Chapter 4: The Prefect's Audience
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Wu Jie turned around and saw the crowd disperse, and a pink procession passed through the middle of the crowd.
"Uniform!"
Wu Jie couldn't help but sigh.
When he fixed his eyes, he realized that this was an all-female team, uniformly wearing pink palace maid uniforms. And standing in the front row of this team is actually Yiyue.
After Wu Jie left, the officials came to Yiyue's house, and this day was the day Yiyue entered the palace.
I didn't expect the reunion of the two to be so fast, it should have been a happy thing, but it was a little more tragic. When Yiyue found Wu Jie standing in front of the city gate, she ignored the astonished gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, and ran towards him with her skirt, spilling a few crystal clear tears along the way.
Wu Jie saw the people running towards him, and there was a trace of panic in his heart. He wanted to leave the letter and say goodbye to this sister, but he didn't expect that the capital was too small to tolerate a 'miss'.
Yiyue came to Wu Jie, didn't say anything, took out a letter and handed it to Wu Jie.
In the letter left by Wu Jie, he indicated his peculiarity. Yue'er didn't understand what a traverser was, so she understood Wu Jie as an elder brother who fell from the sky, and knew a lot of new knowledge.
Wu Jie also wrote in the letter that she would disappear from this era after finding Liu Yang, so Yue'er hurriedly wrote a letter, wanting to try her luck to see Wu Jie again, but when she really met, she didn't have the courage to say the words in the letter.
Yiyue had no choice but to look at Wu Jie, but saw that he had not opened the envelope for a long time, because Wu Jie did not have the heart to care about these children at the moment, Liu Yang had already entered the palace, and he had to find a way to pass through the Zhengyang Gate.
At this moment, a man who looked like an official walked towards the two from the group behind them.
"Who is this?"
The official said as he walked.
"Oh, this is my own brother, Yiri."
Yue'er said, she lightly touched Wu Jie's sleeve, signaling him to cooperate well.
"My brother heard that I entered the palace today, so he came to see me off."
The official hesitated and glanced at Wu Jie.
"I see...... Just send it here...... The palace is right in front of you. Idlers are not allowed to enter. ”
At this time, Wu Jie also touched Yue'er's skirt.
"It's okay, my lord, I'm the emperor's concubine, and my brother is not an outsider."
Yue'er said smartly, and turned her head to smile at Wu Jie.
“…… Concubine Yi said everything. ”
Officials seem to be afraid of Yue'er's status and dare not continue to embarrass them. So Wu Jie followed this team of palace maids and entered the imperial city together.
Through the Zhengyang Gate, there is a huge imperial city inside, and in the intricate layout, the Wu realm disturbed by the main halls and city walls is dazzling.
And when he got here, Yiyue couldn't help anymore, and the rest of the way had to be left by Wu Jie himself. Yi Yue was talking with the officials, and just when she came to a corner, Wu Jie stopped while the two of them were not paying attention, and moved from the front to the end of this palace maid team, completely breaking away from this team.
He walked around the palace a few times, avoiding the patrols of the soldiers along the way, but this kind of wandering around was not a way at all, he had to find a way to find out Liu Yang's movements.
Suddenly, Wu Jie saw a familiar face appear at the intersection in front of him.
He was dressed in a big red robe, and walked towards this side with a heroic posture. But how could Wu Jie know the people of the Ming Dynasty?
Wu Jie was a little unsure, he opened the black baggage and took out the history book, and sure enough, it was the 'One Piece' Zheng He!
Just thinking about calling him by name, Wu Jie hesitated, this Zheng He didn't know himself, if he called him indiscriminately, he might be regarded as a nervous disorder!
He observed two patrolling soldiers walking behind him, and suddenly came up with a plan. Wu Jie clenched his fists......
This Zheng He may have encountered some kind of great joy in getting promoted and making a fortune, and he couldn't help laughing when he walked, but when he turned a corner, the scene in front of him really scared him!
I saw Wu Jie wearing armor, lying on the ground, his body was tied with ropes, and his mouth was gagged by a ball of straw paper.
Zheng He hurriedly walked to Wu Jie's side and took off the ball of straw paper.
"There are assassins!"
As soon as he let go, Wu Jie shouted, his eyes as big as a cow, and he looked panicked, but he saw Zheng He staying in place, confused.
"Prefect! The prefect is fake! ”
Saying this, Zheng He understood. The prefect is going to meet the emperor today, and everyone in the palace knows it. The meaning of this little soldier is that there is an assassin pretending to be the prefect to assassinate the emperor!
"The prefect is estimated to be in the Jinluan Hall now...... What can I do? ”
Zheng He said, inadvertently revealing Liu Yang's movements to Wu Jie.
"Let's go quickly!"
"We? What are you doing as a guard? ”
Just when Zheng He was questioning, he saw Wu Jie actually stand up, it turned out that the rope had already been cut by Liu Yang, and when Wu Jie was lying on the ground, his body pressed the fracture, so Zheng He didn't find it.
At that moment, the two of them heard movement in the distance, like the footsteps of a large group of troops.
"Let's go! Why are you still stunned! ”
A small soldier in the Wu Realm, but instead set up an official tone, and he was very happy in his heart. This big man in the history books still has to listen to his own orders.
……
After Liu Yang entered the Jinluan Palace, he was shocked by this magnificent scene. Dazzlingly reflective gold bricks! Such as a layer of lacquered Nanmu giant pillars! There is also a throne carved with nine golden dragons in the middle of the hall! Sitting on the top of it is the current saint wrapped in a yellow robe - Zhu Di, the lord of the Ming Dynasty.
"How is your father doing?"
Zhu Di asked.
