Chen Ke ate his food while listening to the gossip next door.
He had calmed down and went over the whole incident in his mind.
On a dark and windy night, with heavy rain, sounds of quarreling were heard from the Empress Dowager's bedroom.
"I won't marry him. If you want to marry me, go ahead and marry me. I'm going to run away from home." The beautiful princess cried with red eyes. She twisted her body and swung her arms, then ran out capriciously.
After hearing the news, the shifty little eunuch hurried out of the dog hole in the palace and ran away like a wild dog.
He ran to a house, exchanged the secret code, and slipped in.
"What? Princess Qin is going to Xianxia Pass?!" The spy leader with a mustache couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the little eunuch's words.
Damn it, he just killed her on the road.
The leader acted decisively, writing on a note: "If you intend to travel west, you will be intercepted and killed." He then handed it to a trusted aide, saying, "Asan, quickly pass the message along."
Asan put on black clothes, secretly left the city with the pigeon in his pocket, and went into the uninhabited mountains.
The rain was too heavy and there were lightning everywhere. Even if the carrier pigeons didn't get lost if they were released, they would be struck to death by lightning.
Asan simply squatted under a big tree and waited for the rain to stop before releasing the pigeon.
But he never expected that with a loud bang, the tree fell down and knocked him unconscious.
It took him a long time to wake up, but his brain was not working well.
He walked towards the capital in a daze and entered the small town at the foot of the mountain.
The warrior who came to pick him up saw Ah San and heard him mumbling something about carrier pigeons.
Oh my, this is outrageous. This bastard must be out of his mind. What if he leaks the organization's secrets?
The warrior took out his crossbow and shot an arrow, killing Asan.
Well, that's roughly what happened.
Any intelligence is time-sensitive. The sooner it is passed on, the more calm and thorough the preparations will be for the group responsible for the ambush.
It is not easy to carry out a successful assassination, especially for a target like the Princess of Qin.
Taking the assassination of the King of Shu by the Eight-Winged Goddess as an example, you must first prepare the three beads for the assassination, have accomplices and people who can be used, and choose a suitable time.
After the assassination, you have to leave yourself a way out, or leave clues to create confusion, so that you can escape safely.
If you just rely on brute force to charge directly, not only will you fail to kill the target, but you will also leave many loopholes and clues, which in turn will allow the enemy to destroy your lair.
The note in Chen Ke's hand has expired and is definitely invalid.
If even the foodie next door knows it, how could the intelligence specialist not know it?
Chen Ke heard from the captain of the security forces that security had been tightened within a radius of a hundred miles in the capital.
At the speed at which the Princess of Qin and her companions were traveling, it would take at least three or four days to travel a hundred miles, so she probably wouldn't run into any trouble during these three or four days.
Since there is still plenty of time, why is he in such a hurry?
These three or four days are also very important to him.
After eating and drinking, Chen Ke called a carriage at the door of the restaurant.
"Do you know Xuanwu Lake?"
"Sir, I know, I know it very well!" The coachman laughed with an expression that said "I understand".
When one is well fed and well clothed, he will yearn for sex. So which young man who comes to the capital would not go to the Xuanwu Lake for a night of romance?
The carriage carried Chen Ke through the bustling night market and finally stopped in front of a row of small buildings built by the water.
"Sir, this is the Crimson Cloud Tower. The students of the Great Xia Academy love the girls here the most."
Chen Ke nodded with satisfaction, threw out a silver note worth one hundred taels, and walked towards the gate with red lanterns hanging on it.
The servant at the door had already noticed Chen Ke's generosity, and he immediately came forward with a smile on his face.
Chen Ke threw out another hundred taels of silver, and the servant laughed happily. He answered all the questions without reservation.
"Sir, you asked at a coincidence. Young Master Feng Shaokun of the Zhenxi General's Mansion was drinking with a group of students. General Feng is the leader of the martial arts students at the Great Xia Academy!"
Chen Ke's eyes lit up and he gave the servant another hundred taels of silver.
Money paves the way and everything goes smoothly.
Chen Ke walked into the box on the third floor, expressed his admiration for Feng Shaokun and the students, and covered all the expenses for the day. He was immediately invited to join the table by more than a dozen students from the academy.
After the best meal was served, Chen Ke mingled with everyone and naturally sat next to Young Master Feng.
Even the singing girls who were serving drinks kept flirting with Chen Ke.
Bang!
When everyone was drunk, Chen Ke suddenly frowned and slammed his palm on the table.
The round table shook, and the singing girls who were accompanying the guests shuddered with fear and stood up from the students' arms in panic.
