The fourth lady was kidnapped, and someone immediately reported it to the palace. Wu Zetian was drinking and enjoying dancing with a group of high-ranking officials and nobles. When she heard the urgent report, she hurriedly waved her hand to stop the singing and dancing. Wu Zetian said: "What happened when the fourth lady was kidnapped? Do you have any good strategies to capture this evil thief as soon as possible?" No one responded for a while. Princess Changping said: "It is better to search the whole city and go door to door to see where he can hide."
Li Xian said: "Desperados like this cannot be dealt with in the normal way. I think it is better to ask Princess Changping and Marquis Wu Qiong to take charge of the pursuit. The emperor does not have to worry about these Jianghu matters. If necessary, I will Please help Senior Ximen and Lin Feiyun."
Wu Zetian thought for a while and felt that it made sense, so he said to Princess Changping: "Changping, are you willing to take on this responsibility?" At this time, it was no longer Princess Changping's turn to refuse, so she had to say: "I obey the order, and we must deal with it as soon as possible." The culprit was caught and brought to justice.”
After Wu Qiong returned home after receiving the order, he frowned. After Yanmei was injured, she has been recuperating at home. Seeing his father like this, he asked what happened, and Wu Qiong told him about the fourth lady. After Yanmei heard this, she said: "Father, you still have to be careful. If you encounter the other party, try not to confront them head-on. I'm afraid there will be a bloody storm in the capital, and the other party will not show mercy."
While the father and daughter were talking, Wu Yanxiu came in. After asking about Yanmei's injury, he said: "I didn't expect that the other party was so cruel and hurt the girl like this." Yanmei said: "If it weren't for your father-in-law, I wouldn't do it either. It will be like this. While you were talking, I went into the room." After that, he turned and left.
Wu Yanxiu asked: "The emperor has handed over the arrest to the Marquis. I wonder what the Marquis has planned?" Wu Qiong said: "I just discussed with Dan'er, but I don't have a clue yet. I wonder if you have any good suggestions." Wu Yanxiu said: " Let's lead troops to search house to house, and we can always find them." Wu Qiong said: "This is not good. First, the power is scattered, and second, the movement is too big. It is easy to alert the snake." Wu Qiong said: "First strengthen the city gate inspection, We will wait until there is more news. Please be prepared to respond at any time and take turns to patrol."
Feiyun and others rested for a day, and at night everyone sneaked outside the wall of Chang Qing's house. Feiyun and others first went to the roof of a nearby house to observe the situation in the courtyard, but found no special warning. He probably didn't expect Feiyun and the others to come to his door so quickly. Feiyun then said: "The three of us will go in, and a few of you will take care of us outside." Liangchen said, "The three of you are too small, so I'll go with Meimei. You can go down when the time comes, and we'll take care of you on the roof." Meimei said: "That's fine. There are four people outside and it's enough to handle it."
So the five people quietly entered the Chang Mansion and walked towards the central hall. As I got closer, I heard someone talking. Feiyun signaled Liangchen Meijing to fly up to the roof, and the three of them jumped onto the beam of the corridor, listening carefully to how many people were inside. Inside, Chang Qing and his wife were talking to their son, about the kidnapping of the fourth lady.
Seeing that there were not many nurses patrolling the courtyard, Ma Chu greeted Hong Yingxiang with a gesture and landed at the door together. Ma Chu will go in first. Shi Shouxin noticed someone coming in and asked, "Who dare to break into my house?" At this time, Wenxiang came in and stood next to Ma Chu, while Hongying was watching the yard outside at the door.
Ma Chu said: "Old man, my name is Ma Chu. I came here to settle accounts with you." When Shi Shouxin heard this, he was shocked. He immediately stood up with his son and said, "You and I have no grievances. Please settle with me." What's the account?" Ma Chu took out the arrow that shot Zhong Qiu Shuang and said, "This is your arrow, right? There are stone characters engraved on it, your special arrows, right?" Shi Shouxin said: "These days we None of my family members went there, you misunderstood. But you are an important criminal of the imperial court, and I sent them to my door just in time to capture you." After saying that, he started to call for someone.
Ma Chu couldn't help but become even more furious when he saw that he still wanted to catch him. A palm struck over, and a strong palm force immediately suppressed Shi Shouxin. Shi Shouxin felt it was difficult to breathe, but he could still open his mouth to call people. Shi Shouxin quickly used his right palm to greet Ma Chu with his left palm. As soon as the two palms touched, Shi Shouxin was knocked upside down and hit the screen behind him and fell to the ground. Mrs. Shi and her son were attacking from both sides. Wen Xiang swung out his sword and immediately severely wounded his son. Ma Chu also swung his sword and cut Mrs. Shi into two pieces. Then he stepped forward and stabbed Shi Shouxin in the chest with his sword, killing him instantly.
At this time, movement had been noticed outside, and shouts were everywhere.
