Chapter 15 sugar in eyes

The wide and sharp sugar knife flew out from the hand of the old lady who was fanning the stove. The angle of rotation, cutting force, and flying speed were all very precise.The blade cut into the neck extremely smoothly, and was firmly embedded there, like a gate that cut off the airflow of Yu Zhenyang's vocal tract and also cut off the control of Yu Zhenyang's brain nerves to various parts of the body. The knife was embedded in the neck, but the head did not fall off, and the blood did not splash out for a while.Yu Zhenyang's body also froze on the horse's back, he opened his eyes and opened his mouth, and he never fell off the horse for a while.So the people around only heard him make an unintelligible "dang" sound, and no one quickly discovered the sugar cutter embedded in his neck.

Almost at the same time, the old sugar seller staggered forward, almost spilling the basket in his hand.But he quickly stood still, very firmly, motionless, as if waiting for something. Maybe the old man was waiting for the old lady, because the old lady who fanned the stove had already walked behind the old man at some point. Maybe the old man was waiting for the sugar cutter.Yu Zhenyang's body finally swayed a few times and fell off the horse, but before his body landed, the sugar cutter had returned to the old man's hand. Maybe the old man was waiting for the guards and coachman around him to get out of the way.Zhu Keshu suddenly fell from the carriage and fell to the ground. The guards with knives, the coachman and the quick-response subordinates all rushed over to help him subconsciously, and gathered around Zhu Keshu, who was only breathing but not breathing, to see what happened.

Although Zhu Keshu leaned out in an embarrassing posture and range, it was not enough to fall off the carriage.What made him fall off the carriage was a piece of sweet candy, a piece of candy that he saw but couldn't eat. The candy is really in the eyes, a big yellow flower, which has covered the whole eyes.If it was just the candy sticking to his eyes, Zhu Keshu would definitely not have fallen off the carriage.The problem is that what sticks the eyes is the thickest stick of sugar on the basket, and the pointed and long front part of the stick of sugar has directly penetrated the eyeball and obliquely inserted into Zhu Keshu's brain cavity.

Who would have expected that the sweet and crunchy sugar candy will become tough and hard after being mixed with a certain amount of long ginger, and the tough and hard sugar can be extremely beneficial under the dual effects of strong strength and fast speed. Sharp as a knife and a dagger.Although it is still a piece of sweet candy in essence, besides being edible, this piece of candy can also stab someone's vitals and kill them with a single blow when necessary. At the moment when Yu Zhenyang's neck was sprayed with blood, the old man and lady who made candy had already boarded the carriage.And when someone realized that both Zhu Keshu and Yu Zhenyang had been plotted against by others, the carriage, driven by the old man and lady who made sugar, had already rushed forward for twenty or thirty steps, knocking all the government servants and officials who were clearing the way at the front of the team. fly out.

The soldiers led by Yu Zhenyang had all fought their lives on the battlefield, so they reacted faster than those prefect guards who usually only knew how to show off their might.These soldiers were originally in the rear team, and they didn't know what happened in front of them.When someone shouted "Master Zhifu, the guerrilla general has been killed, the murderer ran away in a carriage", these soldiers will immediately urge their horses to chase forward.Keep a close eye on the horse-drawn carriage running wildly in front of it, and let it chase through the streets and alleys without letting go.The several messenger soldiers in the team quickly left the team chasing the carriage, looking for another way and galloping on horseback.They wanted to take a shortcut and rush to the front to inform the defenders at the city gates.Let them set up barriers and close the gates, or directly close the city gates. In short, they must block the carriage in the city.

The carriage didn't run fast, but the street wasn't wide either.If the carriage takes some S-shaped routes while it is running, even if the soldiers behind have chased to the end of the carriage, there is no way to stop it. The carriage ran all the way to the south gate, only to be stopped by the messengers who had arrived in advance and the city guards.But at this moment, it was already an empty carriage, and there was no one on it.I don't know when the old man and the old woman who made candy disappeared, and what method they used to disappear. After Liu Huan received the report, he did not rush to the assassination scene, but sent his subordinate inspectors to find out the situation and then report to him.This is actually a wise move, and it is a prudent move after some careful consideration.

