Lu Bing and others didn't take it seriously. They were still lamenting the tragic experience of their capable brothers back then, and they toasted together in memory.
After drinking a few more drinks, a noise came from the street. Lu Bing frowned and looked at his son. Lu Yi understood, went out of the house to inquire, then turned back.
"Father, there is a fire in the direction of the Ministry of Justice. The troops of the Five Cities have been dispatched to put out the fire. I expect nothing will happen. Most of the yamen over there are separate houses. They are not connected to each other. It is not like the houses burning down a street, or the water dragon corps. Saved." Lu Bing nodded. The direction of the Criminal Department is still far away from the palace. Naturally, there is no need for the Jin Yiwei to worry about putting out the fire. As for the on-site information, the Jin Yiwei hidden stakes will report it.
After drinking for a while, it was already late at night. Lu Bing wanted to say goodbye, but Xiao Feng drank a little too much and pulled him to insist on drinking two more drinks.
Suddenly someone knocked on the door of Xiao Feng's house, and it was Xiao Chunzi who came in. He smiled and bowed his hands to everyone.
"Master Xiao, are you so drunk that you have forgotten all the promises you made to the princess? The princess is still waiting for you to hang a plaque. She is already angry." Xiao Feng slapped his forehead and stood up quickly: "What did you say? I almost forgot about it. Princess Chang'an said yesterday that she read some almanac and said that tonight was a good time to move to another house, so she wanted to put a plaque on her house. People move to other places just to see it. She has already seen the time, and I'm afraid it was Master Tao who calculated it." Lu Bing and others secretly laughed, thinking that Princess Chang'an is deeply favored by Long Live, and I'm afraid you will have a hard time being a neighbor with you in the future.
But on the surface, everyone pretended to be very calm, and expressed their willingness to accompany Xiao Feng to hang the plaque, so that he would not have to face Gale Feng alone.
Xiao Feng was supported by Lu Yi and others and walked out of the gate of Xiao Mansion. At a glance, I saw the large courtyard next door, surrounded by hundreds of forbidden troops. It was really packed.
The princess's car stopped at the gate, and she was losing her temper loudly in the car, blaming Xiao Feng for not taking her matter to heart at all.
"I forgot to hang the plaque today, and I will forget to give the medicine tomorrow. Maybe he will be happy when I die one day!" Ru Hua tried his best to comfort her: "Princess, don't be angry, Mr. Xiao must not be You do it on purpose. Men, you act like this when you drink. Didn’t you say that’s what the books say?”
"...Have I told you? Don't read those messy books in the future!" Xiao Feng staggered and pushed away Zhang Wuxin and Lu Yi who were supporting him, stepped forward to salute, then picked up the plaque handed over by the imperial army, crookedly The ground was hung on the door.
The princess looked at it by the light of the torch: "It seems to be hanging crookedly?" Xiao Feng tilted his head and looked at it: "No, you see it is right." The princess looked again doubtfully: "Enter the painting, Can you see if it's crooked? Why does it feel like it's not the same as the door?" After entering the painting, he covered his mouth and smiled without saying anything. Xiao Feng looked at it again and patted the door affirmatively.
"The plaque is not crooked, but the door is crooked. Lu Pingshan didn't do a good job at this job." The owner took over the house, so Captain Lu naturally had to follow him.
At this time, I heard that Xiao Feng was very drunk and talking nonsense, and he secretly complained in his heart, so he had to remind him in a low voice.
"Sir, boss, please take a closer look. The door is not crooked. The plaque is really crooked. How could the door be crooked? If the plaque is crooked, just hang it up again. If the door is crooked, we will have to pay for it. Yeah!" Xiao Feng tilted his head and looked up: "Princess, do you think the door is crooked or the plaque is crooked? If you look at it this way, does it mean the door is crooked?" The princess glared at Xiao Feng fiercely. After one glance, he didn't want to get angry with the drunkard, so he had to coax him, look in the direction he pointed, and said angrily.
"Yes, yes, you are right. The plaque is not crooked, but the door is crooked... Ah! Why is there someone upstairs?" Everyone was startled and followed the princess's gaze to look at the building in the yard.
A normal building would definitely not be visible from outside the gate, but the three-story building built by the princess is so high up that the third floor can be seen from outside the courtyard.
Lu Bing reacted the fastest. He looked up and saw nothing in the darkness, but he did not dare to take it lightly and immediately asked Lu Pingshan.
