Chapter Twenty-Eight: When the Assassin Meets the Assassin

"Jinling...... Isn't Jinling one of the biggest cities in the south of the Yangtze River? ”

Sitting on the pile of rice bags next to the camp fence, Xie An asked the seemingly sissy [pawn] next to him in surprise, not realizing that this [pawn] seemed to be preparing to assassinate him just now.

"So what?" Jin Ling'er, who was pretending to be a pawn, sighed faintly, shook her head and said, "Jinling, it's not good at all, at least that's how it feels to me...... Shijin thought that Jinling was a rare and wealthy place in the Great Zhou, but in fact this was not the case, and many orphans starved to death on the streets of Jinling every year, while the government ignored them......"

"Orphans? Could it be that there was a war in Jinling? Or have you suffered an unimaginable disaster? Xie An asked in surprise, because as far as he knew, the Jiangnan area was quite stable in recent years.

Hearing this, Jin Ling'er glanced at Xie An and said lightly, "Does Dajin know about [the sinners]?" ”

"[Sinner]?" Xie An was stunned, and guessed tentatively, "Could it be that he committed a crime?" ”

"That's a criminal, isn't it?"

"Uh......" Xie An scratched his head a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Jin Ling'er said in a low voice, "The sinners refer to the remnants of the Southern Tang Dynasty......"

"The remnants of the Southern Tang Dynasty?"

"Well, thirty years ago, the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty crossed the river and ruled, and then the Great Zhou Dynasty led the army to the south, Jinling is the city captured by the seat, in order to deter the military and civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty killed a lot of people in Jinling and other places, therefore, the military and civilians of Jinling City should not be the soldiers and civilians of Jiangnan, they all hate the Great Zhou, even after the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, the people of Jiangnan are still concerned about the Southern Tang Dynasty, the people's hearts are unstable, and the Green Forest Righteous Army has repeatedly banned it......"

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"Seventeen years ago, in Shizigang on the east side of the Huai River, Xue Ren, the relict general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, raised the anti-flag, organized volunteers, attacked Jinling City, but unfortunately failed, after that, Xue Ren led the defeated army to escape across the Huai River, and invited the Green Forest Righteous Army in Taiping and Wuhu areas, and the Green Forest Righteous Men from all sides in the south of the Yangtze River flocked to the country, and finally got 40,000 into the horse, calling themselves [Taiping Army], and attacked Jinling again, causing the people of Jinling to suffer again......

Xie An was surprised, "Could it be captured this time?" ”

Jin Ling'er shook her head and sighed, "Yes, that's why it's called Mengnan...... Knowing that the Taiping army openly raised the flag to resist the Great Zhou, the Great Zhou Dynasty was furious, personally clothed himself, and led the Eastern Army [Shenwu], the Southern Army [Trap], and the Western Army [Jiefu], the three armies of Zhenjing, thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River, and defeated the Taiping Army in the Huai River......"

"The Eastern Army has also been dispatched?" Xie Anxin was slightly surprised, and muttered to himself, "Seventeen years ago, Wu had just been born at that time, too, is it the old Liangqiu Gong?" ”

Glancing at Xie An, Jin Ling'er shook her head and said, "It's not the Duke of Dongguo, it's the Marquis of Dongzhen, Liang Qiujing!" ”

Good familiar name o A...... Xie An tilted his head and thought about it, and suddenly realized that he secretly knocked on the door of his head.

Stupid!

Dongzhenhou, Liang Qiujing, isn't Wu's father, his own father-in-law?

In this way, his old man is still alive seventeen years ago?

Isn't it rumored that his father-in-law, Dajin, was killed in the attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty?

Oh, yes, there is no difference between the Taiping army and the Southern Tang army...... In other words, did his father-in-law, who died early in the prime of life, die in that battle?

Thinking of this, Xie An sighed secretly.

"Dongzhen Hou Liang Qiu Jing, the word Wenyan, once won the name of the martial arts, according to the martial arts and his father Liang Qiu Gong, and Jing in the use of soldiers, led by the command is the Eastern Army such a fierce division, Xue Ren's Taiping Army is difficult to resist, with 40,000 Taiping troops to attack 20,000 Eastern Army, but was defeated by the latter, that battle, Dongzhen Hou took the lead, beheaded the general to capture the flag, really worthy of the reputation of that [Liangqiu is a tiger general], in Wuhu, in the army of ten thousand people to pick up the Taiping army commander Xue Ren, More than 20,000 remnants of the Taiping army were defeated and jumped into Wuhu to flee for their lives......"

