Assassin A

Three days after carrying Fan Langzhong from the Ministry of Industry back to the palace, it was just about dinner time, Master Li recruited Shiwu and Chuba to order the errands.

A table of simple noodles, four dishes, one of which was named "Sanbao Cabbage" by Fifteen in private.This is dinner for adults, it doesn't seem so extravagant.

Li Zan waved his hand to signal the two of them to sit down and eat together.

Fifteen unceremoniously picked up a chopstick of cabbage first, chewed it carefully, um, I didn't think it was very delicious...

"Master, it's non-toxic."

Li Zan has long been too lazy to compete with his inexplicable habit.Eat whatever you want, he invited them here just to treat them to dinner, why bother to use the name of drug test to cheat food?

Ignore it, and go straight to the point: "The position of supervisor of the Fengzhou canal section is vacant, and the new one is an acquaintance. The two of you are leaving for Fengzhou tonight, and someone has arranged for you to enter the Fengzhou government office as a small official. Now go to the eighth day of the lunar new year. Mainly to visit the magistrate of Fengzhou, Fifteen potential inspectors, play by ear."

Both of them responded in unison: "Yes!"

Li Zan waved his hand: "This trip is quite dangerous. Fengzhou borders the southern region, and there are secret reports that after the southern region, small groups of peasants frequently rioted. Most of them robbed their homes in the name of resisting taxes. In fact, they were just a group of mountain bandits. . Fifteen is quite familiar with the Southern Territory. If you meet, you can kill them on the spot without paying me back."

"Yes!"

Li Zan glanced at him again and said, "It's very possible to meet your old friends this time, so be careful where you go." After saying that, he waved his hand, and the uncle in charge held a large plate with two tightly rolled cloth bags on it .

The two assassins picked it up, and unfolded it to see that there were shiny new throwing knives.

Fifteen eyes made a mistake, and he took a quick glance at Mr. Li.He recognized this throwing knife, the one that Pu Shao got on his stomach when he was in the Southern Territory was exactly this kind of extremely thin knife.

There is no tradition of people from Xuanji Camp being invited to dinner when they go out to do errands, let alone being invited to dinner by Master Li himself, which is even more unheard of.I was terrified to eat a meal on the eighth day of the eighth day, it didn't matter until the fifteenth day, I just kept thinking about the flying knife I saw just now.

After the meal, Li Zan asked Chu Ba to go back to pack his bags, and deliberately left Fifteen for extra instructions.

"There is no need to doubt. The last time King Qingnan was attacked unexpectedly, the attacker was indeed someone sent by the crown prince. However, how did he hide his movements from me? Although Rong Min is stubborn and has always been not so obedient to the court, he is still a good friend." The vassal king. It is all thanks to him that the southern region can remain peaceful under such exploitation by Liu Taifu's party."

Li Zan continued with a light smile: "So I sent someone from the camp to protect him. However, even if this person is good in every way, it would be his fault if he secretly garrison troops, isn't it?"

Fifteen was taken aback, "Your Excellency said so."

Although the people in the Xuanji Camp knew a lot about the secrets of the royal family and the secrets of officials, Lord Li never explained a word to them.It's really strange to talk about King Qingnan suddenly today.

Li Zan raised his hand and slapped Shiwu on the back of the head, and smiled: "What is it? Silly boy! I know that everyone in Qingnan Palace liked you very much, and the head of the guard was even more affectionate to you, but an errand is an errand. , don’t forget the oath you made when you entered the Xuanji camp."

Fifteen bowed his head and knelt on one knee: "I will never forget it!"

"I believe you."

Standing beside him, Li Zan also lowered his head, looking at the assassin's ecstasy: "The Fengzhou section of the canal is supposed to be connected to the Afu River in the southern region, but now it's stuck in Yushu County. This poor county is half It is assigned to the Southern Region, half of which is Fengzhou. How should this small section of the canal be repaired, how to repair it...the two sides must shirk."

