Although the banquet in Dongxinglou was very successful, not only successfully and completely alleviating the hostile state with Aobai, but also climbing the relationship with a large number of court officials and narrowing the distance, in addition, there was a stroke of genius that instigated Aobai to transfer troops into the city to greatly muddy the water of Beijing, but Wu Yuanming was still very dissatisfied, especially when he was annoyed that Kangxi suddenly attacked Dongxinglou, his own people didn't know anything in advance, and even when Kangxi arrived downstairs, no one sent a letter upstairs, causing Wu Yuanming to be almost caught off guard by Kangxi. I didn't know if I didn't check the results, but when the situation was clear, Wu Yuanming was scared into a cold sweat.

It turned out that what happened was like this, at that time, the defense of Dongxing Tower was jointly undertaken by a hundred guards brought by Wu Yuanming and two hundred personal soldiers brought by Aobai, because of the lack of manpower, the periphery of Dongxing Building was all protected by the Fengtai garrison transferred from outside the city by Aobai, and the distance between the inner encirclement guards and the peripheral army was relatively wide, about 400 steps away, except for a north-south street, all ordinary houses. When Kangxi took Wei Dongting and others to appear on the periphery of the defense circle, the Aobai army on the periphery did send people to report to Aobai, but the messenger who did not want to send was intercepted by a team of warriors from the Shanpu Battalion lurking in the private house, Kangxi showed his identity and rushed directly to Dongxing Tower, and ordered Wu Yuanming's guards and Aobai's personal soldiers not to move as the emperor. However, what made Wu Yuanming sweat the most was the row of houses that he hadn't paid attention to beforehand - afterwards, there were four red-coated cannons withdrawn from the forward battalion army! As for how the four red-clothed cannons were hidden in the houses, it is not something that Wu Yuanming's intelligence network can find, but Wu Yuanming can be sure that this matter must be the masterpiece of the mysterious woman next to Kangxi who has not yet found out the province.

"Shizi, Bamburshan sent someone to deliver the news." In the early morning of the thirteenth day of February, Wu Lu, who was in charge of the silver trumpet and the collection of information for Wu Yuanming, hurried to Wu Yuanming's study and reported to Wu Yuanming, who was spending the night in the study: "The people of Aobai did not find out how the four red-coated cannons were transported in, but only found that the old owners of the two courtyards where the red-coated cannons were hidden disappeared for no reason on the night of the 10th day of the second lunar month, and the new owners also withdrew with the red-coated cannons last night, so it is certain that they are all emperor's people." For this reason, Ao Bai lost his temper and scolded Bamburshan. ”

"On the night of the 10th day of the second month? Yes, I decided to have a banquet for hundreds of officials in Dongxing Building that day. Wu Yuanming carefully recalled the situation that day and muttered: "At that time, the only people who knew about my decision were my father-in-law and myself, as well as the six guards who were ambushed on the beams of the study and the ...... of your three brothers. ”

"Shizi, the slave and the two younger brothers are all your family slaves, and they will never dare to betray you!" Wu Lu was startled, and quickly knelt down on his knees and looked at Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming smiled and waved his hand: "Get up, you three brothers are loyal to me, I know this very well." I haven't finished my sentence yet, and the person who knew about my decision at the time was Yang Qilong, and I suspect that he did a good thing - otherwise why didn't he show up in Dongxing Building last night? ”

Wu Lu breathed a sigh of relief, got up and said to Wu Yuanming: "Shizi, since you suspect that Yang Qilong, the slave will inform the prince's people to step up the investigation of his situation, but this guy is really hiding too tightly, and the prince's people have not yet found out his foothold in Beijing City." Wu Yuanming nodded, hugged his head and thought hard: "If I remember correctly, Yang Qilong's foothold in Beijing seems to be in the house of a court official, but who is that court official, why don't I have any impression?" Wait, that court official seems to be surnamed Zhou ....... ”

"What's the week?" Wu Yuanming felt that his head was about to explode, as the saying goes, a wise man must make a mistake if he thinks a thousand times. Because of Wu Yingxiong in his previous life, Wu Yuanming, who did not learn and did not know how to do anything, especially preferred the history of the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty in the 21st century, and he did not dare to say that he was proficient in the situation of that period of history, and he could be regarded as knowing everything, but it was the name and position of Yang Qilong's henchman surnamed Zhou, but Wu Yuanming couldn't remember anything, so he could only stare at it and be anxious, helpless. But what made Wu Yuanming more troublesome was still to come......

