Of course, the old farmer is not a real old farmer, but a famous thief! He has been playing with knives for forty-eight years, and one stab with a dagger will be absolutely accurate.
However, at this time, the assassinated target did not have any scars on his waist!
"Is this guy a human or a ghost..."
There was a sudden chill in the old farmer's heart.
At this time, the assassination target actually changed his direction again. He turned and jumped to the side, borrowed strength from the wall, and unexpectedly tumbled into the yard next to him with unusual dexterity...
Such a move immediately caught the old farmer and others by surprise. Because the plan they made was to intercept and kill the target in this alley!!
There were three people in total on this side of the alley, namely the old farmer Xu Jiang, the scholar Wu Sheng, and He Wu who was working as a sheep and selling vegetables nearby. On the other side of the alley, waiting for work and preparing to intercept and kill, was the second master of the village.
Zhao Chuan and his younger brother Zhao Shan.
These five people are also well-known thieves throughout Shandong. They commit murder, arson, and all kinds of evil!
Zhao Chuan, Zhao Shan and scholar Wu Sheng were in the same group.
Xu Jiang and He Wu are from another group,
They had made an appointment to discuss things here, but suddenly they received a big deal! The reward of this big deal was so generous that it was enough for the five of them to wash their hands. Although the buyer was unknown, the other party
I paid in advance ten small yellow croakers! (gold bars)
And the person he wanted to kill was not a great and extravagant person, he was just a student who should have returned from studying abroad.
The five of them have never seen such a good deal in their lives. Originally, these two groups were usually not very pleasing to each other, and they might want to make a deal at a critical moment. But with such a huge sum of money, it was the revenge of killing their father.
The hatred of seizing your wife should also be put aside first.
What's more, the kid they want to kill is single and a student! When they come here, this money is just like picking it up.
Unexpectedly, the five of them joined forces and set up a dragnet. They thought they would be able to catch him. Butcher Xu was already successful when he stabbed him with a dagger, but they didn't expect the idea to be so thorny. When they were escaping, they killed the scholar Wu Sheng with a counterattack.
, even more so, instead of taking the usual route, he fled directly into the nearby courtyard wall.
At this time, the four people saw their prey trying to escape, and were frightened and angry, so they chased after them. Xu Jiang and He Wu climbed over the wall, while the two brothers Zhao Chuan and Zhao Shan blocked the way from the side and outflanked them, but they did not know that Fang Linyan was going to
Let them divide their forces like this!!
When Xu Jiang and He Wu climbed over the wall and chased them, Fang Linyan not only did not escape, but was waiting directly below.
When he killed the scholar Wu Sheng, he discovered that this group of people was a typical type with high attack power and low blood pressure. They killed people very quickly, and of course they were killed quickly too!
After Xu Jiang and He Wu jumped off the courtyard wall, they were faced with Fang Linyan's extremely fast surprise attack. This was the full force attack of a LV16 basic melee master.
The basic melee combat skills of the two Jiangyang thieves were only around LV10. Fang Linyan calculated with his heart and did not intend to attack Xu Jiang directly when he jumped off the wall.
He calculated mentally but not intentionally, and at the same time he used his spiritual tentacles, so of course he easily killed him. Then he singled out He Wu, who was already panicking, and it was not difficult to kill him.
By the time Zhao Chuan and Zhao Shan successfully walked around, Fang Linyan was already standing there, shaking off the blood on his hands.
Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the next battle. Fang Linyan faced off against the two brothers of the Zhao family. He first found an opportunity to break Zhao Chuan's left leg, then seized on the weakness of their brotherly love, and began to fight, and finally succeeded in killing Zhao Chuan.
The two were captured alive.
However, Fang Linyan's efforts were in vain. His purpose of capturing the two men alive was to interrogate the mastermind behind the scenes, but in the end the two brothers still didn't know anything after questioning, and they concluded that they really didn't know.
In the end, Fang Linyan finally figured it out. Even if he really transformed into Sherlock Holmes and tracked down the man behind the hiring of these people, that guy would definitely not know all the answers.
..
Why does a surveillance system need a reason to do things? Don't make it too simple by arranging a few people to be chasers.
