When everything was ready, Mr. Xiahou got into the carriage with his sword and headed to the palace together.
Yun Jingchu, Baili Wushang and Wu Jiu had nothing to do, so they pretended to be followers and followed them to the palace.
Yun Jingchu disguised himself as a boy and sat on the front of the carriage with the coachman, while Wu Jiu and Baili Wushang pretended to be guards, riding on tall horses and following on both sides.
The carriage rumbled and stopped outside the palace gate. At this time, it was still early and the palace gate had not yet opened.
The Xiahou family's carriage was the first to arrive and waited outside the palace gate.
One after another, the carriages of other ministers arrived one after another. According to their respective ranks, they stopped behind the Xiahou family's carriage and waited.
Yun Jingchu could feel some slight commotion in the carriages behind him.
Yun Jingchu glanced secretly and found that there were many eyes looking this way from behind, and the curtains of the carriage and sedan were floating slightly, which was obviously the people inside looking this way.
In this weird atmosphere, a man got off a carriage not far behind them and walked towards them with square steps.
The person who came was wearing a silver-blue python robe. At first glance, he was dressed like a duke. His hair was white and his beard was gray. He looked about the same age as Mr. Xiahou. His face was majestic, and his whole body exuded the prestige accumulated over the years by a superior.
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If her information is correct, the visitor should be Gongsun Li, the Duke of Yue, the father of the current queen.
The visitor stopped next to the Xiahou family's carriage, and looked at Yun Jingchu, Baili Wushang and Wu Jiu who had a calm expression but with dignity. Then he looked at the compartment of the carriage and raised his voice:
: "Ping Guo Gong, I don't know what happened. You suddenly came to the morning court?"
"If you don't bother the Duke of Yue, I naturally come to the morning court because I have something to do." The cold voice of Mr. Xiahou came from the carriage.
As expected, it was the Duke of Yue. Yun Jingchu nodded in his heart. It seemed that nine times out of ten, the person who came was evil.
"It seems that too much time has passed and Duke Ping has forgotten what happened that year. Duke Ping, I would like to advise you that the emperor will not want to see you. You should stay quietly in your mansion.
Stay here, lest you offend the emperor and be killed." Duke Yue said sonorously with a smile on his face, but the smile did not reach his eyes, and his words were coldly mocking and warning.
"I just remembered what happened back then, so I just came here today. Some people owe my Xiahou family debts. After twenty years, the interest has been compounded a lot, and it's time to pay them back. But now it seems that I can't
Come to ask for help, some people have forgotten, or think that my Xiahou family is easy to bully?!" Mr. Xiahou said in a cold voice without giving in at all.
"..." Duke Yue's expression changed, a flash of panic flashed in his eyes, and then he returned to normal. He glared angrily and said calmly, "I haven't heard that someone actually owes a debt to Xiahou's family. How much silver is it?
I can also ask for one or two for Duke Ping?"
So smooth. Yun Jingchu smiled in his heart.
"Blood debts are debts, aren't they, Duke of Yue? Duke of Yue, do you want to help me collect this blood debt?" Mr. Xiahou's voice sounded light and airy, but it carried the killing aura of an iron horse.
Yun Jingchu saw Duke Yue's face turning pale again, and a flash of anger and murderous intent flashed in his eyes.