Chapter 19: Poisoning

After Shi Cundao introduced the story, everyone fell into a short silence, the matter is very simple, it is the story of a talented wage earner who was suppressed by the second generation of officials in the civil service examination. Wei Wuji is indeed a little miserable, his career and love have suffered a double blow, but what he did afterwards also proves that this person's character is problematic - besides, I don't think he was treated unfairly, the final result is decided by the old emperor, which shows that he just took a fancy to Shi Cundao, to put it bluntly, people are family businesses, and they know what kind of people they want to use, not to mention that Shi Cundao is also very good, even if people choose the deaf, dumb and lame in the end, it has nothing to do with others, you can only say that the old emperor has a heavy taste, It can't be said that he is unfair.

Shi Fei broke the silence and said, "Father, what should we do next?" ”

Shi Chi said: "What else can I do, if I come, I will be safe, my father and grandfather can defeat Wei Wuji once, we may not be able to." ”

Shi Cundao condensed and said: "You can't say that, back then, your grandfather and I combined the two mid-stage masters of the sword master, and Wei Wuji only fought undefeated and undefeated, this person's talent is so high that I have only seen it in my life!" ”

Shi Chi said: "Isn't my father now in the late stage of the sword master, where is he afraid?" ”

Shi Cundao said in a deep voice: "According to reliable sources, Wei Wuji has been promoted to Sword Saint. ”

"What?" Shi Chi almost exclaimed: "Is it credible?" ”

Shi Cundao smiled bitterly and said: "Over the years, he has been thinking about me, and I haven't forgotten him, when he couldn't gain a foothold in the Honglie Empire, he fled to Heggis overnight after the defeat of Shifu, so many years I have used the emperor's eyeliner under Heji, and I haven't relaxed my tracking of Wei Wuji for a moment, speaking of which, this is also the only thing I have done since I became a marshal to use my power for my own personal gain......"

Shi Chi said: "Wei Wuji has really been promoted to the Sword Saint? ”

Shi Cun said: "Not only that, but he dares to blatantly press the bloody handprint on my door, that is fearless, and there are many people behind him to help him, do you know who these are?" ”

"Who is it?"

Shi Cundao suddenly changed the topic and said, "Have you ever heard of the three-color stone? ”

Without waiting for others to speak, I blurted out, "Isn't that a killer organization?" "If you want to say that among these people present, I'm probably the one who has the most dealings with the tricolor stone...... Shi Chi naturally wouldn't be lonely and didn't even know about the most notorious killer organizations on the two continents, and said: "I heard that there are many masters in this organization, which are divided into three sub-altars, red, yellow and green, of which the red altar is specifically responsible for assassination. He asked Shi Cundao suspiciously, "Does Wei Wuji have anything to do with the Tricolor Stone?" ”

Shi Cundao said word by word: "The three-color stone was created by Wei Wuji!" ”

Shi Chi was even more shocked: "Did Wei Wuji create the Tricolor Stone just to seek revenge on his father?" ”

Shi Cun said: "That's probably it, Wei Wuji knew that it was not easy to kill me, so he recruited a group of outlaws, and he didn't expect that he would inadvertently become a tricolor stone that everyone on the mainland talked about. ”

Shi Dong saw that the atmosphere was a little depressed, and said loudly: "Father, it's not that children are arrogant, I think what three-color stone is mysterious in the eyes of ordinary people, in fact, it is nothing more than a group of tricky grass bandits, and children only need 5,000 soldiers and horses to set foot on their lair." ”

Shi Cun said: "The three-color stone is indeed not to be worried, but Wei Wuji is ruthless and cunning, and his martial arts are high, if he doesn't have the chance of winning this time, he will never be exposed in advance, you must not be careless." ”

Shi Dong saw that his father was worried about Wei Wuji's identity as a sword saint, and said: "The sword saint may not be invincible in the world, my father is already in the late stage of the sword master, plus our three brothers and Di Yang, five sword masters may not lose to him as a sword saint." ”

