On the ninth day of April, Qinjin ferry.
The reeds swayed gently, the starry night was sinking, the shadows of the trees swayed in the dark wind, when the voice of the old scorpion came from afar, in the temporary camp by the river, piles of bonfires were still burning, and the voice of people occasionally came. come out. This is the boundary of Shandong, and in front is a tributary of Sishui. After that, it is Gongzhou and Yunzhou, which are close to the site of Liangshan. Lin Chong sat on a large rock in the dark in the distance, holding the steel gun in front of him, looking at the tip of the gun and thinking about something.
Song Wan took the wine bowl and the wine jar, walked over, and handed him a bowl of wine: "Brother Lin, has something on your mind?"
"Thank you." Yunli King Kong Song Wan is not very skilled in Liangshan, but he is an old man of Liangshan. Generally speaking and doing things moderately, he still has a brother to measure. Lin Chong thanked the other party and put the wine in his hand and put it away. , and then finished it in one gulp, "Brother Lao Song has been bothered."
"Since the battle a few days ago, Brother Lin has been a little restless, and you can see that as a big brother."
Song Wan said that it was naturally not the battle of Jiangning, but that they were intercepted and killed on the way back to Liangshan three days ago. In addition to the soldiers from the official government, there were quite a few masters among the people who took action, and they were the people who appeared in the Sufu in Jiangning. Among them, the three of them who used the Soul Gun and the leading young man had a good kung fu, but the most powerful was the small school who fought with them in Jiangning Prison. The two leaders under Fang La's command were killed by his gun as soon as they came into contact. Later, Lin Chong took over the small school. I also got a little worried.
But this is only what others have seen. Song Wan was sent here this time to balance the situation in the team. At that time, the fighting was fierce, but he saw that the small school was powerful, and he wanted to go over to help, but after chasing after him, he saw that the small school was fighting, suddenly stopped shooting, took a few steps back, and asked Lin Chong: " What is the relationship between Master Zhou Tong and you?"
Shaanxi hero "iron arm" Zhou Tong is a famous martial arts master in all corners of the world. At the beginning, he had the most detached position in the Bianjing Yuquan Gymnasium. He was Lin Chong's mentor. Several of his direct disciples, Lu Junyi, Sun Li, and Lin Chong, had already gone to Liangshan, while Shi Wengong and Luan Tingyu were enemies of Liangshan. One died and the other disappeared. Song Wan heard what the small school said, and immediately understood that this master of martial arts had something to do with Zhou Tong, but Lin Chong did not admit it and said, "Just fight, what nonsense." .
That small school martial arts was still above Lin Chong. Seeing that Lin Chong refused to admit it, he also attacked with a spear. Both of them were first-class spear masters. Song Wan did not dare to go forward, but after a while, Lin Chong fell behind. The little school's expression became more and more puzzled. After fighting for a while, he suddenly jumped away and said solemnly, "I know who you are."
Lin Chong didn't say a word, the little school said, "I've heard about you, and I know you've been wronged by blood, but even so, you shouldn't help this robbery or gangster... Although I can defeat you today. , but it may not kill you, I will only let you go this time, if it is my responsibility in the future, and you are still in Liangshan, I will definitely kill you and do it yourself.”
"That person is my master's direct disciple, and after all, he is also my younger brother." After Lin Chong said this, Song Wan naturally understood, and patted him on the shoulder: "I can see from the elder brother that this person is skilled in martial arts. So high, and you have a brotherhood with you, he didn't want to fight with you last time, he is affectionate and righteous, and he is also a hero if he wants to come, why not..."
Before Song Wan could finish speaking, Lin Chong's hand tightened, and the steel gun rang out. Song Wan knew that he might be angry at this sentence, so he stopped talking. After a while, I heard Lin Chong say, "He is a closed-door disciple passed down by Master, and you can't touch him." If you don't go to Liangshan and fall into the grass, you may be sentimental about yourself. At this time, the tone of voice is not high, and there is a bit of melancholy, but the meaning of the words is firm and unequivocal. Song Wan couldn't say any more, so he had to drink the rice wine with him. At this moment, the camp suddenly became chaotic.
This time the Jiangning prison robbery, the official side must be chasing and killing them all the way, but they are all old rivers and lakes, and the participants are all elites, so the incident of being ambushed was the one three days ago. As soon as the chaos broke out, Lin Chong grabbed the steel gun and rushed over with Song Wan, but the riots over there had already begun to spread out. The scale of this raid was not large, but an expert broke into the perimeter of the camp, and someone in the distance shot with a bow and crossbow, which immediately caught everyone off guard. When Lin Chong and the others were about to arrive, the master over there had already rushed out on a galloping horse, and also caught a leader under Fang La's command.
There are masters here, and when the galloping horse protrudes, stones and hidden weapons are thrown like locusts, and at the same time, the arrows and arrows that are shot are opened. The raider was wearing a white coat, the horse ran, and the leader who was caught was constantly struggling. The two seemed to be fighting. When they were close to the woods, the running horse's leg was finally hit by a stone. With a long neigh, they both rolled off their horses. When the crowd rushed in, the man in white suddenly stood up, grabbed the leader's body and moved towards the crowd. After throwing it over, someone caught the corpse, and then he couldn't help but take a step back.
"This man, this man..."
On the edge of the woods not far away, I saw that the man in white was facing the crowd sideways, with blood all over his body, especially on the head and face, the blood was overflowing. The thing fell on the grass, and the people in the crowd who killed more people recognized it as an eyeball.
The corpses that were caught by the crowd were all torn up from the throat, not only the throat was torn, but even the entire head and face were torn apart a lot. It was dug out, and it looked like it was full of tooth marks. The leader who was caught was actually bitten to death.
