Chapter 255: Half a Skull
Gu Shenwei monitored the whereabouts of Xiang Kai, the sword master of Jinpeng Castle, for three days in a row, and when he was mixed in the crowd and crouched on the roof, he often remembered his former assistant inexplicably.
Chu Nanping is a good swordsman, Gu Shenwei passed on to him five chapters of the "Book of No Dao", and used the "Book of the Dead" to improve the ruthless swordsmanship, so that the young man's martial arts have made great progress, as a waiter and guard, Chu Nanping is blameless, but he is not a killer, in the most critical moment, when the opportunity needs to be decided, there is a lack of that kind of tacit understanding between the two.
Maybe this can't complain about the young swordsman, Gu Shen thinks about it, he has no way to trust anyone very much, and naturally he won't get the corresponding reward.
Gu Shenwei threw away meaningless distractions and began to prepare to assassinate the knife master Xiang Kai.
The second young lord Shangguan Tian came to visit Shule City, and Xiang Kai also followed him into the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he had to go back to the teahouse opposite the Dart Bureau every day to listen to the information collected by his subordinates, before noon, he would go upstairs to a room upstairs to rest for a while, and then go downstairs to have lunch and return to the Prime Minister's Mansion, if there was an emergency, he would leave earlier.
The assassination location chosen by Gu Shenwei was the room upstairs of the teahouse, the corridor outside the door was open, facing the Jinpeng Dart Bureau, and it was difficult not to attract attention if he wanted to enter during the day, so he came upstairs with Chu Nanping in the early hours of the morning.
Xiang Kai would pause at the door for a moment every time he entered the house, so Gu Shenwei didn't push the door in immediately, he reached out and gently touched the top of the door all the way to the end, touching it back and forth twice, and finally found that there was a small piece of paper stuffed in the crack of the door, and the door would fall down as soon as it was opened.
Gu Shenwei took out the dagger, pressed the piece of paper with the tip of the knife, Chu Nanping took out the key to open the door lock, this key was bought by Xu Xiaoyi at a large price from an old locksmith, the old locksmith is very familiar with the people in the dart board, almost every lock is made by him, this key claims to be able to open almost half of the lock.
Click, the old locksmith didn't brag, worthy of the hundred taels of silver.
Chu Nanping changed his hand to hold the dagger, Gu Shenwei dodged in, gently closed the door, and let everything return to its original state, the next thing was to wait, and the killer was used to it.
More than half of the time of the assassination operation is spent on monitoring and collecting intelligence, and the rest of the time is basically waiting for that last moment, the killing process is too short to be worth mentioning, and the killed, no matter how good their martial arts are, are always in an extremely disadvantageous position because they lose their first move.
Gu Shenwei jumped up slightly, put his hand on the beam, groped back and forth for a while, and made sure that there was no mechanism on it, before turning over, lying on his back, eliminating his thoughts, and quietly preparing for the knife in an hour or two.
Xiang Kai has been very busy in the past two days, he got a strange piece of information, saying that Yang Huan, the bandit leader of the Great Snow Mountain, had infiltrated Shule City, and he was more suspicious of this, the Great Snow Mountain was confronting the army of the Shule Kingdom, and at such a critical moment, it seemed that the "head of the dragons" should not leave.
That morning, as soon as he sat down in the teahouse, his subordinates sent him accurate information: Daxue Mountain had sent an envoy to make peace with Shule State, and the intermediary was a merchant named Xu Yi, who had already contacted Shi Chengxiang.
This is not Biyu City, Xiang Kai secretly sighed, if it is in the territory of Jinpeng Castle, this kind of thing will be easy to solve, he is a killer, he is rich in skills and skillful in swordsmanship, but there is little place to use in Shule Country.
Ironically, he and the second young master lived in the prime minister's mansion, but they didn't hear the news of the prime minister's secret communication with the Great Snow Mountain, Xiang Kaijue This is an urgent information, and he should immediately return to the young master, he has already stood up, and a few more subordinates came, and they said a lot of things.
