[5,000 words chapter, not separated, two chapters uploaded together]

Bian Yujing saw Mo Ran coming in a hurry and asked, "But someone came out of the palace?" "This is a very moment, Bian Yujing will not let go of any suspicious person.

Mo Ran nodded and said, "Back to the princess, someone did leave the palace just now." The slave and maid came to report. ”

Bian Yujing said: "Did someone really leave the palace just now?" It's a very good time, who's going out? Mo Ran said: "Princess, this person is-yes-"

"Who?" Bian Yujing raised his eyebrows and asked sharply.

Mo Ran said: "It's the nurse of the prince, Xiao Xiao." ”

Bian Yujing was slightly surprised: "It's her!" It turned out to be her! But is there anyone else going out? Mo Ran shook his head and said, "At present, there is no second person who has gone out from the gate of the palace. Only the nurse Xiao Xiao went out before. Hearing Mo Ran's words, Bian Yujing was a little unconvinced that it was Xiao Xiao who came out of the palace.

In other words, Xiao Xiao is likely to be the internal response hidden in the palace, but how can this Xiao Xiao be the internal response? The life experience of everyone who enters the palace as a nurse is to inquire clearly, the first one is that the net worth is innocent, which Xiao Xiao is in line with! Moreover, she has been a Luoyang person for several generations, and she can't talk about contacting the Qing army.

The more Bian Yujing thought about it, the more chaotic his mind became, it was really that cut-off, and the reason was messy.

Now that the sons of the world have been arranged by the people of the Dragon Group to a secret and safe place, because they are not sure of the loyalty of those nurses, they naturally cannot be allowed to accompany them, after all, this is a very good time, and once a mistake is a big disaster. Without the princes and princesses, these nurses don't need to take the princesses for the time being, and they can also take a rest.

"Do you know where Xiao Xiao went out of the palace?" Bian Yujing asked him, Bian Yujing is such a talented person, and now he can't figure out what Xiao Xiao wants to do. Mo Ran said: "Princess, there is no news at this time. However, the members of the dragon group kept staring. ”

Bian Yujing nodded and said, "You go and tell Master Meng Yumeng and let him get ready." ”

"Yes!" Mo Ran replied.

In just a moment, Meng Yu, who was in the Dragon Group base, got the news from the palace. Meng Yu can be said to be anxious at this time, any little thing can make him annoyed, this time has reached an extraordinary period, Meng Yu believes that today is the deadline for the rebels to start their operations.

"I'm afraid it's going to be a bloody storm tonight. However, many soldiers will be unjustly killed! It's a pity, but for the sake of the overall situation, I can only be ashamed of them. ”

Meng Yu sighed heavily, because he did not inform the soldiers and horses defending the city tower of such a secret, and those who were arrested, it was very likely that they would be killed by the rebel army before they could react. At that time, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, but in order not to startle the snake and not be known by the enemy, they can only be sacrificed, and Meng Yu does not dare to leak such an important matter.

When this matter is over, they will bury their bones in the Tomb of the War Spirit and enjoy the worship of future generations. Achieving heavenly soldiers and generals, this is also a glorious thing, for the sake of the prince, for the princesses, your death will be worth it. ”

Meng Yu looked at the letter brought from the palace, and said in surprise: "The first person to leave the palace was Xiao Xiao, it turned out to be her!" Meng Yu's reaction was the same as Bian Yujing's, and he didn't dare to believe it too much. Immediately, Meng Yu was slightly angry and said, "It's really hidden deep enough!" Whether it is the performance of weekdays or the net worth, there is no trace of it. But after a moment, Meng Yu thought about it again, and muttered again: "No, this Xiao Xiao has no motive to commit the crime, and he has no time to commit the crime!" What's going on with her. If it's really her, then this person is really terrible! ”

"Someone!" Meng Yu immediately shouted outside.

