Xingyang East City, Rugui Inn.

The shopkeeper was in a good mood during this period, and the smile on his face never disappeared, because starting from the beginning of June, a group of guests from Kyoto rented out all the rooms in the store and stayed there for two months.

Although these people look menacing and their specific business is unclear, they are very happy to pay and are never stingy with their spending in the store. The shopkeeper will not care who they are. He only hopes that they can live here forever. If

When interrogated by officials, he would help them cover up.

In the middle room on the second floor, Nian Xu sat at the head of the table, looking at his men who were as lifeless as eggplants beaten by frost in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "The prince's letter was sent yesterday, and it only said one thing.

The princess is dead."

One stone stirs up thousands of waves.

Although they were just thugs raised by Prince Lu's Mansion, they had always been treated very well, especially Princess Xu, whose natal family was extremely wealthy. She often asked the stewards to reward them with gold, silver and jewels.

"Brother, the princess was so young, how could she die suddenly?" one person asked angrily.

Nian Xu lowered his voice and said: "Qibao Pavilion was inspected by Taishitai Pavilion, and evidence that the Xu family was a thief was found. Xu Song was immediately executed by Lingchi. Although the princess was not implicated, how could our Lord tolerate her continuing to sit in the main hall of Prince Lu's mansion?

In the position of concubine?"

Emperor Kaiping's love for King Lu is not a secret. The delay in establishing a heir apparent is probably related to this incident. Now that Xu Song is dead, the Xu family will naturally be destroyed. In this case, it is impossible for Xu to continue to be the princess.

, because if King Lu is established as the crown prince, the crown princess may be the future queen.

As an extremely ambitious emperor, how could Emperor Kaiping allow a tainted woman to become the future queen?

After all, she is the mistress of the Sixth Palace, Yi Tianxia.

These thugs are all rude men, and they only talk about kindness. Regardless of whether they are true or false, they are all grieving for Princess Xu. Some of them gritted their teeth and said: "Humph, our Holy Lord has been fooled by a young boy.

Unexpectedly, I don’t even want to keep my daughter-in-law!”

Nian Xu suddenly stood up, walked in front of the person, slapped him in the face, and said angrily: "Shut your mouth!"

Like a tiger on the edge of madness, he looked around at everyone and said: "The prince only mentioned the death of the princess in the letter and did not blame us. But after thinking about it, I can't continue to waste time in Xingyang. I have to do something.

Only in this way can we comfort the princess’s spirit in heaven, and can we slightly relieve the grief in the prince’s heart.”

Everyone said in unison: "Brother, please give orders!"

Nian Xu said in a deep voice: "You have all discovered these days that Pei Yue is always guarded by a large number of personal soldiers when he goes out. This man himself is a martial arts master, and there is basically no chance of success in a roadside attack. Today he will

During the public trial of those prisoners in the city, the defense must be extremely tight, but it will definitely be relaxed after the incident."

A person on the right asked: "Brother, what do you mean, let's do it late at night?"

Nian Xu nodded slowly and sneered: "We have not wasted our time in the city for more than a month. At least we have several internal agents in the imperial envoy's office, and we have also figured out the terrain inside the office. Let's sneak in tonight.

He then set fire to the house, took advantage of the chaos and rushed directly to Pei Yue's residence, killing the beast to avenge the princess!"

Everyone looked excited and stood up one after another.

Nian Xu patted everyone on the shoulder, and then said seriously: "Brothers, tonight is very likely to be a situation of death and no life. If you are afraid, it is still too late to leave now."

No one made a sound.

Nian Xu smiled slightly, clenched his fists and said, "Very good, I didn't misjudge you, and the prince didn't misjudge you either. Go back and rest, and gather your energy before we start tonight!"

"yes!"

…

In Beicheng, in the wide square in front of the Xingyang Mansion Yamen, there are seas of people rubbing shoulders with each other.

A high platform was temporarily built in the center of the square. The burly Chen Xianda stood on the platform leaning on a cane. Jia Cheng stood behind him holding a handsome flag. There were soldiers with hidden front guards on all sides to block the onlookers, responsible for maintaining order.

