Chapter Ninety-Nine: Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun (Part II)
"Quick, quick, take this street to the south, let's go to Yanshou Temple." As soon as he escaped from the encirclement of the army of the Admiral of the Nine Gates and crossed a few streets, and saw that there was no one on the left and right, Yang Qilong got out of the mezzanine of the sedan chair and commanded the four elders and Chen Jizhi to flee to the hidden place prepared in advance. Chen Jizhi next to him was taken aback, and hurriedly reminded: "Prince, didn't you say to go to Shichahai at the beginning?" How did you change to Enjuji Temple? And Zhu Shangxian and Zhou Quanbin, what should they do? They said they were going to meet the prince in Shichahai. ”
"You big fool, your prince is going to unload the mill and kill the donkey." Hui'er's little girl poked her head out of the sedan chair and shouted: "Just now, those officers and soldiers made it clear that they wanted to arrest your fake prince, even if the one surnamed Zhu did not betray your fake prince, but Zhou Quanbin's goal is obvious, and there is a chance that he will be caught by the officials and soldiers, as long as he is tortured, won't the whereabouts of your fake prince be exposed?" ”
As soon as the little girl said this, Chen Jizhi and the four long entourages who carried the sedan chair immediately came to their senses, secretly praising the little girl's cleverness, Yang Qilong was annoyed and angry, and shouted: "Little Tartar, shut up for the master!" One more mouth, I will stab you to death! After that, Yang Qilong didn't look at Chen Jizhi and the four long-term followers, and rode on Chen Jizhi to lead the horse, waved his hand: "Let's go, go to Yanshou Temple first, and then find a way to contact Zhu Shangxian and Zhou Quanbin." ”
Yang Qilong's abacus played extremely well, if Zhou Quanbin and others were arrested and betrayed themselves, then the Qing army would definitely rush to Shichahai, which was in a different direction from Yanshou Temple, to arrest people, and he would be able to escape easily; If Zhou Quanbin and the others escaped successfully, and then sent someone to the Shichahai area to take them to Yanshou Temple, it would naturally be better. However, Yang Qilong miscalculated that he took a few of his subordinates and walked two streets to Yanshou Temple outside the front door, when a group of troops holding torches came from a distance, shouting the slogan "Arrest Yang Qilong", and rushed towards this side with great momentum.
"Prince, hide in the sedan chair again." Chen Jizhi saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly beckoned Yang Qilong to enter the sedan chair again. However, the officers leading the army on the side shouted again: "Regardless of men, women, and children, they will all be taken to the Nine Cities Patrol Yamen for interrogation!" "Blocked the road where Yang Qilong hid in the sedan chair. Yang Qilong was helpless, and as soon as he saw that the road on the right was black and swarthy without torches, he ordered: "Put out the lantern, take the road on the right, and take a detour to Yanshou Temple." With that, Yang Qilong turned his horse's head and fled into the road on the right first.
Maybe Yang Qilong should be unlucky tonight, he wanted to take a detour to Yanshou Temple, who would have thought that he had just arrived at the fork in the road where he could go back to the right road, but there was an army patrolling the nine cities that wanted to take that road, shouting the slogan of "arrest the leader of the cult thief Yang Qilong", impartially blocking the road, Yang Qilong and others had no choice but to flee to another fork in the road that could go around Yanshou Temple. But when luck came, he even stuffed his teeth with a sip of cold water, and at the next crossroads, two armies patrolling the Nine Cities appeared at the same time, although the number was not large, but it blocked the road for Yang Qilong and others to flee to the lair, forcing Yang Qilong and others to a road farther away from Yanshou Temple and Shichahai.
In this way, Yang Qilong and the others did everything possible to turn left and right, the purpose was to escape to the nest prepared in advance, but their luck was really not very good, every road to escape was blocked by the sudden army, if it wasn't for Yang Qilong and his party to extinguish the lantern in advance to hide the target, otherwise they were afraid that they would be discovered by the army early. ran for more than two hours, not only did not get close to the nest, but was forced to get farther and farther away from the nest, and was unconsciously forced to Xidan Street near the entrance of the vegetable market, close to Shihu Hutong......
