Volume 2: Ten Years of Life and Death [30] The Storm Changes
Flowers are in February, looking at Shu surging.
"Catch the thief!"
A scream pierced the empty night, tearing open the tranquil Chu Mansion like a beast, making this seemingly peaceful and sleeping century-old mansion fall under sharp teeth, and in an instant, the skin and flesh could be opened, and blood was dripping.
Several black-clothed people with great light skills rushed on the eaves of the Chu Mansion, and then a group of officers and soldiers rushed into the Chu Mansion without saying anything, and rushed into various courtyards. In an instant, the Chu Mansion was illuminated by bunches of torches, and everyone in the Chu Mansion was shouted from the bed by the officers and soldiers in a daze, Chu Minghong stepped out of the room with a solemn face, his thick eyebrows were furrowed, and he grabbed an officer and soldier and said sharply: "Do you know where this is, dare to come here to spread wild, don't you want to die?" ”
The officers and soldiers who were caught by Chu Minghong smiled obscenely, the flesh on their faces was piled together, and they replied sharply: "I don't care which adult's mansion you are, I will come to catch the thief on the order of the emperor." This thief is a meticulous work of other countries, and the court is a prisoner, and no one can delay it! ”
Although he had been suspicious for a long time, Chu Minghong was still shocked. He snorted and let go of the officer and soldier, and then hurriedly wanted to go to Chu Changting and Chu Nanpu's room to protect them.
How could he not know that there was some other country's detailed work, which was clearly to probe his Chu Minghong's details!
Searching Chu Mansion on this ground is to make it difficult for him to ride a tiger. If the officers and soldiers are not allowed to investigate, they will be infamous for collaborating with the enemy and treason, but if they are investigated, they do not know what charges will be drawn.
Tonight's plum makeup has been sleepless all night, and she knows that the appointed day has come.
There was a sound of stepping on the roof tiles, and Mei Makeup, who got the signal, jumped up and rushed to Chu Changting to wake her up. Hearing the noise outside, Chu Changting's heart was also tight, and he grabbed Mei Xiang's sleeve at a loss, and asked in a panic, "What's going on outside, outside?" ”
"A thief has broken into the Chu Mansion, and the officers and soldiers are arresting it. It's too chaotic outside, so Miss stays here, and I'll take care of you. ”
"That! And my father, my brother, I ......," Chu Changting exclaimed.
"Miss, don't worry, the officers and soldiers are here to catch thieves, and they will protect Lord Chu and the little young master." Mei Xiang tried her best to comfort Chu Changting and calm her down. At this time, Xun'er also hurried from the side room, guarding Chu Changting's side worriedly.
Mei Xiang checked the situation outside through the window, and after confirming that there was no major danger at this time, she turned around and told Xun'er to guard Chu Changting, and then came out of the back window, and quickly ran to Chu Nanpu's bedroom and brought the sleeping Chu Nanpu to Chu Changting's house.
After sending all the guards of the Chu Mansion to stay at Chu Nanpu and Chu Changting, Chu Minghong stood in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, and now the Chu Mansion has been blocked strictly, and these guards of the Chu Mansion are no match for the hard-armed officers and soldiers who practice every day, even if these officers and soldiers want to take the lives of his entire mansion, he can't completely protect his pair of children.
How to do it. Just as Chu Minghong was nervously thinking about countermeasures, the noisy officers and soldiers suddenly gathered in front of Chu Minghong. Startled, he looked around at the officers and soldiers around him, and secretly held the sword he had hidden at his waist with his right hand. The officers and soldiers led by him stepped forward and said: "Thank you for your kindness for today's incident, the thieves have all been arrested, but it's just ......."
Chu Minghong held his breath, and cold sweat fell on his back.
"Do you know why this disrespectful thing is in your mansion?" The officers and soldiers suddenly changed their faces, spoke sharply, took a delicate dragon robe from the hands of the people behind them, and fell at Chu Minghong's feet.
Sure enough, I still have to do it to myself. The muscles on Chu Minghong's face twitched, and a trace of sweat appeared in his palms, but he still said solemnly: "Bold!" How dare you frame the prime minister! Whether this thing was left by a thief or from my house, have you found out! ”
"Even if you can defend this dragon robe, what about the dragon chair in the secret passage of your mansion?" The officer and soldier asked loudly, he looked at the angry Chu Minghong, and couldn't help but laugh proudly, "Prime Minister!" You're going to rebel! ”
The officer and soldier let go of their voices to speak at this time, and the voice was so high that it spread throughout most of the Chu Mansion for a while.