, leaving an open space in the center of the venue including a high platform.

Everyone knew that today it was Lord Pei who was going to publicly interrogate the scum of Daliang who colluded with the Western Wu people. But they didn't know what these traitors had done, so that they were destined to be chopped off twice before even being tried.

More than a hundred heads.

They looked at Chen Xianda on the high platform and couldn't help but wonder why the lord didn't show up.

Pei Yue was currently in the main hall of the government office, with a chessboard in front of him. Sitting opposite him was Zhao Xianhong, the prefect of Xingyang.

In terms of chess skills, Zhao Xianhong was far superior to him, but the chess game seemed evenly matched. The prefect would think hard before every move and appeared to be very cautious.

Pei Yue's mind was not on the chessboard. He looked at the black and white chess pieces, and his thoughts involuntarily drifted to the Cunpu Pavilion on Qingqiu of Guangping Marquis Mansion in Kyoto.

"Sir, it's your turn." Zhao Xianhong waited for a moment, but when he saw that Pei Yue still didn't come back to his senses, he had to remind him cautiously.

Pei Yue said "Oh" and looked at the situation on the chessboard and couldn't help but smile: "Master Zhao, you must be very tired playing chess like this, right?"

Zhao Xianhong was stunned for a moment, then understood the meaning of the other party's words, and said with a smile as usual: "Your Majesty used Lingzhou as a chessboard and more than two hundred human heads as bait, and made a majestic move rarely seen in this world. How can it be that I am a humble person?"

Can it be compared?"

Pei Yue smiled lightly and did not comment on the compliment. He just said lightly: "It seems that my skills are indeed not very good. I think not only Magistrate Zhao, many people can see through it."

At this moment, Chen Xianda's astonishingly loud voice sounded on the high platform, and the voice came faintly.

"Young and old men of Xingyang City, my name is Chen Xianda, from Kyoto, and I am an ordinary sentry officer under our lord. A few days ago, I followed the lord in pursuit of the Western Wu cavalry, and almost traveled through the three prefectures in the north.

.What impressed me most was not the final battle with them at Qishan, but what I saw along the way. Guess what I saw?"

He was like a god of death on the battlefield, but at this moment he seemed very honest and honest, which invisibly made the people watching relax, and some people had the courage to ask: "Master, tell us about it!"

Chen Xianda suddenly turned around, limped to Jia Cheng's side, took the flag from him with one hand, and said loudly: "This brother Jia Cheng is from Anhua County, Dingning Prefecture. Let him tell you personally.

, what did those Western Wu cavalry do in our Lingzhou?"

Jia Cheng's face turned red. Although he had received some advice from Pei Yue in advance, he was still extremely nervous and excited at this moment.

He walked to the edge of the high platform, looked at the swarming crowd, couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and after a moment he said: "My name is Jia Cheng. I am fifteen years old. I was born in Jiajiazhuang, Anhua County, Dingning Prefecture. My family is here.

Although he is not rich, he has land and food, his parents are still alive, and he has two younger sisters, so his life is pretty good."

"On July 22nd, my younger sister and I went to work in the fields outside the village. The Western Wu cavalry suddenly appeared, and then rushed directly into the village. They killed everyone on sight, no matter the old, weak, women, or children. I and I

My little sister luckily escaped. After they left, we returned to the village and found the corpses of fellow villagers everywhere. My father, mother, and twelve-year-old sister were all...all killed."

The huge square suddenly seemed extremely quiet at this moment.

The people of Xingyang, who had never experienced war, looked at the young man on the high platform with a very solemn expression.

Jia Cheng's eyes were red and his voice was trembling: "There are three hundred and seventy-two people in Zhuangzi. Only my little sister and I survived. The others were killed by the Xiwu cavalry. A total of three hundred and seventy lives were lost!"

Chen Xianda stepped forward, hugged Jia Cheng's trembling shoulders, and roared: "Bring those scum up here!"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and more than two hundred prisoners from the Qishan Chong Battle were seen coming out of the side door of the government office under the supervision of Zangfeng Guards officers, and then being taken to the south side of the high platform.
Chapter completed!