Someone took away more than a dozen high-ranking officials from the Imperial Prison, and they didn't go far before they met Liu Tong's soldiers and horses. That Hong Qianhu sneered, pointed at them and said, "Fortunately, I met my comrades, and I didn't fall for you!" Where did the rebels and thieves come from! ”

The handsome young general smiled: "Who is the rebel and thief?" ”

Hong Qianhu was a little embarrassed, and shouted: "No matter who you are, ...... horizontally and vertically" Before his words fell, he only heard the whistle sound, and a cold arrow flew out of nowhere, caught off guard, and nailed into his arm with a "boom". Hong Qianhu scolded, "What kind of hero is a hidden arrow hurting people!" ”

The general smiled more and more: "Not only dark arrows, but also our knives, guns, and arrows are coated with strange poison 'gutter oil', which are all poisonous arrows. Did Hong Qianhu ever notice that the wound was burning, and it was more painful than ordinary wounds? ”

Hong Qianhu said "oops", covered his arms and turned white, staggered on the horse and couldn't sit still, gritted his teeth and said: "Despicable villain, take your life to pay!" ”

Before he finished speaking, the general said, "I just heard that the water of the ancient well, which is extremely clean within three quarters of an hour, can cure this poison." ”

Hong Qianhu asked him to say Huli Mengden, I don't know whether to believe it or not, and I was stunned for a while.

The group on the other side didn't have time to wait for him. The leading general whistled and fired a flurry of arrows! More than a dozen people were shot and fell from their horses. The general shouted, "Kill!" The crowd rushed over, brandishing their swords and spears. The guards who followed the edict sneaked to the side and watched, and the two did not help each other.

The soldiers and horses who robbed the officials were about 300 people, and they were extremely poorly beaten. The seemingly "human" array was actually led by the general with high martial arts, a group of soldiers on the left and right, three people in each group, and one shot and three blades in the left and right knives, hitting one person on Liu Jun's side, tearing Liu Jun apart like an arrow. The cavalry with all the lords in front of the horse was protected by two groups of men and horses.

At this moment, another group of men and horses ran over, blowing three whistles from a distance, one long and two short. The general was swinging his sword and fighting the leader of another patrol of Liu's army, and without stopping in his hand, he responded with a long whistle. The cavalryman with Lin Hai suddenly waved his hand and knocked Lin Hai unconscious; Your Excellency had already believed that the soldiers who brought them out of prison were the Son of Heaven's divine soldiers, so they were bent on fighting and no one paid attention. The general shouted, "The pick-up has arrived!" The poison on their knives. The name of the medicine is 'Sanlu', and the throat is sealed with blood-" Liu Jun was in an uproar, and the army's heart was in turmoil.

The other leader of the Liu army shouted: "He's talking nonsense!" Hugh to believe! ”

The general smiled: "Ask Hong Qianhu, I'm talking nonsense!" Liu Jun's heart brushed and rang out a "groan". The general laughed, easily slashed down a few opponents, and led people to fight a bloody way to join forces with the men and horses in front of him.

The leader on the other side said in a deep voice, "You go first!" The major general nodded, and took more than a dozen officials to pat their horses away, and the men and horses who responded rushed over to intercept Liu Jun's way, and the two sides fought in one place.

It didn't take long for Hong Qianhu, who was watching the battle due to injury, to know that he couldn't win. Although these are also veterans, the opponent's martial arts are not weak; is accustomed to one-on-one, and the other party obviously sees that the perennial training is three to one; They are all ordinary soldiers, and they can know that the opponent's armor and blades are much stronger. Nai shouted: "Go and move the rescuers!" As everyone knows, this sentence made his own soldiers think that the defeat was decided, and the trace of combat power that had just been gathered suddenly collapsed.

The leader who responded took the opportunity to cut down the other leader of the Liu army, and shouted: "You and other leaders are defeated, and those who surrender will not be killed!" Liu Jun immediately collapsed.

The chief slew for a while, and whistled with a bend; His men immediately stopped their hands, withdrew their horses and left, as if they were one person. Before Liu Jun understood, the opponent had already run away with only a cloud of smoke.

