I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Three days later, in the outer city of the imperial capital.

Inside the inn, Ning Fei looked at the people in the room with a serious expression. These people were all leaders of the Dragon Guard.

According to the original plan, they were to wait two days before taking action. After all, even if the three thousand people were divided into small groups and lurked in the imperial capital, there was still a risk of being discovered.

But in the end, because it was too difficult to break into the palace, Ning Fei had to be patient and wait for another day.

"Does everyone understand?"

"Understood." Several people roared in a low voice.

Ning Fei's eyes slowly swept across the faces of several people: "Everyone knows what we are going to do, right? If anyone wants to quit now, I will definitely not do anything to him."

"General, no regrets!"

Ning Fei nodded solemnly: "Okay, now go and inform your people to set off. By dusk, everyone must enter the inner city."

"All subsequent actions must be carried out according to the plan, with no deviation exceeding one character." (One character is approximately five minutes.)

Several people nodded in unison: "Understood!"

"Okay, let's all get out."

Ning Fei waved his hand. After everyone left, he and Qingzhu carefully put on the human skin masks again, and then walked out of the inn in a swagger.

The two of them walked forward and successfully entered the inner city, then went straight to the Ning family.

Not long after, the two saw a young man in fancy clothes at the door of Ning's house.

"Ning Chuan?" Ning Fei smiled faintly, then said with a smile: "That's right, send this guy out to support, and the news won't leak out."

As the two slowly approached, Ning Chuan's eyes inevitably turned to them: "It's you two, right? Come with me."

As they were talking, the three of them walked into the Ning family. Ning Chuan's face was full of impatience. He really couldn't understand. They were just recruiting two guards, but why did they ask him to come out and greet them in person?

Soon, Ning Chuan stopped at a room in the outer courtyard: "You two, just go in for now. Don't run around. If you have any questions, you can ask someone."

After saying that, Ning Chuan turned around and left without looking back.

Ning Fei smiled disdainfully. If he hadn't been lucky enough to be born into the Ning family, he would have slapped this kind of playboy to death long ago.

When the two men walked into the house, they saw that there were about twenty or thirty people standing in the small room. Some were wearing eunuch clothes, and some were guards with swords.

Seeing Ning Fei and the other man come in, everyone bowed and saluted, but no sound came out of their mouths.

Ning Fei and the other man silently took the clothes handed to them by their two subordinates and put them on.

Qingzhu was dressed in eunuch's clothes, while Ning Fei was dressed as a guard leader.

Qingzhu looked at the clothes on his body and still felt a little awkward: "General, the plan has been made. I don't think there is any need for me to go."

"I'm powerless, and you'll have to distract yourself from protecting me when the fight starts. That won't be good."

Ning Fei turned his head helplessly and looked at Qing Zhu: "Military Advisor, do you think it makes sense to talk about this at this time?"

"You must go. After all, plans can't keep up with changes. If anything unexpected happens, you'll still need to make the decision."

"Furthermore, to put it bluntly, if we fail, I'm afraid Chen Liu will bring the people from the East Factory to kill the Ning family overnight. You will die just as if you hide here."

Qingzhu sighed slightly, sat down on the chair, and poured himself a cup of tea.

The time is approaching evening.

Even though the sun has set, half the sky is still dyed red. The endless red glow seems to remind everyone that tonight is a bloody night.

As night fell, Empress Dowager Ning, surrounded by a group of maids, eunuchs and guards, slowly walked out of the inner courtyard of the Ning family.

At this moment, at the end of the team, a guard looked around and couldn't help frowning.

What's going on with the Ning family? Even if they're down and out, they're still royal family. It's not possible that there's not a single person in the entire outer courtyard, right?

It would be fine if there was no one here, but why couldn’t you even light a lantern?

Just as he was wondering, a long knife suddenly pierced through his chest from behind. Before he could make a sound, Ning Fei had already covered his mouth with his hand.

A moment later, corpses of people continued to fall to the ground in the team ahead. Every time one died, a member of the Dragon Guard would come out to replace him.

By the time the carriages and sedan chairs had driven out of the Ning family's gate, all the hundreds of people in the entire team, except for a few maids, had been replaced by the Dragon Guards.

The carriage slowly drove into the palace, and no one came up to check. After all, it was the empress dowager's carriage, and there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the harem, and Empress Dowager Ning got off the carriage with the baby in her arms.

All the guards and eunuchs walked to where they were supposed to stand in tacit understanding.

Queen Mother Ning took a deep breath and turned to look at the maid beside her: "Go find His Majesty and tell him that I want to discuss the matter of Yuanji's fiefdom with him."

"Yes, ma'am."

The maid turned and left, and Empress Dowager Ning walked into the room, holding the baby in her arms and gently rocking it. But if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that she is trying to hide the fact that she is trembling all over.

A quarter of an hour later, in the imperial study.

Duanmu Yuanchen looked at the palace maid in front of him in surprise: "Well, I understand, you can leave."

After the maid left, Duanmu Yuanchen immediately turned to look at Chen Liu who was standing beside him. "What's going on? Yuanji is only a few years old now, and the Queen Mother is so anxious to know about the fiefdom. What does this mean?"

Chen Liu scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know either."

After a while, Chen Liu said cautiously, "Your Majesty, could it be that the Queen Mother doesn't trust you and is afraid that if you stay in the palace all the time, something might happen..."

Having said this, Chen Liu did not say anything else, but Duanmu Yuanchen already understood what Chen Liu wanted to express.

"Haha, if I really wanted to take action against Yuanji, why would I have waited until now?"

"But Yuanji is still too young now. Even if I really give him a fiefdom, he will not be able to manage it, and people all over the world will blame me." Duanmu Yuanchen spoke slowly, and then waved towards Chenliu.

"Let's go and talk to the Queen Mother, so that she won't be suspicious all day long."

"Yes."

After the two of them walked out of the room, they headed towards the harem.

At the same time, Ning Defa, who was temporarily in charge of the Ning family, drove a carriage and arrived at the gate of the palace with many servants following behind him.

"We are here to deliver something to the Empress Dowager." As he spoke, Ning Defa took out a token.

After the commander of the guards looked at the token, he waved his hand and let them pass.

A quarter of an hour later, Duanmu Yuanchen and Chen Liu had already arrived at the harem. Looking at the somewhat deserted harem, Duanmu Yuanchen couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

If my father were still alive, this wouldn't be the case.

"Your Majesty, please follow me."

A palace maid came forward with a lantern to greet them and led them straight to the bedroom.

Whenever Chen Liu and the other two walked by, the guards along the way all bowed their heads deeply...

According to the rules of the palace, this is a very reasonable thing to do.