Chapter 140
The carriage of the Yuhang Mansion traveled slowly, passing by the Phoenix Fairy Pond. Calmness has been restored there, and the sound of boats singing is still the same.
Lin Lang is dressed in a black cloak, waiting at the roadside.
Rong Xiangxian opened the curtain of the sedan chair, “Have you finished the reunion dinner?”
“Yes, my mother made some mooncakes herself, still warm, let me bring them to the girl to try, don’t mind.”
Rong Xiangmian took three of them and gave them to Feiyun Feixue: “Thank you, I just finished my meal, I can’t eat this much. The rest, give it to these hard working generals.”
“Yes,” Lin Lang was outside the car, handing out mooncakes to them. She was pretty and had a good personality, so she had always been very pleasing to people. On the night of the assassination, she led the maids of honor to help the guards bandage their wounds, boil medicine and apply it, and was even called sister by the guards.
Afterwards, Linlang got on the car and followed the princess back together.
Along the way, on both sides of the road, there were some Jinling people and carriages, celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and still roaming the streets, seemingly calm.
They entered the mansion and closed the door, ready to rest, but was woken up by the noise in front of them.
I do not know when, hundreds of torches, a great number of people, will Yu Wang Fu surrounded a water tight.
The guards of the royal residence recognized that those are the people of the Nine Gate Patrol Battalion.
One of the guards who was ordered to stay at Yuhang’s residence said, “I see this situation, Yuhang’s residence is going to be in trouble tonight.”
Another says, “Why is there always trouble at the Yuhang Mansion? It’s been patronized by assassins twice.”
Seeing that the tiara had not yet been removed, Rong Xiang headed for the main gate and vaguely heard the battle in front of the residence.
Walking a little closer, he could hear the Yuhang Mansion’s Chief Mansion Officer say in a loud voice, “Vice Commander Li, if you have an arrest document, the royal guards can bring the portrait to help find it, this is already the biggest concession the Yuhang Mansion can make. Without an oracle from His Majesty, the Nine Gates Patrol Battalion has no law to follow if they want to enter the Yü Wang Mansion to search.”
“The Chief Mansion Officer is pushing back, is this a deliberate attempt to harbor an imperial court prisoner and defy the holy will?”
“Could it be that disobeying the Vice Commander’s wishes is the same as disobeying the holy will? Could it be that the state dynasty has changed its surname to Li?”
“Don’t you dare put a label on me. The Yu family was corrupt, colluded with foreign enemies, betrayed the national dynasty, and was exiled by His Majesty to the Desert River. His daughter, Yu Xiangyi, stole the sky and deceived His Majesty, a capital offense punishable by death.”
“Vice Commander Li, I really don’t understand what you are saying. The entire family of the Yu family was heard to have thrown themselves into the river a long time ago. You took advantage of the fact that His Highness is not in the capital to come to the Yulong Palace with this unfounded matter to find fault, didn’t you?”
Li Xun didn’t want to say much and rushed behind him to the generals of the patrol battalion with a wave of his hand, “Go in and search.”
“Who dares?”
As he spoke, Xiao Nan had already taken the first step, to the front of the Yu Wang Mansion.
“Consort Yu is here, who dares to trespass?”
Rong Xiangmian slowly went out through the small side door, “What’s going on here? Yü Wang has only been gone for a few days and it’s a mess?”
The Changfu official immediately briefly tells the story of Li Xun leading a siege on the royal residence, “Lord Li’s words are solid, saying that people from the patrol battalion saw with their own eyes that Elder Elder Master Yu’s granddaughter, the Chin prisoner Yu Xiangyi, had entered the royal residence.”
Rong Xiangyi looked surprised, “Yu? Hasn’t the Yu family been dead for years? The Yuhang Mansion is haunted?”
“This …… subordinate official doesn’t know either, that’s what Lord Li said.”
Rong Xiangmian immediately asks Li Xun, “Can you see clearly, if it’s the Yu family’s ghosts that come to the door, I wouldn’t dare to live in the Yuhang Mansion. Come people! Pack up your things and go back to the State Duke’s Mansion!”
