The noise inside the wall is shocking, the side of the rockery, inside and outside the verandah, the lights are shaking, the pupils of human figures, a scene of the coming end. The royal family members in the courtyard obviously knew the situation outside, and they were in a panic at the moment, as if they were helping the old and the young to pack up and prepare to run away.

Song Nan led everyone down the courtyard wall, through the messy courtyard, the noise in front of the ears was in the ears, everyone was busy hiding in the shadow of the house to look at it, in front of the open courtyard in front of them, there were fifty or sixty people standing tall and short, the little maids carried packages and cages, the maidservants supported the master, and more than a dozen richly dressed men shouted loudly and commanded everyone to go to the gate of the courtyard.

Song Nan understood that the relatives of the palace were going to run away, and no one wanted to stay here and wait for death. The lord of Ping'an stretched out his head and searched carefully among the people, trying to find out if there was any trace of King Qingding, but he was extremely disappointed that King Qingding was not among them.

In the midst of the noise, I suddenly heard someone shouting loudly: "The prince has an order, the inner family is not allowed to leave, everyone returns to their own room, the palace is safe and sound, and it is not safe for foreign enemies to break through, please keep calm, so as not to breed civil strife." ”

Song Nan and the others hurriedly looked carefully, only to see a team of palace guards appear in front of the royal family, and a tall guard commander was stopping at the intersection and talking loudly.

A young man in a brocade robe stepped forward and shouted: "Gao Xuecheng, don't talk this nonsense, I went to the gate just now and saw it, the main gate has been destroyed by fire, and the brocade guard outside is about to attack it. ”

"Shut up, the prince said, if someone demagogues people and causes civil strife, even the royal family members can't be spared; There are only a few hundred brocade guards outside, and there are nearly two thousand guards in my palace, how can they break through it? In a few hours, the West Cliff reinforcement army is coming, and all the Jinyi guards and rebellious soldiers in the city will be wiped out. ”

"Lord Wang? Whose lord is that? My Qingwangfu prince is the king of Qingding, the king of Anhua came to Qingwangfu to point fingers, and made such a big incident, he wants to die, and we Qingwangfu people don't want to die with him; We're going out, open the side door and let us go. The young man in the brocade robe said without showing weakness.

Several brocade-robed men and a group of women and children behind him also shouted, "We are leaving, let's go." ”

Gao Xuecheng, the commander of the guards, had a gloomy face and said in a deep voice: "Are you going to disobey?" ”

The young man in the brocade robe said angrily: "Dog, do you still want to be rude to the masters?" Get out of the way. ”

Gao Xuecheng sneered, stepped forward, and suddenly a silver light crossed the air, and everyone didn't see what was happening, only to see the blood from the neck of the young man in the brocade robe popping out, and his body fell to the ground with a puff, and the blood gushed out from his neck, and suddenly stained the ground red.

After a brief moment of surprise, the crowd let out a deafening scream, and a woman pounced forward, crouched on the corpse and howled loudly.

Gao Xuecheng wiped the blood stains on the waist knife on the soles of his boots, returned the knife into the sheath with a bang, and shouted: "This is the end of talking nonsense and disobeying the prince's orders; I repeat it again, please go back to your room to be restless, if there is any shouting and disobedience, the prince has granted me full authority to dispose of it, and I will not blame my subordinates for not being merciful. ”

Song Nan looked at this qiē dumbfounded, and could feel the body of the county lord of Ping'an who was snuggling in front of him trembling slightly, and hurriedly reached out to hold her little hand and squeezed it to show comfort.

Seeing that the family members of the Qingwang Mansion could be slaughtered lightly like pigs and dogs in the eyes of the King of Anhua, Song Nan was also very surprised, although these people were not the masters of the royal mansion like the lord of Ping'an and the king of Qingding, but they also had noble status, maybe there were nobles such as the feudal prince Hou Bo. After all, King Qing's lineage has lasted for several generations, although some people are collateral, but they are also nobles with status and status, King Anhua said that he would kill and kill, but it can only be said that he has lost his mind and is almost crazy.