"Damn, it's evil, why are there so many troops in Beijing City tonight?" Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, but Yang Qilong and the others didn't even find a foothold, Yang Qilong became more and more flustered in his heart, and found a place where there was no one to stop the horse and said to Chen Jizhi: "Jizhi, where are we here?" ”
"Caishikou, in front of Xidan Street." Chen Jizhi, who gave up the horse to Yang Qilong and had been running on foot, gasped and replied sweaty. Yang Qilong groaned: "Xidan Street, isn't Shihu Hutong where Wu Yingxiong lives near here?" ”
"Then you go find Brother Wu." The little girl poked her head out of the sedan chair again and suggested to Yang Qilong, who kidnapped her: "Brother Wu is the prince of Pingxi, the throne of Pingxi is high and powerful, and the officers and soldiers will never dare to search his mansion without a holy decree, and you will be safe for the time being when you get there." ”
"Little Tartar, stop me!" Yang Qilong angrily pulled out the steel knife and scared the little girl back into the sedan chair, Yang Qilong didn't think about escaping to Wu Yingxiong's house to avoid the limelight temporarily, but in this way, it became that he begged Wu Yingxiong instead of blackmailing Wu Yingxiong, and he also had to return the little girl Hui'er with both hands, this deal is really not cost-effective. At this time, the shouts and footsteps of the Qing army suddenly came from behind Yang Qilong and the others, and Chen Jizhi next to Yang Qilong was anxious, and hurriedly said to Yang Qilong: "Prince, the villains really can't run, and if Wu Yingxiong wants to escape from Beijing, he has to ask us for help, at least he won't sell us to the Tartars." What's more, we are now sending his beloved woman back, and he has to receive our favor. ”
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the concealment of the night was about to be lost, Yang Qilong had no choice but to grit his teeth and pat his horse and say: "There is no way, go to Wu Yingxiong's house for temporary shelter first." ”
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"Report four grids, then Yang Qilong took Miss Zhaohui through the entrance of the vegetable market and went directly to Xidan Street, it seems that their target should be Shihu Hutong." A herald who was secretly monitoring the movements of Yang Qilong and others rode up to Kong Sizhen and reported loudly to Kong Sizhen, who was depicting the escape route of Yang Qilong and others in front of a map of Beijing. Kong Sizhen also raised his head and drew a red circle on the map, and shouted: "Block the entrances and exits at both ends of Xidan Avenue and force Yang Qilong into Wu Yingxiong's house." ”
"Piercing!" The herald hurried down to deliver the order. Kong Sizhen raised his head and smiled at Wu Liuyi, who was sitting on the side playing with an iron fan: "General Wu, the ambush on all sides has been encircled, and when Yang Qilong takes a breath and drinks tea at Wu Yingxiong's house, it is time for us to take action in person." Saying that, Kong Sizhen threw another wink at Wu Liuyi, as if she was very interested in the middle-aged strong man in front of her.
"Without a holy decree, who would dare to enter Wu Yingxiong's house to arrest someone?" Wu Liuyi knew Kong Sizhen's ** character, turned his eyes away and asked lightly. Kong Sizhen smiled and escaped a bright yellow scroll from her arms, and said with a smile: "Didn't General Wu ask for a holy decree?" This is the emperor's own handwritten decree, now is it, right? ”
Wu Liuyi saw that the holy decree was correct, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Strange, if you want to arrest Yang Qilong, there will be at least a hundred chances to catch him tonight, why do you have to wait for him to enter Wu Yingxiong's house before arresting him?" ”
"For a very simple reason, Wu Yingxiong has already shown signs that he wants to escape from Beijing, and if he wants Wu Yingxiong to be a hostage in Beijing, he can only be locked up in a high wall." Kong Sizhen said with a smile: "But isn't it a reason to find a reason for the high wall ban, if the leader of the cult is found in his house, isn't it a good reason?" What's more, this Yang Qilong is still Wu Yingxiong's planner who is preparing to escape from Beijing, in exchange, Wu Yingxiong is also ready to give his Citi silver trumpet to Yang Qilong, as long as we get the human and physical evidence, the silver that Wu Yingxiong used to bribe the officials of the imperial court will also be in our pocket. ”
"What if Wu Yingxiong isn't at home? When the time comes, he excuses that those who don't know are not guilty, and everything you have done will not be in vain? Wu Liuyi is rough and arrogant on the outside, but he is really meticulous on the inside, and he can see at a glance the flaws in Kong Sizhen's bird poison plan with one stone. Kong Sizhen secretly praised and said charmingly: "Thank you General Wu for your concern, but the little girl still has a few eyeliners in Wu Yingxiong's house, and their reports all say that Wu Yingxiong is at home." and Princess Jianning also sent news that Wu Yingxiong had been sleeping in the study last night. ”
