Chapter 242: This place has good feng shui

“Surround, Surround ……”

“Hey what? You have to call ‘Master Steward’! No rules at all, newbie?”

The new door guard servant nodded repeatedly and gasped, “No, Steward Lord, it is surrounded …… surrounded!” He reached out and pointed in the direction of the gate, “A large group of soldiers outside, surrounded our marquis house, saying that it is the Jin …… Jin Yiwei!”

Xian’an Marquis steward was first stunned, and then laughed coldly: “Where to come from the Qubai, ate the bear heart and leopard gall, dared to come to the marquis door to spread the wild! Our marquis is the empress dowager’s brother-in-law, the saint’s father-in-law, the top of the state relatives, not to mention the jinyiwei, that is, the cabinet ministers also have to give a few points of face. Come on people, with me out to see, is which have no eyes to see the leader of the team.”

The gate of the Marquis Mansion opened with a flourish, and the steward led a team of Marquis guards, striding out majestically and standing on the high steps.

The steward put his hand, scanning the steps around, see a huge piece of wear lapel long body armor, wearing a big hat of the jinyiwei, the marquis of Xian’an House surrounded a water ventless. Not only the front and back doors, but also around the fence three steps a post five steps a post, hoop bucket.

In the open space directly opposite the steps, a wide tai shi chair was placed. On the eunuch’s chair sat a Jinyiwei leader dressed in a treasure blue woven gold flying fish trailing spread.

The steward squinted his eyes and took a closer look through the light of the torch, and his heart thumped: it was actually this taiyoukai!

North Township Division Shen Qi, people send gag “destroying the life of the seven Lang”, the capital resounding figure, specializing in the case, the case, along with the capital’s misbehavior, death, theft and adultery, confidentiality of the major events, are in his scope of duties. This human nature is vicious, good torture, hands of blood countless, under the rule of the Imperial Prison ghosts cry at night.

Such a fierce reputation, so the steward had to have a few scruples, and immediately drew his hand from his sleeve and arched his arm, put on a fake smile and said, “So it’s Sir Shen Tongzhi Shen. I don’t know what Lord Shen wants to do by leading troops to surround Marquis Xian’an Mansion in the middle of the night?”

Shen Qi leaned against the back of the chair, his two long legs stretched forward, crossed over the round stool in front of him, and while holding a thin-edged, short-handled, sharp knife, he peeled the skin of the pimiento fruit, and asked rhetorically without lifting his head, “Who are you?”

The steward was secretly annoyed at his arrogance, and held his tongue as he replied, “I am the grand steward of the Marquis of Xian’an, and I am fortunate to have been valued by the Marquis and given the surname Wei.”

Shen Qi peeled a fruit peel as thin as paper and as long as a snake, snaking down to the puddle-filled stone pavement, ignoring him. It seemed that he had just casually asked, not caring at all about the other party’s answer.

Steward Wei was about to gnaw his back teeth off, flinging his gesturing hand away, his face changing slightly, “Lord Shen, this is an important area of the Marquis’ residence, what are you trying to do by leading a siege? If you disturb the Marquis, can you afford the responsibility?”

Shen Qi brought the Pinwheel fruit to his mouth, “click” bite off a large piece, eyes down slowly chewing; the other hand picks the sharp knife, flipping carelessly between the fingers.

The chewing sound was crisp and cold and hard, click, click, click, click …… In a flash the steward broke out in a white hairy sweat, and was in a trance thinking that he was chewing a mouth full of human bones.

Steward Wei cleared his throat, “Lord Shen is so rude and impolite, it seems that he is here to find trouble, I will report to the Marquis. When the time comes, I hope that Lord Shen can really afford the consequences of offending a royal relative!”

Shen Qi paused chewing, lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, “Offended? Which one of your eyes saw that I took offense?”

Steward Wei pointed at the soldiers at the bottom of the steps in annoyance, “You led a team to surround the Marquis’ residence at night, and each one of you danced with a sword and a gun, so if you’re not offending the Marquis, do you want to stand sentry for the Marquis?”

Shen Qi snorted, with a strong sense of mockery, “Daring to ask the Prince of Heaven’s own army to stand guard for you, does Marquis Xian’an want to rebel?”

“Don’t turn black and white upside down and spit blood!” Steward Wei shouted angrily and was about to brush his sleeves away, going back to the mansion to find Marquis Xian’an to complain.

