The morning mist was thick, and the humidity from the night had soaked everyone's clothes. The dewdrops were like elves, playfully greeting the people who had gotten up in the morning.
The team of about forty people regrouped and drove two horse-drawn carriages to continue heading west. The hazy morning mist forced the convoy to slow down and move forward slowly on the official road.
Suddenly, a woman's cry was heard from the carriage, followed by a man's wanton laughter. The woman's shy panting and the man's laughter intertwined.
The guards who were ordered to protect the carriage glanced at it and continued on their way with a normal expression. This kind of noise was often heard in the carriage along the way, and they were used to it.
What was even more amazing was that sometimes through the glass of the carriage window, one could peek into the naked scene inside. Sometimes, Master Helan would even open the curtains to let them admire the beautiful white body through the glass.
The woman's charming and seductive moans and the man's heavy breathing rose and fell in the thick fog of the early morning, dominating the scene of blood and sex.
There was a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and the guards around the carriage all fell to the ground silently in an instant, without even being able to warn Helan Min in the carriage.
"These people were actually transferred from Zhechou Mansion?" Wu Fa stood with Wutan, squinting through the thick fog, and arrows flew past the two of them.
"Does it matter? Just follow my orders." Wutan looked at the forty people who had fallen down before they could even resist or raise a alarm.
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"What about the person in the carriage? The clue from 'Jingwei' points out that this is Helan Minzhi." Wu Wu seemed to be discussing with Wu Tian.
"I didn't order you to kill him, so spare his life." After he had finished speaking, he suddenly raised the crossbow in his hand and shot at the curtain of the carriage.
With a "bang", the crossbow arrow shot into the wooden door of the carriage like a meteor, penetrating three inches into the wood. The tail of the arrow was trembling with wings, as if reminding the people in the carriage not to act rashly.
"The new crossbow is really good. It has a fast speed, high accuracy and enough power. It is simply a deadly weapon." Wutan exclaimed as he looked at the target that could not be hit quickly.
In the blink of an eye, all forty guards of the convoy fell silently to the ground, dead.
"Check the carriage." Wu Tian seemed to be talking to the air.
Then, seven or eight people suddenly emerged from both sides of the road, came to the first carriage, opened the door carefully, and one person quickly got in, and came out again after a long time.
He jumped off the carriage and walked up to Lawless, saying, "Yes, these are the things we lost. Some charcoal is missing, but everything else is here."
"Retreat." Wutan said.
"Yes." The man turned around and ran to the carriage again, leading the horse that had not been frightened from the beginning to the end of the assassination, slowly turned around from the official road, and drove the carriage to the east.
Lawless and the other man slowly emerged from the morning mist. They walked side by side to another carriage. The door of the carriage was locked, and a man's voice came from inside: "Who are you? Do you know whose carriage this is?"
Not being able to bother talking to him, I tapped my fingers on the window, signaling him to come out.
At this moment, the woman in the carriage had her breasts half-exposed and her long, white legs exposed. She was struggling with the man frantically over his clothes.
Seeing the two people's anxious looks, Wufawutian stood motionless beside the carriage and waited quietly. The naked body of the woman inside did not have any appeal in their eyes.
Helan Minzhi hurriedly got out of the car and was stunned when he saw the two ordinary people. He originally thought that they were two men with evil looks, but he didn't expect that they were two ordinary people who couldn't be more ordinary. They didn't look like robbers at all, but more like refugees.
"Do you want to rob me for money or for my woman? If you want money, the carriage is yours. Everything has been prepared for you inside, including gold cakes and gold horseshoes, as well as gold unicorn feet. If you think highly of me, you can also take the beautiful woman. I don't ask anything else, as long as you give me a way out." Helan Minzhi's handsome face was full of sincerity.
"Where did the charcoal in that carriage go? Besides you, who else has touched the things in the carriage?" He asked, unable to ignore the question thrown by Helan Minzhi.
"I used the charcoal for heating these two days. Except for the forty people lying here, no one has touched anything in the carriage." Helan Minzhi said happily.
"Do you know what the things in this carriage are used for?" Wu Fa asked again.
"I don't know." Helan Minzhi said firmly: "But it should be very useful. As long as it is transported to the Western Regions, it can be sold at a very high price."
“Who are you selling it to?”
"The remnants of Tocharian people, Zoroastrianism." Helan Minzhi always answered every question, which was his usual style. Moreover, facing these two people who could silently eliminate his forty guards in an instant, Helan Minzhi didn't think he could gain the upper hand in a head-on confrontation. Who knows if there are bows and crossbows aimed at him in the fog at this moment.
"Go away." After knowing what he should know, Wutan said in a deep voice.
