In the western suburbs of Chang'an, there is a villa next to Zaohe River.
The people responsible for taking care of this place are two brothers named Jiang Mao and Jiang Hai. They are both in their thirties and their faces are full of scars.
On a busy day, Jiang Mao came back from hunting a hare, threw it to the Turkic maidservant, cleaned it and roasted it on the fire. The two brothers opened a jar of fine wine and sat in the hall to drink together.
"It's snowing, do you think the general has arrived in Banshu?"
After drinking two large bowls of wine in silence, Jiang Mao asked in a muffled voice.
"I don't know, I don't even know where Bozhou is." Jiang Hai said with a cold tone: "If the general hadn't stopped me at that time, I would have killed Ge Nu, and he would have gone to Bozhou."
"Um."
Then they drank in silence. The Turkic maidservant who was kneeling aside watched the rabbit meat roasting until it was golden brown. She picked up a dagger and started to divide the meat.
Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door outside.
The Turkic maid put down the rabbit meat in her hand and ran to open the door. After a while, she welcomed a young eunuch into the courtyard.
Jiang Mao stood in the hall and looked around, muttering: "Why did you get a new one today?"
He came forward with a bowl of wine and said: "If you don't tie up the horse, it will run away in a while. Come on, drink this bowl of wine first to warm yourself up."
Without any explanation, the wine bowl was thrust into the opponent's hand.
The young eunuch couldn't care less about this and asked in a hurry: "Has anyone been here? Has Du Liangdi been taken away?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Today the traitor sent someone to interrogate us and took away Du Liangdi. Mr. Li asked me to come and see what happened..."
"not good!"
Jiang Mao reacted immediately and shouted to Jiang Hai, "I'll hold them back while you take them away."
While they were talking, the two brothers strode out of the hall, rushed into the firewood shed, overturned several bundles of firewood, and revealed two long knives and two sets of bows and arrows inside.
Jiang Mao took the weapon, rushed to the courtyard gate and looked outside, and saw a group of people in the snow and wind quickly approaching here.
"The traitorous lackeys are here!"
He shouted, quickly bolted the door, placed the Mo Dao in the corner, moved a ladder, climbed up the ladder, and set his bow and arrow on the wall.
Those traitorous lackeys were already very close. He did not hesitate to aim at a knight who was rushing at the front and let go of his arrow.
With a "whoosh", an arrow hit the door in front of him, and the knight fell down in response, and there was an exclamation of surprise.
Jiang Mao sneered in his heart, compared to the Longyou Army, the Sixteenth Guards in Beijing were nothing more than show-offs.
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"Hush!"
When he saw someone shot to the ground in front of him, Yang Zhao quickly reined in the reins and broke out in a cold sweat.
He couldn't believe that someone dared to shoot You Xiaowei so close to Chang'an City.
This is a grave crime of treason.
"Treason, murderer, murderer..."
Yang Zhao murmured, but forgot to give the order for a moment.
Fortunately, there was also a right-wing guard Zhonglang general who came today. He had quickly made arrangements and ordered the soldiers to attack the mansion in front.
"Surround around us and don't let the thief get away!"
A famous soldier rode up to catch up and went around the yard to block other doors.
Suddenly, a soldier reported: "A carriage has run away in the backyard!"
"You guys, catch up!"
Xue Bai looked at the corpses on the ground and felt that the ferocity of the people in the courtyard was exactly the same as those who buried him alive. This showed that the prince was by no means completely powerless.
He pulled the reins slightly awkwardly and followed a group of soldiers toward the back door.
A large car had already exited the back door and was running westward in the snow.
The carriage was too big and had no walls. It had only an umbrella to protect it from the wind and snow. It could be seen that there were many women and children in the carriage, and presumably the other party's family members were among them.
"Second sister!" Du Wulang shouted.
A figure in the carriage looked behind, then stood up cautiously.
Her graceful figure could be vaguely seen in the wind and snow, it was Du Jin.
The car was going very fast and the road was bumpy. Du Jin was standing unsteadily. Two women tried to pull her, and they started fighting. You could vaguely see Qu Shui helping her, and she fell several times. Second-rate.
"Don't fire the arrow! Block the speed of the car!"
"Drive! Drive!"
The next moment, a right guard shouted, sprang out like a sharp arrow, and caught up with the carriage diagonally.
"Where can the traitor escape?!"
The carriage turned quickly.
Xue Bai could see that the person driving the cart was a thin figure, but there was still a big man standing on the shaft of the cart, firing arrows at the right Xiaowei who was catching up.
But at this moment of deceleration, Du Jin and Qu Shui had already jumped off the carriage and landed in the snow.
Even Xue Bai was secretly frightened when he saw this leap, but he saw Du Jin lying motionless in the snow.
The carriage was still running forward, and the Youxiao guardsmen galloped in pursuit.
Xue Baice immediately stepped forward, and when he got closer, he saw her chest rising and falling, panting hard, and Qu Shui over there was groaning and trying to get up.
"Are you okay?" He turned over and dismounted.
"My foot is sprained." Du Jin raised his body slightly and said with a frown, "My arm hurts too."
Xue Bai stepped forward to help her and whispered: "We voted for Li Linfu to save the Du family."
Du Jin groaned in pain, leaned against him, quickly glanced around, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and finally whispered: "If Suo Douji wants me to testify against the prince, I can, but there are conditions."
"you say."
"Not ready yet."
Du Jin smoothed his hair and looked a little irritated.
She is no longer the Crown Prince Liangdi.
This change in identity is extremely important to her.
But she was able to quickly understand the situation instead of crying, which really made Xue Bai feel more relaxed.
