Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 57: Yan Liben

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The morning mist filled the air, and the moisture from the night soaked everyone's clothes. The dew was like an elf, greeting people who got up in the morning mischievously.

The team of about forty people regrouped and drove the two carriages to continue westward. The blurry morning fog forced the team to slow down and move forward slowly on the official road.

Suddenly a woman's cooing sound came from the carriage, and then a man's wild laughter came. The woman's squirming gasps intertwined with the man's laughter.

The guards who were ordered to protect the carriage glanced at the carriage and continued to move forward with a normal expression. Along the way, this kind of noise was often made in the carriage, and they were used to it.

What's even more amazing is that sometimes through the glass of the carriage window, you can peek into the erotic scene inside. Sometimes Mr. Helan would even open the curtains to let them admire the concave and convex body inside through the glass.

The woman's charming and seductive graceful moans, and the man's heavy breathing, one after another in the thick fog of the morning, dominate the scene of bloody flowers and fragrant flowers.

A sharp sound broke through the air, and the guards around the carriage all fell to the ground silently in an instant, without even having time to issue a warning to He Lanmin in the carriage.

"These people are actually people transferred from Zhechong Mansion?" Wen couldn't stand with Wutian, squinting through the thick fog, and arrows passed through the air beside the two of them.

"Does it matter? Just follow my instructions." Wu Tian saw that a large number of the forty people had fallen down before they had time to resist the warning.

"What to do with the people in the carriage? The clues from "Jingwei" indicate that this is He Lan Minzhi." Wen Bu seemed to be discussing with Wu Tian.

"I didn't ask him to be killed, let's keep him alive." Unable to finish his words, he suddenly raised the crossbow in his hand and fired at the curtain of the carriage.

With a "bang" sound, the crossbow arrow shot into the wooden door of the carriage carriage like a meteor with a strong wind. It penetrated three points into the wood and the tail of the arrow trembled with its wings, as if to remind the people in the carriage not to act rashly.

"The new crossbow is really good. It's fast, accurate, and powerful. It's a killing weapon." Wu Tian admired as he saw that he couldn't hit the target quickly.

In the blink of an eye, all the forty guards of the convoy fell to the ground silently, dying.

"Check the carriage." Wutian seemed to be talking to the air.

Then seven or eight people suddenly poured out from both sides of the road, came to the first carriage, opened the carriage door cautiously, and one person quickly got in, and it took a while before he got out again.

He jumped off the carriage and walked to Lawless and said, "Yes, it's what we threw away. Some charcoal is missing, but the rest is there."

"Withdraw." Wutian said.

"Yes." The man turned around and ran to the carriage again. He took the horse, which had not been frightened from the beginning to the end of the assassination, slowly turned around from the official road, and drove the carriage towards the east.

The two lawless people slowly emerged from the morning mist. They walked side by side to another carriage. The door of the carriage was locked, and a man's voice came from inside: "Who are you? Do you know whose carriage this is?"

Unable to bother talking to him, she tapped her finger on the window to signal him to come out.

At this moment, the woman in the carriage could see her busty breasts half-covered and her long, snow-white legs clearly exposed. At this moment, she and the man were hurriedly fighting for each other's clothes.

Seeing the anxious look of the two people, Lawless stood motionless next to the carriage and waited quietly. The fragrant and seductive woman's body inside was not attractive at all in their eyes.

He Lan Minzhi hurriedly got out of the car and looked at the two ordinary people with a startled expression. I originally thought that there would be two men with evil and good looks, but I didn't expect that they were two ordinary-looking people. They didn't look like robbers, but looked like refugees.

"Are you trying to steal wealth or sex? If you want money, the carriage will be yours. Everything has been prepared for you. Not only are there gold cakes, gold horseshoes, but also gold toes. If you two like me, I don’t care if the beautiful woman belongs to you. I don’t care about anything else, as long as I give you a way out." He Lan Minzhi’s handsome face was full of sincerity.

"Where did the charcoal in that carriage go? Apart from you, who else has touched the things in the carriage?" Unable to ignore the temptation thrown by Helan Minzhi, he asked.

"I have been using the charcoal for heating in the past two days. Except for the forty people lying here, no one has touched the things in the carriage." He Lan Minzhi said happily.

"Do you know what the things in this carriage are used for?" Unable asked again.

"I don't know." He Lan Minzhi said firmly: "But it should be very useful. As long as it is transported to the Western Regions, it can be sold at a very high price."

"To whom?"

"Tocharian remnants, Zoroastrian Cult." He Lan Minzhi answered all questions. This was his usual style, and in the face of two people who could silently eliminate forty of his bodyguards in just two seconds, He Lan Minzhi answered all questions. Lan Minzhi didn't think he could get an advantage in a head-on confrontation. Who knew if there was a crossbow pointed at him in this fog at this moment.

