Early the next morning, Yao Lingyan sent someone to send Liu Feng a piece of jade and a string of beads, and Liu Feng hurriedly found his staff member Yang Mi.

Liu Feng pointed to the two boxes on the table and said, "This is sent by Yao Lingyan, what do you think he means?" ”

Yang Mi stepped forward and opened the box to take a look, and immediately laughed, "This meaning is called a perfect combination, which means that Yao Lingyan is willing to serve Liu Gong and cooperate closely with Liu Gong, I didn't expect him to make up his mind so quickly." ”

Liu Feng was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Then what should we do next?" ”

Yang Mi stroked the goat's whiskers and said: "The plan suggested by the lowly post last night can be implemented, and the lowly post believes that Yao Lingyan will definitely make up for Yuan Xiu at a critical moment." ”

Liu Feng nodded, Yang Mi's methods were too vicious, it was unimaginable, but no poison was not a husband, since conventional means could not defeat Yuan Xiu, then they could only use abnormal means.

........

In order to prevent them from rebelling, their eldest son was pledged in Luoyang, and Dong Zhu, the eldest son of Dong Xizhi, the king of Xiangyang County, and his old father were also in Luoyang, and they lived in Dong's mansion in Luoyang, and in order to prevent them from escaping, Zhu Zhu also sent people to monitor them.

That night, Dong Zhu had just fallen asleep, and suddenly there was a knock on the door, and he only heard the housekeeper's report: "Son, Yuan Xiangguo sent someone to deliver a letter, it's urgent!" ”

Dong Zhu's father Dong Xizhi and Prime Minister Yuan Xiu have a good relationship, Dong Xizhi is in Xiangyang is recommended by Yuan Xiu, Dong Zhu heard that it was an urgent matter, he didn't dare to be careless, and quickly got up and put on his clothes to open the door and asked, "Where is the letter?" ”

The butler handed over a scroll of paper and said, "That's it, someone said there is a message!" ”

Dong Zhu opened the paper scroll, and there were only two words on it, 'Escape!' ’

Dong Zhu was startled and hurriedly asked, "Where is the person coming?" ”

"Wait in the guest hall!"

Dong Zhu was uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly walked towards the guest hall.

Not long after, Dong Zhu came to the reception hall, only to see a man in his thirties sitting in the hall, Dong Zhu walked into the lobby and asked, "You were sent by Yuan Xiangguo?" ”

The person who came hurriedly stood up and saluted, "The villain is Zhang Yao, the third housekeeper of the Yuanxiang Mansion, and he has come to deliver a letter to Dong Gongzi on the order of the Yuan housekeeper." ”

"What other message?"

Zhang Yao stepped forward and lowered his voice and said: "Yuan Xiangguo said that the Son of Heaven wants to attack the king of Xiangyang County, and he wants the prince to flee the capital with the old lady as soon as possible. ”

Dong Zhu was shocked in his heart, his father was ambitious, he knew this, but because he and his grandfather were hostages in the capital, his father could only endure it, could it be that the Son of Heaven discovered his father's ambition?

Thinking about it, it is very possible, it must be that my father showed clues in Xiangyang's military training and was discovered by the Son of Heaven.

He hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Please tell Yuan Xiangguo, thank him for the reminder, my father will remember it." ”

Dong Zhu rewarded Zhang Yao with another hundred taels of silver, and Zhang Yao said goodbye and left.

Dong Zhu immediately went to call his father up, and the two prepared to escape.

The cunning rabbit has three holes, in order to escape from the capital at a critical moment, Dong Zhu has long been prepared, they have bought off the people who monitor them, as long as their ancestors and grandchildren do not leave the capital, the monitors usually turn a blind eye, as for the visit in the middle of the night like the housekeeper of Yuanxiu, they don't care.

There are two groups of watchmen, one is placed in the mansion, the coachman, the subordinates and the like, and the other is outside the mansion gate, closely monitoring the gate, side door and back door of the Dong Mansion.

Dong Zhu has a secret house outside Luoyang City, as long as they can go out of the city, after making up in the secret house, they can escape Luoyang by boat.

The grandfather and grandson discussed for a while, both of them were worried about the long night and dreams, and decided to flee overnight, they first dressed up as ordinary people, dressed in rags, and then the grandfather and grandson came to the west courtyard, there is no gate here in the west courtyard, but outside the west wall is an alley, and on the opposite side of the alley is a private house, although there is no gate in the west courtyard, but there are two watchmen patrolling the alley outside, which Dong Zhu is very clear.

But more than a year ago, they had dug a secret passage that led to a house on the other side of the alley, so that they could leave the house without noticing, and when the gates were opened at dawn, they went out, and the soldiers guarding the gates did not know who they were.

The two grandsons and the two guards entered a hut, which was a room where miscellaneous items were piled up, and the two guards removed a dilapidated bed, and below it was a four-foot square stone slab, on which there was an iron ring, and the two removed the stone slab, revealing a large black hole. A wooden ladder rests over the entrance to the hole.

"Childe, I'll go down first!" One of his subordinates whispered.

