Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

In an instant, the cold air rushed straight from the soles of the feet to the Tianling Gai, and the hair stood on end!

Rong Youtang's pupils dilated, and months of horseback riding have strengthened his physique and reaction speed. He was half a human away from the wall, and without even thinking about it, he kicked his right foot suddenly, and at the same time, the whole body followed the saber light and threw himself forward. , fell hard, lying on the bluestone corridor, on the way, he obviously felt a chill on the back of his neck, and a cold blade passed by!

"Father—come! Catch the thief!" Rong Youtang yelled when he was dodging, calling for help.The first sound was instinctive, the son called out to his father at the door of the house, and then returned rationally, beckoning the guys to help.

Inside the Rong house, Rong Kaiji was waiting for his children to come home to have dinner together in the study room, the farthest away, but the first to be alarmed, his heart trembled suddenly, terrified, he put down his book, and rushed out quickly: "Old Li? Old Zhang? Is my brother calling for the door?"

Inside the tunnel

Rong Youtang's two lifetimes combined, the second time his body reacted so quickly!The first time was when the carriage fell into the frozen lake, he desperately pushed his mother to climb out of the carriage.

"Ah!" Rong Youtang narrowly escaped the killer's first knife, and while throwing himself down and calling for help, he quickly got up and retreated, and pulled out the dagger hidden in the boot shaft, with a sharp and smooth "crack", sheathed the scabbard Throwing at the killer: "Looking for death!"

The killer took it for granted that it was a hidden weapon, and subconsciously dodged sideways, with the bright short knife lying across his chest to block, and "dang" bounced off the scabbard.He then rushed forward, turned his wrist to attack, raised his breath and flattened the knife to take the prey's neck, but was surprised to find that the prey that should have been a frail scholar narrowly dodged it, only to be scratched by the tip of the knife Just a broken arm!

The prey even clenched the dagger and tried to fight back?

This killer only gave himself three chances.If you miss three strikes, give up and never do it again.

He didn't wear all black and didn't cover his face. He was wearing a coarse cotton robe and a felt hat. He looked like a watchman who had been walking around the streets for half his life!

Now that the killer has used two knives, he thought he would be sure, but found that although the prey had no fangs, it had claws.

Rong Youtang's blood rushed to the top of his head, he was aggressive and majestic, tit-for-tat-the young man was pushed to the extreme, his eyes were red-eyed and excited, he didn't even know he was afraid of death, his arm was bleeding and he couldn't feel the pain at all.

In the blink of an eye, they exchanged two moves.

At this time, shouts and eager footsteps were heard from the back door of the cloth house and the Rong's house.

After the assassin missed the second blow, without hesitation, he raised his wrist again to stab the prey's heart, Rong Youtang instinctively retreated, and at the same time blocked with his dagger.

Heh, do you think accidents can happen three times in a row?

Die!

The killer sneered, it turned out that it was just a feint to attack the heart, the blade drew an arc halfway, and then cut straight at the exposed neck of the prey!

Although Rong Youtang has a strong survival instinct, he has no fighting experience at all, and he didn't notice the opponent's feint attack. After he reacted, the point of the sharp knife had reached a few inches in front of his shoulder, and his eyes were wide open——

There is only one thought in the moment:

It's over, it's over.

But at this time, the side door of Rong's house on the left was pulled open, and before Rong Kaiji could stand still, he saw the scene where the killer's dagger was about to slit his son's throat!

Rong Kaiji's heartbeat stopped suddenly, his liver and gallbladder burst, and he shouted hoarsely:

"Stop!" As he said that, he rushed to stop him with his bare hands.

At the same time, a group of fellows with long spears and short clubs rushed out from the back door of the cloth village. They were so energetic and had fought in groups, and they all came to help without fear.

Caught off guard, it all happened so suddenly!

It's a pity that the far water cannot save the near fire.

