your old body is still very strong and strong. You don't need this kind of thing. It is your old friend who is young. Since he has children and grandchildren, it is really not your turn to grow old."
Collect his body for him."
The old man sneered and looked at Luo Yun behind the woman in red again and said sternly, "Why did the second young master come to the old man's house today?!"