Guo Song followed the two fleeing monitors and saw them climbing over the wall and entering Guanglufang, and soon entered a large house.
Guo Song took a look at the mansion and saw that it covered an area of forty acres, with many buildings inside, high walls, and several samurai with swords standing at the gate.
Guo Song nodded secretly, turned around and hurried back to Pingkangfang.
The Sun family's father and son have already packed up. Their money is all stored in the cabinet, so there is no need to worry. They only packed up some soft goods.
Sun Xiaozhen's father was injured and was lying in the carriage. He was taken care of by Sun Xiaozhen's mother and brother. Sun Xiaozhen and Guo Song each rode a horse to follow the carriage on both sides. There was also an old coachman who had been with the Sun family for many years.
"Have you decided where to go?" Guo Song asked.
Sun Xiaozhen nodded, "My family has a farm in the countryside of Huazhou. My father went there to recuperate, but they couldn't find it."
"No one else knows?"
"I asked my father, and he said that the previous shopkeeper might know, but the previous shopkeeper is no longer in Chang'an. Now the shopkeeper only knows about my farm in Xianyang County, and he doesn't know about the farm in Huazhou."
Seeing that they had made arrangements, Guo Song ordered the coachman: "Let's set off to Chunming Gate!"
The old coachman looked confused. There was a curfew now, and the city gate and the square gate were closed. How could they get out of the city? But he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he had to raise his whip and drive the carriage towards the square gate.
After a while, the carriage arrived at the gate of the square. The gate was fastened with wooden bolts from the inside, and there was a thick iron chain with a copper horizontal lock on it.
Guo Song pulled out his dagger and aimed it at the slender locking stick on the horizontal lock and cut it off with one slash. This dagger was given to him by Duan Sanniang. It cut iron like clay and was extremely sharp. The locking stick as thick as a chopstick was cut into pieces with one stroke.
Guo Song tore off the iron chain, pulled the door bolt, and opened the square door.
"let's go!"
It's not far from Pingkangfang to Chunming Gate. It only takes one stick of incense at most, but you have to pass through Dongshi. As soon as you arrive in front of the gate of Dongshi, a team of Jinwu Guards on patrol rushed over and shouted sternly for the first captain: "Who?
Dare to violate the curfew!”
The old coachman was so frightened that he almost fell off the carriage. Guo Songfei immediately stepped forward, took out the gold medal from his arms, flashed it in front of the captain's eyes, and said coldly: "Open your dog eyes and see, what is this?"
"
The captain looked over his head and took a look. His aura suddenly disappeared. He immediately clasped his fists on his horse and said, "I don't know how to humble my position. General, please forgive me!"
This feeling was really good. Guo Song was secretly proud, but said coldly on his face: "Since you know, why don't you give way?"
The curfew in the Tang Dynasty was only for ordinary people and ordinary officials. There were still many privilege cards for night travel, such as Yu Chaoen's Shence card, the night walking cards for Tianyuan, Tianqing and Tianying buildings, and the court certificate issued by the prime minister.
cards etc.
What the captain encountered today was the most powerful privilege card in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's gold medal. How could he dare to ask more questions?
"I understand your humble position, General please!"
He waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately moved out of the way, and the carriage continued to move forward. After a while, it arrived in front of Chunming Gate.
Opening the city gate at night is not something that ordinary people can do. Except for the emperor's entry and exit, the prime minister and the censor's entry and exit, and the eight hundred mile expedited express, everything else is not allowed.
However, everything cannot be absolute. For example, if any of the three eunuchs Yu Chaoen, Li Fuguo, and Cheng Zhenyuan want to leave the city at night, who dares not to open the door?
Guo Song came to the city gate, raised his head and shouted to the top of the city: "According to the emperor's order, there is an urgent matter to leave the city!"
A soldier on the top of the city asked, "Do you have any proof?"
"have!"
The soldiers did not dare to neglect and hurriedly reported to the captain on duty. After a moment, the captain ran down the corridor with several soldiers.
"What is the certificate?"
General Guo Song flashed the gold medal in front of his eyes. The captain was stunned for a moment, then immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted, "For your humble position, please see the emperor's order!"
"General, without courtesy, please open the city gate!"
"I humbly obey orders!"
The captain immediately waved to the door, "Open the door!"
The city gate slowly opened and the suspension bridge was lowered. Sun Xiaozhen's eyes widened. Guo Song glared at him and said, "Get out of the city!"
Only then did Sun Xiaozhen wake up and quickly escorted the carriage and ran out of the city.
