Longevity begins with a dog

Chapter 87
Three days later, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.

The carriage stopped beside the mountain stream.

A boulder blocked the night wind, and the two sat facing each other around a bonfire with all kinds of game on the fire.

"There are so many seasonings in total, and it's only the third day that it's bottomed out..."

Xu Chong turned the roasted rabbit over, and said with dissatisfaction: "And we didn't even go out of the border of Zhanghua Mansion."

At this speed, can they reach Dingtianfu in the Year of the Monkey?

"The old man noticed that you were a little anxious early in the morning, but he still couldn't figure it out."

Jiang Zhihong stared at the game intently, "If you want to practice, you can practice while walking, sitting or lying down. Why do you have to stay in the Qianhu House?"

"I feel safer in Qianhusuo."

Xu Chong said unhappily.

"Sense of security? The entire Thousand Households can't compare to..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Zhihong suddenly stopped, his eyes darkened, "You can trust even a traitor you have never met, but you can't trust me, who I have known for many days?"

"Is this a matter of trust or distrust..."

Xu Chong was a little speechless, squinting at Jiang Zhihong: "You want to compete with him even for this?"

"It's not a contest."

Jiang Zhihong shook his head, "I was thinking, if I had changed places with him back then, would I have allowed him to live to this day?"

"If you really change places, you won't be able to get to that point with him."

Xu Chong shrugged his shoulders, "Once the food runs out and you find that you can't get it, I'm afraid that you will go to Beijing with a big order and beat Dengwen's drum."

"So...it seems really possible."

Jiang Zhihong thought for a while, and laughed himself first, "But if that's the case, I might die if I don't return to the capital."

"You are actually very smart, but you are a little stubborn... But I have to say, it's rare."

Xu Chong continued to flip the roasted rabbit with an inexplicable expression.

"Rare?"

Jiang Zhihong raised his eyebrows, and said with great interest, "Tell me carefully."

"Except for a county school teacher, you are the first official I have ever met who is worthy of the word 'good man'."

Xu Chong's tone was flat, neither sad nor happy, "It may be because you haven't experienced any hardships, and you see people who are just like you, and you don't need to do anything for your own benefit. Fight hard so you can keep it up."

"Ha, are you complimenting me?"

Jiang Zhihong seemed very happy, grinning at the corner of his mouth.

"as long as you are happy."

Xu Chong was noncommittal.

The word "good man" is fine in the folk, but in the officialdom, it is usually associated with incompetence, paranoia, and cowardice.

Not really a compliment.

"By the way, being idle is also idle, tell me about you before."

Jiang Zhihong suddenly proposed, "I'm curious, what exactly have you experienced that gave you such insight."

"It's not an insight, it's just a habit of analysis."

Xu Chong shook his head, and handed the roasted rabbit over to change the subject, "Eat and eat, rest here tonight, and leave tomorrow morning."

Sure enough, Jiang Zhihong's attention was immediately attracted, and he reached out to pick it up.

Now he cherishes every bite he can eat.

And at this moment, both of them were slightly distracted!
--boom!

The bonfire exploded.

The field of vision of the two was instantly occupied by the flames.

These flames did not explode in all directions, but were pulled by a force, turned into a flame tornado, rushed several feet into the sky, and blatantly covered the two of them.

All this happened in a single instant.

Xu Chong's pupils are still shrinking, and it is almost impossible to avoid them!
This change, this power.

If he is covered by the fire dragon, he has no doubt that he will die.

But panic is panic, not to the point of despair.

Because Jiang Zhihong was there.

"presumptuous!"

A yell sounded like thunder from the sky, rising from the ground.

First is the wind.

In all directions, with the two at the center, the wind moves.

Then came the cloud.

Endless clouds and mist rolled in, directly covering the bright moon.

The wind was surging, and it looked like it had no ability to attack, but the fire dragon had disintegrated inch by inch, revealing a figure inside.

"Manipulate the sky?! You—"

The voice stopped abruptly.

