Saying that the Ouchi Liu family quietly left the palace, the Empress Dowager was stunned for a while, and said with a wry smile: "That's it, I can't stay if I want to leave." Rebellion is damned. ”

Dai Quan repented: "The old slaves were still coaxed by them until yesterday, just as if they were really framed and really brave and loyal." ”

The Empress Dowager shook her head: "How can it be so coincidental, all of the people who fled are surnamed Liu." ”

After a while, Dai Quan said cautiously: "The Empress Dowager, what is it...... The shop is still in our hands. ”

The Empress Dowager sighed: "What's the use. Didn't you hear that? Even the account books are in the Liguo Mansion. Lao Jiu and Zhao Cheng all know that the shop belongs to their family, can the mourning family still be said to be the mourning family? Is there any evidence for the mourning family? ”

Dai Quan pondered for a moment: "This is really the reason. After thinking about it again, "The Empress Dowager, to this day, the old slave wants to steal out of the palace and go to Rongguo Mansion to meet Jia Cong." This person has strange ideas, and can think of ways that ordinary people can't think of. ”

The Empress Dowager waved her hand and said, "He is not a loyal. ”

Dai Quan said: "He's not a traitor. He's a dry shore guy, and it's better than going into the water. Besides, the Seven Princes are in their house. Whether he has the Seven Princes or not, this is a thorn between him and Situ Pan. ”

The Empress Dowager looked up at the door for a long time and sighed: "Dead horses should be live horse doctors, and there is really no one else." Dai Quan knelt down and kowtowed.

In the afternoon of this day, a vendor selling purses knocked on the door to sell goods in Lixiangyuan, Jia Cong was startled, it was actually Dai Quan! Hurriedly leaned in and whispered, "Hey, I'm not afraid of being recognized." ”

Dai Quan said with a smile: "Few people know the miscellaneous family. ”

Jia Cong shrugged: "Yes." Sit inside and cool off. Dai Quan nodded and followed him in. Nai turned his head to take a peek, and saw Lin Luan playing with a white fat doll under the corridor, and he was secretly happy in his heart.

When he arrived in the hall, Dai Quan sighed lightly: "Mr. Jia, do you know about the hidden phoenix residence?" ”

"Don't want to know!" Jia Cong hurriedly said, "An antique shop is getting more and more complicated. Whoever it is, it has nothing to do with me. ”

Dai Quan scolded with a smile: "You kid is a monkey, you will hide in case of trouble." Nai said in a low voice, "That shop is really secretly run by me for the little saint." ”

"Huh?!" Jia Cong shuddered. "Sure enough, it's getting more and more chaotic."

Dai Quan said sadly: "Look at this posture now, the Liguo Mansion wants to take it away." ”

Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I think it's good if they don't offer the little saint." Now that it's in the hands of others, don't think about it. The little saint had nothing to do with the shop. ”

Dai Quan had a cold face: "Could it be that they can't swallow it for nothing?" ”

Jia Cong glanced at him: "Can they still return it to the little saint?" ”

Dai Quan hurriedly said: "This is still in the hands of the miscellaneous family, but I don't know when their family will have to be taken away." ”

Jia Cong was stunned when he heard this: "Huh? Haven't taken it yet? Dai Quan shook his head slightly. Jia Cong rolled his eyes, "That's what people don't want." When the 'four generals rebelled in Beijing', the Liguo Mansion was safe and sound. has a deep family background, so he may not be able to look down on that shop. You also sell the things of the palace...... Hiss...... "He suddenly stopped talking.

Dai Quan waited with bated breath for a long time, and couldn't help asking, "What did Mr. Jia think?" ”

Jia Cong pursed his lips and said, "Grandpa Dai, could you be mistaken?" If the Li Guofu wants that shop, you can just take it away, can you leave it to your people? Don't take it for nothing. Why do I think people are behind the black pot? ”

Dai Quan sighed: "At first, the miscellaneous family really thought that they were helping the little saint to bear the disaster. I didn't think about ......it," he hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "they're gone." ”

"Huh?"

"Originally, there were people in the Liguo Mansion who were hostages in Ouchi."

Jia Cong said in his heart, sure enough, nonsense is not a skill exclusive to the master, but also a common talent of human beings. He also shouted: "How is it possible! The little saint was still a child himself. As the saying goes, a hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen. Liguofu is also an old family. If there were hostages in the palace, they would have been taken out a few years ago. ”

Dai Quan sighed: "That hostage stayed in the palace because of his oath. ”

Jia Cong frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "A while ago, the prince wanted that shop, so he said that the shop sold the stolen goods. The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division investigated, not only selling stolen goods, but simply stealing and selling things in the palace. Then Li Guofu came out to carry the black pot and coaxed King Yan. Speaking from my heart, I wouldn't carry such a big black cauldron. Well...... Could it be that the Li Guofu took the little sage to carry the black pot in exchange for exchanging their hostages? ”

