Chapter 521 (1/2)
In the snowy night of Chang'an, Wei Tuqi, led by the prince's guard of 50 men, quietly walked out from the Shunyi gate on the west side of the imperial city. All the 51 people were dressed in white cotton clothes, with bows and crossbows on their waist and crotches and carrying horizontal knives.
Passing between the xuanzheng and Buzheng workshops, you come to the Yong'an canal bank, which runs through the north and south of Chang'an city. Beside the deserted bank, the lonely branches are covered with snow, and the vertical and horizontal arrangement of several river bridges, also in the night, become white jade belts after the ornamentation of snowflakes.
On the black ice surface of Yong'an canal, there is a layer of black and white snow. With the continuous falling snow in the sky, they continue to want to cover the whole Yong'an canal with pure white.
”Boss, haidongqing disappeared from here, but it flew too fast. It is estimated that there are reasons for snow. After tracking here, we can't see its body shape.” A soldier stepped on the thin snow under his feet, went to Wei Tu Qi, pointed to the upper and lower reaches of the river and said.
Dressed in white cotton clothes and covered with snowflakes, the tall Wei Tu Qi looks like a dog, Xiong Yiyang. His whiskers are covered with snowflakes. He looks at the Jincheng square opposite the Yong'an canal, and looks at the Yong'an canal. He asks in a low voice, ”don't you find any footprints?”
”I didn't find that there were no footprints of other people except our footprints, not even the footprints of wild dogs.” The soldier shook his head and said firmly.
”Where are you going? Along the Yong'an canal to the south, another two square is the west market. Can't you hide people in the west market? Is it too conspicuous? ” Wei Tu Qi wiped the snow on his beard and said in some embarrassment.
”Is it in Anding Fang at the back? It's a good place to get out of the city. Guanghua gate, Jingyao gate and Fanglin gate are all easy to get out of the city. ” Another soldier, peeping into the north, said that the place two yards apart was the north wall of Chang'an city.
”I don't think it is. It's close to yeting palace, and hid the king Yin here after hijacking him, isn't it? The enemy will not be so stupid. ” Wei Tu Qi had no choice. At this moment, he really wanted to take off one of his shoes and decided which side to go.
”The so-called contrary to the way, hijacked the king of Yin, and two maids, they can't go to the west market? There are a lot of people there, so it is easy to expose them. However, the places on the back close to the city wall are not the same. They seem to be close to the yeting palace, but there are few people here. Basically, most of them are rented by foreigners. So I think we should go northward. ” The soldiers continued to express their opinions.
At the time when they expressed their opinions, Li Dan was holding a chicken in his arms in a house in Anding Fang, which was close to the north wall. He was sleeping soundly in bed with a chicken in his arms, and two maids were waiting on the side. Although they looked tired, they were still relatively stable and peaceful. Obviously, no one bothered them.
An eye out of the window secretly looked through the glass. When he saw that one master, two servants and three servants were sitting quietly in front of the bed, guarding their king Yan, and there was no sign of escaping, he quietly withdrew and came to the next room.
”Elder brother, I fell asleep. I've been tossing about for a long time today. We've moved to several places in the evening. We're all tired. Let alone them. I'm afraid they don't want to escape now.” Pei Yan looked at the three people in the house and said relaxed.
Pei Yi looked at the left and right, and there was a lot of worry between her eyebrows. She said cautiously, ”it's better to be careful. Li Hong is not a human being. She is very clever. She will probably guess that we are hiding here.”
”What are you afraid of? Isn't it just to exchange with them to hijack the king of Yin today?” Pei Yanxian a Leng, since hijacked, and afraid that others know, that how to exchange!
”If someone rescued the king of Yin after we relaxed our vigilance, what would you exchange with others?” Pei Yi glared at Pei Yanxian and said without good breath.
A middle-aged man nearby, with the same dignified look, interrupted: ”these are not the most important things in front of us. What is in urgent need of solution is how can we agree with the prince to release Mr. Pei. If the prince does not let go, then we will be busy in vain.”
”What my uncle said was very true, so I informed the prince, and the king Pei and King Yingwang. As we all know, there are intrigues and infighting among them. Even if the prince does not intend to release his father, he will not let go of the prince, will he? Don't forget that we still have his own letter with his father, and it will be difficult for him to say no at that time. If King Pei and Prince Pei agree with each other, and the king of England is watching. The prince and Prince Pei are afraid that they will have something to worry about. If they don't exchange with us, they will kill King Yin. If there is anything wrong with King Yan, whether it's the prince or the prince Pei, you can't get it from your majesty and his Empress, right? At that time, in order to fight for the crown prince's position, the three people were afraid that it would be cheaper for the king of England, so we only need to prevent them from secretly rescuing King Yin. ” Pei Yi said with confidence.
As long as the exchange is successful, and Xue Zhongzhang, who is the guard of the prison, has replaced the leader of the military guard of Jingyao gate with his own, he can take his father directly to Yangzhou by water.
Even if the prince wants to catch up with him, the canoe is much faster than the fast horse on the waterway. Besides, there are still people outside the city who are waiting for him to escape from Chang'an, which is absolutely not a problem.Xue Zhongzhang looked at Liu Dewei, the younger brother of Mrs. Peiyan, and said, ”don't worry, Mr. Liu. No one will come to anding Fang on weekdays, not to mention it's snowy outside. You can just wait here.”
Liu Dewei, the younger brother of the Liu family of Peiyan's wife, was a supervisor of Dali temple. After hearing Xue Zhongzhang's words, he looked a little complicated. Then he nodded in silence.
Xue Zhongzhang has long been bribed by Li Jingye, and it is Xue Zhongzhang who, through Liu Dewei himself, made a connection with Peiyan, and then let Li Jingye contact Peiyan and start their ambitious plan.
I thought that after Peiyan took the position of the right servant of Shangshu province and took charge of the Ministry of punishment, the Ministry of war and the Ministry of works, then they worked together inside and outside to control Chang'an in the shortest time.
But I never thought that the top secret plan was still intercepted by Prince Li Hong, which destroyed their plan of using Li Xian to rebel. Even the plan of Yipei King fighting Li Hong failed, so the prince completely disintegrated.
”Brother Pei, is it time for us to leave? We can't let the prince wait too long with the king Pei and the king Yin. We don't want the prince to come with us and kill us. ” Xue Zhongzhang looked at Pei Yi and said.
”Well, let's start. Uncle and Yan will guard here first. Remember to be careful.” Pei Yi looked at Pei Yanxian, his brother is an acute son, he had to give more advice.