A huge hand reached down from a thousand feet high and pinched him tightly.

"..."

Xu Chong looked at this giant hand made entirely of clouds and mist, and his mind was a little confused for a while.

Jiang Zhihong obviously didn't do anything, but just stood there and scolded... It's an exaggeration to say that the wind is surging, and the cloud is capturing people?

Is this the power above Tongmai?
At this time, wisps of cloud and mist dispersed from the giant hand, and penetrated into the assassin's eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Moments later, the giant hand dissipated, and the assassin fell to the ground.

The face is ordinary, the figure is burly, very strange.

"Tell me, who sent you here?"

Jiang Zhihong frowned and spoke, with an expression and tone, as if he didn't feel that he had done anything extraordinary.

The assassin was lying on the ground, but his face was terrified, his mouth was tightly pursed and he didn't speak.

"Interrogation is not such a simple matter."

Xu Chong looked at Jiang Zhihong, "What realm is he? What's the situation now?"

"On Tongmai, but both strength and physique are suppressed. Now he is an ordinary person, and he can only see and talk, but cannot move."

Jiang Zhihong explained, paused, and said, "It will continue until dawn."

"Okay, the scene is a bit bloody, I'll avoid it."

Xu Chong snapped his fingers, stepped forward boldly, picked up the assassin, and was about to walk behind the boulder.

"No! Using torture privately is against Qing law!"

The assassin's face changed drastically, obviously because he knew the blood-clothed guard's interrogation methods, "Jiang Zhihong! You are the leader of the righteous way, you can't condone this kind of behavior!"

Xu Chong paused and turned to look at Jiang Zhihong.

"Look what I do?"

Jiang Zhihong spread his hands, "The old man has already retired, not to mention that he is now a criminal, but he can't control Xue Yiwei."

Xu Chong gave a thumbs up, and walked behind the boulder with a sinister smile.

click!
As soon as he put down the assassin, Xu Chong removed his jaw.

Although the assassin didn't commit suicide by taking poison immediately, it is very likely that he didn't prepare a poison sac, but he thought it would be more reassuring to check it.

It's not too dirty, just touch your hand, click...

In theory, all the teeth that might harbor poison were pulled out abruptly by Xu Chong.

"Is it really not poisonous?"

After Xu Chong checked, he helped the assassin connect his chin with a look of disdain, "If the people behind you know that you are so afraid of death, they may end up worse than if you fall into my hands."

"..."

The assassin stared at Xu Chong resentfully.

I thought he was on the same level as Jiang Zhihong, even if he couldn't beat him, he would still be able to run, so why would he need a poison sac?

Besides, I am a retainer, not a dead man...

"If you don't talk, it's over if you don't talk?"

Xu Chong chuckled, took the waist knife down, and in front of the assassin, disassembled the blade, handle, and scabbard into sixteen torture instruments of different sizes and functions.

Knife, hook, sickle, saw, scissors, needle...

This waist knife was one of the preparations for this trip, and it can be said that the entire Qianhusuo could not produce a few.

In order to deal with the current situation.

"Haven't you realized it yet? I'll pull your tooth out, it won't hurt at all. "

Xu Chong lined up the instruments of torture, "Do you know why?"

"……why?"

The assassin's eyes were still venomous, but his voice had already begun to tremble a little.

"Because I have become a wind-breaker."

Xu Chong's tone was flat, "Although it's just superficial, it's enough to bring my torture techniques to a new level, and it won't make you feel any pain at all."

"Let me think about it...on Tongmai, although the strength and physique are suppressed, the vitality should still be very strong, right?"

"You said, if I use your skin and flesh to make another you without bones, can you continue to live?"

"Or, sew your hands to your butt, sew your legs to your shoulders... don't know if it will heal?"

"Well, I have a bolder idea, swap your tongue for your life..."

Before he finished speaking, a burst of footsteps came from the other side of the boulder, and the sound should be going away.

