Chapter 27: Capture and Closure
The emperor got up and helped Mu Chenmo up: "As the son of the general who protects the country, I am very pleased, I will draft a decree and send someone to quickly arrest the people involved in the Gu drug case in the army." ”
Mu Chenmo got up and thought, Your Majesty, do you have any thoughts, you didn't let me inherit the title of protector general from the beginning, I was afraid that I would have the power of the army in my young heart, and I didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick to betray the monarch and commit treason.
It's also a title of a first-class general not to give, let me be a four-grade Dali Temple Shaoqing co-authored This is degraded, no wonder those ministers were a little gloating at the time.
Just when Mu Chenmo was pondering, the emperor drafted the holy decree and handed it to Mu Chenmo.
Mu Chenmo led the order out of the imperial study, and saw Qi Yu waiting outside.
Qi Yu stepped forward and snatched the holy decree in Mu Chenmo's hand, opened it and saw that it was indeed to arrest the Holy Maiden of Miaojiang and Sun Qide, and ordered to copy the Imperial History Mansion to search for secret letters of collaborating with the enemy.
Qi Yu looked at Mu Chenmo arrogantly: "I'll go to the Imperial History Mansion, and you will arrest the Holy Maiden of Miaojiang." ”
After speaking, he took the holy decree and coaxed people to Sun's mansion.
Mu Chenmo was afraid that Qi Yu would make too much noise and alarm the group of Miao Jiang Holy Maiden, so he ignored Qi Yu's careful thinking and rushed to the small courtyard where Miao Jiang Holy Maiden lived with another group of people.
When he came to the small courtyard, Mu Chenmo gestured to the guards behind him, and the guards scattered around.
Mu Chenmo stepped forward and knocked on the door in a three-long and two-short way, learning from the ghost hand Liu.
The door opened from the inside with a "squeak", and Mu Chenmo saw that it was actually a white-haired old woman.
"This son, who are you looking for?" The old woman asked, leaning over.
Mu Chenmo saw the inspiration and said to the old woman.
"I'm sent here to see if your old man is doing well, to help you do the heavy work, and you will let me do any dirty work."
Mu Chenmo smiled with a sunny face, pushed open the door, set up the old woman, and walked inside.
"Alas, in your later life, why did you enter someone else's house without anyone's permission." The old woman said tremblingly.
As soon as Mu Chenmo entered the courtyard, he looked around.
"Mother-in-law, what's wrong?" A young girl walked out and looked at Mu Chenmo and the old woman.
"This descendant said that he was sent by Li Zheng to work for our family." The old woman broke away from Mu Chenmo's hand and walked to the girl's side.
Mu Chenmo saw that it was indeed the Miao saintess she saw yesterday, but today she changed the costume of the Great Qi people.
"This son is grateful to Li Zheng for sending you over, but our family's work has been done, please go back." The girl blessed her body with Mu Chenmo.
Mu Chenmo knew that this woman was a master of using Gu, so she could only outwit her, not forcefully.
Mu Chenmo nodded a little stupidly: "It's okay, I don't disobey Lizheng's order, otherwise Lizheng won't let me eat when I go back." ”
Mu Chenmo suddenly rushed at the old woman and the girl, and sat on the ground and played a scoundrel.
The girl and the old woman glanced at each other, and they didn't dare to make a move if they didn't invite Mu Chenmo's bottom line.
Mu Chenmo sat on the ground and made trouble, but his mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about how to put it on the two people at once and not let them release poison.
Girl, as soon as you saw that someone was already looking inside the door, she stepped forward and bent down to pull Mu Chenmo up.
Mu Chenmo looked at the direction where the girl leaned over and clicked up, a carp straightened up and clicked on the old woman's acupuncture points, the two of them didn't react, one bent over and the other stood alone, they could only stare dryly and couldn't move.
Mu Chenmo waved his hand outside, and the people waiting outside rushed up and captured the two.
Mu Chenmo ordered someone to tie up the two, came to their house to search, and saw if he could find any clues with the four princes, and found nothing except poison and a few Miao costumes, so he took the two back to Dali Temple to restore their lives.
As soon as he returned to Dali Temple, Sicheng came over to inform Mu Chenmo to go to the main hall of Dali Temple.
Mu Chenmo saluted Lord He, sat down under Lord He and asked.
"Lord He, has Sun Qide confessed?"
Master He shook his head: "Two Miao Jiang women have been caught." ”
"Already in jail."
After Mu Chenmo answered, he looked down at the court, and Sun Qide kept shouting injustices and saying that he wanted to see the emperor.
Looking at Lord He, who was at a loss, Mu Chenmo suggested.
"Your Excellency, why don't you bring all the captured prisoners to the court and confront them."
Bringing all the people involved in the case to the court, Mu Chenmo found that Sun Qide's face was a little pale and his lips were a little trembling.
