Chapter 37: The Temptation of Money
Seeing a few people landing, all the guards in the inner courtyard pulled out the guys and surrounded them. The training is well-trained, and it is not comparable to the average martial artist.
The woman in white stood in the middle, took out a Western sword from her waist, aimed it at the three of them, and said sharply: "Where did you get the idea, I don't know whether I am alive or dead, I dare to come here to spread wild!"
She said as she turned to the guards beside her, "Kill them." There was a hint of contempt and indifference to ordinary human life in the words.
"Try it!"
Lu Jianxing took off the robe draped over his shoulders and looked around. The palm of his hand rested on the hilt of the knife at his waist.
Shen Lian and Jin Yichuan also took off their clothes, revealing the flying fish suit inside.
As soon as several clothes appeared, the guards gathered around unconsciously took a few steps back at the same time.
"Fourth Miss, these people are Jinyi Guards!" a cronie said to the woman in white with some trepidation.
They had to be afraid, in the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was the existence of people who talked about the tiger's discoloration. Just hearing the word "Zhaojiao" that they used to interrogate prisoners scared a lot of people.
At this time, Shen Lian whispered to Li Yifan, "My lord, what should I do next?"
Li Yifan recalled the plot line, and also lowered his voice and said: "I think they are very likely to do something to us." Once the two sides fight, you and I will quickly break into the inn and kill Wei Zhongxian. ”
"And my two brothers?"
"Let them stay outside for a while, wait for the things inside the house to be over, and then come out to meet them and find a way to break out. ”
When Shen Lian hesitated.
The woman in white was looking at a few people and sneered: "What about Jinyi Wei? There are only four." What is there to fear? Kill one and reward ten taels of gold. ”
There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward.
As soon as they heard this, the retreating guards all showed a fierce light on their faces, and with the sound of shouting and killing, they besieged them again.
"Close the door!"
Lu Jianxing pulled out the embroidered spring knife, killed two people in an instant, and turned around to see dozens of guards disguised as guys in the store rushing in at the door, and couldn't help but be shocked, shouting at this side.
Li Yifan had long known that there was such a scene, and at this time, he had already unfolded the tiger and crane double form and quickly rushed to the door. With all his strength, he struck a Tai Chi move block and made a sound that broke the air, smashing the group of people who were about to rush in and flying out upside down.
Taking advantage of this gap, Shen Lian pushed over an old wooden cart and stuck firmly on the door panel. Relieved the siege for a while.
"Let's go!"
Li Yifan shouted, pulled Shen Lian, and took the lead in breaking through to the north. It is the direction of the main entrance of the inn.
Iron Fingers erupted violently, stabbing behind one of the guards standing in the doorway once more. killed more than a dozen people one after another, and the two finally rushed into the inn.
On the third floor, an entire inn, only one room was lit.
Outside the door, two strong-armed guards, one on the left and one behind, each protected on both sides of the house. One with a knife, the other with a trap.
"Be careful!"
Shen Lian had just turned to the corner of the second floor when an arrow flew head-on with a "whoosh". The arrow flashed with a ghostly light, and at a glance, it was clear that it was highly poisonous. Fortunately, with Li Yifan's reminder, this was avoided without danger.
Li Yifan didn't stay at the moment, he bent his waist, and with both hands, he supported himself on the ground. A King Kong jump in parkour, a distance of ten meters, instantly jumped in front of the two guards.
He used his fingernails as a knife, and with a flat finger, he slashed directly through the throat of the machine's hand. At the same time, he dodged the attack of the knife-hand guard behind him, and hit the opponent's heart with a backhand.
The strength entered the body, and a big hole was blasted out of the heart. The knife hand fell straight down.
As soon as the battle here ended, Shen Lian hurried over.
He bowed his head and clenched his fists at Li Yifan, with gratitude in his tone, "Thank you for your life-saving grace, if it wasn't for the adult's reminder of the humble duty before, I am afraid that the corpses on the ground will also have more humble duties!"
