Chapter XXVII: The Assassins
"I never lie to kids." Su Zizhong walked to the side of the bed, pushed the grass inside, and lay down with his head in his hands.
"My dad wrote again, this time writing several pages for the first time, it's too different from his style."
"What's so strange about Lao Tzu writing a few pieces of paper to his son."
"You don't understand, my father can express in one word, never in two words, can pass on words, can never write, can solve the problem without talking much, I have a deep understanding over the years."
"Be satisfied if your father beats you, I didn't know what my father looked like since I was a child, and I never felt what my father's love was like." In Pu Cao's cognition, his father is probably Mr. Huo's appearance, loving, strict, and upright, like a mountain and a ridge.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know your dad left early."
"It's okay, it's been many years, and I'm used to it. Let's talk about your return to the Great Snow Mountain. Pu Cao smiled bitterly and changed the subject.
"My dad said that there is a mysterious force that is disturbing the Snow God Cult, and it seems to be calm at the moment, but it is only a fermentation process before the storm. Pucao, can I trust you? Su Zizhong stared straight at Pu Cao, as if he wanted to see through Pu Cao's heart.
"Believe it or not, but my mouth is tight. Frankly speaking, except for Anlan's gentlemen and students, I don't have any friends, and I still recognize you as a person these days. Don't worry, I'm more trustworthy than you think. Pu Cao leaned on the bed and replied to Su Zizhong equally seriously.
Don't look at Su Zizhong living in Luoling for more than a year, in fact, he is an arrogant person, his good-looking looks are given by his parents, learning rich five cars is the result of his efforts, it is not his intention to be famous, the young man is full of wealth, of course, he is not willing to hide in the deep mountains to watch the pine and listen to the spring, he loves the prosperity and liveliness of Luoling, and also enjoys the little vanity of being worshipped, but he never feels that Luoling is kind. Luoling does not have the icy wind, the frankness of the snow-capped mountain man who faces life and death, and the majestic heroism that competes with heaven and earth. Su Zizhong wrote "My heart is my hometown", but when did I have peace in Luoling?
Su Zizhong didn't like the philistine scheming of the Luoling people, didn't like the rotten taste behind the prosperity of Luoling, and didn't like the dirtiness hidden in the shadows of Luoling. It's just a journey of scenery, I've seen it, I've seen it, roots, still in the northwest.
"Be careful!" Pu Cao exclaimed, and the rafters on the roof of the inn collapsed suddenly, and a figure held a sharp blade, with his feet facing the sky and his head down, stabbing Su Zizhong who was deep in thought.
Between the lightning and flint, Pu Cao instinctively threw the thin quilt covered on his body to the black shadow falling from the sky, dragged Su Zizhong and rolled under the bed, which could avoid this thorn, this series of actions affected the pain on Pu Cao's body, making Pu Cao's pain even worse.
The assassin missed the stab, and immediately bounced up after landing on the bed, and adjusted the posture of the knife with his right hand, turning the stab into a slash, and approached Su Zizhong's throat. The left sleeve shot a dark arrow at Pucao's forehead.
Su Zizhong changed his usual appearance as a slender scholar, rolled on the ground several times, avoided getting up at the table in the room, and almost avoided the assassin's dagger, seeing that Pucao was about to be hit by an arrow, he casually threw the porcelain pillow on the table to shoot down the sleeve arrow.
The sleeve arrow hit the porcelain pillow, and the crisp cracking sound sounded, and the sleeve arrow was blocked, and the remaining strength of the sleeve arrow was not eliminated after the sleeve arrow smashed the porcelain pillow, and it still came to the grass.
Pucao's body couldn't move at all, so he had to tilt his head, and his sleeve arrow grazed Pucao's ear and nailed it to the wooden wall of the inn, buzzing. Pucao felt a pain in her ears, and a stream of warmth flowed out instantly.
Su Zizhong had already fought with the assassin, and the cold light of the dagger flew up and down in this gloomy and rainy room, and Su Zizhong suffered a knife in the arm when the incident happened suddenly, and he had no blade to take advantage of.