But Shen Qi added: “I’m just wondering – my people are clearly standing on the street, not to mention entering the Marquis’ residence, they didn’t even touch the wall’s siding, so what’s the offense? Is not the Marquis of Xian’an to use the wall as a boundary, to the capital of all the people coming and going on the street, all into their own territory? This kind of demarcation, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue agreed, the emperor allowed it?”

“You–” Steward Wei’s hands shook with anger at his rogue bandit behavior, and without further discerning with him, he turned around and went back to the mansion to get help.

The remaining rows of marquis guards stood on the steps, weapons in hand, confronting the brocade guards as if they were enemies.

Shen Qi began to bite up the Pinoy Fruit again, click, click.

–

Outside the Marquis Feng’an’s mansion, steward Xu Yong hurriedly walked down the steps with a smile on his face: “Aiyo Yu Wang Wang! Your Majesty is here in person, it’s a real pleasure to be here, please come in, please come in! Although our Marquis is not well, but when he heard the news of His Majesty’s visit, he was so happy to hear the news that he is already waiting for you in the living room.”

He personally came to hold the head of the horse cage for King Yu, with the utmost humility and solicitude.

King Yu, however, sat steadily on the back of his horse and raised his voice, “There is no need, this king is not here to pay a visit to Marquis Feng An.”

“Not here to pay a visit? Then the king brought so many guards ……” Xu Yong swept around those cloaked royal guards, his heart had an ominous premonition, suspecting that the Yu King was coming from a bad place, and was here to pick a fight.

Speaking of which, our Marquis and King Yu still have a bit of a past – last year, when we set up an ambush to catch an assassin at Ling Guang Temple, we accidentally injured King Yu’s hand.

But it was a misunderstanding! The Marquis has made amends, thanked us for our sins, and sent us a lot of gold and silver. It’s been a long time, so it’s time to get even!

He was in a state of shock and uncertainty, but he saw King Yu kindly laugh, “This king is not here to find trouble either.”

“That’s good, that’s good,” Xu Yong breathed a sigh of relief, “I’m bold enough to ask, what is the king’s business on this trip?”

King Yu clapped his hands.

There are four guards, carrying a square short couch over, placed in the open space facing the marquis house door. This short couch is one zhang square, laying brocade stacked embroidery, the center of the placement of a wide table, above also erected a high umbrella cover, as if the pavilion in general.

King Yu’s figure stirred up from his horse and swept to the low couch in the pavilion. The guards then came over to remove his boots, arrange the cushions, and set a pot of wine, four cups, and a deck of white-drawn Water Margin leaf cards on the table.

King Yu comfortably reclined on the soft cushion and knocked on a few cases with his riding crop, “Come three skilled ones and compensate this king for playing cards,”

Then there were three handsome-looking teenagers dressed as literary scholars who were ordered to go up to the short couch and respectfully knelt around the several cases. King Yu laughed and said, “This king is the banker. Whichever one loses, is penalized with three cups of wine.”

Xu Yong was stunned and said, “The king, the king, this is the gate of the marquis house …… If you want to play cards, why don t you follow the small into the door, so that the beautiful maidservants and gigolos in the house can treat you well. You see this place, black lights, full of rain, it …… it is not a place to spend time ah!”

“This king is in love with this piece of land, what, no?”

“It is not that I can not, but …… this will block the gate entrance ah! And you these guards, just so around the root of the wall standing in a circle, knife bushes and guns, unknown people look, but also thought that our marquis house is surrounded by heavy troops it ……”

“Asshole! Is this an accusation that this king is trespassing and besieging the official residence? This king thinks this place has good feng shui, so he’s happy to spend his time here.” King Yu raised his eyebrows in anger and threw his horse whip at Xu Yong, “Could it be that this king still needs the approval of Marquis Feng An if he wants to play cards somewhere?”

“Absolutely no such intention, absolutely no such intention!” Xu Yong knew that King Yu was deliberately trying to make things difficult, but there was nothing he could do about it, and he could only confess with a bitter face, “Your Highness, despite playing cards, play for as long as you want. I am leaving.”

He returned to the Marquis’ residence in disgrace, closed the gate behind him, and went to find Marquis Feng’an to complain.

Marquis Wei Jun Feng’an since last year’s arm was cut, sick and injured vitality, and received the emperor’s warning, gas injury to the heart pulse, will be maintained for half a year or a lingering bedside medicine pots, heard about this gas goatee shaking non-stop, a mouthful of phlegm in the throat nearly back over the gas.

