Chapter 262: Rescue
In one day, two officials of the imperial court died, and both were killed, which is enough to disgrace the imperial court in any dynasty.
The Great Qi Dynasty is still unable to make waves up and down, as if there is no such thing. It's just that the ministers of the DPRK and China are talking a lot in private, and there are too many speculations, so naturally some people will guess the truth, but they just don't say it in a grand manner.
Another morning when the dynasty dispersed, the ministers gathered together in twos and threes, and exchanged heads and ears.
"Master Li, it's been two days since this happened, haven't you heard any rumors?"
"Hear the wind? Oh, if I hear the wind, I'm afraid I'll already go down to accompany Lord Liu and Lord Huang! ”
"The two sides have not yet fought, but the ministers of the DPRK and China have died violently for no reason, alas..."
"How can you die suddenly for no reason? It must have been sent from that side to assassinate the adults who were loyal to His Majesty..."
When the other ministers heard the minister's remarks, they thought about Huang Bai's personality and were noncommittal.
The demeanor and speech of the ministers from all walks of life, none of them could escape Zhao Yizhi's divine sense. Zhao Yizhi stood at the door of the Taihe Palace, ignoring the discussion of these "pillars of the country", and his divine sense floated out of the palace and filled the entire capital.
Elder Wang and Elder Zhu, who had captured the beggar gang in Wucheng before, also learned from them that a young man had been captured in Nanhuai, and he had been secretly brought back to the beggar gang for strict training and good cultivation. At that time, Zhao Yizhi thought of it, but he never saw Yi Xiaodao, and there were many affairs, so he forgot about this stubble.
"The kid next to Yi Xiaodao is called Fang Long, do you remember?" Zhao Yizhi asked Wang Zhenliang beside him.
"Back to Your Majesty, the old slave remembers. He is the son of Fang Deng, a wealthy merchant in Wucheng, and met Lord Yi when he was doing business in Wancheng with his father. The old slave sent someone to check, and his identity was not fake. Although Wang Zhenliang is old, he has a good memory: "That Fang Deng also sent someone to the capital to look for Fang Long at that time, but Fang Long had long since disappeared, and Master Yi had also left the capital. The one who came had no choice but to give up. ”
Zhao Yizhi raised his eyebrows and said: "Now that you know the details, it's easy to do, go, send someone to recruit Fang Deng from Anhui City." ”
"It's just that some time ago, the imperial court and Chu Xiang sent a large army to suppress the border, and Fang Deng was afraid of the soldiers, so he had already left Anhui City and returned to Chu Xiang. If you want to recall it again, I'm afraid it's a little difficult..."Wang Zhenliang was a little embarrassed.
"That's not an option, okay." Although Zhao Yizhi is the Emperor of Daqi, he is helpless against Chu Xiang now.
Although the clues to find his family were broken, Zhao Yizhi was not in a hurry. Fang Long was kidnapped by the beggar gang and practiced martial arts. Now... I'm still a beggar... Zhao Yizhi pondered along the train of thought, and his divine sense also paid attention to the beggars of all sizes in the capital.
There are not a few beggars in Daqi, but there are not many beggars in the capital. Most of the beggars in the capital were gambled or punished, lost their property overnight, and lived on the streets. In a few days, they will leave the capital to go to relatives and friends, or find a short-term meeting. It is not difficult to find a person among beggars.
The premise is that the person really became a beggar.
Just when Zhao Yizhi was full of consciousness in Jinling City and looking for beggars all over the streets, Fang Qianlong walked the streets and alleys alone in a silk robe, and he had already figured out the addresses of the officials on the list.
Fang Qianlong stood on the second floor of a restaurant, holding a wine jug in his hand and a small wine glass between his fingers, pouring himself a drink. At first glance, it really has a feeling of being a swinger.
"I also know that you are innocent, but who in this world is not innocent? Come, a toast to you. Fang Qianlong poured the wine from the wine jug into the wine glass, and then sprinkled the wine in the wine glass into the air, and many pedestrians below were wet.
