Chapter 175 Assassin
At night, outside the city of Chang'an, the post house.
"Damn it, why are there so many mosquitoes?!"
A guard jumped up from the bed, panting heavily, lit the candles in the room with a torch, and scanned the surrounding viciously, looking for the damned mosquitoes.
His movement woke up several other guards in the room, but Li Shenbin in the corner remained motionless and slept soundly.
They were the ones who escorted Li Shenbin to the Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains to serve the sentence of exile.
Exile punishment has existed since ancient times. Sending the condemned person to a poor country can not only maintain social order, but also
It can also enrich the population and reclaim wasteland for remote state capitals with vast land and sparse population.
Mangzhou, where Li Shenbin is going, is close to the 100,000 barren mountains. It is the first line of Yu State's border expansion, and it is also one of the main places for exiled prisoners.
The environment there is harsh, and people die unexpectedly every year. Occasionally, some people can't stand it anymore and escape back—their fate is usually arrested by the Zhenfu Department and sent back to Mangzhou to serve their sentence.
Fortunately, this group of guards didn’t really need to go to Mangzhou—after leaving Chang’an Baili and finishing the formalities, they would be replaced by the monks in the next room.
Use the more efficient flying sword to directly drive Li Shenbin to Mangzhou.
This unwritten rule, one is afraid that the royal relatives and relatives will die on the road, making Dali Temple and other institutions difficult to argue.
The second reason is that because the royal relatives and relatives are of high status, they may face reprisals, attacks, etc. on the road.
However, after staying in the bustling and prosperous Chang'an City for a long time, even just going out of the city for a while is still uncomfortable.
One of them is the guest house room without mosquito nets.
A colleague sighed: "Hold on, didn't the people in the post tell me that the Southern Zhou Mission is here, and they have reserved rooms with mosquito nets first."
"What happened to the Southern Zhou Mission?"
The guard pouted towards the corner of the wall, "We still have this one."
This sentence was difficult to answer. Seeing that his colleagues fell silent, the guard slapped the mosquitoes for himself.
The salaries of the servants in Dali Temple are not high, so they can’t afford the new anti-mosquito oil from Chang’an City, but the mosquitoes are killed, and the drowsiness disappears.
If you can't sleep, you have to chat.
The topic of several people first started from Marseilles to the upcoming first examination of the academy, and then from the first examination of the academy to the hospital, and then they talked about anecdotes and strange things.
The ancient locust trees in Chang'an City East City are said to have been planted in the Southern Dynasties, and they are older than the former Sui Dynasty. When Bodhidharma traveled east, he also enlightened under a certain ancient locust tree.
That ancient locust tree possesses supernatural powers, and if someone is willing to pay the price, his most pious and strongest wish can be realized.
But maybe it’s because of its limited mana, or maybe Guhuai itself is a kind of alien that is harmful to people, and the way it fulfills its wishes is always contrary to people’s expectations.
For example, if someone wished to be named on the gold list with the joy of his life, then the number one on the list that year was really his name—just another person with the same name and surname.
A certain person, who will never be seen again in his life, wishes for a windfall, and he will really get a fortune—compensation for being hit and disabled by a rich man's carriage.
As time passed, no one believed in Gu Huai's wishing anymore.
But there is a person who does not believe in evil. He thinks that the previous wish-makers were too straightforward and could easily lead to bad consequences.
He saw the existence of the Invisibility Leaf from an ancient book, and every night, he went to offer incense to the ancient locust tree, worshiped devoutly, and exchanged an Invisibility Leaf at the cost of reducing his life by ten years.
According to the book, the invisibility leaf will not make him disappear completely, it will take effect when he picks it up, and it will fail when he puts it down, and he can use it whenever he takes it.
It lasted seven to forty-nine days, and finally on the last day, a leaf floated down from the ancient locust tree. fell in front of him.
After picking up the leaf, he found that others could not see him.
Those who trip over him will only think that they slipped and fell when they walked. There was no sign of him in the mirror. Even the monks were unaware of his existence.