Then a masked man walked in from outside, only to see the masked man bowing respectfully to Meng Yu and saying, "I don't know what the commander commands?" ”

Meng Yu said: "But there are still people who have gone out of the palace?" What are the people who are on surveillance doing now? The Commander needs to know their whereabouts and movements now. The masked man said: "Returning to the commander, there has been no news that anyone has left the palace. As for what those key surveillance people are doing, their subordinates don't know, so please let your subordinates go down and investigate. ”

After hearing this, Meng Yu waved his hand a little impatiently, and said, "Hurry up and go down to check, and tell the official in a while." With that, the masked man hurried down.

Meng Yu sat on the chair again, looking at all the names written in front of him, in a daze. I don't know what I'm thinking.

"Xiao Xiao—Xiao Xiao—"

After a while, at this time, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded outside again, which suddenly woke up Meng Yu who was in thought, and listening to the voice, Meng Yu knew who was coming, it was the masked man who he had just ordered to investigate the movements of those key suspects. His heart began to stir up, and he prayed that the masked man would bring him valuable news.

Before he entered the house, he heard the shouting outside: "My lord is not good! ”

The masked man hurried into the room, holding some papers in his hands, his eyes showing anxious eyes, and his body covered with sweat. The weather in August was very hot, and this person was still wearing black clothes, and he naturally felt the unusually hot with his face covered.

Meng Yu hurriedly asked, "What's going on to be so panicked?" "Meng Yu didn't believe that there was anything else that could make the people of the Dragon Group so anxious. Even if the rebels are raising troops now, it is estimated that they will not be able to find the location of the base of the dragon group for a while.

The masked man gasped heavily, handed the paper in his hand to Meng Yu, and said, "Commander, let me take a look, everyone's whereabouts are here, but Xiaolan, the housekeeper of the palace, is gone." And there is no record of her entering and leaving the palace gate. It's weird. ”

After Meng Yu heard this, he instantly understood what was going on. asked: "Did Xiaolan look for Xiao Xiao, the nurse, before she disappeared?" After hearing this, the masked man's face suddenly showed a look of amazement, and said: "The commander is really like a god, according to the maid in the palace, they have seen Xiao Xiao say a few words to Xiaolan before he walked out of the palace, and then the nurse left the palace in a hurry. As for where Xiaolan went, no one knows. But—"

"But what?" Meng Yu couldn't wait to ask.

I only listened to the masked man: "However, we found a weed-covered wall hole behind a remote house on the east side of the palace, and it is estimated that Xiaolan left through this hole in the wall, so there is no record of Xiaolan's entry and exit at the gate of the palace." ”

Meng Yu listened, his face showed a smile, and said: "That's right, and it also explains why the nurse Xiao Xiao suddenly hurried out of the palace, it turned out that she was bewitched by Xiaolan, but no matter what, we now know who Nei Ying is, you go to the palace quickly and tell the princess the news, so that they can be vigilant." ”

"Yes!" With that, the masked man left again.

——————

By the turn of August 10, it was getting dark.

The people in Luoyang City have also returned to their homes, the weather is hot, and many people are enjoying the shade in the courtyard.

At this time, the sound of footsteps continued to sound on the road, and they were wearing the military uniforms of the Pingbei Army and holding spears. The poor people on the road saw that they gave way. Within the control of the Pingbei Army, once the army is dispatched, the people on both sides must give way.

In King Zheng's Mansion, the lanterns have begun to ignite, and there is a bright light.

At present, there are two battalions of troops in Luoyang City, one guarding the city tower and the other defending the palace. The rest of the strength of the Guards Brigade was stationed at Tiger Prison Pass at the strength of one regiment. Tongguan was garrisoned with the strength of a battalion. The other regiment followed Wang Shishi to Shanxi.

Although the palace was defended by a battalion of troops, not all six or seven hundred men in a battalion were defended in the palace. It's just a part of it, after all, soldiers also need to sleep and rest. Shifts are changed every two hours (two hours are four hours), and a battalion is divided into three brigades, and the day is twenty-four hours. That is to say, each brigade is on duty for four hours, that is, eight hours a day.

