"But isn't he Mu Yunyou's student?"

"Wen Lan of the Imulan Kingdom was haunted by the Battle of Poison Gold that year, and he wanted to understand Mu Yun's military strategy, so he asked me to try my best to send this young country lord into Mu Yunyou's door. Children, smarter, more well-behaved, naturally please Mu Yunyou, besides, Mu Yunyou has no descendants, it is the time of loneliness, so he passed on the military strategy of the Mu Yun clan to the young lord of Imulan. Now in a blink of an eye, seventeen years have passed, and this young lord has also ascended the throne of Sha Keye, I heard that this time it was he who personally drove the expedition to attack the blue sea, what is the result...... Master Pei must have heard about it. ”

If Pei Ran was surprised, he was now terrified to the extreme.

Only then did he know why Ye Zhiqiu was so confident, and why he seemed to act recklessly tonight. It's just that he has already made an appointment with the Imulans to meet the inside and outside, so he will choose Emperor Wen to send troops and suddenly make trouble. From this point of view, although Emperor Wen led an army of 100,000, he had fallen into a situation of attacking from two sides.

There are really wolves and tigers before and after, and I don't know it.

Ye Zhiqiu continued: "Master Pei, when it comes to the battle of this army, it all depends on the continuous supply from the rear, if the imperial capital suddenly changes the sky......

One sentence made Pei Ran wake up like a dream.

No wonder Ye Zhiqiu won't kill him, it's because he is in charge of the household!

Although the supply of the army is the business of the Ministry of War, the money and food of the Ministry of War have to reach out to other households. Ye Zhiqiu wanted to cut off Emperor Wen's back road from the foundation through himself!

He knew that it was easy to kill himself and snatch the household in his hands, but the affairs of the household department were complicated, and if he killed himself, he would definitely not find a person to replace him for a while.

As for the reason, Pei Ran knew it too well.

Although there are squires under the six departments of the central government, there are different departments in the division of authority. For example, Ye Zhiqiu will leave a lot of things to the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. And in order to collect money in private, he usually grasps the big and small powers of the household department, and the two household servants are almost useless, and they only know the surface of the household affairs, where do they know so well.

Ye Zhiqiu must have known this, so he didn't dare to kill himself rashly. If he usually appointed more servants to the affairs of the ministry, maybe Ye Zhiqiu would not value himself so much today.

Thinking of this, Pei Ran was already in a cold sweat, he never expected that the dictatorship on weekdays would save his life at this critical juncture.

"Master Pei, in fact, if you think about it carefully, you can just treat tonight's events as if nothing happened. He has never come to my house to eat, nor has he seen anyone. Later, you accompany Master Chen to fetch people, and those people will not live until dawn, and this dead man will not speak. As long as it lasts until morning after tonight, Master Pei will go to the household as usual, and whatever happens has nothing to do with Lord Pei. ”

"Still going to the household? Lord Ye...... The prince is dead here, and tomorrow is destined to cause chaos in the world! ”

"Oh? Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dead? Ye Zhiqiu looked puzzled, as if he didn't know anything, even though Li Chongyan's body was close to his feet.

"This, this ......" Master Pei looked at Ye Zhiqiu and said nonsense with his eyes open, but he was choked.

"Master Pei, the news you heard tomorrow morning will be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has indeed been assassinated, although he was seriously injured, he did not die, but was sent back to the palace for medical treatment, and he urgently needs to recuperate. You don't know anything about the rest, can you hear it clearly? ”

Where did Pei Ran dare not be, nodded again and again: "I heard clearly, I heard clearly." ”

"And! The supply of the 100,000 army will be allocated as usual for the time being, and no unnatural places will be exposed, so as not to make Li Houcong suspicious. Today, in addition to handing over the official document of the Ministry of Household Affairs to the Ministry of Military Affairs normally, I also ask Lord Pei to hand me a copy privately. ”

Pei Ran thought to himself, this is obviously not at ease, afraid that I will secretly report to Emperor Wen...... Ye Zhiqiu's actions are really airtight. But I can't care about this much at the moment, I have to save my life until dawn, so I nodded again.

Ye Zhiqiu poured a glass of wine, but this time he handed it to Chen Qi.

"Lord Chen, it's already past the time of the child, and it's freezing this day, so please drink this cup full. After this hard night, let's go to worship Lord Han together. ”

"As long as I can avenge Lord Han, what hard work do you say! Lord Han had already instructed the two of us, saying that Lord Ye was clever, and if he came according to Lord Ye's orders, he would definitely be able to win. See you today, and it's true! Chen Qi took the wine and drank it all in one gulp, and gestured to Pei Ran.

"Master Pei, please."

