Volume 1: Bloody Joy Chapter 7 Golden Stone and Green Willow (I)
The miracle "Jinshi Bridge" that everyone in Zhongzhou is well known to people spans the Yangtze River, connecting the north and south, the bridge was built in what year and month has been impossible to verify, the bridge deck is wide and the upper and lower two floors can be passed, the bridge body is supported by steel, and the piers are wide and heavy.
In the north of this Jinshi Bridge is the Northern Dynasty Zhengguo important town Jiaoshou City, and the south of the bridge is the Southern Dynasty Qiguo to rush the Jinshi City.
The winter in the south was humid and cold, Zhanhong turned over from the white horse, only to feel a faint pain in the scar on his right shoulder, he never thought that the crossbow arrows used by the old man of the city chamber of commerce over there were actually quenched poison, he barely picked up a life, but it was a pity that this pain would be with him for a lifetime.
There are three city gates on the north side of Jinshi City towards the Jinshi bridgehead - the city gate on the left side enters and travels in and out, the city gate on the right side enters and exits the carriages and horses, the city gate in the middle is particularly tall and wide, the momentum shows the strength of the country, and the victory gate in the middle is only for the princes and envoys and the army to pass.
Zhan Hong was dressed as a Hu merchant in the Western Regions, walked to the right gate, raised his hand into his arms, took out the customs clearance document and handed it to the guards of Jinshi City, and inevitably checked and checked, and it took a while to enter the city.
There are many inns and wine shops on both sides of the main street in the city, and there are countless inns and merchants, which is a thriving and lively scene.
To say that the tall white horse led by Zhanhong is really conspicuous, as soon as he entered the city, it attracted the passers-by to look sideways, he had to pull the turban down, looked around and raised his nose to smell, and his eyes lit up, and then he found the alley on the side and led the horse in. After walking for a short time, I walked into the depths of the alley, and when I looked up, I saw that there was indeed a veterinary hall under the guise of it. Zhanhong paid a gold coin, and put the white horse in the hospital, and instructed him to take care of it.
Out of the veterinarian hall, it was noon, and there was light in this alley. Zhanhong walked around the door of the backyard of an inn and stopped, looked left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he stepped in and went straight to the inn stables.
There are many horses and mules in the stable, but only one short-legged brown horse has been equipped with a saddle pigeon, which is beautifully made, gold, purple and gold phosphorus, and obviously very expensive. But the owner didn't know where he had gone, and he didn't know if he was going to leave or if he had just checked into the inn. Zhanhong stared at it for a while, stretched out his hand to untie the reins, and at this moment someone behind him shouted: "What are you going to do!" Zhanhong turned around, and a white-faced boy was pointing at him, and scolded: "Where the hell are you a thief! This is your grandfather and my horse!"
Zhan Hong looked at the white-faced Xiaosheng in front of him, then at the brown horse next to him, and replied in Zhongzhou dialect, which is not fluent: "Hello friend, I brought something you like from the northern grassland." โ
The white-faced Xiaosheng unconsciously showed disgust on his face when he heard this, you must know that this Southern Dynasty Qiguo is crowned with elegant governance, and the descendants of the Heavenly Dynasty, the lord of Zhongzhou, are the orthodoxy of this land. The white-faced Xiaosheng put down his hand, put his back behind him, straightened his chest and said, "This is my horse!"
Zhanhong smiled: "No, no, my friend, I ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the white-faced little boy interrupted: "Who is your friend with you?
The white-faced Xiaosheng shouted like this, for fear that he would attract other people, and if he attracted the city guards or officials, it would definitely add to the trouble.
Zhanhong stretched out his hands, signaled the white-faced boy to calm down, and said, "Oh, oh, okay, okay, you don't have to be like this, I'll stay away from your horse." He said as he slowly moved away from the horse.
"Barbarian!" the white-faced little student muttered and walked towards the brown horse, too lazy to look at Zhanhong again, who knew that he had just walked to the side of the brown horse, and the back of his head was windy, and then his eyes were dark, and he fell down, and then saw the gray bricks in Zhanhong's hand broken into several pieces.
With a breeze blowing on his face, Zhanhong took a deep breath, shook off the muck in his hand, untied the reins and turned over to his horse.
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Elder Yang took a deep breath of his cigarette, spit out the smoke ring, and said, "Do you know the Green Willow Hall of Nanqi?"
Cao San leaned back on the backrest, changed to a comfortable position, raised his hand and touched the scar on his neck and nodded back: "I know a thing or two." โ
Outside the hall, the maidservant girl served tea, and the old man of the Yang Pavilion put down the cigarette pouch pot, picked up the tea cup and said, "Do you know Jiang Long, the master of the hall in front of the green willow?"
Bo Wu, who was standing behind Cao San, widened his eyes and said, "Isn't he the hall master? I heard that he is dead!
Yang Guan Lao put down the teacup and said, "He is the one who killed Jiang Long." โ
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The Green Willow Hall of the Southern Dynasty of Zhongzhou is located in this key point - Jinshi City. The Luliu Jiang family monopolized the border trade, and the Dong family in the border city of the Western Regions and the Yang family of the Zhengguo of the Northern Dynasty jointly controlled the money and goods in Zhongzhou, whether it was the folk salt, spices or war horses, metals, etc., which were related to the national fortune, thousands of goods were inseparable from these three chaebols. These three families are formed in the land of Zhongzhou, east, west, north and south. It is rumored that the background of this Green Willow Hall is not ordinary, if it is just a strong and private house, I think the Nanqi Imperial Court will not watch his Jiang family grow bigger.
