Chapter 150 Who gave the poison?
After a thrilling game with the wind and waves, the ship finally arrived at Pengcheng.
When they got off the boat, a group of cavalry rushed towards them. When they got closer, they saw that they were Gao Changgong's bodyguards who had divided their troops into two groups before.
"Prince, we have been waiting here for a long time!"
The leaders, Zhao Wu and Yang Zhi, jumped off their horses and bowed their hands to Gao Changgong.
"Are the prince and princess okay?"
The two men raised their heads with concern in their eyes. Suddenly they saw the injured Nie Yinniang and a group of assassins dressed as trackers, and they immediately pointed their sharp blades at these people.
"Who are you?" Zhao Wu asked sharply.
Zhao Wu was originally the assassin of Governor Hu of Luoyang, and had been ordered to assassinate Gao Changgong many times before. Later, while delivering a letter to Governor Hu's cousin Hu Guojiu, he learned that they were secretly colluding with the enemy to frame Gao Changgong in the future. At the time of Gong, Zhao Wu turned to the dark side and helped Gao Changgong to annihilate the shooters and ambushes who assassinated him.
After that, Gao Changgong took Zhao Wu under his command.
Therefore, Zhao Wu had an extremely keen intuition about the identity of the assassin.
Similarly, Nie Yinniang also felt the same murderous aura from Zhao Wu.
After seeing these imposing black armor soldiers, Nie Yinniang's momentum quickly weakened, and she knelt down with the assassins behind her.
"We are willing to serve the king and the princess from now on!" Nie Yinniang said, and at the same time took out a secret letter and a brocade bag from her waist and handed it to Xiao Jinyu, "To show her sincerity, Yinniang is willing to give all the princes The antidote to the poison and the secret message from my employer are presented to the princess!"
Xiao Jinyu was about to pick it up when Phoenix snatched it away like lightning. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the envelope and the bag, he handed it to Xiao Jinyu.
Xiao Jinyu opened the letter and read it, and saw only one sentence written on it: Lu Lianghong of Pengcheng will be rewarded one hundred thousand yuan for killing King Lanling and the woman next to him. If it is done, Fengxianju in Pengcheng will come to collect the reward!
“The letter came from Yebei City of Qi State. My employer did not tell me his name, but it is not difficult to guess that the person who has enmity with His Royal Highness Prince Lanling must be someone from the Northern Qi court. This... is All the information I can get.”
"Pengcheng Fengxianju?" Phoenix narrowed his eyes curiously.
Gao Changgong's expression also changed slightly.
When he first met Xiao Jinyu, it was an assassination attempt by Fengxianju. Could it be that Fengxianju...
"It can be regarded as a hidden stronghold of our employer, and the people inside are all trained by the man from Tongque Palace in Yecheng."
"Did you prepare the poison that was given to the Xiao family before?" Xiao Jinyu asked instead.
Nie Yinniang suddenly felt like she was breaking out in a cold sweat, but as a qualified assassin, her ability to remain calm was a skill she had learned from breaking out on the hunting ground.
"No, Yin Niang only knows how to assassinate, not how to prepare medicines. These medicines are all given by her employer!"
"How long have you maintained such contact with her?" Xiao Jinyu asked again.
"It's been twelve years!"
"Then you are very loyal to her!"
Xiao Jinyu sighed with emotion, a charlatan assassin has maintained a relationship with an employer for twelve years. If he is not loyal to this employer, then there is some reason why he has to maintain this relationship.
"Princess, Yin Niang is an assassin, and the group of assassins raised by Yin Niang all need to eat. That employer is willing to spend money. Of course we must always maintain this kind of contact!"
"So how much does she give each of the men of the Xiao family?" Xiao Jinyu asked again.
Faced with this question, Nie Yinniang felt as if she had fallen into an ice furnace. It was not that she was afraid of the princess, but that her conscience had been tormenting her for many years, and she did not want to mention it again.
"Fifty thousand dollars per person!" She murmured for a moment and then replied, "Oh no, it's fifty thousand dollars for a bottle of poison!"
"Fifty thousand yuan per person?" Xiao Jinyu couldn't help but sneered, with a twinge in his eyes, "You can indeed afford the price!"
