Chapter 859 Just out of the wolf's den, he entered the tiger's mouth
Guan Ya nodded, led the two maids who came out of the car, and went straight through the middle gate and entered the Yang Mansion.
Passing through the courtyard and arriving at the backyard that was rich in Jiangnan garden style, she left two confidant maids brought from the palace and knocked on the door of her father Yang Zheng's study.
Behind the large desk, a middle-aged man with a green beard reaching his chest, wearing black casual clothes embroidered with gold thread and moiré pattern, was holding a volume in his hand and reading attentively.
There was a hint of joy between his brows and eyes. While reading, he sometimes stroked his beard. It looked like he was in a very good mood.
"Why is father so happy?" Guan Ya turned around and closed the door.
Yang Zheng put down the book with a smile on his face:
"This morning Ce'er received good news. The defenders raided the enemy camp last night and wiped out more than 50,000 Northern Dynasty troops. Such achievements will definitely shock the government and the public. As long as he can defend Linxia and repel the Northern Dynasties, our Yang family will be the first family in the Southern Dynasties."
Having said this, he suddenly looked at his eldest daughter Yang Yun and frowned:
"Didn't you go back to the palace? Why did you turn back?"
Guan Ya showed a worried look and said: "Father, the palace door is closed, and my daughter cannot go back. The Imperial City Secretary said that His Majesty was assassinated last night, and the assassin is still lurking in the palace. The Imperial City Division is trying its best to hunt down the assassin. Before that,
, no one can enter or leave the palace, this is His Majesty’s order.”
Yang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed drastically: "Something is wrong!!"
Guan Ya frowned and said, "Why did father say this?"
Yang Zheng sat at the table with a solemn expression and thought for three minutes. Suddenly he stood up like an ant on a hot pot and paced around the study:
"His Majesty was poisoned a few days ago and was assassinated again last night. Given the capabilities of the Imperial City Division, it is nothing more than a single oversight. His Majesty was assassinated twice in a row, which means that the regicide is in the Imperial City Division.
"And the Imperial City Division is controlled by the Zheng family."
Yang Zheng took a deep breath and said with a serious face: "The Zheng family wants to rebel! How dare the Zheng family rebel?"
The Yang and Zheng families are old rivals. Yang Zheng was well aware of Zheng Wenhan’s ambitions and even more aware of the Zheng family’s fear of the Yang family. But he didn’t expect that the Zheng family would dare to assassinate the emperor!
Guan Ya cooperated with a look of panic: "The Zheng family wants to rebel? This, this, what should we do?"
As a scout, with her ability to analyze intelligence and her insight into the situation, she could analyze it long before returning to the palace. However, Yang Yun, the daughter of the Yang family, has a gentle and weak personality, so she has to maintain her personality.
After Guan Ya woke up, she actively explored the Yang Mansion, collected intelligence, and used the identities of Yang's daughter and the empress to almost understand the situation in the court.
First of all, her main mission is to help the Yang family gain the emperor's trust.
The Yang family was led by Yang Ce and was a staunch Southern Dynasty camp. In other words, her camp was the Yang family of the Southern Dynasty, and her enemies were the Northern Dynasty and the Zheng family.
Starting from herself and analyzing the identity and camp of her teammates, Guan Ya believes that Yang Ce is probably Fu Qingyang. Regardless of level or occupation, Fu Qingyang perfectly fits Yang Ce's identity.
As for Yuanshi's identity, Guan Ya's target of suspicion is Hunjun.
After all, in the Southern Dynasty camp, the only characters who meet the level of Yuan Shi are the most important "King of Subjugation". It is definitely impossible to be a saint. The only one who can compete with Yuan Shi for the position of Yuan Shi is Xiahou Aotian.
Xiahou Aotian is also the master.
But Guan Ya felt that based on their hidden scores, Xiahou Aotian couldn't afford the Hunjun card!
If Yuan Shi was the Hunjun, Guan Ya was very relieved at first, wondering how a mere assassin could do anything to Yuan Shi, but today she tried to return to the palace to meet Yuan Shi, but after encountering obstacles, Guan Ya became anxious.