The man in white was tall and long, and his eyes seemed to glow in the dark, with the blood all over his body, which was extraordinarily strange. Of course, everyone was not the one who would be frightened, but after hesitating for a while, they were about to rush up.
It was already night, everyone didn't know the surroundings very well, and they knew the principle of ignoring Lin. , Even if there is Sun Erniang who is used to making human meat buns on Liangshan, it is rare for this kind of people to bite people directly with their mouths in a fight. There are also well-informed people nearby who said, "It's the wolf thief here."
In Shandong, there were already a lot of bandits at this time. The wolf bandit that man said, but a few people had heard of it. It was a small band of bandits in Sishui. They appeared occasionally. Things are not very disciplined, but they have always been petty, and the rest of the people didn't take it to heart. They just heard that the leader of the wolf thieves eats living people and is extremely cruel.
After discussing for a while, I didn't know why the wolf thief suddenly stared at his own group, but he was about to cross Sishui, and as long as he crossed the border of Liangshan Shuibo, the wolf thief obviously wouldn't dare to chase after him. So everyone raised their vigilance, and when they crossed the river on the second day, no enemy would come out again. Occasionally, someone mentioned the wolf thief, and they immediately forgot about it. That kind of brainless lunatic, it may be an accidental injury or a brain attack, but it is not good to dispatch the entire Liangshan for him, and they are not looking at themselves.
At this moment, they are still thinking this way...
Summer has come, and the weather has changed in an instant. When the sky turned dark, Ning Yi stood on the second floor of Qingyuan, watching the scene of pedestrians and merchants running down below. This scene may have similarities with Jiangning before the Su family encountered the Liangshan bandit.
"... Twelve years ago, when today's son had not yet become a treasure, the Secret Investigation Division was originally established in a hurry. At first, there were only two divisions, namely Liaodong and Yanyun. The Liaodong one is dedicated to provoking conflicts within the current Liao Kingdom. The first part of Yanyun is to make preliminary preparations for the return of the sixteen states. The establishment of these two parts is actually a bit idealistic. There are a total of five elders, and now they either retire or perish, and only I and Qin Xiang are left."
Ning Yi's injury basically did not affect his body, and he was already preparing to leave Jiangning. Today, Kang Xian invited him over to formally tell him about the Secret Investigation Division.
"But even so, the Secret Investigation Division was proposed by Siyuan from the very beginning. In fact, although Siyuan acted in the end, he was not right, but sometimes some of his methods were a bit biased. Many of us People, from the beginning to the end, I don't understand what he was thinking in his heart. Since the beginning of our establishment, I have inherited the system of three provinces and six ministries, and I have also made my own changes. The Privy Council has always been responsible for external affairs. Liheng should also understand that if the role of a thing is unclear, it may eventually lead to a catastrophe. At that time, most of us adhered to this idea. I objected to the plan proposed by Siyuan."
Not long ago, when he said this, Kang Xian couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.
"However, Siyuan's methods are changeable, but his temperament is firm. He has a master-disciple friendship with the current sage, and finally said that the sage who was still the prince at the time nodded. But the sage is probably not very enthusiastic about this, and has been emphasizing that, In the event of a conflict of duties, everything is dominated by the three divisions of the Yamen and the Privy Council. Later, the Secret Investigation Division was established, and I invested in the name of Chengguo Princess Mansion. Zuo Gong and the great Confucian Wang Qisong, one year after the establishment of the Secret Investigation Department, Zuo Gong died, on the eve of the Black Water Alliance, the Liao army moved south, and Wang Qisong's family was in Xingshan County. Apart from women and children, the whole family was unavoidable, and in the end, the whole family died, and the prince was skinned and corpse.
After Kang Xian said this, he paused for a while. He was also old, and he could have been able to hide his joy and anger, but when he talked about this, his eyes couldn't help but reddened. Perhaps Qin Siyuan's life regrets were also for him. Same. However, he then shook his head and moved away.
"The prince's family is still with women and children, but there is only one grandson left in the family, the man is named Wang Shanyue. If you go to Shandong, maybe you will have some dealings with him... The secret investigation division, the original intention is not good. Well, it's hard to say now, but at the beginning, neither I nor Siyuan had any experience, and the book business spirit alone would not be enough. It was the Secret Investigation Division that made frequent moves in the north, which annoyed the Liao people—in fact, this may be part of the reason..."
"Before the Blackwater Alliance, the Secret Investigation Division gradually developed, and five divisions were set up in the country. Due to the small number of people, they directly divided the southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest and central five blocks, but in this salary, manpower In fact, the power is not enough. After the Black Water Alliance, Siyuan left the Ministry of War, and Liang Mengqi felt guilty, and even sent a letter to Siyuan to cut off his robe and righteousness, and the secret investigation department stopped. Both Yanyun and Yanyun have always been in action. This is my and Siyuan's special move. It was not until the chaos in the north began to appear that the Holy Master thought of the Secret Investigation Division and let it run again, although the rerun time It’s not enough, there are also many constraints, but in the chaos of Hangzhou, it finally played a role…”
Kang Xian said this about the Secret Investigation Division, and Ning Yi asked some questions about some of the current establishments before Kang Xian returned to the Concubine's Mansion. At this time, it was already dark, and it was about to rain heavily. Ning Yi stood by the railing on the second floor for a while, and saw a carriage coming from the other side of the street. The driver was arrogant. Yuan Jin'er, seeing him from a distance, turned his head and stretched out his hand to point here, then the car curtain opened, and Yunzhu stuck his head out from inside. Her head was still wrapped in white gauze, and it seemed that she had lost a lot of weight, but when she saw Ning Yi, she smiled softly, and then she waved her hand here.
With a loud bang, lightning flashed across the sky, and when Ning Yi looked up... it was raining again.