Fifteen did not answer.He knew that this was Lord Li talking to himself, the people in Xuanji Camp only obeyed orders, and those who used their brains never participated.

"Fifteen, the 'acquaintance' you need to follow this time is Fan Bing, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry. He has just figured out his position, and if he doesn't keep it right, his mind will be unstable. Just do what you want, don't expose it, and when necessary..."

"My subordinate understands!"

Li Zan nodded, and patted Shiwu on the head, "Did the knife in Nanyu's leg last time be so sharp?"

"Go back to my lord, it's time."

"Well, 22 is rather reckless, and he doesn't have a sense of proportion. After he came back, the second uncle has already 'taught' him, don't worry."

Fifteen had recognized 22 as the leader when the second assassin attacked. Although his face was masked, he was a person who grew up together day and night after all.

Therefore, the subsequent flying to block the door, saving Pu Shao from the fire, and blocking a throwing knife for the King of Qingnan were all deliberate gestures to push the boat along the way.

Anyway, his task was to sneak into Qingnan Palace and obtain the map of the Southern Region.It's a bitter trick, it's very useful.

The only thing that surprised him was, was 22 there during the first surprise attack by the assassin sent by the prince?At that time, Pu Shaozhong's knife made him feel very strange, the strength was a little too clever, so clever!

As a result, when I saw the new concealed weapon that Mr. Li gave me today, I immediately understood it.The person who stabbed Pu Shao must be someone from the Xuanji camp, and the purpose was the same as that of the prince, to send people into Qingnan Palace, and create a hero who came across by chance to save "Beauty".

It's just that the prince did it too obviously.How could it be such a coincidence that a martial arts master would fall from the sky when King Qingnan was assassinated on a trip?Master Li's ingenious arrangement~ Suddenly, Shiwu deeply felt that King Qingnan was just a poor child...

No gossip.

After dinner, on the eighth day and the fifteenth day of the day, they packed up their luggage and sneaked out through the secret road in the west of the city for the spies and assassins of the Xuanji camp to leave the city at night. They picked up two fast horses from an unremarkable farmer three miles outside the city, and galloped all the way south.

Traveling at night and staying in the daytime, we arrived in Fengzhou on the [-]th.

In the small restaurant set up in the Xuanji camp outside the city, I met with the supporters, changed into the clothes of the official of the government office, and then entered the city.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, he became an ordinary shop soldier in the government office.Although there are no more than 64 soldiers in the Fengzhou government office according to the standard, each shop soldier often has several "white servants" under his command, and there are always seven or eight non-staff white servants around the squad leader for dispatch. There are even more.Such a rough calculation shows that there are more than 1000 errands in a mere Fengzhou government office...

The eighth day and the fifteenth day met each other's eyes after hearing the introduction of the respondent.

Fengzhou has a vast area, so the government office must be a large government office, but a local government office supports only 2000 people, and the expenditure of a salary alone does not know how much money it costs.

If these non-staff white servants only received the little salary from the government, they would have starved to death on the streets, so how do these people support their families?

Fifteen carefully observed the responding spies.This person is just a clerk under the governor of Fengzhou Prefecture, but the cost of clothing is very rich.

With a general idea in mind, I also know how to put on a face to deal with future colleagues.

The Water Conservancy Department is regarded as Qingshui Yamen in the government office in the south, but the canal has been excavated in the past few years, and now it has become a rich and fat job.

Fifteen was stuffed into the hands of the governor of water conservancy, and he stood at the door on weekdays to pass something.

After ten days like this, the two assassins from the capital opened their eyes.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, I wandered with the team leader every day, and when I went on an errand, I always had to recover various famous expenses, such as carriage and horse fees, shoes and socks fees, tea and meal expenses, and the number of tricks was astonishing.

On the fifteenth side, there is no money directly, but the small officials who come and go go in with packages and come out with empty bags, and the governor will distribute bonuses in three or five days.

