Chapter 386: Capturing Qi Heng
When the patrol team squeezed through the crowd and arrived in front of the store, they saw only a group of chattering people, who were quickly driven away by the sergeant. The street returned to normal and the sergeant continued patrolling.
In the restaurant next door, Song Liyun, along with Abu and Lin Qingyuan, sat opposite Qi Heng in a private room on the second floor.
Qi Heng looks ordinary. Because he has been traveling for many years, his skin is dark and his eyes are sharp.
"My name is Qi Heng, the third son of the Qi family, the imperial merchant family of Hecheng. May I ask which tribe you are from? The Lin family is currently embroiled in lawsuits, and they have no chance of doing business again. Why don't you find another way out?"
Qi Heng started poaching people right in front of Lin Qingyuan, but he spoke in Dilu language.
Song Liyun said nothing, just glanced at Abu.
Abu said: "We saints don't do business."
He spoke fluent Wu Dynasty dialect, but the meaning of his words made Qi Heng's heart jump. His expression suddenly became serious. He stood up and saluted: "I wonder what the Holy Lady's purpose in visiting Hecheng is? Why didn't you tell me in advance? It would be better for me to meet her outside Xishi Pass to avoid being questioned by those rude soldiers."
What he said is very interesting!
Song Liyun snorted in her heart: He wanted to find out the purpose of my visit and also wanted to find out the way for me to enter the customs.
Song Liyun naturally wouldn't do what Qi Heng wanted. The veil on her face fluttered slightly as she whispered, "I'm just taking a casual walk and looking at the scenery. Do I need to report to Master Qi when I reach Hecheng?"
Qi Heng was blocked by Song Liyun's words that were neither soft nor harsh, but he couldn't get angry. He was a suspicious person, so how could he let it go?
Moreover, the "saint" in front of him was so unfamiliar that even with the Dzi bracelet, he began to doubt her identity: "Miss, you are too suspicious! It's just that I often travel around the grasslands and am familiar with many tribes.
I don't know which tribe the girl is from, maybe I'm good friends with the tribe leader, and the girl can come and live with the Qi family in the future."
Although he spoke modestly, his eyes could not take away from Song Liyun's agate necklace and white stone bracelet, and his mind was quickly recalling the legends of Dzi beads he knew.
It is rumored that the Di people are a nation protected by the gods, but the maids sent by the gods will not reveal their identities at ordinary times, and will only show themselves in times of crisis.
Every tribe wanted to have its own divine messenger, so they gave some girls stone-polished Dzi beads and called them "saints" to the outside world.
In fact, no one has ever seen a real saint.
And this one in front of me...
Qi Heng gradually had some guesses in his mind: the Dzi beads were dull and had faint cracks, which made them obviously old beads that had been passed down from generation to generation. Could it be that this woman had come out from a royal tribe to travel?
However, Song Liyun was sitting upright with her eyes closed and pretending to be asleep. She looked so superior and didn't want to talk to anyone, which made Qi Heng, an experienced man, feel uneasy.
Song Liyun didn't have the answer, but there was another person he could control.
Lin Qingyuan did not take a seat, but stood respectfully behind Song Liyun like Abu.
"Lin Er, come here, I have something to ask you."
Qi Heng stood up and went to the compartment next to him, looking at Lin Qingyuan meaningfully.
Her eyes no longer had the kindness they had just had, and she stared at him sharply.
Lin Qingyuan bowed and said, "Master Qi, please speak if you have anything to say. I have responsibilities to fulfill, so I'll excuse you!"
Qi Heng's face suddenly darkened.
The Qi family holds an extraordinary status in the entire city. Apart from the Zhenbei military camp, all merchants in Yunzhou, big and small, have to look to them for their approval.
Now the Lin family is still imprisoned in Hecheng. Lin Qingyuan dares to disobey me just because he finds a backer, so I will arrest him together!
But... Qi Heng glanced around and his words were no longer friendly: "Come here, please invite the Saint to visit the Qi family!"
