Chapter 50: Qi Changfa's Scheme
Zhao Qing looked at the sturdy and thin Xiao Zongbing again, and already had some conjectures in his heart. But this matter still needs to ask Shui Sheng a few words to get accurate information.
She poked the water dai on the side and said, "Since Mr. Xiao believes that I am waiting for a person, then it doesn't matter if the water girl comes out to meet her elders." The wicked person who can collude with the Blood Knife Ancestor, each of us is eager to kill him on the spot. β
"Yes, Shui hasn't seen his daughter for many days. Lord Commander, you are also a person with a wife and children, I hope to be more considerate of Shui's anxious heart. Shui Dai hugged his fists and said sincerely.
Lu Tianshu and Hua Tiegan on the side also opened their mouths.
"It's not really a matter of urgency to meet each other. Su Wenhua's short gun has the reputation of 'Zhongping Invincible', and the old man has also tried martial arts with many martial arts people in the past, and knows that he is by no means an opponent. β
Xiao Fulu took two iron whips from the hands of his subordinate military attachΓ©s, put his hands in a posture and said, "But today I saw that Hua Daxia was injured, and his martial arts were no longer in the past. The old man is not talented, and he is willing to use the 'Huyan Eighteen Whips' passed down by the master to try the power of Zhongping marksmanship. β
"If Hua Daxia wins, it means that the old man is unable to resist your kung fu, then it is not a dereliction of duty to let the water girl come out to meet you."
"'Huyan Eighteen Whips'? The purpose of the chief soldier is to use the competition with Hua to practice the last trick of "one whip and ten shots". Hua Tiegan's face darkened, and he took out his stainless steel short spear from his robe, holding it in his left hand, and his original decadent momentum was gone.
"Second Brother Hua, you ...... Why don't you let me do it for you, second brother. Shui Dai was worried that after Hua Tie was defeated by the other party, he would aggravate the sense of loss that his martial arts were half wasted, so he couldn't help but persuade him.
Hua Tiegan interrupted: "No need, even if your second brother breaks an arm, he can still show his skills and defeat a strong enemy." β
Zhao Qing secretly thought about it, this Xiao Zongbing picked the weakest Hua Tiegan competition among the people, although it had the purpose of breaking through his own martial arts, but it undoubtedly also had the intention of preventing a few of his people from seeing Shui Sheng.
Thinking of this, Zhao Qing fixed his eyes on Xiao Fulu and Hua Tiegan, ready to see the move.
The two sides soon exchanged hands. The two iron whips in Xiao Fulu's hands were longer than the short spears of Hua Tiegan, and they were several points heavier, and they had a great advantage in the blade.
Due to the defects of the dry body of Hua Tie, there are many inconveniences in the change of moves, and after more than a dozen moves, the short spear in his hand began to intersect frequently with the two iron whips, making a "sonorous" collision sound.
When he was recovering from a serious injury, he had a hard encounter with someone, Hua Tiegan's face began to turn pale, and beads of sweat rolled down one by one, and he could only rely on actual combat experience to maintain a tie between the two sides, and at the same time made a sharp move to try to win with skill.
However, Xiao Fulu's "Huyan Eighteen Whips" was handed down by Hu Yanzan, a general of the Northern Song Dynasty, and no matter how false the tricks were on the battlefield, the whip was really strong, and Hua Tiegan repeatedly used tricks, but he failed to deceive the other party.
After more than 100 moves, I saw Xiao Fulu "sweeping thousands of troops" in one style, and the iron whip was placed on top of the short spear, making a "bell" sound, and the two sides were deadlocked. This is caught in a competition of internal forces.
If Hua Tiegan has not yet received merit, his strength is naturally far above Xiao Fulu; But now that he has a broken arm, he is old and has lost his vitality, but he is no longer the opponent of the other party. His old left arm trembled and sweat trickled down his face.
Seeing that Hua Tiegan was about to lose, Zhao Qing shook his body and came to the middle of the two, holding a short gun in his left hand and an iron whip in his right hand.
Hua Tiegan took out his hand and took two steps back, but Xiao Fulu took five or six steps back, and finally sat on the ground. This is Zhao Qing's ingenuity in order to let Hua Tiegan "win", so that the "superiority" between the two has been divided.
Seeing Zhao Qing's divine power, Hua Tiegan and Xiao Fulu couldn't help but be shocked, and Lu Tianshu and Shui Dai were also quite surprised.
Hua Tiegan had actually always had the idea that Zhao Qing had defeated the Blood Knife Ancestor, and he had picked up the idea that he had consumed the other party's internal strength, but at this moment, he was really convinced, and he was a little more grateful.
Knowing that Zhao Qing was the rumored "No. 1 in the world" master who defeated the Blood Knife Ancestor, Xiao Fulu had always been jealous in his heart, but the other party separated himself from Hua Tiegan's internal strength competition as if he were lifting weights, and his skill was beyond his expectations.
Glancing at Zhao Qing's calm face, Xiao Fulu spoke: "Since the old man was defeated by the hands of Hua Daxia, he should fulfill his promise and let the water girl come out to meet you." β
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When Shui Sheng came out, there were two faint tear stains on her face, and there was an obvious look of exhaustion around her eyes, it seemed that she hadn't had enough rest for a long time.
Shui Dai finally saw her daughter, knowing that she had never suffered like this in the past, she couldn't help but rush forward, gently hugged Shui Sheng, and the father and daughter hugged each other and cried.
After the two of them finished venting their emotions, Zhao Qing began to carefully inquire about Shui Sheng's experience in the past two days.
As she expected, the evidence that Shui Sheng had heard of "Blood Knife Ancestor colluding with Ling Weisi" was actually secretly heard while his eyes were blindfolded.
