Emperor Kangxi: The First Rule of the Palace

Chapter 46
"What would happen to them if I crashed to death on a wooden post in spite of everything during the first trial? Wu Ciyou would cry out in the wind and write a tragic poem to mourn himself. Lagu Su Ma would sit sad and weep. Shi Longbiao will gnash his teeth and swear to take revenge for himself. During the Ching Ming Festival, Mu Zixu and Hao Laosi will silently add soil to their graves. Stubborn Donkey and He Guizhu will regret that they misunderstood the hero. Come up, pull the grass on the grave... What will happen to Emperor Kangxi? He will sit in the Golden Palace and personally issue an edict, conferring on himself the posthumous title of 'Loyalty and Compassion' - but what is this now? Alas... ..."

Thinking so much, Mingzhu's blood boiled for a while, and she felt as if she had fallen into an ice hole for a while, and her whole body felt a bone-chilling cold.At this moment, there was a "gudong" outside the door, as if someone had fallen, and then there was no sound.After a while, I felt the iron door move silently again, and when I looked at it carefully, I realized that it was already dark.After a while, the door was gently pushed open, and Mingzhu finally decided that this was definitely not in a trance.At this time, I saw a figure flashing in front of me, and a thin voice whispered next to my ear: "Can you walk?"

"I'm afraid it won't work..." Mingzhu gasped a little with excitement, she shook her head secretly and asked, "Who is... who is this step?"

"Don't ask." The man whispered, "I'll carry you!"

When he listened carefully, it vaguely sounded like Liu Hua's voice. His heart felt sour and hot, and he choked up and said, "Brother Liu, it's hard for you to come at this time..." Liu Hua helped him sit up, and said in a low voice, "Don't talk too much. Half a sentence of nonsense, let's go!"

"No!" Mingzhu's eyes shimmered in the darkness, "I can't, get out of here quickly and tell Mr. Wei to leave Baiyun Temple as soon as possible!" As she said, she held Liu Hua's hand and held her hand tightly. Shaking twice, "The matter is urgent and important, and it must not be ignored!"

Hearing the word "Baiyun Guan", Liu Hua only felt his head buzzing, and he didn't speak at the moment. He pulled up Mingzhu's arm, put a leg on his shoulder, and lifted Mingzhu to open the door. He jumped out with a stride, and was caught by a watchman.The watchman clanged his lamp and clapper, turned around and ran, yelling "There are robbers" like a pig being slaughtered!When he was about to shout the second sentence, Liu Hua took a step forward and slashed the knife, and the man leaned over and fell down.

With just one sound, the camp was blown up in Obai's mansion.Whistle at the mouth of the crooked tiger guarding the second gate, dozens of Geshha selected from the banner camp and a few underworld friends who were brought down by the crooked tiger from the cottage rushed out of the room with a "swipe".The crooked tiger leaped forward, with the horizontal knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Don't mess around, the thief is in the garden!" Then he dispatched forty Geshhas to patrol around the outside of the mansion, blocking the way out; The gate of the garden was sealed to prevent thieves from entering the inner house; 25 and six people brought with them lit torches and entered the garden to search.Aobai heard the alarm at this time, he had already put on his guard and put on a chair to sit at the gate of the garden to catch the thief.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Mingzhu whispered anxiously in Liu Hua's ear: "Put me down, hack me to death with a knife, and then say that I ran away...don't...don't...I don't hate you!"

Liu Hua didn't say a word, and turned back and forth with Mingzhu on his back, but he felt that there were people's voices and lights everywhere. In his panic, he heard Mingzhu murmur again: "It's important to deliver the letter...it's about the safety of the emperor...you, you Let me go alone!" Seeing that Liu Hua still wouldn't let go, Mingzhu opened her mouth and bit Liu Hua's shoulder, "What's the matter with you? Let me tell you, if you are also captured, you should call 'Baiyun Guan' as loud as you can. ’, someone will report the letter, remember..." Before finishing speaking, he passed out.

At the moment when he was in a dilemma, he saw that the lanterns and torches were getting closer, and there were people on the parapet of the garden. Dozens of glass windproof lamps illuminated the inside and outside of the garden wall like daytime.The people who searched the garden didn't yell and talk, they just pushed the grass and knocked on the trees with their knives, advancing step by step.Suddenly someone shouted: "Liu Hua, it's you!"

Liu Hua stopped, put the pearl on the ground gently, raised the sword and inserted it into the crack of the rock in the rockery, and immediately broke into two pieces with a "click", and said with a smile: "Crooked tiger! What are you talking about? I don't know What about you? A real man dares to do things bravely, I will follow you to see Ao Zhongtang."

Seeing that he was so calm, everyone was momentarily overwhelmed by his aura and kept silent.When Crooked Tiger saw that he had broken his sword, he also put the sword back into its sheath, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Brother Liu is a good man! I won't come here to make things difficult for you, Ao Zhongtang is already waiting there, you can decide for yourself !" After finishing speaking, he shouted, "I'm not serving Master Liu yet!" Several Goshhas rushed up, tied up Liu Hua, set them up, and left.

Hearing that the thief was captured, all the people in the Ao Mansion were amazed and rushed to see. Dozens of arm-thick candles were lit inside and outside the Heshou Hall.

