A knife in love

Chapter 24

Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei searched for a long time, but found nothing.The two looked at the river beside the road, and saw that the water flow was gentle and the bottom was clear, but the killers who jumped into the water disappeared without a trace like fish.

The two moved forward again, knowing that a strong enemy was watching, so they were extremely careful.

It's just that they walked for more than ten miles, but no enemy appeared again.At this time, the two had entered a town, although there were only a hundred households, it was quite lively.It was already past noon at this time, both of them were a little hungry, so they walked into a small tavern by the side of the road, and each ordered a bowl of hot noodle soup.

This tavern is pitifully small, and only sells hot noodle soup and steamed buns.It's just that the restaurant is full, with more than 20 people crowded.Li Qiufeng, Yan Dufei and four other diners were crowded in front of a table, and their arms would touch each other when they raised their hands, so it was quite embarrassing.I heard several people at the same table who were munching on the noodles, making a snoring sound, mixed with the smell of garlic.Li Qiufeng has lived in the palace for a long time, and Yan Dufei is also the master who is used to eating big fish and big meat. Seeing this scene, he frowned.

The shopkeeper brought out the noodles, Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufeng were so hungry that they immediately served bowls and ate them, regardless of the people around them.Unexpectedly, although this restaurant is dilapidated, the noodles are cooked extremely deliciously, and the two were greatly impressed.

At this moment, someone outside the store suddenly heard shouting: "Killer! Killer!"

The store suddenly became chaotic, many people ran out, and the store owner jumped up and shouted: "Masters, pay the bill first!"

Those people run faster.

Yan Dufei and Li Qiufeng ate up the noodles, then Li Qiufeng took out a piece of loose silver and handed it to the shopkeeper, saying, "You don't need to look for it."

The store owner was crying, but he didn't expect Li Qiufeng to make such a generous move, and he immediately beamed with joy, thanking him all the time.A bowl of hot noodle soup costs only eight copper coins, and this piece of loose silver can be exchanged for a hundred copper coins.I originally thought that I lost a lot of money today because I ran away some diners. In this way, not only did I not lose money, but I made some money. How could the store not be overjoyed?

Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei left the tavern, Yan Dufei smiled and said: "Brother Li donates money with righteousness, I admire you."

Li Qiufeng smiled slightly and said, "Brother Yan was joking. If brother had money, he wouldn't have gone through this with you."

Yan Dufei wondered, "How do you say that?"

Li Qiufeng said: "People in the world think that Jinyiwei spends money like running water, and everyone has a lot of money. Who knows the hard work? Brothers have worked hard for so many years. Although they have a hundred households, they are military officers of the sixth rank, and their monthly salary is only ten shimi. Take it to the market to exchange it for silver taels, deduct the loss and errand expenses, and get back more than nine taels at most. This amount of money is not enough to support a family, even to rent a house in the capital. Those who only have three taels a month Brothers with silver salaries live even more poorly. There are indeed some people in Jinyiwei who go out to solve cases and make a fortune. It’s just that most of the brothers also honestly eat the royal family’s food, relying on this little salary to survive.”

Yan Dufei said: "I've never heard of this before. It's rumored that Jin Yiwei is very rich. He goes out with tall horses, brocade clothes and jade belts. When he arrives at the prefecture and county yamen, the local officials have no time to curry favor. How can they have no money?"

Li Qiufeng smiled wryly and said: "There are rumors in the market that there are countless things to do. Just like flying fish clothes, they are all sewn in the palace. If they are accidentally broken, you have to pay to repair them yourself. I just hope that this time I can share with Brother Yan." For the sum of money, my brother took the silver and hid far away in the south of the Yangtze River, no longer caring about the affairs of the rivers and lakes."

While the two were talking, they had followed the flow of people to the street corner.But seeing that a hundred people had gathered in front, there were exclamations from time to time, mixed with shouts and the sound of weapons clashing.

Knowing that someone was doing something, the two hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.It's just that the street is small, and there are many crowds of onlookers. When the two squeezed to the front, each of them was sweating profusely.

But I saw a group of police officers holding steel knives and iron rulers, surrounding the two of them.

When Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei saw the two people who were besieged, they couldn't help but tremble, thinking to themselves: "How could it be her?!"

But I saw a man in Tsing Yi wearing a deep hat and holding a long sword, it was the girl from the Murong family who had fought fiercely with Yu Changyuan.

Behind her is a woman.The woman was more than 30 years old, wearing coarse clothes, with disheveled hair and a sallow complexion. She was hiding behind the girl in fright, her whole body trembling.

A catcher said with a dark smile: "Why do you protect this prisoner? Give her to us, and you will be the reward."

Another policeman waved the iron ruler in his hand and said: "You kid is protecting her, could it be that you have an affair with her? Haha, haha."

All the arresters immediately burst into laughter, and some even teased the two of them with obscene language.But seeing a few policemen laying down outside the crowd, they must have been knocked to the ground by the girl from the Murong family.

