Chapter 3 How did you know? [Thanks to the leader of "情何以甚" for the reward! ]

In February, the willows are drunk with spring smoke.

Longyuan City is located in Zhongzhou, and its climate has four distinct seasons. Today, the daytime is getting warmer, and the city is full of vitality. The southern section of Tianjie is busy with traffic, pedestrians are flowing on both sides, and the sounds of hawking, talking and laughing are endless.

Liang Yue, dressed in a cloth gown, sat outside a teahouse on Linmen Street, looking around leisurely, his eyes as sharp as torches.

Sitting next to him was Pang Chun, who was also wearing a coarse linen shirt that didn't quite fit him. With his huge head lowered and shoulders hunched, he looked like a sneaky giant.

Sitting opposite was a young man of medium build with a small nose and small eyes.

Although he looks plain at first glance, when you look at him again, you will feel that his temperament suddenly becomes amiable when you see that he is wearing brocade robes, with a valuable jade pendant and a heavy embroidered money bag hanging around his waist.

"Liang Yue, what are we doing here?" the young man asked. "If we want to drink tea, let's go up to the second floor and find a private room. When have I ever sat on the street to drink tea? It would be so embarrassing if someone saw me like that."

The standard configuration of the Imperial Capital Guards is one main guard and two subordinate guards. The man who spoke was named Chen Ju, the main guard that Liang Yue and Pang Chun followed. He was from the Chen family, one of the four great families in the Divine Capital.

Although he belongs to the side branch, he is still a descendant of an aristocratic family and his wealth is unmatched.

"The view upstairs is not good, and it's not as clear as here." Liang Yue shook his head.

Chen Ju wondered, "Don't suspects usually set fires at night? Why are we here during the day?"

"Who said that a fire at night couldn't have been set during the day?" Liang Yue smiled and said, "If my guess is correct... you will know in a moment."

"Tsk." Chen Ju despised his behavior of keeping things a secret, and asked again, "I heard that Lao Hu asked you to pay to become a regular employee, and you refused?"

"Yes." Liang Yue said, "He asked me to pay three hundred taels of silver, which is too outrageous."

"Three hundred?" Chen Ju stared. "My family spent five hundred taels to send me here."

He is a descendant of an aristocratic family and a genuine second-level warrior. He has to spend money if he wants to join the Imperial Capital Guard. From this point of view, everyone is treated equally.

Maybe the crown prince of the current dynasty would have to pay three hundred taels of silver if he wanted to be a regular guard.

"Wow, so the price Lao Hu gave me was a fair price?" Liang Yue replied.

"Almost. He probably didn't raise the price." Chen Ju nodded and said, "The power to recruit permanent positions is in the hands of Zou Fang, the commander-in-chief of South City. If it's less than three hundred taels, it won't be acceptable to him."

He then added: "Actually, I can pay you for the regularization fee."

"No need." Liang Yue refused without hesitation: "I can't afford it."

"It's not a loan, it's a gift." Chen Ju said, "You know, although my family is only a branch of the family that manages the business and has a low status, we are never short of money. Giving you a helping hand is nothing to me, after all, we are friends."

"Really." Liang Yue still refused, "I appreciate your kindness, but I will never buy an official position with money... I think it's unreasonable."

"Huh?" Chen Ju was stunned, a little surprised: "I thought you were a very smart person and should be able to adapt."

"Some things can be changed, but some things can't." Liang Yue said with a firm look in his eyes: "Even if the whole world is in cahoots with them, it's still unreasonable."

"You..." Chen Ju seemed a little touched and was about to say something else when Liang Yue suddenly held his arm under the table and looked towards the front with a sharp gaze, as if he had discovered something.

In front.

A man who looked as simple as an old farmer was pushing a small cart and shouting, "Iced sour plum juice... Refreshing sour plum soup..."

Just after winter, some farmers would store some ice in their own cellars, brew iced drinks and sell them in the city, which were quite popular.

At a street corner ahead, a dusty man wearing a bamboo hat called out to him, "Give me a bowl of sour plum soup."

"okay."

The old farmer opened the ice bucket covered with thick bedding, served the man a bowl of sour plum soup, took the three copper coins, and then pushed the cart towards the street corner.

After turning into the alley, he took out a large piece of ice from the bucket and suddenly threw it into the backyard of a shop on the side.

The action was swift, there was no one in the alley, and no one noticed it on the busy street, so it seemed as if no one had noticed it.

But Liang Yue, who was staring at him from afar, suddenly had a sharp look in his eyes and shouted in a low voice: "Do it!"

The three of them immediately took out their swords from under the table and quickly ran towards the old farmer pushing the cart in the street. As Chen Ju ran, he shouted to the crowd to retreat, "Longyuan Imperial Guards, get out of the way!"

But just as he ran to the center of Tianjie, something strange happened!

……

The man in a bamboo hat who had just bought sour plum soup and was standing at the opposite intersection saw three men with knives rushing towards him. He suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of ferocity, like a wild beast!
"die!"

He shouted angrily and threw away the hat on his head, revealing a ferocious face with a scar on his face.

The hat flew towards the tallest Pang Chun and hit him right in the chest. With a bang, the iron tower-like Pang Chun was knocked away by the blow and flew five or six feet away like a kite before falling heavily to the ground.

The man's sudden attack caught the three people off guard. They were completely bewildered. Could he be an accomplice of the arsonist?
Regardless, he was merciless this time, and the remaining two would definitely fight back. Chen Ju immediately drew his sword. He was a second-level warrior, and his sword had the rhythm of martial arts. He swung the sword as if there was a divine mind following him, and it was very sharp.

