Chapter 173
After leaving the yard, Yuan Zai ran into a gust of wind that came towards him. The fine snow poured into his collar with the wind, making him unable to help but shrink his neck.
"It's so cold! Let's find an inn to settle down!" He thought so in his mind, and his steps under his feet quickly got up.
This winter hunting, his duty was to inspect the environment of the hunting ground to determine whether it was safe. After arriving in Luoyang today, he immediately followed the local officials in Luoyang to take a brief look at the situation of the hunting ground. After the inspection, it was already evening. After simply using supper, he suddenly remembered that Li Linfu had arrived in Luoyang first, so he came to visit this secret courtyard.
After saying a few words to Li Linfu, he met Wang Yan visiting him. He didn't want others to know that he was familiar with Li Linfu, so he hid behind the screen. After Wang Yan left, he knew that Yang Guozhong would come later and wanted Li Linfu to rest. In addition, he also needed time to suppress the murderous intent, so he continued to hide behind the screen until Yang Guozhong left.
While walking along the alley, he tortured himself in his heart: "Yuan Zai, do you really don't want to be the prime minister? Then why didn't you kill him with one sword just now? What does Li Linfu's instructions do? What does it have to do with him after Yang Guozhong's death? "
But after the torture, he couldn't help but defend himself: "No, no. I really just wanted to live my own life. But my life was not good, Ying'er died, and I had no shame to go back to my hometown. I could only settle for the second best, and be the chair above ten thousand people, and then change the dirty officialdom with my own hands..."
While he was thinking randomly, he approached the street where Yang Guozhong was encountered assassin without knowingly. After a turn, the light of the torch suddenly flashed into his eyes. So he raised his head curiously and looked in the direction of the fire.
The Yang family's escorts were on standby. Several guards held bright torches to illuminate the seven or eight squatting guards. The squatting people were wearing deerskin gloves and were carefully picking up the poison needles shot from the bee needle rain. Two guards dragged two stiff bodies forward silently, and in a blink of an eye it disappeared in the wind and snow.
Looking at their dressing, Yuan Zai recognized the identity of the guards. When his eyes fell on the parked sedan, hatred arose in his eyes again. But he knew that the guards were so powerful that only a few people had almost killed him, let alone these more than 20 people now? So he secretly gritted his teeth and planned to avoid them from far away.
But when he took two steps to the left, Yang Guozhong and Liu Yu were moving forward and reflected in his eyes. Yang Guozhong's gorgeous brocade robe made people who knew him recognize his identity immediately.
"It's Yang Guozhong!" Yuan Zai's eyes lit up immediately, "Is it because God gave me such a chance to avenge me for the second time in order to point me in the direction?" He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
However, Yuan Zai did not recognize 6 feathers for a while, so he did not dare to act rashly. He turned to the left and walked into the alley, and then gradually approached the two who had stopped.
While walking, Yuan Zai tear off a black cloth from the lining of his clothes and covered his face. He was already wearing a black outfit, and there was no sign that could reveal his identity, so there was no need to cover it up.
With the shadow of the house covering his body, Yuan Zai poked his head out inch by inch. He saw Yang Guozhong facing away from him, and the person facing him was 6 Yu.
"Has he cooperated with Yang Guozhong?" Yuan Zai's heart suddenly hanged. He fought with 6 Yu in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, knowing that 6 Yu's strength should not be underestimated. If 6 Yu takes action, it will be difficult for him to assassinate Yang Guozhong.
At this time, Liu Yu just used the words "I refuse" to break Yang Guozhong's delusion of cooperating. As soon as he heard this, Yuan Zai's free eyes became murderous in an instant.
"It seems that 6 Yu will not take action, so let's kill him here! What world? Go!" After making up his mind, he reached out and grabbed the hilt of the sword, and slowly pulled out his three-foot sword.
During the process of drawing the sword, Liu Yu's words continued: "Because even compared to Li Jingzhong, I want to kill you more."
As the 6 Yu finished speaking, Yuan Zai stabbed out with a sword. The long sword filled with internal strength passed through a lot of wind and snow, like a brilliant silver rainbow, stabbing into Yang Guozhong's throat!
"A Thunder Sky!" Liu Yu was shocked and recognized this sword technique as fast as lightning, and at the same time he also determined the identity of the striker.
This sword technique was used by Liu Yu in the battle with Zou Xun. However, this man's move was faster and more ruthless than Zou Xun's sword technique.
After looking at the figure of the sword holder, 6 Yu guessed Yuan Zai's identity.
"He wants to kill Yang Guozhong? Why?" While wondering, 6 Yu jumped back and avoided the sword light from afar.
As he said before, his desire to kill Yang Guozhong was even more than to kill Li Jingzhong. Both of them were evil people in Liu Yu's heart, but Li Jingzhong seemed to have only attacked him and the people around him so far, while Yang Guozhong was called a disaster to the country and the people.
More importantly, he could see clearly the process of Yang Guozhong killing the Wang brothers just now. The case of Wang Hui was born before he came to Chang'an, and Liu Yu did not know much about it. According to the news he heard, Wang Hui was obviously not a good official for the country and the people. However, the reason for his execution - suspected of treason, was really a false charge.
