Chapter Twenty-Six: Wuzhou Encounters the Enemy

Dugushuo and Lin Feng left Luozhou late, all the way south, through Dengzhou, Xiangzhou, Jingzhou, and took a boat across Dongting Lake to Wuzhou.

Wuzhou is located in the west of Dongting, connected with Langzhou, north of the Yangtze River, south of Jingshui, broad terrain, rich in products.

Dugu Shuo used the secret guard to leave his whereabouts as he walked.

This time, he didn't use the code between them, but used the code common to the internal guard.

When he arrived in Wuzhou, he rented a house in the names of the two people who had already been replaced, and settled down after purchasing a variety of things.

Lin Fengwan was the happiest, because this was her wish for several years.

On this day, an uninvited guest suddenly broke the peace of several days.

At the beginning of the lanterns, there were few people around, and when Dugushuo walked back, he saw a person standing dumbly next to the secret signal in the distance.

When Dugu Shuo saw it, he immediately woke up and followed the man carefully.

When he was out of the alley, the man went to a liquor store in the market.

Dugu Shuo naturally knew the stakes, hid in the dark and watched carefully, and only waited for the silence everywhere to fall down at night before knocking on the door of the wine shop.

The shopkeeper was extremely irritable, scolding and scolding, seeing Dugu Shuo, he became more and more angry, and was about to open his mouth to scold, Dugu Shuo showed his waist card and a thousand cattle knife, the shopkeeper saw it, and hurriedly greeted him, and said in his mouth: "I don't know if the official is driving, the small one should be damned, please atone for the official!" โ€

Dugu Shuo didn't care what he said, went in sideways, walked quickly to the cabinet, hid his body downstairs, and when he looked down from upstairs, he couldn't see his figure.

Seeing that Dugu Shuo didn't say anything, the shopkeeper went straight to the inner hall, and also turned around sharply, and walked over quickly with both hands half-holding the candlestick.

"Does the official live in a hotel or ยทยทยทยทยท?" The shopkeeper asked.

"Since you recognize this brand, you will come over in a low voice, and the official has something to say to you!" Dugu Shuo Road.

The shopkeeper hurriedly leaned in, stretched out his ears and said, "Official, please!" โ€

"Let me ask you, what room does the inner guard who enters the store in the evening live in? When did you arrive in Wuzhou? Have you ever reported it to the government? Dugu Shuo asked three times.

The shopkeeper said: "Back to the official's words, the adult arrived at noon yesterday, because he was obsessed with the waist card of the internal guard, the small one responded to the adult's words, and never reported to the yamen, he only said that he would leave after a day..."

Dugu Shuo's right hand swirled on the hilt of the knife, and then interrupted the shopkeeper: "As you said, the government doesn't know about the fact that this internal guard came to Wuzhou!" โ€

"I don't know!" The shopkeeper said tremblingly.

Dugu Shuo let go of his hand, pushed the store out, and sneered: "The shopkeeper still has eyesight, and he actually knows this internal guard waist card, haha, go, prepare a rope and make a basin of hot water!" โ€

The shopkeeper still hesitated, and Dugu Shuo said, "Go quickly!" โ€

The dim candle flame reflected in the lobby, shining on Dugu Shuo's face, and a shadow as big as a ghost was reflected on the wall, like a ghost.

The shopkeeper didn't dare to open his eyes to Dugushuo, so he went resignedly.

Dugu Shuo picked up the fire fold on the counter and lit an oil cup, and suddenly there was some light in the hall again.

Dugu Shuo casually flipped through the registration book on the counter, compared it carefully, and saw a familiar name: Xu Gao.

An inexplicable sense of foreboding came to his heart, he didn't know if Xu Gao had encountered an accident, but he felt that an invisible net was collecting them.

The shopkeeper holds the rope across his arm and holds the basin in both hands.

"Let's go!" Dugu Shuo pulled the rope and quietly followed behind the store.

"Who? Knock on Lao Tzu's door in the middle of the night, looking for death! A voice came from inside the room, and Dugu Shuo was very sure that it was not the voice of Xu Gao, nor was it the voice of any of the internal guards he was familiar with.

"My lord, I gave you hot water, this weather is a little stuffy, wash your face, feel better!" Shopkeeper Road.

"Didn't you send it? How to send it again! The man said impatiently.

The shopkeeper turned his face to look at Dugu Shuo, Dugu Shuo raised his chin and motioned for the shopkeeper to say more. The shopkeeper said: "The little one is afraid that the new guy will not take good care of him, so I will send you a hot one!" โ€

Hearing this, the man seemed reluctant to get up and walk, but stopped at the door.

Dugu Shuo knew the caution of the internal guard, so he held his breath and committed himself to clinging to the store.

The man stood for a moment and said, "Raise the basin higher!" โ€

The shopkeeper said: "Hey, my lord, you filtered, the door is a small person, send you a basin of water and leave, don't look at my small shop, there are often internal security officials who come to the gods, the small is naturally familiar, I am afraid that the adults will not be comfortable, turn around so as not to eat the lawsuit of the government office, you know that the people of the yamen, the small ones really can't afford to eat..."

Before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, the occupants of the house heard that there was only one person outside the house, so they let their guard down and pulled the door open with both hands.

It was the moment the door was opened, Dugu Shuo turned his long knife and approached it, the man saw the Qianniu knife, hurriedly jumped back and retreated, Dugu Shuo forced step by step, the man took advantage of the situation to pull up the table on the ground, smashed it out, Dugu Shuo dodged sideways, swung the long knife in his hand along the way, only to the long knife that the person ran to, the man suddenly heard the blade behind him, hurriedly leaned down and fell, and slid over.

