Chapter 10 Mad dragging

After throwing out the broken wire, the girl came out from the crowd and entered Near Camp Lane.But the person disappeared within a few steps in the alley, and has never appeared again.Many years later, when the girls in those whorehouses have become aunts, they will often pile up together and talk about this woman they have never seen again.It only took the woman an hour to teach them the necessary skills for making a living in prostitutes, such as makeup, recruiting customers, and bed work.So two major events happened in Linjing County on this day. One of them was known only to the girls in the brothel. The patriarch of the prostitutes. Gao Cheng of the Song Dynasty verified it, and it was also recorded in the "Jiaoxuan Suilu" of the Qing Dynasty).

Zhang Songnian drove his horse for about a hundred steps, and when he passed an alley, he heard the whistle of a few simple tones.So the running horse suddenly rolled on the spot, and Zhang Songnian changed from riding a horse to being ridden by a horse.Before he was suffocated and fainted, he clearly heard the creaking sound from his body.As for which part of the body's bones were broken, he couldn't and didn't need to know at this time. The horse stood up again, but Zhang Songnian still fell to the ground.The only foot that was still connected to the horse was one foot, and the broken wire just fell on the riding boot worn by this foot.The foot was still stuffed in the stirrup, and the horse ran wildly for two laps in the county town until it fell to the ground exhausted, and the foot did not come out of the stirrup.

The running of the horse is a bit like a carnival dance, because its footsteps are always consistent with the sound of the whistle at the entrance of the alley.Although it is only a few simple tones, it can make the horse dance repeatedly until exhaustion. The first thing that fell off Zhang Songnian's body was the helmet, so the first thing that was dragged and worn out by the horses running wildly on the stone road was the head.The body should be fine, because it is protected by iron armor.Many people saw sparks splashing and Zhang Songnian's body flushed red while the horse was galloping.This is actually a phenomenon caused by the rapid friction and heat of the iron armor he wore on the uneven stone road for a long time.This is not an exaggeration, there is evidence to prove it. In the end, many people saw that Zhang Songnian's brains and minced meat splashed on the armor were scalded.

The girl in the alley changed her attire after the horses started galloping, wrapped a stone in her dusty clothes and threw it into the well at the bottom of the alley.This was done for the same purpose as she did not assassinate Zhang Songnian when the prostitute girls blocked the street, and she did not want to bring disaster to those women who were already suffering. When the galloping horse began to run for the second lap, a figure with no gender at all appeared in the overlooking pavilion outside the North City Gate.Dressed in a green robe, with a blue piano bag on his back, and a sunshade bucket (a kind of summer hat in ancient times), he looks like a passerby who is about to travel far.This is the girl who assassinated Zhang Songnian, but now she has changed beyond recognition, replaced by a woman in Tsing Yi whose face is vague and hard to remember.In front of the pavilion, the woman looked back at Linjing County, which was shrouded in twilight, and then walked straight towards the west-facing mountain road with no expression on her face.

After walking more than a hundred steps on the mountain road, the figure of the woman in Tsing Yi was completely covered by the shadow of the dense branches and leaves on the mountain.After going forward for a while, the crowns and leaves of the trees on both sides of the mountain road are stacked one after another, and the sky and stars are no longer visible, as if entering a tall arc-topped hall. At this moment, at this position, the woman in Tsing Yi stopped in horror, and quickly knelt down.Because she suddenly realized that she had stepped into a ghost realm, and what appeared in front of her was the Palace of the King of Hell!

Bufu tapped the lower edge of the sink with an iron ruler. He only needed one stroke, and he could tell from the sound whether there was anything hidden underneath.The results told him that his previous judgment was correct.But at this point, the assassin can still shrink down and remain motionless. Either he has superhuman concentration and wants to find an opportunity to kill and then escape, or he is an idiot below, and he still hasn't realized that he has been discovered. Buff knocked on the sink again, this time on the upper edge, and with more force.The result to be confirmed has been confirmed just now, what needs to be done now is to let the assassin face his current situation correctly.It doesn't matter if you disarm or go out bravely, there is no need to wait for yourself to lift the sink and be forced to reveal yourself.Unless the assassin is too rogue and too boring, unless the assassin has become a dead man at this time.

After a while, there was still no movement under the sink.Bu Fu began to get a little impatient, could it be that what he encountered was really a bad assassin?But judging from the assassination techniques, it shouldn't be like this. Even if this assassin is not a top-notch figure, he is still a rare expert. "Bo Bu, let us lift the sink." The internal defense team who had just arrived here with a dozen armored guards was even more impatient than Bu Fu. "Let me do it. If you do it, you will die in vain. Stand back. Assassins can be killed or escaped, but they are rarely captured alive. The people below will definitely work hard when they come out." After Bu Fu finished speaking, he held the iron ruler With a vertical stroke and a hidden push, a sharp and long blade pops out of the ruler head.

In fact, this iron ruler was originally called "Measuring Bone and Cutting Life", which was improved from "long-handled jackknife". It is said that it was the only weapon designed and manufactured by Li Sixing, a master casting master of Tang Dynasty.After the Song Dynasty, this weapon appeared under another name, called "Chitou Feihua", which was recorded in detail in "Pinxin Kebi" written by Shaoyangnan in the Northern Song Dynasty.In Lin Zeyu's poem "Brave Bandits" in the Ming Dynasty, there is also a line "flying flowers appear on the head of the ruler, and blood falls from the splendor", which also describes this kind of ruler.

