Chapter 537: Rescue the Emperor
Sister Xiu turned around and took out a map from the cabinet on the side and unfolded it, "This map is the topographic map of the palace that I asked for from the bachelor, and according to what I learned when I sneaked into the palace, I added something to it...... You see, this is the place where the emperor is imprisoned, and the entrance is behind the rockery by the pond, and this secret room should be at the bottom of the pond."
Everyone was shocked, and Longji pondered, "It's really hidden, I never heard the imperial grandmother say that there is a secret room here, it seems that they dug it later."
Sister Xiu said, "I've thought about it in the past few days and thought of a plan, you can see if it's okay."
Lux hurriedly said, "Sister Xiu, tell me quickly, what is the plan?"
Sister Xiu said seriously, "Look at the map, my plan is to ......" said and gestured on the map...... The crowd listened attentively.
After a long time, Sister Xiu said: "The whole plan is like this, as for the time when we save people, I will set it at the end of tomorrow night, and the deepest time of the night is the time when they are the most negligent in their precautions, what do you think?"
Longji pondered, "I think this plan is very good and well-thought...... What do you think, beauty?"
Lux hurriedly said, "I have no opinion, I know what I should do."
"I don't have a problem with it, it's just ...... Are all the people you are looking for reliable?"
Sister Xiu said, "I have tried, there is no problem, as long as we have a plan and notify them in advance, they will fully cooperate with us."
The beauty nodded, "Well, that's good."
Sister Xiu looked at the crowd: "Since everyone has no opinions, then we will act according to the plan tomorrow."
Late at night, in the small courtyard outside the city of Luoyang, the capital
In the courtyard, Sister Xiu sat at the stone table in the courtyard and pondered.
In one room, Wu Zhong and Lux were sleeping in the room.
The doors on both sides of the hall were quietly closed, but at this time, they saw that the two doors opened at the same time, but it was Qingnu, Longji and Beauty, and the three of them were shocked......
After a while, the three of them walked out of the hall, and in a blink of an eye, they saw Sister Xiu at the stone table, and they were shocked, and the beauty was surprised: "Sister Xiu......
Sister Xiu heard the voice, turned around and saw the three of them, and she was also surprised.
After a while, Longji, Beauty, and Qingnu sat down at the stone table with Sister Xiu, and Sister Xiu was puzzled, "Why don't you rest after you have been on the road for so long?"
The beauty glanced at Longji and said, "Tomorrow we will go deep into the tiger's den to save the emperor, we can't sleep, so we will come out to breathe, I didn't think that Sister Xiu you are here."
Sister Xiu was puzzled, "Qingnu, what about you, why can't you sleep?"
The young girl hurriedly said, "I can't sleep either."
Sister Xiu sighed: "Yes, we are going to enter the palace tomorrow night to save the emperor, but I know that it will not be so easy, during this time, the defense in the capital and the palace is several times stricter than usual...... It is to send sheep into the mouth of the tiger."
Everyone's expressions were heavy, and Longji thought about it, took out the jade bottle with a shimmering light from his arms and handed it to Sister Xiu.
Sister Xiu was puzzled, "What are you doing here?"
Longji said: "I will hand over Aixue to you, if tomorrow night, if the plan fails and we can't escape, you have the greatest ability, so take Aixue away."
Sister Xiu was taken aback, and Longji said, "Sister Xiu, you agree to my request, I have already hurt Aixue hard enough, and I don't want her to die with us again."
The beauty said: "Longi is right, in case of failure, escape one by one."
Sister Xiu hesitated and nodded, "Okay, just let me go first, but don't be discouraged, Sister Xiu will never allow the plan to fail, everyone must live well."
At noon the next day, Luoyang Street in Beijing
On a teahouse, Longji, Beauty, Qingnu, Xiujie, and Wu Zhong, who were dressed as merchants in the Western Regions, sat at the window table and ate with their heads bowed.
At this time, I saw a loud gong, horses' hooves, and shouts coming from the street below: "Let me ......"
"Get out of the way, go aside." ……
Everyone was shocked, and the guests next to them ran to the window to look down, pointing and discussing, "Look, everyone, you're going to cut off your head again."
"Well, murder again."
"Look, look."
