368, take
368, take
“Swish——”
The long sword is unsheathed.
Before Zhao Rui's sword could reach Lu Mingfei's neck, another sword blocked his sword.
Guard Ma blocked Zhao Rui's sword and turned around to stand in front of their masters.
There were people protecting him in front, and Lu Mingfei stood at the back. Feeling safe, he was not afraid of Zhao Rui. "General Zhao, if you have something to say, why not talk it over peacefully? Why bother with violence?"
"If you think my proposal is inappropriate, you can just turn around and leave. I'm not begging you to trade with me, am I?"
"Lu Mingfei, don't be ungrateful!" Zhao Rui believed that he had developed a good temper and good manners over the past twenty years, but in front of Lu Mingfei, he was still angered and his manners were ruined.
As the eldest son of the royal palace, he had never been insulted like this before.
Now, a mere seventh-rank official actually dared to insult him? Just now, he was thinking that Lu Mingfei was planning to betray Zhao Lang and join him, but now he felt that this Lu Mingfei was probably sent by Zhao Lang to anger him to death!
"Believe it or not, I can call someone to arrest you with just one order!"
"Oh, what a big tone!" Lu Mingfei snorted and laughed, and asked, "What right do you have to arrest me?"
"I am an official appointed by the imperial court!"
When the movement in the house started, the two groups of people outside the house drew their weapons at the same time.
Zhao Rui in the room looked at Lu Mingfei, who was hiding behind the guards, with disdain on his face. "A mere seventh-rank county magistrate, what kind of official is that! I could kill you right now, and no one would even know how you died!"
"I'm so scared." Lu Mingfei covered his heart and pretended to be frightened.
In fact, his eyes were full of arrogance, without any fear at all.
"..." For the first time in his life, Zhao Rui experienced what it felt like to be angry.
Unable to bear it any longer, he stabbed Lu Mingfei's face with the sword in his hand.
"Bang—"
Guard Ma blocked the stabbing sword with the long sword in his hand and started fighting with Zhao Rui.
The two people were fighting back and forth, and for a moment it was unclear who had the upper hand.
"Sir, please stand back a little." Guard Ma took the time to remind their lord.
Without waiting for his guards to warn him, Lu Mingfei had already dodged away.
When the two groups of people outside the door saw the fight breaking out inside, they both wanted to go in to help, but neither side wanted to let the other in, and for a while they fought fiercely.
The secret guards hiding in the dark came out when they saw someone dared to attack their master.
With two secret guards protecting their master behind him, Lu Mingfei was completely safe now.
Zhao Rui looked at the powerful guards who appeared. These people didn't seem like the kind of people a small seventh-rank county magistrate could raise. If he still didn't figure it out by now, then his past twenty years would have been in vain.
"Who are you?"
"It's you!"
In a split second, his mind flashed to the image of the masked man, who was related to Zhao Lang, a very close one, who had Zhao Lang's personal jade pendant, and who wanted to kill him in order to find an antidote for Zhao Lang...
Lu Mingfei!
Zhao Rui was almost certain that the person holding the snake and threatening his life was the man in front of him! If he were to say what the greatest insult he had ever suffered in his life was, it would definitely be the time when he was captured by Zhao Lang and someone held his penis and threatened him to hand over the antidote!
When Lu Mingfei saw Zhao Rui's expression, as if he was about to eat him, he knew that Zhao Rui must have figured something out. However, he wasn't afraid of what Zhao Rui might do to him.
"That person that day was you, right?!" Zhao Rui pointed at Lu Mingfei almost with certainty.
"I don't know what you are talking about!" Lu Mingfei knew very well that he absolutely could not admit this matter now, otherwise he was afraid that Zhao Rui would fight him to the death for the sake of face.
Zhao Lang was still far away in Kyoto Prefecture, and he understood that distant water could not put out a fire.
They do have people in Tong County, but it's still some distance from Li County. If they transfer people from Tong County, it will take time and it will also easily expose their layout in Tong County.
"I am an official appointed by the court. You are so rude in front of me today. Believe it or not, even if I report this matter to the prince, you will still be in the wrong!" He had no choice but to bring up Prince Ding, hoping that Zhao Rui would be afraid of his father and stop for the time being and not cause trouble for him anymore.
There were many people here, and each of them was a master picked from hundreds of miles away. Soon the people brought by Zhao Rui were at a disadvantage.
Zhao Rui himself also discovered this.
However, he brought more than just these people today. He also brought people outside the city. So even if the people he brought outside were suppressed by Lu Mingfei's people, he was not worried at all.
"If I were you, I would send someone to take a look outside the city." He kindly reminded.
Zhao Rui's words made Lu Mingfei guess that this man had brought someone with him. "You have been in the army for so many years, haven't you heard a saying?"
"What……"
Before Zhao Rui could ask the last word, he was controlled by the guards who suddenly jumped up.
The long sword in Guard Ma's hand was firmly placed on Young Master Zhao's neck.
"How dare you! Let me go!" As soon as Zhao Rui moved, a bloody mark was cut on his neck by the long sword.
