Chapter 45: The Third Assassin
"Yes, yes." Xiao Yi said, "Brother Gu, you are so smart, unlike Xiaochen, your uncle is so stupid that she always asks me to protect her." ”
Song Guichen: If you praise people, you praise people, why do you still hurt me?
Gu Yi smiled: "By the way, what about Chief Meng?" ”
"Uncle, he doesn't seem to be in a very good mood, and he said that he was going to Gushan to find Mr. Lin."
Xiao Yi's face was sad, every time his uncle was in a bad mood, he would go to Mr. Lin, but he didn't let himself go with him every time.
Speaking of Mr. Lin, Song Guichen's heart ached.
After Du Qingshan and her went to Lonely Mountain last time, they never had a chance to go out of the Towering Green Tower, let alone go to Lonely Mountain.
These days, she hasn't been thinking about the exchange of souls between Duan Xiaochen and herself, and she doesn't know how to tell Duan Xiaochen the news that Duan Yi'an is dead.
Just sighing, Du Qingshan changed into a dry shirt and came over, still wearing a cyan shirt and a moon white shirt, Song Guichen stood up curiously: "Du Qingshan, do you like cyan very much?" ”
Du Qingshan sneezed, with a thick nasal cavity: "Otherwise, how do you think my name 'Du Qingshan' came from?" ”
Song Guichen tilted his head to the side.
She and he met for the first time on the way to escape, in the snow.
At that time, except for a silver-red cloak on Du Qingshan's body, the other clothes could no longer see the original color, he said that his name was 'Du Qingshan', and Song Guichen didn't think about it.
It's just that these days, every time I see him, he is all cyan, and Song Guichen asks this question.
"I see." Song Guichen nodded slowly, and came to Gu Yi with great interest, "Brother Gu, what color do you like?" ”
Gu Yi thought for a while: "Me?" I don't seem to have anything particularly liked. ”
"Oh, that's a coincidence, I don't have any particular favorite colors." Song Guichen stroked his palm.
Du Qingshan rolled her eyes, the girls are not reserved at all.
He came to the bamboo pole, glanced at the bow and crossbow on the bamboo pole, and praised it loudly: "This bow and crossbow is well designed, and it must have come from the hands of a skilled craftsman." ”
Gu Yi said excitedly: "I almost forgot, Brother Du, you are an expert in weapons, in your opinion, who should this bow and crossbow come from?" ”
Du Qingshan squatted down, looked at it carefully for a moment, and exclaimed: "I have never seen this kind of bow and crossbow design, and the person who designed this mechanism is simply a genius!" ”
The more he looked at it, the more pleased he became: "If I knew who the person who designed this bow and crossbow was, I would definitely ask him to go back to Kaifeng with me and recommend him to work in the Ordnance Prison. ”
As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one.
Gu Yi and Song Guichen saw that Du Qingshan had spared no effort to praise the person who designed the bow and crossbow, and they re-examined the bow and crossbow mechanism for a while.
The assassin who murdered Wang Qinruo planned all this, and it can be said that he did not exhaust himself.
After careful calculation and careful arrangement, finally on the day of Chen Zhi's birthday banquet, the engine was turned off and a small arrow was shot, but in the end, he failed to kill Wang Qinruo, and all his hard work was instantly put into water......
Song Guichen felt sorry for that assassin just by thinking about it.
I knew that she would not be nosy that day and rescued Wang Ruoqin.
"Hey!"
Du Qingshan seemed to know what Song Guichen was sighing about, and he also had relatives in his heart, and sighed for a while: "It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen, no matter how careful and precise the plan is, there will be unexpected things, after all, people are not as good as heaven." ”
Gu Yidao: "The assassin's assassination can be called precise, but if Wang Qinruo died in the Towering Green Tower that day, the official family would definitely not give up." At that time, not to mention that all the personnel of the towering cuilou will not be able to escape the involvement, I am afraid that the Hangzhou Prefecture and the officials of Liangzhejiang Road will not be able to escape the wrath of the Son of Heaven. ”
But that's true.
Wang Qinruo had just taken office, and if he died in Hangzhou, the emperor in Kyoto would be furious.
Du Qingshan knew that the emperor compromised with Prime Minister Wang Dan a few years ago, and had to demote Wang Qinruo to Hangzhou, and he already felt guilty about Wang Qinruo, if Wang Qinruo died, it would definitely set off stormy waves.
"It's come to this, although I feel sorry for that assassin, but I'm also very interested in this assassin......" Du Qingshan looked at Gu Yi, "Brother Gu, you have always been thoughtful, what do you think of this assassin?" ”
Gu Yi groaned slightly: "To be honest, I have a bold guess now. ”
"What speculation?"
Gu Yi looked at Xiao Yi, who was sitting boredly on the railing of the cloister, pulling the willow branches without a pair, and said, "Bartender Zhou Qiang." ”
Song Guichen immediately reacted to what he meant, and immediately retorted: "Impossible, Brother Zhou has no reason to do this!" ”
"This?" Du Qingshan looked at Gu Yi and then at Song Guichen, "Why is Brother Gu so speculating?" ”
"I just thought about it.
Brother Du, you think, to install such an elaborate and laborious mechanism here, and arrange everything exactly as it is, the assassin must be someone who is familiar with the towering green building, and this person is familiar with the water nature, and is good at ingenuity, so he has the opportunity and possibility to install the mechanism in the water.
Fang Cai Xiaoyi inadvertently said that Zhou Qiang's water is on par with Brother Du, and he can even make a windmill for Xiaoyi, I really have to doubt Zhou Qiang. ”
"Not bad!" Du Qingshan nodded.
"But on the day of Wang Qinruo's assassination, Brother Zhou was delivering tea to the third floor with me, and I can testify that when the bamboo pole hit the eaves, Brother Zhou was behind me." Song Guichen questioned, "If you want to touch the mechanism, someone must pull the iron hook open in the water over there, Brother Zhou can't be an assassin at all!" ”
Her voice was clear and crisp, and her speech was fast and urgent, as if she didn't believe that Zhou Qiang would be an assassin at all.
Du Qingshan hurriedly appeased: "Xiaochen, Brother Gu is also inferred from the truth...... And, I think he has a point. ”
Is this appeasement? Song Guichen was speechless for a while.
Gu Yi said again: "This bamboo pole mechanism, only one person, it can't be completed, one person must be on the third floor to pay attention at all times, to ensure that the person to be assassinated is in the middle, and at the same time send a signal to the people guarding the lake, and the people in the lake can touch the mechanism and hit the bamboo pole on the third floor." ”
After his analysis, the rest of the people seemed to have a scene in front of them on the day of the assassination, one person sent a message downstairs on the third floor, and the person in the water pulled the iron hook and touched the bamboo pole.
Song Guichen said again: "I understand what Brother Gu means. But when the bamboo pole hit the third floor, Brother Zhou was not far behind me, and we were all in the east to congratulate Chen Zhi on his birthday, looking from the lake, I couldn't see the scene in the third floor at all, even if Brother Zhou wanted to send a message to the people hidden in the water, the people in the lake couldn't see it. ”
"That's right." Gu Yi said, "Zhou Qiang really didn't have a chance to deliver the news to the people in the lake, but what if there was a third person?" ”