When Mo Li returned to the General's Mansion, the watchman had just knocked on the second watch.
The siege of the Janissaries was not tight, they were just guarding near the front door and the side door, not patrolling around the wall, which made Mo Li feel a little strange. After entering the house, before putting down the medicine bag, the gerbil hurriedly got out of the ink carp's clothes and ran to the bedroom in a hurry.
"… "
What's the matter, running so fast
Mo Li stretched his hand into his arms suspiciously, and found that the fat mouse had even dropped the amber bracelet.
This string of amber was deliberately polished into a round bead shape, which was large and very full. Because the color was biased towards bright yellow, it became an object only used by emperors and princes.
From a distance, it looks like fried chestnuts with sugar, but from a closer look... it looks more like it.
Mo Li put the string of amber on the table, hesitated and did not enter the bedroom, but sat on the low couch by the window and waited.
Not long after, Meng Qi, who was neatly dressed, walked out of the back room. If you don't know the truth, you will never connect the chubby gerbil of Bafangcai with the person in front of you.
"Liu Dan is in trouble."
"Um?"
Mo Li was stunned when he heard the words, not knowing where Meng Qi's words came from.
"The surveillance outside the mansion is just an appearance, but there are heavy troops deployed near the Yiguang Gate, with all bows and crossbows. To say that this is a search for the treason to protect the official residence here, it can barely be said, but yesterday was not the case."
"...Not to catch thieves?"
After all, many officials lost their official robes in their homes. Although the city was in chaos, they could not immediately report to the officials to let the Taijing government go to catch the thieves, but from the official robes that Meng Qi brought back, they were all high-ranking civil servants. Among them, there are many second-rank officers. At this moment, Wenyuan Pavilion has mastered the situation in the palace and the army. Although the factions of Wenchen are intricate, this heinous act of theft will definitely make the courtiers tremble with anger, and they will investigate to the end.
Going deeper and thinking, why would someone steal court clothes
Not only stole the official robe, but also stole the rice grain, is it a rebellious person? Trying to get out of town disguised as an official
"It's not catching a thief." Meng Qi coughed lightly.
Mo Li looked over suspiciously, not because he didn't believe it, but because the gerbil was nestled in his arms just now, what could he see
"Those people are hiding in ambush... Not only in high places, but also in corners that I like." Meng Qi hinted implicitly.
The doctor's Qinggong movement skills are good, and he can run fast, but he is not familiar with the path of Taijing, and there are times when he pauses to distinguish the direction. Because the capital was full of imperial guards, Mo Li did not pay attention to where these people were staying, but in the eyes of gerbils, it was different.
When Meng Qi turned into a gerbil, he liked to walk around. He knew exactly where to hide and where he could see all the movements of the nearby roads and mansion.
More importantly, Meng Qi knew the art of war and led troops to fight.
In some cities, although the gates were breached, there would still be remnants of soldiers remaining in the city lanes to fight stubbornly.
Sometimes it was the spies who stayed in his own city, instigating rebellion, trying to burn food and grass or seize the city. During Li Yuanze's expedition to the world, Meng Qi had been guarding the rear for a long time, and he was familiar with the formation of troops in this terrain.
Just a few cursory glances can reveal clues.
"When we went, it wasn't so tight. When we came back from the palace, heavy troops were already deployed in several places that could be ambushed. It was like opening a big net, waiting for the fish to appear."
Meng Qi inadvertently approached the ink carp, then bowed his head slightly,
Seeing the face getting closer and closer to him, Mo Li's breathing became chaotic, and then returned to normal.
For a martial arts master with deep internal strength, this is very abnormal. Just because the master of the inner family has a stable breath and is running his inner power all the time, eating and sleeping will not be affected, this kind of breath regulation law is difficult to break.
Meng Qi didn't seem to notice anything, he picked up the string of amber, raised his head and continued to talk about the unusual behavior of the Guards in the market.
