Aggrieved Fish Sprite

Martial law was imposed everywhere in Taijing, and the gates of the city were blocked.

At first, the farm tenants near Gyeonggi didn't know about it, but at night, those who went to the city didn't return home for a long time.At night, they even heard the movement of soldiers and horses passing by. Many people were so frightened that they did not dare to close their eyes all night.

As soon as it was dawn, the manager of the Zhuangzi got dressed and prepared to go to several nearby Zhuangzi to inquire about the news.

The farm stewards here are usually servants of the rich and powerful.

For the sake of the master, the stewards are particular about how they come and go with each other. It doesn't matter if Zhuangzi is close to each other.Now that something has happened, if you rush to the door to inquire about the news, you have to take a famous post and mention it, so as to save face.

The gift box was prepared last night with the help of the family members.

Nothing, just a few snacks, a few dried fruits, plus a small but auspicious jade ornament, tied with a red string, and you can go out with it.

The steward had already figured out which one to go to, so he greeted a few attendants, asked them to carry the box, and went straight to the Zhuangzi of Uncle Weiping's house.

The owner of that farm is Ning Shangshu of the Ministry of War, an old subordinate of the emperor Lu Zhang. Although he has no military power now, he is blessed with grace.The fields are fertile, and the yield in the fields is a bit higher than that of others every year. It is said that it was also the Huangzhuang of the Chu Dynasty in the early years.

Yesterday it rained heavily and the ground was muddy.

Not only is it difficult for horses and chariots to travel, but people have one deep foot and one shallow foot when walking.

"Officer Mi, look at the horseshoe prints over here!"

The steward looked over in response to his prestige, and his face became more and more ugly.

Hoofprints on top of hoofprints, then footprints and ruts.

"...This weight, what is in the car?" Mi Guanshi muttered to himself.

The ruts were deep, and from the footprints of the person next to him, he stepped on the front soles of his feet a little harder, obviously pushing the cart with great effort, and the things on the cart were heavy.

"Could it be that there is a rebellious army? They went out with food and grass, so they must not be suppressing bandits!"

"Nonsense, there are only two battalions in the vicinity of the capital, and they are defending Taijing, and it will not be their turn to fight any more!"

"Okay!" Manager Mi shouted, "Let's figure it out quickly!"

The followers behind him looked at each other with nervous faces.

In fact, apart from suppressing bandits and fighting wars, there is another possibility.

Someone conspired!

Guanshi Mi's hands trembled slightly. He was in his forties and had experienced the tragedy of the fall of the Chu Dynasty, so he knew how terrible it was.The people in the city couldn't escape, and the rebels killed people with knives, and even Zhuangzi outside the city was not safe.

Thinking of the vision that appeared in the sky yesterday, Guan Shi almost wanted to turn around and go home, pack up his belongings and flee for his life with his wife and children.

He walked restlessly for a while, and suddenly heard a scream.

Mi Guanshi sprained his foot and fell directly to the ground.

In front of him was Zhuangzi of Weiping Bo's family, and the voice came from there.

"Let's go!" Mi Guanshi's expression changed drastically, and the people behind him couldn't care less, so he turned around and ran away.

Guanshi Mi stood up only to realize that his ankle was sprained, and the pain was excruciating. He limped and tried to call to stop his followers, but those people disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The wind brought a faint smell of blood, and Mi Guanshi became even more panicked.

He simply rolled over and fell into the field, curled up to cover his figure with the high ridge.

Soon there was smoke drifting over, and the sound of scattered footsteps came from the ridge of the field.

"Have you finished searching?" a voice asked.

"Reporting to the commander, we found two hundred sets of armor in the cellar, dozens of bows and crossbows, and nothing else."

"That's enough, go back to Beijing and report to Your Majesty now! Stay here and search the nearby Zhuangzi, maybe you can find evidence that Wei Pinbo participated in the treason!"

"Yes!"

The voice gradually faded away, and Mi Guanshi forced himself to look out, but saw these people wearing the clothes of the imperial guards.

Something really happened!

Mi Guanshi struggled to get up, halfway he exposed his whereabouts, the small group of imperial guards saw that he was covered in mud and looked suspicious.He didn't ask any questions, just drew his knife and chopped.

