Chapter 8: Fire Spirits and Suspicions
Tang Shiyao was originally standing in front of Long Shiqiu, and the two were only two steps apart.
At such a close distance, Tang Shiyao's punch came so suddenly without warning, even if he had great ability, he could not escape this blow.
No one expected this curvy girl to come to this hand.
Jiang Shanghan had even imagined Long Shiqiu's embarrassed appearance of covering his nose.
But the fact is contrary to imagination, Tang Shiyao's punch was empty!
She's already punched him in the face!
Her fist could even feel the temperature of his skin, but the truth was that her punch only hit the air.
Long Shiqiu was still sitting steadily, and there was even a smile on the corner of his mouth.
In Tang Shiyao's eyes, this slight smile is sharper than a knife, this is clearly a mockery!
In anger, she shot again, this punch came towards Long Shiqiu's chest, Long Shiqiu held the teacup in his left hand, and the index finger of his right hand was slightly bent, and he gently touched the crook of her arm from the bottom to the top-
"Oops" Long Shiyao's elbow felt numb, and she unconsciously took two steps back, and her entire jade arm seemed to have completely lost her feeling at this moment.
The entire hall was silent for a while.
No one had ever seen such martial arts before. It's not so much martial arts as spells. Isn't this person capable of witchcraft?
Xiao Wensheng coughed dryly, breaking the silence of the scene: "How is it, Yao'er, are you convinced?"
Although Long Shiqiu was forced to make a move, it was really not a husband's business to make such a delicate beauty make a fool of herself in public, so he stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Miss Tang, offended!"
Tang Shiyao was so ashamed that her face was red, she glared at him, and stomped away with a "hum".
Tang Tianlong said with a little embarrassment: "The little girl has been spoiled by me since she was a child, and the dragon hero will forgive me." β
Long Shiqiu waved his hand with a wry smile, and said secretly: This can be regarded as completely offending that little aunt and grandmother.
Jiang Shanghan witnessed Long Shiqiu's move just now, and he was shocked in his heart, and secretly wondered: The move this person used just now has never been seen before, it seems to be an understatement, but he has mastered the size and strength so accurately, judging from this Miss Tang's shot, he has at least ten years of skill, but in front of Long Shiqiu, he is like a baby who has no power to fight back, where did he learn such an evil martial art?
Thinking back again, last night I jumped up to the high wall of the prison with the help of ropes, and obviously climbed to the top of the wall before him, but he arrived almost at the same time as me, and this person's light body kung fu seems to be above mine.
He suddenly felt that his nickname of "Yun Zhongyan" should be changed to "Land Turtle" in front of Long Shiqiu.
Jiang Shanghan was thinking nonsense, and Long Shiqiu on the side finally spoke: "The two leaders don't regard Long as an outsider, they trust each other with their confidants, and Long Mou has to ask a few more words if he has doubts, and I hope to tell the truth, if I can't be honest with each other, I still want to ask Gao Ming as soon as possible." β
Tang Tianlong heard his words from the bottom of his heart, and said with a straight face: "Dragon Hero, it's okay to ask. β
Long Shiqiu stood up and said, "First of all, who is the employer of this silver dart?"
The first rule of the dart industry is not to reveal the identity of the employer of the dart.
Tang Tianlong glanced at Xiao Wensheng, and when he saw Xiao Wensheng bowing slightly, Tang Tianlong reluctantly said, "Wan'an Qianzhuang." β
The corners of Long Shiqiu's mouth raised slightly, and he continued to ask: "Wan'an Qianzhuang's business is all over the provinces, why don't you cash out such a large amount of silver with your own silver bills, but escort the cash with a dart?"
Xiao Wensheng said: "Long Daxia doesn't know, three months ago, a batch of high-grade mulberry paper secretly stored by the household department to make silver tickets was stolen, so the household department was worried that there would be imitation silver tickets on the market, and ordered to suspend the cashing of silver tickets in different places in various provinces and ticket numbers. β
Long Shiqiu nodded, and suddenly asked, "If the Fire Spirit Sect Envoy really knows the truth about the robbery of Dart Silver, is it possible that this matter was originally a trap set by them, maybe the robbery of Dart Silver was originally done by the Fire Spirit Sect?"
This sentence came to Xiao Wensheng's heart, and he couldn't help but interject: "I have also doubted this, I even think that the theft of the high-grade mulberry paper in the household department is also the work of the Fire Spirit Sect, and they have only one purpose in doing this, to force the government to restore the circulation of silver bills in different places in various provinces." β
Jiang Shang Han said: "If this is the truth of the matter, then there are still two doubts in the whole thing. β
Xiao Wensheng knew that Jiang Shanghan was an expert in this, so he hurriedly chased: "Which two?"
Egami said: "Counterfeiting silver tickets is a very difficult job, and my friends and I were also moved by it back then, but it turned out that it was almost impossible to do. First of all, a silver ticket has both the big seal of the household and the local yamen, and also the private seal of the ticket number of the major money bank, it is difficult for ordinary people to even see it; secondly, the silver ticket is mostly printed on wood or copper plate, the silver ticket of different money banks will be carved with different patterns when carving the template, the deviation of these patterns is extremely small, only very few people know the distinction between true and false, not to mention the color dye of the silver ticket itself, the process and material are more secret and complex, and outsiders will never know. β
Long Shiqiu pondered for a moment and said, "The high difficulty does not mean that it is impossible, as far as I know, the Fire Spirit Sect has been continuously deploying the Central Plains in the past two years, and its ambition cannot be underestimated. To test our conjecture, we just have to wait and see what happens. β
Tang Tianlong frowned and said, "How do you say this?"
