Chapter 1032 First Blood
In the blink of an eye, it was evening.
Zhu Feng led his horse and stopped at a street corner. This place was not easy to attract attention. Only a small head popped up from time to time behind him and looked forward.
Across the street is the government office of Changqing City.
The governor and the provincial judge both worked here. Two majestic stone lions were placed at the entrance, but the gate of the yamen was tightly closed.
A young man knocked on the door for a long time and finally managed to get it open. Two guards came out and after saying a few words, they impatiently pushed the young man away and the door closed again.
The young man staggered two steps, turned around, and ran quickly to the corner of the street.
"Your Excellency."
Zhu Feng looked down at the young man: "How is it?"
"Sir, I just went there, and the people at the yamen said that the governor and the provincial judge were not in the yamen."
"Not here? Where did he go?"
"I heard that he went to Prince Ning's Mansion early in the morning to celebrate Prince Ning's birthday."
"oh?"
Zhu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly after hearing this and turned to look at the sky. At this moment, dusk had already fallen. He murmured, "He left so early in the morning and he hasn't come back yet?"
The young man said, "Yes, the yamen staff also found it strange and said that they haven't returned yet. They also sent people to the Ning Wang Mansion to inquire, but the gates of the Ning Wang Mansion have been closed. They said that the birthday banquet has not yet ended and no one is allowed to enter or leave to disturb it. The yamen staff did not dare to disturb the Ning Wang birthday banquet, so they did not dare to rush them."
“…”
Zhu Feng was silent for a moment, then he took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and casually tossed it to the young man: "Use it to buy some fruit."
The young man had never seen so much money before, and he had never expected to encounter this distinguished-looking man while just strolling down the street. He told him to go to the government office to get some information, and if he did, he would be rewarded handsomely. He had initially thought the man was just messing with him, but out of curiosity, he gave it a try and unexpectedly made a killing.
Suddenly, he was so happy that his eyes were wide with smile: "Thank you very much, my lord."
After saying that, he put the silver in his pocket and ran away.
Zhu Feng stood at the corner of the street and took another look at the closed door of the governor's office, his eyes slightly gloomy.
Nan Yan stood behind him. At this time, she poked her little head out and said softly, "Ah——"
Zhu Feng turned around and looked at her.
Obviously, she was worried too.
Zhu Feng said, "I'm afraid things have changed."
"ah?"
"I don't know whether Prince Ning's birthday banquet will be held until the evening, but the gate is locked tightly, and no one is allowed in or out. This matter is definitely not simple."
"Ah? Ah!"
"Go? Now—don't go for now. I want to stay here and figure it out."
"ah?"
"Even if we go to Prince Ning's Mansion now, the gate is tightly closed, so we might not be able to sneak in. We shouldn't approach it easily. However, Prince Ning can't just leave the Governor's Office empty. If he makes any move, the first place he'll deal with should be here."
“…”
Nan Yan looked at him with wide eyes.
But suddenly, some of it became clear.
So the two men still stood at the corner of the street, but this time, they didn't wait too long, less than a quarter of an hour, before they heard the sound of horse hooves and footsteps coming from the other side of the long street. There were quite a few people coming.
He looked up carefully and saw about a hundred guards coming from the other side of the long street, holding swords and knives. They surrounded the entire governor's office.
The leader among them was Shi Yiru, the chief secretary of the Ning Wang Mansion.
He was accompanied by two first-class guards. As soon as he got off his horse, he walked directly to the governor's office and knocked on the door.
When several officials from the governor's office saw that it was the chief secretary of the royal palace coming, they hurried out to greet him.
"Shi Changshi?"
As he spoke, he looked around again. The guards of the palace had surrounded their entire governor's office. He immediately felt something was wrong and asked, "What does this mean?"
Shi Yiru glanced at them coldly, then pulled a roll of paper from his sleeve and said, "The current emperor is immoral, and Heaven and man are resentful! The Censor Wen Yewen has decided to raise an army to fight against the unjust. I have been asked to inform you, the people in the Governor's Office, to follow in his footsteps and rise up together to eliminate the chaos and punish the unjust!"
"What?!"
Several officials originally thought that he was just talking about a small matter, but they didn't expect that Shi Yiru would actually commit a serious crime of raising an army to rebel as soon as he opened his mouth.
They couldn't believe their ears.
On the other side, Zhu Feng, who was hiding behind the wall, frowned when he heard these words.
Shi Yiru looked at the stunned faces of the officials and said, "Why don't you open the gate and let Prince Ning's troops in?"
Several officials were stunned.
However, one of the youngest officials, only in his twenties, was the quickest to react. He immediately said, "Impossible! The current emperor is a capable ruler, and Lord Wen is a capable general. How could they possibly rebel? You must be talking nonsense and misleading the people!"
As he spoke, he spread his arms to block the door: "I will never let you in."
Seeing him like this, a cold light flashed in Shi Yiru's eyes, and he winked at the guards behind him. The two guards immediately stepped forward and drew their swords.
There was a flash of cold light, and the clerk screamed and fell in a pool of blood.
Shi Yiru snorted coldly and was about to go in.
However, just as he was about to take a step through the gate, he suddenly felt his footing sink. Looking down, he saw the petty official, unwilling to yield, gritting his teeth and holding onto his legs, fiercely saying, "I will never allow you to rebel!"
"Stubborn!"
Shi Yiru watched his shoes and socks being soaked in the man's blood, and suddenly he felt a sense of foreboding.
He suddenly pulled out the sword from the waist of a guard next to him and stabbed it into the chest of the clerk.
Suddenly, half of his body was stained with blood.
The clerk finally fell down.
The officials around were so frightened by this scene that they had no strength to speak. They all knelt on the ground and dared not resist.
Shi Yiru handed the manifesto to one of them and said, "Immediately make a hundred copies and post them everywhere in the name of your governor's office. First, post them on the towers of Changqing City so that all the people can see them."
The official could only nod and say, "Yes..."
After Shi Yiru finished speaking, he stepped over the corpse of the clerk and walked into the governor's office.
On this side, Zhu Feng's face was gloomy as he watched this scene.
After a while, he heard a slight sobbing sound behind him. When he turned around, it was Nan Yan. She was biting a finger in her mouth, and the finger had been bitten and bleeding.
She almost cried after watching that scene just now.
However, in order to prevent herself from breaking down and crying out loud, she could only bite her fingers hard.
He looked up at Zhu Feng: "Ah..."
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