Chapter 7: Assassination

It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, and no one can stop her.

This is undoubtedly bad news for Wu Sinan and Scoop.

The Jinyi Guard personally led by the young emperor has basically planted more or less spies everywhere in the current Liuli Dynasty to form an unprecedented intelligence network.

Especially during the period when Wang Teng was prime minister, there were a lot of party formations among officials in the DPRK and China, and the speed and efficiency of Jinyiwei's intelligence collection and dispatch made many officials who got on the thief ship and did more or less bad things, even in their own homes, they should be cautious.

Even in that harem, Wang Teng knew a lot of secret things, large and small.

Dianliang, the capital of the Liuli Dynasty, is located in the northwest of Dongsheng Shenzhou, while Shuzhou is located in the southwest.

From Dianliang into Shu, many mountains and rivers, few plains, Shu is extremely ancient, and there is little communication with the Central Plains countries, resulting in the road out of Shu into Shu, very few.

Twenty-three years ago, the Dayu Dynasty broke through the capital of Dachu and officially ended the north-south dispute that lasted more than ten years.

At that time, the Great Feather Dynasty unified the north of Dongsheng Shenzhou, and the Great Chu almost unified the south, and the two sides launched a ten-year confrontation between the north and the south.

In the end, Da Chu failed, and the whole country was vegetarian.

Shu is more precipitous, and the Shu road is particularly difficult, and it is the easiest to defend and difficult to attack.

While digesting the national strength of Chu, the Dayu Dynasty prepared to attack Shu, which was still in a corner at that time.

At that time, the whole of the Dayu Dynasty felt that this was a protracted war, and in order to facilitate the transportation of troops and supplies, it took three years to build a straight road from the capital of the Dayu Dynasty to the border of Shu.

In the end, in less than half a year, the Shu Kingdom was destroyed, and Wu Thorn returned with a great victory.

The Shu straight road was used to transport Shuzhou tribute.

The past is not to be recalled, and the more you think about it, the more sad you are.

Of course, Wu Sinan didn't dare to take the Shu straight road, so he had to find those mountain paths.

In fact, the mountain trail is not small, and many roads are not walked out by the thieves in the mountains, but by merchants.

Shu land is more rare, but less salt and iron, Shu people do not like to go out, the children of merchants venture to go to Shu land, back and forth, often can earn a lot of money, half a life without worry.

It's just that there are a lot of forks in the road, coming and going like the wind to block the road and rob the bandits, there are a lot, there is no experienced old man to take it, go that way, even if you step on a piece of dog shit every time you cross a mountain, you just don't meet the thief, it is very easy to get lost in the mountain, and eventually become the wolf, tiger and leopard in the belly.

There was heavy fog, light rain, and muddy roads.

Wu Sinan took Lady that day, escaped from Dianliang City overnight, crossed the Yongding River, and went directly south.

A few days ago, it was okay, after a light snowfall, it was a sunny day, and then later, the more you go into this mountain, the more strange the weather becomes, you can't recognize the road, as long as you can distinguish the north and south, you can go directly to the south, there is no road, then open the road.

Twenty days later, on a cliff, Wu Sinan and Scoop stood side by side with horses.

Both of them were stained with a lot of dew, and Wu Sinan, who had no small stove, seemed to be unable to bear the cold in the mountains, and his body trembled slightly in a man's clothes.

The two sat on the edge of the cliff to trim, and Wu Sinan used a hiking stick made of small green bamboo to scrape off the soil on the sole of his shoe and look to the south.

Dozens of miles away, a city that is not big compared to Dianliang is faintly visible.

If the calculation is correct, it should be the Yanxia City in the northwest of Yuzhou.

Wu Sinan didn't want to appear on the boundary of Yuzhou, because the king of Yuzhou, Liu Cheng, was from a humble background, and he was a rising star who grew up during the ten-year confrontation between the Great Yu Dynasty and the Great Chu Dynasty.

At that time, Wu Jian was in command and personally conscripted, but in fact, it was just a matter of destroying the country, and on the battlefield, major events were basically decided by Liu Cheng's words.

At that time, Wu Jian first ordered the slaughter of the city, and then regretted it after getting Fan Guifei's personal promise, Liu Cheng, who was only a year old at the time, dared to pick a son in front of Wu Jian, and threw the seal directly on the ground, so that Wu Jian gave gold to return to his hometown, and bluntly said that if he did not slaughter the city at this time, he would return to his hometown directly and not do the king of Yuzhou.

