――May 29, the fourth year of the Great Zhou Jingzhi, 戌時 ——

In a private house in the northwest of Guangling City, a strong man dressed in the coarse cloth clothes of ordinary people was sitting in the house, reading the letter in his hand.

Seeing that this person's eyes are blazing like an eagle, he is definitely not an ordinary person, this person is the man who sits on the first chair of the Guangling Assassins, Wan Li, known as Eagle Claw Wan Li.

Beside him, a young man who looked to be in his twenties stood respectfully, this person was called Zhou Dong, Wan Li's subordinate, the third-in-command of the Guangling Assassins.

Since just now, Zhou Dong has glanced at the cloth bag on the table next to him from time to time, and sometimes sighed secretly.

Zhou Dong knew very well what was in that seemingly inconspicuous cloth bag, which was what they got when they gathered to assassinate a big man two days ago, a full 1.5 million taels of silver tickets.

When these silver tickets were discovered, Zhou Dong realized that his Guangling assassins were not targeting ordinary people, and if it weren't for the big guys, who would carry such a huge sum of money with them, which was enough to cover the income of their Guangling assassins for half a year.

To make matters worse, there are also three intricately crafted plaques inside the cloth bag, one of which is engraved with the words [北镇福司锦衣威], while the other two pieces are engraved with [南镇福司六開開].

South and North Town Fusi......

Maybe others don't know, but the well-informed Guangling assassin wouldn't know that it was the spy government office added by the former emperor Li Ji of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and now, it has become the direct henchman of the current Great Zhou Emperor Li Shou, in other words, it is a secret agent who is deeply trusted by Li Shou, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Messing with the wrong people......

Zhou Dong muttered to himself in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, after all, the face of the Grand Leader of the Guangling Assassins sitting in the room at the moment was very poor.

"Big brother, what did King Qin say?"

"That dog offal!" Wan Li slapped the letter on the table when he heard this. Gritted his teeth and scolded, "It turns out that he already knew the identity of that person before, but he deliberately didn't mention it, and now he is pretending to say something [forgot before], that guy is going to use me as a gunman!" ”

Although there is a rule that assassins should not ask their employers about the identity of the target they killed, Wan Li regretted it very much at this time, regretting that he should have asked clearly when he took the deal.

"That person is Xie An and Xie Yi, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department of the Great Zhou Imperial Court!" As if he had seen through the doubts of his henchman Zhou Dong, Wan Li gritted his teeth and said.

Zhou Dong gasped when he heard this. exclaimed, "Xie An? Xie An, the secretary of the criminal department? Liang Qiu Wu's husband? ”

"Ah, exactly! - It's still the concubine of Jin Ling'er's girl! Wan Li's whole face sank completely, and he scolded, "Li Shen's damn turtle grandson." He actually deceived us and others, saying that they were just ordinary envoys and officials sent by the imperial court......"

Is it your own covetousness for the remuneration of the three parties......

Zhou Dong muttered in his heart, to be honest, he didn't think that Wan Li really didn't know the identity of Xie An at all, it was nothing more than that now that the deal was messed up, he pushed the blame to Li Shen, the king of Qin.

Li Shen, the king of Qin, Wu Heng of the Taiping army, and Ji Jing's uninformed employer, these three parties went to assassinate Na Xie An in order to get the Guangling assassins. In total, a huge honorarium of 200,000 taels of gold and 2,000,000 taels of silver was proposed.

Didn't talk about it at first, but now that you're in trouble, you come to yourself to discuss?

Hum!

Zhou Dong sneered in his heart and said quietly, "Big brother." It's useless to regret it now, so it's better to think about how to redeem ......"

"How can I get it back?" Wan Li asked in a deep voice.

Zhou Dong thought for a moment, lowered his voice and said, "Why don't you send someone to reconcile with that Xie An." Make this a big deal! -- According to the news, the Great Zhou court secretly moved tens of thousands of troops stationed in Daliang to Yangzhou. According to my younger brother's humble opinion, this time Xie An's secret visit to Jiangnan was not for my Guangling assassins, but mostly for the Taiping army...... If the people don't fight with the officials, there is no need for us to fight to the death with Xie An's tens of thousands of troops! ”

Wan Li frowned when he heard this, "But according to the news, then Xie An will repay him, and I'm afraid he won't easily reconcile with us......"

Zhou Dong smiled slightly, and said, "It's okay, the junior brother also heard about the incident that night, I waited for more than thirty brothers, but Xie An was not damaged at all, and even the three Jinling people and Dongling people who acted as guards also escaped, as long as I waited for the heavy gift, I could resolve the ...... if I wanted to."

