9. [Jiu] Assassination
Yu Chi listened attentively, and unconsciously asked, "What's the matter?" โ
"I entered the inner courtyard that day, and I happened to meet someone from Washington who took out winter clothes to expose to the sun. According to the leader of the Hua League, Mrs. Hua is weak and weak, and Xiangyang is located in the north of the Central Plains, and the weather is cold and freezing in winter, but I see that there is not a single fur in the clothes dried. At that time, I guessed that Mrs. Hua was born with a special constitution and could not touch fur things, so in order to confirm my conjecture, I went back and made something overnight. โ
What is it, before Yu Chi could ask, Qin Chi had already replied with a slight smile: "A purse." It looks unremarkable on the outside, with clumsy stitches, but inside it is sewn in a little fox fur that I pulled from the felt mat. Speaking of this, she sighed with emotion, "Washington is really rich, and the seats in the guest rooms are also covered with fox felt." โ
Hua's family has been in the martial arts for many years, and Hua Suqing has been the leader of the martial arts alliance for many years, and it is natural that his family has strong wealth. It can be said from Qin Slow's mouth, how can Yu Chi listen to it and feel that it is meaningless.
"I gave the purse to Mrs. Hua, and sure enough, it was early this morning after the night, and as we saw when we went, there was a result." Qin Slow still had a smile on her face, she was always so gentle, as if the sky was falling and couldn't make her anxious, "How can a person who is intolerant of fur have a dog?" If you don't have a dog, then why would you steal the seal and issue a long air order to find the dog? โ
Yu Chi listened, yes, why? He waited for a long time, but before Qin Slow could continue, she leaned intently against the window of the carriage, her scattered eyes drifting through the window and not knowing where to go. Even though Yu Chi was full of questions, he didn't dare to bother rashly, so he had to sit sullenly on the side.
Originally, he admired the elegance of the family, and even admired the people who came out there to learn advanced martial arts and walk the rivers and lakes with a heroic demeanor. This time, he followed Qin Slow to stay in Washington for a few days, and he suddenly felt that these so-called Jianghu families, the alliance leaders and heroes each had their own secrets, a pool of water was bottomless, and their hearts couldn't be touched. People are all kind, but harmony is like a mask, the bottom is black or white, fierce or good, and he can't see it no matter how many pairs of eyes he has.
After only a few days in Washington, Yu Chi was already a little tired and a little disheartened. The rivers and lakes sound chic and wanton, a sword, a knife and a horse are thousands of miles fast, but now, he feels that it is better to return to his own small Yu Yang dart game, run errands and deliver deliveries, and the days are mediocre but also plain and satisfied.
He couldn't keep things in his heart, his joy, anger and sorrow changed one by one on his face, Qin Slow saw it in his eyes, Yu Chi was a good old man, and it was because he was a good old man that she chose him to go with her. Even if he was vaguely aware of the turbulent waves in Washington at this moment, he would not think too much about it. People like him may have been hit a little now, but it won't be long before they will rekindle their enthusiasm for life.
It's so good, don't think about it much, and live freely.
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Out of the first month, the merchant customs were opened, and there were many more pawn merchants in Xiangyang City than when Qin Slow first arrived. In the huge city, there were many people, shoulder to shoulder, crowded into fear, for fear that the little Qin Slow would be lost if he accidentally lost it.
It turns out that he is worried in vain, don't look at Qin Slow, a dwarf and a thin person, but his body is flexible, he walks in the crowd like a fish, Rao is Yu Chi is used to running on the road, and he is even out of breath, and he can't keep up with her.
Fortunately, Qin Slow didn't drill around, she said that coming to go shopping is really shopping, and an avenue goes from beginning to end. I saw more, bought less, and looked around, most of them muttered "so expensive", and then reluctantly put it down. An old man who sold rice candy looked pitiful and cute, and gave her a piece of candy with a smile, which made her eyes smile like two crescent moons.
At this time, she was exactly like an ordinary girl's family, and she could not find the calm and composure when she came in the carriage in the afternoon. The follow-up Dongchang Fanzi followed her to walk around the garden for most of the day, hiding in the shade under the eaves and pouring saliva, and the heart of the Lord told him to stare at it for a long time, but he didn't stare at a flower for a day.
It was almost evening, when the families were about to close their stalls, Qin slowly stopped at the door of a rice shop, looked in for a moment, and left Yu Chi, and one person took small steps and shook in.
