Under the moonlight, the white-faced Cao Cao's knife shone with an icy cold light, and he raised his knife to slash at the right arm of Ye Lao Wu, who was empty of his hand, and the cold light was blazing, and the arc of the knife flew down from top to bottom......

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He had already held a stone in his hand, and with a flick of his fingers, hey, the stone condensed the true qi of Kunlun Nine Heavens Mixed Yuan, and shot away, only to hear a violent sound of "dang", Ye Lao Wuhu's mouth was numb, and the single knife in his hand was hit by a stone, and he flew out of his hand, his body staggered backwards, and the single knife whistled past the shoulder of the burly man beside him, startling the big man in a cold sweat, and the three of them flashed and swept aside, exclaiming: "Who?"

The white-faced Cao Cao snatched it with an arrow step, picked up a single knife on the ground, and the other two killers each pulled out their knives, and the three of them raised their knives and looked around.

The figure flickered, and Third Brother Liu had come to the old five of the empty leaves, and said loudly: "The white-faced Cao Cao Cao Guoyou, although he is from a famous and decent Hengshan faction, it is rumored that his people are extremely scheming and ruthless, and they are no different from **, when I saw it today, it was really so." ”

Cao Guoyou asked, "Who are you?"

The third brother Liu standing in front of him was a middle-aged man with a clear face, three locks of slight beard under his chin, and a vendor dressed as a vendor.

Liu Sange said: "There is no trace of the call below, no one, why worry about it." ”

Cao Guoyou said: "I advise Your Excellency not to come to this muddy water, this trip is not easy to run, and it will not be fishy." ”

Liu Sange said: "The more bad the muddy water, the more I want to flow, my temper is a little weird, I want to change it, but I can't change it." ”

Cao Guoyou said: "This is the matter of Prince Yi's mansion, and you dare to take care of the prince's affairs?!"

Third Brother Liu said: "Dare, what don't you dare! The prince is also a human being, and he must abide by the king's law, and kill them all, which is the work done by Jiangyang thieves, and everyone can control it." ”

Cao Guoyou gritted his teeth and said, "You must be tired of living." He threw a look at the two killers beside him, the three of them were old partners, the tall and burly one was called the bear blind man Lu Damang, and the short and sturdy one was called the rolling knife Cai Xiaohu, who understood it in his heart.

Liu Sange's figure turned around, pierced out of the knife net, and suddenly there was a long sword in his hand, his wrist shook, the tip of the sword trembled, and countless sword flowers appeared, sneering and sneering, the sword aura was strong, and the three of them had been covered, Cao Guoyou and the three of them were stunned, suddenly, the sword flower disappeared, the sword shadow swept like lightning, from three different angles, stabbed the Shenmen point of the wrist of the three people, immediately, the blood between the wrists of the three people seeped out, the right palm was numb, the right arm was stiff, where could the three single knives be held, almost at the same time, when the long fell to the ground. The three of them looked at each other, stunned, and Cao Guoyou said: "Ah, the Thirteen Swords of Wudang's Divine Gate! Your Excellency is a master of Wudang?"

Third Brother Liu snorted coldly, inserted the sword into the sheath, and said, "How dare you, there is no trace of the call below, and the rivers and lakes are nobodies." ”

Ye Lao Wu, who fell to the ground, shouted: "Come to the hero, quickly do these three people, so as not to cause trouble in the future." ”

Third Brother Liu smiled and said, "Then won't I become a white-faced Cao Cao? ”

Ye Lao Wu shouted: "These three people have a million taels of silver tickets on them, and they should pay them quickly." ”

Liu Sange said: "A gentleman loves money, and he takes it in a good way, and I am not a robber, how can I rob other people's money, and I can't do it." ”

Ye Lao Wu sighed and said, "Hey, come to the hero, the three of them are not good birds, they should rob them, you are really a little ......"

Third Brother Liu continued: "Yes, I'm really a bit stupid, I say so. Actually, I'm not a good thing, don't treat me as a hero or a hero, not at all, I don't do bad things because I'm afraid of retribution. Others don't believe in retribution, I do. ”

Cao Guoyou and the other three couldn't advance or retreat for a while, and they didn't know how to end the game. Seeing that they were still not leaving, Third Brother Liu twisted his eyebrows, glared, and said sharply to the white-faced Cao Cao and Cao Guoyou: "What? I don't want to leave yet! Do you want to force you to do it? In this case, you can only be a robber who kills people and steals goods once." This is called forcing Liangshan, a helpless thing. As he spoke, his hand reached for the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Cao Guoyou said: "Okay, good, you can do it, you can bear it, I'll wait for the planting, the surname is here, we will have a period later." He waved his hand to his subordinates, and the three of them turned around, picked up the single knife, and ran away as if flying.

