Chapter 49 Undercurrent
The first volume of the Sun and Moon in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Chapter 49: Undercurrents are surging. "Yuze, this is done beautifully during the day!" The second hall of the Hundred Riders was brightly lit. Deputy General Manager Zheng Kejun threw a three-inch square black wooden sign in the arms of the captain Zhou Run, and called the other party to praise him.
"I dare not be greedy for merit, I rely on the general manager to take the enemy's opportunity first!" Zhou Run picked up the wooden sign with both hands, clasped his fists at Zheng Kejun with a smile on his face, and then turned his body into a shrimp.
"I dare not be greedy for me, so I will return the reward card to me. I will keep it to others!" Zheng Kejun's face was not as serious as before Li Xian, and he stretched out his hand with a smile.
"Master, the subordinates have a large number of people, and they are short of money, and they are very short of money!" Zhou Run was willing to hand over the wooden sign he had just obtained? While dodging left and right, he begged for mercy. "The daughter of the subordinates is waiting for her to receive the reward and buy her dowry. The supervisor is kind, how can he take back the rewards he has given?!"
"Bad, your daughter is only seven years old!" Zheng Kejun was flexible and controlled Zhou Run in just a few seconds. He snatched the reward card that could get thirty hangs of money. Then, he threw it in the other party's arms again. "If you talk nonsense to me in the future, let your whole family drink the northwest wind!"
"I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore, I really don't dare anymore! Thank you, General Manager, thank you!" Zhou Run held the lost merit card and made a letter of thanks. The distance between him and Zheng Kejun was accidentally brought closer again.
Zheng Kejun was proficient in the way of controlling the inferiors. After making a joke, he stopped. He quickly put away his smile and solemnly reminded, "It is not to predict the enemy's opportunity first. Our Baiqisi is just ordered to solve hidden dangers as the emperor, not to be enemies with all the civil and military officials of the court. Moreover, this time, the main purpose of letting Wu Qiu and Wu Dong enter the Zhang family is not to monitor Zhang Shaojian, but to provide him with personal protection. Next, before arranging Wu Qiu and Wu Dong to join Zhang Shaojian, you must explain it clearly to their brothers. Don't let the two brothers greedy for merit and make the main and secondary, and ruin the name of Baiqisi!"
"I understand, I will make arrangements in advance!" Zhou Run felt a stern when he heard this, and quickly put away the reward card and the smile on his face, and then bowed his hands solemnly.
"How is Zhang Shaojian's injury?" Nodded at him with satisfaction, Zheng Kejun continued to ask, with the concern on his face not at all false.
"The penetration injury is now in the middle of winter, so it should not be fatal!" Zhou Run, the captain of the Baiqisi, was very capable, and immediately made a summary statement on the situation he had observed in the daytime. "But he had shed a lot of blood, and it was estimated that he would not be able to relieve his vitality."
"Monk damn!" Zheng Kejun frowned and cursed in a deep voice. Then, he quickly asked: "How is Zhang Shaojian's skills? Brothers Wu Qiu and Wu Dong, have you reported it?"
"Skills?" Zhou Run grinned and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. "Wu Qiu and Wu Dong have reported it, but the conclusion is a bit disrespectful to Zhang Shaojian."
"Even if you say it, why don't you respect the law?" Zheng Kejun immediately became interested and smiled and encouraged.
"I dare to ask the general manager to know that Wu Qiu and Wu Dong were originally going to rush to the road today, but were hit by Zhang Shaojian's carriage to attract his attention. Then, with his cooking and cooking skills, he got into his house to be a cook. Unexpectedly, the monks took the lead and launched an assassination on Zhang Shaojian at the city gate..." Not daring to hide anything, Zhou Run sorted out his thoughts and began to tell the experiences and observations of the two Wu brothers from beginning to end.
"I know this, just pick it up and say it mainly, there is no need to explain the specific process!" Zheng Kejun was anxious and urged in a low voice with a smile.
"Yes!" Zhou Run bowed his order, and the following narrative became obviously simpler. "They two didn't carry weapons at the time, so they could only squat on the side of the road like ordinary people at first. According to their observations, Zhang Shaojian obviously practiced martial arts and his skills were not bad. If it was a martial arts competition, even if they went together, they would not last long in front of Zhang Shaojian. But..."
He was afraid that he would cause trouble because he said too much. After a pause, he quickly added: "But the two brothers said that if they fought each other with their lives, any brothers could kill Zhang Shaojian. However, this statement is limited to the nearest and it is hard to say in the future!"
"What does it mean?" Zheng Kejun frowned and asked with a frown.
