Chapter Forty-Eight: Chess to the Midgame (1)
In the third year of Xianping, May 20, night, Jiangning Hengyun Inn. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Young master. ā
Jia San and Guo Si were wearing civilian clothes at the moment, and the black-clothed hat was abandoned by the two of them, in the lobby of the Hengyun Inn, the innkeeper and the guys were trembling, some of them were big, so they raised their heads and quietly peeked at the two people standing in the center of the lobby. But after the short, frost-faced man of the two glanced at it, these brave men who were more daring than ordinary people also lowered their heads, and did not dare to peek at these two evil gods again.
Sikong Gu stepped into the lobby of the inn, nodded at Jia San, Guo Si and the two, and then shifted his gaze to the boys behind the two who were tied up by five flowers and were still in a coma.
"Where's Situ Bo?"
After glancing at the faces of those sons and brothers one by one, Sikong Gu found that the protagonist was not among them tonight, raised his head, turned around and asked Jia San and Guo Si who were standing beside him.
"He's still upstairs, this kid has a lot of internal strength......"
"Awake?" Sikong Gu was a little surprised, the sweat medicine he handed over to Chu Zhongcheng was a kind of superlative medicine, which was prepared by Mr. Wu before his death, and there were only so many catties in Sikong Gu's hands in this world. This time, Sikong Lone Foot ** gave Chu Zhongcheng three taels of three taels, if he only went down to one of the ten, ordinary people would probably become fools, even if he was a martial arts master, if he hadn't taken all kinds of poisons and antidotes since he was a child, and then reconciled and absorbed them with exercises, then he would have fallen asleep for at least a few hours if he was not careful. From Sikong Gu's point of view, Situ Bai, who is sixty-one on the Who's List, can never have the internal strength of a top master.
Jia San bowed his head slightly, as if to accuse: "Yes." ā
"Didn't run?"
Jia San shook his head and said, "His hands and feet are soft, he seems to be weak, and he can't even speak." Then he pointed to the pile of boys on the ground who were sleeping like dead pigs, "It's not like them, ah...... The subordinates were afraid of his change, so they tied him up and threw him on the bed, not daring to take him down. ā
"Watching from above on Friday?" Sikong Gu nodded, Jia San is by no means a cautious person on weekdays, and today he was exposed to the public for the first time, but he was also a lot more cautious in doing things, which made Sikong Gu also feel a little uncomfortable.
"It didn't arrive on Friday. ā
"Understood. ā
Didn't arrive on Friday, Jia San, Guo Si and the two dared to greet here downstairs together, so the secret force in Chu Zhongcheng's hand must have controlled the surroundings of this inn.
"Young master, Ah Si went up and brought him down?" Guo Si's face was pale, and his voice was extremely hoarse, as if two pieces of rusty iron were slightly rubbed.
Sikong Gu nodded, and after instructing Jia San to guard the lobby, he asked Guo Si to lead the way in front, and when he reached the stairs on the second and third floors, Sikong Gu lowered his voice and ordered:
"Ah Si, this title will have to be changed in the future, you call 'Ah San, Ah Si' like this, but it is difficult to ascend to the Hall of Elegance. ā
"The subordinates understand. ā
Guo Si's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't hear the emotions at all, and Sikong Gu had to smile helplessly.
After Guo Si removed the steel wire and poison needle from the door, Sikong Gu was able to see Situ Bai, whom he had only met a few hours ago, and Situ Bai's hands and feet were tied together at this time, and he was still on the bed at random like a pig to be slaughtered. Seeing Sikong Gu enter the room, Situ Bai's two eyes trembled, although he was weak at this time and couldn't even speak, but this subtle change in his face still expressed his attitude very clearly.
"I can't imagine that it's me, the second young master of the Situ family, last night you teamed up with Shenmen to steal gold and kill people, and assassinated the heroes gathered around you one by one with drugs, who can hide all this?"
Sikong Gu's smiling and groaning expression was placed in front of Situ Bai, where could there be half an enemy meeting each other? Guo Si also put an oil lamp on the couch very intimately at this time, so that Sikong Gu could see Situ Bai's expression more clearly.
Situ Bai's breathing began to rapid, and his mouth opened slightly, but he could only make a few sounds that sounded like moaning.
"I'll tell you everything here. Sikong sat on the bed alone, with one hand on Situ Bai's shoulder, seemingly extremely intimate movements, but in fact, it was to confirm whether Situ Bai was not half disguised at this time. After all, no matter how a master pretends to be, the internal force circulation in his body cannot be faked at all.
"Last night, your Situ family colluded with Liu Su, the master of the Shenmen Kun Hall, and the sword envoy was full of red sand, taking advantage of the dead of night, the medicine stunned everyone in the lobby of the inn, and after the gold was removed, a massacre began, and the heroes who were powerless were all beheaded by you one by one, does Brother Situ still have an impression of that scene?"
Sikong said so far, but he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore, and after patting Situ Bai on the shoulder and pulling his hand back, he continued: "The Divine Gate has been assisted by the 'Divine Capture' Shen Zhaoqian through you, so that I can avoid the investigation channel arranged by Zhan Zhutou for me, and dozens of people can enter the city in the name of merchants. But today, you did not hesitate to offend the Divine Gate in order to protect yourself, so you secretly sent someone to tell me the news that the Divine Gate was in Jiangning City......"
As he spoke, Sikong Gu took out a letter from his arms, the fire paint of this letter had been opened, and under the dim light, Situ Bai noticed that the shape of the fire paint was the seal of Situ Jia****. When Sikong Gu pulled out the letter and put it in front of his eyes, Situ Bai's mouth opened three points wider.
"That's right, this is your father's handwriting, and it was your father who told me, 'Shenmen is hiding in Jiangning', that's right, right? Shenmen is very trustworthy, and he didn't betray your father, or ...... Before they could sell the Jiangning Situ family, they had already been betrayed by the Jiangning Situ family. You're the one who connected you, right?"
Situ Bai's wheezing voice became more and more urgent, and two flames shot out of his eyes, but Sikong Gu didn't care at all, and after slowly receiving the letter into the envelope, he seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to tell Situ Bai: "Brother Zirong must have informed Zhan Zhutou, Zhan Zhutou should have rushed here by now, Second Young Master of the Situ family, do you want to go down in person, or wait here for the official to come up?"
At this point, Sikong Gu seemed to think of something again, and patted his head lightly and said: "By the way, Er Shao may not know yet, human and physical evidence must be readily available, in the backyard of your inn, my people dug up gold, and those gold have the emblem of my Sikong family on them, if you didn't steal it, how could you come here?
Sikong Gu stood up and asked Guo Si again: "Fourth brother, how did you and the third brother get those sons and brothers down? It can't be the third brother who carried them down one by one, right?"
After saying that, Sikong looked at Situ Bai again, and in those eyes that seemed to have spewed anger, Sikong Gu also read another emotion.
It was a winter when he was eight years old, when he took Xiaoliu to hide behind the Buddha statue to roast the fire, and then two beggars hid in the ruined temple, and when the two smirked and brought the two of them out like chickens, he had seen the emotions in Xiaoliu's eyes.
"People are so hungry that they can eat anything. ā
Sikong Gu still clearly remembers how many corpses there were at the base of the city wall after the locust plague that year, when the first snow fell in winter. But on the second day, there were so many fewer corpses that should have been covered in snow.