The three Jin Yiwei finished their meal quickly, leaving a few coins and were about to walk. The store owner bravely grabbed one of them and said: "Guan Sir, I can't afford to run a small shop with a small budget. This meal costs half a cent. You can't afford it."
Just giving me five coppers wouldn’t cost my life?”
Jin Yiwei was furious: "Can you afford to miss my grandpa's business? I'm looking down on you by giving you five dollars. Grandpa never gives you money when you eat in restaurants in the capital!" As he said this, he took out half of his embroidered spring knife and threatened the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper finally chose the latter in the multiple-choice question of money or life, and gave up angrily. He watched the three royal guards mount their horses and walk westward through the muddy water. The merchants under the thatched shed dared not speak out in anger.
Wuhu is the boundary of Nanzhili, Jinyiwei's sphere of influence. If the store is really slaughtered, there is no place to explain.
"Store, the bill is settled!" Zhong Shouyong shouted. The half-full fans rolled the big cakes with beef and stuffed them into their arms. They picked up their weapons and prepared to go. The store owner hurried over to greet them: "Men, eat so quickly."
Okay? It's going to rain again today. Why don't you take a break before going on the road? The total is one, two, three, and two cents of silver. Just give me one, two, three."
"No rest, we have to hurry." Zhong Shouyong took out two Spanish eagles and slapped them on the table, picked up the waist knife and stood up and left, "Don't ask for change."
Spanish Eagles are of high quality and are also in circulation. Each coin weighs seven cents and three cents. Two coins are one, two, four cents and six cents. It is equivalent to giving more than one hundred copper coins. This makes the store very happy. Please be polite.
He said angrily: "Master, please go away slowly and come back next time."
The bandits put on rubber raincoats imported from Southeast Asia and bamboo hats on their heads, and drove the carriages forward in the rain. This section of the road was very desolate. The roadside was full of rotten fields. The muddy water on the post road was deep, making it difficult for carriages and horses.
After walking for three miles, they saw three horses lying on the road. Three guards in uniform stood under the tree with sad faces to take shelter from the rain. When they saw the convoy approaching, they quickly rushed to greet them and shouted: "Stop."
When we were at the small restaurant just now, Da Wenxi took advantage of the opportunity to urinate and poisoned the horses of the Jin Yiwei. After the horses took the poison, their legs would weaken and fall down after walking a certain distance. The three Jin Yiwei were covered in mud.
They were in a state of embarrassment, but their momentum was still strong. They thought that Nanchang's team was just ordinary merchants, so they wanted to stop and borrow three horses.
The convoy stopped immediately, and several people jumped out of the car and inadvertently surrounded the three Jin Yiwei. The Jin Yiwei were not given for free, and they immediately realized that the atmosphere was wrong. The people in this caravan were the same people in the small restaurant just now.
The war horse got into trouble because it ate the fodder from that shop. This must be a conspiracy. There was a huge disparity between the numbers. The three of them did not dare to play tricks. They just put their hands on the handles of their swords and said: "We are official servants of the imperial court. There are too many horses on the road."
If you can't hold it any longer, please do me a favor and lend me three horses. Just tell me how much money you need."
"Well, sir, please get in the car. We will take you wherever you want to go." Zhong Shouyong said with a sneer. There is no village in the front and no store in the back. There is no sign of any passerby except them on the road. Each and every one of these so-called businessmen
With a sinister face, a knife in his hand, and a malicious sneer on his face, even a fool could sense the tension in the atmosphere, let alone three experienced guards.
"What do you want to do? Are you going to rebel by killing officials? Do you know that we are the Imperial Guards!" The leader of the group roared fiercely.
"My lord, what are you doing? We have good intentions. Get in the car quickly and hand over your belongings. Tell me what I want to know and let you go." Zhong Shouyong said.
The three Jinyi guards looked at each other, and suddenly two of them drew their swords to face the enemy, while the other turned around and ran towards the fields on the side of the road.
Their every move had been closely watched by Nanchang Fanzi. As soon as the two Jinyi guards took out their knives, they were covered by a large net falling from the sky. Then a knight ran out on horseback and blocked the Jinyi guard who escaped into the rice field.
, that man was not weak in martial arts, but his feet were stuck in the mud and could not move. He was hit on the back of the head with a stick, knocking him unconscious.
The three Jin Yiwei were all dragged to the carriage. Their official uniforms were stripped off and tied up. Their belongings were carefully inspected. A leather tube sealed with fire paint was handed to Zhong Shouyong. He did not open it, but just held it in his hand.
Tapping with his hands, he asked the three Jinyi guards slowly:
"Where are the three officials going? What are they doing?"
