Chapter 161: Hunting Grounds
Three days later, early in the morning, Xu Mingyuan was dressed neatly, with a blue frost sword hanging from his waist, and walked out of the small courtyard, Xiao Xia poked out a sleepy-eyed head, waved at Xu Mingyuan, and slowly closed the door.
Xu Mingyuan looked left and right, walked to the edge of the small tree next to the courtyard gate, and untied the reins of the black horse tied to the tree, it seems that it is easy to get up earlier in the morning, but now it is time to go back to sleep.
Xu Mingyuan gently stroked the head of the black horse, turned over on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and rode in the direction of Xifang Gate.
Today was the day when he and Li Mu made an appointment to participate in the royal hunt, so he specially asked Yi to ride the black horse over yesterday, out of Yongxingfang, and along the street towards Xicheng.
In the past few days, Xu Mingyuan and Yi have gone to collect the accounts at night, but it has been quite smooth, and they have already collected 10,000 taels of silver.
Every night, one or two evil gangs disappear in Chang'an City, Xu Mingyuan and Yi kill the main members, and the remaining minions have their own Yuntai Division to solve them.
In a few days, several squares near Yongxingfang have been cleared, although most people don't know what happened in the night, but those who have been oppressed can finally take a breath and have a smile on their faces.
In the past few days, Xu Mingyuan has also begun to slowly understand the operation methods of the Yuntai Division, extremely accurate information is the key to him and Yi being able to easily get it, and the iron-blooded and ruthless style of acting is that Xu Mingyuan feels a little cold.
If the main members of those gangs have their own way to die, many of those little minions still don't need to die, but the cleaning of the Yuntai Division has not even slipped through the net.
Xu Mingyuan's ledger had already crossed out the names of ten gangs, and more than a dozen were marked with small letters in small letters at the back. It's all the names of the bosses and bustards of those green buildings and gambling houses, and some useful things.
It is impossible for Xu Mingyuan to take these Qinglou gambling houses under his control. Even the Gitai Division doesn't have this ability. Although these people are just puppets standing in front of the stage, sometimes these long-sleeved people who are good at dancing are very useful. What Xu Mingyuan needs is not how they can help him, sometimes a sentence or two is also a great help.
On the Yuntai Division's side, Chen Qiao seemed to be deliberately trying to hide his existence, except for Yi, he had not seen the rest of the Yuntai Division, and he would not let him go to the Yuntai Division alone.
Although Xu Mingyuan didn't know why Chen Qiao did this, he could feel that Chen Qiao was not malicious, and he was afraid that this was related to Qi Haobo's incident.
Xu Mingyuan rode to the outside of Buzheng Fang, and Li Mu, who was dressed in a dark purple suit, was already riding a reddish-brown horse waiting there. Seeing Xu Mingyuan coming over on horseback, he also rode a horse and greeted him with a smile.
"Xiao Xu, I said that you would change a horse, but you just won't, and it will be a joke if you can't outrun the wild things." Li Mu looked at Xu Mingyuan's dark horse and said with a smile.
Xu Mingyuan didn't care, shook his head and said, "Although this horse is not a good horse, it has good endurance, and ordinary wild animals can't outrun it." ”
"Alright, you can just like it. Let's go out of the city, we have to get there some way. Li Mu didn't have a problem with him, and rode directly along the long street towards the Jinguang Gate in the west of the city.
Seeing this, Xu Ming also rode his horse and rode forward with Li Mu.
The two of them walked out of Chang'an City from Jinguang Gate. Riding side by side along the post road is much faster than in the city.
"You said you went to the royal hunt, why didn't you even bring weapons? Do you want to tear the tiger with your bare hands? Xu Mingyuan looked at Li Mu and asked a little strangely.
"I'm afraid of being caught and caught in the streets." Li Mu glanced at him a little strangely. He smiled: "I have already sent the bow to the hunting ground, and we will be able to get it when we arrive." ”
Xu Mingyuan nodded. There is no doubt about it. Naturally, the hunting was a bow, and Xu Mingyuan didn't have it at hand, so it naturally fell to Li Mu.
The royal hunting ground was more than twenty miles west of Chang'an City, and it took Xu Mingyuan and Li Mu an hour to get there.
This area of mountains and forests is surrounded by walls, and only a few places have gates, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach them in normal times. Moreover, every year, hundreds of officers and soldiers enter the mountains to clean up those tigers and leopards and other wild things first, so as not to hurt the nobles who enter the hunting grounds.
Xu Mingyuan followed Li Mu to ride to the gate at the foot of the mountain, the two-zhang high archway, engraved with the four big characters of Qinling Hunting Ground, and there were two rows of thirty or forty guards with knives standing below, standing with knives.
At this time, there were already the sons and daughters of the nobles and Huang Zi Gongqing, who were dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses, came with their companions, and they all dismounted in front of the door, and only after the guards with knives verified their identities could they enter the hunting ground.
Xu Mingyuan and Li Mu also got off the horse, led the horse and walked forward with the people in front.
Li Mu should have participated in a lot of socializing these days, so many noble children could recognize him and greet him familiarly, even some Huang Zi Gongqing, who also patted him on the shoulder and chatted with him a few words.
Everyone was a little unfamiliar with Xu Mingyuan, but when they saw him walking with Li Mu, they also smiled and nodded at him, but their eyes swept over the ordinary black horse, and the doubts on their faces deepened.
Xu Mingyuan didn't care about this, he smiled back one by one, and didn't take the initiative to talk, but just wrote down the people he saw and those people that Li Mu intended to introduce to him.
When it was Xu Mingyuan and Li Mu's turn, they each took out a jade plate, and after the guard with the knife checked and confirmed, he asked about the identities of the two again, and then let the two enter.
Xu Mingyuan and Li Mu led the horses together, and Xu Mingyuan whispered: "This inspection is really strict, not much worse than the imperial examination." “
"That's not it, if you sneak in with the assassins and kill a few at random, this Dawan court will have to mess up." Li Mu also suppressed his voice and smiled.
"Although this inspection is rigorous, it is not difficult for the assassin to get in, it is difficult for him to surround this mountain." Xu Mingyuan looked left and right, his eyes stopped on the wooden railings that were more than one person high, and said softly.
"Of course you can't surround it, but don't underestimate Yulin Jun and Yuntai Division, I'm afraid there are more people in this forest than wild things." Li Mu smiled at the forest in the distance.
The Yulin Army is the head of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, the private army of the Son of Heaven, and the army that guards the imperial city and Chang'an, all of which are selected by the best hands in the army.
And the killers of Yuntai Division, from Yi and Qi Haobo, it is enough to get a glimpse of the leopard, which shows how ordinary killers are their opponents.
When Xu Mingyuan heard this, he didn't continue the topic, there were many people, and if someone heard the word assassin, I was afraid it would cause trouble.
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