The watchman was the first to find two corpses in the deep alley, and when the on-site investigation of the arrest quickly found that lying on the ground was the deputy commander of the Jingfang house, Wang Chang'an, and the guards of the Imperial City Division, it rose from an ordinary criminal case to the height of political conspiracy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The scene was full of messes, Wang Changan, who was sitting on the white wall, his eyes widened before he died, his neck was cut in half by a sharp blade, and the blood splashed out of his department and then a white wall behind him. There was another Imperial City Division guard who fell to the ground, his chest was almost shattered, and a sharp wooden stick passed through his throat, and he died of exhaustion.

Seeing the tragic crime scene, Zhong Zhutou subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife, he squatted down, noticed that there were some darker things at the tip of the wooden stick, and sniffed his nose when he got closer, and immediately changed his face and took a few steps back.

"This ...... It's feces ......"

Observing the bloody chest of the corpse up close, and finding something unusual on it, Zhong Zhutou stepped forward, pulled out one of the iron pieces embedded in the flesh, sniffed it closely, and immediately frowned.

The smell of rotten eggs is sulfur.

"No, it's not at all. The dead Lord Wang and the Imperial City Division, as well as several other people who fell a few alleys away, were two groups of people's hands. ”

Deputy Catcher Xu, who was standing on the side, frowned after listening to what his head said, and also confirmed his conjecture, "You mean, the people who died here last night were killed by two groups of people?" ”

"I guess it should be, even the methods are completely different, one is decisive, the other is ......rusty," Zhong Zhutou paused, "He laid an ambush here, the sulfur gunpowder was hidden under the grass, and when Lord Wang's carriage came, he didn't know how to detonate the gunpowder, you see, the wound inserted in the corpse of the Imperial City Division was caused by those flying iron pieces." ”

Directly opposite the corpse was the ground that had turned black to ashes from the explosion, and the dead grass that had not been burned was rolled in the wind.

"In order to ensure that the Imperial City Division was dead, he stabbed him in the throat with a sharp wooden stick stained with feces, and stabbed him three times in the right side of the waist for fear that it would not be safe." Zhong Zhutou paused, feeling frightened for no reason, "I'm afraid that after killing the guards of the Imperial City Division, he turned his head to kill Wang Chang'an, and it was not a fatal way to die, he first stabbed him in the thigh, and then slashed down at the collarbone, this method is more like ......"

Deputy Xu pouted his lips and said, "Coerce a confession." ”

"Yes." Zhong Zhutou stood up and looked at the bloody corpse of the Imperial City Division, feeling a little pity for what happened to him, "Although I don't know what the confession is, it has a lot to do with what happened in the palace last night." In addition to the four people who died in the Imperial City Division, there were also two corpses dressed as assassins who did not correspond to their identities, and judging from the wounds, they were the hands of the three Imperial City Divisions who died. But what I care about most is the person who killed Lord Wang, he is even more terrifying than killing the three masters of the Imperial City Division. ”

Zhong Zhutou sighed and said with annoyance, "The murderer is too cruel...... And he doesn't know martial arts, if it weren't for the trap, maybe an Imperial City Division could easily understand him. However, with a careful plan, he intercepted and killed the important members of the privy envoy, which was a political conspiracy, maybe it was the enemy of Lord Wang, and it was more likely to be related to the incident in the palace...... I've never seen a few scholars have this kind of murderous power. ”

Xu Zhutou shook his head, "I've never seen it either." ”

Squatting on the ground to inspect Wang Changan's corpse, he found that there seemed to be a piece of paper in the corpse's mouth, he broke his purple lips with his left hand, and then stuffed two fingers into it, and he turned around and shouted to his head, "Head, this corpse still has something in its mouth." ”

Zhong Zhutou rushed to hear the news, rolled up the paper that had been stuffed into his mouth in a hurry, and after reading the words on it that were still stained with coagulated blood, the corners of his mouth twitched.

