Chapter 024: Anger in the Mouth of the Earth Bag (5)
On the bank of the Zhejiang River, in the poplar forest, it is approaching dusk.
"I wonder if the girl in the red sleeves can save Zhu'er. Shi Mu stood beside a poplar tree, holding on to the trunk and looking in the direction of Jingshi.
Today's Jingshi fire has not been extinguished, the billowing smoke is still rising to the sky, although the people of the entire Jingshi are trying their best to take river water to extinguish the fire, but after all, there is still some distance between the Zhijiang River and the inner city of Lijing, and the far water cannot solve the near fire!
"Mrs. Shi rest assured, my nephew can fight with the thirty elite horsemen alone, as long as the Prime Minister's Mansion is not heavily guarded, she will definitely be able to save Miss Shi. Jiang Zixian comforted.
After a while, two staggering figures ran in the distance.
"Look, are those Red Sleeves and Pearls?" asked Shi Mu with a happy face pointing into the distance.
"Madame Shi, don't worry, wait for them to come in, let's not go out. Seeing that Shi Mu excitedly wanted to run out to greet her, Jiang Zixian immediately dissuaded.
"At this time, it should be my sister who can come here. At this time, Shi Qingyi finally spoke.
Among the five people at this time, there has been a trend led by Shi Qingyi.
First, Shi Qingyi is Shi You's only son with a noble status, and second, he escaped all the way, if it weren't for Shi Qingyi's repeated miracles, the group would have been arrested and put in prison.
Jiang Zixian glanced at Shi Qingyi, he was still very new to Shi Qingyi, so he immediately sent two guards to greet him.
It didn't take long for the two women to be picked up, and sure enough, it was Red Sleeves and Shi Yuezhu.
"Look at your appearance, but what happened?" Jiang Zixian asked with concern when he saw the appearance of the two.
At this time, Red Sleeves and Shi Yuezhu were the same as the five of them, all wearing ordinary people's coarse cloth clothes, and the two women also deliberately smeared a handful of black ash on their faces, as if they had entered the fire.
"Yes, on our way out of the city, we encountered a large number of cavalry of the Feather Forest Guard, and we had to hide in the burned ruins. Redsleeves nodded and said.
"Cavalry?" Jiang Zixian frowned, "Could it be ......?"
"That's right! The Yulin Guards should be out of Beijing. On the side, Shi Qingyi said lightly.
"The Yulin Guards are going out of Beijing, this is to break the old routine!" Jiang Zixian sighed.
The Yulin Guard, as the personal guard of the Son of Heaven, generally does not leave the area around the palace, and unless the Son of Heaven goes out on patrol, he is not allowed to leave Beijing!
"Father's move, the court side has no soldiers available, so our mother and son are the Zhao family's biggest life talisman, in order to catch us, it is not surprising to send the Yulin guards out of Beijing. Shi Qingyi looked up at the sky, as if he was calculating something.
"There are at least 20,000 cavalry in the Yulin Guard, if they are scattered, I am afraid that I will not be able to move an inch within a radius of ten miles!
For a while, everyone's eyes were on Shi Qingyi, who was sitting cross-legged, quietly waiting for his answer.
"We ......" The young man raised his head, looked at the gradually setting sun, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he slowly spit out two words in his mouth, "...... Into town!"
In the evening, Lijing City was full of devastation.
A fire at noon was menacing, and even though the people of the whole city were struggling to put it out, it still turned half of the capital division into ruins, and even the mansions of high-ranking officials and nobles were inevitably affected.
The night is approaching, and those dignitaries may be able to go to the courtyard on the outskirts of the city to continue to get drunk and dream of death, but the common people can only stand alone on the streets, looking at the ashes all over the ground, and want to cry without tears.
Despite the catastrophe, life went on, and as it was, in the middle of the night, thousands of homeless people slept on the streets.
On the streets, most of the people are gathered together as a family, under a certain sheltered wall, no one cares if there are suddenly a few more people around them, they just feel that the west wind is really cold tonight!
The east wall of the palace.
Li Gong is the place where the Son of Heaven lives, if in the past, all civilians within three zhang of the palace wall would be shot to death by the guards guarding the city, but now the east wall of Li Palace is crowded with people.
Almost all the troops in the capital were searching for Shi Qingyi and others, so the fire fighting was ineffective, which led to the spread of the fire.
Empress Dowager Zhao could see the monstrous flames from the palace, perhaps out of guilt, so she promised the east palace wall as a shelter for the people.
There were suddenly hundreds of more people under the palace wall in the east, and the guards guarding the palace naturally focused their defense here, so the people under the corner could hear the footsteps of the guards patrolling the wall every moment.
"Childe, why don't we go anywhere else, but come under the palace walls?"
Under the city wall, Jiang Zixian's face turned pale, his body was shivering slightly from the cold, he raised his hand and tightened his collar, and then tucked his hand into the cuffs.
Beside Jiang Zixian, there was a plain face of Shi Qingyi and red sleeves, the two of them were different from Jiang Zixian, they seemed to be unaware of the cold at night, one was looking at the night sky faintly, and the other pricked up his ears, frowning whenever there were guards patrolling.
"There are no stupid people in the imperial court, if the cavalry of the Yulin Guards goes out of the city to search without results, it won't be long before someone guesses that we are still in the city, so we are here to find a way out!" Shi Qingyi's eyes kept looking at the night sky, and Jiang Zixian could see the starlight in his eyes.
Jiang Zixian was stunned, to be honest, his views on the general trend of the world are unmatched, but he is not very good in strategy, so after the omission in arranging the evacuation of Shifu, he has been listening to Shi Qingyi's arrangement.
"Since you are looking for a way out, why don't you bring Mrs. Shi and Miss Shi?" Jiang Zixian couldn't help but ask.
That's right, at this time, there were only Jiang Zixian, Shi Qingyi and Red Sleeves under the palace wall, as for Shi Mu, Shi Yuezhu and the two guards, they were all arranged in the secret room of Shifu, although the things on the ground of Shifu had been burned by fire, but it had no impact on the secret room built underground.
"It's not so easy to find a way out, and my mother and sister can't help. Shi Qingyi's gaze moved down from the sky and said to Jiang Zixian, "When the time comes, you will have to rely on the strength of the red-sleeved lady, so Tsing Yi is here to bother Mr. and your nephew." ”
Outside the palace, red sleeves, is it ...... Jiang Zixian finally caught a trace of vein at this time!
Jiang Zixian looked at Shi Qingyi with a shocked face, and in response to him was a faint smile from the young man, he didn't know how he should feel now, he really didn't expect that the young man in front of him would have such a big courage!
It's just that...... Jiang Zixian was a little puzzled and thought that he didn't seem to have any role in this strategy! It's just enough to bring the red-sleeved master and nephew with him, why do you want to take me with you?