Everyone looked at each other, hurriedly walked to the window and looked down, but saw that the fierce and red evil below led a group of officers and soldiers with a string of five-flower tyings and wearing prison uniforms, there were big and small, old and young prisoners walking on the street, and behind each prisoner there was a wooden letter, all of which were written with the name of the person surnamed Li, and the word "chop" on it was extremely blood-red.
The prisoners wept and cried, "I have been wronged."
"Wronged, Your Majesty......
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die......
"Don't kill me, I don't want to die yet......
The crowd was shocked, and the guests said, "Alas, it's pitiful to be beheaded at such a young age."
"That's it, you see, there are still people who are too old to walk."
"The whole house was slaughtered, of course, the whole family was killed."
"Oh, that's cruel."
"Well, it's not weird."
Longji was furious, Wu Zhong hesitated, and hurriedly asked in a Western Regions accent, "Who are they?" Why kill them?"
The man looked at Wu Zhong and said suspiciously, "I think you just arrived in the capital, and you don't know about such a big thing?"
Wu Zhong hurriedly said, "Yes, a few of us came here from the west to do business, and we don't know anything about the capital, so we ask my eldest brother for advice."
The man looked at Wu Zhong, nodded and said, "At first glance, you are a person from the Western Regions, okay, let me tell you, do you see it, what is written on the sign on their body?" What's so special?"
Wu Zhong was puzzled, "Special?"
The man smirked, "Don't you see it? They are all family, and they are all surnamed Li."
Wu Zhong was surprised: "The surname is Li?"
The man nodded and said, "What about them, they are all members of the old Li royal family in the capital, although they are usually not as beautiful as the royal family surnamed Wu, but they are also people with status, but you see, they are about to be taken to the execution ground and beheaded."
Wu Zhong was surprised, "Beheaded?"
The man nodded and said, "Yes, such a family kills every two or three days."
One of them chimed in: "I see, this royal family surnamed Li will soon be killed by the emperor."
Everyone was shocked, Wu Zhong came back to his senses for a while, and hurriedly said, "Then why did the emperor kill them?"
The man was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly, "Why? What else could it be besides rebellion?"
Longji hurriedly said: "Rebel ......" was angry in his heart, clenched his fists, and glared down angrily......
Sister Xiu was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Hey, don't look at it, what's so good about killing heads, come on, let's continue to drink, drink." As he spoke, he and the beauty pulled Longji back to the table.
Wu Zhong hurriedly said, "Thank you, thank you, big brother." Hurriedly walked back to the table, saw that Longji was angry, and hurriedly said, "Come, drink, drink......" Hurriedly poured a glass of wine and handed it over.
Longji held back the anger in his heart, took a sip and drank the wine in the glass, and slammed the wine glass on the table, and everyone was shocked.
With a "snap", the wine glass in Longji's hand was crushed, and blood oozed from his palm, and everyone was shocked......
At noon, a remote alley in Luoyang, the capital city
Longji pounded the wall vigorously, gritted his teeth and whined, and said angrily, "Crazy, inhumane, inhuman......
Everyone was shocked, Wu Zhong and Sister Xiu were busy looking at both sides, and the beauty was anxious for a while, and persuaded: "Longji, don't be like this, you calm down, calm down."
Longji hurriedly said: "Calm down, how can I be calm, they are so inhumane, killing people is like ...... It's like mowing the grass, they're so cruel, they're inhuman."
The young girl persuaded, "They are demons in the first place, and they are not human at all."
The beauty persuaded: "Longji, you are right, they are inhumane, if we let this jade fox be the emperor for another day, it will be one more day of trouble, so we must be calm, hold back, and drive them out as soon as possible."
When you leave the capital, the people of the capital will suffer one day less."
Longji nodded, "Well, we must not let her continue to cause trouble."
Late at night, the capital Luoyang Palace
Luoyang City was pitch black, silent everywhere, in the palace, the eunuchs guarding the door were also dozing, only the forbidden army patrolling from the road made a burst of rustling footsteps.
By the wall in the imperial garden, as soon as a group of forbidden soldiers walked away, six black shadows jumped in from outside the wall, and a few dodged, hiding in the bushes on the side, and staring at the road in the dark.