Rong Youtang and the killer were in the middle of the corridor, just as he was sighing "my life is over", someone suddenly shot a plum blossom nail on the top of his head, and it flicked the tip of the killer's knife with a "dang", and then four people in ordinary clothes jumped off the wall The men in plain clothes were all brave and held short knives in their hands. They cornered the killer with a few blows, and one of them shouted: "I am ordered to protect you, and you will retreat!"

It was only at this moment that Rong Youtang realized that he had been holding his breath for a while. He was gasping for breath, his heart was beating like a drum, and his heart seemed to be jumping out of his throat. His mouth and tongue were dry, and he couldn't hear his own voice clearly: "Father, don't come here!"

But Rong Kaiji had already led the housekeeper and Lao Zhang and his wife to his son's side, Rong Youtang had no choice but to tell his servants to stay calm and on guard, he stood at the front with his dagger horizontally, and let his relatives and friends rush to deal with the scratch on his left arm.

In a blink of an eye, the four rescuers caught the killer who was about to flee, disarmed the killer without saying a word, removed his chin, stripped his clothes, and searched him from felt hat to shoe soles—they quickly stripped the killer down to a pair of underpants !Packed his clothes, concealed weapons, and unknown bottles and jars found.

"This thing has changed, he is not a watchman at all!"

"Oh, carelessness."

"Don't tear off the human skin mask, wait until you go back."

"Is the knife poisonous? Don't make any more mistakes."

"I don't see it, but I have to take it back for testing."

The four rescuers cooperated tacitly, chatting in low voices, and their gestures were very military.

"Thank you guys...uh~" Rong Youtang didn't finish his words of gratitude, but the sound of the ending slowly disappeared: I saw the killer screaming, struggling and resisting angrily. Instead, it directly divided the bones and twisted the killer's limbs and joints!

The killer suddenly went limp, his head and neck swayed wildly, his jaw was removed, he could only utter hoarse and indistinct screams, his facial features were distorted, and his face was ferocious.

Where have ordinary people seen such battles?

The members of the Rong family were silent, they did not dare to breathe, they secretly swallowed their saliva, in extreme awe.

After the killer was dealt with properly, the little leader of the rescuers showed his downcast, took out a waist card and flashed it at Rong Youtang: King Qing's subordinates!

Rong Youtang laughed unknowingly, and only then did he feel the sharp pain in the wound, but then, being so frightened, he couldn't help being suspicious: Are they really sent by His Highness?

While hesitating and wondering, a group of people rushed out of the back door, Rong Youtang hurriedly turned to look: "Horse shopkeeper?"

Ma Tong, the treasurer of Hengyuan Pawn Shop, led several clerks, and panted, "Come on, are you late? Oh, it's all my fault that I was reconciling accounts on the second floor, and the clerks were busy cleaning the counters and preparing to close, so that I saw the lights in the cloth village just now. Hey, the door is open, and no one can be seen! Oh, is the shopkeeper Xiaorong injured?"

"Silence!" Peng Yi frowned.

Ma Tong hurriedly lowered his voice, and he knew the leader of the rescuers. The latter teased himself: "Old Ma, this time we are both dereliction of duty, let's go back together and plead guilty."

"Fuck you!" Ma Tong resentfully emphasized: "I'm just a businessman, at best I can't take care of him well, but you guys are going to be punished."

Rong Youtang was relieved now, and interjected to ask: "You two know each other?"

"Old acquaintance."

"Bah! My old acquaintance is in Yuchun Building." Ma Tong scolded with a smile.

The little leader of the rescuers stepped forward and apologized: "I waited for the rescue to come late, where is Mr. Rong injured?"

"Here, here." Rong Kaiji hurriedly held his son's left forearm forward, and said gratefully: "Thank you for saving the life of these heroes, it is difficult for Rong to repay in this life—"

"Don't do this, please!" Peng Yi refused to accept the thanks, first held up Rong Youtang's arm to look at the injury, and said with a wry smile: "Playing with eagles all day long, but tonight was almost blinded by an owl!"

Rong Youtang approached, knelt down, sized up the killer carefully, and sighed: "Where's the real watchman? I wonder if he's still alive."