Although this tunnel has only been dug for more than a year and is relatively new, out of prudence, let the guards go down first.

After a while, the guard shouted in the tunnel: "Childe, it's okay!" ”

Dong Zhu nodded, "Grandfather, you follow me!" ”

After another guard broke off, the four of them crawled in the cave and crawled towards the exit a foot and a half foot away.

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At noon, Zhu Jun had just finished lunch, was drinking tea and taking a break, Zhu Jun was extremely fat, weighing more than 250 pounds, plus he was indulgent in food and wine, so that his mind was in a state of chaos for many years, and he no longer had the ability and energy to deal with the government.

However, Zhu Jun still has a tight control over power, and he is especially wary of his subordinates, and Zhu Jun not only sent a prison to the generals of the town army outside, but also took their families hostage in Luoyang.

At this time, a eunuch came to report, "Your Majesty, the internal guard general Li Tong has an urgent matter to see!" ”

Zhu Jun opened his eyes slightly and said, "Xuan him in!" ”

Several palace maids hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and at this time, a tall and burly general walked in, knelt down on one knee and said, "Minister Li Tong see Your Majesty!" ”

"What's the urgency?" Zhu Jun said impatiently.

"Your Majesty, Dong Xizhi's family has absconded!"

"What?"

Zhu Jun was stunned, "I don't understand what you mean, do you say it again?" ”

"The son and father of Dong Xizhi, the king of Xiangyang County, absconded from his residence last night and may have left the city, and at present, he has sent 5,000 internal guards to search for his whereabouts."

Zhu Jun was suddenly furious, and slammed the teacup to the ground, 'Bang! 'The teacup shattered.

Zhu Jun roared: "Do you internal guards eat? The two big living people can't stand it. ”

Li Tong said with a bitter face: "It's not that the internal guards are derelict in their duties, but that someone is helping them." ”

"Who? Who's helping them? Zhu Jun asked angrily.

"He interrogated the housekeeper of the Dong Mansion, and he said that last night, Yuan Xiangguo sent someone to send a roll of notes and a message to Dong Xizhi's son, and then Dong Xizhi's son and father fled overnight."

Of course, Li Tong would not say that his subordinates were not monitoring effectively, that was his responsibility, it was easy to find a messenger who was behind the blame, and he also tried his best to imply that Dong Xizhi's family escaped with the help of Yuan Xiu.

Hearing that it involved Xiangguo Yuanxiu, Zhu Jun also slowly calmed down, of course he knew that Dong Xizhi was the general recommended by Yuan Xiu, and the supervising army secretly reported to him that Dong Xizhi had recruited private troops in Xiangyang, which made Zhu Zhu vigilant, and Dong Xizhi refused to go to Beijing to report on his work under the pretext of illness, which made Zhu Zhu even more suspicious.

Now that Dong Xizhi's son and father have escaped, Dong Xizhi has no worries, and Zhu Zhu is almost certain that Dong Xizhi will support the army and stand on his own, but it involves Xiang Guoyuanxiu, so that Zhu Zhu has to calm down.

"Can you be sure that someone from the Genxiang Country faction?"

"The housekeeper of the Dong Mansion said that the person who came was the third housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion, called Zhang Yao."

"And then?"

"The humble office went to the source mansion to find this Zhang Yao in the morning, but the people in the source mansion said that he did not return last night, and the humble position suspected that this person was hiding or was exterminated."

Zhu Jun pondered for a moment and said: "Your internal guards have to do two things, first, go all out to search for Dong Xizhi's family and prevent them from escaping; Second, if you want to find this missing Zhang Yao, you have to see people in life and corpses in death, you must confirm that he is a person sent by Yuan Xiangguo, and if you dare to make another mistake, your internal security commander will not do it! ”

"Obey the order!"

Li Tong broke out in a cold sweat on his back, he saluted and left in a hurry.

Zhu Jun was completely sleepy at this time, he raised his head and thought about something, and his little eyes flashed with fierce light.

I treat them well, and if they dare to collude inside and outside, don't blame yourself for being ruthless.

.........

At dusk, in front of the Cao River in Liren City, Luoyang, there were three layers outside the three layers, and more than a dozen officials fished out a corpse from the river, and the crowd suddenly stirred and retreated back, all of them stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks.

"Get out of the way!" A group of internal guard soldiers hurried over the commander Li Tong.

The soldiers pushed away the crowd, and Li Tong rode to the front, only to see that the deceased was a man in his thirties, wearing the short clothes of a butler.

A servant presented a bronze plaque, "General, this is what he found." ”

Li Tong took the sign, only to see the word 'Yuanfu' engraved on the front, and the word Li Yao engraved on the back, which was Li Yao, the housekeeper of Yuanfu that he was looking for everywhere.

Although the person was exterminated and should not have an identity certificate on his body, Li Tong couldn't find Dong Xizhi's family everywhere, and now this Zhang Yao was his only life-saving straw, and he couldn't care about unreasonable doubts, so he immediately shouted: "Bring his body back to the Yamen!" ”