Chapter 186: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

Li Yanqing took Qing'er and two guards to Yanshou Villa again, although Zhu Mian abandoned his home and fled, but the villa was still guarded by a housekeeper and more than a dozen family members, Li Yanqing knocked on the door directly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two guards who came with Li Yanqing, one named Chen Xiaoyi and the other named Daniel Zhang, were both the henchmen of Zhao Kai, the king of Jia.

Daniel Zhang stepped forward and showed the palace guard's waist card to the butler, "Perform official duties, open the door immediately!" ”

"My master is not here, and the villain can't call the shots!" The butler said tremblingly.

Li Yanqing took out a jade pendant from his arms, shook it at the housekeeper and smiled: "Then you should know this!" ”

This jade pendant is Zhu Mian's token, and the housekeeper immediately understood that it was the master who asked them to come, and he hurriedly nodded and said, "Three of you, please come in!" ”

Li Yanqing walked into the gate and ordered: "Take us to Jichang Garden!" ”

"Please follow me!"

The housekeeper took Li Yanqing and his entourage and hurried to the inner garden.

Jichang Garden is the garden where Zhu Tao, the second son of Zhu Mian, lives, as soon as he enters the yard, he saw a stone rockery of Taihu Lake nearly two zhang high, Li Yanqing asked the housekeeper to find two more people to help, and after a while, the two families came together, and the housekeeper brought a long rope.

Li Yanqing climbed the Taihu Lake Stone, tied the rope to the waist, and said to everyone: "Pull it down together!" ”

Everyone pulled together, Taihu Stone was gradually pulled, and after nearly half an hour of continuous pulling, Taihu Stone was pulled down violently, and a large pit was exposed at the bottom.

Li Yanqing asked the housekeeper and the family to retreat outside the courtyard, and said to Qing'er: "Watch outside the door, no one is allowed to approach!" ”

Qing'er nodded, and walked out quickly with a sword in his hand, Li Yanqing and two guards dug in the dirt pit, digging about a foot deep, just listening! With a thud, the hoe slammed into a piece of metal.

Li Yanqing was overjoyed suddenly, there was indeed something buried underneath, they sped up their excavation, and an iron box that was a foot square finally appeared in front of them.

Li Yanqing climbed to the ground with an iron box, used a dagger to cut off the mud on it, pried open the box, and saw that it was full of all kinds of letters.

Liang Shicheng wants this thing, and in Liang Shicheng's eyes, these letters are probably more valuable than gold jewelry.

At this moment, a series of screams suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate, and Qing'er was heard shouting and fighting angrily, Li Yanqing was taken aback, pulled out his short sword and rushed out.

But as soon as he rushed to the gate of the courtyard, he saw three people walking outside, led by Tang Qianzhi, the former head of the guards, who strangled Qing'er's neck with his arm, and put a sharp dagger on Qing'er's temple, followed by two of his subordinates.

"It's you!" Li Yanqing glared at him angrily.

"Li Shaojun, the guards in the Lower East Palace control Deng Chong, and he was ordered to retrieve Zhu Mian's letter!"

Deng Chong looked at the iron box behind Li Yanqing, and said with a faint smile: "That iron box has no meaning to Li Shaojun, but this little lady in my hand is different, why don't we make an exchange!" Give me the box, I put the little lady away. ”

Li Yanqing saw a figure in Tsing Yi suddenly flashing behind Deng Chong, as fast as a ghost, extremely fast, his heart moved, he shook his head and said: "I really can't believe your words, Brother Tang, if you are really sincere, you should not leave any more ambushes outside the door." ”

"What did you say?" Deng Chong glanced back from the corner of his eye, and he seemed to feel something, so he glanced at the two subordinates.

The two subordinates understood, and walked out cautiously with their knives, and when they just walked to the gate of the courtyard, a black shadow suddenly appeared, only to hear 'Bang! Syllable! With two crisp sounds, the skulls of the two guards were shattered, and they fell to the ground and died without even screaming.

The sudden change made Deng Chong frightened, his mind was transferred, Li Yanqing was waiting for this fleeting opportunity, a stone in his hand hit like lightning, right in the back of Deng Chong's left hand holding the dagger, this blow was extremely heavy, and suddenly the hand bone cracked, Deng Chong screamed, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground.

Qing'er also cooperated with Li Yanqing's shot, and when the dagger fell, she suddenly broke free of Deng Chong's arm and rushed out, out of Deng Chong's control.