"When my subordinates rushed over, Zhang Shaojian had actually completely gained the upper hand!" Zhou Run was extremely cautious and explained quickly, and then gave the answer with a smile. "The two brothers of the Wu family mean that Zhang Shaojian's abilities were all trained in the martial arts field, and lacked practical combat! Therefore, they were only suitable for martial arts competitions, not suitable for fighting. If it weren't for those monks' inability to attack, they would force out the ruthlessness in his bones. After he killed the first monk, the other party had at least seven or eight ways to make him die without a burial place."
"He killed a monk on the spot, did he own his hands?" Zheng Kejun's brows jumped again, and the sound of questioning suddenly became higher.
"According to the report of the Wu brothers, it was his own hands. And after killing the first monk, he immediately became insane! Fortunately, Wang Mao Bo was loyal, otherwise he would have to die at the hands of other monks today!" Zhou Run thought for a while and nodded seriously.
"I just said, he is only in his early twenties, how could he kill more than veterans of the hundred battles? He slaughtered half of the White Horse Temple alone?" Zheng Kejun finally got the information he needed, compared it with another murder case, and curled his lips with a smile. "It's a good thing that the case is no longer under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Mansion. Otherwise, those blind people would definitely create an unjust case!"
"The people in Jingzhao Mansion have always been like this. They do things based on their intuition and then make a fuss!" Because of partial overlap in power between Baiqisi and Jingzhao Mansion, they have been despising each other for a long time, so Zhou Run decisively helped Zheng Kejun!
How could a young man who kills the enemy when fighting face to face and is stormed by his blood and energy? How could he break into the White Horse Temple alone in the middle of the night and kill more than half of the monks inside? If he was not beaten to death by the monks on the spot, he would probably have to be considered creating a miracle?
Therefore, the case in Baima Temple cannot be done by Zhang Shaojian. He has no ability at all! But Jingzhao Mansion is extremely stupid to bite him!
"It's a good thing that Zhang Shaojian is not a commoner. Otherwise, if it falls into their hands, it will be skinless if it doesn't die this time!" Zheng Kejun felt that he was not satisfied with stepping on it, so he added another sentence before he was willing to turn the topic back to the topic, "Do you have any other discoveries? What about the monks, besides the excuses of "eliminating demons and defending the way" that they confessed themselves, have they also leaked other tricks?"
"The Wang Mao Bo, the subordinate of Young Master Zhang, has good martial arts skills. If he hadn't been there during the day, the result might be completely different!" Zhou Run thought for a while and first picked up the situation he was confident in reporting. "According to the fact that the subordinate sent someone to verify, this person is..."
However, Zheng Kejun was very uninterested in Wang Maobo's identity. He shook his head and quickly interrupted: "You don't have to worry about him. I have sent someone to investigate him long ago. He also has a younger brother named Wang Maozhong. He was sold to the official as a slave because of a major disaster a few years ago. This person is now under the hands of the King of Linzi and is said to be very favored."
"I understand, thank you for the reminder!" Zhou Run was stunned, took a step back, and saluted with gratitude.
The Baiqisi is extremely powerful and knows a lot of things, but they can cause a lot of trouble accidentally. Therefore, an unwritten rule has long been formed among the Baiqisi, and they will never interfere in disputes within the royal family. They will not be able to take the wrong side and be resolutely charged and will not be buried in the death.
Since Wang Maozhong has become the confidant slave of Linzi King Li Longji, a smart man in the Baiqisi, he should no longer be staring at his brother Wang Maobo. Otherwise, if Wang Maozhong loses his luck one day, he will be retaliated against, not only a few people from Baiqisi!
"You are a smart person and know the right measure!" Zheng Kejun praised with satisfaction when he saw Zhou Run's slightest.
"It's the general manager who is good at cultivating it!" Zhou Run smiled and bowed, then continued to report: "The monks came prepared. They bit them to death because they heard that the White Horse Temple was blood-slaughtered by Zhang Shaojian. They were filled with righteous indignation, so they wanted to eliminate the devil and defend the way without anyone's instructions. The assassination case had nothing to do with other monks except the Xinfeng White Horse Zhaojue Temple where they were. However, their subordinates found Vajra San in the luggage of the five monks who led the team!"
"Vajra San?" Zheng Kejun's pupils tightened, and two cold lights instantly emerged from his eyes.
As the leader of the Hundred Qisi, he is not unfamiliar with the three words "Vajra Spoon". That thing is a strange poison transmitted from the Western Regions, but it is also an excellent body-strengthening medicine.
After taking this medicine, it can make people's ears and ears sharply, and the flexibility and strength of the limbs are greatly increased. It is even said that it can help long-term takers to develop a Vajra Indestructible body.
At the same time, this medicine is extremely addictive. If the supply is suddenly cut off after taking it for a period of time, the taker will not be able to survive or die.
Therefore, some monks with great ambitions and madmen who practice religion in history like to use Vajra Sperm to create and control dead soldiers. The most famous of them is "Gao Tansheng" in the late Sui Dynasty. Taking advantage of the opportunity to offer sacrifices to Huairong County officials, this person took the eight Vajras back and directly killed the officials and rebelled, becoming one of the thirty-six smoke and dust!
