76. Explode Again

On the dimly lit street, the prince and Baili were fleeing from Hongyi Lane, first heading north and then turning west...

The two men were no longer calm and composed, their clothes were torn in several places, and their hair was disheveled.

The two were running breathlessly when they suddenly heard a loud explosion behind them. Then the whole city of Los Angeles seemed to be awakened, and the watchdogs in every household were barking wildly.

Bai Li stopped and looked back at Hongyi Lane with a worried look on his face: "What happened? Why is there such a noise?"

The prince thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like someone is using a firearm. I heard this kind of noise when I accompanied my father to observe the Shenji Battalion's firearms and cannon drills.

Fire Cannon

Bai Li was startled and turned around to go back to Anxi Street.

The prince's face changed drastically, and he quickly grabbed her arm: "Little Ancestor, why are you going? We just managed to escape with great difficulty!"

Bai Li turned around and said anxiously, "Could this fire cannon be used against the man who just saved us? The power of that fire cannon is so strong that even the high officials have to take shelter from it. How can he resist it?"

The prince was also troubled: "Logically speaking, the Shenji Camp is a hundred miles away. If there is no serious matter, they will never enter Luocheng."

Moreover, even if the Shenji Camp came, they would not dare to use muskets and cannons in the city without authorization.

"I guess it's not a musket or a cannon, it could be something else... Let's go back and save him. That knight saved us, so we can't be so heartless."

"Is there any way to save him?"

Bai Li asked.

The prince thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "We won't be able to save him if we just run back. Come with me to the Qiansui Army camp and ask Uncle Wang to send troops to surround Hongyi Lane."

"As long as you and I can convince Uncle Wang to mobilize the Thousand Years Army, no matter how elite the Jiefan Guards are, they only have 500 men!"

"Can we persuade Uncle Wang? He won't move unless he sees Father's tiger talisman."

Bai Li said worriedly.

"I'll kowtow to Uncle Wang, I guarantee it will work!"

Baili: ...

At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance. The prince hurriedly pulled Baili into the dark alley and found an abandoned bamboo basket in the alley to cover the two of them.

A moment later, five hundred cavalrymen of the Jiefan Guard passed by from outside the alley. Their neatly arranged hats, straw raincoats, and swords looked particularly cold and solemn on the stone road under the moonlight.

Beside Lin Chaoqing, a young man walked by, holding the reins: "Sir, will the Golden Pig fall this time?

"Won't."

Lin Chaoqing said calmly.

"He arbitrarily mobilized the Jiefan Guards from our Mengjin camp but returned empty-handed, not even catching a single Jingchao villain. Why don't we take this opportunity to apprehend him and bring him back to the capital?"

The young man asked doubtfully, "Even if this matter is brought to the attention of the Minister of Internal Affairs, we will still be in the right."

"These twelve zodiac signs of the Secret Service are arrogant and domineering. Catching them is a threat to the people."

Lin Chaoqing stared straight ahead, his back erect even though he was on horseback, like a spear. "Jiaotu and Yunyang have no roots in the Secret Service, so let's just do it."

"Golden Pig is different. He has been loyal to the Minister of Internal Affairs over the years, and he has the protection of Tianma behind him. Such a small matter alone cannot move him."

As he spoke, Jie Fanwei gradually walked away.

An unknown amount of time passed before the prince confirmed that no one was outside the alley. He then took off the broken baskets from him and Bai Li and said, "It seems they didn't catch anyone. We don't need to rescue them."

"This guy is so amazing, he actually managed to escape from the hands of the Conspiracy Department and the Jiefan Guards."

Bai Li hesitated for a moment and asked, "Brother, do you know the man who saved us? Does he look familiar to you?"

The prince said embarrassedly: "At that time, I was only thinking about how to escape, and I really didn't observe carefully... Could it be that they are people from the underworld that I made friends with in the past, who saw that we were in danger and came out to help us at the risk of their lives?"

Speaking of those jianghu people, Bai Li immediately became annoyed and said, "What kind of people are you associating with? They run away when there is danger! It definitely can't be those jianghu people, they are all fake friends!"

“There are also some good ones…”

"Anyway, I won't pay for their drinks anymore."

Bai Li said angrily, "These people spend money like water when they drink. They choose the best food and drink the best wine. They talk about delicious food, fine wine, and beautiful women in great detail, but when it comes to the real deal, none of them can be trusted."

"I'm not worried about the money, I just despise their chivalrous talk."

The prince scratched his head and said: "Okay, okay, I won't pay for their drinks in the future... By the way, you just said that the knight who saved us looked familiar, did you recognize who it was?"