Li Xun thinks that Consort Yuh will say something to stop her, but he didn’t expect her to come out like this, and for a moment, he doesn’t understand what kind of medicine she’s selling.
Rong Xiangmian stood outside the gate and instructed, “Officer Changfu, please keep an eye on the house. Let the royal guards guard the gateway, and wait for His Highness to come back to do a good ritual to overthrow.”
Li Xun thought that she was timid and wanted to go to the State Duke’s Mansion to hide, and laughed, “Consort Yu don’t pretend, Yu Xiangyi is not dead at all. She changed her name to Playing Clouds at the Descending Cloud Cuisine and took guests to accompany her. Today on the Phoenix Fairy Pond, her flower boat caught fire and people disappeared for no reason, my men saw her follow the princess into the Yuhang Mansion with their own eyes, doesn’t the princess know about this?”
“Saw it with your own eyes?” Rong Xiangxian looked puzzled, “Your men saw Yu Xiangyi follow me into the palace? If that’s the case, why didn’t you take the person down on the spot?”
Li Xun was angry about this, he was only a vice commander, Zhang Qing was his superior. Zhang Qing’s close friends had been keeping an eye on Yu Xiangyi these days. His people, on the other hand, were secretly keeping an eye on the Yuhang Mansion.
Zhang Qing has told him not to act without authorization if there are any changes in the Yuhang Mansion, so as not to alert the snakes. That’s why his men didn’t take action in time and just surrounded the Yuhang Mansion.
At this moment, he is also not good to say in detail, only said: “I am truthful in every sentence, if the princess has a clear conscience, search a bit, will not it be just to prove her own innocence?”
“I also said that I saw her enter the door of Marquis Yong’an’s residence with my own eyes, why don’t you go to Zhang’s house to search?”
“Your Highness, what’s the point of you denying it like this?”
“I’m denying it?” Rong Xiangmian raised her eyebrow, “While His Highness was far away in Yuzhou, you led people to besiege the royal residence, slandering me for harboring the prostitutes of the Descending Clouds Xuan and damaging my reputation, what are your intentions?”
Seeing that she has been avoiding the issue, Li Xun has lost his patience and said loudly, “Your Highness, I am in charge of the Nine Gates Patrol Battalion, responsible for the security of the capital. I am responsible for the security of the capital. If you are a woman, you should be considerate and not be obstructive.”
“Generosity? What is the greater good? When my second uncle died in battle for the country, you switched to the Zhang family before the tea was even cold. Is this considered being considerate?” Rong Xiangxian suddenly rehashed old scores, causing Li Xun to be at a loss as to how to respond. This is all a matter of old sesame seeds, but I didn’t expect Princess Yu to actually know.
The people present in the patrol battalion were all hearing about this for the first time. The reputation of Great General Rong is well known to everyone in the country, but they didn’t expect their superior to be such a person.
Rong Xiangmian is the princess of Yu Wang, and Li Xun doesn’t dare to rough her up, so the scene freezes for a moment.
At this time, another group of people hurriedly marched from East Street with torches held high.
Li Xun sees that it’s Zhang Qing with another group of people from the police battalion, and is saved.
He was just about to salute and explain the progress of this side to Zhang Qing when he was scolded, “Waste.”
In front of so many subordinates, Li Xun lost his face one after another, so he could only stand aside in silence, not wanting to care about this.
Zhang Qing came forward and saluted Xiangmian, “The subordinate was ignorant and lost the rules, Your Highness bear with me.”
Rong Xiangmian laughed, “Forget it, the night is late, I’m too lazy to pursue this, you guys go back.”
“Your Highness, please look.” Zhang Qing lit up an official document in his hand with Yu Xiangyi’s portrait on it.
Rong Xiangyi saw the strong smell of ink, thinking that none of them expected to act tonight, and only rushed out such an official document on the spur of the moment.
“It’s hard for you, the ink on the official document hasn’t even dried yet, and you’re sending it to the Yu Wang Mansion in a hurry.” Rong Xiangxian gestured for the Changfu official to receive it, “Since this is the case, the Yuhang Mansion will cooperate with Grand Commander Zhang in searching for this Chin prisoner. Long Mansion Officer, you have Wu Feng lead a good search, not letting go of a single corner.”
