Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 249: Xue Niang's Clever Plan to Peace the World

After Yang Yuan rushed into the storage area, he quickly climbed to the roof of the warehouse closest to the dock.

Although the building was tall and the walls were straight, the tiny gaps between the bricks were enough for him to climb up easily like a gecko.

After Yang Yuan climbed onto the roof, he saw only more than twenty bows lying quietly under the moonlight.

The archers only fired two rounds of arrows and then retreated decisively.

They didn't even take their bows.

Yang Yuan quickly ran to the other end of the roof and looked into the distance.

This area is relatively secluded, and it is dark outside the storage area.

But further away, there was a brilliant display of lights; it was a busy street.

At this moment, the sound of drums was coming from that direction.

Judging from the drumbeat, it should be the second drum.

Yang Yuan sighed softly.

Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin followed from both sides.

Without even turning his head, Yang Yuan said, "They were very decisive. They probably only shot two or three rounds of arrows before retreating. They even threw away their bows. So, they should have escaped there very quickly..."

Yang Yuan pointed towards the dimly lit area and said, "Then, they will become tourists strolling in the busy night market, and no one will be able to find them out."

Leng Yuchan frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "What is their purpose in doing this? To assassinate Prince Pu'an? Just to rely on luck like this?"

Xue Bingxin said: "Perhaps, it is for the officials who were escorted back from Shanyin."

Leng Yuchan said: "It's unlikely. How can they be sure that just two volleys of arrows will kill the person they want to kill?"

Xue Bingxin raised her eyebrows and said, "It's not certain. Should we just do nothing? What if it succeeds?"

Leng Yuchan said calmly: "How can there be so many what-ifs?"

Xue Bingxin argued, "Not much is called a one in a blue moon, so what about that one in a blue moon?"

"Tsk!" Leng Yuchan curled her lips and turned her head away.

The two of them usually quarreled with each other, but today they seemed to be quarreling a little seriously.

Yang Yuan said: "It's useless to chase after them. Let's go back to the dock. Maybe the answer is there."

Yang Yuan turned around and said loudly: "Xiao Luo, let's go!"

With a "whoosh" sound, Xiao Luo emerged from under the eaves like a ghost, which scared Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin.

When they jumped off the boat, Xiao Luo... was still at the bow?
They are a little unimpressed.

In fact, when they jumped off the bow, Xiao Luo was still on the boat. He waited until they ran away before he jumped off the boat.

They walked in a straight line, passing through the houses and over the ridges, heading straight for the storage area.

Xiao Luo made a detour, followed the canal dock, and went to the back of the warehouse area.

Although Xiao Luo took a longer route than them, he arrived at the storage area with Yang Yuan.

When Yang Yuan climbed onto the roof, Xiao Luo had already followed him down.

He chased her to the downtown area, and seeing the people coming and going, he realized that it was pointless to chase her any further, so he turned back.

However, he didn't eavesdrop today.

He had just crawled under the eaves of the warehouse and before he had time to eavesdrop, he was called out by Yang Yuan, which surprised Xiao Luo very much.

Xiao Luo followed Yang Yuan for a while, and finally couldn't help asking, "Deputy Headmaster, I just climbed up here, how did you know I was there?"

Yang Yuan looked at him strangely: "I just knew it. As soon as you got to the bottom of the warehouse, I..."

At this point, Yang Yuan suddenly stopped and asked in surprise: "Yes, why would I notice it?"

Xue Bingxin said admiringly: "Is Si Gong's six senses so sharp?"

Yang Yuan shook his head: "No, when you two were chasing me from behind, your clothes fluttered in the wind, and you made more noise than Xiao Luo. I only sensed you when you were nearly two meters away. But, as long as Xiao Luo came within six or seven meters of me, I knew he was there."

Hearing him say this, Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin couldn't help but become very curious.

Leng Yuchan thought unconvincedly, why couldn't you sense me when I approached, but could sense Xiao Luo's presence?
He is neither male nor female, what can you feel for him?
Xiao Luo thought, this must be because the deputy manager and I have similar interests!

No wonder I felt that I had a special liking for the deputy manager as soon as I saw him. It turns out that the deputy manager had the same feeling towards me.

Thinking of this, Xiao Luo became happy.

Little did he know that this was all because Taoist Chen Tuan was lazy and kept changing the set of exercises.

At that time, he modified it into a technique that could only be practiced by eunuchs and gave it to Zhao Kuangyin. Later, he modified it again in the opposite direction and turned it into a dual cultivation technique and gave it to Li Shishi.

However, the two sets of Taoist internal breathing exercises are, after all, of the same origin, and the methods of practicing are just opposite, which in turn causes the Qi to attract each other.