He slurred and asked, “What else is there besides the fence?”

“No more, just surrounded, didn’t rush in, and refused to leave.” Xu Yong replied.

“The visitor is not good ……” Wei Joon gasped like a bellows and asked again, “Is there anything different on my elder brother’s side?”

“This, allow me to go check it out. It’s a good thing that the Marquis Xian’an Mansion is only one street away, so I’ll return as soon as I go.”

Xu Yong went out of the main house and was too lazy to climb high himself, so he called two servants and instructed them to climb up to the roof to look out over the Marquis Xian’an Mansion. Not long after, the servants returned, saying that Marquis Xian’an Mansion was also surrounded by a bunch of soldiers.

Wei Jun heard the report back, pounded the bed board and said, “Obviously targeting my Wei family …… No, this is permeated with weirdness, I have to meet my elder brother and discuss the discussion. You go and invite the Grand Marquis over.”

Xu Yong responded and turned around. Wei Jun added behind him, “Take the tunnels, don’t let the outside see.”

Because of the close proximity of the Marquis Xian’an Mansion and the Marquis Feng’an Mansion, a tunnel was dug in the middle to connect them to each other, just in case of emergencies.

Xu Yong took the tunnel and quickly arrived at the Xian’an Marquis’ residence, and saw Wei Yan was fuming, “…… District a Jin Yiwei co-conspirator, so arrogant and domineering, dared to pull out the hair on the tiger’s head. Concentrate the whole house guards, go out with this marquis, break up all these shrews!”

The supervisor, Wei Nu, advised: “Marquis, those brocade-clothes guards are all very skillful, and we are afraid that the guards in our residence are not their rivals. According to my opinion, since they only surround the immovable, surround it, when the day dawns on the court, to the emperor and the empress dowager to sue him, so that this Shen Qi ate a hostage to power, insulting the state relatives of the big crime, and then make the impeachment of the magistrates, even if he does not head to the ground, but also difficult to protect the official position.”

Wei Yan thought it made sense and nodded with a flick of his beard.

Xu Yong entered and saluted, “Grand Marquis, our Marquis has also been besieged, but it is not the Brocade Guards that are besieging, but King Yu. The Second Marquis feels that this matter is strange, and invites the Grand Marquis to come over to the mansion for a chat.”

Wei Yan was impatient to talk to his brother who had three asthmatic sentences.

Before Wei Joon’s accident, the two brothers’ relationship is still close, but now Wei Joon has become disabled, not only lost the right to speak in the court, but also gradually become a drag on the Wei family. At first, Wei Yan couple still have some heartache and compassion for each other, but the days have gone by, they are also more and more lazy to cope with, and can not even say a few words.

As the saying goes, there is no filial son who has been in bed for a long time, and the same applies to siblings.

Wei Yan waved his hand, and was about to find an excuse to send Xu Yong away, when Mrs. Qin, who was on the side, was suddenly enlightened and thought of the crux of the matter –

She said, ”No, even if there is an old grudge, Shen Qi and King Yu wouldn’t be so odd as to suddenly make a scene-especially Shen Qi. King Yu acts in a prodigal manner and does as he pleases, so it’s reasonable to say that he’s deliberately picking a fight. But what kind of person is that Shen Qi, the master who doesn’t see the rabbit and doesn’t spread the eagle, so openly offending the Wei family, what good is it to him? There must be something fishy in it!”

Wei Yan did not know what came to mind, his face turned slightly white and looked at the lady, “Could it be …… that the matter of us asking Mr. Crane to come up with a plan to deal with the Eastern Palace has been exposed? Tonight’s siege, is the Crown Prince behind it?”

Mrs. Qin immediately said, “It’s possible that the Prince was forced to jump over the wall; it’s also possible that the wind has leaked out and the Prince wants to come to the door to get someone, so he surrounded the Marquis Mansion first. No, we have to hurry to transfer Mr. Crane away, just in case!”

The officer in charge of the guards suggested: “I see that the Jinyiwei have many men and surround us here like an iron bucket. King Yu’s guards are fewer in number, so we may not be able to encircle them all. Otherwise, let’s transfer Mr. Crane to Feng An Marquis’ residence through the tunnel first, and then look for a gap to send him to another house to avoid the wind?”

When Xu Yong heard that the Grand Marquis was not invited, but invited a hot potato, he busily said, “The Second Marquis is still sick, I’m afraid I can’t take care of Mr. Crane.”

