Thoughts flashed through his mind, and what Zhenbei Hou cared about most was the evidence in the study.
You always have to enter the prefect's study to find the entrance to the secret passage. After listening to the leader's narration, Zhenbei Hou felt that there might be a secret passage hidden in the prefect's study.
The secret passage contains the secret room where his unknown letters and account books are hidden.
"You should keep a close eye outside." He glanced outside, "Go and push the door open."
After all, it was a temperament developed on the battlefield. Zhenbeihou always maintained the highest vigilance and never trusted others.
He was worried that the leader was hiding something from him, or that he didn't know the prefect's study thoroughly, so it would be dangerous to enter rashly.
Simply ask the team leader to push the door open. If there is really any danger, he will not be the one to face the danger.
The team leader knew Yan Xun's concerns, but he didn't have the right to speak at this time. He didn't even dare to say unnecessary words, so he stepped forward and opened the door.
Nothing happened.
Only then did Zhenbei Hou step in.
On the other side, the magistrate sat at the highest seat of the banquet, opening the door and changing glasses with the diners and other businessmen below him. From time to time, he even called Han Xianzong, and his laughter was harsh and unpleasant.
His house indeed had a theater troupe. In front of the banquet was a lotus pond, and a stage was built on the lotus pond. The theater troupe on the stage was singing and singing.
The prefect looked at it with great fascination, shaking his head and beating the music, as if he was obsessed with it.
Han Xianzong couldn't hide his boredom and didn't know when Yan Xun would succeed. He could no longer stay here.
"...Dou E, I will be so indignant that I will die to seek revenge! I hate corrupt officials, and it is hard to redress my grievances by bending the law and taking power. My God, my God..."
Unknowingly, the troupe in the Lotus Pond sang about Dou E's injustice, and their voices were full of sorrow and hatred, which was extremely inconsistent with the atmosphere of the banquet where people were drinking and drinking.
The prefect was still beating the beat drowsily, but Qin Xing, who was beside Han Xianzong, had already noticed something was wrong and hurriedly looked back at the guards.
These are the guards around the emperor. They are highly skilled in martial arts. They stand behind Han Xianzong at any time and anywhere. One person can be worth dozens of people.
The guards were immediately on alert and stared at the troupe warily.
What is the connection between this situation and Dou E's injustice? But Dou E was indeed killed by corrupt officials. The opera troupe sang like this, and it is difficult for people not to think too much about it.
Facts have proved that their guess was correct.
While the prefect was still shaking his head, the troupe on the stage quickly took off their cumbersome headdresses and rushed towards this side, muttering: "Corrupt officials will take their lives!"
Several of them had long swords in their hands. The previous costumes were so thick that they actually hid their weapons in their costumes!
The table suddenly became a mess.
This group of people could tell that they had some martial arts skills, and they were approaching step by step with long swords. Others at the table were running around, looking very embarrassed.
The guards beside Han Xianzong also protected him and retreated slowly. Several people surrounded Han Xianzong, fearing that someone would accidentally hurt his majesty.
The originally drowsy prefect miraculously regained his consciousness in the midst of the swords and swords, and now he was cursing the people around him in a panic:
"Why don't you hurry up and stop these rebels? Catch them and put them in jail! Why are you retreating? Go up and catch them all. There will be a reward of a hundred taels of silver for those who are caught!"
A big reward must be rewarded by a brave man. After hearing this, the servants who were still timid at first mustered up the courage to join a group to stop him, but they were all chopped down to the ground by these people.
But their obstruction bought the prefect time, and he quickly slipped into the backyard.
These people also quickly followed in.
The other people at the table, as if they were reborn, quickly left the prefect's mansion in a panic.
Han Xianzong asked the servant who was chopped to the ground and took a group of people to the prefect's study.
…
The team leader was right, the prefect did have a secret passage, but there was one thing he wasn't completely right about.
The prefect's secret passage not only has an entrance to the study, but also has another entrance, which is in the back garden.
It turned out that this house was once the residence of a minister of the previous dynasty. Later, the minister's house was ransacked, but the structure of the mansion was very particular. The prefect gradually discovered the mystery, which laid a deeper foundation for corruption.
If other things can be taken care of clearly, there is no need to worry about the storage of the ledger, and escaping is not a problem.
Just like at this moment, the group of servants bought him time, and he used this time to reach the entrance of the secret passage in the back garden and hurriedly climbed in.
——This place was covered with weeds and could only be seen when it was opened. After he entered, he quickly closed the weeds inside. From the outside, there was nothing strange at all.
This also caused the group of people with long swords to lose track of them when they came after them.
"Damn it!" The leader was wearing gorgeous makeup, but it was not difficult to tell that the person dressed in the disguise was a man: "Such a good opportunity, let this dog official run away again!"
They had been plotting for a long time today.
Yesterday, they heard that the prefect sent many people to look for people, and when the manpower in the government was temporarily insufficient, they started thinking of taking action today.
Seeing the drunken appearance of the prefect, they felt that it was easy to start, and they became more confident in today's plan.
It turns out that this bitch who is greedy for life and afraid of death doesn't care about other things at all. When it comes to life and death, his head is bright, and he is so drunk that he still runs so fast.
They didn't succeed in what they did today, and they lost another great opportunity to be a troupe member!
Thinking of this, several people were itching their teeth: "Should we continue watching?"
"It's useless to look for him at this point. We have to get out of the house quickly, otherwise we'll be discovered by those lackeys and we won't be able to get out at all."
Although the leading man looked unwilling, for the sake of everyone's lives, it was not advisable to stay here for a long time.
A few people went back not so satisfied.
However, the prefect who originally planned to escape from the limelight in the secret passage had other thoughts.
This time, the prefect could specially host a banquet for Han Xianzong and his party. In addition to being attracted by the other party's wealthy family, there was another very important reason:
The long-vacant house they bought was one of the sources of the secret passage in his house.
This thing is simple to say, but not many people know the inner story. Even the prefect only speculated based on the secret passage.
It is very likely that the secret passage was also the private property of the former owner of the magistrate's mansion, so he connected the two mansions.
In recent years, because the house has been vacant, the prefect has visited it frequently.
So this time when he heard that the house was bought by a group of people, he wanted to have a good relationship with them. After all, the exit of his secret passage was in their house.
At this time, the magistrate didn't know if anyone in the house was still chasing him, so he simply walked along this secret road, preparing to go to the house to discuss with Mr. Huang.
Emperor Xianzong of the Han Dynasty didn't know that the house acquired by Dayan's previous dynasty still had such a long history. This house was originally vacant by the imperial court, so why did he need to buy it?
When I came here, I naturally stayed casually.
At this time, he was still reading the letters that had not been put into the secret passage in the prefect's study. He had no idea that the prefect had followed the secret passage to his mansion.
