However, Fang Xiaoyue did not give up. High above the escaped masked men in black, two paper cranes were quietly following them.
After all, instead of getting information that is unclear whether true or false from the mouth of a masked man in black, it is better to investigate it yourself.
Zhang Yuanming and his team were asked to throw all the corpses, crossbow arrows, etc. into the woods on both sides of the road. After comforting Cheng Xiaoyue and others, Fang Xiaoyue and his party continued on the road, as if the previous assassination had never happened.
However, what makes Fang Xiaoyue a little regretful is that the escaped masked men in black did not gather in any secret stronghold. After escaping, they changed into civilian clothes and then dispersed and fled.
Some masked men in black went directly to a certain county and transformed themselves into waiters in a certain restaurant.
Some masked men in black took on hoes and became farmers.
Some black-clothed and masked men went to county offices and became policemen, etc.
There is no doubt that even if the paper cranes are staring at them from above, it will be impossible to find the main messenger of these black-clothed and masked men in a short period of time.
Of course, even so, looking at the skills and professions of these masked men in black to hide their identities, Fang Xiaoyue also vaguely locked several targets in her mind.
The first thing that pops into my mind is Dongchang.
Since there was no ship, Zhang Yuanming did not stay in the provincial capital. Instead, he took his family to the dock early the next morning.
Bi Xiongzhen immediately left the provincial capital and rushed to the banquet hosted by the villains.
Apart from the next two days, was there any movement under the river?
Because it was a slow sneak attack, and the reeds were outside, it was conducive to encirclement.
There are no two chief envoys, no chief inspector, no transfer envoy, several chief envoys to participate in politics and the prefect of the provincial capital, etc.
It’s not that the Dongchang spies escaped!
Therefore, these men in white were able to take advantage of their numbers. Soon, Fang Shangou and Bi Xiongzhen took advantage of their Taoist skills to kill half of the enemies, leaving only a few alive to be tortured.
Of course, if it was possible for us to spy on Zhang Yuanming's whereabouts, we just knew that Zhang Yuanming was coming because of the delay, and then informed the inn. As soon as we arrived at the inn to check in, the inn's chief sent someone directly to report the news to all the villains, so we were able to
There will be no scene like the next day.
Although its spies are mainly located in Ozawa Country and the border areas, it is possible to send a group of personnel back in order to kill me.
Bi Xiongzhenzi calculated in his mind, and based on what he saw behind his eyes, the cost of building the ship was more than 70,000 taels of silver.
As a result, when Fang Xiaoyue went to the shipping company to inquire about the news and came back, she learned that the passenger ship from Youming Provincial City to the capital had only set sail seven days ago.
His main task was to send the family papers of his brother, a salt merchant named Sun, to the capital.
The boat moves upstream, but it moves more slowly with the sail raised.
After all, if you are writing poetry under the residence of a certain villain, the other party will probably make some unreasonable requests, such as embedding your name, font size, etc. into the poem.
Zhang Yuanming also refuted his cousin's face. He originally planned to stay at the inn for one night and then leave.
Of course, those Dongchang spies are also fierce. Even if we are attacked by others, we still behave extremely tenaciously.
There is a law. Compared to you guys, I feel less comfortable copying poems in a brothel.
The sailors below the ship untied the cables and raised the sails.
Bi Xiong really lacks the money to take a boat, but considering that all salt merchants are small-time rich, our boat is more comfortable than a special passenger boat.
On the surface, the Secret Intelligence Department of the Ministry of War only has one doctor, two supervisors and a few handymen, but in reality, the Secret Intelligence Department of the Ministry of War is not an organization similar to Dongchang.
However, even though we have round waists and thick arms, we still dare to leave the room to check the situation.
When the moon was low in the sky, Fang Shangou and Fang Xiaoyue quietly boarded the boat with their long knives in hand and sneaked towards the reeds.
But just as it was about to leave the borders of the Côte d'Azur Province and the passenger ship was spending the night outside a certain river bend, trouble struck again.
What's more, the salt merchant admired Zhang Yuanming's literary name, but he admired my official name and came to curry favor with me.
Fang Shangou and Fang Xiaoyue are both bad guys, so they will influence you if you are careful about which boat you take, but Cheng Dayue, the eldest child of a chef family, is fine.
But a hundred years ago, Dongchang evolved into a powerful weapon used by His Majesty the Emperor to deal with civil and military officials.
It was just a ship used to carry passengers.
Due to the slow movements of Fang Shang'ou and the others, the Sun family's belongings were not affected from the beginning to the end of the passenger ship. Only a few sailors sleeping outside the room at the stern seemed to hear the movement.
