Chapter Forty-Eight: What Yongtongfang Sees and Hears
Before the big-bellied killer could completely lose his life, Xu Wei had already turned around and put away his four round and sharp kitchen knives.
"Double Flying Butterfly" is a round kitchen knife-shaped blade, but it is much more delicate and sharp than an ordinary kitchen knife, and the feeling in the hand is also light and comfortable, which can indeed stimulate people's desire to cut things, and it is indeed four very useful kitchen knives from another angle.
Just now I heard the other two fleeing cloth-clad masked men talk about the city gate, although Xu Wei also knew that he couldn't catch up with each other, he still wanted to go and see the situation.
Before leaving, Xu Wei used a dagger to cut open his clothes and tie up the wounds on his body that couldn't stop bleeding, which was the third set of clothes he had worn out in less than a month.
Most of the clothes Xu Wei wears are sold for about two to three copper coins, and ordinary people may buy a set of this kind of clothes a year, and I have to say that Xu Wei's current living standard is actually far more than that of ordinary people.
Xu Wei, who was wearing an underwear and had strips of plain blue cloth tied to his body, looked a little nondescript, and he looked a little embarrassed when he rummaged through the few real tickets in the small box.
After Xu Wei found all the real redemption tickets, there were a full two hundred and fifteen times, which may be a drop in the bucket for Lu Min, but for Xu Wei, who used to eat and sleep in the open, it was already a joy from heaven.
The dark clouds could no longer obscure the moonlight, and the damp wind was still blowing, blowing the trees in the workshop with a gloomy sound.
Xu Wei walked quickly towards the city gate, and there were still about two squares away from the nearest east city gate. It's not close, but if you speed up your pace, you can get there in half an hour, and if you run past, it's even faster.
Sure enough, when Xu Wei trotted to the east gate with a kitchen knife in one hand, the east gate of Stone Town was already firmly closed, and many ordinary people and residents who needed to leave the city in an urgent matter were congested at the city gate.
Before Xu Wei stepped forward, he had already heard the people who had returned from mouth to mouth, "Because the Golden Jubilee Building Treasure Conference was looted by robbers tonight, and the sky-high property and antiquities were lost, Jiang Zhou assassinated Shi Yu Dajiang and was furious, and demanded that the door be closed immediately, and the whole city should search for robbers and thieves." ”
"The robbers have been robbing in the Golden Jubilee Building for a long time, and they haven't seen a single officer and soldier, and now they are estimated to have run out of the city gate, and he Yu Dajiang has begun to seal the city." Xu Wei was able to guess that the mask man Bacheng who wanted to seize Lu Min's cash box and kill Yuwen Jackie Chan was the handiwork of Gao Zhen and Yu Dajiang, so he was also sure that the "Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra" must have been transported out of Stone City.
There was obviously a fierce scuffle near the city gate, and the black-clothed masked man who finally chased him to the city gate was probably all slaughtered, and the corpses had been pulled aside by some officials of the government to pile up, and it was estimated that they would be dealt with centrally, but the blood stains on the ground that could not be washed away by the rain should remain for a long time.
Xu Wei, who couldn't get out of the city, lost his temper for a while, although there were many tourists and traders living outside the stone city at the city gate, and there were many merchants who needed to leave in time because they were in a hurry, but the iron-faced and selfless majestic city guards didn't pay them any attention to them, and pulled out their sabers and said sharply to the anxious people: "No one is allowed to leave the city without Lord Yu's handwriting!" Get out of here! ”
Many people are hindered by the almost spotless, flawless Sui knife and Sui armor, and they will only scold when they retreat to the distance, "When the Sui army came in, the surrender was so fast that I wanted to squat down and wag my tail immediately, and now I put on the armor of the Sui Dynasty and changed the Sui knife, and I still act as a prestige against the people, in fact, I haven't even caught a serious robber from more than ten years ago to the present." ”
Because he shed a lot of blood, Xu Wei was really hungry, but now he only has five fifty yuan redemption tickets in his hand, and he seems to be very rich, but he can't buy a sweet baked cake common in Jiangnan.
When the boss saw Xu Wei, who was dressed in tatters, took out a fifty yuan redemption ticket, he only thought that Xu Wei was a robber or a beggar, and even had to report to the official, forcing Xu Wei to retreat to the root of the wall in a daze.
I really can't do it, so I can only go back to Boss Lu Min first, not to mention that you can ask what is going on with the blank paper in the small box, at least you can fill your stomach first.
Just when he was upset when he heard the curses and complaints of the surrounding people about closing the city gate, Xu Wei suddenly heard a familiar sound one after another, which was the unique wind chimes on the Lu family's carriage, because several of them were made by Lu Xiao herself, so she had shown it many times in front of Xu Wei before, and Xu Wei also wrote down the wind chimes.
Since Lu Min was nearby, it would be the best, the wind chimes only flashed, but it was enough for Xu Wei, who was often in charge of reconnaissance and tracking in Zuo Xiaowei.
Xu Wei endured the hardships in his abdomen and trotted quickly, his trotting speed was already very fast in the eyes of ordinary people, but it was still far from the running speed he had shown before.
Lu Min's carriage was parked in the Yongtong Fang next to the East City Gate, Yongtong Fang is far worse than the ones Xu Wei passed by before, because it is a newly built Fang before, so Yongtong Fang is much larger than ordinary Fang, and the floor is like some rich Fang and even has two or three floors.
But it was supposed to be a relatively new workshop, and the dilapidated and dirty inside was really smacking, walking in it was like a rat walking in the gutter, dark and damp, and there would be a peculiar smell from time to time.