I hurriedly said, "Add me six." ”

Shi Cundao was pleasantly surprised: "Gorou has also been promoted to a sword master?" ”

I said, "Not yet, but at any time." ”

Shi Diyang took the booklet I gave him in the morning and gave it to Shi Cun and said, "This is the cultivation method written by the fifth brother, and it is indeed about to break through the sword master." ”

Shi Cundao looked at it carefully with both hands, his expression changed from joy to surprise, and then to shock, and finally slapped the table heavily, and said loudly: "God lives up to my Shi family, there is a genius like Goro!" ”

I smiled and said, "Grandpa has won the prize." ”

Shi Cundao returned the booklet to Shi Diyang, and after receiving this excitement, the old man suddenly became arrogant, clenched his fists and said: "I have brought 1,000 elite soldiers from the battalion to supplement the guards, you must be more careful after you go back, since this old man of more than 40 years has been found, we will fight with him!" ”

The old and young Shi stood up together and said abruptly: "Yes!" "Stilyan and other young people have not experienced any battles, and this time when they meet the enemy, they can't help but be excited with three points of excitement in the novelty and nervousness.

On the way back to the courtyard, I saw that the whole Shifu was already flooded with heavily armed soldiers, patrolling everywhere in twos and threes.

When I went back, Green Calyx was standing at the gate of the courtyard and looking out, and couldn't help but ask me, "What's going on outside?" ”

I pulled her back into the house and said, "Grandpa's enemy is here, don't go anywhere if you stay at home during this time." ”

Green Calyx said, "Is that person finally here?" ”

I was surprised, "You know that too? ”

Lu Calyx said: "I grew up in the Shi Mansion since I was a child, and I naturally know that every time there is a major festival, the old lady has to strengthen his defense, didn't the eldest young master come to see you some time ago?" ”

I remember that time was because I stabbed the sky a hole with my sword qi, and Shi Diyan led people to inspect in a fuss, and now that I think about it, for so many years, Shi Fu has been shrouded in the shadow of Wei Wuji, and it is like a frightened bird to say that it is ugly, and this time he appeared, it may not be a relief for Shi Cundao.

After dinner, I kept looking at the wall stupidly, and I was waiting for Su Jing.

When I meet an opponent of the level of the Sword Master, I feel a little bottomless in my heart, not to mention my convulsive sword qi, I am not sure in terms of moves alone, the skills of the Sword God can help me leapfrog and win against Stilwell, but Wei Wuji is a master who has been immersed in silver all his life, if it wasn't for the special situation at the beginning, I might not even be able to beat the bad Taoist.

But when you need someone, this person is often not by your side, I looked at the wall for a long time, Su Jing didn't have the slightest intention of appearing, and the green calyx whispered: "What do you see?" ”

I came back to my senses and said, "Oh, it's nothing, I ask you, are you scared?" ”

Green Calyx smiled: "What am I afraid of?" Besides, the old lady is the generalissimo, can there really be anyone in this world who can rush into the marshal's mansion to kill people? ”

I snorted, "What have you seen?" ”

In the eyes of ordinary people, the Shuai Mansion is an impregnable wall, but after an assassination, I understand that the high-walled iron guard is simply a floating cloud in the eyes of a sword saint, and the terrain of the Shifu is intricate, which is very conducive to the killer to hide, and unlike the last assassination of my mother, we have to face a group of more professional assassins this time.

After nightfall, the whole mansion was three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the drums were overlapped, and the sergeants patrolled cross-patrol, and the passwords echoed each other from afar, and the Shifu almost became a temporary military camp.

The green calyx said that he was not afraid, and his heart was hairy, so he brought the futon from the side room and laid the floor in the room where I slept, and finally barely survived the night. The next morning, the green calyx went to the dining room to bring me breakfast, the Shifu meal has always been a unified rationing system, in addition to the special greeting to entertain guests to add meals or to the sick number to open a small stove, one day three meals are taken from the dining room, naturally, according to the identity of different food treatment is also different, so as soon as the meal is eaten, the people in each room are all gathered at the door of the dining room, the stream is endless.