Bai Li was silent for a moment: "No, I didn't recognize who it was."

She actually had a guess in her heart, but she finally

He did not express his guess out loud, but chose to keep it in his heart and prepare to verify it carefully himself.

Bai Li took off her hairpin, raised her arms and tied her hair up again before setting off again.

The two of them hid all the way back to Anxi Street. When they saw the guards and plaque of Prince Jing's Mansion from afar, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Li did not climb back to the palace from the back garden. She suddenly said to the prince, "Brother, let's go back from the Taiping Clinic. There is a ladder there."

The prince supported his knees with his hands, panting in surprise, "When you came out tonight, you said that you would never go to Taiping Clinic again and would never let the thief Chen Ji make money from your tolls. Why did you change your mind again?"

Baili rolled his eyes: "I don't want to climb over the wall, is that okay? A ladder would be much more convenient."

The prince also rolled his eyes: "Women are so fickle."

The two men quietly slipped to the door of Taiping Clinic and were about to open it, but found that the door was bolted from the inside.

Bai Li thought for a moment and called out, "Chen Ji, Chen Ji, we're here to pay you the toll!

Quiet.

silence

No one answered the door.

Bai Li's suspicions became more and more certain. She bent down and tentatively called out through the crack in the door, "Chen Ji, I'll give you ten taels of silver this time!"

Still quiet.

Still no one answered.

Bai Li muttered, "He's really not in there.

As soon as the words fell, the door opened with a creak.

Bai Li was stunned and slowly raised his head, only to see Old Man Yao standing calmly at the door.

She said awkwardly, "Doctor Yao, did I disturb Chen Ji? Why didn't he come to open the door?"

Old man Yao said expressionlessly, "Why are the princess and the prince so awake in the middle of the night and coming to my Taiping Clinic? I am ninety-two years old and cannot stand your torture."

Bai Li thought of a solution in a hurry: "Doctor Yao, my brother and I are feeling a little unwell. Can you please let us in and take our pulses?"

Old man Yao glanced at her, then reached out across the threshold and pinched her wrist to feel her pulse.

After a moment, Old Man Yao said, "Your brain is sick and cannot be cured. Please go back."

"You took the wrong pulse, please let me sit down and take it again carefully."

Bai Li tried to squeeze through the door beside Old Man Yao, but Old Man Yao quickly closed the door as if he had predicted it.

With a clang, the wooden door closed tightly.

Old Man Yao's voice drifted out from the crack in the door: "The prince and the princess should return to the palace from somewhere else. If they cause trouble again, I will report this to the prince when he returns."

Bai Li wanted to knock on the door, but the prince pulled her away quickly: "Let's go, let's go. I guess Chen Ji must have angered Doctor Yao by letting us pass. Let's not make things difficult for Chen Ji and go through the back garden."

"If Imperial Physician Yao really reports this to Father, I'm afraid your monthly salary will also be cut off..."

Bai Li was pulled and looked back every few steps, his eyes cast at the tightly closed wooden door again and again, but he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​finding out the truth.

She wondered in her heart: "Could it be that Chen Ji hasn't returned yet, so Doctor Yao is helping to cover up for him? That must be the case."

"But if it's true as Jie Fanwei said, that the Secret Service didn't catch Chen Ji, then where would Chen Ji be now?"

Under the cover of night, Chen Ji was limping through the intricate alleys.

He slowly stopped, bent down panting, untied the cloth wrapped around the wound on his right leg, and then tightened it again.

The wounds on his chest and legs were aching, but he hadn't finished his work tonight and had no time to stop and rest.

Chen Ji looked up at the surrounding environment and continued to run towards the meeting place he had agreed with Wu Yun.

After turning two more alleys, I saw Wu Yun squatting on the eaves of the alley wall, and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

Chen Ji bent over and panted, sighing, "Golden Pig must be a master in the Dao Seeking Realm. Even such powerful firecrackers couldn't kill him. The Great Official's background is unfathomable. This world is even more terrifying than I imagined."

"If I hadn't had the gunpowder with me, I would have been taken back to the inner prison right now."

Wuyun meowed again: "I'm asking about your injury. Why don't you go back to your master and let him treat you first.

Chen Ji shook his head: "No, we must kill Manager Yuan first."

The Secret Service is surrounding Jin Fang tonight. If he thinks I leaked the secret, he's probably already thinking about how to kill me... Can you track his whereabouts now?

Wu Yun replied, "After delivering goods to other clinics at noon, he went straight back to his residence on Tongji Street in the afternoon and hasn't left since."