In the end, it was Liu Cheng's brothers in the army, who used the friendship on the battlefield to persuade each other to die, and Liu Cheng reluctantly accepted the title of king of Yuzhou.

After Liu Cheng became the queen of Yuzhou, he basically directly sealed the land of Shu, and on several official roads from Shu to Shu, he has been strictly investigated for 20 years and has never slackened.

According to Liu Cheng's statement at the time, "Lao Tzu joined the army, and his head was tied to the waistband of his trousers for more than ten years, how many brothers who lived and died, said that they were gone, and they were gone, in exchange for the current bullshit King of Yuzhou." At this time, for the sake of a girl, you Wu Jian said that if you don't slaughter the city, you won't slaughter the city, keep these remnants of Shu to recuperate, and rebel after eighteen years? At that time, your majesty the emperor will sit in the city of Dianliang to eat, drink and have fun, but the one who died is Lao Tzu, the brother of the bullshit king of Yuzhou. ”

Wu Sinan planned not to enter the city, so he bought some dry food and clothes outside the city, but he really didn't want to provoke the famous Yuzhou king Liucheng.

Wu Sinan now has no identity as the princess of the flowers, and that Liu Cheng has a mortal enmity with the entire Shu land, once the identity is exposed, it is estimated that there will be a lot of trouble.

The sky gradually darkened, and there was still an hour or two left, and the gate of this smoky city was about to be closed, Wu Sinan picked out some stains on the big trees, wiped them on his and his faces, and rode his horse towards the smoky city, not in a hurry, swaying.

Outside the Yanxia City, about three or four miles away from the city gate, there are five or six shops, which are said to be shops, but in fact they are small stalls placed under thatched huts for travelers to rest temporarily.

One of the shops with wine signs hanging at the door, there was no guest, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man, not in a hurry, sitting at the door of the shop, leaning on a rocking chair that looked a little old, drinking slowly, looking at the sky from time to time.

Inside the shop, one of the tables, there is a horizontal book, behind the book, there is a horizontal face, a girl in yellow who is not too old, lying on the table and reading the book.

About three or four miles away from the shop, next to the road, there was a big tree, and there was a young man on the tree, dressed as a shopkeeper, who was riding on a big branch at this time, and aimed at the hornet's nest not far away with a slingshot.

When Wu Sinan passed by, he glanced at the young man dressed as the second child in the shop, and the girl who was blackened, and took a few more looks.

After all, when playing with Her Royal Highness the princess in the palace, slingshots are common, and using slingshots to hit hornet's nests has never been done.

The young man seemed to notice the gaze, glanced back at Wu Sinan, glanced at it, and then glanced at it again, and the young man suddenly shuddered, and if he didn't sit still, he was about to fall from the tree.

At the last moment, the young man stretched out one hand to see and grasp the trunk of the tree, and then grabbed the branch with both hands, climbed on the big tree, his body was flexible like an ape, and finally jumped into the grass and disappeared with a smoke.

Lady's eyes widened, and she glanced at Wu Sinan, and she didn't know whether to say strange or not, after all, she had accompanied Her Royal Highness the princess in the palace all the year round, and she had never seen much of the world.

Wu Sinan didn't speak, in fact, yesterday, their dry food had been eaten, but Wu Sinan didn't say anything, and left a little more for Scoop.

If you don't panic, Wu Sinan can calm down.

In the thatched hut shop with wine signs, the young man dressed as the second shopkeeper rushed from the side path, looked at the nearby shop, and there were many people, so he squeezed his eyebrows at the middle-aged man who was sitting at the door drinking.

The middle-aged man was helpless, so he had to take the shopkeeper to the house, and the shopkeeper pulled the middle-aged man to the corner of the thatched house and squatted down and whispered.

The girl in yellow, who put a small face on the table and read a book horizontally, also leaned over and squatted down, looking curious.

The young man glanced at the door of the shop, and after confirming that no one was eavesdropping, he blocked his mouth with his hand, and said in a low voice: "It's coming, it's coming, the idea is coming, I don't know if it's the two of them, the height and figure look at the thief statue, but the face is a little darker." ”

"Shhh

The girl in yellow with the book took a step back and let out an exclamation.

The middle-aged man slapped the girl on the head and said, "Do the right thing, you give me a serious job, go and bring the portrait to the black monkey carefully." ”

"Oh!"

The girl in yellow was a little reluctant, according to the plan, her father and junior brother did it, and she was in charge of acting.

