Painting Doctor Jinhua

After a thrilling battle with the wind and waves, the ship finally arrived in Pengcheng.

When getting off the boat, a group of cavalrymen came galloping towards this side. When they got closer, they found that they were Gao Changgong's personal guards who had been divided into two groups before.

"Prince, we have been waiting here for a long time!"

The leading Zhao Wu and Yang Zhi jumped off their horses and bowed to Gao Changgong.

"Are the prince and princess okay?"

The two men looked up with concern in their eyes, and suddenly saw the injured Nie Yinniang and a group of assassins dressed as boat trackers, and immediately pointed the sharp blades in their hands at these people.

"Who are you?" Zhao Wu asked sternly.

Zhao Wu was originally the assassin of Hu Taishou of Luoyang. He had been ordered by Hu to assassinate Gao Changgong many times before. Later, when he was delivering a letter to Hu Taishou's cousin Hu Guojiu, he learned that they were secretly colluding with the enemy to frame Gao Changgong in the future. So Zhao Wu turned to the light and helped Gao Changgong eliminate the archers and ambushes who assassinated him.

Afterwards, Gao Changgong took Zhao Wu under his command.

Therefore, Zhao Wu had an extremely keen intuition about the assassin's identity.

Similarly, Nie Yinniang also felt the same murderous aura from Zhao Wu.

After seeing this group of intimidating black-armored soldiers, Nie Yinniang's momentum quickly weakened, and she knelt down with the assassins behind her.

"We are willing to serve the prince and his wife from now on!" Nie Yinniang said, and at the same time, she took out a secret letter and a brocade bag from her waist and handed them to Xiao Jinyu. "To show my sincerity, Yinniang is willing to present the antidote of the poison that I used on you gentlemen before, as well as the secret letter sent by my employer, to the princess!"

Just as Xiao Jinyu was about to take it, Fenghuang snatched it away like lightning. After confirming that there were no problems with the letter and the brocade bag, she handed it to Xiao Jinyu.

Xiao Jinyu opened the letter and saw only one sentence written on it: Pengcheng Lulianghong, if you kill Lanling King and the women around him, you will be rewarded with 100,000 coins. If you succeed, come to Pengcheng Fengxianju to claim the reward!

"The letter came from Yebei City in Qi State. My employer did not tell me his name, but it is not difficult to guess that the person who has a grudge against His Royal Highness Lanling Wang must be someone in the court of Northern Qi. This... is all the information I know."

"Pengcheng Fengxianju?" Phoenix narrowed his eyes curiously.

Gao Changgong's expression also changed slightly.

When he first met Xiao Jinyu, there was an assassination in Fengxianju. Could it be that Fengxianju...

"It is considered as a secret base of our employer. The people inside are all spies trained by the one in the Bronze Sparrow Palace in Ye City."

"Did you prepare the poison given to the Xiao family before?" Xiao Jinyu asked.

Nie Yinniang suddenly felt cold sweats coming out, but as a qualified assassin, the ability to remain calm in the face of adversity was a skill she had trained herself to develop from breaking out from the siege in the hunting grounds.

"No, Lady Yin only knows how to assassinate, not how to prepare medicine. These medicines were all given by the employer!"

"How long have you been in contact with her like this?" Xiao Jinyu asked again.

"It's been twelve years!"

"Then you are very loyal to her!"

Xiao Jinyu sighed, a martial arts assassin who had maintained contact with an employer for twelve years, if he was not loyal to this employer, then there must be some reason that compelled him to maintain this relationship.

"Princess, Yin Niang is an assassin, and the assassins she employs need to eat. Since that employer is willing to spend money, we must keep in touch with her!"

"So, gentlemen of the Xiao family, how much money did she give each of you?" Xiao Jinyu asked again.

Faced with this question, Nie Yinniang felt as if she had fallen into an ice kiln. It was not that she was afraid of the princess, but the uneasy conscience had been tormenting her for many years, and she did not want to mention the matter again.

"Fifty thousand coins per person!" She hesitated for a moment and replied, "Oh no, it's fifty thousand coins for a bottle of poison!"