"This person can escape the eyes and ears of the brothers. He is sophisticated and ruthless. Most of them kill people like hemp. The real watchman may be more dangerous than good." Peng Yi shook his head.

"He wants to kill me, there is no doubt about it." Rong Youtang pondered for a while, then carefully said: "My man, what do you say—"

"Call me Er Peng." Peng Yi said brightly: "Please keep your mouth shut and don't make any noise. This case is yet to be solved."

Rong Kaiji nodded quickly: "Hey, no problem! Rong will definitely restrain the family."

"It's not too late, Mr. Rong, please come with us. If the superior blames and absolves the crime later, I hope to plead for mercy." Peng Yi said earnestly and clasped his fists.

Rong Youtang hastily and solemnly returned the gift: "Brother Peng is my savior, I will be grateful to you! If there is anything useful in the future, as long as I have the ability, feel free to speak up."

"Wait!" Rong Kaiji was very nervous, even though he recognized the badge of Prince Qing's Mansion, he still asked anxiously: "The child is injured, and the old man wants to take care of him, is that okay?"

"Okay, let's go, don't waste time." Peng Yi generously promised.

Rong Youtang's arm had been sprinkled with golden medicine and bandaged. Before he left, he asked the housekeeper and steward: "We will go back as soon as we go, and the house will be left to you. Remember to be careful about keeping things secret, and prevent fire, theft, and traitors. Take it lightly."

Li Shun patted his chest: "Young master, don't worry, we have ten or twenty men, can't we keep the house? Don't worry!"

Rong Youtang nodded, helped his adoptive father, followed the arrangement of Ma Tong, Peng Yi and others, threw the killer into the carriage, and hurried to Prince Qing's Mansion.

Two quarters of an hour later, in the darkroom of the palace,

"Sit down, don't move." Zhao Zeyong raised his hand and turned the chair so that Rong Youtang turned his back to the killer who was being tortured, and then coldly ordered his subordinates: "Pry open his mouth."

"Yes!"

Rong Youtang faced the wall, unable to see, but could clearly hear the killer's hoarse "ho ho" panting behind him, as well as the movement of the iron chains and shackles colliding.

Torture to extract a confession.

After a long while, Rong Youtang heard the sound of "crashing" water, and then the killer's jaw was closed, and he cried out in pain for a while, and was then threatened to hold back.

After repeating this over and over again, the killer finally collapsed and confessed:

"I didn't kill the watchman!"

Zhao Zeyong sat upright, held down Rong Youtang who couldn't help but want to turn his head from time to time, and said majesticly and slowly: "Hao Sandao, if you confess quickly, you may be able to die completely."

Hao Sandao knew that he could not escape death, because he remained awake all the time and was not blindfolded, which showed that the other party was too powerful to hide it.

"Prince Qing, forgive me. I really didn't kill the old man, but Zhen and Zheng Bao. I'm only responsible for throwing away the corpse in the dry well. He also gave me the human skin mask."

Zhao Zeyong asked solemnly, "Where is Zheng Bao now? How many lives did you murder together?"

"This, this..." Hao Sandao was frightened and hesitant.The killer only has one life, so of course he is afraid of death.

"If you do a lot of evil, you will be punished for your death." Zhao Zeyong said angrily.

"what-"

Rong Youtang was eagerly pricking up his ears to listen for the answer, when he suddenly heard the killer scream, followed by a burst of violent panting and struggling!

"Your Highness—" Rong Youtang's heart tightened, he couldn't see, but he could imagine more, he subconsciously stretched out his hand to King Qing, and the latter took advantage of the situation to hold and caress the wound he had bandaged.

Just damn it!

Zhao Zeyong became even more angry, and asked word by word: "Where is Zheng Bao? Are you recruiting?"

"Wuuuuuuuuuu!" Hao Sandao desperately begged for mercy.

"Let him talk." Zhao Zeyong ordered.

"Yes!"