The musicians who were playing music were so frightened that they stopped and were at a loss as to what to do.
The students all looked at Chen Ke in surprise. Feng Shaokun's face was even more uncertain. He looked at Chen Ke sideways and said, "Master Zhang, what are you doing..."
Chen Ke, who went by the pseudonym "Zhang Xiaojing," sighed and apologized, "Please don't misunderstand me. I just suddenly realized that the Princess of Qin was going to marry that scumbag Chen Ke, and that Chen Ke was actually your classmate. So I was so indignant that I lost my composure."
The students suddenly realized what was going on and started to show anger.
It is indeed a shameful thing that Chen Xuezha is about to become their classmate.
What is even more intolerable is that Chen Xuezha wants to marry the princess of Qin.
Feng Shaokun sneered, "Master Zhang, don't worry. As long as Chen Ke dares to step into the Great Xia Academy, I will make him regret coming into this world!"
"Yeah, we'll beat the crap out of him, and he won't even recognize his own mother!"
"What are you talking about? Chen Xuezha's mother died a long time ago. We are going to beat him so hard that his own father won't even recognize him!"
"Beating him up is easy. Our martial arts academy has already prepared ten cruel tortures. We will use them on him one by one. If we can't kill him, we will at least cripple him!"
well!
Chen Ke was beaming with joy and cheered loudly, memorizing the names and appearances of these bastards.
There will be plenty of opportunities to settle accounts in the future, so take your time.
With a smile on his face, he raised his wine glass and said, "I admire young heroes like you. Since we are dealing with Chen Ke, if you can use money, please let me know. I have no talent or martial arts skills, but I have plenty of money!"
Everyone's eyes lit up, and they all stood up, raised their glasses and drank it all in one gulp.
Feng Shaokun patted Chen Ke's shoulder heavily and said with a hearty laugh, "Master Zhang, we are indeed kindred spirits!"
Chen Ke also laughed heartily, but a worried look appeared on his face.
Sitting down, he said with a worried look on his face, "My family has many friends in the business circle of Beijing. I heard that the Chen family spent a lot of money to bribe many students from the Academy of Arts. If we want to deal with Chen Ke, will those students from the Academy of Arts stab us in the back?"
"What?!"
Feng Shaokun immediately exploded, cursing, "That's how spineless those liberal arts college students are. They even dared to accept the Chen family's dirty money. What a bunch of scum!"
The anger of more than a dozen young men from the martial arts academy was also ignited, and they started cursing.
In their minds, the Princess of Qin, even if not a goddess, is a heroine.
Because of this, they have to unite to deal with the outsider Chen Xuezha and find ways to ruin this marriage.
But these grandsons from the Academy of Literature actually turned to the Chen family for a few bucks. How could they not be angry?
With a bang, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open.
A young man in white stood at the door with a red face, glaring at Feng Shaokun: "Feng Shaokun, watch your mouth. Who are you, a gentle beast? You are not allowed to slander us, the students of the liberal arts college!"
slander?
Give you face!
Feng Shaokun stood up with a grim smile, suddenly flew into the air, and kicked the young man in white in the chest.
The boy knocked over the railing and rolled down to the first floor lobby, letting out a long scream.
A melee broke out.
The young man's companions rushed out of the box and fought with the martial arts students led by Feng Shaokun.
As both sides shouted and screamed, chaos quickly began to spread from one building to four small buildings.
The melee spread from Jiangyun Tower to other restaurants and pleasure boats, and even conflicts broke out on the cruise ships sailing on the lake.
Chen Ke held a pot of wine and sat on the roof of the highest building, watching the magnificent battle in all directions.
Tsk tsk, there were at least eight hundred students from both the civil and military academies who participated in the war, if not a thousand.
With so many pillars of the country drinking in Xuanwu Lake, it's no wonder that the empire can hardly protect Kyushu.
boom!
A deafening roar was heard from Xuanwu Lake.
Under the joint attack of several martial arts academy students, a magnificent three-story ship was sunk.
This is serious, the best thing to do is to run away!
Chen Ke floated down, stuffed ten thousand taels of silver notes into the old maid of Jiangyun Tower, and fled.
With such a big incident happening, no one in the academy has the time to deal with me anymore, right?
I'll go back and deal with Xu Ziang and Lu Xiong. These two bastards have been saying bad things about me and making up rumors about me every day since I returned to the capital and entered the Daxia Academy, ruining my reputation.
Isn't there a price to pay for spreading rumors?
(End of this chapter)