Hong Qianhu was stunned behind him, and was stunned for a long time before sighing: "Good soldier!" He immediately shouted, "Chase!" Move the rescuers! Then the crowd shouted, "There is an enemy attack—" and a few went everywhere to ask for help, and the rest of them chased after them.

Hong Qianhu also wanted to chase after him, so his comrades on the side stopped him alive and dead, forcing him to smash open a medical hall near the left to check the poisoned arrow.

Although the doctor was dragged down from the kang, he didn't dare to complain when he saw that they were military masters, so he hurriedly pulled out the arrow for him. Just as he was about to apply the medicine, his brother hurriedly said: "This arrow is poisonous!" It must be washed with the water of the ancient well! ”

The doctor looked at the arrow and examined the wound carefully, and said, "It's not poisonous, only sprinkled with some chili peppers." ”

Several people were dumbfounded. Hong Qianhu couldn't help laughing: "So cunning! Taking advantage of the doctor's application for him, he picked up an arrow with his other arm to take a closer look, and was shocked, "The arrows of the Royal Foresters!" Several people immediately looked at each other. Hong Qianhu stood up, "I'll go see the general!" ”

Several brothers held him down: "It's important that the adults finish the medicine first!" He urged the doctor to hurry.

The doctor hurriedly wrapped his arm, and several people kicked out the door and got on the horse and galloped towards Liu Tong's residence.

Hong Qianhu woke up Liu Tong in a dream, and asked the guilty person to divert the tiger from the mountain, and showed him the arrow. Liu Tong was shocked, raised his leg and gave him a kick, kicking Hong Qianhu out of the door. After thinking about it, he rushed out again and asked, "How many people?" ”

Hong Qianhu lay on the ground and said: "There are about 300 people in front, and at most 200 people come to rescue in the back." ”

Liu Tong immediately gathered people. Because the pursuers didn't know where to go, they had to start with the edict first. When I heard the jailer say that the other party had taken the "holy decree" out, he was shocked! hurriedly chased them along the way they fled for a while, and some of Hong Qianhu's soldiers ran over, saying that the group of men and horses had broken into a temple in the south of the city, and were now guarding inside; They didn't have many people and didn't dare to attack, so they came back first to report the news.

Liu Tong sneered: "The city gates are closed on all sides, and it is difficult for them to fly with their wings!" So he ordered the man to lead the way, and he lit more than 3,000 people and chased him with torches.

When I arrived at the gate of the temple, a soldier who knew said to Liu Tong: "This is a nunnery called a nunnery." The door was closed, and there was no sound inside.

The powerful soldier stepped forward and kicked the door, kicking him several times. Because the wall of the nunnery was low, Liu Tong commanded, "Go over the wall!" Several soldiers climbed over the wall and shouted, "No one! A Bodhisattva stood at the entrance of the hermitage. ”

Liu Tong was shocked and ordered loudly: "Move away from the Bodhisattva!" ”

Those people moved the Bodhisattva aside and opened the door of the nunnery, and the soldiers hugged Liu Tong in. I saw that it was quiet, and there was no voice; It was also black, and there was no light or candle. Everyone walked in with torches, came out through the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and found that there was a light in the side hall in front of them, and hurriedly hurried over.

When I arrived at the door, I immediately heard a faint voice inside. Then he took the torch and shone it, and there was a big iron lock at the door! Liu Tong pulled out the treasure knife on his waist and slung it

I saw two candles lit inside, a stove of incense on the incense table, and a group of sisters-in-law sitting cross-legged on the ground, densely packed. The leading old lady is knocking on the wooden fish in front of the Buddha and chanting the scriptures. Liu Tong had the heart to step in, but found that it was too full of people to get down. It is obvious that this side hall is not the place where the nuns gather on weekdays.

The old sister-in-law who led the way put down the wooden fish and stood up, chanted the Buddha, turned around and looked up at Liu Tong, was stunned, and said: "Dare to ask this general, why did you break into my Buddhist pure land." ”

Liu Tong waved his knife at her and asked, "Where are you hiding traitors in this nunnery?" ”

The old lady recited the Buddha again: "It has been nearly half an hour since the poor nuns and others let a group of soldiers drive them away and lock them in this hall. ”

Liu Tong hurriedly asked her about her passing.