“Yes.” As the long government official took the official document and prepared to go into the mansion, Zhang Qing said behind him, “Can you really search by yourself and get any results?”
“Or else?” Rong Xiangshi asked impatiently.
“Since the Yul Wang Mansion is willing to cooperate with the investigation, why don’t we let the patrol battalion go in and search, so that we can return His Highness Yul Wang’s innocence and exempt him from being involved with the imperial criminals.”
“Innocence?” Rong Xiangshi let out a cold laugh, his eyes cold, “The innocence of the Yuhang Mansion needs to be affirmed by you? The Nine Gates Patrol Battalion is responsible for guarding the capital, but the various princely mansions are not your territory. Without his majesty’s oracle, if you are allowed to enter the mansion, tomorrow the Yu Wang Mansion will not become a joke in the capital?”
“It seems that Your Highness is adamant in refusing to cooperate.”
“I’ll cooperate, I’ll let the royal guards go in and search.” Rong Xiangmei politely faked a smile.
Zhang Qing lost his patience, thinking that Consort Yu with a few maids could have any guts to stop him.
Immediately, he waved his hand and summoned his soldiers and generals, “Immediately go in and search, if there are any obstructionists, take them down.”
“Who dares?”
As Rong Xiangxian spoke, the firelight on the walls of Yu Wang Fu lit up the entire Shanhe Street.
The wall full of archers, with their bows drawn to full capacity and burning arrows, pointed at the generals of the Patrol Battalion that filled the ground in front of the mansion.
“You guys just step on this step, the Yu Wang Mansion has more than just archers on the walls, there are hundreds of organs inside, those who aren’t afraid of death, just barge in.”
The men of the patrol battalion didn’t dare to move in a flash.
The guards of Yuh Wang’s residence are all following Yuh Wang’s return from the battlefield, while the generals of the patrol battalion, all day long are in charge of the residents’ disputes, fights and robberies, and have never really experienced this kind of scene of the arrows in the strings, for the people to fish and meat.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, no one wanted to give up their lives.
Seeing that his men were hesitant, Zhang Qing took the lead in striding forward.
He was sure that the guards of the Yuhang Mansion would not dare to shoot arrows at him, as he was the second son of the Marquis of Yong’an and the nephew of the Empress.
Sure enough, he stepped onto the steps of the Yuhang Mansion unharmed.
Zhang Qing was pleased with himself for a moment, and with a colorful face, he said in a loud voice: “All follow me!”
The soldiers and generals behind him, looking around, slowly followed their superior up.
Waiting for Zhang Qing to walk in front of them, Xiang Xiang gave a wink towards Xiao Nan.
Xiao Nan’s long whip hidden behind his back swung, hooking his neck, and then his legs jumped onto his shoulders, clasping his neck and strangling him to the ground.
This came extremely suddenly, Zhang Qing was lying on the ground, his entire body became a meat cushion, being sat on by Xiao Nan, struggling hard, extremely wretched.
Rong Xiangmian looked down and said to the generals, ”Zhang Qing has a good father, and the Yu Wangfu will not take his life. But what about you guys, do you have a powerful father like Marquis Yong An to back you up? In the middle of the fall, if you give up your life for a word from him, how will your family members, wives and children live in the future?”
Rong Xiangxian swept a glance at the crowd, especially a deep look at Li Xun.
People like him who had climbed up a little from the bottom were extraordinarily life-thirsty. Just now, when Zhang Qing called him a waste, it had already caused him to lose face, and at this moment, he would even less likely to try to be a hero for him. It was even a bit painful to watch Zhang Qing being powerless to fight back.
When the Nine Gate Patrol Battalion saw that the group was leaderless and didn’t know how to advance or retreat, a cry of “His Highness, the King of Li, has arrived” broke the deadlock.
He finally showed up.
The soldiers and generals in front of the door all knelt down and shouted, “See His Highness, the King of Li.”
Under the high light of the fire, King Li was dressed in military attire, riding on a high headed horse, slowly marching in, followed by the royal armored soldiers.
Rong Xiangmian thought: at such a critical time, there is still time to change clothes.