Taijingli was under martial law, blocking the city gates.
At first, the tenants of the farm villages near Gyeonggi did not know about it, but at night, those who entered the city did not return home. At night, I heard the movement of soldiers and horses passing by, and many people were so frightened that they did not dare to close their eyes all night.
As soon as it was dawn, the steward in Zhuangzi got dressed and prepared to go to several nearby Zhuangzi to inquire about the news.
The stewards of the farms here are usually servants of the powerful.
Because of the master's sake, it's important to take care of each other's interactions with each other. Now that there is something to do, if you rush to the door to hear the news, you have to get a famous post and give a gift, so as to save face.
The gift box was prepared by the female relatives at home last night.
There is nothing, just a few pieces of snacks, a few pieces of dried fruit, plus a small but auspicious jade ornament, tied with a red rope, and you can go out with it.
The person in charge had already decided where to go. He greeted a few entourages, asked them to carry the box, and went straight to the village of Uncle Weiping's house.
The owner of the farm was Ning Shangshu of the Ministry of War, an old subordinate of Emperor Lu Zhang. Although he lost his military power now, he was very graceful. The fields are fertile, and every year the yield in the fields is one cent higher than that of others. I heard that it was also the imperial village of the Chu Dynasty in the early years.
It rained heavily yesterday and the ground was muddy.
Not only is it difficult for carriages and horses to travel, but people walk with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Mi is in charge, look at the horseshoe prints here!"
The steward looked at Yingsheng, his face even more ugly.
Horseshoe prints on top of hoof prints, then footprints and ruts.
"... This weight, what exactly is in the car?" Manager Mi muttered to himself.
The rut marks are deep, and from the footprints of the people next to you, the soles of the forefoot are heavier. It is clearly trying to push the cart, and the things on the cart are heavy.
"Could it be that there is a chaotic army? If you go out with food and grass, it must not be a bandit!"
"Nonsense, there are only two Gyeonggi battalions nearby, which are guarding Taijing, and they won't be able to fight again!"
"Okay!" Steward Mi shouted, "Let's hurry up and figure it out!"
The entourage behind him looked at each other with nervous expressions.
In fact, in addition to suppressing bandits and fighting wars, there is another possibility.
Someone is conspiring!
Mi Guanshi's hands trembled slightly. He was in his forties and had experienced the tragic fall of the Chu Dynasty, so he knew how terrifying it was. The people in the city could not escape, and the rebels carried their swords to kill, and even Zhuangzi outside the city was not safe.
Thinking of the vision that appeared in the sky yesterday, Steward Mi almost wanted to turn around and go home, pack up and take his wife and children to escape.
He walked for a while restlessly, when suddenly he heard a scream.
Mi Guanshi slapped his leg and fell directly to the ground.
In front is the Zhuangzi of Uncle Weiping's family, and the voice came from there.
"Let's go!" Mi Guan's expression changed drastically, and the people behind him couldn't care about it anymore, so he turned around and ran away.
When Guanshi Mi stood up, he realized that his foot was twisted, and the pain was excruciating. He limped and tried to stop the entourage, but those people disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The wind brought a faint bloody aura, and Mi Guan became even more panicked.
He simply rolled, fell into the field, curled up and covered his figure by the high field ridge.
Soon there was smoke floating over, and scattered footsteps were heard on the ridge.
"Are you all done?" a voice asked.
"Reporting to the commander, we found two hundred sets of iron armor in the cellar, as well as dozens of bows and crossbows, and nothing else."
"That's enough, go back to Beijing and tell your majesty now! You stay and search the nearby Zhuangzi, maybe you can find evidence that Wei Pingbo participated in the treason!"
"Yes!"
The voice gradually faded away, Steward Mi forced his body to look out, but saw that these people were wearing the clothes of the Praetorian Guards.
Something really happened!
Guanshi Mi struggled to get up, and he revealed his whereabouts on the way, and the small group of janissaries saw him covered in mud and suspicious. He didn't even ask any questions, he slashed with a knife.
"clang!"
The blade was knocked crooked by a stone.
Mi Guanshi thought that he was going to die, and he was so frightened that he lost control. Although he escaped, he still couldn't regain his senses, and he sat on the ground and kept shaking.
