Chapter 49: Saving Lives
The Su family's mansion in Kyoto is much smaller than that in Nanyu County, and Chu Xuan still climbed over many walls and walked on the roof for a long time before finding Su Xintang's place.
The weather turned cooler, Su Xintang wore a placket cloak and carried a lantern, standing alone under a plum tree in front of the wing, sometimes pacing gently, as if waiting for Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan's soles were slightly stronger, and he jumped down from the eaves, although the sound was very small, it still alarmed Su Xintang below.
Su Xintang turned around happily, thinking that the master was coming, but when she saw the person in front of her, she took a few steps back with some vigilance, and asked loudly: "Who are you? Why did you come to this girl's house? Don't say I'm going to call someone!"
Chu Xuan couldn't cry or laugh: "I'm your master Lin Xuan, can't you hear my voice?"
Su Xintang originally thought that if the other party was not a thief, he would be a flower thief, but listening to his words at this time, he was really very similar to his master, so he wondered: "Master, why did you become like this? Did Sister Rumeng give you a disguise?"
Chu Xuan didn't have time to talk to her in detail, so he immediately nodded as a tacit acquiescence, and said, "How do you get to your dungeon?" Take me there. ”
Su Xintang knew that he was going to save people, so he didn't think much about it, and secretly took him around left and right to a huge pond in the backyard of Su Mansion.
"The dungeon is under this pond. Su Xintang said.
Chu Xuan scratched his head and built the dungeon under the pond, how did he do this? It may be that he hasn't focused on cultivation for too long, and he can't even remember how to arrange the formation.
Seeing that he was in trouble, Su Xintang smiled, didn't explain, and walked straight to a stone lion on the shore. This is not an ordinary stone lion, but is made of spirit stones. The dungeon under the pond is, to put it bluntly, just an underwater space created by using a small formation, and the eye of the formation is the stone lion on the shore.
Su Xintang put the stolen key into the mouth of the stone lion, and it didn't take long for the stone lion to shine brightly. I only heard the sound of waves coming from the pond, Chu Xuan looked for it, and the water in the pond seemed to be separated by several walls of light in an instant, revealing a stone staircase extending downward, black holes, and I couldn't see it clearly, but fortunately, Su Xintang was holding a lantern in his hand, and Chu Xuan said to her:
"Xintang, lend me the lantern, and I'll go down to save a few friends. ”
Su Xintang did not doubt him, handed him the lantern in his hand, and said, "Master, if you are blind with the black light below, the apprentice will not go down with you." I stole the key to the dungeon, Daddy may have found out by now, I'll go back and stabilize him first. ”
Chu Xuan secretly said that it would be better to do this, so as not to release all the people in the dungeon later, Su Xintang felt that she had lied to her.
After Su Xintang left, Chu Xuan walked to the bottom of the dungeon layer by layer with the lantern, and finally came to the bottom of the dungeon. This dungeon can't see his five fingers, and the people imprisoned in it have nowhere to eat, drink, and Lazar, and there is a foul smell that reaches Chu Xuan's mouth and nose, fortunately he didn't eat today, otherwise he would have to vomit out.
"Who?"
"Didn't you send it from Master Su. ”
"Help me tell the third prince that the last general is willing to follow his lead, and beg him to spare my life." ”
Seeing Chu Xuan coming in with a lantern, the generals of the forbidden army in the dungeon cried and shouted to their mothers.
Chu Xuan held a lantern in one hand and covered his nose with the other, and sneered: "I didn't expect that the generals of the forbidden army who are powerful and blessed on weekdays would have such a cowardly day. ”
"Who is the little brother?" asked a gray-haired old man among the generals of the forbidden army. This person is different from other people who beg for mercy, and as soon as he speaks, he gives people a sense of calmness, and must be an important figure in the forbidden army.
Chu Xuan didn't talk nonsense much, and under the shock of a group of people, he took out Chu Mo's edict and the jade seal that symbolized imperial power, and then slowly told his life experience.
After everyone heard his words, no one moved for a long time.
Chu Xuan pretended to be impatient and said, "What is the reason why I am here now, you are all smart people, you will not understand." To tell you the truth, in a few days, Chu Dan will bury you alive along with hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops. Answer me quickly, or I will leave at once. ”
Seeing this, the white-bearded old man hurriedly knelt down and said, "Since we are the descendants of the first emperor and have received the edict of Your Majesty, we are naturally willing to submit." Please tell us what we need to do. ”
When the rest of the people saw the old man's actions, they also learned well, and knelt down, shouting in unison for Chu Xuan, hoping that the other party could save them.
Chu Xuan said: "It's not difficult to save you, it's easier for you to do things." I know that the forbidden army is now in the deserted suburbs outside Kyoto, and is being divided into several parts by Chu Dan and imprisoned. You are all their former rulers, and I will now secretly take you out to meet them. Tonight, at the third watch, I will have people set fire to the place where the forbidden army is being held, and then you will take the opportunity to lead them into trouble. ”
"Can this work? Although there are many forbidden troops, they are unarmed, how can they defeat the stubborn border army?" After hearing Chu Xuan's plan, some people immediately questioned it.
Chu Xuan sneered: "First of all, although the border army is better equipped than you, most of them are protecting Chu Dan in the imperial city, and there are not many who really guard the forbidden army outside the city. ”
"Secondly, whether it is you or the border army outside the city, there is no choice but to cooperate with me to fight a bloody road, if you don't fight, what awaits you is to be buried alive. ”
Chu Xuan's words were very reasonable, but there were still a few generals who asked tentatively: "But with our forbidden army, how can we make a fuss outside the city?" I am afraid that Chu Dan will know the news and immediately send the border troops of the imperial city to suppress it." ”
Since people choose to save us, they naturally have their own considerations, so why do they ask so much, just obey orders!" The white-haired old man knew the current affairs and immediately reprimanded.
Chu Xuan glanced at him, this old guy is quite discerning.
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These forbidden army generals all have a certain degree of cultivation, so it is not difficult to escape from Su Mansion. Chu Dan took them and fled all the way to the outskirts of the city where the forbidden army was imprisoned. There, he met with Zhen Rumeng again.
"Miss Zhen, how is the arrangement?"
"Tuo Gongzi Hongfu, everything is going well. The slave family infiltrated the barracks where the forbidden army was imprisoned and secretly met with more than a dozen low-ranking officers of the forbidden army. The slave family told them about their previous plan, but they had no choice but to promise to inform more people to cooperate with us. ”
Zhen Rumeng's originally sweet voice looked a little hoarse at this time, and she paid a lot to help Chu Xuan win the throne this time.
"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Zhen. Chu Xuan saw all this, and he suddenly said softly.
Zhen Rumeng was a little surprised, Chu Xuan had never spoken to her like now, but for some reason, she didn't feel happy at all, but there was a little sour in her heart, she shook her head and didn't speak.
Chu Xuan said again: "Later, I will go to the palace to deal with Chu Dan and Xue Wuchang, so I will ask the girl here." ”
With that, Chu Xuan leaned over and saluted her. Zhen Rumeng nodded, turned around, and walked away.