Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 223: Lonely Fireworks

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It was late at night, and the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, where Li Ke lived, was still brightly lit, and many people gathered.

The government officials from the governor's palace and the private soldiers of the former palace are all here. Everyone was fully armed and held their breath, in a terrifying scene. In the inner house, loud roars and loud noises of beating tables and chairs were repeatedly heard.

"Reversed, reversed! Really turned against heaven!"

Qin Mubai walked to the courtyard and heard these voices, and couldn't help being surprised: Li Ke? Li Ke is actually ranting crazy? ...I have known him for so long, I really haven't seen him make such a big fire! If it was only because of Zheng Anshun's disappearance, with Li Ke's always calm temperament, he would never fight so uncontrollably.

Yuwen Hongtai was also a little stunned, and muttered: "No, why is your Highness so angry?"

One person walked out of the public servants. It was Zhou Laojiu, whom Qin Mubai had summoned before at the inn. He first gave a salute, then invited Qin Mubai aside, and said nervously, "General Qin, this time But something really happened!"

"What's the matter, why did Your Royal Highness gather all of you government servants and soldiers from the palace?" Qin Mubai asked.

Zhou Laojiu said nervously: "A general from the Prince's Mansion just now returned and reported that the princess was intercepted halfway!"

"What?!" Qin Mubai's eyes widened in horror: "This...! There is such a thing!"

No wonder!

At the moment, Qin Mubai didn't have time to listen to Zhou Laojiu's details, and stepped into the hall of the inner house.

The hall is full of wolves, full of broken dishes, tables and chairs. Li Ke flushed with rage and trembled all over, and the blue veins on his forehead shook his fists and he was sitting on a chair panting.

There are two other people in the hall, one is Chang Shi Quan Wan Ji, who is whispering to Li Ke. The other was wet and knelt on one knee, head down, it was Xue Rengui!

"Qin Mubai, you came just right!" Li Ke saw Qin Mubai coming in, and before he could speak, he strode up almost yelling, "You will immediately count the troops in your army, and you will be led by Xue Rengui. The prince’s soldiers and government officials went to take the Xihe Cao Shui ghost’s lair tonight! I don’t believe it, he can turn back! If there is not enough manpower, I will write to Li Ji immediately and ask him to send an army to suppress it! It’s the reverse, it’s the reverse!"

Qin Mubai allowed Li Ke to roar like thunder, but did not say a word, his expression remained the same.

Li Ke yelled a few times, took a few breaths, and ran to the table and took a sip of tea, as if he had calmed down again, and let out a long breath.

Quan Wanji sighed lightly: "His Royal Highness, you have never been so impulsive."

Li Ke turned his back to the crowd, raised his hand and swayed, and sighed again, as if he had exhausted the depression in his chest, and sighed: "What a shame! My princess and daughter, They were all intercepted by grass bandits!"

"It's the incompetence of the final general, insulting the princess and the princess!" Xue Rengui stood up and wiped it between his neck with a draw.

Qin Mubai's eyes were quick and quick, he flew a palm and cut into Xue Rengui's wrist where he drew the knife. With a swish, the knife flew out like a ray of light, inserted into the middle of the room and buzzed on the beams, deep several inches.

"Rengui, what are you doing!" Qin Mubai shouted, "How can a man commit suicide!"

Li Ke was also taken aback, turned around and strode over, looking at Xue Rengui's neck in amazement, where there was a blood streak cut by the blade. He hurriedly stretched his sleeves and wiped them, and blamed: "Rengui, Xiao Wang has never blamed you. How can I blame you? The water ghosts are deliberate, and even if they enter the palace, they want to take people away. Yes. How can you do such a suspicious stupid thing? If you are gone, who will help me rescue the princess and daughter? Tomorrow they will be able to return, but I have lost you. Wouldn't it be my left arm and my right?"

"His Royal Highness..." Xue Rengui looked ashamed, and bowed down on one knee, "The general is too incompetent. It is really shameless to face His Royal Highness, and I am ashamed of Your Highness's kindness!"

"Get up quickly." Li Ke bent down to help him up, took him and Qin Mubai's hands left and right to sit down, and said, "I was so excited just now that I have not yet asked for the reason. Rengui, now Mu Bai is also here. He has always been resourceful, and he must have clever ideas and opinions. Now you will tell us the details of the incident."

"Yes." Xue Rengui wrung his brows and spoke.

It turned out that Xue Rengui and Yin Yang were ordered by Li Ke to lead a team of royal guards to Anzhou to pick up the long-awaited concubine Wu Yang and the one-year-old princess. Because the princess was weak and sick after giving birth, she chose to take a boat. Originally, the boat went down and came back smoothly, but tonight when the boat was traveling less than twenty miles away from Xiangyang, everyone suddenly heard the strange "boom" sound coming from the bottom of the boat.

