Chapter 21: Insight

"Hmm. The emperor nodded and said: "There are as many as thirty-eight places in the 'Six Dragons Gang', and it is rumored that there are dragon robes in the gang. ”

He laughed angrily: "The 'Dragon God' is not the first to come out of the rivers and lakes, and the 'Six Dragons Gang' is not the first day to overdue, if you can fight too early, you still have to wait until today?

The emperor said: "Ren Siqian said that the imperial court forbidden army plus the 'firearms battalion', 'golden guard', 'dragon guard' a few masters, and then transfer one or two thousand border troops back to be able to avoid future troubles. ”

"He knows a rice noodle. Does the imperial court now have the money to recruit troops or build firearms, or does it mean that there are masters in the inner world who can beat the 'Dragon God'? He is an old immortal who can single-handedly take on the 'Dragon God's remaining tens of thousands of 'Six Dragons Gang' to help the people, and I can do it alone. ”

The emperor said, "Impermanence, do you mean not to agree?"

Yu Wuchang said: "At least now is not the time, the 'Six Dragons Gang' has a lot of business in the capital, and it will be difficult for foreign enemies to enter the capital one day with them, and the imperial court can also take advantage of the friendship between 'Qizong' and 'Dragon God' to seek help. ”

The emperor breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I think so too, according to rumors, the 'Dragon God' is not bad to our father and son, if he had promised the ancestor back then, how could we be today." ”

Yu Wuchang said: "If you can't beat it, it's better to say this." ”

The emperor smiled kindly, and the impermanence also smiled, one is an easy-going emperor to a certain realm, and the other is an incredibly presumptuous favored minister, the relationship between the monarch and the minister is already very good, but on the issue of Wu Jingguo, the two have a mustard, and now the mustard is not unraveled, but it is a lot smoother. It's just that the emperor is a little unhappy with his impermanence style.

"If you are near, you will not be inferior, and if you are far away, you will be resentful." Not only women and villains, but countless monarchs and ministers throughout the ages have been able to start well, but how many monarchs and ministers have been able to end well? Of course, there are many emperors who have done the work of crossing the river and demolishing bridges with rabbits and dead dogs, but there are also a few favored ministers who are not kicking their noses and faces and becoming more and more presumptuous, forcing the emperor to bear it and have to do it.

The royal affair is never a private matter, it is never a trivial matter.

Yu Wuchang understands these truths, but he still does not restrain himself, his attitude towards the emperor, ministers, princes and nobles has always been like this, but he can avoid all the ladies in the palace if he is respectful and polite. The purpose of the establishment of the "Dragon Guard" is to play a certain role in the "Inner Governor's Mansion" and "Golden Guard", just because these two institutions are really too powerful, and one carelessly often covers the sky with one hand and deceives the lower than the superiors, resulting in countless unjust, false and wrongful cases, and if you want to rebel against the emperor, you have no power to fight back. So the 'Dragon Guard' appeared as the emperor's sworn friend, so as not to let the emperor be deceived and no one was available, the 'Dragon Guard' has few people, high martial arts, and usually protects the emperor, if necessary, the emperor can assign these people to do anything, they don't need to rely on force to fight against the 'Inner Governor's Mansion', the 'Golden Guard', as long as the relationship between these two institutions is too close, report to the emperor and curb it in time, so' The Dragon Guard's can not be polite to any powerful ministers, the more this is the case, the more the emperor likes it, and the closer he gets to the ministers, the more unhappy the emperor is. Theoretically, this also caused a difficulty for the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' and the 'Golden Guard' to cover the sky with one hand, but unfortunately, because the 'Golden Guard' was too powerful, the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' was established as an institution to control the 'Golden Guard', but not only failed to control it, but the two major institutions colluded to become more powerful, and the 'Dragon Guard' has completely lost its original intention by now, and now it has almost been bought under the coercion and temptation of Wu Jingguo. About ninety percent of the members of the Dragon Guard's and almost all the palace maids and eunuchs, the emperor's every move Wu Jingguo was the first to know, and there was still no one to use.

Fu Wuchang knew these delicate relationships, but he didn't pay attention to them, I don't know if he really ignored them or if this attitude itself was a subtle understanding, in short, the emperor was very willing to spoil Yu Wuchang, so Wu Jingguo was very willing to win over Yu Wuchang.

Liang Xie came out of the yard and didn't go home, he needed to do one thing, something he was extremely unwilling to do but had to do - kill people. This is a job that sounds very exciting, and it is even more exciting to do, so exciting that I often dream of it, and it is so exciting that in the dead of night, Liang Xie will feel unspeakably uncomfortable being stared at at any time. It's such a job, who wants to do it, and who likes to do it? Maybe there are people who really like this business, but at least Liang Xie doesn't like it, doesn't want to, and is very bored.

