A knife in love

Chapter 115

Xu Yingyang remained silent, with a look of shame on his face.

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "I really underestimated Lord Li. Unexpectedly, a martial artist is also a man of eloquence."

Li Qiufeng said: "Zhao Zhen, I don't want to engage in these verbal disputes with you. Li doesn't want to participate in your power struggles. It's just that if you want to be a traitor and betray the Ming Dynasty, that's absolutely impossible."

Zhao Zhen was not angry either, and still smiled and said: "Master Li, I have already said all the good things. Since you have gone all the way to the dark, we don't need to say more. It's just that if you want to stop the traffic with your arms, you will do things beyond your capabilities. , I'm afraid you will regret it later."

Li Qiufeng sneered and said: "Then Li will stand in the way, let's see what you can do to Li?"

At this time Zhuang Hengyun said from the side: "Brother Li, please think again. Mr. Zhao is benevolent to Brother Li, and thinks of Brother Li in everything. Don't disappoint Mr. Zhao's kindness."

Li Qiufeng said: "Zhuang Hengyun, it turns out that you were working for Zhao Zhen when you spoke out yesterday?"

Zhuang Hengyun said: "It's not about working hard, it's just that Zhuang and Mr. Zhao have the same goals, so he agreed to work for him. Since Jiajing ascended the throne, Dongchang and Jinyiwei were abolished. When the first emperor was in power, Dongchang was everywhere. Powerful, working for the court, offended many local officials and rich people. After Emperor Jiajing dismissed the Dongchang, those local officials and rich landowners took the opportunity to retaliate and revealed our identities. Many people were beaten by the rioters. Death, even the babies in their infancy? Those who are domineering and extorting in the local area are indeed guilty, and they can be punished by the law of the country. It is just some people who really work for the court, but what is the crime? Brother Li Since the new emperor ascended the throne and Lu Bing came to power, Jin Yiwei has lost all his prestige and has been suppressed to death by the cabinet. With Brother Li's talent in martial arts, are you willing to be suppressed by these civil officials?"

Li Qiufeng said: "Party disputes in the court have nothing to do with us. I advise Brother Zhuang, don't get caught up in it."

Zhuang Hengyun said: "Since we are working for the court, we are already trapped in it. Who can escape from those people outside the door? If they don't work for Master Zhao today, none of them can walk out of this underground ghost alive You and I are lucky enough to have a choice, but they don't even have this chance. Either they die here, or they die on the battlefield. As Lord Zhao said, they are not even as good as chess pieces."

At this moment, the stone door suddenly opened, and there was an ear-splitting noise from outside the stone room.A man in Tsing Yi ran in with blood all over his face and said, "My lord, the big thing is not good, those scumbags are rebelling outside!"

Zhao Zhen's face changed drastically, and he shouted loudly: "Idiot! Close the stone gate!"

At this moment, another five or six men in Tsing Yi fled staggeringly in from outside the door, each of them was wounded and in a state of distress.Hearing Zhao Zhen's order, the man in Tsing Yi hurried to the stone gate, pressed the switch, and the stone gate slowly closed.At this time, there were two men in green clothes struggling outside the door, trying to escape into the stone room. Seeing that the stone door was closing, they put their hands into the stone door in desperation, but were caught by the hand of the stone doorman, and immediately let out a miserable scream.

The stone gate creaked, and after a while, two hands were crushed into blood.The stone gate and the wall are integrated into one, without even the slightest gap.

At this time, Zhao Zhen no longer had the calm air that he had just acted as if nothing had happened. He walked up to the men in Tsing Yi angrily, and shouted sharply: "What happened outside? How could those idiots rebel?!"

A man in Tsing Yi tremblingly said: "My lord, there are ghosts outside..."

"Nonsense!" Zhao Zhen waved his hand and slapped the man in Tsing Yi.The man in Tsing Yi is not weak in martial arts, but he dared not resist at this moment, covering his face and said: "My lord, it is not a villain's nonsense, there are indeed ghosts outside!"

Zhao Zhen waved his fists and said: "Are you lost and crazy? If you dare to tell me such nonsense, believe it or not, you will be executed all over the house!"

The faces of those men in Tsing Yi changed drastically, and they all knelt down on the ground. A man in Tsing Yi said in a trembling voice: "My lord, spare me, the villain dare not lie to my lord!"

