Chapter 017: Fifteen Months
Qingchen didn't tell Tianquan about Jiang Yanshan's visit at night, let alone tell him what he had found, when Tianquan asked what to do next, Qingchen only gave one word: wait.
Tianquan didn't say anything, just followed Qingchen's instructions, waited patiently, and occasionally went out to check the news, until a few days later, Mu Qingjue had news from the capital of Tianxing Kingdom, and he knocked on Qingchen's door.
"Childe, there is news from the master. Tianquan came in from outside and handed the note in his hand to Qingchen.
Qingchen took the note from Tianquan's hand, glanced at it and returned it to him, and then spoke: "The imperial brother is still impatient, since Yu Wuyuan has already agreed to the imperial brother's request, the affairs of southern Xinjiang naturally don't have to worry about it for the time being." ”
"Southern Xinjiang does not have to worry for the time being, but the master's letter said that Mobei is not easy to get along with, and the master is worried about the safety of his son. Tianquan opened his mouth and said, "We have been in Yancheng for more than half a month, but we have not made any moves, and if we delay any longer, it is difficult to guarantee that we will not be discovered." ”
"Don't worry, before tomorrow, I will definitely send Su Baohua's head to you. Qingchen smiled and said firmly.
"Childe, can you tell your subordinates what your plans are?" Tianquan heard this, thought about it, and finally asked.
"I don't want to tell you directly, my people found out that Su Baohua will go out of Taishou Mansion on the fifteenth day of every month and go to the vicinity of Jiang Yanshan. Su Baohua is highly respected in Yancheng, and the Taishou Mansion is heavily guarded, if we enter the Taishou Mansion and kill Su Baohua, we may fall into passivity, but we can set up an ambush in Jiang Yan Mountain. Qingchen said.
"So...... The subordinates will go and prepare. Tianquan listened to Qingchen's words and said with his hands.
"There's no need, you don't need a master like ambushing Su Baohua. Tomorrow, you go to find Shi Wuxian, he has been stationed in Yancheng for a long time, and he can be regarded as winning the hearts of the people, Su Baohua has an accident, Yancheng needs him to come out and preside over the overall situation. Qingchen shook his head slightly and said.
"The subordinates understand. Tianquan nodded in response, and then left.
Qingchen looked at the back of Tianquan leaving, and fell into deep thought, she hadn't found out Jiang Yanshan's secret yet, so naturally she couldn't let Tianquan and Mu Qingjue know so early, so it was absolutely impossible to let Tianquan participate in Jiang Yanshan's ambush of Su Baohua.
When it was almost evening, Tomorrow appeared in Qingchen's room and told Qingchen all the news that Jiang Yanshan had found out about the night dead.
"Did Nightfall find something?" Qingchen asked, looking at Tomorrow.
"Childe is right, that's exactly what he said. A few days ago, Jiang Yanshan was just like what we saw that night, except that some people secretly transported some things in through the secret passage on the opposite mountain, there was nothing special, but today, it made Ye Yan discover one thing. Tomorrow said.
"Tell me about it. Qingchen said.
"Ye Di found that this morning, a group of Mobei people came to the valley of Blind Ditch. When the guards at the gate of the stone cave saw those people, they all bowed and saluted, and they seemed to be very familiar with each other, and after the group of Mobei people entered the stone cave, they didn't come out yet, and their subordinates guessed that they might be waiting for Su Baohua. Tomorrow said.
"Really? That's great news. A smile appeared on the corner of Qingchen's mouth, and then he spoke, "I was worried that I couldn't find a good reason to kill Su Baohua, but now it seems that God really helps me." ”
"Childe already has an idea?" asked Tomorrow.
"You and Ye Yan will go to Jiang Yanshan with me tomorrow, and inform Ning Chen separately and ask him to bring someone to prepare ......" Qingchen lowered his voice and said in Tomorrow's ear, a series of commands floated out from Qingchen's lips, soft but firm.
"The subordinates understand. Tomorrow heard Qingchen's words, nodded clearly, and then jumped out of the window lattice, and according to Qingchen's instructions, he went to inform Ning Chen.
After a sleepless night, before dawn, the dust had already been cleaned up, and he left the inn and headed towards Jiang Yanshan. Tomorrow secretly followed behind Qingchen, and took advantage of the last trace of darkness in the sky to come to the entrance of Jiang Yanshan's secret passage.
Qingchen asked Tomorrow to stay at the entrance of the secret passage and wait for Su Baohua to arrive, and then entered the secret passage by himself.
The sky is gradually whitening, and a ray of light flashes in the sky, so tomorrow I will hide in a nearby tree and pay attention to the movement around me. As soon as the hour passed, he saw a man coming from not far away, and he looked around to see if anyone was following him, and seemed to be very cautious.
Tomorrow held his breath and watched the man slowly approach, and found that the person who came was Su Baohua.
Su Baohua looked around, and when he saw that there was no one in the four fields, he carefully pushed aside the grass in front of the entrance of the secret passage, bowed down and got in, and disappeared into the deep hole.
Tomorrow jumped down from the tree, then walked to the entrance of the secret passage, followed behind Su Baohua, and entered the secret passage.
