Troubled Times Chapter 23 A Night Visit to Meng's Mansion
"Hey, Brother Tong, I don't think anyone will be able to find us when we wear this dress. Why did those Assassins assassinate us during the day in their night suits? Meng Yanyu asked puzzled.
Li Qiutong shook his head, also expressing his bewilderment at the idiotic behavior of this group of assassins.
This assassination really can't be blamed on the assassins for being too incompetent. After all, as the number one killer organization of the Qin State, Dark Moon, their professionalism can be seen, not only is they strong, but they have always been well-planned assassinations, and there are almost no cases of failure. Even this time, they sent enough men to assassinate Meng Yanyu.
A ranged martial arts master who specializes in archery, two martial arts masters who are skilled in assassination in close combat, plus a team of highly trained martial artists. Even the assassination of an unprepared martial arts master was enough, let alone a martial arts master, so they dared to shoot directly as soon as they found Meng Yanyu's residence, even if they found that there were a few more young people around the target person, it didn't make them have too many concerns.
As a result, the sneak attack was cut off by Yang Ruiyun, and the assassination was stopped by Li Qiutong, and finally ended up in the annihilation of the entire army. This can be considered a great shame since the establishment of the Dark Moon.
The Meng Mansion is located in the center of the tribe, symbolizing the leadership of the Meng clan in the Nanban tribe. At that time, the Nanban people were just a small tribe living in the Nanban forest, with various ethnic groups. But when the mainlanders discovered the resources of the Nanban Forest, they began to plunder the resources in the forest. Later, the ancestors of the Meng clan were recognized by the forest beasts, and led the Nanban people to defeat the invasion from the mainland countless times, and at the same time established the original Nanban tribe. Since then, the ancestors of the Meng clan have become the original chieftains of the Nanban tribe, and this position has been inherited by the descendants of the Meng clan.
And the chieftain of this generation, Meng Zhan, has two sons, Meng Yanfeng and Meng Yanyu. The eldest brother Meng Yanfeng is twenty-eight years old this year, he is already a martial arts master, he has long been a commander of the Southern Barbarian army, and his ability to handle government affairs is also extremely good, and he has always been regarded as the next chief by the elders of the tribe. As for the youngest son, Meng Yanyu, who has just turned eighteen years old this year, although he is already a martial arts master, he often does not miss his job, either busy flirting with his sister, or going to explore in the forest, and he does not have the posture he should have as a candidate for chieftaincy at all. Coupled with the fact that his mother was an outsider, he had been ostracized by the tribe's leadership.
Under the leadership of Meng Yanyu, the two had arrived at the gate of the Meng Mansion. It also has a two-man fence and patrolling soldiers.
"Brother Tong, do you have a way to get in?" the two lay on their stomachs in the nearby grass and discussed.
"Don't you know what the back door is to get in?"
When Li Qiutong asked like this, Meng Yanyu suddenly thought of something, and walked cautiously in one direction with Li Qiutong. Following Meng Yanyu, the two found a small hole in the grass behind Meng's mansion.
"It's a hole I used to sneak out of and dig before, and I didn't think it was still there. ”
Li Qiutong looked at this small hole with a wonderful expression, "Are you sure we can get into it." ”
"Yes, yes. ”
"Alas" Li Qiutong sighed, looked around, and found that no one was nearby.
"Hold on to me, let's fly in. As he spoke, Li Qiutong grabbed Meng Yanyu and jumped high, Xunzhi Wuyuan flickered around, and a big wind bird supported the two of them and flew upward. Jumped over the fence and brought the two to the Mon Mansion.
"Brother Tong, your martial arts condensation is too high, I have seen my father's martial arts condensation, although it is also real, it is impossible to bring people up directly. Meng Yanyu was surprised.
Li Qiutong didn't want to explain these problems anymore, and even he hadn't figured out how he could be so different from others. Pulling Meng Yanyu, he secretly walked towards the nearest house.
The Mon Mansion is very large, except for the surrounding military garrison, there is a large square in the center, and there is a huge statue standing in the center of the square. In the corner of the square, there is a quaint duplex bamboo building, composed of three bamboo buildings facing the east, west and south directions, its area is five times the size of the outer bamboo building, and there is an inner courtyard inside. And the two of them also approached the bamboo building at this time.
"Ah Yan, where is your father's room?" asked Li Qiutong in a low voice.
"Just around here, come with me. ”
The two of them bent their waists and moved forward cautiously. Although the stealth skills of the two were not superb, fortunately, the equipment was professional and the patrol soldiers were not so rigorous, and the two still entered the inside of the bamboo building.
Under the leadership of Meng Yanyu, the two touched the outside of a room in the main building. And the lights were still on in the house.
Meng Yanyu gestured, signaling that there were people in Li Qiutong and not to act rashly.
Li Qiutong nodded, and the two stayed quietly outside the door.
At this time, there were three people in the room, one of whom was lying on the bed, his face was ruddy, but his expression was extremely distorted, and it can be guessed that this person must have suffered greatly. The other two, one burly and strong, were tightly propped up in their clothes. The other, emaciated and pale, as if he had some serious illness.
They are Meng Yanyu's father Meng Zhan, his eldest brother Meng Yanfeng, and one is Zhao Tianshi, a doctor from the Qin State.
Zhao Tianshou was observing Meng Zhan's condition on the side, while Meng Yanfeng stood indifferently on the side, silently watching.