Dugu Shuo went away with a knife, and the long knife stabbed straight into the pillar of the man's standing knife, and the man wanted to draw the knife closely, but he saw Dugu Shuo holding the bow in his left hand, and pulling the arrow with his right hand, and three crossbow arrows were shot in a hurry.

The man stepped on the doorpost of the sword and stepped back.

Dugushuo took the opportunity to roll over and pick up the double knives with both hands on his left and right.

It turned out that when Dugu Shuo set off, he had already retracted the crossbow arrow from his waist.

Double knife against empty hand, according to the practice of the previous internal guard, that person has no chance of winning at this moment.

Dugu Shuo took a closer look at the room, there was a small square table on the bed, a candle was lit on the table, paper was spread on the desk, and a pen was placed, as if this person was writing a letter.

Look at this person again, he is not tall, his face is ruddy, the corners of his mouth are thin beards, his body is slightly fat, and his back is slightly bulging.

Dugu Shuo had never seen this person.

The man stood up slightly, took a few breaths, grinned slightly at the corners of his mouth, looked around with his eyes hurriedly, and said, "Lord Dugushuo is a good method!" โ€

After saying this, he rolled and wanted to rush out of the door.

Dugu Shuo had already understood his calculation, snorted coldly, took out a long knife in his hand, and only grazed the man's neck and stabbed it on the door fan, only swaying with a flutter.

When the man just turned over, the long knife holder on his neck, and suddenly his ruddy face turned pale.

When I looked at Dugushuo again, he was already sitting on the bed.

The man had to come over in a huff.

"Anyway, is it the secret guard of Wuzhou or the gods? Ah, no, there is no pigeon house in Wuzhou, and I have never seen you in Shendu, so you should be the secret guard of Langzhou, let's say, when did you find me! Dugu Shuo asked with a grin.

"Lord Dugushuo has a good mind, the small one is indeed the secret guard of Langzhou, but it's a pity that Lord Dugushuo is smart and confused for a while, do you think that only the internal guards of Shendu can understand the code? Me too! The man said with disdain on his face.

Dugu Shuo nodded and said, "But I was negligent and forgot the existence of the secret guard!" But what if you know? โ€

"Don't hide it, my lord, your whereabouts are already known, according to the habit of the internal guards, they will be killed in Wuzhou in two days, and then you and that girl don't want to escape alive!" The man said viciously.

"Well, yes, according to the time I left the password, they should be earlier than two days, but it doesn't matter, I want to know how you have Zuo Si Xu's waist card?" Dugushuo asked again.

"Haha, I can't imagine that the deputy commander of the dignified internal guard will ask such a stupid question, don't you know that the waist of all the internal guards in the world is made by the Internal Affairs Department of the Right Division?" The man said disdainfully.

"Of course I know this, am I asking you if you are Yan Qingfang's person, or Wu Gengji or Guan Yuexian's person?" Dugu Shuo Road.

"Why is Commander Dugu getting more and more confused, aren't the secret guards all dispatched by Yan Qingfang?" The man said smugly.

"That's right, the secret guards in the internal guards are all directly under the orders and Yan Commander, but the right division can also dispatch the secret guards with the holy oracle, what you said is too absolute, but it makes people feel suspicious!" Dugu Shuo Road.

"Suspicious, who would suspect? Even people like you will become a plaything in the hands of others, an arrow in their hands, who will doubt the internal guards, Your Majesty? Haha, she doesn't even know how many people around her are her cronies, and she still has a chance to suspect these? Let's tell you the truth, we only listen to Yan Qingfang! The man said with a sneer.

"Well, according to your meaning, you already knew that they would borrow my hand to kill people, and then blame me, yes or no?" Dugu Shuo asked.

"What's the difference? If you escape, you all have to die, no one can escape, Shangguan Yi is dead, Xu Gao was arrested, and now there are only you and Pei Ce, haha, you are the lamb to be slaughtered, this kind of fate is destined by God, you can't escape! The man said again.

Dugu Shuo listened, nodded and said, "Thank you, although I don't know what your name is, but I can lead them to Wuzhou with just one code, and that's enough!" Dugushuo said.

"You? Lead us to us with a code? Haha, I'm really scared... You, alas, are despicable..." The man said, glancing at the half-written paper and pen on the desk.

"Haha, a secret guard like you is quite smart, but you don't know, I can imitate anyone's handwriting, and in Guan Yuexian's words, I can confuse the real with the fake. Two days, I've got enough traps to set up! Dugu Shuo got up with a smile and held the long knife in his hand.

"You, you, you deliberately lured us to Wuzhou, you..."

"Haha, when I studied art with my master, I lived in Wuzhou for five years, and there were many friends in the rivers and lakes here, most of their parents died in wars and court disputes, and many of them were after Guan Long!" Dugu Shuo said lightly, that is, with an instant swing of the knife, the person was in a different place.

"Are you going to go out lying down, or are you going to come in standing up? Well? Dugu Shuo thought about the shopkeeper standing at the door and said.

When the man heard this, he fell to his knees with a thud and shouted, "The adults spare their lives, the adults spare their lives, and the little ones don't want to die!" โ€

"I don't want to die, I see you standing at the door and listening to me talk a lot, I'm afraid you don't want to die, anyway, are you sent by the Spring and Autumn Dao, or are you from the internal guard?" Dugu Shuo asked.

"Spare your life! I'm just a good guy who keeps my job, and I don't know them! โ€™

"I don't know him, he just let you pass the message in sign language, but you look carefully, you don't know him this time?"

The shopkeeper suddenly got up, suddenly pulled out a soft sword from his waist, and stabbed it straight over, Dugu Shuo smiled when he saw it: "Good skills, it's a pity to pretend to be a store!" โ€