Chapter III: Assassination
In a tea shop at Guandu Wharf in Hangzhou, Zhu, Lu, and Wang sat around a tea table.
Zhu Xixiao's face was gloomy, and his torch-like gaze swept at the passers-by on the dock.
Wang Wei looked at Zhu Xixiao timidly, and he didn't even dare to breathe.
Lu Yanyuan felt a little funny when he saw this, and "coughed": "Big brother, the strength of the medicine is over, there is strength in the body!" After saying that, he smiled and glanced at Wang Wei.
Wang Wei picked up the teapot and filled Zhu Xixiao's tea bowl: "Your Excellency, ...... your humble position"
Zhu Xixiao's gaze immediately retracted to the two colleagues beside him, and his expression eased a lot, he interrupted Wang Wei's words: "You don't have to explain or apologize, you just acted as ordered, and you are also Jinyiwei, I understand you." By the way, who is that little girl who did it to me, and how do you know her? ”
Wang Wei hurriedly said: "She is even more innocent, and she is a ...... who deceives her."
Zhu Xixiao stroked his forehead and said helplessly: "I'm asking you about her name and family background."
"Oh, her name is Li Xiaxin, her father is Li Shizhen, who is as famous as the medical saint Wan Mizhai, and her brother Li Jianyuan has some friendship with the humble position."
"Li Shizhen, is Li Dongbi, who was once sentenced by the Tai Hospital? Is she his daughter, biological? ”
"Huh?" Wang Wei was a little confused: "This, I haven't heard Jianyuan mention it, it should be ...... yes, he loves this sister a lot. ”
Zhu Xixiao also felt that he was a little speechless: "Wang Wei, you go buy some dry food and fruits."
"Isn't Lord Servant worried about the food on the official ship?" Wang Wei muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask, so he got up and left.
Seeing Wang Wei walking away, Lu Yanyuan approached Zhu Xixiao and said in a low voice: "Does the eldest brother think there is anything wrong with the little girl, because of the chimney in her hand?"
Zhu Xixiao shook his head: "I just think her eyes look like Xiaomeng."
"Xiaomeng, Xia Shoufu's granddaughter?" Lu Yanyuan couldn't help but sink in his heart, and sighed: "When the Xia family had an accident, she was still a yellow-haired girl with a big snot, and more than ten years have passed, how can you recognize it at a glance." Besides, Yan Shifan colluded with Dongchang to secretly cut Xia Yan's family, even if she was lucky enough to become a 'fish that slipped through the net', she would not be able to survive! ”
Zhu Xixiao was a little excited: "What if she was sent away by her family before the accident in the Xia family?"
"I hope so! However, Xiaomeng's father was born to a concubine and died young, I heard that Mrs. Xia was very jealous, so she shouldn't take the risk and bother to protect a child who is not related to her? ”
Seeing Wang Wei walking over with two paper bags, Zhu Xixiao immediately restrained his emotions, got up and said, "Prepare to go on the road."
"What? There is at least half an hour before the ship leaves. "Don't talk about Wang Wei, even Lu Yanyuan is a little confused.
Zhu Xixiao said indifferently: "Let's go by land, someone is preparing to assassinate, and the boat ride will affect the innocent."
On the official road, behind the sound of hurried horses' hooves were patches of dust. Zhu, Lu, and Wang, who galloped forward on horseback, were all keenly aware of the extreme silence ahead.
Zhu Xixiao glanced at Lu and Wang on the left and right, and the two immediately understood, and they also shook the reins without moving, and drove their horses forward.
Suddenly, Zhu Xixiao, who was one step ahead, tightened the reins, and the horse neighed and raised its front hooves.
Lu Yanyuan immediately pulled out the embroidered spring knife, Wang Wei also pulled out the waist knife, and the two of them rushed forward while their bodies fell to the right, and the tripping rope that bounced on the ground was immediately cut.
Zhu Xixiao jumped up from his horse and waved the embroidered spring knife in his hand to smash all the nets that fell from the sky.
Immediately afterwards, there was a clanging sound, and the dense rain of arrows flying out of the bamboo forest on both sides all fell to the ground.
When Zhu Xixiao fell back on horseback, the arrows that greeted him flew back to the bamboo forest with the sound of the wind, and there were screams and heavy objects falling to the ground in the bamboo forest.
Zhu and Lu looked at each other, and each threw out the embroidered spring knife in his hand, and the two knives spun and flew towards the bamboo forests on both sides. As the bamboos broke and toppled over, more than a dozen black-clad masked men armed with long swords jumped to the ground.
And Zhu and Lu had already flown up in the air, took the flying embroidered spring knife in their hands, and slashed at the masked man on the ground.
Wang Wei was stunned for a moment because of the skills of the two masters, and then he also turned over and dismounted to join the melee.
About half an hour later, the body fell to the ground.
The trio searched the bodies and found no letters or signs.
Wang Wei couldn't hold it anymore, so he simply rested his head on the body of the masked man and lay on the ground.
Lu Yanyuan also disregarded his usual dignity and demeanor, sat on the ground, and gasped: "People are running to death, and no useful information has been found, what kind of person has such a big enmity with you and my brother, and sent so many people to assassinate us?"
Zhu Xixiao was also sweating like rain, and he squatted next to a corpse to take a closer look. Suddenly found that the skin behind the right ear of this person was a little different from the neck, he reached out and picked it, and actually tore off a small piece of human skin, and there was a grimace tattooed behind the ear - the person who is evil!
Lu Yanyuan was stunned: "Yin Shuai's subordinates, it is rumored that it will cost a sky-high price to hire this terrible killer organization, and it will be the one who wants our lives at any cost...... Who is it? He wanted to talk about the Yan family, but when he thought that there was still a Wang Wei present, he swallowed that word back.
Zhu Xixiao's eyes were unusually deep and cold: "You guys are rested and go on the road first, and I will catch up with you soon." After that, he turned over his horse and galloped in the direction of Hangzhou.
Wang Wei immediately became anxious, got up with a bone, ran a few steps after Yangchen, and then squatted down again, casting a look at Lu Yanyuan for help.
Lu Yanyuan looked at the direction in which Zhu Xixiao left, and said angrily: "It's like this every time, if you don't get tired to death, you have to worry about dying." Regardless of him, we slowly wandered back to Beijing. ”