Chapter 43: Being a Cowboy
Jin Sui shook his head and said, "Let him live. I want to ask him what he wants to do if he fails in the assassination and says that I am not the King of Li?"
Han Xing said in a gentle voice: "Of course he knew he was going to die, so he deliberately provoked me. Why should Your Majesty care about the words of an assassin?"
Both his tone and attitude showed that he did not believe the assassin's words at all and firmly believed that she was the King of Li!
Cheng Yu looked at the broken wine gourd in his hand with regret and said, "I wonder how many accomplices of the assassin have entered Yanzhou City? The other four are all dead, so we have to keep one alive for trial."
After saying that, he squatted down and ripped off the cloth on the black-clothed man's face, then pinched his mouth open, put his fingers in and fumbled for a while before saying, "Your Highness, this is not a professional assassin or a death warrior, there is no poison hidden in his teeth."
After he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound of "click". Cheng Yu actually dislocated his temporomandibular joint and laughed:
"Be careful that he bites his tongue."
Jin Sui said admiringly, "Master Cheng is really thoughtful."
Han Xing and Hei Hu's eyes changed when they looked at Cheng Yu. This Cheng Zhubo usually looked like a drunkard who only loved to drink.
I didn't expect that killing people was as common as drinking.
Jinsui took the medicine from the space and gave it to Han Xing to treat the injured soldiers outside, while she personally applied the medicine to Wei Zhubo.
After everything was packed up, it was almost dawn.
Jin Sui asked Han Xing to take the bodies of the four assassins to Yanzhou City and give them to Li Heng in a high-profile manner so that the people along the way could see them.
Yesterday, the four assassins were sent by Mu Lizhou. Now that King Li is injured and the soldiers of the Black Feather Camp are injured, Mu Lizhou tells us what to do?
Han Xing asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please tell me the truth, how much do you want Li Zhoumu to pay?"
Jinsui laughed:
"Captain Han really understands me! Right now, I can't protect anything else, so why not ask for more silver to build our border city?"
"I want 10,000 taels! If he doesn't give it to me, I will file a complaint with the emperor!"
She also wrote a letter to Li Heng personally, asking him to pay compensation as she didn't want the matter to become a big deal.
The seal used on the letter was exactly the one carved for her by Wei Zhubo, which read "The King of Li Da Wuxian".
After Han Xing left, Jin Sui took a nap for an hour. When she heard that the man in black had woken up, she took Hei Hu to meet him.
The man was awakened by a basin of cold water. Before the effect of the drug had worn off, his feet were chained again and he collapsed to the ground like a sheep to be slaughtered.
But Hei Hu didn't let Jin Sui come forward, and he went over and picked up the man like a chick:
"When the prince asks, answer honestly."
The man raised his eyes and glanced at Jin Sui, still speaking in a firm tone: "He is not the King of Li at all."
It's a pity that his jaw was removed, so he drools and speaks indistinctly. He's only slightly better than Crazy Dave in the Tuntian Army.
Jin Sui asked with a smile, "Aren't you a Jianghu assassin?"
The man glared at Jin Sui and turned his head away without answering. Hei Hu was so angry that he grabbed the top of his head with his big hand and turned his head around:
"explain!"
Then Hei Hu saw something on his waist, reached out and pulled it, and it turned out to be a token.
Heihu gave it to Jinsui, and saw the word "Du" engraved on one side and "Huo" engraved on the other side.
Jinsui had no idea which organization this was from, but in order to avoid any loopholes.
He deliberately sneered, "I see! I never thought that Prince Yu would not bother to hide his intentions and directly send you here to kill me."
The man then said: "Since you know that I am from the Duwei Mansion, you will understand that I have met the King of Li.
Who are you? Where is the King of Li? "
Jin Sui got some useful information. "Du" means Duwei Mansion, and "Huo" is naturally the man's surname.
He threw the token to Hei Hu and said, "Take it to Cheng Zhubo. If Li Heng doesn't pay the money, use this evidence to sue him in Chang'an."
"With Lord Huo as a witness, Prince Yu has no choice but to admit it."
Commander Huo was very anxious and tried to struggle to grab the token, but was pushed down by Black Tiger with a palm.
Jin Sui finally asked him: "Tell me again, who am I?"
"You are not the King of Li at all!"
Jin Sui clapped his hands and laughed:
"You're really brave, very good. The farming camp is in need of oxen to pull the plow. You're so tough, go pull the plow for a few days."
