Chapter 22: The Late Night Assassin
During the banquet, everyone didn't react for a while, and when everyone came back to their senses, they couldn't help laughing.
Zhai Longbiao stretched out his hand and pointed at Guan Yu, and said with a smile: "I can't see the sixth brother, several brothers are still singles, you kid can't hold it back!" Hahahaha".
Guan Yu's face was red and his ears were red, and he was speechless.
Shi Junshi smiled and relieved him and said: "Men should get married, women should get married, it's normal for people." It is said that the sixth brother is not small, but the elder brother is curious about what kind of national color and natural fragrance should make the sixth brother tempted? ”
Guan Yu blushed and said, "What kind of country is Tianxiang, it's just an ordinary woman I met in a deep mansion compound after breaking the city today." ”
Ruan Wu laughed and said: "The sixth brother is not shallow, no wonder he left in a hurry today without saying goodbye, it turned out that the beauty had an appointment!" ”
Liu Qian also shook his head with a smile and said, "How can an ordinary woman enter the eyes of my sixth brother?" But I don't believe it! ”
Guan Yu hurriedly looked around and said, "A few elder brothers, don't make fun of the little brother anymore, the little brother has no place to be ashamed." ”
Shi Tiangong smiled and waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, go back and bring that woman to meet me and my eldest brother, and ask which family it is and who else is in the family. ”
Liu Qian nodded to stop Ruan Wu and Zhai Longbiao, who were about to open their mouths to speak, and said, "You two don't mess around!" In the future, she will be your younger brother and sister, and when you are a brother, you must have the appearance of being a brother, and she will have to mess around! ”。
He turned his face to Guan Yu and said: "You can pick a random one to settle down in this Pingzhou City Gaomen compound, I will turn around and order someone to bring your fifth brother too, and when he is healed, the brothers will be lively and lively together, and make your happy event like a bombardment of the city tower, and make him vigorous!" ”
"Military Master". Looking at Guan Yu who walked up the stairs, Pei Zhu leaned over in fear. Guan Yu nodded and asked, "Is your young lady awake?" Have you eaten? I've told someone to cook a bowl of ginger soup, and you'll serve it to her later. With that, he turned around.
Li Shiqing sat up from the bed "poof", took out the scissors hidden under the pillow and held them in her hand, staring at Guan Yu extremely nervously.
Guan Yu smiled indifferently, sat down on a chair next to the bed, and lifted Erlang's legs very comfortably. said to Li Shiqing: "You don't have to be nervous, I won't hurt you." By the way, I have good news for you, I have told my brothers that they want to marry you, and they have agreed. ”
Pei Zhu and Li Shiqing both opened their eyes and opened their mouths. Li Shiqing felt that this so-called good news was no different from telling her that she was going to kill her.
Guan Yu no longer looked at Li Shiqing, turned his face to Pei Zhu and said: "This courtyard is too big and too public, I have chosen a house nearby, you can help the young lady clean it up, and move in tomorrow." I have made my home there since I got married to your young lady. ”
Pei Zhu rolled his eyes and didn't answer.
Guan Yu had no choice but to turn his face to Li Shiqing and said, "Do you have any distant relatives in your family who can take refuge?" When I get married, I may soon go to war, and you can go to your relatives and friends for a while. ”
When Li Shiqing heard this, her eyes turned red, and she hurriedly lowered her head. Guan Yu stood up and said, "Pei Zhu and I will go downstairs together to serve ginger soup to your young lady." ”
"Sixth brother, do you know that the woman you like is the daughter of the county guard?" Liu Qian stomped his feet in pain.
Guan Yu clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Brother Fool has just learned. ”
Liu Qian hated and hated: "If you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, there will be endless troubles." ”
Guan Yu said lightly: "She is a weak woman, marrying a chicken and a dog and marrying a dog, not to mention that the younger brother will enlighten her well after marriage." ”
Shi Tiangong sighed from the side: "Big brother, you and I have already agreed in front of everyone, how can we go back on our word?" For women, it is natural for a husband to marry a husband. Sixth brother, I just wronged you. You can take her as a side house first, and then marry her if there is a good one in the future. ”
Guan Yu smiled faintly, didn't say much, and retreated.
On the way back, Guan Yu had a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth, bowed his head and thought about his thoughts, and more than a dozen pro-soldier guards followed. The streets of Pingzhou City at night are empty, and the surroundings are extremely quiet, only the crisp sound of horses' hooves.
Suddenly, the "Panther" stopped, and its two pointed ears turned slightly. Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, and at the same time keenly felt a strong murderous aura rushing towards him. "Be careful" Guan Yu shouted, and then kicked the stirrup, his body soared into the air, and several silver darts spun at great speed and flew past the soles of his feet. The two personal guards fell off their horses with a muffled snort, and the other dozen or so people immediately drew their knives in their hands vigilantly and looked around nervously.
With a "whoosh", a long snake rolled towards Guan Yu who was in the air, and while he pulled out his sword, he fell down and dodged it.
"Protect General Guan!" The guards behind Guan Yu rushed forward, and one of them was caught by the long snake, threw him into the air from his horse, fell a foot away, and fell to the ground.
Guan Yu saw clearly that the long snake was actually a long whip.
"You all stand down", Guan Yu shouted.
