Fenghou

In the room, this tall young businessman sat in front of the bed, carefully dripped the liquid from a small porcelain bottle on the tip of an arrow, then gently spread the green liquid on the tip of the arrow with a cloth, and put it on the table to dry Hey, four similar short arrows have been placed on the table. The arrows are shining with a faint green light in the sun, and they are poisonous at first glance.

Of course this young man is not a businessman. His name is indeed Guo Changwu. Perhaps no one knows him in Jingzhao, but everyone in Jizhou on Yanshan Road knows his name. He is the adopted son of Guo Wei, the owner of a wealthy family in Jizhou. He was brought up and regarded as his own. During the brutal cleansing of the inner guards, Guo Wei's family was ransacked and beheaded. Guo Changwu escaped because he was not Guo Wei's parent and child.

But Guo Changwu did not escape to a foreign land and change his name and surname to start a new life. He was determined to avenge his adoptive father and Guo family.

Although the Guo family was purged and killed by the inner guards, Guo Changwu obviously didn't take the commander of the inner guards Zhong Huan seriously. He pointed the target of revenge at Yong Wang Chen Qing. .

At this time, there was a knock on the door suddenly, Guo Changwu was startled, and quickly covered the poisoned arrow on the table with a piece of cloth.

"Who is it?" Guo Changwu asked loudly.

"It's me!" It was the shopkeeper's voice.

Guo Changwu heaved a sigh of relief, stepped forward and opened the door, the shopkeeper smiled at the door and said, "I'm sorry to disturb Mr. Guo!"

"what's up?"

"I'm here to remind Mr. Guo that today is Friday!"

It was only then that Guo Changwu realized that he was here to ask for rent, and this inn was not good at all, he had to pay first before staying, and paid every ten days.

Guo Changwu frowned, "It's only money, what are you doing in such a hurry!"

The shopkeeper laughed and said, "The shop is run on a small budget, please forgive me, my lord!"

"Wait!"

Guo Changwu closed the door, and the shopkeeper shouted at the door: "There are still five hundred Wen for food!"

"understood!"

Guo Changwu carefully put the five poisoned arrows into the quiver, then took a small piece of silver, opened the door and handed it to the shopkeeper, "I'll give you three coins!"

"Just right! Just right!" The shopkeeper smiled and took the broken silver.

"Exactly what a fart!" Guo Changwu cursed secretly. He knew that the current black market price was one to six, and one tael of silver could be exchanged for six pennies. Then the black market merchants took the silver to Lin'an to exchange for copper coins. Lin'an was one to ten. A tael of silver is a net profit of four pennies.

Guo Changwu only had silver on him, no copper coins, and he didn't dare to go to the black market to exchange it. He was afraid that he would spoil the big things if he was caught, so he had to pay the house rent and give rewards with silver, which made the shopkeeper and the staff very happy.

At this time, Guo Changwu remembered something and asked, "May I ask the shopkeeper, when will the city gate be closed?"

The shopkeeper gave him a strange look, "Don't Mr. Guo know? Jingzhao City Gate is open day and night, everyone knows."

"Ah! This is my first time in Jingzhao, so I don't know the rules."

"No wonder!"

The shopkeeper glanced at the two loads of goods piled up in the house, and said to him: "If you sell medicine, you can go directly to the medicinal material market. There is a shop dedicated to collecting medicinal materials over there, and it is in Shanren Square in the southwest corner of the city."

"I see, thank you shopkeeper!"

Guo Changwu soon went out with his short crossbow and sword. His short crossbow was only one foot long and half a foot wide. The quiver was inserted in the bag of the trousers. This is usually a pocket pocket used by merchants to store gold and silver, and he used it to release crossbow arrows.

He soon came across the gate of King Yong's Mansion. The small vendors doing all kinds of business in this area were secret guards, and Guo Changwu also spotted it.

Guo Changwu used to be a spy of Jinbing, after special training, he is a qualified spy and a brilliant assassin.

Guo Changwu found that it was really unrealistic to assassinate in front of the mansion, so he put the assassination location on the only way that King Yong must pass to Taiji Palace. He found that this was a loophole.

Chen Qing's trip was indeed a loophole. The city wall and palace wall of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty were both double walls, that is, two city walls. The emperor travels along the walls of the city, and generally does not appear on the streets of the busy city. When he occasionally visits the minister's house, he must clear the streets and passers-by. The doors and windows on both sides of the house must be closed. The security is very strict.