It's so powerful, my father-in-law is ...... worthy of the father of dance...... Xie An secretly exclaimed, and suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and wondered, "How can the Eastern Army fight the Taiping Army?" What about the Southern Army and the Western Army? ”

Jin Ling'er slowly closed her eyes and said in a low voice, "The Western Army sneaked into Jinling at night, captured the East Gate, and put the Southern Army Trap Camp into the city...... In view of the fact that when Xue Ren attacked Jinling, the people in Jinling City secretly helped each other, therefore, the Great Zhou Dynasty ordered the Southern Army to slaughter the people in the city, but all those who were offered to the Southern Tang Emperor Liu Sheng's spiritual seat at home were all [sinners] and were killed...... At that time, almost half of the people of Jinling were offering Liu Sheng's spiritual seat at home, so the entrance to Jinling was sharply reduced by half, and more than 30,000 people were killed......"

"Hiss......" Xie An gasped when he heard this.

In the end, Nanguo Gong Lu Song couldn't look past it, and persuaded him bitterly, [Ignorant children don't know the sins of their parents, and they can be spared death.] The Great Zhou Xiaozi just stopped, and he didn't kill them all......"

"Also, the orphans of your mouth are the children of [sinners]?"

A trace of killing intent flashed in Jin Ling'er's eyes when she heard this, and then, when she found that Xie An was just asking, the killing intent in her eyes quietly receded, and she nodded, "Yes, but it's not exactly ......."

"How?"

Jin Ling'er pondered for a moment and said, "The matter of the Southern Army's slaughter of Jinling spread throughout Jiangnan within a few months, which made the people of Jiangnan [anti-Zhou] even stronger, and secretly exchanged ...... Taiping Army."

"The Taipings?" Xie An was stunned and asked in surprise, "Didn't the Taiping Army be ...... by my Yue cough, wasn't he annihilated by Dongzhenhou? ”

"No, no!" Jin Ling'er shook her head and said, "According to it, Hou Liang Qiujing of Dongzhen pursued the Taiping army all the way to Sanshan, not only killed more than 20,000 remnants of the Taiping army, but also forced these into a desperate situation, it was a certain death situation, but I didn't want to turn around, Hou Liang Qiujing of Dongzhen was accidentally hit in the head by a stray arrow when pursuing the Taiping army, and was killed immediately, when the Eastern army was in chaos, where could I still take care of the pursuit of the Taiping army, so that the thousands of Taiping troops escaped by luck......

Although Xie An had already heard about the misfortune of his father-in-law, when he heard this, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, sighing that Dongzhenhou was such a fierce general, and he died so unjustly.

"And then?"

"Later......" Jin Ling'er raised her head and glanced at the sky, and sighed slightly, "With Jinling in front of you, the righteous people from all sides in the south of the Yangtze River who oppose Zhou dare not be so blatant...... However, the government in various parts of the Yangtze River still pursues the traces of the Taiping Army, and even, some of them are in order to get promoted and make a fortune, catch the wind and make a shadow, and falsely accuse the ordinary people of being the remnants of the Taiping Army. That's why the Seventh Prince Li Xian went down to the south of the Yangtze River ......"

"......I see," Xie An sighed slightly when he heard this.

He can roughly understand the mind of Li Ji, the son of the Great Zhou, the former heroic king, is already more than half a hundred years old, when he is old, he can't help but recall the past, maybe this is the case for the wise and martial king of the Great Zhou, he is mostly thinking about the disaster he brought to the people of Jiangnan, and he was uneasy, so he asked the seventh prince Li Xian to visit Jiangnan on his behalf to appease the people of Jiangnan.

When he got up, Xie An had seen Li Ji, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and in all fairness, Li Ji left a pretty good impression on him, wise and measured, like the two old men of Yin Gong and Kong Wen, which made Xie An in awe.

But he didn't think that the wise monarch who was always smiling, the one who was bloated, and he couldn't tell that the Great Zhou Emperor, who was once a martial artist, had killed so many ...... Thinking of this, Xie An had a deeper feeling about the sentence that he could not be disfigured.

Sighing slightly, Xie An asked, "What happened to those orphans?" ”

Seeing Xie An ask about this, Jin Ling'er was slightly surprised, thought about it, and said, "At the beginning, Jinling was almost ten rooms and nine empty, in order to make up for the lack of entrances to the city, Prime Minister Sun Yin ...... It is also the current Yin Gong, who proposed to move some people north of the Yangtze River into Jinling, and each family adopted several orphans, and the money spent during the period was borne by the Jinling government......" Here, she smiled and pursed her lips.

