Although "Tianzhu" has a very good injury medicine, but Li Hu's injury is really not light, until more than a month, the wound on his body is roughly scarred and healed.

During the period of recuperation, Li Hu still lived in the "Xu Ji Pork Workshop", Shi Qingzhu never showed up, and Li Hu naturally had no way of knowing what the killing mission she said earlier was.

Next door to where Gree lives, Li Hu lies on the bed every day, and as long as he looks through the window, he can see the face in the courtyard that looks extremely ordinary, but can make people tremble in their hearts. This underworld master was obviously ordered by Shi Qingzhu to monitor Li Hu.

A month later, Shi Qingzhu finally appeared, but he didn't say much, just told Li Hu and Ge Li to pack up immediately and set off with her.

This trip was not a horseback ride, but a car ride. The three of them sat in a four-driver carriage, and after eighteen days, they crossed the Shaanxi and Jin realms from the Sichuan border and entered the northern Zhili.

On this road, day and night, there were occasional stops and rests, and they also slept in the wilderness, woods and grasses, and did not live in inns, and when they encountered larger state capitals and towns, they also mostly detoured, and every day there were people on the road to answer, deliver food, and change the coachman and the horses pulling the cart.

The direction of the carriage and the route it traveled were all decided by Shi Qingzhu, and Li Hu also knew that she was obviously doing this to hide her whereabouts.

On the nineteenth day, the carriage finally entered a village and town, and entered a house.

The house is not big, except for the stables connected to the side yards, there are only two entrances in the front and back, and there are more than ten low wing houses. When Li Hu and the others came in, there were already five people living in the house.

"Settle here for a few days, remember to stay in the courtyard, not to step out of the gate, and that food and everything that can be used will be brought in. After Shi Qingzhu finished the order, he rode away.

The five people in the house didn't know it, but with his eyes, he could see that these people were all killers of the "Heavenly Punishment", and their means were not weak, and they were about the elites drawn from various Yi hexagram groups.

After staying here for three days, six more people arrived one after another, and the number of "Heavenly Punishment" killers in the house has reached thirteen, forming the scale of a complete assassination team, and most of the wings in the front and back courtyards are also full.

Every day, food was brought from outside, but the food was rather crude and there was no alcohol.

Thirteen people living in the same house only know each other's names and surnames, but they rarely speak to each other, and the so-called names and surnames are just their pseudonyms, and Li Hu still calls himself Wang Worm. No one talked about where he came from, and there was no discussion or speculation about the mission. This is the practice of "heavenly punishment", never ask more about the secrets of the organization, and they are obviously veterans when they come here, of course, no one will violate taboos for no reason.

At noon on the fourth day, a carriage drove into the house, and the two people who got out of the car, in addition to Shi Qingzhu, who was wearing a cloak and a green veil mask, there was another man. This man has a stout body, a face full of flesh, a very vicious appearance, and a helmet and armor, and a saber hanging from his waist, but it is the outfit of a low-ranking general of the official army.

Shi Qingzhu summoned everyone to the hall and said, "This Lord Huang Kui Huang is the commander of the guards under the throne of Luoyang Fu, he will take you into the city of Beijing, from now on, everyone must follow Lord Huang's instructions." ”

The general clasped his fists and said: "Huang Kui is just a non-qualified commander, how can he be called an adult? Mr. Shi is so generous, there will be no problem with such a small thing as bringing you into the capital!"

Shi Qingzhu said: "Then there is Lord Lao Huang!"

From Fuyang City to Beizhili, Shi Qingzhu has never revealed the slightest detail about the assassination mission, and Li Hu has never asked, but judging from Shi Qingzhu's silent demeanor and the gathering of many good hands in the "Heavenly Punishment", this mission must be unusual.

At this time, I heard what this Huang Commander said, could it be that the target to be assassinated this time was actually in the Imperial City of Kyoto?

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly the Imperial City of Beijing. Not only are the big cities of Changsha and Huaiqing far beyond reach, but Kaifeng is also much worse than Beijing.

If you haven't entered the capital, even if you have a lot of money, you're just a hillbilly who hasn't seen the situation.

Li Hu has been in the capital for five days, and of course he can no longer be regarded as a hillbilly. In the past few days, he has indeed gained a lot of knowledge, at least he has been to various restaurants, brothels, and casinos in the city.

In that small courtyard that day, after Huang Kui promised Shi Qingzhu to take everyone into the capital, he took out more than a dozen sets of military uniforms and swords from the carriage and distributed them to everyone, and Li Hu and others also received a black lacquered wooden plaque engraved with the word "Fu", which was about the waist card held by the personal guards of the Fu Wangfu.

The thirteen "Tianzhu" killers quickly disguised themselves as guards, and each rode a horse to follow Huang Kui, galloping out of the town less than ten miles before encountering a group of officers and soldiers. The pomp and circumstance of this team was not small, there were three of the eight chariots, followed by more than 50 fully loaded carriages, and the officers and cavalry guarding it were as many as five or six hundred. The officers and soldiers who opened the way in front of the team waved flags in their hands, and the flags were embroidered with the word "Fu" in Douda.