"Shizi, Shizi, Master Suo is here." Wu Xi's personality was more reckless, he didn't knock on the door and broke into Wu Yuanming's study directly and yelled, fortunately, Wu Yuanming didn't pay much attention to him here, but his eldest brother Wu Lu reprimanded him dissatisfiedly: "Third brother, why are you so unruly?" Directly broke into the study of the prince? If I let my father know, I would have to ...... it. ”

"Big brother, the matter is urgent, you can be verbose later." Wu Xi wiped the sweat on his forehead and shouted: "Shizi, the big thing is not good, Lord Suo is looking for you to ask for someone!" ”

"Someone? Who do you want? Wu Yuanming yawned and looked at the foreign tribute bell in the study, and found that the time was only two o'clock, and said in his heart that this time Suo's map should not go to the early court? But Wu Xi's answer made the lazy Wu Yuanming immediately jump up from the bed with his bare buttocks, "Master Suo is here to ask for Miss Zhaohui!" He said you sent someone to his house last night to pick up Miss Zhaohui! ”

"What? I sent someone to pick up Hui'er? Wu Yuanming shouted angrily after only a moment: "It's not good, I've been fooled!" Someone must have taken Hui'er under the guise of my reputation! Quick, help me get dressed and go to see Suo Etu, and then go and invite my stepfather to the living room to see Suo Etu! ”

After getting dressed indiscriminately, Wu Yuanming almost rushed into the living room where Suo Etu was, but Suo Etu was more nervous than him, and as soon as they met, he grabbed Wu Yuanming's collar and shouted with red eyes: "Where is my daughter?" Where did you get her? Wu Yuanming hurriedly explained: "Master Suo, please calm down, I already know a little about things, I didn't send anyone to pick up Hui'er last night, maybe someone knew about the plan between us, so the person who pretended to be me deceived Hui'er." ”

"Nonsense! Say! Did you kill my daughter? Suo Etu roared angrily, grabbed Wu Yuanming's collar and shook wildly. Wu Yuanming hurriedly distinguished: "Master Suo, you misunderstood, I treat Hui'er like a sister, how can I be willing to kill her?" How could it be possible to kill her? ”

"Whew!" Suo Etu spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on Wu Yuanming's face, pinched Wu Yuanming's neck and roared: "Don't take my three-year-old child, I have seen too much of the virtues of you princes and bezibes!" Can I not know? "Because he often walks around the palace and the court, and is used to seeing the dirt and darkness behind the scenes of the dignitaries and magnates who look like dogs, Suo Etu and his daughter are completely opposite, and they have always been suspicious of the things between Wu Yuanming and Hui'er - in fact, Wu Yuanming's feelings for Hui'er are indeed just the feelings of the eldest brother to the younger sister. It is precisely because of this that Suo Etu will send someone to the Dongxing Building mentioned in the letter before dawn to listen to the news, when he heard that Wu Yingxiong had returned home at the second watch last night, Suo Etu was struck by lightning, and his first reaction was that Wu Yingxiong was afraid of offending Kangxi, and in order to avoid causing trouble and dying, he killed his daughter and killed him!

Suo Etu was born as a military general, and the strength in his hands was quite large, and he pinched Wu Yuanming so much that he couldn't breathe, his eyes rolled white, and he could only answer with difficulty: "Suo ...... Lord Suo, I really don't have ...... No....... But the strength in Suo Etu's hand became heavier and heavier, pinching Wu Yuanming's face and purple, and even speaking became an impossible task. Fortunately, Yao Qisheng and the three Wu Lu brothers rushed together in time to pull the Suo Etu, and Wu Yuanming avoided the doom of being strangled to death on the spot.

