Chapter 127: Assassination in Beijing
"Junqing is a little interesting."
"But isn't it, Prime Minister Jun is clearly trying to make the envoys of Nanli Kingdom make a fool of themselves."
The afterglow of the setting sun spilled into the hall, and Helan Jingheng looked at the afterglow, and the corners of his mouth hooked into an unfathomable smile.
A month later.
An inconspicuous carriage arrived in the capital in a circle, and the soldiers guarding the city made a routine inspection, and they didn't know which sentence caused a quarrel, and the soldiers guarding the city demanded that all the people in the carriage dismount.
A pair of plain hands lifted the curtain and handed out a token. When the soldiers defending the city saw it, they were about to kneel, when a female voice with some vicissitudes sounded in the carriage: "No need, let it go." ”
Luo Wushuang was stunned for a moment when she heard the familiar voice, but she quickly covered up her emotions. It was the first time that I felt the timidity of homesickness, after all, the people loaded in the carriage in front of me were
"Yes." The soldiers defending the city immediately let this inconspicuous carriage go, and did not dare to delay for a moment.
Luo Wushuang's carriage traveled behind the carriage, and although the carriage looked very simple, it was certainly not simple.
The groom had already parked his horse, waiting for the defenders to inspect it, when footsteps sounded outside the carriage. Immediately afterwards, the person who came rudely lifted the carriage curtain, and Luo Wushuang and the others were all shaken by the dazzling sunlight.
"Release!" The defender of the city said in a rough voice.
The carriage finally entered the city after waiting in line for an hour, and the capital was already prosperous, and this was the time of the imperial examination, so it was naturally crowded with people.
"Brother Luo, you are more knowledgeable, which noble person did you say was the carriage in front of?" Xie Lingyun was very interested.
Luo Wushuang shook his head and didn't speak, Li Yefu continued: "Ye Fu hurriedly glanced at the token. The dragon and phoenix are carved on it, which should be a thing in the palace. ”
"Could it be which palace concubine?" Xie Lingyun looked curious.
"It's unlikely, the palace concubine is not allowed to leave Beijing without the emperor's permission. The carriage was dusty, obviously coming back from outside just now. Li Yefu judged.
"Could that be the princess's clan or princess? I heard that the third princess is not in good health, and she has always been raised on Yuntai Mountain. Wang Yuan also joined the discussion.
"It's possible."
"Brother Hua, what do you think?" Li Yefu stabbed Hua Yunzheng and said.
Hua Yunzheng was silent all the way, and at this time, he turned his head to the side with a cold face, making it clear that he was unwilling to deal with everyone.
Luo Wushuang saw that Li Yefu still had a tendency to stop, and stopped: "Don't speculate, everyone. Random speculation will only get you into trouble. The capital is the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, let's have more eyes. ”
Everyone nodded when they heard this, after all, there was no better place in the capital than Bailu. Your own people should indeed be more restrained.
"Brother Wushuang, the capital is really prosperous." Jinque has been lifting the curtain to watch the excitement, and she has no idea what Luo Wushuang and the others are talking about.
Luo Wushuang pinched the face of the sparrow and threatened, "Put the curtain down." If any of the capital bullies have taken a fancy to you. Let you cry without a place. ”
Jinque lowered the curtain of the car, looked at Luo Wushuang with tears in his eyes and said, "Isn't Brother Wushuang going to save Jinque?"
Luo Wushuang tried hard to hold back his laughter, and said with a serious face: "Brother Wushuang can't win, so he can only give you to the bully." ”
Hearing this, the sparrow burst into tears, and Luo Wushuang immediately covered the sparrow's mouth and said, "Don't cry." ”
Hearing this, the sparrow immediately stopped, and sobs overflowed from her mouth and nose.
Everyone laughed, and Wang Yuan comforted: "Brother Luo always likes to bully little girls, don't worry, little girls." If a bully takes a fancy to you. According to Wang Yuan's eyes, Brother Luo will definitely be able to make the bully jump around. Take care of yourself. ”
The sparrow didn't care that its mouth was now a duck's mouth, and said word by word: "Really, really, really?"
Everyone laughed happily when they saw it, Luo Wushuang let go of the sparrow's mouth, and said angrily: "Fake." ”
"Wow-"
Luo Wushuang was really afraid of the deafening sound of the sparrow, and hurriedly nodded: "Really, really." ”
The sparrow immediately rained and cleared, and then stuck to Luo Wushuang tightly, and the carriage moved unhurriedly.
Hua Yunzheng suddenly opened the curtain of the car, and kept staring at the flow of people coming and going outside the car in a daze, Luo Wushuang looked through Hua Yunzheng's sight, and the inconspicuous carriage was also traveling not far ahead.
As Hua Yunzheng's face became more and more solemn, Luo Wushuang also saw her suspicions, she looked at the bustling crowd and yelled: "It's broken!"