Ma Chu and the others rushed out of the hall and saw many nursing staff standing outside the hospital, and shouts were heard in the distance. Ma Chu said to Hong Yingxiang: "Quick fight, quick escape, master." The two nodded. The three of them swung their swords and slashed at the guards. Suddenly, the three swords came out and chopped down a large number of people. The guards fled one after another. How powerful the martial arts of Ma Chu and the three guards were, how could these guards be able to withstand them. The three of them rushed out of the yard and flew onto the roof in a matter of seconds. Liangce Meimei threw tiles behind them, making those who tried to shoot arrows run away, leaving no time for shooting or chasing. After the five people gathered together, Hong Yingxiang took the lead, and the beautiful scenery followed. Ma Chuduan left the hospital one after another and left with Chuntao and the others. By the time Gao Huailiang and Gao Qiong arrived with their troops, Ma Chu and the others had already disappeared.
Gao Huailiang entered the Shi family hall and saw a few words written in blood on the wall: Blood debt must be paid with blood. Signed Ma Chu. It turned out that Ma Chu deliberately left his name to intimidate Zhao Kuangyin. Gao Huailiang saw that three members of the Shi family had been killed, and after arranging for people to restrain themselves, he quickly entered the palace to report to Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin was shocked when he heard about it. Shi Shouxin was the number one hero who supported him as emperor. Now that he was killed by Ma Chu, Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth with hatred.
In the morning of the next day, Zhao Kuangyin gathered the ministers of civil and military affairs, and Gao Huailiang kowtowed to plead guilty. Zhao Kuangyin said: "Prince Shi Shouxin is an important minister of the country, but he was innocently killed by thieves. Gao Huailiang has an unshirkable responsibility. Considering his past achievements, he is relieved of all official positions and goes home to think about his mistakes behind closed doors." Gao Huailiang thanked him and retired. Zhao Kuangyin said to the ministers again: "Now the traitor Ma Chu is becoming more and more indiscriminate and vicious. Do you have any advice?" The hall was silent and no one answered. Zhao Kuangyin said angrily: "Is it possible that the Song Dynasty court has nothing to do with such a charlatan?" Prime Minister Zhao Pu went out to report: "Long live Qi. For such a charlatan, sending out an army to search will not be of much use." Wei Chen suggested using two parallel plans at the same time." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Oh, tell me, which two methods are they?"
Zhao Pu said: "On the one hand, we ordered a special person to be responsible for patrolling the capital, especially at night. The number of thieves is not large, so they can only rely on the cover of night to operate. The second is to form a group of experts dedicated to tracking and detecting based on traces." Zhao Kuangyin thought for a while and asked "Do you have any other suggestions?" Hu Yanzan left the team and said, "Now this thief is killing wantonly, but he can't know the reason, so he can't guess where his next target will be. Therefore, the old minister suggested that a It is the palace that will strengthen the security force from now on, and the second is that the ministers' mansions will increase their guards." Zhao Guangyi knew in his heart, because he arranged for people to imitate Shi Shouxin's arrows, and ordered people to secretly kill Mei Mei and Qiu Shuang. Ma Chucai would be the first to kill Shi Shouxin, so that his conspiracy to frame and cut off Zhao Kuangyin's wings could be realized.
Zhao Guangyi also said: "According to the situation of Shi Shouxin's family yesterday, it seems that Prince Shi had a personal enmity with the thief and was killed. At present, it seems that only Prince Zheng En's family in the capital has enmity with the thief, so I estimate that the next possibility is It’s the Zheng family. Please invite Prince Zheng and Princess Tao
Pay special attention. "At that time, only Zheng En was in the court, and Zheng Yin was on the front line guarding against the Southern Tang Dynasty. Zheng En said: "This traitor came just in time. I will take it directly and hand it over to the emperor's second brother for punishment. "Zhao Kuangyin said: "Prince Zheng, please don't underestimate this thief. My wife has been defeated by him. It's better to follow King Jin's wishes and strengthen the guards. "Zhao Kuangyin paused and asked: "Which beloved prince is willing to lead troops to patrol the capital at night? "For a while, no one took the initiative to come forward. Zhao Guangyi said: "The capital is very large, and many people must be responsible for night patrols. Wei Chen suggested that one person should be responsible for the east, west, south and north respectively, and Dexiu and I would take turns guarding the palace. Huyan Pixian was in charge of the east of the city, Gao Qiong was in charge of the south, Zheng Yin was in charge of the west, and Dezhao was in charge of the north. I wonder what the emperor thinks? "Zhao Kuangyin said: "We will patrol the city and add one more person to supervise and provide support. Murong Yanzhao took charge of this matter. "Murong Yanzhao and four others quickly accepted the order.
Zhao Guangyi then asked: "Should Princess Qingxiang and Princess Tao choose people with strong martial arts skills and track their traces full-time?" Zhao Kuangyin said: "This matter will be discussed after the court has dismissed." So Zhao Kuangyin discussed it with the ministers again. The generals Cao Bin and Pan Renmei were preparing for the march into the Southern Tang Dynasty. In addition, Gao Huaide defended the Khitan, and Hu Yanzan defended the Northern Han Dynasty.
