Lanting prelude
Chapter 8 Robbery
Chapter 8 Robbery
Xiao Junmo and his party set off from Luozhou, walked more than 300 miles in three days, and entered the boundary of Shanzhou.
Shanzhou is based on Xiaoshan Mountain in the east, Tongguan in the west, and the Yellow River in the north. It is the key point of east-west traffic and the throat of the north-south Jindu. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.Shanxian County, the seat of Shanzhou Prefecture, is located in the mountains surrounded by Xiaoshan Mountains. In ancient times, there is also a saying that "according to the elbow and armpit of the Guanhe River, the key points of the Quartet", the terrain is extremely steep.
At dusk that day, Xiao Junmo and his party arrived at Gantang Station in the south of Shan County.It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and a post road winds through the mountains, and Gantang post is located in the depression beside the road.
As soon as Xiao Junmo arrived at the gate of the post station, he observed the surrounding terrain, and couldn't help laughing: "No wonder it's called Shan County, it really lives up to its name!"
When they came from Chang'an more than a month ago, a team of flying riders arrived in Luozhou in only three days, almost without paying attention to the mountains and rivers of the counties along the way.In order to take care of Biancai on the return journey, and also out of safety considerations, he was asked to take a carriage, and the speed was greatly slowed down. However, Xiao Junmo just took this opportunity to enjoy the magnificent mountains and rivers of Datang.
Luo Biao next to him was puzzled and asked him what he meant just now.Xiao Junmo said: "Shaanxi is a pass. It is dangerous and difficult to walk, and it is surrounded by mountains, so it is called Shanzhou and Shanxian."
Hearing this, Luo Biao took a closer look at the surrounding environment. He saw cliffs and pines and cypresses all around the station, and a chill ran up his spine before he knew it.
"If someone wants to get our ideas, this is a good place to do it!" Xiao Junmo said lightly, and rode his horse towards the gate of the post station.
Hearing this, Luo Biao subconsciously pressed his right hand on the handle of the knife at his waist.
"Don't be nervous now, but it's best to sleep with one eye open tonight." Xiao Junmo had already entered the station, but he threw this sentence over without looking back.
Luo Biao let go of his hand in embarrassment, and murmured in his heart: It's strange, you don't have eyes in the back of your head, how do you know I'm nervous?
The scale of Gantangyi is not small, it is a large square courtyard.The gate is on the south side, and on the left hand side of the gate are two houses on the top of the hard hill, which are the dormitories of the postmen; on the right hand are also two houses, one is the posthouse and dormitory, and the other is the dining hall; there are two houses on the east and west sides of the posthouse There is a common guest room on the top of the mountain, and on the north side there is a two-storey building with double eaves and resting on the mountain, which is the upper room of the post station; on the west side of the north building is a row of stables, and there is a small closed door next to the stables.
Yicheng's surname is Liu, in his fifties, he is mature and capable. Once he saw Xiao Junmo and others' attires, he knew their identities. He immediately opened three single rooms on the second floor of the north building, Xiao Junmo, Biancai, and Luo Biao each had one room; Opened five four-person rooms on the first floor, which happened to allow all twenty of Xiao Junmo's subordinates to live in.
When Liu Yicheng arranged for everyone to stay, no one noticed that a man who looked like a groom was carefully scrubbing a horse in the courtyard.He kept pretending to keep his head down to work, but his eyes glanced at Xiao Junmo and others from time to time.It wasn't until they saw clearly the rooms where Xiao Junmo, Biancai and others were staying, that they picked up the bucket and led the horse away.
When the groom left, he subconsciously glanced at the cliff to the south.
At this moment, a group of men in black are hiding in the mountains and forests on the cliff to the south, staring intently at every move in the station.At the same time, there was also a group of men in black on the cliff to the north, overlooking the entire inn from a high position.Although the two groups of mysterious people were all dressed in black and covered their faces with black cloth, there was a slight difference. The men in black in the south wore black scarves on their heads, while the men in black in the north wore black cloaks.
Just as the people in the station did not know the existence of the two groups of men in black, the two groups of men in black did not know each other's existence.What the groom in the courtyard did not expect at all was that Xiao Junmo had already seen his strange behavior just now.
When the sky was getting dark, everyone was eating in the dining hall. A lean postman with a sharp chin was very attentive, he kept asking about their health, and made arrangements to add food to everyone.Xiao Junmo couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
Since leaving Luozhou, Biancai has become mute along the way, and has hardly spoken.Xiao Junmo took the initiative to sit beside Biancai, looking for something to say to him from time to time, but Biancai kept his head buried in his porridge, without saying a word.Xiao Junmo had no choice but to laugh.Luo Biao at the side couldn't see it, and said in a low voice, "Hey, monk, our general is asking you something, why are you pretending to be deaf and dumb?"
Bian Cai drank the last bit of porridge in the bowl before looking up at Luo Biao: "Master Jun, have you read "The Analects of Confucius"?"
Luo Biao was stunned: "Stop showing off with me here! I'm asking why you didn't reply to the general!"
"The master said: 'Don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep.' Hasn't the military master heard of it?" The debater said slowly, "Besides, you still call me a monk. The discipline of monks is even stricter. It is the duty not to talk when eating!"
Many people in the Xuanjiawei entered the job based on martial arts, and there were not a few rough people who had not read "The Analects of Confucius", and Luo Biao was one of them.At this moment, being exposed by the debate, he couldn't help but flushed, and said angrily: "Then you have finished eating now, can you speak?"
"Sorry! The ride was bumpy all the way, I'm tired and want to go to sleep." Biancai said indifferently, "So, I can't speak." After finishing speaking, he walked out of the dining hall.The four Xuanjia guards immediately got up and followed them out.This is Xiao Junmo's arrangement, these four people must always be around Biancai.
Luo Biao was rendered speechless and furious, and got up to give chase.
Xiao Junmo on the side couldn't help laughing, and held him down: "Hey brother, don't be impatient! He is a monk, so naturally he should abide by the rules. We can't break his precepts, can we?"
"He even has a wife and children, isn't that considered a breach of the precept?" Luo Biao was still angry.
"The wife may not be a real marriage, and the daughter must not be his own." Xiao Junmo looked at the back of Biancai leaving, and said, "Besides, this is a private matter of others, we'd better not gossip."
Luo Biao turned his head to look at him, and suddenly smiled narrowly: "Since it's a private matter, how does the general know?"
"It's just intuition." Xiao Junmo said, seeing Luo Biao's smirk, he patted him on the head, "put away your evil smile!"
Luo Biao scratched his head: "Hey, I have been sleeping with a woman for 16 years, and it's not a real marriage. What level of cultivation does this have to do? Is this still a human being?"
Xiao Junmo felt that it would be indecent to talk about this topic any longer, so he smiled and said nothing.Just as I was about to leave the dining hall, I suddenly noticed something moving behind me. I immediately turned around and rushed to the east window, pushed the window open suddenly, and poked my head out.
It was pitch black outside, and there was nothing unusual, only the mountain wind whistling back and forth, rustling a large area of bushes.
Luo Biao ran over: "What did the general hear?"
Xiao Junmo stared at the darkness outside the window, silent.
As soon as he left the dining hall and walked a few steps, Xiao Junmo glanced up and found a figure flashing in the corridor on the second floor of the north building. When he rushed to the courtyard, the figure had disappeared.
The position where the figure was just now was at the door of Xiao Junmo's room.
Xiao Junmo walked up to the second floor slowly and came to his room. After opening the door, he didn't go in right away. Instead, he glanced around the room, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he raised his leg and walked in.
As soon as he took two steps, Xiao Junmo felt that he had stepped on something, and when he looked down, it was a piece of paper folded into a square.Obviously, it was the mysterious figure who just squeezed in through the crack of the door.
Xiao Junmo moved closer to the candle, and unfolded the note:
The danger is only when the news has been leaked, so be careful and take precautions
Xiao Junmo frowned and thought.
The note is made of the most common jute paper, which is a kind of paper made of ramie, cloth, and broken shoes. The cost is low, and the price is much cheaper than expensive paper such as rice paper and hard yellow paper.In addition, this is not a complete piece of paper, but only half a piece, with clear and neat cuts, which should be cut with a paper knife.
Xiao Junmo glanced at the handwriting again, and found that although the pen was written in a hurry, the handwriting was capable and powerful, indicating that this person often writes.Also worth noting is that all sixteen characters have an unnatural slant.
Who wrote this note?Where did he get the news from?Since it was a well-intentioned reminder to prove that this person is a friend rather than an enemy, why should he be sneaky again?
Xiao Junmo came to the corridor and scanned the whole station.After a while, his eyes settled on a certain place.
He already had an inference in his mind.
At night, the wind became stronger and stronger, circling back and forth over Gantang Station, whimpering like a ghost crying.
Liu Yicheng wandered around the post station with an angry lantern.The whole body of this kind of lantern is covered with tung oil, and the outside paper is pasted very tightly, so even though the night wind blows fiercely, it can't blow out the shimmer of light inside the cage.After Liu Yicheng checked every corner, he slowly walked back to the value room in the southeast corner of the courtyard.
As soon as he opened the door, Liu Yicheng felt something was wrong, hurriedly raised the lantern in his hand, and saw Xiao Junmo sitting on a stool with his legs crossed, looking at him leisurely.
Surprised, Liu Yicheng forced himself to be calm and said, "General Xiao, you...why are you here?"
"The moon is dark and the wind is high, I don't want to sleep, I want to chat with you."
"The general was joking. The general will be on his way tomorrow, and I have been busy all day. Let's rest."
"Okay, let's stop joking." Xiao Junmo stood up, "Actually, I want to ask you for a little favor."
"What is the commander's order?"
"Write me a note."
"I have a relatively complete set of pens and ink here. How about I take them out and the general can write them himself?" Liu Yicheng said, put down the lantern, opened a letter box on the desk, and took out a piece of jute paper from a pile of jute papers. , put it on the case, and grind some ink on the inkstone, "General, please."
"My right arm is hurt a little, so it's inconvenient to write, please help me write."
