Chapter 495: Assassination

The scattered flower building is very famous, the four famous buildings in the Tang world, the scattered flower building and the Yellow Crane Tower, Yueyang Tower, Tengwang Pavilion go hand in hand. This building was originally built by Yang Xiu, the king of Shu in the Sui Dynasty, and it is the most beautiful scenery in the palace of the king of Shu.

Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, believed in Buddhism, and the name of the scattered flower building originated from the allusion of the "heavenly maiden scattered flowers" in the Buddhist scriptures. Yang Xiu also has some ingenuity, when he called the king in Shu, in order to build and strengthen the east gate city wall needs to dig mud and transport soil, so Yang Xiu has both public and private, and ordered people to dig a pond next to the scattered flower building to get soil. As a result, when the city wall was reinforced, there was also an artificial lake next to the Sanhua Building, which was named Moke Pond.

Later, around the first floor of a pond, trees and flowers were planted to build a pavilion, turning the entire Dongcheng area into a beautiful royal garden, and becoming the most gorgeous and luxurious place in Chengdu. After the death of Sui, Yang Xiu's Shu Mansion and this garden were divided and occupied, and the rich and powerful divided the land of Shu Wangfu, but no one dared to fight their idea of this scattered flower building and Moke Pond. Because the imperial court was taken into public ownership, it became a landmark of Chengdu.

The night is shrouded, there is still a faint light in the sky, on the hexagonal cornices of the scattered flower building, the palace lamps hanging under the pillars of the eaves corridor have been lit one after another. The whole scattered flower building instantly becomes crystal clear and colorful, and the reflection in the Moke pool on the side of the building is also brilliant and wonderful.

In the brilliance, you can see the servants and maids on the upper floor of the scattered flowers hurrying through the porch and the floor. On the top floor, the musicians were busy tuning and plucking the strings in preparation for the upcoming feast, and the sound of instruments tinkling and ding was endless. There were already official cars and horses arriving one after another downstairs in Sanhua, and after they got off the car, they were led to the lobby on the first floor to sit and drink tea, chatting and chatting with each other, waiting for the arrival of Wang Yuan, the new Jiannan Jiedu envoy.

The golden moon has appeared in the eastern sky at some point, although it is not a perfect circle, but the wayward new Jiannan Jiedu envoy Wang Yuan is to choose the day of April 14 to admire the moon, but it also teaches people helpless. But this is not important, the important thing is that all the officials of Jiannan Province who have received the invitation know that today's moon viewing is a supplement, and the official meeting with the new festival envoy to congratulate each other, everyone to contact feelings, and enhance understanding is the most important thing.

Dozens of Jiannan Dao officials with heads and faces didn't wait too long, and when the lobby on the first floor was full of people, all the people who should have arrived had already arrived. Wang Yuan arrived majestically outside the Sanhua Building with dozens of personal guard cavalry. The officials hurriedly got up to greet each other, and bowed their hands to Wang Yuan with a natural smile on their faces. Congratulations and thanks are endless.

"Everyone's courteous, everyone's courteous." Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Is the banquet ready?" ”

The subordinate officer in charge of preparing the banquet hurriedly replied: "Returning to the marshal, everything is ready. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Then what are you waiting for?" Let's go upstairs, the moon is out, the banquet is ready, and the dancers are ready to perform, so don't delay this great spring night. ”

Everyone roared yes, and hugged Wang Yuan to the wide and exquisite staircase, laughing all the way up. In a moment, on the top floor, the silk and bamboo were melodious, the musicians were playing the most popular tunes of the moment, and the graceful dancing of more than a dozen dancers also appeared on the window edge of the top floor, and the banquet soon began.

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In the streets and alleys north of the Scattered Flower Building, more than a dozen dark shadows were lurking in a dark wood, waiting quietly. Through the gaps between the trees, you can see the pupils of the figures on the scattered flowers from a distance. The night breeze brings the laughter and laughter upstairs to the ears from time to time, and the melodious music of silk and bamboo also flutters to the ears. From afar, the tall building looks like a fairyland.

A figure flashed in front of him, and a man swept into the woods like a great bird, and a moment later let out the chirping of a night bird.

The people hidden behind the tree came out to greet them, and the huge and burly figure walking in front was Chen Taikui, the boss of the Ten Tigers of Xiangguo Mansion.

"Fourth, what's the situation?" Chen Taikui asked in a low voice, his voice coming from his mouth covered with a black scarf, looking dull and muffled.

"The officials of Jiannan Province have all arrived, the banquet has begun, and I saw Wang Yuan enter the Sanhua Building with my own eyes." Song Nan, the four tigers who were also masked in a black scarf, replied in a low voice.

"Okay, how many guards are there on the road?" Chen Taikui said.

"There are three guards, each with about twenty people. One is on the path behind the wall in front of you, and the other is in the cloister a hundred paces north of the scattered flower building. There are at least seven or eight hidden cards on the path leading to the north of the building. I found it out. I'm afraid it will take some effort to get rid of it. I can go over, but it's not easy for everyone to pass together. ”

"Okay, kill what should be killed, hide what should be hidden, act immediately." Chen Taikui gave a low order, reached out and took off the heavy package on his back, opened it and took out a large iron cone from the black man, and with a soft sound, he buckled the thick chain behind the iron cone on his wrist.