Commander Huo said anxiously: "A soldier can be killed but not humiliated..."
Before he could finish, Jin Sui sneered:
"You're already an assassin, and you still want dignity? Go pull your plow!"
Hei Hu carried out the prince's mission most effectively, so Jin Sui asked him to keep an eye on it personally and treated the Huo guy like a cow, giving him only one vegetarian meal a day.
Jinsui went back to his room to catch up on his sleep, waiting for Hanxing to get the money back from Li Heng.
She had no idea that the news that she had led more than 3,000 border soldiers to surround the gate of Yanzhou city and demand military pay from Li Heng had spread far and wide.
Naturally, the news also reached the ears of Grandpa Ling and the other two who were still in Huaizhou. Grandpa Ling once again heard the storyteller talking about King Li.
But this time they spoke very quietly and discussed it secretly.
After all, Prince Li had just defeated Jiang Nansheng of Huaizhou, and no one in Huaizhou dared to say a good word about Prince Li in public.
But people said a lot in private, saying that the King loved his soldiers like his own sons, treated them well, was not afraid of the powerful and wealthy, etc.
Grandpa Ling once again lamented to Jin'an that a person's temperament will change drastically when they experience a big event.
Even the royal children were no exception. The former crown prince was deposed and demoted to King Li, and he was like a completely different person.
Look at everything he has done along the way, each one is jaw-dropping.
A prince led his soldiers to besiege a city just to demand several thousand taels of silver as military pay.
This is really unheard of, unprecedented! When he found that Gu Changxiao had heard about this, his face was extremely solemn, and he immediately pulled Grandpa Ling to discuss: "We must rush to Yanzhou City as soon as possible, we can't delay any longer."
Grandpa Ling asked again: "Why are you so anxious to go to Yanzhou? And how did you know that my grandson is in Yanzhou?"
Gu Changxiao could only say: "Forgive me for not being able to say it clearly, but please believe me, when we get to Yanzhou, I will definitely send the little Taoist priest to you safely."
Grandpa Ling sighed softly: "Now I can only trust you! I have found a way to leave Huaizhou. There is a funeral procession that needs Taoist priests to perform a ritual. We can sneak in."
"But after leaving the city, if you can't pass the checkpoint to Yanzhou, I won't be able to do anything."
Gu Changxiao said hurriedly: "I will come up with a plan then. The most important thing right now is to get out of the city."
Two days later, the three of them used silver and Grandpa Ling's eloquence to successfully infiltrate the Taoist team of the funeral procession.
As soon as they left Huaizhou City, the three of them found an excuse to leave the team, but they didn't expect to encounter a group of refugees not far outside the city.
What surprised the three men even more was that this group of refugees was not heading north to escape from the plague-stricken Central Plains, but was actually heading towards the Central Plains.
"There are soldiers from the Li Wang faction distributing medicine near Luo City. The medicine is very effective and has cured many people."
"We all have sick people at home. We can't just lie there and wait to die. We might be able to get medicine if we take a chance."
Hearing everyone talking at once, the three of them were surprised. Didn't the King of Li just ask for military pay in Yanzhou? When did he send people to Luocheng to apply medicine? And where did he get the medicine to cure the plague?
At this moment, someone exclaimed: "Oh, you three Taoists, old and young, could you be the one the Li King is looking for?"
"I heard that the King of Li is looking for three Taoist priests. As long as you bring the clues of the Taoist priests, you can get the medicine."
Grandpa Ling was shocked, but he didn't show it on his face. He smiled and said, "How can we have the ability to know a big shot like the King of Li?"
"What kind of Taoist priest is this Li King looking for? Maybe I know someone like him."
After talking to these refugees, Grandpa Ling had a guess and whispered to Gu Changxiao and Jin'an: "I suspect that the person who dispensed the medicine in Luocheng is Sui Sui! She had asked the doctor in the town to prescribe a lot of medicine, and maybe there is one that can cure the plague."
"She must have been unable to find the three of us, so she deliberately spread the news in the hope that we would go back and look for her."
Jin An asked in confusion: "But why did brother go to Luo City? We finally escaped from Luo City."
Grandpa Ling shook his head and said, "I don't know about that, but since there is news, we can't just turn a blind eye to it."
"Mr. Gu, let's not go to Yanzhou yet. Let's go to Luocheng first."
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
