Chapter XVIII

Dongshi, Jingkangfang, Tiweifu, Haizheng

It was late at night, and the door of the Tiwei Mansion was already closed, leaving only two guards on duty on both sides of the hall, and a team of seven people patrolling back and forth in the mansion.

At this moment, a black shadow burst out of the guard's residence, and then rushed towards the back door of the guard's mansion.

This is a masked man in a night suit, and when he sees that there is no one around, and the surroundings are quiet, he flies away from the wall with confidence.

As soon as he landed, the fire was blazing, the man in black was taken aback, and after looking at it, he was even more frightened, only to see that it was no one else standing in front of him, it was Lu Yunsheng, the deputy head of the guard, behind him, followed by a group of personal followers, a total of ten guards, they just saw the man in black, and surrounded him.

"Take it for me!"

Yunsheng waved his hand, and the guards pulled out the matching knives on their waists with a "swish", shouting and rushing towards the man in black! The man in black took out a dagger from his waist and faced the guards.

At the same time, on the top of the hall hall, there was another man in black stepping on the roof, walking over the wall from the left side, just after two streets, he saw the black ground in front of him, there was a person standing there, the man in black felt wrong in his heart, so he turned around and wanted to turn around and go in the other direction, suddenly the torch "soared" and lit up, a row of guards blocked his way, the man in black was shocked, suddenly knew something, looked back tremblingly, and stood there is Xiao Chongguang, the chief of the guard.

At this time, in the guard house of the Tiwei Mansion, a Tiwei quietly went out and came to a secluded corner, his face was facing the wall, he took out the mask in his arms, just put it on his face, and saw through the moonlight that there were a few more figures on the wall, he turned his head in shock, and sat down on the ground in fright, it was the patrol team that found him, and at this moment, he was holding a sword against his neck.

The Imperial City of the Eastern Capital, Fengyi Pavilion, Haizheng

At this time, all the emperors in the pavilion were full of wine and food, and the banquet was about to end, when Song Lin, the king of letters, suddenly got up and said to Emperor Chu with his crossed hands: "Father, the son has something to tell you." ”

"Lin'er, if you have something to say, just say it." Emperor Chu said with a slightly drunken smile.

Song Lin said: "Father, you know that the day after tomorrow is the birthday of the queen's mother, and the son brought two gifts as congratulatory gifts this time, and I want to tell my father and the mother first." ”

Emperor Chu smiled: "Lin'er, this is your mistake, shouldn't you wait until the queen's birthday to take out the congratulatory gift?" If you say it now, it won't look good when the time comes. ”

Empress Jiang smiled: "It's okay, Your Majesty, Lin'er will say it now, and it will also make Concubine Neng look forward to it." ”

Emperor Chu smiled and nodded: "It's okay, if you want to say it, just say it." ”

Song Lin said: "Erchen's two gifts, one is a golden carp caught by Yanzhou fishermen on Taiping Lake, Erchen feels that this is auspicious, just as one of the congratulatory gifts of the mother." ”

Emperor Chu said: "This is very good, the queen likes to raise fish, with this auspiciousness, the queen's cloud pool can add a holy relic." ”

Song Lin continued: "Second, you still need Your Majesty's grace to enter the palace. ”

"Huh? What else does I have to approve? Emperor Chu doubted.

Song Lin said: "It is a group of fifteen people in a miscellaneous troupe, and when the ministers saw that they performed exquisitely, they wanted to order a few scenes as the color of this mother's birthday." ”

When Emperor Chu heard this, he pondered for a while, and then said: "Originally, ordinary people from outside should not enter the palace, but if it is for the queen's birthday, it is better to listen to the queen." ”

Empress Jiang said with a smile: "Since it is Lin'er's intention, the concubine must see it, Your Majesty might as well make an exception." ”

Emperor Chu smiled: "Okay, I'm right." ”

Song Lin said happily: "Thank you father, the queen." ”

The crown prince Song Yu, who was sitting at the left end, looked at Song Lin's expression, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

Eastern Capital, East City, Jingkangfang, Tiwei Mansion, Hai Mo

At the back gate of the Tiwei Mansion, the Tiwei and the man in black fought fiercely for dozens of rounds, even though the opponent was holding a dagger, they still failed to take it, and they also cut many brothers in the Tiwei Mansion.

Lu Yunsheng sneered: "I didn't expect that there would be a master like you in my Tiwei Mansion, it's a pity that I didn't promote you." ”

After that, Lu Yunsheng took matters into his own hands, kicked the ground, and flew to draw his knife and pointed directly at the man in black.

The man in black retreated again and again, and saw that there was a knife on the ground that the guard was injured and didn't care about, so he immediately hooked it lightly with his foot, held it in his hand, and blocked Yunsheng's knife technique with a horizontal knife.

Yun Sheng changed his strategy and slashed at his wrist that grabbed the hilt of the knife, and the man in black hurriedly changed his move, turning the blade downward and pushing the attack away.

The two sides have been fighting back and forth for more than ten rounds, and it is obvious that the man in black is at a disadvantage, on the one hand, he has just consumed a lot of strength in the fight with the guards, and he has been more or less injured, on the other hand, his martial arts are indeed inferior to Lu Yunsheng.

When he saw that the situation was in danger, he immediately used his housekeeping skills to "dance wildly", he shook his waist knife, the speed was extremely fast, and his eyes were full of knife shadows in an instant, like a streamer rushing horizontally.

"The swordsmanship of the Pomegranate Palace!" Lu Yunsheng saw through it at a glance.