The crowd was well-trained, and no one said a word. Song Nan took the lead out of the forest, moving between the shadows of the trees and the houses, and the people behind followed closely, and soon passed through two alleys and several lighted houses, and arrived outside the hollow wall in the north of the Sanhua Building.

Everyone stood close to the outside of the wall, and the dark figure merged with the wall, quietly listening to the movement inside the wall. After a while, the lights flickered, and a group of soldiers patrolled from the path inside the wall with wind lanterns, chatting and chatting as they went.

When they walked to the inside of the wall, only one wall away from the people outside the wall, the big tiger Chen Taikui stretched out his big palm and waved it heavily in the darkness. Chen Nanxing and Song Nan's figures flickered almost at the same time, and they reached the top of the wall in an instant. Incredibly, the big tiger Chen Taikui was burly, but his movements were also flexible and light, and the figures of Chen Nanxing and Song Nan also went up to the wall, one step faster than the people who jumped on the wall one after another.

The patrolling soldiers on the path inside the wall had just noticed something was wrong, and when they looked towards the wall, the sound of a hidden weapon breaking through the air already sounded in their ears. There was little room for reaction, and for a split second, each of the five guards had a throwing knife on their foreheads that went deep into their brains. At the same time, a blue light flashed above the guards' heads, and in an instant, the heads of three guards flew into the sky, and Chen Nanxing's long sword flickered in the air before hitting the ground.

Chen Taikui was a little slower, but the big iron cone in his hand was not slow at all. In the air, the big iron cone had already been swung out of his hand, and the two guards bore the brunt of it, and their heads were directly smashed by the iron cone. Chen Taikui's body fell to the ground, but the iron cone did not fall to the ground, and he swept vigorously with the iron chain in his hand. The big iron spine whirred around his body, and seven or eight guards were smashed and broken and rolled to the ground.

All this happened between lightning and fire, first killing people with hidden weapons, and then the joint attack of Chen Taikui and Chen Nanxing, one attacking the head of the team and the other attacking the tail of the team, without interfering with each other. In just a split second, the three men killed seventeen guards. And the remaining three people were still in a daze, and they had been killed by Chen Nanxing in a row.

"Six, one more than you." Chen Nanxing wiped the blood on his sword on the corpse. Song Nan killed five, and Chen Nanxing deliberately stimulated him.

Song Nan held three flying knives in his hand and said coldly: "If it weren't for the fear of accidentally hurting you, these three people would also be mine." The next time you do this, if you are injured by my secret weapon, you can't blame me. ”

"You can try, are you confident that the secret weapon can break through my long sword?" Chen Nanxing sneered.

Chen Taikui frowned and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up for me." ”

The two hurriedly stopped, Chen Taikui, who killed nine, didn't show off, and the two of them also felt bored.

The remaining five tigers and ten Xiangfu guards, who had not been caught by half of their heads, acted as coolies, quickly dragging the corpses on the ground into the grass. There was a lot of noise from the fight just now, and everyone hid in the shadow of the wall and listened to the movement for a while, and there was nothing unusual around. The noise on the other side of the scattered flower building drowned out the sound of the fight just now, and it happened so quickly that even if the brief noise was heard, it would not attract the attention of others, not to mention that the surrounding streets and alleys were not densely populated.

Chen Taikui made a gesture, and everyone continued to touch the left side of the Sanhua Building. The front is brightly lit, and several corridors crisscross between several pavilions, all of which are brightly lit. Two teams of ten guards each can be seen patrolling the corridor.

This place is already within a hundred steps of the Scattered Flower Building, and killing these guards is not a good choice. But fortunately, the tracks of these guards patrolling are under watch, and there is no need to kill them to pass through here. So everyone took advantage of the shadows of the flowers and the pavilion to take short dodge between the ups and downs, and stepped through the gap patrolled by the guards. Further ahead is the area behind the building where several rockeries and flower beds are located, and Song Nan knows that there are several secret whistles among them, and he can only go out here. But seeing that he was like a flying flying flying shuttle between the rockery flowers, solving one dark whistle after another, it took less than a stick of incense to kill eight dark whistles, and his body skills were extremely clean. This time, even Chen Nanxing was amazed by his provocation.

Solve the enemy here, the scattered flower building is close in front of you, the lights are bright and crystal clear. Hiding among the flowers behind the building, the figures walking in the building were clearly discerning, and the sound of the servants talking and the crisp clanging sound of the dishes and utensils were clearly audible.

"Ready to do it." Chen Taikui spat and foamed at the mouth, wiped it in the palm of his hand, and removed the grappling hook rope on his shoulder. The nursing home quickly moved to the east and west, closely monitoring the east and west areas of the Sanhua Building to prevent people from suddenly appearing. But seeing Chen Taikui bow and walk quickly, he came to the downstairs Zhangxu, and threw the rope grappling hook several times onto the cloister railing on the second floor. I heard a soft 'click' sound, and the hook hooked firmly on the railing.