Third Brother Liu waved his hand behind him, and Nan Bu and Xiao Li Zi flashed out from behind the tree. He leaned over and patted the acupoint of the five old men of the empty leaves of the wonderful hands, helped him up, and arched his hand: "I have heard the five famous old men of the empty leaves for a long time, and I can see them today, which is really a blessing for three lives." ”

Ye Lao Wu took a deep look and said, "Thank you for coming to Daxia for saving your life." ”

At this time, Nan Bu and Xiao Li Zi ran over, and Liu Sange said, "Quickly bandage Ye Daxia's wound, there is a lot of blood." ”

Nan Bu replied: "Okay." Tearing open the sleeve of Ye Lao Wu's left arm, he took out the golden medicine and put it on, his movements were neat, and he had bandaged it in a blink of an eye.

Ye Lao Wu felt that the pain in his left arm disappeared immediately, and it was cool and pleasant. He said, "This little brother's golden medicine is really spiritual." ”

Nan Bu smiled proudly, and Third Brother Liu said: "These are the two guys below, her surname is Lai, her name is Xiao Lai, and the other is called Xiao Lizi, she is just a little smart, don't get used to them." Jinchuang medicine is an ancestral secret recipe from the family, which naturally has some miraculous effects. ”

Ye Lao Wu praised repeatedly: "Miracle medicine." The medicine of the South China Sea Medicine Immortal is nothing more than that. ”

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the corpse of his brother lying not far away, and he couldn't help but feel sad, picked up a single knife on the ground, walked over, and dug a pit with a single knife in one hand, to bury the body. Third Brother Liu hurriedly went over to help, and after a while, they dug a big pit and buried the body.

Later, Liu Sange invited Ye Lao Wu to go to the mountain temple to rest, and Ye Lao Wu went happily.

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A bonfire was lit in the mountain temple, and Liu Sange asked the reason why the white-faced Cao Cao Cao and Cao Guoyou chased and killed Ye Lao Wu, Ye Lao Wu held the teacup, took a sip of strong tea, and talked about what happened:

In the early spring of this year, the five old men were working in Zhangjiakou. Ye Lao Wu is a chivalrous thief, specializing in stealing the ill-gotten gains of wealthy businessmen. Zhangjiakou is the port of goods export in the north, gathering a large number of traders from the Western Regions and the country, mixed with people in all directions, frequent exchanges of goods and money, quite some oil and water can be fished.

Late at night, there are stars and no moon, Ye Lao Wu is dressed in night clothes, and quietly enters the Oriental Post Inn where the fierce slave merchants often gather.

In the middle of the night, the lights in the inn gradually went out, but the light was still on in the corner window of the second floor of a small building in the west, and there were a few figures wandering under the small building, probably the bodyguards of the guests. It seems that this small building is not inhabited by ordinary people, and the oil and water are not small. Ye Lao Wu stepped a little bit, through the shadow of the shade of the eaves and trees, swept towards the small building, Ye Lao Wu's light skills, of course, are not as fast as Ding Piaopeng, but his light skills are more erratic and light, silent, and the bodyguards under the small building naturally can't detect it. Swept to the front of the small building, glanced at it by the starlight, and saw the three words "Wang Ye Pavilion" written on the plaque of the small building, there was a cypress tree next to the window with the lights on, and the branches and leaves of the cypress tree blocked the corner of the window. He came to the window, licked the window paper and took a look, and saw that the house was luxuriously furnished, a huge room, empty, a lamp was lit on the table, and two middle-aged people sat at the table, one was dressed in the costume of a fierce slave merchant, with a burly figure, blue eyes, an eagle nose and a big beard, and a very hideous appearance, and the other was dressed in the clothes of a national merchant, with a black face and a fat mouth, and was a black fat man with a lewd description.

The fierce slave merchant said, "Prince Yi wants you to come?"

