Brocade tears

Meng Kuang held Sui'er's hand and closed his eyes to rest his mind. Sui'er leaned against her side, separated the two people who had been separated for a day and a night, and finally found comfort physically and mentally.In the carriage, Bai Yuyin was looking out through the gap of the bamboo curtain hanging from the window, Han Jiaer bit her lip and twisted her hands, showing utter uneasiness.

The carriage came out of the dealership, and it didn't take long before it arrived at Shence's door.Meng Kuang opened his eyes, lifted the door curtain slightly, and looked at the Shence door ahead.The situation outside made her heart sink, and she saw that there was a tight block under the gate of Shence, and a large number of Yingtianfu policemen and soldiers of the city defense army formed a pocket-like blockade under the gate of Shence. There is no turning back for drivers and pedestrians. They must go to the gate of the city to undergo interrogation, and they can leave the city without any problems.Because of the careful investigation, the team moved extremely slowly. A large number of city residents who planned to go to Xuanwu Lake were blocked at the door for a long time when they left the Shence Gate during the Dragon Boat Festival. feel.

"What's going on? Why don't you let people go out for the big festival?"

"It is said that it is to investigate the imperial convicts, one by one, for fear that the imperial convicts will escape."

"Really? No wonder there was a lot of noise outside last night. What a heinous invasion, so many people were dispatched to arrest him?"

"I heard that near the Gu Mansion in the east of the imperial city yesterday, officers and soldiers clashed with fugitives. Many officers and soldiers died, and blood flowed in rivers with severed arms and legs. Get off the horse. That fugitive murdered without batting an eye, he looked like a ghost."

"It's too scary..."

Meng Kuang silently listened to the discussion of the people outside the carriage, and scanned the interrogators under the city gate with sharp eyes. Suddenly, she found that the boy catcher was among them, and he was looking around vigilantly, as if he was searching for Guo Dayou and others in the crowd. whereabouts.Meng Kuang sneered, this guy's rebellion is really thorough, he is afraid that if they don't get caught, they will retaliate against him in the future, and he dares to come to the gate of the city to interrogate him.King Lu also knew that this guy was the most familiar with Guo Dayou, he really "knows people well and works well".

"The situation is not very good. That Tong Butou is under the city gate. If we insist on going through the Shence Gate, we might be recognized." Meng Kuang put down the curtain and said.

"How can this be good..." Han Jiaer said anxiously, Bai Yuyin and Sui'er both frowned and did not speak.

In front of the carriage that Guo Dayou, Princess Xinyang and others were riding on, the coachman Lao Li jumped off the shaft and walked towards Meng Kuang and others' carriage.Before he approached, Meng Kuang quickly whispered to Lu Jingshi who was driving outside: "It should be Guo Dayou and the county chief who came to discuss the detour, please promise."

Lu Jingshi nodded.Sure enough, as soon as Lao Li approached, he said: "The Shence Gate is impassable, and we must be discovered. We have to make a detour. The Princess and Guo Qianhu asked me to ask you, where is the right way to go?"

Lu Jingshi said: "Li Bashi, you are familiar with the city of Nanjing, where do you think it is suitable to go?"

"It's the same wherever you go, anyway, you can't go through Shence Gate. How about we go to the nearest Taiping Gate?" Lao Li said.

"Wait a minute, let's not hurry to go elsewhere." Bai Yuyin who had been silent at this moment said suddenly, "Wait a little longer, maybe there will be changes."

"What's going on?" Han Jiaer asked, Meng Kuang and Sui'er also looked at Bai Yuyin.Bai Yuyin suddenly pointed at the tower of Shence Gate in the distance, and said:

"Look at the man on the tower, do you know who that man is?"

Everyone followed her instructions and looked towards the archery tower above the city gate, and they saw a fat, beardless man in a brocade suit standing on the top of the city, passing through the gap in the parapet to the flow of people coming in and out of the city gate. Take a closer look.

"It's Tang Fu'an. I met him once in Beijing, and I will never forget him in my life." Bai Yuyin said in a deep voice, with hatred in his tone.

