Chapter 12: The Assassin Met Yesterday Little Handmaiden
"Shi Songzhi, take your life!"
Suddenly, a delicate sound sounded, and with the sound, a white figure shot in through the open window. With a shake of his hand, a little silver light shot towards Shi Songzhi.
Shi Songzhi invited Yin Zhiping and Lu Wende to a banquet today, which was a separate table system, that is, a small table in front of each person, with wine and food on their own. Shi Songzhi is high in the center, and Yin Zhiping and Lu Wende are on the left and right sides of the bottom. This kind of separate table is also convenient for each table of guests to cook different dishes, and in front of Yin Zhiping is a table of vegetarian dishes. The dishes on the table between Shi Songzhi and Lu Wende are the same.
Banqueting and drinking are divided into seats, and food is used separately, which is an ancient etiquette, and it is a ritual set in the Confucian classic "Zhou Li". Although there was already a meal at the same table during the Song and Song dynasties, it was only popular among the lower classes and ordinary people, and in the upper classes, especially the literati and doctors, they were still strictly in accordance with the ancient rites of sharing food. Shi Songzhi is the prime minister of the dynasty and the head of civil officials, and this rule is naturally used in the family.
Now the three of them were at their own table, and they were about six or seven paces away from each other. At such a distance, eight or nine people in the middle also stood down, and they were not afraid that they would be accidentally injured by the assassins. The assassin jumped in through the window closest to Shi Songzhi, and as soon as the person entered the window, before he could hit the ground, he first shot a hidden weapon at Shi Songzhi.
Now in this pavilion, except for the three people, there is a maid next to each of the three who listens to the service, pours wine and vegetables, and there is no one else. There was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old maid beside Shi Songzhi, and there was not even a guard.
At this moment, all three of them were surprised. Shi Songzhi didn't know any martial arts, and he didn't have time to react. Lu Wende has the heart to save him. But his own martial arts are not particularly skillful, and he has already put down his own martial arts and has not practiced for many years. In addition, there was still a distance of six or seven steps away from Shi Songzhi, and there was a table in front of him. hurriedly got up, but just knocked over the dinner table, and there was no time to save him.
Yin Zhiping really didn't expect that there would be an assassin assassinating Shi Songzhi at this time, he really didn't have a good impression of Shi Songzhi, but in front of himself as a master, he was assassinated by an assassin in front of him, and it would be too shameful to say it. And saving Shi Song's life can also make the prime minister owe him a favor, so he also has the heart to save it. The two were six or seven paces apart. It's nothing to him, and he can cut in front of Shi Songzhi with one step of raising his leg.
But as soon as he stood up, he immediately stopped. It's just that the assassin's voice is too familiar, it is Lin Zhiling, who went to the Yunlai Inn to find Li Mochou last night, but had a misunderstanding and found the wrong person. He only heard it last night, and he talked a lot with Lin Zhiling, how can he easily forget?
And his eyesight is better than everyone present, in the blink of an eye, Shi Songzhi and the others haven't seen what the assassin looks like at all, and can only judge by the voice that it is a woman. He had already seen that the Assassin was dressed in white. He held a long sword in his hand and covered his face with a white gauze scarf. Although most of his face was covered, his eyes and body shape were consistent with the Lin Zhiling he saw last night. At this moment, he could already confirm the identity of the assassin in his mind. It was the Lin Zhiling he had seen when he went to the Yunlai Inn last night to find the wrong person.
It was precisely because he recognized it that he hesitated for a moment and stood up as soon as he could. He paused again. And it was this moment of hesitation that slowed him down. The hidden weapon had been shot five or six inches away in front of Shi Song's face, and he couldn't save it.
He could see clearly. The secret weapon was a silver needle, and the shape was very similar to Li Mochou's Ice Spirit Silver Needle. Since it was used for assassination, I am afraid it was also fed with poison. Seeing that Shi Songzhi was about to be shot in the face by a silver needle and died, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
And just when almost everyone thought that Shi Songzhi couldn't escape death, there was a sudden change. In front of the flying path of the silver needle, there was suddenly a silver shining thing, pointed and slender, it seemed to be an enlarged version of the silver needle, and if you looked closely, it was a silver hairpin, and this hairpin was held in the hand of the maid who served him and poured wine next to Shi Songzhi.
Yin Zhiping saw it very clearly, just when a sigh arose in his heart, and he saw that the silver needle was about to shoot at Shi Song's face. The maid standing next to her suddenly pulled out the hairpin on the top of her head and stabbed it in front of the silver needle with unmistakable accuracy.
There was a pleasant sound of "ding", and the silver needle unexpectedly shot on the hairpin, was ejected, and fell on the dining table in front of Shi Songzhi.
It was already a big surprise that an assassin suddenly came in to assassinate, and the current scene was even more surprising, I didn't expect that the little maid who served and poured wine next to Shi Songzhi would have such a clever skill. This is especially true for Yin Zhiping. Even before that, he didn't see that the little maid seemed to be equipped with martial arts, or because the other party was a maid serving on the side, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
"I'll go, this is really out of sight!" Yin Zhiping sighed in his heart, and then thought about it carefully, only to find that the little maid next to Shi Songzhi did seem to be a little different.
First of all, this maid was the most beautiful of the three maids in the hall, more beautiful than the maids standing beside him and Lu Wende. He had noticed this before, but Shi Songzhi, as the master, of course had the right of first choice, and he chose the most beautiful one to pour wine for himself, which was also a matter of course, and Yin Zhiping naturally would not pay special attention to this.
Secondly, the little maid seemed to pay attention to him, and always looked at herself secretly, consciously or unconsciously. Before, he thought that it was the little girl's natural curiosity, and he might have heard the story of his assassination of Kublai Khan, so he paid close attention to him. At this time, in retrospect, I realized that if she was a qualified maid, she should not look at the guests so wantonly, it would be rude. And Shi Songzhi shouldn't use such an unqualified maid, now it seems that the identity of this maid is very unusual, she is not an ordinary maid, or she is not a maid at all, but she is just pretending to be a maid at the moment.
As an assassin, Lin Zhiling obviously didn't expect that the little maid standing next to Shi Songzhi was actually a master of martial arts, and the nirvana shot that shot out was stopped by the little maid with a hairpin, she was also taken aback, and at the same time couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
At this moment, the little maid had already opened her mouth and shouted loudly: "Come on, there is an assassin!" The voice was very crisp and loud, and it was heard far away.
When Lin Zhiling heard her shout, she immediately came back to her senses, and immediately screamed, flew up, and stabbed Shi Songzhi with a sword.
The little maid waved her hand, the hairpin in her hand flew out of her hand, and shot towards Lin Zhiling, and then she wiped her right hand to her waist, and the cold light flashed, and a soft sword was pulled out of her waist by her, and she jumped up on tiptoe, and stopped Lin Zhiling. (To be continued......)