The assassin didn't take advantage of anything, he was hit by Su Zizhong's two fists and a palm, suffered some internal injuries, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but he still fought to the death and did not retreat, and it seemed that he would never give up if he did not kill Su Zizhong.
The furnishings in the house have been messed up, things are shattered, the sound alarmed the surrounding residents, some of the guests who like to watch the excitement think it is a street fight, have run to the door to surround it, the door is crowded, many people also cheered.
Downstairs, the boss's exclamation, "Express officer, express officer, break something and let them pay for it." ”
Su Zizhong and the assassin fought back and forth a few times, adding a few wounds to his body, and many places on his clothes were soaked with blood.
Seeing that there were too many people, the assassin was a little anxious, and hurriedly attacked a few moves, but Su Zizhong found a flaw and slapped his palm on the assassin's chest, and the assassin fell to the ground.
At this moment, a hairpin flew through the window and pierced the Assassin's eyebrows, killing him instantly.
Pu Cao saw that there was still a few drizzles on the hairpin's tail, and the raindrops that were the size of the rice slid down the hairpin to the center of the assassin's eyebrows, mixed with the blood, and were no longer visible.
A slender figure flew in from the window, her green skirt fluttering, and she knelt down on one knee in front of Su Zizhong, "Childe forgives the crime, the assassin sneaked up on Childe, it was a dereliction of duty for the Green Willow people." ”
Those who watched the bustle saw the dead like frightened birds.
Pu Cao has seen this woman, she is one of Su Zizhong's maids, I remember that her name is Green Willow, and he also praised Su Zizhong for the cuteness of Green Willow, but he didn't expect to look at the weak little girl, hidden deep and extraordinary.
Su Zizhong quickly closed the door and said to Lu Liu, "It's okay, I don't blame you, let's check the assassin's body first." ”
Su Zizhong walked to Pu Cao's side, checked Pu Cao's injury, and saw that Pu Cao was only a skin injury, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and took the towel on the shelf to bandage his wound briefly.
"Childe, come and see." The green willow seems to have found something.
I saw Green Willow pull down a sign from the assassin's corpse, a small six-petal snowflake card, engraved with the word "yellow".
"It's the level card of Shadow Annihilation, representing the Yellow Rank Killer. It's strange, how could the killer of the shadow annihilation come to Luoling, something really happened to the big snow mountain, was it really said by his father? Su Zizhong held the yellow card in his hand and muttered to himself. What else did you find? ”
"Childe, except for this brand, nothing has been found, and the assassin has left no valuable clues." Midori Willow searched the corpse and replied with a frown.
"Clean up first, the government is coming over soon, just say that this person covets your property, seeks money and kills people, and you must not let the government know the identity of this person. Later, we may have to go to Luo Lingwei to make a confession, and discuss what we will say later. Su Zizhong thought about how to deal with the aftermath.
Shadow Annihilation is the apologetic force of the Snow God Cult in the Great Snow Mountain, and has always only obeyed the orders of the sect leader, responsible for arresting and eliminating apostasy, and every action must be ordered by the sect leader before it can be attacked. Shadow Annihilation easily never leaves the Snow Mountain, and is divided into "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" according to the level, led by "Heaven Annihilation", all of them are superb in cultivation, even if they are the worst Yellow Rank, they must reach the Qi Realm, but the specific number of people has always been known only by the sect master. The leader of the Snow God Sect is now Ding Xueyun's father, Ding Yi, with the friendship between the Su family and the Ding family and Ding Yi's character, Su Zizhong will never believe that his future father-in-law will kill him. Moreover, "Heaven Annihilation" Uncle He and Ding Yi are sworn brothers who treat each other with all sincerity, they have never married in their lives according to the rules of shadow annihilation, and they dedicate everything they have to the great god of learning, perhaps because there are no descendants, Uncle He especially likes children, every time Su Zizhong went to Daxue Mountain when he was a child, Uncle He was very happy, loved himself and Ding Ding Ding, and taught him his own unique martial arts, how could he send someone to assassinate him.
