Chapter 0085 Between Half an Inch
Zhao Qiuniang's Nanyuan Martial Arts Hall is located in Fushanfang, close to Nanshi, covering an area of about 40 acres, next to Li Quan's warehouse, in fact, Li Quan's warehouse is a corner of Zhao Qiuniang's martial arts hall, Zhao Qiuniang rented it to her at a very low price.
Zhao Qiuniang's husband's name is Xiao Jingtian, and he was also a famous tyrant in Luoyang City, with a lot of wealth, after Xiao Jingtian unfortunately died of illness last year, the property was divided equally between his wife and three brothers, and Zhao Qiuniang was divided into this martial arts hall, together with forty acres of land under the martial arts hall.
Zhao Qiuniang accepted more than 100 disciples to teach martial arts, and also collected money to solve disputes for others, invisibly, Zhao Qiuniang became the most powerful woman in Nanshi.
Zhao Qiuniang and Li Zhen can be said to be unfamiliar with each other, she first sent more than a dozen newly recruited apprentices to harass Li Quan's wine shop, after being beaten by Li Zhen, she immediately challenged Li Zhen in the wine shop, trying to get back face, but was defeated by Li Zhen, but Li Zhen skillfully saved her face.
It is this kind of non-fight and non-acquaintance that makes them turn hostility into jade silk, and the interesting thing is that Zhao Qiuniang and Li Quan have become close friends, the two are of the same age, have similar personalities, have a common language, and it is easy to make friends with each other.
In the martial arts pharmacy, Zhao Qiuniang carefully handed a small bottle to Li Zhen, and there was half a bottle of white powder in the bottle.
"This is the seven-step broken intestine powder, also known as the pull machine powder, soluble in wine, colorless, but there is a very light bitter taste, covered by the smell of wine, ordinary people can't taste it, but people who refine poison can taste it. β
Li Zhen raised the bottle and looked at it for a long time, then asked, "What antidote does it have?"
Zhao Qiuniang wiped the silk on her cheeks and said: "As far as I know, the only antidote is Master's Snow Clam Pill, but if the poisoning is not deep, taking a large amount of bezoar continuously can also alleviate the toxicity, but there are few bezoars, and they are valuable, and the Lan Zhenyu you said may not be able to afford it." β
"In addition to the snow clam pill, what other medicine can be cured?"
"There should be no more, this is a deadly poison, ordinary people will die after taking it for half an hour, even if it is a poison expert like Lan Zhenyu, it will support it for three days at most. β
Li Zhen nodded, he finally had some eyebrows, and he could start from the bezoar and ask who was buying the bezoar in large quantities recently.
However, Luoyang is so big, where should he start? And if Lan Zhenyu has already fled Luoyang, the trouble will be even greater.
Zhao Qiuniang saw that he was worried, so she smiled and said, "I'll help you again! Let the apprentice go to various workshops to inquire and see who has been buying a large number of bezoars recently?"
Li Zhen was overjoyed and bowed down, "Then thank you Sister Qiu Niang!"
Zhao Qiuniang glanced at it and chuckled: "Then there is such a good thing, do you want Qiu Niangbai to contribute?"
Li Zhen scratched his head, "Then what do you want me to do?"
"What I said last time, you want to teach my apprentices to ride and shoot, you don't want to fool the past again. β
"I'm just afraid of trouble, okay! I'll just teach. β
"That's right. β
Zhao Qiuniang held his arm intimately, walked out, and pillowed her head on his shoulder, pretending to be sweet, and the faint fragrance on her body went straight to Li Zhen's nose.
"Tell your eldest sister that if she gives me rent next time, I'll let my apprentice steal her wine." β
Li Zhen returned to the wine shop in the afternoon, he almost didn't sleep all night last night, and today he ran around Luoyang City, he was really a little tired, squeaked and walked up to the attic, planted on the futon, and the thick sleepiness made him almost unable to open his eyelids.
At this time, his face touched something on the pillow, and he pulled it out with difficulty, but it was a folded note, Li Zhen opened the note in a daze, and the crooked handwriting of Jiuzhi appeared in front of him.
"Lao Li, I won't come back for dinner at night, I may not come back until tomorrow morning, in addition, I met two mosquitoes and flies on the street yesterday, do you want to find a chance to beat these two boys?"
Li Zhen yawned and threw the note aside, this kid probably met the two mosquitoes and flies in the Qinglou again.
"Wait!"
A thought crept into Li Zhen's drowsy brain, he thought of something, a very important thing, Li Zhen sat up suddenly.
He pondered for a moment, and then slapped his head suddenly, when Dunhuang competed in the sword, wasn't Suo Wen's drug sword taught by Lan Zhenyu?
