Chapter 68: Assassination in the middle of the night
After hearing this, Chen Changsheng closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and said, "So...... Your Excellency is worried that the emperor will be swayed by the new party, and it may be detrimental to the old party, right?"
Yuan Juzheng lowered his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Exactly, it's just that the old man still has an idea, which is to let the old party take power." Nowadays, corruption breeds up and down the Great Qi, the various princes are entrenched on one side, the people are ridden by these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the officialdom has long been in chaos. Only when in power can we have a chance to rectify these chaos. ”
"My lord really has a heart in his words. Chen Changsheng said with a smile, "Your Excellency, please come with me, I have a humble opinion below, I don't know if I can help my lord." ”
"Please. Yuan Juzheng's brows finally stretched a little, and he waved his hand hurriedly.
Qi Wangfu.
Late at night.
The house was brightly lit, and the expensive sandalwood specially provided by the Western Regions slowly diffused the fragrance in the room, and Qi An was casually draped in a smooth gold silk satin, lying on the wide chaise longue, bare-chested and breast-bared, with his eyes closed and his brows tightly locked.
It didn't take long for the door of the room to be pushed open, and a tall, lanky figure appeared in the doorway.
Qi An hurriedly opened his eyes and saw Qi Yu standing at the door, and sat up from the recliner with a pendulum, and the chair made a screeching sound.
"Here, sit down. Qi An hurriedly stretched out his hand and beckoned.
Qi Yu walked into the room with a gloomy face, and said, "What is the situation now?"
"Oh, brother, this is going to kill me. Qi An cried with a sad face and said, "Since the news came from Xijing, my brother's head is about to explode, like a pins and needles." ”
Qi Yu walked straight into the house, found a black wooden chair and sat down, and said to Qi An simply, "Let's talk about it." ”
"Thousands of bandits were killed outside the city of Xijing, most of them were from the Western Regions, and it is estimated that they were part of the rebellion in the city. They had premeditated. Qi An said, "The Praetorian Guards in the city are about to be unable to hold it, and several entrances and exits have been broken, and my people are almost unable to resist withdrawing from the city." ”
After hearing this, Qi Yu's face became more and more gloomy, and said, "It's late at night now, why didn't you tell me when you knew the news?"
Qi An's eyes widened with a meaty face, and he said, "It's not a small matter, I've been struggling with whether to report it to the imperial court." We don't have any soldiers in our hands, and if things can't be controlled, the blame from above will be great. ”
Qi Yu sighed, waved his hand at him, and said, "First hold the troops, the master said, all the Praetorian Guards will withdraw from the city, just tonight." ”
When Qi An heard this, he was startled. Said: "That...... Then don't you want Xijing City?"
"This is the master's arrangement. Qi Yu turned his head away, stopped looking at him, and said coldly, "As for whether the imperial court will send troops or not, we don't know, we just need to wait and see what happens." ”
"The imperial court will definitely send troops. Seeing his indifferent attitude, Qi An couldn't help but be a little anxious, spread his hands, and said, "When the time comes, let Fan Changlong lead the troops to rehabilitate, it is a great achievement, and he will also beat me upside down and put a hat on my head to let the people rebel, what's the matter?"
"You don't need to worry about this, the master will arrange it. Qi Yu said lightly, as he spoke, he stood up, lowered his hand and straightened the hem of his wide clothes, did not pay attention to Qi An again, and walked out of the door without looking back.
"Ahh......h
After he walked away, Qi An was so angry that he smashed the handle of the recliner in anger, and he was indignant.
He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan at this time, and his oily and powdery head was covered with fine beads of sweat.
After a while, from behind the towering screen in the room, a woman with still charm walked out, and her gestures revealed elegant courtesy. The woman quietly walked to Qi An's side and asked softly, "His Royal Highness the Prince...... The slave and maid have been listening to it for a long time, what happened to make His Highness so angry?"
Qi An was anxious at this time, shook his hand angrily, and said impatiently: "It's nothing, this little rabbit cub...... It's getting worse and worse...... Go away, there's no woman's business here. ”
The corners of the woman's mouth were soft, she leaned down and said softly, "Your Highness, perhaps...... Can the slave and maid share the worries of His Highness?"
Qi An frowned and glanced at her, inadvertently glanced at her under the placket of her clothes, his face softened slightly, and said, "Just now, Qi Yu, who doesn't know what to do, used the old man to press me again." I'm a dignified prince, and I'm actually annoyed to death by a bunch of little people making trouble, if I didn't have the military power in my hands, would this go wrong?"
"Your Highness. The woman stretched out her arms, gently landed on Qi An's shoulders, kneaded them for him, and said, "There is no way to have Master Yuan as a backer at the head of the sect, but don't you also have a biggest backer?"
"I, who is it?" Qi An asked, looking up at her, a little unconscious.
