Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Surrounded

Chapter 50

It was late at night, and the surroundings were quiet, especially quiet, but Zhou Zhen's face was pale. She stood on a chair for a long time before she could hold back the dizziness. She came to her senses and saw Du Qing standing by her side, looking at her worriedly. Her heart warmed up, and she tried to force a smile towards her, but this smile was uglier than crying.

Everyone knew that the emperor's eldest grandson was weak and congenitally deficient. The emperor treated this only grandson as his lifeblood. Now that he appeared here, no matter what the reason was, if he was not handled properly, their Wuling Hou Mansion would not be able to escape responsibility.

Zhou Zhen quickly calmed down, asked about the whole story, and decisively sent someone to Beijing to pass on the message. Naturally, such a thing should be done by a trustworthy person.

Li Shiwu was the commander of the guards at Wuling Marquis's mansion. He was also shocked when he heard about this. Although he knew the matter was very important, he hesitated and said, "Before I left, I received instructions from the Marquis to protect the safety of you and the young masters and young ladies. Now that I'm leaving, what if something goes wrong..." He naturally didn't continue with the rest of the words, after all, it would be unlucky to say it out loud.

Zhou Zhen said, "Our family's villa has been built here for a long time. It was built when my great-grandfather was here. I am very familiar with it. Even the farmers nearby have been passed down for generations. I know everything about it. As for the robbers, my great-grandfather took people to wipe out the bandits nearby when he was alive a few years ago. Everyone knows that this area belongs to our Wuling Marquis Mansion. Ordinary people dare not mess around. This area is the safest."

"You can go back with a small team. There are many guards left. What else can happen?"

Zhou Zhen was very confident about her own manor. If it weren't for Jiang Yu's daughter Du Qing and Li Shucheng, the little guest, she didn't want to bring so many guards out.

Li Shiwu was just cautious in doing things, so he said the above words. He knew what was important at this time. Such important news must be brought back by him to be credible.

Apart from anything else, the emperor in the palace must be crazy at this time.

Li Shiwu gave his subordinates a few words of advice. They had also been with him through thick and thin. Although they were just guards, they were all good fighters drawn from the Wuling Army.

Pengcheng smiled and said, "Brother, don't worry."

Li Shiwu nodded to Zhou Zhen, got up and mounted his horse, and headed straight to the capital with a dozen guards. They held torches in their hands, and the sound of horse hooves was particularly clear in the quiet night.

The peaches of Wuding's family property are particularly famous. When the peach season comes, it is almost difficult to find a basket.

To the east of the other courtyard is a large peach forest, with three hills. It is said that the old Wuling Hou likes peaches very much, and specially transported excellent peach trees from the south. After several generations of cultivation, they were raised. The

peach trees are lush, and there are several tall men inside, wearing scarves on their faces, covering their faces, looking towards the direction of the other courtyard. The other courtyard is below, and they are on the top of the hill, looking down from a high place, so they can naturally see clearly.

"We saw hundreds of people coming in yesterday, riding on top-quality Mengwu horses, and they were all trained." One of the masked men said.

"Wulan, why are you making such a fuss? This is the villa of the Wuling Marquis family, and their family has been military commanders for generations, so the guards who follow them are naturally martial artists."

Wulan frowned, "Even if they are guards, but sending more than a hundred people to escort them, isn't it suspicious? You also know that our operation this time is crucial and we can't make any mistakes."

"Brother, our people have inquired and heard that it is said that the young master of their family came, so they will naturally pay more attention to it." □□ felt that Wulan was making a fuss.

Wulan watched Li Shiwu's figure gradually disappear, and the torch finally turned into a small light in the distance. He was extremely anxious, "Just as you said, because of the young master, they took a special interest in him and sent so many people to escort him, but why did they suddenly leave today?" Traveling at night is the most dangerous, and they would not act like this unless it was urgent.

□□ fell silent. He also felt suspicious about this matter. "Brother, wait a minute. Our people have already gone to inquire about it. But it's night now, so we can't do too much. We're afraid of alerting the enemy. Let's wait until tomorrow. I promise that there will be news tomorrow morning."

They sent a few people to sneak into the other courtyard to do odd jobs in the backyard.

"If they have already discovered us and are going to report the news now, it will be too late tomorrow."

□□ still felt that Wu Lan was too cautious. "If they really went to report the news, why did they make such a big fuss? Why didn't they go quietly?"

"Maybe they just want to scare us and are afraid that we will be suspicious, so they use the same trick against us."

Neither of the two could argue with the other at this moment. Wu Lan took a deep breath and looked back. Behind him was just an ordinary hill, but there was a huge cave inside, hiding their soldiers.

Wu Lan said with a sullen face, "□□ you should know that we can only succeed this time and cannot fail. Since the action is only a few days away, let's surround this place first, catch those who are caught, kill those who are killed, and deal with it cleanly." "

Brother, do you mean that we would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go?"

