A few days later, in the morning, outside the Imperial Palace of Jinling City.

An ordinary carriage swayed out of the palace gate and into the bustling city. The driver of the car seems to be a practitioner, with very obvious muscle lines all over his body, tall and large, waving the whip in his hand. When the pedestrians on both sides of the road saw the carriage, they all subconsciously got out of the way, and they didn't dare to look at it more.

On this carriage, a lantern was hung, and the word "Li" was written on the lantern.

There are many people with the surname Li in Jinling City, and there are many officials with the surname Li, but the only one who can make everyone feel scared is this Li.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking the air from the busy street, and in an instant, the driver of the car let out a muffled grunt, and a short crossbow arrow was nailed to his shoulder at some point. The coachman straightened his face, stretched out his hand to grasp the crossbow arrow, and pulled it out with all his might.

But before he could look up to see who had shot the arrow, a large number of masked people suddenly rushed out of the surrounding shops and restaurants, all dressed as Jianghu people, with all kinds of weapons in their hands, but the goal was the same - this carriage.

The coachman shouted "Thief dare!", in the face of the masked man rushing from all directions, he jerked on his waist, pulled out a soft sword, and met it without flinching, and immediately fought with this group of Jianghu people, the martial arts of this group of Jianghu people are not particularly strong, a few besieged a coachman, and even fought for a long time, but also failed to fight.

But I also have to say that this coachman's kung fu is very clever, and it seems that the five big and three thick people make the soft sword extremely easy and flexible, and the soft sword bounces back and forth among the enemies, and the moves are surprisingly successful, and after a while, it leaves one blood mark after another on the bodies of the Jianghu people, and it is more than a dozen and has the upper hand.

"Die!" The coachman roared angrily, and the internal force was injected into the soft sword, and the soft sword made a "clang" sound, and it instantly became straight and hard, and the two Jianghu people in front of the coachman had no time to react, and were cut out of the throat by a sword he suddenly slashed, blood splattered, and fell to the ground.

However, the rest of the people were unaffected, and their companions were killed, as if they didn't see it, they were still fighting desperately. It's just that their target is not the coachman, but the carriage, but the coachman is too strong in martial arts to stop them, and a soft sword is extremely difficult, so they have to fight the coachman.

Suddenly, among the crowd of people who were frightened by these assassins and fled, several swords suddenly reached out, passed out of the gap between the Jianghu people surrounding the coachman, and stabbed directly into the coachman's body. The coachman was startled, his legs exerted force, and his body was pulled up several feet in place, causing the swords to pierce the air. In the next moment, five more assassins jumped out of the surrounding crowd, stepped on the shoulders of the previous Jianghu people, and pounced on the charioteer in the air.

The body skills and swordsmanship of these assassins were obviously much stronger, and just like that, the coachman immediately felt a strong pressure. He spun in the air, his soft sword around him, and in an instant, he engaged the five assassins more than a dozen times. But this time, it was no longer the assassins who had a few more blood marks on their bodies, but the coachman.

When the men fell to the ground, a wound in the crook of the coachman's knee had made him unsteady on his feet, and he was half-kneeling on the ground. Several of the Assassins made eye contact, and one of them raised his sword to slash down.

At this moment, several violent winds swept up, and several rabble people on the periphery fell to the ground in an instant, only to see three fish dragon guards appear around the carriage, and the Xiao Han knife in their hands slashed through the air like lightning and thunder, killing those few Jianghu people, and then pounced on the five assassins in the field.

The assassin wanted to kill the coachman, but he didn't have time to do it, and the three fish guards came too quickly, and they had to defend themselves. Soon, the coachman and the three fish dragon guards fought with the five assassins, four against five, and the martial arts of these nine people seemed to be on par, and the fight was inseparable.

"No! it's been too long!" one of the Assassins shouted anxiously, "Big brother, don't wait!"

"I'm helping you clean up the surrounding fish and dragon guards!" At this moment, a clear voice came from not far away, and in the blink of an eye, the sound reached the arrival of people, and another masked man came from the end of the street, he was holding a sword in his hand, the sword was full of blood, and it kept dripping to the ground. This man must have been a young man in his twenties, with very clear eyes, but also very determined. He hurried to the place where the crowd was fighting, and drew his sword.

With a bang, the sword pulled out a blazing white light in the air, and the sword slashed into the body of a fish dragon guard, and the fish dragon guard didn't even have time to resist, and the sword was already finished, and this sword directly cut the fish dragon guard into two. In the next moment, the young man drew his sword again.

There was another click, another blazing white light, this time the coachman. The coachman had noticed the young man and noticed that he was eyeing him, but before he could dodge half of it, the sword had already slashed from his left shoulder to the ground, and in an instant blood splattered, and one arm flew up in the air and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ahhh His eyes seemed to smile, then he turned to the carriage and said, "Old thief Li, your lackeys are all dead, and you still don't come out to die?"

