Autumn, the twentieth year of Yongtai.
On a pleasant autumn morning, a plain-looking carriage was slowly moving forward on a road in the southeast outside the capital.
The driver's surname was Zhao Mingyi, and he was the general bannerman of a Jin Yiwei.
Of course, at this moment, Mr. Zhao is not wearing official uniform, nor is he carrying a weapon; he has been perfectly disguised as a plain-dressed, plain-looking middle-aged man. In the eyes of ordinary people, he is just an ordinary coachman. That’s all.
At this time, there were three people sitting in the carriage behind Zhao Yi.
Among these three people, one is Sun Yixie, the other is Huang Donglai... and the other one, whose surname is Wei Mingqian, is a eunuch who is nearly sixty years old.
Seeing this, some readers with good memories may have already thought of it. Yes, Wei Qian and Zhao Yi were mentioned in the chapters of "Jiang Muchan broke into Prince Lu's Mansion at night" and "Double Harmony destroyed the Fire Lotus Sect". Eunuch Wei and General Zhao Qi appeared briefly.
In Jining at that time, Eunuch Wei was lurking in Prince Lu's palace, while General Zhao Qi was hiding in the market. The two of them were working together to find excuses, collect evidence, wait for opportunities, and plan for execution...
Originally, it might take another year or two for this matter to come to an end. Unexpectedly, because Shuangxi passed by Jining, he and Jiang Muchan and others sang a good show of "acting chivalrously and eliminating harm for the people." The end of King Lu's lineage has accelerated.
Therefore, in the spring of this year, Eunuch Wei and General Zhao Qi returned to the capital to resume their duties after completing their mission ahead of schedule.
After that, both of them received good rewards, and in the next few months, the two who returned to Dongchang and Jinyiwei respectively no longer received this kind of "long-term undercover" drudgery, and they were free for half a year. .
Until not long ago, the treasure "Xiu Long Bi" in the palace was stolen. After subsequent investigation, it was basically confirmed that it was the Japanese mission that came to pay tribute not long ago.
The emperor intended to send two "Celestial Protectors" Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai to recover the national treasure, so they came to the palace to talk.
But after Sun Huang entered the palace, he heard Zhu Zhu's request. He was going abroad and recovering stolen goods... things were extremely difficult to handle.
The two of them immediately began to pretend to be the emperor's grandson, trying to shirk the task. However, Zhu Yao refused to accept their trick and just recognized them.
There's nothing you can do about it, you have to go, so let's put in some more "conditions".
But the emperor didn't have the time to listen to the hundreds and dozens of nonsense requests put forward by these two guys one by one, so Zhu Zhu called Eunuch Wei and Mr. Zhao...
The work of Wei and Zhao this time was not complicated either. They were to "pick up and drop off the two heavenly masters" as bodyguards and assistants.
Zhao Zongqi had to be responsible for sending Shuangxie all the way to the port of Ningbo until their ship left the port. During this period, Zhao Zongqi had to try his best to satisfy all Shuangxie's expenses and the things to be prepared before sailing.
Eunuch Wei had to accompany them on the ship, escort them all the way to Nagasaki, and stay there to support them when they retrieved the national treasure and prepared to return to China.
If Shuangxie failed to complete his mission and died in a foreign land, then Eunuch Wei would be the one responsible for bringing their bones back. Of course, if he couldn't even bring back their bones, then he could just bring back news of their death...
"By the way, Sun Shaoxia, we took out the things you asked us to pick up yesterday. Do you want to see them now?" In the carriage, Eunuch Wei thought of yesterday's incident and said to Sun Yixie.
"Oh? Did you really get it?" Sun Yixie was stunned when he heard this, "Okay, let me see what it is."
What are they talking about?
The endorsement in our book here is the last thing among the "Legacy of the Four Thieves" that Sun and Huang collected in Lanruo Temple.
We won’t dwell on the details of the four thieves’ nicknames and the other three items here. Anyway, apart from the recipes, diagrams and secrets, they are the only thing left that has not been disposed of yet— —A counter ticket from Baichuan Bank.
