Chapter 153: Murder and Knife

When Pei Shudong carefully examined the dead bandits, he felt very surprised in his heart, these people did not look like bandits, but like trained soldiers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

He was puzzled, so he went to ask Chen Zhiming, who was ordered together, Chen Zhiming naturally knew that Qixia Mountain was Liu Yu's residence, and in the face of Pei Shudong's question, he didn't say anything, and finally said that you think too much, and it's over.

Pei Shudong is not a person who gets to the bottom of it, and when he saw that the head of the Si Xing Temple didn't feel anything, he was relieved.

Liu Yan felt very surprised these days, but Liu Zhengsheng, who had visited three times a day, had not come to the East Palace for several days, so he was worried that King Qin's case would be stranded, so he specially ordered someone to invite him to the banquet in his mansion.

After Liu Zhengsheng met Liu Yan, he discussed the situation in the court all the way, but he didn't talk about King Qin, Liu Yan thought that he was afraid that the East Palace would have too many eyes, and repeatedly invited him to go to the middle hall to discuss knowledge, but he refused, claiming that he was in charge, and then left in a hurry.

went to find Chu Shenxia, but Chu Shenxia was bored in the room all day long, read King Qin's letter from beginning to end, and talked to him, absent-mindedly, and didn't even lift his head once.

Recently, the situation in the court was stable, and there was no one around to discuss, Liu Yan relaxed for a while, and it was not until the Liu family made a move that this woke up the alarm bell in his heart.

"I think the Liu family has only one purpose, and that is to try their best to transfer King Qing back." Ruoyu knelt in front of him, but her eyes fell behind him.

Liu Yan followed her gaze curiously, and saw Yongming standing at the foot of the stone steps, with a pair of big eyes turning, as if he felt that he had disturbed the pair of beautiful people in front of him, and as soon as his footsteps turned, he planned to turn around and leave.

"Since you're here, why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea?" To Yongming's surprise, Liu Yan actually invited her to have tea together.

She still remembered that when she lived in King Shun's Mansion and ate crabs with everyone for the first time, Liu Yan was very repulsive to herself at that time. even wanted to move out of the Shun Mansion by himself at one point.

Stunned, but he didn't shirk it, Yongming was helped up the steps by Xunzhi and sat down on the north side of the table.

"Your Highness. I still have something to do, so I'll step back first. Ruoyu slowly put down the teacup in his hand, stood up, took the sword on the side, and greeted Yongming. He went down the steps.

Yongming looked at Ruoyu's back in a daze, and couldn't help muttering, "It's so good." ”

Liu Yan was surprised when he heard this, and endured it, but he still couldn't hold it back, and asked gently, "What's wrong?" ”

"How nice it would be if I had half the intelligence of Miss Ruoyu." As soon as the words were spoken, Yongming immediately felt a little out of shape, and hurriedly handed the teacup to his mouth.

Liu Yan paused, didn't know what he was thinking in his eyes, and slowly spoke: "Ruoyu is now a side concubine. Even if you don't want to call her sister, don't call her Ruoyu girl in the future, remove the word girl. ”

"It's just a title, there is a ......" Yongming blurted out, but when he met Liu Yan's gaze, he hurriedly changed his words, "Yes, His Highness said yes." ”

Liu Yan couldn't help but cast an extremely surprised look, looked at her for a full moment, and looked at her aside. Cai said: "Actually, women don't need to be so smart, simple to be happy in life." ”

Yongming's eyes flashed. I said a hundred words of opposition in my heart, but I said in my heart: "Whoever doesn't want to live a happy life, I will remember what His Highness said today." ”

Liu Yan looked at the teapot in front of him and was stunned for a while, Yongming was not sure if he heard his words, and when he wanted to repeat it again, he suddenly spoke: "Compared to your current grievances, you are seeking perfection." I prefer your previous naΓ―ve and willful, and now you speak in such a weird way, which is very unbearable. ”

After saying this, he actually left the stunned Yongming and left the table.

Yongming glared at his back indignantly, reached out and grabbed a jade bottle from his sleeve, desperately pouring the laxative from the bottle in the teacup he had drunk.

Xunzhi on the side cried and laughed: "Niangniang, why do you bother? His Royal Highness is gone, and he will not come back to drink this tea. ”

"Hmph." Yongming hung his hand in frustration, his eyes were on the man passing by, and he hurriedly pointed at him and shouted, "You! It's you, come here! ”

That night, Lu Zhi, who was supposed to be on duty, frequently ran to the latrine, and even Wei Shuming came to visit after a quarter of an hour, and he couldn't say a word, so he ran to the latrine again.

"Wei Dashangshu came to visit late at night, what's the matter?" Liu Yan was very surprised when he saw Chu Shenxia staring at the person in front of him with burning eyes.

Chu Shenxia read letters hard for days, and today he heard that Wei Shuming visited the prince, and suddenly got out of the pile of books, and insisted on standing beside Liu Yan to listen.

