wait a minute

Chapter 319
"Clang clang clang~"

"Come, come, drink..."

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Ye Jingtang led the horse and entered the city from the south gate of Jinyang City. The scenery in front of him suddenly changed, and a long bluestone street appeared in his vision.

There are brightly lit pavilions and pavilions on both sides of the street, and the sound of silk and bamboo can be heard from inside. Many pedestrians hold small umbrellas and walk on the street with light snow.

Fan Qinghe got off his horse and walked in front of him holding the rein. As a foreigner, he was still introducing Ye Jingtang, a native of Wei:
"This is Jin Street. After the opening of trade between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Beiliang caravans often entered through Songyan Pass, the gateway of Yazhou, and transported their goods to Jinyang City. They all held banquets and transactions on this street. I used to run east I came here when I was running west..."

Yejingtang walked around Liangzhou and Shazhou many times in the past, but it was the first time to visit this place. Looking at the street full of feasting and feasting, he exclaimed:

"I thought the frontiers were poor, but I didn't expect Jinyang City to be so prosperous..."

"Liangzhou is poor because there are wolves and tigers outside the West Sea. If you don't have money, you can't mess with it. You can't get any oil or water. Yazhou is different. There are mineral deposits everywhere in the territory. Outside the customs is the hinterland of Beiliang. It is fertile and rich. It’s worth it; the two countries have deployed heavy troops in the central part, because the national power is still there after the east and west wings are lost, and the central part is lost and directly changes the dynasty..."

Ye Jingtang didn't know much about these things, so he didn't interrupt, but just listened to Fan Qinghe's explanation while walking.

Backed by Yun'an, Yazhou is the gate of the Great Wei Kingdom and the base of the emperor. It has been an area supported by the imperial court since ancient times.

Although the imperial court did not say so clearly, there are indeed more officials from Jiangzhou and Yazhou than in other places.Because of the care of the imperial court, there are naturally many literati in Yazhou who are engaged in official careers. You can see literati jubilees everywhere on the streets, and there are not a few who are both civil and military with swords and swords.

Yejingtang walked along the street, and when passing by a resplendent and resplendent restaurant, he also found that there was still a literary conference in it, many scholars and ladies came in and out, and the door was full of cars and horses.

Ye Jingtang, as a warrior, has little interest in this kind of place.

As the queen of the tribe, Fan Qinghe had to learn everything since she was a child. In fact, she knew how to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but when she ran to the literati, she probably could only make a fool of herself. She just glanced at the chariots and horses outside the restaurant:

"There are quite a few people from Beiliang joining in the fun... It seems to be the flag of Wanbao Building, and it is probably here to discuss business..."

Ye Jingtang followed his eyes and saw that there was a rather large carriage on the side of the street where the carriage was parked, with the word 'Hua' written on it, and there were servants waiting beside it. Apart from luxury, there was nothing else to be seen. He opened his mouth and said:

"The last time I bought a sundial in Langxuan City, it seemed that it came from Wanbao Building, but it was taken away by Fairy Lu...Wanbao Building is very powerful in Beiliang?"

Fan Qinghe said casually: "The wealthy merchants in Yanjing are very rich, and they often send caravans to Xihai to buy medicinal materials and minerals, but it has nothing to do with Jianghu. I have never asked who is behind it..."

Ye Jingtang reckoned in his heart that it should be similar to Yun'an's Longyin Tower. The owner is a prince and general, and the business is so big that no one dares to touch it. Naturally, ordinary people can't find out who is behind it.

Thinking of the Dragon Yin Tower, Ye Jingtang was a little hungry, but it was not suitable to take flower wine with Miss Fan, so he found a good-looking restaurant on the street, and walked in with Fan Qinghe...
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hooves, hoofs...

The horses passed by outside the pavilion, and the men and women who were busy in the world went to the distance together.

On the second floor of the building, the sound of reciting poems and prose can be heard everywhere. A maid with a bookish air stood at the window and stared intently at the men and women going away. After a long time, a word came from the room:
"What are you looking at?"

"Oh." The servant girl turned her head, looked at the bead curtain in the room, and said with a smile: "Miss, a knight-errant passed by just now, and looked this way, he looks so handsome, white but not weak, handsome and beautiful Without losing masculinity, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes walking like a tiger, it looks like the one walking out of the painting..."

"Women are beautiful and men are handsome. There are countless handsome rangers in the Jianghu. Most of them are brave and ruthless. The girls around me change every three days. They do unkind things and their virtues are not as good as those who have just studied for a few years. Shutong, don't be fooled by those people..."

