Chapter 166: Black Mist
Early the next morning, the county magistrate of Pingyu County came to the Li Mansion again to visit, and it was a loss that he had greeted Master Li in advance, otherwise at this hour, the two children in the Li Mansion were probably still asleep.
Under the reception of Steward Li, the county lieutenant took a seat in the council room, and Steward Li said respectfully to the county lieutenant while holding a pot of hot tea to the county lieutenant with a cup of tea
"Lord County Lieutenant, please wait a while, the lord will be here later."
"There's no need for this, coming to visit at this time is to disturb Master Li, it's not too late to ask Master Li to come to this official after finishing the affairs at hand."
The county lieutenant talked about it and was not restrained at all, after all, as for last night's incident, he mainly came to meet Li Zicheng and Ye Bai today, and if Master Li said it, he threw out a few barbs, and then he would be satisfied with this matter.
Steward Li only thought that the county lieutenant was polite to him, and slowly withdrew from the council hall with a smile on his face, and turned around to look for Master Li in the back house.
After a while, Master Li walked into the conference hall under the support of Steward Li, and the county lieutenant was just about to get up to greet him, only to see Master Li wave one hand, sit on the main seat of the council hall by himself, one leg cocked, and say to the county lieutenant with some dissatisfaction
"The county lieutenant is so Yaxing, the county lieutenant hasn't given an explanation to the old man about last night's incident, and he came to visit the mansion at such an hour today, hehe, I don't know what the county lieutenant has to tell the Li Mansion."
Listening to the prickly tone in his words, the county lieutenant suddenly showed bitterness, and after casually glancing at Steward Li, his eyes stayed on Steward Li's body.
"Then, the county lieutenant and the lord will talk first, and the old slave will retire."
Steward Li withdrew from the conference hall very interestingly, turned back and went to the back house, this time to arouse Li Zicheng and Ye Bai.
And in the conference hall, Master Li watched Steward Li withdraw from here, snorted coldly, and didn't look at the county lieutenant, last night the county lieutenant clearly said that he would bring the soldier to the Li Mansion to be disposed of by himself, but he waited in the council hall for half an hour but only waited for Zicheng and Ye Bai to come back, Zicheng didn't say anything to his father, and took Ye Bai to the backyard to rest.
After waiting for another half an hour, there was no figure in this county lieutenant, hehehe, this county lieutenant is really a great official, so he waited for him for an hour without any movement.
Naturally, now that he was visited by the county lieutenant so early in the morning, how much better would Master Li's mood be?
I only heard the county lieutenant purse his lips and whispered to Master Li
"Master Li doesn't know, this official did go to the military camp where Zicheng was bullied yesterday, but the soldiers in that military camp are not Pingyu's county soldiers, but a personal guard under the command of Zhou Wangye, it is said that this personal guard fought with Dongxun's eagle guard on the front line, and lost a lot of personnel, so he returned to Pingyu for a temporary rest."
"Heh, the county lieutenant is nothing more than telling the old man, can't he afford to offend Lord Zhou? To make it clear, it's not that the old man can't hear it, since that's the case, then the old man will have Lord Lao County, send off the guests. ”
Master Li hid a needle in his words, mercilessly sarcastically sarcastic the county lieutenant.
"Master Li, please listen to this official first, the reason why Zicheng was beaten was because he wanted to go to the army under the command of Prince Zhou, and what this official came to tell the master today is also about Zicheng's enlistment."
"What, what? Enlist? ”
Master Li's mind didn't turn around for a while, it wasn't that the front foot was still talking about something else, how could it suddenly turn into the fact that his precious son was going to join the army.
Moreover, Zicheng is going to join the army, why didn't he, a father, notice any movement at all?
The county lieutenant coughed, put on a smiling face, and said to Master Li
"Yes, since he is at his age, it's time to serve Nanli, Master Li, what do you think?"
After saying this, the county lieutenant took his sword from his waist and put it on the table.
Master Li's face changed slightly, but he still pretended not to see the saber on the table, and replied in a cold voice
"Since he became him, he will take over the Li Mansion's family business, and this kind of thing of joining the army and enlisting in the army should be exempted."
As for Li Zicheng's enlistment in the army or not, Master Li himself does not reject or oppose it, but at this juncture, Li Zicheng must not join the army.
At this juncture, Nanli is facing the situation of being the enemy of the world, not to mention that it is not the Pingyu County soldiers that Li Zicheng wants to enlist, but the Shangzhou garrison under the command of Zhou Wangye, and has entered the current Shangzhou garrison, hehe, isn't that just to let Li Zicheng, a fourteen-year-old little doll, go to the front line in the future?