"Second sister, are you okay?" Du Wulang caught up at this time and wanted to help.
Du Jin didn't need his support, she slapped his hand away and said, "Qushui is also injured, you carry her."
"oh."
Du Wulang scratched his head shyly before reaching out to help Qu Shui.
Du Jin glanced around and saw Jiao Nu. She leaned into Xue Bai's ear and asked, "Who is that woman?"
"Li Linfu sent me to 'protect' me."
"I hate her... I'll ride on your horse and talk about what happened recently."
"Well, was it your idea to bury Qinglan and me alive?"
"Bury you alive? I really don't know about this, believe me." Du Jin stretched out his foot and stepped on the stirrup, then frowned in pain and said, "Help me up."
"Anyway, after Dong Palace did this, I have very few choices. I can only temporarily seek refuge with Li Linfu. What do you think?"
Xue Bai said, holding her waist with both hands. Unexpectedly, she looked plump, but her waist was quite slender.
He lifted her up and lifted her onto the horse's back.
"What do I think? Do I still have a choice?" Du Jin laughed at himself, sat down on the saddle, moved back, stretched out his hand to pull Xue Bai, and said, "You sit in front."
However, Xue Bai did not hold her hand and said, "I voted for Li Linfu, and if I ride with you again, will you push me down?"
"Sooner or later, you will be unreliable when asking for a fighting cock. But I know what you want to ask. Put it this way, I have only one identity left. I am the daughter of the Du family... Come up, you are not good at riding, sit in front."
Xue Bai then got on his horse and wanted to pull the reins, but a pair of white jade hands reached out from behind him and grabbed the reins.
"Don't hold on, you can't see the road." Du Jin looked forward and said, "I saw it from the beginning. You really want to climb up, don't you?"
"yes."
Du Jin asked leisurely: "Now that I have lost my identity, is it still valuable to you?"
"I came to take you home to repay the Du family's kindness."
Du Jin smiled and said, "Okay, let's continue."
Xue Bai roughly talked about his experiences in the past four or five days. At the end, he asked: "How much do you know about those tough guys?"
Du Jin listened carefully and unknowingly lay slightly on his back and said lazily, "I don't know. I have always lived in the backyard and have never even seen them."
Xue Bai felt two soft masses on his back. Not sure if she did it on purpose, he looked back.
"Don't move." Du Jin said, "You're not afraid of falling."
"No matter what, Li Linfu will inevitably ask for your testimony."
"Oh, Suo Douji finally managed to get the crown prince's dead warriors. I'm afraid he will be extremely happy." Du Jin said, "It seems you are quite capable. He has been busy for a year and couldn't do anything. How many days do you have?" It was done.”
"Good luck." Xue Bai said.
While they were talking, they had already rushed back to the courtyard.
I saw that You Xiaowei had knocked open the courtyard door, but he also left four casualties outside the door. The dead had no movement, but the injured were still howling, and the snow was soaked in red blood under their bodies.
There was still fighting at the gate, and it was obvious that the thug was guarding the gate.
"Bold rebel, you are cornered, why don't you just surrender?!" Yang Zhao stood on his horse and shouted in the distance.
"Hahaha, you traitorous lackeys are all trash!"
Xue Bai reached out to pull the reins and said, "Go and have a look from the front."
"Um."
Du Jin then rode his horse around in a circle and was able to see the courtyard gate from a distance.
Xue Bai looked around and saw a tall man holding a long-handled sword, standing in front of the door, knocking down a right guard, and roaring to the sky.
"I served in the Tang Dynasty for ten years and killed dozens of enemies. How can I be afraid of traitors like you?!"
It's a pity that this big man is not wearing armor, there are many wounds on his body, and he is already in a state of collapse.
Immediately afterwards, Xue Bai's eyes narrowed and he saw him raising his Mo Dao and wiping it on his neck.
"He's going to kill himself!"
At this moment, there was a "whoosh" sound, and a sharp arrow shot out, hitting the big man's wrist, and the long-handled Mo Dao fell to the ground.
Xue Bai turned around and saw that the Youxiao guard who had shot the arrow was stationed not too far away from him, so he clasped his fists and shouted, "Good archery skills! I'm Xue Bai, do you dare to ask the name of the strong man?"
The opponent was looking left and right, feeling very proud. After hearing this, he turned his head, cupped his fists, and replied happily: "Hahaha, Hebei Tian Sheng Gong!"
Xue Bai saw that Tian Shengong was very good at riding and shooting, so he wrote down his name and planned to make friends with him next time he went to Youxiao Guard.
Just as they were about to chat for a few more words, Du Jin pulled the reins and left, reminding him in a low voice: "Make friends with warriors everywhere, be careful to end up like Liu Ji."
"Different."
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Several more roars rang out in the courtyard. Although the tough guy was injured and his wrists were dripping with blood, he was still struggling desperately. Several people from the Youxiao Guards pounced on him and managed to restrain him with great difficulty.
Yang Zhao finally dared to walk around the corpse on the ground, picked up the Mo Dao and the bow and looked at them for a few times, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"Longyou weapons!"
Afterwards, everyone found several servants who took care of Du Jin's daily life and a young eunuch from the courtyard.
At this point, this case is no longer comparable to Liu Ji's case.
Raising Longyou veterans and killing sixteen guards is no different from treason. Once convicted, with the temperament of today's saints, it is not as simple as deposing the prince.
…
Only Xue Bai's eyes flashed with doubts.
He had always known that Li Heng was secretly accumulating strength, but he never expected that he could get someone so easily.
But no matter what, he promised to give Li Linfu a result in five days, and now he got it in two days. As for how to conduct the trial, that is Li Linfu's business.