"Let go of me, I'm going to kill this beast with a human face and a beast's heart! My daughter is so fond of him that he killed my daughter for his own safety and future! I'm going to break this beast into pieces and avenge my daughter!" Although he was pressed tightly by Wu Shou and Wu Xi brothers, Suo Etu still struggled to go up and fight with Wu Yuanming. Yao Qisheng, who heard some of the reasons, hurriedly persuaded: "Lord Suo, Lord Suo is angry, although the godson who is always called Huazi is not a good bird, but this kind of hurtful thing still can't be done." What's more, his family's style is also different from others, he would rather kill thousands of people than kill his own women, which is recognized by the world. ”

"Can't do it? What else is there to do with this beast? Suo Etu struggled and shouted: "The letter he sent to pick up my daughter is in my arms, you take it out yourself, is it his handwriting?" ”

"And letters?" Yao Qisheng realized the seriousness of the matter, and almost thought that his godson was really killing people, so he hurriedly took out the letter from Suo Etu's arms and asked, "Is this the one?" ”

"This is it, and his seal! My daughter also said it was his handwriting! Suoetu roared. Yao Qisheng curiously unfolded and only glanced at it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Master Suo, I didn't expect that you would be so smart that you would be planted under such a small trick, you have been fooled, this letter is fake!" Suo Etu was taken aback at first, and then said angrily: "You father and son are in a mess, of course you are partial to him, you say that the letter is false, what evidence is there?" ”

"Go and get a copy of the book that your son has written." Yao Qisheng ordered Wu Lu, who rubbed Wu Yuanming's chest and beat his back, Wu Lu rushed over, and in a short time there was a copy written by Wu Yuanming, Yao Qisheng asked Wu Shou and Wu Xi to let go of Suo Etu, pointed to the letter and the copybook and explained: "Lord Suo, please see, although the handwriting on this letter and the handwriting is very similar, there is one place that the counterfeiter did not find, that is, the last stroke of the word." These days, in order to prevent my godson's handwriting from being counterfeited, Hanako has been letting him practice a kind of anti-counterfeiting handwriting, that is, the last stroke of the word contains ink and concealment, so the end of the last stroke of each word is thicker than the ink in other places, unless it is someone who knows this secret mark, others generally can't imitate and find it. ”

Suo Etu took a closer look at the notebook that Wu Lu had brought, and found that the end of the last stroke of each word on it was indeed a little inky, but there was no such secret mark on the letter. Seeing this clearly, Suo Etu was struck by lightning, but he didn't give up and shouted: "What about the seal? That's a seal issued by the imperial court, how do you explain it? ”

Yao Qisheng sighed, shook his head and said: "Master Suo, it's not that Huazi always boasts, you just take a seal, if you can't carve an identical one out of radish in half an hour, you take the head of Huazi who is called Huazi as a night pot!" This kind of counterfeit handwriting and seal tricks has always been tired of Hanako ten years ago. Wu Yuanming also rubbed his neck and gasped and said: "Master Suo, I, Wu Yingxiong, am no longer a thing, and I won't mess with Hui'er, otherwise according to my Wu family's style, my father will not let me go." ”

"So, Hui'er and I were fooled." Of course, Suo Etu knew that the seal could be engraved privately, and seeing that Wu Yuanming and Yao Qisheng did not look like they were fake, he finally believed Yao Qisheng's words, sat on the ground and cried, "Who deceived my daughter?" What was his purpose in cheating on my daughter? ”

"Who cheated on your daughter, and it depends on what purpose he had?" Yao Qi Shengyin**: "How many people in the capital have the ability, conditions and manpower to deceive Miss Zhaohui?" The wind of the aftermath has long been blowing in the court, even if Ao Bai robs your daughter, it is useless, judging from his usual temper, he doesn't like little girls who stink and haven't dried up, so his suspicion can be the first to be ruled out. Counting further down, who else would risk taking Miss Zhaohui? For political gain? For the silver? Or is it for the sake of color? ”

"Your Majesty!" "Kangxi!" Suo Etu and Wu Yuanming shouted in unison. Especially Wu Yuanming jumped three feet high, and shouted: "I understand, it must be Kangxi's people who heard about our plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so Kangxi sent someone to fake my reputation to deceive Hui'er to satisfy his lust." With a roar, Wu Yuanming got up and ran out.