These five people came here to kill themselves. Of course Fang Linyan would not hold back at this time. He killed them all. Then a prompt appeared in front of his eyes:
"Colonizer CD8492116, congratulations on escaping from the first pursuer."
Fang Linyan shrugged, then exhaled and reached out to touch his lower back! A wound suddenly appeared there.
The wound was not big, but it was extremely deep! The blood kept flowing outwards, reaching deep into the internal organs. It was Xu Jiang who had done it before. Fang Linyan even used two hemostatic bandages to stop the blood flow.
If he had continued to fight with this wound before, his combat effectiveness would have been reduced by at least one-fifth.
But now Fang Linyan has replaced his gun with a cannon, and things are different now! With the power of an artifact, after the war started, Fang Linyan forcibly accelerated time on this wound, moving it to the next two hours, and then immediately moved it back.
In this case, the consumption of one's own time power is minimal.
These five people only dropped one key, which made Fang Linyan, who had returned from the golden branch world, extremely uncomfortable! After all, the last key he opened was a direct blast to the artifact.
The good news is: the alley where Fang Linyan killed people is quite remote, but it was also a place carefully chosen by these killers. Therefore, only two or three beggars came to it. These guys immediately ran away as fast as they could. Even in this troubled world,
The incident occurred, probably a long time later.
At this time, Fang Linyan was wrapping up his wounds and reviewing his thoughts. Fang Linyan's eyes gradually became colder. If he had entered this world without the Mobius mark, his attributes would have been compressed and he would only have a little over 200 health points at best.
And these guys who play melee combat have terrifyingly high attack power. Not to mention anything else, just being hit by Xu Jiang's dagger would probably make Fang Linyan half crippled! Once the five of them join forces to successfully attack, it's really going to be very high.
There is a chance of killing yourself.
At this time, Fang Linyan thought of what happened before. If the Mobius Mark didn't help him get rid of that bullshit Atli United Guard system, then the "pursuers" sent should have come in two batches?
In other words, this time there are not five people coming, but... twenty-five?
Thinking of this, Fang Linyan suddenly swallowed his saliva!
There are twenty-five enemies of this level, so it is estimated that there are long-range weapons such as guns and darts. This is really a big trouble.
Because fighting is not a simple matter of addition and subtraction. For Fang Linyan, if the threat of five enemies coming together is 10, then the threat of ten enemies coming together is definitely not 20, but at least 30, twenty-five
The threat generated by individuals together is at least 80!
Next there is good news and bad news.
The bad news is that Fang Linyan opened the key dropped by the "Scholar". His European Qi should have been used up when he opened the artifact with a 7.4% chance, so... this one
The treasure chest opened by the silver-colored key is huge, and the total value is worth 10,000 utility points.
The good news is that Fang Linyan no longer has to go to the Xianggong Hall to be the rabbit master, because this key opened a gold bar. Not only that, Fang Linyan also found some copper coins and broken silver from the corpse.
Although there is no corresponding "body search" ability, nothing obtained can be taken out of this world, but at least it solves Fang Linyan's current economic crisis.
So, ten minutes later, Fang Linyan, who had undergone a makeover, came to the door of the teahouse again and walked in without hesitation this time.
The seat in the center of the teahouse near the stage was the most expensive, and you had to pay twenty yellow coins to sit there. Fang Linyan didn't want to be so high-profile, so he found a place to sit against the wall and ordered a cup of Gao Mo'er for eight yellow coins.
In the end, the waiter found fault with him, saying that it was free money and he had to make up for it by twelve, so Fang Linyan had no choice but to pay him honestly.
What is yellow money and white money?
It turns out that since the Taiping Rebellion, the central government of the Qing Dynasty has almost lost control over the local areas. The landmark event ended with the death of the last famous clan general, Seng Gelinqin.
The most awesome thing this prince did was to lead eight thousand Mongolian cavalry to charge at the machine gun positions of the British and French forces in 1860... The final result was single-digit casualties for the enemy and several thousand casualties for our own side.
people.
In this case, if the imperial court asks someone to do something, they won't be able to get any money. They can only give it to the envoy. Or they may allocate a piece of land to you, and you can go there to collect taxes and raise soldiers.
The most typical example is Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army. The imperial court assigned Anqing to them and said if you need money, this place will be given to you. So the Hunan Army set up a card here to collect taxes.