"clang!"

The blade was knocked crooked by a stone.

Guanshi Mi thought he was going to die, and was so frightened that he couldn't control himself. Although he escaped, he still couldn't recover, and sat on the ground, shaking non-stop.

"who?"

"It's the gangsters that the commander said before, retreat first!"

This small group of imperial guards did not bring bows and arrows. Seeing that the knife was cracked by the stone, they knew how difficult it is for martial arts masters to deal with them. They made a decisive decision and left quickly.

Meng Qi frowned and looked around, there were exclamations from nearby farms.

"What's going on?" Mo Li followed and stopped,

He was the one who threw the stone just now.

When they were exercising lightness kung fu and rushing on their way, they suddenly found a Zhuangzi on fire, so they couldn't help but take a few more glances, and happened to save Guanshi Mi's life.

"It's the imperial guards. Logically speaking, they shouldn't leave the city." Meng Qi looked puzzled.

It seems that not only the Jianghu people have lost control, but even unexpected things happened in Taijing.

The duty of the imperial guards is to guard the imperial city. Lu Zhang suspected that someone was plotting rebellion. Even Jin Yiwei couldn't believe it, so he directly mobilized the imperial guards.It stands to reason that these tens of thousands of people should be guarding against possible rebellion in the city, how could they be sent out of the city?

"Unless the plan of the treasonist has been revealed and his henchmen are taken down, Lu Zhang thinks that he has a chance to win..."

Meng Qi was talking to himself, his voice was so low that only Mo Li could hear him.

He ignored Guan Shi, who was about to die of fright, and went directly to the nearest Zhuangzi.

The imperial guards did not start a massacre here, but drove the tenants and the people on the farm into the house, and then rummaged through the chests and chests, digging three feet to search.

"Quickly tell me, have you ever hidden anything from Weipingbo Zhuangzi here?"

The manager of the Zhuangzi shook his head again and again, swearing and swearing with tears streaming down his face.

"Listen well, Wei Pingbo instigated the second prince to conspire against him, the crime should be exterminated. Anyone who follows to cover up or helps the rebel to hide items, will be found guilty of the same crime!"

The imperial guards were done threatening, and because they really didn't find any contraband, they took the people away.

A group of people trembled and discussed in low voices in a panic.

"My God, treason?"

"That's right. Why would Uncle Weiping be so foolish? He is an important minister in the court, and His Majesty has always trusted him. He has no relationship with the second prince, and the second prince is still disabled. Why is he doing this?"

Because of the master's family, the stewards of Zhuangzi knew the general affairs of the court, who gained power and who lost power.It's all clear.

It's no secret that the East Palace doesn't live long. 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 useless, and the reserve will be in the third prince's place. It happened with the sixth prince.

"Perhaps the second prince was unwilling to reconcile, and that's why he rebelled... As for Wei Pingbo, maybe he was framed?"

These people were suddenly worried, worried about the main family in the capital.

If the owner's family is caught up in this turmoil, their peaceful life will disappear, and the tenants will be fine. As long as the rent and tax do not increase, who is not farming?But Zhuangzi's stewards will be in trouble. If the master's family is convicted, they will be slaves and will be taken into exile.

The more anxious they were, the more they talked.

Meng Qi and Mo Li walked four Zhuangzi in a row, and they heard the same things.

"So that patriarch Qingwu colluded with the Second Prince? Has he been caught?" Mo Li couldn't help asking, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Naturally, it's a bad thing. Patriarch Qingwu won't let it go." Meng Qi sighed.

As long as the second prince is not dead, Patriarch Qingwu still has a solution.

Originally, Patriarch Qingwu didn't want to expose his own strength too much, so he always wanted a puppet to ascend the throne willingly, trust him, and regard Patriarch Qingwu as the national teacher, and then let Patriarch Qingwu use it without knowing it. Cut the dragon's veins.

This kind of trust takes time, and it has to be faked.

But now things have changed. Patriarch Qingwu thought that a dragon was about to die, but he couldn't find out where the dragon was. high realm.He couldn't wait, and he didn't have time to play the game of defrauding his trust by being loyal to the prince.

