Chapter 11: The Assassins
The sound of fighting was endless, shaking Mrs. Ning's heartstrings.
Ning Zhengjie's face was solemn, and the trace of doubt in his heart turned into a conviction.
If the fire in the Ning family's courtyard is said to be a coincidence, then the current assassin's unrelenting reluctance must be inseparable from the account book case of the Ministry of Officials two years ago.
"Shu'er is not afraid, not afraid!"
Mrs. Ning hugged Ning Shu's petite body tightly, as if she was appeasing Ning Shu, more like she was comforting herself.
"Mother, I'm not afraid." Ning Shu listened attentively to the situation outside, and the two sides were almost evenly matched.
"Whew!"
Just as the three people in the car were thinking about each other, a cold arrow pierced the wall of the car and almost stabbed Ning Zhengjie's arm.
The three-inch-long arrow pierced the air like that, glowing with a faint cold light from time to time.
"This, this ......" Mrs. Ning was so frightened that her palms were sweating, and she barely relieved herself and said, "Master, why don't we get out of the car?" ”
"Madame, don't be impatient." Ning Zhengjie subconsciously looked vigilant and reminded Mrs. Ning and Ning Shu not to sit against the wall.
Ning Shu also felt reasonable, and moved slightly to the center of the carriage, and the three of them sat with their backs to each other, looking at the wall of the carriage nervously and vigilantly.
Time feels like it's only a moment, but it's like the seasons have passed.
Suddenly, there was a faint smell of blood in the air, and you could guess without looking at it that there must be a river of blood flowing outside at this time.
The fishy sweet smell came into the body, and the Vientiane Gu, which had not responded for a long time, was about to move.
Ning Shu closed her eyes and probed, only to realize that Xu was hungry for too long when she was unconscious, and the greedy ghost of Vientiane Gu was also about to faint from hunger.
When you smell fresh blood, you naturally want to be excited.
Silently spread out his palm, and the tender white palm squirmed strangely.
I saw a hair-thin Gu worm poking its head, and after seeing Ning Shu's acquiescing gaze, she slid down her palm briskly, burrowed into the gap in the car, and disappeared.
Ning Shu calmly retracted her gaze, and next, the battle should be over soon......
Yuan Wu is still a little weak in the matter of fighting five with one.
However, the master left Xuanfeng to protect Ning Gongzi, and he was the only one left in the close guard.
During the fight, out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the situation not far away, and there were only a dozen people on his side, more than half of the opponent.
If this continues, it will be difficult to turn things around.
His mind did not prevent him from guarding Xie Yunyan's carriage to the death, he was exhausted, and he was hesitating whether to ask his master for help, and a jaw-dropping scene happened.
The man in black against the enemy obviously had the upper hand, and the fight was very good, and one of the men in black suddenly weakened his hands and feet and collapsed to the ground.
The guards who were fighting him were visibly stunned, and then swung their swords into his vital point.
And he was not the only one in this situation, all the people in black seemed to have fallen under a spell, one after another.
The black-clothed men besieging Yuanwu were a little far away from the fierce battle circle, and their rhythm was disrupted, and they also looked at each other.
Yuan Wu seized this gap, the long sword in his hand cut through the air, and in the blink of an eye, he eliminated the two men in black.
The remaining three came back to their senses, but it was too late, and before Yuan Wu could make a move, his chest suddenly sank, as if a thousand gold stones were pressing, making people suffer respiratory failure and weak limbs.
"Withdraw, poisonous."
Yuanwu: ???
Who poisoned it?
Yuan Wu's brain turned fast, and his skills were faster.
"It's all here, don't be in a hurry to leave?"
His movements were smooth, and within two moves, the only three remaining men in black would inevitably die.
Putting the long sword into the sheath, he rolled his eyes in disgust, turned around and said respectfully to the carriage: "Master, there is no one alive." ”
"None of them are alive?" Xie Yunyan's timbre asked rhetorically with a hint of reprimand.
Yuan Wu's scalp was numb and he bowed down, squinted at the corpse beside him, and involuntarily explained: "The master can't blame his subordinates, but his subordinates avoid the key points of beating." However, they seem to have been poisoned......"
If it weren't for that, the situation of Fang Caifeng's loop would not make sense.
Hearing this, Xie Yunyan lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage.
As far as the eye could see, there were more than 30 corpses lying in the blood, and the pungent blood gas eroded his brain.
"Go see what's going on."
Yuan Wu looked at it with his head bored, the man in black died strangely, there were no fatal injuries on the surface, not to mention that there were no signs of poisoning even the physical signs.
Walking up to the corpse of the man who had just fought the most fiercely with him, after kicking him in disgust, he squatted down and tore off his masked black scarf, opened his mouth and looked at it.
"Master, the poison is still in the mouth, this ...... Maybe you haven't had time to bite it yet. ”
These are well-trained and vigorous at the moment, and they are undoubtedly dead.
But when you have the upper hand, you suddenly die, which is a bit bizarre.
Yuan Wu muttered, put away his disgust for the man in black, and re-examined it from head to toe, for fear that he had missed some key doubts.
Xie Yunyan also came to Yuan Wu's side at this time, and after seeing the deceased's face clearly, his peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, "It turned out to be him." ”
"Huh? Who is it? Does the master recognize this person? ”
Xie Yunyan bowed slightly, "That day, I was eating wine in a restaurant with Yu Tongju, and the little guy who was waiting next to me was this person." ”
In this way, the real culprit who poisoned Yu Tong Sentence that day was clearly revealed.
It's just that Yu Tongju's identity was not revealed at that time, and Xie Yunyan couldn't figure out why they would kill Tongju.
Yuan Wu sighed, no wonder he hated this person the most among so many people in black.
It turns out that there is cause and effect in the dark.
"But they're all dead, and I don't know who the mastermind behind the scenes will be!"
In addition, this time, they have already been assassinated three times after arriving in Lishui City, and their old partner Xuan Feng is still not there, and Yuan Wu feels a lot of pressure.
Xie Yunyan didn't say anything, leaned over to study the corpse, it was indeed exactly what Yuan Wu said, there were no fatal wounds and no signs of poisoning.
"Lord Xie?" As soon as Ning Zhengjie's feet hit the ground, he was almost frightened by the cruel scene in front of him and retreated to the carriage.
I fixed my mind and wanted to get around the blood red all over the ground, but I found that I couldn't get my feet.
Xie Yunyan got up when he heard this, smiled at Ning Zhengjie, and said, "Lord Ning is frightened. ”
"No, no." Although Ning Zhengjie had never seen such a bloody scene, he was also a man who had been baptized by forty years of wind and frost, he quickly regained his composure, and there was a hint of apology in his indifferent tone: "It was the old man who caused Lord Xie to be involved, if there was no old man, Lord Xie might not have encountered an assassin." ”
Xie Yunyan had seen a lot of treacherous and cunning officialdom colleagues, and after listening to Ning Zhengjie's words, he was inevitably a little stunned.
The people of the Ning family are the bodhisattvas who incarnate to purify all sentient beings?
Why are you charged with crimes everywhere?
Miss Ning is like this, and so is Father Ning.
He shook his head with a wry smile, and couldn't help but wonder if such a family would survive if they went to Kyoto.
"Lord Ning doesn't have to blame himself, these assassins are coming for the official, and it should be the official who should compensate the adult."
His words paused, and then he said, "For the sake of unnecessary trouble, the official and the lord should go their separate ways." ”