"Captain Lu, can you keep any workers in the yard?" Lu Pingshan's legs trembled: "No, no, no, it's impossible. Today the princess came to hang a plaque to see the house, how dare I keep workers in the yard? Besides, the yard All the work in the house has been done. There is no need for workers anymore. They are definitely not mine! Could it be a homeless beggar who ran in to spend the night?" Lu Bing sneered: "Even if he is a beggar, he breaks in without permission. The princess's residence is also a capital offense! Lu Yi! Go and mobilize the Jinyi Guards and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division! The captains of the imperial army obey the order and are all on alert. Someone from the courtyard will come out and capture them on the spot. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot without mercy!" Jinyiwei action! Quickly, dozens of people gathered quickly. The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division came a little slower, and many of them had black ash on their faces.
Lu Bing frowned: "What's going on? The Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division is in charge of public security in the capital. With such a slow speed, it's no wonder that the capital has failed to respond to incidents in the past few times." Naturally, the leader of the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division did not dare to contradict him. Lu Bing had to carefully apologize and talk about his grievances.
"Master Lu, it's not that the brothers are being lazy, it's really that the fire in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment is too big. They must have used kerosene. No matter how you put it out, it can't be extinguished." Lu Bing was stunned: "Is there a fire in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment? How are the people inside?" The captain smiled bitterly and said: "You still need to ask, you can't even tell the number of people, many of them have been burned to pieces, and the fire has just been put out. The war chief led the agents The scene is being cleaned up, and the brothers were also helping, so they arrived a little late." Lu Bing stopped asking and pointed to the big house: "Everyone obeys the order. The Forbidden Army surrounds the wall to prevent the thieves from escaping. Five City Soldiers Ma Si went in to search for people and arrest them, and Jin Yiwei guarded every corner of the courtyard, ready to support everywhere!" The door opened, and people from the Five Cities Soldiers, Ma Si and Jin Yiwei rushed in, and the lanterns and torches illuminated the courtyard as bright as day.
Although the yard was large, it could not handle the number of people searching. Soon all the rooms were searched, and people from all walks of life gathered under the three floors and looked up at the building together.
The three people upstairs were completely confused at this time. After they saw the fireworks, they poured kerosene on them and started lighting them as planned.
The smell of kerosene woke up the sleeping prisoners in the cell. They were all veterans of crime. As soon as they smelled the smell of kerosene, they immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Master cell leader, brother guard, what are you doing? Why are you pouring kerosene on it? Be careful, that thing will catch fire if you see it!"
"Master cell leader? What are you going to do? You have to tell us if anything happens. We are on the same boat now!"
"Cell boss, cell boss? Damn Black Rakshasa, what the hell are you talking about? What are you going to do?"
"Brothers, they are going to burn us to death! Damn it must be Yan Shifan who ordered him, he is going to kill people and silence us!"
"Where's the key? Whoever has the key opens the cell door and we'll fight them!"
"No, they took them away in the afternoon! They said Zhang Juzheng was coming to check the cell, and he was afraid of being discovered!"
"I will destroy your ancestors, Black Rakshasa, I will destroy your ancestors! You have the guts to let me out!"
"It's on fire! It's on fire! Everyone, shout for help! Help, come help!" The sound insulation effect of the Tianlao is excellent, and the effect of isolating light is also very good. These screams cannot be heard at all outside. , just like they usually do when they torture female prisoners.
After the cell leader and two guards came out, they locked the door and ran along the dark alley to the deserted courtyard. They climbed over the wall into the courtyard and hid on the third floor.
By the time the people from the Wucheng Bingma Division discovered the fire coming from the direction of the Punishment Department, the inside was actually completely burned, and the sky prison had collapsed.
Therefore, the focus of the subsequent firefighting work is not to put out the fire at all, but to prevent the fire from spreading to the lobby of the Criminal Department and other directions.
The three people on the third floor now couldn't figure out why the princess suddenly came here to hang a plaque in the middle of the night!
But regardless of whether they could figure it out or not, the officers and soldiers had already begun to rush upstairs. A guard looked at the cell leader with a sad face and trembling body.
