Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 125
Zhu Qi's body tensed up all of a sudden.

If he was in Daming, when he heard that the government had arrested someone, Zhu Qin would have run out immediately without hesitation.

He is the prince of Daming, and the official residence is opened by his own family. When he sees the people in the official residence, he is as kind as seeing his family.

But things are different now.

After crossing the Lancang River from the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, this is the territory of Uszang.

In other words, this group of government officials belonged to Dayuan.

Seeing Zhu Qi's nervous expression, Bai Tang Yu'er next to him frowned and asked:
"Your enemy family is from the Dayuan government?"

That was really an endless blood feud, but Zhu Qi definitely couldn't say that, so he put it another way:
"I'm from the Ming Dynasty, and I don't have the guide of Da Yuan. I'm afraid they want to arrest me when interrogated. Then you will be in trouble."

Bai Tang Yu'er nodded when she heard this, and seemed to think it made sense, so she walked out of the carriage after thinking about it.

Zhu Qi was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that this woman was going to report him, right?
But Bai Tang Yuer came back soon, holding a set of clothes that Tibetans in Uzbekistan usually wear, and said to Zhu Qi:

"Put it on quickly, and remember to be dumb later, don't talk, I have already greeted them."

Zhu Qi nodded quickly, and then changed his clothes in the carriage.

At this time, the Beiyuan officials who were searching outside also happened to search the caravan on Zhu Qi's side.

Those officials lifted up the tents one by one to check, regardless of whether there was anyone sleeping inside.

Fortunately, everyone had already gathered around the bonfire, and Ma Guotou looked at the officials beside him with a rather nervous expression.

These officials saw that they were a group of Tibetans from Uzbekistan, so they didn't investigate very carefully. They were about to leave when suddenly one of the officials turned around and saw Bai Tang Yu'er in the crowd.

Although it was already dark at this time, Bai Tang Yu'er was as beautiful as a flower, and they immediately noticed it.

Especially this Bai Tang Yu'er, whose appearance is similar to that of a Central Plains person.

Although Bai Tang Yu'er is from the Li nationality, in terms of appearance and characteristics, she is not much different from the Han people.

In fact, many ethnic minorities are similar in appearance to the Han people. After all, they are all of the same race.

One of the guards shouted:

"Woman over there don't move, where did you come from?"

Bai Tang Yu'er didn't seem to have any sense of danger yet, she pointed at herself suspiciously, but Ma Guotou reacted quickly, and immediately took out a small box from her arms and walked over.

He sent the small box to one of the guards, and whispered with a smile:
"She's not Han, she's from the Li nationality. She's a relative of my family, so she's definitely fine. Here's a little gift for the officials to have some wine at night..."

Because these officials all speak Chinese, Ma Guotou also uses his own substandard Chinese.

The guard saw the small box handed over by Ma Guotou, looked left and right, took the box over, opened it, and saw that there were some broken gold inside, although the amount was not much, it was worth some money.

This horse pot head has these children with it, it seems that it is also experienced in the ancient tea horse road, and knows the truth that it is easy for the king of hell to hide from the little ghosts.

The guard put away the box, and the two guards at the side also came over, and the three of them looked at each other and gave each other a look.

It's just that one of the guards was still staring at Bai Tang Yuer. After all, he had never seen a girl as beautiful as Bai Tang Yuer.

He quickly raised the scabbard and scolded:
"Bold, you are dishonest, don't you know that we are searching for people?

This woman doesn't look like a woman from Uzang, could she be your relative?
There is probably something wrong with you protecting her so much, let her go with us!Check it overnight and put it back tomorrow if there is no problem. "

When he said the latter, there was already an obscene smile on his face unconsciously.

The other two guards beside him also laughed.

At this moment, Bai Tang Yu'er understood what the three servants were going to do, with an angry expression on her face.

Zhu Qi also frowned, he didn't expect these Beiyuan officials to be so unreasonable.

It's fine to collect money, but to harm the people after collecting money, it's no wonder that the world was in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the people would turn against them.

Seeing that the three guards were about to come up to arrest people, Ma Guotou hurried to stop him, still talking nice things.

There was a bit of movement here, and not far away, a general riding a horse came over, holding a whip in his hand, whipped it in the air, and scolded:
"What happened? Did you find someone?"

The three guards hurriedly stood aside, pointed at Bai Tang Yu'er and said:

"General, this woman doesn't look like a Tibetan from Uzbekistan, she's very suspicious!"

When the general heard this, he cursed:
"I asked you to find a man, why are you suspicious of a woman, why are you not from Uzbek, there are too many people who are not from Uzbek here..."

However, before the general finished speaking, he took a good look at Bai Tang Yu'er's appearance through the bonfire.

The words got stuck on the edge of his mouth, he hesitated for a moment, frowned and said:
"It's really suspicious! Someone, take this woman to the government office and lock her up. After I finish my work, I will interrogate myself at night!

