Assassin A

All the way to Beijing, the weather is getting colder and colder.When leaving the Southern Region, you only need to wear a robe, and when you arrive in the capital, you must wear a cotton robe and gloves.

The Chinese New Year is only a month away, and there are many convoys from all over the country delivering New Year’s goods to the capital, and there are also many small vendors who bring their goods to Beijing in the hope of making a small profit and having a prosperous year ahead.

Fifteen wore a pair of black rabbit fur earmuffs, put his hands in his sleeves and sucked his nose, "We are merchants from Fengzhou, and our young master's house is in the car."

The guard went to check the items on the truck at the back. Fifteen stomped his feet on the snow, "When did it snow? Why is it so cold? How long does it take to check, the villain's feet are frozen and numb. "

The guard standing beside him rolled his eyes: "You Fengzhou people don't know much, what is this? It's very cloudy today, I'm afraid there will be a good snow in the evening! You just stood there for a while? We see the wind Li Xueli kept watch and never complained about being cold or tired."

Fifteen waited for this sentence, and quickly stuffed a small silver ingot that had been in his hand for a long time: "Master, you have worked hard, buy a cup of hot wine to relieve fatigue. Our young master is weak..."

There were bursts of coughing in the car very cooperatively.

The little leader of the guard weighed the money in his hand, and waved his hand at the guard who was rolling over the truck behind him: "Okay, okay, it's an old merchant, let it go."

Fifteen bowed his head and thanked him, climbed into the carriage and waved his whip: "Drive~~"

In Sanli Lane in the south of the city, the small courtyard that Sister Hong and Fourth Brother bought before.According to Master Li's order, someone will come to meet them.

The fifteenth day and the eighth day of the eighth day were full of drama, let the first day of the first day, the fake owner, rest in the house, and the two of them were busy in and out of the unloading like usual buddies.

Back then, Sister Hong and the others chose Sanli Lane because there were many foreign merchants gathered in the south of the city, the market was prosperous, and the entrance and exit were inconspicuous, even if someone suddenly visited it, it was normal.

From Erli Alley to Qili Alley are almost all small courtyards with single-family houses and warehouses. It is very common for them to go in and out pretending to be businessmen, and the choice is good at this time. They are not the only ones in an alley. Two other households are also unloading.

After the two of them settled the carriage and drove the horses into the backyard to add enough fodder, they opened the door and entered the house while patting the dust on the cotton jacket.

"On the first day of junior high school, you really think of yourself as the young boss, and you don't even help... Thirty!"

It was the same guy with the mischievous smile on his mouth, sitting on the edge of the Kang with his legs crossed, "Brother Shiwu, you are finally back. Did you bring me any local products from the Southern Region?"

Li Zan was still under house arrest in Prince Geng's Mansion. It was said that the emperor had already softened his heart. He had just been recruited into the palace the other day, and the two brothers chatted for half an afternoon.

"Tianyisuo?"

Thirty'er nodded: "Well, there is no decree yet. From now on, the Xuanji Camp will be renamed Tianyisuo. Master Li is still King Geng, and he is in the Ministry of Households. Tianyisuo Zhili Emperor, tokens, badges, etc. If you want to change, all the people on Zhuangzi will be dismissed."

"What about us?"

Thirty'er sneered: "All the old people in Xuanji Camp have been arrested, and they are now being held in the dungeon of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Three of them committed suicide yesterday, and among them were the famous first and fifteenth junior high school students. Now they are on the front line I'm the only one, as long as the imperial decree is issued, remember to call me father-in-law when I see you in the future. It's the sixth rank~"

Thirty'er's words were cloudy, but Shiwu and the others understood.The prisoner locked up by the Ministry of Punishment might be a scapegoat, maybe the emperor and the crown prince knew it well.

But this represents Lord Li's compromise, he gave up the right bestowed by the late emperor.Zhuangzi, who trained spies and assassins, disbanded, even if a dozen or twenty old guys ran outside, they didn't care.

The so-called one person taking a step back, Li Zan hanging up his job, and not being allowed to leave Beijing is under the eyes of the emperor, which is similar to house arrest.

When I left on the first day of the junior high school, there were not so many changes, so there must have been many questions in my heart, but looking at the inexplicable expression on Thirty'er's eyebrows, I just asked: "You were caught by the prince before, how can you get rid of you now?" On the bright side? He won't make things difficult for you?"

Thirty'er smiled, "We all know that I belong to the Xuanji camp, but my son can't hold me anymore and I can't help me wanting to use me. I have doubts, and I can't help another son protect me."

"Second prince?"

Thirty'er didn't answer.

Everyone's bets are placed on this man.Li Zan, Rong Min, Yu Qishan, Chen Guifei, maybe King Zhubei, and many other officials they don't know.

When he was recuperating at the second prince's mansion, the other party's obvious solicitation and wooing were even avoided.Although Lord Li is the legitimate leader of the Xuanji Camp, he is not No. 1 at the pinnacle of power after all.

If something goes wrong, you can't protect yourself, so what is Xuanji Camp?

"Doing our errand is the sword in the master's hand. You have to strike wherever you point it, but it depends on who uses it."

