Chapter 191 Emergency Arrest (2)
The Dark Cloud Beast tried to slow down its pace.
As it ran, it never forgot to look back and snort a few times, laughing at the three tiny donkeys and a large group of burly black horses with bloody hooves.
They are all trash, they run as fast as their mothers!
Any animal that runs slower than it is useless... So, when the Dark Cloud Beast stopped at the gate of Zhuge Mansion, it did not forget to kick its hooves a few times. Amidst flying sparks, it chiseled several hoof prints the size of small basins on the ground.
It was not until the caracal lying in front of Lu Yi's saddle grabbed its forehead with an unhappy paw that the creature calmed down, turned around, bared its teeth, and gave the caracal a "smile" that was almost "flattering".
A green snake lurks in Lu Yi's sleeve.
Overhead, a large parrot spread its wings and flew by.
Dahuang hung out his tongue and twitched his nose vigorously.
Except for the alligator snapping turtle that was too large and slightly slow, which was left behind at Tianyang Mansion, he brought all the gentlemen around Lu Yi with him.
Gently patting the caracal that was threatening the black cloud beast, Lu Yi looked at the guards on the wall of Zhuge Mansion and said coldly: "In compliance with the order of the emperor, please invite the Minister of Rites Zhuge Mingming to the imperial city to discuss state affairs. Open the gate immediately."
The guards looked at Lu Yi with twinkling eyes, and their faces had meaningful expressions, full of weird "you take us for fools".
Lu Yu looked at the guards and spread his hands: "Come on, you don't want to be fooled, right? Then, attack!"
Lu Yi shouted loudly, and Ah Hu, who had been running all the way with a large group of people, rushed out with the demon-subduing pestle in his hand. The demon-subduing pestle, with a faint glow of fire, hit the gate of Zhuge Mansion heavily.
With a loud bang, the gate of Zhuge Mansion made a mournful sound, and the guards' shouting came from behind the door. The door frame trembled, and a huge dent was smashed into the steel plate wrapped around the door, but the door actually held up despite Ah Hu's heavy blow.
"Ah Hu, haven't you eaten?" Lu Yi laughed out loud.
Ah Hu was so angry that his face turned red. He roared, his body shook, and he rose more than a foot higher from the spot. His skin was covered with a faint red color.
He rushed to the side for more than ten steps, avoiding the gate that was blocked by countless guards, and swung the demon-subduing pestle, ramming it head-on into the courtyard wall. There was a loud bang, and a large section of the six-foot-thick courtyard wall collapsed under his head, which was about 70 feet long.
From behind the courtyard wall came the exclamations of the guards, the sound of bowstrings vibrating and roaring continuously, hundreds of powerful bows and crossbows were fired, and the dense arrows fell on Ah Hu one after another.
Ah Hu covered his eyes with his left hand and swept around with the demon-subduing pestle in his right hand. A large number of arrows were shot away by him. No one knew which unlucky guy in the yard was hit by the flying arrows and let out a shrill howl.
"Rush in and ask Minister Zhuge to see His Majesty." Lu Yi waved his hand forward.
A large group of guards brandished guns and sticks, and followed Ah Hu into the gap in the courtyard wall.
Just as a dozen guards rushed in, they heard a series of ghostly screams. They flew out backwards much faster than they went in, each of them covered in blood, and no one knew how many times they had been chopped by the sword.
Several guards were stabbed in the neck and their heads were almost chopped off. They were obviously dead.
Lu Yi was furious and shouted, "Ah Hu, what's going on?"
Ah Hu roared in the yard: "There are so many people, and their claws are very hard."
Lu Yi snorted, and the caracal rushed out in delight at seeing its prey. Lu Yi waved his hand, and the hundred or so strong men standing beside him, who were at least eight feet five or six inches tall, immediately rushed out with "howls".
These strong men from Baihu Hall have been practicing with Ah Hu these days. Lu Yi spared no expense in purchasing rare medicinal materials and prepared various soups, pills and powders for them to assist them in their practice.
In addition, the place where they practiced was in the Five Elements Feng Shui formation set up by Lu Yu, and they were nourished by the Five Elements and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Their progress was much faster than that of ordinary martial artists. What they gained in an ordinary day was probably much more than what an ordinary martial artist would gain after months of hard practice.
Nowadays, each of the men in Baihu Hall has the strength of nearly half a bull, and they are considered good even among the masters in the Tuomai realm.
They were all wearing heavy armor, holding heavy shields in their left hands and short-handled maces in their right hands. They were like a group of iron towers, rushing into the gap in the courtyard wall with a "crash". Then a dull sound of hitting was heard from the wall.
The 'puff' sound of the mace hitting the flesh, the 'crack' sound of the mace hitting the top of the head, and the 'crack' sound of the bones breaking were endless. The yard was in chaos, and the earth-shattering howls rose to the sky.
Ah Hu, with a group of strong men from Baihu Hall, swept away all the guards in the yard in a few moves. Lu Yi waved his hand again, and thirty-six divine generals including Yu Dianhu shouted loudly, and a group of personal guards rushed forward and violently broke open the door of Zhuge Mansion.
With a loud bang, two vermilion-painted copper-nailed doors fell heavily to the ground. Lu Yi, riding on the dark cloud beast, led a large group of people into the house and broke directly through the gate.
The structure of Zhuge Mansion is no different from other .
After entering the gate, there is a rectangular square with a carved walkway in the middle. At the end of the walkway, which is about thirty or forty meters long, is the lobby leading into the courtyard.
Now the square was littered with guards wearing soft armor. Some of them were dead, some were wounded, and some were disabled. Many of them were seriously injured and were lying on the ground wailing loudly.
