"Oh!" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but stop, thought for a moment, and asked Wang Wu, "Captain Wang, did you see any guards from the Princess Palace among the two groups of people fighting outside?"
Wang Wu was startled for a moment, but before he could answer, Lu Yi came up from behind, bowed and said: "Your Highness, I have sent orders to all the guards of the Princess Palace according to your instructions. In the past few days, the Princess Palace has been strictly guarded. No military orders will be issued. You are not allowed to leave the mansion without authorization, so I dare to conclude that the two groups of people fighting outside do not include people from our princess' mansion."
"Your Highness, Commander Lu is right." Wang Wu said from the side: "When I came in, I happened to meet a captain named Yu Datou from the Princess Guards who was leading more than 20 guards to guard the Princess Mansion. The two groups of people were monitored at the door. When he saw me returning home, he asked me to come quickly to report to His Highness and Commander Lu and ask for instructions on how to handle the matter. "
At this time, Chen Xiaomu was basically certain in his mind that among the two groups of people fighting outside the princess's mansion, one of them must be Wei Yuxin and her subordinates, and the other must be ambushing outside the princess's mansion, waiting for an opportunity to enter the mansion. The thieves in the world!
Chen Xiaomu walked around twice with his hands behind his back, and suddenly asked Wang Wudao: "Captain Wang, I asked you to go to Xinjingfu Yamen to borrow a prison car and a prison cage. Have you borrowed them?"
Wang Wu bowed and said: "Your Highness, my subordinates went to the Xinjing government office to find Jia Gui and Jia Tongpan, and explained the matter to him. Without saying anything, Jia Tongpan personally went to the jail room to arrange four prison cars and five station cages. He escorted us here in person, and he will probably arrive right away."
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "Okay, let's go to the door now to see if the two groups fighting have a winner!"
"Your Highness, you can't go. It's too dangerous. Let us go take a look and report back to you!" Lu Yi heard that and hurriedly stopped in front of Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu reached out and gently pushed Lu Yi away in front of him, and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? Is one of them my friend in the world?"
"What? Your Highness still has friends in the world?" Lu Yi looked at Chen Xiaomu in surprise.
Chen Xiaomu looked at the dumbfounded expressions of the three of them, smiled, and said, "What's so strange? Do we have friends all over the world?"
Lu Yi murmured: "But Your Highness, after all, we are officials, and they are thieves! There is no conflict between officials and thieves!"
Chen Xiaomu reached out and patted Lu Yi on the shoulder, and said nonchalantly: "Who did you hear that people who hang out in the world are thieves? Everything is not absolute! I don't believe those people who are officials in the court. They are all good people! Isn’t there a saying? It’s called the people who slaughter dogs with righteousness, and the people who betray their hearts are scholars!”
Lu Yi glanced back and forth, then put his mouth to Chen Xiaomu's ear and whispered softly: "Your Highness, I am really afraid that your association with people in the world will cause people with ulterior motives in the court to accuse Your Highness of colluding with officials and thieves in front of the Emperor!"
"Haha!" Chen Xiaomu sneered and said nonchalantly: "The mouths are on their heads, so whoever wants to talk can just do it. I don't care!"
"Your Highness...!" Lu Yi did not give up and wanted to persuade Chen Xiaomu to stay away from the Jianghu people, but Chen Xiaomu never gave him a chance to persuade him. He glanced at him and said, "Let's go and have a look!" and then took the lead in silence. He walked quickly towards the door of the princess mansion.
Seeing the situation, Li Gui and Wang Wu quickly followed. Lu Yi, who was lagging behind, looked at the three people's retreating figures, shook his head, sighed, and had no choice but to jog along to catch up with the three people in front.
At this time, the entrance of the Princess Mansion was already filled with guards wearing armor and holding spears. The leader was Biao, who had a turban on his head and a white-edged ghost-head machete on his shoulder, and a beard on his face. A big man, he saw Chen Xiaomu and others hurriedly walking this way from a distance. The big man hurriedly greeted him. Wang Wu, who was walking next to Chen Xiaomu, lowered his voice and introduced: "Your Highness, this person is the Princess Guard who was just transferred from the Imperial Guard Army a few days ago. All of them have big heads."
Chen Xiaomu hummed softly from his nose to show that he understood. Here Yu Datouji walked up to Chen Xiaomu and others, put the ghost head sword in his hand on the ground, then knelt on one knee, clasped his fists in both hands and saluted: "Princess Guard Guards" The leader of the government team, Yu Chenggang, paid homage to the Prince Consort!"
Chen Xiaomu was stunned, "Yu Dutou, do you know me?"
Yu Datou chuckled and said: "Prince-in-law, I have heard from my colleagues in the Royal Forest Army that the Prince-in-law is the most handsome man in our Zheng Kingdom, so I recognized him from a long distance away." Prince Consort!"