"What? How could my father rebel? Where are there any secret passages in the house? They are clearly slandering my father! Chu Changting, who heard the officers and soldiers talking, got up eagerly and wanted to go out to argue with the officers and soldiers, but was stopped by Mei Xiang. Chu Changting tried to break free but to no avail, and big tears rolled down. Chu Nanpu was also woken up by the sound and began to cry at a loss.
Hearing this, Xun'er also walked around the house anxiously, secretly looking out from time to time. After all, she was the son and daughter of an ordinary family, and she had never seen such a scene, so she couldn't help but cry for a while.
Faced with the questioning of the officers and soldiers, Chu Minghong was weak and angry. The secret passage he built was extremely secretive, and basically no one knew about it, and how could an officer and soldier catch a thief and find it. Unless...... There is an inner ghost in his house, and he has the emperor's eyeliner, and he takes his every move in his eyes. Besides, where did I get the dragon robe and dragon chair, this is obviously to blame me and put me in a situation where I will never recover!
But...... All the servants in the Chu Mansion have been strictly screened, and if he doesn't want to, no one can get close to him at all.
Plum makeup. This name flashed in Chu Minghong's mind, and his expression was extremely ugly.
is a good Yi Lunhuan, he is clearly going to put himself to death. Chu Minghong was furious, and as ruthless as he was ruthless, he couldn't care about the others anymore, and decided to fight the trapped beasts and fight to break the net. He quickly took out a whistle from his cuff and blew it, the terrible whistle pierced the sky, and in an instant, there was a earth-shattering howl in the cool mountain, and then there was a boom, like a thunderbolt spring thunder, a secret door split straight open on the wall behind Chu Minghong, and a team of soldiers rushed out with a shout, surrounding Chu Minghong. After the sea-like soldiers poured out, the black pressure of the people surged, and it immediately seemed that the usually empty courtyard of the Chu Mansion was crowded like a pot of porridge.
The secret passage of this mechanism was extremely elaborate and secretive, and a large hole was directly opened in the wall, but the house supported by the wall was intact, which shocked everyone present.
It's changing so fast that everyone is overwhelmed. The officers and men were shocked by this situation and froze in place, and although they drew their swords out of their sheaths, they all looked left and right, not knowing what to do.
"You forced me!" Chu Minghong shouted loudly.
"Yes, I've never forced you." At this moment, Yi Lunhuan's cold voice came from behind the heavy officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers all saluted to give way, and Yi Lunhuan walked slowly in the moonlight, raising the hem of his long clothes with every step.
Chu Minghong and the soldiers next to him were stunned. Chu Minghong felt even more ridiculous, he drew his sword and laughed wildly: "Hahahaha, hahahaha, if you have decided to take my life, why bother so much, just come directly." You Yi family dog thieves are used to playing this trick! ”
This remark was extremely presumptuous, but Yi Lunhuan was not annoyed at all. He smiled disdainfully, but a beast-like yin owl burst out of his eyes, this kind of gaze carried the emperor's unacceptable beak of life and death, and went straight to Chu Minghong's heart.
Although his heart was tight, Chu Minghong still smiled gloomily. As soon as the whistle sounds, half of the Chu family army will come out to help, and half will sneak to the imperial city. I am afraid that most of the guards in the suburbs of Beijing will be folded in the sleeping tent by the fine work that he placed on his side, and once Yi Lunhuan personally appears in the Chu Mansion, he will definitely come with most of the Imperial Forest Army, which will lead to the emptiness of the palace guards, and then the Admiral of the Green Camp will join him inside and outside, send troops to smash the Qiankun Palace, kill the Imperial Forest Army that left the housekeeper, and then there will be ordinary troops to come out to meet him.
This is the last party plan to fall into the passive aftermath, and it is also the most dangerous one. How could Yi Lunhuan press forward step by step, and he really chased after Chu Mansion.
"I gave you a chance." Yi Lunhuan naturally knew what Chu Minghong was planning, but he didn't plan to say it at the moment, for fear that Chu Minghong would give him a fish and kill him, and he would only increase the killing. He smiled slightly, but his smile was full of awe-inspiring chill, like the most ferocious storm on the top of the snow-capped mountain, roaring and sweeping away all the small and unclean pickles.
Yi Lunhuan raised his hand slightly, and the officers and soldiers behind him stepped forward like a tide, fighting with the soldiers around Chu Minghong. In the shadow of the gunshot, Yi Lunhuan, who was guarded in the center by a circle of guards, raised his eyebrows at Chu Minghong, and then stepped forward, his cuffs shook, and there was a long whip in his hand. With a slight wave, the long whip spat out like a poisonous snake, and the whip was snatched one by one, and the murderous aura rose up.
