Chapter Ninety-Eight: Stealing the Sky (I)

Aobai's nephew Saiben had to hold the urgent report of the military department that he had just gotten in his hand, and ran quickly to the door of Aobai's study, but when he wanted to enter the door, he was stopped by Aobai's pro-soldier captain Crooked Tiger, so he could only shout loudly outside the door of the study: "Xiangye, the news has been delivered, I didn't expect that the thief's nest in the main hall of Zhong Sanlang Xianghui was actually at the house of Zhou Quanbin, a member of the Ministry of Labor on Gulou West Street, it seems that Zhou Quanbin is also a member of the cult." ”

"It was done in less than a day, and it was so fast? Who's doing it? The old man wants to reward him heavily! Soon the study sounded the shouts of surprise of worship, followed by the sound of squirming and dressing, Seben was able to worship only one person in the room, so he stayed at the door and replied with a smile: "Hui Xiangye, it is the errand of Zhao Liangdong, the former deputy general of Tianjin, that Wang Hongzuo accused Wang Hongzuo of not knowing that the soldiers were demoted when he inspected Dagukou, this person was very careful in handling things, and he was afraid that the news would be robbed by the cult people on the way, so he personally reported the report to Beijing City. ”

"Squeak", the door of the study was pushed open, and Saiben first smelled a burst of fat powder body fragrance, and then heard a delicate voice muttering: "Xiangye, if the slave is not mistaken, that Zhao Liangdong is a person who has been to Myanmar with Wu Sangui, such a good general was demoted by Wang Hongzuo for a trivial matter, and he Wang Hongzuo, the secretary of the military department, should also be the head, right?" Then Ao Bai's coarse sand voice said: "He Wang Hongzuo was single-handedly promoted by Kangxi, he doesn't know people and doesn't know what to do with the old man, you have to sue Diao to find Kangxi." ”

Hearing such an answer, Sebende couldn't help but look up curiously to look at the woman who was in the same room with his uncle, and after only one glance at the woman, Sebende exclaimed, "Aunt Cui! How are you? But before Sebende's words fell, Ao Bai slapped him on the top of the head angrily and scolded: "Blind your dog eyes, this is Kong Sizhen, the daughter of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan!" It seems that you, this kid, have also been in her way, and you haven't leaked anything about the old man to her, right? ”

"Giggles, Xiangye Ao is really good at joking, Lord Sai is loyal, how can he casually leak Xiangye's secrets? The acquaintance between the slave and the Sai master was only a chance encounter, and there was no special intention. Kong Sizhen touched Sai Bende's face while buttoning his clothes, and said with a smile: "Did you say, Lord Sai?" ”

"Yes, yes, Emerald...... That's what Congege said. Seben replied sweating profusely that if Kong Sizhen told Ao Bai what he said in bed, Ao Bai would have to skin his own nephew alive! Fortunately, Ao Bai had always known Kong Sizhen's powerful methods and romantic character, but he did not continue to pursue Sebende's faults, but just snatched the urgent report in Sebende's hand, and ordered: "Go and give the order to block the inner and outer nine cities, and then let your third uncle Mulima organize the chengguan camp and go to Gulou West Street to standby." ”

"Piercing ——!" Saiben had to be pardoned, and secretly glanced at Kong Sizhen again, and then fled from this terrible woman and went down to convey Aobai's life. Kong Sizhen leaned on Aobai's thick arm, and said with disgust: "Xiangye, didn't you say that you should give the credit for capturing Yang Qilong to the slave family?" In order to catch the crime of Yang Qilong's folding of the Shangu shop, I don't know how much effort it took to catch the slave family, why did you transfer the chengguan battalion to the scene again? Could it be that the slave family did not serve Xiangye well tonight? ”

"Be careful of your liver, put a hundred hearts, you serve the old man very comfortably." Ao Bai rubbed vigorously on Kong Sizhen's plump breasts, and said with a lewd smile: "For the sake of you serving the old man so obediently, how can the old man be willing to let you work hard in vain?" The old man transferred the chengguan battalion because the old man's chengguan battalion did not have the military salary provided by the military department, so he took this opportunity to let them make a handful of money and subsidize their food and salary, and he would not take credit from you. ”

