Chapter 58: The Loyal Servant Is Killed

Shang Anbei heard that it had been two or three days, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's not good, I'm afraid Cao Fengying has already done it." ”

Yang Shucheng couldn't help but blush again.

Shang Anbei said: "In this way, I will be on duty tonight, and you will rest in the room." ”

Shang Anbei's arrangement was completed, and he went out of the house, and the other three people slept casually in the house.

The rooster had crowed, and the sky had not yet dawned, but the lights in the main house had been turned on. Meng Zhengxiang was ready to get dressed and get up.

Shang Anbei took the three of them to the main house. I have seen Meng Zhengxiang. Shang An Beidai everyone told the story.

Meng Zhengxiang is in his fifties, his body is still tough, and he is upright, and he is inviolable when he looks at it, he quietly listened to Shang Anbei's words, and then said:

"I had expected him to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country. didn't want him to get the emperor's favor, but he would do such a shameless thing. It's just that there is no evidence, and he can't be defeated for a while. ”

Shang Anbei said: "Tonight, let's go to Song's house to look for evidence." ”

"That's for sure." Meng Zhengxiang put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, paced back and forth in the house, walked a few laps, and then he had an idea, raised his head, and said to Yang Shucheng:

"Yang Shaoxia, listen to you, Huang Zhonglin was deliberately arranged by Cao Fengying to go outside the Guan, just to let him lose the battle so that the Jin Kingdom would benefit. Here, Senior Yan and Brother Shang have shown too many faces outside the customs and have difficulty moving, I want to ask Yang Shaoxia to go outside the customs to supervise Huang Zhonglin and collect evidence by the way, are you willing? ”

"I do. It is incumbent upon us to serve the country. Yang Shucheng said firmly.

Meng Zhengxiang is going to the court. Shang Anbei was afraid that he would be in danger along the way, and he was one-armed, and the goal was too obvious, so he decided to let the newcomer Yang Shucheng protect Lord Meng all the way.

After breakfast, Shang Anbei and the three stayed in the house. Yang Shucheng dressed up as an entourage and followed Meng Zhengxiang's sedan chair to the imperial city, and he was safe and sound all the way.

Back home in the evening. Meng Zhengxiang said to everyone: "I am discussing in the DPRK and China, and the military department happened to say that there is a shortage of personnel outside the customs, and it has been agreed to send one person to go. This man happens to be one of our people. ”

He said to Yang Shucheng again: "I asked Yang Shaoxia to follow him, be his subordinate, and go to the gate together." Yang Shaoxia, after you arrive outside the border, you must collect evidence of their traitorous ministers collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. ”

The matter was thus settled. This night, Yang Shucheng and Dachun guarded Meng Zhengxiang's safety. Shang Anbei and Yan Min continued to go to Song Chao's house to look for incriminating evidence.

Until the second half of the night, Shang Anbei and the two came back, but they still found nothing. At that time, in Taihang Mountain, Song Chao was carefully questioned, but he was too young, and it is estimated that Song's father did not tell him where he was hiding?

Yang Shucheng and the two rested, and Yan Min continued to be on duty, responsible for Meng Zhengxiang's safety.

On the morning of the second day, the military headquarters sent a person to the outside of the pass. This person's name is Qiu Lin, a native of Jiangnan.

Meng Zhengxiang immediately took Yang Shucheng to Qiu Lin's mansion and traded Yang Shu to him, saying that he was from his hometown and went to the border to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. That Qiu Linnian agreed for the sake of being an official in the same dynasty. It was decided to leave Beijing in five days.

Tonight, Yan Min is still responsible for Meng Zhengxiang's safety.

Until the rooster crows, everything is too fine.

Suddenly there was a scream, and all three people in the room woke up. Yan Min had already run to the front.

Voices came from inside the main room.

It was Mrs. Meng who shouted.

Yang Shucheng and the four of them hurriedly ran in.

There was blood on the bed.

Meng Zhengxiang had an accident.

When he came to the bed, Meng Zhengxiang's head had already been cut off.

Everyone looked at Yan Min who was on duty at night. Yan Min said regretfully: "I've been staring at the main house, and I haven't seen anyone." ”

The blood on the bed was not dry, and the murderer could not go far. The four of them immediately dispersed in four directions to chase.