Liang Xie is also very annoying to Li Er compared to killing, this person doesn't seem to have much emotion, and he always speaks so impulsively, what he doesn't understand is how Li Er can have such a positive attitude towards such a thing, so positive that he is more like a 'hall master' than him, the 'hall master'. He annoys these things, but he has to do them, so he doesn't like Li Er, he knows that Li Er doesn't like him either, and the two hate each other but cooperate with each other.

'Money presses slaves and maids, and art presses pedestrians', Liang Xie is short of money, very short, very short, others lack money is just a little more difficult, poor food and clothing, he will die if he lacks money, he will really die, so he has no choice, no matter how unwilling, no matter how tired he is, he has to do it, what makes him feel a little better is that he is not a good person, although it is still a killing, at least he can be psychologically comforted, and he can convince himself that he is doing the right thing for heaven, as for Tianling not to accept this feeling, it is two words.

'Zhou Shu', thirty-eight years old, black-faced, beardless, five feet eight inches tall, slightly fat, lame, master of hidden weapons, former member of the 'Blackwater Seven Alliance', belonging to the 'Dark Sting' series, good at sneak attacks, assassination, lurking, keen five senses, controllable darts within ten zhang to shoot down mosquitoes, 100 shots. Now he lives in Gaojiazhuang, twenty miles outside the west of the city, and his pseudonym is Gao Shu.

This is the content of the crumpled paper ball, the paper ball is not wrinkled, and the paper ball is easy to wrinkle when people's mood is wrinkled. Obviously, the other party is a master, especially for a master like Liang Xie who also uses sneak attacks, assassinations, and lurking as a means, but his skills are flawed, the other party's proficient field is a headache for them. Generally speaking, an assassin will never let his guard down easily, even if he is wandering around the busy city, and will never easily allow anyone to step into his safe range, which is an involuntary habit, and it is difficult for such a person to assassinate, at least more than twice as difficult as a master of the same level. Liang Xie had a headache and was more relieved, he didn't want to kill people, if he had to kill people, at least it would be better to kill the people of the 'Blackwater Seven Alliances', even if it was dangerous, he was willing, for no reason that the people of the 'Blackwater Seven Alliances' really deserved to die.

Gaojiazhuang is not far from the 'Xingyuan Dart Bureau Second Bureau', Liang Xie is very good, and he will arrive soon. This is a very ordinary village, the whole Zhuangzi lives in about 30 families, scattered with each other is not very compact, it is a very normal thing for the Zhuanghu family. Liang Xie didn't know Zhou Shu, who was under the pseudonym Gao Shu, and he didn't know where Gao Shu's family lived, whether he was at home, and when he would come back. Stepping on the point is what they must do in this line of work and 'stealing the door', only if they are familiar with the terrain do they know where to hide, when to do it, and where to escape after failure, of course, their assassination and hidden level are far less than those of these professional killers in the 'Hundred Ninja Jingtang' and 'Listening to the Rain and Reading the Sword Tower', but it is enough.

The killer and the 'thief' both belong to the 'business' of the eight outer lines, the two have a lot in common, such as they can't see the light, they are all transactions without capital, they are more dangerous, and they need to step on the point in advance, the difference is that the killer line is more dangerous than the 'thief', the 'thief' fails to be caught and usually beaten, and the ruthless one has a chopping hand, even if he twists the cane to blame the government, he can also take silver to reduce his sentence if he is flogged and imprisoned, and the killer fails to be caught and has basically no other way to choose except death. Therefore, all killers are not bad, and there are few fat people, in addition to this, you still need to know some simple disguise techniques, so as not to be remembered when you step on the point, and after being remembered for killing, you will be wanted by the government. In fact, even if the killer shows his appearance and is seen, usually the government also takes the killer without a problem, and he may not remember it accurately, and he doesn't know the portrait if he remembers it, and he hasn't seen the portrait who understands it, you ignore some of the less I paint, and the last wanted portrait is nondescript, and it is difficult to fully correspond to the criminal, plus the silver offered may not be able to attract people who really have the ability to come, so most of the time it is so-so, and when someone commits another crime, he is caught and beaten severely, forcing him to take on some cases, and the people are happy when the Yamen is rewarded'Hello, hello, everybody'. This kind of thing is also known to the 'Criminal Department', but it can't be managed, the world is so big, it can't all the prisoners be tried in person, not to mention that there are still points up and down, officials protect each other, and 'fear of crime and suicide', etc., it can be said that there are many ways. Despite this, Liang Xie didn't dare to be sloppy, after all, there are people in the government who can deduce a lot of things through some clues, and it's not that there is no master of catching a quasi-fast catcher, but in recent years, everyone has been busy making money, and not many people are willing to work hard to learn to do it, things in the world are like this, an ordinary person who doesn't understand martial arts can walk a hundred miles a day, but when he has a carriage, he can no longer do it, if he is used to sitting in a sedan chair, then he even has to walk ten miles hard, and it is the same to solve the case and arrest fugitives。

Liang Xie simply disguised himself and took out a portable mirror to look at it carefully, making sure that he was relieved if he was not recognized by a close acquaintance.

