Chapter 324: The King's Heart Is Unfathomable

Whether it is Jinyiwei or Jiangning Hall, the meaning behind it is not trivial. Therefore, Yang Jinzhou, who originally promised Luo Xu to come to help tonight, couldn't help but feel uneasy and vigilant. It wasn't until he noticed Qin Hu's anxiety beside him that he silently took two steps back, and it wasn't until he hid in the dark alley that he wrapped up the black big coat on his body tightly and stood at the base of the wall and pondered. It took him a moment before he looked up.

"How many people are we bringing out? Is there anyone watching the back door over there? ”

"There are thirteen in total, six are the family members in the house, and seven are your old subordinates, they must all be watched this time......" Qin Hu replied without thinking, and then said angrily, "That Ouyang Dushuai said something good, in fact, as soon as he took office, he scattered the previous group of people from the adults and assigned them to the hands of the hundreds of households in the east and west cities, and then those heads and brains took out the mistakes they made in the past to deal with them...... If it weren't for the adults who remembered to get them the order, they would not have been tossed to death, but they would have to be calculated to death, what kind of world is this! For the remaining fifteen or sixteen people, he actually fought in the ring with you, my lord! ”

"Where there is a son of heaven and a courtier......"

"What did you say, sir?"

Yang Jinzhou sighed in a low voice, and when he heard Qin Hu ask in confusion, he diverted the topic: "Don't talk about these past things." I remember that You Er was a good hand at night spying, and asked him to find someone to help him find a good place to find out what was going on inside. ”

"Yes, I'll go and tell him!"

Qin Hu came back after walking less than a meal, and made a finished gesture to Yang Jinzhou. Yang Jinzhou, who was slightly relieved in his heart, leaned his back against the earthen wall, but his eyes frequently swept to the place where the carriages and horses were traveling.

As time passed, there was no movement in it, which also made him a little worried, so he sent Qin Hu to take a look.

Just as he twisted his body to adjust his standing posture, and moved his stiff legs again, there was a rush of footsteps behind him, and he saw that it was Qin Hu who was followed by a thin monkey-like man who pressed his hand on the handle of the knife and put it down. When the two of them came forward and saw that You Er was about to salute, he immediately shook his hand and motioned for him to speak directly.

"My lord, the guards inside are very tight, and I only dared to step on it in a circle outside, but I heard the miscellaneous servants in the two stables say that they would be busy for the past few days, and then I would be able to relax immediately. I thought that during the New Year, I could listen to their tone, as if they were just saying that I didn't dare to listen to any major events decided by the top, and I just flashed away. However, I smelled a strange smell in the firewood room, and I tried to pick the lock and go in to take a look, only to find that there were several large vats of fire oil in it. I looked closely, and noticed that the straw piles inside were under heavy pressure, and I accidentally touched this. After that, I managed to get closer to the inner courtyard, and before I saw that the people we had followed all the way before, I saw a lot of patrolling with knives, for fear of alarm, and immediately came out. ”

Yang Jin Zhou's face became heavier the more he listened, and in the end, after Na You Er finished speaking, he handed over a thing, and he glanced at the little moonlight, and immediately his face was tense, nodded and praised two sentences, and immediately ordered him to retreat and wait. After standing for a while, he turned his head to look at Qin Hu and said: "You take someone to guard here, now it is the time of the curfew in the outer city at night, there will not be many people coming in and out here, if someone comes out again, keep an eye on it, and write down the whereabouts and so on......"

Qin Huji nodded, and then asked in surprise, "What, the adults are leaving?" Didn't you say you were going to go in and catch a current one? ”

"It was originally originally and now it is ......" Yang Jinzhou glanced at Qin Hu sideways, and said word by word, "Since you know what kind of place this is, you should understand that you can't act rashly now." I'll go back to the Sifang Building to find Luo Shizi, and you take them to arrange the shift on duty at night. By the way, since you stay here and take charge of that You Er, go back with me. ”

When he had said this, he looked again at the low wall, as if he had seen the lively stables and carports that he had seen in the daytime. He has a good memory, from the shopkeeper in charge, to the young men and handymen below, he remembers it clearly, and he knows that this is the main post of the Jinyi Guard in the outer city. If something really went wrong here, then this plan could not be pushed over by Ouyang Xing's negligence. Compared with the case of Lu Yiyun, the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, the water here is deeper!

