Chapter 574: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

Of course, the Nine Emperor Princesses are here for their own younger brothers, and the Nine Emperor Princes should be here for their sons-in-law, after all, this son-in-law is married to the precious daughter of the Nine Emperor Princes' favorite concubine, Concubine Zheng Fang! The onlookers made such an explanation self-righteously.

didn't know that the Nine Emperor Princesses might have come for her younger brother Cheng Qiaofang, but the Nine Emperor Princes came for the proceeds of this auction.

Not to mention how to clean up the situation here, the man in black who robbed the carriage of the Nine Emperor Princesses, walked not far away, took off his black clothes, and changed into the green clothes often worn by ordinary guards, and the black-clothed man who was the leader of the car also took off his black clothes, changed into brocade and satin robes, put on his outer hats, and played the jewelry that he had just scavenged.

Several other people in the car also changed their clothes, some dressed as stewards, some pretended to be small servants, "Come, you pick a few pieces, go back and add joy to the family." ”

The leader in black, oh, you can't call him the man in black now, you have to call him the leader outside, I saw him generously open the bag with jewelry, let them choose at will, and everyone thanked him and began to pick and choose in the bag.

Some people were greedy, grabbed the first one, reached out and took four or five pieces, the leader didn't say anything when he saw it, let them do it, and the others also did the same when they saw it, pretending to be in charge, the most cautious, only the same as the leader, took a piece of jade pendant that was not very good.

The leader looked at the person who was in charge, and the jade pendant he was holding was the same as himself, pinned to his waist, and he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

The man in black who was driving the car naturally also heard the movement inside, and some felt aggrieved by himself, and every time he asked him to catch the car, he didn't have any benefit!

As for those who pretended to be guards, they were recruited temporarily, and they had no idea that in addition to the money promised to them, there were also bonuses.

Naturally, the coachman and these people in the carriage would not have made any more of a move to inform them.

So they escorted the carriage out of the city, unaware that the people in the carriage were distributing dividends.

At this time, the city gate guards did not know the news that the carriage of the Nine Emperor Princesses had been hijacked, so they let them escape from the city smoothly.

As soon as they left the city, they went straight to a small town next to the official road, where they made an appointment to meet.

After entering the town, a group of people went to a manor behind the town, and the gatekeeper of the manor saw them coming, and spread the word to them early.

When the group came to the gate of the manor, the door was opened early, and they drove all the way into the manor without hindrance.

The men who were dressed as guards were stopped as soon as they entered the door, and a man who looked like a steward came forward to greet them, paid them, and sent them away.

As for the carriage, it went all the way into the depths of the manor, and did not stop until it was in front of a small courtyard, and the person waiting at the gate of the small courtyard was actually the confidant steward of the Nine Emperor Princes.

"Master Gao is here. ”

"Your Highness is here?"

"His Royal Highness can't pull away, and he's still in the capital. The henchman smiled at the leader, led them into the courtyard, and immediately someone came over and led the others away, and the henchman led the leader into the main room.

sat down in the hall, "Master has worked hard!"

"Thanks to Your Highness, this errand went well. ”

"That's good. After a few polite words between the henchman and the leader, before the henchman could speak, the leader had already handed over the harvest this time.

The precious pills were all stored in the wooden box, and the silver tickets, which were originally messily stuffed in the blanket, were now neatly arranged and stacked in the blanket.

Of course, the two black-clothed men who went to the account office to get the silver tickets were not here, and the leaders themselves didn't know that they were full of private money, and it was impossible for the henchmen to know.

But he said that the people who had just been taken away, after they had freshened up, were led to the small room next to the dining room, which was probably for the people in the manor to eat, so it was three halls without partitions, and because it was not meal time, the dining room was empty.

The door of the small room was opened, and they smelled the fragrant aroma of barbecue, and everyone smelled this smell, their faces changed slightly, and the little guy who brought them over was very clever, seeing that their faces were not right, and hurriedly asked, "How many masters don't like barbecue?" If they don't like it, the little one will go and tell the chef to change the dishes. ”

"Good. ”

I didn't expect them to hear him say this, not only did they not answer politely, anyway, it couldn't be simpler, and the little guy's face sank on the spot, thinking that these people were specially invited by His Royal Highness, how dare he turn his face with them, so he had to smile hard, invite them into the small room to sit for a while, and find the chef himself.

I don't want these people but I don't want to go into the small room, "It's full of barbecue, so we won't go in, let's wait outside!"

