Chapter 67: Ambush

"Send you a thousand miles, you must say goodbye in the end, don't pass it here, he will meet again in the future!" Yu Xuan's face was still red, with drunkenness, standing outside the East City Gate, he smiled and waved to everyone. Compared with the desertion when I left Qingzhou, today's scene is much more lively. Not only did many purple-robed, scarlet-robed and green-robed officials crowd outside the city to see each other off, but even the people of Penglai City also came.

In late autumn and November, the willow trees by the river suffered for a while, and those officials pulled two of them, and he broke one branch, and at one time broke hundreds or thousands of willow branches to 'break the willow farewell'. Those civil officials also wrote a poem on the spot, and most of the military attachΓ©s did not have this literary talent, but most of them said a few auspicious words with examples, what a smooth journey, step by step and so on. After the civil and military officials said goodbye one by one according to their grades.

At this time, the gentry who had been waiting a little impatiently came up, and these gentry from the counties and townships of Dengzhou were all followed by a few young people, holding a huge Wanmin umbrella. This Wanmin umbrella is as high as a canopy, and the head of the red cloth is also tied with small red and yellow cloth strips on the side. For a time, the east of the city was full of moving umbrellas, and there were thousands of them. Among them, the person who sent the most was not the people or the squire, but Feng Yanqing, and I don't know what kind of idea this guy had, he actually sent a hundred umbrellas to the people.

Yu Xuan didn't know that there was such a thing in Lu Dao in advance, looking at the Wanmin umbrella like a forest, his face was full of sarcastic smiles. According to legend, during the Qin and Han dynasties, when officials left office, the people would make a sum of money with the people and ask someone to engrave the official's achievements on the stone tablet and stand on the road when the official left. After a long time, it became a kind of ritual, and the people did not expect that even if they were corrupt officials, they had to see the moral and political monument erected when they wanted to leave, otherwise they would not be able to leave, and they would not be able to hand over, and their successors would not be able to go to work, which would affect the operation of officialdom. So in the Tang Dynasty, the government ordered that the monument should not be erected, otherwise the monument would not only have to be demolished, but the person responsible would also suffer a hundred boards. If you really love the people like children, and the people cry out to erect them, then there is a relief measure, and the local government can report to the Ministry of Rites for approval before erecting a monument.

After leaving, the monument will be erected, and for those who want to shoot Yu Xuan's fart, it will be a bit boring. Therefore, no monument is erected, but an umbrella can be sent to the people. "Wanmin Umbrella" means that this outgoing official usually protects the people like a giant umbrella, and is a good official who loves the people like a son. Generally, when the county order and the assassin leave office, the people give Wanmin umbrellas, which are originally a handful, and the small strips of cloth on them represent the people. Because a strip of cloth represents a common people, the umbrella is called the umbrella of all people. But today, the officials and gentry of Dengzhou have broken this routine again, and they have sent off a former pension idle Sima, and sent thousands of umbrellas to the people at one time.

Feng Yanqing sent a hundred alone, and Yu Xuan was taken aback by this move. Even Cui Yunqing's face is very ugly, Yu Xuan is just an idle Sima, he is the assassin, and now Yu Xuan has received thousands of umbrellas when he leaves office. In Cui's view, this move is an opponent with ulterior motives, among them, Yu Xuan, an idle Sima, received thousands of umbrellas for the people, this matter will definitely cause a sensation, and when it reaches Chang'an, what will the emperor and the officials of the court and the central government think? Do you think that as soon as Yu Xuan turned over, he made a scene? Regardless of whether this is made by Yu Xuan himself, as long as the matter spreads, it will definitely be bad for Xuan's reputation at that time. Second, Yu Xuan is just a Sima, Cui Yunqing is the chief assassin of the history, now a Sima will receive thousands of umbrellas for the people, so if he leaves office in the future, if he can't receive so many umbrellas, wouldn't it be said that he is not as good as a Sima for a assassination?

Killing two birds with one stone, a small Wanmin umbrella, Feng Yanqing directly plotted against the two main opponents.

"Let's go!" Yu Xuan didn't care about saying anything, and if he continued to stay here, he didn't know what Feng Yanqing was going to do. It was still the two old men who followed Yu Xuan to catch the car, but this time there were twenty more guards.

However, Yu Xuan wanted to go as fast as possible, but these people outside Dengzhou City didn't seem to want him to leave so quickly. Yu Xuan was just about to get into the carriage, but there were already hundreds of people in front of his carriage who stopped in front of him and refused to let him go. Those people didn't know if Lu Dao really didn't want him to go, or if these people just came to put on a show, or just accepted the secret assignment, in short, hundreds of people stood in front for a while, but they refused to let Yu Xuan go. This scene is very chaotic. The officials in the back also gave gifts, and the farewell readings were also chanted, and even the willows by the river were bald. The squires also sent thousands of Wanmin umbrellas, and it is said that at this point, it is time for Yin Xuan to leave.

Li Jing had to squeeze to the front with Zuo Yidu's brothers at this time, and squeezed a passage for Yu Xuan to let him leave. Yu Xuan also got out of the carriage amid the shouts of those people, changed his horse, and kept waving goodbye to those people.

Seeing that the passage was about to be finished, a person suddenly squeezed out from behind the human wall of the soldiers on the left and rushed straight in front of Yu Xuan.

Li Jing's scalp was numb at that time, and he thought that there was an assassin in his heart, so he hurriedly ran over. But when I ran to the front, I found that it didn't seem to be that way at all. I saw that the man ran to Yu Xuan's horse, but he was not an assassin, but stepped forward and grabbed Yu Xuan's leg to prevent him from leaving. He was talking about a clean official or something, but Li Jing looked at the man carefully, and found that the man was dressed in a short brown dress and a gray farmer's outfit on his face. But he inadvertently noticed that the farmer in linen short brown actually had a pair of silk-faced boots under his feet. Listening to the man's words, it was not at all like the tone of an ordinary farmer.