According to the above, the three girls in yellow, their current identities, are all people who were killed by the dog emperor Wu Jian and escaped by luck, and now that Wu Jian is dead, and his father and daughter are repaid, they want to find Wu Sinan, the princess of the former dynasty, and take revenge.

The superstitious letter handed down above said that in order to act vividly, it is best to cry and grief, so that others can believe it, and then the spies planted everywhere in the Green Qiao Pavilion can spread her deeds.

For this arduous task, the girl in yellow read a lot of martial arts romance novels and memorized a lot of lines.

After the girl in yellow took the portraits of Wu Sinan and Scoop, the young man known as the black monkey took a look at the portrait, and then ran to the door of the shop to take a look at Wu Sinan and Scoop who had already approached, and then looked at the portrait again, and then wanted to go out of the store to see Wu Sinan and Scoop.

The middle-aged man grabbed the back collar of the black monkey's clothes, pulled the black monkey back, and scolded: "Damn, have you seen enough?" ”

The middle-aged man pointed to the scoop on the portrait, made a gesture to wipe his neck, and said indifferently: "Go and get the knife, I will drag the princess for a while, you do it, be ruthless, the person is dead, and the one hundred taels of silver can be obtained." ”

The black monkey swallowed his saliva, a little palpitating, but he didn't dare to disobey his teacher's orders, it's not that he hasn't killed anyone, but the people he killed before were all enemies and bad people, in short, damn it, it's the first time to kill a girl who has no power to restrain a chicken.

Wu Sinan didn't plan to stay here for a long time, he wanted to go to the last pastry shop, buy more pastries, and then continue to return to the mountain road to bypass this smoky city.

Halfway through, he was stopped by an old woman who fried stinky tofu, and the old woman copied a Shuzhou accent, which was extremely similar to the accent of Wu Sinan's mother, Wu Sinan had a sense of intimacy, so he walked over unconsciously.

Then I thought about it, in ancient times, Yuzhou and Shuzhou were connected, and the two places had a lot of exchanges, and the accents were inevitably similar and normal.

Wu Sinan asked for two servings of stinky tofu, and asked Scoop to go to the pastry shop to buy some pastries.

The old woman smiled and talked to Wu Sinan, talking a lot.

"Girl, are you from the north? Have you ever been to Dianliang City? I heard that the noble concubine Niangniang was originally the princess of our Shu Kingdom, and I don't know what happened, our princess, she is really a good person, if she didn't have her, we old bones, I'm afraid they would have been cut into several large pieces by Wu Thorn and Liu Cheng, and they wouldn't eat that kind of thing when they were fed to the dogs. ”

The old woman looked at Wu Sinan's face intentionally or unintentionally, as if she remembered the past, a little sad, and continued: "Old woman, when I was young in my early years, I saw our princess once, she looked hard and beautiful, eh, she looked a little like you, alas, eh, the more you look at it, the more you look like it, your eyebrows, eyes and nose, it's just like it." ”

Wu Sinan bit his lip, forcibly suppressed the ripples in his heart, withdrew his hands into his sleeves, and was about to speak, when a girl in yellow jumped out of the shop with wine signs.

"Phew!"

The girl in yellow shouted, pointed at her sword with both hands, and after waving at Wu Sinan indiscriminately, she put on a posture that she thought was menacing, and said loudly: "You dog emperor, oh no, you dog emperor's daughter, kill my whole family, oh no, your dog emperor's father, kill my whole family!" ”

Speaking of this, the girl in yellow scratched her head, as if she had forgotten her words, but everyone had already looked at this side, so she had to bite the bullet and continue with an extremely "sad" expression: "Kill my father and my mother, my grandfather and my grandmother, my grandmother and my grandfather, my uncle, my third aunt and my second eldest master, anyway, I killed many people in my family, and I am the only one left, I hate it so much!" Now I've finally met you, dog thief, take your life! ”

After the girl finished speaking, she jumped back into the shop and waved her hand, "Wangcai, on!" ”

The middle-aged man stood behind him, hiding his face with his hands, crying and laughing, he shouldn't have taken the two of them out for training.

Wu Sinan narrowed his eyes and stared at the middle-aged man, while Lady'er looked in all directions to prevent everyone around from making a sneak attack.

The middle-aged man didn't say a word, and he was still three or four feet away from Wu Sinan, and suddenly jumped into the air, and smashed Wu Sinan into the door with a fist by taking advantage of the momentum of his fall.

