Ghost knife four, whose real name is unknown, came to the imperial capital to beg for a life during the Kangyang period. He was originally working as a porter in a warehouse, but because he was an outsider and was oppressed by the foreman, he cut off the foreman's head in a fit of rage. This provoked the arrest of both black and white, and the government no longer cared about him after receiving the money, and let the underworld want him.

The final result was unexpected, the ghost knife 4 and one person slashed this underworld force. This underworld force is not strong in the first place, it is considered the lowest existence in the underworld in the imperial capital, the ghost knife became famous in the 41st battle, and was favored by the leaders of those big forces, and was successively thrown an olive branch by Chu Zhaoxin, Sima Delei, and Le Zhengfang, but in the end, it was classified into Gui Wanqiu's Shuntian Gambling House.

The name of the ghost knife four was brought by himself, he never told others his real name, only let people call him the ghost knife four, it seems that this nickname has another story.

Although all the underworld bosses have been showing favor to him all these years, Ghost Dao Si still loyally followed Gui Wanqiu's side until he died.

No one knows why he is so loyal to Gui Wanqiu, and even willing to abandon his life.

Liu Xin threw aside the scrapped long knife and strode forward, the guards of the gambling house had already helped a beautiful woman up, but the groom was still lying on the ground, crimson blood slowly oozing from under him.

"Go after those killers, go!" The beautiful woman roared hysterically, broke free from the hand of the guard who was supporting her, and threw herself on the fallen groom.

A few gamblers at the door of the gambling house heard the movement and ran out to see, but were coldly blocked back by several guards.

After the beautiful woman gave the order, more than a dozen guards chased them out in different directions, Liu Xin and them staggered past and came behind the beautiful woman, Senior Brother Cheng had already hidden in the crowd at this time, and his role in the dark was much greater than that in the light.

The beautiful woman held the groom's head with both hands, and Liu Xin observed that the groom was dead at the moment, his face was as pale as paper, and the scar between his eyebrows was quite terrifying when he was alive, but now it was like a withered flower, wrinkled there.

There was no pain on the groom's face, but it made Liu Xin feel a relief, liberation, and relaxation.

The story between the groom and this woman is not simple, this is Liu Xin's first thought.

The beautiful woman's eyes were full of tears, she seemed to feel Liu Xin's presence, turned her head to look over, although her eyes were still full of tears, but the pain was no longer in her expression, she understood that the groom was dead.

She got up slowly and bowed to Liu Xinyingying, with a hint of hoarseness in her soft voice: "Thank you for this young man's help, the concubine is inconvenient to thank you now, and I will ask the guy to prepare a thin gift later to thank the young man for his kindness!" ”

Liu Xin waved his hand, the anger of a hot-blooded young man appeared on his face, and he said loudly: "Madame is polite, a certain family has just come to the imperial capital, but I didn't expect that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are such things as murder on the street in the first city in the world. ”

This kind of title is generally seen in a man from the green forest, and the beautiful woman sees that although Liu Xin is young, she feels a strong atmosphere of the rivers and lakes, and her mind is chaotic at this time, but she does not doubt anything else.

She saluted Liu Xin again and said, "Shaoxia is so courageous, I should have thanked Shaoxia, but I'm afraid it's not the right time, please forgive me." ”

Liu Xin waved his hand again, saying that he didn't need to thank him again, and then frowned and looked at the dead groom, he said faintly: "This groom brother is really loyal, a certain family admires such heroes the most, madam, if you need me to do something, a certain family must be duty-bound!" ”

Looking at Liu Xin's youthful enthusiasm, the beautiful woman tried to squeeze out a smile, shook her head, a moment of coldness flashed in her eyes, and then she was covered with sadness: "I will deal with this matter, so I won't bother Shaoxia, come on, please Shaoxia go in and rest, and all the expenses will be recorded in my account." ”

Behind the beautiful woman, a gambling house guard immediately stepped forward and said, "Yes, the shopkeeper!" ”

Then the gambling house guard led Liu Xin to enter the gambling house, Liu Xin scratched his head, turned around and glanced at the groom brother who had been lifted and taken away, and the beautiful woman who was standing at the door of the gambling house surrounded by the guards, and said loudly: "Woman, a certain family has just arrived, and there is no place to stay, I see that the groom brother is chivalrous and courageous, and the person he wants to protect must also be righteous Bo Yuntian, if the woman is interested, a certain family is willing to take refuge in you!" ”

The beautiful woman turned around, there was no sadness on her face, and in just a few breaths, she had already collected her emotions, which made Liu Xin feel that this woman was not simple.

