Broken Iron Clothes

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After Yuan Mucheng changed his clothes, he simply carried the washbasin to the courtyard to wash up, while He Xiao repeated the words again.

"Who reported the letter?" Yuan Mucheng splashed several handfuls of cold water on his face.

"Look at the face, but the man claimed to be the deputy envoy of Yusi of the Hubu, and he handed me this." He Xiao handed over an envelope.

The drops of water on his face wet his eyelashes, Yuan Mucheng blinked his water-soaked eyes, barely glanced at his hands, then straightened up and roughly wiped his face with a handkerchief, and then wiped his hands After doing it, he raised his legs to sit on the table and opened the envelope.

The letter paper inside was unfolded, and the big characters "Meet Peng Yan, can relieve Tan's blood coagulation" also came into view inappropriately. Yuan Mucheng looked at this line of words, and his blood suddenly surged, and his complexion became more serious.

He tightened his five fingers and scratched the letter paper several times.

"Assassin's deputy, I think this bastard Xu Yixu is really blatant."

Xu Yixu just mentioned the matter of Tan's blood coagulation to him last night, and today he deliberately sent someone to the Jingping Palace to send a letter, threatening him with Jiang Shiqing's secret in a grandiose place, asking him to use food as an excuse to find Peng Yan.

Yuan Mucheng's eyes were dim, and he asked again, "Where's Peng Yan?"

"It is said that he went to the yellow book library early in the morning," He Xiao said, "but after the man came to report, I sent someone to investigate. The people from the food and grass team only brought the news when the city gate opened this morning. Yes, it stands to reason that the Ministry of Household Affairs should first check and report to His Majesty, and shouldn't be in such a hurry to send a letter to Prince Jingping's residence."

Yuan Mucheng stared at a certain place and fell into thought. After a while, he turned his head and threw away the handkerchief, tightened his armguards, got up and walked out, and when he passed by He Xiao, he stuffed the letter into the man's hand.

"It's burned." Yuan Mucheng said.

"Master," He Xiao turned to follow, grabbed his arm, frowned and said, "The Household Department specially sent someone to report to lure you over, beware of fraud."

Yuan Mucheng knew in his heart that today's incident was a situation set up by Xu Yixu using Peng Yan, but Xu Yixu was unpredictable and he held Jiang Shiqing's handle, so he had no choice but to go.

He turned his head and patted He Xiao's hand, pulled his arm out of the man's palm, and said in a deep voice, "It's not a good time to go, but I have to go. Peng Yan is waiting in the yellow book vault today, so They are threatening me with the evidence of Sand Snake's entry, and Xu Yixu..."

How dare he threaten him with Jiang Shiqing.

Yuan Mucheng couldn't tolerate this the most, as long as he thought about Xu Yixu's pretended gentleness, he would be even annoyed.

Now the food and grass have been tampered with again, and the lost food is very likely to become the enemy's capital to attack Dali in the future, but the matter of the other Sand Snake has not yet been settled, and the congealed blood on Jiang Shiqing's body has not yet been resolved. All the incidents seemed to accumulate until a certain moment and then explode together. Yuan Mucheng felt depressed, but had to find a way to finish these incidents one by one.

He clenched his fists and calmed down. After calming down, he confessed: "You find a legitimate reason and lead someone to detain the person who reported the letter this morning. Find out his details as soon as possible, and make the incident bigger and bigger, the better." Well, it's best to let others know that I, Yuan Xiao'an, was invited by Peng Yan to visit the household department today. Besides, no matter what happens, don't mention it to Huai Chuan until I come back."

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Yuan Mucheng was angry, and walked slowly into the door of the household department office. When he met someone saluting, he smiled and nodded at him, and put away his unruly body.

Gao Li, the servant of the household department, saw the man, stepped forward to greet him, and said, "General Yi Fei."

When he came here before, Yuan Mucheng had met Gao Li a few times, but those few times Gao Li just worked in silence and never talked to him.

Yuan Mucheng had no hostility towards him, so he also stepped forward and nodded at him, saying: "Gao Shilang is fine, Peng Shangshu sent someone to report to my house early in the morning, now that I have come as promised, why is there no sign of him?"

Gao Li replied: "At present, Peng Shangshu is checking the books in the Yellow Book Storehouse. Do you want to be an official to lead the way for the general?"

"That's fine," Yuan Mucheng smiled at people, "I'll trouble you, Mr. Gao."

Gao Li was about forty years old, with no expression of joy or anger on his face, Yuan Mucheng vaguely remembered that he had heard the name of this person from Yuan Haoxun before returning home, and knew that this person had no position, and that he might have had some relationship with Wen Yao before .

But Gao Li didn't express his opinion, and he didn't even say a few polite words to him. Yuan Mucheng didn't know whether this person was an enemy or a friend, and he was under pressure, so he followed Gao Li all the way without saying a word.

After walking on a sparsely populated road, Gao Li suddenly said: "Your Majesty, who was favored by Wen Cifu earlier, was the ambassador of the Yellow Book Library who served in the Ministry of Households for two years. I still remember that the ground near the wall in the northeast was still solid at that time. Yes, I don’t know what kind of change it is now.”

Hearing this, Yuan Mucheng's expression moved slightly, and he turned to look at him, but happened to meet Gao Li's eyes, and saw the composure in the man's eyes that was different from the cunning and cunning.

Gao Li stopped, turned to face him, raised his hands to his chest, bowed in salute, and said in a soft voice, "There are many mistakes in the household department, Gao is short and deep, and I hope the general will turn the tide and everything will be smooth sailing."