The experienced boatmen suddenly yelled in panic, saying that water ghosts were chiseling the boat!

At this time, the big ship was driving in the heart of the river, and did not make a shore before and after. The two men, Xue Rengui and Yin Yang, did not know how to swim. The boatmen were terrified by the water ghosts again, and they lost their sense at the moment, and many people jumped into the river to escape.

Only Xue Rengui, Yin Yang, the princess, mother and daughter, and the soldiers and soldiers were left on the boat. It was like a fish on a chopping board for slaughter, helpless!

Soon, the bottom of the boat began to enter the water, and everyone hurriedly blocked their mouths, to no avail. The big ship finally began to sink. Everyone tried their best to remove the boat board for the princess mother and daughter to ride, but the others were soaked in the water. Seeing that the hull was almost sinking under the tilt, more than ten smart little shuttle boats came over with their lights.

The other party seemed to know who fell into the water, but he was not in a hurry to save people. Instead, he said, if you want to save people, you can save only the princess and the mother and daughter. Others can give a few boats to escape by themselves.

This makes it clear that the water ghost is coming to rob!

Seeing that the thin ship plank was about to turn over at any time, and the princess and the princess women could not survive. Out of helplessness, Xue Rengui and others had to resort to an expedient measure and let them rescue the princess first. Xue Rengui and Yin Yang discussed each other. One stayed and took hostage with the princess, which was a caregiver; the other came back to report.

In this way, the princess and Yin Yang were **** together. The sergeants drowned more than half of them. Xue Rengui and the others staggered in a small shuttle boat before they rowed back, because they could not navigate the boat and knew the water. Several times along the way, the boat was almost overturned by wind and waves and was buried in fish belly.

After listening, Li Ke and Qin Mubai looked at each other, almost in unison, "This is obviously premeditated!"

Quan Wanji was puzzled: "It seems that the enemy understands our every move and every move. They have set up ambush on the river surface, first hit the sunken ship, and then easily hijacked the princess and the mother and daughter, almost without a single knife. Soldiers. With such a deep scheme, it can be seen that the opponent is not an ordinary grass bandit!"

"That's just enough." Qin Mubai lightly picked up his mouth and said, "I just met Yuwen Hongtai, and I heard that Zheng Anshun is also missing. What is going on?"

"I asked him to call you." Li Ke beckoned at him, "You all come too!"

After that, Li Ke led everyone to a room with two men lying flat on the bed. Qin Mubai frowned when he saw it, wasn't it the two Baiqi bodyguards he had sent to Zheng Anshun?

"A few days ago, I agreed with Zheng Anshun to take the time to meet today to discuss some things. But after a while before anyone came, I was suspicious. I sent someone to his residence and saw only these two people. Li Ke said, "I asked the doctor to show them, but they were numb to them with the habitual drugs in the rivers and lakes. It doesn't matter my life, but I don't want to wake up tonight. I still have it in the room. A letter, please read it!"

Li Ke handed a letter, and Qin Mubai took it and opened it. When I opened the envelope, I still smelled a slight fragrance. It turned out that there was a gardenia in the letter paper.

There are only numbers in the letter-"I count all the agencies, how can I do it? Willows in Chuiyang Lane, lonely fireworks."

Everyone looked at them and shook their heads together: "The first eight characters are easy to understand. It is nothing more than the other party who saw through the strategy arranged by us and Zheng Anshun and clamored arrogantly after taking people away. What's the explanation for the eight words? What is "Changyang Lane Willow, Lonely Fireworks"?"

"I don't quite understand it for a while..." Qin Mubai frowned and shook his head, chewing these eight words carefully in his heart, and said, "It feels like an allusion to the woman in the brothel. Chui Yang How does Xiangliu explain it? Wait a minute... Your Highness, I'll go find someone to talk to, maybe I will gain something."

"Who are you looking for?" Qin Mubai had already walked out and disappeared without saying anything. Soon, he brought one person, who turned out to be Zhou Laojiu, the leader of the government.

Qin Mubai asked: "Zhou Laojiu, I have a few questions to ask you. Are you a local from Xiangyang?"

"The little man has lived in Xiangyang for generations, and his ancestors have been from Xiangyang for generations." Seeing many big figures present, Zhou Laojiu replied tremblingly.

"This is good." Qin Mubai said, "I want to ask you, where is the most famous place for fireworks in Xiangyang?"