After listening to all the information, Xiang Kai felt that this matter might not be as urgent as he imagined, and he didn't know the prime minister's behavior, which didn't mean that the second young master didn't know either, so he decided to go as usual.
The door lock is intact, the piece of paper is also there, Xiang Kai opened the door, an attendant went in first, checked around, and nodded after coming out to say that it was okay, and went downstairs by himself.
Xiang Kai entered the house and closed the door, this place belonged to him, only in this room, that tense heart would relax a little, sometimes he felt that this room was too extravagant, as a killer he should not have a moment of relaxation.
Today the situation is a little wrong, he did not feel relaxed when he entered the house, and all the furnishings around him seemed very unfamiliar, as if he had entered the wrong room.
Xiang Kai gripped the handle of the narrow knife, looking for where the uneasiness was coming from.
Gu Shenwei felt that his assassination skills had regressed, and he had been the "head of the dragons and the king of the five peaks" in Daxue Mountain for a few months, which made him a little unaccustomed to restraining his sharpness, and the assassination targets below had already felt his existence.
But he still made a move, and the moment he looked up at Kai, the narrow knife fell straight from the sky.
The sharp tip of the knife pierces through thin clothing and skin, and the ideal effect for the killer is to kill the target and retreat in time to prevent the enemy from dying.
Gu Shenwei thought of this, but the knife in his hand didn't do what he wanted, it seemed to become flamboyant, eager to stab to the end, and as a result, the master's retreat was a little late.
Xiang Kai's narrow knife left a scar on the killer's ribs, and then the man knelt down, bending down and resting his head against the ground, forming a strange arc.
Gu Shenwei didn't care about the injuries on his body, what surprised him was that in just a few months, his killer consciousness had regressed, and he immediately thought of Shangguan Var, the Dubu King had been high for decades, what did he rely on to maintain a keen intuition?
He took the matter to heart and decided that he would find out about it later.
Cut off the head and put it in the bag, Gu Shenwei pushed open a crack in the door, the cat's waist flashed out, avoiding the possible surveillance of the opposite dart bureau, quickly went downstairs, and Chu Nanping who was guarding the street quickly left, during which someone noticed the blood stains under his ribs, and before he could express his suspicions, he had already lost the trace of the killer.
Therefore, when Fang Wen visited the Prime Minister's Mansion in the evening of the same day, the people inside had already heard the news that Xiang Kai had been killed.
Prime Minister Shi Cheng remained silent, he wanted to know the details of the Great Snow Mountain, in his eyes, Xiang Kai was a top-level Jinpeng Fort killer, and being killed so easily made him interested in the defector named Yang Huan.
As soon as Xiang Kai died, Shangguan Tian immediately identified the murderer as Yang Huan and asked for a wanted person in the whole city, but Prime Minister Shi Cheng did not agree immediately, if Jinpeng Fort was capable of this, he might not necessarily support anyone.
The lobbyist came, talking rhetorically, Prime Minister Shi Cheng was tired of listening to it, looking at the face of 10,000 taels of gold, he reluctantly sent the other party away for a while, he had already appointed an expert to follow him, hoping to find the real killer along the pedantic scholar.
He looked at the assassination with curiosity, never expecting that it would involve him.
The chief eunuch took the gold, and as soon as the guests had left, he ran in in a panic and reported to the prime minister the strange situation: the chest was full of gold, but one of the chests still contained half a human head.
Prime Minister Shi rushed to the back and took a look, almost vomited, many emotions surged into his heart at the same time, and finally anger overwhelmed everything, he was the younger brother of the king, when he was the prime minister of the dynasty, one person was above ten thousand people, in Shule country, in all the countries of the Western Regions, no one dared to issue such a naked and bloody challenge to him.
He had thought that the other party was a group of bandits, so he behaved approachable, and now he wanted to let these gangs understand who was the master of the Shule Kingdom.
When Fang Wen and his swordsman entourage were driven back to the living room by the guards, Prime Minister Shi Cheng already had a murderous intent in his heart.