Thirty children have changed, but it seems that they have not changed.

Fifteen quietly watched him sitting on the kang, talking and laughing happily, "You will be free after this errand is over. Mr. Li and the second prince have discussed it. After dealing with it on the surface, those who are willing to continue to work on errands can go to work." The masters of Tian Yi's institute, if you don't want to, give 100 taels of silver to each person, and you can hide in any mountain valley, and it's best not to show up again for the rest of your life."

Said the corner of the eye slipped away, looked at the fifteenth: "You must have gone to the southern region, I know."

Envious but not jealous.

Thirty's heart felt sour.Brother Fifteen has a good home, but he is far away from him. I don't know if he will have a chance to see him again in this life.

On the first day of the junior high school, he didn't seem to want to talk about this topic, so he asked, "When can I see Master Li?"

"I can't do it now, I'm here to deliver Master Li's orders. After two days, the three of you will go to Northern Xinjiang to find King Zhubei. There are two secret letters here, one is your errand, and the other is for the prince."

I didn't leave until thirty after dark.

At night, the three assassins lay side by side on the kang.Everyone has something on their minds, but there is always someone who falls asleep first, for example, the eighth day of the eighth day.

Fifteen listened for a while, and after his breathing was long and steady, he slowly turned over and faced the first day of junior high school, "What are your plans?"

A hand squeezed his, but no one answered him.

Fifteen grips, speechless.

What Thirty'er said makes sense, they are the weapons of those in power, but it depends on who uses them.

I pinched my brother's palm.Among all of them, the first day of junior high school knew the most inside information, so he thought more than others.He knew that the first day of junior high school sometimes refused to talk to him because he didn't want to drag him into this big quagmire.

As an assassin, if you are told to kill, you will kill, if you are told to eavesdrop, you will listen, if you are dead, you will die, and you will be lucky if you can live.Shiwu never thought about the connection behind these things. He had seen spies who had tried hard to think about it.

He never wanted to, because he was just an assassin.

But now he has changed from a simple "weapon" to a human being.There is a thought in my heart, although the circle someone drew on his chest and neck has washed away the ink, but the longing cannot be washed away.

This time I must come back alive...

From the capital to northern Xinjiang, the weather is getting colder and colder.

The day before they left, Thirty'er came again and brought them a pack of warm clothes.In addition to a long squirrel-skin jacket for each of them, Shiwu also received a small bag.

Take it apart, there is a white fox fur scarf inside...

"Master Li sent this to you alone." Thirty'er crossed his legs on the kang, took the fox fur and slowly stroked it: "My lord asked me to bring you a sentence 'come back alive'."

On the first day, eighth day and fifteenth day of the new year, they clasped their fists at the same time and bowed in the direction of Prince Geng's mansion: "Your subordinate obeys."

Wrapped the scarf carefully and stuffed it into Shiwu's arms: "Brother, will you come back?"

Fifteen thought about it, "I will."

Thirty'er blinked vigorously: "Come into the palace to see me if you have the ability."

"it is good!"

Northern Xinjiang, Xingtu Town.

The terrain is dangerous and there are many passes, and it has the tendency of "one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it". It has been a strategic fortress in all dynasties.

The town is a typical mountain city feature.The terrain is low in the south and high in the north, with a drop of four hundred feet.The locals jokingly call it "the east-west ditch, the upper and lower ridges". Most of the houses and buildings are scattered on the hillside. During the day, you can look up at the vast mountains, and at night, you can overlook the lights of thousands of houses.

There is a poem that says: "Looking at the mountain scenery during the day and watching the building at night", this is what it is talking about.

Fifteen people entered the northern border from the customs, all of them wrapped tightly in the leather jackets that Li Zan gave them.Outside the capital city, they said that their feet were frozen, but here the snow is often stepped on to the knees.

Unable to ride a horse or drive a cart, the three of them arrived at Xingtu Town and waited for the snow sledge to go back and forth between Baya City and the town once every five days.This kind of thing is only available in northern Xinjiang. There are more than a dozen dogs in front of it, and the long snowboard can be used to pull goods or place people in the carriage.

Fifteen days ago, he dug out his share of 30 taels of gold from under the water tank in Sanli Lane. This was what Sister Hong quietly told him when he was in the Southern Region.

With this amount of money, the three of them can act as high-flyers who come to northern Xinjiang to collect leather.

While munching on roasted wild pork in the inn in Xingtu Town, Shiwu silently despised Xuanjiying's harshness.

There have always been only orders, no matter how far or near, no matter what the errand is, the money issued by the camp is always only a little.Enough to eat, want to eat well, want to buy some local products?Post your own money.

The eighth day and the first day of the first day also got the honor of the fifteenth day.

Even the first day of the junior high school, who had been silent for several days, was biting the barbecue until his mouth was dripping with oil.

In fact, what these assassins want is really simple...

The climate in northern Xinjiang is harsh, but the advantage is that there are Baya Mountains that run through the entire region, which is almost a natural barrier to cut off the invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom.It is freezing cold in winter, but cool and comfortable in summer.