Then, unable to push the two away, he led the carriage over, and sat on the shafts of the carriage on each side with Wutan. He drove away leisurely, leaving Helan Minzhi and the ** woman on the side of the road without even looking at them.
The carriage slowly walked a distance of about a hundred steps. On the official road where the morning mist was gradually dissipating, the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air was heard again.
Helan Minzhi was startled and hurriedly pulled the beautiful woman next to him to block himself. The sharp arrow immediately pierced the woman's neck, and the arrow head was only three or five inches away from Helan Minzhi's collarbone.
Helan Minzhi looked at the sharp arrow in a cold sweat, but did not see a white dove flying out of the carriage.
"Hmph, I've been prepared to silence you. But do you think you can go back so brazenly without even modifying the carriage? This is the prince's carriage. If the government sees you, you'll be in for a meeting with the King of Hell." Helan Minzhi looked at the carriage that was gradually going away, and casually pushed away the beautiful woman in front of him who had her eyes wide open and a look of disbelief on her face, as if she were throwing away garbage.
He clapped his hands and found a relatively dry place on the roadside to sit down. He believed that before noon, the government officials would definitely come here to take him back. Not everyone dared to ignore the prince's order.
Moreover, even if the post town I passed by yesterday did not notice anything unusual with the carriage, the post stations dozens of miles ahead would have received the information that I would arrive at noon. If I did not arrive at noon, they would definitely send someone to look for me.
A white dove flew quickly over the sky above Chang'an City, flapping its wings as it flew towards Prince Pu's Mansion.
Xia Zhi hurried to the door of Li Hong's study and said softly, "Prince, the Minister of Works Yan Liben wants to see you."
"Yan Liben? What is he here for?" Li Hong asked, raising his head from a pile of papers.
"He didn't say anything, he just said he had something important to discuss with you." Xia Zhi said.
"Let him in." Li Hong put the papers on the desk away.
Yan Liben hurriedly followed Xia Zhi to the prince's study, but in his heart he was praying silently and anxiously. He really hoped that the prince could find a way. If the construction period was delayed any further, His Majesty would really be angry.
A wooden pillar about ten feet long and as thick as three people could hold together could not be erected on the roof of the main hall under construction in the Daming Palace. There was also a huge stone that could not be transported to the ninety-nine steps in any way.
During the inspection today, he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and his lips were full of blisters due to the inflammation, but he just couldn't think of a better solution.
But just as he was staring at the giant wooden pillar and the boulder in a daze, the Censor Wang Yifang, who came to inspect specially and learned of his difficulties, suggested to him that he might ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who might come up with an unexpected solution.
Yan Liben's eyes suddenly lit up. Yes, he was really getting old and confused. How could he have forgotten about the Crown Prince who was always known for his intelligence and wisdom? So he hurried over quickly.
After hearing Yan Liben's intention, Li Hong was also a little stunned: "Master Yan, do you think I can do it?"
"Your Highness, I am really at my wit's end, so I come to ask for your help. It shouldn't be that difficult at first as shown on the blueprint, but I didn't expect that in reality, erecting a complete giant pillar is really... really as difficult as climbing to the sky." Yan Liben quickly put down the teacup beside him and continued to complain.
"Wang Yifang didn't impeach you for delaying the construction period? As far as I know, his eyes are very shifty. Even I dare not hang around him for more than an hour, otherwise he will find some evidence and report it to my father." Li Hong said.
"Your Highness, I will not hide it from you. I can no longer care about so many things. Impeachment is impeachment, even if they dismiss me from my official position, as long as this huge pillar can be erected, I will accept it." Yan Liben said anxiously.
When his grandfather was alive, Yan Liben had served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice and Junior Supervisor of the Ministry of Works, but he was truly valued when his father, the emperor, planned to rebuild the Daming Palace and appointed him as Minister of Works.
For a man in his sixties, it was already a rare achievement for him to be promoted to the position of Minister of Six Ministries.
"Don't worry, drink some water to cool down and take a rest. Then I'll go with you to take a look, okay?"
When Yan Liben heard that the prince agreed, he immediately put down the teacup in his hand and thanked him, "In that case, I would like to thank Your Highness the Prince. How about you go now?"
"I... okay, you are older, you have the final say, let's go." Li Hong couldn't bear to face the anxious old man, so he said resignedly.
Just as they were heading to the Daming Palace construction site, Wang Yifang had already run in front of Li Zhi. On the one hand, he impeached Yan Liben for delaying the construction, and on the other hand, he said that Yan Liben had invited the prince to the Daming Palace, hoping that the prince could help him come up with a good idea.
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