It was no different from when he left a few days ago, and he and Su Baohua always maintained a distance of three zhang from each other, using the protruding walls around him as a cover to cover his figure.
Su Baohua was a literati and didn't know martial arts, so naturally he didn't find that someone was following him, but walked quickly towards the exit of the secret passage as in the past.
But just as Su Baohua walked to the middle of the secret road, at the moment of turning, he suddenly stopped, and saw the black figure standing in front of him, with a touch of horror in his eyes.
Tomorrow, who was following behind, saw Su Baohua stop, and knew that Su Baohua had met Qingchen who was guarding in front, and he no longer hid his whereabouts at the moment, walked a few steps quickly, came to Su Baohua's back, and Qingchen one after another, sandwiched Su Baohua in the middle, blocking his retreat.
"Master Su, I've been looking up for a long time. Qingchen turned around slowly, looked at Su Baohua, opened his mouth lightly, and a profound smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Who are you?" Su Baohua asked, looking at Qingchen with a silver mask in front of him.
At this time, Qingchen was still dressed as a man, dressed in black, because she took the voice change pill given to her by Huai Jin, her voice was indistinguishable from male and female, which was unpredictable.
"Who am I, Master Su doesn't need to know, I came this time to borrow something from Lord Su. Qingchen looked at Su Baohua and said.
"The official and the girl have never met, but I don't know what the girl wants to borrow from the official?" Su Baohua's gaze locked on Qingchen's face with a silver mask, and the panic in his eyes suddenly fell silent, and he asked.
"Master Su really has good eyesight. Qingchen was a little surprised that Su Baohua had revealed the identity of her daughter's family so quickly, but it was fleeting, and he said, "However, even if Lord Su knows about this, it will be useless, because what I want to borrow is Lord Su's head." ”
As soon as the words fell, Qingchen glanced at Tomorrow, who was standing behind Su Baohua, and when Tomorrow saw this, he immediately moved, and his shot was as fast as lightning, and in an instant, the shadowless sword in his hand was already on Su Baohua's neck.
"Even if you want to cut off your head, you have to be charged with a crime. The girl wants the official's head, and she should always let the official know where the official offended the girl, so that the official can understand. Su Baohua was pointed at by the sword, but there was no trace of fear in his words, but he was extremely indifferent.
"I don't think that's necessary. Qingchen didn't take Su Baohua's words to heart at all, stepped forward, clicked on Su Baohua's acupoint, and then instructed tomorrow, "Take off his clothes, and I will go to the stone cave in the form of him." ”
While speaking, Tomorrow's movements were extremely fast, and he quickly took off Su Baohua's clothes and handed them to Qingchen according to Qingchen's instructions. Qingchen walked away with his clothes and dressed himself up as Su Baohua before he reappeared.
"Childe, what should Su Baohua do?
"I promised Mu Qingjue to take Su Baohua's head back, and his life is naturally useless. However, in order to cooperate with Ning Chen, remember to find a place where it is easy to be found and dispose of the body. Qingchen said this, glanced at Tomorrow, turned around and walked towards the exit at the other end of the secret passage.
But with a look, tomorrow will already understand the meaning of Qingchen, the shadowless sword is as fast as lightning, and with a sword to seal his throat, Su Baohua was killed on the spot, and fell in the secret passage, and there was no sound.
Then, tomorrow will take Su Baohua out of the secret passage and head towards the crowded place near Jiang Yan Mountain. It's only early in the morning, and there are no pedestrians on the road, and when the sky is brighter, Su Baohua's body should be found.
After doing all this, tomorrow he turned back to the secret passage, followed Qingchen to the other end, and when he reached the exit, he saw Qingchen, who was disguised as Su Baohua, to the path at the bottom of the valley, walking in the direction of the stone cave.
Qingchen came to the door of the stone cave, and the eight guards guarding the door immediately clasped their fists and saluted:
"I've seen Lord Su. ”
Qingchen nodded slightly, didn't say anything, and went directly into the stone cave and walked inside.
It is very different from the simple secret passage of Jiang Yan Mountain, and there is really something different in this stone cave. After walking along the path for a while, there is a long and narrow stone staircase, and down the stone steps, there is a huge underground palace, which is better than the underground stone room of the Star Picking Tower.
As soon as she walked to the stone steps, Qingchen's ears heard some ding-dong sounds, which made her frown, and looked towards the source of the sound, but saw that there were many people in this huge underground palace, hammering and beating with hammers in their hands, and some people were holding some iron sheets that were made into the size of bamboo cylinders, and some powder was stuffed into them.
"Hurry up, put all this stuff here-"
Just when Qingchen was deeply shocked by everything in front of her, a voice came from her ears again, she turned her head to look, but saw a man directing a group of people to throw a few sacks on the ground, she immediately recognized that these sacks were the ones she saw when she came on the tenth night of the first month.
Later, the sack was opened, revealing its contents, and when he looked closely, he found that all the contents of the sack were sulfur.
The shock in Qingchen's heart could no longer be described in words, she didn't expect that the secret in the stone cave would be like this.
Here, it turned out to be an armory built by Su Baohua for the King of Qi, he used the identity of Yancheng Taishou as a cover, and took advantage of Jiang Yanshan's unique geographical location to privately build weapons here to prepare for the rebellion of the King of Qi.