The reason why it is called "ruler head flying flower" is because there are four blades hidden in the iron ruler, each with different directions, which can be ejected and used according to needs.If it is used skillfully, it will be even more difficult to defend against when it suddenly pops up to kill the enemy during the attack and fight.In addition, these blades can be rotated on the ruler head, and all four blades come out. When they rotate, they are like the flower pinwheels we played with when we were children, but this flower pinwheel will kill instantly. Holding the blade of the Bufu Iron Ruler in your hand, you can split the sink in half with just one slash.But doing so would cause the wood to shatter and water to splash, giving the assassin a chance to attack and flee in disorder.Bu Fu is a cautious person, and the current situation is completely under his control, so he can do things without haste.

"Bu Tutou, do you need some help?" Gu Zijing, who was standing on the bridge, called out. Bu Fu didn't turn his head but shook his head, he knew that Gu Zijing was referring to those two privately hired masters. "Boom", the sound was not loud, with a very light cut, the root of a pile supporting the sink was broken.The sink was tilted at a large angle, but there was still no movement under the sink.Bu Fu had already begun to doubt his own judgment, the assassin could not be hiding under here, but the sound he made when he knocked and tested showed that there was indeed something underneath.So he swung the blade of the ruler and cut off another pile, and the slope of the tank was even greater.

"Someone! It's below!" The soldiers on the other side had already seen the person clinging to the bottom of the sink. It's all like this, why don't you come out?Bu Fu sensed something was wrong, waved his hand and said, "Turn it off." After it was opened, there was indeed someone on the bottom of the sink, and it was indeed fixed there flat with iron hooks and strings.But things are really wrong, because the person being fixed is already dead, and one of the thin ropes that fixed him was directly tied around the neck and hooked to the bottom of the sink with an iron hook.After touching the neck of the dead body, Bu Fu judged that the thin rope strangled the soldier's neck bone in an instant and killed him.This speed is faster than cutting the neck with a knife, but there is no trace left after killing a person, and even the dead person can still stand there like a living person by using a thin rope to restrain him. Assassins don't strangle themselves, so the strangled is not an assassin.Some soldiers from the Youhu Camp recognized the dead man. This was their partner who participated in the control of Sanqiao Street. The pawns were gone, and it stands to reason that their officers should know soon.But the things that have been done in the past three days are too chaotic. Those involved include the Internal Defense Room, Youhuying, and Zhizhou Yamen.So in this case, the chief will think that his subordinates have been directly assigned tasks by other chiefs.Because the status of soldiers in Youhuying is relatively low, they are often dispatched and transferred casually when working with other officials and military families. Under what circumstances did the assassin kill the pawn?Judging from the situation they narrated, the only time the soldier could be killed and hidden under the sink was at the moment when the soldiers poured into Three Bridges Avenue after the assassination.Although the scene was chaotic at that time, the technique of killing a pawn in an instant and hiding it under the sink was really unimaginable, but did such a master assassin come back just to kill a pawn?No, he must have other purposes, including secondary killing, triple killing, or targeting other people and things. From the very beginning, Bu Fu made no mistake in all his inferences.The reason why there was a little accident under the sink was that he thought less than the assassin.So he looked at the situation on the street again, because this thoughtless step reminded him that there must be omissions in his investigation.There seems to be an incongruity in the section of the street, and something seems to be missing at a certain point. The streets are now full of traces of being disturbed by soldiers, but the abnormal details still haven't escaped Bu Fu's eyes.Then he looked carefully at the musical instrument shops and jade shops on both sides of the street, and then he came back and told Gu Zijing: "The assassin swung from under the bridge to the tree and landed, not hiding under the water tank, but using a lightning-like technique. Killed the soldier who noticed his abnormality, and hid the body under the sink. Then he fled into the musical instrument store opposite, and left the heavily controlled Three Bridges Street through a secret door in the store. Now the assassin may still be Hiding in the city of Tanzhou, or escaped far outside the city, even if the four cities are closed, there is no way to stop this kind of master." "Is there a secret door to the musical instrument store across the street?" Gu Zijing was surprised by this detail. "Yes, it is the 'Changqidao' (the secret passage built by using the original state facilities), pour vinegar water into the cracks of the wall bricks, and after many times, a piece of the wall can be removed as a secret door. From According to traces, this secret door has been opened for a while, and it may be the escape route left by the assassin long ago." Bu Fu replied. "No, the information I received said that the assassin arrived only two days ago, so how could he have left a secret door to escape? Moreover, there are officers, soldiers and government servants in the outer alleys of Sanqiao Avenue, even if there is a secret door, they cannot escape. " Bu Fu's heart trembled, Gu Zijing's words reminded him.Just now he always felt that something was missing on this street, what was missing was not something, but a person!A luthier who was supposed to be sitting in front of the musical instrument store, behind the piano case with double upturned cloud heads. This time, Bu Fu came to the door of the musical instrument store in a few consecutive steps. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who are you missing here? If you have concealed anything, you will be punished on the spot for concealing and assisting an assassin!" Several people in the musical instrument shop all knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, saying that the newly invited Mr. Qin played in the shop disappeared after the assassination.They originally thought that the luthier was a foreigner, so they were taken away by the soldiers and officials and resettled.Later, everyone stood in place every day to let the people from the six doors investigate the case, but the luthier was never brought back.The owner of the musical instrument shop was afraid that the luthier would be seriously suspected and hurt himself, so he never dared to ask.And the room with the secret door in the musical instrument store belongs to Mr. Qin Qin. There are two assassins!Who is the one to do it?And why did the other one come?