"Stop!" Yao Qisheng drank Wu Yuanming and asked sharply, "What do you want to do?" ”

"......, of course." Wu Yuanming couldn't stop calling here, because Wu Yuanming realized that even if he went to Kangxi to settle accounts now, he couldn't do anything else, even the Forbidden City couldn't enter. But Wu Yuanming is Wu Yuanming after all, and after a little thought, he came up with a way, and roared angrily: "Come on, gather all my guards to go to the Baiyun Temple in western Beijing!" ”

"What are you doing at Baiyun Temple?" Yao Qisheng said. Wu Yuanming roared wildly: "Kangxi's dog-headed military advisor Wu Ciyou is there, I'll go to arrest Wu Ciyou in exchange for Hui'er!" ”

Yao Qisheng and Suo Etu glanced at each other and found that although Wu Yuanming's move was risky, it was already the only way at the moment. Yao Qisheng thought for a while and nodded: "There is no other way, the soldiers are very fast, use all the horses in the family, and the people in our family are not all reliable, so we must go to Baiyunguan to arrest people before the imperial court reacts." Wu Yuanming promised to rush out and personally arrange the raid on Baiyun Temple. Yao Qisheng looked at the hesitant Suo Etu, nodded and said, "Master Suo, I know it's inconvenient for you to come forward, so you don't have to go with us." ”

"Thank you Mr. Yao for your understanding, Hui'er will ask Mr. Yao and the son." Suo Etu breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to Yao Qisheng to the end - arresting Wu Ciyou and Kangxi for exchange, it is tantamount to Wu Yingxiong and Kangxi turning their faces again, if Suo Etu is entangled, it will have a fatal impact on his career, not to mention, even the Hesheri clan will not escape the involvement.

In a moment, Wu Yuanming armed all the two hundred guards that Wu Sangui left for him, and gathered together, horses in the north are much cheaper than in the south, these days Wu Yuanming has equipped all these guards with horses, two hundred people and two hundred war horses gathered in the backyard, although there are not many people, there is already a sense of slaughter. Wu Yuanming changed into a new official robe, put a fire gun on his waist and a waist knife on his shoulder, stood in front of the cavalry, stared at the red eyes and shouted: "Brothers, I, Wu Yingxiong, want you to arrest someone today, you are the Yunnan army, and now you are in Beijing City, are you afraid?" ”

"Don't be afraid!" Wu Sangui's guards were all well-trained elite soldiers, and the sound of answering in unison shook the sky. Wu Yuanming nodded and said, "Very good, after the matter is completed, this prince will reward each of you with silver...... One hundred taels! Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming seemed to have found his father's arrogance when he was angry at the crown, and shouted: "Just let it go, what happened, I Wu Yingxiong resisted, and King Pingxi resisted!" ”

"Obey the orders of the Son!" The families of these Wu Sangui guards all live in Yunnan, and Wu Yuanming has no other choice than to ask them to cross the border and arrest people in Beijing, even if they are asked to attack the Forbidden City. Wu Yuanming nodded, took the lead in stepping on the war horse, ordered his subordinates to open the courtyard gate, and shouted: "Target, Baiyun Temple outside the West Gate!" Let's go! After that, Wu Yuanming, who had just learned to ride a horse for a few days, didn't know where the courage came from, and urged the horse to rush out of the courtyard first, Yao Qisheng and the three brothers of the Wu family followed, and the other guards came out in turn, and more than 200 people rushed to the official road like tigers down the mountain, and went to the Xizhimen with great momentum......

If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter "The new version of Chong Guan is angry and red".