Chapter 4 Secret Talks of the National Government
The hazy moon looks up at the sky, the moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, and it is suitable for travel.
In the past two days in the Guogong Mansion, Haoyue has figured out the general layout of the mansion, and while everyone is asleep, she pulled her brother and prepared to sneak out of the tribute hall.
"Where are you going?" A faint voice came from around the corner.
Haoyue followed the prestige, and happened to meet a pair of pitiful eyes, it was a little girl with a round face with red eyes, Haoyue heard that she was sold to the Guogong Mansion by her family for the usual money.
"Shhh, let's go find something to eat, you wait here obediently, don't wake everyone up, wait for me to come back and bring you sugar cakes to eat." Haoyue said softly.
"Well, okay" Hearing that there would be sugar cakes to eat, the little girl was very obedient and obedient, and did not pester Haoyue anymore, and quietly watched Haoyue's brothers and sisters leave by the door.
Out of the tribute hall, Haoyue began to run wildly, but after a few steps, he saw a team of patrolling family members coming from the front, and in a panic, Haoyue pulled her brother and hurriedly hid in a room next to it without a lantern.
After Haoyue and her brother broke into the dark room, before they turned around, they heard a low male voice behind them: "Lord Guogong, are you here?" ”
Haoyue was shocked, there was actually someone in the house!
But fortunately, there was no lamp in the house, and the moon was also hidden in the clouds at the right time, and the sky and the earth were dark, so the people in the house did not see clearly that it was two children who came in, and thought that the person who came was the prince of the country.
Haoyue looked at the dim night outside, and was thinking about whether to run out, but before she could let her legs, she heard footsteps outside the door, which sounded like she was walking towards the house.
Through the faint night light at the door, Haoyue saw a round table with a tablecloth hanging not far from the door, and Haoyue pulled her brother and hurriedly got in.
The people in the inner room heard that the other party did not respond for a long time, and asked again tentatively: "Lord Guogong?" ”
"It's me," a strong voice sounded in the doorway.
Hao Yue under the table pinched a sweat in her heart, Mom, this is too coincidental, she and Yu Guogong almost entered the study with their front and back feet.
Under the table, Haoyue put her finger on her brother's mouth, signaling him not to speak, and not to make a little noise.
"Everything is done?" Yu Guogong walked to the window, picked up the teapot on the desk by the moonlight, and poured himself a cup of tea.
"Lord Guogong, the matter has been completed, the governor of Dongsheng, who was sent by the imperial court to supervise the disaster relief grain, has been robbed by horse bandits in Hebei."
"Well, it's a good job, his Dongsheng Governor is in Hebei, what does it have to do with our northern Henan." Yu Guogong's voice was faintly joyful.
"An official of the imperial court was kidnapped by horse bandits, which is a royal face, and the focus of the court in the next few months will be on the elimination of horse bandits, and the prince can sit back and relax."
"Yes, when the hundreds of thousands of victims are killed, it will be easy to hide this matter by going up and down." Yu Guogong happily drank all the tea in the cup, and then poured another cup for the person opposite: "You have done a good job in this matter." ”
"The adults praise falsely, they are all cultivated by the Guogong." The person who was hidden in the shadows was praised by the Lord Guogong, and he was overjoyed for a while, and he drank it all after taking the teacup with both hands.
However, before the man could put the teacup back on the table, he suddenly convulsed and foamed at the mouth, and in a few breaths he fell to the ground with a bang, and then his neck was crooked, and he died with his eyes open, and he still had an unbelievable look on his face before he died.
Hazy Yue, who was hidden under the round table, couldn't see what was going on outside through the tablecloth, but she could guess it by listening to the movements.
This Yu Guogong is really not a good thing, he embezzled disaster relief food, murdered court officials, and killed people!
"Clean your hands and feet, drag them out and bury them." Yu Guogong, whose face was hidden in the dark, commanded to the black shadow who came outside the door.
"Yes!"
After the words fell, several black-clothed men quickly dragged the corpses on the ground out of the night, as if nothing had happened in the study.
The cold moon in the sky watched all this, silently, afraid that she was also used to seeing the secrets of this country's mansion.
Yu Guogong thought that the whole thing was done seamlessly, and after stopping in the study for a while, he left leisurely.
As everyone knows, the two children under the table have all this in their eyes.
"Whew~" Hao Yue breathed a long sigh of relief, she had just overheard so many secrets, and now her back was a little cold, and Yu Guogong's ruthlessness also made her heart palpitate.
The land is grinning, it is sad to pass the grain barrier, it suffers the people, and it fattens the officials.
The limerick poem that circulated in the market is really not groundless.
The more she thought about it, the more hateful and hateful Haoyue felt, the glory and wealth in this country's mansion were all fed by eating human flesh and blood.
These magnates trampled on the bones of the hungry, deceived their superiors and subordinates to enrich their own pockets, and every pore dripped with greedy and filthy blood.
Haoyue lifted the corner of the tablecloth, and saw that the sky outside the window was close to dawn, and the sacrificial procession was estimated to have lined up on the street, because the Guogong Mansion was still a certain distance from the Temple of Heaven, so the sacrificial procession had to set off early.
When the priest finds out that there is no one missing, he will definitely take someone to look for him in the mansion, so don't go out now, Haoyue thought about it and pulled down the tablecloth again.
Sure enough, before the team left, when the priest counted the number of sacrificial children, he found that there was a lack of Haoyue, and hurriedly sent a housekeeper to find it.
The housekeeper took the family to look in the house to no avail, and heard a little girl say that Haoyue went out in the middle of the night, and the housekeeper estimated that Haoyue would still be in the city, so he took some of the family out to look for it.
Seeing that it was almost the auspicious time to set off, the shaman did not dare to delay, and led the team to take the first step, so that the butler could find someone and send it over quickly.
In the sound of crackling firecrackers, the sacrificial procession walked towards the Temple of Heaven in the flying crimson confetti, and the people in the sacrificial procession were all dressed in red, wearing feathered hats and holding incense burners.
The soft sedan chair of the Lord Guogong and his family followed closely behind the long sacrificial procession, and did not forget to pretend to distribute some dried fruit snacks to the hungry people along the way, and the hungry people who got the food knelt down one after another, shouting: "Thank you for the kindness of the Lord Guogong!" ”
Haoyue heard the sound of firecrackers and knew that the people outside had basically finished, so she slipped out of the study.
Most of the family members in the mansion followed Yu Guogong to the Temple of Heaven to worship, and the remaining part followed the housekeeper to look for Haoyue in the city, so the Guogong Mansion happened to be undefended at this time.
Haoyue took her brother lightly around the lobby and went straight to the backyard, there was only one thing she had to do now, and that was to empty the entire Guogong Mansion!
Originally, before Haoyue escaped, she just wanted to go to the kitchen to get some autumn breeze and bring some food back. But now she has changed her mind, and she wants to take this Yuguo Mansion in one pot.
Yes, even the pot is not left for Yu Guogong!