Chapter 303 Welcome Home

I don’t know if it’s because of the war that broke out in the dynasty.

At this moment, the city is still filled with the smell of blood that has not yet dissipated.

This smell of blood is more pungent than the smell of gunpowder in Luofeng Valley.

Looking around again.

On both sides of the quiet road, the doors of every house are locked.

But there are always prying eyes between the windows, looking at Gao Qiang with inexplicable eyes, making Gao Qiang feel uncomfortable.

As if seeing Gao Qiang’s abnormality, some officials smiled secretly.

After all, the imperial city has just experienced a bloody method.

The people of this imperial city are afraid in the final analysis.

They are afraid that Gao Qiang has ill intentions towards them, so they will carefully look at who is entering the city in secret.

However, since Gao Qiang showed discomfort, they still can’t just watch him like this.

Suddenly, the civil and military officials came up with a good idea.

A luxurious sedan chair was carried in front of Gao Qiang by dozens of sedan chair bearers.

Then the internal historian stepped forward, opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and made a gesture of invitation to Gao Qiang.

"Master Gao has been serving the king day and night, and must be extremely tired. It is better to ride in the same sedan chair with His Majesty and have a good rest."

After the internal historian finished speaking, the civil and military officials in the court also bowed, "Please respectfully invite Master Gao to get on the sedan chair!"

Seeing this, it was hard to refuse the kindness, and Gao Qiang was embarrassed to refuse.

As for the extremely tired mentioned by the internal historian, it was pure nonsense.

From Zhaohuang City to Luofeng Valley, Gao Qiang has not had a hard battle, but he has eaten a lot of hard dishes.

If you say that there is a banquet every three steps and a meal every five steps, then he is really tired.

After sending Gao Qiang to the sedan chair, Wu Mei was quickly invited into the sedan chair by the civil and military officials.

Then the internal historian lowered the curtain, instantly blocking all sights from the streets of the outside world.

But at this point, there are only two people in the sedan chair.

Gao Qiang and Wu Mei can only focus their eyes on each other.

After a moment of silence, Wu Mei suddenly spoke: "Master Gao, please don't forget our agreement."

"After getting rid of Chai Hong, the position of the Three Dukes can be taken by the Gao family, and my promise will still be valid."

"I understand."

Gao Qiang nodded.

But his eyes wandered to other directions.

"But now, how can we lure Chai Hong out?"

He was very sure that the person who had moved the Panlong Seal in Lucia's mouth was Chai Hong, and Chai Hong must still be in this imperial city.

But the other party was just as Wu Mei said, a dragon that could not be seen from head to tail, so Gao Qiang had no idea how to lure him out.

Wu Mei remained silent.

Of course, she understood what Gao Qiang said.

Chai Hong was too weird, and even Gong Menquan's suicide note kept reminding him of his weirdness.

In Gong Menquan's eyes, the person who had died two years ago was alive and well some time ago.

Just thinking about it, Wu Mei would get goose bumps all over her body.

If Ling Yaning hadn't died, she would have kept her distance from Chai Hong and wouldn't have thought of finding him out.

"Forget it. I'll arrange a welcoming banquet for you after we return to the palace."

As she spoke, Wu Mei leaned her back against the side of the sedan and exhaled deeply, as if to relax her tense spirit.

"In the next period of time, I'll have to trouble Master Gao to accompany me in this imperial city for a while."

"But Master Gao, don't worry. I won't refuse anything the Gao family asks for."

Wu Mei had said so much that even if Gao Qiang declared himself the 9,000-year-old in the next second, he would not be stopped.

However, Gao Qiang rejected such an attractive condition.

If he wanted, he would be close to ruling and winning now, and he didn't need to be the 9,000-year-old in the palace.

But what he wanted in this war game was never victory.

Seeing that Gao Qiang didn't ask for anything, Wu Mei fell into silence.

Now she is alone, if she doesn't have anything that the other party can appreciate, it will be the most difficult thing to do.

Time passed in silence between the two.

Finally, the sedan stopped and was placed on the ground.

"Are we there?" Wu Mei opened her mouth slightly and asked outside the sedan.

But after waiting for a while, no one responded, and no one opened the curtain of the sedan.

Wu Mei's face changed slightly, and she turned to Gao Qiang with a somewhat unpleasant look.

The current situation made her think of a possibility.

"Could it be that the civil and military officials in the court have the intention of rebellion and want to kill you and me here?" Wu Mei asked in a low voice.

She deliberately lowered her voice to avoid being heard by the outside world.

However, Gao Qiang shook his head.

"Impossible."

In fact, Wu Mei's words are credible, because the civil and military officials in the court are not very loyal to Wu Mei.

Gao Qiang can even see that some people have secretly pledged allegiance to him with a favorability of 60 points.

In other words, the loyalty of some of them to Wu Mei is actually below the passing line.

But even if they did, it would be impossible to do it in his presence.

Besides, there were Jiuluo and others outside, as well as the major families, and even the new army and the clan protection army following behind.

With three layers of protection inside and outside, he should be safe.

But after waiting for a while, there was still no sound from the outside.

At this moment, Gao Qiang also truly felt the absurdity that Lucia said.

After entering the dynasty, it seemed that something was wrong.

"I'll go check it out."

Wu Mei stood up, drew the long sword from her waist, and carefully opened the door curtain.

However, the moment she saw the outside world.

Wu Mei was stunned.

"How... How could it be..."

Wu Mei covered her mouth, and the long sword in her hand fell to the ground without her knowing it.

Seeing this, Gao Qiang simply opened the door curtain completely and saw the outside world.

The two were not in the palace at all, but in the royal forbidden area.

As for the dozens of sedan chair bearers, they were all gone at this moment.

Even in the royal forbidden area in front of them, the demon tower disappeared.

Instead, there was a statue.

A statue of Ling Yaning.

This was also the reason why Wu Mei behaved so badly.

"Ling'er, why is there a statue of Ling'er here?"

If she remembered correctly, this was the location of the demon tower.

Suddenly, a voice came from under the statue: "This is the statue you ordered to be built for her, have you forgotten?"

"Chai Hong!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Wu Mei looked at the source of the voice with anger on her face.

Under the statue of Ling Yaning, a stone table appeared at some point.

And Chai Hong was sitting on one side of the stone table, sipping tea.

When he heard Wu Mei calling him.

Chai Hong put on a kind smile and turned his head.

"Welcome back, Your Majesty!"