On the mountain road close to Baya City, a group of lightly armed hussars galloped in the vastness of the ground, looking like a black poisonous snake from a distance.Black horse and black battle armor, this is the symbol of Zhubei King Jin Ziyan.

Only by clamping the horse's belly with his legs, he drew the bow, and the sharp arrow sank into the neck of the wild deer being chased in just a flash in the sun.

A cavalryman stepped forward quickly without getting off his horse, stooped to copy, threw the prey onto the horse's back, turned around and laughed: "Your Majesty is good at archery!"

Jin Ziyan reined in the galloping horse, squinted his eyes and couldn't see the sledge cart on the snowy road in the distance, "I'm probably a novice, running so fast, if you can't turn around a bend in a while, you're bound to overturn."

I really don't know if the prince is born with a crow's mouth, or the prince is well-informed. In short, the car was just like what he said. After a sharp bend, the passengers and the contents of the car turned over on the ground, and one of the passengers was thrown three feet away.

"what?!"

I saw that the person who was thrown away flipped in the air. Although he was dressed clumsily, it was not difficult to see the lightness of his body.

Fifteen felt that he had recited it to the extreme!

The boy driving the car was under twenty, and he was a frizzy guy as soon as he met him.When crossing the snow-capped mountains along the way, I was always worried that this guy would turn them over into the mountain stream, but I didn't know that I was surprised and finally figured out the mountainous area, and the car turned over on the flat ground!

The snow looks flat, who knows where there is a sharp rock and where there is a deep ditch?

The moment he was thrown out, Shiwu really wanted to release the three claws in his arms to grab the tree trunk beside him, but just now he saw a group of hussars not far away, it's better not to make trouble~ The air raised his breath , falling obliquely to the snow.

"Poor!"

Fifteen is like the radish he planted, with most of his body sunk in the snow, only his shoulders and head are exposed on the chest-length snow surface, and a pair of arms are raised high, very much like the posture of Shen Yufeng shouting "Heaven~~".

Well, he fell into a ditch, at least not on a rock, and that was luck among misfortunes.

There was the sound of horses treading snow behind him, and Shiwu turned his head vigorously: "Don't come here, this is a ditch!"

Unfortunately, it's too late...

"Poor!"

A man in a big fur coat flew up from behind him, and plunged his head into the snow ditch one step ahead of him.Fifteen hurriedly struggled to pull with both hands, dragged and pulled, and was kicked in the cheek once by the man's kicking feet.

There were shouts from the side, but no one dared to come over.The horse that fell down behind him kicked its hoofs wildly, and when it finally stood up, the horse's nose was right on the back of Shiwu's neck.

"咴咴咴~~"

An upside-down man was kicking in front of him, and a dumb horse was blowing on the back of his head. Fifteen couldn't calm down anymore...

Put your hands into the snow and grab the man's belt, "Listen to my password, one, two, three, get up!"

Fortunately, the man who fell in really had some brute force, Shiwu also used skillful strength, and after scratching for a long time, he finally turned him out of the snow.Unexpectedly, this big snowman with snow all over his head and face laughed at him as soon as he saw the sun: "Fifteen! Do you still dare to come to Northern Xinjiang?"

Mourning is no ordinary mourning!

Who would have thought that this big idiot who fell from the sky would be the king of Zhubei, Jin Ziyan?If I knew I couldn't save him, let him suffocate to death in the snow!Of course, this is just a thought...

On the first, eighth and fifteenth day of the new year, they changed into the cotton robes provided by Zhubei Prince's Mansion and sat around the charcoal brazier.

There are thick animal skins on the ground, hot ginger tea on the small table, and pastries of various colors.

The tall and burly King Zhubei opened the curtain of the cotton door and walked in. Da Lala sat down cross-legged, took a piece of dim sum, stuffed it into his mouth, and poured a large bowl of ginger tea. He raised his dark and thick eyebrows: "Speak! Are you here?" Looking for me to play?"

Chu took a look at the fingers that almost stuck into his nostrils, and turned his head silently: "I came here by order."

Fifteen took out Li Zan's secret letter from his pocket and handed it over: "My lord, please have a look."

Jin Ziyan didn't shy away from it, he took it apart and looked at it, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the brazier, laughing: "Okay, okay, I'll be in charge of the three of you for the time being, I recognize you on the first and fifteenth day of the junior high school, who is this kid?"

"My subordinate, on the eighth day of the eighth day, met the prince."

Jin Ziyan pressed the person who was going to stand up and saluted, curious: "Are you an assassin too? Or a spy?"

"Go back to your lord, you are the assassin of Xuanji Camp."

King Zhubei clapped his palms and praised: "Okay! This king likes assassins! Come on, let me do two tricks with you another day. It's agreed, no cheating, no jumping up and down, no hidden weapons, no digging traps."

The eighth day of the eighth day was startled... "Then how to fight?"

Jin Ziyan grinned, "You fight me with a knife, fight recklessly."

"Do you work hard?"

"Of course~"

Chuba smiled quietly.

On the first day and the fifteenth day of the junior high school, they turned their faces silently, didn't they win him something?This prince really holds a grudge...