He knew that the martial arts of the person on the other side were extremely high, and his personal guards rushed forward to send them to death. But none of these obedient soldiers listened to his greetings at this time, and all of them rushed in front of him brandishing their swords. Two more guards were killed on the spot, but the long whip seemed to be intimidated by this fierce momentum, and its speed was stagnant. Guan Yu glanced at the gap, jumped directly over the heads of several guards, and swooped straight at the long whip.
He finally saw the man in black with a long whip in his hand, not tall and slightly thin, covered with black veil, wearing a large hat on his head, and covering his eyes tightly.
The man in black also saw Guan Yu who rushed to the front and was slightly stunned. But then the whip danced wildly, like a poisonous snake spitting letters, and swept towards his face. While blocking with his sword, Guan Yu accelerated the change of pace, quickly approaching his opponent, trying to force him to lose the power of the long whip.
The other party obviously also discovered Guan Yu's intentions, and his pace was very flexible while fighting and retreating, always keeping a distance, not letting Guan Yu get close.
This person's light skills are not below me, and his martial arts are slightly better than mine! Guan Yu thought to himself. This should be the strongest opponent he has faced since he came into this world.
The guards who had been pulled away by Guan Yu for a distance shouted to kill them at this time, and the man in black saw this, and suddenly jumped up and flew on the roof of the street with a few fierce attacks at Guan Yu.
Guan Yu waved his sword to stop the guards who wanted to rush up to chase after him, and said, "Don't chase, let him go!" ”。
Who would want to kill me? Guan Yu couldn't figure it out. If you want to cause chaos within the Red Turban Army, then the target of the assassination should also be the eldest brother Liu Qian, did you recognize the wrong person? Guan Yu was puzzled.
The next day, Liu Qian and Shi Tiangong were very nervous when they heard the news of Guan Yu's assassination in the middle of the night, and called Guan Yu's personal soldiers to carefully interrogate the details one by one. In the end, the two elder brothers had to order Guan Yujia to send personal guards to protect them and not go out without permission.
Guan Yu told Li Shiqing about his assassination in person, but seeing that the other party looked cold and indifferent, Guan Yu immediately overturned the speculation in his heart. In the end, the matter had to be settled. Immediately afterwards, the day of General Guan Yu's wedding was approaching.
Fang Mingde and his wife were sweating and grinding tofu at home as usual, when the broken courtyard door made of a few thick branches was pushed open, and a young beggar with unkempt hair and tattered clothes walked in.
Fang Mingde's wife, Tian Shi, sighed lightly, grabbed a handful of tofu dregs and greeted him.
Strangely, the young beggar did not take the tofu scum and gobble it up like the beggars who came in the past. Instead, he stared at Tian with tears in his eyes. Tian smiled: "It's not bad to have bean dregs to eat, you don't want to eat the old lady's tofu, right?" ”
The young beggar squirmed his chapped lips and struggled to spit out two words: "Auntie."
"What? What do you call me? Tian was stunned, and began to seriously look up and down at this dirty beggar.
The young beggar reached out and brushed away the messy hair that covered half of his face, and choked up, "Auntie, it's me." I'm Ma Yuanqi! ”
"Mother, Ma Yuanqi? Nephew? How did you get into this way? Tian's shouting alarmed Fang Mingde in the inner room, and while wiping his hands, he ran out in three steps and two steps.
"Who? What's wrong? Fang Mingde asked impatiently, thinking: This girl is always lazy and doesn't work, I'm busy like that, she is in the mood to stand at the door and chat with the beggar! It's really three days without a house and a tile.
Seeing Fang Mingde, Tian's mouth opened wide and shouted excitedly: "Look at who this is?" Our nephew Yuanqi. ”
Fang Mingde was also stunned, carefully identified through the dirty face full of sludge, and finally shouted: "You are really Yuanqi?!" ”
The young beggar nodded desperately, and said with tears in his eyes, "Uncle, it's me!" ”
The couple hurriedly beckoned the nephew who had come from afar into the house to wash his face, and brought him a basket of hard nests. After gobbling up the four nest heads, Ma Yuanqi told the story of his escape from most of the capital in 1510.
It turned out that Ma Yuanqi's father was a nine-rank civil official in Kyoto, and his position was called secretary. The reason why such a position was set up was probably because the emperor was weak, and he was afraid that he would not be able to tear it if he could not read a book. After all, a book is much thicker than a book.
Since that day, the number of people affected has increased, and the scope has become more and more extensive. But whenever the two ministers quarrel or look at each other unpleasantly, they can report that the other party is the remnants of Dazai's sworn party, and if someone really arrests him and throws him into prison without asking, or directly pulls him out and beheads him. As a result, a kind of epic spectacle emerged among the Beijing officials: I just went to report someone today, and I was secretly glad that I took off someone else's head, but I was reported by someone else and lost my head the next day.
There is no way to check whether Ma Yuanqi's father has reported others, anyway, his head was reported by others.
On the night when the knife-wielding hunter entered the gate, Ma Yuanqi escaped by climbing over the wall with the help of a kind gardener. It is said that his dog was also killed that night, so he was one of the few creatures who escaped alive, along with a few rats.
Fang Mingde and his wife burst into tears, sighed about the misfortune of their relatives, and arranged for the exhausted Ma Yuanqi to rest early.
In the middle of the night, Ma Yuanqi, who had eaten too much in Wowotou, got up and went out, Huo Ran found that the courtyard door was open, and his uncle whispered to a catcher with a torch under the wall outside the door, and took a piece of broken silver from the catcher with a smile.