"Sir, the carriage is ready. The guards from the governor's side just got me a two-wheeled carriage. Should we go back to the manufacturing bureau now?" Hu Haihe walked over, holding a "fairly luxurious" two-wheeled carriage in his hand, and said a little sullenly. Compared with the previous four-wheeled carriage, no matter how good this two-wheeled carriage was, it was no longer in Hu Haihe's eyes. Thinking that the four-wheeled carriage he had just pulled for a long time was killed by the governor, Hu Haihe felt extremely depressed.
In addition to Yan Liqiang, the governor's guards also found a two-wheeled carriage for Mr. Lu. Yan Liqiang sent Mr. Lu to the carriage and said goodbye to him. After seeing Mr. Lu's carriage leave first, he walked over and said to Hu Haihe and Zhou Yong, "You go back first. I haven't been to Pingxi County for a long time. I want to stay in Pingxi County tonight and catch up with some friends. After the matter in Pingxi County is settled, I will go back by myself!"
"Sir, let us follow you. It will be convenient for you if anything happens!" Zhou Yong said immediately.
"Haha, don't worry. There is no danger in Pingxi City. Don't forget that I am more familiar with this place than you are. You all go back. I can do it alone!" Yan Liqiang smiled and waved his hand. "Let's go quickly. If you are late, it will be too late to go back!"
"Does the lord need a rhinoceros horse? Should we leave one for him?"
"Need not!"
Seeing Yan Liqiang's firm attitude, Zhou Yong, Hu Haihe and others had no choice but to obey Yan Liqiang's orders. After saying goodbye to Yan Liqiang, they returned to the Manufacturing Bureau first.
Yan Liqiang squinted his eyes and watched Zhou Yong, Hu Haihe and others leave. Then he raised his head and looked at the dim sky. Then a deep smile that was imperceptible to others appeared on his face. Then he walked slowly and relaxedly, left the Guanyuan Garden, and not far away, he followed the crowd on the street and came to the plum garden next to it.
The Plum Garden is a famous attraction in Pingxi City, especially at night. It is adjacent to Wanshou Lake. After dark, many restaurants, opera stages and singing houses in the Plum Garden hang strings of red lanterns. There are still many tourists visiting the Plum Garden. From afar, the whole Plum Garden is ablaze with lights, creating a unique scene. From the restaurants and opera houses, the sounds of stringed instruments and chanting can be faintly heard. The ethereal sounds of singing and the sound of the gentle waves in Wanshou Lake make it even more peaceful.
When they arrived at the Plum Garden, no one here could recognize Yan Liqiang's identity. There were many young people visiting the Plum Garden at night. Yan Liqiang was similar to the young people visiting the Plum Garden except that he was dressed more gorgeously and elegantly. So none of the tourists in the Plum Garden knew that this young man strolling in the garden was the guest of honor of the Governor just now, and was discussing a big business involving the salt industry with the Governor.
Yan Liqiang found that he seemed to have a special connection with the Plum Garden. Everything in the Plum Garden seemed familiar. Strolling in the Plum Garden, looking at the small island and the waterside pavilion on the edge of Wanshou Lake, and thinking about the last time he came here and killed Wang Haofei on that small island, Yan Liqiang had the illusion of traveling through time and space.
The last time he came here was to kill someone, but this time he came here to wait for the person who wanted to kill him to appear.
The Wang family, which was once the dominant force in Huanglong County, has disappeared, and now, he has become a thorn in the eyes of many people.
The eagle in the sky that he had sensed before should be the trick of the Shatu people, but it was hard to say whether the man hiding in the tall building in the Plum Garden and staring at him with murderous eyes was a member of the Shatu group. Based on Yan Liqiang's understanding of the Shatu people, since those Shatu people had placed an eye in the sky, it was unlikely that they would send someone to a place not far from Guanyuan to stare at him. The governor Lei Sitong was living in Guanyuan now, and the level of vigilance around was very high. A Shatu person approaching Guanyuan at such a close distance would inevitably attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives, and might even alert the enemy. Therefore, the man hiding in the tall building should not be in the same group as the Shatu people.
But this is just Yan Liqiang's own inference. It is also possible that the person hiding in the high-rise building is in the same group as the Shatu people and is coming for him. The people in the same group as the Shatu people are not necessarily Shatu people. They may also be Shatu people's lackeys and killers. Such a person, even if he comes to the high-rise building, may not necessarily arouse the vigilance of others.
Yan Liqiang was walking in the Plum Garden while thinking in his mind. He passed by the tall building, which was a seven-story restaurant in the Plum Garden. The restaurant was bustling and noisy and was still open for business. Yan Liqiang did not go up and did not ask anyone because he knew that according to the flow of customers in the restaurant, the waiter and the shopkeeper here could not remember clearly that someone looked at the Guanyuan from a certain window at a certain time.
If someone really wanted to kill him, then that person would definitely wait for him to come out of the garden, keep an eye on his whereabouts, and then look for the opportunity to strike.
Sure enough, Yan Liqiang had only been strolling in the plum garden for a while when the feeling of being stared at from the air reappeared. A black dot quietly appeared in the sky of Pingxi City again.