After a while, they left Chang'an City and came to the official road outside the city. Guo Song then said to Sun Xiaozhen: "You escort your parents to Huazhou to hide, and you don't come to the capital for the time being. You have become the focus of Yu Chaoen's attention. Understand.
What do I mean?"
"I, I understand."
Guo Song dismounted, tied the horse behind the carriage, and ordered: "Let's go!"
Sun Xiaozhen opened her mouth for a long time, but still didn't dare to ask. She followed the carriage in confusion, and Guo Song also turned around and disappeared into the night.
Sun Xiaozhen kept looking back, his heart full of surprise and doubt, and said to himself: "What on earth is he holding in his hand?"
The old coachman said to him: "Dalang, everyone has a secret. If he refuses to tell you, then you'd better not ask. Knowing it may not be a good thing."
Sun Xiaozhen sighed, "Let's go!"
The carriage accelerated towards the official road to the east.
This mansion in Guanglufang was the official residence of Yang Qinying, the original Guanglu doctor of Zijin. Later Li Longji rewarded it to Yu Chaoen. It is now the home of the palace guards. However, they called this mansion Zijin Mansion. When mentioning Zijin
There are few people in Chang'an who are not afraid of Zijin Mansion, but few people know where Zijin Mansion is.
At this time, the hall was brightly lit, and dozens of warriors were lined up on the left and right. Four corpses were lying on the ground in the middle. Each corpse had an arrow between its eyebrows, and two of them had arrows pierced through the back of their heads.
Many warriors were silent, but they all had unconcealable fear in their eyes. Although they were highly skilled in martial arts, and many of them could also use hidden weapons, the distance between hidden weapons was at most ten or twenty steps, which was within the preventable range.
But it was different with bows and arrows or crossbow arrows. The shooting range was a hundred steps away, making them hard to guard against. Moreover, they had never heard of such precise arrow techniques. Everyone felt heavy in their hearts. They had met a real master.
Yang Wanhua's face was extremely ugly. He turned back to Liu Sigu and said: "I just got the news that the other party got the emperor's gold medal and has gone out from Chunming Gate. The carriage must be Sun Xiaozhen's family. Sir, do you think we should go after him?"
Liu Sigu shook his head, "A person who can win the Emperor's Gold Medal is not something a small person like the Sun family can recognize. There is no point in chasing the Sun family. This person must have returned to the city."
As soon as Liu Sigu finished speaking, the sound of bowstrings sounded outside the hall, and a warrior standing behind Yang Wanhua screamed. The arrow also shot through his eyebrows, killing him instantly.
Yang Wanhua's face was so frightened that he lay on the ground. There was also a chaos in the hall, and everyone was so frightened that they lay on the ground.
There was no movement for a while. Yang Wanhua slowly raised his head and saw all the warriors lying on the ground, covering their brows. He suddenly became angry and annoyed and yelled: "You useless bastards, why don't you chase me!
"
Everyone felt secretly ashamed and got up and chased out. At this time, Liu Sigu shouted loudly: "Stop chasing!"
Everyone stopped, Yang Wanhua was stunned, he waved his hand, "You all go out, search the whole government, and protect the lobby for me!"
The warriors rushed out one after another, and for a moment, only Yang Wanhua, Liu Sigu, and a few close warriors were left in the lobby to guard them.
"What do you mean, sir?" Yang Wanhua asked with some dissatisfaction.
"Didn't Eunuch Hua notice? He wanted to shoot you and me just now. It was so easy."
Yang Wanhua looked back and glanced at the warrior who had just been shot. He was right behind him, and the arrow passed by him. This was clearly a warning to himself!
His legs were a little weak, and he sat on the embroidered pier for a while, speechless for a while.
Liu Sigu added: "Even the emperor's gold medal appears. This is clearly the emperor warning us not to go too far. He is also telling us that he will kill us easily."
Yang Wanhua calmed down a little and said: "I'm afraid this is not the intention of the emperor. The emperor will not care about such trivial matters. It should be the order from the old beggar."
"I know that this is the opponent's counterattack against us, but they are doing it very restrainedly. If we don't stop, I'm afraid it will be you and me who die next time." Liu Sigu glanced at the five corpses with lingering fear.
"But how will Father Weng explain it?"
"I'll explain to him that if there is an imperial edict in that gold box, it must have been withdrawn. The emperor cannot let such a risk wander outside. Otherwise, there will be nothing at all, it will be an empty box."
Yang Wanhua also knew that he would definitely not be able to find the gold box. Since Liu Sigong was willing to explain it for him, he took the opportunity to get off the donkey.
"Sir's suggestion is very reasonable. Let's put this matter aside for now."