"Boss, do you think it was Lord Yan's idea to deliberately let us kill people and silence us, and then sell us to the government?" The prison leader's face was as dark as water, and he slowly shook his head: "No. If Lord Yan sent someone to directly Even if he kills the three of us, I will believe him, but he will not sell us to the government! Because it will only do him harm, no good! He is most afraid that we will commit a crime and fall into the hands of the government! We are in trouble Xiao Feng is fooled!" The two guards also understood, and they both thought of ways to survive at the same time.
"Boss, as long as we tell the truth about what happened in the prison that day, will we be considered guilty and meritorious service? The things we usually do must not be told!" The prison boss nodded and suddenly looked at the firelight coming from the stairs: "Huh? Master Yan is here too?" The two guards were stunned and turned to look at the stairs at the same time. However, they felt severe pain in the back of their necks. They were hit by two knives on the back of their necks at the same time. Their vision went dark and their heads were twisted again. , killed immediately.
The cell leader sneered, grabbed the two corpses, threw them out from the third floor, and jumped down as well.
He stepped on two corpses in succession in the air, weakening the force of his descent, and finally stacked the two corpses on top of each other like a stack of Arhats the moment he landed.
With a click, the bones of the two corpses were broken, and the tendons were broken. The prison head was cushioned, and they rolled and jumped up, heading straight to the back.
But at this time, the three-story building was completely surrounded. The sergeants of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division were shouting and slashing and stabbing, and the Jin Yiwei also rushed forward to fight.
Although the cell leader was very skilled, he was unable to defeat these many people. He was stabbed in the leg with a gun, then knocked down with a gun barrel and tied up tightly.
Lu Bing stepped forward, looked at the two corpses on the ground, and then looked at the tied prison head, his face covered with frost.
"Did you three set off the fire in the Prison Prison? Who instigated you to do it?" The cell leader spat out blood and sneered, "You don't believe me even if I say it. It was Xiao Feng who instigated us to do it!" Lu Bing was furious and kicked him on the lifeblood. The cell leader immediately fell to the ground and turned into a big shrimp. Cold sweat, tears and snot flowed from his nose, but he just kept sneering.
"Are you just talking nonsense? The past performance of the three of you means that even if you don't admit that you are Yan Shifan's people, you are definitely not Xiao Feng's people! Could he have instigated you? Someone, take him back and hand him over. Give it to Lao Chang, let me see how hard his mouth can be!" Two corpses and a big shrimp were dragged out of the princess's house. The princess looked at it with disgust and hid back in the car.
"It's really unlucky. Someone died on the first day of hanging the plaque. Captain Lu, ask the workers to clean it again, especially the painting building. Wash it with clean water three times!" Lu Pingshan agreed repeatedly, sighing secretly in his heart: Oh, I'm afraid that something like this will happen when I close the house. I'll add additional items without any reason and won't pay for them.
When the cell leader was dragged in front of Xiao Feng, he looked at Xiao Feng fiercely: "Those two people are dead. I will not confess to anything. If I do, I will tell the truth. You asked us to do it!" Xiao Feng was drunk! She looked at him with a look in her eyes that was as cold as ice, making even the most vicious person like the cell leader shudder.
"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand? You can say whatever you want. It doesn't matter if you say I want to rebel. I don't expect you to confess anything. You'd better be strong. I heard that Lao Chang held it in for a whole month. Ah, I feel very uncomfortable holding it in. I had a quarrel with my wife yesterday, Zhao Baihu, what’s the reason?” Zhao Baihu also drank a lot, and he laughed and said: “Old Chang can’t hold it in anymore, and my wife just let me go. He killed a chicken so that he could stew mushrooms. As a result, he was late in cooking the chicken, and in the end his wife had to make shredded chicken noodles. It is said that the shredded chicken was so thin that it was even better than Miss Liu's craftsmanship!" The prison boss finally broke out. : "Xiao Feng, I will fuck you, I will fuck you, I will fuck you, I will fuck you, I will fuck your whole family!" Xiao Feng shook his head: "Stop scolding, the princess is here, all of these have to be punished Code, I can't hear anything, please save some energy and go to the prison to call." After the person was dragged away, Lu Bing walked slowly to Xiao Feng, sneered lightly, and looked at him with some helplessness.
"It's not easy to drink the wine you invited. The people from Wudang Mountain were just in time to fight for you, and I was just in time to arrest people for you. It can also prove that you were in the house the whole time." Xiao Feng said in surprise: "Master Lu What do you mean by this? What do you mean, I was in the house the whole time? It was clearly Zhang Wuxin, An Qingyue, I and I who drank with you! Mr. Lu, you can't be arrogant when you are a senior official. Could it be that the two of them Don't you deserve to pay for your drinking, sir?" Shen Lian and Lu Yi looked at each other, lowered their heads and snickered, not daring to speak.