Liu Yicheng hesitated for a moment, reluctantly sat in front of the desk, and just about to pick up his pen, Xiao Junmo said suddenly: "Wait a minute, you don't need to write on a whole piece of paper, just cut it into half."
Liu Yicheng was a little flustered, but he folded the paper in half as he said, then took a paper cutter and cut off half of the paper.Xiao Junmo has been watching all this.Then, Liu Yicheng habitually picked up the brush with his left hand, dipped it in the ink, and looked at Xiao Junmo: "What is the general going to write?"
Xiao Junmo looked directly at him, and said word by word: "The news has been leaked, and debate is in danger."
No matter how calm Liu Yicheng is, he has no intention to hide it anymore, so he sighed, threw his pen on the case, and said: "General, I was entrusted by someone to convey the news to you, and there is really no malice... ..."
"I know that." Xiao Junmo smiled, "But I still want to know, who entrusted you?"
Liu Yicheng hesitated for a moment before saying: "To tell you the truth, General, I am entrusted by His Royal Highness King Wei."
"King Wei?" Xiao Junmo was a little surprised, "I was also ordered by King Wei this time. If that's the case, why didn't he send someone to give me the news directly, but made it so mysterious?"
"I don't know about this. Du Changshi sent me a message quickly, asking me to secretly pass an anonymous note to the general. I don't know anything else."
Xiao Junmo knew that he was telling the truth, and he couldn't find anything if he asked again, so he turned to leave, when Liu Yicheng suddenly called him: "Stay, General."
"What else?"
Liu Yicheng said with a smile: "I have something unclear, and I hope the general will enlighten me!"
"what's up?"
"The general saw through the note at a glance. Could it be that the general found out when I just stuffed the note?"
"I only saw a shadow and didn't know it was you."
"Then why did the general find me so quickly?"
"It's not difficult." Xiao Junmo said lightly, "First of all, the paper you use is very flat, with no curls or creases at the corners. , so I ruled out other guests for the time being, and think you and the postman are more likely."
Liu Yicheng nodded: "It's reasonable, and then?"
"Secondly, the note is only half a piece of paper, and the incision is clear and neat, which shows that the person who wrote it was careful, steady, and organized. More importantly, this person is very economical. When he can use half a piece of paper, he doesn't use the whole piece. Paper. From this, I thought that between the two types of people, the postman and the postman, this person should be the former, because only those who are in charge of the family will cherish material resources so much and don't want to waste them."
There was admiration in Liu Yicheng's eyes.
"The last, and most obvious, is your handwriting. Although you write in a hurry, your handwriting is neat and powerful. You are obviously a person who often writes. This is more like a postman than an ordinary postman. In addition, the sixteen All characters have an unnatural slant. I immediately remembered that before dinner, I accidentally saw you writing with your left hand. Therefore, the slant of these fonts has the most reasonable explanation: the person who wrote the note is left-handed, That is you——Liu Yicheng."
Liu Yicheng was greatly impressed, and said with a smile: "I have long heard that Xuanjiawei has a young talent who is as careful as a hair and solves cases like a god. Seeing him today, he really deserves his reputation!"
Xiao Junmo didn't smile, but looked at him solemnly: "Liu Yicheng, just now I said that the moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, and I don't want to sleep. I'm not joking."
Liu Yicheng also suppressed his smile, and said solemnly: "Since the king of Wei has specially ordered someone to send the news, there will be no peace tonight. If the general has any orders, I will fully cooperate!"
"You only need to do one thing, that is, bring your men and take care of all the horses and the carriage. Don't worry about other things!"
"Don't worry about it at all?" Liu Yicheng was very surprised.
"Yes." Xiao Junmo looked at him, "Even if someone killed bloody people in your post tonight, you and your subordinates don't need to worry about it. In this way, you are helping me and yourself." After finishing speaking, Xiao Junmo patted him on the shoulder and walked out.
Until Xiao Junmo left the room for a while, Liu Yicheng was still there in a daze, unable to think of a reason.
In the corridor on the second floor of the north building, Luo Biao stood guard at the door of Biancai's room.
Xiao Junmo came over and hooked his fingers at him.Luo Biao hurried over, and Xiao Junmo whispered a few words in his ear.Luo Biao looked surprised: "Why does the general have to do this? We have so many brothers..."
"Do as I say." Xiao Junmo said coldly, then pushed open the door of Biancai's room and walked in.Luo Biao didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly followed in.
In the room, Biancai was sitting on the bed and meditating with his eyes closed, while the four Xuanjia guards were standing by.
Xiao Junmo turned his head and gave Luo Biao a wink.Luo Biao hesitated for a moment, showing helplessness, and called the four Xuanjia guards to leave the room together.
Xiao Junmo walked to the bed and looked at Biancai: "Master, I didn't intend to disturb your quiet practice, but I'm afraid there will be trouble tonight, and I need your cooperation."
Biancai didn't seem to hear it, and after a long time, he slowly opened his eyes: "What's the trouble?"
"Someone will come to rob you, or...kill you!"
Biancai smiled coldly: "The poor monk was already a walking corpse 16 years ago, dead and ashes, and the only thing owed by floating life is death. Are you still afraid that someone will kill me?"
This is the first time that debaters call themselves "poor monks".As he got farther and farther away from Yi Que, he seemed to be letting go of the secular life of the past 16 years little by little, and gradually became calm.Xiao Junmo felt a little sympathetic and apologetic, but he still had a smile on his face: "If the mage is dead, I can only go back to Chang'an with my head up. The monks are compassionate. I am still so young, and the mage is willing to let me die." ?"
"When you put on this black armor, you should have thought that today would come!"
"The mage seems to hate my black armor?"
"I can't say I hate it, but I don't like it either."
"Thank you Master for your honesty! However, it's not only me who don't want you to die, but also your wife and daughter who are still in Yique and looking forward to your return home, aren't they?"
Biancai was slightly startled, his quiet expression immediately became turbulent, and he said after a while, "How does the general need my cooperation?"
Xiao Junmo smiled brightly: "The mage thinks about it, and the head on my neck can be saved." As he spoke, he approached Biancai and whispered a few words.
Bian Cai was startled: "Is it appropriate to do this?"
"no problem."
"Has the general thought it through?"
"of course."
Biancai looked at him deeply: "The general said just now that he is so young and unwilling to die, why is he willing to risk his life now?"
"I certainly cherish my life, but I hope that I can live up to my mission and send the mage safely to Chang'an."
Xiao Junmo's expression was still calm, but there was determination and determination in his eyes.
Standing in the courtyard with the four Xuanjia guards, Luo Biao saw Xiao Junmo coming out of the debate room from a distance, passing through the corridor, going down the stairs, then turned around, and headed towards the stables in the northwest corner, not toward them. come.
The four Xuanjia guards looked at each other and then at Luo Biao.
"What do you want me to do? Go back to Biancai's room and keep watch." Luo Biao said, "If Biancai falls asleep, don't light the lights, just stay in your room and watch until dawn."
"Yes!" The four agreed and ran away quickly.
As soon as they left, Luo Biao also walked quickly towards the west side of the North Building, where Xiao Junmo's figure disappeared just now.
When the four Xuanjia guards entered Biancai's room again, they found that the lights had been turned off, and Biancai was lying on his side facing the couch, snoring softly and evenly.The four obeyed the order, sat down in the dark, and watched quietly.
There is a piece of boxwood bushes on the east side outside the station, and at this moment, three slender black figures are hiding in the bushes.
They are Chu Yingniang, Chu Lisang and Luxiu.All three were wearing night clothes, their heads and faces were covered with black cloth, and only their eyes were exposed.More than half an hour ago, Chu Lisang went out of the dining room window to inquire about the situation, and happened to hear Xiao Junmo and Luo Biao talking about her family, and the tone seemed a little joking.Chu Lisang was furious, and accidentally made a noise, but luckily ran back to the bushes in time, so Xiao Junmo didn't notice.
The three of them have been hiding since the afternoon until now. Not only did their backs ache, but they were also bitten by various mosquitoes from time to time.Chu Lisang was very impatient, and said in a low voice: "Mother, they probably all fell asleep, let's do it?"
Chu Yingniang remained silent, watching her surroundings vigilantly.
The green sleeve seemed to be bitten by a bug again, and it slapped the back of the neck, muttering repeatedly.Chu Yingniang turned her head and glared at her sternly. The green sleeve stuck out her tongue and quickly fell silent.
"Mother..." Chu Lisang was still about to say something, but Chu Yingniang suddenly hissed and looked sharply to the left.Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu followed her gaze at the same time, and saw a dozen long ropes suddenly dropped from the cliff to the south, and then a dozen black shadows were quickly descending from the cliff.
The green sleeve covered her mouth in shock.
Chu Lisang was also surprised: "Mother, who are these people?"
"It must be for your father."
Chu Lisang was even more astonished: "Since the visitor is not kind, then we have to act quickly!"
"Not now!" Chu Yingniang lowered her voice with a calm face, "They are numerous and powerful, and they don't seem to be weak in skills. We can't beat them."
Chu Lisang was anxious: "Then what should we do? Could it be that they let them arrest Dad, or..." She wanted to say "kill" in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it.
"Don't forget, there are Xiao Junmo and the others in there, and Xuanjiawei is not a vegetarian, so he can resist them." Chu Yingniang paused, and then said, "It's good that this group of people appears suddenly, so that we don't have to worry about it." Xuanjiawei fights recklessly, and when they both lose, it won't be too late for us to take action."
Chu Lisang thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, so he kept quiet.
At the same time as the man in black descended from the cliff in the south, more than a dozen men in black descended from the cliff in the north, and quickly hid behind a few big trees.
One of the men in black was still panting, and immediately pulled down his mask, imitating a partridge and making a few "coo, coo, coo" calls.A moment later, the same voice sounded from the northeast corner of the station.Immediately afterwards, a black shadow quickly touched over.
The black shadow approached, and it turned out to be the lean postman with a sharp chin in the dining hall.