It is very strange that Zhu Keshu and Yu Zhenyang were killed.These two people, one civil and one military, had no relationship with each other before they came to Fengzhou, so they shouldn't have a common enemy.And even if the two have a common enemy, there is no need for the enemy to wait until the two get together before killing them together. Therefore, Liu Huan felt that the assassins probably did not attack them personally, but their identities.In other words, the assassination of the two was for the public rather than private.If this inference is true, then the most important target in Fengzhou City should be Liu Huan, and the next assassination target must be himself.Even assassinating those two people was a game in itself, just to lure him to the scene and then attack him by surprise!

Thinking of this, Liu Huan began to admire his own wisdom.Those two assassins fled by car but did not leave the city. Although their purpose of hiding in the city is hard to guess, generally speaking, the main reason why they did not flee after killing people was that there were more important people to kill.In Fengzhou City, the only person more important than Zhu Keshu and Yu Zhenyang is himself, and using the assassination scene where the murder has already occurred as the venue for another assassination is also an excellent design that is hard for others to imagine.So no matter what, Liu Huan was right not to go to the scene.

"No, there should be someone more important than me! It's just that they haven't entered the city yet." Liu Huan suddenly thought of something, and immediately left the government office with many soldiers, detouring the west gate to Huixian Temple outside the city . When he got to the temple, he didn't tell Zhao Pu and Wang Ce what happened in detail. In fact, he really didn't know what happened until now, he just guessed it in his heart.He only told Zhao and Wang that there was danger here, and told them to follow him into the city. Zhao Pu and Wang Ce also felt that Liu Huan's expression was very sincere, so they didn't make things difficult for him, and followed him into Fengzhou City.After entering the city, Liu Huan did not arrange Zhao and Wang to the post station, but took them to the government office of the garrison envoy to live temporarily.

This is another wise move by Liu Huan, a coercive move to prevent future troubles.It was his subordinates who were assassinated, but the assassin's purpose seemed to be more than that.The next target may be himself, and of course it is very likely to be the special envoy of these two big weeks.But things can also be reversed. Since the assassination was aimed at the officials of the Shu Kingdom, could it be controlled by the people of Da Zhou?Otherwise, how could there be no accidents before and no accidents later, but accidents happened when they were here. Border attack and defense, any situation may happen.There are also many ways to capture enemy cities, including assassinating generals and weakening military command capabilities.From this point of view, it was Da Zhou who benefited the most from the assassination of Zhu Keshu and Yu Zhenyang.After the Tang Dynasty, the ownership of the four prefectures including Feng and Chi changed hands several times, and they were finally collected by Meng Zhixiang in the territory of Houshu.Since then, Zhou has always had a shadow in his heart. These four states are like Hou Shu using four sharp cones to press against the weakness of Da Zhou.So after this analysis, it is not Liu Huan's wild imagination to say that the assassin is manipulated by the special envoy of the Great Zhou, but that there is such a possibility.