When Sun Yixie returned to Hangzhou last year, he actually went to the local branch of Baichuan Bank in Hangzhou to ask if the counter ticket could be cashed. The shopkeeper was a little confused when he saw the counter ticket from more than 30 years ago. Anyway, the final conclusion was : According to this ticket, you can still tell
Judging from the text, this counter ticket should correspond to a certain cabinet in the Beijing headquarters of Baichuan Bank. However, after so many years, no one can guarantee whether the contents of the cabinet are still there. All we can say is Master Sun, if you have the opportunity to go to the capital, you can go to the head office and ask, but don't have high expectations.
Just like that, Sun Yixie put the matter aside for the time being.
Before going to Beijing this time, he took the ticket with him. However, after arriving in the capital, there were a lot of things, and the ticket was not very urgent, so he forgot it in his luggage.
It wasn't until the day before leaving Beijing that Sun Yixie was packing his luggage that he remembered this incident.
At this time, his thief temper came back, because he was afraid that the counter ticket would be related to some grudges of its former owner thirty years ago, and he was also afraid that the things taken out of the cabinet were poisonous or hidden murder mechanisms... He decided Let others help him get it without even showing his face.
Who to look for?
Just in time, didn't the emperor arrange for Eunuch Wei and General Zhao Qi to take care of us? Then it’s all your fault.
So, there was this scene in front of me.
"Here, this is it." As Eunuch Wei said this, he took out a ring from his sleeve and handed it to Sun Yixie.
Sun Yixie took it and looked at it in his hand: "That's it?"
Indeed, for Sun Yixie, who has seen a lot of high-end jewelry, such a silver wrench with ordinary workmanship and materials is not something that can surprise him, nor is it like the legendary wealth-oriented person. The fateful "Flying Thief" will deliberately deposit things in Baichuan Bank.
He then asked Huang Dong to take a look again to confirm whether the finger ring was a magic weapon or something, but the answer he got was also negative.
Sun Yixie, who was a little disappointed, could only accept it temporarily with the thought "in case there is any hidden secret in this thing" and casually put it on his right thumb.
So...is there actually such a secret?
Of course there is.
At this time, Shuanghe didn't know that it was this thing that would involve them in the martial arts storm of "Six Kings Confrontation" in the future, but that was after they came back from Japan, so we won't show it here for the time being. .
He also said that now, as the carriage the four of them were riding got farther and farther away from the capital, the scenery on both sides of the road became more and more desolate.
Although they took a main road, the official road at that time was not as good as the highway today. It was normal for you to walk halfway down the road and not see a single traveler coming and going for a long time.
When they reached noon, the four of them encountered such a period of time when no one was around.
It was at this moment...that something happened to them.
"Uh-" At this moment, General Zhao suddenly stopped the car and said to the three people in the car in a very calm tone, "There is someone hijacking the road ahead."
"Huh?" Huang Donglai twisted his mouth when he heard this, "We have just been out of the capital for half a day, and there are people robbing people on the road? This world is really not peaceful."
Everyone, if you look at his reaction, you will understand that he is confident.
Normal people, even people in the world, when they hear someone trying to rob someone... let alone fear, they will be on guard and prepare to respond to the enemy. However, Huang Donglai just sat there calmly and made a sharp comment on social security.
Why is this?
It's simple, because before the trip started, he and Sun Yixie had inquired about the Wei Qian and Eunuch Wei next to them. Although his official position was only the "fifth gear head" of Dongchang, his martial arts were ranked among the best in the entire Dongchang. He was ranked second, behind the factory owner Wang Ting.
With a person like this sitting here, the Jie Dao'er's number of people is probably less than a hundred, which is probably not enough.
"Eunuch, how about... please help me?" Sun Yixie also planned to let Eunuch Wei go out for some activities based on the idea that the helpers sent by the emperor would not be used in vain.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Zhao Zongqi, who heard their conversation outside the car, said again: "They are not robbing us, they are robbing others."
Only when they heard this did the people in the car understand that Zhao Zongqi stopped not because someone was standing in the middle of the road with a knife blocking their way, but because he saw someone being robbed in the distance.
"Ah?" Huang Donglai thought for a while and then continued, "Then we have to take care of it, right?"
