Chapter 36 Shadows in the Sun
On the official road of Luocheng, Yunyang was sitting on his horse waiting. The Jiefan Guards rushed over from the Mengjin camp. It only took an hour. The white rabbit was holding the king's order flag. No one should dare to disobey the order.
Behind him, more than a dozen spies stood on horseback, silent.
These spies were dressed in black, like solid rocks in a river. People on the official road flowed like a river, and they would avoid them on both sides when they bumped into them.
The Secret Intelligence Department and the Criminal Division have such illustrious reputations that ordinary people do not dare to offend them.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, from far to near, as loud as thunder.
But they saw the white rabbit dressed in black leading the way, followed closely by five hundred Jiefan guards, raising dust all over the sky.
Jie Fanwei was wearing a raincoat, a bamboo hat on his head, a long knife across the saddle behind his waist, and a black cloth scarf tied between his mouth and nose, killing like a dragon.
"Okay, okay, the whole camp is here!" Yunyang chuckled and rode his horse to greet him. There was joy in his laughter that he was sure of victory.
When the two sides met, Yunyang's face turned dark.
He frowned and looked at Lin Chaoqing in the crowd: "Commander Lin, why are you here too?"
Lin Chaoqing said in a deep voice: "I am the Commander-in-Chief of the Criminal Division. You mobilized the Jiefanwei for no reason, so I will naturally come to inquire. I need to know, what do you do to mediate the Fanwei? Although Wang Ling's flags are easy to use, they cannot be used well.
, the consequences are also serious.”
Yunyang drove his horse to Lin Chaoqing. The two sides were only two feet apart and faced each other tit for tat: "This matter has been reported to the internal affairs minister. Wang Ling's flag is in hand, so there is no need to inform you and others. Moreover, I need to beware of any of you colluding with foreign enemies in case it is leaked.
You can't bear the news."
Lin Chaoqing looked around, his eyes under the bamboo hat were like knives, slicing through the spies: "What about the masked boy? Is this his decision?"
"What do you mean?" Yunyang frowned: "Why does our Secret Service need a little falcon to make decisions?"
Lin Chaoqing chuckled softly: "If you get into a big disaster this time, no one will help you turn the tide. Come on, let me see what you plan to do."
"Haha, Lin Chaoqing, you will be envious when Jiaotu and I have made great achievements this time!" Yunyang clamped his horse's belly and led five hundred horses straight to Beimang Mountain.
Along the way, Lin Chaoqing looked at the direction in which they were running, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became, until he vaguely saw the cemetery on the mountain in the distance, and couldn't help but ask: "You are going to the Liu family's ancestral grave?!"
Yun Yang laughed loudly: "Jiaotu and I found out that there was only an empty coffin in the mausoleum of Mr. Liu. A few days ago, the Liu family asked Your Majesty to grant Mr. Liu a posthumous title. Now he has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor! Now, everyone
No one is allowed to leave, otherwise it will be treated as a leak!"
Five hundred horses galloped up Beimang Mountain, but the more than one hundred tomb guards at the Liu family's ancestor's tomb blocked the way, with long wooden horses placed in front of the gate.
Someone shouted loudly at Yunyang: "This is the ancestral tomb of my Liu family. All the successive pavilion elders are buried here. There are also twelve royal memorial arches for loyalty and filial piety. How dare you trespass here?"
However, Yunyang ignored him at all and only shouted loudly: "Follow my horse to the Beiman Mountain, and your meritorious service will be accomplished right now! Anyone who stands in the way will be killed!"
He rode out first, and with one leap, even the wooden horse jumped over it.
One of the defenders of the Liu family jumped up and slashed with his sword in the air.
However, behind Yunyang, Lin Chaoqing took out his long sword from its sheath. He threw the scabbard casually and saw the scabbard flying like lightning, knocking down the warrior raised by the Liu family in the air.
The Jiefan guards rode over one after another, and the cavalry rushed back and forth, killing the Liu family until everyone fell on their backs.
This layer of defense is as easy to break through as a layer of paper in front of Jiefangwei.
In the blink of an eye, Yunyang had arrived in front of Mrs. Liu's mausoleum. He pointed at the stone door in front of him and said, "Remove the guards, break the tomb, open the coffin, and conduct an autopsy!"
However, at this moment, a familiar voice came from the distance: "Master Yunyang, do you know what the consequences will be if you do this?"
Yunyang looked around and saw Liu Mingming, still wearing sackcloth and mourning, slowly making his way out of the crowd.
Behind him were more than ten people who were watching him eagerly, waiting for an order to kill him.
