Chapter 124: Blood on a Snowy Night
The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty.
A person who is not guilty of his own is guilty of anything that makes others jealous of what he has.
"I used to underestimate you." Li Xuanba sighed: "My father always thought that you were a person who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, but I didn't expect to occasionally say something eye-catching. ”
"Childe, are you also complimenting?" Li Gou put on a pitiful look and said quietly.
Li Xuanba ignored Li Gou, he looked at the snow in the courtyard seriously, listening to the faint noise coming from outside. In another of his years, it was already difficult to see such a large snowfall.
Li Gou and the others stopped playing, looked at each other, nodded, and tacitly took some people to disperse, hiding in all corners of the Tang State Mansion.
The quietness of the Tang Guogong Mansion made Zhu Xu's heart very uneasy, he heard that Li Xuanba's voice appeared in the backyard, so he rushed over non-stop, dozens of torches were burning, after all, they had already exposed their whereabouts, there was no need to continue to hide in the night.
"Lord Zhou Guogong, would you like to go out of the house to reminisce about the past?" From the moment he shot the first arrow, Zhu Xu had no way out, and no one would believe his nonsense about catching assassins with more than 3,500 people in the middle of the night. His face was red, and he didn't know if it was frozen or fire.
"It's too cold outside, if you have something to say, you might as well come in and say it." Of course, Li Xuanba would not go out stupidly and be shot as a hedgehog, he said very calmly: "The door has always been hidden and never locked. ”
"Everyone in the world says that Zhou Guogong is brave, but now it seems that it is not enough." Zhu Xu sneered, ordered someone to step forward and push open the back door, and then saw Li Xuanba who was leisurely half-lying on the chair.
There were two people standing next to Li Xuanba, one was dark-skinned and smiling, showing neat teeth, and the other was slightly bowing his head, unable to see the expression on his face.
At the feet of the two of them, there was a golden hammer in each place, which was shining with gold and was not dazzling, it was the national protection hammer given by Yang Tong at Li Xuanba's wedding.
"Businessmen can do whatever it takes for the sake of profit, the Zhu family has been in business for generations, how dare my father not guard against it?" The back door was pushed open, and Li Xuanba naturally saw Zhu Xu, he squinted his eyes and said sarcastically: "Do you think Xuanba's words make sense?" ”
"Now that you're here, why do you bother to take advantage of your tongue?" Zhu Xu sneered and said, "Li Xuanba, as a courtier, you support the army and respect yourself, and you regard Your Majesty as nothing, are you guilty?" Li Yuan conspired against the emperor and betrayed the emperor, and now the Tang Dynasty is in danger, and the courtiers took the opportunity to crusade, and you shirk it in every possible way, can you be guilty? Eat the king's fortune, but don't bear the king's worries, you are a very good minister, and you don't seek state affairs, can you be guilty? ”
"I thought that you would forge an article and come back, but I didn't expect it to be so casual, which really disappointed my father." Li Xuanba shook his head and said with a disappointed expression: "Your brother entrusted the Zhu family in your hands, and my father really felt sorry for him and Mr. Zhu. ”
While the two were talking, many people had already poured into the courtyard, and some people were nervously bending their bows and arrows, ready to let go at any time. Zhu Xu wanted to give the order to release the arrow directly, but the big shield in Li Jiuzhi and Liang Xiao's hands made him give up the idea of shooting Li Xuanba as soon as possible.
"My brother died young, don't you know the reason?" Hatred flashed on Zhu Xu's face, and he gritted his teeth and said: "He entrusted his life to you, but in order to buy people's hearts, you let him get out of the carriage and brave the wind and rain to hurry." ”
"Brother Ling's death, my father feels guilty." Li Xuanba sat up, with a sad look on his face, and after a while, he sighed and said with a smirk: "If it weren't for that, how would your Zhu family have today's status?" And how can you become the manager of the Chamber of Commerce? The more Li Xuanba spoke, the more angry he became, and he stood up directly: "But I didn't expect that you are so greedy, and you are not satisfied with your glory and wealth, and you want to get a place in the imperial court, which is really shameless!" ”
I don't know how to be honest, it was originally to describe a woman who doesn't abide by women's morals, where can Zhu Xu endure it? It's just that Li Xuanba's strength is outstanding, and the people around him are not enough, so he has to endure it.
"The shaft is ridiculous!" Zhu Xu tried to calm himself down and find some topics to delay time: "This king is very curious, you seem to have expected tonight's events a long time ago." Speaking of this, Zhu Xu suddenly frowned, and said in a lost voice: "Or is this all your arrangement?" ”
"Do you feel disappointed and regretful?" Li Xuanba didn't deny it, and said with a smile: "My father finally let Jiangdu settle down, so naturally he can't stand your existence. ”
"Ridiculous!" Zhu Xu heard what Li Xuanba meant, and said in disbelief: "How secretive is my father's actions, how can you find out?" ”
"You did a really good job, and even the people sent out by this prince couldn't easily find out the movements of the Wanguo Mansion." Li Xuanba shrugged his shoulders and grinned: "The more you can't find it, the more curious my father becomes, why can you, a powerless and powerless Duke of Wanguo, hide yourself so deeply?" And why is it hidden? Curiosity is a terrible thing, and it makes me willing to spend the energy to investigate. ”
"You're really scary!" Zhu Xu never expected that his caution would expose his flaws, he slowly closed his eyes, took a long breath, and said in a cold voice: "Li Xuanba is rebellious, bullying the king, this prince was ordered to clear the king's side, kill!" The uneasiness in his heart grew heavier and heavier, and he didn't dare to wait any longer.
There have been many times in history when the Qing monarch was on the side, all of which were excuses for fighting for power and profit, but at this time, Zhu Xu and the others needed an excuse to make their behavior appear justified.
After dragging on for such a long time, Li Xuanba didn't wait for the person he wanted to see, his face showed a disappointed expression, waved his hand, and gave the order to kill without mercy.
The snow was still falling, and there was a thick layer of snow falling in the courtyard, almost up to the knees, and the original white color appeared from time to time with red spots under the two orders.
It didn't take long for the snow under Zhu Xu's feet to be melted clean by the blood, and only a corpse was lying on the ground, with unwillingness, confusion, and despair on his face.
No one expected that with Li Xuanba's order, hundreds of people appeared on the houses, courtyard walls, and trees of the Zhou Guogong Mansion, and those people were not strong, black wrapped their whole bodies, and only two eyes were exposed, like the god of death in the Nine Secluded Lands, full of murderous aura.
Since entering the Tang State Mansion, the people on Zhu Xu's side have always kept a distance of thirty steps from Li Xuanba, and they have never been able to move forward.
The lethality of the chain crossbow is huge, especially in the narrow terrain of the Zhou State Mansion, as soon as the archer on Zhu Xu's side took out the arrow from the quiver, a crossbow arrow shot into his head, and the death was extremely ugly.
No one thought that the Zhou Guogong Mansion still had such a means, and the sophisticated weapons that Zhu Xu spent a lot of money to build tonight would not be of much use.
Zhu Xu did this, the original intention was to let everyone have no way to retreat, and desperately get rid of Li Xuanba, after all, everyone knows that Li Xuanba has the courage to be invincible, and any armor in front of him is useless.