"Miss is really good at seeing people. There was a girl next to that ranger just now..."

"Hey... take this poem and give Master Li the palm of your hand."

The white jade hand opened the jasper bead curtain, and handed out a piece of paper full of elegant handwriting.

The maid hurriedly stepped forward to take it with both hands, then walked out of the room, passed through many young scholars, and came to a teahouse inside the pavilion.

There were more than ten people sitting in the teahouse, all of whom were famous Confucian officials in Jinyang City. Among them was a middle-aged man, wearing a Beiliang official robe. His name was Li Si. , led the team into the pass to meet the Great Wei Empress.

During the peace period of the two dynasties, there were frequent exchanges, and even foreign envoys were stationed in the capital of the other side to communicate at any time.

When the team of envoys came to Jinyang, the county guards here naturally had a grand banquet, and this literary meeting came from this; and the people who recited poems and composed Fu below were all students from the Imperial College and Imperial Hospital in Beiliang, and they went with them to the cloud. An exchange study.

The servant Li Si was sitting at the banquet, and there was an old man who was a counselor next to him. He was Li Si's master to the outside world, but if Ye Jingtang was there, he would be able to recognize this old man as Shen Lin, the protector of Qianjimen.

Many disciples of Qianjimen work in the Ministry of Industry. As the acting head, Shen Lin has a good connection with the imperial court.

The servant girl entered the tea room and put the paper on the table. The servant Li Si picked it up and observed it for a while, then handed it out to everyone.

After discussing with each other for a while, they carefully wrote down the comments and handed them back to the maid to take them back.

The atmosphere in the teahouse was joyful, and Shen Lin also participated in it, looking like a learned and talented old Confucian scholar.

After the chat was almost over, Li Si got up and went to the back to rest after the Wenhui was about to end, and Shen Lin also got up to accompany him.

After closing the door, Li Si, who was originally drunk, regained his clarity and raised his hand to signal:

"Mr. Shen, sit down."

Shen Lin has a very high status in Jianghu, but in the officialdom he still gave face to the white Taoists, and motioned Li Si to sit in the main seat, and then sat down with his robe lightly lifted, and continued to discuss business matters:
"Continuously plotting against the Great Wei Emperor and Ye Jingtang, even if Duan Shengji didn't reveal his face, it is impossible to gain a foothold as the leader of Duan Beiya's righteous path. These two days, he is destroying his deeds so as not to implicate other hidden stakes...

"As for the matter that the court entrusted, I'm afraid it will be difficult. The old man has already made a move a few days ago, but it's a pity that Duan Shengji came a step late and was escaped by Ye Jingtang. Ye Jingtang is already alert and wants to ambush again. Beat the sky."

The servant Li Si was holding the teacup, his brows were clearly worried.

He was ordered to go to Yun'an to meet the Great Wei Empress during this trip. When he set off, the two countries were peaceful and peaceful, but halfway there, an orphan of Tianlang King suddenly appeared and directly blew up the western border. The atmosphere between the two dynasties Also cast a layer of haze.

Zuo Xian Wang Li Jian made a mistake and left the mess to the court without solving the problem of Ye Jing Tang.

The imperial court wanted the stability of the tribes in the West Sea, so they couldn't let the descendants of Queen Tianlang live in the world, but they couldn't send troops into Wei to arrest them. In the territory, secretly get rid of this trouble.

The authority of the resources given by the imperial court is quite large, and anyone and everything that can be called can be called, but in the territory of the Great Wei, the risk of assassinating Wu Kui, who is highly regarded by the empress, is probably the same as assassinating the empress with a map of a hidden dagger. Nine times out of ten, Long Yan would be dragged to sacrifice the flag by the furious empress, and even if the incident failed, Emperor Liang would have to ask for his head.

Li Si rubbed his teacup, and said softly: "If the orphan of King Tianlang is not eliminated, it is impossible for all the ministries in the West Sea to love me. No matter how difficult this matter is, we have to find a way. Everyone knows that Mr. Shen has no plans to spare. The characters you can't deal with, now the imperial court wants people to give people and pay for them, as long as they can get rid of Ye Jingtang, Duan Shengji can be a dead soldier. With this help, Mr. Shen told me that it was difficult, Then who can I turn to to complain about my grievances?"

Shen Lin was indeed confident before, but the last time he plotted against Ye Jingtang, when Ye Jingtang was unprepared and suddenly in danger, he could think of a way to avoid danger and break through in an instant. Tang fell into the pit for the second time?

