Chapter 402: Misfortune leads to the Jinling Mansion
When a person can do anything for fame and fortune, he will basically get farther and farther away from fame and fortune.
However, this truth can only be understood by those who chase fame and fortune when they fail.
This is the case with Mangqing at this time.
Now he feels that he is only one step away from becoming famous.
As long as he can kill Mu Junhe this time, and then get in touch with the royal family, his future will be limitless in the future.
"Everyone hurry up, we must kill Mu Junhe and his junior brother tonight."
Mang Qing, who was chasing Li Yi at great speed, kept urging his companions.
It's just that what he didn't know was that Mu Junhe had already crossed the roof at this time, and was quickly heading in the direction of Zongzheng Temple.
And Li Yi and the ghost doctor were running fast towards the west of the city.
Behind them, dozens of Jin king's guards were frantically chasing after them.
And these Jin king's guards still shot one or two crossbow arrows, trying to force Li Yi and the ghost doctor to change the direction of escape.
Li Yi knows their thoughts very well.
So the path he chose was mostly narrow and crooked alleys.
Only in this kind of place can he and the ghost doctor avoid the disadvantage of a small number of people.
However, there are good and bad, although these small alleys have greatly reduced Mang Qing's numerical advantage, but it also limits the speed advantage of Li Yi and the ghost doctor.
"Childe, we can't run like this anymore, or we'll lose our direction completely."
The panting ghost doctor looked at the surrounding walls and said with some anxiety.
"And what do you have to do?"
Li Yi was also panting for breath at this time.
Even if his physical strength was good, after running at top speed for almost half an hour, he was a little overwhelmed.
"Why don't we go up to the roof now, so we can get our way."
The ghost doctor suggested as he ran.
"No, once we get on the roof, we will become each other's live targets!"
Li Yi rejected the ghost doctor's suggestion.
"But if this continues, I'm afraid that the other party will scatter their men and go around to the front to surround us, and once that happens, we will completely lose the possibility of escaping."
The ghost doctor also knew that there was no shelter on the roof, and they could easily be shot by a crossbow.
But now it's just as dangerous for them to run around in the alleys.
"Don't panic! I have a way! ”
Li Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead, then looked around and said.
"Childe, what are you going to do?"
Seeing Li Yi stop suddenly, the ghost doctor couldn't help but ask in surprise.
"Wait a minute."
Li Yi said and went up to the wall in three or two steps.
"Look at them over there!"
As soon as Li Yi went up to the wall, he was immediately discovered by Mang Qing and them.
Before Mang Qing could continue to speak, the Jin King guards raised their crossbow arrows one after another and shot them in Li Yi's direction.
"Childe is dangerous!"
The ghost doctor also heard Mang Qing's shout for the first time, so he immediately reminded anxiously.
And Li Yi looked around as soon as he crossed the wall.
Then he jumped off immediately.
The whole process is only a moment.
And just as he jumped off the wall, there was a "whoosh" sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air above his head.
As soon as Li Yi landed, a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"Let's go in this direction."
Then he pointed in a direction and said.
Although the ghost doctor doesn't know where to buy a direction now, he can only listen to Li Yi's opinion now.
Then the two of them began to run again at great speed.
And behind them, there was already a figure of Mang Qing.
"Mu Junhe, you can't escape, you will definitely die today."
Mang Qing immediately shouted after seeing the figures of Li Yi and the ghost doctor.
He wanted to use this way to force Li Yi and them into a panic.
And once they fall into a panic, the probability of killing them on their side will increase significantly.
However, Li Yi and the ghost doctor were not affected in the slightest.
"The direction in which they are fleeing now is the direction of Zongzheng Temple?"
Since Mang Qing was not very familiar with the surrounding environment, he opened his mouth to ask the surrounding Jin King guards.
The only thing he was worried about now was that Li Yi and Mu Junhe would flee to Zongzheng Temple.
Although it is said that the old Jin King is ready to tear his face with Zongzheng Temple at this time, if Mu Junhe and Li Yi really escape into Zongzheng Temple, it is really not so easy for them to kill the two.
After all, the old Jin King has a personal guard, and the other princes of Zongzheng Temple must also have their own personal guards.
"The direction they fled into was to the city, not to the Zongzheng Temple!"
One of the Jin King's guards took a slight look at the surrounding buildings and immediately identified where they were.
"As long as they don't run to Zongzheng Temple, this time they will die."
After getting Li Yi and the direction in which they were fleeing was not the direction where Zongzheng Temple was located, Mang Qing's face immediately showed an evil smile.
And the ghost doctor who was running in front couldn't help but ask at this time.
"Childe, it doesn't seem that the direction we are fleeing from now is due west!"