The sound of silk and bamboo in the west courtyard of the square building has stopped for a while, however, when there is still a constant noise of singing and dancing everywhere, this quiet place is completely invisible. Since the fifth brother went out, Fu Dusheng, the rough man who was left behind, fainted, and naturally relaxed, with a few people guarding outside, he drank a little wine in the house on the dishes just now, and after a few glasses of stomach, he felt that the room was too warm, so he naturally opened his arms, and felt that the things around his waist were panicked, so he simply put the wrist knife on the ground.

Just when he was slightly drunk, he suddenly heard a gentle knock on the door outside, followed by a voice with a very low voice: "Ninth Master, Ninth Master!" ”

At the call of this voice, he frowned and pushed the table to his feet, and saw the door with a curse in his mouth, and opened the latch and pulled it open without much thought. However, at that moment, it was not only the cold wind howling outside the door that swept in, but also an oncoming fist. Saying that it was too late, he almost instinctively shrank his head down, and then reached out to wipe it on his waist, and when his hand was hollowed out, he realized that the thing had been untied by himself.

The oncoming fist didn't care about anything and regretted and hated, seeing that the person shrank down, the punch was slightly retracted, and it was attacked by claws from the side, and it kicked out with a fierce kick under his feet. only heard two muffled sounds, and the rough man who was blocking the door of the house was suddenly knocked out. The visitor hurried into the door, and several more people rushed into the house. The two men who cooked the fallen man "The rest hurriedly rushed to the holy hand Liu who was lying on the desk. As soon as Luo Xu, who was at the end, stepped into the threshold, he saw that his friend was motionless, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.

"How's the man......"

"Young Master, he just fainted......"

Luo Xu, who took a long breath, slowed down his pace, and when he got to the front, he saw that the few family members were pinching people and filling water, and they were hurriedly tossing there one by one, he couldn't help but jump and quickly drove people away. Only he changed his own methods, but he still didn't wake up the Holy Hand Liu, and he couldn't help but be a little panicked, and in the end, he patted his head, took out a bottle from his arms, picked a little powder and put it under the nose of the Holy Hand Liu.

This time, it was immediate, and it didn't take long for Holy Hand Liu's breathing to become heavy all of a sudden, and then there were signs of struggle. With Luo Xu's shout again. He finally opened his eyes slowly, but the first time he saw Luo Fan, he suddenly moved his arm while his eyes widened, and he slammed his fist out. However, after all, he was not lightly hit just now, not to mention that his fist was loosened halfway, and his arm fell weakly halfway.

"You kid...... How did you come now! ”

Luo Xu snorted weakly, and then said to him: "It seems that they are good to you, such a big place is full of good wine and food, I heard that there are singers and dancers waiting every day, you are more free than the gods......"

"Phew, you try it instead?" Holy Hand Liu rubbed the back of his head at this time, remembering the previous moment, he couldn't help but shudder again, "If you come a little later, I'm afraid you will have to see me in the Netherworld in the future." ”

Luo Xu was stunned when he heard this, and his face, which was still smiling just now, was suddenly full of gloom. After comforting his old friend for a few words, he instructed the two family members to help the person out, handed it to the boss Zhu who was waiting in front, and then walked to the rough man who was overturned. Seeing that the four family members were guarding as if they were facing a great enemy, and even stuffed a strip of cloth in the man's mouth to prevent people from biting his tongue, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, but he didn't have the slightest posture of asking.

"Get the man out into the wagon. Also, the four people who were knocked down earlier and the steward here should also be taken away, and then all the traces will be cleaned up, and it will be enough to keep two people with me. ”

"Young Master, the matter has been settled, it is said that the people of the Nancheng Terracotta Division often come over, there is no need for you to stay any longer, why don't you just pick two people to stay......"