"This...the north of the city is close to Puhua Long Street in the Hong Kong City!" Zhou Laojiu replied, "There are 17 or 8 brothels, large and small, specializing in business with merchants, which can be described as a lot of money. "

"Well. Among the many women in the brothel, is there one who is particularly famous, named Gardenia?"

"This...this..." Zhou Laojiu thought about it for a while and shook his head, "There are so many lotus and begonias, and there are really no gardenias."

"Really?"

"Really not." Zhou Laojiu said affirmatively, "Although the villain is in a humble position and has a meager income, he can't afford to play in places like that, but his duties are always there. Which girls are slightly better, I also know at a glance. No way!"

At this time, Li Ke said: "Is there a store whose name is Chuiyang, or Xiangliu, or is it with these four words?"

Zhou Laojiu was stunned for a long while thinking, still shook his head: "Still not!"

"This is weird!" everyone was surprised.

Li Ke and Qin Mubai whispered: "Mubai, what do you mean is that the next eight characters, Chuiyang Lane Liu, Lonely Fireworks, are alluding to each other’s contact point? Why did he tell us ?"

"The purpose is very simple. Of course, it is to negotiate terms with us." Qin Mubai said, "His Royal Highness, just this morning, Pang Fei and Zuoying Marine General Zhao Chong also disappeared in Xiangyang!"

"What?" Li Ke exasperated, "The other party is really brash!"

"Wait, calm, calm!" Qin Mubai waved his hands and said with a serious face, "I always feel that the other party has been holding us by the nose, and is clear at a glance to all our movements, and everything is our first hand. "

"Do you mean that there is a traitor among us?" Li Ke said solemnly.

Zhou Laojiu panicked immediately: "Little, little people are not! Little people know something, and there is no courage to collude with water ghosts against the prince and general!"

"Know that you are not, shut up!" Li Ke snorted impatiently, and said, "Mu Bai, it seems that we have fallen into the trap of the other party since we stepped on the ground in Xiangzhou. In. Think about it, from the beginning, things were coincidental and coincidental. Looking back now, they seem to be carefully arranged. From our encounter with the water ghosts in the Eight Guidu, to today's Wangfei, Pang Fei and others Missing together, there is always a black hand behind the scenes calculating us, holding us to death. Even the plan we planned with Zheng Anshun, he also cracked it, and in turn calculated us. Our opponent , It’s really not easy! It’s more than a hundred times more powerful than the strawbags I met in Jiangzhou back then!"

"Yes!" Qin Mubai also nodded, "Now the other party's purpose is already obvious. The kidnapping of Zheng Anshun, the robbing of the princess, and the arrest of Pang Fei and Zhao Chong were all directed at His Royal Highness and me. The purpose is nothing more than to get rid of the grain and make a fortune. And the Zheng family is the best buyer who can accept such a large amount of grain; if you want to get rid of it, you must beat you and me, let us Let it go. The other party is not brave, nor appetite! They are on an equal footing and negotiate terms with us!"

Li Ke grabbed the letter in annoyance: "But now we don't even know who or where the other party is! What does this Chuiyang Lane Willow, firework lady, mean?"

Qin Mubai twisted his brows, and said while thinking: "When we see the word fireworks, we naturally think of the land of fireworks. But there are willows in Chuiyang Lane ahead, and the fireworks are still lonely... …Zhou Laojiu, let me ask you, in this Xiangyang city, where is there a lot of willow trees?"

"Yes, yes, there are many people living in the city, and willow trees are planted in their homes." Zhou Laojiu replied, "From the time when Emperor Yang of Sui Li Guang went to Jiangnan, willow trees have been worth a hundred times. Plant some to show the gate."

"Is there any family that planted willow trees and gardenias?" Qin Mubai continued to ask.

"This, think about this carefully..." Zhou Laojiu tapped his forehead to ponder, suddenly raised his head: "Yes! There are a few! The women of these families all love gardenias. We visit When I pass by the yard on the street, I often smell the fragrance of flowers. The fragrance of gardenia is the strongest. When the spring flowers bloom, I can smell it from afar."

Qin Mubai raised his eyebrows: "Are there any widows among these families?"

"What, widow?" Everyone was surprised at the same time.

I was even more surprised by Zhou Laojiu, his eyes widened: "General Qin, you are a god! You really are! And she is the most famous and stunning little widow in Xiangyang City, still a half-hidden door!" /

"What is a half-hidden door?" Qin Mubai asked.

Li Ke then said: "This is a unique romantic place in Xiangyang. A woman from the ordinary good family secretly takes in some skin and flesh business, to put it bluntly, it is a private prostitution."