"Fifty thousand coins per person?" Xiao Jinyu couldn't help but sneer, with a sparkle in her eyes, "Sure enough, you can afford the price!"

"However, I did not kill the men of the Xiao family. I just gave Princess Yunyin a few bottles of poison and taught her how to use the poison as my employer said!" Nie Yinniang explained.

"You didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of you. Does it make any difference?"

Xiao Jinyu scolded him harshly, then calmed down and said loudly: "Now the Cizhou Kiln in Xuzhou belongs to the prince and me. I can not only make it profitable, but also make the porcelain produced here famous all over the world! By then, the wealth we hold in our hands is beyond your imagination.

Therefore, what we can give you is beyond your imagination!

Nie Yinniang, if you really want to show your loyalty, then you should go to Fengxianju with two heads in your hands. Not only must you take the 100,000 yuan from your employer, but we will also uproot this stronghold!"

What an arrogant tone!

Nie Yinniang couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Such a delicate young lady who looked like a fairy was so bold in her bold words, and she looked inexplicably imposing!

The assassins behind her were even more surprised. Originally, these assassins were reluctant to assassinate Lanling King without Nie Yinniang telling them the truth, so hearing such bold words at this moment, they were even more excited.

"Yes, Princess, Lady Yin, we are all willing to do this to show our loyalty!"

……

When Nie Yinniang arrived at Fengxianju carrying two packages stained with blood, the place was still full of guests. The guests who were drinking and chatting were suddenly frightened to see a woman coming with two packages stained with blood, and they scattered like birds and beasts, quickly fleeing the tavern.

Only the shopkeeper and a waiter changed their expressions.

The waiter ran over and asked, "Sir, what would you like to order?"

"Money, one hundred thousand coins!" Nie Yinniang raised her head and smiled charmingly. At the same time, she placed the bloody package in her hand on the table and said, "Ask your master to exchange it for one hundred thousand coins!"

The waiter and the shopkeeper looked at each other, and their faces changed.

The shopkeeper came over and said with a smile, "Madam, could you open the package first and let us check it?"

Nie Yinniang smiled at him again, then threw the package directly at the shopkeeper's face. The shopkeeper was quick-witted and dodged quickly. The package hit the opposite wall, and a pile of red, plaster-like stuff sprayed all over the floor.

As she threw it, Nie Yinniang's sword stretched out like a snake, pointing directly at the shopkeeper. Seeing that things were not going well, the shopkeeper immediately overturned the table to block it, and at the same time jumped to a corner of the wall, picked up an axe and started fighting with Nie Yinniang.

"Nie Yinniang, what are you doing? Do you want to betray your master?" the shopkeeper shouted.

"Oh, what do you mean by betrayal? The master didn't even tell us her name, and she asked us to work for her. How could she have trusted us? Since she never trusted us, there is no question of betrayal!"

"Besides, when did she ever fulfill her promise to me? I'm afraid that even this 100,000 yuan was just a lie."

"If I really killed Prince Lanling and his princess, would she have to take my head to pay for their lives?"

As he asked, the sword had already emitted countless rays of light, smashing the tables and chairs in the tavern into pieces!

After a few moves, the shopkeeper had nowhere to hide. He was so frightened that he couldn't help but shout out, and called out the other strong men hiding in the tavern.

Among these people, there were both Xianbei Hu people and Han people, about twenty of them, who quickly surrounded Nie Yinniang. At the same time, the assassins who were lying in ambush outside the tavern waiting to come with Nie Yinniang also rushed in.

There was a fierce battle in the tavern, with swords flashing and blood and flesh flying everywhere!

At the back of the tavern, a pair of eyes were observing everything that was happening inside through a curtain. But when he was watching intently, another sword was silently pressed against his neck.

This was a man about 25 or 26 years old. A deadly sword suddenly stretched out from behind him. The man was so scared that he quickly raised his hands and begged for mercy:

"This knight has something to say, please put down your sword first, okay?"

"Turn around!" the person behind him said coldly.