"who?"
"It's the bandits in the rivers and lakes that the commander said before, withdraw first!"
This squad of janissaries did not bring bows and arrows. Seeing that the knife was cracked by the stone, they knew how difficult it was for martial arts masters to make a decision and left quickly.
Meng Qi frowned and looked around, there were exclamations in the nearby farmhouses.
"What's the matter?" Mo Li followed and stopped,
He threw the stone just now.
When they were on their way with Qinggong, they suddenly found that a Zhuangzi was on fire.
"It's the Imperial Guard. Logically speaking, they shouldn't leave the city." Meng Qi looked puzzled.
It seems that not only the Jianghu people lost control, but unexpected things happened in Taijing.
The duty of the Praetorian Guards was to protect the imperial city. Lu Zhang suspected that someone had rebelled, and even Jinyiwei could not believe it, so he directly mobilized the Praetorian Guards. It stands to reason that these tens of thousands of people should be on guard in the city for possible rebellion, how could they be sent out of the city
"Unless the conspirator's plan has been revealed and his allies are taken down, Lu Zhang thinks the victory is in hand..."
Meng Qi muttered to himself, his voice was very low, only Mo Li could hear it.
He ignored Mr. Mi, who was about to be scared to death, and went directly to the nearest village.
The janitorial guards didn't start killing people here, they just drove the tenants and the people from the village into the house, and then rummaged through the boxes and searched the ground.
"Come on, have you hidden anything from Weiping Bo Zhuangzi?"
The Zhuangzi's steward shook his head repeatedly, swore and swore in tears.
"Listen, Uncle Wei Ping instigated the second prince to rebel, and the crime should be wiped out. Anyone who follows up to cover up or help the rebels to hide their objects will be found guilty of the same!"
The Praetorian Guards finished intimidating, and because they did not find any contraband, they took the people away.
A group of people shivered and whispered in panic.
"My God, treason?"
"Yeah. Why did Wei Pingbo commit such confusion? He is an important official in the court, and His Majesty has always trusted him. He has no relationship with the second prince, and the second prince is disabled. Why is he suffering?"
Because of the master's family, the stewards of Zhuangzi knew about the affairs of the court, who gained power and who lost power. It's all clear.
It is no secret that the East Palace has a short lifespan. Civil and military officials and even their servants have quietly discussed the candidate for the next East Palace. In the eyes of everyone, the second prince is basically abolished, and the third prince will hold the throne. Produced between the Sixth Prince.
"Perhaps the second prince was unwilling, so he rebelled... As for Uncle Wei Ping, maybe he was framed by someone?"
These people were suddenly worried and worried about the main family in the capital.
If the main family is swept up in this turmoil, their peaceful days will disappear, but the tenants will be fine. As long as the rent and taxes do not rise, who will they farm for? On the other hand, Zhuangzi's stewards are going to be unlucky. If the master's family is convicted, they will be slaves of sin, and they will be dragged into the army and exiled together.
The more anxious they were, the more they talked.
Meng Qi and Mo Li walked four Zhuangzi in a row and heard similar words.
"So that Qingwu ancestor colluded with the second prince? He has been caught?" Mo Li asked involuntarily, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Naturally it's a bad thing, the Qingwu ancestor will not let it go." Meng Qi sighed.
As long as the second prince is not dead, Qingwu ancestors still have a way.
Originally, the Qingwu ancestor did not want to expose his strength too much, and he always wanted a puppet to ascend the throne willingly, trust him, respect the Qingwu ancestor as the national teacher, and then let the Qingwu ancestor take advantage of it without knowing it. Cut dragon veins.
This kind of trust takes time and has to be disguised.
But now things have changed. The ancestor of Qingwu thought that a dragon was about to die, but he couldn't find where the dragon was. He was full of the aura that appeared after the death of the dragon's veins, and how to comprehend more about martial arts in the aura. High level. He couldn't wait, and he didn't have time to play the trick of defrauding trust from the prince.
The picture is poor, and the original intention is revealed.
Meng Qi thought for a while and said, "He may go straight to the Forbidden Palace to do what I didn't do three years ago."
As long as the emperor dies, the second prince's treason charge does not count.