"That's right, before luring these guys to the Yaowu Army and the City Guard Army's garrison, I still have to take them to the Jinling Mansion!"
Li Yi said while running.
"Jinling Mansion?"
"That's right, before I get rid of these guys, I have to let them show their true colors in front of the officials of Jinling City."
Li Yi also had a cold look in his eyes.
"But I don't understand this, if we want to reveal the true face of the old Jin King, why don't we go to Zongzheng Temple? After all, Zongzheng Temple is the real person in charge of Jinling City! ”
In fact, from the very beginning, the ghost doctor didn't understand why Li Yi didn't ask for help in Zongzheng Temple, which was not far away, but had to go to the west of the city to find the Yaowu army and the city guard camp who had fallen into chaos.
"If we really run to Zongzheng Temple for help, then we will definitely die."
"Why is that?"
The ghost doctor didn't understand why Li Yi would say this.
"It's very simple, but don't forget that the old Jin King is also one of the elders of Zongzheng Temple."
Li Yi's words are like an initiation
Only then did the ghost doctor realize that the old Jin King, who had always been the vanguard of Emperor Shengheng, was still one of the elders of Zongzheng Temple.
And logically speaking, he should still have an alliance in Zongzheng Temple.
Therefore, if they are really stupid enough to drill into the Zongzheng Temple, they may suddenly fall into the hands of the old Jin King or his accomplices.
Thinking of this, the ghost doctor couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat that might have been frightened by this.
"Then if you let Mu Gongzi go alone, won't he let him fall into the net?"
Immediately, the ghost doctor thought of Mu Junhe again.
"My senior brother is different from us, he is a person surnamed Mu no matter what, even if the old Jin king wants to kill him, he must take into account the feelings of the same sect, if the old Jin king really does something to my senior brother in Zongzheng Temple, then his accomplices in Zongzheng Temple are also very likely to have a dislike with him."
Li Yi was not worried about Mu Junhe's safety, because he had already considered this issue when he proposed to divide the troops into two routes.
"But Son, isn't it also self-defeating to go to Jinling Mansion now?"
The ghost doctor immediately thought of the current Jinling Mansion, but the Qin family was in charge.
And the relationship between the Qin family and the royal family is also well known.
"Although Qin Lu is also the son-in-law of Emperor Shengheng, the Qin family is the Qin family, and Qin Lu is also Qin Lu, so the two cannot be confused."
After the conversation between him and Mu Junhe in Jinling Mansion, he had already discovered that the Qin family was actually not monolithic.
Although Qin Lu is also nominally a squire of the Criminal Department, it is entirely by virtue of his status as a colt.
And the real master of the Qin family is Qin Luye's elder brother, Qin Luming, the secretary of the Eastern Capital Criminal Department.
It seems that Qin Luming was touched by his younger brother Qin Luye's light to get mixed with the identity of the Shangshu of the Eastern Capital Criminal Department.
But in fact, this was just a bait thrown out by Emperor Shengheng to let the Qin family work for him.
It's just that Qin Lu still doesn't know that the price of his Eastern Capital Criminal Department Shangshu is the life of their entire Qin family, including his younger brother.
Therefore, as long as Li Yi makes it clear to Qin Luming about the stakes, he will have a choice.
As for how to convince Qin Luming that Emperor Shengheng was going to sacrifice their entire Qin family to fulfill his ambition of destroying Zongzheng Temple, this would require these old Jin kings' personal guards.
"But Son, how can you be sure that Qin Luming will not be in the same league as the old King of Jin?"
The ghost doctor was still a little worried about Qin Luming's position.
After all, no matter how you look at it, Qin Luming doesn't seem to have any reason to stand on the opposite side of Emperor Shengheng.
"Because the fate of being in the same stream with the old Jin King is that the entire Qin family will die."
Li Yi said with a sneer.
"The entire Qin family will die? Why is that? ”
The ghost doctor couldn't understand it.
In his opinion, Qin Lu is also the son-in-law of Emperor Shengheng, and Qin Luye's sons Qin Shaojie and Qin Shaodong are the grandsons of Emperor Shengheng, and Emperor Shengheng should not attack his son-in-law and grandson no matter how ruthless he is.
"There is no family affection in heaven!"
Li Yi snorted coldly.
He no longer had any good feelings about Emperor Shengheng.
"Even so, it is impossible for Emperor Shengheng to let his daughter Princess Chengping die with the Qin family, right?"
"That's definitely not going to happen, if you didn't guess wrong, Emperor Shengheng must have already left a back hand for Princess Chengping."
In fact, Li Yi and Mu Junhe didn't find Princess Chengping when they were making trouble in Jinling Mansion before, perhaps because she was a woman and it was not easy to meet strangers casually.
But this is also likely that Princess Chengping was no longer in Jinling Mansion at that time.