More than a hundred guards, panting and covered in blood, lined up in front of the lobby steps leading into the courtyard, looking with flickering eyes at Lu Yi and others who had broken in.
Ah Hu, with more than a hundred strong men, approached the guards in formation step by step. It felt like a group of big bad wolves approaching a group of lambs step by step, making the guards look so fragile and pitiful.
Lu Yi rode on the dark cloud beast and looked coldly at the brightly lit lobby.
There were at least a thousand candles lit in the huge lobby, and the bright lights illuminated most of the square.
Zhuge Mingming, wearing a dark purple casual robe, with his long hair tied up in a bun and a simple white jade hairpin inserted in it, was sitting in the lobby with a calm demeanor, holding a book in his hand, reciting in a low voice without raising his head.
Zhuge Mingming, who is nearly seventy years old, has been well maintained. His hair is only gray, and his cheeks are as white as jade plates, with only three wrinkles on his forehead. He looks to be in his early fifties.
Several men dressed in white, all covered in snow-white, stood quietly by the side. They had a stern aura and eyes as sharp as swords, staring straight at Lu Yi with sinister malice in their eyes.
Lu Yi smiled and said, "Lord Zhuge, His Majesty is suddenly thinking of you. How about you follow me into the palace and have a heart-to-heart talk with His Majesty?"
Zhuge Mingming put down the book in his hand, slowly raised his head, and smiled at Lu Yi: "The three words 'intimate talk' are remarkable. Lord Tianyang, you are an interesting person... But, this time, the Palace Guardian has greatly disappointed me!"
Lu Yi keenly captured the implicit meaning of Zhuge Mingming's words.
"Oh? Master Zhuge already knew what happened in Dongjie City? Tsk, are you dissatisfied with our late visit? We should have come to visit you a few days earlier?"
Zhuge Mingming smiled but said nothing.
Lu Yi sighed: "Then I don't understand, why don't you leave?"
Zhuge Mingming smiled and looked at Lu Yi: "Why should I leave?"
Lu Yi stared at him with eyes wide open in shock: "You Zhuge clan are rebelling, how can you not leave?"
Zhuge Mingming stood up, pointed his sword at Lu Yi and shouted: "You little brat, stop talking nonsense. I, Zhuge, am loyal to Dayin, the Queen Mother and the Emperor. How could I possibly rebel?"
Lu Yu widened his eyes and looked at the other person in astonishment.
Zhuge Duming has surrendered Dongjie City, and Dongqi Bo's army has invaded the heartland of Dayin. It is clear that you, Zhuge, are rebelling.
Zhuge Mingming stroked his long beard and said leisurely: "With a big family and a big business, it is inevitable that there will be bad sons... I, Zhuge Mingming, am loyal and sincere, and heaven and earth can bear witness to it. Unfortunately, our family is unfortunate, and there have been three or five traitors who have done such unfaithful things to the king and father..."
Lu Yi understood.
He laughed and said, "Oh, hedging your bets, what a good move. Lord Zhuge Mingming is a loyal minister; Lord Zhuge Duming is a traitor. No matter who wins, your Zhuge clan will always be invincible!"
Lu Yi shook his head and sighed: "Great, great, it's great. But, Master Zhuge, can people in the world believe your words?"
Zhuge Mingming chuckled and looked at Lu Yi as if he was a fool.
Lu Yi understood and shook his head gently, thinking how stupid he was - Zhuge Mingming didn't need the people of the world to believe what he said. He only needed all the civil and military officials in the court to believe what he said, and that was enough.
So, will the civil and military officials in Dayin believe what he says?
It doesn’t matter whether the nobles believe it or not.
If those civil officials believed in it, then Zhuge Mingming and the Zhuge family's reputation of "unwavering loyalty" would not be ruined.
Will the civil officials believe it?
Of course!
They will believe each other, testify for each other, and guarantee each other that they are loyal ministers who are loyal to Dayin.
Lu Yi sighed: "That's right, of course people in the world will believe that Lord Zhuge is a loyal minister, and the Zhuge family is also full of loyal and heroic people..."
Zhuge Mingming glared at Lu Yi fiercely.
'A family full of loyal heroes' is not a good thing to say.
Lu Yi smiled and bowed to Zhuge Mingming: "I'm sorry, I didn't study much since I was young, so I can't speak. Someone, please help Master Zhuge to go to the palace to meet His Majesty."
Lu Yi's tone turned cold, and he shouted sternly: "Strip off his purple robe, mess up his hair, take off his shoes and socks, let him wear his underwear, hair down, and barefoot, and beat him with a soft stick all the way to see His Majesty!"
Lu Fu couldn't stand people like Zhuge Mingming.
Your whole family is full of traitors, why are you pretending to be loyal?
Come on, you want to pretend, right?
Lu Yu was determined to strip him of his dignity.
A group of guards were rubbing their hands in anticipation, and with strange smiles on their faces, they were moving closer to the hall - when it came to humiliating ministers and tormenting officials, these killers in the Palace Guards were all experts.
Lu Yi shouted again, "Eight hundred people go to the backyard to protect Master Zhuge's family!"
This is even more vicious.
The officials in charge of culture and education, not all of them are Bai Changkong, but their emphasis on "etiquette and law" has reached a point of madness.
If their families were really "closely protected" by Lu Yi's guards for a whole night, it seems that they would have no other way to maintain their "own gentlemanly face" except for forcing those family members to hang themselves!
Zhuge Mingming was furious, jumping up and down and cursing: "Lu Yi, how dare you!"
Lu Yi sneered: "Follow my orders, anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"
With a clang, a man in white in the hall waved his right hand, and a green sword turned into a beam of cold light more than three feet long, piercing straight into Lu Yi's chest.
