Chapter 40: Triumph

After successfully completing the task, they led their subordinates to return to the Great Yin Shang immediately, and Emperor Wuding had already received the good news and lined up at the gate to greet them.

"Good woman! You have worked hard to rescue Xue Fang this time! Emperor Wuding said gratefully.

"As the general of the Great Yin Shang, this is my duty, and it is my duty!" The woman said.

"There is a wife! What are the regrets in life? Emperor Wuding said with relief. At this time, Bei Yin Cuicui was eating blind vinegar in her bedroom: that woman had robbed the limelight again, and the aura of the entire Great Yin Shang was worn on her alone! Bei Yin Cuicui thought as she sat at the table and grabbed the petals on the flower of the pot on the table, and after a while, the pot of flowers became bare. Zhi'er came in and saw the petals all over the ground, and while cleaning with a broom, he persuaded: "Niangniang, do you have any depression in your heart?" Don't beware of suffocating yourself. ”

"Zhi'er, last time I asked you to inquire about the woman's good line, do you remember?" Concubine Cui asked.

"yes, yes." Zhi'er nodded and said.

"I suspect that she is suspicious of me, and she is in the limelight now, I am worried that her position in the heart of Emperor Wuding will become more and more important in the future, I want to attack her first, you will kill her first." Cui Fei said.

"Huh?" Zhi'er's expression dodged when he heard this, the master meant to kill the current queen, a good general who has repeatedly made military achievements, Zhi'er hesitated a little, "This ......"

"What's wrong? Do you not have the guts to kill her, or can't you kill her at all? Bei Yin Cuicui asked.

"Mother, the slave doesn't dare or have the ability." Zhi'er replied in a small voice, thinking to herself, "Niangniang, is this crazy?" Let me do such a thing, not to mention whether I can kill her. If the general is dead, the entire Yin Shang will lose this protector general, in case the enemy soldiers attack in, then the people in the palace will have to be reduced to prisoners, Niangniang is jealous. ”

"You useless!" Concubine Cui scolded her, "Didn't you see that woman's arrogance getting stronger and stronger? And I have a feeling that she has become suspicious of Hongu. In the future, if she knows some of our secrets that cannot be known to others, she will definitely take our lives, so we must strike first. Do you understand? ”

"But the slave still doesn't know how to kill her?" Zhi'er asked, looking up.

"The palace doesn't have any thoughts for a while, there is a Zhou Taoist priest living there in the oblique pointing mountain, you go to ask the Zhou Taoist priest, and say that the palace sent you." Bei Yin Cuicui said. Zhi'er heard the words and took the carriage all the way to the Xiezhi Mountain, there is a very small temple in the mountain, but there is no people, and a little monk is sweeping the floor, the little monk asked curiously: "Girl, what are you doing?" ”

"I'm looking for a Daoist Zhou." Zhi'er said, and the little monk took her to the temple where a pillar of incense was burning, and wisps of incense were rising. Daoist Zhou was reciting the scriptures with his eyes closed, and when he heard that someone was coming to him, he interrupted and stood up to receive her.

"Girl, what are you looking for me?" Daoist Zhou asked.

"Let's talk about this quietly." Zhi'er said. So Daoist Zhou motioned for the little monk to go out, then closed the door and asked her what was the matter.

"That's the case, do you know the concubine in the palace? She ordered me to get rid of the woman, can you give me a trick? Zhi'er asked, and Daoist Zhou felt a "chuckle" in his heart when he heard this, and thought, "Concubine Cui is in a hurry, right?" Seeing that Daoist Zhou was stunned, Zhi'er threw a bag of seashells on the table, and suddenly Daoist Zhou was moved and asked her to sit down and talk in detail.

"To get rid of the current queen, if nothing fails, it is a sin to cut off the head." Daoist Zhou said.

"Know! But Bei Yin Cuicui is worried about her power swelling......" Zhi'er said, "And I don't know martial arts at all." Zhi'er didn't know that Daoist Zhou was a Taoist priest who recited scriptures on the surface, but on the other hand, he was a demon who killed people without blinking. He is the remnant of the Black Bat, and since the death of the Black Bat, he has lived in seclusion here, living by collecting shellfish and killing people. Bei Yin Cuicui didn't know when she was involved with him. On the surface, this is a temple, but in fact it is a den of thieves who can kill people by handing over shells.

