steal bi

In the middle of the night, the bleak autumn wind blows through Chang'an Road. The sound of the wind in the narrow and long corridor is extremely strange, like a sob. The wind blows the lanterns hanging on both sides to rattle. Can't even light up a small area.

Even on a night like this, there were guards above Chang'an Road, but only a small force.

In the howling night wind, a forbidden army was blown so that his cheeks were red and dry. He only felt itchy and painful on his face, and complained: "First, His Majesty was seriously ill, and then the Empress Dowager was assassinated, and there was a fire in Concubine Xian's palace. What is it today?" Every day, one bad thing after another."

The captain glared at him, "Shut up."

The imperial army sighed, the night watch was really boring, and because of an accident in the palace, most of the brothers were transferred away, and the remaining deputy captain was strict, and he was not even allowed to gossip. He stood on it and whispered: "Why haven't you come yet?" People change shifts."

Before the words fell, footsteps came from the stairs.

The rest of the people immediately raised their guns, and the person who came held the torch, illuminating the armor around him, the cold light was shining, and it hurt people's eyes.

The person who came showed the token.

The deputy captain ordered his subordinates to put down the guns after checking that they were correct, and only said: "But they are all faces."

The leader put on a bitter face, "If there weren't so many incidents in the palace, there would be no need for a few brothers to guard Chang'an Road."

Seeing the resentment on the faces of this group of people, the disgruntled Imperial Army was obviously dissatisfied with being transferred, so it was unavoidable to gloat, patted the man on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Brother, although it's colder on Chang'an Road, I heard people say , What's more, standing on a high ground and looking far away, the scenery standing here is better than other places, not to mention it's midnight, no one comes and goes, it's very clean."

The man said perfunctorily with a mournful face: "Yes."

Watching the guards of honor of princes and princes can be interesting, but it is really boring when there is no one in the middle of the night.

The imperial guard said: "In the past, I could still see His Highness the Crown Prince, but today His Highness is still in the palace to accompany His Majesty. I'm afraid there is no one there."

The imperial guard had no choice but to shut up and express their dissatisfaction with their eyes.

The two sides matched their waist cards, and the captain led the troops downstairs.

He glanced casually out of the corner of his eye, and landed on the keg brought up by the team.

He paused and said, "I remember that drinking is not allowed on duty."

The group of people who were already looking for the high spots in various places stopped at the same time, and the leader came over and said with an apologetic smile: "It's too cold at night, so I bought some to warm up, you see... we are all brothers, why bother?" These, no one walks on Chang'an Road, so it's okay to drink some, Xiao Liu, come here, and bring the barrel of wine to the brothers."

The imperial guard named Xiao Liu immediately greeted two people to carry wine.

The captain's expression softened slightly, and when the people behind heard that there was wine to drink, they couldn't help jumping up for joy.

The man humbly said: "It's all five-year-old Huadiao wine, with a mellow taste..." Before he finished speaking, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, the sword cut through the flesh, leaving only a line of blood in his throat.

This seemed to be a silent order. Everyone in the forbidden army showed panic, and they were quickly slaughtered before they even had time to make a sound.

The man put away the knife and said coldly, "Drag it to a place where it won't get in the way."

Everyone took orders, except for the body collector, who had already found a place and opened the barrel.

The liquid inside is clear and viscous.

It's kerosene.

At the entrance of Chang'an Road, a carriage stopped.

The guard Ben was so sleepy that he had no choice but to check the waist tag handed over by the coachman—only one character.

With a jolt, he suddenly woke up from his half-sleep.

coming.

he said heartily.

He nodded and bowed his waist, and said very flatteringly: "It turns out to be Lord Hou. Lord Hou has worked hard to sleep through the night for the prosperity of the country. Please, Lord Hou."

No one in the car answered, apparently too lazy to respond.

The guard didn't take it seriously, turned the gate open with a winch, and respectfully invited Qiao Yu in.

The gate closed slowly after Qiao Yu's carriage entered.

The thick copper door cuts off all the light on the way.

A bright red lamp hung over the door.

Everyone got up immediately and poured the oil on the fire as they had said before.

The driver is not Han Tan, but a servant who came to the mansion a year ago.

The man smelled the smell of kerosene and was startled.

He had been favored by Liu Yao before, so he did everything possible to beg Qiao Yu to take him with him tonight.

