Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Arrowman by the River

Leaving Tianji Temple, Wu Jin's mood was really a little upset, or it was because things came too suddenly, so that he was not mentally prepared for a while, he has been in this other world for nine months, in addition to helping his brother take the position of the head of Hu Cao, all he thinks about is how to make a fortune, and then establish a business empire of his own in this world.

But as he slowly understood the world, he realized the importance of power, without the protection of power, his business empire can only be the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, his thoughts began to change, he began to contact power intentionally or unintentionally, including his promise to protect the silver for Su Hanzhen, also out of this idea, but until he met the prince, his highest ideal was just to get the title.

But he didn't expect a trip to Tianji Temple, but he added a lot of inexplicable troubles, the fundamental reason is that the true identity of this Wujin, he turned out to be the son of a failed prince, casting a shadow on his future and stamping a mark of death.

Once his identity is exposed, he can only be greeted by merciless killing, including his eldest brother's career dream, which will also be shattered.

These old men who are about to enter the ground, I don't know what else they think, forty years have passed, do they still think they can be restored?

This old monk, who didn't practice hard and tried to find a way to the Western Heaven Elysium, was worried about these mundane things, and he was the abbot of the third most famous temple in the capital, which really disappointed him.

Wu Jin only felt a headache, what he was concerned about now was how many people knew this, the old monk told no more than twelve people, so far he knew six people, so who are the other six people? Are they reliable? Will they leak secrets?

Wu Jin thought about it again, and felt that it might not be a big surname, since they could hide it for forty years, it means that their secrecy skills have been done.

Thinking all the way, Wu Jin felt that his head was about to explode, he just wanted to go back quickly, sleep under the quilt, and then completely forget about this matter, as if nothing had happened, yes, he felt that he could do it, just as if nothing had happened.

He urged the horse to run towards the capital, and soon came to a three-way intersection, he reined in the horse, scratched his head in embarrassment, his grandmother's, which way did he come from? It seems like both paths.

He looked around, and from a distance, he saw a woodcutter carrying firewood down the path on the mountain, he hurriedly urged the horse to meet him, and asked the woodcutter with a smile: "Big brother, I want to ask for a way, which of these two roads is to the capital?" ”

The woodcutter put down the firewood on his shoulder, wiped his sweat with a towel, and said with a smile: "Both can go to the capital, one road is spacious, but it is more than ten miles away, and the other road is not easy to walk, but it is much closer, it depends on your choice." ”

Wu Jin is now like an arrow, he remembers that when he came, he took a spacious official road, and walked for more than half an hour, if he can go back early, of course, it is the best.

"Big brother, I want to take a shortcut."

"Take the shortcut this way!" The woodcutter pointed to the right, "If you go all the way from here, if you ride a horse, you will be able to reach the capital in half an hour at most." ”

"Thank you, big brother!" As soon as Wu Jin gave up his hand, he urged the horse to the right path.

This road is along the east foot of Daimei Mountain, less than one zhang wide, the carriage is not good, can only be riding a horse or walking, the left head is the soil slope, overgrown with lush weeds and shrubs, and then up is the lush mountain forest, stretching for more than ten miles, and the right head down is a small river, about four or five zhang wide, the river water is very shallow, very clear, you can clearly see the pebbles at the bottom of the river, the other side of the river is also a dense mountain forest, there is also a parallel dirt road at the foot of the mountain, but the front turns to the south.

Because of a light rain in the morning, the road is a little muddy, Wu Jin walked four or five miles and regretted it, when he came to the horse galloping, although a little farther, but the road is spacious and flat, the speed is very fast, and this path is very narrow, and the road condition is not good, potholes, can not run fast at all, to the capital but to use more time, this is called the speed is not reached.

He wanted to turn around, but he had already walked four or five miles, and he didn't have the courage to do it again, so he had to keep going, imagining that the road ahead might be better.

After walking about two or three miles, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the bushes on the other side of the creek, and the color was distinctly different from the surrounding vegetation.

Wu Jin slowed down the horse, and while walking, he looked at the things in the bushes on the other side of the river, and saw that the color seemed to be a beast, and there were furs, he suddenly became curious, and urged the horse to rush down the path, and entered the small river, the river was very shallow, only the legs of the horses, he urged the horse to wade across the river, and then he saw clearly, it turned out to be a horse falling in the bushes on the slope, and the saddle, as if falling directly from the path above.

Wu Jin was a little stunned, and hurriedly got off the horse to check, he approached the slope, slowly approached the horse, only to see that the horse was no longer good, foaming at the mouth, his legs were twitching for a while, and there were more than a dozen arrows stuck in the horse, which startled him, what is going on?

He looked up in both directions, where had the owner of the horse gone? He found that it was a bend in the road, and that the path above came from the south, and there was a sharp turn of ninety degrees here, and the horses fell straight from the bend.

After looking around, he finally found a person lying on his stomach by the river a hundred steps away, he hurriedly led the horse up, only to see that this person also had an arrow stuck in his back, Wu Jin saw that his whole face was soaked in the river, it was estimated that he was dead, he slowly turned him over, it was a man in his thirties, with a big beard, very powerful, and a long wound in his stomach, Wu Jin touched his nose, and sure enough, he was out of breath.

