Chapter 497: Change
When Geng Protector was sent to Wanshou Villa in a coma, he happened to meet Li Qianqian at the lotus pond pier in Zhao State.
Because the last time to go back to the mountain road, this time Li Shu specially picked up the waterway to go south, and after Li Ye's people tied up Geng Protector, they were discovered by Geng Protector's guards, and chased them all the way to get lost, and finally got rid of people, and wanted to rush back to hand over the errand, a group of people discussed for a long time, and finally decided to take the waterway, and asked passers-by that the nearest pier was the Lotus Pond Wharf.
The lotus pond wharf is a very important transportation hub in Zhao country, the south and north extend in all directions, the sails on the river are like weaving, the people on the wharf come and go, and the shouts of the porters one after another make the whole wharf full of vitality.
Li Ye's people didn't dare to rashly bring Geng Protector out, so they had to find a small inn near the dock, half of the people guarded him, and half of the people went out, in addition to paying attention to whether the guards of the Geng family were chasing him, the other was to find a ship going north.
They asked for several days, and asked the innkeeper to help inquire, but unfortunately, the passenger ships going north recently are all full, and many businessmen are running to the Northern Jin Dynasty, wanting to take advantage of the great opportunity of the Northern Jin Dynasty to change the dynasty to see if there is any way to catch the upstart.
There are no vacancies on passenger ships, and cargo ships can also be considered, but if you want to take a cargo ship, you have to see what kind of cargo is delivered.
"If there are really no vacancies, we can also apply for the bodyguard of the cargo ship. ”
"This is not appropriate, after taking the errand, you have to do your best. ”
"That ......"
"If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid that the guards of Geng's hometown will catch up. The steward was worried, he regretted it for the 1,245th time, he shouldn't have been impulsive at that time, and the retreat was not ready, so he made a rash move, and he would not be chased by the Geng family guards, so he ran around the city in a daze and lost his direction.
Alas, it's hard to buy!
Now they can't throw away the hot potato of Geng Protector, and they have to bring him back safely, which is really a chore.
"By the way, Geng Lao is about to wake up, right?
As soon as the steward spoke, the man in charge of managing the medicine hurriedly lowered his head and rummaged in his purse, and then said to the steward with a blue face, "No!"
"No, why didn't you say it earlier!" the steward was anxious, "how much time is left?" he asked hurriedly, and the man counted the time, his face turned even paler, "There is less than a quarter of an hour left." ”
Geng Protector's martial arts are higher than theirs, if it weren't for the surprise this time, coupled with the medicine from Doctor Wei's family, they would not have been able to succeed at all.
Now that the effect of the medicine is almost over, the person is about to wake up, but the medicine is gone...... "Quick, hurry up and find the pharmacy to buy it!" ”
The man stumbled out, when he left the inn, because he ran too fast, he almost hit a galloping horse, thanks to the knight's riding skills, and the horse was not caused by a tragedy, the man was scared into a cold sweat, and pointed at the knight in horror and opened his mouth to scold, but was swept away by the knight's cold eyes, and immediately closed his mouth and did not dare to speak again.
"Get out. The knight's cold word, so that the man's legs trembled, heard the words did not dare to say more, pulled his legs and ran, did not want to come behind several horses, almost bumped into it again, the knight's temper and riding skills are not as good as the man in front, a whip to the man, the man is nimble, let him dodge, the knights can see the interest, the knight who threw the whip on him, followed by a few more whips, the man is thrilling to avoid the past.
Li Qianqian sat in the box on the third floor of the inn and looked out, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but wave his hand and beckon Lan Tang to come and see.
Lan Tang was talking to her father, Lan Hai was so nagging by her daughter that she couldn't plug her ears, and when she saw Li Qianqian greeting her daughter, she hurriedly pushed her daughter over.
Lan Tang glared at her father angrily, got up and walked to Li Qianqian's side, "What's wrong?"
"Look, that person's skills are so flexible, don't you think his steps are very similar to our light exercises?"
Lan Tang looked at it for a while and said, "It's a bit similar, no, it's just the same as our light martial arts!"
"Well, I think so. Li Qianqian turned his head and explained to Chunjiang and asked Liu Er to send someone to investigate, Chunjiang nodded and went out, just passing by Li Shu.