However, this time the imperial court paid a lot of money, and anyone under the Four Sages could invite them. As for the supplies, he wanted a few taels of snow lake flowers as bait, and the imperial court could probably provide them.

Although it is not very easy to plot, but as long as there are enough people and find an opportunity to place orders, Ye Jingtang can be dealt with head-on, and there is no need to use brains to plot.

Thinking of this, Shen Lin felt a little relieved, and said:

"If Duanshengji can really spare his life to be loyal to the country, this old man is sure to do it..."

boom -

While the two were talking, there was a loud noise in the city.

Shen Lin frowned, turned to look at the source of the sound, got up and opened the window again.

Li Simei also came to the window and looked up, but saw the brightly lit center of the city, broken wood and rubble flying across the sky.

Amidst the loud noise, a figure pierced through the air, bringing out a vortex in the wind and snow, overwhelming the overwhelming momentum, instantly turning the feasting Golden Street into dead silence...
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Compared with the bustling Golden Street, the East Market is much more chaotic. At night, the market is closed, only the Goulan wine shop outside is still open, and many martial artists and idlers gather on the street.

The blizzard and snow covered the old street with a thin layer of white quilt.

Wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, She Long walked side by side with Shang Jianli, who was also dressed in the same attire. Because one is tall, one is short, one is strong and the other is thin, walking in the dark alleyway, it feels a bit desperate.

She Long has worked as a police officer for half his life, and he is already familiar with investigating cases. He listened to the trivial words coming from behind the fence while walking, and still did not forget to gossip with his partner:

"Jianli, you don't eat, drink, prostitute or gamble. Men live more chastely than women, so I wonder what's the meaning of life..."

Hu Jianli walks with his hands behind his back, with a much more serious demeanor:

"Master Ye still doesn't eat, drink, prostitute or gamble, why don't you ask Master Ye?"

"Master Ye is handsome and skilled in martial arts. There are so many girls around him that he can't take care of him alone. How can he care about eating, drinking, whoring and gambling? How can you compare with others?"

She Long turned his head: "You said that you are not bad in appearance, and your martial arts are not low. In the past, many wives and ladies were interested in you and wanted you to be a son-in-law, but you just pretended to be impermanent and ignored you with a cold face. Now But, how old are you in your 30s, and you don't even have a daughter-in-law."

"Master Tu is in his 40s, and he doesn't have a wife."

"You think Lao Tu doesn't want to marry a wife? With his physique, I'm worried about marrying a cow to death. Which girl dares to marry? Lao Tu was too fat when he was young, and he practiced hard. I want to practice Xuanyuan Chao's body, but the result is very good, all the fat in my body has been trained into tendons, the body shape is not missing at all, it is still round..."

The corner of Shang Jianli's mouth twitched imperceptibly, but as the younger brother of Liu Sha, it's not easy to laugh at seniors, so he asked seriously:

"Singing Dragon Picture can be reborn. Master Tu has practiced it. Can it solve this problem?"

"No, the old Tu Gu Xiang was born like this, practicing the Dragon Crying Picture, he will not become a thin and tall man, but will only become an indestructible fat ball..."

While talking nonsense, the two came to a large gambling house outside Dongshi.

There is a "tiger" banner hanging at the entrance of the gambling house, and there are more than ten thugs patrolling, and the people who enter and exit are all middle-class merchants in the city.

Shang Jianli raised his hand to suppress his words, glanced around the outside of the casino, his body rose like catkins with the wind, and landed silently on the second floor of the casino, then hung upside down under the eaves, and looked inside from the gap in the window.

Behind the window is a tea room, which is quite clean, and there are some medicines and food on the table.

A tall man, wearing a brocade robe, sat respectfully in front of the screen, talking in a low voice:
"The account book has been destroyed overnight. To be on the safe side, several insiders who were in charge of the warehouse also silenced it. It is difficult for Mr. Chen from the government to deal with it. The silence is too loud..."

Shang Jianli looked behind the screen, but saw a nine-foot long spear lying horizontally on the desk behind, the sharp point of the spear exuding a deep cold light under the candlelight.

Under the desk was an Arhat couch covered with bright yellow brocade. A young man in a black brocade robe was sitting idly on the couch with one hand on his knee, holding a wine glass in his right hand.

At this time, the eyes that are as bright as the black star are slightly lifted up, looking at the window through the screen, the eyes are calm and indifferent, as if sitting in the palace of the king of hell, watching the lonely ghost who suddenly visits!
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Shang Jianli has never seen the true face of Duanshengji, but after looking at the person behind the screen for a moment, he understands who is inside, his heart shakes, and he immediately slaps the cornice and retreats:

"run!"