"How's it going?"
Zhao Tianshou stood up and said, "It's okay, it's currently under my control." ”
After hearing this, Meng Yanfeng smiled happily: "That's good, but you'd better explain why the Canaan guy found out the problem." Didn't you say before that you would never be discovered? ”
Zhao Tianshou said lightly: "I underestimated that guy, I didn't expect him to find out that Meng Zhan's body was abnormal." ”
Meng Yanfeng's smile was fleeting, and he said dissatisfiedly: "You underestimated him, if he finds out anything wrong, then what about our plan?"
"No, as long as my blood poison officially attacks after five days, no one will be able to tell that he died of poisoning unless the Medicine Saint is reborn. Zhao Tianshou said confidently.
"It's better to be like this, has there been news from the person sent to assassinate Meng Yanyu?"
Zhao Tianshou shook his head: "Not yet, but Dark Moon, as the number one killer organization of my Qin State, sent three terrestrial assassins and five celestial assassins this time, and it is more than enough to assassinate a martial arts master, it may be that they have some other tasks, and they failed to report it in time." ”
After Meng Yanfeng heard such an answer, his mood was even more unhappy, "Hmph, I hope your killers can be worthy of their titles." ”
Not to be outdone, Zhao Tianshou said: "We are just a cooperative relationship, I am not your subordinate, your attitude had better be better." How's your responsibility doing?"
"It's been almost the same, and I'm constantly building up my armaments. As long as the old fellow dies, I will be able to inherit the position of chieftain, and the army of the entire Nanban tribe will also be under my control. ”
Zhao Tianshou said earnestly: "Now, our country has been at war with the Han State, and there is not much time left for us, once the battlefield of the Han State is stable, we will start attacking the Chu State, and your elephant cavalry must be a big help against the Chu State, you must prepare to attack the Chu State as soon as possible." ”
Meng Yanfeng had already heard the suspicion of himself in his words, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "If it weren't for that stubborn guy in Gu Ming, I would have been able to control the elephant cavalry a long time ago." ”
Zhao Tianshou also nodded and said, "Gu Ming is a scourge after all, we must deal with him as soon as possible, otherwise his character and ability will inevitably affect our plans." ”
"I don't want to kill that guy, but the method of training the elephant cavalry and the command tactics are only known to the chief and the elephant cavalry commander, and if we kill him, who will command the elephant cavalry. ”
Zhao Tianshou asked, "Isn't there any paper record?"
Meng Yanfeng said helplessly: "No, everything is told to the next chief by the previous chieftain himself." As he spoke, he turned his head and looked angrily at his father on the bed, and then said, "And this guy actually wants to give this position to my unsuccessful brother." Still, in the end, the position will be mine. In fact, in five days, we will summon Gu Ying into the mansion and tell him that my father is dead, and that I am the next chief, and with his loyalty to the chief, I should be able to get what we want. and then killed him, the number one master of the Southern Barbarians, by the way. ”
"As long as you remember our agreement. ”
A strange sound suddenly came from outside the "bell".
"Who is it?" Meng Yanfeng rushed out frantically.
But there was nothing strange outside the house, it was still silent, Meng Yanfeng carefully searched the surroundings, but found nothing unusual, only a cold wind blowing in his face.
"It must be the wind blowing, you guys are still quite windy sometimes. Zhao Tianshou walked out and said.
Meng Yanfeng searched again, but still didn't find anything, so he returned to the house worriedly.
And just under the plank where he had just stood, two men dressed in black were lying on top of a green bird. Hearing the sound of them closing the door, Li Qiutong finally breathed a sigh of relief. After Meng Yanyu heard their conversation just now, he couldn't accept it for a while, so he rushed in to question Meng Yanfeng. Fortunately, Li Qiutong knocked him out in time, but he still made a noise, which attracted the attention of the two people in the room.
After staying for a while, after nothing changed, Li Qiutong controlled the wind bird to fly directly away from the Meng Mansion.
"Hey, did you just see a big bird in the sky?" one of the guards asked the other guard next to him, confused.
"You've drunk too much, where did you come from? I didn't see anything, so I'm going to shift soon, so let's go back to sleep for a while. ”
The guard rubbed his eyes, yawned, and said, "Maybe I'm dazzled." ”
In the end, the two of them did not reveal their traces and returned safely to the bamboo building in Canaan.
Li Qiutong carried Ah Yan, who had fainted, and knocked on the door of the bamboo house.
"Quick, second brother, help me. ”
Yang Ruiyun hurriedly stepped forward to pick up Meng Yanyu and asked, "Big brother, why is Ah Yan dizzy, you won't fight, right?"
Li Qiutong sat down, shook his hand, and said a little scared: "No, he was knocked out by me, but he was almost discovered, wait for me to slow down for a while." ”
Li Qiutong is also the first time to do this kind of thing, at most he would follow Tian Baishu to peek at others taking a bath before, which is completely incomparable to sneaking into the Meng Mansion this time, and after his mood calmed down, Li Qiutong slowly told Yang Ruiyun what he had just heard.
After Yang Ruiyun heard this, he also said indignantly: "I didn't expect that guy not only sent someone to kill his half-brother, but also poisoned his father, which is really heinous." ”
Li Qiutong let out a long sigh and said, "Now we can only wait for Master Canaan's antidote to be ready as soon as possible." ”