"Prince Qing, spare your life, spare your life! I charge money to handle affairs, and I don't know anything about grievances! I have only met Zheng Bao twice in the past few years. I have many enemies and my whereabouts are unpredictable, but he is even more elusive. He always looks for me when we meet. This time, I only met twice at the ruined temple in the mass graves in the western suburbs."

Zhao Zeyong was familiar with the rules of the world, and asked again: "How much did he bid? How will the rest be paid?"

Hao Sandao wept bitterly: "Two big tickets, and he will give you the remaining one after confirming that everything is done. The time and place will be determined by him. Zheng Baofu is very rich, so it is very easy to give Qian Te, otherwise I will not take orders from him. "

Oh, it turns out that my life is worth 2000 taels of silver.Rong Youtang has been in the business world for many years, he understands this, he nodded: 2000 taels of silver is enough for many families to spend for a lifetime, not too little!

"What is Zheng Bao's real name?" Rong Youtang couldn't help asking.

"I don't know, I really don't know! He is good at disguise, strong in martial arts, and generous in shooting. He looks like a middle-aged white-faced gentleman... In fact, he should be wearing a human skin mask. I have never seen his real face." Hao Sandao said eagerly.

Zhao Zeyong asked: "Zheng Bao hired you twice? For the time being, you didn't lie. This time it was the person who assassinated the king. What did he ask you to do the first time?"

Hao Sandao couldn't bear the torture, trembling, and confessed: "The last time was, it was three or four years ago. Just after the new year, it was very cold in the first month. He asked me to stand in front of the Bomu Guanchang Lake, the official road in Dongcheng, to chisel He sank a carriage whose roof was painted in purple, yellow and black, one of the coachmen was missing two upper front teeth, and the other had six fingers on his left hand, and faked signs that the horse had crashed into a frozen lake, and no swords, poisons, or appearances were allowed."

The first month three or four years ago?Cypress Guanchang Lake?

Rong Youtang felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and instantly lost his three souls and seven souls. His eyes were wide open, his whole body was stiff, and then he trembled violently. He leaned back in the chair as hard as he could, his muscles tensed, the wound on his arm burst, and blood flowed out quickly, staining the white cloth red .

"What's wrong with you?" Zhao Zeyong noticed abnormal movement around him, and quickly helped him up.

Rong Youtang's teeth were chattering and rattling, he was desperately inhaling but still lacked oxygen, his eyes were staring, and tremblingly shouted: "Blood! Blood!"

When the carriage overturned, the lives of mother and child were hanging by a thread. Rong Huaijin instinctively hugged her son tightly and blocked the violent collision with her body. It was only when I was awakened by the ice water.

"Your Highness, Mr. Rong has never smelled this smell before, he is not used to it." The guard took it for granted that Rong Youtang was confused by the smell of cold iron and excrement.

Zhao Zeyong nodded in agreement, and said in a low voice, "Don't scare yourself, there is no blood." He touched the other person's cheek, and then pressed the person lightly.

Rong Youtang grabbed the sleeve of King Qing's robe, with an extremely painful expression on his face, but he quickly held it back, and heard another "crashing" sound of water in his ears.

"There's really no blood, if you don't believe me look at it." Zhao Zeyong comforted him gently, letting the other party grab his sleeve, turn the seat facing the wall to face the torture rack——

ah?There is no blood!

Hao Sandao was drenched in water from head to toe, his head drooped weakly, and he only wore underpants, his exposed flesh was intact, not even a red mark.

Rong Youtang was stunned for a moment.

"This is a murderer full of crimes. I don't know how many lives he bears. It's not a pity to cut him into pieces." Zhao Zeyong pointed out solemnly.

Rong Youtang nodded, with a dazed expression, and softly asked the killer: "Who is that person in the carriage? Is he dead?"