Zhanhong rode his horse to the west of the city, and suddenly a man and a woman ran out of the roadside, and the man was running into the horse, and then he was bounced away a few steps, and sat on the ground, so he was not embarrassed.
The brown horse under the crotch was also frightened by this collision, and raised his front hooves with a loud nose, and Zhanhong hurriedly pulled the reins and stroked the horse's neck to show comfort.
"Look where you're going!" A big black fat man rushed out of the roadside, grabbed the woman's hair with his left hand and pulled it back, and smashed his right hand into a fist on the woman's head, and the woman screamed again and again. When the man sitting on the ground saw this scene, he got up from the ground with his hands and feet, ran away, and scolded the fat black man who hit the woman: "You woman is blind! Look at that little white face, you don't care about you!?"
Zhanhong saw it in his eyes, thinking that these two must be a couple, and the man who escaped was the best friend of this woman, it was really a farce.
Just as he wanted to urge the horse to continue his journey, he only heard the woman crying for help, could it be that the big black man had made a dead hand?
Zhanhong sighed and kicked off the saddle and jumped off the horse, flying up a kick that hit the left side of the black fat man's face, the black fat man screamed in pain and fell to the side, the sharp knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "boom", Zhanhong leaned over and picked up the sharp knife, and the onlookers on the side of the road all exclaimed.
When the woman saw that her man was kicked down, she stood up and pointed at Zhan Hong and shouted: "Kill someone! Kill someone!" As soon as the words fell, she heard someone shouting in the distance: "Let one go, let one go, the official is here!"
The onlookers dodged away, and three officials in official clothes came to Zhanhong with steel knives in their hands, and beside these three were the men who had just escaped. "In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun!" the official led by the leader pursed his teeth and shouted loudly: "I want to see who dares to commit murder in this Golden Stone City!"
"That's him! He killed my official!" the woman threw herself on the big black man, crying and grabbing the ground.
The official at the head looked Zhanhong up and down, pouted and said: "Look at the way you are dressed and this horse, you should also be a figure with a head and a face, but you don't want to commit murder in this downtown area!" After that, he ordered both sides: "Lock it up and escort it away!" Another official responded in a loud voice, and he had already removed the iron chain from his waist and walked towards Zhanhong.
The official at the head said to one of the people next to him in a deep voice: "Hurry up Yang, you go and tell the master first, we have caught another murderer Hu Shang, and we will escort him back!"
Zhanhong's chest sank, he was quite bored, and he didn't say much, just waiting for the official with the chain to step forward.
"Yes, arrest him! he killed someone!" said the fleeing man as he hid in the crowd and watched.
This coaxing was good, and the people watching the excitement on both sides also started to discuss: "When the two of them fight, what kind of nosy business does he have! It's right to arrest him!"
At this time, the official with the chain had already walked in front of Zhanhong, and he was about to cuff Zhanhong, but before the official could react, his neck was cold and blood flowed out, and then the official fell straight to the ground.
Let's go to see this Zhanhong again, I saw his wrist flick, the boning sharp knife flew to the side, right in the back of the woman's heart who was leaning over the black fat man, the piercing cry stopped instantly, and then the black fat man screamed and pushed away the woman's body, got up to run, but where could he run past the crossbow arrow in Zhanhong's hand, this arrow hit the back of his head. Zhanhong's hand moved quickly, changed the arrow loading and tightened the crossbow string, raised his hand and pulled the trigger, and another crossbow arrow broke through the air and flew to the "fast-footed Yang" who went to report the news, and the "fast-footed Yang" snorted and fell face down to the ground. The official messenger at the head came back to his senses, raised his knife and slashed, Zhanhong dodged sideways and advanced forward, holding a crossbow in his right hand and smashing the official's head with a grip.
The official messenger was smashed squarely, the Venus in front of him was scurrying, and he hurriedly turned around and stabbed it, Zhanhong no longer dodged, and stretched out his left hand to grab his right hand holding the knife, and sealed the knife momentum.
"I don't want to do anything with you...... But you can mess with me. Zhan Hong's right shoulder suddenly ached, and the one-handed crossbow he was holding almost fell to the ground, he gritted his teeth and said, "You want to provoke me......"
After a few rounds like this, the crowd on the street screamed like a frying pan and ran away, and the brown horse was also digging the ground with its four hooves. Zhan Hong held the knife in his left hand, glanced at the scattered crowd, and saw the man who had fled just now staring with his mouth open, they wanted to make a trap to blackmail the Hu man in front of them, but they never expected things to turn out like this.
Zhan Hong didn't say much, a few steps forward with a horizontal knife in his left hand and the figure turned, after the blade passed, the man who had just fled was already in a different place, and a few of the people who looked at the excitement on his side had not had time to run away only saw the knife flash in front of him, and then screamed again and again, either cutting off his hand or losing his foot.
At this time, Zhanhong's red eyes chased and slashed the crowd like a fierce god and a demon, until the crowd on the street completely dispersed, and the streets as far as the eye could see were screaming.
Suddenly, there was a neighing sound, and Zhan Hong said in his heart: It's big enough.
I saw a group of soldiers with bright armor and silver spears in the distance, rushing towards here.