The black fat man said: "Of course, there is a special envoy below. ”

The slave merchant said: "This is not the place to talk, let's go, let's change places." ”

The fierce slave merchant blew out the lights with a pop and walked towards the window, Ye Lao Wu hurriedly jumped to the shadow under the eaves, his back was attached to the rafters, his hands and feet hooked the rafters, holding his breath, and not moving.

Then, the window was quietly pushed open, and the slave merchant and the black fat man jumped out of the window one after another, and the two of them were very good at their light work, and the bodyguards downstairs did not even notice it, and they flew towards the suburbs. Ye Lao Wu's curiosity was blazing, and he said in his heart: Since he is a businessman, why is he so sneaky, he is also a special envoy, and he is also Prince Yi, this is not like doing business, so he decided to follow up and see what was going on.

The fierce slave merchant and the black fat man came to a mass graveyard, and the two sat next to a tombstone in a barren mound, and Ye Lao Wu crouched in the hazelnut, quietly watching the changes. The starlight is vague, Ye Laowu's eyes are sharp, and he can also see a rough idea.

The fierce slave merchant snorted coldly and said, "Prince Yi wants me to do this and that, it's all wishful thinking, how can this king work for him in vain." ”

The black fat man smiled, took out a silver ticket from his sleeve, handed it over with both hands, and said, "The prince ordered the villain to bring a silver ticket of 500,000 taels, hoping to take advantage of Lalashan Yu Xiaona." ”

It turned out that the murderous slave merchant was a single person who changed his disguise, no wonder his light work was so good.

Mao Lalashan Yu laughed and said, "Presumably, Prince Yi has been sent again, what do you want this king to do this time?"

The black fat man said: "In half a month, the emperor will go to the Mulan hunting ground to hunt, and the prince means that he will ask Shan Yu to do the emperor." ”

When Ye Lao Wu heard this, he was shocked, it turned out that he was plotting to assassinate him today, no wonder he wanted to dodge and find a secluded place to talk.

Shan Yudao: "The prince wants to be the emperor?"

The black fat man said: "No, but it's almost the same, I want to set up another emperor, assist the young lord, and take charge of the government." ”

Shan Yu said: "I heard that the emperor trusts Prince Yi very much, and the prince's initiation is rarely used or dismissed, and the world knows that Prince Yi has a prominent authority, and he is already under one person and above ten thousand people." ”

The black fat man said: "Shan Yu only knows one of them, I don't know the other, today's emperor, seems to be young and weak, but in fact he is very assertive, Prince Yi's general suggestions, he almost all accepts, and Prince Yi's related things, the emperor will do his best to maintain, spare no effort, such as the flying thief killed Prince Yi's son Zai Ze, the emperor will offer a huge reward to capture and slaughter Ding Piaopeng, on the surface, the emperor is extremely favored to Prince Yi, in fact, this is not the case at all. As soon as Prince Yi talked about military power, the emperor politely refused under the pretext of taking care of Prince Yi because of his advanced age. The words are beautiful, and the refusal is very resolute, and there is no room for maneuver at all. It can be seen that the emperor is suspicious of Prince Yi. In recent years, the emperor has almost exhausted Prince Yi's military power little by little. In the court, there are Prime Minister Qin Cheng and the military department Shangshu to assist the emperor, Prince Yi's life is getting worse and worse, and the king is like a tiger, if it is not good, the emperor will decree that Prince Yi will be slaughtered on a whim one day. ”

Shan Yu said: "So, Prince Yi made a killing move?"

The black fat man said, "Yes." ”

Shan Yu sneered: "Only this 500,000 taels of silver, do you want this king to do this earth-shattering case of stealing the country? ”

He pushed the silver ticket, flicked his sleeves, got up to leave, the black fat man hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him, and said, "Lord Shan Yu, please let the villain finish speaking." ”

Shan Yu sat down and said sharply: "Say! I don't have time to talk nonsense with you." ”

The black fat man said: "After the matter is completed, the prince will pay tribute to the adults every year, and the annual tribute amount is five million taels of silver." ”

"Are you done?"