After a while, several forbidden soldiers patrolled over, and as soon as they passed through the bushes, the five black shadows quickly rushed out and knocked on the back of the necks of the forbidden soldiers, and the forbidden soldiers fainted before they could make a sound.
Four men in black dragged several of the Janissaries into the low bushes, and one man in black stayed aside to keep the wind ......
After a while, they walked out of the forbidden army that had changed their clothes, but it was Longji, Beauty, Qingnu and Wu Zhong.
The man in black looked at the crowd and said softly, "Then we'll go our separate ways." But it's Sister Xiu.
Longji nodded, and Wu Zhong took the lead and walked forward together with torches, while Sister Xiu turned around and went to the other side......
After a while, the black-clothed man in Xiu's disguise sneaked into a palace, looked at no one around, and after a little thought, she took a candle lit on the side and lit a fire in the room.
After a while, there was a fire in the room, and Sister Xiu took a look, and hurriedly opened the door of the room and slipped out...... When he stopped at the door, he saw a group of forbidden soldiers coming, and hurriedly jumped onto the top of the palace......
The forbidden army was startled when they saw this, and after a while, they came back to their senses and hurriedly shouted, "There are assassins, there are assassins, catch assassins, catch assassins............"
On the other side, Longji and the others were walking, hearing the sound, and turned their heads to look, only to see the fire in the distance behind them, "Catch the assassins, catch the assassins......" There was a commotion.
Everyone looked at each other, and Wu Zhong hurriedly shouted, "There are assassins, there are assassins, arrest the assassins......" but ran to the other side.
At this time, they saw Mei Niang hurrying over with a team of forbidden troops, and everyone was shocked.
Wu Zhong saw Mei Niang approaching, and hurriedly bowed down and reported: "My lord, it's not good, there are assassins, and there are assassins who have broken into the palace."
Mei Niang hurriedly said, "Assassin? Aren't the Assassins over there? How are you running this way?"
Wu Zhong hurriedly said, "We chased after us from over there, and a few assassins ran over there." He said and pointed to the other side.
Mei Niang glanced at the direction Wu Zhong pointed, was startled, and said hurriedly, "Quick, you come with me." Run with the crowd over there.
Wu Zhong and Longji glanced at each other, overjoyed, and Wu Zhong hurriedly said, "It's my lord." Busy running with Mei Niang.
After a while, Mei Niang led everyone to the pond, and when she saw more than a dozen forbidden soldiers fainting on the ground, she was shocked and hurriedly said, "Come with me." Led everyone to run behind the rockery.
Behind the rockery, Mei Niang turned away from a stone on the side, took out a key, put it in and twisted it, and a huge rockery stone rattled away, revealing a stone hole.
Mei Niang hurriedly said, "You are waiting outside, and you are not allowed to come in without my order."
The officers and soldiers hurriedly said, "It's my lord." Busy standing on both sides of the guard.
Mei Niang just disappeared into the hole, but when she saw a few small sounds on the side, more than a dozen forbidden soldiers who followed Mei Niang fell to the ground.
Sister Xiu jumped out of the rockery and hurriedly said, "You guys go in and save people, I'm guarding outside, be quick."
The crowd hurried inside.
Mei Niang walked to the door of the prison inside, and the four little demons guarding the door saw Mei Niang coming, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "General."
Mei Niang was stunned for a moment, hurriedly walked to the prison door, looked inside through the hole in the prison door, but saw Wu Zetian tied to the wall well, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "There is nothing wrong here, right?"
A little demon leader hurriedly said, "General Hui, everything is normal."
Mei Niang nodded and said, "Well, that's good, take a good look." Turning around, he was about to go out, but he saw several forbidden soldiers rushing in and shouted urgently, "My lord, it's not good, my lord......
Mei Niang said angrily, "Didn't I ask you to wait outside? How did you get in?"
The forbidden army pretending to be Longji hurriedly said, "My lord, forgive me, a few men in black came outside, and they fought with the brothers, and the brothers are not their opponents."
Mei Niang hurriedly said, "The man in black? What are you doing in a daze, come out with me." Rush out.
Unexpectedly, just after walking a few steps, the back of the head was knocked by a forbidden soldier behind him, and he fainted to the ground, but it was a young girl.