Tang Ji was like a big bird in the dark night, flying down outside the courtyard of Li Mansion, then hunched over and sneaked in, moving as nimble as a cat.
Sneaking into the garden outside the courtyard, Tang Ji lay down and crawled forward.
Tang Ji remembered Li Qinzai's order very clearly, which was to fight tooth for tooth.
Li Youdao killed horses in protest at the entrance of Ganjingzhuang village, and Li Qinzai responded by killing people in Li Youdao's mansion.
Tang Ji was once a dandy, and he had fought with other dandies, but he knew that there was no vindictiveness between Li Qinzai and Li Youdao.
Killing a horse in front of a house is far beyond the scope of fighting spirit. It is a form of enmity.
He wants to kill people from the Li family tonight to avenge Li Qinzai and respond to Li Youdao in this direct way.
Li Qinzai did not say who to kill or how many people to kill, but Tang Ji knew it well.
While crawling forward in the garden, Tang Ji heard voices coming from the direction of the front yard.
Tang Ji lay motionless in the grass, waiting quietly for a group of patrolling troops to pass in front of him, and then quietly continued to sneak.
To the northeast of the front yard, in several courtyards away from the atrium, two rows of houses are brightly lit.
Tang Ji quietly sneaked outside the house and listened to what was going on inside.
About four or five people were off duty and gathered together to play dice and make money. Under the dim candlelight, the men stared at the dice cups with red eyes, and the atmosphere was very lively.
Tang Ji observed outside the house for a long time, and then silently pulled out a delicate dagger from its sheath. The snow-white blade shone with a faint cold light in the moonlight.
With eyes as calm as a dead lake, Tang Ji stood outside the door and waited for a while, then suddenly opened the door and walked in with his head lowered.
The big man in the room was defenseless. This was the Li Mansion, or the house where the members of the Li Mansion usually rested and camped. How could an enemy break in?
The big men who were playing money didn't even bother to look up at Tang Ji, their eyes were still fixed on the dice cup.
The corner of Tang Ji's mouth curled up slightly, and the dagger hidden in his sleeve slipped into the palm of his hand, and then he slowly probed the neck of a big man, and gently touched it like a lover caressing...
The big man jumped up while holding his bloody neck, turned around and stared at Tang Ji with slitted eyes. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but his throat had been cut. He couldn't say a word and fell down as his body went limp.
Go down.
At the same time as the big man fell, several other big men finally came to their senses. They were horrified to find that an assassin had sneaked into the room. Just as they were about to scream a warning, Tang Ji's body had already moved.
As fast as a meteor and as powerful as lightning, the snow-white dagger flew up and down in the small room. In a few breaths, several big men in the room died. Before the group was wiped out, they did not even have time to send out a warning sound.
Tang Ji was a very cautious person. He was not worried about the fallen men. After he stepped forward and stabbed each of them in the heart, he looked at the dead men on the ground. Tang Ji nodded, as if
I am very satisfied with my masterpiece.
He got up, went out, and slowly closed the door. The dim candlelight gradually shrank into a thin line in the crack of the door, and Tang Ji's sinister and murderous face disappeared into the darkness.
The next target, the next room.
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In a dark alley in Chang'an West City, Li Youdao was hung from a locust tree on the left side of the alley.
It was already dark at this time, and although Chang'an City no longer enforced a curfew, there were not many people still wandering on the streets after dark, and even fewer people dared to get into the dark alleys.
Li Youdao's clothes had been stripped down to only a white inner layer, and his outer clothes had long been stripped clean by Wu Minzhi.
If the year is unfavorable, your fate will be too old.
Wu Minzhi ran out of Li's house with blood on his face and ran all the way. Li Youdao was afraid of something happening, and even more afraid of completely offending the Wu family to death, so he hurried out to chase him.
Wu Minzhi quickly ran into the West Market, but Li Youdao still pursued him unyieldingly, followed by the servants of the Li Mansion.
Three groups of people followed one after another until Wu Minzhi ran into a dark alley, and Li Youdao followed without hesitation. The servants of the Li family lost track of the two of them after they blended into the crowd in the West Market.
Li Youdao entered the dark alley and found that the entire alley was dark and dark. He felt slightly uneasy, but he still walked forward bravely.
The elites of aristocratic families learned about etiquette and strategy from elementary school, but rarely learned the experience of martial arts.
They are probably not very familiar with the principle of not pursuing the enemy when you are in trouble and not entering the forest.
So Li Youdao, who broke into a dark alley alone, suddenly received a sap on the back of his head. The moment he fainted, he finally understood how important rich experience in the world of martial arts was.
I don't know how much time passed, but it was already dark. Li Youdao woke up and found that he was tied up with a rope.
He was hanging upside down on an old locust tree, with no one around him. There was a ball of smelly stuff in his mouth, and he didn't know if it was his own footwear.
There was a man squatting under the tree. Wu Minzhi smiled happily and looked at him with a bright face.
"Are you awake?" Wu Minzhi laughed crazily and tore off the footwear stuffed in his mouth.
Li Youdao sighed several times and retched several times. He stared at Wu Minzhi in shock and anger and said, "Wu Minzhi, what do you...want to do?"
Wu Minzhi sighed: "I just want to find a place where no one is around for us to sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk. Don't worry, Li Shaoqing, I'm not a good person..."
"I have long seen that you are not a good person, Wu Minzhi. You dare to treat the young minister of Dali Temple like this. You cannot afford the consequences. Even if you have the support of the queen, you cannot humiliate the court officials!" Li Youdao said sternly.
Wu Minzhi blinked innocently: "I didn't humiliate you, I just wanted to find a place where no one was around to discuss my marriage with Li Shaoqing..."
Li Youdao was furious: "Dream! Wu Minzhi, you are just a favored relative. I, the Li family of Zhaojun, have been a member of the family for thousands of years. How can I, the daughter of a rich man, be killed by a scoundrel?"
Wu Minzhi laughed loudly: "Well done! Well done! Why don't Li Shaoqing curse a few more words and scold all my relatives and family members? Wouldn't it be very satisfying?"
Li Youdao collapsed a little. At this moment, he was tied to a tree with a crooked neck and could not move. Wu Minzhi tied him up inexplicably, and he had no idea of Wu Minzhi's intention.
The unknown is a person's greatest fear.
"Wu Minzhi, what do you really want? Why don't you say it out loud so that we can discuss it easily. We have no grudges or grudges. I guess you don't need to have a life-or-death feud with me, right?" Li Youdao's tone was a bit pleading.
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Wu Minzhi breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Okay, I have something to ask Li Shaoqing."
"you say."
"Have you done anything untoward in the past few days?"
Li Youdao was silent for a long time, his expression gradually became clear, and he stared at Wu Minzhi: "Now I can see that you came to my house to cause trouble today, and asking for a marriage is just an excuse."
Wu Minzhi was surprised: "Ah? You noticed it so quickly? I thought I acted flawlessly..."
Then Wu Minzhi stopped pretending and his face darkened: "Li Shaoqing, I invite you to enter the jar today. I want to settle a grudge. If you don't want to, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of this alley."