Chapter 20 Leading troops into the mansion(1/2)
The next morning.
On the inner courtyard of Lin Mansion, Lin Mo put his head on Bai Zhilan's knees and was dozing off, which was very comfortable.
After a while, Xifeng walked in, and Bai Zhilan gently woke Lin Mo up.
Xifeng stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Report to the sect leader, Yezhe has heard news, Li Tai is about to move!"
Lin Mo rubbed his eyes, yawned a long time, and said, "If he wants to move, let him move. We just need to wait and see the rabbit. Anyway, tomorrow night will be the end of his Li Tai."
"Yes!" Xifeng said respectfully and withdrew from the inner courtyard.
After Xifeng left, Bai Zhilan gently stroked Lin Mo's handsome cheeks and said with some concern: "Husband, for tomorrow's actions, don't forget Sister Baiyu's explanation, be sure to stay by Xifeng and Qiu Yun's side. The fight is not something you should participate in."
Lin Mo nodded and said softly: "Zhilan, don't worry. My husband will be honest with Xifeng and Qiu Yun tomorrow night. He won't be so angry that he will rush up with a sword."
"Just remember, husband!" Bai Zhilan smiled gently, lowered her head and kissed Lin Mo's forehead, and then tightened the snow quilt and cloak that covered him tightly for Lin Mo.
At the same time, the inner courtyard of Prince Rong’s Mansion.
Under the service of his concubine Xu Qiuniang, King Rong got up early, changed his crown and clothes, and went to Xue Jingshu's boudoir to tell her that she was going to go to the morning court.
Although King Rong has no feelings for Xue Jingshu now, he should always be respectful and show his friends. After all, King Rong still needs the support of Xue Jingshu's father, Duke Xie Xu.
As soon as he walked to the door, he saw Xue Jingshu's close maid coming out of the room and turned around and closed the door. King Rong waved his hand to wave to the maid and asked, and said in a gentle voice: "Hongdou, has the princess gotten up?"
The maid Hongdou hurriedly walked to King Rong, bowed, and said respectfully: "Go back to the prince, the empress has not yet gotten up."
"Oh, what's wrong with the princess? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" King Rong felt strange in his heart. Xue Jingshu would get up very early every day. What's wrong with this today? She is still sleeping.
Hongdou shook her head lightly and replied respectfully: "When the prince said, maybe the Empress went out to the suburbs with the second wife of Lin's mansion yesterday. She was a little tired of playing, so she wanted to sleep for a while today."
King Rong's eyes rolled, he was silent for a while, and nodded, "It's better to have a rest. After the princess gets up, tell her that I have gone to the morning court. It's winter, don't extinguish the charcoal fire in the princess's house."
"It's the prince. I remember it. I will definitely not let the princess fall cold."
After the explanation, King Rong came to the door of the mansion, was stunned for a moment, and asked the guard Di Wu: "Di Wu, did any strangers come and go to the palace last night? Especially in the room close to the princess."
Di Wu thought for a moment, shook his head, and said respectfully: "There is no answer to the prince. If there is anyone, he will definitely not escape his subordinates' ears. Our people around the palace are patrolling, and there must be no one."
As a great practitioner at the level of a great swordsman, Di Wu is very confident in his ability. On this Zhongzhou Continent, only those great practitioners who can cause trouble under his nose are higher than his.
King Rong was silent for a while and said, "That's good."
King Rong still believed Di Wu's words very much, but when he thought about what he thought in his mind just now, King Rong also felt it was a bit ridiculous and even thought about himself in that direction.
"Let's go, go to the morning court, don't delay the time, we have to pay for ordering 6 in the past two days." After that, Lin Moxing got on the carriage and walked towards the palace under Di Wu's escort.
In Xue Jingshu's boudoir.
Xue Jingshu stood in front of the mirror, looking at herself in the mirror becoming more and more beautiful, and then looked down at her snowy and rosy skin that had become better, with a satisfied smile on her face.
At this moment, Hongdou pushed open the door and walked in. Seeing that Xue Jingshu had already gotten up, he hurried forward: "Princess, are you getting up? Let Hongdou serve you to change your clothes!"
Xue Jingshu nodded, and then Hongdou took a plain dress and was about to serve Xue Jingshu to change her clothes. Xue Jingshu frowned and said, "Change one, it's too simple, just take the dress that the princess customized two days ago!"
Hongdou nodded, turned around and walked to the closet to get a brand new and beautiful dress, and served Xue Jingshu to change her clothes. Suddenly, a charming Xue Jingshu appeared in front of Hongdou.
At this moment, Xue Jingshu was wearing a purple strapless long skirt with green printed lace, and a purple-bottomed peony shirt with green printed lace. The snow-white slight exposure on her chest made her look extremely beautiful.