The little servant snorted secretly, and said that it is up to you, so he pointed to the dining room and said, "Those masters, please sit here for a while, and I will come when I go." After saying that, without waiting for any reaction from them, he left on his own.

Not long after, someone came to bring out the good dishes in the small room, and sneered as they walked, "I really don't know what to do! This barbecue is our chef's specialty!"

"If it weren't for the fact that someone happened to go to the mountains today and came back with some good goods, I'm afraid I wouldn't have to eat!"

"People are one of the best heroes on the road, and naturally they eat all the delicacies of the mountains and seas! We think they are good dishes for first-class cuisine, but for others, they are just ordinary dishes!"

The faces of those people were very ugly, and the one who was the most greedy for money was also the most impulsive, and he was about to rush up to fight when he heard the words, and the person who pretended to be in charge was calmer, and when he saw this, he hurriedly grabbed him, "Bear with me, when the boss takes the money, we will go away and fly away, why bother with a dead slave who has no eyes and no knowledge." "

What he didn't say was that when he got the money, when he left, he would kill one or two of his minions, so as to kill the majesty of the royal prince and noble, don't think that it is the royal family, and you can recruit them to come and go!

Because he didn't say it thoroughly, his companion felt angry and angry, and the handymen who came to serve the food didn't know that he had been targeted, and his life was about to be lost!

The meals were all served, and after a busy day, they were already hungry, so they didn't need to be greeted, and everyone rushed up, because the barbecue carefully prepared by the chef had just been returned, and the dishes served at this time were naturally more than secondary, although the chef was working in the manor, but someone dared to look down on his dishes? He was specially dug by the Nine Emperor Princes from the Fuxing Restaurant in the capital.

You must know that Fuxing Restaurant is in the capital, but it is one of the best well-known restaurants! He is best at roast mutton, when he was still on an errand in Fuxing Restaurant, but many dignitaries and nobles came to the restaurant to order his dishes, but I didn't expect that he had only left the restaurant for a few years, and some people dared to look down on his dishes!

Hmph, since they don't know the goods, what good should they eat? Give them the unpopular dishes of his apprentice!

The chef thought that those people would make a fuss, and he didn't want him to wait for a long time, but there was no movement, so he had to send someone to investigate, but he didn't expect to hear that those people had already swept away the dishes and even licked the dishes cleanly?!

How is that possible? So he hurried to find out.

"Chef Jiang, why are you old?" The steward waiting in the dining room couldn't help but sweat on his forehead when he saw this arrogant chef who came to the dining room with condescension.

"Oh, I've heard that a great guest has come and brought back the roast lamb I prepared for the day, so I've come to see what a great guest it is. ”

The steward had already learned about this from other people, and he knew the chef's temperament, so he didn't stop him, but just reminded him, "Those people inside, but the people from the rivers and lakes specially invited by His Royal Highness to help him do things have a big temper, Chef Jiang, you can take it easy!" Don't offend these fierce gods, you won't be able to eat and walk around when the time comes.

Chef Jiang heard him say at this time, those people are Jianghu people, and his legs can't help but be a little weak, the reason why he agreed to the poaching of the Nine Emperor Princes was actually forced, because he was arrogant at that time, so he offended a few Jianghu people, and the restaurant owner was annoyed that he offended people, so he didn't want to protect him.

I didn't expect him to get into trouble with the Jianghu people again! Why is he so unlucky?

"Chef Jiang, do you want to go in and have a look?"

The chef felt that his legs were as soft as boiled noodles, soft and weak, and he didn't want to go in anymore, but unfortunately his apprentice didn't have a heart for him, so he shouted loudly, "Of course you have to go in, right, Master?"

As he spoke, he helped Chef Jiang to walk forward, although he felt that Master had suddenly become heavier, but he didn't think too much, he only smiled and whispered to Chef Jiang, "Master! Your old skills are good, but you have to take it easy! Don't eat too much! It's just a lot of effort, and it's getting heavier!"

The stewards, handymen and servants on the side, hearing what Chef Jiang's apprentice said, all looked at Chef Jiang, and when they saw Chef Jiang's legs that were almost soft on the ground, they all smiled knowingly.

The dining room was quiet, in fact, too quiet.

The dining room manager followed in, and when he saw that the people who had just come in were lying on the table motionless, he couldn't help but wonder a little, what was going on?

But he had never seen anyone sleep so quietly when they were full, and they didn't even make a sound, and they didn't even snore?

So he rushed forward with an arrow, and this sight made him so shocked that he took several steps backwards, and even stumbled on his front foot and fell to the ground.