"Needless to say, do as I say. If there is any important situation in Lord Yang's place, wouldn't it be a mistake to convey it clearly when the time comes? ”

If Luo Xu can't resist it, the others can only do it. Suddenly, the brightly lit room was closed with a false door, and all traces of fighting and struggle in it were cleaned up, but there were no people. After doing this, Luo Xu took the people back to the previous place and waited. Until there was a sound of footsteps at the door, he still sat firmly. Sure enough, it was no one else who pushed the door in, but Yang Jinzhou.

"Things have changed over there, and we must go into the city at once."

This straightforward sentence made the two entourages around Luo Xu a little dazed, but after Luo Xu was startled, he stood up without hesitation, grabbed the big piece on the hanger on the side and draped it on his body, and then asked, "I have rescued people here." If you enter the city, take Chongwen Gate or Xuanwu Gate? ”

"Chongwen Gate, the city gate is closed, the hanging basket can always be used, but please ask Brother Luo to prepare a letter first."

After a concise answer, Luo Xu stepped forward, and after listening to Yang Jinzhou's detailed explanation, he immediately asked his entourage to prepare paper and pencils. After hurriedly writing the letter, he turned around and undoubtedly instructed the two entourages to go directly to the small courtyard they had set before, and then went out with Yang Jinzhou. When he reached the door, he saw a man in gray waiting with three horses. Knowing that this was the horse that had been arranged before, he didn't say much, and immediately stepped forward and got on the horse.

Not long after the two of them set off on their front feet, a team of soldiers in different colors of new and old clothes at the end of the alley rushed over at a trot like a gust of wind. The tall officer at the head stood at the door for a moment, and the boss Zhu came out, and both sides recognized people for a while as if they were surprised and happy, and immediately swaggered into the door together, and the noise inside became even louder for a while.

.........................................., the Forbidden City at night was no longer crowded back and forth during the day, and only the red-shopped guards outside the Outer Imperial City and the Inner Palace City were still on duty according to the rules. The four gates of Miyagi have been completely keyed, and the sound of peace in the world can still be faintly heard from the side of the heavenly street. This night, Wenyuan Pavilion was the second assistant Du Weifang on duty, due to the many affairs at hand, it was almost four days, but he still didn't close his eyes, only checked the summer tax figures of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River in front of the desk, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but take off his glasses and rub his sore nose, put on his glasses and looked at the stack of papers, and then supported his head and pondered.

At this moment, there was a light call from outside the door, and after he answered, a clerk hurriedly walked into the straight room, bowed down and said: "Elder Du Ge, there is news from Dong'an Gate, Luo Xiushu took Lord Yang of the Right Army Governor's Mansion in front of the palace gate, saying that there is something important Chen Zuo.

Now that the palace gate has been keyed, the guards guarding the door refused to be accommodating, but Luo Xiu said that the matter was urgent, and he prepared a letter, so Zheng Qianhu over there took it, and asked the little flame to be sent in from Donghua Gate to present Du Ge Lao ......"

Hearing this, Du Weifang immediately frowned, and immediately ordered to take it. But he didn't hurry to open it, and a priori saw that all the seals were intact, and then he opened the envelope and took out the letterhead. The letter was written in a hurry by Luo Xu, but the usual scribbled Xiaokai was a little sloppy at this time, and the words only said that he did not agree with Yang Jinzhou and ran into a major event outside, for fear that there would be changes, so he needed to report it overnight. After a moment of deliberation, he removed the pair of eyes from his nose and stood up calmly.

"Elder Du Ge?"

"Take my seal letter and go to the ancient and modern Tongji library to find the prince, and say that I have something important and need to go out from Donghua Gate."

Seeing that the clerk was stunned for a moment, and then he agreed to go out, Du Weifang couldn't help but tug at the beards on his chin. This is difficult for Luo Xuyang to enter the palace in Zhou, but it is quite easy for him to go out to meet people. Neither of them is the kind of person who babbles at the slightest thing, I just hope it doesn't really make a big fuss. Today's affairs in the palace alone are already very tricky!