Huang Kui and the killers joined the chariot battle, accompanied them for two days, and then entered the Imperial City of Beijing.

Although Li Hu still didn't know anything about the details of the mission, during the time he was with him, he had a general understanding of the situation of the team.

The Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 300 years, and there were not a hundred princes and princes who had been divided, but also eighty or ninety, and now, there are only five families with today's royal bloodline, that is, the five kings of Fu, Rui, Gui, Hui and Lu, and the "Five Kings Party" in the court with "Donglin" and "Eunuch Party" is named after these five princes.

Among the five kings, the Shili of the blessed king Zhu Changxun is the largest, the most wealthy, and the uncle of the current emperor Zhu Youzhen. It is said that this Fu King was the most favored by Emperor Shenzong, and once wanted to help the young and abolish the elders, so that Zhu Changxun could inherit the unification, but because of the fierce opposition of the queen mother and the courtiers, he finally failed to do so, and had to give in and set up his eldest son Zhu Changluo, that is, Zhu Youzhen's father as the emperor's eldest son.

This is the famous "national capital dispute" in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to compensate his beloved son Zhu Changxun, Emperor Shenzong gave Luoyang, the richest capital in the Central Plains, to King Fu, and gave 20,000 hectares of land, and transferred the taxes of many state capitals, and half of the income of Sichuan salt and Huai salt to Fuwangfu. Zhu Changxun has undoubtedly become the biggest rich man in the Ming Dynasty, and the luxury and luxury of the Fuwang Mansion are even better than the Forbidden Palace.

This Fu Wang Chitose gave birth to three sons, this year's eldest son Zhu Yousong has turned 18 this year, according to the practice of this dynasty, when the imperial court decree to crown the prince, and the canonized Fu Wang Shi Zi must enter the capital to face the saint, thank the emperor.

Now the team of chariots and horses followed by Li Hu and a group of "Heavenly Punishment" killers is the team that Zhu Yousong went from Luoyang to the Imperial City of Beijing.

With the wealth of the Fu Wangfu, this time the prince entered Beijing to face the saint, and he carried a lot of treasures. The 50 carts in the procession, carrying gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and rare items, were all transported to Beijing by the Fuwang Mansion to be used to pay the gifts of the courtiers.

The car battle went all the way, Zhu Yousong sat in the house most of the time, and it was rare to show up, but Li Hu also had the opportunity to take a few looks, although the prince of Fu Wang was not very old, he was also fat and fat, and he was fat and fat, and he was not afraid of Chi Siyuan, the richest man in Chengdu City.

Are all the rich people in this world born with this virtue?

After traveling north for two days, the chariot arrived in the capital, and the prince of Fuwang and several of his relatives entered the palace to face the saint, while Li Hu and other cadres and other guards and soldiers of Fuwang's mansion lived in the city's Summer Garden Inn.

Shi Qingzhu left immediately after giving the order, and did not follow King Fu's chariot team. After entering the city, Huang Kui did not give other orders, so a group of "Heavenly Punishment" killers also soaked in restaurants, casinos and brothels in the capital all day long, like other guards of Fuwangfu's Mansion.

It is a good thing to have the opportunity to eat, drink and be merry, and even if you are dressed as a guard of the Fuwang Mansion, if you don't go to have fun but only stay in the inn, it will arouse suspicion.

Five days have passed like this, and Li Hu is already quite familiar with some of the most lively streets in the capital, and he has spent a lot of silver taels in his pocket. At noon on this day, he was walking on Desheng South Street, but suddenly saw a villain drawn with charcoal on the corner of the door of a "Wanli Gambling House" on the side of the road in front of him.

The little man was painted crookedly, like the graffiti of an ordinary urchin, but Li Hu saw that his heart moved, and then he paced into the door.

That day, before Li Hu left the "Evil Dog Gate" and sneaked into Tianzhu, Hua Bushi had taught him several secret notes for transmitting information, and this villain was one of them, and the meaning of his expression was "to meet at the door".

"Wanli Gambling House" is not too big a gambling dang, Li Hu also came once a few days ago, in the hall, there are more than a dozen eight immortal gambling tables, but it is pai gow, dice rolling, lottery and other ways to play.

These tables were very lively, and the gamblers gathered around the tables could not help but shout and shout.

After entering the door, Li Hu's eyes swept in the hall, and he swaggered to one of the gambling tables, and the others saw that he was dressed as an official and military guard, and there was a saber hanging from his waist, so he didn't dare to fight with him, and immediately gave up a vacant seat.

Li Hu honestly sat down at the table, took out a dozen or two pieces of silver from his pocket, and began to play Pai Gow. Today he gambled very badly, but the dealer was extremely prosperous, after a dozen or so, the ten or so taels of silver lost a fine light, all into the banker's pocket.