After Hao Sandao was caught, he realized that the prey was King Qing’s favorite. He complained endlessly, and shook his head in frustration: "I don’t know. I just take money to do things, and I don’t care about other things, let alone investigate the prey, so as not to expose myself, but At that time, I heard a woman screaming in the carriage. After the carriage sank into the lake, I wanted to go over to make sure, but someone from the official road came, so I had no choice but to withdraw. Afterwards, Zheng Bao gave me enough money, so it should be, it should be successful."

Rong Youtang nodded again, and gradually regained his composure.

"You're not telling the truth!"

Rong Youtang got up abruptly, stretched out his hand and pointed angrily, and shouted: "You still protect Zhen Qianbao even now?"

Hao Sandao was startled suddenly, trying to hide his expression, but it was too late.

Everyone could see clearly, Zhao Zeyong was furious immediately: "How dare you deceive me?" He forced Rong Youtang to sit down, turned the chair to face the wall, and then ordered: "Pry open his mouth!"

After two full hours of interrogation, the real confession was finally forced out.

Everyone was shocked, and Rong Youtang was the most concerned. He strongly demanded to face the torture in the future, but King Qing couldn't help it, so he had to agree.

"At Maoshizhong, Dingwu Temple of Hongfa Temple."

Zhao Zeyong arranged the arrest operation in an orderly manner, not forgetting to ask:

"Zhen Qianbao is insidious, cunning, and cunning. He specially chose to meet at a Buddhist temple. Be careful, try not to disturb the pilgrims, and especially be careful not to let the other party take innocent people as hostages."

"Yes!"

A group of capable and elite personal guards led the way to capture Zhen Qianbao.

Only Zhao Zeyong and Rong Youtang were left in the study.Father Rong only took a few glances at King Qing, and was then invited by the housekeeper to drink tea and rest.

"Your Highness, I have caused you trouble again." Rong Youtang said softly, he had lost a lot of blood and his face was pale.

"Nonsense, the other party is obviously trying to make me unhappy!" Zhao Zeyong said with a final decision.He searched the other party's wounds, and was afraid of worrying, so he just said: "What's going on with Peng Yi and the others?"

Rong Youtang hurriedly explained earnestly: "Don't blame Brother Peng and the others, okay? They are my saviors. Hao Sandao turned into a watchman, so lifelike. My home is in the market, and people come and go. It is not easy for them !"

"Fortunately, you were able to avoid the killer's two moves, otherwise what should we do now?" Zhao Zeyong sighed, carefully hugging him into his arms.

"Your Highness, can you catch Zhen Qianbao?" Rong Youtang was worried, and he was eager to search for evidence of the murder.

Zhao Zeyong comforted: "The other party has gradually been exposed. Unless he is silenced, he will be caught from heaven and earth!"

-

at the same time

In the middle of the day, the night is already deep.

In the past few months, except for Zhou Renlin who was in his wife's room on the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year, most of the rest were with his concubine Su Yingying, and occasionally rested in the study.

Tonight Yang Ruofang is alone in the vacant room again.

After more than 20 years of marriage, the couple has only been sweet for a few years, followed by endless disputes.Especially in the past three or four years: even if they share the same bed, they sleep with their backs facing each other under a quilt, and they are full of complaints about each other.

Rest early, and when she was finally drowsy and sleepy in the torment of insomnia, she was suddenly woken up by her confidant. She was about to get angry, but after hearing a few words, she broke out in a cold sweat and was startled!

After a moment of urgent discussion, Yang Ruofang ran out of the bedroom with her hair disheveled and her robe gathered, asking, "Where is he?"

The confidant answered clearly: "At Aunt Su's place."

"Bad maid!" Yang Ruofang scolded.She ran straight all the way, walked to Su Yingying's room, and ordered her followers: "Break away!"

After the door was opened, Yang Ruofang rushed in with someone anxiously. The scene was like catching rape:

The quilt was messy, light and heavy panting intertwined, the two people in the room were obviously having sex, Zhou Renlin pulled the quilt to cover it up in embarrassment.

"Ah!" Su Yingying exclaimed, and hurriedly retracted the legs wrapped around the man's waist. The white tenderness quickly disappeared, and she quickly hid in the quilt.