"How's the situation?" the man in black, imitating the birdsong, asked impatiently.
This person is Shi Yaoxing, Governor of Luozhou.
The thin postman replied: "Xiao Junmo, Biancai, and Luo Biao live in rooms [-], [-], and [-] on the second floor of the north building. There are four Xuanjia guards in the Biancai room, and everyone else lives downstairs."
Yao Xing said "Yes": "Good job, I will credit you. You go back first, so as not to make people suspicious."
The skinny postman thanked him again and again, then turned around and walked back, but before taking a few steps, Yao Xing rushed up from behind, covered his mouth with one hand, and wiped his neck with a knife in the other hand, the skinny postman limply fell to the ground.
Yao Xing wiped his body with a knife, and said in a low voice: "Brother, the envoy is destined to keep your tongue. Don't blame me. I will burn some paper money for you some other day." After finishing speaking, the cat ran away Under a tree not far away, he said to a taller man in black: "Master, I have figured it out, do you want to do it?"
The man in black is Yang Bingjun.
He silently waved his hand and touched the northeast corner of the station first, followed by Yao Xing and others.
Yang Bingjun and others climbed over the north wall of the post station, quickly jumped up to the corridor on the second floor of the north building, and then squatted outside the windows of rooms [-], [-], and [-], each took out a bamboo tube, pierced the paper on the window, Something is blowing in there.
In the debate room, a faint smog filled the darkness. The four Xuanjia guards were sitting with their eyes closed, but soon began to sway to and fro, and then fell to the ground one by one.
The door latch was gently pushed open with a knife, and then the door creaked open, and Yang Bingjun, Yao Xing and a few of his men groped their way in.They checked the four Xuanjia guards on the ground one by one, and found that they were all stunned, so they straightened up, and at the same time turned their eyes to the debater on the bed.
Bian Cai was still lying on his side, snoring heavily.
Yang Bingjun pulled down his mask, grinned grimly, and said to Yao Xing: "Take a few brothers, take him to see Mr. immediately, I will go to the next door and kill Xiao Junmo with my own hands!"
"Yes!" Yao Xing and two of his subordinates helped Biancai up, covered his head with a black cloth bag, lifted him up, and quickly walked out of the room.
Yang Bingjun watched Yao Xing and others go down the stairs, then put on his mask again, walked to the door of Xiao Junmo's room, and said to his opponent: "Open the door!" His subordinates quickly took out a small knife, inserted it into the crack of the door, and began to dial. latch.
At this moment, a dozen men in black who came down from the cliff to the south also happened to climb over the south wall and enter the courtyard.A black shadow jumped out from the corner, ran to the head man in black, and softly reported the accommodation situation of Xiao Junmo and others, and what he said was exactly the same as that postman.
This black shadow is the groom who washes the horses in the courtyard in the evening.
The man in black at the head listened, and was about to say something when he suddenly covered his mouth with his hand and couldn't help coughing lightly.
This person is Li Anyan sent by Wei Zheng.
Li Anyan looked up, and suddenly saw dark shadows in the corridor of the north building, which happened to be Xiao Junmo's room that the groom had mentioned, and secretly screamed that he was not good, waved his big hand, and immediately rushed towards the north building with his men.
Yang Bingjun noticed the movement downstairs, and as soon as he turned around, Li Anyan jumped from the courtyard to the railing on the second floor, stabbing straight with the long sword in his hand.Yang Bingjun turned pale with fright, he dodged in a hurry, barely dodging.
It took Yao Xing and his two subordinates a lot of effort to get the limp Biancai out from the north wall of the station.
"This old man is really dead!" one of his subordinates complained.
"What nonsense? Let's go!" Yao Xing cursed in a low voice, leaned over and looked around, and then jumped into a piece of wild grass as tall as half a person.The two men, one on the left and the other on the right, stood up for debate, and followed closely behind.
At this time, Yao Xing didn't know that as soon as they left, eight Xuanjia guards came out from the same position over the wall and followed them silently.
In the bushes to the east of the post station, Chu Lisang, who had already been impatient, finally heard the movement in the northeast corner. When he looked around, he happened to see several black shadows running away in a panic carrying a person.Chu Lisang hurriedly said to Chu Yingniang: "Mom, look, is it Dad who kidnapped those guys?"
"It's kind of like it." Chu Yingniang opened her eyes wide, and was thinking about whether to chase after her, when she suddenly noticed something, she quickly grabbed Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu with each hand, and suddenly lowered her body. "Mother, what's the matter?" Chu Lisang was puzzled.Chu Yingniang pouted to her left.Chu Lisang turned his head to look, only to find that seven or eight black shadows were passing by not far in front, and followed the black shadows in front towards the east.
Just at this moment, there was another sound of fighting with swords clashing in the station.Lu Xiu frowned: "It's really evil tonight! How many people came to this post?!" Chu Yingniang looked around, feeling a little confused for a while.Chu Lisang kept looking to the east, with an anxious face: "Mother, don't hesitate, I think the person who was robbed must be Dad, hurry up and chase after him!"
Chu Yingniang thought about it again, and gritted her teeth: "Let's go!"
In the inn, as soon as the two groups of Li Anyan and Yang Bingjun fought, eight Xuanjia guards rushed out from the guest room on the first floor and attacked both sides at the same time, so the three groups instantly fought together.
In this melee, each group of people couldn't tell who the real enemy was, so they had to fight with the other two sides at the same time, so each side was thrilled and confused.
At this time, Liu Yicheng was following Xiao Junmo's instructions, leading five or six postmen to stand guard in front of the stables in the northwest corner of the station, all of them holding knives in their hands, maintaining a defensive posture nervously.
They heard the sound of fierce fighting in the direction of the courtyard, and everyone's face was full of fear and confusion.
The person who was most confused was of course Liu Yicheng.
He still hasn't figured out what Xiao Junmo meant by telling him to stand guard in front of the stable.The only reason he could think of was that Xiao Junmo had expected that the situation tonight would be very complicated, so he told them to hide here to avoid danger and save their lives.
Although perplexed, this alone is enough for Liu Yicheng to be grateful to Xiao Junmo.Because he knew that with the abilities of him and the postmen under his command, if he really rushed out, he would immediately become someone else's ghost!
Liu Yicheng was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard someone talking behind him.He asked the postmen on the left and right: "Who has spoken?" All the postmen shook their heads.Liu Yicheng looked back at the stable, but apart from dozens of horses standing side by side and a lonely carriage, there was no one in the stable.
A tall black horse snorted suddenly, and scratched the ground a few times with its front hooves, looking a little restless.
Liu Yicheng recognized it, it was Xiao Junmo's mount.
However, right now, Liu Yicheng has no idea where Xiao Junmo is and what he is doing.
Yao Xing and the others took Biancai and walked eastward along the cliff of Beishan for about a stick of incense, and entered a pine forest.The eight Xuanjia guards had been quietly following behind them, while the three of Chu Yingniang were biting the Xuanjia guards tightly.
After walking for more than half a mile in the dark in the pine forest, Yao Xing stopped when he came to a relatively open space, took out a scythe and started a fire, lit a pine branch, looked around carefully, and muttered: " It should be here."
"Chang Shi, hurry up and talk to Mr., we are almost exhausted!" one of his men panted.
Yao Xing turned his head and stared at him, leaned on a tree, cleared his throat, and said to the depths of the pine forest: "The first teacher has a hidden treasure."
There was a dead silence all around, and there was no response.
Yao Xing raised his voice and read it again.After a while, a deep and deep voice finally came from the forest: "Anyong Jishiluo."
Yao Xing let out a long breath of relief.
At this moment, the eight Xuanjia guards were lying in ambush at a distance of three feet behind Yao Xing, while Chu Yingniang and the others were farther away, so they couldn't hear what was being said in front of them at all.
As soon as the voice in the forest fell, more than a dozen torches were lit up around at the same time.Yao Xing found it difficult to adapt to the light, and quickly raised his hands to cover his eyes, only to see dozens of figures wearing cloaks and black cloth covering their faces, coming out of the surrounding pine forest.The man in black at the head is tall and tall, wearing a bronze mask with a simple shape and a strange expression on his face. Next to him is a thin man. It is Wei Laoliu who has been following him for many years. left to make.
"I've seen Mr. Mingzang." Yao Xing hurriedly stepped forward to salute, then turned to Wei Laoliu and said, "I've seen Wei Zuoshi."
"Where's Yang Bingjun?" Mr. Mingzang asked.
"Our envoy, maybe... maybe he was entangled by Xuanjiawei." Yao Xing only met Mr. Mingzang a few times, and he couldn't help feeling nervous every time he met.
"I heard that you are very capable envoys!" Mr. Ming Zang said indifferently, "By giving Li Shimin the opportunity to search for Wang Xizhi's copybooks, he filled his own pockets, and I don't know how much money he has collected!"
"Sir, our envoy has handed over most of it to you..."
"The vast majority?" Mr. Mingzang snorted coldly, "It should be a drop in the bucket, right?"
Yao Xing lowered his head, not daring to speak.
Mr. Mingzang glanced at the people behind Yao Xing: "Did you bring Biancai?"
"Mr. Hui, I brought it here. He is a debater."
"I heard that he has been hiding under Yang Bingjun's nose for 16 years. Last year, Yang Bingjun asked him to write a copybook to celebrate his mother's birthday, but he didn't realize that he was an eloquent talent. In the end, Xuanjiawei was the one who came first! You Say it yourself, what use do I need people like you to be envoys?"
"Mr. Mingjian, there are too many people in the world who are good at writing Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, so you never thought that this Wu Tingxuan would be a debater!" Yao Xing was already sweating coldly.
"You are very good at speaking for Yang Bingjun. It seems that he has a long history of treating you!" Mr. Mingzang laughed a few times, "Forget it, let's not mention the past for now. Let's talk about it this time, Xuanjiawei is here. Yi Que has been investigating for so many days, but Yang Bingjun has never noticed it. He didn't wake up until he was escorted to the prefecture and county office, and he quickly reported the news to me. Don't say that this kind of person is not worthy of me His subordinates are not even qualified to be Li Shimin's official! I really regret how I asked Xuanquan to help get this kind of person into the position of governor."
