Chapter 116: Capture the King First
After Lin Xiaoyue finished her story, she picked up the teacup and took a sip. "Why don't you add water to my cup? Wait a moment, everyone. I'll get some water."
As she spoke, she walked to the backstage, took out a small packet of laxatives from her bosom, and handed it to Zhan Liang. "Zhan Liang, add this to the teapot and fill it up for the customers drinking tea in front. Your movements must be natural and don't arouse suspicion!"
Zhan Liang clenched his palms, "Is it coming?"
"Yes, be careful!" Lin Xiaoyue patted Zhan Liang's shoulder and returned to the front desk.
Lin Xiaoyue stood on the stage holding the teapot. She filled it with tea herself, took a sip, and a comfortable smile appeared on her face. "I'm sorry, everyone, I've been delayed a little while getting the tea. Now I'll continue my story of how Guanyin, under the command of Tathagata, descended to the mortal world of Chang'an to search for the pilgrim who sought the Buddhist scriptures..."
Below the stage, Zhan Liang was walking between the seats with a teapot in his hand. When he saw that the tea in a customer's cup was too little, he would calmly add more and then continue walking back and forth.
Since there are often waiters doing this kind of work in teahouses, customers have no objection.
In order to make it easier for Zhan Liang to refill tea for everyone, Lin Xiaoyue deliberately spoke slowly. She also observed the customers in the audience while speaking. Sure enough, the new customers did not touch the teacups next to them, and only the old customers drank tea and ate melon seeds casually, so the tea with added ingredients went smoothly into their stomachs.
Suddenly, someone covered his stomach and made a sound of "ouch", and then other people also started covering their stomachs with painful expressions on their faces.
"Someone come! Help the customer go backstage to rest!" Lin Xiaoyue stopped telling the story and quickly called the servant to help the customer go backstage.
But a few customers who had never touched the teacups stood up, drew their swords from their waists, and shouted at everyone on and off the stage: "Wait! No one is allowed to leave!"
Lin Xiaoyue's eyes flashed with a fierce look, "Assholes! Who the hell are you? Don't you see that the other guests are suffering? If you don't want to listen to the book, get out and don't make trouble here!"
But these men with swords not only did not put away their swords, they also started whistling. Soon, more people rushed into the teahouse.
Seeing the situation was getting worse, Lin Xiaoyue urged the other customers to evacuate immediately, "What are you all standing there for? Run!"
The guests no longer felt the pain in their stomachs and ran to the backyard.
Lin Xiaoyue had prepared poison powder in advance and took off the wooden hairpin on her head. After using up the poison needles inside last time, Liang Jingyao installed new ones, so she could use them again today!
"Who are you? We're just a small teahouse, how could we possibly provoke you? Get out of here if you know what's good for you, or else the bailiffs will show up and you'll end up in jail!"
The people who rushed in were all dressed in soldiers' uniforms. A leader walked in from outside and pointed at Lin Xiaoyue and said, "Even if the county magistrate came today, it would be useless. If you want to blame someone, blame yourselves. Who made you mess with the wrong people?"
Lin Xiaoyue recognized that this person was the man who came to pick up Madam Xiangdie. It seemed that these people were all General Chariot and Cavalry's subordinates!
Very good, now that you are here, don’t even think about walking back!
Lin Xiaoyue asked with amusement: "What a joke! Even if we die today, we must die knowingly. Who did we offend?"
The man snorted coldly, spat on the ground, and cursed, "You, a lowly person, don't deserve to know! Go ahead, don't leave anyone alive!"
Lin Xiaoyue pretended to hide inside the podium, then activated the space stealth mode, left the podium and rushed towards the man.
Many of General Chariot and Cavalry's men came. Lin Xiaoyue estimated that most of the military camp had come, but she still decided to capture the leader first. By following this man, maybe she could find General Chariot and Cavalry!
As long as the General of Chariots and Cavalry is killed, not only will the morale of the army be weakened, but the arm of Emperor Liang will also be cut off. It's simply killing two birds with one stone!
So, while the Silver Slash Guards were having a good fight with these people, Lin Xiaoyue followed the man invisibly. The man walked out of the teahouse hall, but instead of leaving, he got directly into a carriage.
Lin Xiaoyue felt that there was either a cavalry general or a more powerful figure in this carriage. Should she follow them and listen to what they said?
She grasped the wooden hairpin in her hand and jumped onto the carriage. The carriage shook, and a man's alert voice came from behind the curtain, "Who?"
Although Lin Xiaoyue was invisible, she still covered her mouth and nose, fearing that the man would smell her breath.
The man lifted the curtain and looked outside, but there was no one outside, so he lowered the curtain again.
"General, it has already started inside, you should go back first!"
The General of Chariots and Cavalry shook his head and said worriedly, "This is a secret order from the Emperor. How can I leave with peace of mind if I don't see the mission completed with my own eyes? If anything goes wrong, the Emperor will definitely not use me again in the future! Yan Yi, if I die today, Xiangdie will go with me. It will be worth my love for her!"
Lin Xiaoyue was almost laughing to death. Madam Xiangdie was so proud of how favored she was, but in the end, the man was thinking of burying her with him. If Madam Xiangdie heard what she just said, would she think she was a joke?
General Chariots and Cavalry, no wonder he could become the confidant of Emperor Liang, they are indeed birds of a feather!
But now is your death!
Lin Xiaoyue walked into the carriage and turned the wooden hairpin in her hand towards the General of Chariots and Cavalry and the man named Yan Yi. The space in the carriage was very small, so Lin Xiaoyue only turned it twice before successfully inserting the poison needle into the chest of the General of Chariots and Cavalry and Yan Yi.
The General felt a pain in his chest. There were only him and Yan Yi in the carriage. He naturally thought that Yan Yi had betrayed him, so he drew the dagger from his waist and stabbed Yan Yi.
"Ah! Yan Yi, you actually attacked me!"
Yan Yi had no martial arts skills, so the poison took effect very quickly. Before he could explain, he fell to the ground, "No, it's not me..."
The General didn't hear clearly. He squatted down and turned Yan Yi over with great effort. "What did you say?"
But the only response to the General of Chariots and Cavalry was the dark blue face and the lifeless Yan Yi.
Lin Xiaoyue didn't expect that General Chariot and Cavalry could withstand it so well, so she twisted the wooden hairpin twice more towards General Chariot and Cavalry's head, and all eight poison needles penetrated into General Chariot and Cavalry's head.
The General felt a sharp pain in his head, and then he was completely mired in endless darkness. The cold, like an icy cellar, froze him alive. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not escape the icy darkness. The darkness dragged him into the endless abyss, and he no longer had the strength to struggle...
Seeing that the General of Chariots and Cavalry was no longer moving, Lin Xiaoyue walked over, picked up the dagger in the General's hand, and first stabbed Yan Yi in the chest. Then she stabbed the dagger hard into the General's chest, and then turned Yan Yi around, letting Yan Yi hold the dagger in his hand, creating the illusion of assassinating her master.
After doing all this, Lin Xiaoyue jumped off the carriage and shouted to the teahouse, "Oh no! Yan Yi has assassinated the master! The general is in danger!"
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