Jiaotu whispered: "He is an official raised by the Liu family."
"No matter how powerful the officer is, no one person can break the military formation, unless those few come over!" Yunyang didn't care so much: "Liu Mingming, your old man is obviously not dead, I can take off this filial piety from you! Come on!
Man, break the tomb!”
Liu Mingming shouted angrily: "Who dares?!"
"It's not up to you!"
Jiefanwei are the elite of the inner court. They only know how to obey orders. It doesn't matter whether you are the general judge of Luo City or the general judge of Beijing.
The next moment, the Jiefan guards jumped off their horses and came in with their swords in hand. They completely scattered the Liu family and arrived in front of the mausoleum of Mr. Liu!
The White Rabbit snatched the secret agent's sword from beside him and said coldly: "Get out of the way!"
The team of Jiefanwei uniformly opened a passage for her to come out, allowing her to drag the knife forward to the tomb and chop it down with one blow!
There was a roar.
With one strike, the stone mausoleum collapsed in two, revealing the coffin inside.
Yunyang strode forward, stood in front of the coffin and sneered: "Liu Mingming, let me see how hard you can talk!"
After that, he struggled to open the coffin!
The world was silent, and all the people who were fighting stopped what they were doing, and looked over in confusion... The coffin was really opened!
Everyone says that after being placed in a coffin, you cannot see the sky or fall to the ground, otherwise your soul will wander between heaven and earth and will never be reincarnated!
But Mrs. Liu had been in charge of the cabinet for more than ten years, but after his death, the lid of his coffin was lifted!
Yunyang said: "Liu Mingming, what else do you have to say?"
The white rabbit on the side looked into the coffin and said in surprise: "What's going on?!"
Yunyang turned around and was stunned for a moment. He suddenly saw Mrs. Liu lying quietly in the coffin.
Liu Mingming suddenly burst into tears and fell to the ground: "Grandpa, my grandson is unfilial and allowed the eunuch to do this catastrophe! My grandson is unfilial and he deserves to die!"
Yunyang looked at Jiaotu blankly: "Didn't you mean..."
The White Rabbit was also stunned: "When I checked that day, there was indeed no one inside!"
Yunyang took a step back.
How could it be?
There should be no one in the coffin, and Mrs. Liu should be alive, so why did he appear in the coffin!
How could that happen?!
Liu Mingming looked at Lin Chaoqing with red eyes from crying, and said ferociously: "Lin Chaoqing, is this what your Chief of the Criminal Division does? Let the Secret Service persecute heroes!?"
Lin Chaoqing looked at Yunyang and Jiaotu with an ashen complexion: "Is this what you are going to do? Come here, take them two and take them to the capital to await their fate!"
Yunyang suddenly raised his hand: "Wait a minute!"
As he said that, he was about to touch Old Mrs. Liu's body, but before he could touch it, a man suddenly appeared from behind Liu Mingming and kicked him out: "You still want to disturb Old Mrs. Liu's peace, and you are seeking death!"
This person's strength is actually much stronger than what he showed before!
Seeing that Yunyang was suffering a loss, the white rabbit came to kill him with a knife.
Another person came up from behind Liu Mingming to meet him, and the two sides separated immediately in front of the coffin. This time, the rabbit actually flew out and fell heavily to the ground.
When the rabbit got up again, he raised his hand angrily and was about to cut his eyebrows and start killing.
However, I heard Yunyang shouting: "Bright rabbit, no! Don't expose your cultivation path!"
Jiaotu looked at Yunyang coldly: "You may not be able to defeat him, just kill him and hide his name."
"There are five hundred cavalry guards here. They can't be defeated." Yunyang shook his head and said dejectedly: "Even if you remain anonymous, there is no place for you. Let's go back to the capital and see the internal minister."
Lin Chaoqing got on his horse and said, "Take them two away!"
Liu Mingming gritted his teeth with red eyes and said, "Just leaving like this? I want these two people to be buried with my grandfather!"
Lin Chaoqing snorted coldly: "When will it be your turn to make the decision regarding the affairs of our Director of Ceremonies? The Internal Affairs Minister will give you justice, but if the Internal Affairs Minister does not speak, no one can touch them."
With that said, Lin Chaoqing escorted Yunyang and Jiaotu away.
Yunyang was on the mountain road of Beimang Mountain, staring blankly at Luo City: when they came, they were holding Wang Ling flags, and they were the twelve zodiac signs of the secret agent with great glory, but when they left, they were already prisoners.
The trouble this time has been so great, I'm afraid even the inside story can't be concealed.