Lin Qingyuan and Abu stood in front of Song Liyun and asked, "Master Qi, are you planning to snatch someone from Hecheng?"
Qi Heng never considered that there was anything wrong with his behavior.
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people rushed into the house and surrounded Song Liyun. They were all followers and guards of the Qi family.
Song Liyun sat still, only raising an eyebrow at Qi Heng: "You are disrespecting me, aren't you worried that the Qi family will be confiscated and exterminated?"
Qi Heng laughed heartily: "None of your superstitious things will work in the Wu Dynasty. Even though there are temples everywhere in the world and they are full of incense, who has ever seen a real god? Stop talking nonsense and just follow Master Qi!"
Song Liyun stood up and turned to look at Lin Qingyuan and Abu: "Cover your noses, and run when I leave!"
Abu and Lin Qingyuan raised their hands and pinched their noses at the same time.
Song Liyun curved her eyebrows and said to Qi Heng, "Master Qi, I'm so sorry!"
She just raised her hand, and with a slight puff, a stream of air rushed straight to Qi Heng's face.
Qi Heng was quite skilled, and he became alert when Song Liyun told him to cover his nose. However, no matter how fast he reacted, it was not faster than the powerful drug that took only one second.
There were also those followers and guards, seven or eight people in the room fell to the ground one after another.
Abu's eyes widened, and if Song Liyun hadn't asked him to pinch his nose, he would have started yelling.
The door was still open, and the sound of people falling to the ground in the room alerted the people outside.
Song Liyun waved her hand and took all the unconscious people on the ground into the space.
Without hesitation, she turned around and jumped out of the window.
There is no air in her space, so no living things can be stored there. It would only take one minute for Qi Heng and others to suffocate to death.
Song Liyun had no martial arts skills. She fell to the ground from the second floor, which was five meters high. She first jumped onto the cloth stall she had already spotted nearby, and then rolled along with the momentum, barely relieving the force of falling. However, she still felt her legs hitting the ground heavily.
A man fell from the sky, causing an uproar on the street.
"Come up quickly!" Song Dekui drove the boxcar over.
Ignoring the pain in her knees, Song Liyun quickly got up and climbed into the car.
Song Dekui whipped the horse-drawn carriage and it sped through the street.
All this happened in the blink of an eye. People on the street now looked up at the second-floor window. Only the cloth vendor who was hit was jumping up and down and cursing.
On the second floor, Abu took Lin Qingyuan and ran out of the door. When Qi Heng and the people left outside heard the noise, they naturally came to intercept them.
The two sides started fighting on the narrow stairs.
When it comes to fighting, Lin Qingyuan is not even as good as Song Liyun. He was so scared when he saw the big knife swinging towards him that he hid everywhere.
Fortunately, Abuli, who was much bigger than the other guy, was fighting with the other guy while holding a large wooden table.
The wooden table was heavy and wide, and could not be split with a knife. If someone was hit by the wooden table, they would fall down. For a while, the Qi family was unable to break through.
Lao Qian was originally guarding the stairs. Seeing Abu and his son being stopped, he quickly climbed up the wooden ladder, pulled out two threaded steel bars over a foot long, and took the blow from the big knife.
The rebar hit the iron sheet, and with a "clang" sound, the sword in the hands of the Qi family guard broke into two pieces.
This is Hecheng, and it is also the territory of the Qi family. All restaurants and shops have to pay protection fees to the Qi family, so naturally they know everyone in the Qi family.
At this time, seeing several strangers fighting with the Qi family guards, everyone in the restaurant gathered to help.
Waiters and servants, and those standing on the street shouting and waving their hands.
Seeing that more and more people were gathering, it was impossible to rush to the military camp or the garrison with Lin Qingyuan.
Old Qian decided to go all out and simply retreated to the stairs, dancing the rebar in his hand like a windmill, chasing away the people who came over after hearing the news.
On the other side, as soon as Song Liyun entered the carriage, she poured out all the people who were unconscious in the space.
It will only take a few seconds, so you shouldn't suffocate to death.
(End of this chapter)
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