After a few breaths of silence, a vigorous voice came from the carriage and said, "You Feng Sword Technique, you are Leng Qianqiu's apprentice? You came to kill the old man, your master doesn't know, right?"

A trace of anger flashed in the eyes of the young masked man, and he shouted: "Old thief Li, today is your death!" As soon as the words fell, the whole person rushed towards the carriage, the sword in his hand waved fiercely, the white sword light bloomed, and for a while, the wood exploded loudly, and the young man actually wanted to use a long sword to smash the carriage!

But in just a breath, the young man's figure stopped, his sword stopped in the air, and the carriage was only half split, only to see that in the carriage that was half split by his terrifying sword light, a thin hand was revealed, and three fingers reached out from the hand, easily pinching the sword in the young man's hand.

The young man's eyes showed ruthlessness, and he handed the sword forward with all his might, but the hand was like a thousand-year-old acacia, unmoved, and suddenly the sword body was pushed and bent, and the bow formed a small bridge. Seeing that the sword was not advanced, the young man snorted coldly, and his right hand holding the sword jerked violently, but he pulled out a dagger from the hilt of the sword, and his body entered again, shouting: "Li Jingzhen, you are dead!"

Li in the carriage laughed and said, "This kind of trick, the old man has long been tired of playing it." As his voice rose and fell, the sword that he held in his hand suddenly exploded, exploded into countless fine fragments, these sharp sword fragments scattered in all directions, the young man's body was halfway down, and he was forced to retreat by these sword fragments, and had to barely resist with the dagger in his hand, but the force of these explosive fragments was unexpectedly large, and the young man was knocked back several feet away, and involuntarily spit out a mouthful of turbid blood from his mouth, and half knelt on the ground.

Then, Li Jingzhen slowly stood up and walked out of the half-rotten carriage.

This is an old man in his sixtieth year, with gray hair, his face and neck are full of wrinkles, and his skin is dull. But Li Jingzhen's momentum and bearing are extraordinary, he stood there casually, dressed in a gold-embroidered fish and dragon suit, his white beard hung down to his chest, his face was thin and bright, his eyes were not big and slightly protruding, he looked a little weird, his eyes were extremely indifferent, as if he was not interested in everything in the world, but there was a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.

I saw Li Jingzhen raise his right hand, and he still pinched a few pieces of sword fragments between his fingers. He glanced at the assassins around the carriage, shook his head and sighed, "This kind of waste, also worthy of assassinating me?"

"Click!"

The thunderous sound that stood out sent everyone back a step back, and it was only after several Assassins discovered that they had fragments of the sword stuck in their throats. It turned out that the thunder just now was actually the sound made between Li Jingyi's waving his hand and scattering iron, I don't know what kind of internal force he used, the friction between the airway and the air, could make such a terrifying sound?

The young man glared at Li Jingzhen and wanted to stand up, but then Li Jingzhen swept his gaze lightly, which immediately made the young man's whole body tense, and his blood seemed to be coagulated, and he couldn't move at all. Li smiled and said, "I know you, your name is Wu Hua." Your swordsmanship has the ability to divide Leng Qianqiu, but the sword intent is still too bad. In the future, you may be an interesting person. Today, I won't kill you, good luck. ”

Under the masked face of the young man named Wu Hua, there was a sound of teeth "gurgling", and I don't know if it was because he was trembling from resisting the astonishing coercion of Li Jingzhen, or because he was angry or afraid. Finally, when Li turned around and left, Wu Hua suddenly relaxed, half paralyzed to the ground, and broke out in sweat. He looked at the back of Li Jing's stunned drifting away, and his fists clenched tighter and tighter, until his nails pinched out the blood in his palms.

Li Jing, who had left the scene of the assassination, coughed twice, like an ordinary old man, put his hands behind his back, and walked leisurely on the street. When the surrounding people saw him, they all seemed to have seen the devil, but at this time, Li Jingzhen was not sitting in the carriage, and if he escaped in front of him, it would be as if he had done something bad, so these people on the street only dared to quietly bow their heads and do their own things, glancing at Li Jingzhen from time to time, pretending that nothing had happened.

But Li Jingzhen didn't care. He walked very slowly, and seemed to enjoy the lively streets of Jinling City, occasionally looking at the small goods on the roadside stalls, and reaching out to help the children who had fallen because of the fighting, but he seemed to turn a blind eye to the elders whose faces turned pale with fright. Soon after Li Jingzhen was assassinated, a group of fish and dragon guards soon came, but when they saw that their commander was taking a walk, they did not dare to approach any further, and only followed from a distance.

Li Jingzhen walked and walked around the street like this, all the way to his home. The house of the Li Mansion was not big, but it was heavily guarded, and there were all the majestic and tall nursing homes standing around, and when they saw Li Jingzhen coming, they opened the door without saying a word, and let Li Jingzhen walk in.