Originally, the people sent by Liu Yao only told him to bring Qiao Yu into Chang'an Road and stop driving, and there would still be a reward after the event was completed. He believed it and didn't want Liu Yao to kill him together.

In other words, Liu Yao didn't care about his life at all, he was just like this carriage, as long as Qiao Yu came in with the carriage, the carriage would definitely be burned down, and so did the driver, there was no difference.

The coachman jumped out of the carriage, the carriage had been soaked in kerosene, and a lot of it had splashed on him.

He didn't care about Qiao Yu who might not know what happened in the carriage, jumped out of the carriage and ran towards the other end.

The leader waved.

The head was wrapped in tarpaulin, and the flaming guns fell like rain.

In an instant, the flames of Chang'an Road ignited brightly, as bright as day.

The coachman couldn't push the hot copper door open, and most of the flesh on his hands was burned. Enduring the pain, he ran to the carriage crying and crying, "Master Hou, it's the villain's heart covered in lard, it's the villain... Cough cough cough," he was choked out of breath, "The villain is also deceived by others, I beg Lord Hou to save the villain, the villain is willing to be a cow and a horse to repay Lord Hou!"

There was only a faint humming sound from the carriage.

The coachman felt that something was wrong, he tore open the curtain of the car that was already on fire, and saw the situation in the car clearly, his face paled in an instant.

Where was Qiao Yu in the carriage? It was clearly a young man who was tied up. He was so smoked that he couldn't breathe, but his mouth was stuffed with a cotton cloth, so he couldn't even call for help.

When he saw people outside found himself, he struggled immediately.

A string of crystal clear teardrops dripped down the blackened face.

The coachman stared blankly at the person who used to work with him in Qiao Yu's house, even if his brain was not bright enough, he understood something at this moment.

He put down the car curtain in a daze, and the next moment he was shot through his chest by a blazing arrow.

He fell down with a thud, his eyes still wide open.

The flames devoured the carriage greedily, illuminating the faces of the people on it.

The smell of charred meat wafted up from below.

The leader felt that he had done a good job, but he frowned slightly when he saw the carriage where no one escaped, and said, "What's going on?"

"What's the matter?" a brisk voice asked him.

"Why is no one fleeing..." The voice didn't belong to anyone around him, he suddenly turned his head, drew his knife and chopped it off, but the figure was lighter than a piece of paper, lightly dodging the bloody blade.

Downstairs, there was the sound of uniform footsteps, and heavily armed soldiers rushed up.

Standing upstairs, Xiaoxue shouted an order: "Pretend to be the imperial guards, murder the royal family, you should be punished by law!"

The dark armor was like water, swallowing them up in an instant.

The two sides of the corridor were cleaned up, and the red lights were removed and hung.

Xiaoxue said: "Come here, change into this man's clothes." He pointed to the dead body that collapsed on the ground, "Go to His Majesty's bedroom and report to the crown prince first, then say," there was a cruel smile on the young man's face, " all the best."

Everyone quickly extinguished the flames in the corridor, and cleaned up the charred corpses on the ground that were so black that no human shape could be seen.

Not long after, a carriage came slowly.

Holding a light pink lamp in her hand, Xiaoxue waved to the people below.

……

After listening to the report, Yun Pei carefully opened the door and whispered to Liu Yao who was sitting beside the emperor's bed: "Your Highness, everything is going well."

Liu Yao's shoulders stiffened into a line, and then suddenly relaxed after a while. The joy on his face was undisguised, and he couldn't help laughing.

Yun Pei glanced at him with an unclear expression, and said, "This subordinate is waiting outside."

Liu Yao waved his hand.

The bedroom is full of Liu Yao's private army, which Liu Yao believes is the safest place.

The emperor opened his eyes drowsily.

It's so strange, Liu Yao thought, even though the emperor was extremely ill and had absolutely no ability to resist him, he still felt instinctive fear when he saw the emperor's eyes.

The emperor looked at him and said, "Qiao Yu is here?"

Liu Yao smiled slightly. He wanted to answer calmly, but he was so happy that he couldn't help bending over and laughing. He said, "Qiao Yu is dead."

Dead silence.

The waiters in the dormitory were all ordered out by Liu Yao, and it was only the two of them at the moment. His laughter echoed in the empty dormitory, and an echo could even be heard.

