The welcoming banquet could no longer continue. The shivering children of the offending officials were taken away to be detained. Servants came in to clean up the messy banquet hall. Under the strict protection of the imperial bodyguards, Wan Guojun, Yang Fan, Li Qianli, and the other civil and military officials were led to another guest hall for a discussion.
After about two hours, a bodyguard came in to report that they had pursued the assassins all the way from the Provincial Governor's mansion to the outside of the city. Along the way, they had found four kamikaze warriors, three of whom were corpses. Originally, they had captured one alive, but on the way back, that person had suddenly died from poison. It was unknown when he had consumed the poison.
After the bodyguard finished, he said in a trembling voice, "The child who was rescued is called Feng Yuanyi, the son of Provincial Governor Feng. As for the origins of the assassins … because there were no survivors, so … it's not clear yet! "
"Not clear my a * s!"
Wan Guojun was unable to restrain his anger. He slammed the table and scolded, "They didn't rescue anyone else but Feng Yuanyi. They must be the remnants of the Feng family. What else is there to be unclear about?"
Yang Fan smiled faintly and said, "Vice Minister Wan said that a few members of the Feng family party had escaped into the deep mountains and were no longer a threat. From the looks of it now, it may not be so!"
Wan Guojun coldly glared at him and said to Li Qianli, "General Qianli, I will leave the task of searching for the remnants of the Feng family to you. You must ferret them all out!"
Li Qianli frowned slightly. It was easier said than done to search for a group of people in the mountains. Even if he was given another 100,000 soldiers, he would not be able to do it!
However, he did not dare to disobey Wan Guojun's orders and could only limp forward to receive the order. His big toe was broken. Until now, he still did not know what he had kicked when he leaped with all his might to cause such a serious injury.
The welcoming banquet ended on a sour note. Wan Guojun swore to kill all the remnants of the Feng family party while the civil and military officials and the headmen dispersed with a sense of schadenfreude. As for Yang Fan, who had eaten and drank to his heart's content, he was invited to a guest room to rest.
Yang Fan was an imperial envoy and had a large number of attendants, so a courtyard was arranged for them. The Feng Clan's mansion was large enough, it was even more spectacular than the Song Clan's mansion in the Barbarian Province. The courtyard here was even more spacious than a mansion in Luoyang City, it could accommodate more than three hundred people.
Yang Fan's residence occupied a row of three rooms. In the middle was the living room, on the right was the study room, and on the left was the bedroom. The bedroom was divided into two inner rooms, and the outer room was where the servants and maids lived. It was unknown whether Wan Guojun was forgetful, or whether it was intentional, but he did not send a servant to Yang Fan.
Yang Fan did not mind. When he arrived at his residence, he closed the door and was about to step into his bedroom to rest for a while. However, he had only taken a few steps when his footsteps slightly paused. His ears twitched in alarm and his eyes slightly flashed. He turned around and walked back. He opened the door and said to Maqiao, who was arranging the defense of the courtyard, "Brother Qiao, send someone to tell Wan Guojun that I didn't eat well at the banquet just now. I'm still hungry. Ask him to send some food over."
Maqiao agreed and called over a soldier to give a few instructions. The soldier flew away.
Wan Guojun was throwing a tantrum at his subordinates when a Longwu Guard, who was escorting Yang Fan to Panzhou, suddenly asked to see him. Wan Guojun did not know what Yang Fan wanted, so he called him in and asked him, only to find that he was to prepare food for Yang Fan.
Wan Guojun was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils. He roared, "Isn't this Deputy Prime Minister a housekeeper in Yang Fan's residence? Do I have to arrange this kind of thing for him? Go to the kitchen and make it clear. If you bother me with this kind of thing again, I will definitely beat you out! "
The Longwu Guard was an uncouth man. After being an imperial guard for a long time, there was a hint of arrogance in his bones. When he heard Wan Guojun's words, he straightened his neck and walked away without even saluting. This made Wan Guojun so angry that he wanted to scold him, but he was afraid that quarreling with a lowly soldier would cause him to lose his status. He was really depressed.
