Chapter Seventy-Three: The Sword House of the North Sea
Although he doesn't know much about Ming Jinlou, he is a natural hunter, and he has always maintained a keen sense of danger and opportunity, he knows the danger of tonight's operation, and the more dangerous and exciting it is, the more it can stimulate the wildness in his heart, after all, he has suppressed his nature for too long in these days in Shenguang Taikang City.
Cui Hanzhang and Bai Yanqiu took the trouble to explain to him the internal structure of Mingjin Building and the topography of each floor, and they almost drew a drawing for him. Cui Hanzhang was as careful as a hair, and especially reminded Chi Di to be careful of the strict guards on the third floor, especially the top floor There is also a sharpshooter, this person's strength is amazing, and the lethality covers all the open-air corners of the Mingjin Building. When pouring, the water master can only choose to tear his face and come to the rescue, but the premise is that Chidi can hold up until we go upstairs.
"Since the three of you are here, the old man will talk about some old things in the rivers and lakes, Huang Wanli's fatal wound and the wound of the guards in Zhuangzi The old man has already checked it, and the killer who came to Xiaolian Village to assassinate him this night should have nothing to do with Beihai Jianlu." The Great Elder motioned for the three of them to sit down and spoke eloquently.
"Beihai Jianlu? Unheard of, where is the Jianghu sect? Bai Yanqiu often mingles with temples in the rivers and lakes, and he can be said to be well-informed, even if he hears the Beihai Sword House, he is confused.
"From the direction of the depth and texture of the wound on the deceased's body, it can be roughly seen that the sword user makes unusual moves, especially the incision angle of the fatal wound, which shows that the sword maker is either not good at work, or the speed is too fast, and he has been killed when the sword is collected, even if he is doing an autopsy, he is also inclined to the latter." The Grand Elder paused here to give the three of them time to think and understand.
"Looking at the Central Plains martial arts factions have no such swordsmanship, the emphasis is not heavy, the old man sits on the southwest border, and only heard that there are ancient books that record that there is a sword in Beihai, a hundred years ago it was extremely prosperous, it is rumored that there are three thousand disciples in the three counties of Beihai, especially in the last years of the Daduan Dynasty, the three counties of Beihai of their power are all obeying the order, and then somehow disappeared. His disciples practice a kind of swordsmanship but the swordsmanship is different, known as three thousand disciples and three thousand swords, a Jiazi had a self-proclaimed Jianlu disciple of the Jianghu characters appeared in the Central Plains, successively overturned a number of famous swordsmen, ruthless and ruthless, and he fought either dead or disabled, so he climbed high step by step, debuted half a year on the list, and the swordsmanship he used can cause such a wound. Just when the entire martial arts paid attention to his brilliant achievements and speculated about the next challenge target, he disappeared as quickly as a meteor, and thus became an unsolved case in the rivers and lakes. The Great Elder finished telling the allusions to the Beihai Sword House in one breath, although it was for the three of them, but it was actually to let Chi Di know more about the opponent.
"Listening to the meaning of the Great Elder, there should be a hidden heir of the Beihai Sword House in the Mingjin Tower, or it is said that the heir of the Sword Mansion is driven by the Xiao clan." After Cui Hanzhang slowly digested these words, he rubbed his chin with his hand and analyzed.
"Although the old man did not have the opportunity to fight with the descendants of the Sword House, he also studied his brilliant achievements in depth when he was young, and Chi Di remembered that it was better to attack than defend against it, and give full play to his body's horizontal kung fu, with the heart of killing a thousand enemies and self-harming one hundred and eight, it is enough to deal with this swordsmanship." The Great Elder pointed out Chi Di again, and even pointed out the trick of defeating the enemy for the three of them.
After the Great Elder said this, he blew out a breath lightly, and a long silver hair fell lightly in front of Cui Hanzhang's eyes, then he closed his eyes and recuperated, and the three of them got up and slowly withdrew from the room. That night, after Chi Di disguised himself, he followed Cui Hanzhang to sneak into the Mingjin Building with the help of the Longyuan River Naval Warfare Ship Inspection and Guarding, and set off with him at the same time as two Naval Division's warships, extinguishing the fire, lowering the flag and raising the sails, filling up the rudder oars and going up the Longyuan River, and quickly disappeared into the quiet night.