Wan Li stared at Zhou Dong suspiciously when he heard this, and suddenly said suspiciously, "Third brother, the heavy gift you said in your mouth won't be the eldest brother, right?" ”

Zhou Dong's eyelids unconsciously picked, and said with a smile, "What did the eldest brother say, how could the younger brother treat the eldest brother as a heavy gift?" ”

"......" Wan Li squinted his eyes at Zhou Dong for a while, nodded suddenly, and said with a sigh, "It's the eldest brother who is suspicious, and I think my brother won't do such an immoral thing!" ――Even if it is difficult to ride a tiger, we can only go all the way to the end......"

Before the words fell, a Guangling assassin hurriedly rushed outside the house, clasped his fists and said urgently, "The big leader, the third leader, there are brothers who have found out the whereabouts of the target that day!" ”

"Where?!" Wan Li asked urgently.

"The great leader of Qiyu, there is a family surnamed Wang in the north of Guangling City, and her daughter's surname is Wang Mingxin, a few days ago, someone saw her carrying a seriously injured man back to the city, and she went to the city to ask for a doctor......

"Good!" Wan Li was overjoyed when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Command the brothers, take the guys, tonight we will definitely avenge the brothers who died a few days ago!" ”

"Yes!" The Guangling Assassin hurried away.

Turning his head to look at Zhou Dong, Wan Li chuckled and said, "Third brother, I have finally found out Xie An's whereabouts, as long as I wait for a clean and neat start, I'm afraid that the government will track me down, how about the third brother?" ”

Zhou Dong chuckled in his heart, thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "What the eldest brother said is extremely true, as long as I can eradicate that Xie An as soon as possible, my Guangling Assassin Pavilion will be safe and sound...... Brother Rong went back and prepared! ”

"Third brother, you are a smart person, don't make a mistake ...... yourself"

"Yes!"

After saying goodbye to Wan Li, Zhou Dong left the house, glancing at the slowly setting sun in the west, he couldn't help but have a headache.

Xie An, the secretary of the Criminal Department......

That is the most important minister of the Great Zhou Emperor Li Shou, it is said that the two are called Junchen, but in fact, they are like brothers. Now that he is a Guangling assassin to find trouble with Xie An, isn't this the Emperor of the Great Zhou worried?

It seems that I can only go to that one......

"Smack!" Standing at the mouth of an inconspicuous alley, Zhou Dong clapped his hands, and immediately, a person flashed out of the dark shadow in front of him, clasping his fists and knocking on the ground.

"I can't leave right now, you go and contact the second leader, just say...... The list that my Guangling assassin received before was Xie An, the secretary of the Criminal Department! ”

"Yes!"

Watch as the man disappears at the end of the alley. Zhou Dong sighed secretly, and gathered more than twenty Guangling assassin brothers under his command, planning to follow Wan Li to try his luck today.

If Xie An was really recuperating in that dwelling, it would naturally be the best to kill him with one sword. It also saves this guy who will retaliate later, as long as he pushes the ground and cleans it up afterwards, it is no big deal to be careful, the problem is that if the other party is not there, it will be more troublesome......

If Xie An had been injured and had transferred tens of thousands of troops to Guangling in a fit of rage, his own Guangling assassins would not have any way to survive in the future, not to mention that the other party also had many powerful assassins scattered in Jiangnan. Unless he and others completely throw themselves into the Taiping Army......

Thinking of this, Zhou Dong couldn't help frowning.

To be honest, he looked down on the Dongling Assassin and the Dangerous Building Assassin for no other reason. Just because these two Assassin Lodges have now completely surrendered to the Imperial Court and become the minions of the Imperial Court, which is really contrary to the purpose of the Assassin Pavilion.

Although over the years, the Guangling Assassins had secret ties to the Taiping army and even to the Qin king Li Shen. But that's just cooperation, not subordination. And in his opinion, the Dongling people and the Jinling people have now become the eagle dogs of the imperial court, and now, it is his turn to be the Guangling assassin?

Damn it!

Secretly scolded, Zhou Dong still decided to follow Wan Li to try his luck first, if he couldn't kill that Xie An, and then make another plan, anyway, killing Xie An was not his order, and he was not afraid of being remembered by Xie An.

Moreover, he didn't plan to do anything to Xie An's gang, and the reason why he brought more than 20 henchmen was nothing more than to show loyalty to Wan Li, after all, the latter showed a trace of murder to him in order to hide this matter.