Everyone was startled by Luo Wushuang's lion roar, but as if confirming Luo Wushuang's words, the carriage in front of them was about to collide with the oncoming brown treasure-topped carriage.
Luo Wushuang finally knew why Hua Yunzheng's face was solemn, there were many people hidden under the calm in this street market, in other words, there were many masters who held their internal fluctuations.
Although the carriage in front tried its best to avoid it, the oncoming brown treasure-topped carriage was obviously (strategically coming), and no matter how the carriage in front of it avoided it, the brown treasure-topped carriage was instantly crushed in the direction.
The people in the market were so frightened by the two runaway carriages that they fled with screams, and the scene was chaotic.
At this time, except for the two carriages in front of them that were frantically destroying the market furnishings, only the carriage that Luo Wushuang and the others were riding was parked alone on the street.
The situation was very urgent, and the carriage was loaded with Luo Wushuang's old man, or Song Chenyan's old man.
"You are not allowed to come out!" After Luo Wushuang hurriedly explained, he lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.
Hua Yunzheng naturally didn't listen to Luo Wushuang's words, and jumped out of the carriage and landed on Luo Wushuang's side.
Brockque curiously wanted to follow the two of them out of the car, but Hua Yunzheng came over with a cold look and scared Brockk back into the carriage.
The two carriages were about to end up defeated, only to see a row of orderly black-clothed people from the eaves of the house fall to the ground in an instant, and the other people in the carriage were not afraid when they saw this scene, but they didn't plan to cause trouble for Luo Wushuang and the others.
After the man in black landed, he instantly controlled the situation. The two horses were pulled in two directions. Three times and five divided by two, the brown treasure-topped carriage came to the five horses and divided the corpses, and the scene was very bloody.
But apparently the brown Baoding carriage was only the beginning of this assassination, and more men in black poured out from different places. The two sides fought together, and it was difficult to separate.
The people in the carriage were very calm, and let the shouting and killing outside, not even the slightest corner of the curtain was lifted. The killer of the other party was even a little suspicious, and there was no owner in this carriage at all.
More and more black-clothed people poured out, but they were all people from the other side, and the people of the master of the carriage seemed to be behind.
Hua Yunzheng instantly became interested in the master of the carriage. This is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, who has the audacity to send so many people to kill on the street. Who is worth spending so much energy and manpower to attract the other party's endless pursuit? What's even weirder. None of the soldiers who were supposed to be on patrol could be seen.
Luo Wushuang watched the situation with a frown, and suddenly returned to the carriage and took out an object, and then turned over onto the eaves on both sides of the market.
Luo Wushuang was holding the small bow and crossbow that Jin Niang gave her, which was a murderous weapon. It's a waste not to take it with you.
Luo Wushuang drew his bow and aimed at the carriage. But he didn't let go. She hesitated, she didn't know what the consequences of her move today would be on herself, but from the immediate point of view, it would attract the pursuit of the two forces, and in the long run, it would inevitably become a big hidden danger for her identity to be exposed.
"Woo-" Three arrows fired in succession, hitting the man in black who was approaching the carriage.
Luo Wushuang finally let go of the hand that drew the bow, and the carriage was loaded with no one else. It is the empress dowager of the Northern Yan Dynasty, and she is the kind old man who likes to call herself a girl.
The Empress Dowager has always favored Song Chenyan, so there was only a simple answer in the carriage. Luo Wushuang recognized that it was the Empress Dowager, but so what? He is already a deceased person.
A glimmer of luck finally opened in the carriage. The phoenix eyes were still gentle and sharp, but after a moment's hurried, the carriage curtain was lowered.
Originally, the master of the carriage had lost the upper hand, but Luo Wushuang's intervention instantly attracted the forces of the two parties to him. The people on the Empress Dowager's side of the force also couldn't figure out who Luo Wushuang's force was, so they didn't move for the time being.
But the enemy obviously didn't think so, they divided a part of their people to chase and kill Luo Wushuang, and continued to launch a fierce attack on the carriage. As soon as Luo Wushuang saw a group of killers chasing after him, he slipped away with oil on the soles of his feet.
A quarter of an hour had passed, and the patrol was still nowhere to be seen. Luo Wushuang beat a drum in his heart, and said secretly: "This shouldn't be, even if the people are greedy for life and afraid of death, they don't dare to go to report the news, and such a big movement here should have attracted the movement of the Gyeonggi camp a long time ago." ”
"Unless the Gyeonggi camp was instructed by Helan Jingheng to kill his grandmother? How much monstrous hatred should there be"
Luo Wushuang couldn't manage so much at the moment, and flew towards the place of the Gyeonggi camp, and before coming, Luo Shengtian handed over the list of officials in Beijing who were favored by the Luo family to Luo Wushuang.