After about a cup of tea, she came out with a small cardboard box, which seemed to be uncountable. Yu Chi looked at her cautious appearance, and wondered: "Sister Qin, what are you doing buying rice grain?" โ
Qin slowly glanced around mysteriously, leaned over and whispered, "This is not rice grain. โ
"Huh?" The second monk Yu Chizhang was puzzled.
"This is Mrs. Hua's lost dog." Qin Slow opened a small corner of the carton, and there was indeed a snow-white curly-haired puppy lying inside, because Qin Slow had fed him some rice wine, so he lay there motionless. Qin Slow closed the carton in pain, "Alas, I only have five copper plates left for it, black merchant." โ
Yu Chi was dumbfounded: "This, this...... Didn't you say that Mrs. Hua didn't lose the dog? Why did you buy a puppy casually now, if you let the leader of the Huameng know......"
Qin smiled slowly: "He knows what, the key is that what he wants now is a dog." โ
It was getting late, and the carriage of Washington was left outside the city by Qin Slow to wait, and in order to rush out before the city gate, Qin Slow looked around for a while and picked a remote path. She said it was a shortcut, and Yu Chi naturally kept up without saying a word. After walking for a while, Yu Chi suddenly slowed down and pulled Qin Slowly: "Sister." โ
Qin slowly, who didn't know it, sighed: "What's wrong?" โ
"Someone is following us."
"Huh?" Qin Slow turned around, and two black shadows suddenly burst out from the dimly lit alleyway, both of them were masked, each holding a lancet, with a fierce voice, and came straight to Qin Slow's head. Qin Chu screamed in fright, and rolled on the spot without thinking about it in a panic, rolling with a gray face, not a wolf, but he happened to avoid a wave of attacks from the other party.
At this moment, Yu Chi had already reacted, pulled up a bamboo pole by the wall, stretched out his ape arm, and the bamboo pole swept towards the two of them with a sharp wind, stopping the two of them in their steps. Qin Slow took advantage of the opportunity to roll forward again, how ugly the posture was, and after rolling, she hurriedly shouted: "Brother Yu, don't entangle with them, the enemy is outnumbered, run!" โ
The other two of them, they were also two people, but Qin Slow shouted out so calmly that he was outnumbered, obviously knowing the location of his oil bottle very clearly. As soon as Yu Chi heard this, he immediately danced a bamboo pole while fighting and retreating, and followed Qin slowly and ran without any nostalgia.
The alleys were cramped, and Qin slowly turned around as if he had run many times, and escaped smoothly. Yu Chi's walking strength is not bad, and his followers are quite compact, but he didn't expect that the two of them were also very familiar with the way here, and they followed closely all the way, but those two practiced foreign kung fu, fierce and domineering but not very flexible, and were slipped all the way by Qin Slow, slashing in the east and slashing in the west, but they didn't hurt her in the slightest.
But in the end, there was a huge disparity in strength, and the two quickly blocked Qin Chi and Yu Chi in a corner. Yu Chi saw that there was no way to avoid it, his heart was horizontal, and he turned around to meet the enemy with a long pole in his hand. The masked two people had sharp knife skills, and after more than 20 moves, Yu Chi was already overwhelmed, holding one person with one hand, and shouting without looking back: "Sister, run!" I'll drag them off!! โ
Before the shouting fell, one of them had already swept past Chi's side, and seeing that the blade with a cold light was about to slash at the top of Qin Chen's head who was shocked, she grabbed a stone casually in a hurry, and didn't look at it and threw it away. Xu is blind cat touched the dead mouse, and the stone happened to hit his rib qifu, the masked man snorted, the knife edge was deflected, Qin slowly dodged with his head, and continued to crawl and escape from the corner in her inglorious wolf bรจi posture, shouting hoarsely: "Murder!! Killing!!! โ
The alley was not far from the city gate, Qin slowly roared for a while, and someone not far away responded and shouted: "Who is making noise here!" โ
When the two masked men saw that they couldn't strike a blow, they had already lost the matter, and they decisively withdrew their knives and wanted to leave. This time, he was reluctant to become Yu Chi, and the pressure dropped sharply, and he shouted in a rough voice: "Where are the thieves escaping!" โ
Qin Kuan didn't stop him, and he couldn't catch up with him anyway......
