Chapter 279: Siege of the Mine
As soon as I arrived at the gate of the sect master's mansion, I saw a rush inside, and the subordinates were holding a small cloth package in their hands and putting it on a carriage.
Mother Zhong was a little puzzled and asked, "Master, what do you think they are moving?"
There was a man with eyes standing in the courtyard, Yuan Xi pulled Zhong's mother and said, "You go and ask him what he is moving." ”
Mother Zhong answered, pretended to walk into the yard casually, blessed her body, and said with a smile: "Who is this gentleman?"
The man looked Mother Zhong up and down, looked at the clothes, and knew that Mother Zhong was a slave with status, so he arched his hand and said politely: "Sect Master Wei sent an order down from the mine, saying that he wanted to check the accounts, and asked us to send someone back to the Sect Master's Mansion to move the account books over. ”
Mother Zhong's eyelids drooped slightly, and seeing that Ling'er was also busy, she hurriedly stepped forward to grab her, and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing here?"
Ling'er was also a little puzzled: "Mother Zhong, why did you come back?"
Mother Zhong didn't answer and asked: "Can things like account books be handed over to outsiders casually?"
"Outsiders?, are the officials of the imperial court also divided into inside and outside?" Ling'er was stunned for a while, and took a warrant with a big seal: "Look, this is not a warrant?"
Mother Zhong took the warrant and glanced at it, and the lower left corner was covered with a boxy red seal, on which were written the four big characters of Donglin Mansion Yin. Mother Zhong frowned, this is Zhou Yu's official seal.
"This is the seal of Donglin Mansion Yin, the empty furnishings of Donglin Prefecture, can it also transfer the file of our Sect Master's Mansion?"
Ling'er opened her mouth and was stopped by Mother Zhong's question, and was in a trance for a while: "No, can't you?"
Nonsense, of course not. Mother Zhong exhaled heavily and glanced out the door: "The master is outside the door, don't you tell them to stop?"
As he spoke, the package was half-loaded, and all the account books were here. The man took the bridle and thanked him.
"Wait. Ling'er shouted.
The man heard Ling'er stop him, but he didn't stop, but walked faster. There was no threshold at the side door, so the carriage was unimpeded, and the man was quite proud. When I got to the door, I found that I was blocked by another carriage. When he hesitated, several people chasing after him hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the horse's bridle and stopped him.
"You, what are you doing here, if you delay the sect master to read the account books, will you take care of it for me?" The man was a little angry, and waved his whip at Yuan Xi's carriage: "Don't get out of the way quickly!"
Yuan Xi raised the curtain of the car and looked at him indifferently: "Who is delayed to read the account books?"
The man hadn't seen Yuan Xi, because he thought that his boss Li De had said that the sect master was in the mine, so he said confidently: "Naturally, it's delaying the sect master, so you don't get out of the way quickly." ”
Mother Zhong sneered, "Do you know who is sitting in the carriage?"
The man squinted at Mother Zhong: "I blame you for who you are, even the Heavenly King Laozi, and you can't delay the sect master to read the account books." ”
"Who are you?" asked Won-hee.
The man twisted his eyebrows into a curled shape, like two black caterpillars: "The contemptible person is the master surnamed Wan under the Yin seat of Donglin Mansion, and he was ordered by the lord to read the account books." ”
"Oh, Master Wan, it's rare. Yuan Xi replied disapprerovingly: "The contemptible person is the sect master of Donglin, and he guards Donglin by the emperor's decree." ”
The man's smile froze and finally turned into a trace of panic, and although he tried his best to hide it, he still couldn't hide his two tremors.
"Wei, Sect Master Wei, aren't you in the mines?"
"You seem surprised?" Won-hee sneered.
Surprised, how can you not be surprised? Master Wan's flustered eyes are enough to explain everything, in the past, he followed the unreliable Fat Zhizhou, and he almost died, but now he follows Zhou Yu, I thought it would change, but I didn't expect it to be the same unreliable.
"Villain, villain dare. ”
"Who said that the main sect is to access the account books?" asked Won-hee.
"This, this. "Master Wan almost bit his tongue, this master deserves it, it's too much of a failure.
Yuan Xi hooked his hand, the subordinates in the sect master's mansion stepped forward and pressed him to the ground, Yuan Xi jumped out of the carriage, and Ling'er handed over the warrant stamped with Zhou Yu's seal, and said, "Master, look." ”
Yuan Xi glanced at the seal, and his heart fluttered, if he came back one step later this night, and these account books fell into Zhou Yu's hands, then what they did would be dead and unproven.
"Drag him down for me, take care of him, don't let him kill himself, don't let him escape. Yuan Xi called a young and strong subordinate: "Drive this car back." ”
The master swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart that you really look up to me, whether this high-walled compound can escape or not has to be said separately. What does this suicide mean? I can't look at it like that? Zhou Yu is not my own father, and he is not my woman, so it is not worth dying for him, right?
Master Wan's two small arms were twisted painfully by the subordinates of the Sect Master's Mansion, looking at their angry eyes one by one, as if they had to devour themselves alive to relieve their hatred. Master Wan began to beat a small drum in his heart, although the sect master did not speak, but if these subordinates tossed themselves on their own, he might not be able to stand it. I heard that Sect Master Wei is well-known for protecting his shortcomings, and if he is tortured by his subordinates, I am afraid that this Sect Master Wei will not even blink an eyelid.