"However, I did not kill the men of the Xiao family. I just gave Princess Yunyin a few bottles of poison and how to use the poison as my employer said!" Nie Yinniang explained again. "You didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of you. Is there any difference?"
Xiao Jinyu sternly scolded, then calmed down, and said loudly: "Now the Cizhou Kiln in Xuzhou belongs to the prince and me. I can not only make it make a fortune every day, but also make the porcelain produced here famous all over the world! By then the wealth we will have is beyond your imagination.
Therefore, what we can give you is beyond your imagination!
Nie Yinniang, if you really want to show your loyalty, then go to Fengxianju with two heads. Not only will you get your employer's 100,000 yuan, but we will also uproot this stronghold! "
What an arrogant tone!
Nie Yinniang couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Such a delicate little lady who looked like a heavenly being was really unambiguous in her bold words, and she was also inexplicably a bit overwhelming!
The assassins behind her were even more surprised. They originally came to assassinate King Lanling without Nie Yinniang telling the truth. These assassins were a little reluctant, but now they heard these heroic words, which made them even more excited.
"Yes, Princess Yin, we are all willing to show our loyalty in this way!"
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When Nie Yinniang came to Fengxianju with two packages stained red by blood, Fengxianju was still full of guests. The guests who were eating drinks and talking and laughing suddenly saw a woman carrying a package with two drops of blood. When they came, everyone was so frightened that they dispersed and quickly fled the wine shop.
Only the shopkeeper and the waiter in the first shop changed their expressions.
The waiter ran over quickly and asked, "Sir, what do you want to order?"
"Money, 100,000 yuan!" Nie Yinniang raised her head and smiled very charmingly, and at the same time placed the bloody package in her hand on the table, "Ask your master to give 100,000 yuan in exchange!"
The waiter and the shopkeeper looked at each other, and their expressions changed.
The shopkeeper came over and said with a smile: "Madam, can you open the package first and let us check it out?"
Nie Yinniang looked at him again and smiled, then threw the package directly at the shopkeeper's face. The shopkeeper had quick eyes and quick hands and hurriedly dodged. The package hit the opposite wall. It turned out to be a pile of red plaster-like things. Spray all over.
Following her throw, Nie Yinniang's sword stretched out like a snake, pointing straight at the shopkeeper. Seeing something bad, the shopkeeper immediately lifted the table to block it, and at the same time jumped to a corner and took an ax with it. Nie Yinniang started fighting.
"Nie Yinniang, what are you doing? Do you want to betray the master?" shouted the shopkeeper.
"Oh, what is betrayal? The master didn't even tell us her name, so she asked us to work for her. How could she ever trust us? Since there has never been trust, there is no betrayal!"
"And when did she fulfill her promise to me? I'm afraid that even the hundred thousand dollars was coaxed from me, right?"
"If I really kill King Lanling and his princess, will she take the blame with my head and pay for the lives of these two people?"
While asking, the sword light had picked out countless rays of light and smashed the tables and chairs in the wine shop to pieces!
After a few moves, the shopkeeper was unable to hide. He was so horrified that he couldn't help but shout loudly and called out all the other strong men hiding in the wine shop.
Among these people, there were about twenty Xianbei Hu people and Han Chinese, and they quickly surrounded Nie Yinniang. At the same time, all the assassins who were waiting outside the wine shop to come with Nie Yinniang also poured in.
A fight broke out in the wine shop, with swords and swords flashing and blood and flesh flying everywhere!
At the back of the wine shop, there was a pair of eyes observing everything happening inside through the curtain. But when he was looking at it, another sword silently pressed on his neck. .
This was a man in his mid-twenties, with a life-threatening sword suddenly stretched out from behind him. The man was so frightened that he quickly raised his hands and begged for mercy:
"This knight has something to say. Put down your sword first, okay?"
"Turn around!" the person behind him said coldly.
Note: When the Dali Temple was first built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was also a review agency created by Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang in order to prevent too many unjust cases and wrongful convictions caused by the excessive power of the local judicial organs at that time.
(End of this chapter)