Dingbei Hou's doctor brother

"Crash-"

The iron chain was pulled out half an arm's length, and at the same time, the converging walls of the passage suddenly retreated.

Xiao Yan then let go, his whole body limp with some strength gone, he leaned against the wall and breathed lightly. Lu Ziqing squatted down and asked him.

"How is it? Are you hurt?"

Xiao Yan glanced at Lu Ziqing. Although the passage was blocked by the wall just now, it led directly to the inner room, and he could see it clearly.

Usually, Lu Ziqing always looks like a gentle, polite and elegant gentleman, but this is the first time he has been seen so fierce.

Furthermore, the strength he used to hold up the wall was definitely not something an ordinary person could do.

He used hidden weapons with ease and knocked over the Buddha statues in the broken temple.

And the archery skills he showed while hunting on the way back to Beijing from the Northern Expedition, even though Lu Ziqing tried his best to cover it up and attributed it to Su Chengfeng.

Xiao Yan also keenly grasped who shot the arrow.

He couldn't help but feel suspicious about the man's words "I don't know how to shoot arrows" when they were still at the grassland shooting range, but everyone has their own reasons, and there was no need to expose him in public.

All in all, it seems that Lu Ziqing is definitely not as fragile as he appears to be.

Xiao Yan shook his hands and went into the inner room, "It's okay."

At this time, Lang Si, Yang Zhounan and others also rushed over.

The stone-walled room was large, with lights lit up at various heights all around, and large boxes stacked on each row of steps.

On the other side of the stone wall, there are more than a dozen wooden racks, on which are placed countless jade and gold articles of various sizes.

"Oh my god!" Lang Si was shocked and said, "These gold and jade artifacts are so numerous, each one is worth tens of thousands of taels of gold."

He ordered the Jinyiwei to open the nearly sixty large boxes present, which immediately blinded everyone's eyes.

Each box was filled with gold and silver, and there were dozens of boxes of jewelry.

Lang Si put his knife on his waist and nodded slightly, looking around the room, then raised his eyes to look up.

"Who would have thought that beneath this bustling city, there was such a huge treasury. These corrupt officials have taken all the money from the national treasury here. I never thought that Guo Yuanqi, a mere commander of an attacking battalion, would be so wealthy. He is simply rich enough to rival an entire country."

"The officials of the Daning Dynasty are all rich." He couldn't help but laugh and said to himself, "It seems that I am the only poor guy."

Yang Zhounan took over and teased him: "You are still a poor guy with no burden."

Lang Si immediately laughed and retorted, "Aren't you the same in this respect? Maybe you have even less chance than me."

As Yang Zhounan listened, his eyes subconsciously glanced at Su Chengfeng's back not far to the side. His expressionless face seemed to be covered with a layer of gloom again.

However, this very normal lack of response made Lang Si feel something was wrong.

To outsiders, it seems nothing special, but to him, there is a significant difference.

Yang Zhounan usually has a gloomy face and is often bullied and secretly defeated, rarely winning.

Now, this person didn't refute it?

Lang Sidai turned his head to follow Yang Zhounan's gaze and saw Su Chengfeng with his hands behind his back, looking at the box.

He couldn't help but think of this scene in his mind and filter it over and over again.

A moment.

Lang Si's brain seemed to have opened up a wrong way. He immediately raised the end of his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth.

Then, he showed a meaningful smile, patted Yang Zhounan's arm, and said, "So you are different."

Yang Zhounan immediately understood the meaning of the words as if by reflex, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond.

He withdrew his gaze from Su Chengfeng, his eyes slightly vague, and he cleared his throat, moving away from this "vicious" man.

This silence, which amounted to no answer, made Lang Si even more certain of what he was thinking.

As luck would have it, Su Chengfeng turned around at this moment and saw Lang Si staring at him and smiling not far away, and then he grabbed the gambling house manager and questioned him.

When Emperor Shengzhi saw the amounts of money in the accounts, he was furious. In this crackdown alone, such a shocking amount of money was uncovered.

He immediately issued an order to execute a group of corrupt officials who had been imprisoned and awaiting execution in the autumn to vent his anger.

Inside Zhaoqing Palace, Concubine Chen was sitting at the table, with a palace maid standing beside her serving the dishes. Before she put the meat in her mouth, she heard hurried footsteps outside.

Hongxiu ran in in a panic, and Chen Fei's face fell and she scolded her.

"How can you be so flustered? Come and serve the food."

"Your Majesty, this is bad." Hongxiu said anxiously, "The general's affair has been discovered, and the emperor has ordered the execution of a group of people."

"What?" Chen Fei stood up in surprise. "What's going on with him? Didn't Xiao Yan find out before? Who told you that?"

"I don't know what's going on either." Hongxiu said, "It was Eunuch Fengqi, the godson of Eunuch Gao, who told me about it. The Emperor is furious. I'm afraid this time..."

Concubine Chen's heart skipped a beat, and her legs went weak, so she couldn't stand still. Hongxiu immediately supported her, "What should I do, Your Majesty?"

"Go, find the emperor." Concubine Chen hurriedly pushed Hongxiu away and went out the door.

At dusk, the sunset glow scattered across the horizon, and the sky was illuminated in orange.

A large number of Jinyiwei armed with swords stood in neat rows in front of the general's house.

Xiao Yan and Yang Zhounan sat high on their horses, waiting at the back, watching Lang Si in front of them give orders to his subordinates.

"Go knock on the door!"

The two Jinyiwei immediately walked up the steps and knocked on the black lacquered door. After a long while, the door finally opened with a "whoosh".

The old butler's eyes flickered as he came out. Seeing the door surrounded by Jinyiwei, his face suddenly became serious, as if he knew what had happened today.

He trembled and said, "Please come in, my lords."

Seeing this look, Xiao Yan couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

The last time we were ordered to come here to investigate, the old butler tried every means to prevent us from entering. Now, the Jinyiwei didn't say anything, but the old butler let people in?

Just as he was about to remind Lang Si, the Jinyiwei in front took the lead and rushed in with his men.

“Hmph—”

Arrows were fired from all around the roof and everywhere in the yard. The Jinyiwei were caught off guard and were pierced through the neck and abdomen one after another. They screamed and fell down one after another.

Soon, more than half of the Jinyiwei were killed by arrows, including the white-haired old butler.

The Jinyiwei outside the door immediately set up crossbows and rushed in, dispersing in all directions and dodging the assassins shooting at the surrounding rooftops.

When Lang Si rushed in, Xiao Yan and Yang Zhounan followed him in. Blades clashed in front of and behind the house, and the yard was in chaos.

Su Chengfeng raised his knife to meet the killer's blade. The snowy light flashed in the air for a few moments and instantly ripped open the killer's flesh.

Before he could put away his knife, the two blades behind him had already pressed down. He turned around quickly and just as he swung the knife out, the killer screamed and fell to the ground.

Yang Zhounan's face was splattered with blood. He exchanged glances with Su Chengfeng for a fleeting moment, then turned his head to block the knife that was coming at him from the side.

Su Chengfeng's mind was still imprinted with the blood on Yang Zhounan's face. He strangled the killer's head from behind, cut his throat, and the hot blood flowed onto his hands.

Xiao Yan's body was covered in blood. He had just thrown the man in black to the ground and went to the backyard with a knife. Guo Yuanqi was just coming out of the house.