16. Dart board business
It was night, in the city of Suzhou, in a fragrant courtyard full of colorful flowers, the shouting of killing suddenly sounded, alarming this ray of calm night.
"Zhang Lan dog thief! Demon Cult Demons! Come on! ”
A sword-wielding man with a hat jumped from the eaves, and behind him was a similarly dressed companion holding a sword.
The two of them fell to the ground, and they fit together and crashed into the beautiful attic with the candle flame in front of them.
With the sound of the door being smashed, a woman's frightened scream suddenly sounded in the room, and Zhang Lan, who was standing in front of the desk, holding a brush and drawing, had an ugly face.
In front of him, the maid who did not have a wisp on her body and maintained the posture of a beauty out of the bath had been frightened by these two Jianghu people who did not understand the customs.
"Alas"
Zhang Lan sighed lightly, he threw away the brush and grabbed the folding fan in his hand.
The fierce man in front of him slashed at the desk in half with a knife, but Zhang Lan's figure was like a ghost, and he didn't see any force, so he dodged the knife lightly.
Another Jianghu man stabbed with a sword, but stabbed in the air.
The figure flickered in front of him, and he saw the playboy holding the folding fan, standing with his feet on the blade of the sword he stabbed, one hand behind him, and the other hand open the folding fan and shook it gently.
On that handsome face, there was indifference in both eyes.
This scene stunned the sword-wielding man.
The sword in his hand was holding a person, but it was weightless, as if the demon cult demon in front of him was as light as a feather.
"Ahh
The man with the knife shouted, picked up the broadsword and slashed at the playboy.
Zhang Lan sneered, and his left foot poked out, like a long whip, and threw a sharp sound in the air, kicking the knife-wielding man with his toes.
True Qi poured from the tip of his foot into the man's wrist, causing his arm to go numb, and the big knife came out of his hand.
With a bang, the knife-wielding man was kicked in the abdomen by Zhang Lan, who flashed into the ground, and the whole person was kicked to the ground, and the protective true qi was also kicked away.
Zhang Lan probed lightly with his left hand, as if hooking a silk thread, and the knife that flew out spun around in the air, and was hit on the handle of the knife by a folding fan by the playboy.
"Bang"
Really angry.
The castrated broadsword was like being pushed violently, whistling and stabbing at the man in front of him who got up from the ground.
His eyes widened as he saw his own knife whizzing.
"Poof"
The sharp blade pierced the heart, and the great force attached to the broadsword pushed the man in the hat back and forth, and finally pinned him to the wall on the other side of the room.
"Wow"
With the sound of the machine spring, a black knife popped out from the folding fan bone in Zhang Lan's hand, and when he turned around, the blade fluttered against the neck of the sword-wielding assassin behind him.
forced the latter not to dare to move again.
"In this Suzhou city, some people hate me for being chic and golden, some people hate me for being beautiful, and there are always sluts who are jealous of Young Master Ben's graceful and suave nature."
Zhang Lan looked at the assassin in front of him, and he asked softly:
"Why did you come to kill me?"
"You... You are the young master of the Seven Peerless Sects! The son of the Demon Sect Leader again! ”
The sword-wielding assassin knew that he would die today, and he no longer feared it, and he cried out:
"What is the reason why the right way in the world kills you? You people in the Demon Sect have acted perversely, messing up the Miao Territory in the Western Regions, and peeking into my Central Plains martial arts, and everyone will be punished! ”
"Well said."
Zhang Lan chuckled lightly, and he said:
"But there are two mistakes.
First of all, the master of the Seven Peerless Sects is my brother Zhang Chu.
Secondly, the Jianghu Mind Method you used was given to the Jianghu people by my father Zhang Moxie! You have received the favor of my father, and you have not thought of reciprocating, but have come to assassinate you, what an ungrateful dog!
Is this the backbone of those of your righteous path?
Hehe, young master, I really saw it again today. ”
The playboy chuckled, and with a slight movement of his arm, the small blade that popped out of the folding fan was like a breeze blowing a flower, and a slight stroke on the assassin's neck cut off his life.
The smell of blood filled the attic full of candle flames.
Zhang Lan didn't care, he walked to the smashed desk, and picked up the half-drawn beauty out of the bath with a distressed face.
"Beauty, let's continue."
He smiled at the frightened naked beauty in front of him, who stiffened, but he didn't dare to resist, so he could only force himself to take a bath again.
Zhang Lan took out a piece of drawing paper again, put it on the chair, and began to draw Danqing again.
His own servants entered the room and quietly cleaned the ground of the corpses and bloodstains.
"Recently, the peonies in the courtyard have not bloomed so much."
Zhang Lan said casually.
Those servants dragged away the corpse silently, and the young master's meaning was very clear, and he wanted to use these two people as flower fertilizer.
