Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 21 Longyou Veteran
In the western suburbs of Chang'an, there is a private property next to the Zao River.

The two brothers who are in charge of taking care of this place, named Jiang Mao and Jiang Hai, are both in their thirties, with scars all over their faces.

During the slack day, Jiang Mao came back from hunting a hare, threw it to the Turkic maidservant, cleaned it and roasted it on the fire, while the two brothers opened a altar of fine wine and sat in the hall to drink.

"This snowy day, do you think the general has arrived in Banzhou?"

After drinking two large bowls of wine in silence, Jiang Mao asked in a muffled voice.

"I don't know, I don't even know where Bozhou is." Jiang Hai said in a stern tone, "If the general hadn't stopped me at that time, I would have killed brother slave, and he would have gone to Bozhou."

"Ah."

Then they drank in silence again. The Turkic servant girl who was kneeling beside saw the rabbit meat roasted until it was golden, and picked up a dagger and began to divide the meat.

Suddenly, there was a hasty knock on the door outside.

The Turkic servant girl put down the rabbit meat in her hand, ran to open the door, and after a while, welcomed a young eunuch into the courtyard gate.

Jiang Mao stood in the hall and looked at it, muttering, "Why did you get a new one today?"

He took a bowl of wine and went forward, saying: "If you don't fasten the horse, you will run away in a while, come on, pour this bowl of wine first, to warm yourself up."

Without any explanation, the wine bowl was stuffed into the opponent's hand.

The little eunuch couldn't care less about these things, he hurriedly asked: "Did someone come? Du Liangdi was taken away?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Today, the traitor sent someone to interrogate us and take Du Liangdi away. Mr. Li asked me to see what happened..."

"not good!"

Jiang Mao reacted immediately, and shouted to Jiang Hai: "I'll hold them back, you take them away."

While speaking, the two brothers had strode out of the hall, rushed into the firewood room, overturned several bundles of firewood, revealing two long knives and two sets of bows and arrows inside.

Jiang Mao took the weapon and rushed to the gate of the courtyard to look out. A group of people and horses were rapidly advancing here in the wind and snow.

"The traitor's lackeys are here!"

With a shout, he quickly bolted the door, put the Mo Dao in the corner of the wall, brought a ladder, climbed up the ladder, and set his bow and arrow on the top of the wall.

Those treacherous lackeys were already very close, so he aimed at a knight rushing to the front without hesitation, and shot an arrow.

"Whoosh" an arrow hit the front door, and the knight fell in response to the string, and there were exclamations.

Jiang Mao sneered in his heart, compared to the Longyou Army, the Sixteen Guards in Beijing were nothing more than a show.

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"Shut up!"

When he saw that someone was shot to the ground in front of him, Yang Zhao quickly reined in and broke out in a cold sweat.

He couldn't believe that someone dared to shoot You Xiaowei so close to Chang'an City.

This is treason.

"Treason, murderer, murderer..."

Yang Zhao muttered in his mouth, but forgot to order for a while.

Fortunately, there was also a Youxiaowei Zhonglang general who came today, and he quickly made arrangements and ordered the soldiers to attack the mansion ahead.

"Come around, don't let the thief get away!"

A famous soldier rode up to catch up, and went around the yard to block other gates.

Suddenly, a soldier reported: "There is a carriage running away from the backyard!"

"You guys, catch up!"

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Xue Bai felt that the ferocity of the people in the courtyard was exactly the same as those who buried him alive, which shows that the prince is by no means completely powerless.

He pulled the reins a little clumsily, and followed a group of soldiers towards the back door.

A wagon had come out of the back door and was fleeing westward through the snow.

The car is too big, there is no car wall, only an umbrella cover to protect from the wind and snow, you can see that there are many women and children in the car, presumably the other party's family members are also among them.

"Second Sister!" Du Wulang shouted.

There was a figure in the carriage looking back, then stood up cautiously.

In the wind and snow, she could vaguely see her graceful figure, it was Du Jin.

The speed of the car was fast and the road was very bumpy. I saw Du Jin standing unsteadily. Two women tried to pull her, and they started fighting. Qu Shui could vaguely see Qu Shui helping her, and she fell several times in a row. Second-rate.

"Don't shoot the arrow! Stop the speed of the car!"

"Drive! Drive!"

The next moment, a right Xiaowei yelled, rushed out like a sharp arrow, and chased after the carriage diagonally.

"Where did the traitor escape?!"

The carriage turned quickly.

Xue Bai could see a thin figure behind the chariot, but there was a big man standing on the shaft of the chariot, shooting arrows at the Right Xiaowei who was chasing him.

But even with this deceleration, Du Jin and Qu Shui jumped off the carriage and landed in the snow.

Even Xue Bai was secretly startled by this jump, but he saw Du Jin lying motionless in the snow.

While the carriage was still galloping forward, the guards of You Xiao rode their horses and chased after them.

Xue Bace stepped forward immediately, and when he got closer, he saw her chest rising and falling, panting hard, while Qu Shui was humming and chirping to get up.

"Are you all right?" He got off his horse.

"I sprained my ankle." Du Jin propped up a little bit, frowned and said, "My arm also hurts."

Xue Bai stepped forward to help her, and said in a low voice, "We voted for Li Linfu and saved the Du family."

Du Jin let out a pained snort, leaned on him, quickly glanced around, with a thoughtful look in her eyes, and finally said in a low voice: "If Suo Douji wants me to testify against the prince, it's fine, but there are conditions."

"You said."

"Not ready yet."

Du Jin stroked her hair, looking a little annoyed.

She is no longer Prince Liangdi.

This change of identity is extremely important to her.