It can be said that there is no one like Chen Qing who does not evade, does not clean the streets, and only goes out in a horse-drawn carriage with more than a hundred cavalry guards.

Of course, this is also related to Chen Qing's own high martial arts skills and the special carriage. The walls of his carriage are inlaid with copper sheets, which are several times stronger than shields. Even the god arm crossbow can't penetrate it. The only weakness is the window. .

The first thousand and 410 chapters nine assassination

Chen Qing stayed at Zhao Qiaoyun's place for these two nights. In the morning, Chen Qing packed up and was ready to go out.

Before going out, he came to his wife Lu Xiu's room to visit the newly born baby, a little guy who looked like a pink carved jade chisel was sleeping soundly in the cradle.

"Does it look like when Ji'er was a child?" Lu Xiu asked with a smile.

Chen Qing nodded and smiled, "It's really similar!"

"My husband named him Chen Yan, isn't it a bit like a little lady's name?" Lu Xiu was a little dissatisfied with the child's name Chen Yan.

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "There is a famous general in the Three Kingdoms named Zhang Yan, who was also a brave general who won the three armies. We named him Chen Yan to commemorate my recovery of Yanshan Road."

"Then Yingluo and Ah Ying's child, what name does the husband plan to name?"

Yingluo and Yu Ying's due date is also in these two days, Chen Qing said with a smile: "If they are both boys, which one is called Chen Min and the other is called Chen Liao, I have considered both."

Lu Xiu was really helpless, it seemed that her husband was unwilling to change the name of the child, so she could only sigh in her heart, and changed the subject, "It's been really hard for Qiaoyun and Amei during this period of time!"

"Let Director Liang help Qiaoyun, she is indeed more capable!"

"She makes me feel at ease!"

Lu Xiu glanced at her husband with a half-smile. She had a special sensitivity. She noticed that Mr. Liang looked at her husband with strange eyes, so she vaguely guessed what happened between Mr. Liang and her husband, it should be on Yanshan Road.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be explained away. As a husband and monarch, it is normal to fancy a certain lady in the palace to visit him several times. If it is a young court lady who is lucky to leave, maybe Lu Xiu will have a lot of ideas.

But if it was Mr. Liang, Lu Xiu would not have any thoughts. She knew very well that her husband would not be able to take Mr. Liang into the harem again. After all, she was not young anymore. I don't want to be troublesome.

"Husband, go! Be careful on the road."

Chen Qing leaned over and kissed the child's little cheek, and then walked to the outside room. As soon as he got to the outside room, the chief manager, Mrs. Liang, hurried in. When he saw Chen Qing head-on, he quickly stepped aside in fright and lowered his head.

Chen Qing caught a glimpse of the full mountain peak half exposed on her chest, and a desire surged in his heart, so he raised her chin and whispered in her ear: "Come to my study at night!"

Liang's pretty face flushed, Chen Qing suddenly touched her waist lightly, her whole body almost went limp.

Chen Qing smiled and walked away. Looking at the man's majestic back, Liang's feelings welled up in his heart. At this time, Lu Xiu asked in the room: "Director Liang, is that you?"

"Ma'am, it's me!"

Mrs. Liang quickly put aside her chaotic thoughts, regained her composure, and walked into the room, "Madam, I would like to ask you about the dinner arrangements for the next few days!"

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Hundreds of cavalry guarded the large carriage and went west along the East Street. After walking about two miles, they entered Suzaku Street, and then went north. All the way to the end was North Street and Tianjin Bridge.

Chen Qing hadn't moved to Yongwang Palace yet, so he could only take a carriage to the official room like this every morning. A few cavalrymen rang bells in front, and passers-by stepped aside one after another.

There is a two-story teahouse at the turn of East Street into Zhuque Street. At this time, Guo Changwu is sitting in front of a teahouse by the window. In fact, there are several restaurants and teahouses along the way that have ideal positions for assassination, but Guo Changwu chose this one. There are several alleys behind this teahouse, and running into it is like a maze. Guo Changwu finally got familiar with the road after walking several times yesterday, and he found a secret way to leave quickly.

