Pei Gonggui

When Yushitai and the infantry deacon's mansion finally rushed to Yan Yuliang's and Fang Mingjue's mansions in two groups, what they saw was the same as the Zhongyihou's mansion.At the same time, by the canal pier in the south of the capital, a large ship with brown and black sails was quietly leaving the port.

The "official" character on this ship has not been removed, and the bronze plate of "Mei's Ship Industry" is inlaid on the side of the bow. It is full of salt and rice, and the anchor is taken off amidst the shouts of more than 160 boatmen. Slowly row towards the Jingnan Pass.

It was the same boat that Qian Haiqing and Zhang San took to supervise the handling of the salt case.

At this time, Qian Haiqing was sitting in the secret mezzanine cabin under the deck of this large ship, while he was still in shock taking off his wrinkled and patched coat, while listening to Pei Jun briefly recounting the various thrilling situations in the court when he left Beijing to handle the case.After changing into casual clothes, he looked around dumbfounded. He could neither believe his eyes nor his ears, and repeatedly confirmed, "So... we are all fugitives now?"

"That's right." Pei Jun hurriedly ordered the boatmen on the deck to cover the mechanism of the cabin with hay, finally closed the cabin door, sat down beside Qian Haiqing, and sighed, "The palace conspired to kill me and King Jin." , I can only hold the emperor hostage, who knows that Cai Yan is not dead and beats me, and Zhang Ling got the letter to arrest me, so I absolutely can't stay like this--if it wasn't for Master Mei who happened to escape from the mansion and saw Zhang Ling Bringing troops into the palace, we all have to stay in the capital today."

"Fortunately, we evacuated quickly!" Mei Linyu, who was sitting across from him in the narrow and low secret cabin, folded his hands on his sleeves, half covered his bruised face, leaning on the bulkhead and said, "There are shouts of beating and killing outside, If it weren't for you, the student, who came back early today, the boat we prepared has not been packed, and we can't leave if we want to. I just hope that the journey will be smooth, otherwise if you are caught back, you will lose your head, and none of us can escape. Lose……"

He was sitting opposite Pei Jun, with Yan Yuliang and his wife, a son and a daughter on his left, Fang Mingjue and his wife and daughter on his right, and Uncle Dong sitting cross-legged on his right.Right now, Uncle Dong was worryingly asking if Pei Yan, who was on the other side, was still comfortable. Pei Yan sat beside him with her legs curled up, holding Jiang Xuan in her arms and said, "It's okay, but Jiang Xuan in her arms looked at Pei Jun silently with dark eyes. He followed suit and hugged the dog in his arms tightly, with a pitiful expression, as if begging for forgiveness.

Seeing this, Pei Jun sighed helplessly and said, "I told you that we are fleeing for our lives. Don't take your dog with you. If you don't let it go, you have to take it with you on the boat now, so don't stare at me like that anymore." Me. But let’s talk about the ugly things first—if we, the crew of this boat, make any mistakes because of this dog, I will stew it for you right away, do you hear me?"

Jiang Xuan knew very well that the matter was of great importance, and he also felt guilty of being willful, so he nodded in fear, but the dog heard the threat in Pei Jun's words, and grinned at Pei Jun and grinned in a low voice.

Pei Jun was not as knowledgeable as a dog, so he turned to Mei Linyu and asked, "Are you sure you sent the letter out of the city?"

Mei Linyu responded: "Send it off. Hurry up, and you should be able to join the Jin Prince's army in three days."

Pei Jun nodded when he heard the words, and whispered to Mr. Zhao who was sitting on the ground beside him. After a while, he heard the sound of the hull of the boat, as if it was leaning against a stone pier, and then there were soft footsteps walking onto the deck above their heads. ——It should be that the ship has arrived at the exit and boarded the official post to check.

At this time, Zhang Ling's order to close the customs and strictly investigate has not yet been conveyed to the mouth of the canal, and the ships of Mei's company often enter and leave the capital, with all kinds of documents in place. After getting on the boat and looking at the cargo, they chatted and joked with a group of guards disguised as boatmen, and they disembarked and let them pass after a while.

Hearing a few yells from the boat, Pei Jun got up again, felt the boat slowly moving again, and couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that he was able to get out of the city smoothly.Unexpectedly, he was about to discuss the arrangements after leaving Beijing with Mr. Zhao, but he heard a chaotic sound of horseshoes and people outside the ship's wall, and someone shouted:

"The felon escaped! Strict arrests in all directions! Immediately close the city defense, and everyone is waiting on the ship for inspection!"

In an instant, the officials who were chatting and joking just now were startled, and they all cheered up, and hastily opened the iron chain bolts of the city defense gates, and the huge iron gates of the gates were slowly lowered behind the big boat where Pei Jun and the others were.

Mei Linyu looked out through the seam of the boat, patted her chest and said in a breathless voice: "God, we are just catching up with the last boat to leave the customs, and I don't know where we got our luck!"

