Chapter 140: The Wind Sweeps the Leaves
In the Book of Changes, the epigram that shocks the thunder hexagram on the sixth is written: "Shake the rope, look at it, levy the evil, shake it not to bow, to its neighbors, no blame." "Translated as saying, the thunder shook and made people tremble with fear, and there was a look of unease in their eyes, and there would be danger in the expedition, and the thunder and lightning did not strike themselves, but they struck their neighbors, and there was no calamity.
Thinking of this rhetoric, Yi Xingchen couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and the rhetoric said very clearly, "Recruiting the murderer", that is, if you go further, there will be danger. And this danger will not hurt oneself, but it will hurt one's neighbors. - Isn't your neighbor the governor? Could it be that the danger ahead is directed at the governor?
As soon as he thought of this, he suddenly remembered that that night in Jinzhou, in the back garden of Tang Yiwen's house, he had heard Li Xuehao, Tang Yiwen and others discussing how to assassinate the governor, and at that time they were ready to use a hidden weapon to stop the "wind sweeping the fallen leaves", which can shoot hundreds of flying knives in a fan shape. It's just that the next morning, these people were all killed by Lei Jingang's super secret weapon "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers" who came to retaliate.
I thought that these things would end here, because they were all dead, but now the hexagram shows that someone will assassinate Governor Li again, could it be someone else?
Thinking of this, Yi Xingchen's eyes looked at the swallow's nest. The snake had already eaten the nestling and slipped away. But the two swallows were still flying up and down outside the bird's nest, unwilling to return to the bird's nest. This suddenly reminded him of a name, - Yan Bugui!
Yi Xingchen remembered that night, in the backyard, the person sent by Li Xuehao to assassinate was named Yan Bugui.
Didn't this assassin die under the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers of Lei King Kong? Or did he leave before that? At that time, Yi Xingchen did not poke his head out to observe. And it was night, and I didn't know what the assassin looked like. But he remembered his voice, and the people at the scene were already dead. It was impossible to make a sound, so he didn't know if there was a swallow in it. At that time, he thought that the assassin was also among them, but now judging from the hexagram, the assassin is Yan Bugui, and it is still someone from the White Lotus Sect who is assassinating.
If this is the case, then the secret weapon used by the assassin is the very domineering "wind sweeping leaves".
That thing works. I was afraid that no one within a few dozen steps would be spared, Yi Xingchen couldn't help but raise his throat with a heart.
The convoy continued on its way, past the houses on the side of the road. Then he saw a towering tree.
The tree was leafy, like a big umbrella, and like an unkempt old man, standing bent over the side of the road. The foliage is too dense. Not even the sunlight can penetrate it. Seeing this scene, Yi Xingchen couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.
Just now, I calculated a hexagram for the thunder hexagram, the upper and lower hexagrams are all earthquake wood hexagrams, and in the eight trigrams, the earthquake wood hexagram can represent the towering tree. Could it be that the thorn came from this towering tree?
But the foliage was so dense that you couldn't see what was inside.
At this time, Governor Li didn't notice that Yi Xingchen was wandering and telling hexagrams, and still continued: "It's rare that you have such insight at a young age, and you can clearly see through the true face of the Heavenly Tribulation Sect. It's really rare, if you can follow this official ......"
"Give me your shield!" Yi Xingchen ignored Governor Li's words. Turning to one of the shield-bearers who was walking beside his horse, he said urgently.
The shield man held the shield in his hand and followed the carriage forward, and when he heard Yi Xingchen's words, he was a little surprised, and he didn't react to what he meant for a while.
Yi Xingchen directly reached over, grabbed his shield, and wanted to pull it over. When the shield man saw that the brocade guard wanted his shield, he quickly let go.
Yi Xingchen held the shield, grabbed the carriage carport of Governor Li next to him with his right hand, jumped into the carriage, squatted next to the carport, and raised the shield to block him.
This shield is rectangular, half a person high, and is specially used to form a shield wall to block flying arrows, so it can cover the entire squatting Yi Xingchen, and also cover the sitting Governor Li in the carport.
Governor Li was very surprised and said, "Master Yi, ...... are you?" ”
As soon as he said this, countless flying knives suddenly shot out from the huge towering tree, densely packed, like a wasp that had exploded its nest, pouring down towards Governor Li and the guards around him.
Whoosh!
The screams were incessant. Yi Xingchen felt the clanging sound of the shield he was holding beside him, and the flying knives pierced the shield like raindrops. Thankfully, the shield was so well made that even a strong bow and crossbow could not penetrate it.
Governor Li's screams rang in his ears.
Yi Xingchen was taken aback, didn't he still have a guard for him? But at this moment, he didn't dare to move, because he knew that this "wind sweeping leaves" was a continuous firing of flying knives.
Yi Xingchen saw that the guards in front of him and the catchers sent by the local yamen fell to the ground one after another, their bodies were full of flying knives, and the guards outside the range of the flying knives in the distance quickly reacted, holding shields and rushing over to this side to protect Governor Li, and many people fell to the ground with flying knives during the run.