At that time, Mu Junhe's guess was that Princess Benchengping and his second son Qin Shaodong had quietly hidden.
But as for why she didn't bring her eldest son, it's a little puzzling.
But this still does not affect Li Yi's judgment.
"But I'm still worried that the Qin family will choose to cooperate with the old Jin King after knowing the truth, in exchange for a way for their Qin family to live."
The ghost doctor said worriedly.
"As long as Qin Luming is not a fool, then he shouldn't make such a choice."
Li Yi said firmly.
"Why is that?"
"Because the ending of their Qin family was arranged by Emperor Shengheng, if the old King of Jin changed this arrangement privately, then he would inevitably have a dislike with Emperor Shengheng because of this."
Li Yi explained to the ghost doctor.
In fact, in Li Yi's view, the reason why Emperor Shengheng wanted to raze Zongzheng Temple was to centralize power.
And the so-called centralization of power is to make all the vassal kings in the world obey his orders without any disobedience.
Therefore, once the old Jin king changed his plan without the consent of Emperor Shengheng, then the old Jin king would be the same as the other vassal kings in Zongzheng Temple.
In this case, it was impossible for Emperor Shengheng to rest assured of the old Jin King.
And the old fox like the old Jin King will not be unaware of this truth at all.
"But can Qin Luming understand this truth?"
The ghost doctor was still worried that Qin Luming wouldn't be able to figure it out, and in the end he was deceived by the old Jin King.
"Although Qin Luming's official position as the secretary of the Eastern Capital Criminal Department is not entirely based on his strength, but after all, he is also from a Jinshi, I think he can still see through this."
If Li Yi hadn't met Qin Luming before, he might not have made such a judgment.
But after a short exchange with Qin Luming, he still saw that Qin Luming was a very smart person.
At the same time, through Qin Luming's words, he also learned that Qin Luming is a person who knows how to judge the situation.
What's more important is that he, as the head of the Qin family, can suppress everyone in the Qin family.
With these, Li Yi dared to take this risk.
After listening to Li Yi's analysis, the ghost doctor finally relieved himself a little.
And Mang Qing and others, who were chasing after him, chased after him, and found that the direction of Li Yi's escape turned out to be the Jinling Mansion, and he was shocked at first.
After all, what they are doing now is to commit murder in the streets.
It's a felony wherever you put it.
But then he thought about it, and Qin Lu, the servant of the Eastern Capital Officials Department of the Jinling Mansion, was also the son-in-law of His Majesty today.
And what they are doing now is arranged by the old Jin King.
And the old Jin King is the uncle of His Majesty today, according to the seniority, Qin Lu is also the grandson-in-law of the old Jin King!
In this way, as long as he tells the truth about this matter, Qin Lu will definitely choose to kill Mu Junhe and Li Yi with him.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
"I didn't expect that Mu Junhe, Li Yi seems to be smart, but he is a complete stupid, there is a way in heaven, there is a way, you don't go to hell, there is no door, you come to vote, they actually ran to Jinling Mansion in a panic, what is the difference between this and suicide?"
Mang Qing said to the people around him with a smile.
When the others heard Mang Qing say this, they couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts.
"It's better for us to hurry up and kill them, and don't mention the name of my king if it's not necessary!"
But the guards of the old Jin King had different ideas.
They always consider the problem from the perspective of the old Jin King.
Although it is said that Jinling City will soon fall into chaos, and the grassland army will also be bloodied in Jinling City.
But if Mu Junhe and Li Yi accidentally escaped and spread the word about it, their reputation as a king would be damaged at that time.
And although the vassal kings of the world will completely surrender to Emperor Shengheng after the destruction of Zongzheng Temple, it is impossible for Emperor Shengheng to eliminate all the vassal kings.
If the remaining vassal kings knew that the actual executor of the destruction of Zongzheng Temple was the old Jin king, the old Jin king would inevitably become the target of the public among the vassal kings in the future.
Although there may be nothing other vassal kings can do with him, they must be targeted and excluded in private.
Therefore, in order to prevent trouble, they must kill Mu Junhe and Li Yi.
And the words of the King of Jin's personal guard also reminded that if Mang Qing really wanted to kill Mu Junhe and Li Yi by virtue of the name of the old King of Jin, the credit would inevitably be shared with the Qin family.
Thinking of this, Mang Qing immediately realized that Mu Junhe and Li Yi must not be allowed to escape to the Jinling Mansion.
"Brothers, work hard, Mu Junhe and Li Yi are in front, as long as you kill the two of them, you will be prosperous, rich, famous, famous, or status in the rivers and lakes!"
Mang Qing's words seemed to give everyone a booster, and everyone shouted excitedly to speed up the pace.