The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 264
A single torch illuminates the pond scenery.

In the dim light, Jiang Xuanhui looked indifferently at the struggling figure in the water, and his voice rang out.

"There are only assassins in the pond. Your Majesty must be taken away by them. Kill the assassin quickly."

The surrounding soldiers looked at each other, and at the moment of hesitation, Jiang Xuanhui took a bow from his confidant, and pointed the bow and arrow at Li Ye who was thrashing in the water.

The next moment, the thumb let go of the bowstring.

The arrow shot out with a 'shua', and the arrow pierced into the thumping body in the water, and the blood in the pool instantly turned red.

The bumpy and trembling field of vision gradually stabilized, and Li Ye in the water stopped struggling. In the fixed field of vision in his eyes, the figure holding the bow under the light of the torch was hanging down the bow and arrow, looking over with a smile.

"Chang'er. You should go far away. It's safe. Right."

At the last moment, the field of vision went dark, and the undulating water surface and lotus leaves all around were fading the color of life.

'Ha ha ha ha'

Jiang Xuanhui looked at the corpse floating in the bloody water, holding the bow in his hand, and an indescribable feeling spread throughout his body. He killed an emperor, and no one would believe it when he said it.

The moment he grinned twice, his smile froze suddenly.

No, where is the prince?The queen didn't have it, and Li Ye didn't have it here, that is, someone took the prince away. Thinking of this, Jiang Xuanhui couldn't calm down. If people outside knew that he killed Li Ye, even if the king of Liang protected him, his reputation would be bad. Impossible to stand in court.

"Search for Prince Chang everywhere! The thief must not be far away—"

The dense flames gathered and dispersed in the palace, and then rushed out of the palace according to the densely packed figures of soldiers, spreading to the streets and alleys of Huazhou.

In the middle of the night in the city, there were occasional sounds of babies crying and dogs barking. In the dead of night, a figure walked against the wall, quickly crossing an alley to the east gate with its baby in its arms.

Along the way, I knocked on the back doors of several houses, wanting to spend the night and wait until the city gate opened to leave the city the next day, but there was no response from several houses, and the sound of galloping horses and people's footsteps gradually appeared on the street.

The light of the fire spread over and passed through several water tanks piled up under the eaves of the nearby street. A group of soldiers glanced hurriedly and passed by. In an instant, Hu Qing took a look, and quickly crossed the street in front of him with his swaddled baby in his arms. Before he had time to get into the alley Suddenly, a voice came from the street behind.

"Stop, what are you holding in your arms?!"

It was a group of soldiers who searched. Seeing this, the old man ran away in a hurry, got into the alley, and pulled down the debris piled up on the side of the alley one by one to block the road.

Turning around the front alley and coming out, what caught my eye was the light of torches standing everywhere, dozens of knights holding up the torches, a young man with a gloomy face, wearing a white robe with purple flowers, standing next to a figure fiddling with firearms.

"Shang Shuling" the person turned sideways slightly, the old man recognized the person, his heart skipped a beat, he knew that the other person and Jiang Xuanhui were both from the King of Liang, and he knew that he couldn't run away, but he still approached with his baby in his arms, and knelt down with a plop on the ground.

".Shang Shuling, please spare the old man and this infant child."

"Li Ye's?"

Over there, Geng Qing pulled the string on the trigger, walked close to her while hanging by her side, pulled away the swaddling clothes, a chubby little face with eyes wide open, and the clear eyes blinked and approached. With a big face, he suddenly laughed, and stretched out his chubby hand to grab the beard around Geng Qing's mouth.

On the side, Jiuyu came over and reached out to put his hand on the old man's shoulder.

Geng Qing looked at the innocently smiling baby in the swaddle, teased it a few times, and then laughed too, suddenly raised his other hand, pressed Jiuyu's palm and pushed him back, straightened up and walked aside to continue fiddling with firearms.

He casually waved at the old man.

