Just as the thin quilt was spread out, blocking the view between each other, I saw her picking up a sweat towel beside the pillow with one hand, shaking it and making a snapping sound like a stick; whistling like a stick. The poisonous dragon thrust towards Jiang Tian's face. At the same time, he soared into the air like a crane and kicked Jiang Tian between his legs.
In an instant, the cloth stick whizzed in, like a real hard object, straight through the fallen quilt; it tore open a big hole with a tearing sound; it whizzed through the air and rushed straight into the river. Head and face. But I saw that he didn't dodge or even blink, he just flicked his fingers on the cloth bundle.
There was a sudden popping sound, and the bundle of cloth that was originally as strong as a stick was like a poisonous dragon that had its spine removed and exploded from it. Starting from the front end, layers of cloth peeled off and collapsed into strands of cloth; they were scattered in the air. However, at this moment, someone was hiding underneath and came.
Hearing only a muffled sound like beating leather, Jiang Fang did not even move; however, the woman's expression changed and she cried out in pain. Because, her kick seemed to have hit the eternal rock, and she felt that the entire arch of her foot was shattered by the shock, and she lost consciousness in the moment of severe pain.
Then, someone grabbed her ankles heavily and then pulled her up in the air. However, at this critical moment, the woman still did not hesitate to twist her body, using an arched posture that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, and kicked Jiang Tian's ears and shoulders with her other foot.
However, Jiang Tian slapped it away with an understatement; only hearing a small crisp sound, the slender ankle suddenly twisted in one direction involuntarily. Then he didn't have time to scream, and in the sudden huge force, he was spinning and losing his sense of direction and hit the ground hard.
There was a brief sound in the room, a violent clattering sound. But the guards outside turned a blind eye and even stopped Qiu Ji who wanted to find out. Until the woman, who looked like a dead snake, came out of her hand and hit the wall hard; then she slid down like a sticker.
However, the next moment, when Jiang Tian was indifferent, the woman spat out a mouthful of blood again, and her face became abnormally flushed again; like a snake body that was not yet dead, she forcibly propped up her body with a severely misplaced elbow; biting Leaning Yin Ya against the edge of the window sill, she jumped out with all her strength.
The next moment, Jiang Tian held her slender neck across the void, and slowly pulled her back while struggling and twisting like a dehydrated fish. The originally pretty face was already turning blue and purple and distorted. Jiang Tian also shook his head slightly at her and said, "It seems that the negotiations have broken down."
"I want to avenge my life-saving kindness, and even attempt to attack the officials of the imperial court face to face. Next, I want you to have a good taste of my men, who were originally specially used to deal with those alien and evil methods. I hope you can persist a little longer. "
"Wait...wait..." However, at this moment, her mouth and nose were bleeding profusely, and her eyes were like stagnant water, but another expression of disbelief and panic flashed through her. He shouted in a difficult voice: "You..., you said...what?, who...are you...?"
"You don't even know who I am, and you dare to attack me face to face. Who gave you the courage?" Jiang Tian was not angry but smiled and said: "I am the censor appointed by the imperial court to patrol the river. The Taoist monster is seeking arrests, and we are currently investigating the case; why did you appear in Quminglou?"
"My concubine Fang Yi, under the command of Lady Qi Xiu of Qi Xiu Fang, I am honored to be one of the Sword Queens." After a moment, the woman who was restrained on the railing announced her family background in a low voice with a depressed expression: " I was ordered to come to Luzhou this time to track down the people involved in a leak of secrets in the company."
"That's a coincidence and a strange one." Jiang Tian flicked his finger on the case and said half-truthfully: "I was also entrusted with Aunt Gongsun to investigate the possible existence of internal ghosts and collusion between inside and outside Qixiu Fang. thing; but why I have never heard of it, she also sent additional personnel to investigate."
Then at Jiang Tian's signal, Linghu Xiaomu took out a simple jade ring and displayed it in front of her. I saw the pupils of the woman named Fang Yi shrinking, with a look of shock, annoyance, and even regret, and she said miserably: "But it was my concubine who offended your Majesty and almost made a big mistake."
"In that case, then tell me the whole story of your coming to Jiangnan, as well as everything that happened and encountered you in detail." Jiang Dan nodded slightly and said, "Just in line with the results of my investigation. Only through comparison can we know at which link something went wrong?"
After a while, Jiang Tian came out of the room, and at the same time told him to continue to keep the woman who called herself Sword Princess under strict guard while waiting for the identity verification from Qixiufang in Pingkangli, the capital. Despite this, Jiang Tian still obtained some new insights and useful information from her self-reported experiences.
For example, the Qixiu Fang, which still seems to be very united on the surface, and the Qixiu Thirteen Chai from Gongsun Aunt down; the original invisible competition between each other has evolved into mutual suspicion and conflict with the continuous changes in the world over the years. trend. What followed was a series of incidents involving the leaders dispatched from various places.
But this time, Sword Girl Fangyi, who came to the local area to investigate, seemed to have been taken advantage of by the local society leader (conspirator) Qiu Ji, who was supposed to provide assistance. Before escaping, he used true and false clues and provided the identity of the maid, luring her to the Quming Building of Wang's residence.