This is a letter of conspiracy with the prime minister to punish the eunuchs, and Zhong Zhutou confirms his inference, and sure enough, everything that happened last night is related to the coup plot.

"Looks like we're going to have to re-investigate?" Deputy Xu asked tentatively.

"No, hand over the letter, and the rest will be left to us. Lao Xu, we must not get too deep into this matter...... It's going to die. It's better not to ask about those adult things, and I'm afraid I'll end up like this if I investigate it again. ”

Zhong Zhutou glanced back at the Imperial City Division, and remembered that there was such a ruthless character in Bianliang City, and he felt like a man's back. In his mind, he fantasized about the back of a powerful middle-aged man, unable to see the outline of his face clearly, but with a grim smile.

A day later, after the second brother's Chu Qiu's dredging and repairing the relationship, Chen Anzhi finally felt like an amnesty, and hurriedly prepared a carriage to send his son out of the city gate and temporarily leave the land of right and wrong.

"Li Lanting in Hangzhou is a close friend of your father, and he is also a powerful person in Hangzhou. This time, your father specially wrote a letter to ask someone to send it, asking you to go to the Li family's mansion to hide for two or three years, and then return to Beijing after the court is calm. When the time comes, he will naturally help you arrange other routes. Second Uncle Chu Qiu slightly modified the list you brought back yesterday, removed the name of our Chen family, and then dedicated it to Huang Shiliang of Mink Temple. Hehe, after today, our Chen family will rise to prominence in the temple. ”

Chen Zhongqing took his eyes back from the carriage window, and after listening to his uncle's words, he looked at the middle-aged man with a sinking face, and smiled, the lives of more than 30 people were exchanged for him, and the Chen family was on the rise, which was very realistic.

The sound of footsteps in the alleyway last night made everyone in the Chen Mansion tremble, and the doctor of the Guozijian on the opposite side, Lord Song Fu, participated in the coup d'état of the eunuchs and died outside the Zichen Palace, and his family also ushered in the nightmare of beheading the door today.

Only the doors of Chen's house were closed, because they had a meritorious role in the coup d'état and escaped death.

At the gate of the mansion diagonally opposite, the Imperial City Division holding a wild goose feather was on guard outside, everyone's face was sinking like water, and the unarmed servants and women and children were frantically venting their anger. Covered in blood, the Imperial City Commander walked into the door of the Song Mansion Mansion from another house, he wiped the blood stains on his face, and showed a hideous expression to the Imperial City Division guards who were slashing inside, shouting, "Kill me all, no one is missing!" ”

Four of them died, so they took the families in the alley to test the knife.

The sound of the sword clattering bones, the sound of heads rolling on the ground, the clanging of some of the servants at the sound of the door. He seemed to see countless sharp geese cutting through the chests of those people, and saw the severed heads being thrown aside, and he didn't blink to death.

Blood flowed out from under the door of the Song Mansion, bright red and sticky.

Chen Zhongqing sat on the steps of the main hall, staring at the closed door, not saying a word.

No one knew what the little master sitting on the bluestone steps was thinking.

They would never have known that if it weren't for the little young master's decisiveness last night, the Chen family's ending tonight would be the same as that of Dr. Song Mansion.

Bianliang has gradually calmed down after a night of firecrackers, and has resumed the hustle and bustle of the hundred-mile market in the past, and the crowd of people in the eight streets and nine mos is endless, it seems that the blood in the palace yesterday has not affected the prosperity of the capital, except for the nervous Imperial City Division patrolling back and forth, occasionally people will look at this swaggering carriage through the city.

