Chapter Twenty-Three: Out of the City
The Emperor of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival can really be said to be crowded with people. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Mengdie and Huiqin originally planned to dress up, but Liu Xiang said that it was not necessary, anyway, they were ready to kill it, and it made no difference whether they were disguised or not.
Not only did the three of them not have any concealment, but each rode a tall horse and walked in the streets in a big way. Huiqin and Xuanjing were scared in their hearts, and they lowered their heads and rode their horses away, for fear of being recognized by the patrolling Jin Wuwei and the Shenji Battalion. Liu Xiang didn't care at all, but was like a naughty boy, looking at this and being curious, looking at that and liking it, and delaying a lot of time.
The group prepared to leave the city through the west gate, because Yequan was on the west side of the emperor. Huiqin felt that the other party should be able to guess that his group was preparing to flee in the direction of Yequan, so the defense of the west gate should be the most strict, so it was better to escape from the east gate instead, and then take a detour to the west after leaving the city. But Liu Xiang said that he was too old to stand the fatigue of the car and horses, so he was too lazy to take a detour, and insisted on going out from the west gate, but Huiqin couldn't, so he had to obey.
The three of them were walking down the street on horseback, when they were confronted by a pair of soldiers dressed in the armor of the Golden Guard. Xuanjing and Huiqin were both shocked, and hurriedly covered their faces with their sleeves and dropped the horse's head to prepare to avoid it, so as not to be recognized by people on the street.
Who knew that Liu Xiang didn't care at all, and immediately stood on the street with a big thorn, not even meaning to make way for Jin Wuwei.
The current commander of Jin Wuwei saw a white-bearded old man in front of him on the street and immediately blocked the way of his group, and he couldn't help but be angry.
The commander raised his horsewhip and scolded: "The old donkey who doesn't have long eyes, when he sees the military master, he doesn't hurry away!" The whip was about to be drawn, but he felt a chill rising from his back, and he couldn't help but pause in his hand.
Liu Xiang didn't say a word, just looked at the commander coldly, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.
The commander suddenly felt that his legs and stomach began to twist involuntarily, and his whole body trembled, and he did not dare to look or move his hands, as if the old man riding a horse in front of him was some kind of fierce beast. I just hope that I can quickly avoid bypassing, as for Jin Wuwei's face, do my own.
It's just that the horse under his crotch seems to be intimidated by the old man, no matter how hard he secretly arches his crotch, the horse actually stands motionless on the ground. This is an unprecedented scene, the horses that Jin Wuwei is equipped with are all high-grade war horses, and they are all purchased from the wasteland at a high price. Compared with the war horses of the Jin Kingdom, they are much taller and more powerful, with good feet and majestic legs, which can best decorate the façade of the country.
Liu Xiang looked at this commander, smiled coldly, waved at him, and motioned for the other party to get out. The commander suddenly felt relieved, the official clothes on his body were soaked with cold sweat, where did he care about inquiring about the identity of the other party, just hoping to get as far away from the demon king in front of him as possible. waved his subordinates to follow, and the group quickly bypassed Liu Xiang and galloped away, causing a wave of dissatisfaction among the pedestrians on the road.
Xuan Jing and Huiqin watched this scene from the sidelines, and their hearts were shocked. Both of them knew that Emperor Jin Wuwei was the emperor's face, and the selection of sergeants was one out of ten thousand, but they didn't expect that in front of Liu Xiang, they were so frightened that they almost lost their pants without saying a word.
Huiqin is a descendant of the Xi people, and he can control Fuxiqin, so he naturally knows all kinds of methods to control people's hearts. It's just that the senior in front of him is too shocking, he doesn't use any secret techniques, and he doesn't need to use tools such as Fu Xiqin, just with the momentum of cultivating and killing people in peace, he can snatch the other party's mind, if he didn't see it with his own eyes today, it would be unbelievable.
Xuanjing saw that Liu Xiang's envoy was a kung fu on the heart-burning technique, and Liu Xiang's grandfather taught him when he was at the bottom of the lake. It's just that although I heard some mantras such as controlling qi with the heart and seizing people's souls at that time, I just thought that there were many exaggerations in the mantras of the heart. Seeing Liu Xiang so majestic today, I knew that what the mantra said was true, and I seemed to have a new understanding of the wonderful use of all kinds of mental methods in the heart-burning formula.
Liu Xiang looked at the two and smiled slightly, beckoned, and motioned for the two to follow. Xuan Jing and Huiqin hurriedly stepped forward and followed Liu Xiang all the way to the west gate.
The group arrived at the west gate of Diji in a blink of an eye, and Xuan Jing looked up and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a deputy general of Jin Wuwei standing at the gate of the city. Xuan Jing didn't look at it, but when he saw it, a wave of anger suddenly rose in his heart, this person was none other than the housekeeper of Prince Cheng's Mansion - Yu Cheng!
Yu Cheng's real name is Hattori Bancheng, he is a son of the Hattori family of Dongyi Kingdom, and when he was a teenager, he came to the Jin Kingdom on the order of the head of the family, Hattori Hanzo, and after all these years of lurking, it is nothing more than trying to disrupt the situation and make Dongyi Kingdom profitable in the Central Plains.
Yu Cheng has been from an ordinary soldier to the deputy general next to Xuanbu, and he abandoned his bright future and was willing to be a small housekeeper in Prince Cheng's mansion, which shows the depth of his scheming. Later, when Prince Kang united with Dongyi Kingdom to form a prince, the letters about the exchanges between Xuanbu and Li Yuantang were all concocted by Cheng Cheng, which can be described as a serious crime and must be punished!
