Although spring has entered February, the night in Beijing is still very cold, and the biting cold can pierce into the marrow, making people involuntarily want to climb on the fire kang, get into the bed, and then sleep beautifully until the sun is in the sky the next day. But Wu Yuanming didn't think so, on the night of sending Yang Qilong away, although Wu Yuanming was lying in the warm quilt, and there was a charming and gentle Shi Jianmei in the quilt, Wu Yuanming did not enjoy the privilege of the rich son, and he unexpectedly lost sleep.

"Boom! - Knock! Boom! The sound of the three watchmen sounded slowly and rhythmically in Shihu Hutong, but Wu Yuanming was still tossing and turning on the bed and couldn't sleep, full of questions and thoughts, and more, it was an inexplicable fear, nervousness and worry, but where this emotion came from, even Wu Yuanming himself didn't know. At this moment, in Wu Yuanming's mind, there are countless figures and scenes flickering, one will be Yang Qilong's confident smile, one will be Aobai's hideous face, and then there will be Kangxi's vicious skin and smile, as well as Yao Qisheng's mysterious smile, Wu Ciyou's polite gestures, Li Yuliang's hateful gaze and Mu Meng's shy look...... all kinds of things, a thousand things, making Wu Yuanming's mood like a mess, but he also found out the reason for his worries and insomnia. Suddenly, a resentful and pitiful face suddenly flashed in Wu Yuanming's mind, which suddenly made Wu Yuanming understand the source of his emotions......

"Not good! Hui'er! Wu Yuanming sat up from the bed with a scream, his whole body was already drenched in cold sweat. Shi Jianmei, who was sleeping next to Wu Yuanming, was very alert, and immediately woke up and asked, "Shizi, what happened?" I didn't think I heard you scream just now? What's not good? ”

"Jianmei, do you remember what I told you about Hui'er?" Wu Yuanming asked nervously, Shi Jianmei nodded, and replied: "Remember, you told me that she is the only daughter of the university scholar Suo Etu, and at the same time, she is the fiancée of the current emperor who has performed the Najib ceremony, because she doesn't like the emperor, so please help her break the marriage contract with the emperor." For this reason, she also used the court movements she mastered to quietly help you a lot, what? Is there anything dangerous about her? ”

"She's not just in danger, she's in danger of her life." Wu Yuanming said in a trembling voice: "That day in the side hall of the Taihe Palace, she and Xiao Maozi teamed up to report to me, and for this incident, Xiao Maozi and his mother were killed by Kangxi's lackeys. Hui'er later hugged me in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, and shouted in public that she didn't want to marry the emperor, would the empress dowager and Kangxi let her go in order to save the royal face? Although Kangxi likes Hui'er very much, he may not strike first, but if I am the empress dowager, I can only secretly kill Hui'er and set up another queen for the emperor, so that the royal face will not be damaged. ”

"It's been more than half a month, and if the Empress Dowager's people want to do it, they would have already taken action, do you need to wait until now?" Shi Jianmei asked sourly, but when her husband slept with her, she thought about another woman, who was still a recognized beauty-everyone would be jealous. Wu Yuanming pounded the quilt and said in a deep voice: "Jianmei, you are underestimating the old woman of the Empress Dowager at this point, if you want to save the royal face, you can't send killers to attack publicly, you can only create a situation of accidental death - such as using chronic poison to make the little girl slowly die of illness and other means, so as to block the mouth of the world." ”

"Damn, it must be so! You have also tried the old woman's poisoning methods, poisoning the little girl, she can use the excuse that the little girl is a blessing that the queen can't stand up. The more Wu Yuanming thought about it, the more frightened he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was sorry for the little girl, and when he was about to go to Suo Etu's house to see the little girl at dawn, Shi Jianmei next to him got up from the bed, picked up the underwear that Wu Yuanming threw on the ground and put it on his body. Wu Yuanming was surprised: "Jianmei, it's the third watch in the middle of the night, where are you going to get dressed?" ”

"Of course, I'm going to find the Hui'er you said, if she really gets hit by the chronic poison, generally speaking, as long as she is rescued in time, there is still hope to be saved." Shi Jianmei combed Wu Yuanming's messy hair, and said calmly: "With Suo Etu's personality, in order to make his daughter the queen, there is a good chance that you will not be allowed to meet Miss Hui'er publicly, only if I sneak into her house overnight with light skills, can I secretly meet Miss Hui'er." All you have to do is tell me the location of her house, and the last time Miss Hui'er came to look for you at home, I saw her behind the window. ”