"Then thank you Xiangye." Kong Sizhen did a great deal, although she was still skeptical of Aobai's words, but for now she could only pretend to believe it temporarily. I have to admit that Kong Sizhen, who was personally ** out of Xiaozhuang, does have a set of seducing men, and at this moment, because there is still a delicate red with ** afterglow on her face, she looks even more charming, and she is itchy to see it, so she took her into her arms and was frivolous, and said with a lewd smile: "Little beauty can do it with confidence, as long as you don't stumble on the old man for Kangxi, as long as you are neutral between the old man and the emperor, and when the old man is done in the future, he will definitely fulfill your wish and make you the imperial concubine." But when the time comes, you will serve the old man with your mouth every night. ”

"Bad looks, no shape. But when it really comes to talking, the Xiangye harem is three thousand, will he still let the slave family wait every night? Kong Sizhen ate and smiled, and lightly touched Aobai's forehead. Like Wu Yuanming, who has a noble character, for his future, Kong Sizhen also bought double insurance - if possible, Kong Sizhen also wants to buy three insurance. Kong Sizhen was about to get closer to the old man in front of him who might ascend to the throne in the future, but found that Aobai's gaze was fixed in a certain direction, and when he was busy following Aobai's line of sight, he saw a little orange in the dark night sky, at first it was just a little, and then it became bigger and bigger, and even the smoke rolling in the orange could be clear, and that direction was impartial, which happened to be the direction where Gulou West Street was located......

"It's not good, Yang Qilong is going to escape! Xiangye rested earlier, and the slave family went to arrange for someone to catch the dog thief. Kong Sizhen saw through Yang Qilong's intention to deliberately set fire to escape at a glance, and hurriedly said goodbye to Aobai. Ao Bai didn't go to see her off, but only after Kong Sizhen walked out of the West Cross Courtyard did he call the captain of the pro-soldier Crooked Tiger in front of him, and commanded in a low voice: "Crooked Tiger, bring twenty neat hands and feet to follow Kong Sizhen, if she has any abnormal behavior in the process of arresting Yang Qilong, she will immediately report to the old man, and at the same time start to rob people and ......." ”

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"It's out of the water!" "Fight the fire!" At the same time, the Gulou West Street, where the main hall of Zhong Saburo Xianghui is located, is already in chaos, not only Zhou Quanbin's house is on fire, but the entire Gulou West Street residential and official residences are on fire, the raging flames are crackling, reflecting half of the sky red, and the billowing smoke is even more obscuring the sky, if the sixteenth layer of hell volcano hell is the scene. And the people either carried water to put out the fire, or rescued family property, or helped the old and the young to run for their lives, and the adults shouted and the children cried, and it was completely chaotic.

"It's time, let's go." Seeing that there was a complete chaos on the street, Yang Qilong, the initiator of the fire, knew that the time had come, so he ordered the first to urge the horse to rush out of the alley where he was hiding, and take the lead in fleeing to the southwest where Shichahai was located, followed by Chen Jizhi, Zhou Gongzhi, Zhu Shangxian and Jiao Shan, who were martial arts Zhong San Lang Xianghui cultists closely followed, in addition, there were four long followers carrying a green cloth sedan chair, which was naturally the little girl Hui'er, who had been missing for a long time - as for Zhou Jianliang, who was kidnapped with Hui'er, he was left by Yang Qilong in the fire and burned alive. And because Zhou Quanbin's goal was too obvious, Yang Qilong arranged for Zhang Da, Shi Guobin and others to take a detour in the opposite direction and flee to Shichahai - by the way, to attract the attention of possible enemies, otherwise what would Yang Qilong do with Zhou Quanbin's son Zhou Gongzhi by his side? Raise a son for him?