"Sir, Xuanjiawei's handling of cases has always been mysterious, not to mention that it's hard for us to know about it at this level, even the prime ministers in the court are often kept in the dark..."
"Enough!" Mr. Ming Zang finally got angry and said sharply, "Yang Bingjun is blinded by money, so he is so blind and deaf! You want to speak for him, do you also want to speak for him? be punished?!"
Yao Xing was so frightened that he fell to his knees and kowtowed his head like garlic: "Sir, calm down, my subordinates dare not..."
At this time, the eight Xuanjia guards began to move forward quietly, and Chu Yingniang and the others followed closely.With the light of the torch in the distance, Chu Yingniang vaguely saw something, and immediately showed a look of extreme horror.Chu Lisang and Luxiu were so focused on the movement in the forest that they didn't know the drastic change in Chu Yingniang's eyes.
Mr. Ming Zang ignored Yao Xing, but glanced at Biancai from a distance, and said, "Take off his mask. I haven't seen this old friend for many years, and I miss him very much!"
Since he had been talking to Yao Xing just now, he didn't pay much attention to his eloquence. Now when he looked closely at the person in front of him, Mr. Ming Zang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he took a closer look, his eyes changed drastically.At the same time, his subordinates took off the hood of "Debate Talent", and Xiao Junmo's face suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
The moment the face was uncovered, Xiao Junmo smiled brightly, and at the same time moved his right hand, a dagger slipped from the sleeve into his palm, and then turned his wrist, and with a light touch, he cut the throat of the man in black on the right.When the man in black fell to the ground clutching his bloody throat, Xiao Junmo quickly grabbed the man in black on the left and put the dagger on his neck.
The handle of this dagger is inlaid with red and green gemstones, precious and exquisite, it is exactly the one that Chu Lisang stabbed on his right arm a few days ago.
In the north building of the inn, in the Biancai room, the four Xuanjia guards who were lying on the ground got up almost at the same time.They looked at each other and couldn't help but smile at each other.
"Those guys came in just now, I really want to kill them!" a Xuanjia guard whispered.
"If you do something, it will spoil the good work of the general." The other person also said softly, "The general's plan is to let us 'sleep' for a while, and you just obey."
Fortunately, these four people have been carefully trained by Xiao Junmo, and they all have good breath-holding skills, otherwise, the ecstasy fragrance that was blown in from the corridor window just now would be enough to make them sleep until dawn.
Even though the corridor and the courtyard were in full swing, the four Xuanjia guards went straight to the north window, opened the window, and jumped out one by one as if they hadn't heard it.
In front of the stable, Liu Yicheng and his subordinates still held their knives in their hands, maintaining a defensive posture, but they still didn't know what they were defending so far.
Suddenly, Liu Yicheng once again noticed something moving behind him, turned his head to look, and saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and then Luo Biao and another Xuanjia guard got out of the carriage.Liu Yicheng couldn't care less about being surprised, and took a closer look, the "Xuanjiawei" next to Luo Biao was actually a debater!
At this point Liu Yicheng finally understood that Xiao Junmo let him stay here not only to protect him, but also to let him protect the eloquence by the way.Liu Yicheng knew very well that he could not take on the responsibility of protection with his own abilities. Xiao Junmo's arrangement actually took care of his self-esteem and made him and his subordinates feel that they did not stand here for most of the night for nothing.
"Old Liu, you can go there after the fight is over." Luo Biao grinned at him, "It is estimated that there will be a lot of dead people. Tomorrow will be enough for you and your brothers to be busy. Just digging and burying the corpses will exhaust you to death!"
Liu Yicheng opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.
At this time, a postman suddenly shouted towards the dark alleyway: "Who is this? Stop!"
Liu Yicheng hurriedly turned his head, only to see four dark figures walking quickly along the alleyway on the north wall.
"Don't panic, my own!" Luo Biao laughed.
The four black shadows approached, and they were indeed the four Xuanjia guards in the debate room.
Afterwards, Luo Biao ordered the four of them to pull out their respective mounts from the stables. He himself and Biancai shared one ride, and then the six of them and five riders left the post station through the small gate in the northwest corner, and galloped straight to the west post road.
Before leaving, Luo Biao said to Liu Yicheng: "Old Liu, General Xiao will come back later, please tell me that we will go ahead according to the original plan and wait for him in the west!"
Liu Yicheng nodded vigorously, not knowing why he was still speechless.
In the pine forest, Xiao Junmo's series of actions just now were as swift as lightning, which stunned everyone.
"Who are you?!" Mingzang was the first to react, and he drank in a deep voice.
Xiao Junmo smiled: "Guess?"
Mingzang stared at him, and suddenly his eyes flashed: "Could it be that you are the Xuanjia Guard General Xiao Junmo who found out the eloquence?"
"You have good eyesight!" Xiao Junmo said with a smile, "Don't you think it's thunderous?"
Ming Zang snorted coldly: "You are not old, but your tone is not small!"
"Three days ago, Yang Bingjun also said this to me, but he regretted it as soon as he finished speaking." Xiao Junmo said, and turned to Yao Xing, who had already slumped on the ground with a shocked expression, "If you don't believe me, ask him .”
At this time, the eight Xuanjia guards had already moved forward, only a foot away from Mingzang's subordinates, and they were ready to protect Xiao Junmo at any time.Although Chu Yingniang and the other three followed closely behind, they were extremely astonished and disappointed when Xiao Junmo revealed his true face just now.At this moment, the three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to do for a while.
Chu Yingniang tried her best to hide the overwhelming complex emotions in her heart with a disappointed expression, because from her current ambush position, she could already see Mingzang clearly.
That mask seemed very familiar to her, but it was also very strange.
"Mother, let's go back to the station, maybe daddy is still there." Chu Lisang said in a low voice.
Chu Yingniang recovered from her trance: "You...what did you say?"
Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu looked at each other suspiciously.Chu Lisang looked at her: "Mom, what's wrong with you?" Chu Yingniang tried her best to suppress her emotions, and said calmly, "It's nothing, I was wondering where your father is now..."
In the clearing in the forest, Ming Zang looked at Xiao Junmo deeply: "Young man, your act of pretending to be eloquent is very abominable, but your courage to come here alone is really admirable. Don't you fear death if you do this?"
"Of course I'm afraid of death!" Xiao Junmo still smiled, "However, you path-cutters who roam the mountains and fields may not be able to kill me."
At this time, Xiao Junmo certainly knew that these people in front of him were definitely not as simple as Jianjing bandits!The conversation between "Mr. Ming Zang" and Yao Xing just now is enough to show that this person's ability and influence cannot be underestimated!And Xiao Junmo took great pains to sing this trick tonight, and took the initiative to take the risk of his own life, just to find out who came to rob Biancai.Therefore, he is deliberately using aggressive methods now, just to get more clues from this masked man's mouth.
Mingzang laughed when he heard the words: "Young man, you are too greedy! I have heard so much just now, and now I want to use aggressive methods to deceive me?! But, even if I let you know more, what's the use? You alone The person is about to die, so is it possible to report the news to Hades?"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Laoliu, Yao Xing and the other men in black burst out laughing.
At this moment, there was a sudden clang of swords clashing not far away, and everyone's eyes could not help but tremble.
Just now, when Chu Yingniang and the other three were about to leave, Lu Xiu accidentally stepped on a dead branch, and was immediately spotted by three Xuanjia guards nearby.When they saw that the three were dressed in black, they thought they were enemies in ambush, and attacked together without thinking carefully, and the two sides started fighting.
Once there is a hand, there is naturally nothing to say here.Mingzang raised his left hand slightly, and a hidden weapon instantly shot between the eyebrows of the man in black who was hijacked by Xiao Junmo.The person immediately went limp and slipped from Xiao Junmo's hand.Xiao Junmo shook his head and smiled wryly, and said to Mingzang: "Mask man, you kill your own subordinates without even blinking, this is not a good habit!"
Before the words fell, Wei Laoliu and dozens of men in black under his command rushed towards Xiao Junmo at the same time.At the same time, the five Xuanjia guards who were ambushing Xiao Junmo's back also flew out to face the man in black.In an instant, a three-party melee was staged again, exactly the same as the scene in the inn just now.
In the post station, Li Anyan was thinking about Biancai and Xiao Junmo, so he got out of the fight and checked the three rooms on the second floor of the north building, but found that there was no one in them, so he didn't want to fight, and immediately led his men out of the battlefield, still from the The south wall was overturned.After withdrawing, the number of people was counted, and it was found that more than half of the dozen or so people had been lost, leaving only five or six people.
Similarly, Yang Bingjun and Xuanjiawei are both losers.
When Li Anyan's party withdrew, Yang Bingjun, who was already exhausted, hurriedly led the remaining three or four men, over the wall from the northeast corner, and fled in a hurry.One Xuanjia guard was red-eyed and wanted to chase him out, but the other Xuanjia guard hurriedly stopped him: "Don't chase, the general hasn't come back yet, we have to meet here."
It wasn't until the fighting was over that there was no more sound in the courtyard, and Liu Yicheng walked over tremblingly with his postmen. When he saw the corpses lying on the ground, his face turned pale all at once.
Of the eight Xuanjia guards, only three remained.
Seeing them struggling to lift the body of their companions out of the pile of dead, Liu Yicheng let out a long sigh and hurriedly called his men to clean up the battlefield together.
That night, there were forty or fifty tenants living in the Gantang post, all of them were officials and their servants from all over the place passing by.Many of them have served in the post for many years, often coming and going on the post road, and did not miss staying in the post, but it was the first time they encountered such a bloody fighting scene, and naturally everyone was terrified.Just now when the fighting was in full swing, they all closed the doors and windows tightly, extinguished the lights and candles, and did not dare to vent their breath until they saw the postmen starting to clean up the battlefield.
Smelling the bloody smell wafting in the courtyard, quite a few officials who are normally majestic still have cold hands and feet and lingering fears at this moment.