"Alright! Leave it to me. Daoist Zhou said.

"However, I heard that the general is very strong in martial arts, especially the Yue in her hand is extremely powerful. I wonder if you're sure of that? Zhi'er asked.

"In the past, when the black bat was there, he called it first, and no one dared to call it second except me." Daoist Zhou said, "But after the deed is done, you have to pay me two hundred bags of these seashells." Daoist Zhou looked at the bag of seashells, too little.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you! As a concubine in the palace, Concubine Cui can still take this point, as long as you can get things done, otherwise everything is empty talk. Zhi'er went back after speaking.

"The rule is to pay me half first, pay me a hundred bags of seashells. There is a high chance that my operation will fail, and I may lose my life. Daoist Zhou said, Zhi'er said to go back to Concubine Cui, if she agreed, she would send someone to send Bei over, and then take him to the Yuanlu Courtyard where the woman lived, Daoist Zhou nodded and agreed.

When Zhi'er went back to explain all this to Concubine Cui, Concubine Cui immediately agreed, and if she didn't get rid of the woman, she couldn't sleep all night. The next night, Zhi'er asked a coachman to drag a hundred bags of seashells out, and Daoist Zhou, who received the money, was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut. "People die for money, birds die for food", he wanted to sneak into the Yuanlu Courtyard that night to attack the woman.

"Yikes! I only know how to get to Enroin from the palace, but I don't know how to get to Enroin from your temple. Zhi'er patted her head and said.

"Look at you stupid, what are we doing? Don't you even know where Enroin is? Go back first and wait for the good news. Daoist Zhou said, and Zhi'er went back.

Zhou Daoshi dressed in black, came to the Yuanlu courtyard early, in the dead of night, when the courtyard was almost asleep, Zhou Daoshi climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the courtyard, as the remnant of the black bat, the closest person around Emperor Wuding - the woman, of course he paid attention, and was deeply impressed by her appearance. But he didn't know which room the woman was staying in, and just as he was hesitating outside, someone suddenly spotted him, "Who?" It turned out to be a good maid Qiufeng came out, and I met a black shadow wandering here from a distance, and I was shocked, and I couldn't help but ask loudly. Hearing this, Daoist Zhou's heart beat faster, and when he saw a Bodhi tree in the distance, he hid behind the tree. Qiu Feng followed, only to know that the black shadow flashed, and then disappeared, she thought that she was dazzled, and there was some timidity in her heart, so she entered the back room.

"Why haven't I seen General Woman all day today?" One of the short men asked the other tall man.

"Are you looking for anything with her?" The tall man asked.

"I have an aunt's daughter who wants to come in and be a personal maid for her, so I want to introduce her." The short man replied.

"I heard that the general went to Changxiangguan to inspect it, and it is estimated that the number of days of going back and forth and staying there will take more than ten days." The tall man said. Daoist Zhou heard the two family members in the distance talking from afar, and walked away while talking, Daoist Zhou secretly thought: "It's really not the right time to come, it turns out that the woman is not here, and she is busy working in vain." With that, he climbed over the wall and went out. How do you know that when he was climbing over the wall, there was already a layer of people outside "waiting for the rabbit"! It turned out that after the autumn wind entered the back room, he was restless, and there was obviously a dark shadow, how could he be dazzled? She went out through another passage to report to the guards who guarded the queen here.

Daoist Zhou was tied up by two soldiers, "Say! Why did you sneak into Enroin? What exactly do you want to do? A small leader asked.

"I didn't want to do anything, I just passed by here and saw that the trees were growing strangely, so I went into the courtyard to have a look." Daoist Zhou said.

"Less quibbling! If you don't have bad intentions, why don't you knock on the door in the daytime? The little leader asked.

"It's strictly controlled here, don't let it in!" Daoist Zhou whispered.

"Don't listen to him, put him in prison first!" A soldier next to him suggested that Zhou Daoist be sent to prison and tortured.