After returning home, Li changed his clothes, came to the stone table in the courtyard and sat down, let out a long breath, he picked up the hot tea that had been prepared on the table and took a sip, and said to himself: "People, if you create too many evils, you will be like the old man, lonely and widowed for a lifetime." Letting go of that Wu Hua, is it considered to save someone's life? Alas, it's hard to say, it's hard to say......" He put down the teacup in his hand and fell into a long thought.

An hour passed, two hours passed, and Li Jingzhen sat silently in the courtyard and looked at the swaying grass on the wall for a morning. The tea on the table was cold, and it was replaced by the next person for hot tea, and then it gradually became cold, and Li Jingzhen sat motionless like this. As for the subordinates of the Li family, they seem to be commonplace, and they don't think there is anything strange.

Slowly, the sun came to the sky, and even in the cool autumn day, there was a hint of dryness in the daylight. Only then did Li ask in surprise, "Is lunch ready?"

The servant who was standing not far away replied: "If you go back to the master, it will be fine in another quarter of an hour." ”

Li nodded and said to himself: "The plan of the day lies in the morning, and the time in the morning should be thought about and reflected, and everything should be thought through and understood, and it will not be wrong to do things." Little goose......" He called out to the next person, "Tianlong and Ah Hao, are they coming?"

The subordinate replied: "Back to the master, Master Long and Master Hao have already arrived and are talking in the hall." ”

"Call them to the dining room, and I'll go too. Li Jingzhen stood up, stroked his long beard, and walked slowly to the dining room, the next person followed him, and did not reach out to help, because although Li Jingzhen called himself an old man, he did not like others to treat him as an old man, and especially hated others to support him.

In the dining room, the food has begun to be served, and two elderly people in civilian clothes are sitting at the table, chatting and laughing. These two old men are both in their fifties, but they seem to be in good spirits, although they are both fat, but they also have a strong majesty in their gestures, and they are obviously people who have been in high positions all year round.

At this time, Li Jingzhen also walked in, and the two old men hurriedly stood up and said in unison: "Lu Tianlong has seen the commander!" "Li Yuanhao has seen the commander!"

"Sit, sit. Li Jingzhen's hand pressed a few times in the air, and said: "At home, you are not the envoy of the north and south towns, and I am not the commander, we have been brothers for many years." Tianlong, Ah Hao, just call me senior brother. ”

"Hehe, senior brother, we have official business to report, and after the report, we will talk about idle matters. Li Yuanhao, the fatter old man, said with a smile: "Just this morning, there are rumors that the things stolen by Ning Liang are actually hidden in Jinling City, and a subordinate of Ning Liang may be worried about the leakage of the news, so he secretly went to a secret place to transfer this thing, but he was targeted by our fish and dragon guards, that person killed a team and slipped away, and now the general flag patrolling in the city is sending people to search." ”

"Oh?" Hearing Ning Liang's name, Li frowned. He also sat down at the table and said, "With Ning Liang's ability, it is possible to hide things in the capital. Where did he hide his things?"

Another old man, Lu Tianlong, replied: "In an ordinary house in the north of the city, the person who went to transfer the goods today was a big man, and his behavior was quite suspicious, which attracted the attention of the children below, but this person's martial arts skills were extremely high, and as soon as he saw the fish dragon guard, he killed a whole team of people. Afterwards, the people at the bottom adjusted the house and found that there was a secret door and a dark room in it, and we suspected that it might be true. ”

"Hmm. Li nodded in surprise: "Listen to Pharmacist Hong's report, where Leng Qianqiu is in Xiangnan, Leng Qianqiu is also involved, and the old man also encountered Leng Qianqiu's apprentice leading the team to snipe early this morning, or he just wanted to drag the old man." The two forces of them are suspected of joining forces......"

"Senior brother, why don't you serve Lengjiazhuang in one pot?" Lu Tianlong asked puzzledly: "They have caused us too much trouble. ”

"Hehe, Lao Lu, you don't care about things outside, you don't understand this matter very well. Li was stunned before he spoke, and Li Yuanhao said first: "Behind Leng Qianqiu, there may be a bigger secret hidden, senior brother and I, want to dig it out." ”

"Then you toss, I don't care about it. Lu Tianlong waved his hand helplessly and said, "I just have to keep an eye on the hundred officials, these messy things, just have you." ”

"Don't talk about it, eat, eat. Li pointed to a table of food and said, "After eating, let's talk about these things." ”

The three old men ate without saying a word, and began to eat without saying a word. Although the three of them are all old, perhaps because of their martial arts training, they have a huge amount of food and eat quickly, and a table of big fish and meat will become broken bones piled up on the side of the table in just a while. And although Li Jingzhen is thin and can't compare with the two fat people, he eats the fastest and the most, and he is simply gobbling up, which is completely different from his previous light and high-ranking appearance.

After eating a meal, the three of them were sweating profusely and heartily, and after the meal, the three old men all breathed a sigh of relief and patted their stomachs with satisfaction.

The subordinate who knew that his master didn't like to be disturbed when he was eating came forward at this time and said respectfully: "Master, there was a young man who called the door outside and said...... He had come to receive the reward. ”