Zhao Pu and Wang Ce had already sensed that the situation in Fengzhou City was not right before they arrived at the government office. The shops and residents on the street had all turned off their lights and extinguished the fire.So they asked the Shu soldiers next to them what was going on, and only then did they know that Zhu Keshu and Yu Zhenyang were assassinated and both died. After hearing the news, Zhao and Wang immediately realized Liu Huan's real intention of connecting himself to the city, and the two of them thought more complicated and in-depth. Liu Huan, as the chief of the military, cannot shirk his responsibility for such a thing to happen in a border city of Dazhou.And the two of them happen to be here as special envoys of the Great Zhou, so Liu Huan can completely relate the rejection of the special envoy to the assassination, and say that the assassin came for the special envoy of the Great Zhou, as a way to shirk his responsibility an excuse. If Liu Huan is smart enough, he can also use the fact that the two special envoys just arrived as a bridge, and make the assassination a coup for him to turn his crime into merit, saying that the two were assisting him and Liu Huan to protect the two ambassadors. He was killed when he was special envoy Zhou. Liu Huan can even use the two of them as scapegoats when he has to.If the assassins were inspected to no avail in the end, and the upper management didn't believe in the two so-called ingenious timings, he could blame the assassins' origins on the big Zhou envoys who suddenly rushed to the border of Fengzhou. Wang Ce heard from Zhao Kuangyin in the court room that day that if the situation developed to a certain stage and the situation in Da Zhou still could not be reversed, officials in several important military places on the border between Shu and Da Zhou would be assassinated.As a result, it led to internal chaos, with no generals in the army and no officials in the people, so the plan to use troops against the Great Zhou could only be postponed.But all the steps of Zhao Kuangyin's plan have just begun, and he has not been able to enter the territory of others, so why has he already started to use such extreme methods?Could it be that after he left the holy capital, there were new changes in the court?No, this incident should be just a coincidence.But since someone has used such vicious methods and caused such a big commotion, there must be a truth behind it that no one else can know. Zhao Pu proposed to take a look at the assassination site.He is a master of the Strategy Department of the Imperial Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He is not only proficient in the strategy and strategy of marching and fighting, but also has unique features in the investigation and identification of cases.This is because Zhao Pu was originally from Jianghu, and he was a disciple of Mr. Pinghu Tianyan in Jingnan. But Zhao Pu's proposal was rejected, and Liu Huan had his own ideas.The assassin has not found out yet, the assassination site including the path to the site is a dangerous area, it is inappropriate for him and the special envoy of Da Zhou to appear there now.Besides, he didn't want the people in Da Zhou to know too much about the environment and situation at the scene.If you don't understand, you don't have the right to refute and explain, so when necessary, how to say something depends entirely on your own needs. Zhao Pu and Wang Ce only lived in Fengzhou City for two days, and the imperial edict of Shu King Meng Chang arrived.The decree is very simple and clear, let Liu Huan immediately send soldiers and horses to escort the two special envoys to Chengdu. That is, when the imperial decree came, Zhao Pu discovered an abnormal phenomenon in Shu.The two of them led the envoy team and almost set off together with the courier who delivered the plain text, and the courier was slightly faster than them.When the messenger arrived in the territory of Shu State, the official text of the envoy was transferred to the official channel of Shu State. Calculated from the distance, it would take twenty days at the fastest from Mingwen to Chengdu and then to Fengzhou by imperial decree.But the reply arrived so soon, and after calculation, it can be seen that the delivery of official letters from Fengzhou to Chengdu took about ten days.In those days, official communications were sent on light horses.That is to say, although the four prefectures of Qin, Cheng, Jie, and Feng that are connected to the Great Zhou Dynasty are far away from Chengdu and difficult to travel, if the soldiers and horses of the State of Shu are as good at walking the road of Shu as Tao Qingqi, they will be able to rush all the way. , Within ten days, it is still possible to rush directly from Chengdu to the border of the four states. In fact, Zhao Pu didn't fully know that the reply to this official channel was still slow.In order to show that he attached great importance to the visit of the special envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the King of Shu sent an edict official from the inner court to deliver the edict.The inner court official will never walk as fast as Tao Qingqi, which actually delayed more than a day in the process of returning the order.So as early as the day before the King of Shu's decree arrived, Liu Huan had already received an urgent letter from the military channel (urgent letters, burn a little on the corner of the envelope, which not only means urgency, but also can send the letter paper inside and outside the envelope. Comparison of the burnt traces of the letter to see if the letter has been peeked and forged).

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