Chapter 476: Assassination of Li Hao (I)
Ye Mengqiu was just about to raise his feet and step into the door of the living room of Cui's Mansion, only to see two swords suddenly cross to block the door, Ye Mengqiu suddenly frowned: "Please Ye Mou, and don't let Ye Mou enter the door, what do you mean?" He could already see Master Cui drinking tea in the living room.
Master Cui said lightly while blowing the tea leaves in the teacup: "Ye Mengqiu, the number one master in the Jianghuai area, a heavy iron sword beat the invincible hand of Jianghuai, Cui was really a little afraid, and asked Mr. Ye to untie the sword and enter the hall, when Mr. Ye left, the iron sword was naturally returned." ”
"Humph!" Ye Mengqiu frowned and snorted coldly when he heard this, "Ye Mou entered the rivers and lakes at the age of fifteen, and it has been thirteen years since then, and the iron sword has never left his body half a step. With that, he turned and prepared to leave.
Master Cui's voice suddenly came: "Mr. Ye, Cui heard that you have raised nearly 100 homeless children in Hangzhou, if Mr. Ye leaves, I am afraid that I will only see their corpses when I go back." ”
Ye Mengqiu's eyes contracted suddenly, he fixed his steps, his murderous intent rose all over, and he slowly raised his right hand, ready to draw his sword.
In the hall, Master Cui's voice came again: "Does Mr. Ye want to kill Cui?" I'm afraid that Mr. Ye's fists will be invincible to a hundred hands. ”
Ye Mengqiu's right hand paused, and after hesitating for a moment, his right hand grabbed the sword, took off the sword behind his back, and handed it to the Cui Mansion guards who were guarding the door.
"The sword is unraveled." Ye Mengqiu held back the anger in his heart and said these three words.
"Mr. Ye, please come in." Master Cui put down the teacup and said quietly, Ye Mengqiu raised his feet and strode into the living room.
Entering the living room, both sides could see each other clearly, and saw an old man with white hair sitting on the main seat, he was the patriarch of the Fanyang Cui clan, Cui Gongwang.
Cui Gongwang looked Ye Mengqiu up and down, and said with a smile: "Ye Xian's life is really simple, these shoes are ...... I saw the toes. ”
Ye Mengqiu said coldly: "Master Cui sent someone to invite Ye from Hangzhou to come here, I don't think it's to comment on Ye's dress." ”
Cui Gongwang smacked his lips and said, "That's natural, Cui wants you to kill someone, you make a price." ”
"I'm sorry, Ye is a knight, not a killer, and not a bounty hunter." Ye Mengqiu refused even coldly.
Cui Gongwang sneered and asked, "Mr. Ye can't refuse." He smiled meaningfully, and very sinisterly.
Ye Mengqiu's pupils contracted again, he naturally understood what this sentence meant, they were threatening themselves with the lives of nearly a hundred children, Ye Mengqiu asked helplessly: "Kill whom?" ”
Cui Gongwang was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "King Qiongnan - Li Hao!" ”
Ye Mengqiu was shocked when he heard this, and immediately frowned and said, "Please forgive Ye for not being able to do it." ”
"You can do it." Cui Gongwang smiled and said, "It is precisely because there are many masters beside Li Hao that Cui asked you to make a move, as long as you can kill Li Hao, the price is as you like." ”
"It's not about the money." Ye Mengqiu said coldly, "King Qiongnan is a good minister in the world, a pillar of the country, even if Ye is dead, it is impossible to kill him." ”
Cui Gongwang grinned and sneered, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth, and said: "You are a reckless person, what do you do about the affairs of the court, when Datang does not have Li Hao, it has always been good." ”
Ye Mengqiu's face did not change and said: "Although Ye is just a reckless person in the rivers and lakes, Ye has heard a sentence from King Qiongnan, the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people, Ye Mou is loved by his colleagues in the rivers and lakes, and gives the name of Jianghuai Qixia, since there is a chivalrous word in Ye's name, he cannot fall into the name of chivalry, your lordship's request, forgive me!" ”
"Yes." Cui Gongwang suddenly took out a mutton fat jade bracelet from his sleeve and slowly put it on the coffee table, and asked with a smile, "You should know this bracelet." ”
"This is ......" Ye Mengqiu stared at the bracelet for a moment, shocked and stunned, glaring and shouting, "Where did you get this bracelet!" As he spoke, he wanted to step forward.
In a moment, I saw countless figures flashing out of the back hall, and more than a dozen first-class masters dressed in black suddenly appeared, all holding swords and blocking in front of Cui Gongwang.
Ye Mengqiu had to stop, his fists clenched, and there was a rattling sound between his knuckles.
"Spread out!" Cui Gongwang snorted coldly, and all the black-clothed masters retreated to the sides.
Cui Gongwang looked at Ye Mengqiu with a smile, and said slowly: "I heard that you admire the Oiran Qingluan of Hangzhou Yiying Building, and plan to redeem her, and this bracelet is also a token you gave her, right?" ”
Ye Mengqiu's eyes bloomed with coldness, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "What happened to her?" ”
"Don't worry." Cui Gongwang raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a relaxed face, "The old man doesn't want to offend you, so he didn't do anything to her, but if you refuse to cooperate, I'm just afraid of ...... Hehe, it's a group of people who haven't touched women for a long time, as long as the old man gives an order, the Oiran who doesn't sell her body will have to greet more than 20 guests at the same time, and after they humiliate the Oiran, they will strip her naked, hang her at the entrance of the vegetable market, and let everyone see the beauty together, what do you think? ”
"Despicable!" Ye Mengqiu almost gritted his teeth, he was proud of his martial arts and had never been controlled by others, but he didn't expect to be planted in the hands of such a despicable villain today, which really made him angry.
