Chapter Eighty-Three: Mutual Forbearance I
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Zhao Yanhao walked quickly to the inn, and halfway through, two black shadows flew towards him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Who?" In the shout, a snowy sword light was like a nine-day waterfall, and it fell on the head.
Zhao Yanhao's palms were closed, impartial, just clamping the blade, and the waterfall suddenly froze.
Another bleak sword light streaked across the night sky like a meteor, slashing down.
Zhao Yanhao shouted, his wrists turned, and the knife man who was caught in the blade of the knife was like a middle power, and the saber was out of his hand.
"Khooth!"
The two knives intersected, and sparks flew everywhere.
"Good kung fu!" the man exclaimed in admiration, and slashed out four times in a row like thunder and lightning.
Zhao Yanhao calmly took them one by one, knowing who was coming, and shouted: "Stop!
"Big brother, stop! it's Brother Zhao!" shouted the knifeman who had been taken away from his sword.
The man stopped and asked suspiciously, "Brother Zhao, why are you here?"
"Chase the Assassin. Zhao Yanhao handed the knife back to his master and sighed lightly: "Hey, I lost it!"
"Even Brother Zhao can't catch up?" the one who was called the eldest brother didn't want to believe it.
"I'm ashamed! Zhao Yanhao shook his head in frustration.
"Brother Zhao is too humble!" Listening to his tone, he was still skeptical.
"Big brother, that guy's light skills are indeed very high!" said the knife who was snatched the knife.
"Second brother, but he has been stabbed by me!" his eldest brother said: "He can't last long, let's look for it again!"
The three of them searched separately for a lot of incense, but returned in vain.
"Two big brothers, what do you call them?" asked Zhao Yanhao on the way back.
"The surname is Zhang. We are brothers. Brother Zhang said lightly: "It's just a nobody in the rivers and lakes!
"Brother Zhang is too humble!" Zhao Yanhao smiled: "You are the proud disciples of Dragon Tiger Mountain, right?"
Brother Zhang was a little surprised, and was silent for a while, and said softly: "Brother Zhao has good eyesight!"
"If you guess correctly, the 'Fengyun Twin Blades' Zhang Chuanhao and Zhang Chuanmiao brothers are exactly you, right?"
"Exactly. Zhang Chuanhao's eyes lit up in the darkness, and his back straightened.
While talking, he arrived in front of the inn.
The inn was already brightly lit, and the guests had already been startled and gathered in front of the inn.
The brocade guards formed a wall, blocking the audience on the periphery.
The four men in black clothes and black pants fell motionless in a pool of blood, apparently dead for a long time.
Miao Yi really squatted in front of the deceased, examining the deceased's wounds.
The Zhang brothers separated from everyone, walked into the inner circle, and came to Miao Yizhen's side.
"Why are they all dead?" Zhang Chuanhao was surprised, "We didn't have any killers!"
"You didn't kill it!" Miao Yizhen pointed to the throat of a deceased person and said in a deep voice: "You see, they were all killed by this knife." ”
Zhang Chuanhao inspected them one by one, and saw that each deceased had been cut on the throat, and the blood was gurgling and had not yet congealed.
At this moment, a group of officials rushed to the scene with a head-hunting person.
"Get out of the way!
The onlookers hurriedly dodged a way.
Miao Yizhen stood up and looked at the officials with a calm expression.
"What are you doing?" the catcher asked, hunched over his waist.
Miao Yizhen reached into his arms, slowly took out a yellow and clear oval waist card and handed it over. The catcher took it and looked at it, and suddenly his face changed sharply in horror, and he fell to his knees with weakness, and said in a trembling voice: "Capital crime! Small capital crime! Little one doesn't know ......."
"Get up!" Miao Yizhen helped him up and said gently: "You don't have to worry about the affairs here!
The brocade guards followed Miao Yizhen back to the guest room. Miao Yizhen smiled: "Everyone go back to the room to rest, and we are still in a hurry tomorrow!"
Everyone returned to the room one after another, but the Zhang brothers and Zhao Yanhao stayed.
"My lord, what is going on?" asked Zhang Chuanhao.
Miao Yizhen didn't reply, glanced at him, and sighed lightly: "Didn't catch up with that assassin?"
"Yes. That guy is so slippery!"
"Now, is there any way to know who did it?" Miao Yizhen asked rhetorically.