Mo Li settled down, the fleeting thought was too fast for him to grasp, but the pause in his inner breath was real. He knew that this could not be concealed from Meng Qi, so he was a little embarrassed.
The embarrassment is because he can't explain his own accident.
"Sorry, doctor, I should have said... wait for the prey to show up."
Fish or something, just a description.
Meng Qi fiddled with the string of amber beads, thinking that it couldn't be too obvious.
If the doctor is aware of it, he will not turn his face, but he will take bitter medicine!
Meng Qi looked out the window as if nothing had happened, and continued: "Liu Dan has only a dozen personal guards by his side, even if he is skilled in bowing and horses, and he is a fierce soldier from the bitter and cold land of the northern Xinjiang, it will be difficult to break through the siege. This is a kind of The situation, forcing Liu Dan to leave the capital, made him feel that the crisis was imminent, the official position could not be guaranteed and even his life might be lost. Once Liu Dan resisted the decree and tried to abscond from the city, the charge of treason would be detained. Nothing to say."
Mo Li was distracted by Meng Qi's words, and he couldn't help frowning: "Liu Dan's troops are all in Pingzhou, even if Lu Zhang's body recovers and needs military officers to suppress the situation inside and outside Taijing, he will not look for Liu Dan, he What threat is there that deserves the careful consideration of those courtiers?"
To say that he was afraid of Liu Dan's ability to lead troops, even Mo Li didn't believe it.
Liu Dan is only a fourth-rank general with a miscellaneous name, and his power is still far away in the area of Pingzhou. The Qi Dynasty has become a fashion to emphasize literature and less martial arts, and Mo Li has already felt this after entering Beijing.
Liu Dan was left idle, and he was thrown into the hole. This is a common occurrence in the officialdom. But it was very strange that the Imperial Guard was specially called up, and it was made clear that he wanted to take the blame and directly kill Liu Dan.
"Could it be aimed at the sixth prince? Someone saw that the sixth prince entered the general's mansion?" Mo Li felt a headache, and obviously rejected the prince's request to take care of his younger brother, and the problem spread to Liu Dan in a blink of an eye.
If you live in someone else's house, you can't stand idly by.
Besides, they met Liu Dan so many times that they were not friends, but they were acquaintances.
"Does Liu Dan know about this?"
"Go and tell him, and he will naturally know."
Meng Qi stuffed the amber into the pocket in his sleeve, let Mo Li rest, and went to the front yard by himself.
Liu Dan really did not sleep, but took his personal soldiers to ponder the terrain near Taijing, apparently really planning to find an opportunity to escape from the city.
There were only two candles left, and a group of people gestured around the table, arguing in low voices from time to time.
Liu Dan was sitting on the chair, his brows furrowed, when he was worried, he suddenly heard a voice next to him:
"When are you going to leave?"
"… "
Everyone was shocked, and they all jumped up, almost overturning the table.
Liu Tan stared at Meng Qi dumbfounded, wondering how the other party entered the flower hall silently when the door and windows were closed.
At this time, the movement inside caught the attention of the guards stationed outside the door. They quickly opened the door and came in to check, only to find a person who was not supposed to be here, and immediately looked at each other.
—Did they dozed off when they were just standing guard? It seems not!
"General forgive me."
The guards guarding the gate bowed their heads helplessly, no matter what, they failed to perform their duties.
Liu Dan waved his hand, but did not ask.
Because he knew that it was useless to ask, just by looking at the faces of the soldiers, he knew that they were as unaware as he was.
Liu Dan looked at the table subconsciously, and was relieved to find that the personal soldiers had quickly put away the poorly drawn map, and then he touched his waist.
No purse.
Looking up again, he found that Meng Qi looked at him with a playful look in his eyes. Liu Dan froze all over, and quickly said: "The national teacher came here late at night, but what is wrong with me?"
Liu Dan began to sweat from behind, because on the surface, he put people in the farthest backyard, and led them to discuss the escape plan overnight, as if he could not wait to get rid of the trouble of the national teacher.
