Chapter 44 Assassin King Technique

The "Qiongshui" mentioned by Daoist Shen was recorded in the "Peach Talisman Book" written by Bi Yinxun, an official of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and Later Shu. "Qingqiu flowers, Qiong moths and insects, Qiongshui and water are rare. They can promote the movement of yin and yang, pray for blessings, and break blessings for the user..." From this we can see that Qiongshui is rare and rare, and whether its efficacy is also the same According to the records, there is no way to verify it. Some people in later generations specialized in research, and paintings like "Shenlong Mian Jiuling" are called "Feng Shui Po", also known as "Feng Shui Kill".In fact, it uses an unbalanced picture to exert pressure on people's visual senses and subconsciously create psychological obstacles.As for Qiongshui, one of the functions that can be confirmed at present is that it can add luster to calligraphy and painting, because the abdominal fluid of Qiongmoth contains moth fluorescent powder.There is another theory that cannot be confirmed, that is, the agar water contains inhaled toxins that the ancients could not identify, or that the water can nourish certain deadly bacteria, which can quickly and directly damage the owner's body.

To be honest, Xiao Yan didn't know much about Shen Daoren's words, but he kept everything in his heart.He knew that some words he could not understand, but some people could understand.As long as I bring back these words in their original form, it will be a great achievement. "What can this explain?" Often it is because they can't fully understand that they continue to ask some naive questions. "This shows that the person who dedicated this painting did not commit an unintentional harm or crime, but has transformed this painting into a murderous weapon, and is determined to kill it!"

"Assassinate the emperor with this painting?!" Xiao Yan was stunned.Although he didn't quite understand what Shen Daoren said earlier, he always thought that the so-called deceitful killing method in this painting might just disturb Yuanzong's mind and luck, and make his body gradually weaken. Assassinate. "It's an assassination! You and I both know that the person who can make such an assassination is definitely not an ordinary person. He should be by your Southern Tang emperor's side. And after assassinating your Southern Tang emperor, he will become the biggest beneficiary. "

After Daoren Shen said this, Xiao Yan immediately thought of Director De who was specially interviewed by Meng Chang just after he came to Shu.Of course, he also immediately thought of Prince Li Hongji from Chief Dean. "It's no wonder that the faceless god would lose his cultivation base greatly. If he deduces such a thing, it will change the number of days and reverse the fate. Although my cultivation base is not damaged, once this matter is spread, it is likely to become a prey. The object of revenge for those who have failed. The reason why I asked the Taoist boy to lead you here today is to let the outside world think that the secrets you know are obtained from the Qingyang Temple. I have already asked another Taoist boy to lead your escort team here, wait You go out in a moment, and they will wait for you at the door."

Xiao Yan immediately understood Shen Daoren's words. He was blaming others and passing all the ties to the Taoist priests of Qingyang Temple. "Before you leave, listen to me carefully. You can't stay in Shu for long, and you should hurry back to Southern Tang. Once the person who assassinated your emperor with a painting knows that you have seen the truth in the painting, you will soon It will become a target that must be silenced, and the danger will always exist. Only when you convey the truth to Emperor Yuanzong, then the method of assassinating you will lose its meaning." Shen Daoren said that he really integrated politics and mystery. One place.

Xiao Yan fully understood what Daoren Shen meant, and also knew why he had to hurry back by himself.Because if the person who used the painting to assassinate Yuan Zong knew the origin of the information he knew, then he would also be the target of being silenced.This should be the reason why Daoren Shen was restless, and also the real reason why he thought of blaming Qingyang Temple. Huhuli is not an important town, nor is it an important traffic pass, so it seems very comfortable and peaceful.But this little-known Huhuli has a lot of special features, which are not found in many important towns and big cities.