I'm sorry, at most, Master Li can only accept that Li Zicheng will go to an idle place to mix in the army for some time, and then come back to inherit the family business of the Li Mansion.
Moreover, if you serve Nanli or something, won't you be able to make a name for yourself?
If you have to go to the dangerous road of joining the army to serve Nanli, Master Li is not a righteous person, on the contrary, Master Li still hopes that his family can last for a long time.
However, the county lieutenant's face changed in an instant, and a little chill emanated from his eyes, and he said in a cold tone, with a tone that could not be refused
"This matter, this official is not here to ask for the opinion of Master Li, this official is just here to inform Master Li, the matter of enlisting in the army, to make a conclusion, Master Li, this official has submitted the transfer order to the Assassin History Office, three days later, Zicheng and Ye Bai will join the Shangzhou garrison as the recommended people of the Assassin History."
When the words fell, the county lieutenant took back his saber on the table, ignored Master Li's reaction, and walked out of the conference hall directly.
The appointment order is submitted to the Shangzhou Assassin History, which means that the county lieutenant is deceiving Master Li, he is a county lieutenant of Pingyu County, how can he have any qualifications to submit the transfer order to the power of the Shangzhou Assassin History, not to mention that the Shangzhou Assassin History cannot interfere with any power related to the affairs of the Shangzhou garrison now.
There is a day when Zhou Dunyi is in Shangzhou, and there is absolutely no possibility that the Shangzhou Assassin will have any possibility of interfering in the Shangzhou armament, not to mention the position of Nanli's Assassin History, for the affairs of each state, he has always only had the right to supervise and inspect, and the one who is really responsible for the affairs of a state must be the state pastor.
However, the position of the state pastor of Shangzhou has been vacant for four or five years, and seeing that the development of Shangzhou is getting better and better day by day, the position of the state pastor of Shangzhou has also become the goal of many people.
That is, Master Li, he doesn't even know about the twists and turns in this, so this county lieutenant will use the name of assassination to make Master Li forced to submit.
You don't know about the twists and turns, but you can't know the history of the assassin, right?
In the eyes of Master Li, Thorn Shi is a character he doesn't dare to provoke at all, and he can easily decide the life and death of his Li family at every turn.
The reason why he is tough on the county lieutenant is because the county lieutenant will be like that if he asks for it first, but what about the history of assassination? What do you want from you, a rich man, to help?
After the county lieutenant walked out of the council hall, he didn't walk out of the Li Mansion, he just walked to the door of a courtyard gate and waited, no, it didn't take long for Steward Li to come out of this courtyard with Li Zicheng and Ye Bai, who had not woken up yet.
The county lieutenant glanced at Steward Li, and saw that Steward Li didn't react to this at this time, so he frowned and said
"Master Li is waiting for you in the council hall, you go first, the official has something to say to Zicheng."
Steward Li was a little puzzled, but out of trust in the county lieutenant, he still left Li Zicheng and Ye Bai and trotted all the way to the council hall.
Seeing Steward Li walk away, although Li Zicheng was still a little sleepy, he still tried his best to raise some of his spirits, and asked the county lieutenant excitedly
"Uncle, is it done?"
"It's done, you and Ye Bai will follow your uncle to the barracks to report in three days."
The corners of the county lieutenant's mouth rose slightly, Master Li could easily solve it, just press him with a stab, and Li Zicheng is here, that is easier, the handling of this matter, the general should be satisfied if he knows about it.
After Li Zicheng heard this, he directly hugged Ye Bai, looking overjoyed, as if he had received some huge reward.
The county lieutenant looked at the current behavior of the two children with some relief and said
"Zicheng, you have to know that after joining the army, it is all up to you, your uncle and your father can't help you anything, and it is impossible to help you anything, and that army is a partial division led by a personal guard under the command of Zhou Wangye, and when you enter that partial division, you must also work hard to kill the enemy on the battlefield as soon as possible, and also promote the reputation of your Pingyu Li family."
Li Zicheng nodded vigorously as if he was crazy, the words that the county lieutenant said, those that he heard and didn't have, were all ignored as a deaf ear, and he Li Zicheng was now thinking vigorously, when would he be able to enlist in the army, three days? Hey, I'll have to wait three days, that's a long time.
But I've been waiting for so long, it's just three days, endure it, grit my teeth, hum, three days later, I will follow Ye Bai into the barracks with a swagger, and let him see him enter the barracks with his own eyes in front of the soldier who slapped him.