"Also, if it happens, Zhangjiakou and northern Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, Ningxia, and northern Gansu will be classified as adults. ”

Shan Yu said: "That's pretty much it. However, there is no basis for what you say, how do you tell this king to believe him, just if you say this tonight, will this king believe it! He also thinks too badly about this king, and when the time comes, he will be done, and he will spread his hands and say, there is no such thing at all, it is all this king who spreads rumors to confuse the public, isn't that blind! What this king wants is a credential, a letter written by Prince Yi, and the seal of Prince Yi's mansion. Otherwise, the deal would be out of business. ”

The black fat man said: "There are letters from the prince, but you can't tell the whole story, in case it falls into the hands of the gangsters, the prince will be unlucky." He took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to Shan Yu, and said: "The concerns of Lord Shan Yu have been taken into account when the prince came, so he wrote such a letter by himself, stamped it with the seal of the prince's mansion, and asked the villain to bring it to Lord Shan Yu." I don't know if it's okay?"

Mao Lala Shan Yu opened the letter, the black fat man lit the fire fold, and Shan Yu read softly: "Shan friend Junjian: Zi Tuo came to bring a thin gift, and I look forward to it." If the entrusted thing is done, it will be thanked every year as the people who come will be given, and a private hunting ground will be offered for frolicking, and will never break its promise. Shun to Chun'an. Prince Yi nodded. A certain day, a certain month, and a certain year. ”

Judging from the handwriting, the handwriting of this letter is dignified, but there is a hidden edge between the strokes, the words are like his person, it seems to be loyal, but it is actually treacherous, and it is indeed from the hands of Prince Yi. At the end of the letter, the seal of Prince Yi's mansion is impressively stamped.

In his letters, Prince Yi referred to Shan Yu as a "single friend" to prevent the letters from falling into the hands of others, and suddenly became evidence of his communication with foreign countries.

Shan Yu has been dealing with Prince Yi for nearly ten years, and he is already familiar with Prince Yi's handwriting. He has repeatedly asked someone to buy Prince Yi's letters to relatives and friends at a high price, and others think that he likes Prince Yi's calligraphy, but in fact, it is just to identify and figure out the prince's handwriting. He collected all the letters that the prince gave him, just to use them as evidence to blackmail the prince in the future. He was afraid that the old fox of the prince would change his hexagram at that time, and he would not be able to speak, so as not to suffer a dumb loss.

Shan Yu looked down on and didn't trust Prince Yi from the bottom of his bones, and he dealt with Prince Yi purely to profit from it. He pondered for a moment, snatched the letter and the silver ticket, put it in his arms, and with a pop, blew out the fire, and said: "It seems that Prince Yi is a cautious person, and the letter is only written like this, okay, you go back and tell Prince Yi, and this king will do his best to follow the instructions." ”

The black fat man said, "Refreshing." The prince also said that if the matter is not done or if the situation changes, it should be regarded as if it did not happen, and that the letter should be burned so as not to cause any trouble. In the future, if there is an opportunity, the prince will send someone to Zhangjiakou to find an order and discuss countermeasures. ”

Shan Yu said: "Okay, it's decided." As soon as he finished speaking, his body shook and disappeared into the night. The black fat man muttered a few words, and also started light work, flying towards the city.

Ye Lao Wu was tightly behind the black fat man, the black fat man swept into the city and walked to the West Exit Inn, there was a moon cave door in the backyard of the inn, with the three words Xinghuayuan on it, there were several fine houses in the Xinghuayuan, the black fat man pushed open the main house facing south, walked in, and brought the door with him. Ye Lao Wu put his ear to the crack of the window and eavesdropped.

The lights in the house turned on, and a woman's delicate voice said, "Dead ghost, why did you come, wait for people, it's almost dawn." ”

The black fat man smiled: "Do you miss my brother?"

The woman said: "Who thinks of whom, we are old husbands and wives, what else is there to think about." ”

The black fat man said: "Xinghua, you are too ruthless and unrighteous, you see, every time I come to live in this inn, what I am looking for is your Xinghua, never change the taste, such a good man, there are not many now." ”

Xinghua said: "What are you nagging, let's get to bed." ”

There was a commotion in the room. Ye Lao Wu wrote down the residence of the black fat man, turned around and left the window, and swept towards the Dongfang Post Inn.

Came to the Wangye Pavilion of the Oriental Post Inn, the bodyguards downstairs sat crooked and dozed at the door, Ye Lao Wu flew to the window on the second floor, the window was dark, and he heard the sound of Shan Yu like thunder, so he quietly pushed open the window, tiptoed in, and stole the letter in Shan Yu's arms and 500,000 taels of silver tickets.

