Chapter Eighty-Four: The North Wind Crane
In the city of Yingdu, most of the people have already fallen asleep, except for the rumors of the wind, all around are quiet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But what seemed to be a peaceful night was destined to be unpeaceful.
Knock-knock-knock.
In the middle of the night, when the north wind was howling, it was pitch black everywhere and there was no light, but there was an urgent knocking sound outside the Zhu window of the Jingshe, which seemed dull and frightening at midnight.
In front of the Zhu window, the young man who had written the letter in the middle of the night heard the sound, got up and pushed open the red window with a candlestick, took a book with a beautiful font and read it carefully three times, and then walked to a white jade incense burner next to him with a frown and threw it in.
The white silk cloth ignited when it encountered a spark, and it was not necessary to ignite a large flame in half an instant, reflecting on the man's delicate face, a crimson red eye.
Soon after, there was an urgent knock outside the window, and a letter was presented from the window, and Cheng Jia read it and immediately destroyed it again, and at the same time handed a stack of sealed letters to the black-clothed secret guard, and ordered, "Arrange for all people to be sent out as soon as possible." ”
"Yes, Childe. After speaking, the black shadows climbed the wall and left with a barb, so that all night, one after another, one after another, the black shadows quietly climbed over the wall, and then climbed over the wall, landed on the East Street, and then quickly swept towards the various official residences in the city.
Looking at the night sky with few stars outside the window, a north wind with a murderous aura blew far away along the outline of the Jing Barbarian Land, blowing into the largest capital city in the south.
The north wind blowing from afar, through the purple bamboo forest rustling with the wind, rolled up the purple bamboo leaves on the ground and blew a whirlwind, the bamboo leaves circled up along the bamboo poles that went straight to the sky, like the big wheel of fate, and "rattled" again, driving vigorously along its established direction.
Cheng Jia spread out his empty palms, slowly clenched his fists, twisted his eyebrows and muttered to himself, "Let this north wind come more violently!"
"This time!"
On the deserted street, several waves of black-clothed guards rushed back and forth on the street, each other's clothes were completely similar, and there were no marks on their bodies, but they only distinguished friend and foe by their breath, if they were narrow and narrow, they would definitely fight for their lives and protect the letter bag on their bodies.
In the dark night, some people are still leaning on the wall of the embassy in the middle of the night, called "looking at the stars", wearing only a few poor big-collared black robes, revealing a large smooth chest, a pair of black eyes in the night slyly blinked, instantly bright as stars, while covering the nose with snot, while laughing, "Wait for the middle of the night, the prince has froze to death, Ah ...... Finally let Prince Ben catch a little mouse. At the same time, one hand reached out like a ghost, five fingers into claws, quickly grabbed the back collar of a man in black, and then "clicked", twisted the other party's neck from behind, and immediately stretched out two fingers from his arms, clamped out a bamboo slip, and the person was thrown from the high wall by him, and threw down.
"Porphyry" sound.
The soldiers of the Qi State with fresh clothes and armor below carried the bags of hemp, opened their mouths and waited all night, and finally someone fell in, and then as soon as the rope was tied, the person was dragged away.
On this night, no matter which party left the corpse of which party, it will be immediately cleaned up, leaving no clue.
The north wind is blowing, the stars are moving, and after dawn, everything is calm.
In the city of Chengdu, there are still vendors selling and soliciting business on the streets and alleys, pedestrians coming and going, officials of Chu State rushing to the court, and envoys from various countries who are spying on the truth of Chu under the guise of watching ceremonies......
Everything looks the same, but the willows in the whole city, unconsciously, overnight, are all frosty yellow.
The north wind blew off the yellow leaves of a tree like a knife, and paved a city of golden gold.
The city is full of wind and rain.
And someone sat in a palace car, carrying a jade plate and a roll of folds in their hands, went straight to the main hall of Zhu Palace, roared along the royal road, rolled up a golden flutter.
The bell of the outer court is about to ring. (The outer court, that is, the Zhou system of the Son of Heaven, the place where the princes deal with the government of the court, and the place where the court meets.) The inner dynasty refers to the place where the princes deal with court affairs and rest. )
Three rings, three falls.
Zhu Palace was in the early dynasty, and hundreds of officials stood solemnly.
Although the King of Chu's body has been getting better and better under the conditioning of Ruo Ao Ziyan in the past few days, he still waved his hand meaninglessly while sitting on the jade seat above the ninth level.
Seeing this, Zhao Changzhi preached as usual, "The secretaries have something to do, and they have nothing to retreat from." ”
"Your Majesty, the minister has something to do. Yin Chen Yin of Yingdu Mansion walked out pacing from the back of the hundred officials.
The sound of "ping-ping-ping-ping" strides across the mirror-like ground in the main hall sounded very eagerly, and it was endless.
Hearing this, all the officials who lowered their heads raised a suspicious gaze, and looked at Chen Yin, who was dressed in a crane immortal suit, more than forty years old, and was full of guards, only to see him bow down and bend down to the end, and raised his voice and said, "Last night, Wei Chen just found the latest evidence on the family of an assassin, and the assassination of the princess out of the palace was committed by Wu Hou! And the poisoning of the king, Wei Chen suspects that it is also related to Wu Hou, please send someone to take Wu Hou's family into custody and examine this matter carefully!"
As soon as Chen Yin's words fell, a huge noise immediately erupted in the silent court, like a big wave, which suddenly overturned the golden roof of Zhu Palace.
When the King of Chu heard this, the old dizzy eyes suddenly shot out a fine light, and he shouted categorically, "What did you say?!"
Although Chen Yin's official position is not high, he is the post of Yin of Kyoto Prefecture, has the power of court discussion, and is in charge of public security inside and outside Yingdu. This incident is special, the eldest princess King Chu was assassinated and poisoned one after another, and it is obvious that the people behind the scenes have sinister intentions, hoping to put the two to death.
Therefore, the king of Chu had already ordered Yin to ask him to investigate thoroughly, and all martial law inside and outside the city of Yingdu had been under martial law for ten days.
The King of Chu calculated everything, but he didn't calculate that it would be Marquis Wu, or Princess Wu, after all, Princess Wu treated him very unusually.
But now, someone told him that the assassination and poisoning were done by them, isn't this a disguised slap in the face of the King of Chu?
Wu Hou, who was standing in the middle and back rows, heard this, and fell to his knees with a "porphyr" sound, and shouted that he was wronged, "The king, give me ten heads, and the little marquis will not dare!
Zhao Hou, who was standing beside him, snorted coldly when he heard this, "I can't see it!" Wu Hou, your majesty is so great that the king and Ling Yin Zhizun are afraid of it, but Xiao Hou has personally understood it. ”
The already yellow face of the king of Chu instantly became gloomy, his eyes narrowed slightly, first looked at Chen Yin who was below, and then fell on Wuhou who kept shouting grievances.
I heard him raise his voice and ask, "Where did you hear that?"
Ling Yin Zi stroked the green beard under his chin, a pair of scheming eyes, looked at Chen Yin and said slowly, "Tell the truth as soon as you know!"
"Yes, King, Ling Yin!"