Out of Xizhimen, you will arrive at the outer city of the capital, in the north street three miles away from Xizhimen, there is a second courtyard, here is Ni Niang's home.

Ni Niang's parents and Lu'er have been admitted to Yuefu yesterday, at this moment. Two hundred sturdy plainclothes guards from Yuefu guarded the courtyard around the house, leaving only Liang Gang and Yun Niang in the house.

"Last night, there were five groups of people, three of which were extremely difficult to deal with, and there were several masters mixed in them, but it took me a lot of effort, so that I stayed awake all night and was sleepy!" Liang Gang looked at the increasingly sparse snow outside the door and sighed.

Yun Niang was still mourning for the murder of the third sister, and after hearing the words, she left her seat and said lightly: "Those three groups of people must be people sent by Yang Ji, if they catch the third sister's parents and Lu'er, they will definitely kill them." The other two groups of people are different, they must have been sent by Jinyun Pavilion if they retreated after encountering obstacles, and the people of Jinyun Pavilion obviously did not dare to make a big deal about it. ”

Liang Gang shook his head blankly, "I'm a little confused, another group of people came in the morning, and they actually claimed to be sent by Yang Ji, and asked Tang Ji and them to hand over people to Yang Mansion, this is too blatant!" ”

"It's not surprising, they thought that the plainclothes guards of Yuefu were from Jinyun Pavilion, so they dared to ask for someone. Although His Royal Highness King Yue is young, he is thoughtful. Yun Niang gritted her teeth and said: "This time, His Highness will definitely be able to avenge the third sister!" ”

"I heard that Yang Ji is almost fifty years old, and now Lord Yang Shiqi is a grandfather at home, and Yang Ji is an old man, and they are all full of children and grandchildren, what kind of evil is there in the capital?"

At this time, several people outside the main gate walked towards Tang Ji and others, Tang Ji took heavy steps, approached the person quickly, stretched out his hand to stop it, and shouted in a deep voice: "Who is coming!" ”

The person who came hurriedly stopped quite fearfully, and first a thin monkey had a blue and purple face, squeezed his eyebrows and wanted to put out a smile, probably involving a certain injured facial nerve, and suddenly grinned, with a bitter face, "Wait, we are Lord Yang's subordinates, and we came to ask for someone on the order of Lord Yang." ”

Tang Ji pursed his lips disdainfully, "Master Yang, you mean the eldest son of the Yang Yuanfu family, right?" If you dare to use the banner of Master Yang, believe it or not, I will crush all the bones in your body! What a suave person Master Yang is, how can there be subordinates like you who are not human beings and ghosts! ”

"Isn't that what you guys beat?" The thin monkey said aggrievedly, and then took out a piece of paper, "Look, there is Master Yang's handwriting." ”

"Master, I beat someone in the morning, it turns out that it was you who hit you!" Tang Ji snatched the note, tore it up and threw it on the ground, "We only know the dignity of Master Yang, how have you ever seen any handwriting?" In these years, anyone dares to play the banner of Master Yang, and even dares to forge handwriting, which is really bold! Tang Ji pushed the thin monkey violently, "Go, go!" If you dare to talk nonsense again, be careful that we will abolish you! ”

The thin monkey sat on the ground with his buttocks, and when he got up, he fell a few times in the snow, and finally stood firm, but he didn't dare to make a temperament, "What are you doing to protect this family!" ”

"Protect this family?" Tang Ji shook his head, "A fool like you is really rare in the world!" Listen, there is a woman in this family who is our person, she absconded without permission, and she is missing, we have to take her family hostage, and I have no patience to wait for a long time, if she doesn't show up again, when the carriage arrives, we will take her family away, and then you will make trouble! Hey, could it be that you covet the beauty of other girls, so you want to rob people? Brothers, go on, beat up these bastards! ”

The thin monkey fled with his entourage, and on the way, he looked back and danced wildly and said viciously: "You wait!" What kind of thing are the people of Jinyun Pavilion! As soon as Master Yang arrives in a while, it's too late for you to beg grandpa to sue grandma! ”

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In front of the gate of Baiyun Temple, Zhu Qiming was dressed in a prince's crown robe, and under the escort of Xu Gong, who was dressed in casual clothes, he slowly walked down the steps, and Zhang Tianshi personally led a group of Taoists to say goodbye with Taoist etiquette.

After descending the steps, Zhu Qiming looked back and bowed his hand, and then boarded the carriage. Xu Gong drove in person, and with a sound of "driving", the carriage started, and nearly 100 guards guarded both sides of the carriage and trotted neatly.

Zhu Qiming was wearing soft armor close to his body, feeling very uncomfortable, moving his arms, shaking his head, and raising his eyes to look at the wall of the carriage. After seeing the rear, left and right sides are equipped with iron plates, behind the front curtain, there are two iron plates, the left iron plate is open, attached to the canopy wall, as long as he raises his hand to push, the iron plate will also be closed, so that the carriage is iron armor on all sides, which can be described as invulnerable.

However, there is no need to close the iron plate at this moment.

Through the gap in the curtain of the carriage, Zhu Qiming couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he saw that Xu Gong was skillfully driving the carriage, and his skills were no different from the Yuefu coachman who had just been taken away.

"Since His Highness returned to Beijing, Beijing has been very calm, and no one has ever wanted to be unfavorable to His Highness, which is incomprehensible." Xu thinks that his driving skills are good, Xu Gong's tone is full of pride.

