Chapter 30: Assassination of Emperor Liang
At this time, the four Lixian, who were struggling to find Yi Dan, searched all over Kaifeng City, but there was still no news. According to the agreed time, Li Qiu was the first to come to the door of "Let's Gather Teahouse" when it was dark.
After a while, the other three also came to the door of the "Let's Gather Teahouse". All four of them shook their heads in frustration, not finding any news about Yi Dan. So he stood at the door hungry and thirsty, and Li Qiu kept fanning with a fan.
"Why didn't there be any news at all? didn't she come to Kaifeng?" said Li Xian unwillingly.
Ouyang Yucheng on the side said: "No, if it is really as she said in the letter, if she is determined to take revenge, then she will definitely come to Kaifeng, otherwise where will she go?"
"The rivers and lakes are sinister, I don't know if she is in any danger, this child has always been straightforward and fast-talking, and he doesn't think about the consequences when he does things, what should he do if he gets into trouble and suffers a loss?"
"It's already dark, do we still want to continue looking?" asked Li Qiu
"Of course I have to look for it, the more time passes, the more worried I am in my heart, this child has never left us since he was a child, and he stays out alone" Rixian continued anxiously.
Youming on the side reminded: "Brother Ouyang, you are the leader of the Knife Grinding Gang, I heard that the disciples of the Knife Grinding Gang are all over the world, is there any disciple of the Knife Grinding Gang in Bianzhou?
"Yes, Kaifeng is the capital of Daliang, how can there be no branch of the Knife Grinding Gang? Of course I thought of this, I have already summoned the head of Bianzhou in the afternoon, and he has already released the news, and now the disciples of the Knife Grinding Gang in the entire Kaifeng City know about this matter, I hope there will be news of Dan'er soon" Ouyang Yucheng said.
"Is this okay?" asked Li Qiu.
"Finding out the news is what my Knife Sharpening Gang is best at, if Dan'er really comes to Kaifeng, I believe they have the ability to find out her news, but we can't be idle, we still have to continue to investigate," Ouyang Yucheng said.
"That's right, the Knife Sharpening Gang is the former Tingfeng Hall. If you want to find out the news, who in this world can compare to you," Li Qiu said.
"Li Daxia has won the award"
Li Xian suggested: "Everyone has been running all afternoon, I believe they must be very thirsty, or let's go first to have a cup of tea and rest, and then discuss what to do next?"
At this time, the shopkeeper who came to gather the teahouse came out and asked enthusiastically: "A few of you have just come from other places, right? The weather is so hot, come in and have a cup of tea to cool off, the store is half price at night, and a pot of good Jiangnan Spring is only ten cents."
"Okay, shopkeeper, just bring us a pot of good Jiangnan Chun," Li Qiu said.
"Okay Lak, I'll go and tie the horses to a few people, please come in for a while, the tea will be coming soon," the shopkeeper greeted happily as he led the horses aside.
The four of them were exhausted, and after entering the teahouse and taking their seats, they looked at each other speechlessly.
After a while, the shopkeeper brought the teapot over, poured the tea, and asked, "I see a few people sweating profusely and hurrying, I don't know whether to run business or catch thieves?"
Youming said tiredly: "Do you think we look like fast catchers, or are we businessmen?"
The shopkeeper lifted the teapot, looked at the four of them carefully, and said: "I don't look like it, I look like a few knights."
The shopkeeper was a joke, but he didn't expect to guess it. So Youming said: "You really guess, you can see it"
The shopkeeper said with a slight joke: "Yo, how many people are really heroes of the rivers and lakes? There are a lot of heroes from the rivers and lakes today, and a crazy woman just left in the afternoon, full of nonsense, and almost smashed my shop, hey, she looks very beautiful, it's a pity."
The shopkeeper's words dragged Rihyun's tired body off the table. He quickly cheered up and asked, "Shopkeeper, what did you just say?"
"It's nothing, I'm kidding, don't be angry, a few guest officers," the shopkeeper was afraid of getting into trouble again, so he said perfunctorily.
"No, I'm asking you, what did you just say, can you repeat it?" asked Lixian.
"What did I just say?
"What did you just say, the woman in the afternoon is crazy, what's the matter?" asked Rihyun.
"Hey, this afternoon there was a very beautiful woman in this teahouse, but she was crazy and full of nonsense, saying that she was going to assassinate the current emperor, and smashed my cup, and almost started with us. Hey, it's really everyone these days," the shopkeeper told what happened in the afternoon.
When Ouyang Yucheng heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Is the woman you are talking about wearing white clothes, holding a sword, and looking like she is twenty years old?"
"Yes, yes, how do you know?" replied the shopkeeper.
"Did she really say she was going to assassinate the emperor?" asked Rihyun.
The shopkeeper looked around and whispered: "That's right, but everyone knows that she is talking nonsense, and no one cares about him, hey, I think she must have something wrong with her brain." Hey, what a shame."