Because of the companionship of the ancient and modern Tongji Library, and Du Weifang is the second assistant of the cabinet, Donghua Gate was finally released. When he went out of several doors all the way to Dong'an Gate, the general guarding the door did not dare to open the door, but led Du Weifang to the small window of the gate of the Coupon Cave when he had just received the letter. Through the small window, by the light of the torches and lanterns, Du Weifang easily recognized the two people outside.

"What the hell are you two doing?"

"Elder Du Ge, here's the thing, you listen to me first." Luo Xu stepped forward and whispered that the Holy Hand Liu had been taken captive before, and that someone had coerced him to copy an abridged copy of the official document submitted to the emperor by the cabinet that day on the 23rd day of the lunar month. Seeing that Du Weifang's face on the other side of the door was dark and uncertain, he was busy and said embarrassedly after finishing the things that saved people tonight, "Although I can also inform the government, I am afraid that I will lose the opportunity............

"Okay, Ji Xi, since you're done, then change your uncle and come over!"

Seeing Luo Xu turn around and helplessly spread his hands to himself, Yang Jinzhou stepped forward. First, he said succinctly, he tracked down the three people, but found the one that was clearly the head guard of Jinyiwei in the outer city, and immediately sent You Er in to inquire one by one, and at the end, he reached out and handed something in.

"Old Du Ge, this thing was inadvertently turned out by him in the straw pile, I looked at it a little at that time, and it looked like an object in the palace."

"What did you say?"

Du Weifang had already furrowed his brows into a big pimple, and he was even more shocked when he heard the words. Stretching out his hand to take the thing, he took two steps back without saying a word, snatched the torch from the hand of a soldier, and looked at the thing by the blazing fire for a while, and then he recognized that it was the lid of an enamel and gold-inlaid multicolored incense box, and there were still a few words vaguely engraved on the lid, but it was really difficult to see clearly under such a light outside. Even so, the content of the first is enough for him to make a judgment.

"You brought the guy who went in to investigate?" Du Weifang, who walked quickly to the small window, saw Yang Jinzhou nodded, and immediately commanded without saying anything, "You and Ji Xi, and that person are waiting here together, and I will go to the Qianqing Palace to ask for a meeting immediately!" ”

After saying this, he turned around, and when he arrived in front of Zheng Qianhu, he said in a deep voice: "From now on, until I return here, the people who were on duty here just now are not allowed to leave a single step!" ”

"Elder Du Ge, this ......... In the past, Elder Song Yan once instructed that the officers on duty guarding the four gates of the outer imperial city needed to patrol every two hours, and I was going to go immediately. Besides, it is Yang Ninghou who is in charge of the guards now, and he has just informed him, and he said that he is engaged in ...... according to the rules."

"Song Pavilion is always Song Pavilion Lao, Yangning Hou is Yangning Hou, that's the usual practice! I remember guarding Miyagi at night, and it was always decided by the guards who stayed behind that night, and I just obeyed my orders! If something goes wrong, I'll take care of it! When Du Weifang said this, he handed over his personal seal, "Take this thing, I don't think you will be afraid of me defaulting on my debts!" ”

When it comes to this, "Zheng Qianhu, who was originally afraid of going wrong, hesitated and agreed. And the prince didn't understand what was going on, but Du Weifang pulled him back the same way, and said on the way that there was something important to ask to see the emperor, he was immediately startled, and persuaded all the way but still couldn't pull back this famous stubborn cow, so he had to sigh that he was unlucky, so he had to follow to Qianqingmen. What surprised him was that he thought that the Qianqing Palace had just changed the steward brand, and that one might not be willing to take responsibility, but it would take a while, "There was a message to let Du Weifang in." And he waited for less than a quarter of an hour under the Qianqing Gate, and then saw that Du Ge Lao, who had just walked in a hurry, hurried out again, holding a gold medal talisman in his hand.