It's just that the other party in front of him is the deputy general Jin Wuwei with a heavy army, and he is a wanted criminal in the imperial court, don't say that he killed Yu Chengcheng's father to take revenge, I'm afraid it's doubtful whether he can get out of this west city gate tonight.
Liu Xiang naturally saw Yu Cheng a long time ago, when he lived at the bottom of the lake in Prince Cheng's mansion, Yu Cheng personally sent his daily meals from the small hole in the secret room. There is another charge against Prince Kang, which is to build a secret room privately and take in repeat offenders.
However, Liu Xiang didn't care at all, beckoned Huiqin and Xuanjing to follow him, and the three of them swaggered towards the city gate......
Yu Wei thought about helping Prince Kang move down Xuanbu, and the head of the family, Hattori Hanzo, would be able to fulfill his promise and let himself return to Dongyi and fulfill his filial piety by his mother's side. Who knew that when the house was raided, Xuanjing was allowed to escape, and Long Kongshan and others were furious.
Hattori Hanzo also blew a little big in front of Longkong Mountain at the beginning, and now it feels really uncomfortable to slap in the face. Hattori Hanzo is the head of the family, and he is also the first favorite of His Majesty the Emperor and the head of the Dongyi ninja in the Dongyi country. This operation actually made a twelve-year-old child slip away under his nose, how can this breath be endured.
There is no way, Yu Cheng can only follow the bad luck. Instead of receiving the slightest reward for bringing down Genbu, he was beaten by Hattori Hanzo with family law. Not only did he return to the motherland and become a bubble, but he also served as a deputy general in Jin Wuwei to help King Kang monitor Xuan Xu's actions, which is really a recipe for stealing chickens and rice!
However, Yu Cheng felt very strange, although Xuan Jing was the prince's son, he was only a young child at most, could he care so much? A few days ago, King Kang strictly urged Jin Wuwei to pull out Xuanjing at all costs, even if he turned Emperor Ji upside down!
In the past few days, Yu Cheng couldn't sleep at night, patrolling the streets with Jin Wuwei's soldiers all day long, and several princes and nobles in the emperor who were usually friends with Xuanbu broke through in Chengdu with the emperor's gold medal, and turned over the homes of others, and didn't even see the shadow of Xuanjing.
Originally, Yu Cheng was a person who betrayed the old master, and he suffered a loss in faith. This time, he also pursued Xuanjing with great fanfare, which annoyed the ministers of Diji, and several powerful ministers were jointly impeaching Yu Cheng in the past few days, and the powerful officials were asking about Yu Cheng's birthday, and they were ready to make a little straw man to pierce Yu Cheng with a few stitches.
And Jin Wuwei's real general, King Mengwang Xuanxu, didn't care about the matter of chasing Xuanjing at all. Ming vigorously supports Yu Cheng, asks people to give money, asks for money, and lets anyone check whoever he wants, but no matter what, let Yu Cheng do it, but Xuan Xu himself is drinking in the house with his aunt and wife all day long, and his life can't be more comfortable.
A few days ago, King Kang summoned King Meng and reprimanded King Meng to his face for pursuing him to no avail. Who knew that King Meng was extremely slippery, saying that Liu Xiang's martial arts skills that took away Xuanjing were extremely high, even if the whole team of Jin Wuwei met them, I am afraid that they might not be able to arrest someone. And recently, Jin Wuwei has been looking for a child in Digi, and the impact is already not good, so it is better to ask Longkong Mountain and Hattori Hanzo to call in the rivers and lakes to help chase him, which can not only hide people's eyes and ears, but may also receive miraculous results.
Genno has recently been impeached by various parties, and Jin Wuwei and Shenji Battalion have been overwhelmed by the fact that they are unable to search the mansion of the commander at will. Thinking about it carefully, although what Xuan Xu said is suspected of passing the buck, it is not unreasonable. Immediately consulted with Long Kongshan and Hattori Hanzo, and asked them to mobilize their forces to help.
Long Kongshan was most concerned about Xuanjing's affairs, and immediately ordered his four disciples to rush to Diji to stand by. And Hattori Hanzo was bent on currying favor with Longkong Mountain, and he also flew pigeons to pass the book to Dongyi, so that the heads of the three families in the door each led their subordinates to help.
It wasn't Yu Cheng on duty tonight, but there were a lot of people watching the lanterns during the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and the Jingzhao Mansion Yin and Shenji Battalion and Jin Wuwei combined were all too short of troops. Yu Cheng was worried that Xuan Jing and the others would take advantage of the crowds to fish in troubled waters and escape from the city, so he took people to inspect the city, and it happened that the patrol came to the West City Gate, catching up with Xuan Jing and the others to go out of the city.
Yu Cheng watched the soldiers guarding the city check the identity documents of the pedestrians one by one and salute the carriages and horses, and suddenly felt that there was a fierce beast approaching behind him, and when he turned around, he met Liu Xiang's gaze!
Liu Xiang casually sat on the horse at this time, and had already arrived at the city gate, and he didn't even mean to get off the horse to be inspected, but stared at Yu Cheng with a big sting.
Yu Cheng's heart rose to his throat at this time, and the fugitive, who had been searching for more than a month, was standing swaggering in front of him at this time, which should have been a great opportunity to make meritorious service and ask for rewards. But who is this Liu Xiang! With a wave of the fifty-year-old sword, the tens of thousands of forbidden troops in the palace came and went freely, and even the Emperor Jin Wudi, the first emperor of the ages, who was scolding Fang Xuan by the waves, was killed by him, and there were only a dozen Jin Wuwei around him, and there were only a hundred soldiers guarding the city gate. If you start to do it, I'm afraid you really won't be able to go back to Dongyi in this life!