"Go away." After knowing what he needed to know, Wutian said in a deep voice.

Then, unable to push the two away, he led the carriage, and Wu Tian sat on the shaft of the carriage on either side. He drove the carriage leisurely and left, leaving Helan Minzhi and the fragrant woman still on the roadside without even looking at them. Have a look.

The carriage slowly walked about a hundred steps away, and on the official road where the morning fog gradually dissipated, the sound of crossbow arrows piercing the air was heard again.

He Lanmin was shocked and hurriedly pulled the beautiful woman next to him to block him. The sharp arrow immediately passed through the woman's neck. The arrow was only three to five inches away from He Lanmin's collarbone.

Helan Minzhi looked at the sharp arrow in a cold sweat, but did not see a white dove flying out of the carriage.

"Humph, I've been keeping you quiet for a long time. But do you think you can go back without modifying the carriage for such a arrogant person? This is the prince's carriage. When the government sees it, you can wait to see the King of Hell." He Lan Minzhi Looking at the carriage gradually going away, she pushed away the beautiful woman with wide eyes and a look of disbelief, casually as if she was throwing away garbage.

He clapped his hands and found a relatively dry place to sit on the side of the road. He believed that before noon, people from the government would definitely come here and take him back. Not everyone dared to ignore the prince's order. .

And even if the post city that passed by yesterday didn't notice anything strange about the carriage, the post station dozens of miles ahead had already received the news that he was about to arrive at noon. If he didn't arrive at noon, he would definitely send someone to look for him.

In the sky above Chang'an City, a white dove flew past quickly, flapping its wings and flying towards Prince Pu's Mansion.

Xia Zhi hurriedly walked to the door of Li Hong's study and said softly: "Prince, Yan Liben, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, wants to see you."

"Yan Liben? What is he here for?" Li Hong raised his head from a pile of papers and asked.

"He didn't say anything. He just said that he had something important to see you." Xia Zhi said.

"Let him come in." Li Hong put away the papers on the desk.

Yan Liben hurriedly followed Xia Zhi to the prince's study, but he was praying silently and anxiously in his heart. He really hoped that the prince could find a way. If the construction period continued to be delayed, His Majesty would really be angry.

A wooden pillar in the Daming Palace that is about ten feet long and thick enough for three people to hug has never been able to be erected on the roof of the main hall under construction. There is also a huge stone, and there is no way to transport it to the ninety-nine roads. on the steps.

During today's inspection, he was so anxious that he scratched his head and scratched his head, and there were blisters on his lips because of the heat, but he couldn't think of a better way.

But just as he was staring at the giant wooden pillar and boulder in a daze, Wang Yifang, the supervisory censor who came specially to inspect, after knowing his difficulty, suggested to him that maybe he could ask His Highness the Crown Prince to find an unexpected solution.

Yan Liben's eyes suddenly lit up. Yes, he was really confused. How could he forget about His Highness the Crown Prince, who was always smart and wise? So he hurried over quickly.

After hearing Yan Liben's intention, Li Hong was a little stunned: "Master Yan, do you think I can do it?"

"Your Highness, I really have no choice now, so I came to ask you for help. At first, it looked like it wouldn't be difficult on the drawings, but I didn't expect that in reality, it would be... really difficult to erect a complete giant pillar. It's as hard as going to heaven." Yan Liben quickly put down the teacup in his hand and continued to complain.

"Wang Yifang didn't impeach you for delaying the construction period? As far as I know, his eyes are very evil. Even I don't dare to hang around in front of him for more than an hour, otherwise he will have to seize some excuse and report it to my father. Go." Li Hong said.

"Your Highness, to tell you the truth, I no longer care about so much. Impeachment is impeachment. Even if my official position is terminated by then, as long as I can put up this huge pillar, I will accept it." Yan Liben said eagerly. .

When the emperor's grandfather was still alive, Yan Liben once served as the minister of the Ministry of punishment and the general as a young prisoner. However, he was really reused when his father planned to rebuild the Daming Palace and appointed him as the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

For a person who is over 60 years old, it is already rare to reach the post of Sixth Minister.

"Don't worry, drink some water to relieve the fire, take a rest, and then I'll go take a look with you, okay?"

As soon as Yan Liben heard that the prince agreed, he immediately put down the tea cup in his hand and said thank you: "I would like to thank His Highness the Prince. How about asking His Highness to go now?"

"I... okay, you are older, you have the final say, let's go." Li Hongpo couldn't bear to face the anxious old man and said resignedly.

And when they were heading to the Daming Palace construction site, Wang Yifang had already rushed to Li Zhi. While he was impeaching Yan Liben for wasting the construction period, he also said that Yan Liben had invited the prince to the Daming Palace, hoping that the prince could help him think of a good solution.

(End of chapter)