The white fox is a divine horse. Although Lu Chen himself is very uncertain about guessing that the white fox is the descendant of "Bai Yi" among the "Eight Horses of King Mu", the speed of the white fox is not weaker than those famous horses all over the world. Therefore, just as the soldiers guarding the gate were stunned, Lu Chen had already rushed in front of these soldiers.
"I am the Duke of Chang'an County. I have to enter the city on urgent matters!" Lu Chen said, and directly showed the token representing his identity on his waist to the captain of the guarding soldiers.
The corps commander used the light of the torch nearby to identify it and confirmed that it was the token of Chang'an County Lord. Only then did the other soldiers cancel their alert.
In fact, when Lu Chen came to the corps commander, the corps commander had already recognized Lu Chen. When Lu Chen followed Li Xiuning into the city, it was this corps commander who was responsible for maintaining order at the city gate, so he had met Lu Chen. of.
Even later, when Lin Lang summoned Lu Chen to the palace according to Li Yuan's order, this corps commander was also the one responsible for guarding the city gate.
"Mr. Lu, you can really choose the time to enter the city!" The corps leader looked at Lu Chen and said with a wry smile.
"Thank you, everyone!" Lu Chen bowed his hands directly to the corps leader and other soldiers, "I am indeed in an emergency. If the closing time is delayed because of my entry into the city, if your superiors blame you, directly Just blame it on me! I will never let you get involved in any way!" Lu Chen looked at the corps commander and these soldiers and said apologetically.
"Young Master, what are you talking about? I just let you enter the city, but the closing was delayed for a while. I believe the superiors will not blame you!" Seeing Lu Chen being so polite, the corps commander also said boldly.
"I still have something urgent to do! I won't delay here! After today, I will set up a table of wine in Changyuan Building to invite all of you!" Lu Chen once again raised his hand to the corps leader, then shook the horse's reins and rode directly With their own troops, they rushed into Chang'an City in a swarm.
"Your Excellency, you are too polite!" Looking at Lu Chen's back as he led the team as he galloped away, a soldier on the side approached the corps leader and said.
"Yes!" After hearing the words of his subordinates, the Wu Chief murmured in response, "I don't know what makes this gentleman so anxious! Moreover, Mr. Lu's face is not very pretty! Hey! This kind of thing, We little soldiers should stop interfering! Close the door quickly! Otherwise, the higher-ups will blame you. Don’t blame me for making you take the blame!" After the Wu Commander muttered a few words, he directly began to urge other soldiers to close the Chang'an city gate.
"You said you locked two people in the firewood shed?" Zheng Shanguo, who was sitting in the side hall and drinking tea, looked at Zheng Jin who reported to him in surprise. In the afternoon, because he had something to do, he had not been there until a quarter of an hour ago. After returning home, as soon as I sat down and took a sip of hot tea to warm myself up, I heard my housekeeper reporting such exciting news to me.
"Yes! Those two people were extremely arrogant! How dare they shout loudly at the door of our Shangshu Mansion!" Thinking of the domineering looks of Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo, Zheng Jin became extremely angry, so he directly started to complain to Zheng Shanguo.
"Who dares to shout in front of my palace?!" As soon as Zheng Jin said that the two people were shouting in front of his palace, Zheng Shanguo guessed that there must be many people watching at that time, so Zheng Shanguo was also very angry. Xiaoji said.
"Those two people have never revealed their names so far, but I guess whose clothes they belong to, they have never said who they are from!" Zheng Jin saw that Zheng Shanguo was angry, so he became even more angry. He continued to complain angrily.
"Those two people don't even know whose servants they are?" Hearing Zheng Jin's continued report, Zheng Shanguo suppressed his anger and looked at Zheng Jin suspiciously.
"Yes! No matter how I asked, those two people didn't say anything. They just said that their adults can't even offend adults!" Zheng Jin said with disdain, "My lord, this is scolding our Zheng family! Our Zheng family It has been passed down for thousands of years, when did anyone say that!" Zheng Jin put on an unwilling expression, and even said with some pain.
"Wait!" Zheng Shanguo interrupted Zheng Jin directly. Originally, Zheng Jin wanted to make Zheng Shanguo angry again, but Zheng Shanguo interrupted him directly.
"What do those two people look like?" Zheng Shanguo trembled in his heart after hearing Zheng Jin's words. Zheng Shanguo was really afraid that what he thought of was true. If that was the case, he, the housekeeper, would lock them up. Fell into a trap.
"Well..." Although Zheng Jin didn't know why his master suddenly asked about the appearance of the two people, and his expression was so solemn and serious, and even seemed to be a little worried, it was obvious that the script Zheng Jin was thinking about was different. But he still tried hard to recall the looks of Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo, and then described them to Zheng Shanguo.
"It's broken!" As soon as Zheng Shanguo heard Zheng Jin's description, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if he had turned upside down, and cursed in his heart: "Lu Chen, you bastard! You actually set a trap for me! You even set a trap for me! And they specifically choose when I’m not at home!”