The palace is still under the control of the Zheng family, which shows that Yuanshi is in danger.
How could a dignified seventh-level Japanese traveler be in such a predicament? Guan Ya’s experience in participating in high-difficulty dungeons is neither too much nor too little, so she can’t guess the truth for the time being.
But Yuanshi must have been in trouble.
So she returned to Yang's house without stopping and asked her father for help.
Seeing his daughter panicking, Yang Zheng waved his hand, showing the calmness of a court official, and said:
"His Majesty was assassinated twice in a short period of time. The Zheng family sealed the palace gate and did not allow anyone to enter or exit. It just shows that the Zheng family did not succeed. His Majesty may be hiding in the palace, or he may not be in the palace."
Guan Yagai nodded softly: "That's why I didn't let my daughter return to the palace. By the way, father, I just came back and saw a few people sneaking around outside the palace, so I asked the housekeeper to take it."
Hearing this, Yang Zheng's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Call the housekeeper to come over."
Guan Yayingying saluted, opened the door to the study, called for her personal maid, and whispered a few words.
The palace maid trotted away, and half an hour later, a middle-aged butler in brocade clothes hurriedly came.
"Sir, the Queen."
The butler bowed and saluted.
Guan Ya immediately asked: "Have you captured the thief outside the house?"
The housekeeper bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I was negligent. I thought that the thieves outside the house were ordinary rats. I only needed six guards to capture them. Unexpectedly, the thieves were so skilled that they wounded the guards and left calmly."
Guan Ya frowned and looked at Yang Zheng:
"What does father think?"
Yang Zheng did not answer, but waved his hand towards the housekeeper to reject him, and then said in a deep voice:
"Several experts disguised themselves as traffickers and were staring at our Yang Mansion."
After chewing for a few seconds, and after eliminating several guesses in his mind, he smiled:
"It seems that Your Majesty has escaped from the palace. When the Queen Mother chose you to be the queen, I knew that she wanted to use the Yang family to check the Zheng family. I guess she also left a back-up in the palace, otherwise Your Majesty would not have been able to escape from the palace.
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Guan Ya suddenly realized: "After His Majesty escapes from the palace, he will definitely try to ask for help from you, so Zheng Wenhan is waiting for help."
"Of course!" Yang Zheng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Yun'er, if you stay here for a while, your father will find His Majesty."
After leaving Yang Mansion and returning along the main street of the capital, Jiang Jingwei complained:
"Why don't you just rush in? I can throw a fireball and pass through with a fire element, and then I can enter the Yang Mansion. When the time comes, I will shout: The emperor is here."
"Those spies can't stop them even if they want to. Can't we just connect with the Yang family?"
Zhang Yuanqing laughed and said: "Then the spies who were lying in ambush rushed up, killed us one by one, and escaped. The Yang family came out to collect our bodies?"
The queen patted him, Jingwei was still a child, why should he laugh at him.
She explained: "Jingwei, this may be successful, but the more likely it is that you will be killed by an assassin outside the Yang Mansion. Don't forget, the leader of the gang is seriously ill now and his physique is weaker than ordinary people."
Seeing Jiang Jingwei's dissatisfied look, the queen educated her again:
"The more difficult the dungeon, the more cautious you must be, learn to take every step, know yourself and the enemy, instead of thinking about taking a gamble. If you gamble, you will always lose. Once you lose, the ending will be to return to the spiritual realm.
"Sometimes, we would rather give up this opportunity and maintain a cautious style and principles."
Jiang Jingwei said "oh" twice, with an expression of "I understand".
But Zhang Yuanqing knows that for most fire masters, these advices and educations go in one ear and out the other. When actually doing things, the mood comes up and one should be rash or not.
After touching Jingwei's head, the queen turned to Zhang Yuanqing and asked: "Gang leader, it's time for us to look for our lost teammates."
Brother Red Chicken and the palace leader are saints. They can use props and items of saint quality to cure the gang leader's diseases.