First of all, Huhuli is not a complete city, it only has part of the city wall and part of the wooden fence, and it uses cliffs and river water to protect the city.However, the scope of this incomplete city is very large. It not only encloses the residents and merchants in ordinary towns, but also encloses a large area of ​​farmland and woods in the city. This phenomenon has a lot to do with the use of cliffs and rivers to encircle the city. Relationship. There is another one. Although the remote Huhuli is not lively, it is full of elegance and fragrance.This feature can be seen from the street names and store names - Dianfengtai, Laiyi Bridge, Pinmeiju, Juyan Pavilion, etc., which make people think at first glance that they are in a place where fireworks and willow alleys gather.But anyone who knows Huhuli knows that the reason why this place has such characteristics is because it is a gathering place for industries.There are very few records in this kind of industry data and literature, and there is no accurate name.But in some places it is called "replacement hairpin". There are records about "replacement hairpin" in "Anecdotes on the Secluded Seat" by Anonymous in Song Dynasty, and "Journal of Near Huangxuan" by Murong Jin, a native of Yanjing in Yuan Dynasty.

The nature of "replacement hairpin" is actually similar to that of Yanhualiuxiang, and it also uses the means of raising, training, and selling women.But the level is very different from that of Fireworks and Willow Lane, because the beauties cultivated and trained in this industry are all used in the beauty pageants and drafts of imperial palaces in various countries.Some were bought by high-ranking officials and offered to the palace, some were bought by wealthy families to replace their own daughters in the palace, and the worst of them could be bought back by wealthy officials to be wives and concubines.

Shi Lewei, a native of Jiujiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, once recorded in "Speaking of Flowers in Yantang": "...every family in the Chu area raises beautiful women, learns palace rituals, plays piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, essays, and cooks. It is to be selected. , or donate gold and silver equivalent to one’s body, or offer oneself, in order to be rich and prominent.  …” This industry in Huhu is not publicized, and there are very strict rules behind it.This is because this trip is presided over by the two lowest categories in the Jianghu, and these two categories are Quehu and Shehu.The so-called Quehu is Yu's defrauding group, and the Snake House is a group of people abducting and trafficking.But no matter whether it is upper class or lower class, as long as one enters the way of the rivers and lakes, there must be strict rules behind it.The secrets in this business also radiate and involve rich officials and households in many countries, so strict rules and powerful talents are needed to continue this matter.

Although this industry is presided over by sparrow households and snake households, most of the beauties come from folk women who have nowhere to go.Rarely is human trafficking or coercion, so there is no trouble with lawsuits.Most of the targets of the transaction are concentrated in the official family, and the beauties they buy back are all pretending to be their relatives and donating to the palace, so they dare not publicize this industry in Huhuli. Qi Junyuan didn't know about this feature in Huhuli, he just focused on finding out if there was a place called Yinyang Xuanhu here.Although I have been wandering around the city for two days, I also feel strange about the names of various roads and shops, but I didn't bother to inquire.Because as an assassin, casually inquiring about things that the locals think are commonplace will only do you harm instead of benefit.So they still don't know what the background of Huhuli is like, and they can't know that those street names and store names came from an alternative industry.However, after arriving at a place, it is necessary to pay attention to the road names and terrain characteristics. This is a way to quickly familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment, and it is also one of the basic skills of the Assassin of Lihen Valley.