After the Tang Dynasty unified the world, it deliberately raised Taoism. One of the main reasons was that it would be like those monks with compassionate faces to go crazy!
However, this far-scheming national policy of the Tang Dynasty ended in vain after Wu Zetian ascended the throne.
At that time, in order to suppress the Li family, Wu Zetian actually raised the Buddhist sect with his own hands! With the spread of monks and temples, the Vajra dispersed and the Vajra subdued the Demons naturally reappeared in the world.
Although Wu Zetian had realized the danger of the spread of monks in his later years and killed many "eminent monks" with ill-thinking intentions. However, Buddhism had already formed a trend of being too big to lose, and its influence was difficult to remove from the court and local governments.
Now, the queen and princesses are like Wu Zetian, "respecting Buddha with sincerity", and they lack the extraordinary control that "Empress Zetian Great Sage". If a second Gao Tansheng appears at this moment and have accumulated strength for many years...
Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Zheng Kejun shivered and his hair was standing upside down.
"The five monks who led the way, their faces and skin were all waxy." Zhou Run's voice suddenly continued to come, very low, but it fell into Zheng Kejun's ears, like thunder. "So, my subordinates had already locked the two captured monks on the wall with iron chains. And forbidden anyone to send them food outside. If my subordinates judged correctly, they would inevitably become addicted within two days. At that time..."
"Not enough, far from enough! Go immediately and transfer them to the death row of the Baiqisi. Apart from our brothers, outsiders are not allowed to contact them again. Unless, unless the person comes with the permission of the Lord, He, He, He, the Minister of Justice, or the Minister of the Dali Temple, go quickly, go quickly!" Zheng Kejun pushed Zhou Run hard and interrupted quickly. His voice was hoarse and anxious, as if a ball of fire was burning violently in his throat!
"Zijuan, pour me a glass of water." The throat was dry as if it was on fire. Zhang Qian struggled to raise his head and whispered to the room outside.
No one answered his call, and was scared to death, and cried for the whole night. Zijuan must have fallen asleep due to excessive fatigue. Due to habit, no third person has moved in in the main room where she and Zhang Qian live.
"Zijuan, Zijuan..." He screamed softly again, but still received no response. Zhang Qian grinned with a wry smile and began to try to get out of bed and find water to drink.
A knife-like feeling came from the wound on his left leg. He lost his strength in an instant, fell heavily on the bed, gritting his teeth and sucking in the cold air.
It hurts, it really hurts. From the wound, along the tailbone, one jumps up to the top of the head.
The pain makes people sweat uncontrollably, and the muscles on their faces keep twitching.
But thankfully, the place where the feather arrow shot was on the outside of the left leg. If it was changed to the inside and then shifted half an inch, Zhang Qian probably would have been able to talk to the general Gao Yanfu, the sect general, to talk about the topic of inheriting this person's legacy.
"However, although Lao Gao is a eunuch, he has no strange smell on his body, and he is not sissy in his words and deeds." He deliberately compared Gao Yanfu's appearance when he was young with Thai specialties. Zhang Qian finally successfully diverted his attention away from the wound, and then lay on the bed in an extremely embarrassed position, waiting for the pain to feel numb.
To put it bluntly, this method is self-deception and may not have any effect. However, when he lacks safe painkillers and is unwilling to try to use aconitine to relieve pain, he is better than nothing.
Thinking of Sun Anzu's suggestion, Zhang Qian's mind quickly appeared in his mind. The old man came to help him clean up the wound with alcohol and sew it together. At the same time, his expression of laughter and crying also appeared on his face.
Mr. Sun is worthy of being born in a family of miraculous doctors. His spirit of exploring medical science is admirable. Within just a few months, he practiced the wound suture technique he learned from Zhang Qian in a superb way. He also invented several instruments such as arc needles, silk threads, and limb fixing racks without any knowledge, which increased the speed and quality of wound suturing several times.
However, the expression written on his face when Sun Laozi sewed the wound made Zhang Qian feel a little uncomfortable. Every time he recalled, Zhang Qian felt that Grandpa Sun treated his thighs as a pair of boots or a cloak.
The old man himself is an experienced tailor. Not only do he know how to weave holes in his boots or cloaks, he also knows how to embroider a flower or several mountains, rivers and rivers on the patched parts to cover up the fact that the "boots" were damaged and add a bit of artistic beauty to the damaged location.
"Forget it, do it yourself and have enough food and clothing!" After a few minutes, Zhang Qian felt that the stinging pain in the wound had weakened, and struggled to get out of bed again, dragged his numb left leg and went to find the teapot.