Li Qiufeng and Yan Dufei had seen the girl make a move, and thought to themselves how could these police officers trap her here?While hesitating, I saw the girl pulling the woman behind her, and she was about to break out of the encirclement.Two policemen brandished steel knives and stopped in front of her, while several other policemen held weapons and slashed at the woman behind her.The woman's footsteps were heavy, and she obviously didn't know martial arts.The girl was going to swing her sword at the two police officers standing in front of her, but when she saw other police officers attacking the woman behind her, she had to withdraw her long sword and force the police officers back.Just like this, she was forced to stop again, unable to break out of the encirclement.

Li Qiufeng said in a low voice: "This girl is to protect that woman, otherwise these arresters would have been killed long ago. It's a pity that this girl has too little experience in the world. Those arresters are just to arrest people, how dare they kill people in the street? She You can knock down these arresters first, and then save the woman to escape."

Yan Dufei said: "Look at this girl is only seventeen or eighteen years old, how does she know about these blood licking activities? If Murong Qiushui knew about this, wouldn't she be so angry that she vomited blood?!"

At this time, Li Qiufeng suddenly discovered that four policemen secretly climbed up the surrounding walls, stretched their bows and set arrows, and aimed at the girls in the circle.

There was only a sharp sound, and the two policemen shot the arrows, respectively shooting at the young girl's throat and the temple of the woman behind her.The girl brandished her long sword, trying to block the arrow.There were two more "whoosh" sounds, and the two policemen hiding on the wall behind her shot arrows at her and the woman's back.

In this way, it is not difficult for the girl to fend off the two feathered arrows aimed at her front and back, but it is absolutely impossible to avoid the two arrows aimed at the woman.If she blocked the arrow for that woman, she would definitely be hurt by the arrow.

At this moment, only the sound of hidden weapons piercing through the air could be heard, and the four long arrows had been shot flying by someone with copper coins, and they were stabbed obliquely on the ground.

All the arresting officers were shocked and looked around in panic.The chief of the police shouted loudly: "Masters are here to handle the case, which life-or-death thing dares to ruin the good deeds of the master?!"

The girl took this opportunity to raise her left hand, and fired four silver needles in a row. After hearing several screams, the four policemen who were hiding on the wall covered their right eyes and fell down. Blind.

The arresters shouted and rushed forward again, the girl waved her sword to block it, but she wanted to protect the woman behind her, so she couldn't move forward or retreat freely, was restrained everywhere, almost got cut by the arrester's sword several times.

Li Qiufeng shot the feather arrow away, Yan Dufei said with a smile: "We have a predestined relationship with this girl, we might as well do it to the end, and help her dismiss these arresters. If there is a chance in the future, it will be good to meet Murong Qiushui Talk."

Li Qiufeng nodded, but without pulling out his long saber, he strode forward, poked his hands fiercely, and grabbed the back of the necks of the two policemen, and spat out the inner force in his palms, the two policemen were gone. Since he flew out, he fell heavily on the ground and couldn't even get up.But seeing Li Qiufeng rushing into the crowd, pointing and beating, in just a moment, these arresting officers were beaten up and down, lying on the ground.

The chief catcher was kicked two feet away by Li Qiufeng, he stood up enduring the pain, pointed at Li Qiufeng and said: "You dare to beat the official, don't you want to die?"

Without even looking at him, Li Qiufeng reached out and took out a bronze medal from his bosom, held it up in his hand and said, "Jin Yiwei handles the case, and the idlers wait to avoid it!"

When the onlookers heard the word "Jinyiwei", they immediately fled in all directions like a battalion was blown up. In the blink of an eye, only Li Qiufeng, Yan Dufei, the two women, and a group of police officers rolling and moaning on the ground were left in the middle of the street. .

When the chief catcher saw the bronze medal in Li Qiufeng's hand, his legs softened and he sat on the ground immediately.Li Qiufeng shouted: "Which Yamen are you from?"

"It's easy to teach adults to know that the little ones are the arresting officers of the Changping County Yamen..."

The chief catcher struggled to stand up, and replied with a look of fear.

"Changping County? You are the government servants in the county, why did you come here?"

The chief of the catcher bowed and said: "It's the secret report from the underground of Yong'an City. The prisoner was found in this area. The county magistrate issued a document asking the villain to bring his brothers to arrest the prisoner. I didn't expect to meet an adult who was handling the case." , the little one is blinded by these dog eyes, and actually fights with adults..."

Li Qiufeng frowned and said, "I'll handle this case, you go back."

Seeing that the reward of 50 taels of silver that he was about to get flew away, the chief arrester was quite unwilling, but he knew that Jin Yiwei was something he could never afford to offend, so he had to support each other and leave with the other arresters.

Li Qiufeng saw that the arrester had gone far away, and turned his head to talk to the girl.But he saw a cold light flash in front of his eyes, and the girl's long sword had pierced his throat.

(End of this chapter)