This Song Dynasty is different

Chapter 28 Northwest Swordsman

This poem was passed to the palace by the people accompanying him.

"This person is aloof and arrogant." Concubine Yang, who had been taking care of Zhao Zhen's daily life, had nothing to do and was drinking tea at the Queen Mother's place.

On the table, there are a few apricot flowers in a vase.The petals are white with a blush, which is quite touching.

What the Queen Mother drank was wine. She poured it for herself and said calmly: "After boarding the ship, I deliberately let him and the officials see those people. I just wanted them to know that the world is not as big as Bianjing. The local wealthy families Once we join forces, I have to weigh it again and again."

"The Queen Mother is trying to promote a marriage?" Yang Taifei covered her mouth and snickered.

"Of course it is impossible for an official to marry a girl from their family, otherwise the big tail will not be lost. However, Li Guoan can act as a representative to ease the relationship between the two parties, and wait until the official takes charge of the government, and then slowly pursue it."

"This is a mature way to build a country." Concubine Yang most admired the Queen Mother's skill.

"It's a pity that boy didn't bother to do this, and even wrote a poem to ridicule those people."

"I'm afraid they will become angry." Concubine Yang said worriedly.

"I'm here, what do they want to do, they have to get past this first!" The Queen Mother raised her glass proudly.

……

Wang He found an abandoned hatchet during the reverse journey, found a stone, filled a basin of water, and sharpened the knife in his room.

Sharpening a knife is an essential quality for a swordsman. If you sharpen it too much, the blade will become soft and it will chip after cutting into bones or armor.If it is too blunt, it will not be able to break through the armor, or it will be blocked by bones.

From the age of five, his father taught him how to sharpen a knife before teaching him how to use it.

——Knife sharpening is also a way to familiarize yourself with the properties of the knife.

After sharpening, you will become familiar with the nature of the knife, that is, the center of gravity, etc., and then you will get twice the result with half the effort if you practice the knife again.

He was born in the northwest, and his father was Wang An, a famous horse bandit leader in the northwest. He led a group of brothers under his command to run rampant in the territory of the Li family in Dangxiang.

Wang An had high expectations for his son. He began to teach him swordsmanship and archery when he was five years old. When he was ten years old, he took him to rob a tribe in Dangxiang and let him kill someone for the first time.

Everything was perfect. When Wang He was 13 years old, the party members were so stimulated by Wang An and the gang of horse thieves that they couldn't bear it, so they set up a trap to kill him.

Wang An desperately tried to break open his mouth and ordered his confidants to take Wang He away. He led his subordinates to cut off the rear and killed three party generals and more than [-] sergeants. In the end, he was killed by thousands of arrows.

On the way to escape, two of the three confidants died. One of them wanted to kill Wang He in the middle of the night and join the gangster Xiang. Little did he know that Wang An had taught his son to be more cunning than a fox since he was a child, so he was killed instead.

Wang He returned home, found some of his father's clothes and buried them, and then disappeared into the vast grassland alone.A few years later, a swordsman named Wang He gradually became famous.

He accepted bounties to kill people, or escorted nobles to and from dangerous areas. He did this for almost ten years, and the Li family became more and more powerful.

After sacrificing his father for the last time, Wang He decided to assassinate Li Deming, the king of the party.He quietly sneaked into the royal court, remained motionless in a messy pile of firewood, and stayed there for a whole day. He killed five guards in the middle of the night, broke into Li Deming's bedroom, and killed the man with one knife.But when he ran away, he saw Li Deming.

All heroes are very concerned about their own behavior.This was the case for Li Deming. He seemed to be staying in that bedroom, but in fact, after entering, he quietly went to another place through a secret passage.

This time, the party members vowed to chase the assassin to the end of the world. Wang He fled all the way, suffering many injuries.Even after escaping into the Song Dynasty, there were still party spies chasing him.

He had no choice but to flee to Bianjing.

After entering the capital of the Song Dynasty, the Imperial City Secretary also had more eyes.There were too many Dangxiang spies, which triggered the reaction mechanism of the Imperial City Division. The two sides fought fiercely, and the Dangxiang spies were defeated and escaped.

Wang He fled into Bianjing City. The injuries on his body gradually improved, but the injury on his calf, which was inconspicuous at first, became more serious.

Wang He thought that he would die. Looking back on his short life, he found that even if he didn't kill people, he was still killing people.

He didn't regret it, he just regretted not being able to kill Li Mingde to avenge his father.

Regret spurred his will, and he swore that if anyone could save him, he would definitely take that person as his master.

But no one in Bianjing was interested in a smelly beggar.

Until Li Guoan appeared.

A northwest swordsman must keep his word. Wang He sharpened his knife and limped out of the inn.

He walked along Yujie towards Jinmingchi.

Inside Shuntianmen, he saw the two men he had seen in the morning.

The two squatted on both sides of Shuntianmen, sitting opposite each other.

As a swordsman, Wang He only took one look and knew that the thing exposed in the backpacks carried by the two men was the handle of the knife.

He had used many methods to cover up the handle of the knife, but the methods of these two people were like child's play in his eyes.

The two glanced at Wang He, and one of them sneered, "Damn lame!"

Wang He leaned against the city wall, seemingly resting.

"I have seen Hou Ye!"

At some point, Li Xian came back.

