Painting Doctor Jinhua

Chapter 150 Gao Changgong, Do You Believe It?

When the man turned around, he saw that the man holding the sword on his neck was a soldier wearing black armor. He had an ordinary appearance but a fierce aura, and a somewhat rough build. It was obvious that he was a veteran of the battlefield.

But what shocked the man even more was not this man, but the group of armored soldiers standing behind him. The leader of the armored soldiers was a man wearing a black robe and a ferocious mask, with a particularly noble and elegant temperament. Beside him was a woman who was also dressed in black and wearing a mask.

Even without revealing their true faces, the two of them gave off a sense of coldness and nobility that was to be admired from afar but not touched.

"Who are you? Who asked you to lurk here and what is your purpose?" Lanling Wang asked coldly.

The man pulled the corners of his mouth, forced a smile, and replied: "Who can I be? I'm just a businessman. Doing business in the underworld always involves swordplay. It's not surprising, right?"

"Take out your talisman and show it to us!" At the suggestion of King Lanling, Lu Yuli shouted.

The talisman is a kind of identity certificate, which not only records the person's name, but also his or her ancestral home, identity and occupation.

Zhao Wu even increased the strength of the sword. The pain of the sharp blade cutting his skin immediately made the man frightened. He hurriedly took out the talisman from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Yu.

"This, this is my talisman!"

Lu Yu took a look, then looked at Gao Changgong and said, "You are indeed a businessman, but your ancestral home is not from Pengcheng, but from Hanyang County, Qinzhou!"

Qinzhou belonged to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Lu Yu's expression immediately became cold and fierce, and he couldn't help but shout: "Are you a spy sent by Zhou?"

"no no!"

The man turned pale with fear, and immediately confessed, "My ancestral home is indeed from Hanyang County, Qinzhou, but more than ten years ago, I followed General Luo to join the Eastern Wei, which is now the Northern Qi, so I am now a native of Pengcheng!"

"Grand Commander Luo? Are you talking about Luo Chao? The Luo Chao who was killed for treason, the husband of Lu Junjun?"

In the series of questions from Lu Yu, the man lowered his head and answered: "Yes, it is General Luo!"

"So, why are you hiding your identity in this tavern? Are you Lord Lu's man?"

When Lu Yu asked this, the man's expression changed for a moment.

Zhao Wu shouted even more sternly: "Hurry up and tell me!"

The man suddenly felt suffocated and painful, and quickly replied: "Yes, I am Lord Lu's man. Lord Lu asked me to come here just to give silver to an assassin, 100,000 silver coins!"

"And if we succeed, we must kill this assassin!"

"Sure enough...it's her!"

This time it was a woman who sighed. The man became a little panicked and asked, "Who are you?"

Xiao Jinyu took off the mask on her face.

"Am I the person that your Lord Lu wants to kill?" she asked.

When the man first saw Xiao Jinyu's face, his eyes widened and he was stunned for a long time. He only came to his senses when Lu Yu hit him hard on the face with the hilt of the sword.

"You dare to look at our Princess with such eyes? You are looking for death!" Lu Yu shouted.

The man then looked at Xiao Jinyu again in surprise, then hastily withdrew his gaze and glanced at the masked Lanling King.

"Princess of a County? Then you are... Prince Lanling?"

Suddenly, I remembered that it was rumored that Lanling Wang liked to wear a mask when killing enemies on the battlefield because his handsomeness could not intimidate the enemy, and the two people in front of him were so elegant and graceful...

"I deserve to die! I didn't know it was Prince Lanling who came!"

"Your secret base must have existed for a long time, otherwise you wouldn't have sent assassins here to kill me four months ago. So what you said is just giving the assassin 100,000 yuan, which doesn't make us believe what you said."

Hearing what Xiao Jinyu said, Lu Yu's eyes lit up, and he shouted angrily: "You're still not honest, right? Do you want to be severely punished?"

"Zhao Wu, first break his tendons in his hands and feet and see how long he can hold out."

The man became even more terrified when he heard that his tendons in his hands and feet would be broken.

"Wait, let me tell you, actually, we are specially placed here by Lu Junjun to fight against the North..."

As soon as he said this, the man's body stiffened, his eyes widened, and he turned his head to look back in disbelief, but he saw nothing and fell to the ground dejectedly.

The moment he fell to the ground, Xiao Jinyu saw a very short sharp arrow stuck in his back.

Zhao Wu had already chased out. At this time, the fight in the tavern was almost over. The shopkeeper was finally restrained by Nie Yinniang after being stabbed several times. The waiter was dead, and the bodies of many strong men were lying on the ground.

When Gao Changgong and Xiao Jinyu walked out, the only person left in the tavern was the shopkeeper, except for the people brought by Nie Yinniang.

"I'm sorry, but we let two of them escape because of their agility!" Nie Yinniang said, dragging the shopkeeper over and making him kneel in front of Gao Changgong and Xiao Jinyu. "If you have anything to say, just ask him! After all, he has been the shopkeeper here for more than ten years!"

"So you have been communicating with the Zhou people for more than ten years, right?" Xiao Jinyu asked as soon as she opened her mouth.

The shopkeeper's face changed in horror, and he spat, "What do you mean by communicating with the Zhou people? Young lady, don't slander us and accuse us of being spies!"

