Chapter 3 choose stab field

Years go by like the wind, and time passes like lightning. People always lose a lot inadvertently and subconsciously leave something behind in this fast-moving wind.It's like the beauty of this full spring, which can remain in someone's memory, or it may disappear in an instant.But the spring scenery here and now will definitely not be the same as it was more than ten years ago, because this place is not in the lonely empty mountains and valleys, nor is it beside the gurgling stream.In addition to water and trees, there are bridges and houses here, but most of them are people, many people, people of all kinds.If there were not so many people, then how could this city be regarded as the water and land transportation hub of the Southern Tang Dynasty?If there weren't so many people, how could Sanqiao Street be considered the most prosperous and lively area in Tangzhou City?

Many people include Qi Junyuan, who has just turned thirty, and his gaze is as deep and inner as an old man's. With this gaze, he can see many things clearly, and he can see through many people.There are many people around him now, but these people are not for him to see through, but because he likes to be in crowded places.In the crowd, he is like a bean in a bucket of beans.With his usual face, attire, speech, and manner, he can be completely ignored and ignored by others. This state is very ideal and safe for an assassin.But among the crowd, he was not without fear.Being too close to others will always make his nerves, muscles, skin, and even hairs suddenly tense.As an assassin, he certainly knows what the most dangerous thing in the world is, not a sharp sword or sharp knife, not a poisonous hidden weapon, but a person, a person who is more like a bean than himself.

Qi Junyuan had two goals in entering the Southern Tang territory this time, killing one and taking the other away.He was only five-point sure about the one he killed at first, but after staying in Tangzhou City for three days, no, it should be two and a half days to be precise, his five-point certainty has risen to nine.As for the other person who was going to be taken away, he was not even sure about it, because that was also a bean who was as good at killing as he was, and now he didn't even know where that person was. It was almost noon, and in front of Qi Junyuan was still the pot of fragrant tea and half a table of sunshine.The fragrant tea is Shenghu wild tea snail green. It is brewed in a thick blue teapot with large leaves fired by a private kiln in the south of the Yangtze River. You can't see the color of the tea, but you can smell the refreshing fragrance.Half of the table sunlight poured in from the half-opened locust wood window lattice, and the half-opened obliquely forked window lattice with curled branch corners also sprinkled a large area of ​​flowers on the floor of the second floor of the teahouse.

This is already the third day of Qi Junyuan's visit, and the teahouse is the third location that Qi Junyuan changed on the third day.Unlike yesterday and the day before yesterday, today he was very relaxed and could sit quietly, eat something and drink some tea. The day before yesterday should have been the hardest. He spent the whole day fooling around in the flower boat under the Busheng Bridge, and kept the flower boat girls in order until the red sun fell to the west before returning to the inn.In the past, Aunt Huachuan received rough boat passengers, fishermen, and market vendors, but it was the first time she met such a gentle and considerate handsome man.After several times of lingering, it is inevitable that there will be a feeling of affection in my heart.

However, when Qi Junyuan left at night, he threw the broken silver at the same time to Hua Chuangu with another sentence: "It is said that Hua Chuangu is not beautiful, she is a low-grade goods in a prostitute, and she can make money all by relying on her skills in bed and other ways." Famen. This is unbelievable, like you, you don’t know anything, and I’ve spent a whole day trying to make you look different.” So the flower boat girl suddenly woke up, whoring is whoring, whores are prostitutes, There is only the tragedy of sinking that repeats itself in the world, and it is impossible for the so-called myth of emotion to appear.So when she received another customer after lighting the lamp, she had already erased Qi Junyuan, a somewhat special customer, from her memory.

During the day when Qi Junyuan was fooling around on the flower boat, he mainly grasped several key times, and there are many other information that are as critical as time.The time is the time for the stabbing (the target of the assassination) convoy to go back and forth across the Busheng bridge several times a day. This is really critical, because only during these few times can he be less than twenty steps away from the stabbing.The information is plentiful and all equally critical.From the sound of the convoy crossing the bridge, he knew the weight of the carriage and the balance point of the carriage, so he deduced where the thorns in the carriage were generally located, whether they were sitting or lying down.From the footsteps around the convoy, he knew which ones were the real car guards and which ones were hidden masters.From the rolling sound of the wheels, he knew what special points existed in the paving of the bridge deck and road surface, and what impact it would have on the car.For example, the few paving stones at the end of the bridge deck that collapsed to the left will cause the car to tilt slightly to one side.

Yesterday, Qi Junyuan walked a few times on the street with a burden on his back, and these trips were all at those critical times.There are several ordinary clothes and hats of different colors in the baggage, and he will change his clothes and hats in secluded places every time he walks, so as not to attract the attention of some people on the street.Although Sanqiao Street was full of people, an assassin should not be caught a second glance by others in the crowd.This extra look could lead to the failure of the mission, or the eventual inability to escape pursuit after the stabbing is complete.

Not only did Qi Junyuan change his clothes, but he also used the few words of Tanzhou dialect he had just learned and some movement habits of the people of Tanzhou to make him an authentic idler in Tanzhou. Qi Junyuan felt that his actions yesterday were still very successful.No one noticed him the few times he walked through the street repeatedly, especially the guards who surrounded the target's carriage.Being unnoticed means that it is easier to get close to the target, and you can kill the thorns more accurately and without interference. In addition, during this day, he also grasped the number of guards of the stabbing mark, the defensive formation on the move, and the positions of the hidden masters.From the structure and size of the carriage in which the tattoo was carried, and the weight of the carriage judged under the front overpass, it can be deduced whether there is a hidden steel plate protection on the bottom of the carriage, and whether there is an inner armor inside the carriage.Also grasp the speed of the entire carriage team, so that by inferring from the time of passing the Busheng Bridge, you can know when the stabbing went out, entered the Yamen, left the Yamen, and arrived home, and also knew that he passed several complicated road sections .

