We had just met him yesterday morning, and today we came to visit him. Da Xiwu's unexpected visit still surprised Xiao Yu.
"You...how did you find this place?" Xiao Yu asked.
"What's the difficulty in finding this place? You can find out the location of Jiangxia Palace with a little inquiry. It's just that the palace occupies a large area, so it will take some effort to find you."
"Did you get in over the wall?"
Da Xiwu smiled like a fox: "Do you still want a Northern Dynasty general to knock on the door of your mansion and swagger in? I have to remind you that there are some secret sentries around your mansion. I didn't know they were watching. What are you talking about, but you look like a secret agent of your Northern Dynasty. Haha... If someone knows me, it is really possible that they will trick your emperor. When the time comes... hehe..."
The initial good impression had been completely ruined by the arrogant Northern Dynasty general since yesterday morning. Xiao Yu found that he didn't like him, and even disliked him a little.
But he still concealed his emotions and said calmly: "Why did you come to me?"
"I can't come to see you if I have nothing to do. I just want to chat with you casually. I'm free when I'm free." Da Xiwu replied lazily.
Xiao Yu felt displeased with his pretended lazy posture, especially when he sat down on the window frame and stepped on the table with his feet.
"Why me?" Xiao Yu asked
Da Xiwu asked back: "Is your Geng your respect?"
"What?"
"How old are you?"
"Eighteen...nineteen!"
Da Xiwu smiled: "We are the same age, I guess. I was born in the fifth year of Emperor Xuanwu Jingming's reign, and I am just twenty years old. So when I come to see you, you have to call me brother again."
Xiao Yu just smiled and did not answer.
"Have you ever killed anyone?" Da Xiwu asked again.
The smile on Xiao Yu's face immediately solidified.
"You have never killed anyone, but I heard that you were hunted down last night?" Da Xiwu said with a smile, and jumped down from the window.
"Well, how did you know? Could it be..."
Xiao Yu thought of that red dress.
But Da Xiwu immediately denied it: "Stop it! Stop it! Is it possible? I heard it from your servant."
Xiao Yu was nervous: "You also arranged spies in my house?"
"That's not true. The cost of raising a spy is not high. To put an informant in a palace like yours, which no one cares about and no one asks about. Humph, our Wei Dynasty doesn't have that kind of spare money. I can only say that you are right. If a person is not well disciplined, just a few people gathered together can chew the master's tongue, and I heard it."
Xiao Yu frowned: "They are not wrong. The facts are the facts. They are not slandering me. Why don't people speak!"
"Haha, you are such a weirdo." Da Xiwu walked up to Xiao Yu and examined him for a moment, then patted his shoulder, "If anyone in my house dares to chew the master's tongue like this, I will cut him off." Make a dish with their tongues, and then let them eat their own tongues!”
"Sounds pretty cruel."
"If you are not cruel, you will raise a group of unscrupulous slaves who will crawl on top of your head to poop and pee at any time. King Rencheng had a concubine in his family who was deeply loved by King Rencheng, but once Rencheng The king of the city saw the concubine flirting with a handsome scholar. The king of Ren was so angry that he had the eyes of the two people gouged out. He stripped them naked and threw them into a big pot to cook together. Finally, they boiled It turned into a pot of meat porridge. Finally, he sat in front of the big pot and asked everyone in the house, whether they were children, nieces, family members or servants, to take a bowl of broth and drink it in front of him. , from now on, no servants in his house will dare to make mistakes."
"Prince Yuancheng of Rencheng?" Xiao Yu frowned.
"You don't know him?"
"I have heard that he is richer than Shi Chong and Wang Kai of the Western Jin Dynasty, but he will not end well." Xiao Yu said contemptuously.
Da Xiwu smiled. Everyone knows that King Rencheng is rich and powerful. The young prince in front of him may be right. King Rencheng is arrogant and domineering. He is too top-notch and has long angered the nobles of the entire dynasty. What happened? It's a matter of time, but I can't tell whether it's a good death or not.
Da Xiwu suddenly felt that the topic had been taken astray: "Do you know Prince Qinghe?"
"Prince Qinghe? Which..."
Da Xiwu was a little anxious: "That's right...it's Prince Yuan Yi of Qinghe! You should be impressed by Princess Xuanming, right?"
Xiao Yu suddenly realized that it came from another part of the memory in his body.
During the heavy snowfall that year, he rescued a brother and sister in Hualin Garden and beat up Xiao Yuheng. The brother and sister seemed to be King Qinghe and his sister Princess Xuanming.
