Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The room was dark and messy, but it didn't look like an abandoned temple full of dust, but like a lazy person who never cleaned and scrubbed.

"This guy is useless, I can't keep it." Li Dutou said coldly.

Another man said: "Kill his son, and his wife is a bit ugly, but we haven't touched meat for a long time..."

The face of Lu Hanzi who had lost his left hand changed. Seeing that the three men were big and thick, with fierce eyes behind their faces, Lu Hanzi was terrified. After begging for a while, he suddenly thought of something: "Although I don't understand, I know where Sun Fangtou lives..."

"Oh?" Li Du looked at him.

Lu Hanzi said: "When I was still working in the workshop, Sun Fangtou was the workshop head of our sixth workshop. He knew how the things in the workshop moved, and he would instruct everyone to repair and replace parts from time to time. The old men want to know how to make armor. As long as you catch him, you will be able to make it!"

"Where does he live?" Li Du asked anxiously.

Lu Hanzi replied: "I also live in the town, and the craftsmen with their families live there. The workshop is too noisy."

After hearing this, Li Dutou gave a wink, a man next to him took out a crossbow, and the other hid a dagger in his bosom. Li Dutou said coldly: "It's best to behave yourself, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless."

A few people stayed in the broken yard until Youshi, and then boldly took Lu Hanzi to the market in the south. When we got there, the sun had already set on the horizon, and the lights in the market were messy and dark. There are also official shops at each street corner, and there are officials and soldiers inside, but no one is making trouble in the market, so no one deliberately checks.

Li Du looked at the atmosphere and felt that the problem was not serious. Lu Hanzi went out to drink last night but did not come back, but if someone of his status disappears, probably only his family members are anxious, and the prodigal son cannot be shocked in the local area.

With Lu Hanzi's fingerprints, Li Dutou and others drove the carriage to the door of a newly built house. This house is larger than ordinary houses, and there is a yard, it really looks like a place where a leader lives.

A man in the carriage said in a deep voice: "Should I ask this fellow to knock on the door and ask if he is there?"

Li Dutou said: "No need. The one surnamed Sun will come back anyway. There are four people in total, the man among them is Sun Fangtou, there is also a boy who is a few years old, a woman, and an old servant. You stay and watch the carriage and this guy; let's climb over the wall and go in. Except for Sun Fangtou and the boy, the other two will be killed first when they see it."

The man next to him said: "The woman should be Sun Fangtou's wife. Are we going to kill his family?"

Li Dutou sneered and said: "If a woman is killed, she will be killed. If Sun Fangtou goes to the Northern Han Kingdom in the future, find ten or eight young and beautiful women for him; if he dies, the woman will be at odds with us. But the boy can't be killed. If the Sun family's incense is cut off, it will be more troublesome then."

After several people discussed it properly, Li Dutou and a subordinate with a crossbow moved towards the courtyard wall. Li Dutou is not afraid at this moment. He is a general under Zhao Kuangyin's subordinates. He has killed people on the battlefield for a long time. He has never done such a thing, but it is not a big deal in his eyes... He even thinks it is quite easy.

After Li Dutou came to Tokyo, he felt that it was easy to commit crimes. He lamented what happened to those people who were caught by the government. Maybe they were too stupid and stupid to plan.

The two climbed over the courtyard wall with ease, and had just jumped down when there was a sudden "Wow", which startled Li Du's head. I saw a black dog rushing forward barking, but was caught by a rope tied to a tree, where it barked.

"Whoosh!" A crossbow arrow flew over, very accurate, the dog immediately fell to the ground, and his legs twitched.

At this time, a "creak" sounded from a door, and an old woman poked her head out holding a lantern, and soon found Li Dutou and others standing by the wall. The old woman called out first: "Who is it?"

The man with the crossbow hastily took a crossbow bolt and was busy winding it up. Li Du rushed up with a dagger in his head. Only then did the old woman come to her senses, and shouted in horror: "There are thieves!"

Hold! Li Du's head turned black when he heard the shout, mother | this thing is messed up! There is an official store in this place, how can you get rid of it when the official is sent over?

Li Du didn't think much about it, and ran after him. The old woman ran slowly and was overtaken in an instant. Li Dutou didn't say a word, went up and covered the old woman's face accurately, raised the knife with his hand, stabbed her chest with one knife, and then let her fall to the ground with his hand.

At this moment, a relatively young man came out from the inner gate, saw the bloody knife in Li Dutou's hand, and froze there. At the door of the main room behind, Li Dutou's subordinates also caught up and aimed at the man with a crossbow.

"Don't kill randomly!" Li Du nodded.

The man with the crossbow said: "Don't move around, or I will kill you with one arrow!"

Not long after, a woman also came out. The man with the crossbow turned around, and there was a "bang" sound, but the woman didn't even make a sound, and fell on her back with a crossbow bolt stuck between her eyebrows. The frightened young man should be Sun Fangtou, seeing the situation, he stared at the woman with wide eyes.

