MTL - Perfect Encounter-Chapter 80

On Xiushan, An Ruofang also placed a small blessing lamp in Jingxin Nunnery. Unable to go to the river, she put it in a water basin. She asked the teacher to help her write the blessing lamp wish.

Hope you are happy and healthy.

"Why this?" Jing Yuan asked her.

"In my family, it takes some luck to be happy and healthy." An Ruofang's small face was clear for her age.

Jing Yuan stopped talking. Watching the little lamp floating in the basin with her.

"Master, don't you want to make a wish?" An Ruofang turned to look at her.

"I have no wish." Master Jing Yuan said indifferently.

An Ruofang looked at her for a long time, then turned to look at her lamp again, how could it be, everyone should have wishes, right?

At this time Jing Yuan suddenly said: "Take your lamp and go back to the small courtyard."

Jing Yuan's tone was extremely serious, and An Ruofang was startled, and obediently took the lamp and ran back to the side yard, closed the door, blew out the lamp, and lay behind the door to watch.

Nothing was seen and nothing was heard. But An Ruofang knew that something must have happened.

Jingyuan poured out the water in the basin, put the basin back against the wall, then opened the backyard door, and stood at the door.

A man was walking towards the vegetable garden. Under the moonlight, he took easy steps, saw the raised stone slab, raised his feet slightly and stepped over. He ignored Jing Yuan standing by the door, went to the jujube tree, picked up the red lantern and looked carefully. After putting the lantern away, he turned around, looked at Jing Yuan for a while, and smiled at her.

Jing Yuan didn't smile. She also took a look at this man. He looked like he was in his thirties, with a medium build and a round face. She doesn't know.

"Master." The man greeted first.

"Who are you?"

"My surname is Xie."

Master Jingyuan remained expressionless and did not answer.

The man continued: "Does Shitai like bells?"

"do not like."

The man laughed: "Master and what he said are indeed the same. How many bells does Master think is enough to ring?"

"Two." Mrs. Jingyuan looked at this person, the raised stone slab, the lantern under the tree, this person came here for the first time, but he was no stranger to these.

"I want to ask my teacher a question." No. 2 Mr. Xie said.

"I just kill people, not answer questions."

Mr. Xie smiled again: "I know, but this question is very important." He paused, staring at Mrs. Jing Yuan, "I have a brother with the same surname, who was supposed to meet me a few days ago. .”

Master Jingyuan was expressionless.

Mr. Xie looked at the teacher, and then continued: "When was the last time the teacher saw him, and did he say anything?"

"On December 20th, I left a note in the lantern, asking me to kill someone at the East City Gate the next day."

"That's leaving a message, have you met?"

"No."

"When was the last time we saw each other?"

"December 16th, he came to let me pay attention to the person to be killed in advance, make some preparations, and wait for his notice."

Mr. Xie nodded, because the target was the people in Ziyun Building, and it was very important, so he needed to observe and pay attention first. This he knows. The last target was successfully killed without leaving any flaws, and he knew it. "When the teacher saw him for the last time, what did he say?"

"There's more than one question." Mrs. Jing Yuan said.

It took Mr. Xie a while to realize that Mrs. Jingyuan was complaining. He smiled and said: "Well, this is really the last question. He is missing, does the teacher have any clues to his whereabouts?"

"No."

Mrs. Jingyuan answered very simply.

The moonlight reflected on her face, her expression was calm and unwavering. Mr. Xie looked at her for a long time, and finally said goodbye.

This night, on the Sixia River, the river surface shimmered, as beautiful as stars.

From time to time, blessing lanterns float across the river. The warm candlelight is reflected in the slight waves, adding a bit of tranquility.

On the high defense embankment, the guards on duty couldn't help but smile when they looked at the blessing lamps. Everyone in the Great Xiao knew that there were good wishes in the blessing lamps.

At this time, a drum sound of "dong" was suddenly heard, and several people shouted: "Look!"

The archers fired clusters of rocket arrows, illuminating the night sky.

Many guards saw that a boat was coming from Nanqin on the opposite bank, and it was about to cross the center line.

"Boom, boom, boom" the sound of warning drums resounded across the river, the guards shouted in unison, and put on a guard posture, and the archers lined up on the edge of the embankment, drawing their bowstrings and getting ready .

But the boat stopped there. Then after a while, a large wooden barrel was thrown from the boat. Two **** flags were planted on the barrel, one with the word "Death" written in white on it, and the other with the word "Dragon Kiss" written on it.

The wooden barrel floated slowly downstream along the river, but the boat had already rowed away quickly, retreating towards the direction of Nanqin.

Bai Huanghuang's "death" character is very dazzling, especially when it is accompanied by some beautiful blessing lights with blessings.

Da Xiao kept an eye on the surface of the river to make sure there was nothing unusual. Several soldiers were ordered to board a small boat and bring back that weird big wooden barrel.

In the dark night, a post soldier was riding a fast horse from Mao County to Pingnan County. He brought a disturbing bad news.

It was already the second day of the Lunar New Year when the prefect Yao Kun received the urgent report from Maojun.