"It's them, they...are they okay!"
"Fortunately, Prince Qinghe also went south, but he didn't come to Jiankang. He returned north with the Queen Mother a few days ago. It seems that he still remembers the young prince and the childhood friendship he had with him."
But Xiao Yu couldn't remember clearly what happened with Yuan Yi. There seemed to be a vague figure mixed in his memory, which made him feel that the images of Yuan Yi and Princess Xuanming were also particularly vague.
"I can't remember clearly. Yuan Yi is a few years older than me. He is too honest and doesn't know how to fight, so he is always bullied." Xiao Yu murmured, but his brain kept thinking about his past. experience.
"Prince Qinghe wants to see you."
Xiao Yu looked at Da Xiwu: "Let him come to Jiankang."
"What if we go to Luoyang?"
"I don't want to go to Luoyang now."
Da Xiwu smiled lightly, knowing that he could not persuade the young prince of Southern Qi.
At this time, the little prince looked out the window and couldn't help but keep making "Gululu" noises all by himself. He was still hungry.
"Da Xiwu, if nothing happens, you can leave! I have to go to dinner. I think you don't want to appear in front of my servants!" Xiao Yu issued an expulsion order. He didn't know what the young general of the Northern Dynasty wanted to do here. .
"My young prince, you were assassinated last night. Do you know who did it?"
The red dress flashed through Xiao Yu's mind again. Hong Xiao had told him that it was Mei Chong'er's doing, so when Da Xiwu asked again, he didn't show much curiosity.
"I don't know. If Brother Daxi knows, you can give me some advice."
Da Xiwu asked back: "Didn't Hongxiao tell you anything?"
Xiao Yu looked at the room he was in now. If Da Xiwu could appear here, it must have something to do with Hongxiao.
He vaguely remembered that when he was covering Hu Xianzhen's escape from Princess Yongning's mansion that day, he saw Hong Xiao and Da Xiwu joking together.
Thinking of this, he actually felt a little bit sour in his heart.
"What did Hongxiao tell me?"
"Where did those assassins come from, and why did she come to the rescue in time."
"She has been following me secretly to protect me."
Da Xiwu burst out laughing after hearing this: "She will secretly follow you. What are you thinking? Although you are the young prince of the Southern Dynasty, what value do you have for her to follow you?"
Xiao Yu felt his face burning after hearing this, but Da Xiwu's face was filled with malicious contempt.
"Do you know what we did last night?" Da Xiwu asked.
"have no idea."
"We went back to that house last night. If you're not afraid, you know that Hu Yanniang has been active in Jiankang for so long, and she finally found it after a lot of effort, hehe..."
"What the hell is that place for!"
Da Xiwu had a weird expression and said exaggeratedly: "A place that specializes in killing people."
"Those barbarians..."
"I said, how can there be no living people in a place where killing is studied? Those of my tribe were treated like cattle and horses, waiting to be tortured to death."
It seemed that at this moment, Xiao Yu forgot about the hunger in his belly and looked at Da Xiwu intently.
"But last night when Yanniang and I went to the house to prepare for another sneak attack, we found that there were people everywhere. They were packing things. Many large bags and small boxes seemed to be transporting those barbarians out."
"They're giving up there?"
"Obviously, after you made such a fuss, or...you have alerted the snake, I think Hu Yanniang really has no ability. Women are the same, they will only get in the way."
"What do you want to say?"
"I was working with Hong Xiao at that time. We were standing on the roof and saw ten men in black gathered there in the middle of the courtyard, waiting for someone to assign them a task. What specific task it was. Although the voice was very low, I and I Everyone in Hong Kong should be able to hear it.”
"That's why he came to assassinate me."
"Hehe... the young prince is really talented and smart."
"Don't flatter me, can you tell me why they wanted to assassinate me?"
"How do I know?" Da Xiwu frowned, with a hint of innocence on his cynical face, "The killer only performs tasks and never asks why."
"Then who wants to kill me?"
"I heard others call him Manager Cao."
"Cao Chen!"
Xiao Yu blurted out, but when he saw a hint of cunning flashing in Da Xiwu's erratic eyes, he regretted saying it.
"I really don't know why he wanted to kill you. Later, several killers left. I asked Hong Xiao to watch them..."
"After a long detour, it turns out that you already knew about my assassination. Why did you say you heard about it from my servant in the palace?"
Xiao Yu was already reminding himself that Da Xiwu was glib and not trustworthy at all.
