Chapter V: Captivity
The clouds close the moon, and the autumn night is deep. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The city of Yutian Mansion was pitch black, and only the sergeants who came and went to patrol the night, with their weak red silk lanterns, could bring the silken light that seemed to be nothing.
Bai Cheng was alone, standing on the eaves on the side of the road, lowering his eyes, quietly watching the strings of lanterns passing by, a little disapproving.
In all the state capitals in the world, from the capital Jianye to the Qingyangfu City, the patrol sergeants in the city used torches, but the sergeants in Yutian Mansion used lanterns.
The lantern flame is faint, far less powerful than the torch. If these sergeants were armed with torches, under the light of the blazing fire, Bai Cheng would not be able to hide his figure on the cornice, but they all had lanterns, and the light of the fire was faint, and it was good to illuminate the road in front of them, but as for the houses on both sides of the road, it was pitch black.
Patrolling on weekdays is already difficult, if you encounter a few river and ocean thieves, as long as you take a step to chase, the lantern will be extinguished in response to the wind, and then want to catch up is a pipe dream.
Bai Cheng had a tattoo between his eyebrows, if it weren't for the fact that this prince was greedy for purity to the point of madness, then he had other plans.
Flashing past several patrolling sergeants, Bai Cheng strolled along the long street and came to the Yamen of Yutian Mansion.
What catches your eye is a blue brick wall, about one zhang high, about three zhang long, about one foot thick, blue bricks and blue tiles, Rui beast is auspicious, a picture of the rising sun in the east on the front, the carving is exquisite, obviously it is the handiwork of a famous artist.
Bypassing the wall is the government of Yutian Mansion, and in front of the government is a bluestone square, which is paved with bluestone slabs one foot square. In the middle of the square is a seven-foot-wide stone path, and the white marble floor is spotless.
At the end of the stone road are two stone lions, both of which are more than one person tall, extremely powerful and vivid. Behind the two stone lions is the main gate of the government, two black lacquer gates, shiny and shiny, simple and heavy, more than one zhang high.
There are four big red lanterns hanging on the black lacquer gate, all of which are the thickness of two people hugging, and red candles with the thickness of their arms are lit inside.
Behind the four lanterns is a plaque, with gold characters on a black background, seven feet long, and four big characters of "Yutian Mansion Ya" written uprightly.
It was getting late, everything was silent, the gate of the government was closed, and there was no one on duty in front of the door.
A few wisps of night wind blew, Bai Cheng couldn't help but shiver, a gloomy feeling climbed up to his heart, and the government in front of him seemed to turn into a fierce beast that chose people to devour, and his heart couldn't help sinking.
The "Dragon Seeking Style" of the Thirteen Styles of Broken Jade cultivated by Bai Cheng is expected to have the energy of qi and can explore the circulation of heaven and earth qi. He only knew what it was, but he didn't know why, he could only detect the flow of the qi, but he didn't know how the qi flowed.
Along the way, he walked with the head of the Fengnuo Dao, consulted a lot of knowledge of Wangqi, and personally tested it many times, and understood a lot of the truth of the flow of breath between heaven and earth, and he was no longer ignorant in the past.
The government of Yutian Mansion is the gathering of the hearts of the people of the government, and it is the most popular place, not to mention the official suppression of the imperial court. Even if the prince of the mansion is immoral and cannot inspire the prestige of the dignified officials, he will never exude a cold atmosphere.
Bai Cheng felt that the aura of the mansion was abnormal, and he pondered for a while, bypassed the main gate of the mansion, and slowly escaped into the shadow of the courtyard wall.
Lurking more than ten zhang away along the shadows, Bai Cheng put his ear on the wall, carefully distinguishing the movement in the courtyard, and felt that no one was moving within the courtyard wall, so he was on tiptoe and flew up the wall.
Standing on the courtyard wall, Bai Cheng raised his head and swept in all directions, and couldn't help frowning, there was darkness in the mansion, and there was not even a trace of candlelight.
Bai Cheng was secretly surprised in his heart, he thought that the prefect of Yutian Mansion was a faint official who only allowed the state officials to set fires and did not allow the people to light lamps, but he didn't expect that there would not be a single candle in the palace.
Seeing that there was no movement around him, he drifted into the courtyard, intending to find the residence of the prince.
Unexpectedly, not only was there not a single candle in this courtyard, but there was not even half a living person, and even if he wanted to visit, there was no one to ask and nowhere to be found.
Bai Cheng was worried in his heart, and suddenly a few light coughs came out from a distance, and his heart suddenly rejoiced, and he flew in the direction of the coughing sound.
In the blink of an eye, he was in the direction where the cough sounded.
In a remote corner of the backyard, there was a bluestone house, low and low, which seemed to be extremely dilapidated, except for one door, which was brand new and seemed to have not been replaced very soon.
There is only one small door in the whole room for entry and exit, and there is no window at all, and the original location of the window has been built with bluestone, leaving no gap.
Bai Cheng stretched his figure, jumped onto the roof, leaned down, and listened to the people in the house.
"Ahem... Cough... cough..."A few clear coughs came, and the voice seemed to be a middle-aged man.
"Master, you don't matter, right?" a woman's voice came, her voice gentle and tactful, with a bit of sadness.
"It's okay, it's just that when I opened the door just now, some cold wind blew in, and I coughed a few times when I caught a cold. ”
"Master, it's all Fang'er's bad, so that the master catches a cold. ”
"It's none of your business, my body is long gone. ”
"Master, you must take care, if you have three long and two short, Fang'er will not survive. ”
"You don't have to worry, they won't let me die so easily until it's done. ”
"Master, Fang'er will beg him tomorrow and beg him to let us live, if this continues, you and I will have to die here sooner or later. ”
"Alas, don't beg him, he will never let us go. ”
When Bai Cheng heard this, his heart immediately became angry, and the prince of Yutian Mansion was too bold to dare to detain others privately in the mansion.
"Ahh
"Fang'er, let's take a walk in the backyard that day, can you see a lonely grave in the west courtyard?"
Fang'er remembered that Fang'er still wondered why a tomb would be built in the government at that time. ”
"That lonely grave is buried in the former Sun Fujun!"
"Didn't Sun Fujun return to his hometown?"
"Well, let's not talk about it..."
When Bai Cheng heard this, his heart couldn't help but burst, the identities of these two people didn't seem to be as simple as he thought.
"Master, do you mean that Sun Fujun's suing the old man to return to his hometown is actually fake, and he assassinated him? Could it be that you and I will end up the same as Sun Fujun?"
"Sun Fujun... Hehe, sir, I inadvertently peeked into Master Chang's secret, I'm afraid it's hard to want a lonely grave..."
There was a cries, followed by several muffled sounds, as if someone was pounding the wall with their fists.
"God, what kind of evil did I, Wei Yuntao, create? Ten years of bitterness, when the gold list is titled, a spring dream is exchanged for a life is better than death!"
The man also seemed to be extremely angry and screamed in the room!
When Bai Cheng heard this, his face turned pale, and it was Wei Yuntao, the prince of Yutian Mansion, who was imprisoned in this room, who was so bold as to dare to imprison the monarch of the First Mansion in the mansion! )