After returning to Beijing, he went in and out safely every day, and of course Zhu Qiming knew the reason for it. I think that when I was hunted down and killed in the north, the mastermind behind the scenes must have taken advantage of the Empress Dowager's delirium, secretly left the domain, and hid in the suburbs of Beijing to command, as soon as the Empress Dowager woke up, how could he stay in the suburbs of Beijing? The killer he met on the way into Beijing may be the last group of dead soldiers left by that person, and after being exterminated, Beijing will be at peace from now on!

And the other force is the Warat people, their goal has been achieved, control the Tatar tribes, I am afraid that they will not be overjoyed, they will no longer be interested in their own prince, the Ming Dynasty does not do things in advance, the Warat people are happy to pretend to be confused, how dare they make trouble!

However, Zhu Qiming doesn't want to go through these old accounts yet. "Xu Qianhu, it's important to do business, don't be distracted."

"Yes, Your Highness. In the next year, Yang Ji had been secretly investigated, if he wanted to go out, he had to go through his father's nod, if Yang Yuanfu was not in Beijing, he would order someone to ask Lord Yang Rong, now that the two Yang are in Beijing, Yang Ji may not show up. ”

When it comes to the Son of Heaven, Zhu Qiming is inconvenient to explain to people thoroughly, so he can only flicker his words, "The assistant minister is very diligent, and he can't always take care of his family, if no one takes care of him, Yang Ji is a rotten person, what arrogant things can't be done?" ”

Xu Gong wanted to say something, but saw a plainclothes guard in front of him galloping on his horse, and immediately pulled over to the side.

The guard turned over and dismounted, trotted to the side of the car and said, "Your Highness, Yang Ji has gone out in the carriage and is rushing to Xizhimen, and it will take about a stick of incense to get out of Xizhimen." ”

"You go to Ni Niang's house quickly, and tell Commander Liang to wait for the chaos outside, and ask him to lead people to leave in chaos, and no one is allowed to be left behind."

"Yes!" The guard turned and mounted his horse and rode away.

"Xu Qianhu, you are stepping on the hour to hurry, the speed must be just right." Zhu Qiming commanded.

"Your Highness, aren't you embarrassed? Let's do our best. Xu Gong sighed, "Huh." Your Highness, Liang Gang is a familiar face in Beijing, and he can't show his face. ”

Isn't there still Tang Ji to do the thing of showing his face? Zhu Qiming didn't say anything, and calmly reached out and closed the iron plate.

After a stick of incense, Zhu Qiming's carriage arrived in front of Ni Niang's house, and through the gap in the curtain, he saw a team of people coming from afar.

Yang Ji! Zhu Qiming was secretly happy in his heart, and suddenly heard someone standing next to a cauldron on the other side of South Street shouting: "Soup porridge!" ”

On the other side of North Street, countless men, women, and children who fled the famine were gathering in several abandoned wooden sheds, swarming out when they heard the sound, squeezing a way between Zhu Qiming's carriage and the guards.

Needless to say, everything was planned by Yun Niang!

The guards seemed to be trying to avoid the flow of people, retreating again and again, and pulled a long distance from the carriage, and the horse seemed to be frightened, and in Xu Gong's panicked shout, the carriage drove through the side door into the backyard of Ni Niang's house.

When the carriage drove out of the backyard again, Tang Ji and others who were guarding the main gate followed, and hundreds of people in front blocked the way of the carriage, a man about fifty years old stood on a high place, the thin monkey hurriedly ran over, pointed at Tang Ji and said: "It's that tower-like guy, who has been embarrassed again and again, presumably the woman's family is in this carriage." ”

An old man next to him bowed down and said, "Master, the little one sent someone to investigate around, but I don't know where the master went, and I can't find Lord Yang Rong, you better hurry home, the master has orders!" ”

Yang Ji glared at the old man fiercely, "Shut up!" Jinyun Pavilion and a bunch of miscellaneous people don't take the Yang family in their eyes, how can Lao Tzu swallow this anger! It's just right that I can't find the master, Lao Tzu is in charge of himself, look at the whole capital, and see who dares to embarrass Lao Tzu! ”

Zhu Qiming saw a brocade-clothed man standing high in front of him through the gap in the car curtain, and thought that this person must be Yang Ji! I saw that there was nothing special about his figure, he was tall, short, fat and thin, his face was dark, and his eyes were swollen.

The carriage passed by a mother and daughter, and the laughter of the two came clearly, and an inexplicable sense of auspiciousness lingered in his mind, and Zhu Qiming suddenly felt his heart tighten.

Suddenly, Yang Ji's neck was raised, and he saw more than ten figures flashing, revealing more than a dozen bright flying knives. Xu Gong jumped out of the carriage as fast as lightning and avoided the side.

Thinking that Yang Ji's subordinates did not dare to openly use swords and other weapons in the capital, they could only hurt people with flying knives, but the carriage they were riding in was protected by iron armor, how could you hurt the king in the slightest!

Flying? Flying! Zhu Qiming's mind was racing, and a storyline suddenly floated in his mind, it came from Wang Kui's mouth, one day many years ago, a mother died under a flying knife, leaving a young girl to cry and wail.

Could it be that the same tragedy will be staged again at this moment?

Zhu Qiming quickly opened the iron plate, lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage, and ran towards the mother and daughter.

But when I heard the sound of breaking through the air, I looked back, and there was really a flying knife that deviated from the target and flew towards the place where the mother and daughter were standing!

Zhu Qiming had no weapons, but he had soft armor wrapped around his arms, so he swung his arms and struck at the flying knife. The throwing knife whirled around and grazed his wrist to the other side, he frowned slightly, and the strange feeling of a sharp weapon cutting through his skin swept through his heart.

A moment later, red blood trickled down his wrist.