Of course, just paying attention to road names and terrain features is not enough to make a good assassin. A truly good assassin should focus most of his energy on the abnormalities in the new environment.Place names and store names are not new, no matter how weird they are, they cannot be counted as abnormal.Anomalies should be temporary, accidental, moving, incomprehensible... such as that child's plaything! The child's plaything is not in the child's hand, but on a grass handle full of playthings.This straw handle is used to sell game devices along the street, and there are many game devices inserted into it, but only this one is special and unique. There is only one thing special about the game device, that is, it is not a game device that ordinary children would play with.Not to mention children, even adults rarely know how to play.Because this is a wonderful intellectual game device, the "eight pretty heads" that pass the level with a double chain. "Baqiaotou" is said to have been created by Guiguzi. It uses a closed loop to walk through eight passes skillfully, and open eight orifices to escape.Later, this playing device was improved by Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period, and it passed through eight levels with two interlocking closed loops. This was recorded in the privately engraved woodblock book "Zhuge Family Records" by Si Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty.Although there are still legends of three-link and four-link in later generations, very few people have played it, and there are no reliable records.So this double chain of "eight pretty heads" is enough to challenge the intelligence of an adult. A toy that few people know how to play is stuck on a straw handle that sells toy toys along the street. This can only be said to be special rather than abnormal.Maybe the hawker knows how to play, so he uses it as a means to attract customers; maybe he just hopes to meet a customer who is interested in it by chance, so he only puts one on the huge straw handle.Thinking about it this way, on the contrary, it is an abnormal phenomenon that the grass handle is full of "eight pretty heads". But Qi Junyuan really found that "Ba Qiaotou" strange, mainly because of two aspects.One is that it is already summer at this time, and it is the off-season for selling game devices without any festivals.But Huhuli is different from other prefectural cities. The streets are deserted and there are few tourists playing.So at this time, it is an anomaly to bring a lot of children's playthings to sell along the street.Another anomaly is the "Baqiao head", the whole body is made of bamboo.In particular, the double chains that passed the test were cut directly from a single bamboo, not broken and then glued together.Bamboo is fragile and difficult to shape, and the equipment is thin. It is far more difficult to make "Baqiaotou" than metal and wood.And the double chain can be cut out directly, not to mention that ordinary craftsmen can do it.Not everyone can have such good means even in the Lihen Valley Artisan genus. Walking in the rivers and lakes, finding abnormalities often means finding clues, and finding clues can also find the person you are looking for.But there are exceptions, that is, some abnormalities are deliberately presented to you by others, and then make you think that this is a clue, but in fact it is leading you step by step into the murderous pocket set by others. Qi Junyuan walked a long way after the player selling toys.Leaving the block, leaving the residential area, walked through a large area of ​​farmland, and approached a depression full of messy bamboos.Although this location is still within the range of Huhuli, it is already a completely different scene: no one, gloomy, dead still. By this time, Qi Junyuan was already sure that the anomaly he discovered was deliberately shown to him by others.But whether others will lure him into the set pocket step by step, he is still not completely sure.Because I received the order to bring Qin Shengsheng to Huhuli, so there must be people from Lihengu within the range of Huhuli, but I don't know if it is the person I followed. Qi Junyuan left Qin Shengsheng at the edge of the farmland, and Wang Yanba where he was about to enter the depression, and then he followed the toy seller into the bamboo forest depression alone.This kind of arrangement is called "San Duan Jin", and it is a common method in the Jianghu to keep behind.But Qi Junyuan's "Three Sections of Brocade" is not reliable, because Wang Yanba in the middle section is an unreliable element.It is very likely that he will put Qi Junyuan in danger and ignore it, and it is unknown if he will even make trouble at a critical moment. Qi Junyuan was thinking that once he was in danger, Wang Yanba's first reaction would be to run away, so he arranged the "San Duan Jin".Because the way of escaping in the first part of "San Duan Jin" is also to clearly tell the latter part that the first person in distress can no longer be rescued.Then the people in the latter period can escape danger more timely and quickly.Qi Junyuan's real purpose is this, this "San Duan Jin" is not to let Wang Yanba and Qin Shengsheng give him help and help, but to allow Qin Shengsheng in the last stage to escape in time when something happens. Although the thin bamboo forest is dense and messy, there are neat paths to enter and exit.After walking a hundred steps along the winding path, you can immediately find another world in the bamboo forest. "This is a depression, so we chose such a place to divert and store water." Qi Junyuan made such a judgment in his heart before walking down the last section of the slope, because a large pool of water appeared before his eyes.It is really a large pool, but it is not a whole piece, but composed of many pools of different sizes and shapes.These pools surround three houses with black tiles and white walls. The calm mirror-like water surface contrasts with the refreshing and elegant houses, forming a unique scenery.