Today's breakfast is fried fruit kelp soup, as well as a small bowl of three fresh noodles, a few dishes of fresh vinegar and spicy pickles, and a piece of sesame cake, Shi Cundao obviously knows the importance of early, it can be said that it is very rich, after a night of digestion, my stomach is empty, pick up the oil fruit and open my mouth just to bite, the courtyard door was suddenly kicked open, Steeyang ran in openly, while shouting: "Fifth brother, don't eat!" ”

I wondered, "What's wrong?" If you haven't used it, let's go together. ”

Stilyan came over and smashed all the breakfast in front of me to the ground, and shouted, "Rice is poisonous!" ”

I was shocked, "How do you know?" ”

Stilyan's face was gloomy and he said, "There are already a few people who have taken the medicine early today." ”

"How was it poisoned?"

Shi Diyan clenched his fists and said: "This is the insidious place of the other party, I don't know whether the poison is in the water or in the noodles, some people are fine when they eat it, and some people foam at the mouth immediately after eating it." ”

"This ......" I looked at the dazzling breakfast on the ground, so I had to swallow my saliva and said, "Forget it, I won't eat it either." ”

At this time, there were already guards ringing gongs and issuing warnings everywhere, asking everyone to gather the early ones they received in the courtyard to destroy them uniformly, which was a matter of personal safety, and people did not dare to believe it, so they had to come outside in groups to wait for the next instructions.

Stilyan said to me, "Go on patrol with your eldest brother, you should do something for the family." ”

I nodded, and followed Stilyan to the former training ground, where I saw that people were dumping fresh food on the ground in a mountain of baskets, all of them on an empty stomach in the morning, and they couldn't eat the fried golden oilfruits, but no one dared to gamble with their lives at this moment. I couldn't help but look sad.

With his hands behind his back and a calm face, Stilyan saw that all the early ones had been cleaned up before he asked his subordinates: "How many people have been poisoned?" ”

The man said: "Back to the eldest young master, there are 12, and there are two elderly mothers who are about to die." ”

Stilyan's face turned blue and said, "Go and find me Lao Huang!" ”

Lao Huang is the head chef of the Shi Mansion, that is, the director of the dining room, and he has been able to compete with the chief manager of the Shi Mansion at this point, and he naturally doesn't need to do anything by himself, as if he has moved from the front line to the administration, and at this moment he is sweating profusely, and he knelt in front of Shi Diyang with a puff when he was far away, kowtowed like garlic and said: "Young Master, today's matter has nothing to do with me." ”

Stilyan suppressed his anger and said, "Get up and speak." ”

Lao Huang twisted his fat body and got up from the ground, stood aside with his hands down, and excused himself again and again, Steeyang said impatiently: "Didn't you find anything unusual when you were cooking today?" ”

Lao Huang thought for a while and said, "No." "There are no suspicious people in the kitchen?"

Lao Huang said: "No. ”

"Are you sure?"

Lao Huang said with a smile: "I can't guarantee anything else, but there are a total of about 20 people in the dining room, and they have been dealing with the small one for more than ten years, and this one will not admit it." ”

Stilyan couldn't ask why, so he said, "Why would someone be poisoned by that good person?" ”

When Lao Huang heard this, he quickly knelt down again, and cried: "I really don't know this little one." ”

I walked out from behind Stilyan and reminded him, "The oil and noodles I used this morning are not expired or anything else, right?" ”

Lao Huang said aggrievedly: "Look at what the fifth young master said, we have our own oil refinery in our house, which uses high-quality soybean oil, and the rice and noodles are all new rice and new noodles that have just been harvested this year." ”

I muttered, "It's not gutter oil, and there is no GMO, so it seems that Wei Wou-Ki can only mix additives for us......"

(To be continued)