"You two young heroes can take care of it if you want." Zhao Zongqi is actually a relatively decent person. Although he chooses responsibility over chivalry when faced with major decisions, he still tends to help the people if conditions permit. " Or... let Zhao take action?"
"Can you do it alone?" Sun Yixie asked casually.
Originally, he just wanted to be polite and waited for Mr. Zhao to reply "No problem", and then he said "I'll leave it to you".
But Zhao Zongqi replied: "It doesn't matter, they are just a few thieves. You can tell at a glance that they have no martial arts skills. If they hadn't met a woman, they probably wouldn't have dared to take action."
"What?" Hearing the word "woman", Sun Yixie's voice suddenly opened up. In less than a second, his head pushed open the curtain from the car window and stretched out, his small eyes narrowed. , and immediately locked onto a carriage and several figures a hundred meters ahead.
"Damn it!" After glancing at it, Sun Yixie retracted his head, then jumped out from the front of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage, "In broad daylight, in the clear sky, someone actually committed such a robbery. Such a thing! As a martial arts practitioner, how can I stand by and watch?"
"Ouch~" Zhao Zongqi was shocked at that time, thinking to himself: How come Sun Shaoxia's front feet are still calm, but his back feet are as if they have been injected with chicken blood?
He was still surprised when he saw Sun Yixie running forward like a hyena chasing food.
At the same moment, more than a hundred meters away.
Five or six knife-wielding gangsters were forming an arc around the front of a carriage, staring eagerly at each other and confronting the people in the carriage.
The driver was a young woman. She looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, and her appearance could be said to be picturesque and pretty. Because she was slender and wore elegantly colored women's clothes, she was very attractive. You can tell from a distance that she is a young woman.
By the way, the carriage driven by the woman is going in the opposite direction to Sun Yixie and the others, that is, it is heading to the capital. If her carriage is going in the same direction as Sun Yixie and the others, Mr. Zhao Qi will He and Brother Sun probably couldn't see the situation clearly just by looking at the rear of the carriage.
"Hehe... Xiaonizi, I advise you to get out of the car. My brothers are reluctant to hurt you. As long as you obey, we promise not to harm your life, right? Brothers?" One of the robbers looked at the car. The face of the woman on top was filled with joy.
The people standing around him also laughed together with him, as if they had already sketched in their minds the happy scene with the beauty in front of him.
They didn't notice at all... at this moment, someone behind them was approaching quietly with a trident, preparing to attack them.
Seeing this, some people may want to ask, is Sun Yixie's martial arts not low now? Why do you still need to sneak attack from behind to deal with several miscellaneous fish that are trying to kill Dao'er?
It is true that today's Brother Sun, as he has been practicing "Reversal of the Universe" for longer and longer, his internal strength can already suppress many second-rate masters in the world. In addition, he is equipped with a treasured weapon and a protective armor. Fighting these predators head-on is no different than mowing grass.
But... the matter of "shooting from behind" is not only very consistent with his natural personality, but also a combat philosophy that he has been strengthened and brainwashed on Erxian Island. Therefore, in this situation where sneak attacks are possible, He basically doesn't make a second choice.
However, just when Sun Yixie was about to use his trident to sweep with one hand and "cut off" all the row of robbers in front of him from his back knee...
Puff puff……
The six robbers, one by one... fell to the ground themselves.
Sun Yixie, who happened to be nearby, quickly stopped his move. When he looked down, he saw that every one of the people on the ground had black and purple faces, and they all stopped breathing in a short period of time.
"Hey, it's you." After a breath, the girl driving the carriage suddenly spoke.
The voice seemed familiar. Sun Yixie quickly raised his head to take a closer look at the other person's face. After a few seconds of reaction, he smiled and said, "Ha...it turns out to be Miss Xin'er, long time no see."
Who is this Xin'er?
I don’t know if you readers still remember, there is a paragraph in the previous document: "The second master Zuo met a noble man in the rain pavilion, and he was in the stone.
The story of "Tiger survives from death" once featured a pair of masters and apprentices. The master was Hu Ning'er, a miraculous doctor known as "Fairy with Wonderful Hands" in the world, and the apprentice was Xin'er.