Zhang Chuanhao shook his head, and suddenly understood, "My lord, do you mean to say: Those four people were killed by their accomplices?"
Miao Yizhen's face was solemn and nodded.
"Hey, that's ruthless!" Zhang Chuanhao shook his head.
Miao Yizhen pondered for a while and said, "Chuanhao, please call the shopkeeper!"
"Say, why did you instruct that guy to kill me?" Miao Yizhen looked at Shopkeeper Song coldly and asked sharply.
Shopkeeper Song wiped the cold sweat on his fat face, and said, "Adult, the little one really doesn't know...... That guy isn't our buddy at all!"
"Really, not?"
"Not really!"
"But why is he dressed exactly like your fellows?"
"Oh, it's like this: he knocked one of my fellows unconscious and stripped him of his clothes. ...... If you don't believe me, I'll call that fellow at once!" Anyone could tell from his look that he wasn't lying.
Miao Yizhen stared at his eyes for a while, and said slowly, "I believe you." There you go!"
After Zhang Chuanmiao watched his back disappear, he said in a deep voice: "My lord, my subordinates think: This Song shopkeeper is suspicious!"
"Of course!" Miao Yizhen smiled, "I dare to conclude that he is in the same league as that assassin!"
"My lord, how do you see it?" Zhang Chuanmiao was just suspicious, not sure, but he didn't expect Miao Yizhen to dare to conclude, and turned his head to look at him in surprise.
"It's very simple: he is too calm!" Miao Yizhen said lightly: "Moreover, his evidence is inevitably too timely to prepare!"
Zhang Chuanmiao said suspiciously: "My lord...... Why don't you continue to interrogate him?"
"It's useless, he won't say. Miao Yizhen shook his head.
"If you use some means, won't you say it?" Zhang Chuanhao reminded.
"What means, intimidation, torture ?......" Miao Yizhen sneered: "Those four guys who died are his example!
"If he is worse than dead, I don't believe that he will not recruit him!" Zhang Chuanhao sneered.
"There's no need for that!" Miao Yizhen smiled and said slowly, "I already know who that assassin is!"
"Uncle Shi, who is it?" Zhao Yanhao's heart tightened, and he asked in a lost voice.
Miao Yizhen said word by word: "Songshan 'Lightning Sword' Wu Shaoyuan!"
"Ah?...... Uncle Shi, how do you know?"
"This person is using the 'Heartless Bone' soft sword, and the move that assassinated me is the 'White Snake Spitting Letter', one of the seventeen styles of the Songshan Quick Sword;
Zhao Yanhao didn't expect that Uncle Shi would understand martial arts characters like this, and he was surprised and admired.
"I heard that this person is not only fast and unparalleled, but also has excellent light skills, no wonder the little nephew can't catch up!" Zhao Yanhao pretended to be surprised.
"Speaking of which, this person really deserves the name of the 'Lightning Sword'!" Miao Yizhen shook his head and said with palpitations: "If I hadn't been prepared, I really wouldn't have been able to avoid that sword!"
"Uncle Shi, how did you find out?"
"Just imagine: a guy is still carrying a bucket of water, how can he have such light steps?" Miao Yizhen said in a deep voice: "So, since he entered the room, I have been alert. And I felt the murderous aura that emanated from him - despite his best efforts to hide it!"
"But...... Uncle Shi, I can't understand: why did he assassinate you?"
Miao Yizhen glanced at him and said lightly: "It's just someone who instructs him." ”
"Oh, by whom?"
Miao Yizhen sneered: "King Chong of Runing Mansion. He is one of the three masters under the throne of Chong!"
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At dawn, the man in the light blue robe followed closely behind King Chong and entered Wu Shaoyuan's room.
"Lord Wang, why are you here too?" Wu Shaoyuan, who was pale, hurriedly sat up from the bed with an excited expression.
"Don't move, don't move!Shao Yuan, lie down well!" King Chong hurried to the bed and forced him back to lie down.
Wu Shaoyuan's eyes seemed to be a little red, and he looked at King Chong in a daze, and said ashamedly: "Lord Wang, my subordinates are incompetent and insulting to ...... mission."
"Alas, it's good to come back!It's good to come back safely!" King Chong waved his hand, stared into his eyes and said sincerely: "What else can be more important than the life of my beloved general?!"
Wu Shaoyuan's eyes were completely red, he turned his head sideways, and wiped his tears indistinctly.