Aobai sat on the couch with his sword in his hand, when he saw Crooked Tiger and the others coming in, he didn't say a word, he just stared at Liu Hua.Without flinching, Liu Hua stood in front of the court with his neck stiffened, looking at Oboi with his eyes.After a while, Oboi smiled coldly and said, "I said the back garden is haunted by ghosts, so it's you! Your name is Liu Hua?"

Liu Hua curled his lips into a smile, turned his face away and refused.Seeing him like this, Crooked Tiger came up and slapped him in the face, making half of his face purple and blood oozing from the corner of his mouth: "Master is asking you something, are you dumb?" Crooked Tiger spat a mouthful of blood on his face, and asked, "Which family is he my master?" At this time, there were more than a hundred people in the court, seeing that this usually easy-going person dared to be so rude to Ao Zhongtang, one by one His face turned pale with fright, and the family servants, guards and attendants stood around inside and outside the hall, holding their breath and holding their breath in silence.But Liu Hua held his head high and held his chest indifferently, and said slowly: "I am a sixth-rank school lieutenant of the imperial court, but the master asked me to work with him as an errand, so I will become his slave?" There was only a "pa", and this half of the face was slapped with a crooked tiger again.

Crooked Tiger has no fame, so Liu Hua's words are particularly unpleasant to his ears.He felt that he was the most face-worthy person in the Ao Mansion, and today he was buried by Liu Hua because of Ao Bai, and he was furious, his neck became even more crooked, and he pulled out the soft steel whip from the back of his waist with a sullen face, "Woo!" With a sound, Liu Hua was slapped across the waist.

"Crooked Tiger!" Oboi shouted suddenly, "Back off!" Crooked Tiger stared at Liu Hua fiercely, coiled up his whip, and retreated resentfully to the side.

Ao Bai giggled, got up and came to Liu Hua's side and said: "Liu Hua, you know that I can't be good at this matter today. However, I regret that you are a man, as long as you tell who ordered you, aren't you a sixth-rank man?" , How about I praise you as a fourth grade?" Liu Hua snorted and turned his face away.Aobai said again: "If you think it's not a big deal over there, I'll give you a sum of money and find a secluded place to be Tao Zhugong, so that you can enjoy the blessings, how about that?"

Liu Hua spit on the ground with a "bah" and said, "No one instructed you. You got someone to put in the back garden. I want to see what's going on." After finishing speaking, he kept silent.

"How's your experience?" Obai asked coldly.

"It doesn't matter much," Liu Hua raised his voice and said, "His name is Mingzhu, and now he is the emperor's bodyguard, working in Baiyun Temple!"

Hearing these words, there was a slight commotion inside and outside Heshou Hall.Obai knew his intentions, suppressed his anger and sneered, "Call it! You can call my Crane Shouting Hall down, and the Baiyun Temple won't hear you!" He turned around and told Waihu, "From now on, ten Constantly inspect the inside and outside of the mansion for two hours, without my personal permission, no matter who is forced out of the mansion, you will kill him!"

"That may not be blocked!" Liu Hua immediately said firmly.As soon as he finished speaking, Oboi stretched out his hand to touch Liu Hua's left flank. Liu Hua immediately felt a sudden numbness and trembling all over.Obai looked at his distorted face with his hands behind his back and smiled, and asked: "Liu Hua, how do you know that there are people locked up in the back garden? Who else is your accomplice in the mansion? Tell me! I have ordered You are born with acupoints, so you can bear it now, and after a while, your eyes and skin will be broken, your intestines will be broken and your lungs will be cracked, it will be more painful than peeling your skin!"

Liu Hua collapsed on the ground, panting and said: "Untie, untie the acupoint...I, I mean..." Xiao Qi, Xiao Zeng, Xiao Wu and the others were all scared and hid behind others.

Aobai bent down and patted him on the back, and said, "Okay, I'll explain it to you!" Liu Hua lay still, and said, "The rope is too tight, so I don't want to talk about it."

Aobai pouted to signal Crooked Tiger to untie him.Crooked Tiger hesitated and said: "Zhongtang, is this possible?" Obai sneered and said: "With his little skill, I can let him use the sword empty-handed! Untie him!"

When the rope was untied, Liu Hua stood up slowly, moved his hands and feet, pulled a chair and sat down in a grand manner, rubbing his hands and not speaking.

Aobai asked, "Why don't words count?"

"I'm a famous wine cat," Liu Hua said, "What I'm talking about is too big, I have to drink it with a bowl of wine!"

"Okay, I will help you!" Obai ordered, "Come, pour him a bowl of Kweichow Moutai bestowed by the emperor!"

The wine is poured.Liu Hua picked up the bowl tremblingly, hesitated for a moment, raised his head and drank it clean.Oboi didn't say "Okay", but suddenly saw the wine bowl hit his face with a "Sun".He had excellent eyesight and didn't dodge. He stretched out his left hand and smashed the bowl in the air with a "snap", and stretched out his hand one step at a time to touch Liu Hua's Chiyuan point.Who would have thought that in a flash, Liu Hua pulled out a four-inch long dagger from his bosom with a "swish", and threw himself at Oboi.

All the people under the steps exclaimed that they could not be rescued, and the crooked tiger watched it clearly, and threw a dart, which hit Liu Hua between the eyebrows. Liu Hua fell heavily on the ground and died without making a sound.

Aobai's face turned pale, he rubbed his hands together, and said with a forced smile: "Except for the house thief, it's a great joy!"

(End of this chapter)