The woman approached and said softly: "Your Majesty, Your Highness, you won't forget, the emperor was explained by the emperor when he was dying, and assisted you as the crown prince, and the emperor was kind to him, so you can rely on the emperor, and the emperor and his old man will not treat you badly." ”
After hearing this, Qi An sighed heavily, and said: "But now, the emperor is seriously ill, and he has no time to take care of this matter in the summer resort, and now the court is basically Fan Changlong's bastard who has the final say, who is willing to listen to me?"
"Your Highness...... Are you thinking of bringing them down?" the woman smiled and whispered into Qi'an's ear.
Her voice was a thin nymph, which made Qi An's ears itch for a while, and she was a little excited.
"yes, what now?" Qi An asked.
"Your Highness...... I have a plan, I wonder if I can help the adults a little?" the woman smiled at him.
When Qi An heard this, he frowned and said, "Nurse...... You...... You don't care about these things, it's not as simple as you think. ”
The woman held out an index finger to his mouth and said, "My lord, listen to the slave first...... It's a rare opportunity at this time, and it's a pity to miss it......"
In the middle of the night, outside the dead silence of the Qi Palace, there was a sound of cicadas.
Enlightenment Dart Bureau.
The night shrouded the dart board, and in the dark courtyard, I couldn't see my fingers.
A nimble figure in black hurried through the corridor of the courtyard, hunched over and acting in a sneaky manner.
He came to the middle of the courtyard and looked carefully around the side, his face covered with a black cloth showing a pair of eyes, looking around and searching.
The room where Han Luyao and Shen Mengxi were was was not far from him. The man in black quietly groped in that direction.
He hid himself in the night by the bushes in the courtyard, and the candles in the lamps shone faintly, revealing him in the slightest.
After a while, the man in black touched the window next to the house. He leaned under the window, cautiously reached into his bosom, and pulled out a shiny dagger.
The man in black hunched his waist, quietly held the dagger, and stretched out his other hand to slowly push the window open a crack.
Suddenly, at this moment, a hand was placed on his shoulder.
"No, you just want to take this in and kill people?"
A gentle voice sounded in his ears, like a thunderclap on the ground.
The man in black stood on end in surprise and stayed in place. He slowly turned his head and looked behind him.
A strange, well-dressed man came silently behind him, looking down at him with a playful look.
"You...... Who are you?" asked the man in black, his eyes full of disbelief, as if he were facing a great enemy.
"You don't have to worry about that. It's only a matter of time before an ignorant and fearless person like you stupidly breaks in and gets killed. The man said lightly.
After that, the man in black suddenly felt a coldness in his throat, he had a premonition, his eyes suddenly widened, staring at the man behind him.
The man casually slit the throat of the man in black with a fingertip-sized blade, as if he were cooking a routine meal. Before the man in black could speak, he choked up and collapsed on the ground.
He lowered his head, watched the blood gradually rise under the man in black, sneered, wiped the blade in his hand, and took it into his arms with a calm expression.
Then the man leisurely went to the window, and generously pushed the window in, making a shrill creaking sound that broke the silence around him.
Inside the window, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.
The man waited silently under the window, and after a while, the sound of a sharp dagger piercing the air was heard from within. In an instant, the man tilted his neck slightly, and a cold light passed by him, and only some afterimages could be faintly seen, and a dagger was inserted straight into a tree behind the man.
The man chuckled, disapproving.
"Leaves don't stay. From inside the room, Han Luyao's cold voice came out.
Ye Buliu sneered and said inside: "I thought you were hiding well, but it turned out that in this place, I am not the only one who wants to kill you." ”
"It's just one or two more corpses, so what's the matter?" Han Luyao said coldly.
Ye Buliu leisurely put his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked at the inky sky, and there was not a single star in sight.
"I finally found you, how could I let you leave alive?" Ye Buliu sighed and said, "It's just that this is the territory of the Qi Kingdom, and the people who want your life are powerful and powerful, and I can't afford to provoke them, so I have to line up." ”
With that, he turned to the courtyard shrouded in night, and said, "Come out, I'll give you her head, and I'll strike after you're killed." ”
As soon as the words fell, through the night, a man slowly walked out of the courtyard and said to him, "How do you think that I will die at her hands?"
Ye didn't listen, couldn't help but snort, and said: "In this world, there are not many people who can kill her, and I don't have to, let alone you?"
Qi Yu walked out of the night and came to Ye Buliu, looking at him indifferently, with no expression on his resolute and sharp face.
He glanced at the corpse of the man in black on the ground, and then at Ye Buliu, without speaking.
"What? I want to use someone to lure Han Luyao out? I really don't understand you, you have to be sneaky to kill someone. Ye Buliu said jokingly.
"General Ye. Qi Yu said in a deep voice, "On my Daqi territory, there is no part for you to intervene." ”