Liu Yue'e wore a bamboo hat to cover her face and a black raincoat... The raincoat is not a raincoat, but made of feather yarn twisted into yarn. The fabric is thin and stiff, can prevent rain, and is as light as a single garment.
The price is naturally expensive, and only rich people will wear it. (《》)
When he came closer, Di Yong looked confused and said, "Why is sister Yue'e here?"
"..." Liu Yue'e was silent for a moment, then said: "I came with them."
"Oh." Di Yong smiled and said, "You guys talk, I'm going back first, we'll see you later."
As soon as Di Yong left, Song Duanping immediately clarified: "I just found out that she followed her."
"You don't keep your word," Liu Yue'e said calmly, "You promised to notify me in advance."
"I won't argue with you about that slap in public," Chen Ke looked her up and down indifferently and said coldly, "But from that moment on, I don't want to see you hanging around in front of my eyes." He paused and said:
"Also, if this matter breaks down, I will go to your house to break off the engagement. The Chen family is a small family and is not worthy of you, Hedong Liu!"
After saying that, without even looking at Liu Yuee, she held an umbrella and walked towards Nanmen Street.
Liu Yue'e wanted to follow, but was blocked by Wu Lang: "Miss Liu, please go back, my third brother doesn't welcome you."
"Get out of the way!" Liu Yue'e shouted with a cold air.
Wulang remained unmoved and stood in front of her like a hill.
"Seeking death!" Liu Yue'e suddenly kicked Wu Lang hard on the chest.
Wulang just shook his head and then stood still.
Liu Yue'e's fists and kicks were as fast as lightning, hitting his weak point accurately and hard. Wulang blocked it with left and right, bang bang bang bang, I don't know how many blows he received. Fortunately, he was as strong as an ox, so he could hold on for a while.
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Chuigongdian Imperial Hall. Holy Church
A pair of white and slender feet, without shoes, stepped on the ground comfortably. Of course, the only one who dared to be so presumptuous in the palace was the official himself.
According to legend, the late Emperor Zhenzong had no heirs for a long time, so he sent Taoist priests to pray to God. One day, the barefoot immortal Rumeng was born. Ten months later, Zhao Zhen, the current official, was born. The legend cannot be verified, but since the official's youth, he has been wearing clothespins at all times.
, He does not control the stove in the winter, does not wave the fan in the summer, does not wear shoes and socks in the forbidden area, and only puts them on when sitting in the palace to meet ministers. Once there are no outsiders, he will take them off immediately. He is indeed very different from ordinary people.
At this moment, he was sitting barefoot on the bed. Next to him was a eunuch wearing a purple robe, with a thin face and gloomy eyes. He bowed to the emperor and reported something in a soft voice.
This eunuch is called Shi Quanbin, and he is the deputy governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is responsible for the affairs of the Imperial City Division. The Imperial City Division of the Song Dynasty is equivalent to the Imperial Guards of later generations. They are the emperor's personal soldiers and are not under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. The Ming Dynasty
On the surface, they are responsible for the security of the forbidden area and are the emperor's most trusted bodyguards. Secretly, they are also responsible for gathering intelligence and handling special missions for the emperor.
According to the practice of the Song Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty, all temporary workers were employed. Such an important Imperial City Department was naturally not exempt from the custom. The nominal chief imperial city envoys and deputy envoys were generally only used by civil and military officials to transfer ranks. And the Imperial City Department's
For actual affairs, the deputy governor or regent of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is usually dispatched to serve, which is called "official affairs of the Imperial City".
As the de facto leader of the Imperial City Department, Shi Quanbin was naturally the most trusted eunuch by the officials of the Song Dynasty. However, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, summing up the lessons of the Tang Dynasty's fall, imposed strict restrictions on the power of the eunuchs, and the ministers also firmly opposed spy politics, so
The Imperial City Division did not have the power to arrest and interrogate criminals and could only secretly gather information for the emperor, so its development was naturally limited.
Despite this, at least within the scope of the capital, any disturbance could not be hidden from their eyes and ears. Shi Quanbin was reporting the contents of Bao Zheng's confidential meeting to the officials one by one.
After listening to his report, the official's expression relaxed a lot. He gently stroked the inkstone in his hand and said, "It sounds quite thorough, but it depends on the outcome of the battle." He glanced at Shi Quanbin and said, "Don't let anything leak out.
The sound of the wind."
"The high official is going to unjustly kill the old slave." Shi Quanbin said with a bitter smile: "The old slave asked Bao Longtu in person. I also gave the drawings of the Bianliang Waterway to Chen Chengshi personally. There are a bunch of brats below.
, I’m still in the dark until now.”
"That's right. ("")" The official looked at him and said, "It's not that he doesn't trust him, but the homeless people recruited by the Imperial City Division have heard about it. Many of them are from the Beggar Gang. You can't miss this opportunity. You can
Stop eating it."
"I don't dare." Shi Quanbin smiled and said, "It's too late for me to be happy that I can eliminate this trouble for the high official."
"By the way," Guan Jia paused and said, "Have you found out?"
"Well, I was about to report it to the high official." Shi Quanbin nodded and lowered his voice: "The ones who attacked Chen Chengshi were people from the Baozi Hall of the Beggar Clan. The report said that they had no grievances against Chen Chengshi. They didn't even have any grudges before.
I've heard of him. The leader of their hall said that someone above wanted this man to disappear, so he took action."