Wu Lan nodded, "And I've thought about it. We must always leave ourselves a back-up plan. The young master of the Wuling Marquis family is also a good bargaining chip."

"Wuling Marquis is not a hesitant person. When it comes to war, he will not care about family affection."

"It's a good thing to make him unhappy." Wu Lan thought of the past fights, and he was so angry that his teeth itched, and he couldn't help but say.

"That's right." □□ nodded. At this moment, he already knew that this matter was inevitable.

"Go and make arrangements, and fight quickly and decisively."

"Yes!"

***

Zhou Zhen sent Li Shiwu away and returned to the house, but saw that the children who were still drowsy because they were woken up just now were now energetic and gathered together to talk lively.

"Your Highness, how did you get out?"

The eldest grandson of the emperor was different from other children of the same age. He was unusually precocious, but he was still a child after all. It was the first time for him to receive so many admiring and hopeful gazes, especially Wu Ding. Although he was not good at studying, he was not interested in it. So even if the eldest grandson of the emperor studied well, he did not take it to heart. But this time, he was really impressed.

"I found a eunuch with a similar body shape to me to copy Buddhist scriptures in the back, and told the people outside not to disturb me because I wanted to give the emperor grandfather a surprise, so they didn't dare to disturb me."

Li Shucheng said, "They all thought you were copying Buddhist scriptures in there, right?"

"Yes, because I said to keep it confidential, they didn't dare to disturb you at will, but I guess you should have been discovered now."

"When you left the imperial city, the guard asked you questions. Were you nervous?" Du Qing asked curiously, holding his cheek.

"What's there to be nervous about? If we're discovered, we'll just have to go back."

Li Shucheng gave a thumbs up, "Your Highness, you're really brave. When I first entered the palace and met the Emperor, my legs were shaking."

They talked back and forth, and the eldest grandson answered one by one. Zhou Zhen was listening beside them, stunned. The eldest grandson was so young that he could plan so well. It was simply amazing.

The girl was still very careful. Du Qing asked, "Have you had dinner?"

The eldest grandson of the emperor shook his head. At this time, someone had already brought in a midnight snack. It turned out that Zhou Zhen had already instructed the kitchen to prepare some food that was easy to digest. There were

a few side dishes, and the main dish was a bowl of chicken noodle soup. The soup was thick and the grease on it was removed. It tasted very refreshing and easy to digest.

Du Qing and the other children had already eaten dinner, but it had been several hours, and they were greedy because of the taste, so they couldn't help but look at the food.

Zhou Zhen smiled helplessly and asked someone to add three more bowls. He just warned in a serious manner, "It's hard to digest food at night. Just eat a little bit. Don't eat too much."

The maid brought the food over. They were all palm-sized blue and white porcelain lotus bowls, which were only a few chopsticks long, very little.

The children did not think it was too little. When they ate together, the taste became particularly sweet. "This chicken soup is really delicious."

"I heard from my family's cook that those chickens grew up eating peaches. They are different from other chickens, so of course the chicken soup is delicious." Wu Ding started to brag, and Li Shucheng was the first to expose him, "Isn't it said that your peaches are hard to find in a basket? How can you feed them to chickens?"

"Is it delicious?" Wu Ding started to act like a rogue.

Li Shucheng saw Wu Ding's unhappy face and did not dare to continue. He nodded spinelessly, "Delicious, delicious!"

Du Qing could not help laughing. His laughter was crisp and pleasant, which made the emperor's eldest grandson also smile.

Zhou Zhen was also relaxed a lot with this smile.

After eating the chicken noodle soup, Zhou Zhen asked the doctor who came with him to take the emperor's eldest grandson's pulse. Knowing that the emperor's eldest grandson was just tired, he was relieved and quickly arranged for him to rest.

Several children did not want to sleep, and were quite reluctant to leave, "Third sister-in-law, we are not sleepy, can we play for a while?"

It was the first time for them to leave the capital and go out to play by themselves, and they were with their companions. Everyone felt very interesting, and even just chatting was fun.

Zhou Zhen would naturally not agree, "No, everyone go and rest!"

At this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside, and a maid ran over in panic and said, "Third madam, something bad has happened, there is a group of people outside, and they are about to rush in." "

Who dares to break into the villa of Wudinghou Mansion at night?"

Zhou Zhen was shocked. She still remembered that before Li Shiwu left, she swore that this place was very safe. How come someone suddenly came here?

At this time, a guard ran in. It was Pengcheng. He had a slight smell of blood on him, and it was obvious that he had been in a fight. He said nervously, "Third grandma, those people outside are not ordinary people." They used crossbows to assassinate them first, and they had lost more than a dozen brothers before the fight started. "They are well-trained, well-equipped, and all of them are tall and strong. They are good at fighting and are not easy to deal with. They are obviously well prepared. You must leave here immediately."

"We will delay them to the death."

"How to escape? We are surrounded." Sun Derui, who ran out of the palace with the emperor's eldest grandson, asked in horror.

Zhou Zhen lowered his eyes, "It's not that there is no way."