Ye Bai was also a little ignorant, he didn't know how he should react now, he didn't have any sympathy for Li Zicheng's excitement, the reason why he didn't resist this matter was because this matter should not be harmful in his eyes as a child.
Since there is no harm, then he will accompany Li Zicheng, so that he can be regarded as taking care of each other, not to mention, he himself owes Li Zicheng a favor in it.
If it weren't for Li Zicheng, he might still be lame and begging on the streets of Pingyu County.
It was also because Li Zicheng took himself back to the Li Mansion and found a doctor to treat the injury on his leg, so that he could experience what it would be like to have flexible legs for the first time.
And in a hidden place not far from Li Zicheng and them, the man in black was looking at them intently, but after looking at the county lieutenant, the look of the man in black obviously changed a little.
"He shouldn't be aware of the T-shaped thing."
The man in black muttered to himself
At this moment, Dongxun Jiujiang County.
Shen Baoxu's face was a little hideous, his eyes glared at the person standing in front of him, and he roared angrily
"You, do you know what you're doing!"
The man didn't answer, but only carried a sword in his hand, and there was some blood stained on the tip of the sword.
"You, what promise did Nanli give you? Do you know that you are treason, you are treason! ”
Shen Baoxu covered his injured left chest with one hand, and coughed for a while, but at this time he coughed up a pool of blood.
Shen Baoxu was a little unsteady on his feet, his momentum was getting weaker and weaker, and what he was holding in his other hand was the body of the gun, as for the head of the gun?
The head of the gun has been cut in half, and Shen Baoxu also used the half of the gun body to support the ground at this time, barely supporting his body, if it weren't for this, Shen Baoxu estimated that he would be kneeling on the ground and dying now.
"You, you, why?!"
Shen Baoxu now doesn't have the strength to make any resistance, let alone any moves, he doesn't even have the strength to swing a shot, even if he gently lifts this half of the gun, it has become an extremely difficult thing for him now.
The man was getting closer and closer to Shen Baoxu, and in the end, the man stopped in front of Shen Baoxu, staring at Shen Baoxu with cold eyes, no emotion could be seen on his face, looking at Shen Baoxu's current state, the man said a word
"You shouldn't learn martial arts."
After saying this, the short sword in the man's hand suddenly raised, and he was about to slash down towards Shen Baoxu's body.
Bite!
Just as Shen Baoxu closed his eyes and waited for death to come, a sound of metal colliding pulled him back from the brink of death.
When Shen Baoxu opened his eyes again, he only saw Shen Xu's thin body, using the fan bone of his folding fan, colliding with the short sword, rubbing sparks.
Shen Xu gritted his teeth, looked at the man resentfully, turned his head slightly and asked Shen Baoxu loudly
"Brother, are you alright?"
"It's fine."
After hearing Shen Baoxu's answer, Shen Xu was also relieved, and roared angrily, the internal force up and down his body burst out at this moment, and the ice-blue internal force formed a solid state around Shen Xu's body at this moment, and when the folding fan in Shen Xu's hand twisted again, the internal force also sprinted in the direction of the person.
The man frowned, and hurriedly took a few steps back, but the range of Shen Xu's blow was really overwhelming, and in the end, this person was hit by Shen Xu's internal force wave, and rolled back more than ten meters away before stopping.
Turning over from the ground and wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, this person looked at Shen Xu with a fierce look
"It's your fate."
As soon as the words fell, the man quickly fled without saying a word.
And after seeing this person escape, Shen Xu also fell down weakly, and the whole person fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.
"Shen Xu, Shen Xu"
Shen Baoxu dropped half of the gun in his hand and threw himself to Shen Xu's side, looking at Shen Xu's pale face, Shen Baoxu's body couldn't help but tremble a little, and his voice was the same.
"Yuanxu, Yuanxu, you, you"
Shen Xu grinned dismally, smiled, looked at Shen Baoxu who was now a little flustered with some tenderness, and said comfortingly
"Brother, I'm fine, that's it, it's just that the internal force is empty for a moment, I, I'll just rest for a while, no, don't worry about me."
Shen Baoxu couldn't see where Shen Xu could see that Shen Xu's method of forcing that person away just now was a basic skill for any monk, and it didn't require any cultivation to be able to do it.
In an instant, he emptied all the internal force of the eight veins in his body, leaving no trace of any internal force of the origin, and in one breath, he blasted towards the opponent.