He remembered what Uncle Kang had said to him, Lan Zhenning is Suo Qing's son-in-law, so Lan Zhenyu and the Suo family are also related, will Lan Zhenyu hide in the Suo family in Luoyang?
Li Zhen showed this clue, his sleepiness disappeared, he jumped up excitedly, turned over and jumped down the stairs, it was also a coincidence, he just ran to the door of the store, and saw Di Yan and Jiu Zhi walking with a horse from afar, Jiu Zhi frowned sadly, as if he had been caught.
"Sister Yan, I really don't know where he went? I still have important matters, can I help you find it tomorrow?"
"No, you're his best friend, where did he go, don't you know?" Di Yan said angrily.
Di Yan wore men's clothes today, wearing a mink hat, a slightly tight-fitting white round-necked robe, a leather belt around her waist, middle pants inside, and fluffy Jimo leather boots on her feet.
"You two!" Li Zhen beckoned to them.
Di Yan's eyes lit up, and she threw down her wine and ran over, "Brother Li, I've been looking for you for a day, where have you been?"
"I'll tell you later, hey, old fat, don't run!"
Seeing that Jiu Zhi wanted to slip away, Li Zhen hurriedly rushed up and grabbed him, "I have something important to find you!"
Jiu Zhi continued to say, "Lao Li, I'm really busy today, you two let me go!"
"I have an urgent matter to find Suo Wen and Suo Ying, tell me, where can I find them?"
"This"
Jiu Zhi secretly glanced at Di Yan and said a few words to Li Zhen in his ear.
Although it was a brothel, Li Zhen couldn't care about it, and he didn't care if Jiuzhi was willing or not, so he forcibly pulled him and said, "You can take me now!"
Baifangyuan is near the gate of the south market, which happens to be the entrance of the city with more people, the doors of the three brothels are lined up within 100 steps, the competition is very fierce, dozens of women compete for guests at the door of their respective stores, which is quite spectacular.
People came and went in front of Baifang Courtyard, a group of bewitching women grabbed pedestrians and dragged them to the courtyard.
When he entered the door, he pretended to squirm and shouted, "Lao Li, I'll inquire." β
Di Yan finally broke free from the entanglement of the two young women, and although she was dressed in men's clothes, her face was still flushed and she was very ashamed.
"Brother Li, why did you bring me to such a place?"
turned her head, but saw Li Zhen talking to a scantily clad woman, she hated it in her heart, grabbed Li Zhen's wrist, and dragged him aside to no one's place.
She pinched Li Zhen's arm with anger on her face, "You can't learn from them properly!"
Li Zhen grinned at her sharp nails, and said, "Auntie, I'm looking for Lan Zhenyu for you?"
"You mean Lan Zhenyu is hiding here?"
Di Yan blinked his eyes wide, and his anger immediately disappeared by seven or eight points, and his hand was released.
"It's also your fault, why didn't you say it earlier?"
Li Zhen smiled bitterly, he only said that he was looking for the Suo brothers all the way, but he forgot to tell SΓΉ Di Yan, and the final purpose was for Lan Zhenyu.
"Okay! Okay, I apologize to you for not making it clear!"
Di Yan saw a few soliciting women from another brothel walking towards this side, so frightened that she pulled Li Zhen and ran, more than fifty steps away from the door of the brothel, she stopped, gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "Look at how you solicit customers?"
turned around, but Li Zhen was gone, she looked at both sides in a hurry, and then Li Zhen went back to the door of the brothel to lead the horse, but was still surrounded by several women, several bewitching women laughed lightly, and seemed to be very familiar with him.
Di Yan was angry and hateful, and stomped his foot hard, "How many times has he been here?"
At this time, Li Zhen led the horse over, Di Yan snorted angrily, and turned his head to ignore him.
Li Zhen saw that she was petty, so he had to stand aside, not daring to talk to her, but after only a moment, Di Yan rushed up angrily and said, "You tell me clearly, what does Lan Zhenyu have to do with this?"
Li Zhen said in a low voice: "Yesterday, Lao Pang met two fellow villagers from Dunhuang here, these two fellow villagers are Lan Zhenyu's relatives, and I suspect that Lan Zhenyu is hiding in their house. β
Seeing that he said solemnly, the dissatisfaction in her heart gradually disappeared, she hesitated for a moment and said, "But that was yesterday, can you still find it today?"
"I don't know, I can only try my luck, the old fat said, there may be someone inside, he went to inquire. β
"Phew!"
Di Yan spat in disgust, "I know now, this dead fat man always says that he is very busy, I wonder what he is busy with, it turns out that he walks around this kind of place all day long, you have to stay away from him in the future, don't want this kind of friend!"
Li Zhen hurriedly diverted the topic and asked, "You are in a hurry to find me today, is there anything wrong?"