In addition to the troops who were on duty at the palace, the rest of the troops were resting or training in a school field a few blocks later. That is to say, under normal circumstances, the standing strength of the palace is about 200 people.

As for the deployment of troops in the city, it is also similar, but after an expansion of Luoyang City, the city gate has increased a lot, so these soldiers who defend the city tower have to work relatively hard.

Although Luoyang City was turbulent in the dark at this time, it was still peaceful and serene on the surface. Except for some rebels and Bian Yujing and Ryugumi of the palace, the others did not know that there would be a big conspiracy tonight.

The yamen of each province are going home from work, Luoyang in August is unusually hot, many people do not go to bed in the dark, because they can't sleep in the heat, they all wait for the night to be late, the weather is cooler, and then sleep well. They are in the small courtyard of their house, shaking small fans, looking at the crescent moon in the sky, and fishing for homely things.

"It's a good day, well-fed and well-fed, and well-dressed. I think that at that time, when the prince had not yet come, it was a bitter life! Not only are there poles grabbing everywhere. robbery, I can't eat enough, ruffians and hooligans are rampant, I can't hold good things and they are robbed by others, and I am so cold that I shiver in winter and have no clothes to wear. If it weren't for the fact that our family was young and the children hadn't grown up, I would have gone to join the army to serve the prince, and when the time comes, I will be able to enter the War Soul Mausoleum, and enjoy the incense of future generations in the future, and my soul will fly into the nine heavens. ”

"Don't say anything about you, I don't know how many times I've said it, even without these two children, you are not allowed to join the army, it is a deadly job. What if you die and enter the War Spirit Mausoleum? There is still our mother to take care of at home, do you just watch me and my mother have no one to care about and no one wants to die alone? ”

After listening to the middle-aged woman's words, the middle-aged man touched his head awkwardly, smiled, and then stopped talking.

In a simple small courtyard, there were five people sitting, one of them was an old woman of sixty or seventy years old, a middle-aged man, a middle-aged woman, a boy of seven or eight years old, and a girl of five years old.

The middle-aged man sat on the small bench, shaking his fan, looking at the moonlight, and said beautifully. Next to him sat a little boy. On the other side sat a middle-aged woman, who was still holding a little girl in her arms, and the little girl was holding a fan to fan the woman constantly.

Opposite the man was the old woman, who was holding a fan and fanning it, but despite this, there was still sweat on her forehead, and her white hair was particularly conspicuous in the night light. I only heard her say: "Now this good life is not easy to come by, my mother didn't talk about food when she was a child, at that time she and your father were tenants for the landlord, you couldn't eat enough and didn't warm your clothes, and you shivered in the winter cold." Then came a series of natural and man-made disasters. Either there was a great drought or the pole came, and in the end your father died at the hands of the pole. Now it's okay, the prince will settle this Luoyang, live and work in peace and contentment, and also have silver coin expenses, so you don't have to worry about food and clothing! The prince is really a living bodhisattva. Tomorrow I will go to the White Horse Temple to offer incense and pray for the prince. ”

"That's that, the prince is now fighting outside to defend against the Tartars, and it must be hard. It is right to pray for the king. The middle-aged woman immediately said in a casual voice.

The woman stopped talking, but heard the little boy raise his head and ask, "Mother, what is a tartar!" ”

"Hehe" The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Tartar! Tartars are devils who kill people without blinking, and they specialize in eating children. As soon as you hear a child's cry, they will run to it and eat! The more the middle-aged man spoke, the more frightened he became, and suddenly the little boy was afraid to speak. Seeing that his goal had been achieved, he said again: "Remember, you can't cry in the future, if you invite the Tartars, you will eat people!" ”

When the little boy heard this, he immediately nodded his head continuously, indicating that he would not cry.

"The prince will protect us, is it my brother, don't be afraid of Tartar - Tartar." At this time, a childish voice sounded, and I saw that it was the girl in the arms of the middle-aged woman who said.

“——”

The ordinary people in the palace didn't know what was going on, although they couldn't see the princes, and it felt a little strange, but the princess said that she asked the princes to go to the White Horse Temple to pray for the prince in person, and it would take two or three days to come back, so those maids didn't suspect anything. It's a little small, but it's the only way to show sincerity.