"Why are you laughing? Wouldn't that be great? ”

"Good?" Jin Ling'er glanced at Xie An and said coldly, "If it were you, would you like to have a few more people in the family?" And sinners! She let out a long sigh and shook her head, "At that time, few families were willing to adopt the children of those [sinners], and in desperation, the Jinling government had to come forward on its own, build a righteous house, and distribute rice porridge and steamed buns to those orphans......

"That can always be nice, right?" Xie An asked tentatively.

Jin Ling'er glanced at Xie An angrily when she heard this, and then sighed, "At first, it was good, but later, the rice porridge was thinner than the other, and the steamed buns were thinner than the other, and in the end, each person only got a bowl of rice porridge like clear soup, and a piece of steamed bread ......."

Xie An was slightly shocked when he heard this, and frowned, "Why is this?" ”

"What else?" Jin Ling'er sneered and said coldly, "The officials of Jinling have deducted the relief pension that Jijing allocated to me and others!" -- Those brutes, who take our bereavements, and get drunk and die of dreams, do you know that there are still so many hungry orphans in the city? Here, there was an unbelievable anger in her eyes.

"That'...... So what do you do? ”

"What else can I do? To steal, to rob, to kill...... I've got to think about how to live, don't I? Here, Jin Ling'er glanced at Xie An, whose face had become faintly wrong, and said lightly, "Did you notice it?" ”

This time, she used her normal accent.

Listening to the slightly neutral female voice, Xie An was shocked, and he only felt that the cold hairs on his whole body stood up.

The voice...... [Onihime] Kim Ling'er?!

He subconsciously wanted to get up and run away, but before he could stand up, Jin Ling'er gently strangled his neck with his left hand from behind, and at the same time, Xie An felt something sharp against his right side of his waist.

"Why should you be aware of it? I was obviously not in the mood to kill you just now......" Jin Ling'er sighed faintly in Xie An's ear.

Seeing her hand slowly covering her mouth, Xie Anxin knew that she was going to make a move, and hurriedly said, "Wait!" ”

"Huh?" Jin Ling'er was slightly stunned, and said in a low voice with a slight chuckle, "What tricks do you want to play?" ”

"No, no, no, I want to talk to you about ......"

"Delay?" Jin Ling'er pouted and smiled, and joked in Xie An's ear, "If you think that if you alarm the people in the camp, the old lady won't dare to kill you, you try!" ――Let's see if your mouth is fast, or the old lady's knife is fast! ”

"No, don't dare, I really want to talk to you, I definitely don't mean to play tricks......"

Hearing this, Jin Ling'er took a deep look at Xie An, who was strangled by her, slowly let him go, and said lightly, "For the sake of you listening to my prison, let you leave a last word!" ”

"Last words......" Xie An smiled bitterly, turned his head to look at Jin Ling'er, desperately thinking about a way to get out, but unfortunately, until now, he couldn't think of any good way.

Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "Sister Jin, Jin Woman, the reason why you obey the order of the crown prince Li Wei is nothing more than silver, right?" Last time Ding Qiu passed, the crown prince Li Wei used two million taels of silver to buy my life, then, I also used two million taels to buy my life......"

"What do you mean?"

"Yes, you left me merciful and let me go, after returning to Jijing, I will save enough two million taels to sell iron, and I will hand it over to you...... In that case, you don't suffer, do you? ”

Jin Ling'er smiled faintly when she heard this, and said contemptuously, "Is it over?" ”

"If it's two million taels less, you just have to speak, nothing else, I'm still a little confident in making money...... Four million taels! How is it? - And Li Shou, how much does it take to buy his life, the Golden Woman just speaks! ”

Looking at Xie An's expectant gaze, Jin Ling'er let out a long breath, shook her head and said, "Xie An, don't waste your efforts, you can't pay the reward for killing you this time!" ”

Xie An was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "What is the bottom?" ”

"A Jinling City! - Can you give it to me? ”

"Golden ...... Jinling City? Xie An looked at Jin Ling'er blankly, and couldn't help but feel a little desperate.

The thousand-faced ghost Ji Jin Ling'er, such a female assassin whose strength is comparable to Liangqiu Dance, it is simply wishful thinking to escape from her, for this reason, Xie An plans to buy his and Li Shou's lives with silver, hoping that Jin Ling'er can retreat because of this.