What else is there to say, it must be explained!
"To be honest, His Majesty can't be a director now, there are many variables in Taijing, so I plan to leave first."
Liu Dan didn't plan to bring the second prince and sixth prince at all. He couldn't protect himself, and he didn't want to be an emperor. What's the use of having these two troubles? And it was these two troubles who came to the door by themselves.
Meng Qi nodded, and he was not surprised by Liu Dan's choice.
He found a chair at the table and sat down, Meng Qi said leisurely: "Actually, you are gone. It's a good thing to leave such a big house for me and the doctor!"
Liu Dan heard something wrong from Meng Qi's tone.
"There is something in the words of the national teacher, I don't know-"
"But the master of the house is alive, and the master is dead, there is a big difference."
Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, Meng Qi didn't wait for Liu Dan to ask questions, and he told everything about what he had just seen.
There is absolutely no such thing as a gerbil and a doctor entering the palace to treat the prince. The truth is that Meng Guoshi was idle and had nothing to do. He strolled around the mansion and accidentally discovered those ambush.
Liu Dan's face turned green and white, and his personal soldiers also showed indignation.
Murder is no more than a nod, such a conspiracy to frame, why come
"Do you have an enemy in the court?" Meng Qi asked directly.
This way of inviting you to enter the urn without leaving a living room is not an ordinary grudge.
Liu Dan slapped the table fiercely and said angrily, "What do I have a grudge against them? It's not about money and food! Those people in the Ministry of Military Affairs have repeatedly deducted them, and the 3,000 soldiers and horses are only willing to give 2,000 people a bite, saying: It is the generals who take empty pay, but why do we falsely report the number of soldiers, it is not because they deducted, what can be done to support the people who are under them? Just this, the emperors of all dynasties, except for the emperor, do not know, they seized This is repeated over and over again, as if the military officers are all worms that corrupt the country, and they are all righteous for the country and the people!"
Meng Qi listened calmly without speaking.
As Liu Dan said, taking empty pay is a common thing in all dynasties, and it is a vicious circle.
Officials in the imperial court felt that the reported number of soldiers was false, so they were only willing to give part of it. Over time, it is not bad to have 150,000 people on the border guarded by the so-called 200,000 troops.
This is still due to the responsibility of the civil servants, the use of their lives by the generals, and there is no excessive corruption.
It would be even more shocking if there was another black-hearted person in the middle.
"If it's just empty pay, they can use this charge to put you in jail, so there's no need for such trouble." Meng Qi felt that things were not so simple.
Liu Dan's face was blue and he said in a low voice, "Because now I have empty pay, I need to get a share for the people in the Ministry of War! That share of money and food will never leave the capital, and it will be directly divided by those guys. How come and go, it will end up in the end. We don't know who it got into the hands of. In recent years, their appetite has been too great, which has attracted His Majesty's attention, and Jin Yiwei is investigating this matter."
"Do you have evidence in your hands?" Meng Qi asked directly.
Liu Dan hesitated, then nodded.
"What kind of evidence, account books, or letters?"
"It's a letter. Although it doesn't have a title, the content can prove that someone in the DPRK colluded with the local military attache and embezzled money and food. This is the evidence that I have painstakingly found. The Jinyiwei people should not know it yet."
However, if the letter is lost, one of the sender and receiver will always notice it, but it just doesn't know who it falls into.
"Does anyone know that you have this letter in your hand?"
"... Except for a few of my henchmen, no one knows about it."
Liu Dan suppressed the anxiety in his heart and pressed his fist against the table. He didn't want to doubt his subordinates, but when things got to this point, he didn't want to.
Meng Qi said lightly: "A letter is not enough. The third prince is not Lu Zhang. Now is the time to rely heavily on courtiers. Even if you have evidence, you won't let them hurt. There must be something else in there. In any case, General Liu should suspend leaving the city."
Liu Dan sat heavily on the chair.