It's a little tricky, whatever? He ran into it again, and he didn't know where to start, and he ..... Wu Jin suddenly found that the arrow on his back was different from the arrow on the horse, it turned out to be a crossbow arrow, and the crossbow was only used by the army, he realized that something was serious, he immediately touched the man's body, and there was a small silver medal hanging around his neck, which said Qin Qi, and behind it was the four words Guan Long Jiedu, and other than that, there were no other items on his body.

Wu Jin took off the silver medal, turned over and was about to leave, and found that the man's hand seemed to be holding something tightly, he jumped off the horse again, walked forward and broke the man's hand, in his hand is a golden half of the golden tiger, cut vertically into two from the middle, there is a base below, the golden tiger is very heavy, he turned over the base and looked, only to see that there are four big characters below: Helong Jiedu.

Wu Jin was taken aback, he immediately guessed what this was, the tiger talisman of the ancients, that is, the soldier talisman, he turned his mind, turned over on his horse, and urged the horse to run across the river, he only had one thought now, hurry up and get out of here, a man with a tiger talisman was killed by an arrow on the road, if he was discovered, he wanted to know what the consequences were, he didn't have a weapon on his body now, but he didn't want to lose his life here.

When Wu Jin reached the opposite bank, he heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and from the path to the south, he led the horse up the ridge without thinking, and hid in the pine forest nearest to him.

He faintly heard someone shouting, "People over there, as if dead!" ”

"! Find that thing. ”

The voice was a little familiar, Wu Jin immediately turned his head to look outside the pine forest, and saw a tall and thin man, he had a horse face, his eyes were cold and arrogant, holding a bow and crossbow, wearing a beast pattern yellow brocade robe, Wu Jin recognized this brocade robe at a glance, embroidered clothes guard, in Yanshi County, he had fought with them once, but this man was not Shao Jingwen, he had a gold belt around his waist, he should be a lieutenant general.

The man didn't notice this, his eyes were staring at the dead horse and the man's corpse a hundred paces away, and he could see that his face was anxious, and more than two dozen black-clothed men with knives and crossbows rushed down the path, rummaging around the man's corpse for something.

"General, there is no one on you!"

"Search around!"

More than two dozen big men immediately scattered in all directions, carefully searching in the water and grass.

Wu Jin knew what they were looking for, there were his horse's hoof prints by the river, he didn't dare to stop, and led the horse quickly towards the depths of the pine forest.

........ In the study of Uncle Guo's mansion, Uncle Shen stared at Shao Jingwen who was kneeling on the ground with gloomy eyes, flashing with anger, his mood was quite depressed, he spent nearly half a year to buy two personal soldiers of Zhang Chongjun, the envoy of Helong Jiedu, and the two personal soldiers finally stole evidence that could bring down Zhang Chongjun: Zhang Chongjun still secretly kept the tiger talisman granted to King Liang by the former Emperor Jin'an.

The two pro-soldiers immediately entered Beijing to offer the tiger talisman, and Uncle Shen explained to Shao Jingwen that after getting the talisman, he could kill people and destroy his mouth, but he did not expect that one of the pro-soldiers was quite cunning, and he actually imitated a copper-plated tiger talisman in advance.

"Do you think that putting the blame on Wang Hongwu has nothing to do with you?"

Shao Jingwen knelt on the ground, blood flowed from his forehead, and beside him was a tiger talisman, exactly the same as the one Wu Jin took away, but this tiger talisman was copper-gilded, it was a fake, and the tiger talisman was still stained with blood, apparently it smashed Shao Jingwen's head to the point of bleeding.

Shao Jingwen is also hard to speak, today's ineffective leader of the embroidery guard is called Bao Hongwu, this person is the brother of Uncle Shen Guo's second wife Bao, and is the brother-in-law of Uncle Shen Guo.

Because he undertook the task of intercepting the tax and silver of the East Palace, he handed over the task of receiving Zhang Chongjun's personal soldiers to his other right-hand man, Wang Qing, the second lieutenant of the second mansion, but this Bao Hongwu knew about it, so he took advantage of his absence in the capital to use the pressure of Uncle Shen Guo to rob the matter.

Shao Jingwen also admitted that this Bao Hongwu has a bit of martial arts, especially the archery of the crossbow is very accurate, but doing this kind of thing is not a high level of martial arts can be done well, as a result, this Bao Hongwu was deceived by the fake tiger talisman, and he did not do it cleanly, and was escaped by the pro-soldier, although he died in the end, but the whereabouts of the tiger talisman are not clear.

What made Shao Jingwen hate even more was that this Bao Hongwu messed things up, but he put the responsibility on him, and Uncle Shen Guo obviously favored Bao Hongwu, which made Shao Jingwen a little disheartened.

He sighed secretly and said in a low voice: "I dare not shirk my responsibility, and I am willing to resign and accept the punishment of my uncle!" ”

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(To be continued)