roccoschili Chapter 2733 Murder in the Rainy Night
Chapter 2733 Murder in the Rainy Night
Chapter 2733 Murder in the Rainy Night
"Ok?"
Fang Jun frowned, and looked out the window, the sky had already darkened, and it was raining lightly. Why did Princess Changle send someone here at such a time and weather?
After thinking about it, he said, "Bring people in."
"Here!"
The soldiers pushed out the door, and a slender maid came in after a while, and took off the cloak and hat on her body. It was indeed a maid beside Princess Changle.
"The servant has seen the Duke of Yue."
The maid saluted.
Fang Jun hummed, took a sip of tea, and asked, "Your Highness asked you to come, why?"
The maid lowered her brows and lowered her eyes, and said softly: "Your Highness ordered your servants to come, and if there is something important, please rush to the manor to talk about it."
"Now?"
"Here."
"What's the matter?"
"The servant does not know..."
Fang Jun frowned more and more, and asked again: "His Highness Gao Yang, His Highness Cheng Yang, and His Highness Jin Yang, are you all right?"
The maid replied: "The servant girl is just the personal maid in the room of my highness, and she doesn't know much about the outside world. It's just lunch for several highnesses at noon."
Fang Jun nodded and remained silent.
Several princesses lived together, Fang Jun naturally wouldn't think about those romantic things, besides, Princess Changle was reserved and dignified, even though she could see that she had a lot of affection for him, she never went beyond the distance, how could she send her own maid? Come and invite yourself to a rainy night tryst?
Since it is not such a thing, it may be that there is a problem with safety.
This Jiangnan seems to be calm, but in fact it has already been turbulent secretly. Fang Jun has already noticed that something is wrong with the atmosphere. After all, this gang of Jiangnan gentry has been living in the south for hundreds of years. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River never gave in, so that in order to get the support of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty had to open canals, build Jiangdu, and stay in Jiangnan in person.
It's really not uncommon to really do some conspiracy and tricks to deceive the emperor behind the scenes.
Even though he couldn't figure out why these people had any reason to be unfavorable to Princess Changle, he didn't dare to be careless. After all, Gao Yang and Jin Yang lived with Changle. If Princess Changle found something strange, once she was in danger, Several princesses may be in danger.
Fang Jun nodded, and said: "Go outside and wait, so-and-so changes clothes."
"Here."
The maid exited the door, Fang Jun pondered for a moment, called Wei Ying in, and said: "Bring more people, fully armed, oh yes, bring some musket."
Fang Jun changed his clothes, and Wei Ying had already brought over his musket, a single-barreled flintlock made of fine steel, very delicate.
Put away the muskets and walk out of the house with Wei Ying. More than [-] elite troops have gathered in the yard, all of them are wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats. This kind of weather is not suitable for bows and crossbows. Wet bow strings will reduce their toughness, so All with knives.
Fang Jun and the maid boarded the carriage, left the town office, went straight to the pier, changed to a warship and went straight down into the Yangtze River waterway, and then went upstream not long after, turning into the Wangyu River near Haiyu Town, and went straight to the outside of Suzhou City Jinji Lake.
At this time, the sky was already completely dark, the sky was full of dark clouds and the stars and the moon could not be seen, and the light rain still did not stop.
Abandoning the ship and landing, the soldiers lit up the wind lanterns, and a large group of people rode to Xu's Manor in smear.
The guards of the manor consist of three parts. The outermost part is guarded by soldiers sent by the navy to strictly prevent any idlers from entering. The inner part is the Suzhou County soldiers sent by Mu Yuanzuo, led by Suzhou Sima Shen Wei, and the innermost part is the imperial guards.
The navy soldiers naturally gave way to let Fang Jun in, but when they reached the checkpoint guarded by soldiers from Suzhou County, they were blocked.
Suzhou Sima Shen Wei is very conscientious, and insists on staying here even in rainy days. He smiled wryly in front of Fang Junma and said: "It is not the last general who dares to stop the Duke of Yue, but the governor of Mu has a strict order that no idlers are allowed to wait." Enter the manor, so as not to bump into the princesses. The general obeys orders, how can he dare to neglect his duties? I also hope that Yue Guogong Haihan."
Sitting on the horse, Fang Jun looked up into the manor. The rainy day was dark and the night was gloomy. There was only a little light in the manor, and the gloomyness was like a dragon's pool and a tiger's den. It gave people an extremely depressing feeling and always felt that the atmosphere was very abnormal.