There was a newspaper on the small table in front of him, and under the newspaper was a short crossbow that had already been wound up. At this moment, he had already seen the rattle cavalry running towards him. Behind him, dozens of paces away, hundreds of cavalry guarded a group closely. A large carriage.

"It's so big!" Guo Changwu cursed secretly, this carriage is like a house, the carriage is very big, pulled by eight horses, I am afraid that except for King Yong, no one else would dare to ride in such a carriage.

His eyes were narrowed, staring fixedly at the slowly approaching carriage, his body became stiff instinctively, his hand tightly grasped the short crossbow under the newspaper, his strange behavior was finally discovered by the staff.

In fact, the clerk had noticed this strange tea customer a long time ago. After he came in, he ordered tea without taking a sip, and kept looking out of the window absent-mindedly, as if he was reading a newspaper, but the newspaper turned out to be reversed.

At this time, the man also saw something under the newspaper. He pretended to wipe the ground, squatted down, and looked under the newspaper secretly. On the ground, trembling all over.

"This is... this is an assassin!"

The carriage passed by the teahouse, and the chance was in an instant. Guo Changwu saw a figure in the window of the car, and he raised his crossbow without hesitation and shot at it. He had worked hard on crossbow shooting, and he couldn't hit every shot with every shot, but he hit 98 shots with every shot. He's perfectly fine.

Just at this critical moment, a teapot hits the wall above his head 'Bang! 'It exploded, and the man mustered up the courage to throw out a handful of teahouses, and fled downstairs.

Guo Changwu shook his hand and let out a yelp. The arrow missed. He originally wanted to shoot through the window between the two cavalrymen, but he didn't expect his hand to shake and he missed it a little, and hit the side of the window A cavalryman's horse head, the war horse let out a violent roar, raised its front hooves high, and then fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and twitched all over.

"There are assassins!"

The cavalry who fell to the ground saw the short crossbow on the horse's head and shouted sharply.

The cavalry swarmed up, raised their huge shields to cover the car windows, and dozens of soldiers rushed into the teahouse. The man stepped on the air and fell down the stairs, falling heavily to the ground. He pointed to the upstairs and shouted, "The assassin is upstairs!" , just in black!"

The soldiers rushed up to the second floor like a gust of wind, only to see a figure jump out of the back window, "He jumped out of the window over there, chase after him!"

The soldiers rushed to the window and saw a man in black rushing into an alley. The soldiers also jumped down one after another. There was a woodshed below. Several soldiers jumped out of the woodshed and caught up.

Guo Changwu wanted to shoot the second arrow, but he realized that there was no chance, so he turned and fled, which was a little delayed.

But he was familiar with the road conditions. He turned a corner from the alley and entered another alley. He rushed up a step, pushed the door straight in, and then closed the door again. The door was not a room, but a passage leading to Suzaku Street. He ran out The passage rushed into Zhuque Street, just as a donkey cart bringing wine came. Guo Changwu got into the donkey cart and squatted behind the barrel of wine. The donkey cart entered another road and gradually went away.

At this time, Chen Qing came down from the carriage with a livid face. At this time, there would be no assassins. In fact, he was not sitting in front of the window. There was a big pillow in front of the window. The carriage shook, and the pillow also shook slightly. Feel like a person.

But Chen Qing really didn't expect that someone would assassinate him at this time, and he found the only loophole, which was the window of the moving carriage, so he was a little careless.

Chen Qing looked at the dead war horse on the ground. He saw the green color on the short crossbow arrows, and the opponent actually used poisonous arrows.

The first thousand and 420 chapters omissions

At this time, the guards brought the shopkeeper and the assistant over, and they clasped their fists together and said, "Your Highness, thanks to the buddy throwing a teapot at a critical moment, which disturbed the assassin!"

Chen Qing nodded, "He also saw that the arrow missed. Normal assassins would not make such low-level mistakes. Even if they missed, they would still shoot on the window frame."

"How did you discover the assassin?" Chen Qing asked softly.

The clerk bowed and said, "Reporting to Your Highness, that person is very weird. He ordered tea without taking a sip, just stared outside, and pretended to read a newspaper, but the villain found that his newspaper was upside down, and there seemed to be something under the newspaper. The villain pretended to squat down to wipe the water, but when he saw a crossbow, the villain was terrified."

"and then!"

