In the culvert, it was pitch dark, and Su Ping carefully lit the torch.
The pungent stench penetrated directly into Tianling Gai. If I hadn't thrown two fire cloth strips in advance to test, I was afraid that the torch in my hand would ignite the marsh gas in the culvert.
Only by jumping into this culvert did we know that there was still flowing wind in it. It should be the role of the open channels at both ends of the culvert.
It was already the night of the second day when Su Ping fully figured out the direction of Daoguangfang's sewerage and the layout of Prince Qi's Mansion.
He did a lot of things that day. First, he forged documents from the Ministry of Justice and conducted a so-called "security inspection" in Daoguangfang. He led the department to explore the entrances and exits of Daoguangfang's crisscrossing waterways, and silently drew a map in his mind.
Compare it with Lao Li's map and it's absolutely correct.
Luoyang in the Liang Dynasty learned the lesson from Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and did not set up so many open channels, otherwise it would make the city stink.
Some of these culverts are made of stones, some are made of blue bricks, and some are laid with ceramic pipes. Some culverts are blocked. It seems that the dredging three years ago was not thorough, and it also confirms that Li Zhengfu
statement.
Through Li Zhengfu, we learned that the widest channel in the culvert was exactly where Su Ping was at this time.
To be honest, when Su Ping jumped into this dirty culvert, he regretted it. The smell here could be described as a super cesspool.
If it's just the smell, it's not something to be afraid of. Sometimes when you step into a deep pit, half of your body sinks into the excrement water. If you want to get out, you need your hands to borrow strength. When you pull out your hands, you can occasionally see
White bugs crawling on the hand.
The strong feeling of vomiting made Su Ping's face turn red and the veins on his forehead bulged. But Su Ping still walked forward.
The purpose of his trip was not to assassinate the Crown Prince of Qi, but to find out the escape route first.
But what Su Ping never expected was that not long after he jumped into the culvert, three more people jumped in. They followed Su Ping's footsteps.
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"Boss, why did this kid get into the culvert?" In the dark night, Lao Liu said with a pair of bitch eyes.
"If he jumps in, it will be easier for us to take action." Zhang Fakui, known as the boss, narrowed his eyes and said.
Cao Huali, the Minister of Rites, did not know anyone from the Jianghu family. He only knew Xiaofei of the Han family, the young master of the Han family who colluded with gangsters and established a gang in Beishi City.
The reason why Han Fei was able to create a famous life was not only because of his family's deep connections, but also because he handled things in a disciplined manner and never betrayed the people who came to him for work. This is what people like Cao Huali value.
The three people following Su Ping were sent by Han Fei. They had daggers hidden in their waists, and one of them also had a folding crossbow hidden in his arms. This is a crossbow worn by bad people, and for some reason it fell.
into their hands.
The so-called jumping in means to jump into the open channel first and then swim upstream. They didn't know what Su Ping was going to do. They followed him all the way from Qinghuafang.
At first, they thought of waiting until midnight and breaking into the backyard of the superintendent's office. But if they did that, it would be easy to cause trouble. There were also people patrolling at night in Qinghuafang. If they heard them, it would be a problem.
The first thing a killer considers is not how to kill the opponent quickly, but how to escape. If they can't escape, they won't take action no matter how good the opportunity is. After all, their purpose of taking risks to make money is not to die, but to live a better life.
People who have to complete their mission regardless of life or death should be called "dead soldiers".
Later, they saw Su Ping, wearing a set of coarse cloth clothes, walking out of the back door. They followed him all the way to the outside of Daoguangfang, where they saw Su Ping jump into a ditch.
"Brother, it's too smelly here." Lao Liu covered his nose and said, "I don't think we need to follow him, he will be suffocated in there soon."
Zhang Fakui half-turned around and slapped Lao Liu on the head: "You talk a lot of nonsense. Look at Xiao Wu, he doesn't talk as much nonsense as you do! If you keep blabbering, nothing will happen to you in the future.
I won’t take you with me!”
Lao Liu turned to look at Lao Wu. Lao Wu was choked by the stench and couldn't open his eyes. He was holding on to the slippery canal wall and was struggling to move forward.
"Lao Liu, where is your Huozhezi?"
"Isn't that man holding a torch? Do we still need to light the torch?"
"Are you him..."
"Okay, don't stare, I'll just do it."
The three of them did not prepare torches, but Su Ping's torch could illuminate both the front and rear directions, and in this almost completely enclosed underground waterway, it could really illuminate a long distance.
The three of them tried their best not to make any noise, and wanted to go deeper before taking action. Because at that time, even if Su Ping broke his throat, no one outside would hear him.
…
Su Ping held a torch with one hand and walked hard. Finally, he waded through the muddiest section of the road, and then a waterfall of water appeared in front of him, steam was rising, and waves of heat hit his face.
I really don’t know why there is so much water here. Maybe there is a bathhouse above the head?