"What's going on?" Chef Jiang looked dumbfounded, and his apprentice looked at the steward with wide eyes and puzzled.

The miscellaneous servants and servants in the dining room ran forward, some people helped up the steward, and some people stepped forward to check on those people, and the movement of them coming in was not small, but these people did not react at all, this is not scientific!

"They're all dead!" suddenly exclaimed, like a pebble thrown into the calm surface of the lake, setting off a thousand waves.

"How could it be that they died?" the first thought that flashed through Chef Jiang's mind was that fortunately the food they ate was not cooked by themselves.

A guy pointed at Chef Jiang, "It's Chef Jiang, it must be him, he must have killed him." ”

"Yes, they don't eat the barbecue that Chef Jiang has carefully prepared, so Chef Jiang became angry and poisoned the dishes that were sent to him. ”

The accusations came and went, and the steward looked at Chef Jiang in disbelief.

Chef Jiang waved his hand, "It's not me, it's not me, I didn't do that." Even if he was angry that people didn't appreciate his face, he wasn't so stingy that he would put people to death because they returned the food he cooked.

"It's not me, I, wait, how can you be sure that they ate these dishes and died? Besides, I didn't cook these dishes, I haven't even touched these dishes from the time they are cooked to the plate, how can I poison them?"

When the apprentice who helped him in heard what the master said, he immediately echoed and said, "Yes, these dishes were all cooked by my senior brother, and my master didn't even touch them! How could he have poisoned them? And weren't you the ones who sent the dishes? You were the last ones to touch those dishes, and if you wanted to poison them, you must have done it." ”

There was a lot of noise in the dining room, and naturally someone reported it to the confidant steward of the Nine Emperor Princes, so he came over with the leader.

When the leader saw that all his cronies were dead, he was horrified, and pointed to his confidant and asked, "Are you trying to kill people?"

"No, no, it's an accident, an accident!" the confidant hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand in denial.

But when Gao Ye saw the scene in front of him, he would believe his words, and when he drew the knife, he brushed his chest with the cash ticket, and after making sure that the silver tickets were all there, he swung the knife at the henchman steward, although the henchman steward was proficient in martial arts, but he was far from being the opponent of this Jianghu man.

Seeing this change, other people in the dining room turned around and fled, some hid under the dining table, and some turned around and wanted to escape, but the master did not love to fight, and after cutting his confidants, he chased after the people who wanted to escape, and left the dining room.

The people in the dining room scolded their mother, the dining room was just such a door, and they set fire at the door, so that they could escape!

Although the henchman was injured, but fortunately the injury was not serious, seeing that everyone would jump to their feet and scold, they didn't know how to save themselves, and couldn't help but scold the fool in their hearts, and then reluctantly supported and commanded everyone to find a way to put out the fire.

When the fire was extinguished and the people who rushed to put out the fire knew what had happened, the henchman sent someone to hunt down and kill the master, and sent someone back to Beijing to inform the Nine Emperors, and when the matter was completed, he sent someone to ask a doctor to heal his wounds.

"You can't touch the water for about ten days with this injury, and this wound is not small, I'm afraid that you will have a high fever at night, you have to find someone to stay up all night and wait, and when the fever subsides, you will probably be fine." ”

"Good. "It's about his own life, the henchman asked the doctor very carefully, what else needs to be paid attention to, the doctor is very patient, and he said it in great detail, and the henchman steward has no place to be exposed, so he ordered the little guy to give the doctor money to send him out.

After sending everyone in the house away, he was in the mood to inspect the boxes and silver tickets that Master Shi gave him.

It's just that when he opened the cabinet where he had collected these things, he found that there was nothing in it! Not only were the things that Master Gao had given him missing, but even the gold, silver and jewelry that the Nine Emperor Princes had put in it were gone!

How is this possible? Could it be that Master Gao stole it before leaving? But how could he carry so many things by himself? A cabinet full of them!

But if you don't put the responsibility on the master, you have to take this responsibility, just kidding, how can he afford it!

Yes, it was Gao Ye who did it, he ate black, first asked his people to poison his subordinates in the dining room, and then took advantage of him to go to the dining room with him, sneaked in here, and swept away the contents of the cabinet, so that Gao Ye did not have to give what he had to give to his subordinates this time, but also put the responsibility for poisoning them to the Nine Emperors.

Although the confidant steward felt that it didn't make sense, he had lost too much blood, and he could only come up with this statement now, it didn't matter, when his injuries healed, he would always be able to make a good statement.