Chapter 39: Turnaround
Ling Ye naturally didn't know, and Huang Quan naturally couldn't imagine that Prince Gong was making trouble so viciously because of Marshal Wu Peng's instructions.
It looked good before, the emperor appreciated it, the marshal admired it, everyone envied it, and he could take off on the ground when he saw it, who would have thought that Marshal Wu Peng would suddenly change his face?
Ling Ye couldn't think of it, and he could only think that Prince Gong had secretly thrown himself into General Zuo's faction, or listened to Lu Tianming's words!
Hearing Prince Gong's shout, he sneered at the people on the stage and said, "Do you want to hit my board to show your official authority? Come on, try it!"
Prince Gong slapped the table, glared and shouted: "It's reversed! It's reversed! Left and right, give this king ......."
Before he could finish his words, someone outside suddenly shouted loudly: "Lord, it's not good! A large number of people are rushing here, and it looks like they are going to surround this place!"
Prince Gong was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and shouted, "What is such a fuss?
Someone shouted back, "Looks like a group of peasants!"
Prince Gong was furious: "What kind of peasants? Who dare to surround here, can they be peasants? They must be bandits and robbers!"
"Yes! There's a horde of bandits and robbers surrounding this place!"
"Tell me clearly, how much the big flock is!"
"I can't count, there are always five or six hundred!"
Prince Gong shouted: "What are you panicking, close the gate immediately, don't let them in, and then send out carrier pigeons!"
The eastern suburbs of the school yard is a barracks, but it is usually guarded by only a few soldiers, and it is only lively when the emperor or general orders troops. Today, Prince Gong only came here to be the chief examiner, and he only brought more than a dozen entourages, plus a few soldiers guarding the barracks, it was only more than thirty people.
With more than 30 people fighting against five or six hundred bandits, even the cavalry battalion did not dare to say that it would definitely win. Prince Gong was very self-aware, so he ordered the pigeon to be released behind closed doors for help.
When those followers saw that things had changed, they were not in a hurry to catch Midnight. The first person asked, "Lord Wang, ...... this person?"
Prince Gong stroked his beard, smiled, looked at Ling Ye and said, "Ling Ye, don't you want to take the assessment? This king forgives you for the crime of incompetence in your words and deeds just now, now, as long as you can kill the bandits and robbers outside, then you will pass the assessment, how about it?"
Ling Ye snorted and didn't speak.
He's not stupid, he was called and drunk by others just now, and now he still wants to help people fight off the bandits and robbers to save the life of this dog king?
Is it worth it? for this ungrateful dog king?
Huang Quan said in a low voice: "Hey, Ling Ye, promise! This is a very rare turnaround!"
Ling Ye stared at Prince Gong, who was on the stage with a bulging chest, and said lightly: "It's not worth it!"
As he spoke, the camp gate had been closed, and the soldiers had gone up to the arrow tower. Footsteps could be heard from all directions outside, and it was really surrounded by groups. But the footsteps were heavy and rather chaotic, and you don't have to think about it to know that they must be a large group of untrained rabble.
The shouts also came from outside: "We want to see Prince Gong!
The voices grew louder and louder, and finally hundreds of people shouted out together: "We want to see Prince Gong!
Most of the soldiers guarding were trembling with fright, and the wolf guards who came to cheer for Ling Ye also looked at each other.
I just came to the imperial capital for a few days and had a peaceful birthday, and I ran into bandits?
Prince Gong probably saw a big scene, and he didn't pay much attention to the hundreds of people. He saw Ling Ye's resistance, hey, not in a hurry, turned his head and shouted: "Let you release the carrier pigeon, have you released it?"
A soldier rushed over with a pigeon cage and bowed down and said, "Please also ask the prince to write a letter to tell me in a hurry!"
Prince Gong snorted. An entourage next to him immediately sharpened the ink, Prince Gong picked up the pen, didn't know what words were written in one breath, folded it into a roll, handed it to the soldier, and shouted: "Let it go!"
Soon, the carrier pigeon with the urgent letter fluttered its wings and flew towards the imperial capital to the west.
Prince Gong watched the carrier pigeon fly away and stroked his beard: "This place is only more than ten miles away from the imperial capital, and the carrier pigeon will arrive in a blink of an eye." When the time comes, a large group of people will come over and kill these daring bandits and robbers!"
The soldier who came with carrier pigeons whispered: "Lord Wang, these bandits are not wearing armor, they are all cloth clothes......
Prince Gong's eyes widened: "Get out!"
At this moment, a soldier standing on the arrow tower pointed in the direction in which the carrier pigeon was flying and shouted: "The carrier pigeon has been shot down!!"
Prince Gong's face finally changed color, and he shouted angrily: "What a group of lawless maniacs!"
Huang Quan also sighed and said to Ling Ye: "Although this place is close to the imperial capital, if the carrier pigeon can't fly out, then no one will come to save it." By the time Prince Gong's family felt that something was wrong and came to inspect it, five or six hundred bandits would be enough to tear this place to the ground. ”
Ling Ye nodded lightly and asked, "How come there are also thieves in the imperial capital?"
Huang Quan showed a wry smile on his face: "There are always people who want to be bandits." ”
Ling Ye nodded, but did not speak.
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Outside, in the woods.
A black-clad masked man picked up a pigeon from the ground, trotted all the way to a group of similarly black-clad masked men, and bowed to the leader. The pigeon was killed by an arrow that pierced the body, and was already dead.
The man in black at the head took the carrier pigeon, unfolded the paper scroll and looked at it, and smiled: "It seems that it was written by an old thief." The old thief is really conceited, such a terrible thing, he actually wrote so calmly, saying that 'the bandits in the eastern suburbs of the school field gather, and they can make great contributions quickly'. Hey, hey!"
Another said: "We just wanted to make a mess, but we didn't expect such a thing to happen, God help us!"
The leader nodded, "Not bad." Now we just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and pay attention to shoot the carrier pigeon that flies out of it. Hehe, it's just this Prince Gong...... It's kind of innocent!"
"Innocent fart! This old thief should have died a long time ago! Now we don't have to do it, that's better!"
Another person said: "The big guy is thinking about how to kill this Ling Ye, but there is no good way for a while." Unexpectedly, now a large group of bandits and robbers came out to help. Hehe, these hundreds of people are fighting, even if Ling Ye doesn't die, he will have to lose a few layers of skin, and then we will pick up a ready-made cheap. This is really God's help!
The man at the head said: "Hehe, yes! As the saying goes, if God does evil, you can still live, but you can't live if you do it yourself! This midnight has done so many evils, you have to go against us, and now God is coming to clean him up!