Lu Zhang's death was not a pity, but the people of Taijing couldn't stand another catastrophe.
"Before anything happens..."
Meng Qi muttered, then stretched out his hand and dragged the ink carp, "Doctor, go this way."
On the way, the two of them accidentally rescued several people who almost died under the guards. Not long after, almost all the guards knew that there was a person with extremely high martial arts here.
According to the order of the reports, the whereabouts of this "master" was immediately discovered.
"This person is walking all the way north... The north is close to the Forbidden Palace, quickly spread the news back to the capital!"
"No, return to the capital immediately!" The commander of the Guards made a decision without hesitation.
"But the commander... we are ordered to search for evidence and treason here..."
"The Gyeonggi Zuoying went to encircle and suppress the bandits in Jianghu and lakes, but they leaked people. In this treason, Jinyiwei was suspected by His Majesty again, and this was the day when our Imperial Guards came to the fore. When? Make great achievements, and there will be no shortage of official positions, wealth and silk!"
"Yes!"
So the Guards came and went quickly, and the people in the farmhouse were stunned for a while, and then everyone packed their bags in panic and prepared to escape with their families and mouths.
- No matter what, let's hide first.
Besides, Meng Qi took Mo Li to go further and further away, and he didn't go in the direction of the city gate at all, so halfway, he and the chasing guards divided into two roads.
To the north of Taijing is the Imperial City, which has four gates, which ordinary people cannot use.
Mo Li saw a figure shaking on the top of the city from a distance, but he didn't look like he was facing a big enemy.
"It's all people, how did it go?" Mo Li asked.
He estimated the height of the city wall and felt that he could turn over it, but if he wanted to pass unobtrusively, it was impossible.
"If you want to go, you have to go fast. I don't know the strength of these crossbows..."
"No, we won't go through the city wall." Meng Qi interrupted Mo Li's words, posing as if the mountain man had his own plan. Instead of getting close to the city wall, it went farther and farther.
Meng Qi waited for a while, but Mo Li didn't wait for Mo Li to ask questions, and was suddenly disappointed.
- The doctor is fine with everything, but he doesn't like to cooperate with himself.
No trees or houses are allowed outside the imperial city to prevent thieves from hiding in it. Therefore, the five miles outside the city are very desolate, with only large and small stones. Meng Qi and Mo Li are very fast on the flat ground, and they will not bring up the tumbling smoke. They are like a gust of wind, and people on the top of the city occasionally catch a glimpse. Also thought I was wrong.
"It's here, it's here."
Meng Qi stopped in front of a boulder, which was far from the city wall, but the cliff of another mountain in Shangyun Mountain was close at hand.
As soon as Meng Qi took it, he moved the boulder away, revealing a dark hole.
Ink carp: "… "
This hole is a bit small, and adults will definitely not be able to get into it unless they practice bone shrinking.
Meng Qi took off the soft sword and took off his robe again.
"Wait." Mo Li thought that someone was going to become a gerbil again, he frowned and asked, "This is a secret passage? Where does it lead?"
"I don't know which dynasty or generation owned a dry well in the Forbidden Palace. Anyway, this secret passage has existed since I was conscious. Because it has been in disrepair for a long time, I have secretly repaired it." Meng Qituo After finishing his clothes, he turned around and touched Mo Li's robe belt.
Before Mo Li could ask, he heard Meng Qi say, "In order to save trouble, the passage I cleaned and reinforced is very small, so the doctor should take off his robe and leave the close-fitting clothes."
As he spoke, he showed Mo Li a demonstration, and rolled up the sleeves and trouser legs of his coat.
Then put the coat and soft sword into the bag, and then directly turned into a boy whose height was only the knee of the ink carp.
"… "
A pair of black and beautiful eyes took up half of the face, the chubby hands were directly five small meat pits, the arms were round and turned into three lotus-shaped, and they were dressed in adult clothes. drag.
"Doctor?" Meng Qi urged.
Facing this face, this look, Mo Li took a step back.
"Come on, we're too late."
Even the voice is childish, and the voice is milky.
Mo Li didn't want to laugh at all, because he knew that it was the same voice he spoke when he changed back.
... He regretted believing in Meng Qi, he would rather climb over the city wall with crossbow arrows!