PDLP Chapter 168: The Opportunity to Kill at the Birthday Feast [Part 1]
Chapter 168: The Opportunity to Kill at the Birthday Feast [Part 1]
Chapter 168: The Opportunity to Kill at the Birthday Feast [Part 1]
"The auspicious omen has shown, the auspicious omen has shown!"
"The Gods and Buddhas are blessing this great Dynasty!"
"Long live Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty!"
Sun Shaozong was speechless and admired the chaotic scene in front of the main gate of the Imperial Palace. Several hot air balloons were floating on the gate tower.
The hot air balloon, which was clearly a tool used by political enemies to escape, was simply made by Emperor Guangde to sing praises for him!
He even invented the method of drawing banners with hot air balloons without learning from others.
From a distance, the red silk and gold characters spread in the wind, as if some new supermarket chain had opened to paying customers.
Not to mention, the level of excitement was comparable!
But this scene of universal celebration was not a good thing for Zhao Liben and his Yamen runners.
At a casual glance, he could see the busy figures of the salt and iron officials.
As for Sun Shaozong, his only task now was to guard hundreds of sedan chairs. After the birthday party, he would escort the old men home.
Those ordinary old men actually didn’t need to be escorted by him, but there were several senior officials in the Imperial Court. It would be too contemptuous for them to arrange for Yamen runners or scribes to escort them.
The night was getting dark, and it was almost time to wrap up the happy occasion.
Sun Shaozong stood up and said, "Please remember the names of the old people who are going to be picked up and send them off carefully! Inspector Zhou will call out their names three times later. If no one answers, don't blame me for not being nice!"
All the Yamen runners and sedan bearers were busy and agreed to the promise.
Meeting and sending off two hundred old men celebrating the Emperor’s birthday, the sedan bearers have practiced six or seven times. Besides, two Yamen runners have been assigned to take care of every ten sedan chairs. If they still made any errors in this task, they would really be hopelessly stupid.
Sun Shaozong signaled again. Zhao Wuwei and some Yamen runners hurriedly asked the sedan bearers to solve their physiological problems first, so as not to delay the business.
Sun Shaozong himself went to find Zhao Liben himself and asked him to clear up a large enough space on the west side of the main entrance of the Imperial Palace.
When everything was ready, Zhou Da shouted at the top of his voice, "Lift the sedan chair!" More than 200 sedan chairs were put on the sedan bearer's shoulders and they walked unsteadily towards the main gate of the Imperial Palace.
At the main gate of the Imperial Palace, a group of sedan bearers, under the command of the Yamen runners, a sector was roughly displayed.
Sun Shaozong cursed secretly in his heart, but he immediately straightened the horse's head again. He rode towards the miscellaneous army and roared, "There is an ambush ahead, retreat quickly!"
The forty or more Yamen runners who were in charge of guiding the way had seen Sun Shaozong, while the two opposite holding the lanterns of the Central Judicial Office were strangers!
In addition, when Sun Shaozong turned into the intersection just above, he clearly didn't see any teams.
Therefore, those people either sprinted directly at the speed of the 100-meter race, or they had been lying in the dark for a long time, and only lit lanterns temporarily when the miscellaneous army on the opposite side appeared.
And the combination of these two items was enough for Sun Shaozong to make the correct judgment!
Hearing Sun Shaozong's loud warning, the opposite team immediately became riotous, and then several people dressed as Dragon Guards stepped out of the crowd and said, "You are..."
BuzzBuzz
Without waiting to hear what those fools were asking, they heard the loud sound of the bow and string on both sides!
They were ambushed on the roof!
Sun Shaozong was shocked. He hurriedly hid in the stirrup and under the horse's belly!
Duh~
At the same time, he heard a dull noise on the horse's back. It was a sharp arrow nailed to the saddle!
That was close!
Fortunately, he escaped in time, otherwise...
Sun Shaozong was glad, but suddenly he felt something sticky and hot running down his fingers to his wrist.
Blood?!
Sun Shaozong was surprised again. One should know that his saddle was not cheap, and it would be difficult to pierce it with a sword.
There were only two possibilities for an arrow to pierce the saddle.
First, the bow was extremely strong, second, the archer's arm was also extremely strong. These two were armor-piercing cones that were only available in the army!
However, whatever it was, it seemed that it was not good news for Sun Shaozong!