Tibet

Chapter 723 The Red on the Crane's Head
There is a huge temple in Lidefang, Luoyang. This is the Daguangming Temple built by Anlu Mountain. It was originally a Zoroastrian temple, covering an area of ​​only three acres, and was called Daqin Temple.

After An Lushan occupied Luoyang, he ordered all the houses around Daqin Temple to be demolished and expanded into a large temple covering an area of ​​about [-] acres, which was renamed Daguangming Temple.

Because the scale was too large, the construction has not been completed yet, especially after An Lushan died and An Qingxu ascended the throne less than a month ago. He lived a debauched life in the harem all day, leaving all the government affairs to Yan Zhuang, and Yan Zhuang Zhuang was not a Zoroastrian, so he naturally had no interest in building the Daguangming Temple. He did not allocate a penny, and the Daguangming Temple became an unfinished project. All the original Zoroastrian believers dispersed and went to other Zoroastrian temples.

But the east side of the Daguangming Temple has been built. The temple covers an area of ​​about 120 acres and is home to a group of mysterious people, about [-] people. They leave early and come back late every day, stealing property and kidnapping young women.

This group of more than a hundred mysterious warriors is the assassin group of Daguangming Temple. They are called Guangming Warriors to the outside world. They were trained by An Lushan for ten years. They are all professional assassins. The leader is Ashina Chengqing.

However, Ashina Chengqing was not in Luoyang at this time, and was currently hiding in Youzhou. He lost [-] troops in Lantian County, and he has been afraid to show his face for fear of being held accountable by An Lushan.

In particular, he supports An Qinghe and has been encouraging An Lushan to depose An Qingxu. Now that An Qingxu has ascended the throne, he does not dare to return to Luoyang.

The deputy leader of this group of light warriors is Shi Kangsheng, who is also a Sogdian. Their mission is to monitor officials and perform various assassination missions.

Ten of the 32 assassins who went to Xiangyang to assassinate Princess Lu were Shi Kangsheng's bright warriors, and the other 22 were soldiers selected by Shi Kangsheng from the army to assist the ten assassins.

Above an unfinished hall in the west, Aunt Gongsun was observing these light warriors with a clairvoyant eye. She had been observing these more than 100 light warriors for 20 days, and she had completely understood their life patterns.

These more than 100 people were all highly skilled in martial arts. She could kill more than 100 of them by herself, but she couldn't kill more than [-] people, not even with her apprentices, so she considered using another method to eradicate them.

Tomorrow is the fifth day of the second lunar month, and every fifth and tenth day these warriors gather together to worship the rising sun, which is a good opportunity to deal with them.

Aunt Gongsun was already confident. She waved her hand and retreated with her two apprentices.

At noon, they came to Nanrentang Pharmacy again and found the shopkeeper Wang Jing. "Shopkeeper Wang, what I want should be ready!"

Wang Jing nodded, "It's ready. Come with me!"

When they came to the back hall, Wang Jing took out a flat box and handed it to Aunt Gongsun, "There are twenty bottles in total. The best Hedinghong pure poison powder is hard to get!"

Aunt Gongsun took the box and opened it. There were twenty small porcelain bottles neatly arranged inside. She opened one bottle and found red powder inside. It was indeed the best Heding Red.

Aunt Gongsun was overjoyed and asked again: "How to use it?"

Wang Jing took out a copper tube and handed it to her, "This copper tube is specially customized. One end is sharp and pierces the wine jar, and the other end is trumpet-shaped. You need to dissolve the medicinal powder in good sake first, and then pour it into the wine jar through the copper tube. , a small bottle can be used to pour a jar of wine. It is colorless and odorless, but extremely poisonous. If a cow drinks it, it will die on the spot, not to mention people. However, if the other party tests it with a silver needle, it will turn black, so you have to be careful."

This is not a problem. When the assassins paid homage to Chaoyang, it was actually still dark and they couldn't tell with a silver needle. Moreover, they usually didn't use silver needles when eating and drinking.

Aunt Gongsun collected the box and copper pipe and left.

At night, three black figures climbed down ropes from the roof and entered a room. This room was a small warehouse filled with wine jars, probably more than 100 jars.

Aunt Gongsun had discovered a long time ago that the wine they usually drank was brought from other places. The wine here was only drunk during the sun worship. Fifteen wine jars have been neatly placed at the door. This should be what the sacrifices drink at dawn. liquor.

Aunt Gongsun and two apprentices worked together, piercing the wine jar with a thin copper pipe, and slowly poured the poisonous wine from a small gourd through the bell mouth on the copper pipe, and then replaced it with another jar of wine. The people moved skillfully and cooperated tacitly. In less than half an hour, all fifteen jars of wine were filled with poisonous wine.