Pei Ran was still a little uneasy, and asked again: "But the crown princess and Cao Xiwen are still escaped, won't they tell what happened tonight?" ”

"Hehehe, Master Pei don't have to worry too much, I have already laid down five thousand people here, how can they escape? In a few moments, Commander Zheng should return with news. ”

"Five thousand?" Pei Ran looked incredulous, "I came all the way, why didn't I see a single soldier?" ”

"Five thousand people were scattered around the imperial capital early, and as soon as Lord Pei and the prince's carriage passed, they surrounded the southeast corner of the imperial capital. Ye is sitting here to accompany you to drink, eat meat, write and chat, just to fight for some effort for the 5,000 people to gather on Yanbo Street. During the banquet, someone came to look for Commander Zheng, and that was the signal that the assembly was completed. Master Pei, if you don't believe it, when you come out of my Shangshu Mansion, you might as well take a look at the situation around with your own eyes, and see that I Ye Mou is lying to me. ”

Pei Ran thought to himself, no wonder he didn't panic when he saw Cao Xiwen escape, it turned out that he had already ambushed people outside. didn't ask any more questions at the moment, and helplessly followed Chen Qi out of the snow house.

Ye Zhiqiu watched the two walk away and still sat down.

He finally exhaled heavily, the night had been too long and too tiring. Only when you are alone do you dare to show a little tiredness.

After tonight, he may be infamous as a rebel through the ages, and he may lose the trust of his relatives.

But if I am not rebellious, how can I be faithful?

Those who know me will naturally know, and those who hate me will not hesitate to hate.

I, Ye Zhiqiu, made an oath forty years ago to lay down my loyal heart in the name of a rebel!

Just thinking about it, a person hurriedly came from outside the house, it was Zheng Lun, who chased Cao Xiwen back.

"How? Can you catch it? ”

Zheng Lun sighed, and his look of chagrin made Ye Zhiqiu's heart tighten.

"I saw that Cao Xiwen jumped out of the wall with the princess on his back, and there was a backstreet outside the wall, so I divided the people into two groups to block the intersection respectively. Unexpectedly, the whole road was crowded with our people, and there was still no trace of the kid. ”

"How is this possible? He has a pregnant woman, and he can slip out from under the noses of two or three hundred of you? ”

I was also very puzzled, so I searched all the 21 squares near Yanbo Street, but I couldn't find them. What's even more strange is that it was a snowy day, and when I chased all the way, I didn't find a single footprint on the nearby street, indicating that he hadn't fled at all. ”

Ye Zhiqiu thought for a while and said, "You mean, he is still hiding in my Shangshu Mansion?" ”

Zheng Lun shook his head and said, "I'm not afraid that Lord Ye will blame me, I also took someone to search carefully in Shangshu Mansion without authorization, but I didn't find it!" ”

"Could it be that it turned into green smoke and disappeared?" Ye Zhiqiu's face sank, "There are five thousand people, how can you let a person with a pregnant woman escape?" ”

However, the tone of reproach was only fleeting, and a thought suddenly flashed through Ye Zhiqiu's mind.

Perhaps, Zheng Lun can't really be blamed for his incompetence......

"Where is Uncle Kang?" Ye Zhiqiu called loudly.

A figure hurriedly appeared in front of the snow house.

"What do you command?"

"Where is Mademoiselle now?"

"Miss...... I guess I went to bed early. Uncle Kang's tone was both nervous and vague. For Ye Zhiqiu, this kind of answer is meaningless.

He immediately stood up and walked out.

"Master Zheng, please come with me."

Zheng Lunzheng wondered why Ye Zhiqiu suddenly started to track down his daughter, but he soon understood the meaning. Because when the two of them walked to the small courtyard where Ye Yin lived, they found that there was no one inside at all, and the quilt on the bed did not even have any traces of sleeping.

"Lord Ye, what do you mean...... Ling Qianjin hid Cao Xiwen? ”

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head: "It's worse than this." ”

As he spoke, he hurried to the back garden, and in a very inconspicuous corner of the corner of the garden, he looked closely at a stone brick covered with moss.

"Sure enough...... They ran from here. ”

Zheng Lun was completely puzzled by what was wrong with the stone brick, and asked, "How can Lord Ye see it?" ”

"The moss on this stone brick has been pressed, so it leaves a little dented handprint, and you can't see it unless you look closely."

"What if you press it?"

Ye Zhiqiu didn't answer, just lightly pressed the stone brick.

Suddenly, a rockery in the garden slowly moved away, and a hole appeared at the bottom of the hill that led to the ground.

"It turns out that Lord Ye has set up a secret passage here!"

"It was a secret passage I left just in case, but I didn't expect my daughter to bring that kid in in a daze! It's no wonder that Lord Zheng didn't even see a single footprint in the snow when he was chasing! Ye Zhiqiu was extremely unhappy, but the blame should also be attributed to himself, no wonder Zheng Lun was half a point.

"Where does this secret passage lead?"

"It's not far, the total length is only half a mile, at most it is just out of Yanbo Street, and the exit should be next to a ready-to-wear shop near the street, and you can't get out of the city. Lord Zheng is chasing it now, and he should be able to catch up. ”

Zheng Lun immediately waved his hand and summoned dozens of soldiers.

"Go! Immediately enter the secret passage to catch up and find out what is going on! ”

Ye Zhiqiu still felt uneasy, "Master Zheng, you and I will go out from the street first to see if there are any clues at the exit of the ready-to-wear store." ”

"Good!"

The two of them hurriedly walked out of the gate, only to see that the street was already full of soldiers of the Dragon Scale Army. Zheng Lun was just about to order someone to drive a carriage, but Ye Zhiqiu took the reins from a soldier and turned over on the horse, with a vigorous posture and no cowardice of a civil official.