"Outside is the royal forest guards I brought, the Chu Mansion has been surrounded by officers and soldiers, and not a single bird wants to fly out." Yi Lunhuan smiled coldly, and the long whip in his hand flew straight towards Chu Minghong, Chu Minghong blocked it with his sword, and the long whip wrapped around the sword like a snake. Yi Lunhuan retracted his hand backwards, and a huge force directly strangled the sword in Chu Minghong's hand along the whip, Chu Minghong saw that Yi Lunhuan was skilled, and it was difficult to practice for a year and a half, and his face turned blue in an instant.
"You!"
"Why, do you really think I'm weak?" Yi Lun squinted, and the corners of his mouth were hooked.
His pear swirls were lightly, and his handsome face was suddenly stained with splattered blood.
"The meticulous work of the guard battalion on the outskirts of Beijing has been caught by me, and thirty-seven bloody human heads will be hung at the noon gate tomorrow morning." With a whip, like a cold wind, it swept across the grassless dry plain, turning over the cracked soil, Chu Minghong's sleeves were fiercely torn apart by the whip, and blood was splashed.
"Zhang Binrui, the commander of the Green Battalion, had his neck broken in a dream of his favorite concubine yesterday, and he was happy in it every night, but I was afraid that I would never dream that his concubine was actually my person." Another whip, like a silver snake coming out of a hole and spitting out a strong wind, the light flashed, Chu Minghong's neck was tightly coiled by the huge body of the silver snake, and the thorny whip tail was like a poisonous fang, and it stabbed his neck like a withered vine into a bloody hole the size of a fingernail.
"As for your Chu family army, which is sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy-eight people, in front of me, it is just powder." The whip retracted, and a blood-red light swept through the dark night sky.
"You ......"
"You... You've grown up. Chu Minghong's face was blue, his eyes were blood-red, his eyes were cracked, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body slowly slid down.
At the same time, Chu Nanpu was coaxed by Xun'er, and his crying gradually weakened, but he still couldn't stop sobbing. Chu Changting was still strangled by Mei makeup, but he had already cried until he had no strength and collapsed softly on the ground. Mei Xiang knocked Chu Changting unconscious with a light palm, then turned his head to look at the trembling Xun'er, and walked forward: "Today, the Chu Mansion cannot escape the catastrophe, and the crime of rebellion is unforgivable, but it is to punish the nine clans." Would you like to help your young lady escape? ”
Xun'er was still a little lost, but after hearing that Chu Changting could be saved, she still forcibly fixed her nerves, she wiped away her tears, and although her voice trembled, she still said firmly: "Miss treats me like a sister." I didn't have a father and mother when I was a child, and it was the young lady who gave me a home. I'm willing to do anything, anything, for her. ”
"Okay." Mei Xiang gently stroked Xun'er's trembling shoulders and said in a low voice, "Change into your young lady's clothes, tonight you are Chu Changting, the daughter of the criminal minister, and Chu Nanpu is still young and easy to hide, only in this way can I escape with the real Miss Chu and the young master of the Chu family, go to General Shen, stay incognito, and live safely." ”
"Would you like to?"
When Xun'er heard this, tears rolled down again, and she breathed hard to allow herself to say a word completely.
"I do."
"Okay." Mei Makeup helped the two of them exchange clothes, and she looked at Xun'er, who was afraid but still insisted on taking the blame for Chu Changting, and suddenly felt a little unbearable in her heart.
She thought of Mei Rong, her twin sister. But they were destined to be ruthless from birth, and she had never experienced this kind of warmth between sisters.
Maybe in our lifetime, we will have the opportunity to be real sisters. Mei Xiang thought about it, and her heart ached faintly. But she didn't dare to think about it further, for fear that she would cross the Mei family's rules again.
After changing her clothes, Mei Xiang carried Chu Changting on her back, holding Chu Nanpu in one hand and preparing to escape from the back window, when the door was suddenly opened, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed in. In a hurry, Mei Xiang had no choice but to huddle in a box with Chu Changting and Chu Nanpu in her arms, Xun'er also quickly locked the box, and then gritted her teeth and ran to the middle hall, and when the officers and soldiers saw her outfit, they decided that she was the young lady of Chu Mansion, and they waved their knives forward.
The knife flashed, and Xun'er lost consciousness in pain before she could react, and she collapsed in a pool of blood. When he was dying, his eyes were still reluctant to look at the box where Chu Changting was hiding, and shed the last tears.
Miss, see you in the next life......