The sick beauty has caught the bamboo horse

boom!

Hua Niang pinched Liu Qun's neck with one hand and raised her chin: "How did you find me?"

Liu Que's face was flushed, and her voice was intermittent: "You, you smell like blood."

A fierce light flashed in Hua Niang's eyes: "It's all that bitch, it's that bitch's smell that exposed me!"

Once this woman recalled what had happened before, she fell into madness. Panting like a beast, her face flushed, a green light flashed in her eyes, she suddenly stretched her neck and bit Liu Quin's neck!

Liu Que screamed in pain, and Hua Niang covered her mouth immediately.

With a tearing sound, Hua Niang tore off a piece of flesh from her neck, Hua Niang moved her cheeks twice, and spit out the meat on the ground with a bah.

The flesh and blood brought back Hua Niang's rationality very well, her expression gradually became calm and cold, she knocked Liu Quin unconscious with a hand knife, carried the man on her shoulder with one hand, and turned out the Chu Mansion along the dark path .

There was a carriage parked at the entrance of the alley, the driver was dressed in black and most of his face was covered in a cloak, he was not surprised to see Hua Niang, a woman carrying a willow quilt, and when they both got into the carriage, he lightly raised his whip , The carriage walked away silently.

It would take more than half a month to rush from Jiangnan East Road to the capital, not to mention that they had to take the hostages to escape Zhou Qingyan and Chu Heng's arrest.

Fortunately, only Huainan Road from Jiangnan East Road to the north has been conquered by Chu Heng, so they only need to be cautious within ten days. After leaving Huainan, it is His Majesty's territory, and naturally someone will come to meet them.

The timing of this matter was really excellent, Liu Que lived in isolation from others, and kept a lot of contact with Zhou Qingyan and Chu Heng on weekdays, but tonight Chu Heng hosted a banquet for Zhao Yan and his party, and he couldn't get away from it at all.

So after the banquet ended at midnight, Zhou Qingyan wandered over to find Liu Quin to play Pai Gow, and when he opened the door, he realized that something was wrong.

The back door was open, but the willow quilt was nowhere to be seen, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

"Pavilion Master, it's bad!" Ah Qiang ran over, "A maid found Ning Yue's body in the grass."

Zhou Qingyan's heart shuddered suddenly, and he made a decisive decision: "Lockdown the whole city, count the number of people in the mansion, especially Huaniang..."

The people in the mansion either followed Chu Heng for three years, or were from the Wuying Pavilion, and the most likely one was Hua Niang, who was the only outsider.

Zhou Qingyan bit his lip tightly: "Send a few more people to find out my brother."

Rao Zhou Qingyan said this, and he knew in his heart that the possibility of Liu Qin still staying in the mansion was not great—according to his work, the body of that girl Ningyue was cold, and the other party might have left the Chu mansion .

Zhou Qingyan took a deep breath, and suddenly a shadow was cast on the ground—it was Chu Heng.

The man hugged the man in his arms, and his voice was as calm as a bell: "Don't panic, the whole city has blocked them from getting out."

Zhou Qingyan leaned his head on Chu Heng's shoulder and closed his eyes, then opened them again after a while: "Ziyuan, I, I..."

At that moment just now, Zhou Qingyan's head was dizzy, and his heart seemed to have collapsed, stuffed in his chest, soft and painful.He admitted that he was a little bit concerned about being confused.

Chu Heng held Zhou Qingyan's waist with one hand, turned his head and ordered: "I have ordered that all my territories are not allowed to enter and exit today, and the exits will be checked one by one. If you find Liu Qun, bring them back immediately."

Zhou Qingyan let out a sigh of relief slowly, and managed to calm down.

Chu Heng frowned and said in a deep voice: "Issuing a wanted order to let the officers and soldiers search from house to house." Searching several places together disturbed many people's livelihoods, but even so, Liu Que had to be found.

Liu Que is the savior of the two of them, Zhou Qingyan's close relative, and someone who cannot give up no matter what.

Not far away, Qi Bai strode over and knelt down: "This subordinate has already searched, and only Huaniang is missing in the mansion. This subordinate knows his mistake, please punish the pavilion master."

Zhou Qingyan bit the tip of his tongue, can Qi Bai be blamed for this?At that time, Qi Bai had no choice but to bring her back. Obviously, he was prepared, so he specially asked Fang Bo to check, and even arranged people around this woman.

Even so many defenses were not able to prevent it!

That flower girl is definitely not a simple character.

Zhou Qingyan turned to Qi Bai and said, "Get up first, you can't be completely blamed for this matter." Even if he anticipated that there was something wrong with this woman, he still couldn't prevent Liu Qun from being taken away.