While Li Jing was guessing whether this person's true identity was an assassin or an actor, the man suddenly ripped off the boot on Yu Xuan's left foot. Although it seems that the person was inadvertently ripped off, Li Jing can see it very clearly, this person is definitely deliberately ripped off, to be precise, he is running for Yu Xuan's boots.

What's going on here?

Just when Li Jing was puzzled, the man who ripped off Yu Xuan's boots was excitedly holding his boots and running back to the crowd. There was a cheer from the crowd, and immediately a few more people took out a wooden box and opened it, took the boot and put it in very solemnly.

The gang was completely premeditated, not only arranged for someone to block the road, but also arranged for someone to take off their boots, and prepared a wooden box. A series of actions, arranged without leakage. Soon, the group of people crowded to the gate of the city with a box of boots. Someone else lifted a ladder and nailed the box with the boots to the east gate.

Yu Xuan was barefoot, and seemed to be a little numb to this, just urging the carriage on the road, and he didn't even have time to change his boots. Looking at the carriage rolling away, as well as Yu Xuan's bare feet that had been dangling in the air, Li Jing had a feeling of crying and laughing.

"What the fuck is going on?"

Lin Wei and Zhang Hong quietly squeezed to Li Jing's side, just in time to hear his low curse, Zhang Hong hurriedly explained: "Just now it was leaving office to take off the boots, and the boots that were taken off are called bereaved boots." This is also the original head, Emperor Xianzong, Cui Rong served as the history of Huazhou Thorn, did a lot of good things, when he left office, the people were reluctant to let him go, stopped on the road, did not expect to use too much force, actually pulled off his official boots, the common people such as the treasure, called this boots "bequeathed boots." ”

This was originally just an accident, but who would have thought that it would later become a widely circulated story. Later, when some officials with great prestige left office, some ordinary people would also take the initiative to take off their boots. If an official is taken off his boots, not only must he not be angry, but he must be happy, because only when the officials with a good reputation leave office, the people will take off their boots. However, since Cui Rong to the present, there are few officials who have been taken off their boots. ”

Zhang Hong's last sentence is to say that Yu Xuan's boots are not in line with the original meaning of taking off his boots. Of course, Li Jing understood what he wanted to say behind his back, Yu Xuan was completely plotted today.

This trick is ruthless, first the umbrella of the people, and then another roadblock to take off the boots. Needless to say, Feng Yanqing's shadow must be indispensable, maybe even Song Wen may be involved in this later. This is to kill Yu Xuan, if you can't kill it, you will come to kill it. However, the more this is the case, the more it shows that Feng Yanqing needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.

"How's the preparation going?" Li Jing asked Lin Weidao softly.

Feng Yanqing lives in Dongcheng, and when he returns to the city, he will go directly along the east-west main road. The streets are full of vendors and people setting up stalls during the day, and it is difficult to get their hands dirty. Lin Wei said, they did a lot of calculations, but they didn't calculate that Yu Xuan would leave today. It turned out that Li Jing thought that Yu Xuan should leave tomorrow, so today's banquet would probably end after dark. At that time, Feng Yanqing returned home at night, and there was no one on the street.

"We have to do it today, although no one knows about Zhang Daxin's death, this matter can't be covered up for a few days. Moreover, just now Feng Liang actually poisoned the wine and wanted to poison the thorn history, we can't wait any longer, so as not to have many dreams at night. Think of a way, won't Feng Yanqing have other arrangements? Li Jing didn't dare to delay any longer, the matter had reached a critical moment.

"Feng Yanqing rarely goes out at night under normal circumstances, and is basically in the house. However, there are exceptions, I heard that Feng Yanqing has a villa manor on Danya Mountain in the water city north of the city, which is not far from King Zhao's manor. There lived Feng Yanqing's mother, as well as one of his Silla concubines and his young son born to Silla concubines, but he rarely went there, most of the time during the day, and only occasionally stayed at night for one or two nights. ”

"Is there any pattern for him to go to Danya Mountain to live elsewhere?" Li Jing's heart moved and asked, Danya Mountain is not in Penglai City, but in the north of the city, surrounded by the water village of the water master facing the sea in the north. Although Penglai City is very close to the cottage, there is still a distance of about ten miles in the middle. If Feng Yanqing goes to the Danya, then this section of the road is the best place to block. ”

"Every month, when he was looking around, he would go to Danya Mountain to see his mother in the evening, and then spend the night at the Silla concubine." Zhang Hong said suddenly.

"How do you know the way?" Li Jing was a little surprised. Zhang Hong laughed a few times, and once after drinking, he heard a brother say that he was a native of Penglai, who used to help the Feng family pick up and send things to another residence, and had seen Feng Yanqing's Silla concubine. The man was obsessed, and I heard it last time I drank and lost his words. ”

"Is this reliable?" Lin Wei asked, because today happened to be looking at the sun. The first day of the first lunar month is the new day, and the day of hope is the fifteenth. Their luck is very good, but they just don't know if the news that Feng Yanqing will go to Danya Mountain to stay overnight every Wangshuo Day is accurate.

"No matter how much." Li Jing clenched his fists and said firmly: "Immediately arrange for Xiaoshi to take seven or eight brothers to bring the prepared weapons to Penglai City on the way to Danya, and let the second brother follow suit, find the location of the ambush, and we will go over immediately when we find a suitable time." ”

Several people nodded in agreement and dispersed.