"Upstairs! Don't look at the dots either, is there anyone below who doesn't see it? The pedestrians below scolded angrily.
Seeing that Fang Qianlong was a drunkard, passers-by were not careful, and when he smelled the smell of his body, the smell of wine was fragrant, and his anger decreased slightly. Not everyone can afford to drink the wine in this restaurant, and even if you are drenched, you don't feel that you have suffered a loss. And the characters who eat in this restaurant are either rich or expensive, and they are not something that ordinary people can afford.
It was already dark, Fang Qianlong put down the wine jug and wine glass in his hand, stretched his waist, threw a small piece of broken silver on the table of the restaurant, and turned out of the restaurant with one heel, and turned upside down on the roof, and as soon as his feet stepped on the eaves, he shot out, like a feather arrow, shooting towards a house.
In the darkness of the night, a few short screams were heard, and then there was no sound. The surrounding people heard the sound and went out to check, but in the end, no one came out.
Fang Qianlong stood in the courtyard of the house, his hands were stained with blood, and there were also a few blood stains on his body, which was shocking, there were several corpses lying in the courtyard, except for the rats in the mouse hole in the corner of the wall, there were no living creatures.
"The military department has been removed, and the next one, the servant of the Ministry of Rites." Fang Qianlong wiped the official position of the secretary of the military department on the paper with bloodstains with his blood-stained hands, and looked down.
Fang Qianlong had just risen in the courtyard, Zhao Yizhi's consciousness suddenly came, and the tragic situation in the courtyard was detected by Zhao Yizhi, and Fang Qianlong was firmly locked.
"Oops!" Fang Qianlong's feeling of being watched came back to his heart, and this time he didn't have time to dodge, and was hit squarely.
"Hidden clouds, Longpan Street!" Zhao Yi was in the imperial study and shouted loudly.
There was a faint eagle's cry in the dark night, a sword light flashed, and Zangyun had already rushed out of the palace and rushed towards Longpan Street. Qingtian is not as fast as Zangyun, a minute slower, and the spear dances in the air, and the shadow of the gun is heavy, flashing through the night sky.
After Fang Qianlong landed, he dodged left and right, but that feeling was like a shadow, as if no matter where he hid, he couldn't escape the other party's surveillance.
"No matter." Fang Qianlong was angry and ignored it, and in a few raids, he had already flashed outside the mansion of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.
"Whoosh!" There was a sound of breaking the air, and Zangyun carried twelve points of internal force, hurried with all his strength, and came to the vicinity of Longpan Street.
Fang Qianlong was shocked, the speed at which the other party came was too fast! I had no choice but to give up the assassination, fell to the ground, hid in the doorway of a house, and lay down in my clothes.
Zangyun fell on the roof of a house, holding a sword flower in his hand, collecting the sword behind him, and a pair of eyes like eagle eyes, scanning around.
Qingtian also rushed over and landed beside Zangyun: "Did you find it?" ”
"No, the other party is very alert, but it should be around here." Although Zangyun is fast, he is not good at detecting, no matter how sharp his eyes are, they are not as good as Zhao Yizhi's divine sense after all.
"Don't worry, 'Mending the Sky' and 'Asking the Sky' will definitely be found." A whistle sounded, the sound of flapping wings was heard in the air, and two eagles hovered over Longpan Street in the dark night.
Fang Qianlong also heard the movement in the air, but at this time there was no way but to shrink into the door as much as possible, not daring to make any movement.
"Yo, how can there be a person here?" The door behind Fang Qianlong squeaked open, and a woman stretched out her head to see Fang Qianlong lying on the ground: "Master, come and take a look." ”
The man was called out by his daughter-in-law, and looked at Fang Qianlong on the ground who closed his eyes and pretended to sleep: "There is really one, which one drank too much on this big night, right?" Hey, wake up. ”
Fang Qianlong's heart raised his throat, because the couple's opening of the door attracted the attention of the two eagles in the air, and they were flying towards this side.