"Doctor Guanglu, take the child and leave, don't come back in the future."

Hearing this, Jiuyu was stunned, and even Hu Qing was stunned. Dachun, who was driving, hurried over, pulled him up, and pushed him, "Hurry up, go in from the alley behind, there is no one there. People pass by."

"Shang Shuling!"

Hu Qing hugged the child and pushed it to the entrance of the alley, bowed several times to the silhouette with his head bent over there, turned around and walked into the alley.Jiuyu withdrew his gaze and looked at the young man who was fiddling with firearms.

"You shouldn't let him go, especially a child, if in the future."

"What about the future? Killing an infant child, what kind of skill is it? I will only feel ashamed and inhuman." Geng Qing packed the gunpowder bag, sighed, and threw the firearm to Dachun, looking up. Starry night sky.

"When I saw that child just now, I thought of my daughter who was still in her infancy."

In the voice of the words, a group of people from the opposite street came rushing, and a group of people rushed to the alley where the old man came out just now, and the soldiers who wanted to find the trace sent a signal for reinforcements from the surrounding comrades.

Jiang Xuanhui was also among them. Seeing that the road was blocked, he squeezed away the people in front, and rushed to the convoy with a knife in hand. Seeing that it was Geng Qing and dozens of cavalrymen, he frowned.

"Shang Shuling saw an old man passing by with a child in his arms?"

"It's so late, and Geng can't even see a dog." Geng Qing bowed his hands to salute with a smile. Over there, Jiang Xuanhui returned the salute with a knife. A soldier behind him was not reconciled and said, "Private envoy, that old man came out from here." Yes, I see it."

"Shang Shuling, what do you say? This is Jiang's personal soldier, and he will never lie."

"did not see it."

"You must have seen it. Do you know who is in the old man's arms? If you let them go, how will you and I explain to King Liang!"

Geng Qing still had a smile on his face, he plucked his ears and approached Dachun, the chattering words were still coming, the smile on Geng Qing's face faded suddenly, he grabbed the firearm in Dachun's hand suddenly, turned around and pressed against it. on Jiang Xuanhui's face.

"Mother-in-law, are you bothering—"

The index finger pulled the trigger, the bowstring rebounded, and the fired pin hit the flint with a bang. Jiang Xuanhui, who was pointed at his face, was still in a daze. Zhang's face was filled with fine iron sand, he twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

"The privy envoy killed His Majesty arbitrarily, and the anger of heaven and man is unforgivable. The Minister ordered Geng Qing to punish him on behalf of the King of Liang!"

Geng Qing blew on the black smoke coming out of the six holes and said so, glanced at the astonished soldiers around, and threw the firearm back to Dachun, "It's all gone, King Liang, I will explain it myself, and the relocation of the capital will continue as usual!"

He waved his hand to dismiss the surrounding soldiers, one after another figure put away their weapons and slowly retreated, Geng Qing walked to the corpse on the ground, lifted the hem of his robe and squatted down.

"It seems that Geng won't be able to eat your banquet, right? You never thought about why you were asked to kill the emperor? Regicide, such a serious crime, how could Zhu Wen do it himself? When you arrive in Luoyang, you will die too, you The King Liang will kill you to clear your name, idiot."

"Did you say so?"

Geng Qing smiled at Jiuyu and the others. He didn't even understand why he was laughing. He waved his hands and summoned a few soldiers to take the body away. He also went to the palace to comfort Empress He. After all, her husband died.

As for the itinerary, it is of course unchanged.

As the night wore on, the emperor was murdered by Jiang Xuanhui. The next morning, a pot of fire exploded among the officials, and they burst into tears. The body was collected, put into the coffin, and taken to Luoyang for burial. In the chariot, follow the team and continue eastward.

White flags and yellow paper are flying all over the sky and sprinkled on the side of the road.

At the same time, Kuai Ma also passed the news to Bianzhou.

(End of this chapter)