So Liu Yu believed the words of Wang Xi's two sons. Looking at Yang Guozhong's cruel methods to treat the two brothers, Liu Yu wanted to kill him with one sword.
Although the others were a little far away from them at this time, they could still clearly see the situation here. So Liu Yu was not worried that once Yang Guozhong died here, he would count it on his head.
Seeing the performance of 6 Yu, Yuan Zai was happy again. In this way, the irreconcilable enemy in front of him was finally about to die under his sword.
However, just before the success was about to be successful, Yang Guozhong suddenly spun out like a top, his movements were ridiculous but very fast. Yuan Zai's sword brushed his neck and swept through, bringing up a bloody light. Yang Guozhong was injured, but obviously not to reach the deadly level.
Unsuccessful sword, Yuan Zai's sword slashed out again and swept towards Yang Guozhong's head. However, while Yang Guozhong rotated sideways, he also fell downwards. His body slammed on the ground with a "thump" sound, and then rolled over like a log.
He rolled on the ground in an extremely embarrassing manner, but he effectively avoided Yuan Zai's two swords that he must kill.
Yuan Zai could no longer swing the third sword, because the closest guard to Yang Guozhong had arrived beside him and protected him behind him with the sword. At the same time, a large rain of bee needles flew from ten feet away, accurately covering Yuan Zai's whole body.
Although the power of the Bee Needle Rain was weakened because of ten feet apart, it was still difficult to resist. Yuan Zai's long sword danced like a silver light curtain in front of him, but two steel needles still passed through the gap of the light curtain, cutting through his robe, and almost pierced into the flesh and blood.
Seeing this, Yuan Zai made a quick decision and immediately jumped back to the alley where he had been hiding, quickly unfolded his body, and integrated into the night of the wind and snow.
"Sir Yang, I'll help you chase the assassin." After throwing this sentence, Liu Yu flashed into the alley and chased after Yuan Zai in the direction he left.
Of course, he didn't really want to help Yang Guozhong catch the assassin. He was curious about Yuan Zai's motivation, so he wanted to catch up and ask.
Rolling up and getting up, Yang Guozhong yelled in anger, his red eyes staring at the direction where Yuan Zai left.
At this time, the guards had already rushed to him. While holding the wound on his neck with his hand, Yang Guozhong pointed to the alley in front of him and roared: "Chase! Chase me!"
The eight people in the guard responded, turned around and rushed into the dark alley.
Forced by Yang Guozhong's order, the guards had to chase after him. But they all knew that the final result must be a return without success.
The Tang Sect masters are good at hidden weapons and poison, and light skills are not their strengths. Therefore, when Yang Guozhong wanted to assassinate Li Linfu before, he did not send his own guards, but hired killers from Wangulou.
The reason why the Wang brothers were captured was because their kung fu was ordinary. If they had changed to 6 birds, they would float away after failing to hit the target. When Gao Lishi evaluated the strength of these guards, he said that he was trapped in their siege.
Seeing the guards chasing him, Yang Guozhong's face calmed down a little. He covered his neck and returned to the sedan chair surrounded by the guards. He did not say goodbye to Aning, so he instructed the guards to carry the sedan chair out.
As soon as the sedan chair moved, the guards shouted the slogan that made people avoid. But after half a sentence was shouted, Yang Guozhong in the sedan chair said angrily: "Stop shouting."
So the Yang family's team left here quietly. Several guards stayed and chased after the team's departure until they had basically picked up the steel needles shot out by the bee needle rain.
In this way, there were only a pile of messy footprints left on the open space in front of the tavern, two blurred figures printed on the ground, and blood red spots gradually disappeared under the snow.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Aning couldn't help but sigh softly. She looked at the two human-shaped sunkens on the snow for a long time before retracting her gaze and silently followed in the direction where the 6 feathers disappeared...
After running for a long time in one breath, Yuan Zai gradually stopped seeing that there were no pursuers behind him.
The snow was already falling heavily, and his footprints were very light, so as soon as he walked a few steps away, the footprints became blurred, so he was not very worried that the pursuers in the distance would catch up with them along the footprints.
His problem now is: his internal strength is no longer sustainable, and he still caught a cold without realizing it. So at this time, he only felt his hands and feet were sore and it was difficult to maintain the level.
But at this time, a faint sound came into his ears, which was the sound of the soles of the shoes rubbing against the ground!
The sound was extremely weak, and if Yuan Zai had not stopped, he would have absolutely no hearing.
There was an inn next to Yuanzai, but the door was closed. Most of the inn rooms were on lights, and only one room on the street was dark, as if no one lived there.
Yuan Zai didn't want to run away anymore. So he went up, climbed up the raised wall bricks and climbed up to the second floor, then pushed open the window without lights and flipped into the room.
The room was pitch black and there was no sound at all. It seemed that no one lived here.
Just as Yuan Zai breathed a sigh of relief, he heard a slightly panicked voice sounding on his left: "Who are you?"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!