There are a lot of cultivated fields around Gaojiazhuang Zhuangzi, at this time it is the afternoon when the sun is not very hot, there are several crops in the field after the lunch break are hoeing the ground, one of these people is an old man leaning over the waist slowly hoeing weeds, his movements are very slow, Xu is a few years old, the eyes are not very good, his hoe sometimes does not hoe the weeds but cut down a few crops.

Liang Xie saw it in his eyes and walked towards the old man, who squinted at Liang Xie when he saw a stranger walking towards him.

"Uncle, may I ask how the Gao Shu family is going?" Liang Xie walked over quickly and asked politely.

"Are you?" Liang Xie didn't get too close, and the old man's eyes were even more confused and asked, he was very curious about the identity of the living.

"Distant relatives who haven't moved around for years. Liang Xie didn't dare to say more, and he didn't dare to make up nonsense too much, for fear that the old man and Gao Shu had a good relationship and could see through the lie, and the reason why he chose an old man with bad eyes was also for this reason, after all, the thirty-eight-year-old Gao Shu was unlikely to have a good relationship with the old man, and the old man's bad eyes were beneficial to his disguise, in case the old man couldn't see his appearance clearly when the official government traced him, he would be safer.

"Oh~, Gao Shu's family, over there, the yard with a big tree in front of the door is their house. Liang Xie looked in the direction pointed by the old man, and saw a big tree behind the courtyard (there were several big trees in front of and behind other people's houses).

Liang Xie thanked the old man and walked towards Gao Shu's house.

The yard is not big, two main rooms have been built, one south room, it seems to have been some years, the tree outside the yard is quite tall and leafy, it will never grow like this in twenty or thirty years, Liang Xie was a little surprised in his heart, and thought about it, since Zhou Shu can retire under a pseudonym, he can also buy a yard to live in, but with the style of the 'Black Water Seven Alliance', it is really shabby to help the public buy such a yard.

Liang Xie was thinking to himself, suddenly heard the voice of a child in the house, and then the door curtain was lifted, a seven or eight-year-old child jumped out of the house, Liang Xie jumped up on the tree, just when he was about to pull over the branches and leaves to block the figure, a man's soft cough came from the house, and a grasshopper coincidentally flew to his face.

Liang Xie was horrified in his heart, but he was found out that the other party called a dart, he leaned back and split the grasshopper in half with a knife, and the feeling from the blade made him know that everything was just a false alarm. Immediately quietly put away the knife and hid in the leaves, not daring to move, waiting for a while, the man in the room was silent again, he was relieved, but after this fright, he was even more convinced that the master of the 'Black Water Seven Alliances' in the house was definitely not ordinary, and the nervousness made him break out in a layer of cold sweat.

The door of the main house was not closed, and through the curtain beams made of peach pits, I saw a woman weaving cloth in the house, but Gao Shu did not see it. Liang Xie watched the children in the courtyard play among the leaves, looked at the women in the house weaving, and listened to the rhythmic sound of the loom, and his heart was indescribably irritable. He is here to step on the point, if there is a chance, you can also step on the point and do it together, if you don't have the opportunity, at least you have to see what the opponent looks like, what body type, and what habits and movements.

Liang Xie is waiting, waiting is tormenting, but as a killer, you have to wait, waiting for a good opportunity to make a move, of course, if you don't want to die. Liang Xie didn't dare to move or retreat easily, so he could only wait quietly, Zhou Shu, a master of the 'Dark Sting' series of 'Dark Sting' who started with murder in the 'Black Water Seven Alliance', his keen senses were far from being comparable to his halfway monk's killer, and what was especially terrifying was that Zhou Shu hid his identity so well, if he didn't get it' Fengyuntang's intelligence, who would have thought that such an ordinary person would hide a master who used to kill people without blinking, such a master who is good at disguise and concealment, if he accidentally greets Liang Xie, he will only die, so he can only kill with a single blow of static braking!

Time passed slowly in waiting, painful, painful to the point of some torment, and finally, the child fell and cried, and finally the man in the room came out complaining.

Opportunity, excellent opportunity, Zhou Shu seemed to have relaxed his vigilance because of the child's crying, Liang Xie realized that the opportunity had come, and the flying cone came out. Under the sunlight, the silver-white flying cone flashed with a dazzling light, this is a special hidden weapon used during the day, even if the opponent shoots head-on, it will be hindered for a moment due to the reflection on the flying cone, and a moment of master confrontation is enough.