Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

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The bluestone slab covering the ground had been removed by the Embroidered Uniform Guards, revealing a pitch-black hole inside.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of chaotic footsteps coming from below.

Obviously, due to the small space in the tunnel, Huang Yuanqiu and his men were far slower than the Jinyiwei.

Sun Kangwang made a gesture to the Jinyiwei around him to keep quiet, and pointed at the bluestone slab.

Everyone fell silent immediately, and two more people stepped forward and replaced the stone slab weighing dozens of kilograms back to its original place.

Then everyone evacuated the toilet.

Some people were lying on the roof, while others were guarding outside the yard.

A moment later, the bluestone slab that had just been covered was pushed open from below.

A pair of extremely vigilant eyes looked around from the gap.

After seeing that there was nothing unusual, he lowered his voice.

"Master, no one!"

As soon as the voice fell, another person urged impatiently.

"What are you waiting for? Get out of here! I'm almost suffocating down here!"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

The bluestone slab was removed, and the Huang family’s housekeeper was the first to crawl out, followed by Huang Yuanqiu and other family heads, and the Huang family’s wives and children.

As soon as he came out of the toilet, Huang Yuanqiu grabbed his housekeeper and gave him instructions.

"Huang Si'er, go and get the things that were prepared in advance. I'll be waiting for you outside the city!"

Upon hearing this, the housekeeper Huang Si'er nodded, turned around and ran to the northeast corner of the yard.

Sun Kangwang originally wanted to arrest the man directly, but after hearing what Huang Yuanqiu said, he made a gesture to the Jinyiwei who were ambushing on the roof of the main house.

Huang Yuanqiu and the others did not notice any of this and were celebrating their escape as if they had survived a disaster.

"Brother Huang is indeed foresighted. He actually dug the secret passage so far!"

"That's right, even if the Jinyiwei had three heads and six arms, I'm afraid they would not have thought that we have escaped here."

"........."

Liu Jizu and Wu Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and threw out some flattery.

Huang Yuanqiu always felt an inexplicable palpitation and waved at them.

"Stop talking nonsense. Once you leave this yard, the city gate is not far away. It's important to get out of the city first!"

After saying that, he walked straight towards the gate of the courtyard.

Sun Kangwang lay on the roof, waiting patiently.

The gate was back to the state it was in when they came in, locked from the outside.

After Huang Yuanqiu led everyone to the door, he didn't seem to worry about the door lock at all, and directly reached out to grab the courtyard door on the side.

This type of door is different from the ones that are fixed on the door frame in later generations.

At the very edge of each wooden door, there is a protrusion above and below, which is stuck on the lintel and the bluestone bar below, acting as a bearing, allowing the courtyard door to be opened and closed at will, while ensuring that the courtyard door does not fall down.

He just grabbed the latch frame on the inside of the wooden door and lifted it up with force, and the wooden axis stuck in the bluestone bar was pulled out directly.

Just then, a loud shout suddenly came from the backyard.

"Thief, where are you running?"

Huang Yuanqiu's expression tensed, and he suddenly exerted force with his arms. The next moment, the wooden door that had gone off track was pushed out by him.

The wooden door was half-closed and half-open due to the door lock, so I could pass through it effortlessly.

He urged the people behind him, "Hurry up! The Jinyiwei are catching up!"

After saying that, he was the first to get out.

But Sun Kangwang on the roof knew what the shouting from the backyard meant.

He immediately uttered a loud shout and jumped down from the roof of the upside-down house.

"Want to leave?!"

"Have you asked this Governor?"

Huang Yuanqiu was startled and stopped involuntarily.

Looking at Sun Kangwang falling from the sky, his face suddenly turned into one of extreme fear.

"No, no, this is impossible!"

"How could you come so quickly?!"

"boom!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked by Sun Kangwang and flew backwards, knocking Fan Shiwen and Liu Jizu behind him to the ground.

Following Sun Kangwang's move, the Jinyiwei hidden inside and outside the courtyard appeared at the same time and surrounded them in a blink of an eye.

Sun Kangwang walked slowly forward, squatted down, and waved his embroidered spring knife at Wen Yuanqiu's face, grinning.

"Nothing is impossible!"

"You want to use the same trick for the second time? Do you really think that the Jinyiwei are just sitting there doing nothing?"

"Come here, tie them all up, take them to the prefectural government office, and hand them over to His Majesty for punishment!"

"Yes!"

Upon hearing the sound, the Jinyiwei rushed forward.