Although this kind of attraction is very different from the yin-yang attraction between Yang Yuan and Li Shishi, Xiao Luo felt that he got along well with Yang Yuan as soon as he saw him.

However, due to his lack of skills, Yang Yuan's reaction was not obvious enough, just like when he and Shishi were together, their reactions varied in strength.

……

At the dock, Prince Pu'an had been quickly transferred away from the scene and was under strict protection.

Seeing that Prince Pu'an was safe, Kou Heiyi hurried back to the dock.

The sneak attacks had long since stopped, and the chaos on the docks was largely over.

In the darkness of night, the two waves of arrows shot from the roof of the warehouse in the storage area were almost impossible to hit the target accurately. They could only rely on covering long-range shooting and random attacks.

Moreover, the number of arrows is far from enough to achieve a covering attack effect.

Despite this, some casualties were still caused.

There were six people shot by arrows, two died, one was seriously injured, and the remaining three were slightly injured.

The two who died were Huangfu Ting, the governor of the Transportation Bureau, and Ban Musi, the guard of the Guoxin Police Station.

Huangfu Ting was shot in the back. He had just died when Kou Heiyi rushed back from the place where he settled Prince Pu'an.

He was hit during the second round of arrow rain. He was about to get under a prisoner van when he was hit by a flying arrow in the back, injuring his vital internal organs.

Mu Si was hit by an arrow in the temple during the first round of arrow rain. The arrow penetrated her brain obliquely and killed her on the spot.

Kou Heiyi calmly checked the dead and injured people, and said to the imperial guards general: "The arrows were shot from the direction of the warehouse. Have you sent people there?"

The general replied: "We have sent a team, and they... Hey! They are back!"

As he spoke, he quickly walked towards the group of people coming from the warehouse.

Yang Yuan, Xue Bingxin, Leng Yuchan and Xiao Luo were all among the group of people, and the imperial guards were carrying several corpses.

Those were several soldiers who were assigned to patrol the storage area. The sneak attack archers boarded the warehouse only after assassinating them.

On the way back, Yang Yuan and his companions met this group of imperial guards. They learned that the imperial guards had arranged some people at the warehouse, so they followed them back. They only returned together after finding the bodies of these people.

"Deputy Secretary Yang?" Kou Heiyi, who had caught up with them, saw Yang Yuan and couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

He didn't know yet that the fleet that was blocked outside the dock was Yang Yuan and others.

Yang Yuan nodded to him and said, "I just came back from Yanpu and happened to meet you. How is the dock? Is Prince Pu'an okay?"

Kou Heiyi said, "The king is fine, but two criminals were shot dead by arrows. I think you would be happy to hear about the death of one of them."

Yang Yuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. Kou Heiyi said, "He is the supervisor of Guoxin, Mu Si!"

……

Emmanuelle Belle hurried back to the cabin and the women immediately surrounded her.

"Your Highness, how is it outside?"

"It's okay. I think a few people were shot and wounded, but the assassin has already escaped."

After Emmanuelle Belle finished speaking, she sat down in the corner of the cabin and waved her hand, saying, "Don't come over here. I need to think about something."

The girls who wanted to come forward stopped tactfully.

Emmanuelle Belle closed her eyes, and everything she had just seen immediately flashed clearly in her mind as if it were "replayed".

Everything that the human eye sees, in fact, most of the information that enters the eye is "invalid".

Because although it enters your sight, it is outside your focus and will be filtered out by your brain. Even if you want to recall it, you can't remember its state at that time.

But Belle has such a magical ability because of her "acquired genius syndrome".

She can remember everything she sees at that time.

Then, when she is "replaying her memory", she can define any point in the "picture" as a new focus, and re-examine the information that was previously ignored by the brain around it.

The brain's playback and sorting of information does not need to be replayed over and over again like the real images we see. The brain's processing of information is more complex, but also more efficient.

Emmanuelle Belle was searching the scene she had seen over and over in her mind. Just as she was about to catch a suspicious point, Xiao Luo's voice came from outside the cabin.

Even though Xiao Luo's voice sounded soft when she shouted at the top of her lungs, it was still very clear: "Girls, get off the boat! Get off the boat, do you understand?"

……

Due to the accident that happened at the dock, although Prince Pu'an insisted again and again, the accompanying officials were determined not to allow him to return to the dock.

At the same time, the fleet coming from Shanyin was also controlled, and the prisoners who had not yet been sent to the prison cars were also forced back onto the ships.

For safety reasons, they decided to wait until daybreak to transport these people.

As a result, Yang Yuan's fleet was allowed to pass and they could leave first.

Yang Yuan squatted beside Mu Si's body and looked at it carefully.