After pondering for a moment, Fang Jun turned his head and said to Wei Ying and other soldiers: "You guys retreat quickly, if someone enters, if there is any situation, return to Huating Town as soon as possible, and let Pei Xingjian lead the army."
"Here!"
Wei Ying responded, and led his soldiers back slowly, returning to the place where the navy soldiers were stationed for a temporary rest.
Shen Wei apologized and said with a smile: "Mr. Yue is just joking. The manor here has three floors and three floors outside. It is safe and sound. How can there be any risk? The last general is only under military order, so he dare not act on his own. If he offends At the end of the day, a banquet will be held at the end of the day to apologize to the Duke of Yue."
Fang Jun smiled lightly, and said: "General Shen has done his duty, and I can only appreciate it, so how can there be any dissatisfaction? Stop gossiping, let's go."
"Here! But... please dismount the Duke of Yue, so as not to disturb your highnesses."
Shen Wei smiled, but neither humble nor overbearing.
Fang Jun looked at him deeply for a while, then threw the stirrup off the saddle, jumped off the horse, flicked the rein, and strode into the manor without saying a word.
Shen Wei ordered someone to take care of the horses, and followed with a few cronies, laughing and chatting with him, but Fang Jun ignored him.
This section of the road into the manor is very flat, paved with blue bricks, but it may be a long time, the road surface is inevitably uneven, and the rainwater accumulated has no time to infiltrate and cannot flow away, forming large and small puddles. When the foot stepped on it, the shoes were wet, and the hem of the clothes was splashed.
The shoes on the feet were completely wet by the rain, and it was damp and cold, which made Fang Jun's spirit more clear and concentrated.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he was worried about the safety of Gao Yang and Chang Le, so he could only walk in one way, but his spirit was always tense, and he didn't look back, but he paid attention to Shen Wei's movements from the beginning to the end. Subconsciously, he placed his musket near the musket worn on his body. As long as there was something wrong, he immediately drew his gun to fight back, and at the same time accelerated to run into the manor.
The manor is full of royal guards, which should ensure safety...
Twenty steps away from the dark gate of the manor, Shen Wei behind him saw nothing abnormal except for his apologetic jokes. Fang Jun had already seen the guard standing at the gate of the manor in the darkness, and he was a little relieved.
Maybe it's just my unfounded worry, nothing unusual happened in the manor, maybe Princess Changle really just wanted to find her private meeting in the middle of the night...
The guard on duty at night heard the movement and asked, "Who is it?"
Shen Wei immediately said: "Duke Yue is worried about the safety of his highnesses, and came to inspect, why don't you open the door quickly?"
With the sound of footsteps, a group of imperial guards came out from behind the door. When Fang Jun arrived at the door, they verified each other. The leader of the imperial guards quickly gave a military salute and said, "It turns out that it is the Duke of Yue, please come in at the end!"
Nothing abnormal was seen, Fang Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "Have your Highnesses been well?"
Before the words fell, a sudden change occurred!
The moment his tense spirit relaxed when he saw the guard, a gust of wind suddenly came from behind him, and at the same time, the leader of the guard in front of him had a grim face, and his hand was already pressing the scabbard of the horizontal knife at his waist Up, wait to pull out the horizontal knife.
Fang Jun was terrified for a moment, the hairs on his body stood on end, he kicked the ground suddenly at the very moment, the powerful explosive force made his body suddenly take a step sideways, at the same time he pulled out the musket under his clothes, and pointed it at the leader of the guards. A shot was fired in the face.
"boom!"
The fire flashed away in the dark rainy night, and the leader of the imperial guards was caught off guard, blood was splashed on his face, and he fell on his back without saying a word.
Just as Fang Jun took a step, his left rib was cold at first, and then a sharp pain came. He didn't even think about it. The foot on the ground was used as a pointer, and his body instantly turned to face Shen Wei who was behind him. The musket in his hand split his hand. Then throw it out.
The weight of such a large lump of iron is very considerable, and he charged Shen Wei's face directly. Shen Wei let out a scream, holding a dagger in one hand, and squatting on the ground covering his face with the other hand, blood flowing down Gripping out between fingers, he yelled, "Don't let him run away, kill him!"
The county soldiers behind him and the imperial guards in front of them all drew out their horizontal knives almost at the same time, and rushed towards Fang Jun like a wolf like a tiger!
Several bright horizontal knives gleamed coldly under the light of the lantern, and more than a dozen burly men rushed towards Fang Jun bravely, and the horizontal knives slashed across the rain, slashing at Fang Jun's vital points one after another.
The Xu Family Manor, which was still quiet before, suddenly became murderous with the rain!
(End of this chapter)