"You go back first, remember, if the Queen Mother asks, you can tell those women that they don't like me!"

"There are numbers."

Zhao Zhen was surrounded by people and left.

Li Xian turned back and glanced in the direction of Jinmingchi before riding into the city.

The two men looked at each other.

Get up slowly.

Li Xian was thinking about the current situation.

There is no doubt that Zhao Zhen is still too young and has too little experience to be a match against those old foxes.

It still needs to be sharpened.

Li Xian thought that Zhao Zhen was only 14 years old and it was still too late for everything.

Suddenly, the knife light flickered.

Before Li Xian could react, he saw a man pull out a knife from his backpack and rush towards him with a sinister smile.

He subconsciously rode his horse to the right.

But the man on the right didn't know when he was holding a long knife, and instead of retreating, he advanced.

This is an assassination!

The horse was frightened at the critical moment and stood upright.

Li Xian tried his best to clamp the horse's belly with his legs, but the sword was close to him.His heart was cold and he regretted rejecting the guards arranged by Zhao Zhen earlier.

He didn't like being stared at. Even if he knew those people were kind to him, Li Xian felt particularly uncomfortable whenever he thought that their master was someone else.

Now, he regrets it.

"kill!"

The light of the sword passed by like a flying sword.

Li Xian even saw the assassin's proud eyes.

Seeing the long sword approaching, the assassin suddenly stiffened, his hand loosened, the long sword fell to the ground, and then he collapsed.

The other assassin roared and slashed with his long knife to his right side.

With a clang, the long knife was blocked by a hatchet, and then the hatchet slid down along the blade of the long knife. Sparks flew everywhere and picked up on the guard of the handle.

The assassin was shocked, dropped his sword, and wanted to retreat.

But the hatchet flew past his throat like lightning.

There was a flash of blood, and the man who took action turned around and knelt down.

"Wang He, I have met the Marquis!"

……

The assassination in front of Shuntian Gate lasted only a moment. Before the soldiers guarding the city could react, the two assassins were already dead.

A big man knelt in front of Marquis Dingyuan, looking particularly pious.

"You are..." Li Xian saved Wang He that day and didn't take it to heart at all.In addition, Wang He combed his beard and hair, changed his clothes, and no longer looked like a beggar, so he didn't recognize him.

"Thanks to the Lord Marquis for saving me yesterday, I am very grateful." Wang He raised his head.

"Is it you?" Li Xian never expected that the beggar would be the one who saved him.

The news of the assassination of Marquis Dingyuan made the Queen Mother smash her wine glass, and the officials who had just returned to the palace were furious.

All the experts from the Imperial City Department were dispatched, and the sergeants from the Inspection Department pulled out the rats in Bianjing City from their lairs and pressed for information one by one.

As soon as the men returned to their residence, they were called again.

This time, I went to the Imperial City Division.

"Who ordered the assassination of Marquis Dingyuan?" The people from the Imperial City Division had a cold face.

"Assassinate Marquis Dingyuan?"

Several men looked at each other.

"It's not them." The Queen Mother calmed down and said, "Unless the fish is dead and the net is broken, or Dingyuan Marquis has serious trouble for them, they will not take risks."

"Queen Mother, Marquis Dingyuan is here."

"Call him in!"

The Queen Mother raised her eyes and saw the Marquis Dingyuan coming in with all his beard and tail, and felt inexplicably relieved.

"Who do you think it could be?" asked the Queen Mother.

"I don't know either."

Li Xian felt that those men from wealthy families were not that good, so they might be a group of people who were dissatisfied with the official family.

They don't dare to assassinate the official, so how about killing one of the official's confidants?
Presumably, he will be heartbroken!

"Check!" The Queen Mother sneered, "What I despise the most is this kind of assassination method. When the late emperor was here, he was assassinated more than ten times. The origin of the assassins is unknown. However, in the past ten years, those assassins have disappeared."

In the past ten years or so, the late emperor's actions can be called retrograde!
Li Xian had some inexplicable guesses in his mind, feeling that those assassins seemed more happy to see the Song Dynasty destroyed.

"Where is the person who saved you?" the Queen Mother suddenly asked warmly.

"Just outside the palace city." Wang He followed Li Xian all the way. He didn't say what he was going to do, but looking at his posture, it was clear that he was not leaving.

"I have prepared some guards for you." The Queen Mother knew that the official family could not bear the consequences of losing Li Xian.

"Queen Mother, I..." Li Xian didn't want to have more spies in the family, so he thought, "That person is willing to be my guard."

"How can a wild man defeat the palace guards?" the Queen Mother said coldly.

"That man has good swordsmanship."

"is it?"

The Queen Mother waved her hand, "Xiao Chen, go and try."

A guard came out and said, "I will go now. It's just the Marquis, if I accidentally hurt that person..."

Li Xian thought for a moment and said, "No."

Ha ha!

The guard smiled and said, "I will keep my hand, Lord Marquis, don't worry."

The queen mother smiled.

Then he lowered his head to read the memorial.

Not long after, a chamberlain came to report.

"The Queen Mother."

"Where is Colonel Chen? But the attack was too harsh?" The Queen Mother did not see the guard Chen Xiao, thinking that he was too harsh and hurt the man who rescued Li Xian, so she was too embarrassed to come to see him.

"Being carried away."

"Who was carried away?"

"College Chen!"

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