Shocked in his heart, Yuan Mucheng held Gao Li's hands, and said in return: "Great servant Gao, Yuan's words are not enough."

Gao Li smiled back, raised his hand and pointed him to a building not far away, and said, "Everyone should do their duty, and the next official will send it here."

Yuan Mucheng bowed again: "Thank you, Gao Shilang."

The Yellow Book Store houses the books that record the land and population in the city. It is usually in charge of the Yellow Book Store Ambassador and Deputy Envoys, but today it looks clean inside, and there are only a few guards outside the gate.

Yuan Mucheng stepped in, and when he was about to reach the door with a dozen or so steps left, the guard pushed open the main door of the Yellow Book Storehouse, stepped forward and said, "General, please."

The faint smell of gunpowder rose from the guard's clothes, Yuan Mucheng sniffed this all-too-familiar smell, and smiled: "Why, the steps of saluting have been saved?"

The guard's face twitched slightly, and his expression froze for a moment. Yuan Mucheng glanced at it very quickly, and saw that the man's fingers holding the knife silently grasped the scabbard, and secretly gathered strength.

Seeing this, another guard stepped forward and said: "Forgive me, General, this is a newcomer who just took office today, and he doesn't know the rules."

"Just took office today?" Yuan Mucheng reached out to the guard and snapped his fingers, then glanced around indifferently, "This kid has good eyesight. I neither wear an official uniform nor give my name. He knows who I am without looking at my badge."

The guards on the scene changed their eyes instantly because of this sentence, but Yuan Mucheng's expression was calm, and he took a few glances at the scene outside the yellow book warehouse.Everyone stared at him closely, not daring to move rashly. The atmosphere was like a tight string, and if someone stretched out a finger and slightly touched it, it would be broken.

"However," Yuan Mucheng suddenly turned his head to look at the guard's right hand with the handle on his knife, his expression suddenly filled with murderous intent, "You know that before killing people and setting fire to them, the most fearful thing is impetuosity."

At the end of the sound, Yuan Mucheng raised his palm and pushed the guard's hand that was about to draw the knife inward, and then seized the man's elbow and twisted it vigorously, breaking the arm and grabbing the handle of the knife , pulled the knife out of its sheath.

The pretense of calm broke down in an instant, and when the guards on the scene heard the sound of their sabers, Yuan Mucheng slashed across the two people beside him with one stroke, and stepped forward with his sabers in his hands without changing his face.

The point of the knife cut across the ground, cold light splashed, and the red dyed on the knife body shook with the sound, and fell out of the air of killing.Yuan Mucheng stepped on the ground and jumped up, raised the knife from mid-air and slashed down.The sharp knife in the guard's hand trembled from the force of the man, and the tiger's mouth hurt like it was about to split open.

The rest of the people rushed up, the coldness in Yuan Mucheng's eyes did not fade away, he turned his wrist and spun the knife to block the blow to his lower back, and at the same time raised his foot to kick one of them to vomit blood, and then bent down to avoid the two blades that came to the back of his neck, The blade in his hand didn't stop, after bumping away from Shan Feng, he slashed at the necks of the two men.

Flying blood spilled out, splashing red all over the ground, but it also reflected Yuan Mucheng's sharp face bloodthirsty and arrogant.

The Ambassador of the Yellow Book Store also followed Peng Yan to light the books in the Yellow Book Bank. Hearing the sound outside the door, he wanted to go to the door to find out what was going on, but his legs were weak from the blood in front of him, and he went straight to the door. fell down.

Seeing that they were no match for Yuan Mucheng in strength, the only three people left outside the door reached out and grabbed some gunpowder from their waists and threw them directly over Yuan Mucheng's head.The smell of gunpowder rose, and saltpeter and sulfur scattered downward from the air. Yuan Mucheng dodged sideways, but was slammed into the yellow book warehouse by someone holding his waist.

The door was closed with a bang, and the two people outside quickly locked it, and then put wooden boards on it to nail the door to death.Yuan Mucheng was bound tightly, so he had no choice but to hit the man's back with his elbow, but he didn't let go at all.

Seeing this, Peng Yan ran to the secret door, only to find that the door was blocked by someone. Only then did he understand in his heart that Xu Yixu wanted Yuan Mucheng to be burned to death with him.

"That bastard named Xu!"

Peng Yan spat, thinking that it was thanks to him that he had saved himself a way out, so he touched the wall and moved towards the northeast.

Seeing that the door was nailed to death, Yuan Mucheng slammed the man into the wall with his arms in his arms. The man's back was broken and he lost his strength for a moment. Yuan Mucheng immediately turned the man over, locked the man's head with his arms, and used his hands With a twist, he broke the man's neck.

After not resting for a while, he followed Gao Li's words and walked northeast, and happened to bump into Peng Yan who was kneeling down on the ground.

At this time, several cold arrows protruded from the wall, tied with burning cloth strips, and shot straight at the gunpowder scattered around the yellow book library.

In an instant, sparks collided, and clusters of fireworks were ignited. Green smoke rolled, and the flames rioted dangerously amid crackling sounds. After a few collisions, they exploded violently.

The sound of explosions soared into the sky, and the exploding rubble and rubble flew in all directions, and when they bounced into the air, they were covered with torrential rain.The loud noise echoed from the clouds, and the thick smoke filled the sky, and the flames shone red from the smoke, like a charming ghost with bright red nails, bewitching and deadly.

This loud noise was resounding, Xu Yixu heard some noises on the corridor entering the palace, and his eyelashes trembled involuntarily.He paused for a while, then straightened his clothes and straightened his back.

He looked ahead, smiled, and walked forward slowly.

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Gao Li: Minister of household department