"Who is the person above?" The official looked at him intently.
"This, the reports are not sure." Shi Quanbin actually knew that Baozitang had a close relationship with Lao Ba of the Runan Palace, but he did not want to offend the future prince, so he kept silent.
"..." The official didn't ask any more questions. He sat there quietly, grabbing the hand of the inkstone, but his veins began to pop out. Finally, after everyone left, Zhao Zhen raised his favorite hand high.
Duan Yan growled vaguely: "I'm not dead yet!"
But in the end, he was not willing to fall down...
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Standing under the eaves near Baihu Bridge, Chen Ke heard a noise behind him and saw Wulang crying and saying: "Brother, I can't beat her either..."
"Well..." Chen Ke said, "You're not injured, are you?"
"No." Wu Lang shook his head, looked at Liu Yue'e who was standing under the eaves in the distance and said, "She said that if you help her find Xiao Huan, she will help you break off the engagement."
"..." Chen Ke sighed and said, "Tell her that I can help her find it, but if the person is already dead, there is nothing I can do."
"Oh." Wulang ran over and said a few words to Liu Yue'e. He came back after a while and said, "She said it's okay."
Seeing her so happy, Chen Ke was quite surprised and nodded without saying anything.
Around the turn of Shen and You, Di Yong, who had put on armor, drove over with the forbidden troops of the Sharpshooter Battalion. As soon as he waved his hand, the soldiers knocked on the door of the nearby residence and entered without any permission. After a while, they occupied the roof.
A favorable shooting position on the wall. Just because it was raining, their bows and crossbows were kept in cowhide bags and would be taken out only when the battle came.
"Are you sure people will come out of this street first?" After all his men were in place, Di Yong confirmed with Chen Ke again.
"Well, Lanjiaotang has nowhere to go." Chen Ke nodded and said, "They don't have to wait until dark before they have to get out." The information given by the Imperial City Division was of great help, so he was so sure: "
Even if they discover that there is an ambush here, they still have to bite the bullet and get out."
"Okay." Di Yong nodded and hid under the eaves with him.
After being quiet for a while, Di Yong looked at Liu Yue'e who was not far away, and couldn't help but said: "I admire her very much. It is very valuable for a majestic young lady to persevere for a maid."
"No one denies this." Chen Ke said calmly.
"She is the kind of person with a very cheerful personality, which is very similar to you," Di Yong whispered again: "If you want to break off the engagement, she will naturally not say no, but her grandfather... Oh, too much
She was so domineering that she refused to let go at first. Later, Mr. Ouyang came to the house to make peace, and then agreed to let you come to apologize and marry your brother instead. But she never thought about it, what does this mean to her? Does Liu Yue'e hate getting married so much? She just
I became the laughing stock of those young ladies..."
"What do you mean by this?"
"As a mutual friend of yours, I feel it is necessary for me to clarify and clear up your misunderstandings."
"Thank you, no need." Chen Ke said lightly: "I already have a fiancée at home. She won't be a concubine for others, right?"
"..." Di Yong is so sweaty that he will let the direct granddaughter of the Liu family in Hedong be his concubine, unless the sun rises from the west.
"It's over now." Chen Ke shrugged and said, "It's about to come out."
Di Yong immediately glanced away from his busywork and focused his attention on the ditch beside the road. He saw that the wide bluestone slab covering it was slowly moved away, and a man who was soaked all over came out.
The two of them immediately hid themselves behind the wall. Di Yong looked at Chen Ke. Chen Ke shook his head, took out a palm-sized Western glass mirror, and slowly poked it out of the wall.
Through the mirror, Di Yong vaguely saw that the man looked around, then retracted his head, but the stone slab was not covered again.
"This is the spy. The big team will be out soon." Di Yong licked her lips and imitated the night owl's call.
"It's really ugly." Chen Ke said happily.
Upon hearing that sound, all the crossbowmen took out their crossbows from the cowhide bags, loaded the strings, and placed the arrows in place, then covered the crossbows with the cowhide bags to minimize damage to the crossbow strings from rain.
The Song army mainly relied on crossbows to counter the barbarian cavalry, and had developed the most complete crossbow combat technology. In view of the weakness of the slow shooting speed of crossbows, they formed a group of three crossbowmen and fired in cycles to maintain continuous damage.
So under the wall, there are twice as many crossbowmen as there are on the wall preparing...
Perhaps the underground had reached the most dangerous edge. Soon, the stone slabs on the street began to move one after another. In the blink of an eye, at least a dozen figures emerged from the ditch.
"Shoot!" With a loud shout, the first crossbow was fired, and in the blink of an eye it was nailed to the chest of a Beggar Clan disciple.
Immediately afterwards, the dull sound of bowstrings buzzed, and more than a hundred crossbow arrows were fired at the same time, turning the earliest disciples of the Beggar Clan into hedgehogs.
This sudden killing caused panic in the ditch, and more people poured out and fled in all directions.
But how could the marksman army, which had already set up a dragnet, let them escape? A dense rain of arrows came from all directions, and the Beggar Clan disciples who were not far away fell to the ground, screaming and wailing.
Blood dyed the streets red...
The people in the ditch were frightened by the horrific killings and hid in waist-deep water, terrified and at a loss.
"People below, listen!" Di Yong used the energy in his Dantian and shouted loudly: "You have been surrounded by the sharpshooting army. If you want to survive, crawl out and lie on the ground. Anyone who gets up will be killed without mercy.