Dai Quan was taken aback, and suddenly thought: Could it be that the Liu family doesn't want to live in seclusion? He straightened his back, and he couldn't hold it as soon as his brain opened. The Ouchi Liu family had secret dealings with the Liguo Mansion, and the first emperor and the emperor Taishang all knew about it. It's just that the two families are too secretive and can't get evidence, and the Liguo Mansion really doesn't have anyone to use, and the Heavenly Family doesn't take it to heart. A few years ago, the Empress Dowager wanted to do an industry outside, because her mother's family had already driven King Yan out of the capital, so she entrusted it to the head of the Liguo Mansion. Liu Biao's old man is a hundred times stronger than their children and grandchildren, and he knows in his heart that the one in Ouchi is definitely not comparable to his own family. Heroes emerge from troubled times. In the peaceful and prosperous times, they can still mix in their house for a few more decades; In today's world, if you have an empty title and no ability, you are waiting to slowly survive. If there are no traitors in the palace at all, everything is done by the Liguo Mansion, just to frame the Ouchi Liu family in front of the Empress Dowager, so that they can be cold-hearted......

The more he thought about it, the more right it became, the old eunuch couldn't help but clench his fists, raised his head and asked Jia Cong: "Guess who will make trouble about the hidden phoenix residence." ”

Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I don't know anything to guess!" Whoever gets the benefit in the end will do it. ”

Dai Quan nodded slowly, and said word by word: "That's right." Whoever gets the benefit is the one who does it. He closed his eyes for a moment, got up and took his leave.

Jia Cong sent him out, and saw Lin Luan coaxing Jia Jue from a distance. Dai Quan asked casually: "That kid is chubby and cute." ”

Jia Cong smiled: "Cute, right? That was my second uncle's youngest son, and now he is the treasure of our house. ”

Dai Quan glanced at him and said, "The third master is not shallow. ”

Jia Cong snorted: "That's your empress dowager who forced it in!" When Brother Huan comes back from his honeymoon, he will send it out, and he has already bought a house for her. Without waiting for Dai Quan to speak, he hurriedly said, "The Empress Dowager is really outrageous, how can there be a granddaughter who marries a woman!" Is she someone's grandmother? ”

Dai Quan only thought that he wanted this woman, and he had to try to get rid of Jia Huan's name first, so he looked at him a few times with a smile, waved his hand and said: "The Hengzhu people have been sent to your house, and the miscellaneous family doesn't care." "He is gone.

Jia Cong watched him slowly disappear, and secretly thought in his heart: Dai Quan personally sneaked out of the palace, but he knew that there was no one else available in their hands. Ouchi's Yanagi family should be clean. What about the three people in the north of the city? Oh, now there are only two, and one is guarding the tunnel outside the Forbidden City. The Liu family left them behind?

Thinking of this, Jia Cong turned back to Chen Ruijin to discuss. Chen Ruijin said: "I have quietly seen the three, one is a female guard. The female guard is quite taboo to pretend to be a couple with the male guard, and she is afraid that her feelings will be inconvenient to control. That Boss Wang is in his forties and has no beard, and I suspect that he is a eunuch. ”

"Eunuch? Isn't it, if the eunuch Shi Li can't hear the sharp voice? ”

Chen Ruijin smiled: "It's not that all the eunuchs have sharp voices. Although most of the eunuchs were young and purified, some of them were purified after changing their voices. ”

"I see." Jia Cong nodded and said, "These two eunuchs are from the original 'no guys' group. There shouldn't be any 'guys' around the Empress Dowager. ”

Chen Ruijin said: "I grew up in the women's guard camp when I was a child, and I didn't know the Liu family. In the early years, Gonggong Liu once said that our female guards are not big internal guards, and the big internal guards only need to practice martial arts to protect the master. ”

Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "That is, most of the things that male guards don't need to learn." What kind of shop, construction, and spies, the male guards have learned little. The people of the Liu family are not allowed to learn. Chen Ruijin nodded. Jia Cong shook his body, "Then I can think that most of the people who are selling things and collecting intelligence for the Empress Dowager outside today are eunuchs, or her eunuchs have been recruited with money outside in the past two years." ”

"Roughly so."

Jia Cong stretched: "Does Shi Li know?" ”

"He took me to the noodle shop."

"Well, that's up to him for now." Jia Cong let out a sigh of relief.

"I'm afraid that there are female guards and eunuch guards in the palace."

"Oh."

Shi Li really didn't make the Empress Dowager comfortable. Ma Sili was "teasing you" in the hidden phoenix residence, and on the other hand, he knew more and more, and the people outside the palace died unexpectedly one after another. What do you think of the beggars at the gate of the Yanwang Mansion, the beggars at the gate of the Liguo Mansion, and the beggars at the gate of the Rongguo Mansion; A soldier of the Imperial Forest Army passed under the dry bridge in the south of the city. A beggar leader was killed by a misfire.

And there is a newly opened gambling house in the west of the city that has only been open for two years, and in the middle of the night, when the third watch gambling is in full swing, a group of idlers who smashed the field rushed in, and they were stunned to kill more than 20 gambling house thugs. The owner of the gambling house died the worst, and his body was split in two. Several gamblers said that they saw someone holding a Western fire in the smashing field. The gun burst into the gambling house owner, and then split the body. The Five Cities Terracotta Division heard about it, and they became more and more afraid to check - only the elite of the Royal Forest Army can match Western fire. Gun. The owner of this gambling house is just an idler from out of town, and he doesn't even have a daughter-in-law, let alone relatives; It's hard to say what the Guards are. Who doesn't know that Chengxi has been messed up since Qin San's shopkeeper left?