"What's wrong?" Li Shu asked, Chunjiang whispered about it, Li Shu's eyes flashed slightly, and he nodded, "Go ahead!" ”
"Yes. Chunjiang went out, Li Qianqian got up and saluted Li Shu, and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"
"We are now in the country of Zhao. He glanced at Li Qianqian meaningfully, and Li Qianqian reacted, "You have to be careful, but that person, his body style is the same as ours, in case those protectors of Zhao Guo mistakenly think it is our people?"
Li Shu walked to the window and looked down, the knights were still playing with the man, Li Shu looked at it carefully, and sneered, "They are really not small, they dare to pass on the light martial arts and body methods we teach to outsiders." ”
"Outsider, isn't he from our Ruiyao Sect?" Li Qianqian was slightly stunned, exchanged glances with Jinyi, and Jinyi walked to the window to look down, just in time to see someone coming out of the inn, and saw that the man was being played with embarrassment, and shouted loudly, "Where are you still messing around here! Uncle is already coughing and fainting inside, have you bought the medicine back?"
"Yet, not yet!" The man was aggrieved, and the few people standing at the door snorted coldly, and the man in the lead stretched out his hand to the knight who was whipping and playing with the man, and saw that the whip in the knight's hand, which was as dexterous as a snake, seemed to have suddenly lost its life, and fell directly to the ground with a snap.
The knights turned their heads and glared angrily at the few people at the door, but those people didn't look at them, and only said loudly to the man, "Hurry up, if you miss the errand and the uncle has an accident when you turn around, it will be a matter of human life!"
The man hurriedly pulled his legs and ran, and when the men at the door saw that he had run away, they ignored the knights who were about to tear them apart, and turned around and went into the inn.
"The chief just let them go?" said the knight, who had his whip cut off in the street.
"Otherwise?" the knight who arrived at the inn first glared at them angrily, "We are going to the Northern Jin Dynasty to do things for our master, it is best not to attract attention, but you still want to cause trouble and attract attention? Do you want to spoil the master's business?"
"Don't dare. The knights were scolded so much that they did not dare to look up.
"It's good if you don't dare. Then the leading knight turned over and dismounted, and the others dismounted, and the innkeeper came forward to pick up the horses and beckoned them into the inn.
After Li Shu watched them all enter the inn, he said to him, "Send someone to check the origin of those people." ”
Nodding his head and leaving, Li Shu turned back to the table in the room and sat down, Li Qianqian followed back to his seat, but Lan Tang stayed in front of the window for a while before returning to his seat.
Not long after eating, Liu Er came back, and he saluted Li Shu and Li Qianqian with a somewhat strange expression.
"How?" Li Shu glanced at Li Qianqian and asked.
"Back to the words of the Great Sect Master, that man is Li Ye's people, they ......" He paused before telling what he had just inquired about.
"You mean, they robbed the Geng Protector in Eastern Qi to Zhao State?"
"Yes. Liu Er nodded, "They seem to have decided that the death of the Li family's masters is related to Geng Protector." ”
Li Qianqian was stunned, "Geng Protector, I remember that he is one of Li Ye's supporters, why does Li Ye doubt him?"
Liu Er shook his head, "I don't know." ”
But in such a short period of time, it is already very powerful to be able to find these.
Li Shu asked Liu Er, "Can you ask what that man went to buy for medicine?"
"Drugged. Liu Er smiled, "Their martial arts skills are not as good as Geng's Protector, and they all rely on surprise and the help of drugs to successfully get Geng Protector, but they were originally well prepared, but who knew that they were chased and lost by the guards of the Geng family, so the original drugs were not enough." ”
I was afraid that Geng Protector would wake up, and they wouldn't be able to control it, so they rushed to buy the drug, who knew that he would be stopped, and the man was also a heartless person, and he would recruit everything.
Li Qianqian's heartless eyes for the man made tears of sympathy for Li Ye, but he turned his head and explained to Liu Er, "You can tell our people more, don't be stupid like that man, just come to one person and say everything." ”
"Yes. Liu Er smiled bitterly, they like to meet this kind of person the most, but of course they have to hope that they can be shrewd.
The guards of the Geng family, who chased all the way from the capital of Dongqi, missed the lodging and wanted to sleep in the open air, but who knew that they were buried in the pot to make rice, and they were drenched in soup chicken by a sudden big two.
"Hurry up and pack your things, I remember passing by a ruined temple before, let's go to the ruined temple to avoid it first!"
When the escort waited for the leader to speak, they hurriedly packed up their things and got on their horses and rushed to the ruined temple.
