Chapter 16 Let's Be Assassins First
Lin Feng placed his five brothers in a remote yard just one street from Zhengwang Mansion. This was what Lin Feng noticed when he went out in the afternoon. This was an independent small courtyard with five main houses and three main houses. The furniture and bedding in the house were basically complete, and it was relatively new. The rent for a year was three gold coins.
The original owner of the yard was a retired minor official. The family returned to Ningzhou and entrusted the rental to the neighbors. Seeing that there was still a piece of flowers and plants in the yard, Lin Yi liked it very much, so he immediately handed over three gold coins to the resident who was responsible for renting it and rented it for a year.
Lin Feng left a gold coin to Chen Fei and told them to familiarize themselves with the surrounding situation first, buy some daily necessities, and wait at home to come back together for dinner. Then, Lin Feng rushed back to Zheng Wang Mansion.
At this time, it was already late, and the candle in front of the Zhengwang Mansion had been lit. Lin Feng told a guard at the mansion to summon all the other guards to gather the martial arts field, and he rushed to the Zhengwang's study.
Without Lin Feng's expectations, Li Yu was painting in the study. He saw that Li Yu's strokes corresponded to each stroke, and went back and forth, freely, gathered or scattered, deep or shallow, and imagined in the real and the real, sparse and dense, with clear layers.
According to records, Li Yu's paintings of landscapes, ink bamboo, and feathers are all refreshing and very good. He is especially skilled in ink bamboo, which is called "iron hook". In ancient times, bamboo was often used by literati to express noble interests, integrity, humble qualities and pure thoughts and feelings. Therefore, in the cultural interpretation of literati, ink bamboo is integrated with philosophical ideas from the inside, and from the outside form to the inside, the meaning is formed into a combination of calligraphy, painting, and Tao, and it directly becomes a direct portrayal of personality and character. In this sense, ink bamboo is a specimen, scale, and basic skill of Chinese literati painting.
"What a picture of ink bamboo, the bamboo is vigorous and vigorous, and the momentum is elegant. King Zheng is so well-written." Lin Feng praised.
Because he valued Lin Feng very much, Li Yu once specifically told Lin Feng not to report it at that time. Therefore, Li Yu, who was focusing on painting, only realized that Lin Feng had arrived until he heard the sound of his words.
"Mr. Lin praised me. I wonder what Mr. Lin has to do here?" Li Yu looked at the painting in front of him with satisfaction, and reluctantly put down the brush in his hand.
"Another armed bet with Brother Zhiqing has actually begun. I want to discuss with the remaining guards how to deal with it. I wonder if King Zheng is interested?" Lin Feng said with a smile.
"Of course I'm interested. Let's go now." Li Yu immediately put down his pen and rushed to the martial arts field with Lin Feng. After Lin Feng defeated the race, Li Yu, who was young, became more curious about him. What else can Mr. Lin not do? How would he win Liu Cheng in what way would he win?
In a big room next to the martial arts venue, Wei San, Han Yu, Huang Yishan, Chen Kai and other remaining nineteen guards had arrived. After lunch, Liu Cheng hurriedly selected the three masters who participated in the long-distance running competition: Chen Li, Zhao Zanting, and Zhao Tianba. After prosecuting Liu Yu, he hurriedly left together.
Some of them sat, some stood, and were discussing loudly in groups of three or three. Seeing Li Yu and Lin Feng coming in one after another, everyone stood up and greeted each other in unison: "See King Zheng!"
Li Yu waved his hand and signaled that everyone didn't have to be polite, so he looked at Lin Feng. Lin Feng looked around and found that there were only seven or eight seats here. Lin Feng smiled slightly, walked over and carried one of the big chairs in the middle of the house, put them in the middle of the house, and bowed to ask Li Yu to sit down. Li Yu was confused and hesitated.
At this time, Lin Feng bowed to all the guards: "Dear brothers, everyone is a martial arts practitioner and is not patient with red tape. Let's take King Zheng as the starting point and sit in a circle on the ground." After that, he lifted up his robe and sat on the ground on the side of Li Yu's left hand first.
Everyone was stunned, but they immediately reacted and immediately sat in a big circle. When Li Yu saw this form, he immediately moved the chair away and sat on the ground. Lin Feng didn't stop him even if he wanted to stop him.
At this time, everyone's vision of Lin Feng was different. After all, Lin Feng used his strength to prove that he was not a scholar who was "useless" in their eyes. Now, Lin Feng once again won some of their favor with an equal attitude.
Lin Feng bowed again: "Brothers, now we are just grasshoppers strung on a rope ring, passengers sitting on a boat. The game will soon arrive in three days. Twenty guards, plus Lin, are half a person. If we cannot defeat the four so-called assassins, we can buy a piece of tofu and kill them together." Several guards were funny when they heard him speak, and a guard even laughed.
Lin Feng changed his tone and his tone became cold: "Some people may have an indifferent attitude towards victory or defeat because of Chief Liu, or some may be timid about the strength of Chief Liu and the four others. But I want to tell you clearly that the success or failure of this game is no longer the victory or defeat of me and Liu Cheng, but the victory or defeat of all of us and Liu Cheng. The result of the game will determine whether we can raise our heads in front of King Zheng in the future and whether we can raise our heads in front of everyone in the royal palace. It can even be said that the game is related to King Zheng's face. King Zheng is willing to make the assassination target of this operation for us, but in fact he has stood on our side. If he fails, King Zheng's reputation will be damaged. Everyone says, can we lose in this game?" Lin Feng shouted out loud.
