Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 132 Bon voyage

The guard that Guo Xin was escorting raised his hand hastily to stop the servants behind him.

The servants held their swords tightly at their waists vigilantly and stared at the man at the entrance of the alley.

"Dang, Dang..."

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind.

They turned back hurriedly and saw a thin man standing at the entrance of the alley.

Suddenly, he stretched out his arms, which were like those of a monkey and much longer than those of a normal person.

In his hands, he held a long knife and a short knife respectively.

The long and short knives knocked against his head a few times, and the man suddenly let out a strange roar and rushed into the alley!
Just as the man let out a sharp scream and suddenly rushed into the alley, the fat man at the other end of the alley also moved.

In his hands were two knives, one long and one short. He rushed in with the ground shaking as he stepped forward.

At both ends of the alley, two men, one fat and one thin, rushed in with swords in hand as if they were in an empty space!

Uncle Ji and Uncle Gou were two killing gods in the Beiwei army back then, and their swords are still sharp.

"Pfft, pfft!"

“Puff! Bang!”

“Swish, swish!”

The terrified shouts and curses of Guo Xin's soldiers could not stop the slashing with long swords and stabbing with short knives from the people who were surrounding and killing them from both ends.

They were like a tiger attacking a flock of sheep. A soldier from Guoxin Bureau, holding a knife in his mouth, kicked and climbed up the high wall on one side of the alley with a heavy breath.

Before he could show a lucky smile of escaping death, he heard a voice coming from the wall: "This road is blocked!"

The soldier from Guoxin looked up in surprise and saw a poor scholar-like man sitting on the wall, Mr. Qu.

Mr. Qu raised his hand.

"Whoosh~"

A crossbow arrow accurately pierced the throat of Guo Xin's soldier. It was a featherless arrow.

The arrow penetrated his throat, went out from the back of his neck, and flew into the night.

The soldier's eyesight gradually became unfocused, and then he fell back onto his back in the alley.

The slaughter in the alley continued, and there were only a few soldiers left at the Guoxin Office.

They had never encountered such a terrible person with such terrible killing skills.

If the other party is a god, they will feel relieved. What is there to resist?

If you put down your weapons, perhaps you can die more honorably.

But it is clear that these two killer gods do not have very advanced skills.

They simply chopped, stabbed, and even used their heads, elbows, knees, and feet in close combat.

But only when they get close to this person and fight him, do they know what despair is.

The simplest movements, the most agile and powerful skills, the most piercing vision and experience...

Their swords were clearly only millimeters away from the opponent's bodies, but... they would always be just millimeters away.

"Who are you? Who are you?"

When the man escorted by Kuninobu was the only one left standing in the alley, he collapsed and screamed.

"You are too slow now!"

Old Man Song appeared out of nowhere, limped over, and said unhappily, "Hurry up and go back to sleep. Are you going to do business tomorrow morning?"

As he said this, he raised his hand.

The man who was being escorted by Guo Xin felt a shock in his neck.

He raised his hand and touched it. He felt a cold arrow shaft made of metal.

Then, the severe pain suddenly came.

Then he slowly fell down.

As he fell, he was still thinking: "Who are they? What business will they be doing tomorrow morning?"

Yang Yuan protected the wheelbarrow and rushed all the way to the end of the alley. Looking back, he saw no pursuers and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

There is a small river at the end of the alley, and a small boat is tied under the willow tree by the river.

Yang Yuan and Ya Ge hurriedly moved the sacks onto the boat, loaded the wheelbarrow with stones and sank it to the bottom of the river, and with a push of a bamboo pole, it floated away.

The small river gradually merges into the big river, and the lights and the sounds of oars are like a dream.

……

On the eighth day of July, Yuyaonu became a god with the song "Chi Ling".

Moreover, this is not only a song, but also a play.

That novel, unprecedented way of performance spread quickly, causing a sensation in more than a hundred brothels of all sizes in Lin'an, and it was showing signs of continuing to spread to other places.

The song that Yu Yao Nu sang at the end of "Fire" is much more of a love song in terms of its scale.

Moreover, there are two prominent characters in this play, one is Yan Zhenqing and the other is an actor.

Master Yan was respected by the scholars who held the power of speech.

Moreover, Yan Zhenqing himself was one of them, and everyone should be proud to praise such a great figure.

Whoever questioned him, would you admit that you were a traitor? However, the Yu Nu in the play was an actor, a person living at the bottom of society, and she resonated with countless people at the bottom.

Especially for the actors in Lin'an, there are more than 10,000 practitioners. This is their highlight moment. Who wouldn't try their best to spread the story?
Yuyaonu thus became a master-level figure in one fell swoop, and anyone who dared to say anything about her would become the public enemy of the industry.

On the same day, the fire at "Zhiweitang" also caused a sensation in Lin'an City.

Zhang Quwei, the chief eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, almost fainted from heartache when he heard that his "Zhiweitang" was burned clean.

This grand and luxurious restaurant cost more than 80,000 strings of cash and made a fortune every day.

It’s gone, all gone, turned into a white field.

When Eunuch Li heard the news, he was stunned. After a long while, he fell into a state of ignorance and emptiness.

His people...seem to have been caught in one fell swoop?

Mu Yaban was furious and personally led people to investigate the scene. He vowed to catch the murderer and severely punish him!
Of course, before catching the murderer, his colleagues must first be dug out from the rubble and buried.