"I'll go with you." The concern for Hui'er is not as good as Shi Jianmei, Wu Yuanming couldn't help blushing a little, and he also got up on the bed and said: "You didn't have the night defense opened by Shuntianfu, if you let the night patrol infantry army lead the Yamen army, the forward battalion and the Shanpu battalion or something, it will be another lawsuit." Shi Jianmei pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm afraid you're not worried about me, right?" Hui'er is much prettier than me. Wu Yuanming scratched his head and said: "Don't talk nonsense, she is only thirteen years old, I am almost thirty, I just thank her for helping me a few times, I don't want to watch her die in the hands of that old woman." ”

Hearing Wu Yuanming's words, Shi Jianmei, who was accustomed to seeing the lustful princes and ministers, was a little surprised, but then thought that Wu Yuanming, the ten show girls rewarded by Kangxi, didn't even touch them with a finger, and Wu Yuanming usually didn't care much about women, but he also believed Wu Yuanming's words, changed into a black night coat and brought a sword and two daggers, Wu Yuanming also changed into black clothes, brought two Russian firearms, and informed the night guards of their whereabouts, so he quietly went out of the room with Shi Jianmei.

Because the Wu Mansion has been targeted by the Thirteen Yamen, Wu Yuanming and Shi Jianmei did not take the front and rear side doors of the Wu Mansion after cleaning up, but climbed over the wall out of the Shihu Hutong, although Wu Yuanming would not have difficulty climbing over the wall at all. But Shi Jianmei's martial arts were not covered, she first jumped on the high wall, pulled Wu Yuanming up the wall with just one pull, and quietly jumped off the ground, catching Wu Yuanming who was jumping down in fear with both arms on the ground, without alerting any spies who were monitoring Wu's mansion. Wu Yuanming praised him very much, "Jianmei, thanks to you, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to get out of my own house." ”

"Hmph, I'm not like you are the prince born with a golden key, and you can mix in the rivers and lakes without a few hands?" Shi Jianmei replied with a cold snort in a low voice, picked up Wu Yuanming and rushed out of Shihu Hutong quickly, and rushed to Yongxing Temple Street, where Suo Etu's house was located. During this time, accidents in the capital were frequent, and night patrols were very strict, along the way, Wu Yuanming and Shi Jianmei actually encountered more than a dozen night patrol teams belonging to the three major military camps in the capital, if it weren't for Shi Jianmei's rich experience in night travel, she could react in advance every time, but I was afraid that Wu Yuanming and Shi Jianmei would have been discovered earlier.

After spending more than half an hour copying the trail through more than a dozen streets, Wu Yuanming and Shi Jianmei came to an official road full of taverns and teahouses, and the Shenwu Gate near Yongxing Temple was already faintly in sight, Wu Yuanming just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but Shi Jianmei suddenly pulled Wu Yuanming into the dark, Wu Yuanming thought at first that there was another night patrol team, but after a closer look, he didn't see the lights of the night patrol team. At this time, Shi Jianmei leaned into Wu Yuanming's ear and whispered: "Be careful, there are people in ambush on the roof in front, and there are still a lot of people." ”

"Someone in ambush?" Wu Yuanming was taken aback, and at first thought that it was aimed at himself, but he thought that he and Shi Jianmei came here just because of a coincidence, and he felt that the ambush was not aimed at him. Shi Jianmei asked in Wu Yuanming's ear again: "What should I do now?" Are we going back? Or find a place to hide and observe the situation? Wu Yuanming was very sensitive to night attacks, and immediately decided: "Hide and see the situation." ”

Shi Jianmei looked around and found that there was a tavern next to the street behind her, and the door of the tavern happened to be open in a place where the light could not shine, so she pulled Wu Yuanming to touch the door of the store lightly, and just wanted to use a dagger to pick the door lock, but Shi Jianmei was surprised to find that the door was hidden, and even heard a slight footstep in the door. Shi Jianmei's surprise was not trivial, she hurriedly pulled Wu Yuanming to squat on the spot, squatted and slowly left the tavern, fortunately, there was a pile of half-human-high rotten vegetable baskets not far from the tavern, and the vegetable baskets could barely hide, Shi Jianmei and Wu Yuanming found a relatively safe place to hide.