"You can't lose!" Wei San was the first to shout loudly in a rough voice. He had long seen Liu Cheng be angry. What a great opportunity. The other guards reacted and shouted: "You can't lose!"
"I can tell you with firm confidence that we will win the game, but our problem now is how to win and how to win beauty!" Lin Feng looked around with confidence, and saw that everyone's eyes were no longer afraid, only excitement was left, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Knowing your own and knowing your opponent, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Now, let's discuss the details of the battle together. First of all, who can tell me what weapons Liu Cheng and the other four are good at using, and what are the characteristics of martial arts and body skills?" Lin Feng looked around everyone again.
"Liu Cheng used a sword, which is a family-born sword technique. The sword technique is fierce and fierce; Chen Li used a sword, and the sword was elegant; Zhao Zanting was good at using flying swords, mainly attacking sneak attacks; Zhao Tianba people, as his name is, use two maces, with fierce force and domineering." Wei San answered first.
"So, where do you think Liu Cheng and others will stay?" Lin Feng continued to ask.
"The Chief Guard Liu has always been very arrogant. The villain thinks that all four of them will only think that the failure of the long-distance run in the morning is just a temporary lack of guard. The villain infers that they will only drink and curse at Liu Cheng's house, and wait for three days to teach us a lesson." This time, a thin-looking guard answered.
"Okay, very good. But there is one thing that's bad. Everyone sat together, they were all brothers and called themselves villains, which was the biggest bad." Lin Feng said with a smile, and the guards around him laughed together, and the man laughed loudly after being stunned. Li Yu didn't speak, but at this time, he couldn't help laughing. He felt a sense of ease that he had never seen before when he stayed with such a group of straightforward men.
Lin Feng was a particularly firm egalitarian in his previous life. He always believed that all beings are equal, and they are all mortals. Living in this world together, there is no question of who is higher or lower. He immediately asked, "What is this brother called?"
"Little... I'm Zheng Yucong." The man almost shouted out the word "little man". Fortunately, he stopped the car in time, which made everyone laugh again.
The two laughters broke the invisible diaphragm, and the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became much more harmonious.
"Thank you, Brother Yu Cong. It is easy to break lonely branches, but it is hard to shake the towering trees. As long as we all like Brother Zheng, we use our intelligence and talents and gather them together, so that Commander Liu and others will surrender are just a trivial matter." Lin Feng continued to encourage everyone.
"Now, we do the opposite. If we want to destroy the assassin, we must be an assassin first. We all regard ourselves as an assassin who wants to attack the royal palace. Please tell me what we will do?"
"I will choose to attack when everyone wants to sleep the most."
"I will find a way to sneak in and launch a raid when everyone thinks it is the most unlikely."
"I will delay the attack for a few days and wait until the guards lose their vigilance and suddenly attack."
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The guards rushed to say, Lin Feng stared into the eyes of each of the spoken guards and praised their active participation.
"I will poison their water and succeed in one fell swoop." A guard suddenly said. Everyone was stunned and immediately looked at him with contempt. This was to assassinate King Zheng, and King Zheng was sitting on the ground!
"Haha, it's cruel! But I'm afraid it's hard to find such a cruel poison for a while." Lin Feng gave the guard a thumbs up and smiled and brought the matter over. Such a cruel person must pay more attention to it in private.
"Finally, I would like to ask everyone, the standard equipment of guard weapons is waist knife, but everyone must have their best weapons? Please go back tonight and think about how to combine them to achieve the effect of 11gt;2. Tomorrow, we will see you on the martial arts field." Lin Feng left a homework question for everyone.
"Okay, thank you brothers. With everyone's efforts together, I have successfully come up with a way to win. Please respect Lin's arrangements these days." Lin Feng didn't want to tell his thoughts in front of everyone. If there was one to get some fun with Liu Cheng, he would be very passive.
"Don't worry, everyone obeys Mr. Lin's orders." The guards responded one after another. No one is a fool. Lin Feng is so respected by King Zheng. It's only a matter of time before he soars into the sky. Besides, if he wins, he will get gold coins. No one wants to be looked down upon in the palace after losing. Now he is determined to win this game.
"Okay. Brothers are united, and they will cut off gold. Let's perform a good show for King Zheng." Lin Feng walked to the middle, crossed his hands together, and looked at all the guards. Zheng Yucong reacted the fastest and immediately stood up and rushed over, folded his hands on Lin Feng's hands. Soon, all the guards surrounded him and folded his hands together.
"I will win!" Lin Feng raised his hand up and then put it down. Everyone followed suit, just like the cheers of the basketball teams in later generations before the game, shouting in unison: "I will win!"
When Lin Feng was shouting at first, Li Yu could not help it. When the guards shouted together, he couldn't help it and squeezed in and put his hands to the highest point. Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and shouted again: "I will win!"
Chapter completed!