Wu Liuyi no longer asked questions, got up and shouted: "Let's go, surround Wu Yingxiong's Mansion!" ”
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At the same time, in front of the gate of Wu Yingxiong's mansion, the exhausted Yang Qilong and others knocked on the door of Wu Yingxiong's house and shouted: "Open the door, open the door quickly, the old friend of the prince of Pingxi, Yang Qilong, asks to see the prince." After a while, the door opened a small crack, and the porter of Wu Yingxiong's house yawned and said in the crack of the door: "Who knocked on the door early in the morning?" My family is not at home, so I want to visit another day. As he spoke, the doorkeeper closed the door again, and Yang Qilong hurriedly stretched out a leg to block the crack in the door, and his voice was pleading, "This little brother, I am really the best friend of your family, even if your family is not there, please let us go in and take shelter for a while." ”
Wu Yingxiong has no real power in Beijing, and the servants at home are not as troublesome as the servants of other powerful families, so the porter replied after a while: "I can't be the master of this, you wait in the gatehouse, I'll ask the housekeeper Wu." Yang Qilong was overjoyed, and after thanking him, he hurriedly led Chen Jizhi and others into the gatehouse, and the sedan chair containing Hui'er was also carried in, and the porter yawned and went in to report to Wu Shouyu, who had replaced Wu Fu who had returned to Yunnan as the housekeeper.
After a while, Wu Shou, who was also sleepy-eyed, came to the gatehouse, because the first two times Yang Qilong came here were reported through Wu Shou, so Wu Shou also knew Yang Qilong, and as soon as they met, he yawned and said: "Mr. Yang, our family is not at home, if you want to see him, please go to the living room and wait for tea, it is estimated that our family will be able to come back after the hour." ”
"Wu Yingxiong is really not at home?" Yang Qilong was suspicious of Wu Shou's words, and said in his heart that Wu Yingxiong should not know the news that the government was arresting me, and he didn't dare to contact me for fear of provoking the fire, right? Thinking of this, Yang Qilong, who was already desperate, lifted the sedan curtain and said to Wu Shou with a smile: "Brother Wu, look at whom, who did we send here?" ”
"Miss Zhaohui!" Wu Shou's eyes were about to pop out, and his sleepiness disappeared. Hui'er, who was tied to the sedan chair, howled and cried as if she saw her relatives, "Wu Shou, go and call me Brother Wu to save me, I have been imprisoned by them for many days." ”
"Miss Zhaohui, don't get me wrong, we are not imprisoning you, we are temporarily protecting you." Yang Qilong said without blushing: "Brother Wu Shou, now your family should come to greet you in person, right?" ”
"It should be, but our son is really not at home." Wu Shou said nervously: "But our family's father-in-law, Master Yao, is at home, and he is in charge of everything, Mr. Yang, please follow me to the living room for tea first, and I will report to Master Yao." ”
"Well, it seems that Wu Yingxiong is really not at home, although that old man is Hanako, although it is more difficult, he is also a sensible person." Yang Qilong muttered in his heart, and heard the faint sound of dense footsteps on the street, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the living room and wait first, the matter is urgent, please Brother Wu hurry up and inform Master Yao." ”
"This way, please." Wu Shou saw that Yang Qilong looked nervous, and knew that the matter must be important, so he hurriedly made an invitation gesture to Yang Qilong and the others, and stepped forward to lead the way. Later, Yang Qilong glanced at Chen Jizhi and the four long entourage, signaled them to be careful, and secretly touched the things hidden in his chest, and then followed Wu Shou to the living room, and the four long entourages behind him carried the sedan chair containing Hui'er and followed closely.
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"Quick, surround Shihu Hutong, not a single fly is allowed to run away!" Wu Liuyi, who was riding on a tall horse, waved his horsewhip, and the three thousand Qing troops behind him stepped forward quickly under the leadership of the sentry officer, and surrounded the small Shihu Hutong, which was really dense to the point that even a fly could not fly out, except for Wu Yingxiong's Mansion, soldiers were stationed in every house - although most of the ordinary people living in Shihu Hutong had been frightened by the successive events during this time......
