Chapter 27: The Moonlit Night Assassination
In the face of the sudden assassination, Shen Dongshan did not panic in the slightest, but still sat quietly at the table and drank wine by himself, calmly and leisurely, as if he was unaware of the assassin who was close at hand.
The sudden great change shocked Liu Xunyi and Lin Fangda, they never expected that someone would dare to assassinate the richest man in the Great Song Dynasty in such a grand manner in the territory of Jiangnan Lufu.
But before Liu Xunyi could say a remind, the silver light like a meteor chasing the moon had already pierced straight in front of Shen Dongshan, and the white frost on the opposite side had lost its face, and it was difficult to suppress a frightened scream from his mouth.
"Khooth!"
Suddenly, a muffled sound suddenly sounded in front of Shen Dongshan, and then I saw a blood-red Ten Thousand Thorn Flywheel spinning out of mid-air, blocking the blade before the assassin hit Shen Dongshan.
At the same time, two black shadows on the left and right of the private room instantly pounced on the assassin, and the blades flickered like a raging storm to entangle the assassin in the attack, and he didn't want to take another step closer to Shen Dongshan. Through his airtight knife skills and flexible and swift moves, Liu Xunyi concluded that these two entourages must be Shen Dongshan's good hands who were invited to protect him.
Just when the two retinues were besieging the assassins, the Ten Thousand Thorn Flywheel that had just blocked the sword blade had been flying around in the private room, and finally flew back towards Shen Dongshan, and when the Ten Thousand Thorn Flywheel circled less than two feet in front of Shen Dongshan, a burly man like an iron tower had already taken a step forward in the middle, stretched out his right hand as thick as steel and iron willows, and firmly took the rapidly rotating Ten Thousand Thorn Flywheel in his hand.
The burly man only cautiously protected Shen Dongshan behind him, but did not join the battle, allowing the two black-clothed retinues to join forces to deal with the assassins.
From beginning to end, Shen Dongshan had been drinking gracefully, without even raising his eyelids, and it was not difficult to see how confident he was in the martial arts of his guards.
Even Liu Xunyi had to admire the assassin, under the overwhelming blades of the two masters, he still fought with ease, but seeing the sword shadow in the battle, the sword light constantly changed around the sword shadow, and the sword flew up and down freely, and in an instant, it was twenty or thirty rounds away, the assassin not only did not fall into the disadvantage, but gradually suppressed the offensive of the two entourages, and with dazzling swordsmanship, he forced the two to retreat again and again.
"It's really a good swordsmanship!" Liu Xunyi couldn't help but admire again and again in his heart, "But when it comes to the subtlety of swordsmanship, among the masters I have seen, I am afraid that only the 'Peach Blossom Sword Immortal' Ding Qinghong can compare with it." ”
"Shen Dongshan, I want your dog's life!"
The white-clothed assassin became more and more courageous, and his sword became faster and faster, the sword was sharp, and the number of roads was tricky, which disrupted the offensive of the two entourage, and finally the two people were more and more difficult to fight, and gradually lost the battle, and a few shocking blood cuts were added to the sword light and sword shadow.
"Ah Fu, I said a long time ago that you couldn't kill me!" Shen Dongshan put down his wine glass, turned his head to look at the white-clothed assassin with complicated eyes, and said lightly, "Over the years, you have assassinated me no less than ten times, but which time has you successfully approached me?" I advise you to give up this idea, why don't you sit down and talk slowly and calmly?"
Shen Dongshan called the white-clothed assassin "Ah Fu", who was the famous ruthless swordsman in the rivers and lakes, Tang Ah Fu. Listening to Shen Dongshan's tone, it seems that he has long been familiar with Tang Afu's assassination of himself.
"You despicable and shameless villain, take away my family business, poison me, if I don't kill you, how can I be worthy of the ancestors of the Tang family? How can I be worthy of my father's spirit in the sky?" Tang Afu scolded coldly, perhaps the anger in his heart was aroused by Shen Dongshan again, and he became more and more ruthless at the moment, turning his hand and swinging his sword to cut off the right arm of the attendant on the left, and the man's right arm flew up with the steel knife in his hand, and finally "bang" slammed down on the table with a thud, smashing the delicacies on the table and scattering them in all directions, and this scene frightened the white frost to let out an exclamation again.