But Deng Chong couldn't take care of her anymore, the black shadow behind him was in front of him in a blink of an eye, he endured the pain, pulled out the long sword in his waist and stabbed at the opponent's chest, it was too late to dodge, he could only use the method of losing both ways to force the other party to retreat.

Deng Chong has always been the shadow guard of the crown prince Zhao Huan, and his martial arts are extremely strong, otherwise he would not be the leader of the guards, but it is a pity that his left hand was injured, which affected his performance to some extent, and it may not have much impact in normal times, but in front of the real master, this effect means fatal, the pain in his left hand made his sword speed slow down slightly, and the tip of his sword just touched the opponent's clothes, and the iron rod had swept across with a whistling, 'Bang! He heard the sound of bones shattering, and he didn't know anything.

Deng Chong's body fell to the ground softly, the man in Tsing Yi raised his head and stared at Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing had already opened his bow and aimed at the other party, the other party's martial arts were too powerful, he knew that his swordsmanship was not an opponent, and he could only use a copper bow and iron arrows to fight to the death with the other party.

At this time, he had seen the other party's face clearly, this man in Tsing Yi was about thirty years old, tall and thin, with a thin face, a pair of triangular eyes that were extremely sharp, and his body seemed to contain infinite strength, and he held a short iron rod four feet long in his hand, which was stained with white brains.

"Who are you?" Li Yanqing asked sharply.

The man stared at the bronze bow and iron arrow in Li Yanqing's hand, with a rare softness in his eyes, and he said lightly: "I was sent by Cai Xianggong to take away all the evidence against Cai Xianggong, you give me all the things about Cai Xianggong in the box!" Then we went our separate ways. ”

"How can I trust you?"

"Your bronze bow and iron arrows can't help me, and it's easy for me to kill you, so you should believe me for that."

Chen Xiaoyi, the guard next to him, said to Li Yanqing: "Shaojun, he is telling the truth!" ”

The two guards are both masters, and they know in their hearts that with Deng Chong's martial arts, they will die with one look, let alone them.

Li Yanqing stared at the man for a moment, then turned back to Qing'er and said, "You go and find them!" ”

Qing'er was about to open the box, when the man waved his hand and said, "I can't trust others, you can take it!" ”

Li Yanqing stared at him for a moment, and slowly put down the bronze bow, I don't know why, he couldn't see a trace of hostility in the man's eyes.

Li Yanqing squatted down and opened the iron box, looking through the letters one by one, the man was not in a hurry, and waited patiently for him, Li Yanqing searched twice, found all Cai Jing's letters, and found out the gift list for Cai Jing, and threw it to the man.

"It's all here!"

The man picked up the letter and the inventory, stuffed it into his arms without looking at it, and he took a deep look at Li Yanqing and said, "Didn't your master tell you?" The bronze bow and iron arrow are within twenty steps, and the lethality is not as good as that of ordinary bows and arrows. ”

After speaking, his figure flashed away, and disappeared in an instant, and his body was so fast that Qing'er and the two guards couldn't help but exclaim.

The two guards rushed out, and came back after a moment and said, "It's too ruthless, the whole house is killed cleanly, and all of them are killed with a stick." ”

Li Yanqing's mood is very complicated, this man trusts himself so much, he doesn't even look at the letter he gave him, although he is ruthless, but he has no trace of malice towards himself, an intuition tells him that this man has some kind of relationship with copper bows and iron arrows, and he has the opportunity to ask the master.

"Little official, did you hide a letter?" Qing'er asked in a low voice.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I gave it all to him, these letters don't mean anything to me, so why should I take this risk?" ”

Li Yanqing and the guards piled all the corpses in the Moon Viewing Tower, and set the small building on fire, when the small building slowly sank into the lake, Li Yanqing and his party left Yanshou Villa and galloped towards Gusu City.

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When Li Yanqing and his entourage arrived at the Fengqiao outside Gusu City, the scene in front of them made everyone stunned, only to see that both sides of the canal were crowded with crowds, at least more than 100,000 people, the crowd was excited, surrounded by fifty big ships in the canal, and the front of the canal was also blocked by countless small boats, and the fleet had to be moored in the middle of the canal.

Daniel Zhang ran to inquire for a while, and then came back to report: "Li Shaojun, these people demand that Zhu Mian be handed over, otherwise they will set fire to the ship, and it is useless for the government to persuade them." ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, they didn't pass through the Jiaxing local government at all, how could the news leak out, no one even knew about Jiaxing, but it spread all over Suzhou, who would do it?

At this time, someone behind him shouted: "Li Shaojun! ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, he saw Lieutenant Lu with a few of his subordinates waving to him not far away.