Chapter 65: A Matter of Life and Death

The inner room of the Wenhua Hall is the place where the royal books are stored, and there are rows of bookshelves inside, and the books are really full of sweat, I have never seen so many books in my life, and there is not even a window in order to prevent moisture. Perhaps just now, for the convenience of finding books, there were more than a dozen lanterns lit inside, and I watched a large number of soldiers pouring into the main hall. The general who led the troops just now shouted: "You have been surrounded, we know that you are coming, we have been waiting for you here for a long time, hurry up and come out by yourself, or you will die without a place to be buried." ”

I wondered in my heart, I came here because I and the old man knew, how did they know that I was coming, I don't want to, let's find an answer after I go out, since I am trapped here, I better find a way to get out of danger first.

Seeing that I did not respond from the outside, the general shouted again: "The imperial guards go first, and the ones behind follow." "I saw a few men dressed in guard clothes, walking in front with knives, walking towards the inner room, I have no weapons in my hand, it seems that I will deal with them empty-handed today, I took off the two lanterns at the door, and held them in my hands, and now I am not afraid of fire or fire, those royal guards came to the door, and the front one raised a knife to cut at me, dodged the knife, I smashed the lantern on his face, and the oil inside lit the lantern, and the man screamed, thanks to the armor he was wearing, or he would have set him on fire, I threw the lanterns at the back, and while they were dodging, I reached out and dodged the first guard's broadsword, and struck him on the head with the back of the knife, and without even humming, the guard lay on the ground. The three guards in the back also raised their knives and slashed at me, because they were at the door, it was relatively narrow, and their movements were not very fast.

I dodged the second guard's knife first, and before the next two could move, I knocked him unconscious, because there was no light, and I didn't see that the soldier who was following them actually pierced me in the stomach with a gun through the gap between the two guards. I endured the pain and swung my knife to cut off the barrel of my gun. I was thinking in my mind, it's over, I'm going to be reimbursed here today, and at this moment, Xiao Yi on my shoulder flew towards the two guards, and directly smashed the two of them to the ground, Xiao Yi's body is now expanding rapidly, and it has risen to the thickness of a bucket in the blink of an eye, blocking the footsteps of the soldiers behind. The soldiers had never seen such a thick snake, and they were so frightened that they pushed them into the center of the hall, and I endured the pain and dragged the fainting guards into the house.

The general who was leading the troops outside shouted, "Stand back and shoot with arrows." Seeing the soldiers shoot at Xiao Yi with their bows and arrows, Xiao Yi was hit by more than a dozen arrows at once. I shouted to Xiaoyi, "Xiaoyi is coming back quickly." At this time, Xiaoyi was hit by an arrow, and his body couldn't shrink back, and the speed of crawling in was very slow, and the soldiers outside continued to shoot arrows at Xiaoyi. At this time, I was also in a hurry, and I didn't care about the pain in my body, so I went to take off a lantern, took a few books from the bookshelf, put them on the lantern and lit them, threw the burning books outside, and shouted: "If you shoot arrows again, I will set the books on fire, and burn them with jade, I will see if the emperor will cure you for your crimes."

When I shouted, there was silence outside, and before the general could speak, he heard a voice shouting: "Stop, don't shoot arrows, the strong man inside, you must not light a fire, if you don't light a fire, I can ask the emperor to let you live." Listening to the voice of the official surnamed Zhang just now, I also said: "Who are you, how can I trust you." "I'm Zhang Juzheng, a cabinet minister."

"Then you stand back first, I'll think about it." After I finished speaking, the general outside said: "Master Zhang, don't be afraid of him, he is now a dead end, let's go up together to see how powerful he is." "General Gao must not, there are books and handwritten books of the previous emperors in it, if it is burned, you and I can't afford to bear it."

I didn't care how they discussed, seeing that Xiaoyi had completely entered the inner room, I forced the door of the inner room to close hard, took off my coat, and saw the muzzle on my stomach, which was bleeding profusely, I tore off a piece of clothing and plugged it on the wound, and tore a long one, and bandaged the wound, due to a lot of blood loss, my head began to be a little dizzy.

I looked at the arrow on Xiaoyi's body, and went to pull it out again, fortunately, Xiaoyi's skin is thicker, and although there are many wounds, they are not serious. I stroked this Xiaoyi's head and said: "Xiaoyi, I'm sorry for you, let you follow me to get hurt, you take your body, find a place to go out, the old man's mansion was probably discovered by them, you can't go back there, go to the cottage." ”

Xiaoyi's body shrank back, but he crawled to my side again, leaning on my lap, not wanting to leave. I said again: "Xiaoyi should be obedient, you should be able to go out, there must be ventilation holes in such a big house, if you leave, I will rest assured that I will be fine, or I really don't want you." Xiaoyi may have seen that I was really angry, and reluctantly crawled into the depths of the inner room.

I saw that Xiaoyi was gone, and came to a few more guards, tore their clothes into strips, tied their hands and feet, and then rested against the wall.

Zhang Juzheng's voice came from outside the door again: "Strong man, I don't care what you want to do, come here, but as long as you don't damage the books inside, I'll make you fine." ”

I leaned against the wall and said, "Master Zhang, I can't tell you why I'm here, I think who I came here to inform, if you tell me, I won't burn books." There was silence outside for a while, and Zhang Juzheng said again: "I don't know about this, wait for me to ask General Gao." "Waited a little longer.

The voice of General Gao came from outside: "Listen inside, the informant is a family member in the *** mansion, Jinyiwei has already gone to arrest him, maybe you can meet in a while." "I really didn't calculate that there would be a secret agent of Jinyiwei in the old man's mansion. It's okay for me to plant here today, but it's a pity that it has affected the old man, if I die, what will Zihan do.

"I'll think about getting back to you, Master Zhang."

"Zhuangshi, no matter what, you can't damage the books inside, I promise that you will be fine, I will go to the emperor to ask for an edict and forgive you for your innocence."

"Don't worry, Lord Zhang, as long as you don't come in, I won't damage the books, if you forcibly attack, then I'm not welcome."

"Don't worry, no one will dare to attack if I don't come back, you all listen well, you are not allowed to attack without the emperor's will."

After Zhang Juzheng left, I bolted the door and leaned against the wall to think about how to get out. At that time, I thought that there would be a risk in entering the palace, but I didn't expect that if I didn't run here, I would have been shot into a hedgehog by them.