"Yes! There is a family that was originally very prosperous, with wealth and reputation. The only son in the family married a famous beauty in Xiangyang. Unexpectedly, this only son drowned and died more than a year ago, leaving only one beautiful and rich The little widow. Later, the little widow could not help being lonely and left the door ajar, not for the sake of money, but to find some charming young men to accompany her to accompany her!" Zhou Laojiu said, "That woman now lives alone in a big family, Xu Liang Shi, known as the flower lady!"

"Willows, Gardenias, Flower Lady, Willows in Weeping Yang Alley; little widow, half-hidden, lonely fireworks--it's her!" Qin Mubai punched his palm and said in a deep voice, "The other party gave it The contact point is the house of that little widow!"

"So what are you waiting for! Send soldiers to encircle and arrest people!" Li Ke shouted.

"Slow!" Qin Mubai raised his hand and said with a stern face, "His Royal Highness, since the other party dared to tell us the contact location so blatantly, he must be prepared. If we are so reckless to lead troops to arrest people, Not only is the bamboo basket empty, it may also harm the lives of the princess and others!"

"Hateful!" Li Ke was obviously aware of this, but he was a little unwilling to hit the wall with an annoyed punch, and shouted, "I was so teased by this group of gangsters!"

"Mu Bai is still very wise, calm and capable." Quan Wanji stood up and said, "The other party is a serial plan. First he captured Pang Fei and Zhao Chong, then Zheng Anshun and the princess and daughter. At the same time, I left such a letter, let us take the initiative to contact. This one link, the world is seamlessly integrated very closely. The other party’s conspirator is really an extremely smart person! Mu Bai, there is no other way at the moment. Without entering the tiger's lair, we had to send someone to Xu Liang's home alone to contact the other party. See what the other party wants. Knowing their intentions, we can solve the problem tit-for-tat."

"Mr. Quan's words are extremely true." Qin Mubai took a deep breath and said awe-inspiringly, "I originally came to Xiangyang to contact them, but I didn't expect that even Zheng Anshun and the princess could Being robbed, it seems that the other party’s appetite is bigger than what I imagined. There is nothing to say, it is the Longtan Tiger’s Den. I, Qin Mubai, must go for a break today!"

"I'll go with you!" Li Ke categorically said, "I don't believe it anymore. What kind of three-headed and six-armed opponent, how can I do it!"

"His Royal Highness, you should stay in the Cishi Mansion and take charge of the overall situation!" Qin Mubai said, "You and I cannot be in the same place at the same time, nor can you be involved in risks at the same time. Don't worry, they will definitely not What about me, because they know that I cannot ignore the lives of the princess and the others, and they will let me come back and give orders to the military mansion. If you stay here, everyone will have the backbone. Please be sure to take a moment. Don't be impatient, don't rush to act, wait for my news in the mansion."

"..." Li Ke frowned for a while, and nodded unwillingly: "Well, it's up to you! Just ask, I'm not as resourceful as you, but you still have to be careful. It’s good. After all, we know almost nothing about them, and we don’t know what kind of tricks they will do."

"I will." Qin Mubai turned around and patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder, "Brother Xue, don't blame yourself. If it's anyone, I can't protect the princess today. You assist your Royal Highness in the Provincial Government , In case there is a change, you are required to lead the soldiers and government officials!"

"Xue takes the lead!" Xue Rengui gave a grateful fist, and said, "Brother Qin, you have to take care! Now, it is all up to you to turn the tide!"

Qin Mubai smiled confidently and jokingly: "It's just a small matter, I see a lot. Now my best hope is that the princess, mother and daughter are safe from the kidnapped person. So, I will go first. You don’t have to worry about it. I will definitely be back intact!"

"Take care!" Everyone handed over together.

"Zhou Laojiu, come and show me the way, just go to the flower lady's house!" Qin Mubai put Zhou Laojiu on the shoulders and strode out of the room.

Li Ke took a long breath, frowned, shook his head and sighed: "Whenever there is a critical moment, he always stands up to solve the problem... I really don't know whether this is a blessing or a disaster."

"Why did your Highness say this?" Quan Wanji asked in surprise.

"Fortunately, needless to say. It is a great blessing to have such a friend, that anyone can sit back and relax." Li Ke said, "The disaster is...I rely on him too much. Today , I almost developed a bad habit. If there is a problem, look for Mu Bai. It seems that if he doesn’t come, I can’t think anymore. Let’s take this letter as an example, let alone go to that flower lady’s house to explore the Dragon Lake’s lair. , Is the meaning of this letter, I can't decipher it at all. With him, I feel like I am alive, like a child who has not been weaned a few years old!"

"Uh..." Quan Wanji and Xue Rengui looked at each other and were speechless. At the same time, they said in their hearts: We haven't figured it out. Could it be that we haven't weaned? ...