Yongtongfang is one of the three most poor people in Stone Town, except for the poor people or strangers who live in it, Yongtong Fang is almost full of gambling to bankruptcy, sick to no money to rely on, prostitution to homeless poor ghosts in Stone Town.
However, perhaps because of the large number of people, Yongtongfang also presents another lively scene.
Several drunkards who beat each other because of drunkenness lay on the ground after a few punches, and the beggar who begged for money with his front foot ran into the dilapidated Hualiu house with his back foot, the smell of brine on the side of the street made Xu Wei feel pungent, and several middle-aged gentlemen in decent clothes in the gambling house spit extremely harsh swear words in their mouths.
Maybe it was because Xu Wei was in tatters and holding two kitchen knives, and the vicious ones on the road who were about to bully almost anyone who passed by didn't dare to stop in front of Xu Wei.
There were two drunk women with rouge on their faces who wanted to pull Xu Wei to drink, but they were allowed to dodge and simply ran away.
After walking to the edge of Yongtongfang for a while, the chaotic noise slowly subsided, and the houses on the edge seemed to be even more dilapidated.
In a house with only one bed and a broken quilt, there was a middle-aged man who was so sick that there was no trace of blood who was also looking at Xu Wei curiously, perhaps because no one had walked in this direction for a long time.
The path in Yongtongfang is very narrow, not to mention the welcoming avenue of Stone Town, even the small road in Huairenfang, where Xu Wei has just fought with the big-bellied killer, is much wider than the road in Yongtongfang, and the path in Yongtongfang can only barely walk an ordinary double-horse carriage, if it is bigger, it may not be easy to walk.
Therefore, Lu Min's carriage actually walked very slowly, and Xu Wei, who had been searching for a long time, did not need to prick up his ears at this moment to clearly hear the special wind chimes on the carriage.
Xu Wei followed quietly with light and quiet steps, and saw the carriage stop in front of a dilapidated temple, who would have thought that there was a temple in such a messy and depraved Yongtongfang, and this temple was actually very chic, from the appearance of the temple built in imitation of the Sui pattern, it seems that it should have been abandoned after not long after repairing.
Seeing Lu Min and others get out of the car and enter the broken temple from a distance, Xu Wei quietly stepped over the gate of the temple, observed and found that there was no one to guard it, and then tiptoed to the main hall of the broken temple through the front hall of the temple.
"Is it safe here?" Lu Min deliberately lowered his loud voice and said, "Now that the city gate is closed, I'm afraid there is no way, Xie Laojun, do your people know where those masked people will go in the future?" ”
An old and hoarse but still somewhat neutral voice said slowly: "Boss Lu, I thought this would be a profitable business, but now it's okay, so many people died tonight, and the 50,000 yuan you paid is probably not as good as the cost of supporting them all the time, I don't know where Gao Zhen found such a powerful group of people, each of them can be regarded as strong players in the rivers and lakes." ”
Sure enough, Xu Wei glanced at the five real redemption tickets stuffed in his sleeve, and then thought of the box of fake redemption tickets before, and now he heard the conversation between Lu Min and the old man in the temple, and it was obvious that the group of black-clothed masked people were found by Lu Min himself to grab the "Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra".
"If Xie Laojun and your people don't want to grab money and other things, but go all out to grab the Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra, the headache now may be Gao Zhen himself." Lu Min's words were actually mixed with anger: "It's been raised for almost ten years, whether it's a new person or an old person, is it still so disobedient to orders?" When I begged you, I said, "I only want the Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra, as long as I want!" ”
"Hahahaha." The old man known as Xie Laojun seemed to be about to laugh until he couldn't breathe, "Boss Lu, you don't know, this group of people under me was a rebel army at the beginning, and then they were robbers and bandits. ”
"Yes, Boss Lu, our people died all the way from the Golden Jubilee Building to the East City Gate, and you came by carriage to see it, although they planned to even take the guests of the Golden Jubilee Building tonight to make a lot of money, but in fact, when the "Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra" was taken away, almost everyone gave up their lives to rob it." The voice of an indifferent and sick woman also sounded, it was a voice that Xu Wei was extremely familiar with.
"But in the end, your gang of bandits, the only robbers near the Divine Capital, still messed things up." Lu Min shook his head and said, "And we almost caught up with Yuwen Gongzi." ”
"What? Boss Lu, in order to clear up the involvement, you asked me to order my subordinates to leave you alone, but now you are here to blame us? I don't care about anything else, we have so many dead people today, and we won't return a cent of 50,000 yuan. The hoarse old man even spoke with a hint of condorm......
"Hey, don't laugh, since the 50,000 guan is given, I will never regret it." Lu Min was obviously still a little jealous of the Xie family, who were also the four wealthy businessmen in the Divine Capital, and seeing that the Xie family's accent was not good, his attitude softened and said, "Then at least help us get the scriptures back." ”
"Grab a fart! The gates of the city are closed, and they will definitely not be opened in three or five days, the walls of the stone city are all newly built, which are originally higher than the old city walls, and Yu Dajiang's old thief has sent so many people to guard it, and he can't get out at all, and when we go out, I'm afraid that the scriptures have been sent to the hands of Emperor Sui. The person who said this was a rough and rough woman, and the vulgarity of her words when she was emotional could make most men embarrassed, but in fact, this woman was also Xu Wei's old acquaintance.
"Tut-tut, I didn't expect it to be an acquaintance holding a conference......" Xu Wei, who was hiding in the shadows, said unconsciously.