Yunyang looked at Jie Fanwei beside him and said impatiently: "Don't keep holding on to me, I can't run away. Step aside and let us talk."
The guards who relieved the troubles glanced at him, and finally were frightened by the other party's evil name. They silently stepped back a few steps, and walked down the mountain surrounded by both sides.
Seeing this, Jiaotu approached Yunyang and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Did the Liu family get the news in advance and know that we will open the coffin and conduct an autopsy? But this old man Liu can't just die, can't I?"
I made a mistake that day...wait a minute, could it be that Chen Ji delivered the news to the Liu family?"
Yunyang suddenly frowned and subconsciously looked around to see if Chen Ji was there.
He always felt that the young apprentice was watching him from the shadows.
Yunyang knew that he would not die, and the internal minister still needed him to kill someone, but if this was really what he had done, when he returned to the Secret Service, he might really be ridden on his head.
He hesitated a little: "Chen Ji didn't know that we were going to open the coffin for an autopsy today. If he could even guess this, that would be awesome."
"He is indeed very powerful," Jiaotu said calmly.
Yunyang did not want to admit that not only did he fail to kill someone with a borrowed knife, but he was tricked and imprisoned by the other party: "He should be too busy taking care of himself at this time. After Concubine Jing lost her son, she lost her nephew who she had grown up with, so she was already a little lost.
If you become sensible, you will definitely take revenge on him."
Jiaotu was being escorted, and her tone became relaxed again. She lowered her voice: "Let's not mention who leaked the news for now. We have to find someone to look for traces and let him find a way to save us! Give him money!"
Yunyang was silent for a moment: "But now we are being watched by Lin Chaoqing, where can we find someone!"
"Too……"
Yunyang suddenly said: "I have placed an insider in the Liu family. Maybe I will soon know who passed the news."
After the two were escorted down the mountain by the Jiefang Guards, Liu Mingming stopped crying, stood up from the coffin with a calm face, wiped away his tears, and said in a calm tone: "Check, who gave us the news?
"
"It's said that a letter suddenly appeared in the house, and the guards didn't even notice who put it in."
Liu Mingming frowned: "How can someone enter the inner house quietly? What do the masters I raise do? When can you recruit some real masters for me?"
There was silence all around, no one dared to respond.
Liu Mingming took a deep breath and said: "There is a senior official hiding in a dark place that we don't know, and he can sneak into my inner house privately. It's hard to find out, but we have to find out!"
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Chen Ji walked slowly along the long street, walking in the shadows under the eaves. People were flowing around him in an endless stream, and he seemed to have nothing to do with the world.
Falling autumn leaves cover the streets, making them desolate.
This is not the Luo City that Chen Ji imagined. It is more cruel than he imagined. If you don't kill people, they will kill you.
When he first arrived, he had to be cautious in everything he did, for fear of doing something wrong or saying something wrong.
But now, he has learned how to deal with the world.
Although there is no glamorous life, it doesn't matter.
Dark Cloud emerged from his arms with a furry head: "Chen Ji, there is a roast chicken over there, buy me a roast chicken."
Chen Ji smiled and said: "Okay, you have made great achievements today. You can eat whatever you want, and sleeping on my head is also very reasonable."
At this time, there was a sound of frolicking behind them. Chen Ji turned around and saw dozens of people riding tall horses, riding happily through the sunshine.
Someone shouted: "The Crown Prince is back! The Crown Prince and the two princesses are back from Donglin Academy!"
But I saw a young man wearing a white mink fur sitting on a horse. Liang Gou'er, who had once split Lin Chaoqing's bamboo hat at night, was holding the reins for him with a flattering look, while Liang Mao'er was holding the long knife and holding it.
He followed behind with a depressed face.
Five or six women followed behind on white horses, whispering and laughing from time to time.
When the group of people approached, Chen Ji suddenly saw two people riding horses from behind the crowd. They were his two direct brothers from the Chen family.
The two rode horses alongside the prince. One of them smiled and joked: "Your Majesty, my brother and I returned to Luo City a few days ago. You left the academy earlier than us. Why did you come back today? Where did you go to play?
Already?"
The prince laughed: "When I return to Luo City, I will be under the supervision of the old man. Of course it is better to come back later!"
Wuyun asked quietly in his arms: "Chen Ji, who are they?"
"unimportant."
While he was talking, everyone passed by the eaves where he was, and no one took a second look at him.
The brilliant light at noon shone on their white horses and brocade robes, they were in high spirits and the sun was just right.
As for the shadow under the eaves where Chen Ji stood, there were only the boy and the cat in the shadow.
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Volume One, Wedge (End)
Chapter completed!