(End of this chapter)
Xiao Junmo and his party set off from Luozhou, walked more than 300 miles in three days, and entered the boundary of Shanzhou.
Shanzhou is based on Xiaoshan Mountain in the east, Tongguan in the west, and the Yellow River in the north. It is the key point of east-west traffic and the throat of the north-south Jindu. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.Shanxian County, the seat of Shanzhou Prefecture, is located in the mountains surrounded by Xiaoshan Mountains. In ancient times, there is also a saying that "according to the elbow and armpit of the Guanhe River, the key points of the Quartet", the terrain is extremely steep.
At dusk that day, Xiao Junmo and his party arrived at Gantang Station in the south of Shan County.It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and a post road winds through the mountains, and Gantang post is located in the depression beside the road.
As soon as Xiao Junmo arrived at the gate of the post station, he observed the surrounding terrain, and couldn't help laughing: "No wonder it's called Shan County, it really lives up to its name!"
When they came from Chang'an more than a month ago, a team of flying riders arrived in Luozhou in only three days, almost without paying attention to the mountains and rivers of the counties along the way.In order to take care of Biancai on the return journey, and also out of safety considerations, he was asked to take a carriage, and the speed was greatly slowed down. However, Xiao Junmo just took this opportunity to enjoy the magnificent mountains and rivers of Datang.
Luo Biao next to him was puzzled and asked him what he meant just now.Xiao Junmo said: "Shaanxi is a pass. It is dangerous and difficult to walk, and it is surrounded by mountains, so it is called Shanzhou and Shanxian."
Hearing this, Luo Biao took a closer look at the surrounding environment. He saw cliffs and pines and cypresses all around the station, and a chill ran up his spine before he knew it.
"If someone wants to get our ideas, this is a good place to do it!" Xiao Junmo said lightly, and rode his horse towards the gate of the post station.
Hearing this, Luo Biao subconsciously pressed his right hand on the handle of the knife at his waist.
"Don't be nervous now, but it's best to sleep with one eye open tonight." Xiao Junmo had already entered the station, but he threw this sentence over without looking back.
Luo Biao let go of his hand in embarrassment, and murmured in his heart: It's strange, you don't have eyes in the back of your head, how do you know I'm nervous?
The scale of Gantangyi is not small, it is a large square courtyard.The gate is on the south side, and on the left hand side of the gate are two houses on the top of the hard hill, which are the dormitories of the postmen; on the right hand are also two houses, one is the posthouse and dormitory, and the other is the dining hall; there are two houses on the east and west sides of the posthouse There is a common guest room on the top of the mountain, and on the north side there is a two-storey building with double eaves and resting on the mountain, which is the upper room of the post station; on the west side of the north building is a row of stables, and there is a small closed door next to the stables.
Yicheng's surname is Liu, in his fifties, he is mature and capable. Once he saw Xiao Junmo and others' attires, he knew their identities. He immediately opened three single rooms on the second floor of the north building, Xiao Junmo, Biancai, and Luo Biao each had one room; Opened five four-person rooms on the first floor, which happened to allow all twenty of Xiao Junmo's subordinates to live in.
When Liu Yicheng arranged for everyone to stay, no one noticed that a man who looked like a groom was carefully scrubbing a horse in the courtyard.He kept pretending to keep his head down to work, but his eyes glanced at Xiao Junmo and others from time to time.It wasn't until they saw clearly the rooms where Xiao Junmo, Biancai and others were staying, that they picked up the bucket and led the horse away.
When the groom left, he subconsciously glanced at the cliff to the south.
At this moment, a group of men in black are hiding in the mountains and forests on the cliff to the south, staring intently at every move in the station.At the same time, there was also a group of men in black on the cliff to the north, overlooking the entire inn from a high position.Although the two groups of mysterious people were all dressed in black and covered their faces with black cloth, there was a slight difference. The men in black in the south wore black scarves on their heads, while the men in black in the north wore black cloaks.
Just as the people in the station did not know the existence of the two groups of men in black, the two groups of men in black did not know each other's existence.What the groom in the courtyard did not expect at all was that Xiao Junmo had already seen his strange behavior just now.
When the sky was getting dark, everyone was eating in the dining hall. A lean postman with a sharp chin was very attentive, he kept asking about their health, and made arrangements to add food to everyone.Xiao Junmo couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
Since leaving Luozhou, Biancai has become mute along the way, and has hardly spoken.Xiao Junmo took the initiative to sit beside Biancai, looking for something to say to him from time to time, but Biancai kept his head buried in his porridge, without saying a word.Xiao Junmo had no choice but to laugh.Luo Biao at the side couldn't see it, and said in a low voice, "Hey, monk, our general is asking you something, why are you pretending to be deaf and dumb?"
Bian Cai drank the last bit of porridge in the bowl before looking up at Luo Biao: "Master Jun, have you read "The Analects of Confucius"?"
Luo Biao was stunned: "Stop showing off with me here! I'm asking why you didn't reply to the general!"
"The master said: 'Don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep.' Hasn't the military master heard of it?" The debater said slowly, "Besides, you still call me a monk. The discipline of monks is even stricter. It is the duty not to talk when eating!"
Many people in the Xuanjiawei entered the job based on martial arts, and there were not a few rough people who had not read "The Analects of Confucius", and Luo Biao was one of them.At this moment, being exposed by the debate, he couldn't help but flushed, and said angrily: "Then you have finished eating now, can you speak?"
"Sorry! The ride was bumpy all the way, I'm tired and want to go to sleep." Biancai said indifferently, "So, I can't speak." After finishing speaking, he walked out of the dining hall.The four Xuanjia guards immediately got up and followed them out.This is Xiao Junmo's arrangement, these four people must always be around Biancai.
Luo Biao was rendered speechless and furious, and got up to give chase.
Xiao Junmo on the side couldn't help laughing, and held him down: "Hey brother, don't be impatient! He is a monk, so naturally he should abide by the rules. We can't break his precepts, can we?"
"He even has a wife and children, isn't that considered a breach of the precept?" Luo Biao was still angry.
"The wife may not be a real marriage, and the daughter must not be his own." Xiao Junmo looked at the back of Biancai leaving, and said, "Besides, this is a private matter of others, we'd better not gossip."
Luo Biao turned his head to look at him, and suddenly smiled narrowly: "Since it's a private matter, how does the general know?"
"It's just intuition." Xiao Junmo said, seeing Luo Biao's smirk, he patted him on the head, "put away your evil smile!"
Luo Biao scratched his head: "Hey, I have been sleeping with a woman for 16 years, and it's not a real marriage. What level of cultivation does this have to do? Is this still a human being?"
Xiao Junmo felt that it would be indecent to talk about this topic any longer, so he smiled and said nothing.Just as I was about to leave the dining hall, I suddenly noticed something moving behind me. I immediately turned around and rushed to the east window, pushed the window open suddenly, and poked my head out.
It was pitch black outside, and there was nothing unusual, only the mountain wind whistling back and forth, rustling a large area of bushes.
Luo Biao ran over: "What did the general hear?"
Xiao Junmo stared at the darkness outside the window, silent.
As soon as he left the dining hall and walked a few steps, Xiao Junmo glanced up and found a figure flashing in the corridor on the second floor of the north building. When he rushed to the courtyard, the figure had disappeared.
The position where the figure was just now was at the door of Xiao Junmo's room.
Xiao Junmo walked up to the second floor slowly and came to his room. After opening the door, he didn't go in right away. Instead, he glanced around the room, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he raised his leg and walked in.
As soon as he took two steps, Xiao Junmo felt that he had stepped on something, and when he looked down, it was a piece of paper folded into a square.Obviously, it was the mysterious figure who just squeezed in through the crack of the door.
Xiao Junmo moved closer to the candle, and unfolded the note:
The danger is only when the news has been leaked, so be careful and take precautions
Xiao Junmo frowned and thought.
The note is made of the most common jute paper, which is a kind of paper made of ramie, cloth, and broken shoes. The cost is low, and the price is much cheaper than expensive paper such as rice paper and hard yellow paper.In addition, this is not a complete piece of paper, but only half a piece, with clear and neat cuts, which should be cut with a paper knife.
Xiao Junmo glanced at the handwriting again, and found that although the pen was written in a hurry, the handwriting was capable and powerful, indicating that this person often writes.Also worth noting is that all sixteen characters have an unnatural slant.
Who wrote this note?Where did he get the news from?Since it was a well-intentioned reminder to prove that this person is a friend rather than an enemy, why should he be sneaky again?
Xiao Junmo came to the corridor and scanned the whole station.After a while, his eyes settled on a certain place.
He already had an inference in his mind.
At night, the wind became stronger and stronger, circling back and forth over Gantang Station, whimpering like a ghost crying.
Liu Yicheng wandered around the post station with an angry lantern.The whole body of this kind of lantern is covered with tung oil, and the outside paper is pasted very tightly, so even though the night wind blows fiercely, it can't blow out the shimmer of light inside the cage.After Liu Yicheng checked every corner, he slowly walked back to the value room in the southeast corner of the courtyard.
As soon as he opened the door, Liu Yicheng felt something was wrong, hurriedly raised the lantern in his hand, and saw Xiao Junmo sitting on a stool with his legs crossed, looking at him leisurely.
Surprised, Liu Yicheng forced himself to be calm and said, "General Xiao, you...why are you here?"
"The moon is dark and the wind is high, I don't want to sleep, I want to chat with you."
"The general was joking. The general will be on his way tomorrow, and I have been busy all day. Let's rest."
"Okay, let's stop joking." Xiao Junmo stood up, "Actually, I want to ask you for a little favor."
"What is the commander's order?"
"Write me a note."
"I have a relatively complete set of pens and ink here. How about I take them out and the general can write them himself?" Liu Yicheng said, put down the lantern, opened a letter box on the desk, and took out a piece of jute paper from a pile of jute papers. , put it on the case, and grind some ink on the inkstone, "General, please."
"My right arm is hurt a little, so it's inconvenient to write, please help me write."
