Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 75 Night Journey
This sudden acceleration and lifting technique relies on the explosive power of one breath and is difficult to sustain.

Yang Che did not expect to catch up with him in this time. He just relied on his familiarity with the area to predict the direction of the target's escape and forced the other party to flee to the direction he wanted.

Li Lin fell into the trap as expected.

Li Lin is very panicked now.

His heart was beating like a drum and beads of sweat wet his mask.

He is being chased so hard that he feels like he has no way out.

He knew that his physical strength could not sustain for much longer, but the imperial soldier chasing him was like a thorn in his side and he could not get rid of him at all.

There was despair in Li Lin's eyes.

As he ran wildly, a trace of regret even flashed through his mind.

If I had not been tempted by money in the first place, how could I be in such a mess today?

Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything now.

Li Lin was a judge of the maritime affairs department of the city.

The Sibo Si is equivalent to the customs in later generations. Lin'an established the Sibo Si in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an was used as the temporary capital and became the de facto capital.

The local government here was promoted to a higher level out of nowhere, so the Lin'an Maritime Customs Office was transferred to Huating County, Xiuzhou.

Hangzhou retained a Maritime Customs Office, which was later renamed the Municipal Shipping Office, becoming the administrative office of the Maritime Customs Offices in various parts of the Song Dynasty.

Li Lin, the Judge of Maritime Customs, was the second-in-command of the "Shipping Affairs of the City", and his power was second only to that of the Supervisor of Maritime Customs.

What Yang Che and Kou Heiyi had been investigating was the great merchant Juhua Temple.

Li Lin suddenly came into their sight when they were investigating Juhua Temple.

Today, when Kou Heiyi and Yang Che were tracking and investigating Juhua Temple, they discovered Judge Li who was "in charge of the city's shipping affairs."

He carried something with him and went to meet Ju Huaguan stealthily.

Kou Heiyi and Yang Che had not intended to alert the enemy because their investigation involved a group of officers of the Imperial Guards, which was too sensitive.

As Qin Hui had been eyeing the imperial guards system, they were absolutely unwilling to let Qin Hui seize the opportunity to infiltrate before the truth was revealed.

Even if they had solid evidence, given the current situation of the Three Yamen Forbidden Guards, they could only choose to report it secretly to the Imperial City Envoy, who would then discuss with Marshal Yang to "clean up the house" as quietly as possible.

However, Judge Li was very alert.

Yang Che and Kou Heiyi were also secretly surprised when they found out that the second-in-command of the city's shipping department was actually related to that big sea merchant.

So, the two of them immediately divided the work.

Kou Heiyi continued to stare at Juhua Temple, while Yang Che followed Li Lin to find out his background.

Unexpectedly, Li Lin was much more cautious than Ju Huaguan, and Yang Che's whereabouts were exposed.

In fact, Yang Che’s exposure was rather unfair, because it was not him who revealed his true identity.

While he was following Li Lin, the spies sent by Li Yaban of the Guoxin Institute were also watching him.

Yang Che was staring at Li Lin. In order not to be discovered by Li Lin, he had to hide his whereabouts as much as possible.

But this would make it more difficult for the spies from the National Information Institute to track him.

As a result, the spy from the National Information Agency exposed his whereabouts.

Li Lin discovered that there was a group of spies following him and immediately began to escape.

Yang Che had no choice but to show up and give chase, but he didn't even have time to find out where the person following him came from.

Because, weighing the two options, Li Lin is more important at the moment.

If Judge Li were allowed to escape, it would alarm the Juhua Temple.

The group of imperial guards who are in collusion with Ju Huaguan will also become alert, and the investigation will be unable to continue.

Unexpectedly, although Li Lin's boxing skills were nothing special, his ability to escape was quite impressive.

One of them was running away while the other was chasing him. At this point, both sides were exhausted and still couldn't capture him.

Li Lin passed through the houses and over the roofs. When he looked back, he saw a figure still lingering behind him in the distance.

With a "crack", an old tile under Li Lin's feet was broken.

In the quiet night, the sound of broken tiles was very clear.

In the room downstairs, a man had just gotten up to go to the bathroom and had just closed the toilet when he suddenly heard the sound of cracking tiles and became alert.

"Who?"

While asking, he quickly rushed to the wall, pulled out the long sword hanging on the wall, grabbed a cloth bag hanging on the wall, opened the door and flashed into the yard.

He was a guest of this inn, a high-end inn with bright windows, clean tables, bamboo couches, tea stoves, a musical instrument hanging between the beds, and paintings hanging on the walls.

He lived in a No. 1 room with an independent courtyard.

The guest slung the cloth bag over his shoulder, rushed into the courtyard with a sword in hand, and looked up at the roof. Li Lin had already escaped, but Yang Che had caught up with him.

The guest saw a flash of cold light in the night and knew that the man was holding a sharp blade in his hand.

He immediately leaped forward, turned his body gracefully, touched the rockery in the garden with his toes, and then nimbly jumped onto the roof.

"Under the feet of the emperor, who dares to..."

"The Imperial City Division is investigating a case, everyone please get out of the way!"

Yang Che had no time to chat with him. If he delayed for a moment, Judge Li would escape from his sight.

Yang Che dodged and rushed past the guest. The guest was also surprised to hear that it was the Imperial City Division that was handling the case.

He thought there was a thief, but he didn't expect that it was the Imperial City Bureau that was investigating the case.