Then, what happened is self-evident. If it weren't for the fact that the first person controlled by Jiang Tian met at the right time; next, either the lustful Wang Boxian would have a high probability of dying because of the sword girl Fangyi's final trump card; or she would be killed on the spot by Wang Boxian, but it would also be delayed. opportunity to escape.
Even though both sides suffered losses, he was successfully captured by the government and became a witness. Whether it is Wang Boxian's identity as a military officer or the Qixiufang of the Capital behind Sword Fairy Fangyi, they are enough to mislead the official investigation and divert it to other wrong directions, thereby gaining a buffer to eliminate clues and traces.
It can be said to be a sly plan that achieves multiple goals with one stone; but Jiang Tian also learned from this that there was more about the early life of Qiu Ji, the former leader of Fang Wen Society who was on the run. For example, her real name is Qiu Ji. She is not from the traditional Pingkangli academy, but is a family member of a prisoner in the Jiaofang Division.
It is said that his mother was once a female official beside the Empress Dowager Yao and Shun, but she was seduced by Nai's father, who was a descendant of the clan at that time. She was unmarried and had a secret pregnancy. It was the Empress Dowager Yao and Shun who came forward to suppress this scandal and promote good things for the two of them. But later a fraud case broke out in the Lifan Yuan, and Nai's father was sentenced to nine thousand miles of exile.
And she was sitting together with her mother, filling the official status of Jiaofangsi; but at least she was a former female official in the inner court and an old friend of the Empress Dowager Yao and Shun. Therefore, he did not suffer for a few years and soon met with the Holy Life Amnesty. From then on, he was taken in by an old acquaintance of Yiyinglou and became a part of Qixiufang.
From then on, he took the nickname Qiu Ji. Therefore, Lady Qiuji, who had gone through the process of being the daughter of an official family, becoming a slave in Jiaofangsi, and then becoming an important member of Qixiufang, was once one of the popular candidates for the Thirteen Hairpins of Yiying Tower. It was not until more than 20 years ago that she asked herself to go to the local area and take on the responsibilities of being the leader of a society and the lady of the capital.
Therefore, after hearing this story, Jiang Tian also had a vague premonition; it seemed that the next step of his mission would fall on this fugitive "Chief Chicken". However, before all the teams that went to various places in Luzhou to search for secret strongholds came to reply, the trouble started again.
However, it was the fleet at the junction of Jiangdong and Jiangxi that received the local anomaly "Rain City" reported by Xuanzhou; then as usual, several small teams were dispatched to investigate, together with the unexpected news that the local team had been summoned to conduct a regional blockade and lost contact. Therefore, Jiang Tian could only put down his side and go to deal with it quickly.
However, Jiang Tian still left Linghu Xiaomu in Luzhou to be responsible for the follow-up investigation and the response of the unreturned team; it was also a necessary guarantee measure. If something happens, as long as she, who has been marked by Jiang Tian, takes the initiative to send a message, Jiang Tian can arrive instantly through the "jump" mode.
On the Chuanyi express boat that quickly entered the south of the river, Jiang Tian also initially learned about this abnormal area temporarily named "Rain City" through the messages continuously delivered along the way; or, in other words, it was suspected to be a new secret realm. About a few months ago, it appeared by Danyang Lake in Xuanzhou.
Its characteristic is that it seems like endless rain all day long. However, it was the plum rainy season, the most common period of continuous rain in Jiangnan, so it did not attract much local attention. The result has not ended until the rainy season ends in other places and the summer grain harvest begins one after another.
This attracted the attention of the government. However, the scope of this rainy area has also expanded from a few small fishing villages on the Danyang Lake in Dangtu County, Xuanzhou, to the three surrounding market towns of Gaocheng, Shuiyang, and Huangchi; and the rain does not stop in such a large area. , enough to cause at least more than 100,000 acres of farmland to fail.
This has had a very serious impact on the performance appraisal and evaluation of local officials. Therefore, they had to send people into the rainy area and found the fishing village where the abnormal incident was initially suspected; only to find that it was already dilapidated and all the houses and artifacts were severely decayed.
It seemed like it had been abandoned for a long time. However, before waiting, the local upper echelons of Xuanzhou decided to evacuate the people in the rainy area amid a dispute. Then, news was received one after another that many villages deep in the rainy area, together with the tax collectors and rural soldiers who went to visit them, had disappeared.
It wasn't until the patrolling censor's fleet received a message from Jiangdong Road and an investigation team was dispatched. Only then did the local officials make up their minds to evacuate those civilians who might be affected from the towns and villages on the edge of the rain zone, and began to block all roads entering the rain zone.
The exploration teams that had gone to the local area to investigate and make preparations, together with the local regiment training and rural soldiers, were in the process of execution; without warning, the scope of the rain zone was suddenly expanded again. ; To be swallowed up/lost contact in disguise.
I'm so stupid. I wrote the chapter last night, but I left it in the draft box and didn't post it.
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