Luo Wushuang vaguely remembered that there was a major general of the Gyeonggi battalion on the list, and if he could move in to rescue the soldiers, he would have no worries about his life.
Not long after Luo Wushuang left, a column of elite soldiers came to support, surrounding the group of black-clothed people, and the string of small tails that were originally attached behind Luo Wushuang's ass also withdrew in an instant.
The people in black who were surrounded were not a bad person, and when they saw that the general trend was gone, they wiped their necks with knives. If you can't catch it, even if you are caught, you will immediately bite the poison hidden in your teeth.
"Wechen is late to save the car, and I hope that the Queen Mother will forgive her sins." A general-like figure knelt in front of the carriage to plead guilty, and the soldiers also knelt down.
Xie Lingyun and the others saw that the situation was calm, and they also got off their horses one after another, knowing that the owner of the carriage must be a powerful person, but they never expected that it was the empress dowager who respected the world.
Xie Lingyun and the others knelt down with the soldiers almost at the same time, and there was no movement in the carriage until Hua Yunzheng threw a black-clothed man with blood on his mouth from the eaves.
The curtain of the carriage was finally lifted, and the Empress Dowager, dressed in plain clothes and without makeup, sat in the carriage dignifiedly.
Without losing his majesty, he said: "Forgive the ministers for their innocence, and the secretaries are flat." ”
"Empress Dowager Xie."
Hua Yunzheng climbed down the eaves, landed in front of the carriage of the Empress Dowager, and half-knelt and said, "Bailu student Hua Yunzheng visits the Empress Dowager." ”
When everyone in the Gyeonggi camp saw that such a good-looking young man was acting flamboyantly, someone immediately came up and wanted to drag Hua Yunzheng. The Empress Dowager stopped: "Let him go." ”
"Back to the Empress Dowager, he offended Tianwei and deserved to die."
"He saved the mourning family, and he also captured the traitor who failed to take poison and committed suicide, and he has merit."
"Hua Yunzheng thanked the Empress Dowager." Hua Yunzheng said flatly.
The Empress Dowager straightened her sideburns and white hair, and said with a smile: "You are indeed a man of character in this later life, you will not retreat when you see the anger of the people, and you will be rewarded when you see the reward." ”
Luo Wushuang had already come back at this time, she unfolded her dress, knelt down and said, "Bailu student Luo Wushuang has asked the Empress Dowager to say goodbye." ”
The Empress Dowager was very interested in Luo Wushuang, and she beckoned to Luo Wushuang and said, "You come closer and let the mourning family take a look." ”
Hearing this, Luo Wushuang stood up and approached the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager looked at Luo Wushuang carefully, and Luo Wushuang did not shy away from the Empress Dowager's exploratory gaze, she was old after all, and the hair on her temples was almost completely white.
"It turns out that you are Luo Wushuang, who stole the limelight today, you are indeed clear-eyed and well-born, and you are born with a good skin." The Empress Dowager complimented.
"Empress Dowager Xie praises." Luo Wushuang lowered his head slightly, and no longer looked at the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager asked straight to the point: "Why do you want to save a person you don't know?"
"Although Bailu is a school, it is famous for its chivalry, and it is natural for Bailu to be a person." Luo Wushuang's answer was watertight.
The Empress Dowager nodded, and called Xie Lingyun and others over to ask for a conversation, and then said: "Today's work, the mourning family will remember it for you, and I hope that all of you descendants can be named on the gold list." ”
"Get up—" Everyone escorted the Empress Dowager away.
When it comes to the imperial examination, the imperial examination process of the Northern Yan Dynasty is to participate in the township examination after becoming a Xiucai, and to participate in the examination to become a tribute, and to participate in the palace examination after becoming a tribute.
Township Examination: The Northern Yan Dynasty held an examination every three years in the provincial capitals of various provinces (including the capital), because it was held in autumn and August, so it was also called Qiu Yan (闱, examination room).
Examination: The Northern Yan Dynasty held an examination in the capital every three years, because it was held in the spring, so it was also called Chunqiu. The examination was presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and the emperor appointed the chief and vice presidents, and the people of the provinces and the supervisors of the country could take the examination, and 300 were admitted as tributes, and the first was called Huiyuan.
The palace test is divided into three grades, the first and three first, the first name champion, the second name Bangyan, and the third name Tanhua, all of which are given to Jinshi and the first; The second class is a number of people, and they are born as jinshi; The third class has a number of names, and they are given the same Jinshi background.
The yellow list was announced, commonly known as the "gold list title".
The examiner was appointed by the emperor. The chief examiner of this term is none other than Najun Mubai.
Luo Wushuang and the others passed all the way, they were already talented in Bailu, and they had successfully passed the township examination, and now they were going to participate in the general examination before the palace examination. (To be continued.) )