Fleeing all the way west along the chaotic flow of people, and seeing that he was about to escape from Gulou West Street, Yang Qilong was secretly happy in his heart, when he suddenly collided with a team of arrogant guards far more than the Ouchi guards, wearing light blue military uniforms different from ordinary soldiers, brandishing wooden sticks, horse whips and other things to beat people when they saw them, bluffing and shouting while beating, "I am ordered to maintain law and order, strictly prevent thieves from taking advantage of fire and robbery, everyone is not allowed to run around, sit down in place and be checked!" As for the property rescued by the people from the fire, they even grabbed it when they saw it, and when they robbed it, they put it in their arms, and if they resisted a little, they insisted that the original owner of the property was robbed by fire and stolen things, and the original owner was beaten to the ground.

"Oh no, it's the chengguan camp!" Yang Qilong recognized the identity of this team at a glance - it was so arrogant and domineering that even the Eight Banners Banner Battalion was far from being able to catch up. At the same time, Yang Qilong complained in his heart, encountering this gang of legal bandits, I am afraid that this level will be sad. Sure enough, Yang Qilong, who was riding on a horse, was a little slow to dismount, and a city manager rode over - all the horses were already equipped, and he whipped indiscriminately, shouting: "Come down, come down, and be inspected." ”

"Bold!" Zhu Shangxian saw that Yang Qilong was beaten, and rushed up to clean up the chengguan in order to show his loyalty, Yang Qilong was afraid that there would be extraneous branches and hurriedly grabbed him, so he turned over and dismounted and bowed to the chengguan and said: "Master Jun, we are good people who live in this Gulou West Street, and we are by no means small people who take advantage of the fire to rob, because of the sudden fire, we can only temporarily escape from the fire with our families to save our lives, and I hope that the military master will make it convenient." As he spoke, Yang Qilong opened his mouth, and Jiao Shan, who was in charge of Yang Qilong's finances in the back, immediately took out two gold leaves from the package and held them in front of the city manager with both hands.

A gold leaf weighs about five yuan, two pieces are one tael, at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, gold was far more expensive than the price of silver, one tael of gold can be exchanged for about eighty taels of silver, which was a huge amount of money at that time, and it was necessary to change the soldiers of other armies, and naturally Yang Qilong and others would not be embarrassed when they saw eighty taels of silver - but who is the chengguan? The chengguan first greedily snatched the gold leaf, put it in his mouth and bit it to distinguish the real from the fake, and his eyes naturally glanced at the big package of gold leaves in Jiaoshan. As a native of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Qilong knew the virtues of the chengguan, and thought that he had let go, and said: "Master Jun, the villains can go, right?" But the next action of the chengguan made Yang Qilong completely dumbfounded......

"Brothers, here are the big fat sheep!" The chengguan quickly stuffed the gold leaf into his arms, pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "This gang of thieves has robbed a lot of gold, take us all down quickly!" ”

"Damn! A bunch of unfed pups! "Yang Qilong has grown so big, it's the first time I've seen someone who is shameless to the point of chengguan, and he has always been gentle and elegant, and he can't help but scold him. But the city managers would take care of his mood, and when they heard the word 'gold', they immediately rushed over like a hungry dog seeing ribs, and kept shouting around Yang Qilong and others, "Where is the gold?" Where is the gold? ”

"It's in his package!" At the beginning, the chengguan shouted in his mouth, and the steel knife in his hand had already slashed down on Jiao Shan's head, and Jiao Shan, who was so frightened, thought that the chengguan was so shameless that he would rob it, so he could only barely hold up the package containing the gold leaf to block, only to hear a loud sound, the package was cut by the chengguan, and the bright gold leaf was immediately scattered on the ground. The other chengguan saw it, and they still had the courage not to take the lead, dozens of steel knives, wooden sticks, iron rods and horse whips could not help but slash and smash on the head of Jiao Shan who was holding the package, but poor Jiao Shan had a few martial arts but had no place to show them, plus the good tiger could not fight the wolves, and he was hacked to death on the spot.