A sentence reminded Di Yan that she had actually forgotten about this matter, and she suddenly said urgently: "Last night, Zhou Suoyuan came to interrogate my father, and he said that the Holy Lord had issued an order, asking them to come up with a report within three days, hoping that his father would cooperate." β
"What do you mean by cooperation?" Li Zhen was puzzled.
Di Yan's eyes were gloomy, and he sighed for a while and said, "It's a confession!"
Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, is it only three days?
At this moment, Jiuzhi rushed out of the brothel, ran to the two of them and said excitedly: "I have inquired about the address of the Suo family." β
At this time, Di Yan couldn't get tired of it, and hurriedly asked, "Where is it?"
"It's in Yanfu Fang next door. β
Li Zhen immediately decided: "Let's go now!"
The three of them turned over and got on their horses and urged the horses to run towards Yanfufang
Yanfu Fang is not big, because it is close to the south market, a large number of private houses in the square are rented as warehouses, and the lanes are vertical and horizontal, which seems narrow and chaotic.
They soon found the Suo family's mansion in Luoyang, and in the easternmost part of Yanfufang, there was a middle house covering an area of about eight acres, surrounded by low-rise houses.
There were still more than 20 steps away from the gate of the Suo family, Li Zhen restrained the war horse, and he was surprised to see that there were several men with knives standing in front of the gate of the Suo family, and there were many horses tied to the wooden stakes.
"It's someone who came to Junchen!" Di Yan recognized one of the guards, who was one of the men of Lai Junchen, who had surrounded them last night.
Li Zhen was also stunned, how could Lai Junchen find the Suo family, is it because ...... Bezoar?
Thinking about it, there is only this one possibility, the Suo family bought a large number of bezoars, and was found by Lai Junchen.
"Brother Li, what should we do?" Di Yan was very anxious, if Lan Zhenyu was snatched away by Lai Junchen, since Junchen's viciousness, would his father still be able to get Zhaoxue?
"Wait!"
Li Zhen faintly heard a shout coming from Suofu, and at this moment, a blue figure swept out of the wall and jumped into a house outside the wall.
"It's Lan Zhenyu!"
Li Zhen turned his horse's head and galloped towards the dwelling, and he shouted again: "Old fat, Ah Yan, you copy from the western bread!"
The three soldiers divided into two roads and galloped along the wall of Suofu, at this time, Lai Junchen led more than a dozen of his men to rush out of Suofu, he looked annoyed and angry, and he was about to catch Lan Zhenyu, but he escaped again.
Lai Junchen and his subordinates also turned on their horses and chased along the east wall.
Li Zhen's war horse was strong and fast, and he galloped wildly in a residential area, closely chasing a blue figure, the man in blue fled in the direction of the wall, obviously trying to climb over the wall.
Li Zhen chased to a narrow alleyway, and suddenly stopped his war horse, only to see that under the wall at the end of the alleyway, Lan Zhenyu curled up in pain and kept vomiting blood.
Only a day and a night have passed, Lan Zhenyu's appearance has changed, the violent toxicity has made his body become rickety, he is very thin, his cheeks are sunken, and his eyes are protruding, like a lone wolf who has been tortured by hunger for a winter.
Li Zhen held the bow in his hand, drew an arrow, pulled the bow like a full moon, and aimed at Lan Zhenyu thirty steps away, at this time, Lan Zhenyu slowly raised his head and looked at Li Zhen's bow and arrow blankly, his eyes were full of despair of death and pity for survival.
An inexplicable feeling poured into Li Zhen's heart, and there was a trace of unbearability in his heart, the tip of the arrow was slightly raised by half an inch, the long arrow came out of the string, and the powerful arrow was nailed to the wall above Lan Zhenyu's head, and the tail of the arrow trembled slightly.
Lan Zhenyu looked at Li Zhen in surprise, a trace of gratitude flashed in his eyes, he suddenly turned over and jumped, jumped on the low roof of the house, and then jumped on the big tree next to him, and climbed over the wall along the big tree.
Li Zhen watched Lan Zhenyu disappear in a daze, and there was an indescribable loss in his heart.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves galloped in, and Lai Junchen, who was holding a long sword, was killed, and he also restrained his horse, staring sharply at a pool of black blood on the ground in the alleyway, and then looked at the long arrows nailed to the wall, and looked up to see the branches and leaves that were still shaking.
He was suddenly furious in his heart, and turned around and stared at Li Zhen viciously, "You let him go?"
Li Zhen's face was flushed, and Huo Di turned around and yelled: "Di Xiangguo only has three days to live, will I let him go?"
Lai Junchen was stunned, and his eyes became puzzled, only for a moment, he turned his horse and shouted to his subordinates: "Go to Fangmen, continue to chase!"
Lai Junchen led his subordinates away, Li Zhen looked at the arrows he shot in the air, and he couldn't help but sigh
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