Afterwards, due to the loss of letters and silver tickets, Shan Yu's plan to assassinate the emperor in the Mulan paddock in the spring was canceled.

Walking to the West Exit Inn and the Oriental Post Inn has become the focus of Ye Lao Wu's surveillance, he has two eyeliners, staring at these two inns, as long as the black fat man shows his face in Zhangjiakou, he will immediately fly a pigeon to inform him.

At the end of summer, the black fat man came to the West Exit Inn again, and Ye Lao Wu rushed to the inn when he heard the news. He knew that Mao Lalashan Yu should also come, and sure enough, three days later, Mao Lalashan Yu pretended to be a merchant, brought people and horses, and vehicles, carrying furs, precious stones, bows and arrows, and knives to Zhangjiakou to do business. Shan Yu stayed in the Wangye Pavilion of the Oriental Yi Inn, late that night, Ye Lao Wu licked the broken window paper at the window on the second floor and snooped, and saw such a scene:

The black fat man asked, "Lord Shan, why didn't the assassination plan in the Mulan paddock go ahead?"

After we parted in the cemetery that night, the king went back to the inn to sleep, and before going to bed, he took out the prince's letter and silver ticket and read it, and when he woke up, the letter and the silver ticket were stolen together. The thief's methods are too clever, things are strange, this king is puzzled, could it be your fat man's hands and feet?!" Shan Yu's blue eyes burst out with a fierce light, and a hairy hand on the back of his hand held the handle of the knife at his waist.

The black fat man waved his hand again and again, and said: "Shan Yu Adult, how dare the villain, if the villain does this kind of thing, the prince, Shan Yu and the emperor will not let go of the villain, the villain has a family industry in Beijing, and the family will be finished." ”

Shan Yu said: "Who will it be? If it is not the news that you have sent out, who will know that I have letters and silver tickets in my arms?"

The black fat man said: "Could it be your bodyguard? ”

Shan Yu said: "Impossible, the door is bolted, and they can't get in." After the theft, there was no sign of prying. ”

"Come in through the window, and they'll be able to jump in and steal the silver ticket and letter when you're asleep. ”

"My people are all time-tested hot-blooded heroes, it is impossible to do this kind of despicable deeds of chickens and dogs, this kind of thing, only you people are the best at it. ”

The black fat man said hey, "Could it be that Lord Shan Yu was timid and changed his mind?"

"What!" Shan Yu sighed, pulled out a scimitar, put it on the shoulder of the black fat man, and shouted: "Fat man, you are full of feces, you don't want to live!"

The black fat man was also calm, and said: "Alone for the adults to calm their anger, the villains are just talking casually." ”

The door opened, and two bodyguards rushed in with knives. Shan Yu shouted: "Get out! You can't enter without a call, remember!"

The bodyguard chirped, exited the room, and closed the door.

Shan Yu Tie blushed and said sharply: "There are some things that can't be said casually, if you say it wrong, you will die." ”

The black fat man did not flinch and said: "The villain's words are a little offensive, but do you know that because the assassination was not carried out, Prince Yi was furious, and the villain almost fell to the ground." Only for adults, once the villain dies, in the future, who will report to the adults. ”

Shan Yu's face softened, he withdrew the knife, inserted it into the sheath, and said, "This time, are you here to ask the guilty king Luo?"

The black fat man said: "How dare you, the villain just wants to ask, is Lord Shan interested in assassinating the emperor? If not, the villain will not bother, if he is still interested, the villain will say a few more words." ”

"Interested, very interested. For the land of the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, the king yearns for it and dreams of it. ”

The black fat man said: "Okay, since Lord Shan Yu stole the letter and silver ticket, there has been no movement in the market, it seems that the thief is just here for money, and he doesn't know what happened, Prince Jinyi asked the villain to send 500,000 taels of silver tickets and a letter again, please check it by Lord Yu." The time to assassinate the emperor was set in the autumn, and the location was still in the Mulan paddock, and the emperor was the easiest to assassinate when he was hunting. ”

Prince Yi pushed the silver ticket back to the black fat man, and said, "The silver ticket has been collected by the king earlier, I lost it, and I can't ask for it again, so let's settle it together after the matter is completed." ”

He opened the letter, smiled after reading it, put it in his arms, unfolded the pen and paper, wrote a reply letter to Prince Yi, handed it to the black fat man, and said, "Fat man, you go back and tell the prince and let him wait for good news." ”

The black fat man said goodbye and left, and did not fall asleep that night, but sat at the table and read at night. The magic hand is empty, and Ye Lao Wu has no way for a while.