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"Inside, please." Wu Shou introduced Yang Qilong and the others into the living room, and shouted to the maid in the living room: "Serve tea quickly, don't neglect the distinguished guests." ”
"Brother Wu, don't be polite, please go and report to Mr. Yao, it's too late." Yang Qilong urged politely. The four elders who came with him placed the sedan chair in the middle of the living room, standing in front of and behind the sedan chair, and observing whether there were any other dangers around the living room. Chen Jizhi, who was physically weak and ran for half the night, sat on a chair in the living room, gasping for breath, and no longer had the strength to stand up.
"Mr. Yang will sit down for a while, and Wu Shou will come when he goes." Wu Shou arched his hand and ran out of the living room quickly. As soon as he went out on the front foot, several maids from Wu Yingxiong's house brought six cups of tea, and put them in front of Yang Qilong and others one by one, Yang Qilong and others fled in embarrassment and did not enter the water and rice all night, and his throat was dry and smoking, Yang Qilong took the lead in picking up the teacup, and he couldn't wait to drink the tea after a little cooling, so did Chen Jizhi and the four long-term followers, and Chen Jizhi, who was the weakest, was still shouting to add tea to the maids......
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"Report to the general, Shihu Hutong has been surrounded, please show the general." Wu Liuyi's lieutenant Huang Kesheng rushed to Wu Liuyi and knelt down on one knee to report to Wu Liuyi. Wu Liuyi nodded slightly, turned to Kong Sizhen, who was wearing a veil, and asked, "Sigege, now we can enter the mansion to search for people, right?" ”
"There is General Lao Wu, let's go and please the emperor." Kong Sizhen pursed her lips and smiled. Kong Sizhen smiled very proudly, Yang Qilong may be the third prince of the former Ming Dynasty, she only reported to Kangxi in advance, Kangxi, who was worried that the Manchu Dynasty would return to the hands of the Han people, attached great importance to this matter, and praised Kong Sizhen's plan to kill Yang Qilong and Wu Yingxiong with one stone and test Yao Qisheng's sincerity, and gave Kong Sizhen a special purpose to act cheaply. Thinking of this, Kong Sizhen's heart was full of joy, and she said in a flattering voice: "Let's go." ”
But before Kong Sizhen's words fell, a sergeant's shout came from behind, "Stop, this place has been blocked, don't get close." Then a very familiar voice of Kong Sizhen shouted: "My house is in Shihu Hutong, why don't you allow me to approach here?" ”
Hearing this familiar voice, Kong Sizhen's extraordinarily proud and charming face turned white, and when he looked back, Kong Sizhen was suddenly stunned - Wu Yingxiong, who should have been surrounded in Shihu Hutong, jumped out of a luxurious carriage with a blue face, and excitedly waved his arms and shouted to the Qing soldiers who surrounded Shihu Hutong: "Why are you surrounding the mansion of a first-class official of the imperial court? Who gave you the right? Do you want to rebel? Then two handsome young men covered in fat and powder came down from the carriage, and shouted in a shrill voice: "Have you eaten the gall of the leopard? Brother Wu and we are all specially ordered by the emperor to stay in the capital to live, why are you surrounding Brother Wu's house? ”
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"Smack!" Yang Qilong only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and the teacup in his hand involuntarily fell to the ground, and then Yang Qilong himself also "pounced" and fell to the ground, and then Chen Jizhi and the four elders did the same, and fell on the ground in the living room of Wu Yingxiong's mansion. When the maids in the living room saw the suddenness of the incident, they all screamed in fright and fled from the living room. At the same time, more than 20 people rushed in outside the living room, but they were all Yunnan soldiers left by Wu Sangui to Wu Yuanming, and a short and thin bad old man walked out of the back room of the living room silently - naturally it was Yao Qisheng, the godfather that Wu Yuanming strongly recognized.
"You, you're in me...... We put ...... in our tea What's put on? Yang Qilong endured the overwhelming sleepiness, pointed at Yao Qisheng and asked with difficulty. Yao Qisheng shrugged his shoulders and replied with a smile: "Meng's sweat medicine, the old Huazi will not be stupid enough to let the servants check the poison on you, so the old Huazi will not be able to say that you forcibly broke into the mansion, and we were forced to kill people in self-defense." ”
"For ...... Why? I...... My Zhong Saburo incense will be in the north...... Hair...... Development, for your Wu family...... Isn't home more beneficial? Dizziness came for a while, and all Yang Qilong could do was bite his tongue tightly and not let himself be immediately fascinated by the sweat medicine.