Although he had no good feelings towards the people from Guoxin Institute, he was not happy about Mu Si's death.

As far as he knew, those who had murdered his elder brother were not from Mu Si's faction, but those people led by Eunuch Li had disappeared with the fire in Zhiweitang.

His next target is Qin Changjiao.

Yang Yuan stood up and said to Kou Heiyi with a smile, "Captain Kou, the attack on the dock may not be a bad thing.

Now it seems that there must be a big fish among the criminals that your Imperial City Division has brought back to Lin'an!"

"Someone must know something, so they are willing to take the risk and put him to death.

After you go back, you might as well have a thorough interrogation. After what happened tonight, maybe that person will take the initiative to explain to you."

Kou Heiyi smiled faintly and said nothing.

Guo Xuzhi opened his mouth, but in the end he just shook his head slightly and swallowed his words back.

Are there big fish? Of course there are big fish!

Isn’t the big fish the Mu Yaban who was just shot to death?

Among the goods that Mu Yaban was about to receive at that time was a Ma Huang crossbow that made the emperor furious.

Now we need to trace the origin of this Mahuang crossbow, and the breakthrough point is the person who gave it and the person who took it.

The one who was sent fought to the last at Shanyin Wharf and has died.

The only breakthrough now is Mu Yaban, but...

However, there was no need for him to complain about this to the people in the Speed ​​Room.

Leng Yuchan came over and said, "Deputy Headmaster, where are those women from the Arabs and Persians going to be settled?"

These people were neither official servants nor criminals. They were brought back to Lin'an by Yang Yuan out of pity and on his own initiative. So he had to settle them himself.

Yang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "As for them... let's send them to my house first."

Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin immediately both revealed a strange look.

When Yang Yuan saw it, he hurriedly explained: "That is a large house I just bought. It is currently being renovated and I have never lived in it.

I have been so busy with official duties that I have never been there, but I know where the place is and I can temporarily place them there..."

Leng Yuchan suddenly realized: "Is that so? Then I..."

Xue Bingxin dodged and got in front of Leng Yuchan, smiling sweetly: "Master, let me go!"

Xue Bingxin thought that if Leng Yatou knew the address of Yang Yuan's home, it would be even more serious!

Xue Bingxin said: "I went to Yanpu, but I haven't done anything yet.

Leng Zuoya went into the sea to kill whales, capture thieves and arrest robbers, how hard it was. Now it's just a small matter, why not let me do it for you!"

Leng Yuchan glanced at Xue Bingxin coldly. She always felt that Xue Bingxin's words to her were full of thorns, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Yang Yuan didn't think much about it, and nodded, "Okay, my house is in Renmeifang..."

Having said this, Yang Yuan suddenly stopped.

Xue Bingxin said with a smile: "No way, Si Gong, you can't even tell me where your home is?"

Yang Yuan patted his forehead and smiled bitterly, "It's not that I can't explain it clearly, I just suddenly thought that although there is a place to stay there, there is no bedding, and it is not very convenient to wash and eat in the early morning."

"Well, I'll trouble you, Xue Youya, to help me send them to the 'Lu's Mule and Horse Inn' on Houshi Street.

If there aren't enough guest rooms there, let these girls squeeze in first and make do with it. After all, it's more convenient to bathe and eat there."

"Ah, going to...the coach house?" The smile on Xue Bingxin's face disappeared.

Leng Yuchan smiled sweetly, and the pair of dimples on her cheeks were indescribably vivid:

"Since Xue Youya has volunteered to go to Houshi Street, I will accompany the deputy head of the room to take the prisoner to the Privy Council."

She still called Yang Yuan the deputy head of the house.

Xue Bingxin changed the name of Yang Yuan to a more intimate one: Si Gong.

To be honest, Leng Yuchan and Yang Yuan's relationship is much closer than Xue Bingxin's now.

But because it was Xue Bingxin who called him "Si Gong" first, Leng Yuchan refused to do so.

Xue Bingxin wanted to get "close" to Yang Yuan naturally, so that after Yang Yuan took the bait, it would be more convincing for Yu Chan to see his true face.

But she didn't expect that Leng Yuchan was a very calm and rational person.

After Leng Yuchan discovered that she had developed feelings for Yang Yuan, she also knew that this relationship should not happen. At that time, she was secretly trying to wield the sword of wisdom to cut off the emotional ties and make this relationship, which had not yet happened, come to an end.

Just at this moment, Xue Bingxin came in smartly and became the catfish that muddied the water.

Jealousy and resentment became the best fuel, pouring on the flickering flame in Leng Yuchan's heart...

Yang Yuan hadn't done anything yet, but the two little sisters were already secretly competing with each other.

(End of this chapter)