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Chapter 15 Character Relationships in Martial Arts Novels No. 14: Cicada, Praying Mantis and Oriole

Short Stories by Ni Kuang 倪匡 1803Words 2023-02-05
The Eternal Security Bureau, which claims to be invincible, has disappeared.In less than half a month, this matter has been known to the whole world. Even if the news is spread at a speed of 800 miles, it will not spread so fast. People's mouths can spread news faster than horseshoes. too much! The Escort Bureau of Yongbao abided by the promise when it opened: if you miss a bodyguard once, you will immediately withdraw from the arena and close the business of the bodyguard bureau.In fact, even if you don’t keep your promise, if you miss the first time, there will be a second time. Who will come to the door to protect the rare treasures?Secondly, the lost ones are not only priceless, but also the tributes paid by the vassal kings to the emperor. They can’t afford to pay even if they go bankrupt, and they have to deal with the government’s interrogation, so they just run away. Anyway, the world is big, and there are plenty of hiding places. , not afraid of being hunted down by the government.

One dragon and three tigers went to the place where the accident happened. After seeing it, they were extremely puzzled. The three tigers who escorted the guards, the two guards, and the four companions all died on the trail. The knife wounds on the chests of the six people were all Passing across the chest, without exception, it can be seen at a glance that it was caused by Sanhu's ghost-headed knife, and it must have used the move of crossing the sun and the moon. Why did the three tigers kill their own people?He killed his own people, and who killed him? Sanhu's body was lying down, and at first no wounds could be found. It was not until he took off his shirt that he saw a very deep hole on the back, aimed at his heart. There was not much bleeding. went in, pierced the heart, and was fatal.

What kind of unique weapon is that, I have never heard of it, and the three tigers are all martial arts, and they are inaccessible to more than a hundred people, so how can they be stabbed to death so easily with steel needles? What's even more strange is that the three tigers obviously died suddenly after being shot, so they still kept the expression they had just before death, which was extremely joyful and happy, and it definitely didn't look like something bad happened! There are many doubts, Yilong is an old Jianghu, and immediately thought that there was something suspicious about the beauty in the provincial capital, but the four father and son, with the heart of revenge, lay in ambush outside the Lixiang courtyard in the provincial capital for half a year. There was no special discovery, only day and night, there were many princes and grandsons who came to visit. After half a year, they had to leave.

Until a year later, in the early hours of the morning, a corner door of Lixiangyuan opened, and a slim figure with a black scarf wrapped around his head flashed out and disappeared in the darkness. There was no one, and she didn't meet anyone. She walked around for three miles, stopped in front of an inconspicuous house, grabbed the steel ring on the door, and pulled it out three times. Let go. After waiting for a while, the door opened about a foot away, and it was dark inside and out. The man stepped in and came to a study room with quaint furnishings. There, it was a completely different scene. Thick curtains, so no light leaks out.

Half lying on a concubine's couch was a big fat man with a big belly and bare upper body, behind him were two big boxes of ice, two young and beautiful maidservants were fanning the ice box to get the cooling fan out, and two other A beautiful maid, knocked on the fat man, the fat man squinted, looking at the person who came, and the visitor shook his head scarf, although the eyebrows were lightly swept, but the brilliance was overwhelming, the four beautiful maids were able to see it, at this time, it was simply It became dross. The fat man's eyes narrowed into a slit, and the beauty shook out a small cloth bag, and the room was full of light, making the fat man's flesh tremble, and he covered his eyes with his backhand, and grunted: "Yong Bao Bao!" Bureau's lapse?

The beauty nodded. The fat man shook his head: According to the theory, each of these things is worth 10,000 taels of gold! The beauty said in a deep voice: I don't want so many, three thousand taels of gold is enough! The fat man still shook his head: There are a total of eighty-one. You give it to me, and I don’t want it. No one dares to take it. It’s too hot. Whoever takes it out will die. Tiger, although I don't know where it is now, but no one can provoke it! The beauty raised her eyebrows: It's been a year, is it still hot?Not cold enough? The fat man's fat fingers stretched and flexed: ten years is not enough, fifty years will be almost enough!You can stay for fifty years, even if you stay for fifty years, what is the use of you?At that time, people were about to die, perhaps, they had already died!

The beauty's seductive lips trembled a few times, and she wanted to say something, but she didn't say it.The fat man was very sympathetic: It is the most fair thing for me to collect the stolen goods. Everyone in the world knows that if it takes three to five years to get rid of it, I will take it too. It is really useless, it is trash! The beauty showed a self-deprecating smile, and then wrapped up those shining diamonds, and the fat man said again: Don't open it often, there are eyes in the partition, if you pass it on, your bones will be gone, um three Tiger himself robbed his own body, and for you, you killed him again, and then took his body back to where he killed it, right?

The beauty pursed her lips, without any indication, carrying the cloth bag and wrapping her turban, and walked out, looking at the beauty's back, the fat man sighed: Be careful, it's not worth losing your life for trash! The beauty went out, the fat man listened intently, suddenly, he jumped up unexpectedly quickly and rushed out of the room.The beauty left the house and walked in the alley. When she was about to exit the alley, she stopped for a while, threw the cloth bag in her hand into the weeds at the foot of the wall, and walked out of the alley at a faster pace. The fat man jumped off the wall of the house, his movements became more vigorous, and he rushed towards the weeds at the foot of the wall!

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