Because I was not familiar with the environment of the capital, when I dispersed and escaped yesterday, I did not decide on a meeting place. I only agreed to leave a secret code near where I was hiding:
Changes from odd to even remain unchanged, the symbols look at the quadrants!
Of course, the capital city is very big, and even if you leave a secret code for the connection, you may not be able to meet successfully, so the team has a second way to meet, which is to meet outside the Tianji Tower before the end of the 72 hours.
Tianji Tower is a place where the Imperial Master observes stars and worships heaven.
Zhang Yuanqing sighed: "The capital is too big to find, and the curfew is strict now. We will definitely not be able to visit the capital during the day. If we are still wandering outside before dusk, we will have to stay in an inn."
It's not safe to stay in an inn. Inns and restaurants are the main targets of the Zheng family's search.
"The safest situation is to rush to Tianji Tower before the end of 72 hours." Zhang Yuanqing said.
"What if we rush to the Tianji Tower and the 72-hour crisis happens to be fulfilled?" the Queen said worriedly.
Are you just trying to wrap up the world line? Zhang Yuanqing complained in his heart, "If this is really the case, there is no way."
After walking for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Yuanqing was exhausted. The three of them found a restaurant for dinner. After they were full, they continued to the outer city. When they passed the gate of the inner city, they saw a huge flow of people blocking the notice wall next to the gate.
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People in civilian clothes blocked the notice wall tightly, and the crowd was talking loudly, vaguely mixed with angry curses:
"Hunjun!"
"absurd!"
"Is this going to drag down the Imperial Master and be infamy for eternity?"
The soldiers with swords beside the notice wall turned a deaf ear and allowed the people to curse.
Zhang Yuanqing came over, patted Jingwei on the shoulder, and said: "Clear the way!"
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way." Jiang Jingwei dove into the crowd, like a loach scurrying into a school of fish, causing a commotion.
The crowd was swaying around, and Jiang Jingwei used the brute force of the fire master to forcefully open a passage.
Zhang Yuanqing and the Queen took the opportunity to sneak in, and finally came to the notice wall. On the wall was a notice issued by the central government. The handwriting was small and written in regular script.
Zhang Yuanqing listened to the officials' recitation and read the notice, and immediately understood the reason why the people were so angry.
It turned out that Emperor Zhao Shun wanted to recruit 300 boys and girls from the people, hold a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven, burn the 300 boys and girls with a sacred fire, and offer them to God to pray for the Southern Dynasty and the soldiers on the front line.
Zhao Shun also specified that the ceremony of worshiping heaven should be presided over by the national master.
"Outrageous." Zhang Yuanqing murmured to himself. Is the Zheng family desperate? To arouse hatred for Zhao Shun in this unethical way, and then openly launch a coup, with the support of the national army, to forcibly usurp the throne?
With the style of the foolish king, it is impossible for him to throw himself into a trap because of the lives of three hundred boys and girls, so the notice is not to force Zhao Shun to show up, but to force hatred and pave the way for usurping the throne.
Amidst the shouts of "fainting king", Zhang Yuanqing led Jiang Jingwei and the queen away from the crowd, walked through the inner city gate with frowning brows, and arrived at the outer city.
After walking a long way, the queen said:
"Gang leader, do you know the history of the Han Dynasty?"
"Speak directly if you have something to say."
"There was an emperor named Liu He in the Han Dynasty. He took the throne for twenty-seven days and did more than a thousand ridiculous things. Seeing that he was so stupid, the powerful minister Huo Guang summoned his ministers, deposed the emperor, and established a new king." The queen looked back at the city.
Door direction:
"What Zheng Wenhan wants to do is pretty much the same. He just needs to find a puppet to disguise himself as you, then control the Imperial City, prevent any ministers from entering the palace, and then quickly burn three hundred boys and girls to death, and then he can be abolished
The Emperor’s business.”
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and said: "The enemies of the Zheng family will not allow him to do this."
This kind of behavior would kill the enemy by one thousand and damage himself by eight hundred. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would definitely oppose it. Even if Zheng Wenhan gained power in the government and the opposition, it would be impossible to suppress the opposition.