Chen Xiaomu really didn't expect that the rough guy in front of him would come to flatter him for the first time when they met, and he would do the same thing. He couldn't help but be a little wary of him, but it was hard to say anything. I'm praising you, so I can't help but appreciate it! So Chen Xiaomu put a slight smile on his face, stretched out his hand to pull up Yu Dutou, and said politely: "That's it, Yu Dutou is really ridiculous. Are the two groups of people outside the door still fighting?"
Yu Datou clasped his fists again and said: "Your Majesty, I haven't left yet. I just don't know what happened. The fight is inextricable. I have shouted to them twice, asking them to stay away from the princess's house and fight elsewhere. But these two groups of people He ignored me at all, and Commander Lu has just issued a military order not to allow anyone in the government to leave the government to take charge of affairs. His humble position is in trouble, and it just so happens that you are here, Prince-in-law!"
Chen Xiaomu said, "Let's see what happens!" Then, surrounded by several people, he came to the door of the princess's mansion. He raised his eyes and looked outside. Since it was dark and the distance was relatively far, he could only vaguely see several figures in the distance. Jumping up and down and swaying back and forth, Chen Xiaomu turned to Lu Yi and said, "Go and bring me the archers."
Lu Yi took the order and quickly mobilized all the more than a hundred archers in the princess's mansion. Chen Xiaomu asked these archers to put arrows on the bowstrings first, and arrange a circular fan-shaped formation with him as the center, and then said: "Let's go , come out with me to see who is causing trouble here."
After hearing this, Lu Yi, Li Gui and Wang Wu rushed forward to stop Chen Xiaomu. Lu Yi said: "Your Highness, this is absolutely unacceptable. You see, these people probably fought in front of the princess's house on purpose to attract us out. , and then they took advantage of it, probably using a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "I don't think so. Even if they use a tactic to lure the tiger away from the mountain, there is no need to use such a fierce fighting method in front of the princess's mansion. Aren't they afraid of attracting a large group of imperial guardsmen patrolling the city?"
Lu Yi lowered his head and thought about it, feeling that what Chen Xiaomu said seemed to be reasonable, so he added: "Your Highness, let me take a few people over to investigate. If you find something is wrong, use archers to cover us and run back."
Chen Xiaomu said flatly: "No, I just told you that one of the two groups of people fighting is very likely to be my friend. If I don't go over now, I will hurt people's hearts."
Being rejected by Chen Xiaomu, Lu Yi didn't know what to do for a moment. When Lu was in trouble, Yu Datou came over with a ghost-headed sword and said boldly: "Captain Lu, if you can trust your subordinates, let your subordinates take the lead." , how about you and Captain Wang leading the team to protect the Prince Consort?"
Lu Yi had no choice but to grit his teeth and do it like this! He warned Datou: "Yu Dutou, you must be extremely careful when opening the road ahead. If you find that the situation is slightly wrong, turn back to me immediately. Don't be too eager to fight!"
Yu Datou cupped his fists and said, "Captain Lu, don't worry, my subordinates know what they can and cannot do."
"Okay, go ahead." Lu Yi nodded slightly.
Yu Datou heard the sound and hugged Chen Xiaotou again. Without saying a word, he turned around and carried the broad-backed ghost-headed sword. Without looking back, he walked towards the figures fighting outside the princess's house. After a while, when When Datou's back gradually turned into a figure, Chen Xiaomu said in a deep voice: "Let's go too!"
When Lu Yi heard this, he immediately took out the simple knife hanging on his waist and held it in his hand. He walked at the front, flanked by Li Gui and Wang Wu. The three of them formed a cone-shaped array, guarding Chen Xiaomu in the middle, followed by A group of archers with their arrows on their strings was a standard guard formation for the well-trained imperial guards. Not far from the gate of the princess mansion, this group of people walked in front of Lu Yi, who was at the front of the queue. Two men in black with only one pair of eyes exposed appeared out of nowhere. They appeared in front of Lu Yi. Lu Yi stopped, and the queue behind him also stopped.
Lu Yi held the knife tightly in both hands, knowing that the person who came was not good. He stared at the two men in black and shouted: "Where are the thieves? Do you know where this place is? Get out of here quickly!"
"Quack!" The two men in black suddenly laughed like a male duck when they heard this. One of them pointed at Lu Yi and sneered in a voice that made people feel goosebumps and sounded like a ghost in hell: "Boy, if you are wise, step back quickly. I will save your life, otherwise I will kill you within five moves!"
Just because these two people could silently and suddenly appear in front of him, Lu Yi knew that the man in black's words of killing him within five moves were true. But now he had no way out and had to force himself. He bluffed and said, "Who do you think you are? How dare you ask me to make way for you? You are impatient, aren't you?"