After the disbandment of the dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin brought Zhao Guangyi and Princess Qingxiang to discuss the matter of following Ma Chu full-time. Princess Qingxiang said: "Then let your ministers take the four of you like clouds, rain, water and dew." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Last time, you three masters and eight maids failed to win, so what can you do with the five of you?" Can you deal with them?" Zhao Guangyi said: "We can add Princess Tao and the third prince Delin. If we also recruit two exquisite and smart people to help, we will be strong." Princess Qingxiang said: "Uncle, Gao Dan's arm is broken now , we also need people to take care of us. Don’t transfer Linglong and Clever. I’ll just pick four more martial arts masters from the maids.” Zhao Kuangyin said: “That’s it, but you must ensure your own safety. Find them. Don't take action behind the nest, wait until the army arrives before taking action." Princess Qingxiang agreed and went to prepare herself.
After Ma Chu and others returned to Zhou's house, he asked Chuntao to go to Desheng Building to find out the news. Chuntao came back in the afternoon and told Ma Chu and others about Zhao Kuangyin's arrangements. Ma Chu asked Liangchen: "How do you think we should deal with it now?" Liangchen said: "We are in the dark, and they are in the light. Give them another blow tonight, which will make them tremble in fear and panic all day long. Aren't they afraid of death and strengthening the security of the mansion? ?, then we won’t go to the mansion to assassinate. We will divide our troops into two groups, and Chuntao will lead the group to harass the Kaifeng government office. Don’t attack at close range, but only launch hidden rockets from a distance, set the Kaifeng government office on fire, and then leave as quickly as possible. They must go to put out the fire, and the situation must be chaotic. We also killed Murong Yanzhao on the way to rescue the government office, and he must have been caught off guard. We will try our best to kill him with one strike. Do you think this is okay?"
Hongying said: "If only Chuntao and the four went to Kaifeng Mansion, wouldn't they be a little weak? Should Wenxiang go with them?" Liangchen said: "It was just a small move by us to disturb them. After setting the fire, we left immediately . Then go to their grain and grass warehouses to set fire. The same thing is from a distance. Don't fight them face to face. And we must concentrate our efforts to kill Murong Yanzhao in one fell swoop. This is the key." Chuntao said hurriedly: "Master, don't worry, isn't it? Set a fire? We won't fight them." Hongying was speechless after hearing Liangchen's explanation.
Chu said: "Okay, let's go then. I hope the princess will not get involved in the future. This time I will return the favor to you as the Ma family." The three of them then turned around and entered the woods, met up with Hongying and the others, and hurried back residential. After entering the house, Wenxiang took out the Feixiang Sword and saw that it was indeed a good sword. The sword was powerful, extremely sharp, and extremely hard. Even the sun and moon swords could not damage it. The hilt of the sword is engraved with the word "flying fragrance". Hongying then looked at it and said, "I heard that Zhao Kuangyin once made eight particularly good swords and gave them to several female generals. They were named Feihua, Feixiang, Feidan, Feihong, Feiyun, and Feixia. Feixiao, Feixue. It seems that this is the Feixiang Sword."
Ma Chu said: "This sword is indeed good. I just slashed it hard, but it didn't break or damage it. When I have the opportunity, I will snatch those swords over for you to use. This Feixiang Sword will belong to you. Wenxiang has used it, but unfortunately I don’t know where the other swords are?" Wenxiang said: "My Fangfei sword is not bad, so let’s give it to Liangchen!" Liangchen said: "This sword has even been engraved with your name. It is destined to be yours. Besides, the sword is very useful in your hand. In addition, Senior Brother also said that we should go and grab the others. We will all have them by then, so you just need to use them first."
Hongying said: "What Liangchen said is that you hold it first and use it. I think Chu'er used two swords today to use the Songtao sword technique. It is very powerful. You put the Fangfei sword around your waist and use it every day." Xiangjian, in critical moments, you can use the two swords together at any time." Seeing that her aunt had said this, Wenxiang stopped talking.
Liangchen said again: "I remember I heard Linglong say that Gao Dan's sword was also given by Zhao Kuangyin. I guess hers is the Feidan sword." Meimei said: "How do you know?" Liangchen said: "This is simple, what do you think? Qingxiang uses the Feixiang Sword, which ranks second, and the Feidan Sword ranks third. Gao Dan is known as one of the three female masters in the capital, so her sword is naturally the Feidan Sword. The Feihua Sword is probably the one in Tao Sanchun is in hand. For the rest, Meng De can only ask about it, or ask Princess Yanmei. I haven’t seen her for many days, and I miss her a little. Senior brother, how about we go and take a look now? she?"
In fact, Ma Chu was also concerned about Princess Yanmei. He and others killed her father, and now she was imprisoned because of it. Even though his life is not in danger, he still owes her something.