The old sister-in-law ordered the nuns to stand up and walked to the door to tell Liu Tong about it.

It turned out that a person led a group of soldiers to break into the Zhenwu Nunnery, and drove the sisters-in-law out of the nunnery one by one, or three or five or seven or eight and locked them into one room. Later, after listening to the noise outside for a long time, he drove them out of the houses with knives and guns and locked them up in the side hall of the Medicine Buddha. The sisters-in-law only heard a sound of locks outside, and they didn't know what they were going to do. The old sister-in-law led them to meditate and chant in this hall, waiting for the protection of the Medicine Buddha.

Liu Tong hurriedly ordered his subordinates to search this nunnery, but there was no one anywhere; After checking for a long time, I finally found horseshoe prints and horse manure in the back mountain. It's just that the horseshoe prints are all coming and going, and I chased the horseshoe prints around, and found that the horse's hooves were around a mountain road in the back mountain! The back mountain is said to be the back mountain, but it is just a small mound, and there is no place for Tibetans. Five hundred riders don't know where to go! Liu Tong was shocked and ordered the nuns to be taken down for careful interrogation.

asked until dawn, and the sisters-in-law were interrogated individually, and what they said was the same, which shows that they are not lies. But according to what they said, it was the same three soldiers who drove the sisters-in-law to the side hall. Only one of the sisters-in-law who boiled water in the kitchen said, those people went up to her to get a pot of water and a dozen bowls, and she saw a handsome man in his twenties, who looked like a leader, took out a large bag of medicine from his bosom and scattered them in the bowls one by one. Another soldier next to him carried a kettle and washed down the boiling water, stirred it with their chopsticks, and brought out a bowl of bowls. Liu Tong's people immediately found the dozen or so bowls in a side hall and asked them to take them all. Later, I found a doctor who had a good way to examine the bowl carefully, and the doctor asserted that the bowl had been filled with a very powerful mystery. Medicine.

Buff. The medicine can't be used to confuse their own people, and ninety percent of it is used to confuse the dozen or so ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee. Liu Tong felt extremely confused for a while, and couldn't understand what those Imperial Forest Army were going to do.

But I went back and looked into the matter in detail. The arrows left by the robbers last night collected near the Imperial Prison were shown to the people of the Ministry of Industry's Yu Hengqing Officials Division for identification, and they all said that they were indeed used by the Imperial Forest Army. The prison guard insisted that the placket of the roll was covered with a jade seal. Liu Tong's staff had an idea with him, he took out a pair of Jinshang's handwriting from the palace and mixed it with several other people's signatures for the jailer to distinguish. The jailer looked at it for a long time, then pointed to the saint's handwriting and said, "The handwriting on the holy decree seems to be similar to this." Liu Tong's face sank like water more and more.

Hong Qianhu swore again and again that the token for him to leave the edict was exactly the same as the real one! Even the patina of the upper headband is the same. Liu Tong took the real token to take a closer look with him, and he said: "The subordinates only looked at it for a while, and it was very similar. He also pointed to two shallow fine lines, "here and here are also shallower." Liu Tong ordered people to go to the market to find a few fake antiques to ask, they all said that the token imitation is not difficult, but if there is even a shallow place, the person who does it must be very familiar with this thing, just a few random glances is not enough. Liu Tong suspected that there were spies beside him, and it was difficult to find out for a while, and the new emperor would ascend the throne tomorrow.

He ordered a few henchmen to carefully check the people around him and a few of his subordinates, and drove out all the sisters-in-law of Zhenwu'an, and repeatedly searched the nunnery and the back mountain, and the group of people flew away as if they had wings.