Tang Fu'an?How could he appear on the Shence Gate?Meng Kuang's heart shuddered.

At this time, Sui'er asked: "What does Sister Bai mean by variable?"

Bai Yuyin didn't answer the question aloud, but pointed to Meng Kuang and compared two fingers.Meng Kuang and Sui'er immediately realized that she was referring to her second brother, Meng Zixiu.Could it be that the second brother will do something to divert the attention of officers and soldiers from Shence Gate?

She then spoke again and explained in detail: "Tang Fu'an will appear here at the Shence Gate, which means that King Lu is probably also here at the Shence Gate. These two people have always been inseparable, and now they are even worse. Tang Fu'an appeared at the Shence Gate at this time, which means that they are sure that we will leave from the Shence Gate and sit here, just to sit and watch us fall into their net, so that they can feel at ease. Two consecutive arrests The failure has already made Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an unable to sit still. And if there is a riot elsewhere at this time, and people suspected of us appear, how do you think they will react?"

"Transfer immediately." Sui'er replied.

"That's right, they are already frightened. They will be afraid that we will escape for the third time, so they will immediately dispatch troops and send a large number of people to the accident site to arrest them. The Shence Gate will be the most empty exit at that time, and we don't need to leave. Just wait for the opportunity." Bai Yuyin said.

However, Han Jia'er put forward a different opinion: "Will they see through this trick of making a fool of themselves?"

Meng Kuang shook his head, and Sui'er explained for her: "Even if they suspect that this is a slap in the face, they can't completely rule out the possibility of us leaving the city from other places. This situation is caused by themselves. Think about it, facing Such a well-investigated Shence Gate, as long as people with a normal mind will avoid it and choose other passages to leave the city, so it is very likely that we will be found in other places."

"This..." Han Jiaer felt that this reason was not convincing enough, so Bai Yuyin continued to explain:

"That is to say, concentrating most of the arresting forces on the Shence Gate is actually the biggest loophole in Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an's arrest strategy. They forced themselves into a state of being in a state of taking care of one thing and losing another, and we can just take advantage of it." This loophole completes the plan to go out of the city. And one thing cannot be ignored, there should be someone on the tower to monitor the flow of people below, if a car suddenly turns around and leaves in the middle of the crowd, it will definitely attract the attention of the watchers on the tower.”

Han Jia'er thought about it carefully, then she seemed to understand it, and said: "I never thought that the dignified prince and the eunuch would be so unwise in terms of strategy."

Bai Yuyin said: "Yes, but this is not just a misstep. It is also the bad luck of King Lu and Tang Fu'an to meet the Dragon Boat Festival. He is short of manpower, and it is impossible to control the entire Nanjing city. It is an inevitable result. We can always take advantage of his loopholes to get out of the city. In fact, he shouldn't use such a stupid way of blocking, if he can set up clever traps to lure us into the bait, he can use a small number of people to arrest us."

The coachman outside, Lao Li, listened to the chatter inside the car and discussed for a long time, but he couldn't reach a conclusion, so he couldn't help asking again:

"How did you discuss it? What should we do?"

Bai Yuyin said: "Please tell Guo Qianhu and the Princess, let's stand still for now, maybe there will be changes, and then we can take advantage of the chaos and go out from Shence Gate."

The coachman scratched his head, not understanding what variables were, but he went back honestly and told the people in the front car.Guo Dayou and the princess seemed to want to go with them, their carriage didn't move or turn around, and they still followed the flow of people obediently and moved towards the gate of the city.

Seeing that the carriage was about to enter the blockade where there was no turning back, and there was no medicine for regret, Guo Dayou still made a decisive decision. They did not look back and completely entered the blockade.In this way, Meng Kuang will not turn back when driving, because Meng Ai is still in Guo Dayou's car, Meng Kuang and others will never leave Meng Ai and act separately.

The city gate was getting closer and closer. Through the gap in the curtain of the car, Meng Kuang could see Tong Butou's eyes locked on their car.Meng Kuang's heart was in his throat. If there were no more changes, they would really have to bite the bullet and face the city gate inspection.