"Elder Du Ge, this is .........

"The emperor has a decree to open Dong'anmen and declare Luo Xu Yang into Zhou"............ And that tour two! ”

The East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace has not turned off the lights all night. In the first half of the night, it was because the emperor was in a bad mood, "A person was writing in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and there were countless crumpled messy words in the delicate bamboo writing paper basket." In the second half of the night, the emperor, who was about to go to bed, unexpectedly received an invitation from Du Weifang, and when he learned about the matter, he immediately issued a letter and went out, "When he saw the two young ministers he had always trusted, the eyes on his face, which had already revealed deep sleepiness, suddenly became shining again.

There was originally only a royal wine room and the Liuke Corridor near the Xihua Gate, but now there is a small courtyard on the west side of the Liuke Corridor, which is the temporary residence of Chen Ying, the Marquis of Yangning. Although he is lustful, he is not unhappy without women, and he has lived in Yamen for more than a month before, so he is not used to living here with a pure heart and few desires. However, a message from Donghuamen after the fourth watch made him completely sleepless when he wanted to take a nap.

Luo Xu and Yang Jinzhou would actually meet at this time! Du Weifang not only went to see them in person, but also seemed to have gone to the Qianqing Palace to report!

"Yang Ninghou."

Hearing this voice, Chen Ying suddenly turned around, "I saw a small fireman entering the house with a smile on his face." Recognizing that he had been assigned to serve here, he frowned and scolded, "Who let you in?" ”

"Master Hou, the little one was just ordered to bring you a few words." Although the little firefighter was shocked by this reprimand and took a step back, but then he showed a bachelor's expression, "You are dead now, and people who don't know will at most say that you killed Rick's wife" But those who know will probably think that the late Mrs. Yangning Hou died strangely, even the emperor will inevitably have doubts in his heart, otherwise he would not have relieved you of the position of governor and sent such a nominal general to you. Now at this moment, instead of hesitating at both ends of the first mouse, it is better to go all the way to the dark. ”

Chen Ying suddenly understood that behind this little fire man was a friend, a trace of deep disgust flashed in her heart, but her face did not move, as if what this person said was just an inconsequential matter. Sure enough, the next moment, the little firefighter licked his lips and said with a smile: "Just now, I saw someone coming, and there was a lot of movement outside, I don't know if Master Hou can tell Xiao Xiao what happened outside, or Xu Xiao went out to investigate?" ”

In the face of this unscrupulous attitude, Yangning Hou Chen Ying finally showed a sneer.

He hooked his hand and motioned for the little fireman to come over, and when the man stepped forward with a big grin, he suddenly slashed his knife diagonally at the side of his neck. Seeing that the person fell limply without saying a word, he helped the person around, put the person on the chair smoothly, and immediately ignored his life or death, and strode out of the door.

He brought a total of four of his own soldiers into the palace, and when he saw him go out, one of them immediately came forward to listen to his orders. He said two words with an expressionless face, and the soldier was stunned for a moment, then solemnly bowed down and agreed, and went back to call a companion. The two of them went straight into the house, and immediately set up the little fireman who didn't know about the personnel, but they took it directly to a vacant straight room in the small courtyard.

Seeing that all this was done, Chen Ying turned around and entered the door, but walked to the bookcase and picked up a blank notebook, and then poured water and ink himself, and thought about it for a while before writing it one by one. In the middle of the night, he scrapped three drafts before he finally copied them. However, after sealing the mouth, he directly carried the thing in his arms, and then went out again.

"What's the message about the palace gate?"

One of the soldiers who came over in response bowed, and then lowered his voice and said, "The line of Donghua Gate and the East Gate has opened again, and Luo Shizi and Lord Yang have already left the palace. As for the rest, it is not known yet. ”

"Where's Du Ge Lao?"

"I've gone back to the Cabinet Room."

Chen Ying nodded, looked up at the sky for a long time, and finally turned her back and went back to the straight room. The time has not yet come, it seems too early to make a statement, and let's see, forgive me for not being able to live or die because of a small character!