"Let's go!" Aunt Gongsun gave a gentle order. The three of them climbed the rope onto the beam, jumped from the big hole to the roof, collected the rope, and laid the tiles again. The three of them quickly disappeared into the darkness.
At dawn, a long table was placed in the square, filled with large bowls, and a carpet was spread on the floor. More than 100 people knelt on the carpet and worshiped toward the east, chanting something.

As the early morning sun slowly rose from the eastern sky, their worship ceremony reached its climax. After three worships, each person picked up a big bowl, and one of his men held a wine jar and poured wine into the bowl. Aunt Gongsun did this three times in a row. Seeing them worshiping like this, I came up with the idea of ​​poisoning the wine.

Otherwise, some people drink first and others drink later. The person who drinks first becomes toxic and the poison will be exposed. The best time is to drink together.

Everyone knelt on the carpet with a bowl of wine. The deputy leader Shi Kangsheng dipped his finger in the wine, flicked it toward the sun three times, and read scriptures loudly.

He raised the wine bowl above his head and drank it all in one gulp. More than a hundred other people also drank it all in one gulp. Aunt Gongsun could see clearly with her monocular clairvoyance on the roof a hundred steps away. There were fifteen wine jars in total. , the same batch of wine jars they poisoned.

Suddenly, several warriors fell to the ground, holding their stomachs and rolling around, howling loudly. Other warriors came to rescue one after another. Soon, the rescued warriors also fell to the ground, and even the leader Shi Kangsheng fell to the ground. More than 100 people fell to the ground one after another. , some rolled over and some curled up into a ball, all wailing in pain.

There is no need for Mrs. Gongsun to read any more. The concentration of this kind of Crane's Crown Red is very high and there is no cure. It will basically kill you within a stick of incense. Even if you drink less and survive for a while, it will also seriously damage your internal organs. They died one after another within a few months.

Aunt Gongsun waved her hand, "Let's go!"

The three people quickly left the top of the hall and left the Daguangming Temple.

At noon, Wang Jing brought news that all 120 Great Light warriors had been poisoned and killed, and no one escaped. Aunt Gongsun and her two apprentices left Luoyang that day and returned to Xiangyang.

It's already mid-February, and the chill of early spring in February has subsided a bit in the south. The air is filled with a moist and warm atmosphere, warblers are flying, grass is growing, both sides of the Yangtze River are colorful, and there are vibrant bright greens everywhere.

A fleet of [-] large and small warships sailed slowly on the Yangtze River, carrying [-] naval troops and a large amount of wealth and supplies.

Li Ye personally led the fleet east this time. He wanted to transport a large amount of materials and treasures to the prosperous Huainan and Jiangnan to sell them and convert them into money, cloth or food. He was originally going to Jiangnan, but Gao Lishi found him. This gave him a new mission to go to the south of the Yangtze River, to talk to Yong Wang Li Lin about the details of borrowing a boat to enter Sichuan.

This was also Li Ye's first trip eastward after coming to the Tang Dynasty. Even in his previous life, he had only been to Jiangxia as far east as possible. In his previous life, Jiangxia was called Wuhan. However, it was a bit regretful that he could only go to Jiangning this time and could not go to Suzhou or Suzhou. Changzhou and Hangzhou areas.

In the third-floor cabin of the first Wanshi ship, Yang Yuhuan lay lazily on the soft and thick backrest. The warm sunset shone through the windows made of crystal and shone on her skin as delicate as suet, making her Her skin glowed pink, and she applied a little makeup. She looked stunningly beautiful, and her whole body was filled with the warmth of a mature woman.

She is the kind of woman who only takes a thousand years to be born. Time has no effect on her. She is like an apple with an infinite shelf life. She always exudes a mature charm that makes all men in the world intoxicated, but only the strongest in the world. To have her.

Although the eldest sister Xinyue was not able to travel with her, Yang Yuhuan lost a traveling companion to talk to, but she was secretly happy about the result. She could stay and fly together with her husband and enjoy the pleasure of fish and water.

Although she and Li Ye were also just two people on the way from Sizhuyuan to Xiangyang, their moods at this time and then were completely different.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside. Yang Yuhuan sat up slightly, her S-shaped body showing charming curves.

The door opened, and Li Ye pushed the wooden wheel dining cart and walked in with a smile on his face. He was tall and burly, full of strength and masculine charm, which really fascinated Yang Yuhuan.

Yang Yuhuan's beautiful eyes became brighter, and a blush appeared on her pretty jade-like face. The beautiful night she was looking forward to came once again.

(End of this chapter)