Seeing the poor dagger, the original intention is revealed.

Meng Qi thought for a while and said, "He might go straight to the Forbidden Palace to do something I didn't do three years ago."

As long as the emperor dies, the second prince's treason charge will not count.

Lu Zhang's death is not a pity, but the people of Taijing can't stand another catastrophe.

"Before everything happens..."

Meng Qi muttered, and then stretched out his hand to grab the ink carp, "Doctor, go this way."

On the way, the two accidentally rescued several people who were almost killed by the Imperial Guards. Not long after, almost all the Imperial Guards knew that a man with extremely high martial arts came here.

Then according to the sequence of the report, the whereabouts of this "master" was immediately discovered.

"This person is heading north... the north is close to the Forbidden Palace, hurry up and send the news back to the capital!"

"No, return to the capital immediately!" The commander of the imperial guards made a decision without hesitation.

"But the commander... We are ordered to search for physical evidence and treason here..."

"Ginggi Zuoying went to encircle and suppress the bandits in the rivers and lakes, but they let them go. In this conspiracy, Jin Yiwei was once again suspected by His Majesty, and this is how our imperial guards came to the fore. If we don't do our best now, why wait? When? If you make great contributions, you will not be short of official positions and money!"

"Yes!"

So the imperial guards came and left quickly, the people in the farm were stunned for a while, and then everyone packed their bags in panic, and prepared to flee for their lives with their families.

——No matter what, hide first before talking.

In addition, Meng Qi led the ink carp further and further, and did not go in the direction of the city gate at all, so in the middle of the road, he and the imperial guards who were chasing were divided into two lanes.

To the north of Taijing is the imperial city, which has four gates in total, which cannot be used by ordinary people.

Mo Li saw a figure swaying on the top of the city from a distance, but he didn't look like he was facing a formidable enemy, he was just on guard, and there were not many bows and crossbows on his shoulders.

"It's full of people, how do you live?" Mo Li asked.

He estimated the height of the city wall and thought he could climb over it, but it was impossible to pass unnoticed.

"If you want to go, you have to go fast. I don't know the strength of these crossbows..."

"No, we're not going to walk the city wall." Meng Qi interrupted Mo Li's words, and put on an appearance that the mountain man had his own tricks.Instead of getting close to the city wall, he went further and further away.

Meng Qi waited for a while, but was disappointed when Mo Li did not ask.

——The doctor is good at 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 li outside the city is very desolate, only big and small stones, Meng Qi and Mo Li are extremely fast on the flat ground, and they will not bring up billowing smoke and dust, they are like a gust of wind, people on the top of the city occasionally glimpsed, I also thought I was wrong.

"It's here, it's here."

Meng Qi stopped in front of a boulder, which was already far away from the city wall, but the cliff of another mountain in Shangyun Mountain was close at hand.

As soon as Meng Qi picked it up, 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 in, unless they have practiced bone shrinking skills.

Meng Qi untied his soft sword and took off his robe.

"Wait." Mo Li thought that someone was planning to become a gerbil again, so he frowned and asked, "Is this a secret path? Where does it lead?"

"I don't know which dynasty owned the dry well in the Forbidden Palace. Anyway, this secret path has existed since I was conscious of it. Because it was in disrepair for a long time, I 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: "To save trouble, the passage I cleared and strengthened is very small, so the doctor should take off his coat and leave the close-fitting clothes on."

As he spoke, he demonstrated to Mo Li that he rolled up the sleeves and trouser legs of his jacket.

Then put the coat and the soft sword into the bag, and then directly turned into a boy whose height was only as high as Mo Li's knees.

"..."

A pair of black and beautiful eyes accounted for half of that face, and there were five small pits on the chubby hands, and the arms were rounded into three lotus root shapes, and they were wearing adult clothes. drag.

"Doctor?" Meng Qi urged.

Facing this face and this appearance, Mo Li directly took a step back.

"Quick, we're too late."

Even the voice is childish, and the voice is childish.

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 trusting Meng Qi, he would rather cross the city wall with crossbow arrows!