Seeing this, Lady wanted to block this punch for Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Wu Sinan pushed Lady away, stood in place and punched the middle-aged man.

The crowd who had been watching the excitement immediately scattered and fled, only the old woman was still frying stinky tofu in place.

After this punch, Wu Sinan took five steps back, stopped his body, put his hands in his sleeves, and his right hand trembled slightly with the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man stood in place, pulled out several steel needles that pierced the flesh of his fingers, and threw them on the ground at random, his face expressionless.

As expected, it was good, and I really learned the flower picking needle method of the Fan family of the Shu Kingdom, but this punch, it said that it would leave this flower princess with a life, although it only took less than two successes, but at least there was a strength of seven or eight hundred catties, and only five steps back, which made him a little surprised.

This princess of the flowers, who has been in the palace all the year round, has never seen her practice martial arts, and in that secret letter, he was told several times to retract his strength, not to be killed, at a young age, he has such skills, and he hides it so well.

It is worthy of being the queen of the Fan family of the Shu Kingdom.

The black monkey poured a large sip of wine on his head, took a deep breath, picked up the knife, and walked quickly to the scoop.

Seeing this, Wu Sinan shouted, "Escape." ”

The middle-aged man punched again, Wu Sinan no longer fought against him, his body floated, he took a few steps back, waved his long sleeves, threw out four steel needles connected with silk threads, and stabbed the middle-aged man's eyes.

The middle-aged man blocked with one arm, and his fist momentum increased instead of decreasing, and the castration was faster.

Wu Sinan let go of the silk thread pulling the four steel needles with his left hand, and threw out four steel needles again with his right hand, two stabbing at the middle-aged man's temple and two stabbing at the throat.

The middle-aged man dodged sideways, and in a moment, Wu Sinan took the opportunity to distance himself from the middle-aged man a few feet, withdrew his hands into his sleeves, twisted four steel needles each, and stabbed at the middle-aged man again.

Using silk threads to control needles in the air, Wu Sinan can only control eight at most at a time, only a few zhang away.

When Wu Sinan first learned acupuncture, he once heard his mother say that the ancestral flower picking needle method of the Fan family of Shu Kingdom was practiced to the extreme, and hundreds of needles could be controlled at the same time. At that time, Wu Sinan said with a smile, then you can't tie your whole body into a big thread?

Wu Sinan stood a few zhang away, controlled the steel needle with a silk thread, and stabbed at different acupuncture points of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man no longer rushed forward with his fists, first blocking with his arms, then dodging sideways, and finally standing in place, only flicking the steel needle with the fingers of both hands.

The black monkey ran towards the scoop with a knife, the scoop couldn't run, so he had to dodge with difficulty, while taking out a short knife to block, Wu Sinan and the middle-aged man were in a stalemate for a moment, and the scoop had been slashed several times on his arm, and when he fell to the ground, he was going to worry about his life.

Seeing this, Wu Sinan pulled back a few steel needles and threw them at the black monkey with a hidden weapon.

The middle-aged man sneered, collecting the needle at this time is tantamount to looking for death!

The middle-aged man stepped out and threw a third punch to Wu Sinan, still heading straight to the door.

Wu Sinan hurriedly turned sideways, his head dodged the punch, but he was hit in the shoulder.

This punch was extremely heavy, and Wu Sinan was directly smashed four or five feet away, fell to the ground, and spit out a mouthful of blood.

The middle-aged man continued to run forward, wanting to make up for another punch, but suddenly his body turned sharply, drew a semicircle in place, and looked at the stinky tofu stall.

The old woman who fried stinky tofu twisted two small flying knives in her hands.

The middle-aged man stared at the old woman with a flying knife in her hand and asked, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

The old woman took a few steps forward and said in a Shu accent: "Hidden Sword Mountain in northern Shu, ghostly." Your Excellency is a superb boxer, and you must also be a long-time experienced, if you leave, I can give you an antidote. ”

On the Scoop's side, after Wu Sinan threw four steel needles at the black monkey, the girl in yellow threw out the book and blocked two, and the black monkey dodged one sideways, and the last one went into the shoulder.

As soon as the black monkey's eyes closed, he was about to stab the scoop that fell to the ground several times in his body, and the girl in yellow ran to the black monkey at some point, pulled the black monkey's sleeve, and shook her head at the black monkey.

The middle-aged man looked indifferent, and replied to the old woman that he didn't need it.

Then he called the girl in yellow and the black monkey and left.

There was no looking back.