He has been an official for many years, and he knows a lot of secrets, but they are all unsubstantiated things. Not only he knows others but also others.
"If it weren't for the greed for military rations... what else could there be..."
Liu Dan was talking to himself, and he didn't wait for someone to speak for a long time. When he looked up, he saw that only his own soldiers were left in the house.
"What about the national teacher?"
"Let's go." The soldier said helplessly.
Moreover, he walked through the window, his figure was like a ghost, and he didn't make a sound from opening the window to leaving.
The personal soldiers saw their eyes straight. They didn't expect assassins, but they thought that if there were such people in the army, wouldn't it be like going into the enemy's account to steal information? Then I sighed in my heart, no wonder Emperor Chu Yuan was able to conquer the country.
- I don't know this kind of benefit at all, in fact, Emperor Chu Yuan didn't take it either.
Such misunderstandings were not only shared by Liu Dan and his personal soldiers, but most of them were no exception.
When I see a person, I think that he has always been as powerful as he is now, and he will not be hurt by anything.
The sixth prince hid behind the flowerbed, staring at the movement in the flower hall, thinking about what to do in his heart, suddenly his ears moved, and he heard very light footsteps.
The sixth prince immediately stepped back.
When he found out that the second prince was standing not far away, the sixth prince showed a sneer on his lips. With such a skill, he still wanted to sneak in and eavesdrop
The sixth prince has always looked down on this second brother, feeling that he acted recklessly, was reckless, and could not accomplish anything.
"What are you doing? Grab me?" The sixth prince sarcastically said.
"That's what I want to ask you too." Lu Min looked at the flower hall and said coldly, "Does the sixth brother still think that he is a rare commodity, and General Liu will definitely help? You can't enter the palace, and you won't be able to see the big brother. , can't get out of the capital, how are you better than me in the current situation?"
The sixth prince's expression changed, and then he hummed: "At least there is no charge of treason on my head."
Lu Min looked at him, seemed to want to laugh, but held back.
The sixth prince jumped up like a raccoon slave, and asked sharply, "What are you laughing at?"
Lu Min said slowly: "Sixth brother, it was a waste of your intelligence since you were young, why can't you understand it now? You fled in private, and the news hasn't spread, they can say that the sixth prince came back from worshiping the emperor's mausoleum, and the car will Maraudon can't afford to get sick... It's not too difficult to report to the world after being ill for a year or two! At most, I will be a rebellious person, but you will be a dead person."
"you!"
The sixth prince almost died of anger, his chest heaving, and he was speechless for a long time.
Lu Min got the upper hand and was very happy.
Since the Sixth Prince began to study, the minister in charge of lectures praised him for being quick-witted and quick to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics, and even the teaching of martial arts and bows praised him for being born with good muscles and bones, and he was excited and willing to learn. The second prince and the third prince above were made into a reckless man and an idiot.
But what's the use of learning well, those civil officials still prefer to support the third prince's enthronement
Just like Lao Liu looked down on him, Lu Min didn't like Lao Liu, and he was full of opinions.
It didn't take long for Lu Min to be complacent, and the sixth prince saw that he was just looking for something to talk about, and it was useless to entangle him. He simply turned his back and continued to observe the situation inside and outside the flower hall.
The second prince walked beside him and continued to laugh: "What's the use of squatting here to see, can you see the way to kill the father emperor and save the first emperor brother?"
"Hmph, fifty steps and one hundred steps, what can you do?" The sixth prince looked at Lu Min and pouted, "I couldn't impress that Meng Guoshi, and I didn't want to admit my incompetence, so I came to me to find a balance. ?"
Lu Min was furious.
So the two princes fought again.
When the servants of Liu's house and their personal soldiers arrived, they looked at the two princes who were rolling into a ball in the flowers and couldn't help laughing and crying.
Originally, the second prince had an advantage because of his age, but unfortunately the sixth prince knew martial arts.