When the passenger ship was moored, Zhang Yuanming released the paper crane at low altitude and realized that Qi Zhou was right.
After all, after that, I didn't get that kind of treatment when I was in the provincial capital of Xiaohe.
The elder brother of the salt merchant surnamed Sun had just been transferred from the local area to the capital and joined the household department as the eighth-rank manager.
Of course, even so, there were not less than seventy corpses of these men in white, accounting for less than half of the attackers.
Therefore, I know what Mrs. Sun and Sister Sun look like.
Even the bed is a footbed, and the quilt under the bed is made of worn-out Nan embroidered silk satin.
Before getting off the ship and retreating to the guest room, there are ancient paintings hanging outside the guest room, and the seven treasures of the study, teacups, incense burners and other supplies placed under the table are all exquisite.
To be honest, the lurking skills of those men in white were extremely low, and they even carried talismans under their bodies to hide their identity. Bi Xiong might have discovered us if Zi'er hadn't had the low-altitude paper cranes around.
The passenger ship had just set sail a long time ago. As soon as it reached the center of the river, more than 80 stern boats were seen coming up the river. They formed an encirclement in the distance and surrounded the passenger ship.
In short, what comes to you is the strong smell of money.
It is said that the number of nails outside Dongchang's back yard is as low as hundreds of thousands and can be found in 77 provinces across the country!
Even before two men in white took advantage of Fang Shangou's attention, they bit the poison sac hidden outside his teeth and fell to the ground dead within a few breaths, giving Bi Xiong no chance to interrogate him.
However, for Zhang Yuanming, the disadvantage of waiting for seven days is not that I can no longer go to the brothel to recite poetry and promote my literary name.
Very slowly, the dull sound of a knife being struck beneath a person was heard outside the reeds.
Damn it, if Zhang Yuanming is just a special person, he probably hopes he doesn’t have a younger brother like that.
Fang Shangou and the other two stood at the stern of the boat, holding bows and arrows, and shouted in a low voice: "This is the boat of Dongxi Bofang, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry! Who is he waiting for?" On the other hand, the Sun family scrolls on the top floor may be because they are outside the room.
After staying for too long, I was not tired, so before lunch, a housekeeper came up and told Zhang Yuanming in awe that the Sun family wanted to rest below the deck.
The boatmen, old and young, were all panicked and hurriedly came to report to Zhang Yuanming.
The seventh guess is the Secret Detective Department of the Ministry of War.
Of course, even so, Bi Xiongzhen took a step back to determine our identities from the traces of our bodies and weapons.
Zhang Yuanming is also a wild flower and a butterfly. As a scholar, I also know etiquette. I didn't go to play below the deck again all morning.
And if I were in a brothel, if I copied a poem at random, it might spread more slowly.
In addition, Zhang Yuanming probably did not have any credit for promoting his literary name in the provincial capital of Xiaohe.
And as a secret service agency under the direct control of His Majesty the Emperor, Dongchang is bound to have no reserves of military weapons.
Before slowly drawing the bow several times in succession, several men in white who rushed towards the passenger ship were hit by arrows in the front and back, and they all fell down.
A certain salt merchant surnamed Sun who was consuming money in a brothel heard that the brothel was delayed for several days in the provincial capital due to a passenger ship accident. He immediately patted his chest and said that he was going to the capital after breaking down a ship.
Things are settled.
It is less than seventy feet long and has eight floors below the deck. It is much smaller than the large ship used by Ozawa's military, but compared to the large ship, the ship looks more gorgeous.
After all, I am not yet an official of the eighth rank. For the sake of my previous official reputation and literary reputation, it is the right way to kill people as much as possible.
Ke Yili appeared in the early morning of the eighth day.
That's also strange. Although the brothel looks like a filthy place, in reality, it is a news and cultural communication center in Ozawa Country.
That was strange. After all, it was the time of year and the National Examination was approaching, and people from all over the country were slow to leave for Beijing. The commercial trade between Youming Province and the capital was also quite developed. Normally, passenger ships departed once a week.
Early the next morning, the sailors got up and washed themselves before setting sail.
When Fang Shangou came back from his trip, he had a dozen name cards in his hand.
So outside the reeds, people in white clothes fell one after another, but under the passenger ship it was calm, as if nothing had happened.
Zhang Yuanming never expected that before he copied a poem in the brothel, he would actually resolve the matter of the passenger ship.
Bad guy, except for the lowest official in a province, who is the governor of Xiaorenzhi, all the other low-level officials in the provincial capital have sent their famous invitations.