Fang Qianlong clenched his fists and made up his mind, once he was discovered, he would definitely let the couple bury him.
The man squatted down, touched Fang Qianlong's body, and hurriedly greeted; "And the heat! Mother-in-law, don't stand stupidly, let's help him back into the house. ”
The couple bent down, picked up Fang Qianlong together, and walked to the house: "The head of the house, this little brother's clothes are made of silk, not ordinary people!" The woman's hands were sensitive, and she felt the silk on Fang Qianlong's body.
"I guess, which rich man's son and brother drank too much and slept at our door! If he sleeps for one night in this weather, he will freeze to death! The man speculated.
Fang Qianlong's tight arms seemed to prove the man's conjecture, and the woman didn't think much about it, what the master said was always right.
The husband and wife helped Fang Qianlong into the house, the woman turned around and closed the door, and the two eagles in the air rushed to take a step slower, and after some fruitless inspection, they searched elsewhere.
The couple supported Fang Qianlong on the stool, and the woman let go of her hand and lit the kerosene lamp. The kerosene lamp was lit, and the two of them were startled, Fang Qianlong's body was covered in blood, his two hands were clenched into fists, and his fists were also covered with blood, which looked very terrifying.
"When... What's going on? Is this man dying? The woman hid behind the man, her voice trembling slightly.
"Don't talk nonsense, this young man is warm! Probably... Eighty percent is not drunk, but has met an enemy, I'll take a look at the injury. As he spoke, the man was about to grope around Fang Qianlong's body.
Seeing that the two of them had no bad intentions, helping themselves into the house could be regarded as indirectly saving themselves, Fang Qianlong relaxed his vigilance a little and slowly "woke up".
"You... Who are you? Fang Qianlong pretended to be surprised and asked.
The man saw the sword wound on Fang Qianlong's hand, which was left over from the fight with Liu Pang during the day.
"Don't be afraid, young man, did you meet the enemy or how? You have a long opening in your hand..."The man pulled his daughter-in-law back two steps, for fear of causing Fang Qianlong to misunderstand.
Fang Qianlong's mind turned, and he followed the couple's acting: "This injury... I remembered that I went to my uncle's house for dinner today, but unexpectedly met a masked man with a knife on the way who wanted to rob my money bag. I had a fight with him, and he cut me, and as soon as I ran here, I couldn't remember..."
"Tut-tut, what's going on! This is the capital, and this robber has come to the capital to block the road and rob it..."The woman couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The man sighed and agreed, "Who says it's not? I heard that two of the officials in the court had been killed... Alas, it's still the little people who are suffering. That little brother, what are you going to do on this big night? Why don't you spend the night at my house? Otherwise, it's not safe to go out..."
Fang Qianlong was secretly happy when he heard this, and he couldn't ask for it, but he still did enough to play: "Then... It's too annoying to the eldest brother and sister-in-law, thank you two for saving your life! By the way, I don't live in vain, I still have some silver taels. ”
"Yikes! How dare you take it out? Close! We don't want your money, just be okay. Little brother, you have to remember, your wealth is not exposed, and you don't dare to show it to others casually if you have money on you! The man hurriedly motioned for Fang Qianlong to put it away.
Fang Qianlong was slightly stunned, he really wanted to give the couple some silver taels, as long as they avoided this night, what was a little silver money? But the man was unmoved, but cared about his own safety...
Seeing that Fang Qianlong didn't speak, the couple hurriedly made a bed for Fang Qianlong to boil water, and the man also took out a set of his own clothes from the cabinet, put them next to Fang Qianlong, and motioned to change his clothes.
Fang Qianlong was inconvenient to disobey, obeyed orders, and was properly arranged by the couple.
Zhao Yizhi's divine sense had never left Fang Qianlong, including when Fang Qianlong changed his clothes, the scars and blood marks on his body were shocking.
A trace of guilt flashed in Zhao Yizhi's heart: "At that time, I really ignored it and let you rest for one night..."