There was a house near the left of the Forbidden City, which was robbed in the middle of the night. The owner of this house was very unlucky. He was a young man, and the house was his cousin's inheritance, and he had just gotten it and let the thief kill him. Because of the death of two house owners in a row, the one in front was still killed by the eunuch of the third family of King Yan, Zhao Chengdeng guessed that this thief had something to do with the Third Highness? So he didn't dare to mess around, so he ordered someone to temporarily seal the house and keep it for future disposal. As for the date of "the future", it is difficult to say.

The Empress Dowager really believed that the Liu family was wronged. The beggar and the gambling house are both top secrets, and the Liu family doesn't know anything about it. Remorse is mixed, depressed and unbearable, and he is actually sick. It's just that in this way, the Li Guofu will not be the mastermind behind the scenes, and it cannot be said that it is being used by others. There are still moles, and they haven't been caught yet.

Since she was sick, the little saint had to come and serve her. The Empress Dowager took his hand and said, "If the Liu family is here, our ancestors and grandchildren will be safer." It's a pity that the mourning family ran away. Now, it would be nice if there was a whatever. ”

The little sage's face changed, and he muttered, "Imperial grandmother, ninth uncle...... Won't kill us. If you want to kill it, kill it early. ”

The Empress Dowager wept and said, "You don't understand...... If he doesn't do it, he can't guarantee that others will do it. The little saint's face became more and more ugly.

For a while, Dai Quan personally sent him back to the palace, but he ordered others to avoid it, and asked in a low voice: "Little saint, now you are the only one in this palace who depends on the empress dowager, and you don't have to hide it from her old man if you have something." The little saint hung his head, his face uncertain. Dai Quan knew more and more that he had something important and never said it, so he persuaded him a few more words. The little sage forced him to hide it, so he had to say it.

A few days ago, a masked man in black suddenly broke into his bedroom. Before everyone could understand what had happened, the man knocked out all the eunuchs and maids in the house like the wind. He took out a piece of paper from his bosom, put a dagger against the neck of the little saint, and ordered him to copy it. The little saint was terrified and restrained by others, so he had to do it tremblingly. The meaning on the note is to let the Liu family out of the palace.

Dai Quan was shocked: "Why don't you tell the Empress Dowager about such a big event!" ”

The little sage lowered his head and said, "I'...... Don't dare to ......" Dai Quan stumbled and asked what the note looked like. The little sage smiled bitterly: "That was originally made by my study." ”

Dai Quan stood stunned for a long time, and sighed gloomily: "My mind has gone, and I can't keep it." He then decided that the Liu family had done it themselves.

A few days later, on the third watch, seven assassins appeared out of nowhere with the intention of assassinating the Empress Dowager, and their martial arts were very strong. The Empress Dowager still had some guards left around her, and for fear of injuring the jade bottle by beating rats, she led the assassins to the outer hall. I don't want these assassins to carry Western fire. The gun has not been taken out of the house, and it is not polite to go outside. The Queen Mother's guards killed one in the blink of an eye. Someone flew the eaves and walked the tiles to go to the outside of the palace to ask for the help of the Imperial Forest Army, but he walked less than fifty steps before he was beaten down. The palace courtyard is deep, and although the sound of these fighting guns is loud, it cannot be transmitted outside the palace walls.

In just two quarters of an hour, the Empress Dowager had been captured alive, and all the guards around her were dead. This old woman should only be dead and alive, and she was so sad and angry that she didn't know where to start, so she first scolded "the rebellious ministers and thieves who are killed by God". Before she could finish her sentence, an assassin grabbed the shoe of a dead eunuch and threw it into her mouth, blocking it. The rest of the palace maids and eunuchs who didn't know kung fu were also tied up and blindfolded. The Assassins did not hesitate to do so. First, he carefully searched for the fallen bullets, determined that there were many of them, and then carried all the corpses to the courtyard, untied the skin around his waist and poured fire oil. One of the Assassins returned to the room, slashed the ropes from the hands of the two eunuchs, and withdrew, and the lead Assassin threw down the fire breakers, and the flames rose into the sky.

The Forbidden City is really not small. When the Imperial Forest Army rushed in, the Empress Dowager had been untied by the eunuchs and palace maids, and she was safe and sound. The corpse was burned beyond recognition, and it was impossible to tell who it was. Naturally, the Assassin was long gone. I saw a Xue Tao note on the desk, and there was a dignified pavilion on it that read: "Do the Nine Princes know that you are the tenth?" ”

Naturally, this kind of thing is not managed by Zhao Cheng, but by Feng Ziying. Feng Ziying ordered someone to temporarily move the Empress Dowager to another palace, and she took the note and looked at it for a long time, and sighed: "What Cong'er said is that there is a lot of blood in the emperor's house. ”