"Whether he is a spy or not, we have to wait until we get to Yecheng and put him in the Dali Temple for investigation!"

At this time Gao Changgong added a sentence, and then looked at Nie Yinniang. Nie Yinniang was stunned for a moment, and then she understood what he meant. She knocked the shopkeeper unconscious with a punch, and at the same time stuffed a pill in his mouth!

"This man is very important. To prevent him from committing suicide or his companions from killing him, we will place him in a secret place first. We will return to Yecheng tomorrow!"

Nie Yinniang nodded.

At this time, Lu Yu threw a heavy box in front of Nie Yinniang and said, "This is the 100,000 yuan your employer gave you. As for whether there is 100,000 yuan, you can count it yourself!"

This box was naturally found in the secret room where the man was just now.

"Also, this tavern is yours from now on, but my prince wants to get all the information related to that person in Yecheng from you!"

Seeing how generous they were, the determination in Nie Yinniang's eyes brightened a little.

Since it is a business, there must be a price to pay, and this condition is not too much for them.

The dozen assassins behind her were even more ecstatic and bowed to Gao Changgong to express their gratitude: "Thank you, Prince and Princess, for not holding grudges against us and being willing to take us in! We are willing to obey your orders from now on!"

……

Gao Changgong ordered the guards to search and inspect the Fenglai Tavern inside and out. Some suspicious items were loaded into boxes and planned to be taken back to Yecheng. After several days of running around, the soldiers who followed him were a little tired, so Gao Changgong took Xiao Jinyu and a group of guards to Pengcheng's mansion.

This was also a temporary residence for him when he was training and stationed here.

Nie Yinniang and her assassins stayed in Fenglaiju Tavern to serve as their insiders and receive information from "that person" in Yecheng.

"Chang Gong, do you know why the man in Yecheng wants to kill you?"

As soon as she took a rest, Xiao Jinyu asked Gao Changgong to find her a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. She asked while she was sketching on the paper.

"I know. It's all for the Cizhou Kiln in Pengcheng. Three years ago, your majesty gave the Cizhou Kiln in Pengcheng to Lu Lingxuan for management. She made a lot of personal profit from it. Later, my uncle, the Prince of Zhao, reported this to your majesty. Your majesty wanted to take it back. It happened that I won a battle last year, so your majesty gave it to me on the pretext of being drunk!"

"I think Lu Lingxuan must have relied on the huge profits from the Cizhou Kiln to win over important officials in the court, form a clique and monopolize power, and also keep so many spies, right?"

"You knew all that, so why did you offer this Cizhou Kiln as a betrothal gift to marry me in front of so many people?" Xiao Jinyu said with a little surprise.

Gao Changgong smiled, put his arm around her shoulders, looked into her eyes and said, "Since I'm marrying you, it's not too much to give you all the wealth in the world!"

Xiao Jinyu couldn't help but smile, and asked jokingly: "Aren't you afraid that the emperor of your Qi country will be afraid of you?"

"Don't be afraid. I still have you, don't I?" Gao Changgong said with a smile. His eyes moved slightly and he saw the object she had drawn on the paper. He couldn't help but feel curious, "Ayu, what are you drawing? It seems to be a kind of porcelain, but I have never seen it before!"

What Xiao Jinyu painted was indeed a kind of porcelain, and she painted extremely delicate patterns on the porcelain, making the porcelain more fresh, elegant and pleasing to the eye.

"I want Yueying to stay here. He told me that he had traveled extensively with his father and had done business in this kind of porcelain. I want him to help me make this kind of porcelain, and I've given him the recipe for making it."

"Okay, then I'll arrange some people to protect him here!"

Xiao Jinyu nodded and said with a smile: "Chang Gong, let's return the Cizhou Kiln to the emperor! We are only responsible for controlling the porcelain firing techniques here!"

"it is good!"

Seeing that he did not say a word of refusal, which was very different from her attitude when she first proposed to join the Northern Qi government, Xiao Jinyu could not help but smile again. She took his hand, walked to the corridor, held the carved railing and looked at the crescent moon in the night sky.

At this time, the moon had just half entered the clouds, and the faint light cast a hazy glow on the clouds.

"Chang Gong, do you believe that this strange phenomenon in the sky can really influence the fate of the human world?" she suddenly asked, her eyes clear and distant, looking up at the starry sky far away in the sky.

"I don't quite believe it. What about you?" Gao Changgong shook his head and replied with a smile.

Hearing this answer, Xiao Jinyu smiled with some relief.

"I don't believe it either. How can the fate of the world be determined by the celestial phenomena? Although birth, aging, illness and death are inevitable in a person's life, the choice of how to live and how to die, fate should be in our own hands!"

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to meet the moonlight, as if she wanted to hold the crescent moon in her palm. After a moment, she retracted her gaze and looked at Gao Changgong.

"so……"

As soon as she started to speak, Gao Changgong frowned and interrupted her:

"Don't say anything, I know what you want to say!"

Seeing the obvious displeasure on his face, Xiao Jinyu turned around and put her arms around his neck, pecked him lightly on the lips, and said softly: "Then hold me to sleep, I'm tired too!"

Gao Changgong picked her up with a smile, and a black butterfly fluttered its wings and followed them into the bedroom.