"Damn, you're looking for death!" Seeing that Jiao Shan died for no reason, Zhu Shangxian, who had the highest martial arts skills next to Yang Qilong, was suddenly so angry that he was angry, and he took out his waist knife and fought with the gang of chengguans. The other chengguan immediately howled like pigs, "Brothers, our brothers have been cut down by Diaomin, come and help!" ”

"Damn, you have eaten the gall of a leopard, and you dare to beat us in the town and city?" Hearing that the brothers were cut down, the chengguan present were all furious, and even forgot the task of maintaining the order of the fire, and rushed over one by one, with a great tendency to devour Yang Qilong and others alive. Yang Qilong saw that the situation was not good, and he didn't want the gold leaves scattered all over the ground, so he hurriedly pulled Zhu Shangxian to run away, fortunately, those chengguan people's love for their brothers and siblings was far less deep than that of gold, and they only cared about you fighting for me to rob the gold leaf, not to mention chasing and killing Yang Qilong and others, even the chengguan who was cut down by Zhu Shangxian had no one to take care of it.

For Kong Sizhen, the chengguan is not completely useless, at least they delayed the time for Yang Qilong and others to escape, when Yang Qilong and others finally escaped from the siege of the chengguan and escaped from Gulou West Street, there was an army on both sides of the fork, these two armies were under the command of Wu Liuyi, the commander of Jiumen, and they were many times better than the chengguan military discipline that could only smash and rob, and the action was also extremely orderly, each outflanked in formation, and blocked all the roads that escaped from Gulou West Street. One of the lieutenant generals at the head also held a few portraits in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Take them all down, and arrest the cult leader Yang Qilong according to the picture!" Yang Qilong's eyesight was good, and when he looked at it by the firelight, he was shocked to see that the appearance of the person in the portrait was himself - of course, it was from the handwriting of Wu Yuanming's godfather Yao Qisheng.

"How did the Tartars get all my portraits?" Yang Qilong only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and then Chen Jizhi hurriedly pulled him off the horse, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Prince, you can't ride a horse, it's too revealing the target!" ”

"What then? The Tartars got their hands on my portrait, and I couldn't escape this time. Yang Qilong screamed in a low voice. Chen Jizhi, who is Yang Qilong's think tank, was in a hurry, and hurriedly pointed to the palanquin where Hui'er was hidden, and said in a low voice: "Prince, there is a mezzanine behind that palanquin, you hide in it first, untie the cloth on the mouth of the little queen of Tartar, and force her not to speak with a knife." The villain said outside that it was inconvenient for the female dependents to see people, and they should be able to fool the past. ”

"That's all there is to it." Yang Qilong had no choice but to get into the sedan chair according to Chen Jizhi's instructions, first took out a dagger and pointed it at the throat of the little girl, and then untied the strip of cloth that covered the little girl's mouth, and threatened: "Little Tartar girl, you listen to the master, when the officers and soldiers come to inspect for a while, don't say a word, don't play tricks, otherwise the master will kill you from behind!" If you cooperate obediently, I will send you to your big brother Wu's house in a while. ”

"Then you have to untie the rope on my body, otherwise the officers and soldiers will find a flaw." The little girl glanced at the fierce Yang Qilong and said timidly. Yang Qilong looked at it and saw that the little girl's hands were tied around her waist, and the thick hemp rope was really eye-catching, so he cut the hemp rope around the little girl's waist - the rope on the leg was not cut if it was not obvious, and the hemp rope was stuffed behind the little girl, and threatened, "Dare to play tricks and kill you!" Then he hid in the mezzanine behind the little girl. But Yang Qilong really underestimated Hui'er, a ghost girl, as soon as he got into the mezzanine behind him, the extremely smart little girl couldn't help biting her right middle finger in pain, and wrote five bloody words on her left arm with blood - 'Yang is behind my back'.