Yu Chi really didn't catch up, the two of them were above him in terms of foundation and light skills, and they came back dejected after a while, and saw the frightened Qin Chi and said in shame: "Sister Qin, it's useless for me, you hired me, and I let you ......."
Qin slowly patted his chest and gasped for a while, shook his head and said, "Brother Yu, you have done your best, they are well-trained and I am not good at it, so it is not bad to drag you down." โ
The soldiers patrolling the city had already arrived, and after a brief interrogation, Yu Chi suddenly had a light in his mind when he said that the two were carrying knives. Near this Xiangyang, there is only one sect that is good at using knives, that is, the Amazing Speech Hall, and this Surprise Speech Hall has a grudge against Qin Slow. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that those two people were the people of the Surprise Speech Hall, and just wanted to say that his foot was stepped on, but he saw Qin slowly swallowing and said: "Thank you for the rescue, Shangguan has opened the city and the fish and dragons are mixed, and I hope that the military master will be able to check and ensure the safety of the people such as me." โ
After sending the soldiers away, the two went out of the city gate, and Yu Chi said sullenly: "Why didn't Sister Qin let me speak just now?" Those two people are obviously the people of the Amazing Words! โ
"It's true that the disciples of the Amazing Speech Hall like to use the lancet, but the people who use the knife are not only the Amazing Speech Hall family. Moreover, the use of lancets in Xiangyang City is undoubtedly to tell others, they are the people of the Surprise Hall, so as not to be too deliberate. Qin said slowly.
"And who else wants to take your life?!" Yu Chi was shocked.
Qin smiled slowly: "The more you know, naturally some people are anxious." That's it, it's okay to be safe, let's go back quickly and return the dog to the leader of the Huameng. โ
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When Qin Guan and the others returned to Washington, the fan who followed them had just reported to Qin Guan what happened today, and when he said that he did not come forward but called the soldiers guarding the city to rescue Qin Wan, Qin Guan nodded approvingly: "Although the overseer is very interested in this girl, eight times out of ten. Nine still have the intention of making use of it, and it has long been said that it is not appropriate for our East Factory to meddle in this matter openly. Well done, I'll go back to you and ask the Overseer for credit. โ
Fanzi said that he didn't dare to retreat, and turned around and went to Yongque by himself. Even the two can vomit almost, and he is indeed a tough guy, and he didn't say a few words when he took turns to torture. The only thing that doesn't reveal much, including the water ghost thirteen, is all about the rivers and lakes, and some of them seem to be related to some characters in the rivers and lakes more than ten years ago.
"More than ten years ago, our family was not still in charge of the East Factory. This didn't even enter the brocade guard at that time, right? Yongque changed his clothes, he loves to be clean, the spring is windy and sandy, and it is inevitable to toss two bodies at the end of the day, he doesn't know that Qin slowly read him several times behind his back. But no matter how hypocritical he is, no one dares to be in front of him: "Lian Er is a person with a bit of thought, and he will not mention things that were unrelated more than ten years ago for no reason, but he is afraid that the characters involved in it are not simple, and he is afraid that he will implicate his own relatives before he hides it." โ
His mind is as quick as electricity, but in just a few words, he has been whipped into the analysis of so much, which makes the people below respect and fear: "The water ghost thirteen is a real person from the rivers and lakes, but Lian Er threw him out, presumably this person is inseparable from some people in the court." Did the people in the Surprise Speech Hall say that he stole the Juque Sword, so he turned his anger on Qin Slow's girl? โ
"Yes."
"And I listened to the meaning of your words, Qin Slow's appearance in the city today seems to be unusual?"
Qin Guan hesitated a little, and after thinking about it, he said: "It can't be said to be unusual, but I heard that Fanzi said that she fled from east to west without any rules, but that stone was a little eye-catching, but when I looked at it again, there were not many major passages inside, maybe it was just a coincidence." โ
"Is it a coincidence?" Yongque smoothed the folds of his sleeves, and it was not a coincidence that he had touched too much, "That's it, since they have returned, I will go and see." It's been a long time in Washington, and it's not very interesting. โ
Qin was shocked, this meant that he wanted to return to Beijing, but there was still no progress in the case of destroying the door.
"Back to Beijing?" Yongque sneered twice, "I'm afraid that the people of Xichang are not so easy to let our family go back!" โ