Liu Yaoxin said happily: "I ordered someone to spread the news that you called Qiao Yu to see you while you were seriously ill, and told others not to spread it. Of course the secret whistle in your palace will take your ramblings and my orders into account. Let me tell you, whenever Qiao Yu has the slightest ambition to be a king, he will come here, don't you think so?"

The emperor looked at him indifferently, as if looking at a madman.

"Father, don't look at Erchen like this," Liu Yao smiled, with an indescribable ferocity on his beautiful face, "Don't blame Erchen, blame yourself, you don't believe anyone, loyal You killed all the loyal officials, and you forced your son who was devoted to you to be raped. You dote on Qiao Yu. Who is Qiao Yu? You can kneel beside this man and flatter him in every possible way, like a dog with a broken back, but you only like such a courtier."

"I can't bear to kill Qiao Yu. Qiao Yu is really a great hero to my minister." He looked up to the sky and laughed like crazy.

The emperor was speechless.

Liu Yao felt very dissatisfied. The emperor really shouldn't have such a reaction, at least not such a calm reaction.

The emperor should weep bitterly, and regret it at the beginning.

"You forced Liu Chang to death, first gave me the right to be an assistant, but then recalled Liu Zhao, I killed Liu Zhao, thinking that I was sure of winning, but you gave Qiao Yu the title of Marquis, and allowed him to succeed, you let me How can I tolerate the power that is already in my hands being taken away? How can you let me tolerate it?!"

"Up to now, it's all your fault," Liu Yao looked at the emperor lying on the bed, the emperor's eyes were so cold, looking at him as if he was looking at a delirious lunatic, or something not very funny Nuo Xi, "If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being too suspicious. You can't blame me, you can't blame..." He suddenly thought of Qiao Yu, and snorted, "You can blame Qiao Yu, after all, if there is no Qiao Yu Yu, Liu Chang will not die, Liu Zhao will not die, and even you will not be seriously ill."

He approached the emperor, looked at the emperor's face, and said: "Father, you don't know, you are not seriously ill, you are just poisoned, as for the person who poisoned... Guess who it is?"

The emperor's expression changed slightly.

Liu Yao smiled proudly, "I never understood why you trusted Qiao Yu so much. Because of means? Because of thoughts? Or because of looks? I didn't know until that day that Qiao Yu was also your son." That was him The day he was crowned prince was supposed to be the most glorious day in his life. His father ordered the eunuch to read the imperial edict on his crowning prince. There was little praise in the whole text, but at the next moment, he personally named Qiao Yu Weihou, every word All these words are as ardent as a loving father, even though he was extremely happy to be crowned prince, he was completely shattered at that moment. At that time, most of the civil and military eyes of the court fell on Qiao Yu, and few looked at him. , but it's all for jokes!

"Qiao Yu is your son, and I am your son, Liu Chang is, Liu Zhao is, how come we are all your sons and daughters, yet you treat Qiao Yu with the same trust?"

Of course the emperor didn't trust Qiao Yu, instead he was more defensive, but in the heart of Liu Yao who felt that the serious trouble was over, the emperor treated Qiao Yu as the best and most sincere father's love in the world.

The emperor said: "You killed Qiao Yu, have you ever thought about what will happen to the Yuanzan pen?"

Liu Yao said coldly: "Yuan Zanbi used to be unscrupulous because of Qiao Yu's identity, but now that Qiao Yu is dead, what can he do? If he dares, it will be treason, how many people are eagerly waiting to enter Zhongzhou, he dare not .”

There were frequent abnormal noises outside, but because Liu Yao was in an abnormal mood, he didn't notice it until he saw the blood splattered on the window paper.

One person fell down.

He turned back sharply.

The door was pushed open slowly.

It can be seen that the person who pushed the door was not in a hurry, he pushed the door unhurriedly, his wrist as white as frost and snow looked like a piece of beautiful jade under the candlelight.

However, no amount of stunning beauty had a greater impact on Liu Yao than the appearance of this person. He opened his eyes wide in disbelief, as if he had seen a ghost.

In fact, according to Liu Yao's conception and other people's reports, this person should have died half an hour ago, and he should have been a ghost long ago.

"You...you..." He was dumbfounded, the joy just now was swept away, and he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

Qiao Yu asked with a smile: "How do you know that Yuan Bi didn't dare?"