Da Xiwu didn't care about the inconsistency in his words. He smiled and said: "Those words did come from the mouth of your servant. Young prince, I just want to remind you that your indulgence towards your servants will not do anything to you." It’s good, I’m not saying I don’t know.”
Xiao Yu no longer pursued every detail and continued to ask: "Then was your action successful?"
"There is almost no chance of winning. They are outnumbered and all valuable things have been evacuated. Hu Yanniang sent people to follow them. They are all masters of Qinggong. Some of the things were transported to the Zuo Wei Army's military camp outside Caishiji. , some were sent directly to Stone City, and some went to Taicheng... Those barbarians may still stay there for the time being."
"Those are old, weak, women and children, they have little value to them."
Da Xiwu nodded in agreement: "It is indeed of little value, but I heard from the guard that it will be completely dealt with in one or two days without leaving the house..."
"They're going to kill everyone!"
"It seems that's the case." Da Xiwu said with a hint of helplessness in his tone.
Xiao Yu thought of She Quli, the elder, and the sad elegy they sang together that night, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"You didn't save anyone last night?"
"How to save? Chunxiang Huafang only has a few dozen people, but last night it was the second time they were all mobilized. If we have to fight with no less than 200 people from all walks of life, it will only be an egg against a rock."
"What did you say? Those guards are charlatans?"
"How could such ferocious and ruthless characters be just a group of housekeepers? Hu Yanniang has some experience in the world. He knows a few of them. They are all villains who are full of evil in the world. The person who controls them must not be like Manager Cao. Little guy."
"Then you let those people of your Northern Dynasty die miserably inside. Did you kill anyone last night?"
"Not really. Those people were busy moving last night. I stayed there until midnight... I should say that I was soaked in the rain until midnight. All those things were pulled by horse-drawn carriages, and there was only one thing left there. There are about two hundred people from the Jianghu community serving as guards. They are probably tired, so they have not taken action against the imprisoned people for the time being. I won’t know tonight..."
"There are only over two hundred of them, you should have a chance."
Da Xiwu frowned: "There are not enough manpower. If they all come out, then all the spies our Wei Dynasty has placed in Southern Qi will be exposed."
Xiao Yu didn't care about the spies of the Northern Wei Dynasty. What he cared about was that the unarmed women, children and the elderly were about to be killed by a group of ruthless thugs who were as hungry as wolves.
"How many of you are there?"
Da Xiwu glanced at Xiao Yu, and a sneer appeared on his lips: "Fifty people."
"Da Xiwu, if you want to rescue people, how many people do you need?"
"One hundred people is enough, but I need enough sampans to wait on the banks of the Chaogou River, ready to pick up the rescued people at any time."
"I'll find a way." Xiao Yu replied.
Da Xiwu smiled, cupped his hands and said: "The young prince is indeed very righteous, I admire you. The sampan and the boatman do not need to work for the young prince. All he needs to do is find thirty more good men. Then I will have a way to take care of them." People rescued me and brought me back to the Northern Dynasty."
Xiao Yu looked at the sky: "When will we act?"
"The sooner the better. During the day, those scum are drunk and dreaming, and at night they are sharpening their knives before killing people. Let's take action tonight after dark and curfew."
Xiao Yu looked at Da Xiwu. His handsome face still had that unconventional and slutty expression, but his eyes were very sincere.
Xiao Yu didn't know whether he should believe Da Xiwu, but hundreds of lives were inside, and even if there was a bottomless pit ahead, Xiao Yu wanted to dig into it.
Da Xiwu suddenly smiled: "You don't need the young prince to personally experience it. All you have to do is find thirty reliable experts for me. I wonder if the mansion can support the dead?"
"I never care for people. If you go there as an ordinary housekeeper, you will die directly. If you accompany me to Chunhefang in the afternoon, they are the only ones I can trust."
Da Xiwu's eyes were sinister: "Those anti-people of Wei Dynasty?"
Xiao Yu immediately retorted: "They are my subjects of Daqi!"
"Hmph, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you sacrifice these traitors. I'll wait for you at Yuelai Restaurant tonight."
"Yelai Restaurant?"
"You had dinner there around noon yesterday."
Xiao Yu suddenly wanted to go to that tavern.
"Did you drive that?"
"no."
"Are you familiar with the store?"
"No, the young prince doesn't need to ask any more questions. He will know when he comes."
After that, Da Xiwu jumped on the desk, jumped out of the window, and walked through the green eaves of Jiangxia Palace.
"Yelai Restaurant..." Xiao Yu murmured.