Shen Dongshan said softly: "Ah Fu, I still regard you as a nephew, if the foundation of the Tang family was left in your hands, it would have been lost sooner or later, how could there be today's prosperity? Ah Fu, Uncle Shen is to strengthen the family business for you, sooner or later one day I will hand over everything of Dongshan Business to you, why don't you understand Uncle Shen's good intentions?"
"Hmph!" In the face of Shen Dongshan's kind words and persuasion, Tang Afu couldn't help but snort coldly, and said, "You don't pretend to be benevolent and righteous here, full of lies, if you are really good for me, why did you poison me in the first place? If it weren't for my life, I'm afraid that I would have died of poison a long time ago, and there would be no place to bury me." ”
After Tang Afu exposed his high-sounding words, Shen Dongshan's face sank suddenly, and he said: "It's useless to say more! Afu, if you are willing to obediently return to Uncle Shen, Uncle Shen will definitely let you enjoy the wealth and glory of the world to make up for the suffering you have suffered for so many years." ”
"Enjoy the glory of the world?hehe, what a big joke, I think I want to taste the poison of the world, right?" Tang Afu sneered, "Shen Dongshan, I am no longer the ignorant child I was back then, don't want to deceive me with rhetoric again, I will take what originally belonged to me myself, I don't have to accept your charity, take my life!"
With that, Tang Afu turned his hand and pierced the lower abdomen of another attendant with a sword, and then took two steps under his feet, and flew towards Shen Dongshan with his sword.
"Kuiqi, take him down for me!"
"Yes!"
The burly man who was in front of Shen Dongshan shouted loudly, and then the 10,000-thorn flywheel in his hand rotated rapidly, accompanied by the sound of "sneer", and the flywheel cut towards Tang Afu's head like a sharp hacksaw. At the same time, the seven or eight guards around him also drew their swords and rushed towards Tang Afu.
"Sonorous!"
Tang Afu didn't dare to use his flesh and blood to resist the Ten Thousand Thorn Flywheel, so he could only retreat and swing his sword to resist, and the sword blade and the flywheel collided with a series of dazzling sparks, making a series of sharp and piercing sounds.
At this moment, the guests who were playing in the lobby downstairs were attracted by the sound of fighting, and they couldn't help but cast curious glances, although there were many masters among the people present, but no one was willing to interfere with such idle matters, just to watch the excitement.
"What a boldness, you dare to make trouble in the Water Pavilion, the master of the Lu Mansion will arrive soon, no matter if you are a ruthless swordsman or a sentient swordsman, it will be difficult for you to fly!" The guards of the Water Trace Pavilion also rushed to the second floor at this moment, staring at Tang Afu who was besieged by everyone with fierce looks.
Tang Afu saw that there were more and more people who came to protect Shen Dongshan, and knew that it was impossible to succeed in the assassination tonight, and at the moment he was angry in his heart, the sword blade danced out from all around, and a sharp ripple of sword qi radiated out in all directions, directly shaking the seven or eight opponents around him back a few steps together.
At the same time, Tang Afu took the opportunity to fly straight to the table, and when Kui Qi saw this, he hurriedly protected Shen Dongshan with his cross arms, and set up a flying wheel of ten thousand thorns to face Tang Afu. Unexpectedly, Tang Afu's eyes were ruthless, and when he approached Kuiqi, he suddenly kicked the wooden bench next to the table under his feet, and his body flew out sideways, and in the kung fu of everyone's stunned, Tang Afu had jumped to the side of Baishuang, and then turned his left hand into a claw, grabbed Baishuang's fragrant shoulder, and then lifted it hard, and dragged the pale and powerless Baishuang to fly up, and then waved his sword with his right hand to force back the guards of the Sushui Pavilion, holding Baishuang to jump from the window, and quickly disappeared into the night.
"Shen Dongshan, I can't kill you tonight, so I'll kill your woman first!" Outside the window, Tang Afu's cold voice came into everyone's ears. Shen Dongshan's entourage didn't react to this, but the guards of the Sushui Pavilion were frightened and frightened, after all, Baishuang was Lu Tingxiang's woman, if something happened to her, none of these guards would want to live.