The Imperial City Bureau does not have the time to catch thieves and thieves. Their main target is the spies from the Jin Dynasty.

Then the person who escaped before him...

Thinking of this, the guest did not hesitate any more. Wearing only a small white garment, he chased after him with a sword in hand.

Looking at his agile movements and lightness, he was not inferior to Yang Che in any way.

While running, Li Lin took the time to glance back, and saw that not only had the man caught up with him, but there was actually another figure behind him. He couldn't help but groan inwardly.

Li Lin immediately jumped down and quickly hid in the shadow of the courtyard.

Now he could only hope that the complex streets and houses could help him escape from the pursuers.

When Yang Che saw that he was diving into the Qingshi Alley, which was near the Song family snack shop, he couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

He lowered his body and slid down the roof. As he slid to the ground, he broke off a tile and crushed it into several pieces.

Li Lin used the houses and courtyards to move around like a snake. Yang Che watched him closely, afraid that he would lose him.

Suddenly, there was a courtyard ahead. Yang Che raised his hand and several pieces of rubble in his hand flew out one by one.

"Tap! Tap, Tap, Tap! Tap!"

One long, three short and one long. Yang Che skillfully controlled the timing of throwing out five pieces of rubble and hit them accurately on a door.

Li Lin leaned on the wall and jumped over. Yang Che followed him, leaped up, and climbed onto the top of the wall on his toes.

This yard is exactly the small yard of Old Man Song’s house.

The first sound of the rubble woke Yang Yuan in the room.

Several knocking sounds were heard one after another, and Yang Yuan woke up instantly.

Yang Che originally wanted to get his brother to work in the Imperial City Bureau, so he taught him a lot about the Imperial City Bureau.

This rhythmic warning signal is a way of communication between the soldiers in the imperial city.

As a soldier in the imperial city, Yang Che often stayed out all night due to official business, and Yang Yuan had long been accustomed to it.

He knew that his elder brother had not returned tonight, but the alarm sounded outside the door...

yes, Sir!
Thinking of this, Yang Yuan stood up, quickly picked up a knife from the wall, opened the door, threw out a stool, then jumped in and rushed out.

Yang Yuan made a starting gesture of "night battle in all directions", stood still and looked around, then heard the sound of weapons colliding coming from outside the wall at the back door.

Yang Yuan's heart tightened, and just as he was about to rush over to find out what was going on, a figure pounced down from the roof.

The person who came was none other than the guest from before. He was wearing a white dress and his figure was conspicuous in the night. As soon as he pounced down, he was seen by Yang Yuan.

This guest held a sword in one hand and a small crossbow in the other.

He was in the guest room at the time and noticed something unusual outside, but he had no idea what was going on outside, so for safety reasons he brought out his sword and crossbow.

But during the whole chase, he did not get the chance to use the crossbow, and instead it became a burden in his hands.

This man had extremely high martial arts skills, but he obviously lacked experience in the martial arts world, as he actually jumped down from the roof so rudely.

Instead of the method of Li Lin and Yang Che, who leaned down from the eaves and quickly slipped into the shadows, they simply turned themselves into a sitting duck.

If there is someone below, they can take advantage of him being in the air and hit him hard.

Fortunately, Yang Yuan had no idea whether he was a friend or an enemy, so he did not kill him. When he saw him jump down, he just wanted to suppress him temporarily and then judge whether he was a friend or an enemy, so he did not use any killing moves.

Yang Yuan rushed forward with his knife, and the man was shocked and immediately raised his sword to fight back.

Yang Yuan's knife hit the man's sword. The man raised the sword and immediately and decisively threw away the crossbow, concentrating on fighting Yang Yuan with the sword.

"Ding ding dang dang", the sound of weapons clashing caused the lights on the second floor of Old Man Song's house to light up.

Yang Yuan immediately shouted in a deep voice: "Who are you, thief, breaking into my courtyard?"

His shout was both a question to the person in front of him and a warning to Lu Xi.

The little girl Luxi heard the sound of weapons clashing in the yard, but she had never encountered such a thing before, so she didn't think of anything else for a while.
She just thought that the two brothers of the Yang family had gone crazy for some reason and were practicing martial arts late at night.

After she lit the lamp and was about to come over with the lamp to open the window to find out what was going on, she suddenly heard Yang Yuan's shout.

Lu Xi was shocked and immediately understood Yang Yuan's intention.

She blew out the oil lamp with a puff, then quickly moved to the window, quietly opened a crack in the window, and peeked out.

Under the cold moonlight, two figures moved swiftly and agilely.

One of them held a knife, and the other held a sword, and both were dressed in white. Yang Yuan actually felt vaguely suppressed.

Although this sword-wielding man lacks experience in the martial arts world, he is extremely intelligent.

As soon as he saw that the enemy in front of him was wearing small clothes, he knew that his situation was probably similar to his own. He was also a resident who was lured out by the noise of the imperial city soldier chasing the Jin spy.

He originally wanted to resist the opponent's attack first and then explain his identity.

Just at this moment Yang Yuan stepped back and asked, and the man also stepped back, and the two of them were out of the fight in an instant.

"I am not a bad guy. I am here to help a soldier from the imperial city who is trying to capture a thief!"

Yang Yuan saw that he was dressed similarly to himself, so he believed it for about 80% and asked, "Who are you?"

The man knew that the misunderstanding had been revealed, so he hid his sword behind his wrist and said with a salutation, "Lu You, from the Shanyin Lu family!"

(End of this chapter)