It stands to reason that the sixth prince can control Lu Min, who is brave but only knows how to punch and foot, but the second prince is like a slap in the face of killing the old master.
With a headache, Liu Dan ordered his personal soldiers to separate the two princes, and then sighed.
"General?" The soldier called out worriedly.
Their generals were decisive and majestic, how did they become what they are today.
Liu Tan was also thinking deeply, which incense stick did he not burn right? There are a group of people outside the mansion who want his life, two hot potatoes in the mansion, and another Meng Guoshi who may take his own life if he is unhappy at any time.
Skull pain!
"General, what should we do now?"
"… go back to sleep!"
Liu Dan flicked his robe, and he didn't care!
***
Mo Li took off his shirt and adjusted his breath on the bed with his knees crossed.
Suddenly a figure entered the window silently, Mo Li turned his ears slightly, he didn't need to open his eyes, just by the familiar breath, he knew that Meng Qi had returned.
The man paced outside for a few laps, as if he had put down something, and then walked into the bedroom.
There was only one bed in the room, and the reason given by the general's mansion was that there were not enough quilts and pillows.
In fact, it is possible for two people to live here. There is a couch in the outer room and a bed in the inner room, so there is no need to crowd together.
Mo Li thought that Meng Qi had something to say when he came in. He was about to use up his inner strength to stop breathing, when he felt an itch on his face, as if something brushed his cheek lightly.
Although they can't be disturbed when cultivating internal skills, it is still quite difficult for them to go crazy with their martial arts realm. The operation of internal force in the meridians has become a habit, and it is even carried out during daily breathing. Unless the mood fluctuates wildly and is overjoyed and sad, it doesn't matter.
Mo Li opened his eyes suddenly and found Meng Qi sitting beside him and looking at him.
- The hand has not been withdrawn.
So you just touched your face
Mo Li was a little confused and didn't understand what Meng Qi was doing.
"Have you read the book? The book that Fengxing Pavilion bought, I only read the pictures, and I haven't read the words!"
"… "
Don't sleep in the middle of the night, read the text book with erotic pictures
Mo Li felt that something was wrong, but could not find a reason to object. He was close to Meng Qi and both admired Mr. Jin Shui's paintings. Now that I have nothing to do, I can really flip through the book.
"What were you doing just now? Just call, why do you do it?"
"I'm afraid of scaring the doctor."
Facing the smiling face, Mo Li suddenly felt itchy.
It's the itchy hand that wants to rub the fat rat into a mess.
"The day after tomorrow at the latest, there will be changes in the capital. It depends on how capable the prince of Qi Chao is." Meng Qi naturally removed his jacket.
It was still cold in the spring, and all he wore was jackets, and there was a piece of clothing under his jacket.
Mo Li was a little puzzled when he saw that Meng Qi not only took off his shirt, but also didn't seem to want to stop.
"Huh?" Meng Qi suddenly looked down at the underwear inside and said, pulling a few threads, "The quality of the clothes is too bad, it will break before washing."
Mo Li reached out and touched it subconsciously, and found a hole, and then accidentally pulled out a few lines.
"… "
If Mo Li was born in a wealthy and prosperous place, he might have been fooled by Meng Qi.
However, there are too many situations in which the clothes are torn and worn out.
This broken place was clearly torn. If you touch it again, it is exactly where the gerbil was lying. What else is there to understand
Seeing that someone was about to forcibly sneak through the border with his thick skin, Mo Li gathered up his clothes and said directly, "Brother Meng needs a file?"
A file is a manicure item.
Meng Qi's expression was stagnant. The doctor he knew was not like this. The doctor upholds the way of a gentleman. If you are embarrassed by each other like this, you will never say it.
Can a good gentleman be deceived
Mo Li took the book from Meng Qi's hand, and said solemnly: "The long nails will not only scratch the clothes, but also the paper. Although we have spare money and can afford clothes, if the painting is damaged, Wouldn’t it be a pity? Well, I won’t read it today.”
Meng Qi: "..."