Liu Yicheng hesitated for a moment, reluctantly sat in front of the desk, and just about to pick up his pen, Xiao Junmo said suddenly: "Wait a minute, you don't need to write on a whole piece of paper, just cut it into half."
Liu Yicheng was a little flustered, but he folded the paper in half as he said, then took a paper cutter and cut off half of the paper.Xiao Junmo has been watching all this.Then, Liu Yicheng habitually picked up the brush with his left hand, dipped it in the ink, and looked at Xiao Junmo: "What is the general going to write?"
Xiao Junmo looked directly at him, and said word by word: "The news has been leaked, and debate is in danger."
No matter how calm Liu Yicheng is, he has no intention to hide it anymore, so he sighed, threw his pen on the case, and said: "General, I was entrusted by someone to convey the news to you, and there is really no malice... ..."
"I know that." Xiao Junmo smiled, "But I still want to know, who entrusted you?"
Liu Yicheng hesitated for a moment before saying: "To tell you the truth, General, I am entrusted by His Royal Highness King Wei."
"King Wei?" Xiao Junmo was a little surprised, "I was also ordered by King Wei this time. If that's the case, why didn't he send someone to give me the news directly, but made it so mysterious?"
"I don't know about this. Du Changshi sent me a message quickly, asking me to secretly pass an anonymous note to the general. I don't know anything else."
Xiao Junmo knew that he was telling the truth, and he couldn't find anything if he asked again, so he turned to leave, when Liu Yicheng suddenly called him: "Stay, General."
"What else?"
Liu Yicheng said with a smile: "I have something unclear, and I hope the general will enlighten me!"
"what's up?"
"The general saw through the note at a glance. Could it be that the general found out when I just stuffed the note?"
"I only saw a shadow and didn't know it was you."
"Then why did the general find me so quickly?"
"It's not difficult." Xiao Junmo said lightly, "First of all, the paper you use is very flat, with no curls or creases at the corners. , so I ruled out other guests for the time being, and think you and the postman are more likely."
Liu Yicheng nodded: "It's reasonable, and then?"
"Secondly, the note is only half a piece of paper, and the incision is clear and neat, which shows that the person who wrote it was careful, steady, and organized. More importantly, this person is very economical. When he can use half a piece of paper, he doesn't use the whole piece. Paper. From this, I thought that between the two types of people, the postman and the postman, this person should be the former, because only those who are in charge of the family will cherish material resources so much and don't want to waste them."
There was admiration in Liu Yicheng's eyes.
"The last, and most obvious, is your handwriting. Although you write in a hurry, your handwriting is neat and powerful. You are obviously a person who often writes. This is more like a postman than an ordinary postman. In addition, the sixteen All characters have an unnatural slant. I immediately remembered that before dinner, I accidentally saw you writing with your left hand. Therefore, the slant of these fonts has the most reasonable explanation: the person who wrote the note is left-handed, That is you——Liu Yicheng."
Liu Yicheng was greatly impressed, and said with a smile: "I have long heard that Xuanjiawei has a young talent who is as careful as a hair and solves cases like a god. Seeing him today, he really deserves his reputation!"
Xiao Junmo didn't smile, but looked at him solemnly: "Liu Yicheng, just now I said that the moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, and I don't want to sleep. I'm not joking."
Liu Yicheng also suppressed his smile, and said solemnly: "Since the king of Wei has specially ordered someone to send the news, there will be no peace tonight. If the general has any orders, I will fully cooperate!"
"You only need to do one thing, that is, bring your men and take care of all the horses and the carriage. Don't worry about other things!"
"Don't worry about it at all?" Liu Yicheng was very surprised.
"Yes." Xiao Junmo looked at him, "Even if someone killed bloody people in your post tonight, you and your subordinates don't need to worry about it. In this way, you are helping me and yourself." After finishing speaking, Xiao Junmo patted him on the shoulder and walked out.
Until Xiao Junmo left the room for a while, Liu Yicheng was still there in a daze, unable to think of a reason.
In the corridor on the second floor of the north building, Luo Biao stood guard at the door of Biancai's room.
Xiao Junmo came over and hooked his fingers at him.Luo Biao hurried over, and Xiao Junmo whispered a few words in his ear.Luo Biao looked surprised: "Why does the general have to do this? We have so many brothers..."
"Do as I say." Xiao Junmo said coldly, then pushed open the door of Biancai's room and walked in.Luo Biao didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly followed in.
In the room, Biancai was sitting on the bed and meditating with his eyes closed, while the four Xuanjia guards were standing by.
Xiao Junmo turned his head and gave Luo Biao a wink.Luo Biao hesitated for a moment, showing helplessness, and called the four Xuanjia guards to leave the room together.
Xiao Junmo walked to the bed and looked at Biancai: "Master, I didn't intend to disturb your quiet practice, but I'm afraid there will be trouble tonight, and I need your cooperation."
Biancai didn't seem to hear it, and after a long time, he slowly opened his eyes: "What's the trouble?"
"Someone will come to rob you, or...kill you!"
Biancai smiled coldly: "The poor monk was already a walking corpse 16 years ago, dead and ashes, and the only thing owed by floating life is death. Are you still afraid that someone will kill me?"
This is the first time that debaters call themselves "poor monks".As he got farther and farther away from Yi Que, he seemed to be letting go of the secular life of the past 16 years little by little, and gradually became calm.Xiao Junmo felt a little sympathetic and apologetic, but he still had a smile on his face: "If the mage is dead, I can only go back to Chang'an with my head up. The monks are compassionate. I am still so young, and the mage is willing to let me die." ?"
"When you put on this black armor, you should have thought that today would come!"
"The mage seems to hate my black armor?"
"I can't say I hate it, but I don't like it either."
"Thank you Master for your honesty! However, it's not only me who don't want you to die, but also your wife and daughter who are still in Yique and looking forward to your return home, aren't they?"
Biancai was slightly startled, his quiet expression immediately became turbulent, and he said after a while, "How does the general need my cooperation?"
Xiao Junmo smiled brightly: "The mage thinks about it, and the head on my neck can be saved." As he spoke, he approached Biancai and whispered a few words.
Bian Cai was startled: "Is it appropriate to do this?"
"no problem."
"Has the general thought it through?"
"of course."
Biancai looked at him deeply: "The general said just now that he is so young and unwilling to die, why is he willing to risk his life now?"
"I certainly cherish my life, but I hope that I can live up to my mission and send the mage safely to Chang'an."
Xiao Junmo's expression was still calm, but there was determination and determination in his eyes.
Standing in the courtyard with the four Xuanjia guards, Luo Biao saw Xiao Junmo coming out of the debate room from a distance, passing through the corridor, going down the stairs, then turned around, and headed towards the stables in the northwest corner, not toward them. come.
The four Xuanjia guards looked at each other and then at Luo Biao.
"What do you want me to do? Go back to Biancai's room and keep watch." Luo Biao said, "If Biancai falls asleep, don't light the lights, just stay in your room and watch until dawn."
"Yes!" The four agreed and ran away quickly.
As soon as they left, Luo Biao also walked quickly towards the west side of the North Building, where Xiao Junmo's figure disappeared just now.
When the four Xuanjia guards entered Biancai's room again, they found that the lights had been turned off, and Biancai was lying on his side facing the couch, snoring softly and evenly.The four obeyed the order, sat down in the dark, and watched quietly.
There is a piece of boxwood bushes on the east side outside the station, and at this moment, three slender black figures are hiding in the bushes.
They are Chu Yingniang, Chu Lisang and Luxiu.All three were wearing night clothes, their heads and faces were covered with black cloth, and only their eyes were exposed.More than half an hour ago, Chu Lisang went out of the dining room window to inquire about the situation, and happened to hear Xiao Junmo and Luo Biao talking about her family, and the tone seemed a little joking.Chu Lisang was furious, and accidentally made a noise, but luckily ran back to the bushes in time, so Xiao Junmo didn't notice.
The three of them have been hiding since the afternoon until now. Not only did their backs ache, but they were also bitten by various mosquitoes from time to time.Chu Lisang was very impatient, and said in a low voice: "Mother, they probably all fell asleep, let's do it?"
Chu Yingniang remained silent, watching her surroundings vigilantly.
The green sleeve seemed to be bitten by a bug again, and it slapped the back of the neck, muttering repeatedly.Chu Yingniang turned her head and glared at her sternly. The green sleeve stuck out her tongue and quickly fell silent.
"Mother..." Chu Lisang was still about to say something, but Chu Yingniang suddenly hissed and looked sharply to the left.Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu followed her gaze at the same time, and saw a dozen long ropes suddenly dropped from the cliff to the south, and then a dozen black shadows were quickly descending from the cliff.
The green sleeve covered her mouth in shock.
Chu Lisang was also surprised: "Mother, who are these people?"
"It must be for your father."
Chu Lisang was even more astonished: "Since the visitor is not kind, then we have to act quickly!"
"Not now!" Chu Yingniang lowered her voice with a calm face, "They are numerous and powerful, and they don't seem to be weak in skills. We can't beat them."
Chu Lisang was anxious: "Then what should we do? Could it be that they let them arrest Dad, or..." She wanted to say "kill" in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it.
"Don't forget, there are Xiao Junmo and the others in there, and Xuanjiawei is not a vegetarian, so he can resist them." Chu Yingniang paused, and then said, "It's good that this group of people appears suddenly, so that we don't have to worry about it." Xuanjiawei fights recklessly, and when they both lose, it won't be too late for us to take action."
Chu Lisang thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, so he kept quiet.
At the same time as the man in black descended from the cliff in the south, more than a dozen men in black descended from the cliff in the north, and quickly hid behind a few big trees.
One of the men in black was still panting, and immediately pulled down his mask, imitating a partridge and making a few "coo, coo, coo" calls.A moment later, the same voice sounded from the northeast corner of the station.Immediately afterwards, a black shadow quickly touched over.
The black shadow approached, and it turned out to be the lean postman with a sharp chin in the dining hall.
"How's the situation?" the man in black, imitating the birdsong, asked impatiently.