However, he grabbed the water cup and turned around half a circle around the room. He found that he had no idea where the teapot was placed. He couldn't help but lean his body against the table and smiled bitterly again.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. I am sincere and I will not deceive you! How many months have you been to the Tang Dynasty? Zhang is already used to being served by others. If Zijuan plays a little, he resigns...
He looked at the outer room with guilt, and with the help of the hazy light, he saw a thin and small bulge under the quilt on the opposite bed. In an instant, he felt much more at ease.
However, a familiar smell of alcohol quietly floated into his nostrils, causing his brow to frown tightly again.
The wound on the thigh was asked Sun Anzu to help clean it again in the afternoon. After cleaning and sewing, it was bandaged with clean gauze. According to principles, the smell of alcohol should not be so "new". But now, the smell of alcohol in the air has just evaporated, and it must be more than a quarter of an hour!
He deals with alcohol every day and has prepared many different degrees of white wine with natural flavors. Zhang Qian is very sensitive to the changes in the taste after the alcohol is evaporated. Zijuan cannot drink alcohol secretly, and it is even more impossible to drink chrysanthemums with better taste without drinking it, but to secretly drink 75 degrees of alcohol with sulfur added.
Pretending to be unaware, he continued to hold the cup with one hand and hold the table with the other hand, slowly moving his body toward the bedside. One, two, three, closer, and closer, hanging on the wall beside the bed, a sword specially used to decorate and ward off evil spirits was already within reach.
However, before he could stretch out his right hand, a voice he would never want to hear in his life had sounded behind him, "Don't draw the sword, you are not my opponent. What's more, you have a wound on your leg at this moment and are unable to move!"
"It's not what the Mo-speaker did when he went into the house in the middle of the night!" Zhang Qian responded disdainfully, but decided to give up. He turned around and sneered at the speaker.
The person who came was Luo Huaizu. Zhang Qian judged his identity when he heard the first word that this person said. The latter also knew that it was meaningless to continue hiding his head and tail, so he simply took off the mask on his face, carried the iron scale rod of the token of the Mo family, and bowed gently: "It is urgent to follow the power of the matter and stealing the house. Although it is contrary to the rules of the Mo family, in the world, except for the arsenal, military weapon supervisor and your family, Luo can't think of where else can he find the fourth portion of gunpowder!"
"Imperial Palace, Imperial Medical Office, Shuofang Army! There are many places with gunpowder." Zhang Qian used words to distract the other party's ideas, and quickly thought in his mind how to escape from the house before the other party hit him and call on servants to come to help.
"Those places are very cautious, I can't get in!" Luo Huaizu was a bachelor, and gently knocked down the table with a scale rod, responding in a low voice, "It's convenient for you, and you are also a child of the Mo family. I can use your things to be considered as communication between my classmates."
"Are you injured?" Zhang Qian keenly discovered that this person was always controlling the scale rod with his left hand, and smiled, and his confidence in escaping from the clutch increased greatly.
"I was shot in the back, but even with one hand, I can still beat you, the young man who has never killed anyone." Luo Huaizu obviously went to the assassination scene and saw Zhang Qian's expression clearly. He smiled and added with great confidence.
"How did you get hurt?" Zhang Qian pretended to be curious and asked in a low voice, while slowly accumulating strength for his right leg and right arm.
"The monk from Baima Temple has bullied your doorstep. You can tolerate it, but our Mo family cannot bully it like this." Luo Huaizu sneered and looked at him, answering concisely. "So, I took the time to go there and collected some interest by the way."
"Qin Mo and Qi Mo have been separated for more than a thousand years! And I want to take revenge and have my own way, and I don't need to rely on the help of others." Zhang Qian had long guessed that the massacre of the White Horse Temple must have nothing to do with Luo Huaizu, so he was not surprised. He continued to distract the other party with words, and usually planned the best escape plan in his mind.
If you throw a cup with your left hand, even if you fail to hit Luo Huaizu, you can still rush the person. Then you jump over the bed and roll towards the outer room. You can kick the door with your right leg.
With Luo Huaizu's appearance as a gentleman, he should not be able to take Zijuan as a hostage. As long as he can escape to the yard and shout a few times, the servants and the guys can come to rescue him. With the absolute advantage of the number of people, he can capture or drive away Luo Huaizu, an uninvited guest...
The plan was perfect, but unfortunately, before Zhang Qian could put the plan in his mind into implementation, Luo Huaizu had already raised the "scale rod" high and sealed the door tightly.
"It's too slow, and your method may not work!" After slowly crossing the door, the man sneered and shook his head: "Senior Brother Zhang, I advise you not to waste your time, it's definitely not worth the loss! At this moment, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at your house. In the middle of the night, I suddenly appeared in your house, and we both were the same family. If I was caught by the government because of the family extermination case, you said that this case has nothing to do with you, who dares to believe it?!"
Chapter completed!