Li Qianli limped forward and comforted, "Deputy Prime Minister, please calm down. There is no need to lower yourself to his level. I have already arranged the defense of this place. I will take my leave and return to camp. Early tomorrow morning, I will immediately arrange for troops to enter the mountains to sweep. "
Wan Guojun stroked his beard and thought for a moment. Suddenly he laughed mischievously and said, "When Yang Fan arrives in Panzhou, he has nowhere to display his skill, so he can only compete with me in these places. Hehe, I have thought it through. I am not angry anymore. "
Li Qianli thought to himself, "This man is really temperamental!"
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The food and drink in the kitchen was prepared very quickly because they had already prepared a few dishes, but before they could send them to the banquet hall, the assassination happened. Now, they only needed to heat them up a little and they could send them to the new imperial envoy.
When the dishes were sent to Yang Fan's room, there was also a pot of fine wine. Yang Fan seemed to be tired. He took the wine and dishes and placed them in the room outside his bedroom. He did not eat them but returned to his bedroom to rest. Not long after, snoring sounds could be heard in the room.
The snoring sounds in the bedroom continued for a while. In the small cubicle outside the bedroom where the maids and servants lived, a door suddenly opened on a cabinet placed against the wall. A head popped out from inside and looked around like a little mouse. Then, a young man crawled out. This young man was Feng Yuanyi.
It turned out that after Feng Junheng was defeated and captured and the members of the Feng family fled, a Feng family elder who had escaped into the mountains sent people into the city to investigate. He found out that Feng Yuanyi and his older sister had been captured, but the fate of the others was unknown. This Feng family elder was worried that Feng Junheng's branch was only left with this sole descendant. Therefore, no matter what, he wanted to save him and leave some descendants for Feng Junheng. Therefore, he sent a few kamikaze warriors into the city to rescue him.
Feng Yuanyi still had an older sister. She was sixteen years old and was already married. Because of his father's involvement, she was also captured. This Feng family elder knew that to rescue a person from the tiger's mouth was as difficult as ascending to the heavens. If he wanted to rescue the two of them, it would be even more difficult. Therefore, he did not pay any attention to her. Not to mention that Feng Yuanyi's older sister was already married. Even if she was not married, a woman, in the eyes of this elder who valued boys more than girls, was only a dispensable character.
A few kamikaze warriors sneaked into the Provincial Governor's mansion and, according to the information they had obtained, entered the West Stride Courtyard. In the end, they found out from the little servant girl that the young master had been taken away by Wan Guojun. It was just that the little servant girl only knew one side and didn't know the whole story. She didn't know why Wan Guojun had taken the young master away.
The kamikaze warriors only knew that Wan Guojun wanted to make a move on the young master and couldn't help but be alarmed and anxious. They hurriedly changed into the wash clothes of the fu's imperial bodyguards and hurried to the front courtyard.
In this fu, there were Wan Guojun's men, Panzhou's men, and Li Qianli's men. It was a complicated mix of people. Unless someone deliberately interrogated them, it would be difficult to distinguish between friend and foe. In addition, today was a banquet to welcome Yang Fan. The civil and military officials attending the banquet, as well as the various chieftains, all had their own imperial bodyguards. It was even easier to be confused.
These kamikaze warriors had come with the intention to die and were extremely daring. They actually managed to sneak to the side of the banquet hall. Only when they saw that Wan Guojun was only ordering these offending officials' descendants to sing and dance for fun did they calm down. They had originally planned to wait until the banquet was over and these young men and women were brought back to their residences before making their move. In the end, Feng Yuanyi had assassinated Wan Guojun and the entire situation was beyond their control.