Wei Yan said, “What does it have to do with this if he doesn’t get sick any day. I’m only borrowing a room in his mansion to temporarily host the guest minister, what, this can’t be done?”

Xu Yong had no choice but to agree for his master.

A few moments later, Mr. Crane came over from the promenade in white, arching his hand towards Wei Yan and his wife, “Yu is not talented, and before he can share the Marquis’ worries, he has to part for the time being.”

“Good to say, good to say.” Wei Yan has always had faith in him, “Mister has planned several things for me, now and temporarily avoid the front, until the wind and waves are calm, then welcome mister back to the house.”

Mr. Crane bowed again and walked away with his big sleeves in the wind.

Xu Yong led Mr. Crane through the tunnels and returned to the Feng An Marquis’ residence. He first settled the man in a compartment and turned to Wei Joon to report the matter.

Wei Jun was exasperated, “Elder brother is making his own decisions without deliberation, he’s not putting this younger brother of mine in his eyes!”

Xu Yong advised, “Marquis, don’t be annoyed, to solve that plague outside the door, we still need to rely on the Grand Marquis to attend the court tomorrow.”

Wei Jun thought of the court no longer have their own foothold, but also angry blood. Easy to slow down, he said: “If this matter is the crown prince and Yu Wang, Shen Qi teamed up for, and that Su Yan can not get out of it. He delayed to show up, only called Shen Qi and Yu Wang to play the lead, what is the intention?”

Xu Yong was not a big steward for nothing, and after a little thought, he was shocked and said, “He still has backstops? Maybe he has already figured out Mr. Crane’s details, and the inside story of our cooperation with the Vacuum Sect to plot against the Crown Prince.”

Wei Jun said in fear: “No, this Mr. Crane is a thunderbolt that will explode at any time, and must be sent out of the house immediately …… No, sent out of the capital!”

“But the outside is surrounded by Yu Wangfu’s guards, how can we send it out?” Xu Yong asked.

–

Xian’an Marquis House, Wei Yan is also asking Mrs. Qin: “…… But the outside of the second brother’s marquis is surrounded by Yu Wang’s guards, how to send it out?”

Mrs. Qin pondered for a moment and clapped her hands, “If you can’t send it out for a while, hide it first. Isn’t there a secret room in Second Uncle’s study? Hide it first. When tomorrow dawns, you go to the court and make a scene, I’ll go to Ci Ning Palace to find the Empress Dowager to make a decision, force them to withdraw their troops, and then clean up Shen Qi.”

The King of Yu is the Queen Mother’s heart meat can’t be packed, why don’t you first take the opportunity to get Shen Qi down, also counted as cutting the other party’s wings. Mrs. Qin planned to do so.

–

Inside the compartment of the Marquis Feng An’s residence, Mr. Crane set up a game of chess, his left hand playing against his right hand.

From the tunnels trailing the Seven Slayers Battalion Master emerged ghostly again and said, “Su Yan has just led a group of Tengchun guards to storm the gate of the Marquis of Xian’an, holding an imperial decree saying that they want to search the Marquis’ mansion and apprehend the Chinamen.”

Mr. Crane dropped a white stone in his left hand and said blandly, “Another imperial decree and Tengchunwei, it seems that the emperor has struck. The identity of Yu Zhi’s Sect Master is exposed, and the capital has become a dead zone.”

“So how do you plan to come back from the dead, and who exactly was that receiver?” The camp master pursued.

Mr. Crane dropped a black stone in his right hand, “What’s the hurry, when it’s time for him to appear, he will naturally appear.”

The camp master sneered, “If you don’t leave, I will.”

Mr. Crane laughed, flicked his finger outwards: ”Then you go ah, the gate is there, over the wall is fine. The royal guards are few, but King Yu’s martial arts is extremely high, one person can stop you; Shen Qi’s sword injury has not yet healed, you should be able to fight, but his banner of brocade guards swarmed, you can’t beat a thousand hands with two fists.”

The camp master said coldly, “Then you and I are still tied up!”

Mr. Crane withdrew his finger, dropped another stone, and said, “If you believe me, wait with me for the time to come. If you don’t believe me, you might as well try it yourself.”

The camp master gritted his teeth, thought about it, and felt that there was no better countermeasure at the moment other than believing in this godly man one more time, so he let out a cold snort, and his figure disappeared out of the window.