These guys are pampered on a daily basis, how can they be stopped by such wolves and tigers?

Not to mention the wives and children of the Huang family. No matter how much they screamed, they ultimately could not escape the fate of being tied up like dumplings.

At this time in the prefectural government office, the bodies had been moved from the lobby to the backyard.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the supply of paper in his hand, the anger in his eyes growing stronger.

He did not interrogate Xu Xinsu, but simply dragged her out and skinned her alive.

But under the deep pain, Xu Xinsu took the initiative to confess many things.

Other things are easy to deal with, but what makes Zhu Youxiao most angry is the origin of his position as a captain!

"General Yu! You are truly my good general!"

"Considering that Yu Dayou has fought for the Ming Dynasty all his life, you'd better confess what you have done!"

He slapped the offering paper on the table and stared at Yu Zigao in the hall.

Upon hearing this, Yu Zigao immediately knelt down, lowered his head, and a trace of regret appeared on his face.

"His Majesty!"

"I deserve to die. I was blinded by greed, so I was deceived by Xu Xinsu..."

Zhu Youxiao in the hall glared at him and shouted at him.

"Lard has blinded your heart?"

"I think you are blinded by money!"

"Xu Xinsu confessed that he bribed you with 20,000 taels of silver in order to become the captain!"

"You still refuse to tell the truth even now. How come the merits of your ancestors have become your capital for breaking the law?"

"Selling official positions and titles! He even sold the position of the chief of the coastal defense to such a traitor!"

"You are so brave!"

After saying that, he grabbed the paper on the table, crumpled it into a ball and threw it at the person.

Yu Zigao did not dare to hide, nor did he pick up the paper in front of him. His body was shaking and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

"Chen Wan is dead!"

"I did receive 20,000 taels of silver from him!"

"I have failed your Majesty's expectations and wasted my father's teachings!"

"I will leave it to your majesty to decide!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he slammed his head to the ground.

When he raised his head again, his forehead had become a bloody mess, and bright red blood kept dripping down his chin.

"Ten thousand deaths? Then you have to have ten thousand lives first!"

Zhu Youxiao stood up angrily.

"Come here, take off Yu Zigao's official uniform and take him into custody for the time being!"

"The Royal Guards will immediately send someone to the General's Mansion to investigate!"

Chapter 131 Captain Li, Don't Let Us Get Violent

Huang Yuanqiu and others who were escorted here by the Embroidered Uniform Guards happened to run head-on into Yu Zigao who was being escorted out.

They all recognized Yu Zigao, but they didn't expect that the commander-in-chief of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces would also be investigated and punished!

And at the moment when he passed by Yu Zigao, a wolf-like howl came from the front.

Huang Yuanqiu and the others felt their hearts sank and their pace slowed down.

"Hurry up, what are you dawdling for!"

When the Jinyiwei who were escorting them saw this, they started beating them hard on the head and face.

Everyone had no choice but to keep moving forward. After turning the corner, they finally knew where the scream came from!

In front of the prefectural government office, Xu Xinsu was stripped naked and tied to a wooden frame.

Most of the flesh and blood on one of his left legs had been scraped off, leaving his white sacrum and knee completely exposed!

There were more than ten silver needles inserted into his thighs.

In addition to teaching the medical women how to bandage, Zhang Jingyue also taught them acupuncture and moxibustion to stop bleeding. Among these medical women, Liu Yue had learned the most!

Her legs were cut so badly that even her blood vessels were cut, but there was not much blood under Xu Xinsu's body.

A yamen runner stood in front of Xu Xinsu, holding a kitchen knife for cutting fish sashimi. The knife, weighing three or four pounds, was like a toy in his hand. With a flash of cold light, a piece of flesh as thin as paper was cut off.

Xu Xinsu, who was tied to the wooden frame, screamed again. A large amount of sweat had already soaked his whole body, and it dripped down his skin and onto the bluestone slabs.

"kill me!"

"Kill me quickly!"

"Please, I'll tell you whatever you want to ask me, just kill me!"

The bailiff did not seem moved at all, but instead stared at him with gritted teeth.

"Want to die? Dream on!"

"My newly married wife was ruined by you guys!"

"She was pregnant, so that would be two deaths!"

"bass!"

He cursed angrily and swung the knife down again.

"what......."

Hearing Xu Xinsu's screams again, Huang Yuanqiu and others felt their legs go limp.

Especially his wives and concubines, who collapsed directly to the ground, and water stains quickly spread on the stone slabs beneath them.