This person is Shi Yaoxing, Governor of Luozhou.
The thin postman replied: "Xiao Junmo, Biancai, and Luo Biao live in rooms [-], [-], and [-] on the second floor of the north building. There are four Xuanjia guards in the Biancai room, and everyone else lives downstairs."
Yao Xing said "Yes": "Good job, I will credit you. You go back first, so as not to make people suspicious."
The skinny postman thanked him again and again, then turned around and walked back, but before taking a few steps, Yao Xing rushed up from behind, covered his mouth with one hand, and wiped his neck with a knife in the other hand, the skinny postman limply fell to the ground.
Yao Xing wiped his body with a knife, and said in a low voice: "Brother, the envoy is destined to keep your tongue. Don't blame me. I will burn some paper money for you some other day." After finishing speaking, the cat ran away Under a tree not far away, he said to a taller man in black: "Master, I have figured it out, do you want to do it?"
The man in black is Yang Bingjun.
He silently waved his hand and touched the northeast corner of the station first, followed by Yao Xing and others.
Yang Bingjun and others climbed over the north wall of the post station, quickly jumped up to the corridor on the second floor of the north building, and then squatted outside the windows of rooms [-], [-], and [-], each took out a bamboo tube, pierced the paper on the window, Something is blowing in there.
In the debate room, a faint smog filled the darkness. The four Xuanjia guards were sitting with their eyes closed, but soon began to sway to and fro, and then fell to the ground one by one.
The door latch was gently pushed open with a knife, and then the door creaked open, and Yang Bingjun, Yao Xing and a few of his men groped their way in.They checked the four Xuanjia guards on the ground one by one, and found that they were all stunned, so they straightened up, and at the same time turned their eyes to the debater on the bed.
Bian Cai was still lying on his side, snoring heavily.
Yang Bingjun pulled down his mask, grinned grimly, and said to Yao Xing: "Take a few brothers, take him to see Mr. immediately, I will go to the next door and kill Xiao Junmo with my own hands!"
"Yes!" Yao Xing and two of his subordinates helped Biancai up, covered his head with a black cloth bag, lifted him up, and quickly walked out of the room.
Yang Bingjun watched Yao Xing and others go down the stairs, then put on his mask again, walked to the door of Xiao Junmo's room, and said to his opponent: "Open the door!" His subordinates quickly took out a small knife, inserted it into the crack of the door, and began to dial. latch.
At this moment, a dozen men in black who came down from the cliff to the south also happened to climb over the south wall and enter the courtyard.A black shadow jumped out from the corner, ran to the head man in black, and softly reported the accommodation situation of Xiao Junmo and others, and what he said was exactly the same as that postman.
This black shadow is the groom who washes the horses in the courtyard in the evening.
The man in black at the head listened, and was about to say something when he suddenly covered his mouth with his hand and couldn't help coughing lightly.
This person is Li Anyan sent by Wei Zheng.
Li Anyan looked up, and suddenly saw dark shadows in the corridor of the north building, which happened to be Xiao Junmo's room that the groom had mentioned, and secretly screamed that he was not good, waved his big hand, and immediately rushed towards the north building with his men.
Yang Bingjun noticed the movement downstairs, and as soon as he turned around, Li Anyan jumped from the courtyard to the railing on the second floor, stabbing straight with the long sword in his hand.Yang Bingjun turned pale with fright, he dodged in a hurry, barely dodging.
It took Yao Xing and his two subordinates a lot of effort to get the limp Biancai out from the north wall of the station.
"This old man is really dead!" one of his subordinates complained.
"What nonsense? Let's go!" Yao Xing cursed in a low voice, leaned over and looked around, and then jumped into a piece of wild grass as tall as half a person.The two men, one on the left and the other on the right, stood up for debate, and followed closely behind.
At this time, Yao Xing didn't know that as soon as they left, eight Xuanjia guards came out from the same position over the wall and followed them silently.
In the bushes to the east of the post station, Chu Lisang, who had already been impatient, finally heard the movement in the northeast corner. When he looked around, he happened to see several black shadows running away in a panic carrying a person.Chu Lisang hurriedly said to Chu Yingniang: "Mom, look, is it Dad who kidnapped those guys?"
"It's kind of like it." Chu Yingniang opened her eyes wide, and was thinking about whether to chase after her, when she suddenly noticed something, she quickly grabbed Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu with each hand, and suddenly lowered her body. "Mother, what's the matter?" Chu Lisang was puzzled.Chu Yingniang pouted to her left.Chu Lisang turned his head to look, only to find that seven or eight black shadows were passing by not far in front, and followed the black shadows in front towards the east.
Just at this moment, there was another sound of fighting with swords clashing in the station.Lu Xiu frowned: "It's really evil tonight! How many people came to this post?!" Chu Yingniang looked around, feeling a little confused for a while.Chu Lisang kept looking to the east, with an anxious face: "Mother, don't hesitate, I think the person who was robbed must be Dad, hurry up and chase after him!"
Chu Yingniang thought about it again, and gritted her teeth: "Let's go!"
In the inn, as soon as the two groups of Li Anyan and Yang Bingjun fought, eight Xuanjia guards rushed out from the guest room on the first floor and attacked both sides at the same time, so the three groups instantly fought together.
In this melee, each group of people couldn't tell who the real enemy was, so they had to fight with the other two sides at the same time, so each side was thrilled and confused.
At this time, Liu Yicheng was following Xiao Junmo's instructions, leading five or six postmen to stand guard in front of the stables in the northwest corner of the station, all of them holding knives in their hands, maintaining a defensive posture nervously.
They heard the sound of fierce fighting in the direction of the courtyard, and everyone's face was full of fear and confusion.
The person who was most confused was of course Liu Yicheng.
He still hasn't figured out what Xiao Junmo meant by telling him to stand guard in front of the stable.The only reason he could think of was that Xiao Junmo had expected that the situation tonight would be very complicated, so he told them to hide here to avoid danger and save their lives.
Although perplexed, this alone is enough for Liu Yicheng to be grateful to Xiao Junmo.Because he knew that with the abilities of him and the postmen under his command, if he really rushed out, he would immediately become someone else's ghost!
Liu Yicheng was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard someone talking behind him.He asked the postmen on the left and right: "Who has spoken?" All the postmen shook their heads.Liu Yicheng looked back at the stable, but apart from dozens of horses standing side by side and a lonely carriage, there was no one in the stable.
A tall black horse snorted suddenly, and scratched the ground a few times with its front hooves, looking a little restless.
Liu Yicheng recognized it, it was Xiao Junmo's mount.
However, right now, Liu Yicheng has no idea where Xiao Junmo is and what he is doing.
Yao Xing and the others took Biancai and walked eastward along the cliff of Beishan for about a stick of incense, and entered a pine forest.The eight Xuanjia guards had been quietly following behind them, while the three of Chu Yingniang were biting the Xuanjia guards tightly.
After walking for more than half a mile in the dark in the pine forest, Yao Xing stopped when he came to a relatively open space, took out a scythe and started a fire, lit a pine branch, looked around carefully, and muttered: " It should be here."
"Chang Shi, hurry up and talk to Mr., we are almost exhausted!" one of his men panted.
Yao Xing turned his head and stared at him, leaned on a tree, cleared his throat, and said to the depths of the pine forest: "The first teacher has a hidden treasure."
There was a dead silence all around, and there was no response.
Yao Xing raised his voice and read it again.After a while, a deep and deep voice finally came from the forest: "Anyong Jishiluo."
Yao Xing let out a long breath of relief.
At this moment, the eight Xuanjia guards were lying in ambush at a distance of three feet behind Yao Xing, while Chu Yingniang and the others were farther away, so they couldn't hear what was being said in front of them at all.
As soon as the voice in the forest fell, more than a dozen torches were lit up around at the same time.Yao Xing found it difficult to adapt to the light, and quickly raised his hands to cover his eyes, only to see dozens of figures wearing cloaks and black cloth covering their faces, coming out of the surrounding pine forest.The man in black at the head is tall and tall, wearing a bronze mask with a simple shape and a strange expression on his face. Next to him is a thin man. It is Wei Laoliu who has been following him for many years. left to make.
"I've seen Mr. Mingzang." Yao Xing hurriedly stepped forward to salute, then turned to Wei Laoliu and said, "I've seen Wei Zuoshi."
"Where's Yang Bingjun?" Mr. Mingzang asked.
"Our envoy, maybe... maybe he was entangled by Xuanjiawei." Yao Xing only met Mr. Mingzang a few times, and he couldn't help feeling nervous every time he met.
"I heard that you are very capable envoys!" Mr. Ming Zang said indifferently, "By giving Li Shimin the opportunity to search for Wang Xizhi's copybooks, he filled his own pockets, and I don't know how much money he has collected!"
"Sir, our envoy has handed over most of it to you..."
"The vast majority?" Mr. Mingzang snorted coldly, "It should be a drop in the bucket, right?"
Yao Xing lowered his head, not daring to speak.
Mr. Mingzang glanced at the people behind Yao Xing: "Did you bring Biancai?"
"Mr. Hui, I brought it here. He is a debater."
"I heard that he has been hiding under Yang Bingjun's nose for 16 years. Last year, Yang Bingjun asked him to write a copybook to celebrate his mother's birthday, but he didn't realize that he was an eloquent talent. In the end, Xuanjiawei was the one who came first! You Say it yourself, what use do I need people like you to be envoys?"
"Mr. Mingjian, there are too many people in the world who are good at writing Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, so you never thought that this Wu Tingxuan would be a debater!" Yao Xing was already sweating coldly.
"You are very good at speaking for Yang Bingjun. It seems that he has a long history of treating you!" Mr. Mingzang laughed a few times, "Forget it, let's not mention the past for now. Let's talk about it this time, Xuanjiawei is here. Yi Que has been investigating for so many days, but Yang Bingjun has never noticed it. He didn't wake up until he was escorted to the prefecture and county office, and he quickly reported the news to me. Don't say that this kind of person is not worthy of me His subordinates are not even qualified to be Li Shimin's official! I really regret how I asked Xuanquan to help get this kind of person into the position of governor."