As soon as the idea fell, a sudden change occurred.Meng Kuang suddenly heard a scream, followed by the exclamation and clamor of countless people around the car, and suddenly there was a muffled "bang", something suddenly fell from a high place and hit the bottom of the city gate, just on the ground. The horse driven by the princess's car was startled by the side of the princess's car in front. The horse neighed uncomfortably, and the coachman Lao Li hurriedly yelled to comfort the horse.

Bai Yuyin, Sui'er, and Han Jiaer were frightened, and their complexions turned pale. Sui'er grabbed Meng Kuang's sleeve tightly.Meng Kuang lifted the curtain of the car slightly, looked out through the gap, and saw a man who looked like a general in the uniform of the city defense army collapsed under the city gate, bleeding from his orifices, and he had fallen dead.

She quickly raised her head to look up the tower, and suddenly saw Tang Fu'an on the tower, besides the Tang Fu'an she had just seen, there was a fat young man with a thin beard and a golden crown on his head.Meng Kuang recognized at a glance that this person was King Lu.At this time Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an fell into great panic, with no expression on their faces, and there were officers and soldiers on the tower shouting:

"My lord! There are assassins! Follow me down the tower!"

There was chaos above the gatehouse. Meng Kuang looked at the corpse that had fallen from a height again, and found that he had been shot by an arrow in the back of the neck. It should be a crossbow/arrow. The shape looked very familiar to her. seen.This person was supposed to be facing the inner side of the city gate when he was suddenly attacked from behind, hit the back of the head, and was kicked off the city tower.In other words, the attacker should be right above the tower.And only the officers and soldiers of the city defense army can go up the tower. Who is this assassin?Even pretending to be the city defense army to assassinate the people around Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an at this juncture, but they didn't touch Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an, just scared them away.Can he retreat completely surrounded by so many city defense troops and Lu Wang's guards on the tower?

This is not the style of the second brother... but it is almost like creating a chance for them to escape!

Just thinking about this, I suddenly heard someone shouting from the crowd outside:

"The gangsters have killed people! Run, everyone! Run out of the city!"

The people who were already frightened were even more frightened by this voice. Amidst the screams, a large number of people began to rush towards the city gate of Shence Gate in panic.The Shencemen interrogation officer team, which originally had great authority, was instantly dispersed by the crowd and was submerged in the crowd's jostling and collision.

Amidst the crowd, the two carriages of Meng Kuang and the others immediately started moving and rushed out of the city gate.In the panic, the boy Butou didn't care about any search and arrest, and hurriedly ran out of the city with the flow of people, but was overtaken by the princess's car in a blink of an eye.A thick arm suddenly protruded from the window, grabbed Tong Butou's clothes on the back, directly lifted his feet off the ground, and dragged him to the side of the carriage.Tong Butou screamed in panic, scratching with both hands and kicking desperately with both feet.But he was still directly pulled by this thick and powerful arm, the upper half of his body was completely pulled into the carriage, and the lower half of his body was still hanging outside the carriage. Immediately afterwards, his body suddenly twitched, and then he was pulled by the people in the carriage. The person was thrown out like a torn sack, and the whole person fell off the carriage, and his arm was run over by the wheels.With a short glance, Meng Kuang caught him lying on the ground with a livid face, wide-open eyes, and his neck had been wrung.

His body fell at the gate of the city like this, being trampled by countless people.The drivers of Meng Kuang and others also rushed out of the gate of Shence Gate, and finally left the inner city and entered the range of the outer city.

Guo Dayou killed Tong Butou through the car window, and this Tong Butou's rebellion quickly ushered in a thorough revenge.This scene probably shocked the princess, Meng Yan and Ban Ruhua in the front carriage. Guo Dayou killed people in front of them. Meng Kuang could imagine the impact of this kind of close proximity.

Meng Kuang looked back at the Shence Gate, and suddenly saw a familiar figure on the wall looking at their car.This man was wearing a city defense army uniform, his face was ugly and hideous, with a huge scar running through his eyes and reaching his jaw.Thunder flashed in her mind, and she couldn't help blurting out:

"Li Laosan!"