But he still couldn't figure out why Hua Niang took Liu Qun away?

His elder brother has never been involved in military affairs and government affairs, and has no influence in Bairen Tower.Few people even know that he is the elder brother of Zhou Qingyan, the leader of Wuying Pavilion's uprising army. What's the value of kidnapping Liu Quin?

The only possibility is that the other party knew Liu Que's identity from nowhere, and wanted to use this to coerce Zhou and Chu to give up their territory.

Unknowingly, Zhou Qingyan's palm was flushed with fingers.If his guess is correct, at least Liu Que is not in danger of life.

but······

"Yan Ke." Zhou Qingyan's words were full of malice.

Yan Ke is the only one in Beijing who knows about this.Now that Liu Quin was tied up, he could hardly absolve himself of the blame!

Chu Heng patted him on the shoulder: "I can only take a step forward and take a look. They must still be staying in the city now. As long as they are found, everything will be solved."

But after five full days, there was no news from the people below, as if Hua Niang and Liu Que floated out of Jiangnan East Road like a puff of smoke.

Cui Ying, the former prefect of Jiangnan East Road, died without guilt, and Cui Zheng's mother almost killed Zhou Qingyan. The Cui family was destroyed, and the property under his name was also owned by the Pan family. Gu Long, the former magistrate of Wolong County, was also promoted to Jiangnan. The prefect of the East Road.

Gu Long stood in front of Zhou Qingyan: "The minister has sealed off all the city gates and docks, and the house-to-house searches still turn out nothing."

Zhou Qingyan crushed a teacup alive, which caused Gu Long to look sideways - the pavilion master looked pale and delicate, but he didn't expect that he was also a practicing family.

Chu Heng suddenly stretched out his hand from below to cover Zhou Qingyan's cold hand, and the latter suddenly woke up and looked at Chu Heng.

"Ayan, calm down." Chu Heng said, "At least Liu Quin is still alive."

Hua Niang worked so hard to kidnap the man from the Chu Mansion, it was impossible to kill him at will - the dead Liu Que was not only worthless as a hostage, but it was very likely to lead to Zhou Qingyan's counterattack.

Five days have passed, and Zhou Qingyan will not lose his composure like that day, and said to Gu Long: "There is no need to close the city, there must be secret passages in the city, and they may have already arrived in Kuizhou or Huainan."

From the route, the fastest way to get to the capital is to go all the way north through Huainan, but Huainan and the west of Beijing are all under Chu Heng's control, so it is too risky for Hua Niang and her party. The distance is more than doubled.

Since they were able to escape from the blocked Jiangnan East Road, it proved that the entire Jiangnan East Road was not monolithic—either there were people to respond to them, or someone in the government secretly opened the door for them.

Zhou Qingyan took a deep breath: "Since Gu Long has searched all the people's homes, there must be someone from the government to respond. It is best to start the search from the gatekeepers."

This is a huge hidden danger, and if it is not found out, it will almost make people sleepless.

"As for the whereabouts of my brother." Zhou Qingyan closed his eyes for a while and then opened them again, "I won't check."

Chu Heng frowned: "What?"

Zhou Qingyan's face was cold and his eyes were like a cold star: "Forcing Yanju to hand over directly."

Before he left, he paid a special visit to Mr. Wenquan, and now the old man just happened to be able to help.

A month later, at the Jingcheng Restaurant.

"Ms. Ning lost her mind after leaving the house, so she simply jumped into the Wangchuan River." The storyteller slapped the gavel and took a sip of tea.

The people who listen to books here are all regular customers, and they all know that this is a reward for silver, and the young masters and brothers don’t care about the few taels of silver. They throw the silver into the plate, making a crisp sound, and the children who collect the reward laugh. It is quite pleasing to bow.

Those who have no spare money and want to listen to books just like this rub off the money of distinguished guests, listening to it day after day.

After collecting enough rewards, Mr. Wenquan put down the tea bowl: "I never thought that this little lady moved the gods, and the Lord Hades asked her: Why did you come here before the end of your life?"

"Ms. Ning cried: A slave is a commoner girl, and she married a good man. The husband's family has three acres of land, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law welcome each other. However, the life of the slave is hard, it has not rained for three years, the food is scarce and the labor is heavy, and the husband died on the battlefield. The slave has nowhere to go. , I should only come to Huangquan to find a slave husband." Wen Quan said slowly.

"Yan Wangye was furious immediately: Stupid woman, if there is no rain on the ground, it is the royal family who killed people and was punished by heaven. The Jade Emperor specially decreed that there will be no crops in the world after ten years of severe drought. What's the use of you if you die early?"

It made some sense to hear this.

The crowd was talking.

"Well, why do I feel like talking about our Ohara again?"