"You minion, do you know who you killed with this sword? He was the guest of honor of the royal palace, the husband of the lord of Rongxiu, and the earl of the imperial title; Zhu Ningyao, you are really inferior to pigs and dogs, you actually connived at your subordinates to slaughter the relatives of the palace, and you have the ability to show up and kill the old man with your own hands. Old lord, you saw these things in the spirit of heaven, but before you left, you were also blind and lured the wolf into the room...... How can you feel at ease when you turn a good Qingwang Mansion into a place where pigs and dogs are rampant......" A white-haired old lady rushed out of the crowd, and rushed forward despite the obstruction of the two servants beside her, stretched out her hand to the sky, and cried loudly.

Gao Xuecheng shouted in a deep voice: "Old lady, don't be disrespectful, go back to the room." ”

"Dog, the old body is going to be scolded by you, get out of the way for me." The old woman scolded angrily with her fingers cursed.

Gao Xuecheng pulled out half of the waist knife with a gloomy face, and said angrily: "I only act on the orders of the prince, and I advise the old lady to be more restrained, otherwise I don't care what your identity and status are." ”

The old woman was dumbfounded and scolded angrily: "Dog, the old body is afraid of you?" The old body has lived for seventy years, and he has already lived enough, and there is a kind of you who will slash at the old body. ”

Gao Xuecheng sneered: "Don't you think I don't dare? As he spoke, he unsheathed his waist knife and raised his knife to threaten.

The old woman laughed repeatedly, not only did not retreat, but raised the dragon head crutch in her hand high and swung it towards Gao Xuecheng's head, Gao Xuecheng scolded angrily: "Looking for death." He raised his knife and slashed the dragon's head in two, and then the blade turned and slashed at the old woman's head.

Everyone exclaimed, I didn't expect this Gao Xuecheng to really dare to cut people with a knife, you need to know that this old woman is not an ordinary person, she is the only remaining older generation of people in the palace, although the identity is a side room lady of the old prince's uncle, but even if the old prince is alive, he also respectfully calls her an old lady, and when he arrives at the generation of the county lord of Ping'an, the whole house is even more respectful of the old grandmother, even if Zhu Ningxiao sees her, he has to salute and say hello, but he didn't expect to be buried under the knife of a palace guard today.

It was too late, and the moment the blade fell, a crisp scolding sounded: "Stop." ”

Gao Xuecheng's hand was sluggish, and he could stop the blade at the top of the old woman's head for a few minutes, after all, the majesty of the masters of the palace was invisible, even Gao Xuecheng did not dare to be unscrupulous, although he had Zhu Ningxiao as a backer, but Gao Xuecheng was not a fool. The person he killed just now was only the son-in-law of the palace, and he had no blood relationship with the palace, and he was not a member of the surname Zhu at all, otherwise Gao Xuecheng would definitely not have done it. At this moment, someone called to stop, and the subconscious awe still existed, and he subconsciously did so.

The crowd turned their heads to look back with the coquettish voice, but saw that in the shadow of the house behind them, a slender palace guard rushed out, Gao Xuecheng was a little puzzled, and when the guard came to the front, he shouted: "Who are you?" Whose subordinates are they? The first battalion guards were ordered by the prince to protect the royal family, what kind of trouble are you here to make? ”

The guard didn't answer, he reached out and took off his hat, and his waterfall-like hair splashed down, and the crowd shouted in surprise: "It's the county lord, it's the county lord of Ping'an." ”

The head of Ping'an County ignored Gao Xuecheng's question, stepped forward to support the old woman and shouted, "Old grandmother, you are not injured, the old grandmother is frightened." ”

The old woman hugged the old lord of Ping'an and said with tears in her eyes: "Fengtong, my son, where have you been these days?" Do you know that your uncle Zhu Ningjiao is dizzy and wants to rebel, and these dogs in the house are also bullying people, and they are also shouting and shouting to kill their families. ”