He was dumbfounded after reading the content, and hurriedly sent people to the general barracks outside the city to invite General Long to return to the city!

The post almost broke its horse's leg, ran back and forth, and came back panting to report that General Long received an emergency military report on the first day of the lunar new year, and went to the Sixiajiang barracks, but was not in the general barracks.

Yao Kun's heart sank, urgent military report? ! It's such a coincidence that they all came together? !

In the Sixiajiang military tent, Long Da stared at the wooden barrel on the table. There were three human heads in the barrel—a boy, a girl, and a child.

General Zhu Chonghai of the left was at the side, reporting the details of the receipt of the wooden barrel. Those two flags were also placed on the table, eye-catching and heart-piercing.

"I don't know the identities of these three people." Zhu Chonghai said, "But Nanqin's intention to provoke and declare war is quite obvious. After throwing the bucket into the river, they shot and burned the lucky lanterns in the river on the opposite bank."

Nan Qin would not be unaware of what the blessing lamp represented in Da Xiao. Burning the New Year's wishes of the Daxiao people, and sending the heads of a family of three on the New Year's Eve, this act of exterminating the family is really vicious.

Long Da looked at the three heads silently, and said in a deep voice for a long time, "It's our spies lurking in Southern Qin."

Zhu Chonghai was surprised.

Long Da didn't say much, he took one last look at Miao Kang's head, and reached out to cover the lid of the wooden barrel.

Twenty years ago, Southern Qin had fought with Da Xiao, and at that time Long Da's grandfather, Long Yi, was in command to fight. He personally selected three teenagers to sneak into the enemy's territory to spy information, and only one survived. That spy is Miao Kang.

Miao Kang was only fifteen when he was ordered to enter the Southern Qin Dynasty. The young hero retrieved a lot of information for Da Xiao. After the peace talks between the two countries, Long Yi ordered Miao Kang to lurk in South Qin to find out the situation and real intentions of South Qin. Since then, Miao Kang has been staying in South Qin, providing Da Xiao with information on South Qin. He is Da Xiao's most deeply rooted and most useful spy in Southern Qin.

Long Da only met Miao Kang four times. The first time I met with my father. Long Da was young at that time, but he still remembered Miao Kang's tearful expression when he heard the news of his grandfather Long Yi's death in battle. At that time father Long Sheng and Miao Kangdao, his identity was rarely known, but his credit, Long Yi remembered, he Long Sheng remembered, the whole Long family army remembered, the emperor also knew, if he wanted to come back, he could arrange it.

Miao Kang asked, do you have a more suitable and reliable candidate than me to potential South Qin?

Of course not.

Miao Kang asked again, do you know that the ambition of Southern Qin is still there, and the struggle for imperial power continues, will there be hidden dangers in the future?

Naturally, no one knows better than Miao Kang.

So Miao Kang said: "General Long trusts me and uses me. I will not fail General Long's entrustment. Whether he lives or dies, the military order is still in place. I was born as a man of the Great Xiao, and died as a ghost of the Great Xiao. If the soul has a home, I will fight north and south with the Long family army."

Long Da closed his eyes, remembering the last time he saw Miao Kang last year, he said the same thing when he said that the Southern Qin royal family seemed to be making moves, Da Xiao must be careful.

If the soul has a home...

He followed three generations of Long family generals.

This time when confronting the South Qin border, many of the spies sent by Long Da to South Qin depended on Miao Kang to take care of them, and a lot of information was passed on by Miao Kang. When Long Sheng heard that Miao Kang was willing to continue lurking, he also said: "The Long family army will definitely not lose you." Therefore, no one knew Miao Kang's name, and it was never recorded. In the Great Xiao country, there will never be more than five people who know that there is such a deeply buried secret agent in Nanqin, and who know how to contact them.

Now, the heads of Miao Kang and his wife and children were placed in front of Long Da.

Nan Qin knew Miao Kang's identity.

Judging from the condition of the head, he was sent here as soon as he was killed.

So Nanqin chose a place on New Year's Eve, across the river from the Great Xiao, and killed Miao Kang's family when the blessing lanterns were floating and the river was full of candlelight.

"This is a declaration of war, General." Zhu Chonghai said. Now the entire army is ready to fight, as long as Long Da gives an order, the military ships can attack Nanqin.

Long Da was silent for a while, and said: "If Nanqin attacks, we will beat them back."

"General." Zhu Chonghai frowned, only defending? Nan Qin has already bullied them, how can this be tolerated.

"Defend the border well. I'm going back to Zhonglan City." Long Dao said. In his opinion, the important thing is not that Nanqin dared to be so provocative, but how did Miao Kang expose it? The death of Miao Kang meant that their reconnaissance layout in Southern Qin had been disintegrated.

"General." Zhu Chonghai was still unconvinced, "Didn't we also capture their spies in Zhonglan City, even if we don't fight, we should return a few heads to them."

"Those are people from the Great Xiao." Long Da said indifferently, then turned and left without further talking.