In this process, no one dared to look up at the red ** with thousands of manners, and the servants in this courtyard knew the second young master's romantic temper.
For the women around me, I love it the most.
After a long time, when Danqing finished painting, it was early in the morning.
The woman had been in a pose all night, and was already exhausted, so she lay down in the arms of the playboy and fell into a deep sleep.
Zhang Lan sat on the chair, his fingers caressed the skin of this beautiful jade, he looked at the Danqing painting in front of him, between the candlelight swaying, the figure on the painting was lifelike.
But not a woman.
It's not a beauty who bathes tonight.
It's a man.
It's Shen Qiu.
Zhang Lan's fingers caressed the painting, and finally landed on Shen Qiu's left wrist, where the shape of the Heavenly Sword Jade was clearly depicted with exquisite painting techniques.
Zhang Lan stroked the sword jade on the paper, and there was no tenderness in his eyes, but a touch of nostalgia and sadness.
"Father, you're really...
Dead? ”
The origin of this Zhang Lan has also been said by everyone Shen before.
He is a strange man of a generation, the son of Mo Xie of the Demon Sect, since his father was grieved by the death of his mother and disappeared inexplicably, in the past ten years, too many things have indeed happened.
Zhang Moxie was born in the Seven Peerless Sects, one of the seven sects of the Demon Sect, and that place was in the Western Regions.
After his disappearance, the Demon Sect split, and his eldest son Zhang Chu inherited the position of the master of the Seven Peerless Sects, while the younger son Zhang Lan left home and came to the land of Jiangnan.
He was forced over by his brother, that's right.
But there is another reason, compared to Zhang Chu, who wants to reunite with the Demon Sect and inherit his father's glory, Zhang Lan has no interest in the affairs of the Demon Sect, his purpose is very simple, he just wants to find his father.
He never believed that his father, as rumored by the outside world, was overly sad and went mad and died.
How could a strange generation like his father end up like this?
Zhang Lan firmly believes that Zhang Moxie is still alive, and he will definitely find his father.
And now, the most important clue has emerged.
Shen Qiu, the piece of jade in his hand, Zhang Lan had seen countless times when he was a child.
That piece of jade, which is my father's beloved thing, never leaves my hand, it disappeared with my father, how could it reappear ten years later and fall into Shen Qiu's hands again?
What is the relationship between this Shen Qiu and his father?
Has he seen his father?
These unsolvable questions came to her mind one after another, and no matter how much Zhang Lan thought about it, she couldn't find the answers.
He had to ask Shen Qiu face to face.
If that guy doesn't know each other, give him some color to see, and give him some hard food!
It's nothing more than a teenager who has just entered the rivers and lakes, what skills can he have?
Zhang Lan hugged the jade beauty in her arms, the light in her eyes was bright and dark, and after a night, in the early hours of the morning, this pity playboy finally made a decision.
Early the next morning, after Zhang Lan took a bath with the two beauties, she had breakfast and planned to go to Yanyulou.
Before he went out, he saw Shen Lan's maid Xiuhe, dressed in an ordinary person's outfit, walking into his flower-filled mansion.
"You've come just in time."
Zhang Lan saw Xiuhe in the study, he danced with a folding fan in his hand, and said to Xiuhe:
"You go and tell your young lady that Young Master Ben needs those killers under her command to tie someone back for me in Suzhou City."
"Childe, whose daughter are you fancy again?"
Xiuhe glanced at Zhang Lan in surprise, and she said:
"There are already twelve picturesque beauties in your house, all of them are stunning in Jiangnan, aren't you satisfied?"
Zhang Lan was angry when he said this.
With a sigh, he opened the folding fan in his hand with a picture of a beautiful woman taking a bath, and he said angrily:
"In the eyes of you, this little girl, Young Master Ben is also the kind of person who is greedy for flowers and lustful?
Of the twelve beauties in this house, Young Master Ben has never touched any of them, and they are all still perfect.
Young Master Ben gathered them over, not to do the ugly thing of yin and yang, but to give birth to them and watch those beauties bloom like flowers. ”
Zhang Lan narrowed his eyes, as if he saw the most beautiful scenery in the world, and he said:
"Just like this garden full of spring, the flowers are undefeated, and the crowd is beautiful, isn't it a beautiful thing in the world?"
The maid Xiuhe looked at Zhang Lan with a strange gaze, and she complained:
"That son, you are really a strange person with unique tastes. But this kidnapping thing is easy to say, you go to Yanyu Building with me first, and Miss has something important to discuss with you. ”
"No, you guys tie people up to Young Master Ben first."
Zhang Lan had the style of a son-in-law, and he said to Xiuhe's maid:
"Shen Lan, that demon girl, it's not once or twice that she has gone back on her word.