Cui Hanzhang and Bai Yanqiu didn't plan to go back, so the two of them stood on the deck of the warship closest to Mingjin Tower and watched them leave, "Okay, go back to the cabin and squint for a while, you have hard shoulders and pick up more physical work, your heart is full of things, so you naturally have to work hard, and you shouldn't be distracted." ”
"Then I'll take a nap and call me anytime if there's a situation." Cui Hanzhang was not polite to him, he was busy all night in Yikun Palace, and Shulanxuan's, frightened and angry were intertwined, he was physically and mentally exhausted, and at this time, the cold in the position of the heart house flared up again, and he needed to go back to the cabin quiet room to resist.
Cui Hanzhang returned to the quiet room and carefully studied a silver hair in his hand
, recalled the words of the Great Elder when he went out: "This silver hair was tightly held by Huang Wanli between his fingernails, and the fracture shrank and curled, and it should have been pulled and broken by a huge force. ”
"Could this be Huang Wanli's own hair? It must be important to hold it so tightly. ”
Huang Wanli he saw it last night, although it is also white hair, but if you look closely, you will find that it is gray and white. He was well-dressed and neat, and during the toast, he noticed that although his nails were long but neatly trimmed, there was not a trace of dirt left. A person who pays so much attention to appearance would never have his broken hair in his fingernails, so it is likely that this silver hair has something to do with the Assassin.
Just thinking about things, he suddenly had angina, and the cold flared up again, Cui Hanzhang had no choice but to quickly put away his silver hair with a handkerchief, and ran the internal breath mantra to regulate his viscera.
Bai Yanqiu looked at the dark river surface and was fascinated, only the slight sound of waves and water fluctuated in his ears, the surging river has flowed for thousands of years, the riverbed has been diverted I don't know how much, and the people on this shore have risen and fallen several times? "But the breeze on the river, and the bright moon in the mountains and Benhou as a companion, the pain is happy."
Although the change of dynasties and personnel changes, but since ancient times, killing people and selling jokes can run through the dynasties and endure for a long time, Lingwu Hou Bai Yanqiu looked at the Ming Jinlou where there were still sporadic lights in the distance and couldn't help but think of this stubble, I hope Chi Di can get out of the whole body, otherwise he can only go upstairs again, whether the face depends on the mood or not, after all, drinking flowers and wine to pay the bill has never been his Lingwu Marquis's style.
At this time, the stacked room of the seven-story building of the Mingjin Building was brightly lit, a woman leaned over the cushion, her eyebrows were twisted into a ball, her silver teeth were clenched, sweat flowed down her half-naked back, and a crossbow arrow pierced her shoulder, although the wound stopped bleeding, if the arrow was not removed in time, the wound deteriorated and the left shoulder was difficult to protect, and the kung fu of this body would be abolished.
"Senior sister, hold on a little longer, the eldest young master is already coming with medicine, and you must not take the initiative to pull out the arrow at this time." A tall black-clothed young man next to him comforted, and what didn't match his age was that his gray sideburns made him look a little vicissitudes.
These two were the assassin killers who had evacuated from Xiaolian Village, and they took advantage of the cover of night to mingle in the team that went out to give gifts. Due to the strong penetration of the rangers' crossbow arrows, the arrows were stuck in the shoulder blades and could not be taken out, and at this time, in the absence of medical treatment, the young man in black was so anxious that he kept rubbing his hands, and his forehead was also sweating.
"I just hate that I didn't kill that slut with a knife, and I seduce the eldest young master in a commotion on weekdays." Although the woman was seriously injured, she deeply regretted the failed assassination.
"Xiaolianzhuang was caught off guard by us this time, I'm afraid that we will definitely increase the guard force in the future, and it will be difficult to find an opportunity to assassinate again."
"What I'm worried about is that after Xiaolianzhuang reacts, it won't come to Mingjin Mansion to search for people, and staying here is not a long-term solution."
"He dares, we are not allowed to enter the third floor of the Mingjin Tower, even if Lingwu Hou personally leads the team, he has to pass the level of the eldest young master." The woman exhaled again and said, her face pale in pain because she spoke too hard and pulled the wound on her shoulder.
"Okay, junior sister, don't be angry, even if that knife doesn't kill her, it will be seriously injured." The young man in black hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the handkerchief in the handmaiden's hand to help her wipe the sweat from her forehead, for fear that she would be angry again.
At this time, more than a dozen guards hugged a small sedan chair and walked along the trestle to Mingjin Tower.
"Who's coming?" The soldier on duty crossed his spear in his hand and stopped him from shouting.
"Open your dog's eyes and see clearly, this is our sedan chair in Xiao Mansion, let me go quickly." The attendant Xiao Quan slapped the soldiers in the face, and his arrogant arrogance provoked all the surrounding soldiers to draw their swords and rush over, and they surrounded them in an instant.
