Pei Gonggui

Jiang Yue was about to grab his neck, but when he heard his voice, he froze in place, his eyes trembling in disbelief:

"Pei Jun?"

Pei Jun hurriedly removed the beard sticking to his face, picked up his sleeve and wiped the mud stuck to his forehead: "It's me, Jiang Yue, it's me!"

Seeing that it was really him, Jiang Yue fell to the ground with the sword in his hand, and his whole body was shocked: "Pei Jun, are you alive?"

Pei Jun pulled him into his arms, and hugged him tightly with great excitement: "I'm fine, I'm fine... Am I not doing well?" Then he pushed him away, looked at him carefully, trembling Throat asked: "What about you? How are you? Are you injured?"

"I..." Jiang Yue choked for a moment, tried his best to hold back the soreness in his eyes, and said to Pei Jun, "I was ambushed by Cai Yan's men in Ningcheng, and Li Si defected and took away the food and grass. The whole army was in chaos and almost destroyed ...I evacuated with more than 100 people, and I went north to look for you...but I only found a wrecked ship by the river, so I thought you were in danger in the river—"

"I don't, look... I'm fine." Pei Jun held back his tears, grabbed his finger and put it on his cheek, holding Jiang Yue's face and said, "I've been... I've been looking for you all the time, and I finally found you today." It's..."

He immediately ordered all the guards around him: "Stop! Everyone stop! Everyone belongs to us! Stop fighting!"

As soon as Jiang Yue heard his words, Fang remembered that there was someone beside him, so he let go of Pei Jun and raised his hand to wipe his face.

The guards around listened to the order and stopped hesitantly.The men in black were still afraid that Pei Jun would cheat, so they looked back at their master suspiciously, only to see that Jiang Yue had put down his weapon, sat on the ground, and made a truce gesture to everyone:

"Everyone, stop fighting. This is Mr. Pei Junpei, we have found him."

All the men in black understood immediately, and they all clasped their fists and bowed to Pei Jun.

Pei Jun nodded to them, helped Jiang Yue stand up together, patted the mud on Jiang Yue's body and said: "Since you have already occupied this place, we don't need to work anymore. Too many things happened along the way , you follow me, I will tell you one by one on the way."

"Where are you going?" Jiang Yue asked.

Pei Jun said: "Do you still remember the tea mountain you bought? Mr. Zhao has arranged for the troops we brought out from Beijing. Although there is a shortage of supplies right now, it is a comprehensive place to live."

As he spoke, he picked up Jiang Yue's sword from the ground, put his backhand into the scabbard around Jiang Yue's waist, and finally showed his first smile in months, took Jiang Yue's hand and said, "Let's go, I will I have already prepared a place for you."

In the capital city, in the forbidden palace, the night has come.

Two figures, Jiang Zhan and Jiang Xuan, one tall and one short, came quietly to the Imperial Garden, one behind the other, and squatted in a corner. Seeing the guards in front of them patrolling, they crawled into a veranda outside a courtyard.

"It's here." Jiang Zhan said in the smallest voice, "We waited for months and rehearsed hundreds of times in the palace, and it was so easy for Cai Yan to take it lightly. This is probably our only chance to escape. Success, no failure!"

Jiang Xuan was sweating nervously on his forehead, looked at the bruises on Jiang Zhan's face, and nodded obediently: "Xuan'er listens to the emperor."

"Good, good." Jiang Zhan let go of his trembling hand, touched the back of his head perfunctorily, and then instructed, "Remember, once I lead the guards away, you can go in through the back door and walk to the third place on the right hand side of the courtyard. Under a tree, dig out a small package, get out as soon as you get it, clear?"

Jiang Xuan nodded timidly: "It's clear. But Uncle Huang, why didn't you let Eunuch Hu come? I... I'm still afraid."

Jiang Zhan touched his face impatiently, and turned his head to look around: "Hu Li is a grass on the wall, and he can't be trusted in times of crisis. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been held hostage by Pei Jun so easily. Now Not to mention..."

He didn't go on talking, and Jiang Xuan couldn't understand what he was talking about, so he wanted to ask again at this time, but Jiang Zhan thought he was long-winded and urged him to get ready.

After a while, another team of guards came from not far away.Jiang Zhan took a deep breath, calmed down, turned his head and looked at Jiang Xuan, then got up and walked out of the darkness.

