Chapter Seventy-Eight: Balance
There was a drizzle in Chang'an, which made people's hearts sullen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoZhao Kuan stood in front of the window and watched the rain hitting the leaves outside, and the sound came into Zhao Kuan's ears, which made him more annoyed. His thoughts were drawn back to before the attack of the Xiliang Army, and Zhao Kuan's housekeeper Zhao Fu hurriedly found Zhao Kuan, saying that he had something important to report to the head of the family.
The two talked alone for a long time, Zhao Kuan held the battlements and thought about it for a long time, and whispered softly on Zhao Fu's ear. After that, someone sent the bamboo pipe to Zhong Xuan, so Cao Shuang sent Huwei to monitor Yin Ke and Zhao Kuan. It was clearly written on the cloth that Yin Ke might surrender to Xiliang when the war was not going well.
After that, Zhong Xuan gave sixty percent of the construction of the city wall to the Zhao family, and forty percent to the Yin family. Yin Ke has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and when he pulls out a single hair, it is empty, how can he not think through the Tao here, there must be someone who informed, otherwise Huwei would not have monitored them that night, and this informant was conspicuous Zhao Kuan in front of him. Although Yin Ke didn't have anything on his face, he actually began to distance himself from Zhao Kuan.
Although Zhao Kuan is mercenary, he has not yet relied on betraying his companions to obtain benefits. What really made Zhao Kuan make a whistleblower was the news that Zhao Fu brought back that night. Yin Ke transferred some industries out of Chang'an as early as two years ago, and there are very few industrial assets left in Chang'an. The current successor of the Yin family is not the best candidate in Yin Ke's mind. Yin Ke wanted to set up a son born to a concubine, but was opposed by the family, and he was not allowed to drive the concubine's son out of Chang'an to do business in other places.
If Yin Ke surrenders to Ma Chao, the family members imprisoned by Zhong Xiang will be killed, so Yin Ke not only has no loss, but also uses Zhong Xuan's hand to fulfill his wish. Yin Ke can ignore the life and death of his clansmen, but he Zhao Kuan can't, most of his industries are in Chang'an, and all the clansmen are in Chang'an, and his family is also imprisoned by Zhong Xuan. Yin Ke can break the net, he Zhao Kuan can't, he can't afford to gamble.
I thought this matter was over. No one expected that Zhong Xuan would divide the project into four or six parts of the project, which put the Yin and Zhao families on opposite sides. The estrangement of the Yin family made Zhao Kuan feel that he was gradually losing Yin Ke's friend. Chang'an's family did not want to see the Yin and Zhao families, and the Yin and Zhao families did not want to see each other, thus balancing the forces of all parties, which is Zhong Xuan's cleverness.
In Fuping County, Beidi County, after returning from hunting, Cheng Yi returned to Fuping County with his personal guards. Cheng Yi led Huang Qing Cang on the left and on the right, and was arrogant. A black shadow landed in front of the group, blocking Cheng Yi's way. Adjutant General Cheng Yi shouted, "What person? He even blocked my father-in-law. ”
The black shadow was Li Pet, who had entered Northland County not long ago, and a dart passed through the throat of the lieutenant general, and the lieutenant general fell off his horse unwillingly. Cheng Yi's personal guard drew the saber at his waist and blocked it in front of Cheng Yi. Li Pet pulled out the scimitar from his waist, took his right foot into the air, and headed towards Cheng Yi. A cold light flashed, and the two guards in front of Cheng Yi flew up with their heads, flipped twice in the air and fell at their feet.
"What a good kung fu!" The white-faced man in the team glanced at the six people behind him, and praised Li Pet in his mouth.
Just when Li Chong's scimitar was about to touch Cheng Yi, the six people behind the white-faced man moved. Li Pet intuitively felt that the six sword qi were coming towards him, gave up Cheng Yi, and fell somersault to a safe place.
I saw that the faces of these six people were covered with black cloth, covering half of their faces. Li Pet can feel a strong murderous aura from the six people, which can only be found in perennial fighting. Two slightly petite masked men came with swords, Li Pet easily blocked the sword moves of the two with knives in both hands, and the masked man with two swords also killed Li Pet immediately. With the addition of the two masked people behind, the scimitar in Li Chong's hand danced faster and faster, forming an impermeable wall in front of him. Although these five people's sword moves are vicious, they only contain themselves.
The two sides have come and gone, and they are very happy. Although Li Pet has been resisting the attack of the five people, his eyes have never left the tall masked man who has not moved. Li Pet swung away the sword move of the masked man with two swords, turned over backwards to reveal a gap, and the tall masked man made a move at this time, and the big sword in his hand stabbed towards Li Pet, extremely fierce, and the air around him seemed to be ignited, giving people a burning feeling.
The two scimitars were connected by an iron chain, and Li Pet grabbed the middle of the chain and danced the two scimitars rapidly, quickly disintegrating the attack of the five people. With the help of his right foot, Li Pet soared into the air like a bird, easily dodging the sword moves of the tall masked man.
The six people cooperate tacitly, both offensive and defensive. Li Pet couldn't break through for a short time, so he could only keep his distance from them. The six of them were like kraft candy, pestering Li Pet all the time, not letting Li Pet have half a moment of respite. The scimitar slashed at them, and they were undaunted, and one of them, who covered the upper half of his face, put his bloody finger in his mouth and sucked it.
"Lord, where did you provoke the enemy?" The white-faced man rode a horse to Cheng Yi's side, although he called the lord, his tone was very unkind, and he really didn't look like a subordinate.
Cheng Yi was fascinated and had already recovered from the panic just now. Someone disturbed him watching the play, and instinctively wanted to scold, but when he saw the white-faced man, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. With three points of fear and seven points of respect on his face, he said respectfully, "I don't know, I haven't seen it all the time." But it seems that it should be the one who seriously injured Ma Chao. ”
The white-faced man Danfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, "Stop!" Hearing the white-faced man's order, the six drew their swords and retreated. Li Pet looked up at the white-faced man on the horse, and was secretly surprised in his heart, so deep internal strength.
"I don't know how my lord offended the strong man?" The white-faced man sat on his horse and asked.
Li Pet took out the Xuanniao jade pendant from his arms and pointed at Cheng Yi, "He was stationed near our village at the beginning, and he killed my master, this is the evidence." ”
Seeing the jade pendant in Li Chong's hand, there was a trace of wave in the white-faced man's unwavering eyes. Cheng Yi was a little puzzled, he killed a lot of people, but the jade pendant was not his.
The white-faced man looked sideways at Cheng Yi, "Is that really yours?" ”
"It's not mine, I don't know who his master is." Cheng Yi hurriedly explained, because he saw anger surging up on the white-faced man's face.
"In that case, then leave the jade pendant behind, and you can go." The white-faced man motioned for the masked man to step forward to get the jade pendant, not caring about Li Chong's attitude at all.
Li Pet knew that things were not so simple, and the white-faced man was very concerned about this Xuanniao jade pendant. He stuffed the jade pendant back in his hand, put away the scimitar, and walked away with light skills. The six people stepped forward to chase after him, but were stopped by the white-faced man, "You can't catch up with him." ”
Things were not as simple as he thought, Li Chong decided to go back to the village to find out the truth of the matter, so he first put Cheng Yi's head on his neck. With six masked men and a white-faced man with deep internal skills, Li Chong was not sure that he would be able to take off Cheng Yi's head.