Pomegranate Flower Palace is a major sect in Qingzhou, located on the pomegranate flower mountain, the inheritance has been five generations, two hundred years long, famous for the swordsmanship between the flowers, its first ancestor Hua Feng Dance is a female stream, therefore, the sect has always only accepted female disciples.

There are also rivers and lakes that Hua Fengwu was infatuated with a scholar who rushed to take the exam in his early years, and the two swore an alliance between the two of them, agreeing that they would never betray it in their lives, and after the scholar won the fame, he would marry the dance as his wife in a beautiful manner.

Unexpectedly, the scholar Lang was favored by a county lord in Zhongzhou, and boldly expressed his admiration, and the scholar abandoned Hua Fengwu and married the county lord for the sake of fame and fortune.

Hua Fengwu carried a love injury to the mountain to cultivate, accidentally found a book of exercises in a cave, and began to practice according to the description in the book, and became a generation of masters, robbing the rich and helping the poor, rescuing the poor people, and opening a sect in the pomegranate flower mountain of cultivation, because he was abandoned by men, so he hated the opposite sex, so he only accepted male disciples, and also had a grudge against the court.

Lu Yunsheng retracted his steps, jumped up, raised his hand and slashed straight down, the man in black sneered and shook the knife in his hand to meet the attack, not wanting Lu Yunsheng's blade to suddenly deviate, his body drove his arms and wrists, avoiding the sword light in the sky, and slashed at the shoulder of the man in black!

The man in black was shocked, it was too late for him to turn the direction at this time, the blade was everywhere, blood was splashed, and the arm of the man in black was cut off, he screamed in pain, the stump and the waist knife fell to the ground at the same time, and he covered the wound and wailed loudly.

Lu Yunsheng took a step forward and ripped off the man's mask.

"Wang Tian!"

Yunsheng was taken aback, this man in black was actually Wang Tian, who usually did things honestly, and the rest of the guards were so shocked that they couldn't lift their chins.

"Put him in a dungeon, and then send a doctor to help him stop the bleeding." Lu Yunsheng commanded.

"Whoa."

The guards replied and dragged Wang Tian down.

On the street on the left, another man in black had already started a fight with Xiao Chongguang and the others.

But Xiao Chongguang was more kind, and did not call Tiwei to fight first, but ordered them to block the exit and do it himself.

The man in black didn't bring any weapons, he could only fight with his bare hands, Sogo was also very fair, he didn't use the matching knife, and struck at the man in black with his palm, this move seemed to be gentle, but in fact, it was riveting and full of energy, and where the palm of his hand passed, there was a series of breaking sounds!

The man in black didn't dare to slack off, how could his leader not know how powerful it was, so naturally he didn't dare to take this move hard, but leaned back, avoided this palm, and immediately used a move with his feet to "sweep the leaf legs", and moved flexibly to the right, avoiding Xiao Chongguang's attack range.

Xiao Chongguang chased after him, the man in black stood up, clenched his fists, and used the "double Jiao out to sea", the left and right ** attacked for the right, the offensive was fierce, as fast as lightning, and the attack directions were all different, it was really as fierce as a dragon to vacate the sea.

"It's the martial arts of the Haijiao Sect again!"

Xiao Chongguang recognized that the moves and martial arts of this man in black were almost the same as Liang Xiang's personal guard Cao Zixiao, and they were all from the Haijiao faction.

"In the future, we must investigate this sect established by the sea."

While thinking in his heart, Sogo used the "golden silk hand" to fight with the man in black, and the two sides dismantled more than a dozen moves in a row, and finally, the man in black made a false move, jumped up, raised his palm to gather his energy, and slapped towards Xiao Chongguang's Tianling Gai from top to bottom!

"Humph!"

He snorted coldly, kicked the ground with both feet, used the light skill "step cloud ladder", and also rose into the air, his hands were round into a shield, and he actually took the palm of the man in black!

But listening to the "bang", the man in black felt as if he had been hit by a boulder, his whole arm was numb, and he also had all his internal organs, and then he couldn't help but spurt blood with a "poof", all of which were soaked in the mask, and he himself, like a kite with a broken string, fell straight down, and finally fell to the ground with a "bang".

Xiao Chongguang was afraid that this person still had the strength to resist arrest, so after he landed, he rushed over and sealed his second pulse as the governor with the method of pointing, so that he could not adjust his strength in the exercise.

"Take it!"

With Xiao Chongguang's loud shout, all the guards rushed up, tied up the man in black, and put the saber around his neck.

"It's you!"

Xiao Chongguang tore off his mask and was shocked to find that it was Sun Ming, who usually worked in the house on an errand and handled some chores.

Sun Ming was silent and tilted his head to the side.

"Take it back to the house and interrogate it strictly!" Sogo waved his hand, and the guards carried Sun Ming in the direction of the Tiwei Mansion.

Sogo, on the other hand, stayed where he was, looking around, this area, to the east is Jingzhao Mansion, to the south is the Spiegel Division, and to the west and north are some residential houses.

"Who the hell is he looking for?"

The imperial city of the eastern capital, Qingning Palace, Zichu

"Eleventh brother, don't you think King Xin is a little weird?"

After the banquet was dispersed, the crown prince Song Yu specially called Song Qi, the king of Huai, to the East Palace and asked this question.

Song Qi was full of disgust when he thought of Song Lin, the king of letters, rolled his eyes and said, "I think he listens to the whole person." ”

"I'll tell you seriously," Song Yu tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Have you noticed that after the queen mother said that she agreed to let the acrobatic troupe enter the palace, the corners of his mouth hooked up a very smug smile." ”