"Brother Wu, how are you hurt?" the man in the light blue robe asked lightly.
"It's okay, I didn't hurt my muscles and bones, just rest for a few days. Wu Shaoyuan's face barely squeezed out a smile.
"Oh, that's good!" The man in the light blue robe also smiled, a little laughed at him, mocked as if he didn't listen to the old man's words: "Brother Wu, how is it? Then Miao Yi's martial arts are really extraordinary!"
"Yes. Wu Shaoyuan shook his head in disbelief, "I really didn't expect that he would be able to dodge that sword and be unscathed!"
"And then, he hurt you?"
"No, it was another person who was injured. ”
"What?" the man in the light blue robe said in surprise, "Among them, there are such masters?"
"Yes. It's two guys who wield knives, and the knife is fast and ruthless! I'm so ashamed that after only a few rounds of fighting, I was slashed!"
"So, they're teaming up against you?"
"Yes. Luckily, I escaped quickly, and if I was slow for half a beat, I would have become a ghost under the knife!"
The man in the light blue robe had a solemn face, and asked in a deep voice, "Can you see their sect?"
"Well, how can I spare time to pay attention to this?...... I can only fight for my life!"
King Chong glanced at him, and his face sank.
"Brother Wu, do you think: I can deal with them?"
"Of course, Brother Wu must be able to!" Wu Shaoyuan was like a frightened bird for the terrifying martial arts of those two, so he actually had no bottom in his heart about his answer.
"Hmph, then I'll have to meet them!"
"No!" King Chong waved his hand to stop, "Now that they are on guard, aren't you throwing yourself into the net?"
"Don't worry, prince: even if Wu can't kill them, self-protection is definitely no problem!"
"It's just ......" Wu Shaoyuan sighed: "Brother Wu, do you know: Zhao Yanhao is also here!"
"Zhao Yanhao, Shaolin Zhao Yanhao?" the man in the light blue robe was moved.
"Exactly. I saw him!" Wu Shaoyuan naturally refused to mention that others let him go, and lied: "He saw that I couldn't defeat those two swordsmen, so he didn't make a move." ”
"That's great!" The man in the light blue robe looked excited, "I had long wanted to meet him!"
"Brother Wu, it's better not to go!" Wu Shaoyuan sighed: "I know that Zhao Yanhao, his martial arts are indeed terrifying!"
"Oh, when did you meet?" asked King Chong, suddenly interjecting with interest.
Wu Shaoyuan didn't understand why he was interested in this matter, and said honestly: "It's been fourteen years!"
"So, you're old friends, aren't you?"
"Sort of. Wu Shaoyuan smiled bitterly: "Fourteen years ago, to be honest, his martial arts were not much stronger than mine, but now, my martial arts are comparable to his...... There's no comparison to him......"
"I've heard of this person!" King Chong smiled and said, "Shao Yuan, what do you think of his martial arts compared to Yiyun?"
"This ......" Wu Shaoyuan glanced at the man in the light blue robe, and saw that he was also looking at him with an urgent gaze, and muttered: "I don't know...... It's just that his name in the rivers and lakes is ...... It's louder than Brother Wu...... Although Brother Wu has improved a lot of martial arts over the years, Zhao Yanhao ...... How can you say it? Lord, have you heard of it? That day, in front of Wudang Renweiguan, he actually fought to a draw with the head of the ebony family!"
Wu Yiyun's face was a little ugly, he clenched his teeth, and turned his head a little unwillingly.
"Hehe, Shao Yuan, since he is your friend, can you introduce this king?"
"Lord Wang, do you mean to say: you want to recruit him under your command?"
"Exactly!" King Chong's eyes lit up, and his voice became excited: "'Three Masters of Buddhism', if this king can get the second alone, what a beautiful thing!"
"Lord Wang, I want to ...... I'm afraid he'...... He wouldn't approve of it. ”
"Oh, why?...... Tell him, "Whatever he asks, the king will grant him!"
"Not the problem...... Lord Wang, I think you should know: that Miao Yizhen is his uncle!"
"Oh. ...... Yes!" King Chong sighed regretfully, his eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of ice, he was silent for a long time, turned around and patted Wu Yiyun's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Yiyun, don't worry! This king assures you: your long-cherished wish to fight with him will definitely not be able to wait long!"
Wu Yiyun nodded slowly, and involuntarily clenched his fists.