In just eight days, the ship left Youming Province and retreated into Canglan Province.
The special passenger ship we will take next is a little bit bigger than the one behind that ship.
Today's Dongchang is just an office with over a thousand employees.
In reality, the officialdom and even the brothel world of Youming Provincial City had been badly prepared for Zhang Yuanming's arrival.
However, before discovering these men in white, Bi Xiongzhen did not alert the sailors on the boat, but only informed Fang Shangou and Fang Xiaoyue.
Eight days ago, I changed my position to the brothel.
There is no doubt that the disadvantages of low-level titles are being reflected little by little.
Under such circumstances, even if Fang Shangou was worried about Zhang Yuanming's danger, he could only wait seven days.
Throughout the entire process, Zhang Yuanming did not show up, and did not even use a talisman.
Of course, the ship that went to the capital was not specifically for Bi Xiongzhen.
Zhang Yuanming asked the sailors to go back to their rooms and let the passenger ship drift along the current.
Apart from this, Zhang Yuanming had few guesses, but they were ruled out because they were too consistent.
Why go through the trouble of taking a dilapidated passenger ship when you can take a worse ship?
Except for those few days, Zhang Yuanming's big life under the boat was still wrong.
As mentioned before, Dongchang was established by the founding emperor of the Daze Kingdom, and its main duty was to investigate injustices and rumors about officials in the large and small yamen in Beijing!
Just as we were rushing toward the passenger ship fiercely, Fang Shangou and Fang Xiaoyue had not yet grabbed the two bows, but they turned around and opened their bows to shoot arrows.
Not long after we got off the ship, the salt merchant surnamed Sun arranged for his sister-in-law and his nephew to leave before boarding the ship.
Actually, just when I left the provincial capital of Xiaohe Province, it was said that my poems had reached the provincial capital of Youming Province.
Although there were less than seventy sailors and eight female slaves off the boat, and they all looked incompetent, Zhang Yuanming did not feel that those sailors and slaves could not withstand the sneak attack of the man in white.
Hundreds of men in white lurked outside the reeds surrounding the river bend.
It's just that our intentions are direct and complete.
Every day, many businessmen traveling from various places come to the brothel to spend money, and before we leave, we will spread the things we heard outside the brothel to further places.
As expected, the ship of this salt merchant surnamed Sun did not exceed Zhang Yuanming's expectation. It was small enough and luxurious enough.
Every morning before getting up, I go to the bow deck to look at the scenery, drink a few bowls of fresh fish porridge, and sit outside the room to draw talismans and so on. That day is over.
Worried about the safety of the passenger ship, Fang Shangou and the other two did not pursue the other party before they fled. Instead, they threw the body into the river, disposed of it, and returned to the passenger ship.
After all, if the passenger ship must be full of people and cargo before setting sail, the shipowner's loss will be small.
Of course, it is impossible to do that, but the question is whether the relationship between Zhang Yuanming and those villains has deteriorated to this extent, why should he bring harm to our reputation?
But there has long been no rumor outside the capital that Dongchang has planted no nails in the houses of princes, princes and ministers.
Because of the subsequent assassination incident, when the carriage passed by the provincial capital of Youming Province, Fang Shangou tried his best to dissuade Zhang Yuanming from staying too little in the provincial capital.
Perhaps because they were worried about attracting officers and soldiers, these lurking men in white did not shout or make a sound even though they were attacked by Fang Shangou and his two men.
Those cockroaches seemed to have good intentions and were full of murderous intent, causing the sailors to panic when they got off the passenger ship.
The result of the torture was not satisfactory to Fang Shangou, because the men in white were only following orders, and each of them had an extremely weak will. Even if Fang Shangou used what he thought was the most cruel torture, he could still make these men in white surrender.
Its entire body is made of damaged paulownia wood. When you step back, you can see that even the windows are made of colored glaze.
Zhang Yuanming had just spent one night at the inn in the city. When he woke up the next morning, the soldiers from the inn came to report that the housekeeper of Zhu Shaolien's house was not there.
But everyone in the capital knows that he is responsible for a series of tasks such as military intelligence and investigation, breaking enemy lines, assassinating important enemy figures, etc.
Since the family surnamed Sun lived on the top floor, all food, drink and use were brought down by slaves, while Zhang Yuanming lived on the first floor of the deck, so the two parties also met each other, which made Zhang Yuanming a little more embarrassed.
Even though our arms and calves were severed, we still rushed towards Bi Xiongzhen and the two of them crazily, and the man in white didn't even try to bypass Fang Shangou and the other two, sneak into the passenger ship, and directly assassinate Zhang Yuanming.