Cui Gongwang suddenly smiled and said coldly: "Ye Mengqiu, the old man will give you one last chance, should you pick Li Hao's head, or wait to go to the vegetable market to collect the body of your Oiran?" Oh, and by the way, and the nearly 100 children you adopted, and the corpses of them were collected for them. ”
Ye Mengqiu couldn't describe his mood at the moment, anger and humiliation filled his heart, he didn't want to kill Li Hao, but he didn't want his beloved woman to be humiliated to death, and that group of children, they were even more innocent, and he fell into infinite pain.
"The old man gave you time to hesitate." Seeing that he was hesitating, Cui Gongwang didn't urge him, but said lightly, "The old man promises you that after the matter is completed, he will give you 10,000 taels of gold, so that you will have the money to redeem your Oiran, and you don't have to worry about the food of those children, and you can live a happy life from now on." ”
Ye Mengqiu was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked coldly: "What if I miss and am captured, aren't you afraid that I will betray you?" ”
Cui Gongwang took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a red pill from it, and threw it to Ye Mengqiu, Ye Mengqiu caught the pill casually, frowned and asked, "What is this?" Poison? ”
"That's right." Cui Gongwang nodded and said, "This pill is wrapped with beeswax, when you act, put it in your mouth, once you are captured, you bite through the beeswax, swallow the poison inside, and ensure that the gods are difficult to save, after you die, the old man will let you go, and send someone to send a hundred taels of gold to your old servant, and your old servant will use this money to feed the children." ”
Cui Gongwang seems to have already seen that Ye Mengqiu is a loyal person, and he directly and unabashedly let him commit suicide after failure, and he will help Ye Mengqiu deal with the aftermath, so that he has no worries.
"Are you really going to keep your promise?" Ye Mengqiu questioned Cui Gongwang's character.
Cui Gongwang raised his eyebrows and sneered when he heard this: "You don't seem to have a choice. ”
Ye Mengqiu's heart sank when he heard this, as Cui Gongwang said, he had no choice at all, Fan Yang Cui had already investigated his details clearly, grabbed his sore feet, and asked him to obey.
Ye Mengqiu's clenched fists slowly loosened, put the poison into his arms, and said coldly: "Okay, I hope you can fulfill your promise." ”
When he said this, he had already made a decision, even if he succeeded in assassinating Li Hao, he would apologize to himself, because Li Hao was a hero, if he killed Li Hao, he would have violated his heart, he couldn't forgive himself, he could only die, and this assassination was a mortal situation for him.
Seeing that he finally agreed, Cui Gongwang threw the bracelet to him and asked with a smile, "When will you act?" The old man can send someone to help you help you, so as to make a fool of yourself. ”
"No need." Ye Mengqiu said coldly, "I have always been alone, and I don't need helpers. Then he turned and left, and when he reached the door, the man who was guarding the door gave him back his iron sword.
Ye Mengqiu's back had just disappeared, and a person suddenly walked out of the back hall, this person was fat, almost a ball of meat, it was Li Tai.
"His Royal Highness the King of Wei." Cui Gongwang hurriedly got up and saluted.
"Hmm." Li Tai nodded and asked, "Li Hao is guarded by a master beside him, is this Ye Mengqiu okay?" ”
Cui Gongwang said with a smile: "Your Highness, rest assured, this Ye Mengqiu is a top master who has never been born in the world, since his debut, he has not been defeated, because he has only emerged in recent years, and he has only walked in the Jianghuai generation, so his reputation is not obvious, few people know, if he can't assassinate Li Hao, then in today's world, I'm afraid that no one can kill Li Hao." ”
"In any case, this king must kill Li Hao." Li Tai clenched his fat fist, a pair of small eyes were cold, although he didn't know why Li Shimin suddenly made Li Zhi the crown prince, and he didn't know why Li Shimin didn't leave him a chance at all, let him come to the official, but he knew that Li Hao and Li Zhi had a good relationship, and Li Hao was witty, if he said that the matter of seizing the prince was not Li Hao's masterpiece, he wouldn't believe it, so he hated Li Hao, very, very hateful.
Li Hao and Di Renjie searched the mansions of the Hu and Zhao merchants for a whole day and found many clues, but these clues could not find out the identity of the murderer for the time being.
That night, Di Renjie and Li Hao came to the Youzhou Kumon Archives to check all the murder files in Youzhou in the past 20 years.
Youzhou is a capital city, the geographical scope is very wide, almost every year there will be a homicide, as little as one or two, as many as seven or eight, each homicide has a lot of information, after all, it is a homicide, the record is naturally very detailed, twenty years of homicide files add up to two piles, comparable to the review materials of a senior high school student, Li Hao saw that his scalp was numb.
Di Renjie didn't say a word, he directly began to flip through it, he flipped through it very quickly, a page read for more than ten seconds at most, and then turned the next one, Li Hao was surprised to see this: "Do you see it so fast?" Will it be missed? ”
"No, I read very quickly, and I don't miss or forget." Di Renjie said indifferently and continued to look through the file.
Li Hao was surprised when he heard this, is this the legendary one-eye-eye-ten-line plus unforgettable, the realistic version of Di Xueba?