"We were ordered to deliver a letter to Lord He Tengjiao, the Governor of Huguang. You must not touch the official documents of the imperial court. Which kind of heroes are you? You might as well tell your name so that we can come to ask for advice in the future." Jin Yiwei won't lose face even if he loses the battle.
Still very tough.
"I just wanted to show it to you." Zhong Shouyong said, tearing open the envelope, taking out the official document and looking at it, but there was no substantive content on it, only the court's condolences for the Huguang flood."
Zhong Shouyong was very disappointed. He jumped out of the carriage with the official document and said to Da Wenxi: "Maybe he is really a messenger from the imperial court. Look at this official document."
Da Wenxi did not read the official document, but instead took out a sign and showed it to Zhong Shouyong, "This is Nachang's waist badge. If they are messengers, why would they bring Nachang's fake waist badge? They are obviously thieves!"
Zhong Shouyong took it and saw that it was really a replica of Nachang's waistband. Nachang always liked to imitate other people's waistbands, but he didn't expect that he would also be imitated by others. The identities of these three people are definitely not simple! It seems that they
They took it by mistake.
Vice General Zhong boarded the car again and showed his badge to them: "It turns out that the three of you have other identities?"
"Yes, we are the Nanchang fans under Zhenwuhou. How about it, are you scared?" Jin Yiwei saw the strange expression on Zhong Shouyong's face and thought he was scared. He couldn't help but secretly rejoiced, thinking that he had brought the Nachang people with him.
The waist brand is still right, the Nan Factory is more prestigious than the Jinyi Weidong Factory.
"I'm scared, of course I'm scared, but be careful next time when you make fake waist tags. Nanchang's waist tags often change colors. The one you got was the one from last month, which is wrong." Deputy General Zhong looked at it with disdain.
Said to the three impostors.
The three of them were shocked. They immediately understood who was in front of them. They looked at each other, turned around and bit open the hidden bag on the collar of their underwear, swallowing the pills hidden inside. Zhong Shouyong quickly grabbed one person's chin and pulled him away.
The mandible was removed, but the pill melted as soon as it entered the mouth. No matter how fast he moved, it was too late.
"Uncle Da, come quickly, they have taken poison!"
Following Zhong Shouyong's shouting, Da Wenxi quickly rushed onto the carriage. When he saw the faces of the three people beginning to distort, he quickly said: "Hurry and carry them down for gastric lavage!"
The Nanchang gangsters dragged the three Jin Yiwei out of the car, forced water into their mouths, and punched their abdomens, hoping to force out the venom, but what they swallowed was obviously a specially made highly poisonous pill.
It took only half a stick of incense to kill them all. Da Wenxi pinched open a person's mouth, observed it, sniffed it again, and said: "They took pills made with snake venom. It is extremely toxic and bites when swallowed."
If the mouth is broken, the venom will enter the bloodstream, and enema and gastric lavage will be in vain. This pill was prepared by me when I was in Dongchang, and there is no cure."
"Who owns this kind of pill?" Zhong Shouyong asked.
"This was prepared by the order of the 9,000-year-old Eunuch Huang in order to give medicine to poison the ministers. It is usually soaked in wine and used as poisonous wine. Except for Dongchang, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has kept some. It is impossible to do it anywhere else.
Get this pill." Da Wenxi said with a long sigh and covered the deceased's eyelids with his hands.
"These three people are from Dongchang."
Zhong Shouyong frowned. This stout man was actually very thoughtful. He thought for a while and said: "They immediately committed suicide when they realized that we were from the South Factory. This shows that these three people have ulterior secrets. They went to
Wuchang, we are also going to Wuchang, and the Marquis will come over soon. This must not be a coincidence, if I guess correctly, they are coming for the Marquis."
Although the people were dead, some clues should be found from the items they brought with them. The detectives carefully searched every corner of the three corpses, but in the end they found nothing.
"What should we do?" Zhong Shouyong and Da Wenxi looked at each other. How could they say that the three dead ghosts were also members of the imperial court? Dongchang's reputation, and a fake Nanchang waistband could not be used as evidence. Fortunately, this place was deserted, and this scene was not
No one noticed, and after a short discussion, they decided to bury the body and mark it for later autopsy if necessary.
The bandits dug a hole in the rain and dug a deep pit. The three corpses were wrapped in rubber raincoats and thrown into the pit. They then buried them hastily and marked them with stones. Then they started their journey again. Everyone felt strange.
, there was a strange atmosphere, and three Dongchang fans died without incident. Does this mean that the future of this trip will be full of dangers?