The sound of Cai Yan and the woman having fun all night came from the side courtyard.Jiang Zhan heard that the princess of the Haring tribe who became her concubine at the time was smiling and flattering inside, and felt a coldness in his heart. At this time, he looked back and saw that Jiang Xuan had disappeared into the shadows in the corridor. He calmed down secretly, squeezed Clenching his fists, he plucked up his courage and walked towards the main entrance.

"The emperor has ordered that no one is allowed to enter!" The guard at the door stopped him.

Jiang Zhan glanced at him, and said arrogantly: "This is my palace, I can go wherever I want, it's not your business!"

The guard was insulted by him and was about to explode, but when the orchestral sound in the courtyard stopped, Cai Yan's hoarse voice came through the palace door after being drunk:

"Who is making noise outside?"

The voice of the woman on the side is charming and foiled: "It must be a stinky bastard who doesn't understand the style, disturbing the happiness of the concubine and the emperor..."

Jiang Zhan outside the courtyard sneered, and suddenly shouted: "There are assassins! There are assassins! Come, catch the assassins for me!"

Cai Yan had recently ascended the throne, and knew that the world was unstable, so he was afraid that someone would harm him. At this time, when he heard Jiang Zhan say "assassin", his brows furrowed, and he immediately put on his clothes and ran to the outside of the hall. Underfoot, where is the assassin!"

Jiang Zhan stopped shouting, stared at him, and sneered: "Aren't you an assassin?"

Only then did Cai Yan come to his senses, and immediately stepped forward two steps in anger, slapped Jiang Zhan's face with a "slap", grabbed his neck and lifted him up, roaring with alcohol smell: "You brat, Do you still think that you are the emperor? You are just a dog under the crotch of my concubine brother! He is cheap, you are even lower than him! If you have this skill to embarrass yourself, you might as well bark like a dog and wag your tail. I like it, maybe I can spare your life—"

"Bah!" Jiang Zhan spat hard on his face, breathing hard in his claws, "Even if I die, I will never beg for mercy from you, a lowly bastard!"

"Do you dare to say that I am a pariah?" Cai Yan's eyebrows darkened, "Do you believe that I will kill you!"

Jiang Zhan gritted his teeth and said: "Wanmin uprising, Beijing people flee, you can't sit on this golden chair anymore, if you kill me, it is even more impossible for the royal family surnamed Jiang who holds military power in the four realms to surrender to you! You Guess, how many troops does King Tai have, where are King Fu and King Ning? Jiang Yue is out, and Pei Jun also escaped from the Imperial City Secretary... What do you think they are waiting for? They are just waiting for you to catch fire! "

"Presumptuous!" Cai Yan was hit by the pain, threw him to the ground, pointed to his nose and said, "Jiang Zhan, you should be lucky! If it wasn't for Cai Lan pampering you, if it wasn't for those surnamed Jiang, I shaved your skin and fed it to the dogs! I can’t afford to keep you right now, but if you can’t persuade the royal family and reinforcements from outside Beijing to surrender, and you want to fight me in the palace, then don’t blame me for being rude !"

After that, he raised his hand and called out: "Come here, drive this mad dog out!"

"Yes!" The surrounding guards answered loudly, and immediately rushed forward, dragging Jiang Zhan out of the imperial garden.

Jiang Zhan was thrown on the stone brick floor outside the Imperial Garden, his whole body ached from the fall, but he couldn't leave with peace of mind.

He huddled in the corner and waited and waited, looking back at the garden from time to time, and after waiting for about two sticks of incense, he finally saw Jiang Xuan running towards him with his short legs and cat bent.

Jiang Zhan was overjoyed, suddenly felt that the beating just now was not in vain, and was so excited that he stood up and waved to Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan, who was running over there, also saw him, just raised his smiling face, and wanted to shake the package dug out in his hand at him, but saw a tall figure appearing in front of him, blocking his way.

The smile on Jiang Xuan's face suddenly froze, and he looked up in a daze, only to see a patrolling guard in front of him, tilting his head at this time, looking suspiciously at the package in his arms.

— was discovered!

Jiang Zhan outside the garden was shocked when he saw it, and his back couldn't help shaking.

He knew that if he and Jiang Xuan were found by the guards at this time, they would both die, but now, the guards only saw Jiang Xuan, but not him, so if he could escape, he would still be alive!

Without further ado, Jiang Zhan stood up leaning on the wall. Seeing that Jiang Xuan in the garden had been picked up by the tall guard, he couldn't help closing his eyes in pain, turned his head, and ran towards Chongning Hall.