The emperor's birthday is a major event.

Three days before and after, except for the felons, the whole world should celebrate and amnesty the whole world.

It should have started preparations a long time ago, but because it hadn't been done in the past few years, Mo said that the civil and military ministers didn't remember it, that is, the queen mother, the emperor's mother, didn't remember it, Baili Xian, the party who was happy to be quiet, was so happy not to hold a banquet, and he could delay it for a day, thinking that if his ministers didn't think about it, he would be able to fish in troubled waters for a few more years.

I really don't want to do the crown salute.

After the crown ceremony, you will be an adult, and you should be watched more closely everywhere, and you will not have the time to go out of the palace.

The result is good, but a few Confucian students in the teahouse talked, and somehow talked about the age of the current emperor, and when I asked, I realized that this year's emperor seemed to be weak.

Baili was angry, and a person silently kicked the table in the imperial study for half an hour.

Now the border is tentative, Qingqi is in ruins, although the treasury is not tight, but it is not abundant, most of it is used to raise soldiers, but the emperor's crown ceremony is a major event, and the courtiers should make timely statements, and the feast should be held and the whole country celebrates.

Even the iron roosters in the household department who would rather hold the money bag to touch the pillar than take out a few pennies to repair the palace beams, also opened their mouths to agree.

Baili Xian still wanted to refuse, and finally the queen mother came forward to persuade, it was too boring in the palace, there were only a few cards every day, not to mention that she was tired of seeing, and the techniques of touching the cards were about to be seen by her, and other ladies could not often enter the palace.

Bai Li Xian scoffed at this, but could only agree with a smile on his face.

And the two officials in charge of the birthday banquet are the two officials.

One is Li Yinzhi, and the other is Wu Mengquan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works.

Wu Mengquan is a person who is more than forty years old, slightly shorter than Li Yinzhi by half a head, and has a slight fortune, but his skin is well maintained, white and delicate, and a pair of narrow fox eyes always reveal an inexplicable charming style, whether they squint or not.

From the outside, he looks much younger than his actual age, and some people believe that he is in his early thirties.

In addition to the official uniform all the year round, it is a peach-pink shirt, which is very angry.

Because of this, Li Yinzhi has always felt that his wardrobe may be full of peach-pink clothes.

And this person doesn't drink at all, he gets drunk when he drinks, he sleeps when he gets drunk, and this kind of thing will never happen to him after drinking, and he really can't become a good drinking friend with Li Yinzhi.

As soon as he got off the court on this day, Li Yinzhi planned to discuss the emperor's birthday with him, but unexpectedly, this old boy thought that Li Yinzhi was going to call him to drink, and he didn't look back to urinate.

Damn.

I have never seen such an unhappy minister.

At this point, Wu Mengquan has to defend himself, the Ministry of Industry is really busy, and whenever a slightly larger project is built across the country, he has to hand him various paperwork applications.

If something happens to this project, okay, he will be the first to be scolded.

On the emperor's birthday, he didn't build any particularly big projects, but Baili Xian said that the royal temple had to be repaired.

This matter can be done by the people below, and there is no need for him, the squire of the Ministry of Works, to stare at it personally, and everything will be fine after a few glances once in a while.

But he just forgot that there was another Li Yinzhi.

As the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, his work basically covered the entire banquet, and he couldn't catch Wu Mengquan, so Li Yinzhi could only go to the Ministry of Rites by himself.

Wu Mengquan slipped in a carriage, with a coachman by his side, and his itinerary on weekdays was also very fixed.

The Wu Mansion, the Ministry of Industry, and the Imperial Palace, three points and one line, have hardly changed.

But on the way out of Wu's Mansion and to the Ministry of Industry, something happened.

The Assassin was a skilled swordsman, and with a single sword, he slashed the coachman's throat, splattering hot blood on the carriage, and the poor coachman fell out with a "poof" without shouting until he died.

Wu Mengquan was sitting in the car at that time to read the accounts, and suddenly slammed the carriage into a crooked way, causing him to crash into the carriage unsteadily in the car.

"Shhh

He screamed in pain, covered his shoulder that was slammed on the window beam, and shouted, "What's the matter?!" ”

No one answered outside, and Wu Mengquan's heart tightened.

As an important minister of the imperial court, it is not a big deal to offend someone, and it is normal to be in danger of his life, Wu Mengquan saw that the people outside did not respond to him, so he quickly calmed down, stuffed the account book into his arms, lifted the curtain and glanced out, and found that the carriage was speeding out of the city.

He thought about it carefully, maybe the other party didn't want to kill him in Yicheng, so Wu Mengquan adjusted his posture and kicked open the locked car door with the greatest strength.

Half of his body rushed out suddenly, and the man in black who was driving outside reacted quickly, raising his hand and hitting his temple with an elbow, Wu Mengquan was not a martial arts practitioner after all, and instinctively reacted to raise his arm to block, but he was still pushed back into the carriage, and his head turned backwards.

A cold light pierced from outside the car, coming straight to his chest, Wu Mengquan was shocked, and quickly shrank to the side to hide, fortunately he was willing to spend money and bought a larger carriage, otherwise he really couldn't dodge in such a small place.

The carriage was still moving at a slow pace, and the people outside were not fully engaged in driving, and from time to time they stabbed their swords into the carriage, and the carriage went on a rampage, and finally turned into a sparsely populated and narrow alley in a standard drifting attitude.

