Chapter 11: The Strange Man of the South Wind
Jiang Yuan was distraught and didn't sleep all night, so he got up early and sat cross-legged on the stone platform, silently running his internal force.
"Brother Jiang, get up so early to practice?" Li Gao yawned and walked from behind, looking like he hadn't woken up.
Jiang Yuan turned his head and smiled: "Since I was a child, my master has been strict, and I have never slept for a day for more than ten years. But I really didn't expect that you, a soldier, would be very handsome with a secret weapon. ”
"Hidden weapons?" Li Gao was a little confused, "I don't know how to use hidden weapons." A dignified eight-foot man, he has his own spears and horses for killing enemies, and he has cold arrows and hidden weapons, I Li Gao can't look down on him!"
Jiang Yuan was a little shocked: "So it's not you, last night, when the leader of the dead soldiers was about to succeed, two hidden weapons flew from behind me and hit him, I thought it was you, it turned out that there was another master." Who would that be?"
Jiang Yuan hurriedly pulled Li Gao back to the lobby, and it happened that Yu Qian was also reading books in the hall, and he was also taken aback when he heard this, and frowned: "There were a hundred people in the hall at that time, could it be that someone in the guard army had practiced secret weapons?"
Jiang Yuan said: "I'm afraid this is unlikely." At that time, the guards and the Assassins were fighting, and the scene was chaotic, and the timing and angle of the attack could not hit the enemy if they were slightly off. Such characters can also be called first-class masters on the rivers and lakes. ”
"Come and see!" Li Gao found a thumb-sized pit on the pillar, Jiang Yuan and Yu Qian hurriedly walked over to check, but who knew that the pit was actually a smooth pebble. Jiang Yuan looked around and found a second pebble at the lower end of another pillar.
Regardless of how big the difference is between pebbles and hidden weapons, Jiang Yuan secretly thought in his heart: With such a master, I am afraid that there will not be ten in the entire rivers and lakes.
"This angle ......" Li Gao pointed to the door, which was the direction in which the two of them were fighting with the man in black yesterday.
"I remember, last night the Dead Leader didn't seem to know that you had been assassinated once during the day. Jiang Yuan was a little hesitant, and now it seems that the assassination during the day was just to give Yu Qian a wake-up call, and it didn't really kill them.
Could it be that the man in black......
Yu Qian was stunned for a long time and said, "This matter does not need to be investigated again, and it must not be spread outside." I think he also has a last resort. “
A few days later, Kuang Qi, the secretary of the military department, sent a team of men and horses to escort Yu Qian, and the leader was none other than the commander of the six gates, Nanfeng Qi.
Liumen is a department set up by the imperial court to arrest the important criminals wanted by the government and the gangsters with strong martial arts, and it also has considerable friendship with various major factions, and has a decisive right in the court and the rivers and lakes, and is also the backbone of the opposition to Wang Zhen's troubles and chaos.
Nanfeng Qi arched his hand towards Yu Qian, and his words were quite frivolous: "Old man Yu, you must be careful when you go out, I heard that someone is lucky to pull out a knife to help this time, otherwise I won't be able to see you, no, next time I go out, I will find a few people to follow you." Tell me, who assassinated you, do you have a clue? It doesn't matter, we will definitely find out this person and avenge you, don't worry. ”
Jiang Yuan and Li Gao looked at each other, this middle-aged man spoke ruffianly, not at all like being an official in the court, if it weren't for the fact that he was still wearing an official uniform, Jiang Yuan couldn't imagine that this was a fourth-grade official.
Yu Qian didn't care about Nan Fengqi's tone of speech, as if he was used to it, pointed to Jiang Yuan and Li Gao behind him, and said, "There are only a few people who want to kill me, and the assassin's body is still in the backyard, do you want to go and see it? If it weren't for these two little brothers this time, they would almost have been killed." ”
Nan Fengqi glanced behind Yu Qian twice, his eyes were particularly sharp, and Jiang Yuan was uncomfortable when he saw it. Yu Qian coughed lightly, Nan Fengqi felt out of shape, and said: "Don't be strange to the two little brothers, occupational diseases." My name is Nanfeng Qi, and I am the head of the six gates. What do you call them?"