The beautiful woman smiled and said, "Young man, wait a minute, wait until I finish dealing with the matter here, and then come to look for you!" ”

Liu Xin nodded, and when the woman turned around, she suddenly said: "Madam, don't underestimate a certain family, a certain family is a teacher of the Imperial Ma Sect Gui Qinchen, and it is also famous in the rivers and lakes!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Liu Xin didn't look at the beautiful woman's reaction, and turned straight into the gambling house, but with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth.

As soon as Liu Xin's words fell, the beautiful woman's movements of turning around suddenly stopped, her expression froze there, and her body seemed to stiffen instantly. After a few moments, the beautiful woman did not look back, but continued to walk forward, and the guards followed closely behind her.

Not far away, Senior Brother Cheng took a deep look at the back of the beautiful woman who got into the carriage and left in a hurry.

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The Temple of Heaven is located in the south of the imperial capital, a hundred years ago it was still a place not far from the emperor, a hundred years later, the city wall of the imperial capital wrapped the entire Temple of Heaven Mountain, accommodating it into the territory of the imperial capital.

The Temple of Heaven is lush and green, because the altitude is not high, the top of the mountain is relatively flat, and it has been used as a place of worship by several emperors in the past.

Because there is a royal altar on the top of Tiantan Mountain, the position above the mountainside does not allow the people to climb high, and the scenery under the mountainside is general, gradually no one wants to come, if the people want to climb the mountain and hike, they are more willing to choose Tiancun Mountain outside the imperial capital.

At this time, it was past noon, and a heat wave had already surged in the imperial capital in July, and the huge sun hung high overhead, releasing enthusiasm.

An eight-foot giant wrapped in coarse cloth and wrapped in iron chains was ascending the Temple of Heaven, a large but agile monkey in the mountains, able to grasp a rock above his head and swing over a cliff.

He went all the way west from Chongnanfang, but there were two people not far behind him, a monk and a Taoist priest.

Because their attack on the street may attract the chasing soldiers of the government, and the monk behind him has a deep cultivation, the giant had to climb the Temple of Heaven in order to get rid of them, originally wanted to use his excellent ability to climb the mountains and mountains to get rid of the two, but he never expected that the two behind him walked on the mountains as if they were walking on the ground.

At this time, the giant remembered that most of the monks and Taoist priests lived in the mountains.

However, at this time, it was too late to regret it, and the giant could only lead people into the mountains and find a secluded place to deal with each other.

The young Taiping monk and the little Taoist Li Cundao have an amazing jumping power, and a casual jump is a distance of five or six zhang, and the other body is like a floating feather, and can cross several zhang with a slight jump.

The two of them don't have the explosive power of giants, but they can still easily catch up and look at the look of the monk and Taoist, it is quite easy.

"Don't chase the two little dolls, when they get to a secluded place, they will be slaughtered by me!" The giant turned his head and shouted, his tone was strange, not like a Han Chinese.

Northern Barbarians!

The monk found a clue in the giant's tone, but he didn't care, and replied loudly: "No matter who you are, when you commit murder in the street and kill the people, the monk will overtake you!" ”

The monk said righteously, but the Taoist priest behind him looked helpless, he didn't want to come, but the giant said that this was a top master in terms of strength, speed, and agility that he was showing now.

Although the monk's cultivation is not bad, but compared with this giant, the distance is not small, if he does not keep up, with this monk's tendonous temperament, he has to die in the hands of that giant.

"Huh!" The giant sneered and continued to run forward, followed by the monk and the Taoist.

However, in the time of a stick of incense, the three of them crossed an extremely steep and steep mountain road, and at the corner was an open and flat depression, which was low, surrounded by walls on three sides, and the water and gas were impassable, so the depression was full of mud.