Zheng Shanguo has such hatred in his heart! But now it's a done deal. Lu Chen hasn't even come to the door yet, but he's sending gifts out of the Shangshu Mansion from his subordinates. Then how will he be able to stand in the court in the future? Then it can be said that the face of his Zheng family was immediately trampled to the ground by Lu Chen. How can he have the face to be known as one of the "Five Surnames and Seven Hopes" in the future?
Just ask the Zheng family to pack up their property and leave Datang! If he really did this, then his Zheng family would be the laughing stock of the whole world.
"Take me to see those two people in person!" Although Zheng Shanguo guessed from Zheng Jin's description that these two people were Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo, the commanders of the Beiwei Guard under Lu Chen, Zheng Shanguo still held on to a glimmer of hope. The people I saw in the woodshed were just two people similar to these two people, not these two people.
Zheng Jin led the way, and Zheng Shanguo followed, leading a few big and round servants to the woodshed with lanterns.
When he opened the firewood room door, he saw Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo, one on the left and one on the right, leaning on the pile of firewood and sleeping soundly. Obviously, they did not take being locked up as a thing. The two of them slept soundly. Snoring comes and goes, that's called a fragrance.
When Zheng Shanguo saw the appearance of the two of them, his heart froze. Damn it, they were really Lu Chen's two men.
As for Zheng Jin on the side, when he saw the appearance of the two of them, his back teeth were itching with hatred. These two people obviously didn't take their Shangshu Mansion seriously. They were both locked up. Still sleeping so soundly.
"Go! Get these two up!" Zheng Jin directly ordered the servants who followed him, saying in a hateful voice.
Several servants didn't hesitate. They went over and started pushing the two of them. While pushing, they shouted: "Wake up! Wake up! Stop sleeping!"
"Ah?" After being pushed a few times, the two of them opened their eyes, while Du Junchuo rubbed his eyes, looked at the servants in front of him doubtfully, and then asked: "Is dinner ready? "
Du Junchuo's casual description and bleary-eyed question with a sleepy voice almost made Zheng Shanguo and Zheng Jin fall apart. Zheng Shanguo was helpless, while Zheng Jin was angry.
At this time, Zheng Shanguo only had one thought in his mind: "This Lu Chen is not a normal person, and none of his subordinates are normal!"
How can any normal person, who is locked up without knowing whether his life or death is at stake, can still sleep peacefully and ask questions about food?
"You two came to cause trouble on the order of Duke Lu, right?" Zheng Shanguo looked at Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo with an unkind expression and asked.
"Ah?" After hearing Zheng Shanguo's question, the two of them came to their senses completely, and then looked at Zheng Shanguo. Naturally, Zheng Shanguo and the two of them had met before, so the two stood up and saluted Zheng Shanguo: "I have met Lord Shangshu! "
"We brothers just came here to collect debts on the order of my father-in-law. We never expected to be imprisoned here by your housekeeper! We two brothers will have to talk to my father-in-law carefully about this matter later, so that my family can It is up to you to seek justice for the two of us!" Su Dingfang looked at Zheng Shanguo and replied in a neither humble nor overbearing manner without mentioning a word about what the two of them did in front of the Zheng Mansion.
"Hmph!" Hearing Su Dingfang's words, Zheng Shanguo snorted coldly, "Don't think that I don't know what you did in front of my house! Although I am just a minister, I am not someone from the Zheng family who wants to come. Come and leave wherever you want!" Zheng Shanguo looked at Su Dingfang and the two of them and said coldly, "If Mr. Lu doesn't come, then don't even think about leaving! Keep locking them up!" After Zheng Shanguo finished speaking, he directly With a flick of his sleeves, he turned and left the woodshed.
"Yes!" Zheng Jin replied with a secretive look on his face, and then ordered Zheng Jin to continue to lock up Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo. Su Dingfang and Du Junchuo did not resist. With their strength, it couldn't be easier to rush out. , but that would only make what Lu Chen had to do more troublesome, so the two of them cooperated and continued to sit down against the pile of firewood.
Suddenly, Du Junchuo seemed to have thought of something. He stood up and rushed to the door of the woodshed. He shouted through the crack of the woodshed door: "You can keep it closed! Are you in charge of the food? If we both starve to death, , you can’t bear this responsibility!”
Zheng Shanguo, who was walking away quickly, staggered when he heard Du Junchuo's shout, then turned around and said bitterly: "In charge of the food! Zheng Jin, give them food!" After saying that, he hurriedly didn't look back. Leave.
After entering Chang'an City, Lu Chen directly rode his horse and led the team straight to the Zheng Mansion. The sound of the hoofbeats of this large group of cavalry directly sounded on the streets of Chang'an.
As for the soldiers on the left and right who were responsible for public security, when they saw Lu Chen leading the team on horseback, they acted as if they hadn't seen them. They even deliberately went into the alley next to the street and patrolled on the opposite street. , just to avoid Lu Chen's team, and when they entered the alley like this, several patrol teams even ran to Yitiao Street. On the street, at the end of the street, and in the middle of the street, several patrol teams had wry smiles on their faces. Looking at each other.