"Great, great, it must be Dan'er, it must be Dan'er," Ouyang Yucheng said happily.
"May I ask the shopkeeper, do you know that girl, where is she now?" asked Li Qiu.
"I don't know, she broke my teapot and cup and didn't have any money to pay me. Later, the man at the next table generously helped her lose the money, and then she seemed to have gone with the man," said the shopkeeper.
"What? he went with a strange man?" asked Youming.
"That's right, that's why I said she's crazy, are you really here for her?" said the shopkeeper.
"May I ask the shopkeeper, what does that man look like, what is his origin, do you know him?" asked Ouyang Yucheng.
"I don't know either, I haven't seen me before, it's just these few afternoons, I always come to my teahouse. But he was very generous, as if he were rich," replied the shopkeeper.
"Then do you know where that man lives?" asked Ouyang Yucheng.
"How do I know this? This Kaifeng Mansion is so big, and there are many businessmen and officials from the north and south, so we just drink tea and don't ask anything else," the shopkeeper said.
"It must be her, it must be Dan'er, she is angry now, that's why she is so impulsive," Ouyang Yucheng said.
"We have to find Senior Sister quickly, otherwise the consequences are really unpredictable," Youming said.
At this time, a man with a whetstone in his hand came to the teahouse, and after seeing Ouyang Yucheng, he hurriedly bowed and said: "Sharpen the knife to help the Bianzhou branch, and the head of the department, Zheng Guangtian, see the gang leader."
"No need to be polite, may I ask Zheng Zhangbu, is there any news?" Ouyang Yucheng asked Zheng Guangtian of the Bianzhou Branch of the Knife Sharpening Gang.
"Back to the helper, the person you are looking for already has news," Zheng Guangtian replied.
Ouyang Yucheng put down the teacup in his hand and asked, "Is it? Great, where is she?"
"In the afternoon, a disciple of the Knife Grinding Gang saw the woman described by the gang leader in an alley in the southern city. It seems that he was brought into a private house by a man of about five feet, twenty-eight or nine-year-old," Zheng Guangtian said.
Ouyang Yucheng heard this, and hurriedly turned his head and asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, may I ask if the woman was here with you in the afternoon, was she taken away by a man of this appearance?"
"Yes, it's such a man. I'm sorry you guys don't know Taishan, and I was offended just now..."
Before the shopkeeper could speak, Ouyang Yucheng dropped a few copper coins and said, "Let's go, let's go find her now."
After everyone left, the shopkeeper said to the shopkeeper: "The situation in Kaifeng is getting more and more complicated, let's be cautious when we talk and do things in the future."
"Got the shopkeeper"
At this time, Yi Dan followed Concubine De's shoulder and came to the gate of the palace together. One of the guards stopped Yi Dan and asked, "Wait a minute."
Yi Dan lowered his head and was very nervous. The guard looked up and down and asked, "Raise your head and I'll see."
Yi Dan slowly lifted his head, but clenched his fists, ready to strike at any moment. The guard asked, "Why do you look so raw, I haven't seen you before?"
"I'm Concubine De's maid, what impression can you have of a maid," Yi Dan said with his head down.
The guard carefully examined Yi Dan's beautiful face and said, "No, Concubine De Niangniang's side, there is no palace maid like you, what is your name?"
Yi Dan couldn't answer, and the guard asked, "Why don't you speak? Is it so difficult to answer a name? If you dare to pretend to be a palace maid and sneak into the palace, it will be a capital crime."
At this time, Concubine De raised her hand to signal her shoulder to stop, and she turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Niangniang, may I ask if this woman is from your palace, and if not, she will be imprisoned for trespassing in the palace," replied the guard.
When Yi Dan saw Concubine De turn around, he immediately lowered his head and didn't dare to look at her. Concubine De saw that Yi Dan bowed her head and was silent, so she said, "Raise your head and show it to the palace."
Yi Dan didn't dare to raise his head, and the guard scolded: "Niang Niang asked you to raise your head, did you hear it?" Yi Dan slowly raised his head at this time, and Concubine De saw that it was Yi Dan, but she was shocked but didn't dare to show it on her face. She looked at Yi Dan's eyes, Yi Dan's eyes flashed, and she didn't dare to look directly at Concubine De's eyes. The guard asked, "Niangniang, do you know her?" if she is not from your palace, the last general will take her down."
Concubine De heard the guards say this, and was afraid that Yi Dan would really be imprisoned, so she said: "Oh, she is from my palace, it's okay, you let her in."
"The last general obeys the order, please be considerate, the last general is responsible for the body, and it is necessary to conduct a routine investigation"
"Then you can check it out," Concubine De said.
The guard came over and said to Yi Dan, "Please raise your hand, girl."
Yi Dan raised his hand, let the guard examine it carefully, and after making sure that there was no hidden weapon, he let her go.