Fifteen mental arithmetic, such an errand, just these "bonuses" like him can get more than a hundred taels in a year.

With emotion, Mr. Li stewed cabbage with dried and fresh delicacies. Compared with this place, it is too simple.

Two days later, on the first day of March, the new supervisor arrived.

Up and down in the mansion, all the officials in the system are welcome inside and outside the Yimen.

The Fengzhou government office is built of blue bricks, with eight-character walls on both sides, and inside the wall are inlaid with seals engraved with two former sages. up.

When a new official arrives, he dismounts in front of Yimen, and the officials welcome him into the gate.

Shiwuyin silently looked at Fan Bing in the crowd, talking and laughing calmly and gracefully, a smile surged in his heart.This guy was put on a black hood and carried to the palace in the middle of the night by him a month ago.

I don't know how Mr. Li "talked" with him that night, but he became an "acquaintance" so quickly, probably because he was cooked by the second uncle's soldering iron?

After that night, it was not him and the first day of junior high school who sent Fan Bing back to Langzhong's mansion, but the adults should have arranged other people.

Based on years of experience, Fifteen sighed: adults are cautious when doing things.There might be traitors in the Xuanji camp. Whatever errands they do, they go back and forth. The adults never use the same group of people, and errands often come suddenly.

In his heart, only an extraordinary person like Mr. Li can fight against these corrupt officials.What did you say in the first day of junior high school?If you want to punish the wicked, you have to be worse than the wicked.

Well, the first day of junior high school is equivalent to changing the direction and saying that Mr. Li is the villain among the villains...

Fifteen fought a cold war for his association.

Fan Bing is the inspector of the canal, so naturally he mainly works in the Water Conservancy Department after socializing with the government officials.

Fifteen has plenty of means to monitor him all the time, and his position provides great convenience for monitoring.

According to his previous understanding, this Mr. Fan should be a disciple of Liu Taifu at that time, and he had a very close friendship with the beheaded Cen Shilang.I don’t know whether it was Cen Xiangnong’s embezzlement of the Ministry of Industry’s water conservancy and silver that caused Fan Bing to restrain himself, or the “detailed discussion” with Mr. Li made him start to understand the way to be an official and to serve the country wholeheartedly?

In short, Fan Bing's behavior is surprisingly well-behaved.

Fifteen books, still holding on to the excitement of overhearing the top-secret news, fell to the bottom in an instant.He thought about it, and felt that it was very likely that he had overlooked some details, or that these corrupt officials had become more careful with their previous warning behaviors.

In this way, the most qualified assassin compresses sleep and conducts maximum surveillance.

Sure enough, hard work pays off.Half a month after Fan Bing took office, a sneaky figure sneaked out of the inspector's residence in the middle of the night one night.

Fifteen saw the direction he was going, and immediately called Chu Ba with a small flute sound, and the two followed him all the way.

This person was walking the only official road in the north, and when he was walking to a small restaurant outside the city, he happened to meet a group of farmers who were too drunk and fighting.The courier walked around, and a "brick with eyes" hit him on the back.

The messenger yelled and was beaten by three or five young farmers, and he immediately regretted it.But these peasants are quite strong, even after being punched twice by him, they still rushed up to tear him apart.

Finally he couldn't take it anymore, the messenger took out the official token from his pocket, and the peasants were dumbfounded, they were dusted off, apologized, and some were so frightened that they knelt down and cried.

The messenger let out a bad breath, straightened his clothes and showed off his official prestige, and the owner of the small restaurant came tremblingly and gathered a few pieces of silver with the brawlers to pay for the settlement before the settlement was settled.

The messenger went back on the road, thinking of the scene just now, he thought it was funny.In the quarrel, it was probably known that a girl the farmer liked was married to someone else, and a group of young people were drinking too much.

But on second thought, I broke out in a cold sweat!

Who would come out to drink in the middle of the night?