"If I were you, and my life was in someone else's hands, I would behave myself and suffer less."
After making sure the situation was under control, Lu Mingfei came out from behind and stood in front of Zhao Rui. He looked down at him and said with a cheerful smile, "You've been in the army for so many years, haven't you heard the saying, 'Capture the leader first?'"
"As long as you are in my hands, it doesn't matter how many people you bring in from outside."
"Lu Mingfei! Believe it or not, I will kill you!" Zhao Rui gritted his teeth.
"Then do you believe it or not, I will kill you too?" Lu Mingfei tilted his head, looked at his guard and ordered: "Tie him up for me!"
"Yes, sir." Guard Ma showed a happy smile on his face. He asked someone to bring a rope and tied up Young Master Zhao himself.
Even after being tied up, Zhao Rui was still in disbelief. How could Lu Mingfei be so bold?! At this moment, he was almost certain that Lu Mingfei was the one who had pinched the snake and forced him to hand over the antidote!
"Brother Ma, please find someone to go to Pingzhou and inform the prince. Ask him to find someone to pick up our young general." Originally, Lu Mingfei wanted to send someone to send Zhao Rui back to Prince Ding, but sending someone to Pingzhou was too troublesome. It would be better to let Prince Ding send someone to pick up his son himself.
He won't say who will be embarrassed by then.
Zhao Rui's body froze when he realized Lu Mingfei's intention, and then he started struggling, "Lu Mingfei, how dare you!"
Unfortunately, no matter how he struggled, he couldn't break free from the ropes tied to him.
"Find another room and settle our little general down. Don't let him suffer any injustice here!" Lu Mingfei clapped his hands and said in a good mood.
"Yes, sir." Guard Ma lifted Zhao Rui up with one hand and took him outside.
When the soldiers who were held down outside saw that their little general was captured, they all wanted to struggle and rescue their little general.
But if they moved their heads they were slapped.
Lu Mingfei walked out and looked at the captured soldiers outside. Knowing that these soldiers were all soldiers guarding the border, he did not make things difficult for them. "Don't worry, I will not abuse your master."
"I'll let him go back once the prince sends someone to pick him up."
"As for you, go back to where you came from and don't cause trouble for me."
"We have food here, grown by the people with great effort. It's the food supply for the people of this county for the next year. As I said earlier, I have some food in reserve, but it's a backup for the people of this county. It's not that I can't give it to you, but your master asked for it for free."
"Even if Prince Ding is short of food, he has to find someone to buy it for him. He can't just ask for it for free, right?"
"I know you are all soldiers who defend our country, and I respect you in my heart. However, I am the county magistrate of this area, and I must protect the people under my jurisdiction. Therefore, I also hope that you can respect me."
The reason why he explained it clearly to everyone was because he didn't want his people to fight with the soldiers guarding the border. Zhao Rui's inaction didn't mean that the soldiers who followed him should be punished.
After saying this, he waved his hand and asked the guards on his side to send these soldiers out of the yamen.
After everyone left, my ears finally felt quiet.
Seeing that the danger was over, Fu Zheng came out from his hiding place and asked their master: "Master, who was that just now?"
"Oh, that's Prince Ding's... eldest son, General Zhao Rui." Lu Mingfei turned and walked into the house, asked Fu Zheng to sit down, and he also found a chair and sat down.
They had just been fighting in the house, and the chairs that had been knocked over had already been picked up.
The waiter brought the tea and left.
Fu Zheng hadn't expected that the man his master had just captured was so influential, so he asked worriedly, "Master, if you just tie up General Zhao, wouldn't that be hard to explain to the prince?"
"Your Highness...should be a reasonable person, right?" Lu Mingfei was not quite sure in his heart when he said this.
However, Zhao Lang had been appointed by the late emperor as the regent, in charge of the government affairs in Kyoto Prefecture. His status was even higher than that of Prince Ding, his father. As Zhao Lang was Zhao Lang's man, even if Prince Ding was unhappy about Zhao Rui being arrested today, he wouldn't do anything to him.
He believed that Prince Ding was a smart and rational person, otherwise he would not have kept a low profile in Beijun for so many years. He did not believe that Prince Ding did not covet the position on the throne.
Therefore, one thing he could be sure of was that Prince Ding would not create any rift with Zhao Lang, the legitimate son, at this critical juncture because of a concubine's son.
Fu Zheng looked at their master, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Master, may I ask, what is your relationship with the Prince of Ding?"
"I guess... we have a very close relationship." Lu Mingfei summarized the relationship between him and Zhao Lang in four words.
Otherwise, he couldn't tell anyone that he and Prince Ding were lovers who could even roll in the sheets, right? Thinking of this, he smiled inwardly, but said with a normal expression, "Don't worry, Senior Fu. Prince Ding won't do anything to us for such a small matter."
"Oh, that's good." Fu Zheng was relieved.
Seeing that there was nothing else to do, he stood up and said goodbye, going out to do other things.
Today's update.
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