"Chong-"

The loud and clear howling of the eagle pierced through the boundless wind and snow, and sounded high in the sky.

At almost the same moment, a piercing sound came from the room:

call out--

A white jade wine cup, pierced through the screen and windows, flew out from the house, like a strong bow and arrow, the wound gradually left the chest and abdomen when hit in the air.

bang——

Flying away, the wounded gradually retreated, coughed up a mouthful of blood with a blast in his chest, and fell into the house below.

But at the first moment when the movement was wrong, She Long had already soared into the sky like a green onion on dry land, and rushed to the second floor of the gambling house.

I never thought that the moment his feet left the ground, the window of the casino exploded, and a long spear with a shining cold light rushed out first, pointing directly at the unbalanced wound in the air and gradually leaving his chest and abdomen, behind the long spear came a figure in a black brocade robe, like The dragon python broke free and crashed into the snowy sky.

wow-

Seeing this momentum, She Long knew something was wrong, but if he didn't give help, Jianli would die from the injury, so he kicked on the wall and flew up, smashing towards the spearhead with one arm.

But the gap between them was too huge, Duan ShengJi, who crashed out of the window, didn't even lower his head, and shot his backhand into the air.

Sa——

She Long could barely shift his figure, and the two-foot spear pierced through his right shoulder, and the iron skin and copper bones became a display. The only effect at this time was to prevent half of his body from being exploded, pierced by the terrifyingly powerful spear. , nailed directly to the ground.

chap!
Before Shang Jianli landed, seeing this scene, he swung his hands forward, six gold needles flew out from his sleeves, drew six arcs in the air, and shot at Duan Shengji's body.

shhh-

Black and white impermanence is called the master examiner by the people of the rivers and lakes. It is true that the strength of a single person is not weak; but the two were carefully cultivated by the court. From the skills they learned to the strategies to deal with the enemy, they complement each other. As long as the stragglers in the super rivers and lakes are dispatched together, their combat effectiveness will definitely not be weak.

But it is a pity that when meeting the contemporary Wu Kui, this kind of seamless tacit cooperation can only delay the time of sudden death by a few breaths.

Duanshengji held the gun with one hand, and at the moment when the golden needles flew out, he drew out the long spear and circled around his side, understatedly sticking to the six golden needles, and then swept forward with the spear.

Sa——

With one shot, six golden needles swept together, together with the flying snow in the front yard of the gambling house, were thrown out, pointing directly at the way they came.

As soon as Shang Jianli landed on the wall, before he had time to exert his strength, the six golden needles passed through his chest, and some blood mist burst out behind him.

Pupu~

Although he failed to meet Duan Shengji, this move bought She Long time.

At the moment when the spear point was pulled out, She Long, who was nailed to the ground, knew that he was invincible. He kicked the dirt violently, slid towards the courtyard wall, broke through the wall and turned into the alley, got up and ran wildly.

And Shang Jianli didn't care about the pain, he bounced up again when he landed, flew to the street outside the wall, and fled in the opposite direction.

Duan Shengji behaved like a stroll in the courtyard, kicking the stone pier placed at the entrance of the gambling house, the stone pier weighing more than a hundred kilograms flew out immediately, smashing the eaves of the courtyard wall, and in the blink of an eye, he caught up with the wound that hadn't landed yet. away from the front.

bang——

But Duanshengji himself flew up, leaped over the wall and held a gun with one hand, and stabbed She Long in the back in the air.

Sa!
She Long, who was running with all his strength, felt ashamed without turning his head. He flew forward and rolled, trying to struggle again.

And at this time, there was a sudden change in the sky above the side buildings!
sassy-

The whirling sharp blade broke through the airflow, and the screaming sound from far to near suppressed the noise of the city in an instant!

Duansheng was still in mid-air, and when he sensed something was wrong, he immediately pushed back with the tip of the spear, and the next moment, a bright long knife flew over the side of the building.

The knife is three feet long, three wide and two and a half fingers long, with a chilong carved on the ring head, whirling towards it with the momentum of thunder, and instantly cut a groove on the wall, passing through the roadway unabated, and piercing through the opposite side The wall barely stopped until it was nailed into the porch of the gambling house, and the end of the knife trembled violently in mid-air.

buzzing-

Duansheng Silent Light looked to the side, but saw a black shadow breaking through the ridge of the roof, like an eagle hitting the sky, falling to the ground and directly stepping on the beams of the house and popping out, wrapped in the wind and snow, bringing out a spiral vortex in the midair, heading straight towards the casino. shoot!

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(End of this chapter)