The Blood Knife Ancestor said a word, Ling Huisi's subordinates should say a word, and the two of them were talking about how to deal with and divide the treasures of Liancheng in the future.
In addition, Shui Sheng also mentioned the name Qi Changfa, saying that she saw Qi Changfa living in seclusion in the west of the city. He succumbed on the spot under the threat of the Blood Knife Ancestor, and was later injured by the Blood Knife Ancestor, and finally probably took the opportunity to escape.
Does Qi have long hair? Zhao Qing pondered the perjury that Shui Sheng heard, and couldn't help but think of Wan Zhenshan's accusation that Qi Changfa hurt people.
In the room, Wan Zhenshan suddenly restrained Qi Changfa, and then played two roles by himself, performing a big scene of Qi Changfa "stabbing" himself after admitting the crime. Outside the room, even Qi Changfa's apprentice's daughter believed the "facts" made up by Wan Zhenshan.
And in this case, it was the same outsider who heard the two people talking, which made them identify false "facts", how similar are they in comparison?
Wan Zhenshan is already dead, and it is entirely possible that Qi Changfa will learn to imitate his senior brother's actions after being pitted.
As for the reason why he made up the statement that Ling Huisi colluded with the Blood Knife Ancestor, it was probably to get rid of multiple uses in one plan, and while taking revenge on the Blood Knife Ancestor, he also wanted to remove a major obstacle in front of the treasure.
The alliance between the people in the righteous path and the government is more than enough to overturn the head snake in the Jingzhou region; And the Blood Knife Ancestor, even if he successfully killed Nan Siqi, he would not have the ability to fight the imperial court, and he could only leave Jingzhou.
Zhao Qing has figured out the truth of the matter, but the key is, how should it be solved?
At this moment, Qi Changfa may be hiding in an inconspicuous corner of Jingzhou City, and even has escaped from the city, and it is extremely difficult to catch him.
It seems that we can only search slowly. I still have to solve the siege of Ling Mansion first.
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In the evening, someone from the Ling Mansion had already informed the army outside of the truth that Ling Huisi had been killed more than a month ago.
And a dead person naturally has no ability to collude with the Blood Knife Ancestor.
Xiao Fulu sent someone to dig up Ling Weisi's coffin, opened the coffin to inspect it, and confirmed his death. At the same time, a "handwritten letter" of Ling Huisi, which was used as physical evidence, was also found to be inconsistent with the handwriting of the real person.
Few people know that Qi Changfa is actually a person who is full of poetry and books and is proficient in literature. In the letters he forged, the words were elegant and beautiful, except for people who knew Ling Huisi himself, otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish them.
Qi Changfa single-handedly fabricated evidence to play a lot of people around.
But unlike Zhao Qing's expectations, Xiao Fulu already knew that Ling Huisi's collusion case was false, but his choice was not to order Zhao Qing and others who were wanted to kill the prefect, but to conceal the news.
The reason is simple, reporting the wrong case to the superiors is an unfortunate enough thing to demote people.
Considering that Zhao Qing and others, who were in the know of this matter, obviously would not take the initiative to publicize it, Xiao Fulu charged the dead Ling Huisi with the crime in accordance with the rules of officialdom.
In the south of the city, a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere.
Di Yun opened the courtyard door and walked alone to the alleyway outside.
Qi Fang didn't come out with him, and now, she was changing Ling Shuanghua's medicine according to Zhao Qing's instructions in advance.
An unprecedented happy life, Di Yun has been living for more than a month, and he is naturally quite happy and satisfied. Compared to the miserable life in prison before, it was as if I had come to heaven.
But sometimes, he also misses the days when he was in the countryside with Master and Fang Mei. At that time, I didn't understand the darkness of the world's conspiracy, and I lived a pure and natural life.
To Di Yun's regret, the last time he saw his master was several years ago, Qi Changfa's face was already quite blurry in his mind, no matter how hard he tried to recall, he couldn't be clear.
But at this moment, Di Yun suddenly completely remembered Qi Changfa's face.
Because Qi Changfa's real person is now standing in front of him.
"Master?!" Di Yun blurted out.
Qi Changfa looked at the apprentice he hadn't seen for many years, a bright smile appeared on his old face, and he also exclaimed happily: "Yun'er, it's you." β
It turned out that after Qi Changfa had set up a plan to deal with Ling Weisi, he lurked in the Ling Mansion, preparing to leave after seeing the officers and soldiers surrounding the Ling Mansion.
Coincidentally, he actually saw Ding Dian Diyun and the others who had left the Ling Mansion from a distance.
Ding Dian's body was too fast, and he took Ling Shuanghua in a flash, and Qi Changfa didn't recognize it at all; But Di Yun and Qi Fang were much slower, and he recognized Qi Fang's identity.
I haven't seen him for many years, Di Yun has forgotten the specific appearance of Qi Changfa, let alone a person like Qi Changfa who is cold by nature?
It was only because he had always suspected that Qi Fang had stolen his sword book, remembered it deeply in his heart, and even drew some portraits to assist his memory, that he could recognize Qi Fang's appearance at a glance.
Looking at Di Yun and Qi Fang who were leaving together, Qi Changfa was overjoyed, knowing that he was not far from the treasure, so he hurriedly followed Di Yun and the two of them secretly and came to the vicinity of the small courtyard in the south of the city.
He was worried about Ding Dian's clever skills, so he hid outside the small courtyard, waiting left and right, and finally waited for Di Yun to go out alone.
"Yun'er, it's been so long, my appearance has changed a lot, come over and let the master take a closer look!" Qi Changfa suppressed his ecstasy and excitement, and gestured towards Di Yun.