Blood from Daming

Chapter 759 Assassin in the Palace
Xue Yun and Ni Hongshuang were busy with the plum blossoms, and fell asleep until the afternoon Shenshi, when there was a noise of people outside, Xue Yun and Ni Hongshuang got out of bed and looked through the window. Outside the yard was Miss Chen leading the female soldiers. When the servant arrived, Ni Hongshuang was terrified, and complained that Xue Yun had made her tired, and she fell down and slept until now, so she quickly wrapped up her robe and wanted to run away.

Xue Yun persuaded her to stay and meet Ms. Chen, but Ni Hongshuang refused. Xue Yun shook her head when she saw Ni Hongshuang, who was strong on the outside and weak on the inside, and said that sooner or later she would have to help her, but Ni Hongshuang must hide. Xue Yun let Ni Hongshuang out of the window and sent her to the wall behind the yard, and Ni Hongshuang fled away immediately.

Here, Xue Yun had just finished dealing with Ni Hongshuang's matter, and Ms. Chen had already appeared at the stairs on the second floor. Xue Yun took Ms. Chen into the living room. Ms. Chen felt that something was wrong in the room, so she just looked around and didn't ask. What about Xue Yun made Xue Yun very guilty.

In the following period of time, Xue Yun and his master Qi Tianyuan went to the Yuhua Pavilion in the Forbidden City at night to get gold. Since the place where the gold was stored was not far from the imperial palace, Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan went there three times a night, and at most four times a night. On December 22, the gold in Yuhua Pavilion was finally emptied.

During this period, Ms. Chen went back to Xue Zhuang once every three days, and took away a large amount of gold by the way. The rest of the day was the day when Xue Yun and Ni Hongshuang achieved good things. Taking a three-day break to accompany Xue Yun once, and playing three times is no longer a problem. Xue Yun can tell that Ni Hongshuang is getting better and better.

The 22nd was Xue Yun's last day in Xue's residence. After Ms. Chen left with the gold in the morning, Xue Yun went to see his grandfather and told him that after returning to Xuezhuang, he would return to Shanxi Datong from Jiangnan. On the 10th, "Xue Ji Silk Cloth" and "Sanjiang Huitong" transferred 10 taels of silver respectively. The 10 taels are Xue Rui's military expenditure for Xue Aoren and Xue Zong, and the [-] taels are Xue Yun's filial piety. For grandfather, these silvers do not include the dividends from the Xue family. Grandfather Xue Rui encouraged Xue Yun to explain it.

Grandfather Xue Rui was satisfied with the addition of silver. In mid-December, the new emperor Chongzhen gave the Xue family a generous gift. Although it was only worth ten thousand taels of silver, it was a signal that the new emperor favored the Xue family. When he was in power, the number of people chasing and attacking Xue's family suddenly decreased by half. After the court announced that Xue Yun led the Datong army to expedition to the Tuxietu Khan's tribe a few years ago, the voices of officials and scholars attacking Xue's family stopped abruptly.

From noon to afternoon, Xue Yun stayed with Ni Hongshuang all the time. Now Ni Hongshuang is very knowledgeable and clings to Xue Yun. Although it is a day to say goodbye, Xue Yun insists on doing it only three times, and he still needs to save his energy to enter the Forbidden City. Xue Yun Yun is really reluctant to part with Ni Hongshuang, the top imperial daughter, and has repeatedly stated that she will pierce this piece of paper when she returns to Xuezhuang, and let Ni Hongshuang share the bed with Ms. Chen, Wu Hui, Mei Xiang, and Yingchun. He hesitated and agreed.

After December 22nd, it will be the 23rd year of the twelfth lunar month. Xue Yun’s identity cannot be disclosed in the capital, so he has to hide in Xue Zhuangzi for the New Year. The first time I went to the treasure place in Taiye Pool, Xue Yun returned directly to Xue Zhuang after finishing the work, and would never come into the capital again.

Most of the treasures in the Taiye Pond in the Forbidden City are silver, and there are only a few gold nuggets, gold ingots and gold utensils. According to Xue Yun's intention, they don't want it. It is still decided to take out the gold and silver in the treasure cave, and at worst the gold in the treasure cave must be taken away.

Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan groped into the treasure cave along the gap between the rocky mountains of Taiye Pool. The two ignited a thousand-mile fire to check the gold and silver soaked in the water. There were four bags of gold in it, but the bag containing the gold was too big when they came out of the stone mountain cave, and it took them a while.

Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan entered the Treasure Cave of Stone Mountain for the third time, and they were able to find very limited gold. The two of them rummaged through their silver piles, and after working so hard until the middle of the night, they managed to collect a bag each. Qi Tianyuan really couldn't find any gold. About to fill the bag with some silver, at this moment, the sound of arresting assassins sounded in the palace.

Qi Tianyuan immediately gave up the idea of ​​taking the silver, and listened carefully with his ear against the stone mountain, his voice turned to the east, Qi Tianyuan said: "Young master, it's not against us."

Xue Yun has long heard that all the people in the palace are going to the Qianqing Palace. It seems that something happened to Emperor Chongzhen. Xue Yun said to his master Qi Tianyuan: "Master, everyone has gone to the Qianqing Palace. Let's look for opportunities leave."

Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan were so desperate for money, they took a bag of gold out of the treasure cave, and they tied the bag on their backs behind the rocky mountain. Although a hundred catties of gold is not light, it does not take up much space. The two of them had just escaped from the Taiye Pool when they were discovered by the eunuchs at Xiyuanmen, who immediately shouted to catch the assassin. In an instant, hundreds of eunuchs with sticks poured out from the bank of Taiye Pool. It was impossible for Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan to really kill them. The two of them smiled wryly, and ran towards the north like flying.

Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan thought that there were people in the south and west, and the east was catching assassins. It might be easier to escape by going north. Who knew that the heavens did not follow people's wishes, and the assassins from Qianqing Palace also fled to the north. In this way, Xue Yun, Qi Tianyuan and the three assassins were killed. surrounded by a big circle.

The imperial forest army besieging the three assassins immediately assigned dozens of imperial forest troops to arrest Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan. Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan couldn't help but flee into the back garden. Yun and Qi Tianyuan met. Although Xue Yun was unwilling to kill the imperial guards and eunuchs in the palace, he couldn't sit still. After a brief exchange with the three assassins, he led the three assassins in front and turned around from Xuanwu The weak part of the door rushed out of the palace.

The three assassins hacked and killed all the way in front, and Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan fled behind. Although many officers and soldiers gathered in the inner city of Beijing, they still watched the five of them flitting about and leaving Beijing through Deshengmen in the north. In the city, the three assassins saw Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan's bulging backs, thinking they were Jianghu knights entering the palace, and strongly invited Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan to go to the Dajin Kingdom to share the wealth.

It was only then that Xue Yun realized that the leader was the Liaodong hero Fan Shuping, the leader of the Jianlu camp. Restricted by being an official, he broke up with Liaodong hero Fan Shuping and his group without registration.

Seeing Xue Yun's annoyed expression, Qi Tianyuan asked, "Young Master, what's the matter with you?"

Xue Yun said: "I really want to kill Fan Shuping, a traitor."

Qi Tianyuan's national complex is not as high as Xue Yun's, and he doesn't quite understand what Xue Yun said, but Qi Tianyuan would not refute what the young master said, so he followed Xue Yun's words and said: "Young master, there are many chances to kill Fan Shuping, a traitorous dog!" Very much, if these Tartar traitors are to divert the attention of the officers and soldiers today, let them go for a while."

Xue Yun smiled and said: "Master, I'm just talking, let's go." Xue Yun and Qi Tianyuan made a big circle back to Xuezhuang from the north.

However, the entire Beijing city was in chaos. More than 100 officers and soldiers were killed in the inner city of Beijing, more than [-] people were injured, and not even a single shadow of the five assassins was caught. Ma Si and Shuntian Mansion panicked, how could they turn to the emperor like this, so they opened the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate, and a large number of Jinyiwei, Wucheng Bing Ma Si, and Shuntian Mansion chased them out, trying to get an assassin back Hand over to the emperor.

At this time, the palace was even more of a mess. Emperor Chongzhen was smashing things in the Qianqing Palace. Three assassins killed more than 80 people from the Imperial Forest Army, eunuchs, and maids in the palace, and injured as many as 300 people. Jin Yiwei is nothing but a fool, but now the Imperial Forest Army, the leader of Jin Yiwei, Luo Yangxing, and the two brothers of the Li family are all newly promoted by Emperor Chongzhen, so they can't be dismissed without sitting on the heat.

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that Emperor Jianlu Huang Taiji actually sent someone to the Daming Palace to write a letter, asking Dajin and Daming to be brothers, opening up trade in Liaodong, and the two sides stopped fighting. Emperor Chongzhen was not particularly angry with the content of the new emperor, but Huang Taiji was very angry at sending people into the palace. If you, Huang Taiji, want peace talks, you can follow the normal path. Doesn’t this show that you are very powerful, and you don’t have any sincerity for peace talks.

What angered Emperor Chongzhen the most was that if these three Jianlu masters were really assassins, it is unknown whether he would be alive tonight. It seems that the guards of the palace need to be strengthened. There was good news from the pool of liquid.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of Prince Xin's Mansion, reported: "Your Majesty, a treasure cave has been found in Taiyechi."

Emperor Chongzhen was surprised and asked: "What, the treasure cave, how many gold and silver jewels are there?"

Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge, said: "If you go back to the emperor, there are silver hidden under the water in the stone cave of Taiye Lake. It is estimated that the number is not less than one million. The exact number can only be known after salvage."

Emperor Chongzhen asked: "When is this treasure?"

The eunuch in charge Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, it should be the treasure left by Wei Zhongxian, otherwise how would those two treasure thieves know that there is treasure in Taiye Pond, and they went into the palace to steal the treasure."

When Emperor Chongzhen heard Wang Chengen say that it was Wei Zhongxian's treasure, he couldn't help but shudder. Didn't Wei Zhongxian be eaten raw by the people in Beizhili? According to the news, very few people know that there are treasures in the stone mountain of Taiye Lake, and even Wei Zhongxian alone knows. Could it be that the skeleton does not belong to Wei Zhongxian?

(End of this chapter)