Book 19 - Chapter 1 – Get Stuck in Critical Situation Together (1/2)
Book 19 Chapter 1 – Get Stuck in Critical Situation Together
The sun was setting in the west
The warshi+p sailed speedily into the City of Luoyang, following the Luo River toward the Ih points of all the watchtowers along the riverbank flags were flying, a festive scene of triumphant return after the victory
shi+ps and boats went back and forth on the river, pedestrians, horses and carts crowded the street; indeed it was a city bustling with prosperity Seeing a warshi+p entering the city, all passersby on both sides of the river waved and cheered, creating an enthusiastic at were not affected by this at, Kou Zhong spoke in shock, “Yang Dong was finally forced to abdicate!”
Although it was inevitable, yet still a bit too hasty It could clearly be seen that wang shi+chong’s desire to proclaient From now on the Central Plains would have onespoke in heavy voice, “I do not wish to see wang shi+chong”
Kou Zhong nodded in agreenificance anyway,” he said, “See if you could find Bu Tianzhi; Xu Xingzhi and I will look for you, and then under cover of darkness, ill leave the city Ay! All of a sudden I have a little heart-alar If I experience soeXiyi let wang shi+chong to kill you? Based on his position in Jianghu, no ive him a little bit of face Unless he has help frolin’s caliber, wang shi+chong is incapable toto circumstances, there should be no problereed on ways to encies Only after they were done that Xu Ziling jumped into the river, swam toward the thicket by Luo River dike, and disappeared without any trace
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The warshi+p cast anchor at the dock outside the Iqiu and the others led theirtoward the city gate
Kou Zhong pulled the rein to slohile casually asked about wang shi+chong’s condition
wang Xuanying sighed and said, “Li Mi’s punch was no trivial matter at all, to this day Die has not been able to leave the bed, but he is in good spirits; all day long he is asking when he can see Kou Junshi+ again”
wang Xuanying was surprisingly polite and deferential, but listening to hi’s hair stood up on its end, and his heart was shi+vering in fear Reasonably speaking, if wang shi+chong could not even get out of bed, he should not be this anxious to proclai Xuanying lie to hi inwardly wiped the proverbial cold sweat fro?”
Song Mengqiu on his other side put on a fake s’s [minister’s form of address for the current emperor] side, ready tothat, Kou Zhong’s heart sank even lower Ouyang Xiyi has always extre about their return, it was quite reasonable to expect him to come and meet theovernment officials in the entire Eastern Capital have fallen under wang shi+chong’s control, there was no need for Ouyang Xiyi to stay twelve sichen a day by wang shi+chong’s side to protect hiht to co that he was trapped in a tiger’s den
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Xu Ziling arrived at the place where Bu Tianzhi was staying in Luoyang, and found that the people were gone, the place was empty; moreover, the inside of the house was ain extre was that there were no reed, which was extre sat down dejectedly in a corner of theinwardly whether Bu Tianzhi’s departure was related to wang shi+chong If it was, then Kou Zhong was in danger
But he was still not too worried wang shi+chong wanted to har, it was definitely not an easy , suddenly he heard footsteps approaching
Even with Xu Ziling’s usual cool coreatly Because fronized who the person was
At the saer
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Who was the person wang shi+chong dreaded the ht now? Before, it was obviously Li Mi
But after Li Mi suffered crushi+ng defeat, in this Central Earth central zone of the Yellow River basin, the Tang occupied Guanxi, Zheng occupied Henan, Xia occupied Hebei; they had becos of a tripod [ie tripartite of balance of forces]
But for wang shi+chong, the Zheng Eemony over the world was still a distantbusiness he had to attend to was to stabilize the interior, to consolidate the outco was able to personally orchestrated the , which resulted in Li Mi’s defeat, then the glory and prestige of the victory would belong to his to anybody
But the fact was not like this at all
Currently, Kou Zhong had, albeit inadvertently, established a subli’s arenerals under wang shi+chong’s co shi+chong’s suspicion and jealousy
Just by looking at hoang shi+chong bestowing high titles to his family and relatives, it was clear that he was a selfish and narrow’s case Naturally wang shi+chong did not wish for Kou Zhong to become another Li Mi
On top of that, there was undoubtedly close relationshi+p between Kou Zhong and Zhai Jiao Anybody would be able to guess that Kou Zhong could potentially absorb Li Mi’s surrendering troops and defeated generals under his own banner In which case, wang shi+chong would be in danger like he was raising a tiger
One by one these thoughts crossed Kou Zhong’s ht, the alloped into the Ishu Mansion
Why didn’t they go to the Iet out of bed, he could be carried to the I in his ears, “Why don’t Ziling Xiong co [father e replied perfunctorily, “He is like the floating clouds in the sky, with no interest to pay attention to earthly matters; even I cannot control hi situation that he had to face Under this kind nasty situation, how could he contact Xu Xingzhi?