Long Shiqiu said: "If it is not expected, there will be rumors soon. β
"You mean there will be more robbers?"
Long Shiqiu sighed and said, "Maybe the answer to all this will be known the day after tomorrow." β
Jiang Shanghan suddenly remembered something, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, he looked at Long Shiqiu, and finally couldn't help but say: "Little brother has something unclear, I don't know whether to ask or not." β
Long Shiqiu smiled slightly, "Do you want to know why the Fire Spirit Venerable Envoy went to such lengths to find me?"
Jiang Shanghan shrugged and said, "This question seems to everyone wants to know. β
Of course, Tang Tianlong and Xiao Wensheng wanted to know, but it seemed that this question was more appropriate to ask from Jiang Shanghan's mouth.
Long Shiqiu replied very briskly: "Because he wants to know who is faster between me and his fist." β
The backyard of the Jade Ding Dart Bureau.
Tang Shiyao sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and held her cheeks, and her beautiful eyes looked at the finches on the tree carelessly.
Half of the qi just now seems to have been dissipated.
She really couldn't figure out that the moves she had practiced for many years were like child's play in front of that surnamed Long.
That wood must work witchcraft, it must be.
Xiao Tang Yuan quietly came behind her and jumped in front of her sister with a "wow", wanting to scare her.
To his disappointment, his sister was not startled, but did not even look at him.
"Huh" Tang Yuan blinked and said, "Sister, what are you looking at?"
Tang Shiyao returned to her place at this time, and smiled reluctantly: "It's nothing." β
Although Tang Yuan was young, he was a ghost, so he tilted his head and asked, "No, you lie, your eyes are still red." Who bullied you?"
Tang Shiyao subconsciously touched her eyes, and when she heard the word "bully", her eyes turned red again for a while.
Tang Yuan was already sure that his sister was being bullied at this moment, his eyes widened, he rolled up his sleeves and said, "Sister, tell me who it is?" I'll go and give him some color." β
When Tang Shiyao saw her younger brother like this, she couldn't help but burst into tears, stretched out her hand and pulled him into her arms and said, "Forget it, you can't beat him." β
Tang Yuan broke away from his sister's jade arm, and said with a horizontal eyebrow: "That's not necessarily. β
Tang Shiyao smiled: "Wait until you grow up and then protect your sister, that person can't even beat his sister." β
Tang Yuan is a child after all, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard his sister say this, and suddenly stomped his little foot and said, "Then I'll go find my father." The child said that he was going to run, but fortunately, Tang Shiyao quickly pulled him down.
Tang Shiyao stroked the top of her brother's head and whispered: "Xiao Yuan, my sister whispered to you, this person is afraid that even his father is no match for him." β
Tang Yuan's mouth opened wide, and he said with a look of disbelief: "Didn't you say before that Dad was the number one master of our dart game, and there were people who were higher than Daddy's martial arts?"
Tang Shiyao gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "Long Shiqiu." β
"What?" Tang Yuan jumped up and said, "The one who was murdered by you when you got up early today?"
Tang Shiyao nodded slightly, looked at her younger brother's cute expression, and said with a smile: "So from now on, you have to practice hard, and if you don't understand, you have to ask more about thoseββ"
When he said this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought about it.
It was noon.
When Long Shiqiu returned to the room, he found that the table was already full of wine and food.
It's been a long time since I've eaten such a sumptuous meal, Long Shiqiu just raised his chopsticks, and a voice sounded outside the window: "Long Daxia, the so-called 'one person drinking alone is bitter wine', how about a few drinks with you, brother?" As soon as the words fell, Jiang Shanghan walked in with a smile behind his back.
"I don't dare to be a hero, in the future, you and I will still be brothers" Long Shiqiu glanced at the table and said with a smile: "Wait a while, I'll go get a pair of dishes and chopsticks." β
"No need" Jiang Shanghan sent his hands forward, only to see him holding a pair of chopsticks in his left hand and a wine glass in his right hand and said, "I brought it myself." β
Long Shiqiu smiled knowingly, poured him full of wine, Jiang Shanghan raised his glass with both hands and said: "Thank you for not giving up, junior brother respects you a cup" and drank it all.
Jiang Shanghan stretched out his hand to pick up the wine jug, and asked while pouring the wine: "Big brother is expensive this year?"
"It's the right year. β
"It turns out that the eldest brother is three years old" Jiang Shanghan suddenly sighed and said: "The younger brother has heard his brother's name for a long time, and he has longed for a long time and often hated not having the opportunity to see each other. β
Long Shiqiu glanced at him while eating, put down his chopsticks and said, "Brother, this sentence is wrong, in fact, we have met a long time ago, what do you say?" After speaking, he stared at Jiang Shanghan with an indescribable look.
Jiang Shanghan's face, which was still chatting just now, suddenly changed, and the wine glass he had just raised was slowly put down, and the expression on his face was as if he had been stripped naked and thrown on the street.