Don't be fussy, let me know, and chop off your dog's paws! "

After the general finished shouting, two soldiers came out behind him. Ma Guotou wanted to speak, but the other party directly drew a knife and put it on Ma Guotou's neck.

Ma Guotou stopped immediately, and another soldier walked over, patted Bai Tang Yu'er's arm with the scabbard, and said:

"Hurry up, don't suffer from flesh and blood."

Zhu Qi looked around, there were many horses not far away, if he knocked the officer away and pulled Bai Tang Yu'er onto the horse, he might have a chance to escape.

But if they do this, I'm afraid these Uzbek Tibetans of the caravan will be in bad luck.

What's more, there are so many soldiers with bows and crossbows nearby, even if they are on horses, they probably won't be able to run far.

Although Zhu Qi was burning with anxiety, he could only hold back his temper and play by ear.

Bravery is not recklessness. At any rate, Bai Tang Yu'er should not be in any danger before the general returns.

The general obviously didn't intend to continue wasting time in front of this group of caravans composed mostly of Uzbek Tibetans.

He pulled the rein and quickly turned the horse's head, and went to inspect other places.

And Zhu Qi saw the portraits held by those groups of soldiers. Although the portraits did not look like him, most likely, these groups of people were looking for him.

Sure enough, the group of assassins who incited riots in Chengdu and then attacked him were sent by Beiyuan.

Now they should have also received news of their disappearance, so they began to search along the way.

However, along the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, their search power is obviously not the key area. After all, they would never have imagined that they would walk on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road by coincidence and go deep into the territory of Wusi Tibet.

After the gang of officials had left, the rest of the caravan gathered together, looking intently at each other.

They spoke Tubo language, and Zhu Qi couldn't understand it, but seeing the way they rummaged through boxes and boxes to take out money, he reckoned that they were trying to collect money to redeem Bai Tang Yu'er.

But guessing, if this method is really used to save people, Bai Tang Yu'er doesn't know what kind of torture he will suffer.

Zhu Qi still decided to rescue Bai Tang Yu'er according to his own method.

Although it is a bit risky, this is where the trade meets, and there are a lot of caravans resting here today.

Based on the number of these officials, it would take some time to search them all.

And this period of time is the best time for Zhu Qi to make a move.

If everything goes well, there should be no one in the government office at this time. If luck is good enough, there may be only these two guards, Bai Tang Yuer, who are soldiers.

If I can solve one first, I have the advantage!

A bright light flashed in Zhu Qi's eyes, and then while the soldiers were all going to the back to search, he quietly walked out into the darkness. ,

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Two soldiers escorted Bai Tang Yu'er all the way to an empty room in the official office, which looked like it had just been decorated.

One can tell at a glance that it should be the residence temporarily set up by the general just now.

Bai Tang Yu'er was locked in the room, looked around, and then burst into tears.

The two guards guarding the door heard Bai Tang Yuer's cry, smiled and said:

"Little girl, why are you crying? It's better to take good care of our general than to be forced to go by those three little soldiers, right?"

Bai Tang Yu'er cried even more vigorously, and another soldier beside him shook his head regretfully, saying:

"Hey, why don't we have such good luck? Such a beautiful girl just took a look, hey."

"Ah? You still want to take a look? When the general comes back, you will peel it away like an onion. You and I will be sentry at the door."

Another soldier snorted and said:

"Don't think about you too much. This little girl has served the general well. Maybe she will be the general's wife in the future."

What he said was indeed correct. If you think about it too much, isn't it just that the toad wants to eat swan meat?

The crying in the room continued, but the crying sound became smaller and smaller, and turned into a sobbing sound.

The two guards didn't think much about it, and after locking the door, they sat on the side railing and chatted.

The window of this room is right next to the door, and there are walls on three sides. If you want to run, you can only escape from their eyes.

They don't think that a little girl's family has the ability to escape.

And at this moment, Zhu Qi sneaked in from the unguarded gate of the government office.

Sure enough, it was just as he had guessed, it was so late, and there was no one guarding the office, and the door was usually locked at this time.

But today people came to search the Liao King of Daming, the door of the official office was not locked, so Zhu Qi sneaked in like this.

To be honest, he was ready to find something to climb over the high wall.

But sneaking in is the first step, how to rescue Bai Tang Yu'er is the most critical.

But you have to find out where Bai Tang Yuer is.

Fortunately, it was easy to find someone, and the yamen of the government office was not very big. As soon as Zhu Qicai entered, he heard the voices of two guards talking from afar.

Following the sound, it didn't take long to see a room with lights on, and two guards were sitting and chatting there.

Zhu Qi looked at the sky, it was already extremely dark at this time, and the Bei Yuan general would come back at some point.