At first, after Huang Donglai helped Xie Run, the "Tiger in the Stone", to remove the "Life Stealer", they helped cure Xie Run, who had only half his life left. They didn't get involved in the grudge, they just cured the person and left.
Now nearly a year has passed, but I didn't expect that the two sides would meet again on this road.
"Who is your sister?" Xin'er immediately curled her lips and replied angrily, "Am I familiar with you? Are you so affectionate?"
"Xin'er." At this time, another woman's voice sounded from the car behind Xin'er, "Is the person speaking outside the car Sun Yixi and Sun Shaoxia?"
[In view of the general environment,
Sun Yixie could also tell that this voice was that of Hu Ning'er.
"That's him." Xin'er turned around and responded, "He rushed over stupidly with a weapon and wanted to stand up for us."
"Oh, you have such a mouth..." Hu Ning'er muttered to Xiner in a slightly stern tone, then stretched out a hand and gently opened the curtain in front of the carriage, revealing her charming and elegant figure. With a beautiful face that only adults can have, she said to Sun Yixi, "Thank you, Young Master Sun, for your generous action. Don't blame Xin'er for being rude."
"Ha... what are you talking about, senior?" Sun Yixie heard this and also borrowed the donkey from the slope, "Let's get to know each other, sister Xin'er..." When he said this, Xin'er glared at him, and then changed his words, "...If Miss Xin'er doesn't talk like this, I won't be used to it." He paused, "Besides, I didn't do anything. If I knew you were senior in the car, I wouldn't have stopped talking from the beginning. You have come here to show your shame based on your ability."
Now that things have happened, Sun Yixie also understands that these people on the ground were brought down by Hu Ning'er with poison. In other words, it doesn't matter whether he comes to help or not. These people who robbed Dao'er can't do anything to Master Hu Ning'er. What threat does the gangster pose?
"Young Master Sun is being too modest. A chivalrous act requires unnecessary words." Hu Ning'er said, "It is a blessing for the younger generation in the martial arts world to have a talent like you."
The two of them exchanged polite words back and forth. In the process, General Zhao Qi, who had been watching from a distance for a while, also drove over slowly.
Then Huang Donglai also got out of the car and said hello to the two old acquaintances. After some pleasantries, the two parties went their separate ways.
None of them asked where the other was going or what he was doing... This is also the default rule of Jianghu people. If the other person is not very familiar with you, it is best for you to ask less and say less about such things to avoid exposing the other person or yourself. Cause unnecessary trouble.
As for the corpses of the gangsters just now, they were just exposed in the wilderness and no one cared about them...
In those days, this was nothing new.
"It turns out that you two... have a relationship with that East Harmony and Western Poison?" After the two parties parted ways, a moment later, another person in Hu Ning'er's carriage spoke.
It was a girl who looked to be no more than twelve or thirteen years old, but her manner and tone of voice seemed very mature, even surpassing Hu Ning'er, who was nearly forty years old, in terms of aura.
"Yes, but it's not very deep." Hu Ning'er answered cautiously. Her words did not reveal any information that could allow people to deduce how this "friendship" came about, and she immediately asked , "From the tone of Building Master Ling, do you also know them?"
"We met once, but... they didn't really "meet me." "Ling Sheng'er replied.
Hu Ning'er understood what she meant, so she didn't elaborate on this issue, but continued to chat: "What do you think of these two young heroes from the perspective of Ling Louzhu?"
Ling Sheng'er thought for a while: "I thought these two people acted strangely before, but they do have some abilities..." She paused here, and her tone gradually became a little hesitant, "But when we met just now..."
The words stopped abruptly.
Because if it goes any further, she won't be able to say anything.
Just now, Ling Sheng'er was sitting in the carriage. Although she didn't poke her head out, she still
He quietly glanced outside the car from the edge of the car curtain that Hu Ning'er opened.
By chance, her eyes happened to fall on Sun Yixie's hand, and she saw the silver ring that Sun Yixie had just put on.
As the owner of "Tingfeng Tower", the largest intelligence organization in Green Forest Road, Ling Sheng'er is well-informed. Others don't recognize the finger snap, but she recognizes it.
And the information that this finger was "in Sun Yixie's hands" was written down by her.
A future disaster will also arise from this...