Chapter 535: Chess Piece Escapes

Yuan Wendu pondered for a long time and said, "This matter is of great importance. If Master Xu is willing to participate, I welcome it very much. I can also raise the price to 10,000 strings of cash, but I have a condition. Only the participants can know about this matter. No one, including your master, can tell anyone."

Xu Shiji smiled and asked, "Does this matter have anything to do with Wagangzhai?"

Yuan Wendu shook his head, "It doesn't matter!"

"In that case, I can promise you."

Ten thousand strings of cash is not a small amount. Wagangzhai was in financial difficulties, so Xu Shiji certainly did not want to miss this opportunity.

In fact, Zhai Rang hardly asked about how he did things. As long as it had nothing to do with Wagangzhai, it didn't matter if he didn't tell Zhai Rang.

Yuan Wendu was overjoyed and asked again: "Time is urgent, can we see Xiong Kuohai tomorrow?"

Xu Shiji nodded, "Of course!"

Yuan Wendu took out a piece of paper and handed it to Xu Shiji, "We will meet here at noon tomorrow to discuss the details."

At noon the next day, in a special elegant room on the third floor of Guibei Restaurant in Luoyang, Yuan Wendu, accompanied by his trusted subordinate Zhao Feng, met with Xu Shiji and Xiong Kuohai.

Yuan Wen had dismissed everyone, leaving the outer room and the compartments on the left and right empty.

Yuan Wendu slowly said to Xu Shiji and the others, "Our operation this time is to rescue the former crown prince Yang Yong and his son from Luoyang. We have been planning for half a year and have made a lot of preparations. Now that the emperor is not in Luoyang, we can implement it."

Xu Shiji knew that it was not easy to earn this ten thousand strings of cash, and it was indeed very difficult, so he actually had to rescue Yang Yong from Luoyang.

Xiong Kuohai next to him had a blank expression on his face. Yuan Wen had told him before that this action was related to his old master, so he guessed that it was to rescue Yang Yong, but he did not tell Xu Shiji.

Xu Shiji frowned slightly and said, "The former crown prince lives in the palace, right? Is it easy to get into the palace?"

Yuan Wendu laughed, "The emperor would not allow the former crown prince to live in the palace. He used to live in a temporary palace in Chang'an. There is no temporary palace near Luoyang for the time being. They are actually under house arrest in a mansion in Jingshanfang."

This made it a little easier. Yuan Wen knew what they were thinking, so he smiled and said, "It's not as difficult as you think. Please continue, warrior leader Zhao Feng!"

Zhao Feng took out a large map and spread it out. "This is the mansion where Yang Yong and his son are under house arrest. It covers an area of about 20 acres. Let's take a look."

Xu Shiji and Xiong Kuohai walked forward and found that this house was very unique. It actually had four courtyard walls. Generally, there are only three courtyard walls: the outer wall, the atrium wall and the inner house wall, but this house had an extra wall built between the atrium wall and the inner house wall.

Zhao Feng pointed at the extra wall and said, "It was this wall that caused our plan to dig a tunnel to rescue Yang Yong and his son to fail. Our tunnel only reached below this wall because its foundation was too deep and was filled with iron."

"There is a tunnel?" Xu Shiji asked in surprise.

Zhao Feng nodded, "The entrance to the tunnel is in the woods about ten steps east of the back house gate. There is a big stone there. Push the stone away and you will see the entrance."

"The gate to the backyard you're talking about is the gate on the newly built wall, right?"

"That's right. We can't break through this wall. We can only put the entrance outside the wall."

Xu Shiji pondered for a moment and asked again: "Where is the exit?
"Our tunnel leads to the back door. There is a small house twenty steps away from the back door."

Yuan Wendu added, "This small house is an official residence. It has been repaired but has not been allocated yet. No one lives in it."

"Then what do we need to do?" asked Xiong Kuohai, who had been silent all the time.

"Kill people and save people!" Yuan Wendu answered him concisely.