Wan Li was naturally happy about Zhou Dong's knowledge, and took the dozens of Guangling assassins to quietly approach the house of Wang Xin's mother and daughter at night.

And as they quietly climbed over the wall, in the lobby of the royal house, an assassin wrapped in a black nightcoat slowly opened his eyes......

"Let's go, let's get in!" Standing in the courtyard of the Wang family's house, Wan Li lowered his voice and urged the brothers under his hands, and then broke into the house first, came to the bedroom on the left, raised the dagger in his hand and poked it several times at the bedding of the bed.

No one?

Frowning, Wan Li took those people to the bedroom on the right again, only to find that this bedroom was also empty.

What's going on? Didn't you say that Xie An was here to recuperate?

Just when Wan Li was secretly suspicious, he suddenly heard a few screams from the courtyard, and he hurriedly led people out of the house.

At this time, dozens of Guangling assassins in the courtyard looked at the darkness around them as if they were facing a great enemy, and even Zhou Dong, who was watching coldly from the side at first, and the twenty or so Guangling assassins under his command also had a solemn expression.

"What's going on, Zhou Dong?" Wan Li asked angrily.

Zhou Dong shook his head slowly, looking around with a solemn face, as if there was some deadly and terrifying beast lurking in this darkness.

There are masters!

Including Wan Li and Zhou Dong, the minds of all the Guangling assassins were subconsciously suspended, and faintly, they caught a glimpse of a black shadow passing in front of them and disappearing into the night.

"Ahh With a scream, a Guangling assassin disappeared from the sight of his companions.

"Ahh Again, another Guangling assassin was brutally killed, but all the Guangling assassins didn't see each other's figures.

Dozens of Guangling assassins were hunted and killed by the other party in the dark night?

That guy's assassination technique is far more powerful than the Dongling Four Heavenly Kings [Shadow Snake] Gou Gong that he bumped into two days ago!

What the hell is going on?!

Could it be that [Ghost Queen] Jin Ling'er personally went out for her concubine?

No, that girl should still be watching the child in Jijing......

Just when Wan Li was shocked and angry, he suddenly heard a bad wind coming from the back of his head, and he didn't think about it, so he turned around and blocked it with a dagger, only to hear a bang, and sparks splashed everywhere. Wan Li finally got a good eye out of the Assassin standing on the wall to hunt them down.

It was a foreign assassin wrapped in a night coat, and even his face was tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of eyes, and what shocked Wan Li was the blade used in the opponent's hand, which was a chain knife with long chains.

The Four Heavenly Kings of Dongling, the murderer [sickle] Mo Fei!

It turned out to be this murderous villain!

Wan Li's heart was beating wildly, you must know that among the countless assassins in the Great Zhou, there are only two people who have been named killers, one is Jin Ling'er, the former head of the assassins of Jinling Weilou [Ghost Queen]. One is Mo Fei of the Four Heavenly Kings of Dongling, both of whom are named after their superb assassination skills.

Shooting the dagger in his hand at Mo Fei casually, Wan Li immediately ordered the brothers to take precautions, and then said coldly, "I didn't expect that it was Mo Fei, the [sickle] of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Dongling Mountains, who went out in person...... Desert Fly. The days of being a dog for the imperial court must have been fun, right? ”

I saw that in the dark night, in full view of everyone, Mo Fei gently flicked the sickle in his hand without any fluctuations, and a pair of indifferent eyes that seemed to have no emotion looked faintly at the dozens of Guangling assassins in front of him.

If it was Xiao Li, Xu Jie, or even Gou Gong, another Four Heavenly King of the Dongling Mountains, they encountered dozens of Guangling assassins, and they would only have the only way out of turning around and fleeing for their lives. But Mo Fei is different, he is the assassin who is the best at assassination in Dongling, and the assassination technique is only a line behind Jin Ling'er at the beginning, not to mention that now Jin Ling'er has given birth to Xie An's daughter Nini. Martial arts have been abandoned for more than a year, and Mo Fei is good at practicing in order to surpass Chen Bei, who is the number one assassin in the world in his opinion. Not to mention these guys in front of you.

Although it is the same as an assassin, the grade is too far behind. Although Mo Fei was probably no match for these dozens of assassins in the face, in such a late night, these dozens of Guangling assassins were nothing more than prey targeted by Mo Fei.

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead!" Faintly spit out a cold word, Mo Fei sneered, and disappeared into the night with a backward jump, so that the dozens of Guangling assassins outside the middle courtyard of the Wang Family Courtyard did not dare to move, after all, they were also assassins, and they knew very well that Mo Fei's plan was nothing more than to suddenly hide his figure, so that they could tremble in their hearts, so that they could assassinate them one by one.