He was finally completely at ease, took the invisibility leaf, swaggered into the bank vault, and took away the gold and silver money inside.
Just as he was walking out with money in his pocket, a palm was pressed on his shoulder. Turning his head, he saw a benevolent old man with white hair.
He turned pale with fright, subconsciously shouted: "How can you see me?"
The old man smiled and replied: "The invisibility leaf in your hand can indeed make you invisible.
It’s just.”
As he spoke, the old man's mouth grew bigger and bigger, revealing a mouth full of fangs. He ate his head in one bite, and said vaguely, "I'm not human."
The guard who spoke paused, and said leisurely: "But, this story must be false.
If the ancient locust tree could really respond to requests, the leaves and flowers would have been scooped up by the wishers long ago, so how could it still stand there.
The Academy and the Zhenfu Division had already discovered its abnormality, leveled it, sent it to Dongjun Tower or some other place, and put it under strict supervision. "
dangdangdangdang—
The soft Haotian bell rang in the post house, and before you knew it, it was already Yinzheng.
Tomorrow they still had to go on their way, so everyone blew out the candles, went back to their beds, and fell into a drowsy sleep.
The guard who got up first to fight mosquitoes was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, and in a dim way, he heard a very slight, creaking sound of trampling on the wooden floor of the room.
Probably someone got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself.
The guard turned over and continued to sleep, but the slight squeaking sound of trampling stopped for a while and started again, and slowly turned half a circle along the room.
He opened his eyes subconsciously. In the dimness, he saw a corner of the quilt of the servant on the opposite bed lifted without any warning.
Immediately after that, is the first bed and the third bed.
Wherever the abnormality goes,
The creaking sound of the wooden boards in that room can be heard everywhere.
The quilts are rolled up one by one, with one corner lifted,
It looks like an invisible butcher, picking the fattest pig in the pigsty.
Finally, footsteps sounded beside the bed where Li Shenbin was.
The guard only felt a cold current rushing through his body, and subconsciously wanted to scream.
Zheng!
The next moment, with the sound of gold and iron colliding,
Li Shenbin's whole body burst into bright rainbow light, which penetrated the bedroom.
Talisman.
The light emitted by the protective talisman illuminated the entire room, woke up all the government servants, and also illuminated the intended perpetrator—a short figure covered in gray robes and holding a wooden dagger.
There happened to be a green leaf growing on the dagger made of wood chips.
The assassin did not expect this situation to happen. He tightly grasped the wooden dagger with both hands.
Woke up, Li Shenbin slapped the bed, looked at the assassin in front of him, and laughed wantonly: "I knew someone was going to assassinate me. Who? Who told you to come?
Li Ang, Meng Chengye, or money without money?
Hahaha, whoever disobeys the emperor's order and commits murder will die! "
As if to verify his words, the next room sounded the sound of swords, and the two monks from the Zhenfu Division who were responsible for assisting the guards in escorting Li Shenbin to Mangzhou made a move.
Bang Bang!
Two flying swords smashed through the wall, stabbing towards the assailant like thunder.
Li Shenbin sat on the bed, proudly watching all this happen.
He is a relative of the emperor, and his status is far from being comparable to that of an ordinary prisoner. What's more, he has a deadly feud with Jin Wusuan, the number one wealthy businessman in the Yu Kingdom. Out of various considerations, the Zhen Fusi lent him several protective talismans to prevent possible assassinations on the road to exile.
I just didn't expect that the assassination would come so quickly, so hastily, so... waste.
Li Shenbin almost wanted to sing a song, his exile punishment was changed by Emperor Yu himself.
Regardless of the emperor himself, no matter how contemptuous or detested he is,
Nor will this kind of assassination against the will of the emperor be tolerated.
The assassin, as well as the mastermind behind him, will die a terrible death.
Boom!
The sword energy of the two flying swords was reckless, cutting the floor of the room to pieces, but they missed the assassin as expected.
The short assailant himself is at the corner of the room at this moment, being protected by a dark figure in a black windbreaker and a dragon head mask.
(end of this chapter)