Some of the guards rushed to Governor Li's carriage and formed a shield wall with their shields, and at this time, the throwing knives finally ran out.
Yi Xingchen glanced back and found that almost none of the personal guards within dozens of steps behind him were spared, and the personal guards of Governor Li who followed by the carriage failed to escape their doom one by one, and their bodies were full of flying knives and died on the ground, blood flowing.
Some of the guards screamed and pounced on the towering tree. Yi Xingchen saw a black figure flying out of the crack in the big tree, speeding away like a meteor. Several of Governor Li's martial arts guards shouted and chased after him, but the remaining officers and soldiers of the brigade surrounded the carriage for fear that other assassins would appear.
Seeing that the shield wall formed was blocking the carriage, Yi Xingchen was relieved, and looked in through the window of the car, and saw Governor Li sitting on the seat, holding his left foot with his hand, moaning in pain. There was no flying knife on his body, so he was a little relieved, it turned out that his shield area was still a little smaller, and he was not able to protect the tall Governor Li. One of his left feet, which he had reached out, was shot by a throwing knife, which easily pierced him because the planks of the carport were thin, and hit him in the left leg.
Seeing that Governor Li was not injured, Yi Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief: "My lord, are you okay?" ”
"I'm fine, thank you!" ,
Governor Li opened the curtain and saw that there were dead bodies everywhere on the ground, and even a few personal guards with strong martial arts around him were not spared, all of them were shot to death on the ground by this sudden flying knife, and he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, if it wasn't for Yi Xingchen blocking himself with a shield, how could he escape the assassination of this flying knife?
Yi Xingchen's heart was also full of horror at Tang Yiwen's wind sweeping leaves, this thing was too powerful, the guards around Governor Li were definitely first-class masters, but they couldn't dodge this sudden flying knife sneak attack, which showed how powerful it was.
And fortunately, he saw the snake eating the child, and the two big swallows refused to return to the nest, so they were vigilant and calculated the danger, so they immediately took protective measures, otherwise, they would not be able to escape their doom.
He looked apologetically at the dead shieldbearer next to him, who had just taken his shield, and who, like the other shieldbearers, had been killed on the spot by a throwing knife. Even if the shield was in his hand, he didn't have time to defend himself with the shield, and none of the other shieldbearers like him had shields in their hands, but none of them could use these shields to block the flying knives. Because the throwing knife came too suddenly, too quickly, there was no time to react. But Yi Xingchen still felt guilty.
At the same time, he was also very annoyed, he already knew that the White Lotus Sect was going to send an assassin to assassinate, but he was careless, he only thought that the assassin was dead, and it was impossible for this matter to occur again, and he didn't think that the person should have left at night, so he was not shot to death by the Heavenly Maiden Sanhua with Li Xuehao and them. The sneak attack was finally carried out, and he was given an early warning, and the time was too short for him to issue a warning.
Yi Xingchen recalled the hexagram he calculated before he came to Governor Li as a guard, the Difengjing hexagram, in which the lower hexagram was Jin Kemu's murderer, at that time he thought that this should show that Governor Li was irritable and that he might be angry, but he didn't expect that the murderer of this hexagram actually meant that there was an assassin assassin. It's just that this hexagram of the great murderer is a lower hexagram, and the body hexagram is an upper hexagram, and it is not closely related to the great murderer, so the degree of the great murder has been greatly alleviated. That's why I didn't get hurt.
Of course, the hanging shock calculated later is a thunder hexagram, in which the epithet says that he will not be harmed, but will hurt his neighbors. Sure enough, the neighbor Governor Li was stabbed in the leg and was injured, and the hexagram was fulfilled.
Thinking that it was an assassin sent by the White Lotus Sect to assassinate Governor Li, Yi Xingchen immediately woke up again, and he slapped his head and regretted it. -- The Hexagram of the Wind Well before I came before, in which the lower hexagram is the gold hexagram, the gold hexagram represents white, the upper hexagram is the Zhenmu hexagram, which represents the flower, and the change hexagram is the Kanshui hexagram, which means water, isn't the relationship between these three white lotus?
The hexagram had clearly suggested that the White Lotus Church had brought a great culprit, but he thought that the assassin was dead, and ignored such important news and did not conduct a further detailed review of the hexagram, which caused this danger.
Thinking of this, he had some speculation in his heart, Master Zu used the hexagram to remind himself, but the hexagram itself can't speak, and he has to speculate on the heavenly opportunities displayed in the hexagram to be able to accurately perceive and explain it. This time, he neglected to further study and judge the hexagrams. It seems that in the future, I still have to be more careful, carefully study the hexagrams, and cannot ignore the in-depth and comprehensive interpretation of the hexagrams.
Governor Li brought Lang Zhong, who was fortunate to be at the back of the team and not beside him, so he was not killed by a flying knife, so he hurriedly came over to help Governor Li deal with the knife wound on his leg.
Governor Li turned his head to look at Yi Xingchen and said, "Master Yi, how did you know that there were assassins here who wanted to assassinate the Mansion?" ”
Governor Li felt afraid, and at the same time dared to be grateful to Yi Xingchen, this doubt popped up in his head and asked immediately. (To be continued......)