Draining all the internal forces of the eight veins, this kind of thing is also often done by Shen Baoxu, because the moves condensed by this method, whether they are attached to any of his next moves, their power will have earth-shaking changes.
It's just that this move will not be able to mobilize internal force for a period of time after use, but if there are sequelae, there will be no sequelae.
But Shen Xu's move is different.
Shen Xu didn't even leave the original internal force of the eight veins, and combined all the internal forces to fight all in one go.
Such an offensive can make Shen Xu's move just now, even if it was Shen Baoxu in his heyday, dare not take it.
If you focus on one point, the power of that move, even if it is a grandmaster, must be taken seriously to avoid harm.
But in order to make it impossible for that person to dodge, Shen Xu spread out the offensive, and the overwhelming offensive would be displaced, as long as the person touched it, the internal organs would also be displaced.
Such a brutal method is so powerful, but the sequelae are also very large.
The original internal force is the initial internal force that opens up the eight internal forces in the body, and it is also the most fundamental internal force that nurtures and maintains the eight veins.
However, if the original internal force is emptied in an instant, the consequence is that the eight veins are exhausted, and the internal force cannot be nourished, and it will be abolished for half a year, or at worst, it will directly become a wasted person, and from then on, it will never have a chance with the monk again.
"You, why did you do this, you wouldn't do it."
Shen Baoxu's voice was a little choked, looking at Shen Xu, who had fallen into a coma, at this time, it was also the first time that he felt helpless.
This matter is all because of his own fault, otherwise, Shen Xu would not have been reduced to using the means of dissipating internal strength to protect himself.
Holding Shen Xu who fell into a coma with both hands, Shen Baoxu hung his head weakly, he couldn't help but start sobbing, but at this time, he looked extremely helpless.
Soon, Captain Hu came here with a team of eagle guards, and after seeing Shen Baoxu and Shen Xu who fell to the ground, Captain Hu hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and galloped all the way to Shen Baoxu
"Captain, I'm sorry, it's too late."
The team of eagle guards, also under the leadership of Prince Dongxun, came to Shen Baoxu's side, looking at Shen Baoxu at this time, and Shen Xu lying in Shen Baoxu's arms, Prince Dongxun's face suddenly became solemn.
"Bao Xu, we're late."
Shen Baoxu looked at Captain Hu with blank eyes, he choked his throat, and finally shed tears in some anger, and said in a trembling voice
"I don't blame you, this matter is my fault."
After that, Shen Baoxu coughed violently, driving the injuries on his body, and coughed up a large pool of blood again, and then Shen Baoxu was dizzy, and then he passed out.
As night fell, the man was cleaning up the injuries caused by Shen Xu on his body, when he suddenly jumped down from under the gatehouse, and the man in black came to this person, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone
"How can you mess this?"
This man looked a little uncontrollable fear after seeing the man in black, licked his lips, and said helplessly
"Shen Xu arrived in time and used this trick, and there was nothing I could do."
However, I saw the man in black snort coldly, took out a small medicine bottle from his arms, and threw it beside the person, saying in a somewhat disdainful tone
"Next time, if you mess things up again, the general, I won't be able to explain it for you."
After hearing the word general, the fear in this man's eyes became more obvious, but he still reluctantly suppressed the fear in his heart, lowered his head and picked up the small medicine bottle on the ground, bit the lid with his mouth, and sprinkled the medicine powder in the bottle on the wound on his body.
The man in black pursed his lips, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the man to continue
"The general has been very unhappy with your efficiency before, this time I will hide it for you, and if you miss next time, the general, you can get the punishment yourself."
After the man in black said this, he squatted down, took the small medicine bottle, and carefully helped the person sprinkle the medicine powder on the wound.
"By the way, didn't the general also send a few people to the south this time? Their mission must not be to assassinate Zhou Dunyi, right? ”
Seeing that this man said this, the man in black sneered, glanced at him with some mocking eyes, and finally shook his head and said
"What are you dreaming of, assassinating Zhou Dunyi? It can't be done without mobilizing most of the brothers of the first number, and the general sent them to the territory of Nanli, there is only one brother of the first number, two newcomers of the T-number, just three of them, it is difficult to assassinate the history of the Nanli assassination, and also assassinate Zhou Dunyi, you really dare to say anything. ”
Immediately after, after sprinkling the medicine powder on the wound of the man, the man in black stood up, put the small medicine bottle back into his arms, frowned, and looked at the man and said with some seriousness
"Pay attention next time, you're still one step behind today, if you go a little later, you'll run into Dongxun's Eagle Guard, even if I make a move, I guess I won't be able to save you."