Last time, I also said that Young Master Ben helped her deal with the rebellious Five Elements Sect people, so he asked Young Master Ben to draw a picture of a beautiful woman bathing for her. ”
He shook his fan, took a sip of tea, and said comfortably:
"Young Master Ben doesn't believe in her anymore."
Xiuhe was helpless and could only ask:
"Then you say, which girl do you want to tie up?"
"Who said it was a girl?"
Zhang Lan glanced at Xiuhe, he lowered his voice and said:
"Lu Family Dart Bureau, Shen Qiu, tie him up!"
“!!!”
Xiuhe's eyes widened, she quietly took a few steps back, keeping herself away from Zhang Lan, she said:
"I really didn't expect that Miss's guess is true, it's a pity that the playboy is not good for women, and he prefers male pets..."
"Nonsense!"
Zhang Lan jumped up excitedly, he swept behind Xiuhe like a phantom, stretched out his hand to cover the girl's mouth, he threatened viciously:
"Do you want Young Master Ben to be here to be fortunate to you, let you see who Young Master Ben likes?"
Xiuhe is not annoyed.
She laughed and shook her body, her arms were like no bones, and she buckled on Zhang Lan's shoulders in reverse, and her slender body rose into the air and flipped around.
After getting rid of the shackles, it fell behind Zhang Lan like paper.
She patted her sleeve and said to Zhang Lan:
"Okay, I'm not kidding you, Gongzi Zhang.
It's easy for others to tie up, but only Shen Qiu is a little troublesome, and my young lady is also paying attention to him, and there are a lot of Mo family people around him recently..."
"The Mo family?"
Zhang Lan suddenly frowned.
Although Momen is not well-known in the rivers and lakes, people with a little experience in the rivers and lakes know how difficult these Momen people are, and they are not at all the same way as the style of the Jianghu sect.
The various tricks are even more miraculous.
Once they are really anxious, I am afraid that the side of the Seven Peerless Sect will also be implicated.
Although Zhang Lan didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the Demon Sect, he couldn't take the initiative to cause trouble for his family.
He thought about it for a while and said to Xiuhe:
"Then you go and report back to your young lady, this young master is going to leave Suzhou recently, half a month soon, a month slowly, even if there is a big thing, wait until I come back."
Also, you tell her not to act recklessly.
On the side of the Red Lian Demon Lord, there is Mrs. Tongtang to help her withstand, the Qu evil demon is afraid of the Miao Jiang witch Gu, as long as your young lady resists death, Qu Xie will not dare to mess around at will. ”
"Yes."
Xiuhe made a blessing to Zhang Lan, and did not drag the mud and water, and turned to leave.
Zhang Lan looked at Xiuhe's slender back, swaying waist when walking, he admired it, and after Xiuhe left, the playboy stood up and played with the folding fan in his hand.
He is a wise man, otherwise Shen Lan would not have discussed important matters with him.
"There are people in Suzhou City, so you can't do it here."
Zhang Lan breathed a sigh of relief, and he muttered to himself:
"We have to get him out of Suzhou, and we have to get rid of Momen, and let me think... The rudder of the Seven Peerless Gates in the Central Plains is still far away in Changsha... The land of Xiaoxiang.
Well, it's a great place to bury bones. ”
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Two days later, in the evening, Shen Qiu was about to close the door of the dart game, but saw Old Man Liu walking towards this side happily.
"Yo, Uncle Liu, is this picking up the money? Why are you so happy? ”
Shen Qiu quipped, and the old man Liu walked into the dart game with a smile, they were all neighbors, and he didn't drag the mud and water, and said to Shen Qiu directly:
"A few days ago, you asked me to find some business for your dart bureau, no, my son talked about a big business for you today."
The old man said to Shen Qiu:
"The brocade shop on the next street was about to send a batch of brocade out of Suzhou, and the shopkeeper of his house had a good relationship with my son, so he asked my son to consult him.
My son recommended you to the Lujia Dart Bureau. ”
Old man Liu took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and handed it to Shen Qiu, he said:
"That's the money."
"Darts."
Shen Qiu was a little hesitant, he himself had just recovered from his injury and was about to recuperate, he didn't really want to do this dart thing.
But introduced by acquaintances, it is not easy to refuse, this Uncle Liu also takes good care of Shen Qiu and Qingqing on weekdays, and he is the same person as the elders.
He didn't collect the cash ticket and asked:
"Where are you going to send those brocades?"
"It's not far, it's in the land of Xiaoxiang."
Old man Liu said:
"Along the Yangtze River, you can return in less than half a month, and the brocade shop shopkeeper is in a hurry, so the remuneration is quite considerable."
"The land of Xiaoxiang."
Shen Qiu touched his chin, and he asked:
"Where, exactly?"
Old man Liu replied:
"Changsha."