"Sir, Xuanjiawei's handling of cases has always been mysterious, not to mention that it's hard for us to know about it at this level, even the prime ministers in the court are often kept in the dark..."
"Enough!" Mr. Ming Zang finally got angry and said sharply, "Yang Bingjun is blinded by money, so he is so blind and deaf! You want to speak for him, do you also want to speak for him? be punished?!"
Yao Xing was so frightened that he fell to his knees and kowtowed his head like garlic: "Sir, calm down, my subordinates dare not..."
At this time, the eight Xuanjia guards began to move forward quietly, and Chu Yingniang and the others followed closely.With the light of the torch in the distance, Chu Yingniang vaguely saw something, and immediately showed a look of extreme horror.Chu Lisang and Luxiu were so focused on the movement in the forest that they didn't know the drastic change in Chu Yingniang's eyes.
Mr. Ming Zang ignored Yao Xing, but glanced at Biancai from a distance, and said, "Take off his mask. I haven't seen this old friend for many years, and I miss him very much!"
Since he had been talking to Yao Xing just now, he didn't pay much attention to his eloquence. Now when he looked closely at the person in front of him, Mr. Ming Zang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he took a closer look, his eyes changed drastically.At the same time, his subordinates took off the hood of "Debate Talent", and Xiao Junmo's face suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
The moment the face was uncovered, Xiao Junmo smiled brightly, and at the same time moved his right hand, a dagger slipped from the sleeve into his palm, and then turned his wrist, and with a light touch, he cut the throat of the man in black on the right.When the man in black fell to the ground clutching his bloody throat, Xiao Junmo quickly grabbed the man in black on the left and put the dagger on his neck.
The handle of this dagger is inlaid with red and green gemstones, precious and exquisite, it is exactly the one that Chu Lisang stabbed on his right arm a few days ago.
In the north building of the inn, in the Biancai room, the four Xuanjia guards who were lying on the ground got up almost at the same time.They looked at each other and couldn't help but smile at each other.
"Those guys came in just now, I really want to kill them!" a Xuanjia guard whispered.
"If you do something, it will spoil the good work of the general." The other person also said softly, "The general's plan is to let us 'sleep' for a while, and you just obey."
Fortunately, these four people have been carefully trained by Xiao Junmo, and they all have good breath-holding skills, otherwise, the ecstasy fragrance that was blown in from the corridor window just now would be enough to make them sleep until dawn.
Even though the corridor and the courtyard were in full swing, the four Xuanjia guards went straight to the north window, opened the window, and jumped out one by one as if they hadn't heard it.
In front of the stable, Liu Yicheng and his subordinates still held their knives in their hands, maintaining a defensive posture, but they still didn't know what they were defending so far.
Suddenly, Liu Yicheng once again noticed something moving behind him, turned his head to look, and saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and then Luo Biao and another Xuanjia guard got out of the carriage.Liu Yicheng couldn't care less about being surprised, and took a closer look, the "Xuanjiawei" next to Luo Biao was actually a debater!
At this point Liu Yicheng finally understood that Xiao Junmo let him stay here not only to protect him, but also to let him protect the eloquence by the way.Liu Yicheng knew very well that he could not take on the responsibility of protection with his own abilities. Xiao Junmo's arrangement actually took care of his self-esteem and made him and his subordinates feel that they did not stand here for most of the night for nothing.
"Old Liu, you can go there after the fight is over." Luo Biao grinned at him, "It is estimated that there will be a lot of dead people. Tomorrow will be enough for you and your brothers to be busy. Just digging and burying the corpses will exhaust you to death!"
Liu Yicheng opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.
At this time, a postman suddenly shouted towards the dark alleyway: "Who is this? Stop!"
Liu Yicheng hurriedly turned his head, only to see four dark figures walking quickly along the alleyway on the north wall.
"Don't panic, my own!" Luo Biao laughed.
The four black shadows approached, and they were indeed the four Xuanjia guards in the debate room.
Afterwards, Luo Biao ordered the four of them to pull out their respective mounts from the stables. He himself and Biancai shared one ride, and then the six of them and five riders left the post station through the small gate in the northwest corner, and galloped straight to the west post road.
Before leaving, Luo Biao said to Liu Yicheng: "Old Liu, General Xiao will come back later, please tell me that we will go ahead according to the original plan and wait for him in the west!"
Liu Yicheng nodded vigorously, not knowing why he was still speechless.
In the pine forest, Xiao Junmo's series of actions just now were as swift as lightning, which stunned everyone.
"Who are you?!" Mingzang was the first to react, and he drank in a deep voice.
Xiao Junmo smiled: "Guess?"
Mingzang stared at him, and suddenly his eyes flashed: "Could it be that you are the Xuanjia Guard General Xiao Junmo who found out the eloquence?"
"You have good eyesight!" Xiao Junmo said with a smile, "Don't you think it's thunderous?"
Ming Zang snorted coldly: "You are not old, but your tone is not small!"
"Three days ago, Yang Bingjun also said this to me, but he regretted it as soon as he finished speaking." Xiao Junmo said, and turned to Yao Xing, who had already slumped on the ground with a shocked expression, "If you don't believe me, ask him .”
At this time, the eight Xuanjia guards had already moved forward, only a foot away from Mingzang's subordinates, and they were ready to protect Xiao Junmo at any time.Although Chu Yingniang and the other three followed closely behind, they were extremely astonished and disappointed when Xiao Junmo revealed his true face just now.At this moment, the three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to do for a while.
Chu Yingniang tried her best to hide the overwhelming complex emotions in her heart with a disappointed expression, because from her current ambush position, she could already see Mingzang clearly.
That mask seemed very familiar to her, but it was also very strange.
"Mother, let's go back to the station, maybe daddy is still there." Chu Lisang said in a low voice.
Chu Yingniang recovered from her trance: "You...what did you say?"
Chu Lisang and Lu Xiu looked at each other suspiciously.Chu Lisang looked at her: "Mom, what's wrong with you?" Chu Yingniang tried her best to suppress her emotions, and said calmly, "It's nothing, I was wondering where your father is now..."
In the clearing in the forest, Ming Zang looked at Xiao Junmo deeply: "Young man, your act of pretending to be eloquent is very abominable, but your courage to come here alone is really admirable. Don't you fear death if you do this?"
"Of course I'm afraid of death!" Xiao Junmo still smiled, "However, you path-cutters who roam the mountains and fields may not be able to kill me."
At this time, Xiao Junmo certainly knew that these people in front of him were definitely not as simple as Jianjing bandits!The conversation between "Mr. Ming Zang" and Yao Xing just now is enough to show that this person's ability and influence cannot be underestimated!And Xiao Junmo took great pains to sing this trick tonight, and took the initiative to take the risk of his own life, just to find out who came to rob Biancai.Therefore, he is deliberately using aggressive methods now, just to get more clues from this masked man's mouth.
Mingzang laughed when he heard the words: "Young man, you are too greedy! I have heard so much just now, and now I want to use aggressive methods to deceive me?! But, even if I let you know more, what's the use? You alone The person is about to die, so is it possible to report the news to Hades?"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Laoliu, Yao Xing and the other men in black burst out laughing.
At this moment, there was a sudden clang of swords clashing not far away, and everyone's eyes could not help but tremble.
Just now, when Chu Yingniang and the other three were about to leave, Lu Xiu accidentally stepped on a dead branch, and was immediately spotted by three Xuanjia guards nearby.When they saw that the three were dressed in black, they thought they were enemies in ambush, and attacked together without thinking carefully, and the two sides started fighting.
Once there is a hand, there is naturally nothing to say here.Mingzang raised his left hand slightly, and a hidden weapon instantly shot between the eyebrows of the man in black who was hijacked by Xiao Junmo.The person immediately went limp and slipped from Xiao Junmo's hand.Xiao Junmo shook his head and smiled wryly, and said to Mingzang: "Mask man, you kill your own subordinates without even blinking, this is not a good habit!"
Before the words fell, Wei Laoliu and dozens of men in black under his command rushed towards Xiao Junmo at the same time.At the same time, the five Xuanjia guards who were ambushing Xiao Junmo's back also flew out to face the man in black.In an instant, a three-party melee was staged again, exactly the same as the scene in the inn just now.
In the post station, Li Anyan was thinking about Biancai and Xiao Junmo, so he got out of the fight and checked the three rooms on the second floor of the north building, but found that there was no one in them, so he didn't want to fight, and immediately led his men out of the battlefield, still from the The south wall was overturned.After withdrawing, the number of people was counted, and it was found that more than half of the dozen or so people had been lost, leaving only five or six people.
Similarly, Yang Bingjun and Xuanjiawei are both losers.
When Li Anyan's party withdrew, Yang Bingjun, who was already exhausted, hurriedly led the remaining three or four men, over the wall from the northeast corner, and fled in a hurry.One Xuanjia guard was red-eyed and wanted to chase him out, but the other Xuanjia guard hurriedly stopped him: "Don't chase, the general hasn't come back yet, we have to meet here."
It wasn't until the fighting was over that there was no more sound in the courtyard, and Liu Yicheng walked over tremblingly with his postmen. When he saw the corpses lying on the ground, his face turned pale all at once.
Of the eight Xuanjia guards, only three remained.
Seeing them struggling to lift the body of their companions out of the pile of dead, Liu Yicheng let out a long sigh and hurriedly called his men to clean up the battlefield together.
That night, there were forty or fifty tenants living in the Gantang post, all of them were officials and their servants from all over the place passing by.Many of them have served in the post for many years, often coming and going on the post road, and did not miss staying in the post, but it was the first time they encountered such a bloody fighting scene, and naturally everyone was terrified.Just now when the fighting was in full swing, they all closed the doors and windows tightly, extinguished the lights and candles, and did not dare to vent their breath until they saw the postmen starting to clean up the battlefield.
Smelling the bloody smell wafting in the courtyard, quite a few officials who are normally majestic still have cold hands and feet and lingering fears at this moment.
(End of this chapter)
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