Zhao Baihu had a straightforward temperament and drank a few more drinks, feeling that the adults were not very particular.
"Sir, Master Xiao is right. Although Zhang Wuxin didn't drink much, An Qingyue drank a lot. He broke my wine glass when he clinked it!" Lu Bing glared at Zhao Baihu: "Just You're so stubborn, you'll only be a hundred households in this life!" Zhao Baihu was overjoyed: "Really? That's great, I thought you wanted to hit me yesterday! Then I can rest assured, the errand is finally over Stable!" Lu Bing swayed and almost slapped Zhao Baihu with his backhand. Looking at this bearded old junior at the same time, Lu Bing still held back a breath and turned around to leave.
"Why weren't you the one who was sent to the Miao border?" Zhao Baihu didn't know why, and was still asking Lu Yi and Shen Lian secretly when he was being pulled away.
"I wasn't selected at the time because I was said to be not good-looking enough. Does Mr. Lu think I'm better-looking now than before?" The plaque has also been hung up. Originally, the princess was going to live in the place with her bedding. Now she has to clean it again. Naturally, I can't live anymore.
"Enter the painting, please move your luggage into the Xiao Mansion first. It's midnight and the palace gate has been locked. Why are you going back and forth? It's time for your father to scold me." The Imperial Army left, the firelight dimmed, and darkness enveloped the Princess Mansion again. .
Seeing the princess confidently entering the Xiao Mansion, Xiao Feng's shaky figure gradually stood up straight, like a sharp sword stuck in the dark earth.
An Qingyue accompanied the princess into the mansion, and Zhang Wuxin was the only one left beside him. He sighed softly.
"There are more than fifty prisoners in the sky jail. This fire..." Xiao Feng said coldly: "After that night, there is not a single living person left in the sky jail who has not deserved to die." Zhang Wuxin nodded: "I'm not saying they don't deserve to die, but would it be better to just leave a few of them to turn against Yan Shifan?" Xiao Feng sneered, with helplessness, resentment, and endless sadness in his voice.
"I've tried every possible method. All the prisoners can prove is what happened in the sky jail that night. Don't say that Long Live doesn't believe it, even if Long Live does, it's just a personal grudge between Yan Shifan and me. And In the fight between Yan Shifan and I, Banzai will not be cruel to either party. Killing Yan Shifan means destroying the Yan Party. Destroying the Yan Party means that Banzai will face all his sins in the future, and there will no longer be a shield. Wanzai didn't want to see such a situation, so he defended the party strictly again and again. Only the undoubted crime of rebellion could make Wanzai make such a determination. Those prisoners had never even seen anyone from the White Lotus Sect, and they were making empty promises. There is no way to truly prove that Yan Shifan participated in the rebellion." Zhang Wuxin thought for a while and felt embarrassed for Xiao Feng: "Yan Shifan is cunning and cunning, and he never leaves any clues when doing things. How easy is it to have real evidence?" Xiao Feng smiled lightly and asked. He held Zhang Wuxin's shoulder and walked back: "Zhan Yu's injury is still recovering. After he was attacked, I told him something. Zhan Yu didn't know Luo Wenlong, so he didn't know the person who led the attack on Prince Yu's Mansion. Is it Luo Wenlong? I also told him not to mention this person at all. Yan Shifan wants to put all the blame on the White Lotus Sect. Since we can't prove it, let's just go with the flow and forget about Luo Wenlong." Zhang Wuxin thought for a while: "But before we went to the Jiangnan coast, Luo Wenlong led troops to attack us several times! Can we hide this?" Xiao Feng smiled, with a hint of cunning in the corner of his mouth, which actually looked a bit like the smile of the green tea princess. Zhang Wuxin looked at it You have to frown.
"Luo Wenlong led troops to attack us, but I never mentioned this person's name in the official document. I was talking about Xu Hai's people. This person will be of great use to me in the future! You will know when the time comes. Then Xiao Feng saw Zhang Wuxin's expression, and he asked in surprise: "Why are you looking at me like this? Have I become as beautiful as Zhao Baihu?" Zhang Wuxin shook his head: "I think you gave medicine to the princess If you feed too much, you may be a little bit infected..."
