Chapter 165: Breaking into the Post House at Night
"Go to Wu Yingxiong for forty-two chapters? How to change? What does he want poison for? Shuang'er looked at Ling Muyun with a puzzled expression, but then came to his senses: "Could it be, young master, are you going to feed him poison?" ”
Ling Muyun smiled and nodded: "Shuang'er is so smart, she deserves to be my maid of the young master." ”
"Young Master, do you mean that Wu Yingxiong has forty-two chapters in his hand?" Lu Gaoxuan asked with a surprised face, out of prudence, Ling Muyun did not tell Lu Gaoxuan the whereabouts of the eight forty-two chapters, and only told the whereabouts of which one to take.
"Wu Yingxiong naturally doesn't have forty-two chapters of scriptures, but his son Wu Sangui does, I want him, a son, to take a scripture from Lao Tzu's hand, it shouldn't be difficult."
"What does the young master mean to feed poison to Wu Yingxiong and coerce him to go and get scriptures for the young master?"
"That's right, that's why I asked Lao Lu if you have a latent poison, from here to Yunnan, if you hurry up, a month and a half is enough to run back and forth, your Blood Rotten Bone Pill will take three months to attack, and the time is enough for Wu Yingxiong to finish the matter." If he can't get the scriptures within three months, then he is looking for death, and it's no wonder that we can't do it. ”
Lu Gaoxuan said puzzledly: "Young Master, aren't these forty-two chapters a Manchu thing, how could they fall into Wu Sangui's hands?" ”
"At that time, the banner owner of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Wu Sangui conquered Yunnan together, but the banner owner died in Yunnan, and the forty-two chapters of the Zhenglan Banner that were originally in charge of him also fell into the hands of Wu Sangui."
"I see."
"Originally, I wanted to go to Yunnan in person, but it happened that this Wu Yingxiong sent it to the door by himself, so I couldn't afford to go to Yunnan in person to take risks, wouldn't it be more convenient and simple to let this Wu Yingxiong help me get it?"
Lu Gaoxuan said: "The young master has lofty wisdom, and his subordinates admire him. ”
Ling Muyun laughed and said, "Old Lu, I'm not the sect leader, you don't need to pat me on the back." ”
Lu Gaoxuan's face was not red or panting: "The young master misunderstood, this is all the words of his subordinates, not intended flattery." ”
"But young master, Wu Yingxiong is protected by a large number of officers and soldiers, is it too dangerous for you to do this?" Shuang'er said with a little worry.
"Hahaha, Shuang'er, don't worry, don't you know what I'm capable of, young master? His guards and horses are nothing but chickens and dogs in my eyes, how can they hurt me? ”
…… The next morning, everyone left the inn and went on the road together. In order to facilitate the journey, Ling Muyun and the others sold the carriage at a cheap price, bought three horses in the town, and rode together with the people of Muwangfu.
Because of following Wu Yingxiong, the people in Mu Wangfu were not fast, they were all slow to believe in horses, after all, Wu Yingxiong brought a large amount of property into Beijing this time, and a large number of soldiers accompanied the guards, and the number of people was large, and the speed was naturally not fast. And Mu Wangfu, as a person who tracks, naturally has to follow Wu Yingxiong's speed, otherwise he will soon be able to catch up with the other party, so what is the tracking? The reason why they walked faster yesterday was because they ran into several roadblocks in a row and delayed time, so they chased after them quickly.
It's just that Mu Wangfu walked so slowly, but Ling Muyun and the others were a little impatient, and Ling Muyun had other ideas in his heart, so he said goodbye to everyone in Mu Wangfu on the grounds that he was in a hurry to return to the capital, and then led Shuang'er and Lu Gaoxuan to gallop towards the front.
Throwing off the people in Muwangfu, Ling Muyun and his party of three walked all the way, and bumped into a roadcard on the road, but fortunately, in order to avoid trouble, Shuang'er changed into men's clothes early and did a simple disguise, so outsiders seemed to be three men, which did not match the two men and one woman wanted, so they let Ling Muyun and the three of them fool around, but nothing happened.
After traveling dozens of miles, I suddenly saw a large group of people and horses on the official road in front of me, among which there were more than a dozen big cars, one of which was extremely luxurious with a carriage, and the rest of the carriages were all wagons without carriages, each car was loaded with a large box, judging from the depth of the ruts, the boxes pulled on the car were extremely heavy, and it was estimated that they were all gold and silver goods and other things. On the periphery of the convoy, there were a large number of officers and soldiers, roughly two or three hundred, most of them on foot, and only twenty or thirty horsemen guarded around the luxurious carriage, apparently protecting the safety of the people in the car.
Seeing this scene, Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan glanced at each other, knowing that this was probably Wu Yingxiong and his party who had entered Beijing to meet him. Wu Yingxiong must have been in that luxurious carriage, and the remaining dozen or so carts were probably the gold and silver treasures that Wu Yingxiong brought to Beijing to bribe the officials of the DPRK and China.
