"Xiu'er, a few days ago, I asked you to ask the shop in the capital that makes Bishan, how is it, which one has better workmanship?" solved a major matter in her heart, and Yu Ruoxu even made her tone a lot lighter.

Xiu'er was like offering treasures, snapping her fingers like a number of treasures, "The slaves and maids have asked, Rong Bao Zhai, which is the closest to our Yu Mansion, is the most famous for making study utensils, and many young masters and young ladies are repeat customers of his family, but I heard that a new Moxiang Zhai has recently opened in the west of the city, although the price is more expensive, but there are many treasures from other places......"

"Okay, then let's go to Moxiangzhai." Yu Ruoxu made a final decision, "I have been to Rong Bao Zhai many times, and this time I tried the fresh." ”

"The slave understands." Xiu'er turned her head and instructed the groom, "Uncle Zhang, let's turn around and go to Chengxi Moxiangzhai." “

"Gotcha!" As soon as Uncle Zhang pulled the reins, the carriage turned around and headed west of the city.

Along the way, Xiu'er couldn't stay idle, and told Yu Ruoxu a lot of rumors about the family compound in the capital, nothing more than that today's big house punished the pampered and arrogant concubines, and tomorrow a certain lady eloped with someone and was caught, Yu Ruoxu is usually the most annoyed by these trivial inner house struggles, but she can't bear Xiu'er's eloquence and color, and later she even listened to it with relish, and couldn't help laughing, "Xiu'er, you are such a mouthful, it's a pity not to be a storyteller in a tea shop!" “

Xiu'er was a little annoyed, "Miss is here to laugh at the slave again!" Then he added, "The slave knows that the young lady has never disdained the pickled things in these houses, since the death of the lady, there are only two people in our Yu Mansion, the master and the young lady, and they have been quiet for so many years, the slave and the maid are afraid that the young lady will marry in the future, if she meets those ...... with evil intentions."

Yu Ruoxu heard that one head was bigger than two, "I'm really afraid of you, I said one sentence to you, you have to come back ten sentences with me!" “

"Miss!"

Seeing that Xiu'er looked like the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry, Yu Ruoxu couldn't help but twist her face, "Okay, okay, I know you're doing it for my good, but just say these things once or twice, I don't like to have a chattering girl around me." ”

Before Xiu'er could say anything, the carriage suddenly stopped, and Yu Ruoxu heard a lot of commotion outside, and then a rough voice came, "There is an accident in the west of the city, and all carriages and horses are not allowed to pass through guò!" “

The layout of the capital is divided into east and west by a Jing'an River, because the imperial palace is in the east, the east of the city slowly gathered many officials and hereditary marquis mansions, becoming the place where Zhong Ming eats, while the ordinary people are mostly concentrated in the west of the city, which is relatively noisy and lively. To travel from the west to the east of the city, it is necessary to pass a stone bridge five zhang wide over the Guò Jingan River.

There is an accident in the west of the city......

Yu Ruoxu couldn't help but open the curtain, but was secretly shocked by the scene in front of her: it was originally a lively street, but now almost everyone is in a hurry, and their faces are full of frightened looks, as if they are fleeing. The five battalions in charge of patrolling the capital suddenly went out, and rushed to the west gate of the city, and the soldiers who stayed here moved two huge barricades to block the bridge, and many people gathered around the barricades, pointing to the west of the city and discussing.

Yu Ruoxu ignored Xiu'er's shouts, jumped off the carriage, and stopped a person passing by in a hurry, "This little brother, may I ask if something happened in the west of the city?" “

"It seems that the victims are making trouble, clamoring to enter the city!" The man explained, "Look at Miss's dress, she should also be a rich and noble family, so don't go over there to join in the fun!" Before Yu Ruoxu could say thank you, the man fled in a puff of smoke.

She suddenly became suspicious in her heart, and the victims were clamoring to enter the city? Who was the man who stopped her carriage a few days ago to beg for food?

Before she had time to think about it, Yu Ruoxu saw Uncle Zhang sweating profusely and squeezing out of the crowd, panting and saying, "Miss, listening to the military master over there, it seems that the victims from Henan and Hebei are gathered at the west gate and are preparing to forcibly enter the city!" “

"Forced into the city?" Yu Ruoxu frowned, "Have the city gates been blocked these days?" “

"Seems to be." Uncle Zhang nodded, "Since the beginning of this month, the victims have not been able to enter the city, saying that they are afraid that there will be too many victims to disturb the security of the capital." Many victims of the disaster had no choice, so they gathered near Zhuangzi in the western suburbs, but today for some reason there was a sudden commotion......"

Break the peace...... What a good excuse! Yu Ruoxu sneered in her heart.

Yu Zhongjun's words flashed through his mind, "If there are people with ill intentions...... Mutiny is possible! “

She suddenly felt like a mess in her heart, and hurriedly said to Xiu'er, "Xiu'er, you hurry up with Uncle Zhang to go back to Yu Mansion to report to Daddy, just say that the victims in the west of the city mutinied, let Daddy hurry into the palace to discuss countermeasures!" “

Xiu'er was also frightened by this formation, and nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "The slave has written it down." As if he remembered something, he asked urgently, "What about you, Miss?" ”

Yu Ruoxu looked worried, "I'm afraid that the people patrolling the fifth battalion will do something to the victims, so I have to go to the west of the city to see the situation." Then he instructed Uncle Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, hurry up and take Xiu'er back!" “

"But Miss......" Before Uncle Zhang's words were finished, Yu Ruoxu directly pushed him to the carriage, and then snatched the whip in his hand and swung it towards the horse, "snap", the horse was in pain, and started to run.