"Withdraw!" Wan Liyi gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

Because he had already realized that Xie An seemed to have already guessed that he would bring someone to assassinate him again, so he had already slipped away with Wang Xin's mother and daughter, and the reason why he left Mo Fei was nothing more than to ask Mo Fei to teach them a good lesson.

In all fairness, Wan Li himself is not afraid of Mo Fei, although he has not fought with Mo Fei, but he has had several skirmishes with Jin Ling'er in Jinling City, but the problem is that the Guangling assassin brothers under his command can't prevent the assassination of Mo Fei and other big assassins, and if he stays, I am afraid that he will be hunted by Mo Fei alone, after all, the confrontation between assassins is different from the confrontation between generals on the battlefield, but it is not that there are many people who must have an advantage.

Seeing that the Guangling assassins under Wan Li's protection slowly retreated, Mo Fei, who was lurking in the trees outside the courtyard, snorted coldly and slowly showed his figure.

[…… Mo Fei, just kill a few to frustrate their sharpness, but don't finish killing, the government is still thinking, after the injury is healed, play with them well......]

The words that his lord Xie An told him sounded in his mind, and Mo Fei also gave up on the idea of catching up, first, Xie An had ordered him, and secondly, there were no masters among the Guangling assassins, once he was besieged by those dozens of people, he Mo Fei did not dare to guarantee whether he could come back alive.

"It's still a lot worse, it's ...... with that man" Glancing at the blood-dripping chain knife in his hand, Mo Fei, who had always been expressionless, sighed rarely.

He couldn't help but think of Chen Bei and the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army.

It is undeniable that the assassin Mo Fei wanted to surpass before this was undoubtedly Jin Ling'er's [Ghost Queen] Jin Ling'er, after all, he had lost to this woman when he was in Jijing, but since he met the man named Chen Bei, Mo Fei has lost interest in surpassing Jin Ling'er, after all, Jin Ling'er is a woman, and now that she has given birth to a daughter, her strength has been greatly reduced, Mo Fei really has no interest in comparing with her, only that man, the man called Chen Bei......

As the assassin who is best at assassination under Xie An's command today, Mo Fei desperately hopes that he can compete with Chen Bei in the future, but for now, he really has no certainty.

"If it's that guy, I'm afraid none of these people will be able to go back......"

Sighing a little unwillingly, Mo Fei disappeared into the night, and then quietly landed in a private house hundreds of feet away.

The door hasn't been pushed yet. Mo Fei heard a suppressed cry coming from inside the house.

"No, you talk nonsense, my mother will be fine......"

Slightly stunned, Mo Fei pushed the door and walked in, seeing Gou Gong and Xiao Li in the house subconsciously reaching out to touch the dagger behind his waist, he hurriedly said, "It's me!" ”

"Leader Mo, you almost scared me to death......" Xiao Li patted his chest, about Mo Fei's hiding figure. He sincerely admired, no, before Mo Fei pushed the door in, no one in the room noticed his breath and footsteps.

"The third brother is getting more and more powerful......" Gou Gong praised with some embarrassment, although he was not known for assassination. But seeing that his third brother has become so powerful now, he can't help but feel a little pressured.

Nodding kindly to Gou Gong, the second brother of the alliance, Mo Fei glanced at Wang Xin, whose eyes were red, suspiciously, and then walked to Xie An's bed, clasped his fists and said, "As expected!" The Guangling assassin gathered dozens of people to injure the adult, but fortunately, the adult chess was high......"

"Hmm!" Xie An nodded. He hated the Guangling assassin even more in his heart, and praised him with kind words, "Thanks to you for arriving in time, Mo Fei." Otherwise, there is no bottom in the house's heart......"

"As it should be! - I knew that this was the case, and I should have come to Guangling with my lords......" may have thought that he would inevitably be reprimanded by the eldest grandson Xiangyu in the future, and Mo Fei's words were faintly a little worried, he was quite afraid of the black-bellied woman.

As the saying goes, the speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Mo Fei was a self-reproachful remark, but it sounded a little harsh to Xiao Li and Gou Gong.

"What does this mean, Desert Chief?"

"The third brother doesn't like to listen to this, the second brother doesn't like to hear it......"

Mo Fei's eyes looked at Xiao Li and Gou Gong with displeasure on their faces.