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, a middle-aged man's cold voice came from outside the boat: "Wait a minute, why did the boat in front leave?"

Yan Yuliang in the cabin was startled when he heard the sound, looked at Pei Jun and said, "Zi Yu, isn't this the voice of Henry Zhang?"

Pei Jun also recognized that the voice came from Zhang He, and couldn't help raising his heart that had just let go, and then he heard the voice continue: "Since you haven't left yet, let's stop it and investigate."

With just one sentence, everyone in the cabin who had just escaped from danger was thrown into danger again.Everyone gasped secretly, looking at each other worriedly.

Pei Jun raised her index finger to her lips, warning everyone not to make any noise, so Pei Yan pursed her lips tightly and covered Jiang Xuan's mouth with trembling hands, and Jiang Xuan's little hand tightly covered the mouth of the puppy in her arms. Fang and Fang also protected their children with their wives, holding their breath and listening to the movement outside the boat.

I only heard a series of footsteps on the deck again, and another cold male voice came from outside: "Brother, since the ship has already been inspected, why bother to inspect it again? Quickly check the ones that haven't left the customs."

As soon as Pei Jun heard the voice, he immediately looked at Qian Haiqing with surprise in his eyes: No, this is Zhang San's voice!

Qian Haiqing's fingers clenched the fabric of his knees, and his eyebrows were tightly furrowed——

He took the boat with Zhang San to handle the salt case. Knowing that Zhang San knew the boat, he also knew that Zhang San was upright and upright, and defended the law. Something went wrong.

Outside the boat, Zhang He stood on the stone bank by the canal pass, turned his head to look at Zhang San who came a step back, pointed at the boat and said solemnly: "You can see the words 'Mei's Company' on that boat? I heard that Pei Jun I have a friendship with the Mei family's young boss, and it is just when Pei Jun is absconding, and there is another Mei family's merchant ship leaving Beijing, don't you think it is too coincidental?"

"What a coincidence?" Zhang San asked back, "This boat is the one I took to handle the case this time. The boat is already full of stolen goods confiscated from the salt field. Now that the boat is leaving Beijing Pass, it must be going to the Changping warehouse to park the stolen salt and fill it into the treasury." .The Pei clan has a lot of people, how can they hide with this boat alone?"

"Since my father ordered an inspection, there is no harm in being careful." Zhang He didn't waste any time talking with him, "I see you, you know the ship well, you'd better go up and see it yourself."

Zhang He's words were meant to be a warning, if it wasn't for his lack of official position, he would have already boarded the boat for self-examination.Seeing that he insisted on this, Zhang San frowned and thought for a while, so he had no choice but to walk onto the boat along the wooden plank, entered the cabin and began to inspect.

Pei Jun heard the small footsteps and rummaging sounds from the top of the head that belonged to the officials stopped. A steady footstep creaked the wooden seam of the deck, and then walked along the wooden ladder on the other side of the secret cabin. The working cabin below the cabin—the watertight cabin where the oarsmen and sailors reside.

In the silence of the ship's side, Zhang San's footsteps made a slight sound; in the dark cabin, everyone held their breath, for fear that any movement would disturb the young official who was newly promoted to the Minister of Punishment, and listened. The sound of footsteps felt like stepping on the door of his own life.

However, at this moment, there was a glimmer of light in the secret cabin due to the firelight penetrating from the bottom, which made Pei Jun suddenly notice—the dog opposite him, whose mouth was tightly pinched by Jiang Xuan, seemed to be uneasily gently It moved, and at the next moment, a line of saliva overflowed from the dog's mouth, and instantly slipped from Jiang Xuan's fingers onto the floor of the secret cabin, and before Pei Jun could react, the saliva had already slipped from the gap in the floor hold—

A drop of water dripped from the ceiling in front of Zhang San, and just happened to hit the toe of his soap-colored embroidered boot, making a subtle but clearly audible sound in the silent cabin:

"Clap!"

Zhang San paused, looking down at the dripping water, his brows furrowed suddenly.Suddenly, he took the oil lamp on the wooden box beside him, held it up high, and looked slowly and nervously over his head.

The light from the oil lamp penetrated through the gaps between the boards and shone into Pei Jun's eyes.

Pei Jun subconsciously raised his hand to cover his eyes.

Zhang San's pupils shrank suddenly, and his hand holding the lamp trembled slightly - in the shaky light, he saw a swaying shadow between the cracks above his head.

For a moment his heart beat like a drum.

This silent moment lasted like thousands of years, until Zhang He's voice came from outside the ship calling him: "See you, how about it?"

Zhang San's eyes trembled, and he came back to his senses, but he didn't look away from the secret cabin after hearing the words.

After a while, he took a deep breath and put the oil lamp in his hand back to its original place with great difficulty. After hastily turning his head back out of the hold and back on the rocky shore, he exhaled the stale air in his chest and said to Zhang He:

"The ship has passed the inspection and is safe, let it go."