Wei Shuming didn't mind Chu Shenxia's appearance at all, and smiled slightly: "Actually, it's not a big deal, there are some problems in the military department, Your Highness has been in the military camp for a long time, and he must know very well, so I want to come to ask for advice." ”

"Oh? What's wrong with the military department? Liu Yan was slightly surprised, but he was thinking in his heart, what trick did Liu Yu make?

"The weapons in the munitions are a little rusty, and I originally planned to have them all rebuilt, but the amount of fuel needed is too large to bear." Wei Shuming stared at Liu Yan's expression very seriously, as if he really just came to ask for advice.

From ancient times to the present, iron casting requires a large amount of charcoal, which is very tree-consuming, and even today, no new smelting method has been found, and it is still cast according to the words left by the ancients.

Liu Yan had been on the battlefield for a long time, so he naturally understood what a well-made knife meant to a soldier, but after thinking for a while, he couldn't think of any way, and habitually looked at Chu Shenxia on the side.

Chu Shenxia caught his inquiring gaze and asked rhetorically, "Dare to ask Lord Wei, what is the weapon that soldiers use the most to kill the enemy in battle?" ”

"Spears and iron swords." Although Wei Shuming didn't understand why he asked such a simple question, there was always a hint of appreciation in the eyes that looked at him, which made Chu Shenxia a little unnatural.

"In that case, why don't we save materials and create a weapon that has the function of a spear and an iron sword at the same time?"

Wei Shuming and Liu Yan were both people who had led soldiers, and they thought that his statement was very novel, so they hurriedly asked, "What kind of weapon is this?" ”

"I once saw a weapon called Chu Dao on the weapon spectrum," Chu Shenxia paced a few steps, reluctantly recalling, "This kind of knife has a straight back and a straight blade, the back of the knife is thick, three feet long, not only suitable for riding and slashing, but also in the fighting, it can also be used as a spear and a short knife, it is a very strong weapon in combat." ”

"Weapon spectrum? Since you've seen it, it means that this kind of knife was forged by someone, why is it disappearing now? Most people have never even heard of it. Although Liu Yan was very curious, he was a little worried.

"Actually, this kind of knife was forged by a weaponist named Ouyang Di, but later he got into trouble with the enemy and was stabbed to death with a knife forged by himself, which is also a sigh, it is a pity that such an amazing genius died like this." Chu Shenxia sighed very lightly, feeling sorry for the death of a good talent who had only produced one in hundreds of years.

Wei Shuming nodded approvingly, looked at him again, and said, "I wonder if you can draw that weapon in the same way?" ”

"Since this weapon disappeared after he died, it must be because no one can imitate his iron casting ability, I guess that even if it is drawn, no one may make it." Liu Yan was slightly disappointed in his words, and repeatedly lowered his yearning for this kind of weapon in his heart.

"Not necessarily." Chu Shenxia suddenly spit out two words loudly.

Wei Shuming's eyes flashed, and before he could speak, Liu Yan was already very anxious and asked, "How do you say this?" Could it be that there are such excellent weaponists as him in this world today? ”

"Ouyang Di is a very low-key person, so he is not well known to the world, but he has a very famous apprentice grandson, called the ghost man."

When the two of them heard about it, they were all silent, yes, they hadn't heard of this Ouyang hand, but this ghost can be said to be like thunder.

If you want to talk about ghosts, the most famous thing is not his blacksmithing, but the rules he set for those who come to ask for weapons, but whoever gets his weapons must kill someone for him in the future.

Of course, this ghost is still very conscientious, and he told them very humane that he would not force them to kill three people, one is the closest relatives in the family, the second is the powerless women and children, and the third is the king of the world.

"You just said that he was low-key, but he was killed by the enemy, I guess it was his apprentice or his disciple grandson who killed him, right?" Wei Shuming's eyes narrowed slightly, like an old Taoist diviner.

Chu Shenxia was surprised by his intelligence and spiciness, and nodded at the same time: "Yes, it is true that he was killed by his apprentice, but I don't know the reason." ”

"No way!" Liu Yan got up suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "Absolutely not, even if he has a way to make Chu Dao, but the rules he set are really ......."

"When I live to this age, I naturally have to see more clearly than His Highness, and if you want to get something, you have to pay the same price, or even more. Some of the price is money, some is life, and some are dignity, if sacrificing one person can make more people, why not? Wei Shuming also got up, although he said it lightly, but with his unpredictable expression, these words sounded a little chilling.

Liu Yan naturally couldn't stand his words, and argued: "Even if I am younger than Lord Wei, I also know that no matter what the price is, I can't hand over my heart and bottom line, no matter how many years have passed, I will think like this, this is also the difference between me and Lord Wei, not determined by age." ”

Wei Shuming, who had always been open-minded, didn't take his words to heart at the moment, but laughed meaningfully as if he had listened to a joke from a child in the head horn.

Although Liu Yan still didn't understand what the purpose of his visit was today, he was still very jealous in his heart, and sent people to keep an eye on his whereabouts.

(To be continued.) )