Shangshu Mansion appeared ahead Its brightly illu for hier
Kou Zhong was absolutely certain that once he stepped over the threshold, he would never be able to get out relying on his oer
Kou Zhong reined his horse to stop, and was the first to dish his e else fails, retreat
Currently, he and Xu Ziling were recognized as world-class , as fully aware of as true and as false concerning them, knew that if he wanted to take the little life of either one of theh power, it also had to be under specific situation and special arrangement before he even had any chance of success
And the shu Mansion happened to provide such a favorable place
wang Xuanying leaped down and landed on his left side, and spoke cheerfully, “Kou Junshi+, please!”
Kou Zhong took a deep breath, and finally made the decision that was pivotal in nature to his destiny
After breaking through the wall and co up frode’s Gui Zang [see Book 17 Chapter 12] Whip, which slid closed to the ground, so that it was very difficult to guard against, wrapped itself around his ankle tightly
The tiny suction cups along the body of the ound around tightly on his skin and flesh
If Xu Ziling had not seen Yuchi Jingde and wang Bo’s battle, thiswith thousand ways, a hundred plans to shake off the loathso Whip But now, he was fully aware of the strange whip technique of this Heavenly Policy Mansion uard against He quietly thought that if he wanted to coet about having his left foot intact
Thereupon Xu Ziling let out a cold snort, his left foot planted fired fro erect with both feet on the ground
‘Crash!+’
The Gui Zang Whip went taut like a ra stayed perfectly still The other end of the as held about three zhang away, in Yuchi Jingde’s hand, whose build was extremely bold and powerful, who lowered his waist in a horse stance But the latter was actually shi+vering inwardly The technique he launched just noas round first, and then he wanted to exploit the pulling force of the suction pads on the body of the whip to break his ankle But unexpectedly Xu Ziling’s internal energy, ingeniously unleashed, sucked the body of the whip firmly, and thus his ankle locked the whip so that it could not be e move was completely beyond his expectation
Sound of the wind sprang up everywhere
Five shadows separately flew in from the roof and walls of the front and rear courtyards, Surrounding Xu Ziling in the reenish-black awl stood on top of the wall His sleeves fluttered in the night breeze, he looked extremely confident and at ease, but his eyes were sharper than a hawk, as fro, who seesun Wuji, who dressed in dark green Confucian scholar attire, with fair skin and delicate facial features, stood with his hands behind his back at approxide, with Xu Ziling right in the middle There was a jade Xiao [vertically blown flute] stuck on his loaist He was carrying a down-to-earth dehtest bit of swords-drawn-and-bows-bent attitude, free and easy as he was visiting a fellow scholar
But Xu Ziling did not underestih-, he knew that his de
The other three were the saber-wielding Luo shi+xin, the spear-wielding shi+ Wanbao, and the truncheon-wielding Liu Deho spread in all direction, and thus sealing all escape paths Xu Ziling aze at the hole in the wall he created, and the debris of the any chair scattered on the floor; he shouted in heavy voice, “May I venture to ask shi+ to deal with Kou Zhong, besides Yang Xuyan, who are the others?”