"Alright, alright. Mo Fei's character is not clear to you, what are you arguing about? Glancing at Xiao Li and Gou Gong angrily, Xie An turned his head to look at Wang Xin, who was still sitting beside the bed and sobbing, and sighed secretly in his heart.

Yesterday, Xie An asked Gou Gong to diagnose Tang, the wife of his benefactor Wang Wu and the mother of the little girl Wang Xin, and then invited a famous doctor in the city.

This afternoon, Xie An asked Gou Gong to invite another doctor, and after the diagnosis, it was still the same result, so the little girl kept crying, crying Xie An'an was sour, not to mention his persuasion, even his mother Tang's persuasion did not listen.

From this point of view, Xie An admired Wang Xin's mother Tang a little, after all, this woman was quite indifferent after learning about her illness, as if she had known all this for a long time.

Think about it, I have been seriously ill for several years, but because of the relationship between money, the medication is intermittent, and there is no good nourishment on weekdays, and the disease has been dragging on, and now it is strange that it can be completely cured, or how can people say [recuperation is like raising a tiger, and a tiger is going to hurt people]?

If Xie An had met the mother and daughter two years earlier, or even earlier, Tang's condition might have been cured, but now, it's too late, according to the doctor who came, even if he cultivated carefully and dragged him with various famous medicines, Tang's life might not be able to recover his former health.

"Crying for what?" Touching the little girl's head with the only left hand that could move, Xie An chuckled and said, "Those two doctors did say that your mother might not be better, but they didn't say that your mother would leave you, what are you listening to?" ――As long as you use those precious medicines to nourish carefully, even if you don't cure the symptoms, you can still be by your side, right? ”

"But those medicines are so expensive......," the little girl said with a little crying.

"What are you afraid of? My brother has silver, so it's not a problem to take care of your mother and daughter......"

"That's a lot of silver...... the little girl looked at Xie An timidly, and said tentatively, "Is my brother willing to spend so much silver to treat my mother's illness?" - I'm just my brother's concubine......"

Xie An clearly caught a glimpse of Mo Fei's eyes trembling slightly, glanced at the little girl in disbelief, and hurriedly coughed and said, "Stupid girl is talking nonsense again, you are the godsister I recognize......"

"But I slept with my brother......"

Seeing that the faces of Xiao Li, Gou Gong, and Mo Fei in the house changed slightly, Xie An raised his hand and knocked on the door of the little girl's head, and scolded, "Stupid girl, talk nonsense to me again!" - Okay, don't cry, wipe your face and go next door to chat with your mother, brother has something to discuss with these adults! ”

"Hit me again......" muttered, the little girl glanced at Xie An sullenly, and went to the next room.

Looking at the back of this woman leaving, Xiao Li, Gou Gong, and Mo Fei glanced at each other, and they didn't speak very strangely, which made Xie An a little embarrassed.

"Little girl, I really can't speak," Xie An diverted the topic and asked Mo Feidao, "Mo Fei, according to your estimates, when will Ding Qiu and them arrive in Guangling?" ”

Seeing Xie An mention the matter, Mo Fei's eyes were straight, and he clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, "When I met Leader Xiao by luck, I was actually rushing to Guangling, and after hearing about this, a few brothers around me at that time went to contact the brothers everywhere, calculating the schedule of Leader Ding Qiu, at least three days, at most ten days, and it should be able to reach more than 100 people......

"Excellent! - Then wait for Ding Qiu to arrive after the others, and then settle this account with the Guangling assassins! ”

Xie An thought well, although his legs and right hand could not be recovered in just over ten days, but what was he afraid of? With Mo Fei and Ding Qiu's more than 200 Dongling and Jinling assassins there, would he be afraid that the Guangling assassins would do something again?

As for the inconvenience, you can ask someone to build a wheelchair, and ask Gou Gong and others to push it.

But what Xie An never expected was that when Ding Qiu and others arrived in Guangling half a month later, when he excitedly led a group of his subordinates to find trouble with the Guangling assassins, he found that the Guangling assassins seemed to have disappeared and were completely gone.

Obviously, the other party was scared and hidden, but the problem is that their hiding does not mean that Xie An will just give up, after all, Xie An will never be soft on the guy who dares to harm himself, and he is bound to weed and eradicate the roots!

As a result, more than 200 Dongling and Jinling assassins played a game of soldiers and thieves with the Guangling assassins in this huge Guangling City......

The former was violent, and the latter couldn't shrink, so Xie An was so angry that he couldn't wait to bring in an army to turn the entire Guangling upside down.

Until one day, Xie An suddenly heard a news......