At this moment, a group of disguised people are stationed in the dense forest north of the capital. The leader is tall and handsome, with thick arms and waists. It is Cai Yan who has long been dead in rumors and official newspapers.

Cai Yan pulled the mask on and walked past the camped people. He raised his head and looked towards the direction of the capital. He pointed around in a rough voice and called a guard, "Go, look at the scouts." Are you back yet?"

The guard immediately listened to the order: "Yes, Governor Cai." After saying that, he trotted away.

After a while, two scouts came with the guard on horseback, went straight to Cai Yan and hurriedly dismounted, knelt down and offered a bamboo tube and said: "Report to the governor, our men and horses lying in ambush on the official road in the south of the city have intercepted a secret letter. After interrogating the messenger, I learned that this letter was to be sent to the army of King Jin in the southern region."

Cai Yan raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and immediately took it over to take a look, and saw a line of thin but hasty handwriting written on the paper in the bamboo tube:

"Cai Wei is still alive, and he is coming to the capital with thousands of troops. The kidnapping has been revealed, and Zhang Ling is intimidating, so he cannot stay in Beijing for long. As promised in the past, I have left Beijing for a temporary refuge. You have received this letter and hurried to Ningcheng Let’s meet. Pei Jun’s word.”

After reading the letter, Cai Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "This word is indeed written by Pei Jun. It seems that he really formed an alliance with the King of Jin, and he has escaped from the capital now..."

As he said that, his sinister eyes turned slightly, and he laughed jokingly: "The governor and the Cai family have fallen into such a situation, and we all thank Mr. Pei for taking care of us. Since today is a fate, it is also appropriate for Mr. Pei to deliver the letter to you." It is."

He raised his hand and called the guards who had just come forward and said, "You, immediately send this secret letter to King Jin without any changes." Then he summoned the deputy general behind him and said, "And you, wait for three words." Once the battalion is assembled, lead them to Ningcheng to station, and make sure to surprise Jiang Yue and Pei Jun when Jiang Yue and Pei Jun meet, and bring back the heads of Jiang Yue and Pei Jun to me!"

The lieutenant general and the guards immediately took orders: "Yes, Commander!"

"Also..." Cai Yan looked at them, and continued, "You tell the world about Pei Jun's evil deeds of coercing the emperor and ruining the court, and if Jiang Yue is arrested in the future, he must also tell him——he was arrested. What Pei Jun did was because Pei Jun sent a letter and betrayed him in exchange for my family's life! I want Pei Jun to be notorious from now on, and people and gods will be outraged. I want everyone to shout for him to be beaten and killed!"

At the same time, in the imperial city of Beijing, Jiang Zhan drank the medicine in the Zhongqing Palace to no avail, and after a brief containment, he became poisoned again, and vomited a mouthful of black blood from his head on the couch.

It happened that Zhang Ling turned back to the palace to return to the palace. When he saw the blood in the bowl in Hu Li's hand, he couldn't help frowning, and the corners of his forehead were sweating——

The Zhang family has assisted the royal monarchs in the past. In his generation, even if there is no hope of resurgence, the emperor must not let the emperor die from the poison of treacherous officials!

Hu Li shook his hands and handed the porcelain bowl to the little eunuch beside him, and quietly inquired about the situation outside the palace.Hearing that Pei Jun had already fled but was not captured yet, he couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief, and he pulled himself together and asked Zhang Ling, "Master Zhang, what should the emperor do now?"

Zhang Ling recruited troops from the Imperial City Department, and ordered him to immediately dispatch people with high martial arts skills to go out of Beijing to hunt down Pei Jun and his party and find the antidote. At this time, he heard that someone from the imperial army reported that he saw a beacon fire from the watchtower in the north of the city. There seems to be a war in a town, and a large number of soldiers and horses are also found outside the Beiguan of the capital.

"Soldiers and horses?" Zhang Ling frowned, "There has never been a military order to gather at Beiguan. How many people gathered?"

The guard of the imperial army said nervously: "The city and the city defense are roughly estimated, and there may be more than [-] troops assembled..."

"What? Over [-]?" Zhang Ling was startled, "Moving troops without an order is a rebellion! The rebel army is so huge, who is leading it?"

The guard shouted that he didn't know, so Zhang Ling ordered him to send an order to find out who the leader of the rebel army was, and immediately borrowed Jiang Zhan's seal from the imperial study to issue an imperial edict, and urgently dispatched the forbidden army to defend the capital and the imperial city, and urgently recruited the eastern and western garrisons to return immediately. Beijing to the rescue.

Jiang Zhan in the room listened to the words of Zhang Ling and the guards. At this moment, he was in pain, his eyes were full of gold stars, but he saw Zhang Ling's busy shadow reflected on the screen in a trance.

He didn't hear a single word that asked for his opinion.The people around were just busy, busy serving him soup and medicine, or just busy pretending to be busy, no one cared about his real pain.

He looked desperately at the golden dragon perched on the bed beam above his head, and thought in the heart of endless pain: Is he going to die in Pei Jun's hands in this life...