Zhao Feng pointed at the map and said, "There are a total of 500 soldiers guarding the mansion, including 300 outside the mansion, 100 of whom are on duty at any time, and 200 inside the mansion, 90 of whom are on duty at any time, and 20 are sentinels. We don't know the specific distribution, but one thing is clear, there are no sentinels in the inner house, not even maids, just the father and son and two deaf-mute old servants. There are also 30 patrolling soldiers in the alley between the inner house wall and the courtyard wall. This is a circular alley, and the 30 people are divided into three groups to patrol back and forth. Then there are also 30 patrolling soldiers and sentries in the courtyard, and 30 people in the outer house, but you don't have to worry about the outer house, you can go through the tunnel, and you don't have to worry about the soldiers outside."

Xiong Kuohai nodded, "It's mainly the sixty soldiers in the alleys and atrium, and the secret sentries!"

Zhao Feng added: "In fact, the courtyard is very large. There are only ten people at most near the entrance of our tunnel. The key is the thirty people in the alley. We must kill them all."

"Can the inner door and the wall door be opened?"

Yuan Wendu was silent for a moment and said, "Actually, I was planning to let them climb out through the rope ladder!"

"Rope ladder?"

Xu Shiji was surprised and said, "The rope ladder is not easy to climb. Can the former crown prince climb it?"

"We have to climb even if we can't. The emperor tightened control before leaving the capital. The women were taken back to their parents' homes. Two locks were added to the main gates. We couldn't get the key. Fortunately, a rope ladder was sent in before."

Xu Shiji was also helpless and asked again: "Climb out of the tunnel, then what?"

"Then it's your business. You have to take them to the place we designate outside the city. But I will give you a palace flag and a guard badge. With the palace flag on the carriage, you won't be stopped or questioned."

Xu Shiji didn't finish his words for a long time. It turned out that ten thousand strings of cash was not so easy to earn.

No wonder they were looking for Xiong Kuohai. Only Xiong Kuohai, the world's number one assassin, could kill dozens of people by himself.

Xu Shiji suddenly thought of an important question and asked quickly, "Do they know we are coming?"

Yuan Wendu nodded, "They know that time is very tight, it's four o'clock in the morning tonight!"

In the middle of the night, Yang Yong did not fall asleep. He sat in front of the bed in a daze. Several years of house arrest made him look much older. His hair and beard were half white, his body was thin, and deep wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes and forehead.

What’s even worse is that his memory has seriously declined. He can no longer remember his name in his previous life, and he has completely forgotten the details of his life in his previous life. He only vaguely remembers that he is not from this era, but he has forgotten which dynasty he was from and what he did before, as if his memory had been wiped out.

There was also a secret book of Yang Yong's life that he kept in a secret room, which was also burned by him on the night Yang Guang attacked the palace.

But it was normal. Yang Yong's memory of his past life had been fading. When he met Xiao Xia, he had already forgotten most of it. In the past few years, he had suffered from loneliness and insomnia, and his body and mind had been severely damaged. Not only did he lose his memory of his past life, he had also forgotten a lot of his memories of this life. Sometimes he even forgot how many wives and sons he had.

In fact, it didn't matter to Yang Yong whether he left or not. He had long lost his ambition to be a hero and was disheartened. However, his sons all wanted to leave, so he had no choice but to follow their opinions.

At this time, the eldest son Yang Yan walked in. Although he only had one hand, he longed for freedom, delicious food and women. This kind of house arrest was almost driving him crazy.

Yang Yan squatted in front of his father and whispered, "Father, are you ready?"

"Do we have to go?" Yang Yong whispered.

"What are you talking about, father? Does father want to be imprisoned until death?"

Yang Yan's tone of voice was not polite, so Yang Yong stopped talking.

At this time, the second son Yang Yu walked in quickly, "Father, look who's here!"

Following behind him was a tall and burly figure, it was Xiong Kuohai.

Xiong Kuohai knelt down in front of Yang Yong. Looking at his old master who had become very old, he could no longer hold back his tears.

(End of this chapter)

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