"Miss, Miss......" Xiu'er's voice became farther and farther away, Yu Ruoxu took out the Yu family's entry and exit order, went up the crowd, rushed to the stone bridge, and shouted to the soldiers guarding the bridge, "I am the second miss of the Yu Taifu family, and now I want to go to the west of the city, you still don't let me go?" ”

A soldier looked at the second-grade Taifu warrant in her hand, and her face was a little embarrassed, "Miss Yu, the west of the city is in chaos now, you are a noble woman, I'm afraid it's not safe!" “

"Don't talk too much, just let it go! If there is any problem, I will explain it to Daddy, and it will not bother you! Yu Ruoxu put on a posture of a brutal lady.

"Miss Yu, the blockade of the Jing'an Bridge was personally ordered by the Commander-in-Chief, isn't it embarrassing for us that you forcibly want to go over like this?"

"What's wrong with you?" Yu Ruoxu was anxious, and she couldn't care about her demeanor, "The Yu family has relatives in the west of the city, I will pick him up now, this is the order of the second rank of the imperial court, and it is not as good as your commander from the third grade?" “

When the soldier heard that "the Yu family has relatives in the west of the city", he thought for a moment, looked at Yu Ruoxu's eyes like a torch, and couldn't help but let out a thin layer of cold sweat, "I see, the little one will be released now!" With that, he pulled open the corner of the barricade and let Yu Ruoxu cross the bridge.

There were many panicked people gathered at the bridgehead in the west of the city, clamoring to go to the east of the city, seeing that Yu Ruoxu had to come from the east of the city, the barricade was also half open, and they rushed forward for a while, wanting to squeeze onto the stone bridge while the barricade had not yet closed. The bridgehead on the west side suddenly fell into chaos.

Yu Ruoxu took advantage of the chaos to get out of the crowd and ran along the road to the West City Gate. All the doors of the small shops along the way were closed, and many people hurriedly rushed to the direction of Jing'an Bridge with their families, shouting, "The victims are coming to grab things!" Hurry up and hide in the east of the city! “

There was a sound of armor crashing behind him, and Yu Ruoxu looked back to see that there was another team of soldiers patrolling the fifth battalion, running towards the city gate with weapons. What frightened her the most was that the soldiers did not carry ordinary spears, but each carried a large black golden bow and several feathered arrows.

Court...... What's this for?!

Countless thoughts turned in her mind, Wei Yuanli, the current commander of the Fifth Patrol Battalion, is the protégé of Liang Hongyi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, and can be regarded as a faction of the Liang family. Is this situation deliberately done by the Liang family, or is it the result of the acquiescence of the Queen Mother and the Emperor?

The west city gate is now closed, and the people who patrol the five battalions are almost out of the nest, guarding behind the city gate in the dark, but they can't stop the sound of the victims slamming the door. Yu Ruoxu heard many victims shouting outside the door, and a few rare words could be clearly heard-

"Let us in!"

"We're going into town!"

"Why lock us out!"

There were many figures flickering on the city gate, Yu Ruoxu squinted his eyes, and vaguely saw a person wearing the special black armor of the Fifth Battalion Standing by the city wall, and said angrily to the noisy victims below, "A group of Diao people! This commander is ordered to close the city gates, and if you make such nonsense again, don't blame this commander for being unkind! “

"It's all fine before, why do you suddenly close the city gates?"

"The court is going to kill us!"

"Let's rush in together!"

The victims outside the gate seemed to be more noisy, many people directly picked up the stones around them and threw them at the city gate, the hard stones smashed on the dark iron gate, making a continuous muffled sound of "clang", the guards behind the city gate looked a little heavier, and the action of killing the victims was almost imminent.

Yu Ruoxu felt that his nerves were tense, and he was thinking about how to get to the city gate, when he saw that the group of archers just now suddenly appeared on the city gate, "Boom-" sounded, and pulled out the feather arrows in unison, drawing the bowstring, and the shiny arrows pointed directly at the victims under the city gate.

Yu Ruoxu gasped, "This is to ......"

"A bunch of untouchable shrews from the backwoods!" Wei Yuanli's face turned pale, and he raised his right hand, "Release the arrow!" “

There was a sound of breaking through the sky from the castle tower, and the archers shot countless feathered arrows at the city gate, and the victims gathered at the city gate hurriedly fled in all directions, but they could not escape the speed of the arrows. Even though there was a heavy iron door separating it, Yu Ruoxu heard the sound of arrows shooting into flesh and blood, as well as the continuous wails that shook the heavens and the earth.

The blood of the victims flowed in through the cracks under the city gates, like a red stream, bubbling into the city, spreading in all directions, and staining the boots of many of the gate guards. An officer shouted, hurriedly jumped away, and couldn't help but sip, "Damn, I got my new shoes dirty, it's so fucking unlucky!" “

"Shut up!" Another officer kicked him and shouted, "You're all about!" “

Yu Ruoxu's legs seemed to be filled with lead, his nose was full of a strong smell of blood, and his teeth couldn't help chattering, "The imperial court, the imperial court is so ......"

Treat the lives of the people as ants!

"Wei Yuanli, who gave you the will to release the arrow!"

A familiar angry shout came, Yu Ruoxu looked up blankly, and a figure in a light cyan robe appeared on the city tower.