Zhu Chonghai was stunned for a moment, but when he realized it, he gritted his teeth with hatred. In the battle of fine work, they Da Xiao lost. I'm really upset, I really want to have a good fight.

Long Da returned to Zhonglan City on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

The smoke has not risen, which means that there is no war on the front line.

As soon as he returned to Ziyunlou, Long Shi called Xie Gang to see him. Xie Gang was dumbfounded when he heard this. "I haven't mentioned the book boy to anyone. The spies I sent only knew the safe place the book boy left, and when they got there, they looked for the contact code left in the house. Everyone got a different book. Tong is very cautious."

In fact, Xie Gang himself didn't even know the identity of the book boy. He only knew that he was a spy arranged by the Long Family Army in South Qin. He met Shutong once, he was a man in his 30s or 40s, he had been lurking in Nanqin for a long time, and he knew everything about Nanqin like the back of his hand.

Xie Gang guessed from Shutong's conversation and information content that Shutong should have infiltrated the Nanqin officialdom, but Xie Gang didn't know what he did. The spies he sent to Southern Qin didn't know who Shutong was. Food, money and intelligence clues were left in the safe house, and there were emergency contact methods, but Shutong didn't meet these spies directly.

The book boy was exposed. Xie Gang's heart sank to the bottom.

Then the two spies he sent in Southern Qin might be in danger. No wonder no information has been received recently, it turns out that such a big event happened.

"It can't be the leaked news from Ziyun Tower. I haven't mentioned Shutong to anyone." Xie Gang emphasized again.

"But what else is there?" Long Da asked.

Xie Gang shook his head, Zhonglan City was calm and there was no movement. If there is anything to say, except for this one. "On the second day of junior high school, the prefect sent someone to invite him, saying that there was an urgent matter that the general needed to discuss with him. The general was not here, so I went to ask him. The prefect must wait for the general to come back."

Long Da nodded, turned around and left.

He rudely opened the door of Xie Gang's room, and Xie Gang followed out. As soon as he went out, he was stopped by Long Da. Long Da turned around and shouted sharply: "You don't have to follow, think about it yourself, and I'll deal with you when I come back from the eunuch."

There was a mistake in the mission of the spy, Xie Gang naturally had the responsibility, he knelt down on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "This subordinate is guilty."

Seeing this scene, the guards not far away opened their mouths wide in shock. What happened?

Long Da turned back to his room, flipped through the newly saved files on the table after he left, there was nothing particularly urgent. So he summoned a team of guards and prepared to leave for the prefect's mansion.

An Ruochen secretly stood by a wall and waited. When she heard the news that the general was coming back and was about to go out again, she hurried over. The general was in such a hurry, there must be some urgent business, so he couldn't delay the general's work, and of course she couldn't delay her to see him. It's been a few days, I really miss it.

As Long Da was walking, he saw a person on the side of the road standing gracefully behind a wall.

Long Da kept walking, turned a corner and walked towards that direction. The team of guards behind him didn't react, and followed the general and turned obliquely. If the general wants to lead them to hit the wall, they will hit it without hesitation.

An Ruochen saw a whole group of people approaching her imposingly, and was so startled that she almost turned around and ran away.

Don't you just want to look at you more, general, is it appropriate for you to be so scary?

Seeing An Ruochen's expression, Long Da remembered that there was a string of tails behind him. He raised his right hand in a gesture, and the line of guards behind him stopped.

Then An Ruochen was even more surprised. Because Long Da just walked over and hugged her in front of that team of guards.

At this time, it was too late to run. An Ruochen sighed inwardly, General, you might as well not let them stop. The current situation seems to have brought them here purposely.

"I'm going to the prefect's mansion." Long Da whispered in An Ruochen's ear.

Hearing his voice, An Ruochen lost all complaints. The general seemed tired. Anyway, she was buried in Long Da's arms, and she couldn't see the expressions of the guards, so it should be okay to hug back secretly.

An Ruochen stretched out his arms to hug Long Da's waist, and felt Long Da touch her head.

An Ruochen's heart was pounding, and she couldn't help but giggle.

Long Da let go of her, and she quickly let go of Long Da, then turned and ran, not daring to glance at the guards out of the corner of her eyes, as if she was running for her life, and that speed could be called like the wind.

Didn't see, didn't see, they didn't see. An Ruochen ran a long distance, looked around for no one, and then covered her face. Silly sniggering and taking a few deep breaths, trying to cool down the heat on his face, he suddenly remembered what Long Da had said.

"I have a bad feeling, so I have to hurry up and get closer to you."

Long Da's premonition came true.

The news from the prefect Yao Kun's side is very bad.

The previous Dongling envoy who said they were guests in Mao County and went to the capital to meet the Emperor Xiao after the Chinese New Year was attacked the day before New Year's Eve. Seven dead and nine wounded. Among the list of seven dead, there are those two Southern Qin envoys. The killer who attacked them touched about ten people, masked in black, and spoke with a Da Xiao accent. Two were killed and the rest fled.

The Dongling mission was shocked and furious, and carried the corpse back to Dongling on the second day. Shi Pingqing tracked down the murderer that day, but to no avail.