I don't want to break the temple, there are already several groups of people in the temple to take shelter from the rain, they are the latest to arrive, so they can only go to the more dilapidated apse to take shelter from the rain.
Before he settled down, he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, and after a while, he heard the sound of shouting from the front hall, and after a while, the people who were originally in the front hall came out in embarrassment and went straight to the back hall.
Thinking that these people just gave them a look on their faces, now they are looking at other people's faces, right? Although the faces of the Geng family guards were not revealed, the gloating look in their eyes could not be hidden.
The people who came from the front hall naturally understood it, who might be to blame? Just now these people came in, and they unceremoniously drove people back, and now that it is their turn to be driven out, how can people not be happy to see them?
After the head of the Geng family's guards waited for them to settle down, he brought wine and asked their leader to drink.
are all outsiders, coupled with the catalysis of wine, it will not be long before they become brothers.
The team of people who came from the front hall was going to the Northern Jin Dynasty to pick up people, and the leader was a strong man in his fifties.
When the head passed out drunk, the head of the Geng family's guards got up soberly, returned to his people, explained a few words to his henchmen, and when they went out, he reached out and took the tea soup handed over by the attendant.
"The head is an anti-hangover. ”
"Hmm. Only then did he take a sip of the thunder outside, and the lightning illuminated the entire ruined temple, and even the figure lurking on the roof of the front hall was nowhere to be seen.
"Huh, what kind of people are the people who came from behind? The weapons in the hands of the people lurking on the roof shone in the light of the light.
The blue light showed that their weapons were poisoned.
"Damn, it's really bad luck, you can hide from the rain and meet someone who is assassinated. The head of the guard cursed in his heart, he just gave out his henchmen! Alas, it doesn't matter, if you continue to stay, you won't be able to kill those people after killing their targets, and they will come and kill them.
No, no, you have to run away.
Thinking like this, he didn't dare to stay, hurriedly gathered his own people, didn't bring anything, everyone quietly walked out, who knew that he climbed the wall, and saw a circle of people around the broken temple, dying!
Pull down the subordinates who don't know anything and are about to climb out of the wall, "Go here." ”
Fortunately, although this ruined temple is broken, it covers a large area, and continuing to walk back from the apse, it is an abandoned garden, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and another lightning bolt comes down, and they almost instinctively fall to the ground, and at the same time, the people outside the wall also climb over the wall and enter at the same time.
The rumbling thunder was deafening, and the guards of the Geng family did not dare to move, and only when the thunder gradually subsided did they raise their heads slightly to look around.
The rain carried blood from the front hall, and the sound of weapons clashing was incessant, and the head of the guard quickly got up and ran towards the garden, and the others followed, and in a short time everyone hid in the garden, some in the holes of the rockery, some under the thick bushes, and some simply dived into the water and hid under the pavilion.
The sound of the fight became louder and louder, it seemed to be close to the ears, the guards of the Geng family did not dare to move, I don't know how long it took, those sounds disappeared, only the sound of rain continued.
When it was dawn, the guards of the Geng family listened attentively to the movement of the outside world, and only when they found that there was no sound except the sound of rain, they came out of their hiding places.
After everyone gathered, they slowly moved forward.
When they came to the apse, the first thing that came into view was the mutilated corpses of the same group of men who had driven them out of the front hall last night, and when they left last night, they were all drunk, but they still could not escape.
The head of the guard sank, his henchmen.
Walking cautiously to the front hall, he found that his henchmen were sandwiched among unknown people, and all of them were dead.
Suddenly, there was a pause at his feet, and he did not dare to go any further.
"Boss?"
"Let's go, let's go immediately, find an inn to stay in first. ”
"Boss?" Several subordinates who were so frightened that their faces turned pale wanted to ask, but they were swept away by the leader's sharp eyes and didn't dare to speak again.
There were more than sixty people when the group came out, but now there are less than forty left.
After staying in the inn, I asked for hot water and food, washed and filled my stomach, and then went to the hall to sit down so that I could find out the news.
After sitting for a while, a team of officers and soldiers came, and the men and the shopkeeper greeted them very courteously.
The leader was about to inquire about the news, but he didn't expect that this group of officers and soldiers came to deal with the tragedy of breaking the temple.
Everyone remained silent and listened to the officers and soldiers talking to their fellow men.
After listening to it for a long time, I realized that the team of people who were killed was actually the prince of Zhao Guoqing, who was appointed by the emperor as a concubine, and I didn't know who to provoke, and he was assassinated in the broken temple.