At this time, a woman hurriedly walked out of the inner courtyard of the palace. Unbeknownst to the woman, a soldier had seen her with a telescope in a rockery next to her, and began to keep an eye on her, while a soldier next to her immediately left to inform her superiors.

The woman walked very carefully, observing left and right as she walked to prevent anyone from following her.

After a while, she came to a room not far from the entrance of the palace, which was the location of the garrison of the palace, and inside was the place where the captain of the garrison was during this time. I saw her walk in, holding a token, and said to the captain inside, "Captain Li." ”

Captain Li of the brigade immediately walked over with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Where did the wind blow Steward Xiaolan over, is there something wrong?" ”

It turned out that the person who sneaked out of the palace was Xiao Lan, the housekeeper of the palace, and I saw Xiao Lan looking at Captain Li with a smile and said: "Captain Li, there is a problem at the gate of the city with dozens of cars of things that the princess transported from outside, let you quickly lead the troops to help pull it back, and someone else has already gone to inform the other captains, so that they can temporarily come to take over your defense, and the captain who will come to change shifts will come in a while, you don't need to worry about the defense of the palace." ”

"This thing! No problem, but we'll have to wait until a replacement comes! I can't leave the palace with my soldiers and horses, so that the palace is unguarded! Captain Li looked at Xiaolan's beautiful appearance, and his heart was itching. After hearing this, Xiaolan secretly bitter in her heart, she didn't have much time, so she hurriedly threw a wink at Captain Li, and said, "Captain Li, this is the princess's order, the princess will look at the things in the car in a while, you can help the slave family." "There is the princess's token in Xiaolan's hand, so Captain Li does not suspect Xiaolan of lying.

Na Xiaolan saw that although Captain Li's eyes were confused, he didn't agree, so she was ruthless in her heart, walked up to Captain Li, grabbed one of Captain Li's arms, and kept rubbing on her chest, which suddenly made Captain Li want to. Burn the body, fine. Worms on the brain. In the end, he agreed to Xiaolan's request, and gave orders to his subordinates, and after a while, a team of 200 people was assembled, and the captain left a team of ten people to guard the gate of the palace, and left in a hurry.

Xiaolan watched Captain Li leave, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

A pair of eyes behind the rockery looked at Xiaolan coldly, scolding the dog thief.

"Hurry up and tell the commander that the missing [Little Red Fish] has appeared, and [Little Red Fish] has transferred the guards." Then a soldier who was next to him heard the message and left in a hurry.

After a while, Li Gu got the news, and at this time, Meng Yu was also by his side, Li Gu said: "[Little Red Fish] has returned to the palace, and as previously speculated, [Little Red Fish] did enter and exit through that hole in the wall." "Since the person who is watching is Ying Yangwei's people, the news arrived in the hands of Li Gu as soon as possible, not in the hands of Meng Yu.

Meng Yu asked, "The guards have been transferred?" Li Gu said: "The guards have been transferred, and I don't know how those people are so stupid to listen to Xiaolan's words." Meng Yu nodded and said: "Although I don't know what Xiaolan told them, but just ignoring the defense of the palace and leaving, I have already made a big mistake, and when this matter is over, I will definitely take him down for review." ”

"This Xiaolan's status in the palace is not low, and she lacks nothing, why did she choose to work for the Qing court?" Meng Yu kept asking himself in his mind. Force yourself to think about it.

Li Gu said: "Master Meng, how is the [Fish Pond]?" Meng Yu came back to his senses and said, "I have arranged for the dragon group to monitor the fish pond at all times, and I will go to arrest it when necessary." The remaining 200 of your Eagle Yangwei are also nearby, and the [Big Fish] in the [Fish Pond] will definitely come out to command the troops to capture the palace, and at that time, the Dragon Group will immediately enter the [Fish Pond] and capture all the miscellaneous shrimp soldiers and crab generals in it. ”