Li Du ran up with a knife in his head. Sun Fangtou was so frightened that he took two steps back, pressed his back against the wall, and said in horror, "Who are you...why did you harm me?"

Without saying a word, Li Dutou pressed the bloody knife against his neck: "Do whatever I tell you, or you will die! Go!"

The two escorted Sun Fangtou and hurriedly exited the main room, and went straight out of the courtyard. As soon as he went out, he saw a woman peering outside the door. Li Du turned his head and saw that there was no crossbow bolt on his subordinates, and Sun Fangtou's arm was thrown behind his back. Li Dutou rushed forward immediately, the woman yelled and turned around to run away, but was immediately grabbed by the neck, and Li Dutou stabbed her in the chest. One-shot kill, very accurate.

Li Du cursed, "Hurry up and get that fellow into the carriage!"

"Here." The subordinate pushed the stunned Sun Fang's head.

Li Du grabbed the corpse by the shoulders and dragged it to the gate of Sun's courtyard. As soon as he came out, he saw two figures coming from the entrance of the alley. He didn't dare to linger, so he hurried into the carriage, knocked Sun Fang's head unconscious with one palm, and said to the man driving in front, "Hurry up! Damn it's like this..."

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Zan Jurun, who was in the workshop area, heard something was wrong, and rode over overnight. Zan Jurun was the envoy of the Hakka Province, and making armor had nothing to do with his position, but he was very interested in the new armor, and modified the design of the new armor several times. Recently, he had a whim, thinking that the plate armor is forged quickly, and the chain armor connecting the moving parts is slow to be forged by hand. He wants to re-inlay the leather armor to forge some armor faster. So are staying in the workshop area.

He rushed to the market, saw a Zao slave leader, and asked: "Have you sent someone to chase the murderer?"

The leader responded.

Zan Jurun rushed to the murder scene first, and found two crossbows there, one on a woman and one on a dog. The crossbow arrows were shot very accurately, and they only hit the head; and the two people who were killed were all killed by a single blow. Zan Jurun immediately said: "The murderer is definitely not an ordinary person."

At this moment, an officer clasped his fists and said: "Yesterday, there was another matter. A woman came to the official store to report to the official, saying that her man went out to drink with others the night before, and he has not returned yet. I asked about it and said that it was a disabled craftsman in the workshop... After all, I don't care about this kind of thing. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, so I told her to go back and wait, maybe the man will come back."

Zan Jurun took two steps, and ordered: "Wang Shu ordered you to return to the workshop area immediately, sign the cinnabar message, and transfer the soldiers stationed in the workshop to each ferry of the Yellow River, guard the ferry, and strictly investigate those who cross the north!"

Wang Hong, the order of Jiafang Department, said in a low voice: "A murder has happened, and the Kaifeng government came to investigate. Are we meddling in this way..."

"Of course the Kaifeng Mansion will take care of it, but now we have to take care of the emergency regardless of the cost." Zan Jurun said in a serious voice, "Look at the situation, if the spies sent by the enemy country steal our armor-making technique, the matter is of great importance!"

He then said to a green-robed official: "Send fast officials to search for clues in the market. Is there any suspicious person coming and going with the disabled craftsman? If there are witnesses, draw the portrait."

Zan Jurun paced back and forth there, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

But he is an envoy of the Hakka Province, and he has no control over those officials who are responsible for arresting criminals or guarding the gates; even Wang Hong, the commander of the Jiafang Administration that he is familiar with, has no authority, and only a small number of people assigned to them by the Kaifeng government to station in the workshop area... This matter must at least be attended by people from the Kaifeng government office before a full-scale search can be launched.

Zan Jurun is not familiar with the people of Kaifeng Mansion. But he knows better, that is, Guo Shao, the current emperor, and Zuo You, Guo Shao's confidant. Zan Jurun quit the place where the murder was committed, and said, "I'll write an urgent report and go to the city and submit it to the Privy Council; then I'll visit Zuo Shaoqing at Taichang Temple at night."

When everyone heard that they were some high-status officials and figures, they were all in awe.

Zan Jurun took the seal and went straight to Tokyo City with two followers. He handed in the stamped letter for verification, claiming that there was an urgent report. As an envoy of the Hakka Province, he could be regarded as a court minister, so he entered the city in a hanging basket.

After Zan Jurun returned home, he first wrote the report and asked someone to send it to the branch of the Privy Council outside Xuande Gate. There were people on duty at that yamen twelve hours a day... However, the usual urgent report could not be sent to the imperial city at night, unless there was an important event such as enemy soldiers entering the center.

Zan Jurun then went to Zuo You's house overnight. Even if it is a friend, it is inappropriate to visit in the middle of the night, and Zuo You is not Zan Jurun's friend, just an acquaintance. But Zan Jurun felt that this matter was very serious, so he didn't care much about it.

It was only then that he realized that the secrecy and carelessness of the armor workshop made it so easy for spies to get their hands on it... But no one really thought too much about technology leaks before.

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