Lu Gaoxuan asked, "Young Master, what should I do?" Shall we do it? ”
Ling Muyun shook his head: "Don't worry, let's go to the town in front of us and wait first, and after they settle down, it's not too late for us to do it." ”
At that moment, the three of them galloped and quickly caught up with Wu Yingxiong's convoy, but the three of them did not slow down at all, but just glanced at the convoy when they passed by, and then crossed the team and continued to gallop forward.
After surpassing Wu Yingxiong's convoy, Ling Muyun and the three of them galloped for more than ten miles and saw a town in front of them. Ling Muyun looked up at the sky, only to see that at this time, his head was already slanting westward, and it was not long before he went down the mountain, with Wu Yingxiong's speed, it was estimated that it would be dark when he arrived here, and it was impossible to continue his journey, so he would definitely have to stay in this town.
Thinking of this, Ling Muyun and the three of them rode into the town, casually found an inn closest to the post house to stay, had dinner, and then waited for Wu Yingxiong and them to arrive.
According to the rules of the imperial court, officials travel to stay in the inn, although there are also cases of greedy enjoyment of not staying in the inn, but Wu Yingxiong is definitely not among them, he is the prince of Pingxi, this time on behalf of Wu Sangui into the pilgrimage to see, the whole dynasty is not only how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, he will definitely not blatantly violate the rules of the court to give people a handle. Besides, there were hundreds of people with him on this trip, and the inn in the town simply couldn't accommodate so many people......
Sure enough, when it was about to get dark, the streets of the town were noisy, and Wu Yingxiong's brigade entered the town, and then went straight to the post house and settled down in the post house.
At midnight, Ling Muyun left Shuang'er in the inn to guard, while he and Lu Gaoxuan changed into night clothes, covered their faces with black gauze, and quietly slipped out of the inn and hurried towards the direction of the inn.
The two of them walked along the eaves and walls, and soon came to the door of the post house. Seeing that there were soldiers guarding the door of the post house, Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan naturally would not be stupid enough to break through the gate, but turned to the back wall of the post house, and after listening to the fact that there was no movement inside, Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan immediately crossed the wall and entered.
Entering the post house, Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan found that the post house was quite strictly guarded, with three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and several teams of guards patrolling. Ling Muyun couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, this Wu Yingxiong's vigilance was high enough, and so many guards were arranged to stay in the post house.
Ling Muyun didn't know that this was actually due to the people of Mu Wangfu. When Wu Yingxiong's guards first came out of Yunnan, they were not so strict, but the attack of Mu Wangfu on the road was launched when they were staying in the post house, because the garrison was not very strict, and they were killed by the people of Mu Wangfu all the way to the room where Wu Yingxiong lived, and almost rushed into Wu Yingxiong's bedroom. Since then, Wu Yingxiong no longer dared to be careless when staying at the inn, and arranged a large number of guards every time to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
The vigilance and guard force arranged by Wu Yingxiong is not strong, and it is enough to deal with ordinary martial arts people, but what are Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan? Even Lu Gaoxuan, who is relatively weak in martial arts, can be ranked among the first-class masters on the rivers and lakes, let alone Ling Muyun. With the martial arts of the two of them, the guard force arranged by Wu Yingxiong could only make them feel a little troublesome, but it was not enough to stump the two.
Because the scale of the post house is not large, and the layout is simple and clear, you don't have to guess to know that Wu Yingxiong must live in the innermost courtyard of the post house, because it is the master bedroom, and the guards are more strict, except for Wu Yingxiong, who is the master, no one dares to live. In this way, it saves the trouble of searching and saving people from being arrested and questioned.
As soon as they approached the courtyard, Ling Muyun felt that there were seven or eight quite weak breaths hidden in the courtyard, guarding the room where Wu Yingxiong lived, there were people lurking in front of the house and behind the house, there was no dead angle at all, unless he could fly to the sky, it was impossible to sneak into Wu Yingxiong's bedroom unnoticed.
Lu Gaoxuan obviously also noticed this, and lowered his voice and asked Ling Muyun, "Young Master, what should we do?" ”
"Since it's impossible to sneak in, then the surname Suo will break in openly."
At that moment, the two of them appeared from the shadow in the corner of the wall where they were hiding, their bodies moved, and they jumped in front of the courtyard wall, and then rose up, flying over the courtyard wall like two big birds, and fell into the courtyard where Wu Yingxiong lived.
"What people!"
Several shouts sounded in the courtyard almost at the same time, and then two figures burst out from the corner of the courtyard, like two fierce tigers, rushing towards Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan.
Ling Muyun and Lu Gaoxuan tacitly greeted each other, Ling Muyun greeted the person who came, and directly repented of the dragon in the eighteen palms of the dragon with one move, at this time, the emphasis was on a quick battle, and Ling Muyun naturally picked up a powerful trick.
(To be continued)