Liang Yue assisted tacitly from the side and attacked the man's lower body with a sweeping kick.

clang!
With a crisp sound, the man caught Chen Ju's knife with his bare hands, which made a sound of metal. Then he pushed out with his right hand, and a burst of energy blasted Chen Ju away from a distance of several feet.

"Puff——" Chen Ju spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards, seriously injured on the spot. While in the air, he did not forget to remind: "Liang Yue, be careful, he is in the Gangqi realm!"

The Gangqi Realm is the fourth realm of warriors, and the Gangfeng leaves the body, fierce and violent. I didn't expect that there was such a master hiding on the street, and I didn't expect that he would launch a surprise attack on the three of them.

But when Liang Yue heard it, it was too late.

He swept his leg across the man's calf, and it was just like sweeping across a piece of iron pillar. He only felt a sharp pain in his leg bone, but the other party seemed to be completely unaware.

After the man knocked Chen Ju away, he lowered his head and looked down at Liang Yue. Immediately, his palms fell down like a pair of ghosts knocking on the door, viciously.

Liang Yue's realm was not as good as Chen Ju's. If he pressed down with this palm, his head would probably explode at that time! In an instant, he seemed to have heard the whistling wind with the smell of death.

At this critical moment, Liang Yue showed no fear. He looked at the man's back and shouted, "Attack his vital points!"

Seeing that this little warrior of the first realm was not afraid of him at all, the man actually thought for a moment that someone was attacking him from behind. He was distracted for a moment and dispersed his energy to be on guard.

Then he realized there was nothing behind him.

be cheated?
At the moment when he was distracted, Liang Yue did not plan to fight back, but rolled backwards on the spot, putting some distance between him and the man. The terrifying and suffocating feeling of oppression dissipated slightly.

The man became even more furious when he saw this, thinking that he had been fooled by this weakling, and was about to catch up with him.

call out--

At the critical moment, accompanied by the sharp sound of breaking wind, a silver-white sword light like a meteor suddenly came from the end of the long street several miles away, bringing with it a biting and cold breath.

Split the sky!

laugh!
The flash of light pierced through the man's hard chest in an instant, carrying him flying and crashing into the wall behind him.

When Liang Yue stood firm, he found that the shadow in front of him had disappeared. The man was nailed to the brick wall more than ten feet away, and his life or death was unknown. In his chest, there was a pure white sword, as if it was made of moonlight.

There was a rustling sound of armor, and a team of armored soldiers wearing black cloaks and holding swords came up from all directions and surrounded the unconscious man. However, no one stepped forward, as if they were waiting for something.

Soon, a figure came down with a fragrant breeze.

This is a woman in a plain white dress. She is tall, with clear eyes, eyebrows and eyes that are as round as the moon shrouded in smoke, a hump between her nose, skin as white as cream, and a jade-like face facing the wind.

She flew from afar, floating like a fairy descending to the earth, and then landed on the ground with a bang, with her sleeves hanging in the air.

This beautiful woman who descended from the sky immediately attracted all the attention on the street, as if thousands of suns were gathered on this one person.

I don’t know how many people forgot to breathe at this moment.

After she landed, she flipped her hand and the flying sword on the man's chest dropped strings of blood beads, which turned into a stream of light and returned to her sleeve. Then she spoke: "Yu Wenlong?"

The big man who was nailed to the wall fell to the ground with a thud. He raised his head with difficulty, revealing a scarred and extremely ferocious face. He cursed vaguely: "The lackeys of the Zhuxie Yamen, the despicable southerners..."

"In order to escape back to the capital, you actually went so far as to destroy your own face." The woman opened a portrait in her hand, which vaguely resembled the man's appearance, except that his hair was much longer and he didn't have the shocking scar on his face.

"Ah..." The big man supported himself on the ground with his arms and roared, "I will fight you--"

He was subdued by several people, but he still struggled desperately and refused to surrender, looking as ferocious as a wild beast.

"Take him away!" Without the woman's order, the soldiers around her took out heavy iron chains and tied him up tightly in a blink of an eye. A team of people escorted him back.

After completing the task, the woman turned around and looked at Liang Yue who was sitting on the ground. She walked over slowly and raised a token: "Wen Yifan, the one who is in charge of the Evil Execution Division."

Her voice was soft and cool, just like her temperament.

"I'm from the Fukangfang station of the Imperial Guards. I'm Liang Yue." Liang Yue stood up quickly, staggered on his right leg, and then clasped his fists and replied, "Thank you for your help, young lady."

"So you are from the Imperial Guards. No need to thank us. We are all here to investigate the case. If you hadn't caught him, our Evil Execution Division would have almost missed the criminal. However..." Wen Yifan's eyes lingered on Liang Yue, and he asked with some doubt:

"How do you know he is a Nine-Ying spy?"

　Thanks to Mr. Shen for the reward from the leader, I became the second super luxurious leader of this book!
　　Thank you thank you.

　　The three updates on the first day end here. Today’s update time is a bit strange in order to match the event. Tomorrow the update will be at 20 noon on the 12th, and then it will be updated at noon.

　　In addition, the new book has few words now, so those who are not interested in reading it can go and take a look at the author's first two books. Currently, the first book has an average subscription of more than 40,000, and the second book has an average subscription of more than 80,000. If the new book performs well, I wonder if it can help this book break 100,000 (I'm dreaming, sorry).

　　Anyway, thank you all for your support today, I will continue to work hard!
　　
　
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