"Sect Master, Sect Master, I'll recruit anything, I'll recruit anything! Can you let me go?" Master Wan's knees weakened, and the whole person spread on the ground, kneeling and rubbing forward: "You can do anything, I am willing to recruit anything!"
Yuan Xi glanced at him coldly and didn't say anything. Mother Zhong waved her hand: "Let's go, who wants him to recruit anything?"
Yuan Xi crumpled Zhou Yu's warrant, and couldn't help sneering in his heart, this Zhou Yu's courage is really not small, so blatantly came to the sect master's mansion to cheat the account books.
Mother Zhong took the paper ball in Yuan Xi's hand, carefully unfolded it into a piece of paper, folded it three times, and put it in her arms: "Master, it seems that this Zhou Yu can't be kept." ”
"Pass the order, all the soldiers of the Sect Master's Mansion will immediately go out, surround the mine and the Donglin Mansion, and be sure to take Zhou Yu down for me. ”
The Sect Master's Mansion has not issued an arrow for many years, and today's arrow is the same as the previous one, and there has been a gap of sixteen years. The last arrow was still under Shangguan Linqing's own hands, and it was an order to give up resistance and let the court dispose of it. Yuan Xi looked at the Xuantie Ling arrow slowly disappearing from his field of vision, and suddenly felt a little sad.
More than 1,000 government soldiers were drawn one after another, and the first 300 people rode horses, and it took less than half a day to reach the mine. The noon sun shone dizzily, and the sun shone on a piece of silver armor, shining brightly.
Zhou Yu was still waiting for news in the mine, and after waiting for half a day, no one came to report it. At dawn, I found out from the mouths of those five subordinates that Wei Yuanxi was nowhere to be found. Zhou Yu was wondering in his heart, Wang Nian'en and Sect Master Wei's soldiers were separated from each other, wasn't it so that Sect Master Wei could go up the mountain from another road? Since they were going up the mountain, how could they not have the slightest news? Could they be able to bypass the ambushes on each road?
Wei Yuanxi is not an immortal, she will not predict the prophet and bypass all the roadblocks, obviously she has no ability.
When the day arrived, I suddenly heard a report from my subordinates, and hundreds of cavalry came from under the mountain at some point, looking at the color of their uniforms, like the soldiers of the suzerain's mansion. Zhou Yu was shocked, and involuntarily looked in the direction of Imperial Physician Wang.
Imperial Physician Wang was lying on the table, still holding half a glass of residual wine in his hand. This wine is mixed with a lot of ecstasy, which is enough for the imperial doctor to sleep here in the dark. Zhou Yu stepped forward and took the wine glass and wine jug in his hand, and splashed the wine in the glass. He stuffed the wine jug and glass into Li De's hand: "Go, change it to myrrh wine." ”
Li De took the wine jug, and he began to panic in his heart: "Sect Master Wei shouldn't really fight up the mountain, right?"
"Why did she hit the mountain?" Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and crunched, and his cheeks were hard.
Li De stretched out his finger and pointed at Wang Nianen: "Let's detain this grandson, can Sect Master Wei give up?"
Zhou Yu snorted: "Who did I detain this grandson himself, who is to blame?"
Li De tugged at the corners of his mouth, he couldn't say anything to him, it depended on Wei Yuanxi's willingness to listen. Then he turned and rinsed the jug with clean water, scooped up half of the jug again, and stuffed it back into the hand of the imperial physician.
"My lord, now is not the time to talk angrily, Sect Master Wei can transfer soldiers from the palace, which means that she has already returned to the Sect Master's Mansion, and she must have heard about the account books. ”
"I heard about it and ......" Zhou Yu only said half of his words, then gritted his teeth, was silent for a long time, and asked, "You mean she is going to operate on us?"
Li De hesitated for a moment: "My lord, the soldiers and horses of the Sect Master's Mansion have surrounded the mine into iron barrels, do you still have illusions?"
"Nope. Zhou Yu stroked his palms for a while, he didn't know what to do for a while, the more Zhou Yu thought about it, the more he hated, fuck, he couldn't even deal with a woman?
When Li De saw that Zhou Yu didn't say a word, he knew that he had no idea in his heart. It's hard for even the top boss to protect himself, let alone a petty official?
Li Deyi arched his hand and said, "My lord, the top priority now is probably not this imperial doctor." Sect Master Wei came to the mine yesterday with a private visit, and he must have doubts about the account books we submitted. She's starting to suspect us, and we shouldn't be breaching against the knife!"
Zhou Yu turned his head, looked at him solemnly, nodded Li De with his hand, and said, "Then what do you say?"
"Evacuate the workers. Li De said categorically.
Zhou Yu shook his head: "Impossible, the mountain is full of her soldiers, where can she retreat at this time?"
Li De thumped his chest and sighed: "It seems that we have missed the opportunity." ”
This kind of afterthought, there is no need for Li De to say it, Zhou Yu also understands it in his heart, but what is the use of just understanding, he has to come up with some solution!
"Most of these laborers are displaced people from other places, as well as prisoners in our government prisons. If these people fall into the hands of Sect Master Wei, won't we be able to hide the matter of our private embezzlement of wages?" Li De felt that his hands were numb, this situation was very tricky, if he made a wrong step, he would have to be crushed.
"Nonsense, nonsense!" Zhou Yu's voice began to be hysterical.
Zhou Yu roared a few times, then suddenly paused, and his eyes were fixed on Li De's face: "Eh, the laborers can't be lucky, we can ......."
Zhou Yu put his palm across his neck and made a cold stroke.