But what he never thought about was that the price offered by the crown prince Li Wei this time was something that he Xie An could not promise to Jin Ling'er in his generation...... Looking at Xie An's pale face, Jin Ling'er's eyes flashed a trace of unbearability, and she said in a low voice, "Is there anything else you want?" - Except for carrying a letter for your wife, my mother doesn't want to be chased by that tigress for the rest of her life......"

Xie An smiled bitterly when he heard this, looked at Jin Ling'er and said bitterly, "Then let me see what you really look like, right?" ――I don't even know what the chief who killed me looks like, isn't it very unjust to die? ”

"No! Change one! ”

"......" Xie An opened his mouth and said angrily, "Aren't you dangerous buildings boasting of having a lot of professional ethics?" Last time, when Na Ding Qiu wanted to kill me, he also showed me what he looked like, you are still the boss of the dangerous building, aren't you? ”

Looking at Xie An's slightly excited gaze, Jin Ling'er shook her head and said lightly, "I don't know what Yu looks like, but I don't know how much I ...... to die in Yu's hands, it's not just " Here, her eyes changed slightly, and she looked around with a smile.

But it was still so silent, nothing out of the ordinary.

Frowning and glancing at Xie An, Jin Ling'er said with a bit of mockery, "What? Did the tigress in your family send a master to protect you? ”

"What are you in?" Xie An looked puzzled.

Seeing this, Jin Ling'er was slightly stunned, and asked suspiciously, "Didn't Liangqiu Dance be sent to protect you?" ”

"Yes, Brother Yan, Second Brother Chen, ......"

"The four generals of the Shenwu Battalion of the Non-Eastern Army!" Jin Ling'er interrupted Xie An's words a little anxiously, and said in a deep voice, "It's higher than him!" ”

"No ......" Xie An shook his head, with a bit of joy like rebirth after a catastrophe, and asked tentatively, "What's wrong with you?" Did you change your mind? ”

"Shut up!" Jin Ling'er interrupted Xie An's words in a deep voice, her sharp eyes scanned the dark corners around her, and she cursed secretly in her heart.

Kill you?

The old lady is taking care of herself right now!

Damn, where did such a murderous guy come out?

Could it be that Liang Qiuwu was sent by the woman to secretly protect her husband?

At this moment, suddenly, a cold dagger came from the dark corner in the distance, and then, a black shadow quickly rushed towards Jin Ling'er.

Here it comes!

Jin Ling'er was stunned, and subconsciously pushed Xie An aside, and the whole thing rushed out like an arrow, rushing towards the oncoming dagger...... Is this woman going to die?

Xie Anxin was slightly startled, and subconsciously shouted, "Heart ......"

However, before he could shout his words, he saw Jin Ling'er in the middle of the rush reach out, grabbed the dagger that shè was facing him, and then shook it out with both hands, along with the dagger he had used to threaten Xie An, and only took the face of the black shadow.

What's even more incredible is that when the black shadow raised his hand to shoot down the two daggers, he saw the two daggers colliding together halfway, and he turned around, only to hear a smack, cutting through the black clothes on the other party's body.

Good...... What a great knife skill!

Xie An stared blankly at Jin Ling'er's stunt, forgot to escape for a while, and looked at the two who were fighting in the field with a dull expression.

What puzzled him a little was that the two were obviously fighting so fiercely, but they didn't make any noise, as if they were deliberately contained.

Suddenly, Xie An's eyes lit up, and under his breathtaking expression, he saw Jin Ling'er bend down and dodge the opponent's fist, and then swept with his right foot, raising the dust on the ground, and at the same time as the other party reached out to cover it, he grabbed the left hand and twisted it behind his back, and then, with both legs kicked, his right knee pressed against the back.

What a beautiful combo...... Xie Anxin secretly praised, and suddenly, his eyes changed slightly, and he shouted loudly, "Heart! ”

At the same time, Jin Ling'er also noticed that her body was still in the air, and she looked at the palm that was close to her abdomen.

"Tiger Cannon ......"

When listening to those two words, Jin Ling'er only felt as if she had been hit in the abdomen by a giant hammer, and her whole body was knocked away for several feet, and she fell hard in front of Xie An, vomiting blood in her mouth.

In the process of flying upside down, she clearly saw that the person who injured her was unable to stand on her feet because she lost her balance, and fell to the ground with a thud.

Unbelievable...... In that case, can Jingran still fight back?

And, what's that weird trick? That guy obviously didn't use his strength, but why did he feel that all his internal organs had been hit hard?

This guy, where is it sacred?!

Suddenly, Jin Ling'er's heart froze, and a name jumped into her mind.

Hangu Pass rebel general...... Chen Bei!