Jia Cong heard that more than a dozen adults had been robbed of the Imperial Prison, and he also heard that there were two gentlemen in it, so he immediately rushed to the Xianwang Mansion. As soon as he saw Situ Pan, he didn't care about etiquette and grabbed him and asked in a low voice, "Is that you?!" ”

Situ Pan frowned and said, "Isn't it you?" ”

Jia Cong said: "Where do I have that ability!" Is that you?! ”

Situ Pan shook his head: "It's not me." I heard that the soldiers and horses who robbed people were behaving in a messy manner, and they dared to imitate the holy decree, and I thought it was you. ”

Jia Cong stomped his feet: "Where am I messed up!" It's really not you? What about my husband? Where's my husband? ”

Situ Pan said: "I really don't know. ”

Jia Cong grabbed his shirt stiffly: "How could you not know? Who else in the capital can rob people from the edict but you! You are the saint's own brother! You must have a blank decree in your hands! ”

Situ Pan said: "How can this be true! Where did the blank decree come from! ”

Jia Cong said: "There are all the drama commentaries! The emperor will leave blank decrees for the most important people in case of emergency, these stories can never be groundless, there must be real things in the world. Don't coax me, you must have done it! Just tell me that my husband is safe. As he spoke, he pulled his sleeve and coquettishly coquettishly, "Brother Xianwang~~ Sue me~~ I also asked to deal with Mrs. Su!" ”

Situ Pan smiled bitterly: "I really don't know. Don't panic, since they have robbed like the sea and waited to go, it will be useful. It's better than being in prison. ”

Jia Cong stomped his feet and said, "Where will it be better than the edict!" I know where the people are in the edict prison, and I can't help but try to curry favor with that general in the future. Now I don't even know who got rid of him, and I don't even know what I'm going to do with him! Not knowing is the scariest thing! Then he asked in a low voice, "If it weren't you, would you have any clues?" ”

Situ Pan said: "No." Even Liu Tong didn't find any clues. I only heard that it was a horseshoe print, and after going around the mountain behind a nunnery, it disappeared. The nunnery is not far from the big mansion in the south of the city. ”

Jia Cong immediately said: "Could it be really Wuan?" ”

Situ Pan nodded: "Exactly." ”

Jia Cong said: "I saw their old sister-in-law when I was a child, but I can't remember what it looks like now." How could the horseshoe prints disappear? Is it out of thin air? ”

Situ Pan said: "I went around the small mound in the back mountain, and there were hoof prints on the mountain and down the mountain. ”

Jia Cong thought for a while: "Then it means that it is not on the mountain?" So why did they go up the mountain? Take something? ”

Situ Pan suddenly patted the case: "That's right! Since I have turned around, I guess it is not in the mountains. ”

"And where did they go?"

Situ Pan said: "How do I know? This makes people inquire. ”

Jia Cong stomped his feet and shouted, "Go quickly, go quickly!" ”

Situ Pan asked him again why he went back to the capital, and Jia Cong only said that he had come to see Heizi. Situ Pan talked to him for a long time and didn't find any flaws, so he sent him away. Jia Cong repeatedly told the letter to reach Rongguo Mansion as soon as possible, but Situ Pan only responded in vain.

Jia Cong walked to the door and suddenly ran back with an "oops" and said, "Since the holy decree is not yours, it is naturally a saint!" The saint has returned to Beijing? ”

Situ Pan was stunned and said, "If it is really a saint's soldiers and horses, it will become more and more unhindered like the sea." ”

Jia Cong glanced at him: "Hey, you really don't know?" ”

Situ Pan smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Jia Cong left disappointed, and Situ Pan stayed at his place for a long time without moving.

In the evening, a letter came from outside, General Liu Tong ordered the enthronement ceremony to be postponed for seven days, and the capital searched for rebels from house to house. In particular, I carefully inspected the homes of people with horses. It's just that not only did they not find out the 500 cavalry who attacked the edict prison that night, but they also didn't find the men and horses of Li Guopei before, but because they disturbed the backyard and caused all the princes and magnates to complain.

On the other hand, when a group of court officials who had been robbed from the edict woke up, they found themselves lying in a courtyard, so they pushed and shoved up, patted the prison clothes on their bodies, and felt hungry and thirsty. He took his hand and greeted him, and then looked around the courtyard. Seeing its delicate and meticulous, painting carved beams, there is a plaque hanging at the door of the main hall, and the words "Zhi Zhi Qingfen" are written on it. There is another couplet, which reads: "It is especially beautiful to sing into cardamom, and it is fragrant to sleep and dream." ”

Lin Hai couldn't help but praise: "This coupling has an elegant meaning. "Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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Chapter 178 of the main text

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