"There is also an ambush in the tavern." Shi Jianmei explained softly to the confused Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming was surprised: "Who are these people who are ambushing?" There are ambushes on the rooftops and in the shops? Is it much more prepared than when Mu Wangfu assassinated me? ”

"Probably not a bunch of people." Shi Jianmei explained softly: "According to the habit of ambushes and assassinations by killers in the rivers and lakes, they should be ambushed on both sides of the road where the assassin must pass, with a strong bow and a hard crossbow as the first wave of attack, and then hand-to-hand combat as the second wave, and at most set up another ambush in front and behind the assassination target. However, the tavern was located behind the Assassins on the rooftop, and its position was useless for assassination, as if it were preparing to attack the Assassins on the rooftop from behind. ”

"It's getting more and more interesting, there are two groups of killers, and they may still be hostile to each other, let's see this excitement." Wu Yuanming laughed softly. Although Shi Jianmei's martial arts skills are high, she is a person who has no idea about doing things, so she stayed where she was as Wu Yuanming ordered, and took two empty vegetable baskets to cover herself and Wu Yuanming. It's a pity that the vegetable basket is too small and can only cover the upper body, Shi Jianmei's legs are long, so she can only sit down on the spot and put her legs in front of Wu Yuanming, Wu Yuanming took the opportunity to rub oil on Shi Jianmei's slender and straight legs without mentioning it.

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"Click, click, click, click......." The sound of horses' hooves clashing on the bluestone slabs came first, followed by the sound of neat footsteps, and apparently another team of night patrols was coming this way. Shi Jianmei grabbed Wu Yuanming's hand that had touched her waist, and whispered shyly: "Be honest, don't touch it." The people who came this time were a little strange, the night patrol team we met just now was a team of ten people, but this time it was eight teams of more than eighty people, according to the establishment of the army, this should be a sentry man. ”

"The leader of the team must be an important official, and the target has appeared." Wu Yuanming immediately guessed that it was the target of the assassin, and Wu Yuanming couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, who was this important official who led the team? Forward battalion commander Tong Guowei? Wei Dongting, the commander of the Shanpu Battalion? Or is it Wu Liuyi, the Admiral of the Nine Gates? Wu Yuanming's question was quickly answered, and in the light of the torches, Wu Liuyi, the commander of the Nine Gates who was rescued by Wu Yuanming from under the Aobai butcher's knife on the Jinluan Palace, rode on a tall horse, and walked towards this side with a gloomy face. Seeing this relative from five hundred years ago, Wu Yuanming immediately guessed who the assassin master on the roof was, but a new question arose - whose subordinates were the people who were ambushed in the tavern?

"Whew——!" Wu Yuanming was pondering, a crisp whistle sounded, and in an instant, countless feathered arrows flew out from the roofs on both sides of the road, all aimed at Wu Liuyi on the horse, but Wu Liuyi seemed to have been prepared, and the moment the whistle sounded, he had already rolled off the horse, and all those feather arrows were nailed to the poor yellow horse, and in an instant, the yellow horse was shot like a hedgehog, and he fell to the ground and died.

"There are assassins!" The soldiers brought by Wu Liuyi shouted in unison, dividing half to protect Wu Liuyi in the middle, and the other half to fight back with bows and arrows at the assassins on the rooftop - not to hurt the enemy, but to suppress the archers on the house, and at the same time, the four soldiers sounded the alarm gong, and the sound of dangdang rang through the sky, notifying the surrounding troops to rush to the rescue.

"Kill ——!" Dozens of black-clothed men jumped down from the rooftops and canopies of trees on both sides of the road, holding their waist knives high and rushing towards Wu Liuyi from front to back. And the number of people brought by Wu Liuyi was comparable to that of these assassins, so they were naturally not afraid, but they just raised their knives to fight for their lives, and the scene suddenly shouted and killed, swords and guns collided, roared and screamed, and became a mess, but the assassins wanted to break through the defense line of Wu Liuyi's army immediately, but it had become an impossible task. At this moment, Wu Liuyi suddenly made another commotion in the shops on both sides of the street, and a group of black-clothed people came out of the shops on both sides and attacked Wu Liuyi from both sides, and the first black-clothed man shouted with a broken gong: "Whoever gets Wu Liuyi's head will be rewarded with a thousand gold!" ”

"Mulima!" Mu Lima's voice was very rough and ugly, Wu Yuanming was very impressed, and immediately recognized the identity of the man in black who took the lead, and at the same time, Wu Yuanming screamed for Mu Lima in his heart, and faintly guessed the identity of another wave of ambushes. Sure enough, as Wu Yuanming expected, after Mu Lima appeared, there was immediately a shout of killing from the periphery of the assassination team led by him, and at the same time, countless torches came out of nowhere, illuminating the dark street night sky as if it were day, and hundreds of Qing soldiers seemed to suddenly emerge from the ground, surrounding the black-clothed people led by Mu Lima.