"Bastard!" As soon as Prime Minister Shi saw these two people, the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, he pulled out a scimitar from under the waist of his entourage, rushed over like crazy, and shouted, "How dare you?!" The people next to him were afraid of flashing the prime minister, and they came up to support him.
Fang Wen has been bumpy in his life and has encountered many crises, but this is the first time he knows what it is like to pee his pants in fear, not to mention dodging, he can't even feel where his legs are, and he scolded the whole family of the Dragon King in his heart, and he really wanted to drown the insidious killer with spit.
The advantage of scolding is that he vents, and after venting, he calms down a lot, and Fang Wen is suddenly heartbroken, and there are dead words on the left and right, why don't you let go? His feet still have no strength to move, but he raised his head high, waved his clothes, covered a small pool of water, and said: "Let's not talk about the two countries fighting each other and not killing them, just say that they get money to kill people, is this the hospitality of Shule country?"
"Hospitality?" Prime Minister Shi Cheng's eyes turned red, and the scimitar rested on the scholar's neck, "What's the matter with that head? Want to scare me? A group of bandits want to use this kind of indiscriminate means to intimidate the prime minister of Shule Kingdom? I want Yang Huan's head tonight, and set foot on the big snow mountain within a month!"
Fang Wen didn't know anything about human heads, but he didn't show his expression on the surface, and sneered slightly, "Gold is always real, right?"
Prime Minister Shi was stunned for a moment, he turned his head when he looked at half of the head, he didn't look at the authenticity of the gold at all, the chief eunuch had checked the five boxes, and knew that they were full of real gold, so he nodded at the prime minister.
Prime Minister Shi was a little confused, if he wanted to say that the Great Snow Mountain intended to threaten, why did he send gold? Do you think that this little trick can make the prime minister of a country submit? "No matter whether it is real gold or fake gold, you and your master will die!"
The gold is real, Fang Wen is heart is a little bottom, "Prime Minister Shi is too anxious, it's not too late to see who the head is." ”
"Who is it?" you say. ”
Fang Wen pretended to be familiar with everything, "Who is it, the prime minister might as well check it out for himself, maybe this is the person the prime minister hates, a gift from my master?"
Fang Wen was sincerely looking forward to it, Prime Minister Shi Cheng didn't believe it very much, there was no one in Shule Country who he hated and didn't die, except for Yang Huan, the killer who had just offended him.
Besides, there is only one half of the human head left, and the flesh and blood are blurred, how can it be recognized.
"Confess Yang Huan's whereabouts, I may spare your life. Prime Minister Shi's scimitar was still on the scholar's neck, and the anger in his heart rose again, if he didn't take revenge, he would become a laughing stock in the entire Shule country.
"Don't hide it from the Prime Minister, I don't even know where my master is hiding, let me say more, Jinpeng Fort took three years, and it didn't hurt a single hair of my master, although the country of Shule is big, looking for a killer is not necessarily better than Jinpeng Castle. If the Prime Minister really feels angry, even if he cuts off my head, I am only afraid that the Prime Minister will regret it afterwards. ”
"I regret that I didn't kill all the mongrels in the Great Snow Mountain sooner. ”
"Hey, hey. Fang Wen sneered, while his brain was racing to find a way, the Dragon King was really, he made such a move, and he didn't even remind him, "The Great Snow Mountain is miscellaneous...... The swordsman has a hard neck, but it's not very easy to cut, the prime minister can't protect himself at the moment, do you still want to exterminate the Great Snow Mountain?"
Fang Wen said casually, but Prime Minister Shi Cheng was shocked in his heart, "What are you saying that it is difficult to protect yourself?"
Fang Wen continued to sneer, but his heart was as anxious as a monkey, and he had nothing to do, and the savior had finally arrived.
A guard hurriedly ran over and whispered a few words in the prime minister's ear, Prime Minister Shi's face changed drastically, and his hand holding the knife trembled a little.
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