"Yang Ruofang!" Zhou Renlin roared angrily. With his upper body exposed, he raised his hand to comfort and pat the quilt of the Tibetan man behind him, and scolded his wife, "It's the middle of the night, are you crazy?"

Yang Ruofang had come to discuss with her husband something urgent, but now she was so excited by the scene in front of her that she was going crazy!Her nostrils fluttered rapidly, her hands clenched her robe desperately, her eyes were bloodshot, without a word, she rushed over and pulled the quilt of the adulteress to cover her shame, Su Yingying cried miserably: "Master! Master!"

After all, men are relatively strong, Zhou Renlin swung his wife away, firmly protected the concubine, and said through gritted teeth, "Yang Ruofang, get out!"

"You dare to call me out? How dare you treat me like this? Zhou Renlin, your conscience has been eaten by a dog, you are worthy of my Yang family?" After fighting for a long time, he was reluctantly persuaded by the followers to go into the study for a secret talk.

after a while

"What?!" The disheveled Zhou Renlin's expression changed suddenly, he was uncertain, and reprimanded: "Ignorant stupid woman! I warned you a long time ago: that is not from you and me, nor from the Yang family, he is...you Knows better than I do, yet again and again uses the public to seek personal gain, commits crimes, is arrogant and reckless—”

"Have you scolded enough?" Yang Ruofang did not show any weakness, and anxiously ordered: "I told you to find a way, first deal with that person. If he is asked to confess the mastermind, we will die together."

"If you want to die, what do you have to do with me?" Zhou Renlin sneered coldly, and said, "Your Yang family's big plan was used by you to avenge your personal revenge and embarrass a little eunuch. You have to do things alone, don't drag me down!"

He didn't even mention the three children, only worried that he would be implicated.

"You, you—" Heartbroken, Yang Ruofang staggered back a few steps until her back leaned against the desk, feeling weak all over, with her eyes wide open, trying to find the shadow of the handsome and graceful Tanhualang from her husband.

However, the Zhou Lang in front of him is no longer the Zhou Lang of that year.

Yang Ruofang shook her head again and again, sneered, slowly supported the desk, stood up proudly, squeezed out words from between her teeth, and sneered at the same time: "Zhou Renlin, you were greedy for the power and wealth of my Yang family, and abandoned the daughter of the benefactor who made an appointment , father looks down on you, intending to recruit a son-in-law, but I insist on marrying, and take care of the housework for you to have children—”

"Did I force you? Don't you want to marry?" Zhou Renlin interrupted impatiently.

Yang Ruofang nodded with tears in her eyes, and asked, "Are you regretting it? It's just killing a pair of country mother and son, and you're going to hate me for the rest of your life?"

"Enough!" Zhou Renlin shouted loudly, raised his hand and kicked over a high table, and said tremblingly, "You still have the face to mention Jinniang and Tang'er? For you, I betrayed her back then; for you, I drove her away ruthlessly." Go back to my mother’s house. But you are so vicious and vicious, you sent people to chase and kill them, causing the mother and child’s bones to be buried at the bottom of the wilderness lake! In the past few years, I have no face to face the tribute students and local officials from my hometown, and I dare not even go back to the ancestral grave Bye, you don't even dare to send someone to sacrifice on your behalf! My mentor's family has resented me and wished they could eat me, what else do you want?"

"Hmph." Yang Ruofang sneered frequently, and asked sarcastically, "Who forced you to marry me? Didn't you just go to my Yang family to show your courtesy? You're just a worthless wretch, and you want to have three wives and four concubines? You are so beautiful!"

The two quarreled and scolded each other for half an hour.

But they were husband and wife after all, Zhou Renlin knew that he couldn't get rid of the relationship, so he had to set up a car overnight and rushed to Pingnanhou's mansion to report for help.

The husband and wife looked at each other and hated each other, and sat with their backs facing each other, but when the carriage was traveling halfway, there was a sudden violent bump and a "bang". Almost tipped over.