Volume 3: Tempered into Steel Chapter 21: Open the Door
As soon as Zhu Qizhen and the others left, Anhua kicked open the door, his eyes swept over the Qian family, revealing a look of disdain, obviously uncomfortable with this dilapidated environment.
The soldiers rushed into the house and turned all the houses upside down, but only found Qian Yu and Qian Shouhou, a disabled father and son.
Qian Shouhou, who was still in a coma, was thrown in front of Anhua, and Anhua looked at the crippled pair with crazy eyes.
"What about people? Say! ”
Pan Wuye crept into the Anhua Mansion, and when he saw the housekeeper enter the inner house, he came to the main hall and salivated at the tiger skin.
After looking around a few times uneasily, he quietly came to the tiger skin, and excitedly turned the fur over and the skin and flesh were facing up, and there was really a needle and thread in the middle to close and stitch.
Pan Wuye put the tiger skin to his mouth with trembling hands, and bit off the needle and thread hard, and after a while, all the needle and thread were removed. After the tiger skin was spread out, it turned out to be a huge ledger stacked with three layers, which recorded in detail all the accounts between Anhua and King Yi, and even the news collected by Anhua himself, many of which Pan Wuye did not know.
Pan Wuye looked at this information tremblingly, he knew that his luck had come, and he would definitely rise to the top in the future!
I thought in my heart, but I had a hard time with how to take away the tiger skin, such a big thing, I am afraid it is impossible to take it secretly.
"Maybe it could be spun off?" Pan Wuye thought so, and hurriedly looked around for usable utensils, but who would put a dagger or other murder weapon in the main hall? After some searching, there is naturally no gain.
Pan Wuye sat on this tiger skin irritably, and his hand unconsciously stretched out to the fruit bowl on the table, but he withdrew his rough hand like an electric shock.
I saw that a small wound had been cut on my finger, and bright red blood had come out of the wound.
As if he didn't feel pain, Pan Wuye opened the fruit plate in surprise, and sure enough, he found a sharp fruit knife inside.
"God help me! Anhua, I'll laugh at your seat. Thinking so, Pan Wuye couldn't help touching the tiger skin under his body, revealing an intoxicated look, and began to cut it with great energy.
"Oh? General An actually went to arrest the thief himself? Li Daren asked in surprise.
The housekeeper replied attentively: "Yes, Lord Li, for the sake of these thieves, my general did not go home all day. ”
"I used to say that Anhua people were lazy, why did they suddenly become diligent this time? Is it trying to compete with the prefect? Li Daren muttered.
"What did you say?" The housekeeper didn't hear me.
"Oh, it's nothing, it's nothing, then I'll wait for him to come back, you can go and report it quickly." Li Daren pointed to the main hall in front of him and said.
The housekeeper nodded and agreed, and quickly left to find his master.
Li Daren took his master into the main hall and saw Pan Wuye, who was about to go out.
Pan Wuye's hand shook, and he almost threw the tiger skin wrapped in clothes to the ground, and hurriedly pretended to be calm and saluted the prefect.
"You are?" Li Daren had no impression of Pan Wuye.
Pan Wuye hurriedly said: "Master Li, I am Pan Wu, a warden under Lord An, you forgot that I also toasted you before." ”
"Oh...... So what are you? Li Daren seemed to remember that there was such a person, and asked apologetically.
"Oh, I was ordered to deliver something for Lord An, you sit first, and the Lord waits for it, so you have to go first." Pan Wuye said a little anxiously.
He had just seen the butler leave, and he thought that he would not come back in a short time, so he was ready to take advantage of this time to leave quickly.
Li Daren also saw that he had something, but he didn't ask too much, nodded and entered the house.
"My lord, something seems wrong with this person?" The master said.
"You don't care about him, this is not the official's home, what's the matter with love." Li Daren was unimpressed.
Pan Wuye left the commander's mansion as if he had been amnestied, and went out in the wrong direction in a nervous manner, and only after some identification did he go to King Yi's mansion.
Luoyang City, which is full of officials, if there is only one place that is safe, it can only be Yiwangfu.
Zhu Qizhen also thought so, fortunately, with the sharp blade of Jinyiwei, he had a clear understanding of the situation in Luoyang City in a short period of time, and all the streets, even the paths, were already clear.
After the guidance of Jinyiwei, everyone had already appeared outside the back door of King Yi's mansion at this time.
"Your Majesty, this small door is used by the palace to pour animal night incense, and it has to be opened several times a day."
Zhu Qizhen looked intently, and sure enough, there was a trace of foul smell on the tip of his nose, the small door creaked and slowly opened, and a palace handyman pushed a dung cart and walked out, dumping the dung on the side of the road in disgust.
"There are farmers who come to pour night incense, it may be that there are too many animals in the palace, so they can only pour from the small door first, and someone will take them away the next day." Seeing that Zhu Qizhen was puzzled, the brocade guard continued to explain.
Zhu Qizhen nodded, and then said softly, "Do it." ”
A brocade guard in coarse cloth clothes stepped forward, laughed and accosted: "Big brother, can I pull this dung away?" ”
The miscellaneous servant glanced at the Jinyi guard contemptuously and said, "You also want to pull the night incense of our palace?" ”
"Hehe, you can rest assured that I can work diligently, I promise that I will not let you leave a little taste here, see that you are very diligent, I can wait at the door." Jin Yiwei said flatteringly, unconsciously approaching the other party.
The handyman jokingly asked, "How much can you give?" ”
As he spoke, he began to gesture in his hand, and Jin Yiwei suddenly said, "Is it okay to look at this number?" ”
The handyman looked at the sleeve of the brocade guard suspiciously, and said impatiently: "You can just say it, what are you doing!" ”
"That's fine! Listen up. Jin Yiwei stretched out his right hand in his sleeve like lightning, and with a crisp snap, a hand knife slashed at the back of the handyman's neck, and the handyman fainted softly to the ground.
The coarse cloth brocade guard looked carefully inside the door, and then quickly waved to a few people, just at the gap where Zhu Qizhen and the others entered the door, the coarse cloth brocade guard had already changed into the clothes of the miscellaneous servants. Put the handyman in the dung cart and push them into the Yiwang Mansion together, and the door was slammed shut.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but be shocked by the sight in front of him, this is like the back garden of the palace, except for the flowers and plants, they are fierce beasts in cages, it is simply a zoo! It is also a zoo in the area of predators.
Before everyone could take a closer look, a grim voice came from the other side of the garden path.
"What's going on! Pouring a night fragrance is like going to eat a meal by yourself, hurry up, a group of people are waiting for you! ”
Zhu Qizhen hurriedly took the lead and hidden.
The "miscellaneous servant" lowered his head and pushed the cart, and said with some embarrassment: "Immediately, the night incense is dry today, it's not easy to pour!" ”
But the person in charge still walked up unrelentingly, and reached out and knocked off the hat of "miscellaneous servant".
"Say you're grinding, don't hurry up and push the cart away!"
His eyes were on the car, and his mind suddenly seemed to be short, and he asked with some doubts: "What's wrong with someone lying in the car?" ”
The "handyman" no longer looked like a promise, and said, "You can just ask, you will know" and then concocted the steward to knock him unconscious.
As it darkened, Fonda finally reached the city gates.
An angry shout resounded through the sky: "Open the door!" ”