Jiang Yuan arched his hand and said, "Junior, Jiang Yuan, I have seen my seniors." ”
Nan Fengqi's eyes flashed, and he seemed to ask casually: "Your sword is good, which senior gave it away?" Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "This sword has been by my side since I can remember, and I never leave my body, and I don't know where it came from." Do you know anything about the seniors? ”
Nan Fengqi looked at Jiang Yuan carefully, shook his head and smiled: "I don't use a sword, how can I know the origin of this sword." ”
When everyone came to the back hall, Nan Fengqi carefully examined the assassin's corpse, and finally shook his head and said, "There is no evidence to prove that they are killers sent by Wang Zhen. It seems that even if they can complete the mission, they will not be able to return alive. ”
Jiang Yuan said: "Why? Aren't these people born and dying just to get a reward?"
Nan Fengqi turned his head to look at him, his face was calm, and he said calmly, which was very different from the laughing appearance just now: "If they kill Old Man Yu, someone will come to kill them halfway." They have completed their tasks, and being alive is a hidden danger for Wang Zhen, and if they are not eliminated, Wang Zhen will not be able to sleep. Youth, people are not so simple, the rivers and lakes are mixed, you still have to watch more, think more, and be more careful!"
Jiang Yuan was shocked in his heart, not a taste. Although these people are innocent of death, but thinking about the situation of these people, the enemy wants you to die, and his own people want you to die, Jiang Yuan is a little speechless.
Seeing Jiang Yuan's appearance, Nan Fengqi knew that he had not been exposed to these shady things, so he didn't mention the matter anymore, and gave him some time to digest it slowly.
Yu Qian said: "I know that I can't see anything, how can the people of Dongchang be easily caught, Wang Zhen would have died a thousand times." Okay, the assassin has finished reading, let's leave for Beijing now!" Nan Fengqi nodded and said, "Yes, go back early, in the past two days, Warat has been on the border for the past two days, and there are a lot of things waiting to be dealt with in the capital." ”
Everyone hurriedly got on the road and went out of the mountain city, Jiang Yuan said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the juniors are still a little entangled in personal matters, and they can't go together, so don't go over!"
Yu Qian said: "This way, thanks to the help of the little brothers, I escaped from death and picked up a life, since there is something to do, I am not good to force, if you go to the capital in the future, you can come to my house as a guest, I also want to repay this life-saving grace." ”
Nan Fengqi took out a cloth bag from his arms and threw it to Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan saw that it was a bag of gold, and was about to excuse himself, Nan Fengqi waved his hand and motioned Jiang Yuan to accept it: "Wandering the rivers and lakes, these entanglements are always used." It's just that the rivers and lakes are dangerous, and think twice about everything. ”
Jiang Yuan couldn't refuse, so he casually took the gold into his arms, bowed his hand to everyone, and turned to leave.
Nan Fengqi shook his head and said to himself, "I don't know if he listened to it." ”
Yu Qian looked at Jiang Yuan's back and asked Nan Fengqi, "Do you know that sword?"
Nan Fengqi knew that he couldn't hide it, sighed, and said, "That sword was taken out of the treasury by me." I have a junior brother who opened a dart game, and it was inevitable that he would have to fight with Jiang Yang's thieves and bandits, so I secretly took the best sword from the treasury and gave it to him, who knew that the dart game was ...... overnight The sword was nowhere to be found. Now...... Alas!"
Yu Qian was taken aback: "This young man is ......"
Nan Fengqi nodded: "I'm afraid it's after the old man." His appearance is quite similar to my junior brother, and I have already passed the book to the six doors of the people to check. ”
Yu Qian stretched out his index finger: "There is another question, where did you get so much gold?"
Nanfeng Qi smiled nonchalantly: "I caught a thief on the way here." ...... I find it easier to make money as a thief than it is to be a soldier?"
Yu Qian smiled secretly, today can be regarded as a gain of knowledge, the dignified six doors command envoy steals the sword from the treasury, and gives away the stolen silver, where is the demeanor of a four-grade official. However, although this person is willful and reckless, he is loyal and good-natured, and he is also beautiful, even the emperor and the cabinet turn a blind eye, so why should he ask.