"Sun Qide! Don't you confess it now. Lord He said sharply.
I saw that the temple government put in front of Sun Qide one by one the secret letters, Gu poisons, property and other evidence involved in the case that were searched from Sun's mansion.
Sun Qide saw that the general trend had gone and confessed everything one by one.
After the Holy Maiden of Miao Jiang came to Daqi, she met Sun Qide through the ghost hand Liu and controlled Sun Qide with Gu poison, plotting to use Gu to mutilate the soldiers in the army to cause panic, and then spread rumors to shake the morale of Daqi's army.
Sun Qide found General Wang in the army, bribed some soldiers in the barracks through him, and smeared the soldiers' silver tickets with a potion of Gu worms.
In the dead of night, the ghost hand Liu released the Gu worm, which was supposed to break out in the middle of the night when the soldiers were sleeping seven days later, but for some reason it had an early attack in the afternoon, but it only killed the soldiers who were bought, and did not cause the soldiers in the entire military camp to be poisoned.
Mu Chenmo sat in the public hall and listened to Sun Qide's narration and thought, it seems that the grassless grassland in the upper reaches of the river is the place where the ghost hand Liu released Gu, and the person hiding in the tree should have urged the Gu worm attack in advance to cause the failure of this Gu poison plan.
After listening to Sun Qide's confession, Lord He ordered someone to take the ghost hand Liu to identify the scene and arrest General Wang.
As soon as Mu Chenmo entered the palace, he saw Qi Yu looking at him triumphantly and said.
"I've already arrested Sun Qide, did you catch that Liangmiaojiang woman?"
Mu Chenmo ignored it and went directly into the imperial study to give the emperor his life.
Qi Yu also rushed into the imperial study when he saw it, for fear of missing the emperor's reward.
The emperor looked at the two people below and praised him with a smile, and suddenly handed a fold to Mu Chenmo and said with a serious expression.
"Chenmo, you take a look first."
Mu Chenmo took it and saw that it was actually a sealed battle report, only to see that it was written: Yang Xuan, the hussar general, was ambushed by the Huns at Yumen Pass and asked for support.
Mu Chenmo raised his head and looked at the emperor, and the emperor said when he saw that he had finished reading the battle report.
"I know that you have studied the "Art of War" recently, and I want to send you to the border to support."
Qi Yu stood aside and yawned boredly, and his phoenix eyes were a little confused.
The emperor heard Qi Yu's yawn, turned his head to look, and saw Qi Yu's eyes blank and looking like he was about to fall asleep.
"Old Seven, what do you think of the battle situation at the border pass?"
When Qi Yu heard that the emperor was actually asking, he replied with a blanket face.
"Father, it's good that Mu Chenmo goes, and he will definitely be able to come back with a victory. Hey hey"
The emperor looked at Qi Yu and looked at Mu Chenmo, thinking that Qi Yu had followed Mu Chenmo to solve two cases in a row these days, and an idea popped up in his heart.
"Chenmo." The emperor looked at Mu Chenmo lovingly, turned his head and glanced at Qi Yu and said: "How about letting Lao Qi follow you to the frontier, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and he has grown up with you for a while." ”
Mu Chenmo was still digesting the emperor's words, and saw that Qi Yu had already jumped up in fright.
Qi Yu's drowsiness didn't open his mouth to refute: "Father, the son is not going." ”
The emperor glared at Qi Yu: "How old are you, you know that you are causing trouble in Beijing all day long, and it is time to go to the border to experience and experience." ”
"Father, Yumen Pass can roast people to death during the day, freeze people to death at night, and when you go out, it's a mouthful of sand, not to mention people, you can't even raise flowers and plants." Qi Yu shrunk and followed his neck.
"You let your sons go to the border, not to train your sons, you want your son's life!" Qi Yu squeezed out two tears and knelt down to look at the emperor.
The emperor looked at Qi Yu and cried and made trouble: "Old Seven, this time you must go to the border with Mu Chenmo, if you continue to make trouble like this, you will be dealt with according to the decree of resistance." ”
Qi Yu couldn't change the emperor's intentions for a while, so he put forward some unreasonable demands.
The emperor looked at Qi Yu, who was messing around, and had a headache, and was afraid that no one would be able to control him at the border pass and lose his life, so he made an order.
"Mu Chenmo led 50,000 troops to reinforce Yumen Pass, with Mu Chenmo as the commander-in-chief and Li Meng as the deputy commander, and set off with 50,000 Zhenbei troops on the same day. The Seventh Prince, Qi Yu, must obey the orders of Commander-in-Chief Mu. ”
After the emperor announced it, he asked the two to retreat and prepare for the expedition, Qi Yu still wanted to stay and fight to see the emperor glaring at him with an unkind face, so he went out of the palace with Mu Chenmo.