At the same time, it was accompanied by the words 'disgraceful' repeatedly.

The assassin obviously also heard the news, and the last hope in his heart was shattered: "I said, I said! Give me a good time!"

Xu Chong listened carefully to the movement on the other side of the boulder, then frowned and said, "How can you make such an excessive request?"

Too much?
The extremely dissatisfied tone made the assassin look dazed and began to doubt his life.

It's just for fun, is this... really too much?
At this time, Xu Chong continued: "After all, I haven't really put these ideas into action. If you make such a request, how can I practice?"

"..."

The assassin was stunned for a moment, and then he spoke without hesitation, speaking at the fastest speed in his life, "My name is Zhong Dahe, and I am a retainer of the Shen family in Fengyang Prefecture. I received the mission to assassinate Jiang Zhihong two days ago, and I found you one day ago , just carried out the assassination."

Xu Chong waited for a moment, then frowned: "No more? Then don't blame me..."

"What do you want to know, you should ask!"

The assassin collapsed, and his voice was a little crying: "As long as you dare to ask, I will dare to answer..."

"Row."

Xu Chong nodded, "First, even if you don't know about Jiang Zhihong's breakthrough, if you want to assassinate him, you shouldn't send only this little force? What about other people?"

"No, it's just me."

The assassin regained his composure, and said honestly: "There are not many retainers above Tongmai, even the Shen family, and I am the only one who can be dispatched abroad... Besides, I am an assassin, not a challenge, and the same level is enough. "

"Okay... the second question, there is no noble book above Tongmai that cannot be used."

Xu Chong raised his eyebrows, "You are already a nobleman, you must not be a petty official in front of others, why do you still work as a retainer for others, and even reduced to a job like a killer?"

"How can I have a noble status, I don't even have an official status..."

The assassin laughed at himself and shook his head, "The reason why I can display my strength above Tongmai is because Wei Wuxie, son of Qianmian Daozi, the Shen family had a deal with him, and sent me to Taipingdao to participate in the unblocking... It is said that I am a retainer, but it is just a high-level one. It's just my son's slave."

"Unblock?!"

Xu Chong narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"It is to lift the household registration blockade."

Seeing that Xu Chongsheng was interested, the assassin became more active in answering the question, "Take the sign given by Wei Wuxie, transform into a person of the Way of Peace, then go to a place to gather, cover your eyes, move back and forth many times, and finally part Jump into the two pools of blood and soak for a day, and you'll be fine."

"Blood pool?"

Xu Chong was thoughtful.

"Actually, if you also have this idea..."

The assassin took the initiative to use his imagination, and said surprisingly: "I can definitely find you, Ge Qianhu."

Ge Wanshan? !

Xu Chong's eyes froze, and he said coldly, "Are you trying to drive a wedge?"

"no no!"

The assassin quickly said, "Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, when Wei Wuxie traded with the Patriarch, he mentioned several officials who had traded with him, including Ge Wanshan... He even used Ge Wanshan once on the spot to prove it." secret weapon."

Wei Wuxie also greedy for light?
In that case, Ge Wanshan might have traded with Wei Wuxie.

Xu Chong wrote it down secretly, and then asked: "What did you see Wei Wuxie like?"

"Looking at around thirty, he's a bit short, nothing out of the ordinary."

The assassin replied, "It's meaningless to tell you, it must have shrunk and changed shape."

Indeed, this image is not the same as Wei Wuxie himself.

Xu Chong shook his head, "The last question, the Shen family, why did you kill Mr. Jiang?"

"I really don't know about this, I just obey orders..."

As the assassin was talking, he suddenly found that his voice began to decrease, getting smaller and smaller until it was barely audible.

It wasn't until this moment that he felt a tingling coolness between his neck.

"So it really doesn't hurt..."

The last thought flashed through, and his consciousness was completely dimmed.

Xu Chong put his palm on the assassin's chest.

The column of spiritual sources on the panel began to jump repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)