Immediately hid aside and dug into his bosom, and finally touched the corner of the secret letter hidden in the coat, and he was relieved, blaming himself for being a shadow of a snake.

Let out a long breath.

At dawn tomorrow, you can rent a carriage and horse from the post station, and the rest of the journey will be much easier.

Thinking of the stolen money again, he snickered, come to him tomorrow and have a good meal with good wine and good food, and then leave before it's too late.

The courier happily went on the road, but he didn't know that his secret letter had been stolen by Shiwu during the fight, and he stuffed it back by patting the dust on the courier's robe while everyone was apologizing.

At this time, the Xuanji Camp assassin was writing out the contents of the letter paper verbatim in the Xuanji Camp secret language, sealed it, drew a flower, and handed it to the owner of the small wine shop.

"Peony picture."

The boss looked straight, "Yes! I will send someone back to Beijing immediately."

Fifteen after intercepting the secret letter was full of energy.

When sneaking back into the city with Chuba, he whispered: "Damn! Sure enough, this Fan Bing pretended to submit to Master Li, and secretly broke with Liu Taifu!"

The eighth day of the eighth day: "Hey, it doesn't seem like that's how it works."

Fifteen was taken aback for a while: "Then how to use it?"

On the eighth day of the eighth day, he scratched his head: "I remember my husband once said that it is used to describe the unbreakable love between men and women."

Fifteen: "Can't men and women do it?!"

Eighth day: "..."

Assassins and spies are only valuable if they can obtain the secrets needed by the master or act for the master.

Fifteen feels happy because he has reflected his own value today.

He pushed away the yamen servant A who had occupied his bunk without a trace, and lay flat on the bed.He was still excited one moment, and then he started snoring cheerfully the next moment.

Chu Ba also went back to his room, stood beside the bunk and looked silently for a while at the bunk where he once walked, and now there was a thigh of a certain colleague across the bunk. Kick it aside and stick it to the wall to act like a gecko.

Lie down contentedly.

Reflection: Describing men and men...it seems really inappropriate~ Early in the morning, the servants in the dormitory got up one after another, some walked back and forth, some fetched water to wash their faces, some yawned and tickled Yes, and...the farts.

Fifteen held his breath, opened his eyes abruptly, and looked at the fat yamen servant with his big butt snoring like thunder beside him.

I don't know if the split muscles and bones can make this guy take off his hip bones?How dare you fart and fume me? !

Quietly reach out and pinch the area!

Damn!

Fifteen turned over and got up, and went to fetch water and wash his hands with straight eyebrows.

There is too much meat on the dead fat man's butt, not to mention the bones, the tendons can't be pinched, and the muscles are divided into bones?

While he was washing his face and rinsing his mouth, there was a sudden howl in the room: "Who pinched my ass just now? It hurts me to death! Ouch, ouch~~ What's wrong with the twisted hip bone? Ouch~~"

Fifteen smiled quietly.

While eating breakfast, the team leader who had always been very close to him came over and said in a low voice, "Come with me to serve in the front hall today. It's a good thing."

Fifteen liu smiled airily: "Could it be possible to come with a beautiful girl again? Last time the concubine of the Peng family came to socialize together, and her boobs are quite attractive."

The team leader lowered his voice mysteriously: "You are sensible, today is definitely a good job, just follow me."

snort!Fifteen thought: Am I sensible?Every time I get half of the money I get, I will give you half of it as a tribute. No matter how ignorant I am, there is no one who is more sensible.

But on the surface, he put on a wretched look: "Boss, just tell me to listen to me~ What's wrong with being so oily?"

The team leader glanced left and right, then leaned into his ear and said: "Today, there are distinguished guests visiting, and the least amount of reward is this amount." Spreading out his palms, he turned them over.

Fifteen thought about it: "Who?"

"King Qingnan! The people in the Southern Region are rich!"

The squad leader snickered to himself, totally oblivious to the shock that flashed in Shiwu's eyes.