The sky was slightly bright, and Ye Lao Wu retreated. Next to the gate of the Oriental Post Inn, there was a guest room where Ye Lao Wu's eyeliner lived, and he tiptoed in. Eyeliner asked, "Master, is there any situation?" "No, I'll sleep for a while, you keep an eye on the gate for me, as soon as Shan Yu appears, wake me up immediately." "Master, you can rest all the time, don't worry, there is a little watch here." The window of the eyeliner room was slightly open, and a pair of dark eyes watched everyone entering and exiting the door.

In the afternoon, Shan Yu Mao Lala walked out of the gate of the Oriental Post Inn with four bodyguards. The eyeliner hurriedly woke Ye Lao Wu up, Ye Lao Wu had changed into a businessman's clothes before going to bed, got up and only wiped his face, and quietly followed.

Shan Yu talked to the bodyguards, wandering around the city, they came to the most prosperous Xuanhua Street in Zhangjiakou, where it was densely populated, shoulder to shoulder, with a wide variety of goods, all kinds of things, Shan Yu and the bodyguards only cared about looking at the beautiful women and handsome guys, rare and strange play, very happy, it was inevitable to be a little distracted, at this time, Ye Lao Wu pretended to be a tourist, squeezed from Shan Yu's side, and at the moment when he rubbed Shan Yu's shoulder, he incorporated the letter in Shan Yu's arms into his sleeve. Ye Lao Wu's speed and ingenuity are unmatched in the world. As long as he makes a move, with a flick of his sleeve, he can smooth the things in other people's arms into his own pocket. Very few people will feel that a rough and arrogant Shan Yu is naturally even more unlikely to notice, he and the bodyguards are still giggling, looking around, and hanging out is extraordinarily happy.

Ye Lao Wu returned to the West Exit Inn, stayed in another eyeliner guest room, opened the letter, and read the second letter written by Prince Yi to Shan Yu:

Single Friend Huijian:

Somehow, the things entrusted to me are like yellow cranes, and I think that my friends are redundant, and I forget them for a while, or there are them, and I am afraid that my subordinates will not be able to do things effectively, and their words will be reckless, and they will offend the driver, so they will not do it. If the task is accomplished, he will be rewarded as promised, and if he is unable to perform the contract for any reason, he shall also make it clear that he has the right to laugh at the matter and give up immediately. The paper is short and long, and the chat is long, and it is not declared.

Respectfully

Add clothes and food

Handwritten by Prince Yi

A certain day, a certain month, and a certain year

Reading this letter, a thought suddenly came to him, Prince Yi, who betrayed the lord and sought glory, is really not a thing, why not scare him, knock him out of a sum of money, let him die in a foreign country, kill the lord and cut the land, and seek to seize the imperial power. As soon as he thought of this, he immediately took action, and the next day, Ye Lao Wu set off for Beijing empty-handed.

A few days later, late at night in Beijing. The night is as dark as ink, stretching out his hand and not seeing his five fingers, a black shadow floated into the palace compound, the bodyguards of the palace are heavily guarded, from time to time, there are bodyguards from behind the rockery bushes turned out, sometimes, when they meet their own family, they check the password, and one person says: "One step to the sky." ”

Another said: "Twin peaks in the clouds." ”

One person said: "Three pools of the moon." ”

Another said: "The four seasons are safe. ”

So, the bodyguards would chat a few words, and then split up to patrol the places.

The lights in the compound were extinguished one after another, but the study in the back garden was still lit, and there was a powerful bodyguard standing at the door. Ye Lao Wu quietly approached the window and saw one or two old men with gray temples reading at night in the study, was he Prince Yi? Ye Lao Wu did not dare to conclude, but just watched from the bushes under the window. After a while, a maid came over, holding a plate in her hand, and a blue and white porcelain bowl was placed on the plate, Yahuan walked into the study, put the bowl on the table, and said, "Prince, please use supper." The lady asked the slave and maid to pass the word and ask the prince to rest early, so as not to hurt his body. Prince Yi picked up the bowl, took two sips, and said, "I know, back to Mrs., the old man is spending the night in the study today." Yahuan whispered, "Yes." And he withdrew. After a while, Prince Yi closed the window, blew out the candle, and went to bed in the study. First of all, Prince Yi made a tossing and turning sound on the couch, as if he had not fallen asleep, and after a full column of incense, the sound of Prince Yi's even breathing began to come out in the study, and it seemed that he had fallen asleep.