Yi Dan chased Concubine De's shoulder into the palace, and in a place where there was no one around the corner, Concubine De motioned for the eunuchs to stop their shoulder. Concubine De got down from her shoulder, came to Yi Dan's side, looked around, and asked in a low voice: "What are you doing in the palace?" Do you know that this is very dangerous, if you are caught by the guards just now, you will lose half your life if you don't die, and while the palace door is not closed, I will give you an errand to buy items, you go out of the palace."
"Concubine De, please don't stop me," Yi Dan said, looking at the stone steps on the ground.
"What do you want? Are you crazy?" asked Concubine De in a low voice.
"I'm not crazy, I know what I'm doing, the sea of blood is deep, today it's either him or I'm dead, there is no third way to choose" Yi Dan said indignantly.
"This palace is heavily guarded, three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post, it is not a place where you can do whatever you want at all, I advise you to leave quickly" Concubine De persuaded her.
"I'm going to do something you don't dare to do, Sister Zihan, if you can still read in the old man of the ranger, for the sake of the spirit of heaven, please let me do it, what I should do" Yi Dan looked at Concubine De's eyes and said sincerely.
"It's because they've died in vain that I don't want you to repeat their mistakes. You won't succeed, you listen to my words and leave quickly, we can find a chance to meet again in the future and talk slowly" Concubine De persuaded Yi Dan constantly.
"Since I've already come in, I haven't thought about getting out alive, but Sister Zihan, I still want to thank you for bringing me in" said it, Yi Dan wanted to turn around and leave. leave
Concubine De said to the people around her: "Hurry, stop her"
"You can't stop me, I'll do what I'm supposed to do, goodbye!" With that, Yi Dan jumped up with a light effort, flew onto the roof of the palace, and disappeared into the long night.
Concubine De anxiously said to the maid beside her: "Go and tell the guards around the emperor and let him guard the emperor closely, go quickly" The maid was ordered to leave.
At this time, Zheng Guangtian, the head of the Bianzhou Knife Sharpening Gang, took the four of Li Xian to the alley of the house.
"Zheng Zhangbu, are you sure that the person we are looking for is here?" Ouyang Yucheng asked Zheng Guangtian.
"Back to the gang leader, this was originally just an ordinary house, but a few days ago a few outsiders came to live, they are mysterious and sneaky here, and they have long attracted the attention of the brothers in the gang. This afternoon, a disciple of the gang saw a man with a beautiful girl coming here. According to the gang leader's previous description, the woman and the disciples should have seen the same person," Zheng Guangtian said.
"Okay, then let's go find someone quickly," Ouyang Yucheng said.
At this time in the palace, Yi Dan followed the map of the palace given by his mother Tongfei earlier. Finding the emperor's dormitory, the Funing Palace, she flew from the roof of another hall to the high courtyard wall outside the Funing Palace, and took a look. I saw that everything was silent, and the weather in July was unusually hot, perhaps in order to enjoy the coolness, the door of the temple was wide open, and I saw that the lights inside were brilliant. From a distance, a man in his thirties in a golden robe in the hall was drinking and frolicking with two women in his arms, and a large number of palace maids and eunuchs were fanning them with fans. Yi Dan concluded in his heart that the man must be Zhu Youzhen, the Emperor of the Great Liang. So without thinking, she took off three pieces of tiles from the courtyard wall to make weapons, took them in her hands, rose into the air, and rushed straight to the yellow-robed man in the hall.
When he flew into the door of Funing Palace, Yi Dan suddenly threw out a tile in his hand and flew towards the man in the yellow robe. The man was drinking from side to side, when he suddenly noticed something flying towards him, so he dodged to the side, hiding behind a thick pillar. The tile struck the pillar and shattered into pieces. The two palace maids screamed loudly in fright, but strangely, none of the guards came to the rescue.
Yi Dan flew into the main hall and flew directly to the pillar where the yellow-robed man was hiding, she hooked one foot on the opposite pillar, and then threw a second tile at the man. The man sat down on the ground in fright, and the tiles hit the pillar and fell into the air again. The man crawled towards the table, lifted the wine and food on the table, and used the table to cover himself, Yi Dan flew to the table and shouted: "Zhu Youzhen, take your life"
After shouting, Yi Dan shook it fiercely and smashed the last tile in his hand into the table, and the table was smashed to pieces in an instant. The yellow-robed man met Yi Dan in a narrow way, and there was nowhere to hide at all. Yi Dan exerted all his strength, expelled the palm force of the blade palm, and slashed at the neck of the man in front of him. Suddenly, blood gushed out, and the yellow-robed man immediately fell to the ground and died.
Yi Dan himself didn't expect to kill the Great Liang Emperor Zhu Youzhen so smoothly. She finally fulfilled her wish to avenge her parents and relatives, and stood there with great satisfaction, laughing like crazy, laughing while laughing, and said: "I have finally taken revenge, I have finally taken revenge, father, brother, have you seen it? I have avenged you, I have killed the faint king, I have finally killed the faint king... Haha, haha"