Although it was other people's dirty water after bathing, for Su Ping at this time, it was already the cleanest water. And the silt here was washed thin by the rushing water, and it felt like his feet could directly step on the stones of the culvert.
Quality ground.
The fierce sound of falling water covered up the sound of the three people wading in the excrement water behind him. Su Ping was still thinking about how to rush through the water curtain without extinguishing the torch. Inadvertently, he turned his head and saw three figures.
, followed staggeringly.
Su Ping's first feeling was that his actions were discovered by Jin Wuwei.
Su Ping was not worried about being discovered by the Jinwu Guards, because he had the Ministry of Punishment waist badge, official documents, and a silverbait bag given by the emperor. With these three things, Su Ping could enter Daoguangfang directly, and there was no need to enter through the underpass. So he was right
Jinwuwei explained that he was performing official duties and inspecting waterway safety hazards. Jinwuwei would not suspect anything.
The three people continued to walk forward, and when they were still about ten steps away, Su Ping felt something was wrong.
One of them couldn't bear his temper and had already pulled out his short knife. Another person was holding something unknown in his hand and was swinging it hard. It looked like a fire break, but for some unknown reason, his fire break seemed to be ineffective and he was swinging it.
Many times, no response at all.
Su Ping snorted coldly in his heart: This Zhao Lian really has to kill me.
But in a flash, Su Ping thought about the major corruption case he was currently handling, and that he had offended many people. Could these three killers be related to the corruption case?
As he got closer, one of the three people on the opposite side took out a crossbow from his arms and drew the bow and loaded the arrow with skill. But before he could lift the crossbow, the fire suddenly disappeared.
Su Ping inserted the torch into the sewage, and the fire went out instantly. The sudden darkness after the light made people feel like they were blind and could not see anything.
Zhang Fakui was holding the crossbow and was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to reach out and touch the fire stick, he heard two "bang bangs" in his ears, and then heard the sound of Lao Wu and Lao Liu falling. At the same time, a hand
He grabbed his neck from behind.
The hand was like an iron pincer, unable to break free at all. Zhang Fakui instinctively turned the crossbow machine toward the back and hooked the hanging knife. But when the arrow was launched, there was only a "whoosh" sound, and the arrow flew away.
It seemed that the crossbow did not hit the target, and at this time the crossbow had been grabbed by the person who strangled his neck. The hand grabbing his neck was harder, and Zhang Fakui heard a "bang" sound from the joints of his neck.
"Hero, spare your life!"
"Who asked you to kill me?" Su Ping pinched the back of Zhang Fakui's neck with one hand and held the crossbow with the other. He pressed hard and Zhang Fakui knelt in the mud of feces and water.
Zhang Fakui struggled to say: "If I tell you, can a good man not kill me?"
Su Ping said: "Okay."
Zhang Fakui said: "Hero, just saying the word 'yes' is really child's play. Only if you swear an oath, a poisonous oath, can I believe you. Otherwise, you'd better kill me. I'll die on either side."
Killing these three losers means nothing to Su Ping.
Later, Su Ping learned from Zhang Fakui that the person who hired them was named Han Fei. And Han Fei was from the Han family in Lushunfang.
Su Ping was very confused, what was his relationship with the Han family?
The only contact was that Su Ping discovered the bodies of the Han family and sent them to the office, for which Han Dafu even sent a reward.
Could it be that the Han family was playing double-dealing, asking Han Dafu to give away money while taking revenge? But the problem is, this is illogical.
It seems that there must be something else hidden.
"Let's go out and talk."
Su Ping did not kill him, and Lao Wu and Lao Liu were also very lucky. If Su Ping kept talking for a while, the two of them would drown in the excrement water.
Su Ping confiscated their weapons, tied the three of their hands behind their backs, and trudged out of the culvert. This time, they were bumped into by the Jinwu Guards. A group of armored soldiers quickly surrounded them, pointing their spears and daggers at the four Su Pings.
.
Su Ping took out his waistband and said that he had arrested three people holding controlled knives in the culvert.
Captain Jinwu Guardsman Sanfu looked Su Ping up and down and praised: "There are talented people in the Criminal Department. You can actually get into this culvert to arrest people. You are really a man."
With the help of Jin Wuwei, the smelly Su Ping walked to the nearest bathhouse. The owner of the bathhouse was very embarrassed when he saw that Su Ping was covered in feces and water. He just said, "Please don't come in, otherwise other guests will be fucked by you."
Get out.
Su Ping said, I won't embarrass you, just prepare a few buckets of warm water for me, rinse it, and I'll leave. The shopkeeper quickly called the waiter and helped Su Ping rinse it briefly.
But Zhang Fakui and the other three were not so lucky. They were taken to the Ministry of Punishment by Su Ping, covered in excrement and sludge.
In the middle of the night, the officials who were sitting in court had already gone to sleep in the small room. They would not get up if this was not an urgent case. Su Ping was not in a hurry and just threw Zhang Fakui and the others into the dungeon to wait for the trial tomorrow.