During the day, Manager Yuan drove the cattle

A car came to deliver goods to Taiping Medical Clinic, and when it left, two tabby cats secretly followed it.

Just now, Chen Ji and Wu Yun separated to let it go to find the two tabby cats.

"It seems that Manager Yuan knew about the Golden Pig's capture plan at noon. Chen Ji frowned: Who revealed it to him? It was those dozen or so clinics! Wu Yun, which clinics did he go to?

Wuyun shook his head: "The tabby cat's brain can't remember so much information, it can only recall part of it at most.

Chen Ji thought: "Well, as long as Manager Yuan is dead, it's none of my business who passed the message to him.

As he said this, he stood up with the help of the wall and wanted to continue on his way.

However, tonight he first killed six spies, and then after severely damaging the Golden Pig, he fled by leaping over rooftops one after another, and was almost exhausted.

After just two steps, my legs felt weak and I could hardly walk.

Wu Yun said worriedly: "Let's go back to the clinic.

Chen Ji shook his head: "Take me to his residence. Manager Yuan must die tonight."

…

Tongji Street has always been a place where merchants gather and live. Unlike the courtyards of literati families, here, the stone lions in front of the doors are more majestic than each other, the carriages parked in front of the doors are more exquisite than each other, and the plaques and door lintels are higher than each other, as if they are afraid of being outdone by their neighbors.

According to the laws of the Ning Dynasty, merchants and opera performers were not allowed to ride in carriages. They had to have a literary status above that of a scholar to do so.

However, in recent years, the folk workshops in Ning Dynasty have become more and more famous, and there are more and more merchants. They rely on their own backers to convert trucks into horse-drawn carriages. Once they are inspected, they just give some silver to get away with it. This law has gradually become a dead letter.

At this time, the Yuan Mansion was as quiet as a cemetery, without a single servant or servant.

Shopkeeper Yuan sat in the main hall with the doors and windows closed. Although it was already late at night, he was still dressed neatly, as if he was patiently waiting for the long night to end.

Swish.

He suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the door. The crackling sound was extremely abrupt in the middle of the night.

Shopkeeper Yuan stood up solemnly, slowly approached the door, and listened through the crack to see what the sound was.

With a squeak.

Shopkeeper Yuan saw someone open his window from the outside, throw in a bamboo tube, and then carefully help him close the window.

not good!

Shopkeeper Yuan looked at the medicine twister that was about to burn out and immediately tried to break through the door, but it seemed as if someone was holding the door with their body, and it didn't open for a while!

After all, Chen Ji's strength was not as great as Manager Yuan's. Manager Yuan just exerted more force, and Chen Ji leaned over and supported the ground with his feet, but he was still able to force open a gap in the door that was two arms wide.

Shopkeeper Yuan looked out through the crack in the door and saw Chen Ji holding the door with both hands, looking at him with cold and deep eyes.

"You're looking for death, open it for me!

But then Shopkeeper Yuan attacked with anger, slamming his palms against the two doors. The wooden doors couldn't withstand the overwhelming force and instantly shattered, sending Chen Ji flying backwards, coughing up blood in mid-air!

How could Chen Ji stop a master of this realm?

But for Chen Ji, just delaying for a moment is enough!

Die!

With a loud bang.

Before Manager Yuan left the house, the bamboo tubes on the ground exploded, and the mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal burned violently. The white sugar mixed with gunpowder at high temperature released a huge amount of gas.

In an instant, a huge shock wave swept through the house, carrying the broken iron pieces in the bamboo tube and tearing the clothes on Manager Yuan into pieces.

There was another loud bang, and the brick walls of the house couldn't bear the weight of the roof anymore. Countless gray tiles collapsed like a landslide, raising huge amounts of dust, burying Manager Yuan alive in the house!

Chen Ji fell to the ground, with tinnitus in his ears, as if a huge metallic noise was roaring in his ears.

He couldn't hear any sound from the outside world, but he still managed to get up and looked at the ruins of the house vigilantly.

Is Manager Yuan dead?

He should be dead.

The bamboo tube exploded in the air earlier, but the power of the gunpowder was not fully exerted.

This time the bamboo tube exploded inside the house. Even though Manager Yuan had broken the door, the power was still multiplied exponentially.

Chen Ji kept hoping in his heart, dead, Shopkeeper Yuan must be dead!

He slowly stood up and staggered towards the ruins, trying to remove the tiles and confirm the other person's death.

But he had just stumbled a few steps when he heard a click.

The ruins suddenly arched up!

Chen Ji retreated in horror!

This one is not dead!

End of this chapter.

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