After wearing a beautiful dress, Xue Jingshu looked at herself with satisfaction, sat in front of the dressing table, and then instructed Hongdou: "Hongdou, give this princess a more refined and younger makeup."
Seeing that Xue Jingshu was changing into new clothes and putting on makeup, Hongdou was suddenly filled with curiosity, so she asked, "Princess, are you going to give the prince a surprise? How could she dress so beautifully?"
"Of course not." Xue Jingshu answered directly without thinking.
"Now the Japanese princess is going to go to the second wife of Lin Mansion to taste the rumored hotpot in Lin Mansion. She should be dressed up as shamelessly. Otherwise, if she goes, wouldn't she be ridiculed by the people of Lin Mansion?"
"It's better that the princess is considerate." Hongdou accompanied Xue Jingshu on a trip yesterday and met Lin Mo's three wives. They were all beautiful women with charming and beautiful appearance.
I guess the princess dressed up in such a beautiful dress, so she must have compared the three ladies to bring glory to the royal palace. Hongdou thought in her heart.
The next night, midnight.
A winter moon hung coldly in the sky, gently spreading into the Duke of Shanguo's mansion, shining on the snow on the ground and on the house, making it look white and shiny, like daytime.
Today, Li Tai was not in the mood to sleep with his two beautiful concubines, and was walking in the study with some anxiety. Soon, the door was gently knocked.
"Come in." Li Tai sat back on the low chair behind the desk and said.
A guard at the swordsman level pushed open the door and walked in, saluting and said, "Your Majesty, Lin Mo has not changed any abnormally in the past two days, and he is still the three wives who accompany her in the mansion."
"Oh, by the way, it's a bit strange. Princess Rong Xue Jingshu goes to Lin Mansion every day, and goes there for one day. She stays early in the morning and leaves after dinner, and she dresses up in a charming manner every time."
After Li Tai murmured for a moment, he showed a playful smile and said, "No wonder, I heard that Xue Jingshu and Lin Mo's second wife hit it off at first sight, and became a soulmate. Her beauty dressed up also made a fight for the face of the royal palace. Okay, don't worry about her."
As he said that, Li Tai changed the subject quickly: "Tonight, we will deal with those things. Since Lin Mo has not made any changes, it seems that he has bought the Queen Mother's account, so he will act according to the plan!"
After saying that, Li Tai walked into the front yard with the guards, looked at the four carriages in front of him, and said to the person who drove the four carriages, "Two cars walked through the gate, two cars walked through the back door, and start the action."
"yes!"
In front of the Duke of Shanguo’s mansion, there were vague figures flashing at a dark corner of the gate.
"Here comes out." Along the dark corner, the voice of a middle-aged man in luxurious armor, two carriages drove out from the gate of Duke Shan and then left separately.
"Which carriage should we go with?" The middle-aged man in luxurious armor asked a young man wearing a golden thread and black brocade robe beside him, and his tone was a little anxious.
Lin Mo smiled faintly and said, "Of course, both vehicles need to follow, we have enough staff anyway."
"Lin Shangqing is right." King Rong, dressed in luxurious armor, nodded and waved his hand to signal the soldiers and horses behind him to split into two teams and follow them.
After the two teams of soldiers left, a soldier trotted to King Rong and said respectfully: "Your Highness King Rong, two carriages came out of the back door."
King Rong was stunned for a moment and asked Lin Mo beside him, "Or follow them all?"
Lin Mo nodded and said, "That's natural, this is just Li Tai's multiple suspicious plans."
Li Tai took four-way actions, but Lin Mo was not stupid enough to follow one way. Since he had enough staff, following four ways at the same time was undoubtedly the safest and best way.
King Rong expressed his agreement and waved his hand to let the soldier do it.
But the soldier did not leave, and said again: "Your Highness King Rong, Lord Di Wu said that the two carriages in charge of the back door were all practitioners at the sword master level. If their subordinates went there, they would probably not be able to stop them even if they were a team of 100 people."
"This..." King Rong showed an anxious look on his face, looked at Lin Mo, and said in embarrassment: "Lin Shangqing, look?"
"Your Highness King Rong, don't worry, just leave these two routes to me." Lin Mo smiled slightly and added: "When we leave, we will see the red signal arrows explode. Your Highness King Rong, please bring your troops and Duke Dan to surround us."
"Well, what Lin Shangqing said." King Rong bowed to Lin Mo again: "The two carriages at the back door, please ask Lin Shangqing to take action!"
Lin Mo nodded, turned around and ordered Qiu Yun to lead a pair of soldiers, while he and Xifeng led a pair of soldiers to come to the back door to ask Di Wu where the two carriages were, and quickly followed.