Li Yifan waved his hand, "It's all for Zhao's father-in-law, so you don't have to be so polite." ”
He saw Shen Lian's face in shock, he was calm on the surface, and the same was true in his heart. The first time I experienced such a dangerous scene, if I didn't know the plot of the movie in advance, I was afraid that I would fall into an even more dangerous situation. The system had reminded him that death here is the same as reality, and he will really die.
Thinking of this, he didn't want to regain any more branches, so he recovered his strength slightly, pushed open the wooden door, and walked in with Shen Lian.
Inside the door was a white-haired old man dressed in plain clothes, and a scholar stood beside him.
The old man in white turned his back to the two of them, and didn't seem to notice that someone had broken in, nor did he realize that someone was trying to disadvantage him. I was still concentrating on playing the dice in front of the table, and I was having a lot of fun.
This person is the great eunuch who leans towards the government and the opposition, Wei Zhongxian.
Li Yifan was about to step forward to finish him, when suddenly there was a sound of breaking the air in his ears. He dodged slightly, and a poisoned arrow flew out of his forehead and nailed to the doorpost.
Before he could turn back, there were a few more sounds.
Li Yifan rolled on the spot, and several arrows "swished" into the floor.
Seeing a few Nu Mechanics coming out of nowhere, he couldn't help but feel a little big. Dodged all the way to the end of the third floor. Jump straight through the window to the last room.
Shen Lian on this side had already entered the room and closed the door tightly. The embroidered spring knife was firmly pressed against Wei Zhongxian's throat.
He heard the sound of a fight outside the door, and understood that it was the staff sent by Zhao Gonggong who was dealing with the pursuing guards. And his two brothers are still fighting to the death with a group of guards in the inner courtyard.
He had to hurry up and complete the task and kill Wei Zhongxian so that he could join up with the rest of the people and break out.
Thinking of this, the knife in his hand was slightly forced.
"Lord Zongqi, if you take off my head, you won't be able to pay it back!" Wei Zhongxian ignored the embroidered spring knife around his neck.
"I picked your head, why can't I pay the errand?" Shen Lian stopped what he was doing and asked in a deep voice.
Blood was dripping on the ground, Wei Zhongxian's neck was cut with a non-fatal wound, there was no trace of panic on his face, and he leisurely picked up a bottle of wine on the table and drank it.
He looked calm, as if the person who was being held to the neck by the knife was not him, but Shen Lian opposite.
"Why do you think that little boy Chongzhen wants to kill me? Is it because I am full of evil? Then you think about the emperor simply! I, Wei Zhongxian, have been in power for eight years, and now the trees are falling and scattered, and there is nothing else left, money! I have it. Bandits in the northwest, and Huang Taiji in Liaodong. What the emperor lacks is military salary. My money is my salary...... If you don't get the money, how can you pay the errand?"
Shen Lian pondered Wei Zhongxian's words and said, "Kill you, we will naturally bring the money back!"
Wei Zhongxian took another sip of wine and did not speak, but smiled at the other party.
Looking at the smile with the victory in hand, Shen Lian understood that the money was not here. And his own cause was seen by the old man in front of him, and he saw the king of desire hidden in his heart.
Wei Zhongxian flicked the embroidered spring knife to the side and walked to the other side of the table.
Shen Lian didn't make a move, and he didn't know what he had in mind. But he knew that the other party wanted to live. He was curious about how much someone like Wei Zhongxian would pay for his head.
The old eunuch unhurriedly lifted the dark tablecloth covering the table, and suddenly there was a golden light source in the room.
It was half a table of gold and a large stack of silver tickets.
Wei Zhongxian stretched out his hand and pushed the gold in Shen Lian's direction, and the smile on his face once again appeared with the kind of victory in his hand, "How much money do you have a year? Here are four hundred taels of gold, let me go! Also, I'll tell you where I'm hiding my money so that you can go back and pay it, how about that?"
Looking at the golden light on the table, Shen Lian's heart moved.
The old eunuch just looked at the other party quietly, although the other party did not speak, but the dissipated killing intent on his body was already very telling.
The fighting outside the house gradually subsided, and only the inner courtyard was full of shouting and killing.
At this moment, a person slammed the door in, it was Li Yifan.