Approaching the third watch, the bodyguard standing at the door also brought a chair, leaned on the back of the chair, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Ye Lao Wu opened the window, sneaked into the study, put a letter on Prince Yi's desk, pressed it with a paperweight, and quietly floated out of the window. The full text of the letter is as follows:

His Excellency Prince Yi:

In the early spring and late summer of this year, you sent two letters to the "single friend" Shan Yuwang, and by chance, KitKat fell into the hands of his subordinates, and learned that the prince intended to plot against the assassination and cut the land for glory. Among them, the mystery was secretly known, and he wanted to submit it to Prime Minister Qin and report the prince's rebellion to the court, but he was short of money in hand, and suddenly had a whim, and wanted to sell the prince's two handwritten letters to the prince at a low price of one million taels of silver, I don't know if it was allowed?

If you agree, please send someone to bring five silver tickets of 200,000 taels of silver to the No. 9 room of the Donglai Shun Inn in Zhuozhou three days later to meet and talk, and hand over the silver with one hand and the letter with the other; if it is not overdue, the prince's two letters of counter-secret will be handed over to Prime Minister Qin, and the consequences will be borne by himself.

Respectfully

Look before you leap

Empty hands

A certain day, a certain month, and a certain year

The next day, Prince Yi woke up, read the letter, and was shocked into a cold sweat, so he invited his confidant Cao Guoyou to discuss countermeasures. At that time, the two agreed that Zhuozhou must go, and the silver ticket must also be brought, and they will act when they get there. If you can get the letter back, it's best to kill the good hand empty, and if you really can't do it, you would rather pay the ransom than get the letter back.

At the same time, Prince Yi repaired another book, handed over to the black fat man on the same day to Zhangjiakou, be sure to submit it to Shan Yu as soon as possible, the letter did not look up, nor did it settle, only four words: the matter is suspended.

On the third day, Prince Yi sent the white-faced Cao Cao Cao Cao and Cao Guoyou to lead two killers to live in Room 9 of the Donglai Shun Inn in Zhuozhou.

Room No. 9 is a suite, and there is a letter on the desk in the middle of the room, and Cao Guoyou unfolds the letter to read:

God of Wealth:

Please carry the silver ticket to the bottom of the mountain on the east side of Baijing Mountain outside the city, and hand over the ticket with one hand and the letter with the other. Don't ignore it.

Please

Be on time

Empty hands

A certain day, a certain month, and a certain year

The white-faced Cao Cao called the shopkeeper and asked, "Who booked Room No. 9?"

The shopkeeper said: "The day before yesterday, an old man came, claiming to be surnamed Miao, about fifty years old, booked room No. 9, and paid a deposit for three days in advance, telling him not to let idle people wait for him. He said that in two days, someone would come to ask for room nine, and you would say that Mr. Miao had prepaid for them. Mr. Miao was generous enough, and when he left, he gave a small handful of loose silver. After that, the little one has never been seen again, guest officer, Mr. Miao is your friend?"

"No, relative. ”

"No wonder, it's such a blessing to have such a relative. ”

Cao Guoyou smiled and said, "Really?"

All this was seen by the wonderful hands who lived in the room diagonally facing each other.

At night that night, the two sides came to the foot of the mountain on the east side of Baijing Mountain, and Cao Guoyou and the three of them had already arrived, and they came to the appointment with a life-changing brother empty-handed. One side wants to see the silver ticket first, the other party wants to see the letter first, neither side is willing to give in, a word disagrees, then they start to move, the brother who is empty-handed was cut to the ground by Cao Guoyou, dripping with blood, the neck is only missing a layer of skin and the head, and he died on the spot. Cao Guoyou and the other three were very skilled, and they almost suffered empty-handed, and the next thing, Liu Sange and others witnessed the scene.

Liu Sange asked, "Where are the two letters?"

Miao said empty-handedly: "I was afraid of an accident, so I didn't bring it with me." ”