Yang Shucheng performed Taiqing Qigong and chased eastward. It was the darkness before dawn, and there was a black fog everywhere, and there was no clear sight. Yang Shucheng just blindly ran eastward, like a puff of smoke, chased for three or four miles, and then ran out of the city, not even a suspicious figure.

Yang Shucheng had to come back. Arrived in the Mon Mansion. The other three also returned in vain.

Shang Anbei said: "This is strange. There is no doubt about Brother Yan's eyesight, who can slip in and out under his nose? I can't find this person in the world. ”

The crowd was suspicious. A domestic servant walked into the hall and reported: "Meng An is gone." ”

"Go and find it."

Everyone rushed out to look for Meng An, and they searched all over the front and back yards, but they didn't see Meng An's shadow.

The group came to Meng An's house, the door was hidden, everyone entered the house, the room was also tidy, and when they came to the bed, there was a small note on the bed.

When I picked it up, there was only one line of words, which read: "Kill traitors and remove evil." ”

It's strange, the person who works for the country day and night is a traitor, but Cao Fengying, who is in a foreign country, is a loyal minister!

Everyone was very sad and angry, and wanted to find that Meng An to cut him with a thousand knives.

But he had already fled in the chaos.

There are really thousands of calculations, but they have not been calculated, and the enemy is not attacking from the outside, but insiders from the inside.

Meng Zhengxiang's family, except for his wife and his youngest son, who is studying in Beijing, the rest are in their hometown. The lady decided to carry the coffin back to her hometown for burial.

The loyal minister was killed, and there was an uproar in the capital. The killing of the senior members of the court alarmed the emperor and ordered a strict investigation, but Meng An was on the run and there was no evidence.

The Meng family is returning home. Shang Anbei was worried that Cao Fengying would be robbed and killed on the way, so he decided to take Da Chun and Yan Min to protect him all the way.

In accordance with Meng Zhengxiang's last wish, Yang Shucheng followed Qiu Lin to Guanwai to find out the evidence of Cao Fengying and his gang collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

It's early autumn. Along the way, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the poplars are bleak, and there is a miserable scene

The group walked towards the gate. In the evening of this day, I came to Fuping County and rested in the county seat.

Although this Fuping County is a small county in the north, it is on the main road to the outside of the Guan, so although it is a small city, the hotel shops in the city are next to each other, which is very lively.

Qiu Lin found a small hotel to live in, in front of the hotel is a restaurant, after the group settled down, they ate in the restaurant.

Before the meal was finished, I saw a team of people outside the store, carrying a sedan chair, came to the door of the restaurant and stopped.

A lieutenant officer walked into the restaurant, found the shopkeeper, and the two came to the back of the shop.

The lieutenant did not speak, but first took out a bag of silver from his waist and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was stunned and asked, "Master Jun, do you want to stay in the hotel?" ”

The officer smiled, "No. Shopkeeper, you have a happy event. ”

"What?"

The lieutenant officer said: "My little prince has taken a fancy to your daughter, and you said that it is not a happy event." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "My daughter has already made a promise." ”

The lieutenant officer said: "What's the matter, my little prince only needs her to accompany her for one night." It's twenty taels, and you've put it away. If your daughter is sensible, the little prince will still have a reward. ”

"This can't be helped, if her in-laws know about it, my daughter won't be able to get married."

No matter what this Chinese officer says, coercion and temptation, this stubborn old man just doesn't agree, the Chinese officer is also a person who leads troops to fight, and he is straightforward in talking and doing things, and today can be regarded as a good temper, but this stubborn old man is just disobedient.

The lieutenant officer was furious, and no longer polite to this stubborn old man, strode out of the store, beckoned a few sergeants to come over, and after a few commands, the sergeants rushed into the shop, ran into the back room like a swarm, and searched the girl out, who was also fourteen or fifteen years old, a very delicate girl.

The group of sergeants was very savage, rampaged, and would not say kind words, so they pulled the girl and pushed it out, ready to push it into the sedan chair outside the store, and carried it away.

A group of sergeants were making trouble in the hotel, and the guests who were eating stood up, and when they saw that it was the sergeant making trouble, who dared to speak fairly.

I saw the girl crying, the shopkeeper called, and the family was separated from life and death.

Yang Shucheng understood what was going on, took the case, and shouted: "It's okay, Lang Lang Qiankun, dare to rob the people's daughters, is there still a royal law!" ”

Then Qiu Lin held Yang Shucheng down and shouted, "My master, do you know who they are?" You dare to meddle in your business! ”