"Hit the mark! Evacuate! Withdraw to the official road! No matter how stupid Mu Lima was, he immediately saw that he had fallen into the plan, and hurriedly commanded dozens of men in black to retreat in the direction of Wu Yuanming and Shi Jianmei, and at the same time, a fire also flashed at the end of the street, as if there were people answering Mu Lima in this direction. It's a pity that Mu Lima took a group of black-clothed people to finally fight a bloody way, and at the cost of more than 20 people's lives, when he killed more than ten zhang in front of Wu Yuanming, Shi Jianmei found that there was still an ambush in the tavern, and really rushed out of the official road, ran to the official road to block the road, and blocked the retreat of Mu Lima and others, and hundreds of officers and soldiers also rushed in the direction of Mu Lima, and surrounded Mu Lima and others with the people in ambush in the tavern.

Finally, a charming woman's voice sounded in the group of officers and soldiers, "Mulima, don't expect to be able to escape, the thirty people who answered you have all been beheaded by your aunt and grandmother." As he spoke, twenty or thirty bloody heads were thrown out of the group of officers and soldiers, and they fell in front of the trembling Mulima and his group, rolling all over the street. It was only at this moment that Wu Yuanming could see clearly the appearance of the woman who spoke just now, in the firelight, a young woman with a good and plump figure was wearing a military uniform, standing on the street with a sword, and wearing a golden mask on her face, so that people could not see her age and appearance clearly, only judging from her voice, she was not very old, she should only be in her twenties.

"Could it be Li Yuliang?" Wu Yuanming's first thought was to suspect that this woman was Li Yuliang, but after a closer look, it didn't look like it, because although this woman's height was very similar to Li Yuliang, she was not as slender as Li Yuliang, the **** was quite plump, and her voice was not as strong as Li Yuliang, and it was obviously not the Li Yuliang who was lured into the Thirteen Yamen by Wu Ciyou with a beautiful man. But a new question came again, Wu Yuanming muttered to himself: "A powerful woman came out of Xiao Mazi's subordinates? Using Wu Liuyi as a bait to trap and kill Mulima, can he be arranged so well? ”

At this time, Mulima, whose voice was obviously trembling, roared: "Damn! Stinky **, who are you? Why do you know it's Lao Tzu? How did you know that you could even kill the person who answered Lao Tzu? ”

"Giggles, it's so ugly, it's really uneducated." The masked woman laughed coquettishly and said in a coquettish voice, "Is it necessary to know so much about a person who is dying?" ”

"Lao Tzu is the general of Jingxi, the younger brother of the prince Shaobao Ao Zhongtang! Who would dare to kill me? Seeing that the situation was not good, Mulima hurriedly tore off the black cloth covering his face, and shouted: "Lao Tzu is an official of the imperial court, and now Lao Tzu will raise his hand to surrender, even if Lao Tzu commits a crime, he will be dealt with by the court, and it will not be your turn to kill!" With that, Mulima threw his weapon on the ground and prepared to go to the prison for a few days.

"Giggles, General Mulima failed to assassinate the Admiral of Jiumen and died in the chaos, General Wu Liuyi killed people in self-defense, according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, there is no need to take responsibility." The masked woman acted and spoke as if she were Wu Yuanming's own sister, and waved her hand and shouted, "Don't leave your mouth alive!" ”

"! Stinking**! "The motive of the surrender to delay time was seen through, and Mulima was so angry that he cursed. But the man brought by the masked woman had already raised his sword and gun and rushed towards him, and Mulima had no choice but to pick up his waist knife again and shouted: "Brothers, if you want to live, rush out!" ”

"What to do? Save people or just watch? Wu Yuanming was so nervous that his palms were sweating, but Wu Yuanming immediately flashed a thought in his heart - with the vicious methods of that masked woman, after killing Mulima, he would definitely clean up the battlefield, and he and Shi Jianmei would not be able to run away! Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately put the fire fold that had been prepared a long time ago into the fire pit and lit it, and shouted to Shi Jianmei: "Jianmei, you will run away in a while, and if you run away, they won't dare to kill me!" ”

"Bang ——!" The broken vegetable cage covering Wu Yuanming's body flew into the air......