Listening to politics behind a curtain?Kill the Queen Mother at the beginning!

Chapter 23 The confrontation between the two armies
ugly time,
Mud Figure Alley,
"There was such a big movement just now,"

"How can it be gone after a while?"

at the alley,
Under an oilcloth shed supported by bamboo outside a tea stand, a man wearing a third-rank crimson official robe was walking back and forth with a disturbed expression, and poking his head out from time to time to look back and forth in the direction of Luo Mansion and Changning Street. I can't stop muttering to myself.

"Lord Luo, you have already been murdered by those thieves, have you?"

Wang Ruling was inexplicably flustered thinking of coming here, and the expression on his face was even more tangled. He just wanted to leave the alley and approach Luo's mansion to find out, but he unconsciously pulled back.

According to his three-legged cat's kung fu, he can kill chickens and dogs with ease. If he really ran into those dead men who regarded death as home, he might have lost his life in vain.

"No, I can't wait any longer!"

After another cup of tea, there was still no sound of fighting in the direction of Luo Mansion, only the sound of rain falling in the nearby long streets, but the sound of ticking rain was terrifyingly quiet in Wang Ruling's heart.

"No matter what, you have to go and see!"

Wang Ruling waited restlessly, walked to the edge of the oilcloth shed, clenched her fist with her left hand and slammed the palm of her right hand, gritted her teeth, stepped into the rain and rushed head-on in the direction of Luo's mansion.

"Who is that person?"

"Lord Luo!"

Wang Ruling just walked a few steps,
Then he saw a figure coming from the alley.

"It's Master Luo!"

Wang Ruling rubbed her eyes, and stared blankly at the familiar figure walking out of the rain curtain. After confirming her identity, she hurriedly took off the top band on her head, scratched her hair, and scooped up a few handfuls of sewage from the ground to pour over her head. Then he took a step and ran towards the opposite side.

"Master Luo, I see that you are fine,"

"The next official will feel at ease!"

Wang Ruling knelt down in front of Luo Porridge and wept with joy.

"Wang Tongzhi, you don't obey orders at home,"

"Run here well, why?"

Luo Porridge stared at the unkempt figure kneeling on the ground and was also startled. In his plan for tonight, all the old people in Jinyiwei were excluded. It stands to reason that Wang Ruling was no exception after the matter of the Feng residence was over. You should rest at home.

"Lord Luo, you don't know something!"

"Xiaguan has been working in Jinyiwei for more than [-] years. He knows the vicious nature of those thieves. After returning home tonight, he can't sleep or eat well. Your lord's order!"

"But as soon as I arrived at the guard, I saw a group of people standing in the dark on the school grounds. Commander Ding said that he was ordered by his lord to have an errand and he couldn't tell, so he took the people away."

"Looking at the empty guardhouse, Xiaguan was worried about the safety of your lord. He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so he decided to visit Lord Luo's mansion on his own initiative. He didn't dare to stop for a moment even in the heavy rain. Thinking that I happened to bump into you, my lord, on the road..."

Wang Ruling snotted and cried.

"Oh?"

Looking at the scene in front of him complaining heartfeltly, Luo Porridge was inexplicably familiar.

"Did Tongzhi Wang hear anything else in the city on the way here?"

Luo Porridge leaned over to look at the spotless lining under Wang Ruling's stained official uniform and opened his mouth, but he still didn't say anything, bent down to help Wang Ruling with his own hands and asked.

"I only remember that when I went to the guardhouse earlier, I saw General Pei leading people towards the direction of Feng's mansion. I guess it was because the fire was too big there, and I took people to investigate. The subordinate came in such a hurry that nothing happened. Ask more."

"Other than that, there's nothing else going on."

Wang Ruling recalled.

"Pei Xingwu also went to Feng's residence?"

Luo Porridge frowned subconsciously when he recalled the armored figure outside the main hall. After that incident, he also checked his heels. Different, Xijiang is not far from Beijing, and it can even be said that it is under the nose of the imperial court.

There is no such thing as a collusion between the officials of the frontier and the officials of the court to support the self-respect of the bandits. In addition, there are some small countries in the west. Although they are still fighting endlessly, the soldiers there have always been invincible and invincible.

Pei Xingwu is also a third-rank pure martial artist who was killed from the bottom. He was valued by the emperor and was secretly incorporated into the capital during the rotation. Now he is responsible for the safety of the capital. Can't stand the pressure.

"Since he got involved too,"

"Then the official will also prepare a gift for him!"

After thinking for a moment, Luo Porridge suddenly loosened his brows and muttered to himself, what should come will come after all, and the huge Shangjing City is not enough to cover the sky with one hand.

"My lord, what happened over there?"

Wang Ruling was still at a loss. Jin Yiwei had intentionally or unintentionally pushed him away from things big and small in the past few days. The feeling of being marginalized was really disturbing.

Luo Porridge didn't answer, but turned around and pointed to the street where Luo's mansion was located behind him, hesitated for a while, and then said, "There is an old bald donkey's body in the middle of the long street outside my official house, you go and cut off his head." bring it on."

"The body of the bald donkey?"

Wang Ruling said in surprise.

"Ah."

Luo Porridge nodded.

"Your official, I will fulfill my mission!"

Wang Ruling was shaken by Luo Porridge's affirmative reply, and now she didn't care about continuing to complain, and rushed towards Luo's mansion with a knife in hand.

"Forget it, forget it... Since you want to hand in the certificate over and over again, I will give it to you today, and I hope that I will not be disappointed in the future." Luo Congee watched Wang Ruling swearing in the rain. The running figure murmured softly.

……

Changning Street,
Looking down from the sky, the long street is like a dragon with torches, crowded with people, already blocked by thousands of people and horses.

But in the middle of the long street, there is a small gap left by the main entrance of Xie Mansion, with a clear line of sight, and it turns out that two parties are confronting each other.

Take a closer look,
In the middle of the long street, the three or four hundred elite guards wearing bamboo hats, coir raincoats and wild goose feather knives were surrounded by thousands of red-clothed and black-armored imperial guards, unable to move.

"General Pei!"

"Are you going to stop Jin Yiwei from handling the case?"

Ding Xiu looked at the general on a tall horse in front of him and asked in a deep voice. He was surrounded by the imperial guards who had been waiting here early when he arrived here. Inexplicably a little impetuous, and he didn't care about the large number of people on the other side who asked questions.

"stop?"

"My general was ordered to lead the army to station in the city, control all the guards in Shangjing, suppress all small towns, and stabilize the situation in the city. If you really think that Jinyiwei is also under the control of my general, how can you stop it?"

Pei Xingwu sat on the horseback safely from the beginning to the end, without any intention of speaking, but a young general beside him retorted.

"The governor of this town was also ordered to come here to handle the case."

"Why are you in trouble?"

Ding Xiu frowned tightly.

"According to orders, what kind of orders did you take?"

"Handling a case, what kind of case are you handling?"

That man was playing with taste, he was a confidant general who accompanied his general in the western borders and went through many battles before he was promoted to the capital with Pei Xingwu.

Ding Xiu looked around without retreating half a step, and even the pawns who were eager to try did not continue to speak, but silently put the Yanling sword in his hand back to its sheath, and then took out a slender seedling sword, holding the handle tightly with both hands.

This knife has been with him for many years. If he really wants to kill someone, it is obviously more convenient than the Yanling knife made in Jinyiwei.

(End of this chapter)