The third uncle, Chen Yiwen, thought that his nephew was still worried about the revelation of what happened the day before yesterday, and said with relief, "Don't worry, the customs clearance document in our hands was issued by the Privy Council personally, and no one who is not long-eyed Imperial City Captain dares to do it." I heard that Xu Zhongliang, the Praetorian Guard stationed there, also entered Beijing to escort him. said that it was an escort, but I am afraid it was more to keep their status as eunuchs. After leaving Bianliang and taking the waterway, everything has to rely on you after you go to Hangzhou. ”

Compared with Chen Zhongqing's eldest brother who was released as an official, Chen Yiwen is more concerned about his little nephew. He has the heart and courage to do things that others dare not do.

Chen Zhongqing suddenly said, "Lao Jia, take a detour." I'd like to go to the noon gate to have a look. ”

A familiar hoarse voice sounded outside the door curtain, "Okay, young master." ”

The third uncle frowned, and said dissatisfiedly, "What's so good about killing." ”

He took off the jade pendant hanging from his waist and put it in his hand, his expression calm, "See the last side of the old man." ”

Compared with the previous coldness, the noisy noon gate has become crowded. The prisoner car escorted the prisoner out of the prison in Kaifeng Mansion and rushed to the court in an endless stream.

There are women and children crying and shouting, old people chattering, and officials in the court who are scolding and swearing.

These are all poor worms who have been implicated in failure, Huang Shiliang of Mink Temple showed his cruel means of cutting grass and eradicating the roots at this time, they are not guilty, they are just victims of this coup d'état.

Chen Zhongqing saw several familiar faces in his memory, those were childhood playmates, because of the fathers' fall in the temple, disaster befell them.

Sigh softly.

The third uncle sighed with some scholarly feelings, "It's a pity, the eunuch Qingjun was originally punished, and the head of the eunuchs who swept away the regent, the imperial court could vigorously rectify it, and the whole country could concentrate on the Northern Liao ......."

With a snort, Chen Zhongqing smiled.

"Plotting to punish the eunuchs, the Qing monarch's side? Hehe, without the Sable Temple, the Southern Jin Dynasty can stop the 100,000 iron horsemen of the Northern Liao? Scholars misled the country, they thought that without the eunuchs, the Southern Jin Dynasty would be able to live forever, but they didn't want to open their eyes to see, the millions of territories in the Northern Liao, they finished the Yan family, and a pair of greedy eyes were staring at the great rivers and mountains of our Southern Jin Dynasty! ”

The third uncle was dissatisfied with his nephew's "deviant" remarks, and retorted, "My generation of scholars, after all, must have a backbone, eunuchs are arbitrary, traitors are in charge, and someone always needs to stand up, stand in place, not retreat, and do not give in." ”

Chen Zhongqing pinched Peiyu in his hand and played with it, and when he heard the words of the third uncle, he raised his head and asked mockingly, "There is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, is there a good person in this court?" I can't see the situation clearly, and they are not unjust at all. I said that these scholars, surrounded by external troubles, still want to take down the backbone of the temple, but they don't have the slightest good strategy to govern the country and the people, they shouldn't be killed, who should be killed? ”

Chen Yiwen was stunned.

Chen Zhongqing slowly lowered the roller shutter and didn't look at the bloody scene outside the car window.

The third uncle, who was sitting diagonally opposite, also closed his eyes and said no more.

A curtain of cars cut off the scene between him and the execution ground of Wu Chaomen, and also isolated the desperate eyes of the kneeling prisoners.

"The hour has come."

There was no emotion in the tone of the prison officer, and hundreds of lives fell to the ground in the next moment.

"Chop."

With a wave of the butcher's knife, the head rolled.

In the third year of the Dao, Ding You, Shangshu Zuo Servant shot Han Wenyan, and the subordinate Lang Lu Gongming and Jin Wenzong conspired to punish the eunuchs, and the matter was defeated, and the prime minister Li Dangxian was exterminated by the same generation, and the follow-up of the matter was very widespread, and the Qingliu Party headed by the civil official was bloody, and more than 1,000 people were executed for implication afterwards.

Only Chen An, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was lucky enough to escape the disaster.

On this day, blood stained the Bianliang River red.