Wu Mengquan, who was in the carriage, was like a ball, hitting his head on the roof of the car for a while, and his shoulder on the window frame for a while, and his pampered body was in pain after a while.

The windows were so narrow that he couldn't get out.

But he can't just sit still, he can't go out of the city, once he gets out of the city, there is only a dead end waiting for him.

Wu Mengquan tore down the car curtain, and was able to avoid the tip of the sword that stabbed him, wrapped the car curtain around the palm of his hand, held the car door that had just been broken, and smashed it his back while the man in black was distracted from driving.

People who practice martial arts, even if they don't look at people, can easily avoid the attack from the other party, Wu Mengquan missed the blow, and the whole person pounced, and most of his body fell on the side of the man in black.

The tip of the sword flashed with a terrifying cold light, which quickly enlarged in Wu Mengquan's eyes, he grabbed the door panel with both hands, lifted it and blocked it, the long sword was extremely sharp, and it passed through the door panel without any obstruction and plunged directly into Wu Mengquan's ear, cutting off half of his ear.

"Whew!"

Wu Mengquan howled, raised his leg and kicked it, without any rules.

The door panel was neatly separated by a long sword, and the fragments fell down, Wu Mengquan pushed forward fiercely, regardless of the carriage still galloping, he turned over and fell without hesitation, rolling out on the rough ground several times, his clothes were in tatters, and his exposed palms were cut by stones, and he was drenched in blood.

Xu is desire to survive is too strong, Wu Mengquan got up like crazy and ran to the street, shouting loudly as he ran: "Help!" Someone is going to kill me! Someone wants to kill the court officials!!! ”

There were still a few beggars in the alley, and when they heard the sound of the broken gong, they all poked their heads out of the corner to read the gossip.

I don't know if I don't see it, I was startled when I saw it, Wu Mengquan's whole person was embarrassed, his hair was messy, half of his face was covered with blood, and it was still dripping, and not far behind him, a man in black was chasing closer and closer.

In Yicheng, there are very few vicious incidents of murder on the street.

Even if the little beggar didn't understand, he could see that the man who was being hunted down was a big official, and judging from the material of his clothes alone, it was not the one they usually saw.

Everything that could be reached at hand was thrown out, stopping the man in black in the face.

After only a while, Wu Mengquan had already appeared on the street, grabbed a passing citizen, hoarse voice, and his eyes were split: "Go and report to the official!" Killed! ”

The people turned pale with fright, and hurriedly turned around and went to the Yamen of Yifu.

The assassination of the imperial court official is a big deal, Yicheng Mansion Yin personally brought someone here, and at a glance he saw Wu Mengquan sitting on the roadside tea stall covered in blood, trembling in his hand holding the tea bowl that could not be put on the table, seeing him coming, he pounced without saying a word, grabbed the collar of this Yicheng Mansion Yin and refused to let go.

"Lord Liu, someone wants to kill this official!"

Wu Mengquan howled without any image, his tears and snot rubbed on others, and his charming fox eyes swollen into walnut eyes after a while.

When Liu Wei heard this, he waved his hand, and most of the centaurs he brought with him immediately dispersed to find the assassin.

However, the assassin had already slipped away, but found the poor coachman who had died unexpectedly, and his neck was cut by a sword, and he was killed on the spot.

"Lord Wu, have you offended anyone recently?" After returning to the Yamen of Yifu, Liu Wei asked his subordinates to serve a pot of good tea to Wu Mengquan to suppress Wu Mengquan's shock, but relevant questions still had to be asked.

There is such a big thing in the territory he is in charge of, and the emperor blames him, and the first one has to beat him.

Wu Mengquan shook his head: "No." ”

Then, he glanced out again, lowered his voice and said: "The general left Yicheng temporarily, let me wait and wait to keep a low profile before leaving, I didn't open my mouth in the court during this time, that is, I was suddenly arranged to be in charge of the emperor's birthday banquet a few days ago." ”

"Could it be because of this?" Wu Mengquan scratched his head, frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he vetoed this possibility: "No, I'm just a squire, although the matter of repairing the royal temple has fallen on my head, but even if I don't have it, there is still Master Cui!" ”

Liu Wei couldn't make up his mind, so he had to fly the pigeon and pass the book to Bai Liye to ask.

"Lord Wu, when you were assassinated, many people saw it, beware of rumors, we have to go into the palace and talk to the emperor."

"When you go out recently, Lord Wu should bring more people, and before the general comes back, you can't have an accident."

Liu Wei was very calm, arranged them one by one, and ordered a team of guards to send him back, change his clothes and then march into the palace, the news spread quickly, when the two entered the palace, they also met Li Yinzhi who came in a hurry.

"I heard that Lord Wu was assassinated, what's going on? Did the assassins catch it? Li Yinzhi gasped slightly, and it seemed that he was also in a hurry when he came.

Wu Mengquan was already in a much calmer mood at this time, and replied with a wrinkled face: "The assassin ran away, but I didn't suffer any injuries, it's just my ear ......."

As he said that he was about to cry again, Liu Wei closed his eyes and took a step back to the side.

Li Yinzhi looked over, Wu Mengquan's ears were cut off in half, and the bandages were wrapped around several times at this time, and there was still bright red coming out backwards, looking pitiful.