Zhao Zhen blushed, turned around on the ground a few times, and thought to himself: "These people have not followed me for a day or two, and they are quite shrewd in doing things, but they dare not lie to me. It's really weird. Emperor Zhengde liked to have fun by nature, but after he died, he might come out to make trouble..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Get up. I was also impatient just now, and I lost my composure, so don't worry about it. Brothers, you will follow me for a long time. Do you still know?"

Those people in Tsing Yi stood up hesitantly, and stood with their hands down. After hearing what Zhao Zhen had said, which one dared to refute, just kept nodding their heads in agreement.

Zhao Zhen said to the man in Tsing Yi who escaped first: "What happened outside?"

At this time, the man in Tsing Yi calmed down a little, and said: "I want to teach you to know. There was nothing unusual outside, and the villain was arranging breakfast for these people from the rivers and lakes. I don't know what happened, but suddenly appeared on the stone wall on the top of the cave." There was a big white light, and then, then..."

When he said this, his face was pale, and he didn't dare to say any more.Zhao Zhen hummed and said, "Is there anything you can't say?"

The man in Tsing Yi trembled, and continued: "I don't know if someone played tricks, and then we saw Master Zhao talking with these people..."

"What?!" Zhao Zhen was taken aback, and turned to the other people in Tsing Yi, "You saw it too?"

The men in Tsing Yi bowed and said, "Commander Liu is right, the villain has seen it too."

Zhao Zhen raised his head and murmured, "How is this possible?"

Commander Liu said: "The subordinates dare not lie to you. We all saw what happened to you and these people in this stone room, and you could even hear their voices clearly... Later, your lord said, that those people are pawns, Some people from the rivers and lakes shouted. Let's step forward to stop them. I don't know who made the move first, and then moved their weapons. We are small, and we suffer in the end. These people from the rivers and lakes chased them all the way to the stone chamber Outside……"

"Followed?" Zhao Zhen snorted, and continued, "They didn't know that I was in this stone chamber. It must be someone among you who was captured by them and brought them here."

The man in Tsing Yi trembled, and after a while he said in a trembling voice: "Your lord's expectation is correct, indeed some brothers were captured by them, and they led them to find this place..."

Zhao Zhen took a few steps in the stone room, turned his head and said to the man in Tsing Yi: "Clean up, we will leave this place in a while! You stay here, after we leave, we will blow up the secret passage and wipe out all these rebels." To die here is to be buried for the late emperor."

The man in Tsing Yi was taken aback, and said: "My lord, there are more than 100 of our brothers outside. In addition, there are no less than 200 cooks and servants brought from the capital. If the tunnel is bombed, the lives of these 2000 people will be destroyed." ..."

When he said this, his voice trembled, and he couldn't continue.Zhao Zhen said sadly: "You are really kind, why don't you stay here with them too!"

The man in Tsing Yi was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed like garlic, and begged: "The villain said something wrong, please don't blame the villain. The villain, the villain will arrange it, please sir Forgive me!"

Zhao Zhen sternly shouted: "Fool! If these people escape, how can we survive? Now we have reached a critical moment, either you die or I die. Besides, these people are all thieves, if you can't For my use, I must get rid of it as soon as possible, so as not to raise tigers and cause trouble!"

How could the man in Tsing Yi dare to speak out against it again, he kowtowed again and again in agreement.Zhao Zhendao: "Get up. Bring a few people and prepare quickly, and we will leave right away."

Li Qiufeng said: "Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao would be so flustered. It's just that at this point, are you still able to leave?"

Zhao Zhen took off his official hat and said while taking off his official uniform: "Master Li, if you don't know people, I will have no choice but to keep you here."

He took off his official uniform, and Xu Yingyang took a set of gray robes from the desk and put them on for him, looking like an ordinary businessman.Li Qiufeng smiled and said, "Lord Zhao is really thoughtful, he has already prepared the clothes to escape. It's just that I feel sorry for those brothers who are still working outside for you."

Zhao Zhen tied up his clothes and said with a sneer, "You can say whatever you like, and I will leave now. You can stay in this stone room and be buried for the late emperor."

Li Qiufeng said: "What if I don't let you go?"

Zhao Zhendao: "Then you have to ask him!"

At this moment, a person suddenly walked out from a corner of the stone room.There was no warning when this person came out, it was like walking out of a wall slowly.

(End of this chapter)