"No, we haven't had a drop of rain this year."

Once some things are mentioned, it is like adding a drop of water to hot oil, and it becomes noisy in an instant, and the rumors continue to spread in all directions at an unexpected speed like a tide.

What's more, this is not the first time people in the capital have heard the news.

"There was a rebellion in the Bairen Tower before, and there was a mob in Tongchuan later, and now there is a natural disaster." Someone clicked twice, "I see that Dayuan is exhausted."

Some people were not convinced: "What's the matter, isn't the rebellion of our natural disaster also a natural disaster?"

"You don't know about that. I have relatives on Jiangnan East Road. They wrote to me yesterday, saying that there is no drought in their area, and the harvest is good. One mu of land can produce two to three hundred catties of raw rice. "

The person before was dumbfounded: "This..."

"I don't care if you believe it or not, anyway, I'm planning to pack up my belongings and go to my relatives."

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Once the rumors in the market rise, it cannot be stopped by ordinary means. In the past month, many people have packed up their belongings and left the city. The number of people doing business and farming in the city has been greatly reduced.Originally, the treasury was empty due to bad harvests due to natural disasters, but now that no one is farming the land, the situation is even worse!

The palace, the imperial study.

Yanju sat on the dragon seat with an ugly expression on his face: "Du Qing, do you have a way to suppress the rumors today?"

This is the new prime minister who was promoted after Yanju ascended the throne. Both the original Qi and Wei prime ministers returned home with excuses. Only Prime Minister Zhao was sentenced to exile in the frontier because his adopted son Gu Qianyun joined Chu Heng.

Fortunately, he was rescued by Zhou Gongyuan on the way.

Du Qing's original name is Du Fengya, and he is also a good talent: "Return to Your Majesty, it is better to follow the rumors than follow what I see."

"The common people say that the royal family violated the rules of heaven and caused the severe drought, so let the royal family members be cut into pieces to pay for the crime." Du Fengya lowered his head and narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "The former emperor had many heirs. It is also their blessing that Guoshe forgets to die."

Du Fengya is very aware of the conflicts between Yanju and the other princes, Yanyun is a waste, Yan Hui is dead, and now Yanji is left.This man is ambitious. Although Qi Junyong is no longer the prime minister, the power behind him should not be underestimated.

Just take this opportunity to get rid of Yanji.

Yanju's eyes lit up: "That's it!"

In the early morning of the next day, the emperor asked his ministers how to decide on the natural disaster.

Some people want His Majesty to reduce taxes.

Some people want His Majesty to quell the rumors.

There are also people who want to make a fortune out of it.

Until finally Qin Tianjian stood up: "Your Majesty, I watch the stars at night. The cause of the natural disaster is that there are treacherous villains who framed the royal family. According to what I saw..."

Before he finished speaking, Yan Ju slapped the dragon chair fiercely: "What Ai Qing said is very true. My Yan family has guarded the world for more than a hundred years. Now that I am in power, I can't live up to the country that my ancestors laid down!"

What he said was wrong, and the officials were all at a loss. As a result, the prime minister immediately presided over the construction of the altar and released the news: Ying was framed by the villain, and the Yan family was willing to sacrifice a son to pray for the blessings of all living beings.

The whole capital was in an uproar.

Yanju has no heirs so far, so he can only choose from the heirs of the former emperor. The best of them is naturally the son of Concubine Qi, Yan Ji, who is capable of literary and military exploits.

The common people immediately felt grateful for the Royal Long En, and spontaneously contributed to the sacrificial altar.For a while, discussions about this sacrifice were everywhere in the streets and alleys.

Yan Ji was pushed to the forefront in an instant.

But on the day of the sacrifice, under the eyes of everyone, Yan Ji did not appear. Only the guards of the Prince's Mansion carried the coffin and wore filial piety clothes to blow the suona and wailed: "Your Highness passed away two months ago, so you cannot sacrifice."

"If His Majesty insists on letting His Highness sacrifice, the servants can only open the coffin to appease the wrath of God!"

Yanju was trembling with anger——Yanji really did everything to save his life. "Dead" for two months, isn't it all rotten into a ball of carrion!

Du Fengya calmed Yanju down at the right time: "Your Majesty, the most important thing now is the selection of priests."

Yan Ju was silent for a long time: "Only Yan Yun is left." But Yan Yun has a good relationship with him, and he couldn't bear to push Yan Yun to the sacrificial altar.

Du Fengya whispered, "There is one more."

Yanju frowned and asked doubtfully, "Who?"

The author says:

Both Mr. Wen Quan and Gu Long have appeared before, and the number of appearances is not too many. I am afraid that everyone will forget it. Let me remind you.