aircannonsinc Chapter 775: Reward on Jianghu Ranking
Chapter 775: Reward on Jianghu Ranking
"Those people really did everything they could to the extreme. They even hired gangsters to assassinate us. But they just sit back and wait, offering a reward!"
Li Dongsheng sneered. He didn't expect that there were three groups of people inside.
"They are just a mob!" Fang Zhongyi shook his head and swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth.
"Your skills are really not that great? Are there only people like this in the martial arts world?" Qin Yandong found it unbelievable. Could these people defeat them?
"The martial arts world has its own rules, and generally they will not interfere with the affairs of the imperial court. These people who covet the bounty should all be notorious in the martial arts world. They want to do something to get rid of their erratic lives."
Fang Zhongyi understood it quite well. He stuffed the last bite of steamed bun into his stomach and walked over.
He first took the rags out of the mouths of two of them. These two were the guards of the merchant. Jiang Youzhen said that they had shifty eyes, and now it looked like that, wasn't it? Even if they were martial artists, they were still inconspicuous characters.
"Please spare us, my dear men! We two brothers just want to steal your money. How can we know whether there is a reward or not?"
"Yes! Yes! Please let us go, my dears. Don't bother with us. Just treat us two brothers as nothing!"
The two of them rushed to beg for mercy, looking like they had no heroic spirit at all.
"Oh? You just want our travel expenses?" Jiang Youzhen walked up to the two of them, then motioned Qinglang to come over.
Qing Lang immediately pulled out a piece of paper from his bosom and spread it out, "Then why is there a portrait of my young master? Do you have to look at the person before you rob?"
The two men's faces suddenly changed, and one of them stammered, "Don't be upset, man, we'll tell you everything!"
"In fact, my two brothers already had a bad reputation in the martial arts world, and we were a little bit down. Someone happened to offer a reward, saying that as long as we kill the person in the portrait, we will be given 1,000 taels, so we brothers were tempted."
Jiang Youzhen curled her lips when she heard this. After all, the Jin Province still offered a reward of 10,000 taels! Jiangnan is a rich place, so why are those people so stingy? Or do they just ignore her?
"Since you all know our whereabouts, then others must know it too. As far as you know, who else has taken this order?" Qin Yandong shouted.
"From what I know, there is... a living devil who kills without blinking an eye. This person has a perverse and cruel temperament. He threatened that he would retire as long as he got the bounty, because he has offended many people and everyone wants him dead."
"What are his characteristics?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
"I don't know. He always wears a bamboo hat, but he is very tall and strong. His weapon is a big sword. The blade is very sharp. People call him the fastest swordsman."
"What else?" Li Dongsheng became interested. He was bragging so well, but he didn't know how good he was.
"There is also Lady Hong, who always wears a mask and never shows her true face. She looks weak, but she is best at using hidden weapons, poisonous ones at that. She carries a soft sword with her."
Jiang Youzhen didn't expect to have an unexpected gain. These two people knew a lot about the affairs of the martial arts world.
"Go on!" Qin Yandong scolded.
"My dear friends, this is all we brothers know. We are just small fry, and those famous people in the underworld will not greet us. Most of them participate quietly, for fear of being known by others, and very few of them are high-profile."
Jiang Youzhen thought it made sense. If she was eyeing the bounty, she would definitely act secretly to avoid being discovered and accused of breaking the rules of the underworld.
"Do you know who posted the reward?" Li Dongsheng continued to ask.
The two shook their heads. "We have a list in the martial arts world, where bounties are updated from time to time. We just saw it and copied the portrait."
"The Jianghu doesn't interfere with the affairs of the imperial court. The bounty missions on the Jianghu list are strictly screened, and it is impossible for people from the imperial court to appear. Basically, such missions will only appear in the ghost market. Why did you see it?"
Fang Zhongyi squatted down and looked at the two of them.
"This? We don't know this! How can we know?" Only then did they realize that the people in front of them were actually government officials?
"You are assassinating an official appointed by the imperial court. Are you going against the imperial court? Are you planning to rebel?" Fang Zhongyi shouted.
The two were so scared that they begged for mercy, "Please spare us, gentlemen. We really didn't know! We were just following the reward on the martial arts list. How could we know that you were from the government?"
Fang Zhongyi covered their mouths again and looked at the waiter and the postmaster.
"Where is Postmaster Pan Yi now?"
The two were relatively calm. They raised their eyelids and glanced at Fang Zhongyi, "Kill him!"
"Then who are you?" Li Dongsheng asked.
"We are not gangsters. Those rabble have no ability and can only brag. We belong to the assassin alliance and are just following orders."
"Then your abilities are not much better. You can't even beat my guards. You put drugs in our food, and those two took the opportunity to get ahead of you. It seems like you all knew it."
Jiang Youzhen sneered. The funny thing was that the drug was given by the postmaster and the waiter. But before they could make a move, the two guards with shifty eyes got there first.
Jiang Youzhen looked at the last person, who was the coachman at the post station.
This person is the one who should be paid the most attention. However, his thin stature and poor appearance are very inconsistent in Jiang Youzhen's eyes.
"You are wearing a tattered coarse cloth jacket on the outside and a brocade undershirt on the inside? You don't even want to pretend!" Jiang Youzhen smiled sarcastically.
"I am also a killer, just following orders. Now I have fallen into your hands. You can kill me or chop me up as you please!" He said and closed his eyes. It can only be said that he was unlucky.
Originally, he had waited for the others to take action last night, and then he realized something was wrong. Because none of them came back, he knew this mission was going to be difficult.
When he was returning, he was caught by Qing Lang and others who were lying in ambush in the dark. He wanted to argue at first, but he also knew that Jiang Youzhen was now a frightened bird and would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go.
Besides, Jiang Youzhen is a very observant person. If he notices something different, it is very likely that his master will be implicated.
Originally, assassinating Jiang Youzhen was a difficult task. His master had been very kind to him, and although he was incompetent, he could not bring trouble to his master.
"Do you think that just because you take on everything, I don't know that you were sent by someone in the capital?" Jiang Youzhen snorted coldly.
"You?" The man was shocked for a moment, and then when he saw Jiang Youzhen looking at him with a smile, he realized that he had been fooled.
"You cheated me?" he said through gritted teeth.
"So what if I deceive you? Don't you know that deception is acceptable in war? You are the one who is stupid!"
"Let me guess who it is?"