"You, what do you want to do?" After all, Xiao Quan was just a house slave, and he had never seen the blood and courage of the old soldiers on the battlefield, and the surrounding rangers all drew their swords and approached, and they immediately panicked.
"Without a warrant, there is no mercy for trespassing on the ringing of gold."
"There is no mercy for killing."
"There is no mercy for killing."
One of the lieutenants stepped forward and said, as soon as he said that all the soldiers in the audience slapped the armor on their bodies with the backs of their swords, and shouted in unison, and the sound resounded throughout the silent night sky, startling the wild ducks that roost in the reeds by the river.
"Xiao Quan, show him this sign." At this time, the sedan chair handed out a bright golden waist card, the front is Fengxiang in the sky, the back is the word Yikun Palace, the shape is graceful and luxurious, at a glance is the thing in the palace.
As if feeling embarrassed for the fear just now, Xiao Quan, who got the golden waist card, straightened his chest and took a figure-eight step, and directly pushed the waist card in front of the captain's eyes, only one centimeter away from touching the bridge of his nose, "Be careful of your heads, see clearly that this is the token of the queen of Yikun Palace, and let it go quickly." ”
The lieutenant took a step back, saw the words of Yikun Palace on the waist card, and didn't dare to make a decision for a while, so he could only step forward again and salute with his fists: "Where the duty is, please take it to the court." ”
"Bold, you dare to grab the things of the queen of Yikun Palace?"
"Where the duty lies, please take it to the court." After speaking, he was about to reach out and take away the waist card, but Xiao Quan naturally refused to give it, and the two froze-for-tat.
"Give it to him." A lazy voice came from the sedan again, seemingly uninterested in anything.
"Humph!" Xiao Quan pulled his hand back and snorted coldly.
The waist card rangers of the queen of Yikun Palace did not dare to slack off, and the reports were quickly sent to Cui Hanzhang on the sailor warship.
"It seems that Xiao Jing has no fear, and he didn't get out of the sedan chair from beginning to end." Bai Yanqiu stood on the lookout platform and watched the two groups of people facing each other at the pier from afar.
"A token can't protect so many people, and it's not easy to get him off the sedan chair." Cui Hanzhang took the waist card in his hand and played with it, and it was the first time he saw the token of Yikun Palace.
"It's true, the three waist cards of the queen mother were given by herself on the day of the saint's wedding, and the things given by the queen mother when King Pingkang Mu performed the crown ceremony five years ago are this waist card." Bai Yanqiu mentioned that he had witnessed the waist card with his own eyes, and the master of the province was still guessing where.
"People are relatives of the emperor and the country, and they can't be envious."
"However, your trick is enough to damage, a waist card to protect one person, keep Xiao Jing, the king of the eight lambs, who is angry, usually drags it like 2580000, pass the order, and do it."
So the two of them stood on the lookout platform to watch the excitement first, and Xiao Dagongzi was finally forced to get out of the sedan chair and enter the Mingjin Building alone, even if they were far away, Bai Yanqiu could feel his anger.
Mingjin Lou was already standing on the side of the boat to greet him, but looking at the young owner with a blue face, no one dared to speak, for fear of touching his moldy head, so they lowered their heads one after another, Xiao Jing directly threw a burden to the maid next to him after entering the building, and walked into the elevator to the top floor.
Xiao Jing saw the woman's painful expression at the entrance, at this time the two grabbed her shoulders, one pulled out the arrow behind her back, because it was stuck in the gap between the shoulder blades, it could not be pulled out at once, it could only be loosened back and forth and then pulled out little by little, this process did not have the calming assistance of hemp boiling soup, and the pain was no less than scraping the bone to cure the poison.
"Why is Yu'er so badly injured?" Xiao Jing snatched the burden from the hand of the maid beside him, quickly turned out the imperial plaster, helped apply the wound, and raised his head to ask.
"It was in Xiaolian Village that he was injured by the rangers' repeating crossbows." Xiao Yi, the young man in black, replied coldly.
"Little Lotus Village?" Xiao Jing was furious when he heard this, and slapped Xiao Yi's face, and in an instant, a bright red five-finger mark appeared.
"Who made the decision to kill Siniang without permission?"
The entire stacking room instantly fell silent, even Xu Wenchang did not answer, only Xin Wanyu, who was pale, spit out the silk cloth in her mouth and said stubbornly:
"She should be damned, without her instructions, how dare Huang Wanli take over the business of Beihu Lushui Camp, this matter has nothing to do with senior brother....."
He was only halfway through the sentence and the man fainted......