The giant stepped on the dead wood lying in the muddy depression and made rapid progress, and after a few steps reached the middle of the depression. Beyond this depression, there was a dense forest, and the terrain began to go down, and when it reached there, it was difficult for the monk and Taoist priest to chase after him, and with the agility of a giant, accompanied by the obscuring sight of the trees, he was able to easily shake off the two of them.

The monk snorted and jumped down from his heights, and as soon as his body landed on the dead wood, there was a bad feeling under his feet.

With a click, the dead wood broke in response, and the monk hurriedly jumped up again, jumping to a section of the stump on the other side, at this moment, a whistling sound came from one side, the monk was in the air at this time, and turned his head hard, but saw a gray phantom sweeping towards him, which was the iron chain in the giant's hand.

"Drink!" The Taoist priest behind him threw an object in his hand and slammed it straight into the phantom, suddenly exploding a cloud of sawdust, and the iron chain also stagnated.

The giant's eyes on the other side of the chain flashed with surprise and solemnity, this Taoist priest's internal strength was unexpectedly strong, not as good as what he could have at his age, what he threw should only be a branch that he broke off casually, but the power of that moment just now was comparable to the steel arrow shot by the iron tire bow.

The iron tire bow is the top bow and crossbow that can only be used by the strongest archers in the Northern Barbarians, it is equipped with all-steel crossbow arrows, the power is amazing, and every arrow has the power of a twelve-stone bow, which can easily penetrate the standard iron shield of the Zhengyang military.

But this little Taoist priest has such power as soon as he throws it in his hand, and there is only one possibility, that is, the latter's internal strength is amazing.

After the monk was rescued, he did not hesitate to continue to pounce on the giant, the monk's speed was very fast, like a humanoid cannonball shot at the giant, the giant had already made up his mind to deal with the two here, so his left hand drew a circle in the air, pinched the iron chain in the palm of his hand, the iron chain wrapped his wrist, and threw a punch at the monk who shot him.

The moment the monk and the giant's fist touched, the monk's body twisted, his hands wrapped around the giant's arms, his body twisted, turned around in an instant, and after brushing the giant's punch, he changed from a front giant to a back to the giant, the monk curled up, and when the body came to the giant's arms, his legs kicked out violently.

The monk's feet fell to the ground, his body made a thousand pound fall, the giant punched the air, and then his arm was entangled, and the next moment a huge force broke his arm down, because this force was oblique inward, the giant's divine power could only exert one or two, and the body fell down uncontrollably.

This is the secret art of Buddhism, close to the body. He is the best at borrowing strength, not only can he dissolve most of the enemy's power, but he can also borrow it for his own use, and after this skill is mastered, he can easily subdue an enemy who is several times stronger than himself.

The monk knows that his strength, internal force and even speed are far inferior to this giant, and the other party's body is terrifyingly powerful, just like a natural martial artist, but even so, there is no absolute strong person in the rivers and lakes, and anyone can be defeated, as long as the right way is found.

The monk's legs have been inserted into the muddy ground, and the giant has already flown up in the air at this time, completely lifted by the monk with skill, this time it is about to be planted into the ground, but at the last moment, the giant actually relaxed his body, let the monk throw it over the shoulder, and then before hitting the ground, the body collapsed suddenly, the originally bent body suddenly straightened, and the downward trend turned forward.

This huge force directly broke free from the monk's hand, and his body was carried forward by the remaining strength, and the iron chain on the giant's wrist had been wrapped around the monk's arms at some point. The roles of the two were instantly reversed, and they became giants and angry monks.

The Taiping monk only felt that he could not stop the giant's powerful force at all, and his body flew up uncontrollably, and his feet inserted into the ground were pulled up vigorously, bringing out the muddy clods.

While he was surprised in his heart, he was also glad that he was not alone, a sharp sound of breaking the air came from the other side, it was the Taoist priest holding a slender branch, and a sharp wind whistle came from the thorn, and the tip of the branch was aimed straight at the giant's face.

The Taoist priest knew that the giant was covered with thick iron chains, and the branches in his hands could not penetrate the chains to give the giant effective damage, and the only thing he could do was to attack his face.

The giant twisted in the air and threw the monk in the direction of the Taoist branch, who seemed to have foreseen that the wind whistle stopped a moment before the monk flew in.