When places like this begin to become semi-autonomous, it is really common to mint copper coins privately. The money minted by the central government has a high copper content, good technology, and is willing to bear down the cost. It looks yellow, so it is called
Yellow money.
The level of privately minted money varies, and it must be cutting corners and adding a lot of cheap iron. The color turns white, which is called white money.
After Fang Linyan sat down, he looked around and found that the teahouse was quite large, covering an area of seven or eight rooms, at least one or two thousand square meters. The walls were simply painted with white ash, and the words "Don't talk about national affairs" were posted on it.
slogan.
The ground is still mud, but it has been simply smoothed, and has been made hard and shiny by countless people's soles.
There are six or seven stoves on the tiger stove facing the door, all of which are filled with steaming pots. The tea shop owner is a very particular person, and there are ten large pots of water lined up next to the stove.
There are four words on the vat: Lu Yu’s legacy.
Then the water in the water tank must be very clear, and according to local customs, a lot of washed calamus and mugwort are thrown into the water surface, which is green and pleasant, indicating disinfection.
The second brother quickly served tea to Fang Linyan. Gao Mo'er is actually the teahouse that recycles the leftover tea waste ordered by high-spending customers, drying the good tea leaves that have been brewed and recycling them.
The characteristic of this thing is that it is still very fragrant when it is first soaked, but after the second soaking in water, it quickly turns into tasteless white water.
And this is also the tea that the people in the teahouse order most often when entertaining friends. From this, we can conclude that Fang Linyan did a lot of homework before coming to this world, trying his best to integrate into this world without arousing suspicion.
In order to attract business, there is a stage in the center of the teahouse, and performances are performed here every morning:
There are those who are telling stories on it, and there are those who are performing busking and smashing rocks on their chests,
Of course, the most popular ones are those who sing.
At this time, there was a woman on the stage who was singing "Second Sister Liu Missing Her Husband" in a sweet voice. Of course, it was adapted into a version that the working people loved to hear:
The specific content describes a series of stories about a newlywed young woman, Xiao Liu, who lives alone in a vacant room while her husband is away on a business trip. She misses her husband so much before going to bed, including but not limited to psychological activities, hand and local movements, etc.
Although the woman's lyrics were unclear and often off-key, her watery eyes were very coquettish and coquettish, so the cheers from below came one after another, and many coins were thrown in.
Fang Linyan waved, then handed a copper coin to the younger brother to deliver a newspaper. This copper coin gave the right to borrow the newspaper, so the newspaper could not be taken away. Not many people can read now, so in
There are also dedicated people in the teahouse who read newspapers and analyze and explain important domestic news.
Soon after receiving the newspaper, Fang Linyan discovered that it was a "Declaration", but the date was ten days ago. However, in a small place, newspapers are not widely circulated, which is normal.
The declaration may not be very famous to modern people, but it was very famous at the time. The most famous thing was that it bribed the eunuchs in the palace and published records of Emperor Tongzhi's illness for six consecutive months, including whose illness it was and who prescribed it.
All the medicines are listed.
It was equivalent to giving the people of the whole country a live text broadcast of the emperor's entire journey from his serious illness to his death. This really made him famous and established his status as the number one major newspaper in the country.
Fang Linyan flipped through the news above and found that it mentioned a lot of information collected from his own information. For example, the Japanese army had already entered North Korea at this time, and Japan launched the "First Letter of Severance of Diplomacy" against the Qing court on June 22.
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However, at this moment, a piece of news jumped into Fang Linyan’s eyes:
"How could this happen?"
It turns out that in the second page of the declaration, almost half of the page was spent talking about one thing, that is, Li Gongzhang and Li Zhongtang have been sick at home recently and are unhappy.
The reason was that a treasure was lost at home, which was a picture scroll given by an eminent monk to Li Zhongtang's old mother on her eightieth birthday: the picture of Mulian rescuing his mother.
If someone can find this treasure, then Li Zhongtang has spoken out to make this person rich and prosperous, and all his wishes will come true.
Fang Linyan did not collect this matter from any information. He shook his head and put it aside. Then he found a few newspapers, such as Beijing News, Current Affairs News, etc., and found that these newspapers were all the same.