The county lord of Ping'an knew that these relatives didn't know anything about what happened to him, so the old woman complained like this, so she comforted in a low voice: "Old grandmother, rest assured, they will be retributed for their many injustices, and Lord Song of the Jinyi Guard outside has already led his troops to attack the palace, waiting to see their retribution." ”

Gao Xuecheng, who was standing on the side, finally reacted, raised his knife and pointed at the county lord of Ping'an and said, "You...... How are you here? Didn't the prince order that you should be imprisoned in the west building and not allowed to leave half a step? How did you end up here? ”

The county lord of Ping'an glanced at him coldly and said, "This is the Qingwang Mansion, where is the main county going, and I still need to report to you, a minion?" Take the people out of the house, the people here will appease them to go back to the house, you are only allowed to stay outside the courtyard, and you are not allowed to come in and disturb them. ”

Gao Xuecheng shouted: "No, why did you get out? It is impossible for the prince to order you to be released, is it ......"

Before Gao Xuecheng's words fell, he heard a guard exclaim: "There is a suspicious person near the left!" ”

Without saying a word, he saw a crowd of footsteps around him, and dozens of figures quickly emerged from the darkness, each holding a black tubular object in his hand, and slowly surrounded him.

"Oh no, there's an enemy sneaking in." Gao Xuecheng shouted, stretched out his hand and held the bamboo flute around his neck in his mouth and blew it hard, the sharp and piercing sound pierced the night sky, this bamboo flute also seemed to give the surrounding people a signal to attack, when the bamboo flute sounded, his whereabouts had been exposed anyway, and Song Nan was the first to pull the trigger.

The deafening roar of the firearm came and went, Gao Xuecheng and his guards had no power to fight back, in front of this domineering firearm, not even a sword was handed to the enemy, and they were put to the ground like cutting leeks, almost in an instant, none of the more than 20 guards could still stand on the ground, and all of them were knocked down.

The moment the firearm sounded, the county lord of Ping'an quickly pulled the old lady to run a few steps to crawl around, this is the detail that Song Nan explained, the county lord of Ping'an insisted on showing up to save people, Song Nan couldn't stop it, and could only use her to divert the attention of the guards to carry out a surprise attack; Originally, Song Nan didn't plan to expose his whereabouts so early, but he couldn't ignore the thoughts of the county lord of Ping'an. Fortunately, out of this courtyard, in front of it is the mansion where Zhu Ningxiao lived as said by the lord of Ping'an, and his whereabouts will be exposed sooner or later, but it will not be a big problem in the overall situation.

The huge sound of firearms obviously made the palace guards near the left notice something wrong, and there was a bamboo flute in the south that was dripping and screaming, accompanied by the sound of shouting and drinking, Song Nan understood that a large number of guards would arrive here in an instant, and at this time, they had to immediately rush to Zhu Ningyao's residence, and if they delayed a little, they would be packed.

"County Lord, we have to leave quickly, how are you going?"

The lord of Ping'an said: "I want to find my younger brother, and I also want to settle the old grandmother and others." ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "It's okay, you stay here, remember to let everyone go back to the room to hide, don't show your head lightly." ”

The county lord of Ping'an nodded and said, "I know, you have to take care, there are strange things in that house, be careful." ”

Song Nan said: "You also have to take care, remember, don't walk around, wait for me to come back to pick you up." ”

The county lord of Ping'an felt sour in his heart for no reason, and his eyes were about to cry, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I know, you can go." ”

Song Nan turned around and saw that the fifty guards around him were looking at him with blank eyes, so he shouted in a low voice: "The ammunition is loaded, from now on, it is the moment of fighting, brothers follow me." ”

The crowd moved, as strong as galloping horses, and quickly rushed to the south gate of the house and disappeared into the darkness.

The county lord of Ping'an watched their figures disappear, turned around to wipe the tears from his cheeks, and said loudly: "Everyone go into the room to hide, don't come out." ”

All the relatives of the royal palace ran to their residences, and the lord of Ping'an helped the old woman and whispered in her ear: "Old grandmother, Fengtong protects you, let's find a place to hide." ”