"Quack!" The two men in black let out that weird laugh that could make people's skin crawl. "Good boy, you have the guts!" One of the men in black gave a thumbs up in front of Lu Yi's eyes. After shaking, Lu Yi took a step back, lowered his body, raised the sword in his hand, and followed every move of the two men in black, making a defensive posture.
The two men in black looked at each other, as if they were having some kind of communication. The figure of a man in black suddenly swayed on the spot, and Lu Yi felt that his eyes were blurred, and before he had time to react, a message came from his two wrists. The severe pain caused him to involuntarily let go of his hands holding the handle of the knife. In the blink of an eye, the plain knife in his hand was in the hands of the man in black. The man in black quickly turned the blade and swept it towards Lu Yi's neck with his backhand at lightning speed. Xiang, hoping to cut off the head on his neck. At this critical moment, he suddenly heard an angry shout from behind Lu Yi, "I'm here, the thief is watching his moves!" Then he saw a large black powder covering the sky towards him. The man in black flew away. The man in black was shocked. He thought it was some very powerful hidden weapon. He hurriedly sheathed his knife to block the hidden weapon. Li Gui and Wang Wu had the chance to drag Lu Yi back, while Chen Xiaomu shouted in a hissing voice. : "Fire the arrow." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of "whoosh, whoosh" arrows piercing the air from behind. The arrows fired by the archers were densely packed like a swarm of locusts, chasing the two men in black. For a moment, the two men in black no longer cared about pursuing them, and began to jump up and down desperately, dodging left and right, hurriedly shooting the eagle-feather arrows shot by the archers from all directions.
"Quick, quick, let's go back to the princess's mansion." Chen Xiaomu ordered hurriedly when he saw Lu Yiji being dragged back.
Fortunately, the two men in black acted in a hurry. They were not far from the gate of the princess's mansion. At this time, Chen Xiaomu directed the group of people to retreat to the princess's mansion, while loudly scaring the two men in black: "Don't panic, everyone." , these two thieves have been hit by the "odorless life-killing powder" I just spread, and they are about to die instantly."
After hearing this, the group of people who were in a mess just now suddenly stabilized their position. Although the two men in black on the opposite side did not know whether it was true or not, they could see that they were panicking. Among them, Lu Yi just said The man in black who was grabbing the knife in his hand obviously slowed down in the movement of the arrow. At this moment, a random arrow passed through his shoulder blade with a soft "pop" sound. The man in black His whole body trembled with pain, and his hand movements slowed down even more. Chen Xiaomu took the opportunity to shout, "Brothers, this thief has been shot. Hurry up and shoot him to death. I will reward each of you with five taels of silver when I go back!" "
The archers of the Princess Guards are all considered to be good archers. They were all selected from ordinary armies who had experienced hundreds of battles to the Royal Guards, and then from the Royal Guards to the Royal Guards. The front office of the imperial court was responsible for protecting the safety of the royal family. Some of them could even shoot four or five arrows at the same time when they drew their bows. After hearing Chen Xiaomu's words, their morale was instantly boosted, and everyone was scrambling to be the first. You know, they also They were owed a lot of money, and these five taels of silver could solve many of their problems. After a "crackling" sound from the bowstring, another wave of arrows flew towards the two men in black like raindrops. The black man who was injured The man in black was unable to dodge because of his slow movements, and his body suddenly turned into a hedgehog. The other man in black watched helplessly as his companion was shot horribly by arrows. He used Qing Kung Fu and turned around and ran away, but he was still a step slower, with two legs. Four or five arrows were shot into him in succession, and with a "pop" sound, he fell from the air like a dead dog and lay motionless on the ground.
Chen Xiaomu raised his hand to stop the archers behind him who were about to continue shooting, and licked his lips at Li Gui and Wang Wu, "You two go up with knives to see this thief. Catch as many as possible alive as possible. If there is any resistance, kill him." I chopped him up!"
"As you command," Li Gui and Wang Wu agreed. They held knives, crouched, and slowly moved toward the man in black lying on the ground as if facing a formidable enemy. Just in case, they left the old man behind. Yuan Wangwu reached out and touched a small piece of dirt from the ground. He aimed at the man in black and threw it at the man in black. With a "pop" sound, the piece of dirt hit the man in black's back. The two of them seemed to hear the black noise. The man in clothes hummed softly, but still lay there motionless!
Li Gui and Wang Wu glanced at each other, and then suddenly swooped forward at the same time, holding down the man in black. Only then did they see clearly that the man in black lying on the ground had been stabbed in the back. The arrow was inserted very deep, and only half of the shaft was exposed. In addition, it was dark, so it was impossible to see it from a little further away.
