Donggong Zhangjiao

"It's gone, it's gone, come here quickly! It's gone!"

In the middle of the night, Pei Yao and Fang Yun were awakened by the shouts of their slaves.

"What's going on?!" Pei Yao sat up alertly.

Hong Zheng immediately came in from the outside and said through the screen, "I'm going back to the emperor, there was a flood in the house, which is right next to our courtyard. It seemed like someone poured kerosene on it, and it burned very fast and vigorously. We’re putting out the fire!”

"How could water and kerosene leak out of a good person? Someone must have deliberately assassinated him." Fang Yun also sat up.

Pei Yao took her hand and patted it, "Don't be afraid. I'll go take a look and ask the Royal Guards to guard this courtyard."

After saying this, Pei Yao quickly got off the bed, put on his coat and went out.

Hong Zheng naturally followed, and Qingrong and Yanwei also hurried in to wait for Fang Yun to get up.

With such a commotion today, I must not be able to sleep well. I don't know what will happen later. I have to dress neatly so as not to lose my etiquette in front of others.

While cleaning up, Fang Yun could already smell the thick smoke coming in from outside.

After getting dressed and going out to take a look, I saw that there was already a huge fire across a wall, and the fire was burning from the roof down. It was inconvenient for people to stand below and pour water, and it was very difficult to put out the fire for a while.

"Where is the Emperor?" Fang Yun turned to ask the young commander of the Royal Forest Army beside him.

"Returning to your Majesty, the Emperor has already led people to the yard next door. Someone sneaked into the mansion and deliberately set a fire. They are now being arrested throughout the mansion. To ensure safety, the Majesty will stay here and not go outside. The fire will not burn it for the time being. , Weichen will stay by your side."

The young commander raised his hands and said solemnly.

While he was talking, suddenly a black shadow flashed across the wall on the other side, and several unknown egg-sized balls were thrown in. Before everyone could react, they only heard a huge explosion, accompanied by the light of fire. There was black smoke, and several guards standing there suddenly screamed and wailed in pain.

"It's a thunderbolt, there's an assassin!" The young commander reacted quickly, drew his sword, and stood ready, "Madam, please go back to the house quickly, we are guarded by my ministers and others!"

The female family members had never seen these terrible firearms before, and they were extremely frightened. Qingrong and Yanwei didn't say anything, and quickly gathered Fang Yun back into the house, locking the door firmly.

The sound of fighting soon sounded outside, making people's hearts go numb.

"How could an assassin enter this courtyard?" Yan Wei said in fear.

Fang Yun frowned, his face gloomy, "I think these people set fire first to attract the attention of a large number of people, and then fled, forcing us to separate a team of people to search the whole courtyard. Now the house is in chaos. , a few capable people will naturally have the opportunity to come to our courtyard to assassinate us, so why do we think that the emperor is in the courtyard?"

If you don't disrupt the situation first, how can you fish in troubled waters? After all, Pei Yao and Fang Yun live in this courtyard, and they are the most closely guarded.

"Don't worry, Madam. There are a lot of guards outside. After all, the assassins who get in are only a few. We just need to hide in the house and everything will be fine." Qingrong comforted in a low voice.

Fang Yun composed his thoughts and then said, "Go and lock all the windows in the house. Don't let anyone take advantage of this."

The weather in Lanzhou is hot, and there are many windows in the house, all of which are large. It would be very easy for an assassin to jump in through the windows.

However, the action was still a step late. Just as Qingrong and Yanwei were about to take action, suddenly, the west window was violently knocked open from the outside. Immediately afterwards, a bearded man in night clothes jumped out with a machete. Come in.

Fang Yun was startled and hurriedly stepped back. Qingrong and Yanwei immediately protected her.

But how could the big man take these three weak women seriously? He spat on the ground with a grin, then walked toward the three of them with a knife.

"I have been doing this for so long, and I have never killed the empress in the palace. Today, I am the empress, you are so lucky to be my dead soul!"

"You're just an assassin, don't be so presumptuous!"

With quick eyes and quick hands, Yan Wei grabbed a vase at hand and threw it at the big man. Just as the big man was avoiding it, Yanwei grabbed another vase and continued to throw it at him wildly, hitting whatever was at hand.

Qingrong was not idle either, while protecting Fang Yun and retreating, she shouted for help.

Unfortunately, there was also a sound of killing outside, and no one responded for a while.

The three masters and servants retreated repeatedly. Fang Yun leaned his waist on the table. He reached out and fumbled randomly, and found the copper scissors for cutting lamp wicks placed on the table. He immediately grabbed it in his hand.

I thought I was really going to have a fight with this pirate, but luckily there was movement at the door in time.

Several guards arrived and immediately surrounded the bearded man.

After a fight, the man was indeed brave. Seven or eight guards took a lot of effort to capture him.

Fang Yun was really shocked. The last time it was so thrilling was the life-and-death struggle before Pei Yao ascended the throne.

"Your Majesty is frightened. It's because of the incompetence of the ministers. Now that all the thieves have been captured, Your Majesty is safe!" The little commander, with blood still stained on his face, handed over his hand to plead guilty.

Fang Yun nodded, "It doesn't matter, the thief is too cunning, I'm fine."

After another stick of incense, Pei Yao rushed back.

After carefully checking Fang Yun up and down and confirming that she was really not injured, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"This group of pirates is really cunning. They are so bold and want to assassinate me. It shows that they have become accustomed to tyranny over the years!"

"Has the emperor arrested someone?" Fang Yun asked with concern.

Pei Yao nodded, "I caught them all. It was the pirates who did it. They saw that I was going to cut off their way of survival, so they jumped over the wall in a hurry. Now all the survivors have been pulled in for interrogation."

"This is really true." Fang Yun sighed, "If you want to control the banditry in Lanzhou, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort."

It's really too rampant.

The next day, the results of the interrogation came out.

The pirates were really desperate, thinking of assassinating the emperor and causing widespread chaos. In a short time, no one would care about them anymore. They would die anyway, so they just gave it a try.

Among these pirates, some of them had participated in the construction of the mansion where Pei Yao and Fang Yun now stayed before becoming bandits. Therefore, the pirates with good skills would sneak in and carry out assassinations based on the information they found.

Even though they are just gangsters, there are many capable people among them, as well as strategists. They also have many weapons, including some things like thunderbolts.

It can be seen that the pirates have made a lot of money over the years.

However, after this incident, Pei Yao became more determined to suppress the bandits.

During the next few days in Lanzhou, Pei Yao convened his officials every day to discuss the suppression of bandits. By the time people from Kyoto arrived, the entire plan to suppress bandits had basically been finalized.

Now the relevant ministers know the emperor's determination to suppress the bandits, and no one dares to neglect it, so they go all out.

Fang Yun even felt that if Pei Yao hadn't been inconvenient to stay in Lanzhou for a long time, he might have wanted to go out in person to kill the enemy and suppress the bandits.

However, during the war in the north, he did not have a chariot to fight in person. Now he is just suppressing bandits, so he will definitely not go to the front line in person.

So half a month later, after all the matters were explained, Yujia set off back to Beijing. (End of chapter)