Zhu Qi knew that he couldn't waste time, he had to act quickly.

He quickly went back to the front of the official office to look for any weapons that could be used.

But after searching around, I found some empty bottles, an empty teapot, and a large bag of flour.

The only thing that counts as a weapon is an iron weight.

Zhu Qi looked at the flour and was in trouble. You said that if you give me a few more bags of flour, I can try to see if the whole dust explodes.

This is only one bag of flour, which is far from enough for a dust explosion.

Naturally, he can take advantage of this opportunity to sneak away by himself, maybe he can meet the Han caravan who came back,
At that time, if you flicker for a while, you may be able to follow them back.

But regardless of the uncertainty and danger involved, if Zhu Qi just left Bai Tang Yuer like this, he would be condemned by his conscience for the rest of his life.

If you are so selfish in being a human being, then what's the point of living?

Zhu Qi gritted his teeth, it seems that he can only fight head-on!

He quickly began to arrange it, first stuffing the weight on the belt behind him, and after trying a few times, he was able to quickly pull it out.

Then he picked up the empty tableware and pretended to deliver wine and food.

Of course, he filled the empty bowl with flour, and whether he could succeed in the future would all depend on his flouring skills.

Wu De must not be able to talk about it, after all, there are two people on the opposite side.

Zhu Qi was ready, so he carried his things and walked towards the place where the two guards were.

The two guards were talking, when they heard the sound of someone walking, they became alert all of a sudden.

But when they saw Zhu Qi coming out of the darkness, holding a wine jug and a large covered bowl on the plate in his hand, they relaxed their vigilance a little, and one of them asked:
"Hey, what are you doing?"

Zhu Qi walked up to him with his things in his hands, imitating Ma Guotou's accent when he spoke Chinese, and said: .

"The little one saw the two military masters coming back, so he specially prepared some wine for the military masters to warm up."

With the night wind blowing, it is indeed quite cold on the plateau in July.

The two guards looked at each other, then laughed, who can refuse a jug of wine at such a time?
"Put it here."

The two of them sat down again, beckoning Zhu Qi to bring over the drinks.

Zhu Qi nodded, put the tray on the window sill next to him, and then saw that the two were still talking to each other, and they were no longer vigilant.

Then he lifted the lid of the big bowl and said:
"This is a small one. I specially prepared pimple powder for the two military masters..."

The two guards looked at Zhu Qi when they heard the voice, but before they could speak, they saw Zhu Qi suddenly burst into flames, throwing the big bowl in his hand toward them.

The big bowl was full of flour, and all of it was spilled all at once, and the two guards took a look at it.

Zhu Qi saw the opportunity in an instant, and pulled out the weight from behind in an instant.

Facing the white mist of flour in front of him, he smashed it hard.

When the first weight fell down, I felt the feeling of the weight hitting the head, and there was a dull sound.

This weight is not the kind of small weight used in the vegetable market, but the size of two fists.

If you put spikes and corners around it, and match it with a wooden handle, it will be a proper battlefield killer, the Meteor Hammer.

Zhu Qi slammed it twice in a row, and when he slammed it for the third time, he heard the sound of drawing a knife.

And the third hit hit the knife directly.

The opponent drew the knife, Zhu Qi didn't dare to stand still and fight them, so he jumped back quickly.

Turning his head to look, he saw one of the guards lying motionless on the ground, obviously the first hit on the head just now hit him.

And the other guard didn't know how injured he was, and rushed out of the white mist with a knife in his hand.

He slashed at Zhu Qi.

Fortunately, Zhu Qi approached a pillar at this time and hid behind it.

You, the machete hit the pillar, making a piercing sound.

The guard scolded "Grass mud horse!", and then wobbled a few steps to the side. It seemed that he should be the one who hit him the second time.

However, he should have been prepared, so he was not hit in the head, otherwise he would have been lying on the ground like that person, unable to move.

As for where Zhu Qi hit him, that's not clear, but even if the opponent is capable of fighting, it looks like he was seriously injured at this moment.

Zhu Qi also used his ruthlessness to lift the weight in his hand and rushed out again, and slammed it down on the guard again.

The guard couldn't even stand still. Although he made the first dodge, he was still hit by the handle of the knife.

The long knife was smashed to the ground at once, but the guard also kicked it out, just right on Zhu Qi's wrist.

Zhu Qi's wrist was in pain from being kicked, and the weight in his hand fell down due to inertia.

This up and down effort immediately made Zhu Qi feel a numbness in his wrist, and immediately the weight in his hand was adjusted to the ground.

Fortunately, the guard also lost his balance because of this, and fell heavily to the ground.

Zhu Qi grabbed the long knife that fell on the ground with a stride, rushed up, and immediately stabbed the guard with a knife.

The night was very dark, and I could barely see a little by the candlelight from the window next to me.

Zhu Qibai's knife went in, and the red knife came out. The guard let out a miserable scream, and at the same time, his body burst out with great strength, and he began to twist and struggle.

Zhu Qi was also inexperienced, he didn't stir the knife in his body, and he just sent it straight out.

However, this was the first time he had killed someone with a knife, not to mention he couldn't remember it, even if he could remember it, he might not be able to complete it.

Gritting his teeth like this, he stabbed at the man with a knife.

With the bloody smell that filled his nose and sticky liquid in his hands, Zhu Qi stopped when he saw that the person under him hadn't moved.

Looking at the dead bodyguard in front of him who couldn't die anymore, Zhu Qi knew that he had killed himself for the first time.

Before he had time to feel the thoughts in his heart, adrenaline filled his whole body, making him tense all over.

As the saying goes, anger starts from the heart, and evil grows from the gallbladder.

Now that one person had been killed, Zhu Qi simply went to see if the other guard was alive or dead.

After all, how many people died from not making up the knife.

Zhu Qi took the knife and went to the guard lying next to him, and saw that the guard's head was hit hard, which belonged to that kind of serious trauma.

But people still have to breathe, and they are worried that the other party will suddenly explode, and the one who will die is themselves.

Zhu Qi lifted the knife, put it on the man's neck, and wiped it vigorously with shaking hands.

The blood soared out all of a sudden, and the man made a grunting sound from his throat, and then his body struggled a few times, and then slowly became silent.

Only then did Zhu Qi's spirit relax completely, he took two deep breaths of bloody air, and pressed his trembling right wrist holding the knife.

Only then did he realize that the entire wrist of his right hand was already swollen and high. It seemed that the kick just now was not light at all.

Under such circumstances, he even killed two people with a knife in his right hand. The most important thing is that he didn't feel any pain until now.

Zhu Qi didn't have time to check the injury, so he turned his head and went to find the key to help Bai Tang Yuer unlock it.

But when he turned his head, he saw that the window lock that locked the window had just been pried open.

Then Bai Tang Yu'er leaned half of her body out of the window very quickly, and saw Zhu Qi standing outside holding a knife, most of her body was covered in blood.

And the two guards lay motionless on the ground, judging from the amount of blood flowing out of their bodies, it was obvious that they were killed by Zhu Qi.

Bai Tang Yu'er looked at the scene in front of her, her face was full of surprise, she moved her lips and remained silent for a long time.

It was Zhu Qi who stretched out his left hand to her, panting heavily, and beckoned her to come out quickly.

After Bai Tang Yu'er turned out of the window, she asked:
"You...you came to save me?"

Zhu Qi rolled his eyes, he didn't come to save you, did he come to kill you on purpose?
However, considering that the girl was deeply frightened just now, she still said comfortingly:
"Don't be afraid, with me here, I won't let these beasts hurt you."

After hearing these words, Bai Tang Yu'er's expression became even weirder.

Out of nowhere, a sentence popped up:
"This should be a hero saving the beauty, right? Seeing that you have no strength to restrain a chicken, I didn't expect to be so brave..."

Although the beauty started to praise her at the right time, but the other party was still crying in panic in the room just now, and now she pried open the window lock again, and she was so calm, even Zhu Qi couldn't help being surprised.

After all, I am covered in blood now, and there are two dead people on the ground. Even if a normal girl is not frightened and screams loudly at this time, it is impossible for a normal girl to remain so calm.

Zhu Qi suddenly thought of a possibility, hesitated and frowned and asked:
"Shouldn't you be able to get out of here by yourself?"

That Bai Tang Yu'er was taken aback for a moment, then leaned softly and weakly to the side, and said in a crying voice:

"Scared to death, scared to death, I was really scared to death."

Zhu Qi smiled wryly, good guy, it turns out that this woman is really not panicking at all.

Doesn't she have some hidden weapon for self-defense?

Zhu Qizheng was about to ask, when he suddenly heard movement outside, and then an old and hoarse voice tremblingly asked:

"Yes... who is it?"

Then I saw a bright light, stopped at a far corner and did not dare to come over.

Zhu Qi and Bai Tang Yu'er glanced at each other, the man happened to be blocked on the only way out.

Zhu Qi was thinking about what to do when he saw Bai Tang Yu'er grabbing his collar all of a sudden, and then raised it violently.

When Zhu Qi realized it again, he had already landed on the roof of the house with Bai Tang Yu'er.

After Zhu Qi stabilized his figure, he looked at the relaxed Bai Tang Yu'er and asked in surprise:
"You know martial arts?"

Bai Tang Yuer nodded and said:

"Yes, you didn't ask me.

Walk around, don't delay, I don't know when the Yuan army will come back. "

After finishing speaking, he pulled Zhu Qi and ran out along the roof.

(End of this chapter)