The monk fell into the arms of the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest took three consecutive spins to eliminate this force.

When the monk landed, the Taoist priest looked fixedly and saw that the giant had come to the edge of the depression and jumped into the dense forest.

The giant's retreat was resolute and the reaction was terrifying.

The Taoist priest's eyes were full of solemnity as he looked at the back of the giant's departure, and the monk was about to continue the chase, but was stopped by the Taoist priest.

"That giant should be the top martial artist in the Northern Barbarians, not something we can deal with, and it will crush us in all aspects!" The Taoist priest said something that is extremely rare on weekdays, he was born rebellious, because of his talent, he has far surpassed his peers since he was a child, and even his uncle, who was a generation older than him, was easily surpassed by him, so he developed an unruly character.

"It's only been two moves, and you've destroyed your prestige!" The Taiping monk was extremely dissatisfied with the Taoist priest's words.

The Taiping monk looked in the direction of the giant's escape, he actually knew the gap between him and the giant, so he added: "People die and birds face the sky, afraid of him a bird!" ”

The little Taoist Li Cundao glanced at him and said, "Vulgar!" ”

"The Northern Barbarians appeared in the imperial capital and committed murder in the streets, which must be a bad intention. We can't let him go, although we can't beat him one-on-one, but the two of us combined, not too much worse than him, I still have a lot of hole cards useless, believe you too, don't hide it at this time. The Taiping monk still wanted to chase the giant, but he felt that he couldn't do it alone, so he persuaded Li Cundao.

Li Cundao shook his head, threw away the branch in his hand, clapped his hands and said: "There are only two of us, and the other party doesn't know how many people there are. He uses the dark power under his feet to destroy the dead wood that he has borrowed from, causing you to lose your center of gravity and turn back to attack you when you dodge. Such a person is the most terrifying, the force is high, the brain is still insidious, there is no big enmity between us and him, there is no need to fight with him! ”

Li Cundao talked eloquently, but when he turned around, he saw that the Taiping monk was looking at him with a strange look, and the Taiping monk was swaying his head from side to side, as if he was examining Li Cundao.

"Why do you look at me like that?" Li Cundao asked puzzled.

Monk Taiping asked with a puzzled expression, "You can't be afraid of that big man from the north, right?" ”

"Ridiculous!" Li Cundao retorted angrily, and his tone was resolute.

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A carriage was followed by a dozen burly men, followed by a group of soldiers of the government guard. Everyone came all the way to the easternmost part of Chongnan Fang, close to the location of Zhengdong Fang.

There is an independent manor here, half of the manor is in Chongnanfang and half is in Zhengdongfang. The courtyard across the two squares, although it is in the outer city, also shows the strong strength of the owner.

The carriage stopped at the gate of the manor, and Gui Wanqiu slowly stepped out of the carriage, and there were still traces of the blood of the ghost knife on the skirt. She first came to the back of the carriage and said a few words to the government guard who led the team, and the two entered the manor together.

Gui Wanqiu is the shopkeeper of the Shuntian Gambling Workshop, and the Shuntian Gambling Workshop has a great backer behind it, and the official guards stationed in the Chongnan Fang area are very polite to her, and she has to pay more filial piety on weekdays.

Fu Junwei originally received a report, saying that someone was committing a crime on the street, and even contraband such as crossbow arrows appeared, so this hundred households hurriedly took people to go, and met Gui Wanqiu on the way, Gui Wanqiu briefly told the matter, because he knew that it might be related to the Blue Coat Society, this hundred households only let the two general flags under his command go to the place of the incident to investigate, and he himself took a team of people to Gui Wanqiu to come to the Blue Coat Club together.

The background of the Blue Coat Society is much bigger than that of Gui Wanqiu, not to mention that it is the government army and the hundred households, even if the thousand households are the lords, they must be polite when they see the president.

Under the leadership of a servant of the Blue Coat Society, in the end, only Gui Wanqiu and the 100 households of the government guards came to the study of the president of the Blue Coat Society.

The Blue Coat President's study is large in size, with a huge bookshelf formed by a hollowed-out wall in the background, and some soft chairs in front of the bookshelf. This soft chair with several layers of soft fur cushions came from the far west and is extremely precious.