"Go and save the white girl, don't let Tang Afu hurt her!" Shen Dongshan's face sank like water, and he ordered in a cold voice.
Looking at the empty night outside the window, Liu Xunyi, who was originally shocked by this turmoil, suddenly flashed a fine light in his eyes, and then before he could explain to Lin Fangda, he had already jumped out of the window and chased after Tang Afu and Baishuang.
Under the moonlit night, Liu Xunyi relied on the tracking technique he learned in the Tianji Pavilion to chase several streets in a row, but the guards who chased him out of the Sushui Pavilion at the same time were nowhere to be found, thinking that they couldn't find any trace of Tang Afu, so they searched around like a fly.
Tang Afu's light skills are extremely high, even with a big living person can still flexibly leap forward, in the intricate streets of Quanzhou City, on the large and small pavilions and pavilions, together is more than ten zhang away.
No matter how extensive Bai Shuang's knowledge is, she is just a woman, and at this moment she is held hostage by such a cold-blooded and ruthless killer, she is inevitably panicked in her heart, and she wants to struggle and beg for mercy, but she is helplessly pointed by Tang Afu, not only can she not move her body or even make a sound in her throat, she can only let Tang Afu be caught in the crook of her arm like a cloth bag, and "go to heaven and earth" with him. Baishuang, who didn't know martial arts, only felt dizzy and swollen, and his stomach was tumbling upside down, and he couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest.
"The guards of Jiangnan Lufu are just a group of wine bags and rice bags, and they can't even catch my shadow in their own territory. Tang Afu carried the hoarfrost rabbit up and down a few more streets, and then floated lightly on the top of an attic. With the stars and moon at his head and no one around, Tang Afu stood on a high place overlooking the quiet and dim streets around him, and a trace of contempt could not help but appear in his eyes.
He looked down at the white frost with uneasy eyes, just now in the Sushui Pavilion, he was bent on assassinating Shen Dongshan and did not pay attention to the white frost, at this moment, under a bright moon, he looked at the white frost in his arms, and couldn't help but be stunned at the moment, he never thought that the woman he was holding hostage would have such a worldly appearance.
Compared with her, all the women Tang Afu had seen before could not be regarded as beauties, and ordinary vulgar fans could not be compared with her. Under the slightly trembling apricot gaze of White Frost, Tang Afu, who was mediocre-looking, was a little ashamed of himself. After glancing at the hoarfrost, he quickly turned his gaze away.
"I didn't expect that there would be a woman like you by Shen Dongshan's side. As soon as he thought of Shen Dongshan, the emotion of the white frost's appearance just now instantly collapsed, on the contrary, he was even more ashamed of the white frost in his heart, and it was expected that the young and beautiful white frost must be willing to serve Shen Dongshan, who was over fifty years old, for the sake of money and wealth, so he also regarded him as a worldly woman.
"Girl, I have no grievances with you in the past and no enmity in the near future, but it's a pity that you mischose Shen Dongshan, a man. Tang Afu said to Bai Shuang with a cold gaze, "But if Shen Dongshan wants something, I must not let him get it, including you." ”
Hearing Tang Afu's words, Bai Shuang's eyes fluttered in horror, which showed how frightened he was in his heart.
Tang Afu silently looked at Bai Shuang's pretty face, and said faintly: "What a beautiful face, it's a pity...... My name is Tang Afu, the girl just remember my appearance, if there is an afterlife, you can come to me for revenge!"
After that, under the painful struggle of the white frost's eyes full of unwillingness, Tang Afu slowly drew out the ruthless sword expressionlessly, the stars and the moon were soft, but the blade of the sword was glowing with a terrifying cold light.
"Since ancient times, there has been a lot of life, and that's because men are lucky. The White Girl is already unfortunate enough, so why can Your Excellency bear to make it worse?"
Just as Tang Afu was about to seal his throat with a sword on Bai Shuang, a clear voice suddenly sounded in the night sky.
Tang Afu was stunned when he heard this, and looked coldly at the sound, but saw that on an archway diagonally opposite the attic, Liu Xunyi, who looked calm, was standing on the eaves with a sword.
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