However, Qi Junyuan did not change his shoes when he changed his clothes and hat to step on the target yesterday.It's not that he didn't realize this, but because the weight and bulk of several pairs of shoes were too large, it was inconvenient to carry them.If you go back to the inn to change, the shopkeeper and the staff will feel strange when you come in and out.If it weren't for this problem, he could go back and change his clothes and hats.So he decided not to change his shoes, but he had to deliberately avoid shoe shops and shoe mending stalls on the street during these few trips.Because the only people who notice the shoes on other people's feet are shoe sellers and shoe menders.

Qi Junyuan never expected that on this bustling street, there would be someone who neither sold shoes nor mended them, and didn't even look at other people's shoes.But this person can find that the feet wearing the same pair of shoes have walked back and forth on Sanqiao Avenue several times, and can find that the times of these times coincide with another regular time. In the previous two days, he had mastered many situations, so today Qi Junyuan had to consider the method of attack, including the choice of weapon, attack angle, and escape route.This needs to be observed at different locations on the street. For this reason, he plans to eat all the gourmet restaurants on the street from Busheng Bridge to Kuixing Bridge.

Just after dawn, he was already soaking in the pastry shop at the end of the street.But his sleepy look and disheveled clothes made the shopkeepers and clerks think he was a hangover or kicked out of the casino after losing all his money. When the stabbed carriage got up early to go to the government office and passed the street, he was sitting in the butter chicken porridge shop, drinking butter chicken porridge with marinated chicken feet. And the second floor of the teahouse where he is now is the place where he spends the longest time in the morning.Because this place is condescending, he saw many interesting things and brought back many memories for him. He liked this feeling. This street is not too long, the street on the left is Busheng Bridge, and the right is not far from Kuixing Bridge.At the head of the Kuixing Bridge is a jade shop, and the jade shop is sure to sell genuine products, because it sells them together.Customers can choose the right jade in the store first, and then order the style they like, and then the store will make the jade within a few days.If someone told Qi Junyuan before that it only takes a few days to make a finely crafted jade, he would definitely not believe it.But when he saw the jade grinding wheel at the entrance of the shop, he knew it would be possible, because the grinding wheel was not stepped on by manpower, but pushed by the flowing water under the Kuixing Bridge. Qi Junyuan is a master of crafting equipment, he likes this kind of ingenious setting the most.The structure of the grinding wheel is actually not complicated. It is just two sinks with two wooden doors connected by levers in the middle.When the water tank on the right is full of water, the wooden door is pushed open, the water flows down the tank, and then rushes out from the round tube at the end of the tank, pushing the blade to drive the grinding wheel.At this time, due to the leverage of the wooden door, the left wooden baffle has been closed to store water.When the water on the left side reaches a certain level, it will also act like the right side.Alternating with each other in this way can have enough power to keep the grinding wheel running all the time.Seeing this utensil, Qi Junyuan's idea was to change it a bit so that it could be made into a utensil for pounding porcelain mud and turning plates when firing porcelain, and then he thought of other uses. Speaking of porcelain, there is a porcelain shop on the left opposite the teahouse, and there is a shelf at the door of the shop to display a lot of porcelain.Qi Junyuan always has an indescribable feeling about this kind of shop, which can bring back his memories of home that have been dusty for many years.There is no good porcelain displayed at the entrance of this porcelain shop, so it cannot be compared with the ones made by his family.It is also possible that all the good porcelain is placed in the store, and the shelves on the side of the road are afraid to put the porcelain well. If it is damaged by passing cars and horses, the loss will be great.But that's not all. The six-legged cup with a big protruding belly and closed mouth on the left side of the shelf is made of green glaze with scattered grids, which is still very good. (Natural opening of porcelain tiles first appeared in the Northern Zhou Chai Kiln.) It can be seen that the shops on the opposite side of the road are all elegant, whether they are porcelain shops, calligraphy and painting shops, and jade shops.This side of the road will not work, there are teahouses, taverns, rice shops, oil shops, and butcher shops.What is slightly different is that there is a large musical instrument store, which is diagonally opposite the Qiaotou Jade Store.A large copper bell and a big drum hang on the left and right under the eaves of the entrance of the musical instrument store. These may be the morning bell and evening drum custom-made by some temple, but they are too large and inconvenient to store in the store, so they can only be hung at the store entrance.Then every day, a piano table was set up on one side of the store door, with a shelf of guqin, and a young violinist played two vulgar tunes from time to time to make people stop.So in comparison, this musical instrument store is not as elegant as the umbrella shop next to it.At the entrance of the umbrella shop, there were three or four umbrella girls with big breasts and fat hips, wearing refreshing Jiangnan gowns.Humming a ditty while scraping umbrella branches, pasting umbrella paper, and tracing the umbrella surface, it is really a unique scenery. Of course, Qi Junyuan didn't sit here to enjoy the scenery, but the scenery made him connect the useful information collected in the past few days.These pieces of information alone are just useless holes, but when many holes are combined together, it will form a net.With a net and a person who pulls the net, where else can the prey go? But will the scissors be stretched out suddenly to cut off the drawstring of the net?Qi Junyuan never thought about this point, he is very confident, even if someone finds the net, they may not be able to find the rope for collecting the net.Even if someone sees that he is the one who collected the net, it may not be able to prevent the ending of the net.