After about a cup of tea, King Rong saw red fireworks exploding in the sky in the southwest night sky. He was delighted and asked the soldiers around him to fire a green signal arrow into the night sky.
The green signal arrow exploded. King Rong pulled out his long sword from his waist, pointed at the Duke Shan's mansion in front of him, and shouted loudly: "I will surround Duke Shan's mansion."
"yes!"
A loud shout suddenly sounded, and soldiers from all directions held torches and instantly broke the door of Duke Shan’s mansion, surrounding it.
King Rong also walked quickly into the Duke Shan's mansion with two realms guards. As soon as he entered, he saw that Di Wu had killed Duke Shan's two sword masters guards to the ground, and the sword was also placed on Li Tai's neck.
Looking at Li Tai who had been restrained, King Rong smiled loudly: "Duke Shan, long time no see, I think your body is still very strong!"
Li Tai snorted coldly and said, "Your Highness Rong, what do you mean? He led his troops to surround our Duke Shan's mansion without authorization. This crime was a serious crime to the Emperor and the Empress Dowager."
In the Dagan Empire, leading troops to trek into the Duke's Mansion would be a death sentence.
"Why did you do it without authorization?" King Rong smiled slightly: "Lin Shangqing has found out that you, Duke Shan, are the real murderer of the disappearance of a woman in Gantian City and the murder case in Changle Inn. I am here to arrest you under the secret order of His Majesty the Emperor."
As he said that, King Rong signaled a guard at the swordsman level beside him, took out a volume of imperial edict, stuffed it into Li Tai's arms, and signaled Di Wu to withdraw his sword.
After Di Wu took the sword and retreated, Li Tai opened the imperial edict and looked at it. After a moment, Li Tai closed the imperial edict heavily and asked coldly: "Your Highness King Rong has always been used to falsely spreading imperial edicts. This must be because Your Highness King Rong, you are forged?"
"Fake?" King Rong shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, this is true. If Duke Shan wants to make a fuss, it's fine. When Lin Shangqing takes back your evidence of guilt, I will take you again!"
"Lin Shangqing? Lin Ziyong?" Duke Shan suddenly laughed: "Okay, then let's wait for Lin Shangqing to retrieve the evidence of his Duke's crime. If there is no, my Duke will not be easy to mess with!"
As he said that, Duke Shan made a move, and more than twice as many soldiers than King Rong suddenly appeared on the periphery, surrounding the soldiers under King Rong, and even the roof and wall beams were filled with archers.
Seeing that Duke Shan had more than twice his soldiers, King Rong was still unhappy because he had Di Wu by his side. Even if he really fought, Di Wu would protect him from danger.
Just as the two teams were in a stalemate, two people were looking at the sky in the Duke of Shanguo's Mansion at the highest point of the Dagan Palace and above Qiongyu Pavilion.
"Okay, okay, the tiger and the wolf finally bit each other." Emperor Dagan's face brought a joyful smile that had never been seen before: "It's still Ziyong's brilliant. How can King Rong hold back with the military power of the 300,000 army in Li Tai's hand as bait?"
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, with Lin Shangqing's help, great things can be accomplished!" Gao Yue, who was standing beside him, congratulating him with a giggle smile: "As soon as Li Tai dies, you can take back the military power in his hands with justifiable reasons."
Emperor Dagan shook his head and said lightly: "No, Gao Yue, you have thought it simple. I am afraid I can't take back the military power of these 300,000 troops. King Rong and Xuan Shu will definitely fight again!"
"What will Lin Shangqing promised to you tomorrow?" Gao Yue's old face was full of confusion.
"Who knows, I'll wait for tomorrow to be announced." Emperor Dagan smiled slightly, a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and turned toward you: "Gao Yue, let's go, just act according to the plan, we'll have a good show tomorrow!"
Hearing the orders of Emperor Dagan, Gao Yue first looked at the lights of fire from Duke Shan's mansion with a deep meaning, and then he quickly followed the pace of Emperor Dagan.
In the mansion of Duke Shan.
Li Tai looked at King Rong with a smile and said lightly: "Your Highness Rong, do you think Lin Ziyong can bring back the so-called evidence of his country's crime into your mouth?"
"How can't it be, who is Lin Ziyong? Isn't it easy to catch your evidence!" King Rong's face was full of confidence: "Li Tai, after you die, I will take charge of the military power of the 300,000 troops under your command."
"Hahaha--" Li Tai suddenly laughed, because he saw Lin Mo and his group coming back, and he came back empty-handed.
"Oh, Your Highness Rong, it seems that you are disappointed. Lin Ziyong, whom you believe, did not bring back the evidence you want!" Li Tai showed a smug smile on his face.
To be continued...