Although Liu Yang has traveled to the Ming Dynasty for nearly a year, he can at most follow the 'Reincarnation Sect' to do some secret ritual or occupy a 'temple' on weekdays, and he can cope with such small occasions more than enough. But now that he really saw such a grand and spectacular scene, he was speechless.
"I heard, aren't you dumb?"
"If it's really dumb...... That's a problem......"
Zhu Di teased the hanging beads in front of the crown version, muttered, and looked at the distant relative in front of him worried.
"Dumb prefect, no wonder there are so many citizens who complain, and I can't hold it down."
"For your father's sake...... Hey......"
suffered a 'dumb loss' because of his 'stage fright', and Liu Yang under the palace was angry.
He reached out and grabbed the dagger hidden in his trouser pocket. rushed to the throne of Jinluan with a quick step, and before Zhu Di could react, the dagger was on his neck, and the cold was biting. How could this prefect become an assassin in the blink of an eye? The eunuchs on the side were dumbfounded, and they stayed in place with their mouths wide open,
But the knife didn't stab for a long time.
Zhu Di felt that the hand holding the dagger was trembling...... He thought to himself that this kid couldn't do it. As a battle-hardened old fox, he realized that his chance to save his life had come.
So he took advantage of Liu Yang's hesitation to secretly beckon the eunuchs to find the guards, and tried to speak to disintegrate Liu Yang's murderous aura, he said:
"Little brother, you have something to say! You think, if you kill me, you won't get any benefits, but if you let me go, I will give you whatever glory and wealth you want! ”
But Liu Yang still has the heart to consider these gains and losses, the knife has been drawn, but he can't regret it, he just hesitates whether the knife should be stabbed.
In fact, in the past year as an assassin, Liu Yang has never killed anyone, and the tasks assigned to him by the 'Reincarnation Sect' are just some things that scare people with bright scabbards. Although this is a virtual time-travel, the people in this world are all alive. They are flesh and blood, they have parents and relatives, they are rich or noble, poor or low, but they are all living in reality. Liu Yang still has a conscience and is unwilling to take their lives.
But this time, in order to test the success of Liu Yang's brainwashing education this year, the sect leader did not hesitate to allow him to use the highest honor of the 'Reincarnation Sect' to 'live forever', and let Liu Yang really kill the monarch with a knife!
Can you kill and eliminate harm for the people? You can't kill you, you can't kill the world?
At this critical juncture when it was difficult to ride a tiger, the guards kept pouring into the hall, Liu Yang became more and more nervous, and the dagger in his hand shook more and more, Zhu Di was afraid that Liu Yang would not be able to hold it and accidentally hurt him.
At this moment, a fountain pen was thrown from outside the hall, cutting through the air to form a graceful parabola, and just as it was about to fall to the ground, it was caught.
Zhu Di came back to his senses, and the dagger around his neck was gone. The person who caught the pen was Liu Yang!
"Liu Yang! Alright, don't make a fuss! ”
Wu Jie shouted hoarsely, and Zhu Di saw two people appear in front of the hall, bending over and panting.
Seeing that the situation had improved, Zhu Di immediately ordered the guards to come forward to arrest the assassin, but Liu Yang actually held the pen in his hand at this time and cried into a tearful person.
Wu Jie didn't expect that this fountain pen would really come in handy.
Liu Yang's family is not wealthy, his parents went out to work when he was very young, and Liu Yang has been raised by his grandparents. Because of this, Liu Yang has been named "lack of love" and "left-behind children" since he was a child, and lives in the ridicule of some people with a strong sense of superiority.
Liu Yang worked hard to get ahead, he gritted his teeth and was finally admitted to a prestigious university with excellent results, but he thought that finding a job should be smooth and smooth, but he was robbed of his seat by a "related household" and could only go to some ordinary positions for employment. This frustration left him full of disappointment in life.
He once had a strong desire to be recognized, but he was mercilessly slapped on the shore by the torrent of ordinary,
So he chose a time machine and traveled to the distant Ming Dynasty to start life again.
The fountain pen was a gift from his parents when they rushed home from out of town to accompany him on his tenth birthday. After that, Liu Yang went to boarding middle school and went to university in other places, and the time to meet his parents was limited. Therefore, he cherished this fountain pen very much, and after his mother learned that her son had crossed, she found the fountain pen from the house rented by Liu Yang and gave it to the proprietress .
This fountain pen seems to make Liu Yang feel the 'thoughts through time and space', he recalled his bitter experience of being alone in the Ming Dynasty this year, and suddenly remembered the aging faces of his parents, and the two elders were still anxiously waiting for him at home.
At this time, he no longer wanted any fame and fortune, any immortality...... He just wanted to go home.
Wu Jie didn't know this, and the proprietress didn't have time to explain to him the purpose of the fountain pen.
But Wu Jie believed that the proprietress would not give him this thing for no reason, so he thought about its usefulness, and finally figured out that it should be an important token of Liu Yang.
……
Zhu Di, who had just been threatened, was not idle, watching a group of guards stay in place because of the assassin's strange behavior, he gave another order.
"Capture the Assassins, and I will reward the Marquis."
Love is love, fate is fate, seeing the guards rushing towards him, Liu Yang also wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, lifted the dagger and prepared to fight. Although the enemy is outnumbered, this year's kung fu is not in vain.
"Wait!"
At this time, Zheng He, who was beside Wu Jie, spoke, and everyone looked at him, especially Zhu Di, the master of Mingcheng, whose eyes were as wide as a cow, and he didn't know what kind of reputation Zheng He was going to make.
Zheng He stumbled up the steps in front of the throne of Jinluan, knelt beside Zhu Di and whispered to him: