Wanli 1592

Chapter 769

The night was quiet, and there was silence in Duke Qin's mansion.

Mahu tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep.

He has something on his mind.

He wanted to leave the army, and he didn't want to continue to be the chief general of the personal guard.

As Xiao Ruxun's third personal guard general, he has a relatively high status in the army, because everyone knows that being Xiao Ruxun's personal guard is a broad road, basically after a period of time as a personal guard, he can work in the army As an officer, he easily became the leader of the troops.

And the chief general of the personal guard is the best way. Xiao Ruxun is very powerful in promoting people he admires. The earliest Wang Hui is now the chief general of the firearms army, in charge of the strongest firepower of the Zhennan Army.

The second-generation chief general Ma Wei is now also serving as a middle-level officer in the army, and he can be regarded as the mainstay. He is the third-generation chief general. After calculation, it was time for him to be included in the army.

It's just that when the Beilu war happened, he followed Xiao Ruxun to the north. There were many battles, and he couldn't think of them, and Xiao Ruxun didn't think of them, so they were delayed, and now is a good time.

Seeing that people like them are about to be incorporated into the Beijing camp, in order to control the Beijing camp, Xiao Ruxun's delegating officers is a very common method, and there is no room for Mahu to ignore it.

As a member of Xiao Ruxun's army faction whose influence is comparable to that of Yuan Cong's faction, Mahu is also very ambitious. He doesn't want to just be a personal guard until he grows old. He also wants to gallop on the battlefield. world.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about how to talk to Xiao Ruxun, but he has never thought of a way. Now, seeing that Xiao Ruxun will take up his post tomorrow, this is the last chance.

But it was so late, he didn't know if Xiao Ruxun had a rest.

Thinking about it for a while, he couldn't sleep, so he decided to have a good talk with Xiao Ruxun at night, so as to realize his dream of sending troops to the lower levels.

Getting up and getting dressed, lighting a lantern, Mahu walked out of the house and met the patrol team head-on.

"General!"

Five night watchmen from the patrol team saluted him, Ma Hu nodded.

"I'm going to find Shiro, you continue to patrol and strengthen your security, don't slack off."

"Yes!"

The patrolling soldiers walked away quickly, and Mahu continued to walk towards Xiao Ruxun's room.

The place where he lives is not far from the place where Xiao Ruxun lives, but separated by a few high walls, it feels very far away. This place rewarded by the emperor is different, compared with the Zhennan Hou Mansion that Xiao Ruxun built in Myanmar. It is more than twice as big, and more luxurious, with everything from rockery ponds.

Mahu himself yearns for such a place, imagining that one day he will be able to live in such a big house when he becomes famous.

The only bad thing is that there are too many twists and turns. Seeing that the destination is behind the high wall, but it takes a lot of detours to get in. This is more troublesome. Mahu, who is used to going straight, doesn't like this. structure.

After going around in a big circle, he finally came to the gate of the courtyard where Xiao Ruxun lived. There were lanterns on, and there were two guards, and there was a courtyard wall behind, and there were two guards guarding it. Four people kept vigil for Xiao Ruxun .

Mahu came to the door.

The two guards were on alert immediately.

"who?!"

"It's me! Don't you recognize it?"

Ma Hu walked under the lantern, then raised the lantern in his hand to his chest, showed his face, looked at the two guards again, and then looked into the yard.

"Is Mr. Qin asleep?"

Mahu asked the two of them.

The two looked at each other, and the man on the left nodded.

"Yes, Duke Qin has already fallen asleep."

"That's it, oh...forget it, I'll come back tomorrow! Keep vigil!"

"As ordered!"

The two guards immediately agreed.

After finishing speaking, Mahu sighed, and walked back the way he had come and gone, his pace getting faster and faster.

Going around the two courtyard walls, Ma Hu stopped, and suddenly took a quick breath, and his eyes suddenly became flickering.

"problem occurs!"

Mahu said something in a low voice, then walked back to his room at a faster pace, and happened to run into the five-member patrol team at the door of the room.

"Did you patrol the gate of Shiro's yard just now?"

The patrols looked at each other.

"There was a patrol half an hour ago, and nothing was found."

"I didn't find anything? Then why do I smell blood?!"

"bloody……"

Several members of the patrol team were shocked.

"I remember that the guards tonight are Li Quanyou and Wang Baocai, guarding the outer wall, and Liu Han and Zhang Jing guarding the inner wall. I can't see the two standing inside, but I don't know the two standing outside. They are four They may have all been killed!"

The five soldiers on the patrol were already speechless in astonishment.

"I thought it was too dark and I couldn't see their faces clearly, but they didn't call Shiro, but Qin Gong..."

Mahu was already very nervous: "Even if I misremembered their looks, how can the people in our personal guard call Qin Gong! I'm afraid something happened to Shiro, it's bad, it's bad, it's really bad..."

"Then... General, what should we do?"

a soldier asked.

"........."

Mahu's brain was very confused, he forced himself to calm down, took a few deep breaths, and said: "Chang Chenghu, Ma Dashou, you two immediately call out the brothers who are sleeping, and tell them not to sleep. Make a big move, dress neatly, gather at my place, and prepare for battle!"

"Yes!"

The two soldiers immediately ran away.

The remaining three also looked at Ma Hu nervously.

What's happening right now is too weird, beyond Mahu's cognition.

This is the capital, the Duke of Qin's mansion, why does Shiro's yard smell bloody?Why wasn't the soldier who was supposed to be guarding Shiro's gate the same as before?Who would be so bold as to dare to take action against Duke Qin's mansion?
Mahu has never been in contact with these things, and he can't talk about them at all.

The only thing he can think of right now is to gather his men and horses, rush to Xiao Ruxun's yard, and see what's going on in the room.

Shiro... don't let anything happen to you!

He prayed so.

After Xiao Ruxun left from the secret door of Duke Qin's mansion, he got into a sedan chair, which was carried by four men in black, and Xiao Ruxun didn't need to walk, which was the usual standard.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun doesn't quite remember the roads he walked. Although there are windows on both sides of the sedan chair, there are almost no lighting means in the dark night, so the routes he knows are quite limited, and he only knows that it is from a side door of the palace. Enter and go straight to Zhu Yijun's bedroom.

During the days when Zhu Yijun summoned him, he would not live with the concubine, but in his own bedroom, a low, dilapidated small palace.

It has to be said that the civil servants asked the emperor to set an example for the world to take the lead in saving court funds, and they treated the emperor as a scourge to stop him from doing anything. It was almost like the emperor would change his surname as long as he built a palace and the whole world.

However, they treat themselves very generously. The residence is more beautiful than anyone else, with hundreds of rooms at every turn. It is not that the palace is better than the palace. The double standard of lenient self-discipline and strict treatment of others has always been the same since ancient times.

(End of this chapter)