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In a moment, the soldiers of the Yamen of the Nine Gate Admirals, who were comparing their appearances one by one according to the map, searched in front of the sedan chair, and one of the leaders shouted: "Who is sitting in the sedan chair?" Come out and get checked! Next to him, Chen Jizhi hurriedly stuffed a silver ingot prepared earlier into the hand of the chief of Nashi, and said with a smile: "Master Jun, there is the daughter of the villain sitting inside, she has not yet left the cabinet, it is inconvenient to come out to meet many people, please be accommodating." ”

"Damn, you Han people have a lot of rules." Nashi Chang is a Manchurian, and he knows that the daughters of the Han family have the rule of not showing their heads casually, and shouted: "In this case, open the sedan curtain and let me see, as long as it is really a woman, the master will not embarrass you." ”

"Yes, yes, thank you for your accommodation." Chen Jizhi nodded and opened some sedan curtains, so that Nashi Chang could see the delicate and immature little girl in the sedan chair, the little girl knew that it was the moment of life and death, and hurriedly raised the white and pink left arm with blood written on it, and raised it in front of the chief who came in, and at the same time put his right hand in front of the small mouth, signaling Nashi Chang not to speak. But the little girl also miscalculated, the chief who came in to check was illiterate, but fortunately he was also clever, seeing that the little girl's hand was written in blood, and seeing the little girl's strange gestures, he didn't make a noise and startled the snake. He just turned his head and shouted to the lieutenant general who led the team: "General He, please come and take a look." ”

"Oops!" As soon as Nashichang's words fell, Chen Jizhi, Zhu Shangxian and others next to the sedan chair turned white, and at the same time, they secretly touched the hidden weapon on their waists, ready to fight to the death. Yang Qilong in the sedan chair was even more frightened, and pressed the dagger against the back of the little girl even tighter through the mezzanine......

"What's going on?" The deputy general He who led the team heard the shout of the chief, so he led a sentry man to ride over, and the chief came to his ear and whispered a few words, but the deputy general nodded but did not say a word, just dismounted and lifted the sedan curtain. The little girl didn't say a word, and immediately raised her left arm with blood written in front of Deputy General He, and at the same time grimaced at Vice General He's killing chicken and wiping his neck......

"Hahahaha." The deputy general He looked at the little girl with the words written in blood and smiled on her white tender arm, and then put down the sedan curtain silently in the little girl's stunned, patted the shoulder and began to check the long shoulder, and smiled: "Good boy, you have filial piety, when you see the beautiful girl, you still know how to call the master to feast your eyes, and next time you will be promoted to be the sentry chief." After that, Deputy General He waved his hand to Chen Jizhi, who was worried about the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "It's rare that your kid can have such a beautiful daughter, if your daughter wants to find her in-law in the future, I happen to be single, although I went to the Yamen of the Admiral of Jiumen to find me, remember, my name is He Kang." Go ahead, go ahead, don't delay your business. ”

"Thank you, Master He." At first, Chen Jizhi, who thought that he had been seen to be flawed, was amnesty, and hurriedly led the four long sedan chairs to the west. Later, when Zhu Shangxian, Zhou Gongzhi and others were about to follow, Deputy General He stopped them with his open hand, pointed to the blood stains on Zhu Shangxian's body when he fought with the chengguan just now, and shouted: "Wait, what's the matter with the blood on your body?" ”

"Master Jun, I ......." Zhu Shangxian was caught off guard and couldn't find a suitable reason for replying, and his words were choked for a while. Deputy General He waved his hand again and shouted: "Stop these people, interrogate them clearly, and then let them go." Zhu Shangxian wanted to resist, but considering that it might affect Yang Qilong, who was hiding in the sedan chair, he had to resist the impulse and let the soldiers drive them aside for interrogation. Chen Jizhi, who was in front, quietly made a temporary patient gesture to them, and then led the four long entourages to carry the sedan chair containing Yang Qilong and the little girl and left in a hurry.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Deputy General He called the two captains of the pro-soldiers in front of him, lowered his voice and ordered: "Quietly keep an eye on the sedan chair just now, and quickly notify Sigege, and say that the person has been found." ”