"What's the use of a rabble of people who haven't had any training? Instead of letting you entrap the refugees now to attract the imperial court to suppress them, it is better to let the refugees in the north develop on their own, and they will naturally respond in groups in the future, and it will also have the effect of a surprise attack. Yao Qisheng smiled and said: "And the things you sent to the door yourself are really beneficial to us, and the effect is far more than a hundred of your Zhong Saburo Xianghui." ”
"What...... What is it? Yang Qilong didn't understand the meaning of Yao Qisheng's words. Yao Qisheng didn't speak, walked slowly to Yang Qilong, groped for a while in the waist and abdomen and other parts of Yang Qilong's body that can store things, and in a moment, he took out a small wooden box wrapped in oiled paper and yellow cloth from Yang Qilong's chest, and opened it to see that the gold medal and birthday jade of the third prince of Zhu were impressively included. Yao Qisheng leaned into Yang Qilong's ear and whispered: "That's it, thanks to the help of Kong Sizhen and Ao Bai, you took the initiative to send them here." My godson is the same age as Zhu Cijiong, the day Beijing City was breached by Li Zicheng and when Emperor Chongzhen died, my godson happened to be in Beijing City, do you understand what I mean? ”
"Got it, what a trick to steal...... Day ...... change. Speaking of this, Yang Qilong could no longer resist the power of the sweat medicine, and his eyes rolled and fainted. Yao Qisheng stood up and shouted coldly: "Drag these people to the gatehouse and cut them down, and stuff some weapons into their bodies and hands." ”
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"I'm harboring a prisoner of the imperial court? Sling the bull! At the same time, in front of the gate of Wu Yingxiong's mansion, Wu Yuanming yelled at Wu Liuyi and Kong Sizhen angrily, Geng Xinghe, the younger brother of Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, and Shang Zhili, the son of Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, helped on the side, Wu Yuanming shouted, "What is Yang Qilong of Zhong Sanlang Xianghui?" I don't know this guy! I am the prince of Pingxi and a member of the imperial court, how can I know the leader of a cult? Monk Geng Xinghe shouted sharply: "Brother Wu was with us as soon as it was dark last night, if you dare to slander Brother Wu Shi for harboring any court criminals, the two of us will be the first to refuse!" ”
"Brother Geng, Brother Shang, was Brother Wu really with you last night?" Although he vaguely guessed that he had fallen for Yao Qisheng's big deal, Kong Sizhen still didn't understand the reason why Yao Qisheng did this, so he tentatively said in a charming voice: "I don't know what the three brothers did when they got together?" Can you give some advice to my little sister? ”
"What else can we men do when we get together?" For the sake of Kong Sizhen being a beautiful woman and a sister, Geng Xinghe preemptively said: "Don't look at Brother Wu who doesn't know anything about poetry and writing, but when it comes to being able to play and enjoy, the two of us are willing to bow down to Brother Wu." Shang Zhili smiled lewdly: "Turkish bath, chest push, striptease, mandarin duck bath, ice and fire nine heavens, **, Indian turntable...... Brother Wu knows so much, if it weren't for Brother Wu's guidance, the brothers really didn't know that there was such a fun thing in the world." "-Don't forget that Wu Yuanming has a big brother who runs an entertainment city in the 21st century.
"Turkish bath? Chest push? Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire? "Don't look at Kong Sizhen is filial piety, but only a little understanding of striptease and mandarin duck bathing, the more I listen to the others, the more confused she becomes, her inexplicable appearance provokes Wu Yuanming, Geng Xinghe, Shang Zhili The three bad things are a burst of lewd laughter, Wu Yuanming also stared at Kong Sizhen's plump chest and said: "It's a pity that the world sister was not there last night, and the tools are not complete, otherwise the four brothers and sisters of the family play the rope art and SM of Fusang Country together, and that is a great joy in life." ”
"Brother Wu, what is rope art? What is SM? Just when Wu Yuanming was triumphant, the door of Wu Yingxiong's mansion was pushed open, and Hui'er, who had lost a lot, had red eyes, stared at Wu Yuanming through gritted teeth, and shouted: "Brother Wu, I have been kidnapped for so many days, and you are still in the mood to play?" What did you go to play last night? Recruit me from the truth! ”