Midori Willow pulled out the hairpin from the center of the assassin's eyebrows, wiped the blood from the corpse, and put the hairpin into a jade sleeve and inserted it on his head.
Pucao doesn't know what material the hairpin is made of, it looks extremely sharp, and when it is covered with a jade pipe, it is a hairpin head that is ingenious.
If someone died, Luo Lingwei would definitely intervene, Su Zizhong discussed with Pucao and Luliu how to deal with Luoling Wei.
"Thanks to your life-saving grace, you pulled me at the time, otherwise I might not have reacted. Pucao, it's not safe here, you go back to Fengyulou with me first. I'm so sorry that I'm the one who bothered you. I had to leave Luoling as soon as possible and rush back to Daxue Mountain to see what was really going on. If you are not afraid of the dangers you may face, come with me. Su Zizhong thanked Pu Cao, if it wasn't for Pu Cao's cleverness this time, he might have succeeded if he couldn't say that the killer would. The shadow was aimed at himself, and he also injured Pu Cao, and Su Zizhong was very embarrassed.
"Don't talk about these useless things, if you really want to thank you, just cash it out, I'm more vulgar." The pain subsided a little, Pucao stood up against the wall, just now Pucao sat on the floor against the wall next to the window, the floor was wet with rain, and even the pants with Pucao were wet.
Pu Cao pointed to the water stains on the ground, "Look, I'm scared to pee, and I have to give a hundred and eighty taels of meaning." ”
When Su Zizhong entered the door, he had already seen the water stains, and knew that Pucao was amused, so he smiled chic and put on a sassy pose, "With the appearance of this son, one hundred and eighty taels, you are insulting me." ”
"Fuck off, every time I see your good-looking face, I really want to pinch a few handfuls."
"You don't say I know I'm good-looking, so do you know why I like to smile?"
"Because you're cheap."
"Can you cooperate and talk well?"
"Well, for the sake of your money, I'll reluctantly cooperate with you. Eh, Master Su, why do you like to smile? ”
"Because I look better when I laugh."
"Fuck off, the slut is really hypocritical."
Pu Cao reluctantly rolled her eyes and asked Su Zizhong to help her clean up her things. In fact, there is nothing to pack, as long as the medicine, the hanger and the firewood knife are with you, you can buy other things.
"What are you carrying a wood knife for?" Su Zizhong was very curious when he saw Pu Cao carrying a broken firewood knife like a baby.
"It will always remind me not to forget hatred."
"Yo, he's still a man with a story. Terrific! "Su Zizhong made a great gesture for you, he is this kind of character, he gets along with friends, is sunny and cheerful, loves to talk, loves to laugh, and loves to talk nonsense, which does not conform to the image of a noble and arrogant scholar at all.
"Let's go, let's go, I'm going to get something delicious on the street in a hurry, I can't wait to eat Luo Lingwei's prison meal for a few days. This year, it seems that he has a grudge against the full gods, and he is always hungry. ”
The group went downstairs, Su Zizhong asked Luliu to go back to Fengyulou first, and he and Pu Cao waited for Luo Lingwei in the hotel lobby. The innkeeper was very scared at first, afraid that Su Zizhong and Pu Cao were the devils who killed people without blinking, but after watching for a while, he found that these two people took the initiative to wait for the arrival of people from the government, and they didn't look like criminals, so he was bold and stepped forward to drag the two, saying that because of Su Zizhong and Pu Cao, the dead people in the store could not do business, and they wanted the two to compensate for the loss. Su Zizhong lost a silver ticket that was enough to buy five or six inns, and he was happy to have an old face like a wrinkled sunflower, nodded and waited with tea and water, and grabbed a plate of fried beans that Luoling people like to eat.
Lieutenant Luo Ling was not slow to come, and the twenty or so captains who were neatly dressed in armor and armed with guns were divided into two groups, one group went upstairs to investigate the scene of the fight, and one group gathered the people in the inn downstairs.
After the investigation of the scene was over, a group of leading captains and soldiers put seals on the door of the inn, and took Su Zizhong, Pu Cao, and the innkeeper and his men to the lieutenant office for confession.