Therefore, he personally went to the scene and directed the hired laborers to clean up the ruins.

However, many bodies had been burned and mixed with the ruins, and even the ashes were nowhere to be found, which made Mu Yaban particularly sad.

Because he was too angry and heartbroken, he drank to drown his sorrows. He always liked tea more than wine, but he drank six and a half taels of wine. He was carried by his subordinates to the nearby "Chunfeng Tower" to sober up.

Yu Jiguang carried the drunk Mu Yaban to Chunfeng Tower, settled his immediate superior, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction of his ancestral grave in his hometown.

He felt that it must be the blessing of his ancestors that allowed him to escape the disaster.

Yesterday he sneaked into "Zhiweitang" to give a gift. If they really invited him in and treated him with courtesy...

Ancestors bless you!
Cao Fuyin of Lin'an Prefecture was quite fortunate because the matter involved the National Information Office and the Imperial City Bureau, and he, the Lin'an Prefecture, did not need to step forward to handle the case. It was really a stroke of luck.

However, out of friendship, he kindly lent out his four most experienced coroners to Eunuch Li for his disposal.

The next afternoon, Eunuch Li took people to the Imperial City Division.

He suspected that the Imperial City Official was seeking personal revenge and had created such a "family massacre".

Moreover, unless it was the Imperial City Bureau that took action, who would have the power to secretly set up such a trap to wipe out the entire family in the "Zhiweitang" where guests come and go day and night?
Who else could have killed all the sixteen or seventeen servants who were chasing them in the long alley, leaving no one alive?
You still don't admit it?

Look, you imperial soldiers still have smiles on your faces!

Even Liu Guojiu laughed...

Forget it. If he laughs, I’ll just pretend I didn’t see it.

The excitement continued until an experienced coroner, after examining the bodies of several Guoxin policemen who had died tragically in the alley,
He pointed out uncertainly that judging from the killing method, it didn't look like the work of a killer, but more like the work of an experienced warrior.

Moreover, they simulated and deduced from the wounds and lying postures of the bodies scattered in the alley.
The final conclusion is that the clean and neat process and the fierce killing method are very much like those of a master among the imperial guards who have rich combat experience.

Liu Shangqiu immediately shifted the blame to someone else and wanted to investigate eunuch Li's false accusation.

Eunuch Li, who was so angry that he lost his mind, went to the imperial guards camp again. Unexpectedly, the imperial guards ignored him and he couldn't even get in the gate.

Eunuch Li, who was still angry, ran into the palace again and cried to his godfather Zhang Quwei.

Zhang Quwei, who was calculating the losses on an abacus, became furious. He went to see Yang Cunzhong first. Only after the quarrel did he remember to complain to the government.

So, Zhang Quwei ran to Zhao Gou again and fell to the ground crying. His voice was so sad and miserable that anyone who heard it felt sad and cried.

The emperor was moved after hearing Otomo's crying.

Zhao Gou first tried to comfort him with kind words, but then he thought that the villain was so lawless that he dared to burn down a building right under the feet of the emperor, killing 160 to 170 officials and soldiers of the National Trust Office, and injuring and crippling five or six people.

The other sixteen or seventeen who chased into the alley were all killed, leaving no one alive.

Even the emperor would shudder at the thought of such a daring bandit.

Therefore, the emperor issued an edict, ordering the three yamen imperial guards and the Imperial City Bureau to fully cooperate with the National Intelligence Bureau to conduct a large-scale search and solve the case.

The great eunuch Zhang Quwei was responsible for coordinating the three parties and commanding from the center.

There weren't that many people in the Guoxin Institute. After all, it was just an institution dedicated to entertaining and welcoming envoys from the Jin Kingdom.

After almost all of Li Yaban's faction died, there were even fewer people left.

But now with the addition of the Three Yamen Forbidden Guards and the Imperial City Administration, things are different.

The question is, will the people from these two yamen risk their lives to arrest people?

As Eunuch Li Rong went to the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division to cause trouble and repeatedly accused the other party of being the murderer, the cause of death of the 21 imperial city soldiers in the Imperial City Division became a topic of great interest.

Originally, only a few prominent figures in the Imperial City Administration knew about the strangeness of this matter, and only the soldiers in the next command post would discuss it privately. Now Eunuch Li has brought it to the surface.

As a result, the news spread that twenty-one soldiers of the Imperial City Division were wiped out that day, and Guo Xin happened to be in the right place but failed to capture anyone, rescue anyone, or hurt any of his own people.

Who doesn’t feel that Guoxin has all the problems?
For a while, Eunuch Li was in a state of disgrace, and wherever he went, it seemed that people were pointing fingers at him.

Even Mu Yaban's men couldn't help but look at him sideways when they saw him.

Even though they don't get along with the people from the Imperial City Bureau, they are all paid by the emperor and are family members.

They could watch the people from the Imperial City Bureau die without helping, but it was really hard to understand why they became accomplices of the murderer.

Therefore, even the people in the National Security Bureau, except those who originally belonged to Eunuch Li's lineage, were dissatisfied with it.

In this situation, how many people are willing to investigate the case seriously?

Some people even respectfully called the flying thief who burned down "Zhiweitang" the "Flying Man".

Perhaps, the only one who was truly frightened was Master Xiao.

After Xiao Qianyue heard people talking about the aerial zipline at "Zhiweitang", she closed the restaurant for three days.

If he doesn't prepare himself mentally, he won't dare to open a business again.

(End of this chapter)