The 100 households of the government were taken to the side room by a scribe of the Blue Coat Society, who seemed to know what was going on, and he explained what had happened today.

Gui Wanqiu was not surprised by all this, the president of the Blue Coat Society was firmly in control of Chongnanfang, and almost all the affairs in the workshop could not escape her eyes.

Familiarly came to a huge screen, a huge soft chair appeared there, and there were a few Huanghuali official chairs below, on which two middle-aged people were already seated, and Gui Wanqiu saluted them.

These two are the two vice presidents of the Blue Coat Society, wearing a navy blue silk costume and a striking gold and jade belt around his waist is Chu Zhaoxin, who is in charge of the underground black market, and his wealth is not enough to describe his wealth. In the past, when the underworld forces in the imperial capital were intertwined, this was the richest man in the underworld.

Another person wearing a foreign suit and holding a jade antique snuff bottle in his hand was Wu Wanyi, who was his property in all the green buildings in the eastern district of the outer city, and even some red mansion taverns in the inner city. There are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and Wu Wanyi is known as having 5,000 stunning colors, and he is the most senior person in the imperial capital.

On the other side, a man in a scholar's robe stood behind the official chair with his head down, with a cautious expression, this person was a middle-aged scholar who gave advice to Sima Delei's gambling house.

Chu Zhaoxin and Wu Wanyi didn't pay attention to Gui Wanqiu, they had already learned the ending of Sima Delei at the moment, they were both underworld bosses, but they were still dissatisfied with Gui Wanqiu's behavior, because the latter was too unruly.

"Where's the president?" Gui Wanqiu didn't care about the attitude of the two vice presidents, and asked in a delicate voice.

Chu Zhaoxin narrowed his eyes, and Wu Wanyi snorted lightly between his noses, who would take care of Gui Wanqiu at this time.

But the next moment, both of them were taken aback, because the middle-aged scholar raised his head and replied seriously: "The president has already left, she has made an appointment before leaving, madam, you will be the vice president of the Blue Coat Society in the future, Sima Delei's previous business belongs to you, you just need to sign the agreement left by the president!" ”

Chu Zhaoxin's originally narrowed eyes suddenly widened, and he stared directly at the middle-aged scholar. Wu Wanyi stopped rubbing the snuff bottle, turned his head, reached out and picked up the tea cup on the side and took a sip.

Gui Wanqiu showed a sneer on her face, it turned out that the president had already known everything and arranged it, as expected, but these two people looked cold here, to deliberately embarrass her and give her a dismount.

"Okay, then let's go, sign the agreement!" Gui Wanqiu's tone was soft, and her voice was a little louder than before.

The middle-aged scholar led the way, Gui Wanqiu moved to the president's desk, an agreement was already there, Gui Wanqiu glanced at it hurriedly, and her heart was shocked, originally she was going to bleed heavily, but she didn't expect that the conditions written on the agreement were much better than she imagined.

Why did the president want so little?

This was Gui Wanqiu's first reaction.

Just when she was stunned, Chu Zhaoxin's voice came from behind her: "Shopkeeper Gui... Oh no, President Gui, hurry up and sign it, President asked me to bring the agreement back to her. ”

Gui Wanqiu turned around and saw Chu Zhaoxin's impatient look, and the latter did not hide his jealousy and hostility towards Gui Wanqiu in his eyes.

Gui Wanqiu suddenly smiled, turned around and picked up the thin wolf hair on the side, splashed ink with a pen, wrote down his name, and took out the seal from his arms and pressed it down heavily.

Chu Zhaoxin stepped forward, blew dry the ink marks on the agreement, put them in his arms, and then said coldly, reluctantly: "The president asked me to contact someone to investigate the murderer who wanted to kill you for you, but you have to give the money, and the Dog Slaughter Sect will find someone to come to the door tonight to ask for payment, and pay half of the deposit first, 10,000 taels of silver!" Time is running out, go get ready, huh! ”

After speaking, Chu Zhaoxin turned around and left, Wu Wanyi also got up, and the two left together.

"The two presidents walked slowly." Gui Wanqiu saluted the two again.