Yan Liqiang pretended to be ignorant. After strolling in the plum garden for a while, he left the garden from another exit, called a carriage, got on the carriage, and asked the driver to take him to the National Martial Arts Museum in Pingxi City for a tour, pretending to revisit the old place.
Of course Shi Dafeng and Shen Teng were not in the National Martial Arts Hall, and Yan Liqiang knew it a long time ago.
Just a month ago, the new students of the National Martial Arts Museum went out as a group, led by Shi Changfeng and other masters, to travel to Lanzhou, and will not return until the beginning of next spring.
After walking around the National Martial Arts Museum, Yan Liqiang felt bored as he "didn't see anyone familiar". After leaving the museum, he saw that it was getting late, so he went straight to a quiet inn called Qingyou Xiaozhu in Pingxi City and rented a small courtyard to live in.
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It was the middle of the night and Pingxi City was in darkness. There were three figures, like three phantoms in the dark night. They climbed over the high city wall on the north side of Pingxi County as if they were in an empty place, and then quickly approached Qingyou Cottage.
The three ghostly figures were all wearing black night clothes, with only three pairs of cold and murderous eyes revealed. One of the three ghostly figures was carrying a longbow, another had a black scimitar on his waist, and another held two short spears in his hands.
When they were less than fifty meters away from Qingyou Inn, the ghostly figure carrying a longbow stopped suddenly, jumped lightly, and landed on the third floor of a nearby attic. Then he took off the bow, put a black metal arrow on it, and pulled the longbow into a full moon, aiming it at the courtyard where Yan Liqiang was resting.
The other two black ghostly figures continued to approach the courtyard where Yan Liqiang lived. After reaching the wall of the courtyard, the two figures leaped lightly and jumped onto the top of the wall silently like two feathers. Then the two figures split into two, one came to the door of the room where Yan Liqiang lived, and the other came to the window of the room. They put their hands on the door and window, and with all their strength, they rushed in at the same time.
In an instant, in the dim courtyard, a sharp knife light rose in Yan Liqiang's room like the scorching sun...
As the knife flashed, the room where Yan Liqiang lived was split in half, just like a piece of tofu and a brick. The whole house collapsed on both sides. The two black phantoms that had just rushed in, one of them had his body and the short thorns on his hands split in half in the knife light, just like the room. The other black phantom spurted blood and flew out backwards...
In the room that was opened from both sides, Lei Si, holding a terrifying machete that was nearly two meters long, sat on the bed in the room that was razed to the ground in an instant. His eyes were like lightning as he coldly looked at the black phantom that flew backwards, cursing, "Damn it, you made me wait until now to come here. You can take my sword, you have some skills..."
After cursing, Lei Sitong stood up, walked like a dragon or a tiger, and each step was ten feet long. He swung the machete in his hand again, and another blade of light flashed...
The bamboo forest and the more than ten-meter-long wall in the courtyard of Qingyou Cottage were split in two again by the knife light. At the same time, the other black phantom who was spitting blood and retreating in fear over the wall did not even scream. His whole body and the scimitar in his hand were also split in two by the knife light of the governor, and fell down like bricks and wood...
At the same time as the knife light appeared in the courtyard, the tiles under the feet of the black phantom archer who was on the roof of the attic in the distance and opened his mouth towards the courtyard suddenly shattered silently. A big hand, like an iron hoop, grabbed the feet of the black archer at once. With a crash, the roof of the entire attic shattered, and the black archer holding the longbow was pulled down at once.
Two loud explosions were heard in the attic of the small building. The two walls of the attic broke with the explosions. The whole attic shook violently twice, and countless dust and broken tiles fluttered down.
A few seconds later, "Puh... Puh..." Pingxi County's governor Liu Yucheng spat out the dust in his mouth and walked out from the attic dragging a man in black without a single bone in his body like a dead dog. He came in front of Lei Sitong in the midst of lit torches and tore off the hood of the black-clothed phantom. Under the hood, a strange face of a Shatu man was revealed, with blood gushing out of his face and no breath of life left.
"Damn it, they are really Shatu people..."
"Sir..." Wang Jianbei, with a stern face, came over with a group of soldiers holding torches, "These three people came in from outside the city, not from the gathering area of the Zishatu people in the city!"
"The Shatu people are trying to assassinate me. Search the areas where the Shatu people gather in the city as usual. If there are any who resist, kill them on the spot. Kill as many as possible..." Lei Sitong gave the order coldly.
"yes!"
After giving the order, Lei Sitong looked at the three corpses in front of him, squinted his eyes, and said softly, "Three Shatu people are great martial arts master-level killers. These Shatu people are really willing to spend blood!"
"What about Yan Liqiang..." Liu Yucheng asked.
"That guy is smarter than a monkey. There's no need to worry about him. We just need to wait for news. These Shatu people are unlucky to meet him..." Lei Sitong shook his head slightly, glanced in the west direction outside the city, and a smile appeared on his face.
Soon, the sound of the iron hooves of Lei Sitong's personal guard cavalry battalion crushed the dreams of countless people in Pingxi City. They rushed into Pingxi City. A large number of Pingxi City soldiers, holding torches, entered the gathering area of the Shatu people with murderous intent and began to search for assassins from house to house. When they encountered the Shatu people who resisted and refused to cooperate, the soldiers who received the order directly broke into the door and stabbed directly with the long spears in their hands...
(End of this chapter)