"Then he stood up suddenly, raised the crossbow, and the villain threw the teapot at him with the teapot in his hand, and then fled downstairs. I didn't know it afterwards."

Chen Qing nodded, this is public opinion!At critical moments, the people will help themselves.

"What does that person look like?"

"Very young, looks to be in his early 20s. He is very thin and lean. His cheeks on both sides are as sharp as a knife. His eyes are fierce. When he came in, I thought he was asking for debts."

Chen Qing immediately said: "Reward him with 20 taels of silver!"

The buddy quickly waved his hand, "No! No! It's a villain's honor to help His Highness."

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "If you don't accept it, who will help me in the future?"

The shopkeeper thanked him for accepting it, and Chen Qing said to the shopkeeper: "You guys continue to do business! It's none of your business."

At this time, Nian Xiaowu returned with a few of his subordinates frustrated, and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty, "The humble officer failed to catch the assassin, and he ran away."

Chen Qing said coldly: "Forget it, he should have been prepared long ago. If he dares to come again, it will be the time for him to confer the title."

Sitting in the carriage, he ordered: "Continue to go to Tai Chi City!"

The carriage started and drove towards Tai Chi City...

Not long after, Zhong Huan led a large group of inner guards and sealed off the surrounding area.

Zhong Huan and Hu Yun came back from Yanshan Mansion to report on their duties together. Today is the first day to come to the Internal Guard Office. Unexpectedly, they caught up with the assassination of King Yong.

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In the small inn in Dong'an, the clerk was knocking on the door of Guo Changwu's room, "Mr. Guo, I brought you lunch!"

Guo Changwu always eats lunch in the dining hall downstairs, when will the troublemaker bring it up, and it's not even lunch time yet!There is only one explanation for all kinds of unreasonable reasons, and the guy is here to tip.

Paying the rent and giving a tip is a set of things. Guo Changwu paid the rent but forgot to tip the buddy, but the buddy did not forget and was waiting eagerly!

The clerk knocked for a long time, but found that the door was locked from the outside. Mr. Guo was obviously not there. He cursed bitterly, but looked into the room unwillingly through the crack of the door. His eyes suddenly widened, and he faintly saw Under the pillow at the head of the bed were a few ingots of white silver.

The silver was originally wrapped in cloth, but because the shopkeeper came suddenly to ask for the rent, Guo Changwu casually pulled the cloth to cover the poisoned arrows on the table, and he didn’t wrap the silver again when he left, so he stuffed the silver under the pillow. His poisonous eyes saw it.

"The guest's money, you can't just make up your mind!"

The guy shook his head and wanted to go away, walked a few steps, and then stopped, "I only take a little, and he might not notice it, just treat it as a reward for myself."

The clerk struggled for a moment, but still couldn't bear the greed in his heart, he took out a key, went back and unlocked it, and pushed the door in. He was a clerk, so of course he had a spare key.

The clerk tremblingly walked to the bed, opened the pillow, and found that there were more than a dozen ingots, at least two or three hundred taels.

When the guy looked up, he found a picture hanging on the mosquito net. It was a map, with high walls, mountains, lakes, and houses. The guy vaguely saw the four words, King Yong.

"Ah! This is the map of Prince Yong's Mansion." The man was taken aback, and hurriedly took down the map for a closer look. It was really a map of Prince Yong's Mansion.

"What are you doing in my room?" A dark voice came from behind.

The guy was trembling with fright, Guo Changwu appeared behind him at some point, his eyes were cold and vicious like a wolf.

"I... I'm here to clean up... the house for the young master."

Guo Changwu caught a glimpse of the money on the bed. He usually carried the money with him. Today he had to do a big job, so he put the money in the room because he was afraid that the money would get in the way. He didn't expect to attract thieves.

"You want to steal my silver, get out!"

The man ran away, but Guo Changwu suddenly saw the map on the bed, his expression changed drastically, and he shouted, "Stop!"

He stretched out his hand and pulled out the short crossbow. The man knew that he was going to kill him, so he yelled in fright, "Come on!" He turned around and fled. As soon as he reached the door, Guo Changwu shot an arrow, "Puff! 'The crossbow bolt hit the buddy's back.

He was about to shoot Chen Qing's second arrow, but he ran away before he could release the arrow. He didn't have a chance to put away the crossbow arrow, but he just met the buddy.