Although they managed to rescue Feng Yuanyi in time, it wasn't that easy to take him away. Their original plan was to sneak into the residence where the offending officials' children were imprisoned and quietly take Feng Yuanyi away. When a large number of soldiers arrived, it wouldn't be easy to catch them. Therefore, the number of people they could rescue was limited.
Now that they had to forcefully break out of the encirclement with one person, the number of people they had was inevitably stretched thin. In addition, Feng Yuanyi had been hit by several tables. His hip bone was in unbearable pain and he couldn't run quickly. Although he was only ten years old, he was as tall as a fourteen or fifteen-year-old. It was inconvenient to carry or carry him, so he was in a predicament.
Fortunately, Feng Yuanyi was quick-witted. Although this child was young, his mind was far more mature than his peers and he was also more cunning. After a few kamikaze warriors brought him out of the front courtyard, bathed in blood, Feng Yuanyi felt that they weren't strong enough and it would be difficult to escape. Therefore, he had an idea and came up with a plan.
Feng Yuanyi asked someone to casually wrap something in a cloth robe and let the kamikaze warriors take it away. He himself stayed behind and hid for the time being. This was his home. Feng Yuanyi was mischievous and active. He played hide-and-seek with the younger sister of the Lu family and a few other playmates in the residence all day long. There was no place in the residence that he wasn't familiar with, so it was naturally easy for him to find a place to hide.
Everyone thought that he had escaped, but he hid in the residence. It would be easier for him to escape after the situation had calmed down. The situation was urgent. The kamikaze warriors also knew that it would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens to escape with him. In a hurry, they couldn't come up with a more appropriate plan, so they agreed to help him.
It was actually easier for the kamikaze warriors to escape alone. However, in order to attract more attention and create an opportunity for their young master to hide, they deliberately delayed for a while before escaping. Because of this, they were chased relentlessly by the soldiers and almost none of them managed to escape.
The place where Feng Yuanyi was hiding was the guest house where Yang Fan was staying. Usually, no one lived in this guest house. Only a few servants came to clean it regularly. This kind of place was a paradise for children to play hide-and-seek. They used to play here often, so Feng Yuanyi unconsciously chose this place.
However, he had never expected that this place would coincidentally become the residence of the new imperial envoy. When the more than three hundred Dragon-Martial Guards entered the courtyard, he hurriedly hid in this cupboard.
This small compartment was a small room between the master bedroom and the living room. It was specially used to rest for the maids who attended to the master's daily needs at night. It had never attracted attention, and the set of cupboards attached to the wall had been used as decorations. In the past, when he played hide-and-seek with others, he had hidden there many times and had never been discovered.
Yang Fan didn't eat the wine and meat he had ordered, instead returning to his room to sleep. The food was placed on the kang table in this small room. The aroma of meat wafted in through the cracks in the cupboard. Hiding inside, Feng Yuanyi felt his stomach rumble with hunger.
In order to prepare for the banquet in the afternoon, he hadn't eaten lunch. Moreover, as official slaves, they didn't have breakfast either. From the moment he tried to assassinate Yang Fan in anger until he was rescued and hidden, it was already dusk. He hadn't eaten for an entire day. Hearing the thunderous snoring in the room, Feng Yuanyi couldn't bear it any longer.
Just now, when Yang Fan had placed the wine and meat on the table, he had clearly seen through the cracks in the cupboard that Yang Fan hadn't opened the cupboard to check the food. Presumably, Yang Fan wouldn't find out if he secretly ate a little. Thinking of this, Feng Yuanyi opened the cupboard and crept out.
He gently lifted a gauze cover and saw a large plate of oiled venison inside. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Without thinking, Feng Yuanyi grabbed a large mouthful of venison and stuffed it into his mouth.
However, he did not notice that Yang Fan had already appeared at the door like a ghost. Yang Fan was smiling at him with his arms crossed. What was even more strange was that the snoring sound was still coming from Yang Fan's throat, but it still sounded like it came from inside the house …
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