"If you want to stop it, you can only rely on mutiny." The Queen said: "The only people in the court who have this ability are the Yang family. If the Yang family mutiny, will they fall into the Zheng family's scheme? The Zheng family can easily get rid of the Yang family.
This is the convenience of holding the emperor hostage to control the princes. If the Yang family chooses to be patient, the Zheng family can proceed as planned."
Zhang Yuanqing looked at the tall and plump queen in surprise. If he could analyze these things, it was not a vase.
As expected, everyone in Return of the Dead is a talented person.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.
The queen shook her head: "I don't know, but from this incident, I understand the importance of your side missions. Only by gaining the hearts and minds of the people can you truly control the court and the capital."
Zhang Yuanqing pondered deeply and said, "Let's take a step and see."
He needs some time to think about how to deal with it.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, they returned to their "uncle and aunt"'s house in the south of the city. The uncle had not come back from going out to work, and the aunt was sitting under the patio working as a prostitute.
Next to her was a seven-year-old girl, sitting on a small stool. In front of her was a pile of dirty clothes, and a pair of rough, small hands were struggling to clean them on the clothes strip.
Every time I thrust and washed, I used all my strength, and my little buttocks lifted up from the bench.
When the three of them came back, my aunt smiled enthusiastically and said:
"You're back? Did you find any work?"
He turned around and told his daughter: "Go and bring some water for your cousins."
The little girl said "Oh" obediently, wiped her little hands on her chest, and trotted into the house. After a while, she came out carrying a clay kettle.
She raised her head and handed the kettle to her "cousin" with difficulty, with a timid and flattering expression on her face.
Zhang Yuanqing looked at the girl's big dark eyes and touched her head: "Thank you, Xiu'er."
The little girl's name is Wang Xiu. She is the daughter of her uncle and aunt. She is seven years old this year. She didn't see her when she checked in last night. She just met her this morning.
Wang Xiu smiled shyly.
Zhang Yuanqing took a gulp of water and said disappointedly: "Auntie, I didn't find a job."
The reason why Zhang Yuanqing and the others went out was to find work. After all, their hometown was destroyed in the war, so they went to Beijing to join their uncle, but the uncle's family was not rich and could not afford to support the three of them.
The aunt also sighed in disappointment: "You said that if you were strong and strong, you could go to the pier to beg for food. Later, ask your uncle to help you look after it and find a job that saves effort."
At this time, Zhao Xiujian said: "Mom, eldest brother's clothes have been washed."
She pointed to the bamboo rack under the patio where clothes were dried. Because she was too short, she could only leave the clothes to adults.
The Queen took the initiative to help dry the clothes.
The aunt took advantage of the situation and said: "These are your eldest brother's clothes. I asked Xiu'er to wash them. I will wear his clothes first. I don't know if they will fit."
Big brother? Zhang Yuanqing asked: "Is big brother at home?"
Auntie suddenly started hesitating.
Wang Xiu next to him said: "Eldest brother is not at home, and he rarely comes back."
"Why?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.
Wang Xiu replied subconsciously: "The eldest brother is from the Qinglong Gang. He fights outside every day and dare not go home."
"Xiu'er!" Auntie shouted loudly.
The Queen in front of the bamboo stand shook her hands and her clothes fell to the ground.
The Queen turned her head stiffly and looked into Zhang Yuanqing's eyes.
The Qinglong Gang is an organization that Wang Geji belongs to, a Jianghu gang that aims to kill the faint king and save the people.
Seeing the exaggerated reaction of the two people, the aunt thought that they had heard about the bad reputation of the Qinglong Gang, and knew that they couldn't hide it, so she sighed:
"That scoundrel is very brave and fierce all day long. He has countless enemies outside. He is afraid of implicating us, so he rarely even returns home. Every time he comes back, he comes and goes in a hurry, leaving his money and leaving.
"You can't live a good life, but you still have to fight and kill. Your uncle Quan and I don't think we have this son."
Zhang Yuanqing forced a smile: "Aunt, I will be your son from now on."
Damn it! Change the place tomorrow.
At this moment, a cry came from outside the door: "Mom, I'm back!"