But she was able to understand the situation quickly instead of crying, which really made Xue Bai feel a lot easier.

"Second Sister, are you alright?" Du Wulang just caught up at this moment and wanted to help.

But Du Jin didn't need him to help her, she slapped his hand away and said, "Qu Shui is also hurt, you carry her."

"Oh."

Du Wulang scratched his head shyly before reaching out to help Qushui.

Du Jin glanced around and saw Jiao Nu, she whispered into Xue Bai's ear and asked, "Who is that woman?"

"Li Linfu sent me to 'protect' me."

"I hate her... I'll ride your horse and tell you what happened lately."

"Well, it's your idea to bury me and Qing Lan alive?"

"Bury you alive? I really don't know about this, trust me." Du Jin stepped on the stirrup, frowned again in pain, and said, "Help me up."

"In short, after Donggong did this, I have very few choices. I can only take refuge in Li Linfu temporarily. What do you think?"

As Xue Bai said, he held her waist with both hands. Unexpectedly, she looked plump, but her waist was quite slender.

He lifted her up and put her on the horse's back.

"What do I think? Do I still have a choice?" Du Jin laughed at herself, sat down on the saddle, moved her body back, stretched out her hand to pull Xue Bai, and said, "You sit in the front."

Xue Bai didn't shake her hand, and said: "I voted for Li Linfu, and I will ride with you again, will I be pushed down by you?"

"Suo Fighting Chicken will be unreliable sooner or later. But I know what you want to ask, let's put it this way, I have only one identity left, and I am the daughter of the Du family... Come up, you are not good at riding, sit in front."

Xue Bai just got on his horse and wanted to pull the reins, but a pair of white jade hands reached out from behind him and snatched the reins.

"Don't stand still, you can't see the way." Du Jin leaned forward and said, "I saw it from the beginning, you really want to climb up, don't you?"

"Yes."

Du Jin asked leisurely: "The concubine has no identity now, is there still value for you?"

"I came to take you home to repay the Du family's kindness."

Du Jin smiled and said, "Okay, let's continue."

Xue Bai roughly talked about his experience in the past four or five days, and finally asked, "How much do you know about those thugs?"

Du Jin listened earnestly, unknowingly leaned slightly on his back, and lazily said: "I don't understand, I've been living in the backyard, and I haven't even seen them."

Xue Bai felt that his back was quite soft, and he didn't know if she was doing it on purpose, so he glanced back.

"Don't move." Du Jin said, "You are not afraid of falling."

"No matter what, Li Linfu will inevitably ask for your testimony."

"Heh, Suo Douji managed to get a dead man from the prince's family. I'm afraid I'm going to be very happy." Du Jin said: "It seems that you are capable. He has been busy for a year and can't do it. How many days will you And it was done.”

"Good luck." Xue Bai said.

While talking, they had already rushed back to the vicinity of the courtyard.

I saw that You Xiaowei had knocked open the courtyard door, but also left four casualties outside the door, the dead were silent, the wounded were still howling, and the deep red blood soaked the snow beneath them.

There was still a fight at the gate, obviously the thugs were guarding the gate.

"Bold traitor, you are desperate, you are still bound?!" Yang Zhao shouted from a distance.

"Hahaha, adulterer and running dog, they are all trash!"

Xue Bai stretched out his hand to pull the rein, and said, "Go to the front and have a look."

"Ah."

Du Jin then rode her horse around and could see the courtyard gate from a distance.

Xue Bai looked around, and saw a big man holding a long-handled Mo Dao, standing in front of the door, knocking down a right guard, and roaring to the sky.

"A certain man served the Tang Dynasty for ten years and killed dozens of enemies. How can he be afraid of traitors like you?!"

It's a pity that this big man is not wearing armor, and there are many wounds on his body, so far he is already on the verge of dying.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Bai's eyes were fixed, and he saw that he raised the Mo Dao horizontally and wiped it on his neck.

"He's going to kill himself!"

At this moment, with a sound of "嗖", a sharp arrow shot out, hit the big man's wrist, and the long-handled Mo Dao fell to the ground.

Xue Bai turned his head to look, and saw the Youxiao guards who shot the arrows were stationed not too far away from him, so he cupped his fists and shouted: "Good arrow skills! I'm going to Xue Bai, dare to ask the name of the strong man?"

The other party was looking left and right, triumphant, turned his head when he heard the words, clasped his fists, and replied happily: "Hahaha, Hebei Tian Shengong!"

Xue Bai saw that Tian Shengong was very good at riding and archery, so he wrote down the name, and planned to make friends with him next time he went to You Xiaowei.

Just about to chat for a few more words, Du Jin pulled the reins and left, reminding in a low voice: "Make friends with martial arts everywhere, be careful that you end up like Liu Ji."

"Different."

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A few more roars sounded in the courtyard, although the thug was injured, his wrist was dripping with blood, but he was still struggling to the death, several people from the right Xiaowei rushed forward, and managed to restrain him with difficulty.

Yang Zhao finally dared to walk around the corpse on the ground, picked up the Mo Dao and bow on the ground and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Longyou Weapon!"

Afterwards, they found several servants who took care of Du Jin and a young eunuch from the courtyard.

So far, this case is not comparable to Liu Ji's case.

Raising Longyou veterans and killing sixteen guards without authorization is no different from conspiracy. Once convicted, with the temper of today's saints, it is not as simple as abolishing the crown prince.

……

Only Xue Bai had doubts in his eyes.

He always knew that Li Heng was accumulating strength in secret, but he never thought that he could get someone so easily.

But no matter what, he promised to give Li Linfu a result in five days, and now he got it in two days.As for how to interrogate, that is Li Linfu's business.

(End of this chapter)