Chapter 129: Wind and Rain in the City
Eliminating Wang Haofei is equivalent to making himself an insignificant passerby in the eyes of the Ye family for a long time. A transparent person and a freshman in an ordinary national martial arts museum will not have any intersection with the Ye family for the time being. His imminent survival crisis will be temporarily lifted, giving himself more time to prepare and deal with it. For this reason, Yan Liqiang slept extremely steadily and sweetly this night, almost the best time he slept after waking up from that real and illusory experience...
The next morning, Yan Liqiang got up early, and in the room, opened the window, and started morning class in front of the fresh lake breeze blowing from Wanshou Lake.
Wanshou Lake is still the same Wanshou Lake, but early in the morning, before dawn, there were a few lights floating on the foggy lake surface.
Yan Liqiang's eyes at this moment have undergone strange changes after the three strengthenings of the Heavenly Dao Body. He usually sees things near as before, but it is clearer. However, once he focuses his eyes in the distance, his eyes can appear in a different place than ordinary people. There will be a little more splendor in the pupils of his eyes. In the flash of splendor, it is like an eagle's sight. Even if it is something ten thousand meters away, he can see clearly. The foggy lights in the distance on Wanshou Lake immediately appeared in front of him clearly under his concentration...
Those were several pleasure boats on Wanshou Lake, and there were lanterns hanging on the pleasure boat. However, the ones on the pleasure boat were no longer tourists, but soldiers in Pingxi City. On the pleasure boat, there were many soldiers standing on both sides of the deck, and each soldier was holding strong bows and crossbows, staring at the lake. Many soldiers were holding long bamboo poles and poking around in the water. Judging from their faces, those soldiers should have been on the pleasure boat for the middle of the night. Many soldiers looked a little tired, but they still did not relax...
There is no doubt that these soldiers should have been drawn out last night to Wanshou Lake to search for the mountain wind.
There are also several small islands and some reed lands in the lake of Wanshou Lake. It does take a lot of manpower and time to search these places carefully.
The characteristics of the mountain wind are very obvious. After the two women saw it last night, they just painted that face and the people in the criminal arrest yamen immediately knew that it was the mountain wind that was being wanted.
A wanted criminal who committed crimes in Qinghe County not long ago and killed many people actually sneaked into the county town, and also killed a young man from a wealthy family. Such news must have shocked many people. While making many people panic, it will also make some people angry. For example, the county magistrate named Ye, as the highest ruler in Pingxi County, even if he is not for anything else, just for his own face and official voice, would not allow a thief to do whatever he wants in Pingxi City and make big moves. That is inevitable.
After finishing the morning class, looking at the several pleasure boats that were still floating on the lake after the dawn, Yan Liqiang showed a strange smile on his face.
Then, he had breakfast in the inn. After checking the room and meals, Yan Liqiang left the inn called Tingtao Yayuan.
There are obviously more patrols going back and forth in the streets of Pingxi City than yesterday. There are also many characters like city foxes and clubs, gathering in the corners of alleys, squatting on the ground or under the eaves, holding grass-roots toothpicks in their mouths, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, paying special attention to those among the pedestrians wearing hats or hats and faces.
Not long after Yan Liqiang left the inn, he saw an old man wearing a hat walking out of the alley on the roadside. He walked in front of him well. Then, two gangsters suddenly rushed out on the corner next to him, deliberately walking towards the old man. When passing by, one of the gangsters deliberately hit the old man and fell down. The other gangsters knocked off the hat on the old man's head while pulling, revealing the white-haired and wrinkled face under the hat.
"What are you doing?" the old man was furious.
"Sorry, sorry, my brother is drunk, drunk..." The two gangsters said, and in the blink of an eye she slipped into the alley and disappeared.
The two gangsters turned a blind eye to Yan Liqiang who was walking behind the old man.
Before he could walk two hundred meters away, the old man was stopped by several patrol patrolmen and asked him to take off his hat...
Yan Liqiang walked past the police and the old man without squinting his eyes. After only half an hour, Yan Liqiang came to the vicinity of Jiulong Bridge to the east of Pingxi City.
During the day, as the oldest commercial area in Pingxi City, the streets east of Jiulong Bridge are still lively, just across the west side of the bridge. Because it is a gathering area for Shatu people, it seems much deserted.
On the bustling street east of Jiulong Bridge, there is an exception. That is, the pharmacy at the bridgehead east of Jiulong Bridge. The doors of the pharmacy have been closed and there is no business. The doors and windows outside the pharmacy are also damaged and smashed. At the door of the pharmacy, several Shatu people with scimitars hanging on their waists sat on the blanket, blocking the pharmacy's door and occupying part of the street. On the walls on both sides of the pharmacy's door, there is a piece of ink that has been splashed on it, and two lines of crooked words killing people and paying their lives, owing debts and paying back the money!
"What are you looking at..." The gazes of the pedestrians, the sand people sitting on the ground, were not concerned at all. Sometimes they would pass by fiercely, like hungry wolfs that eat people. When the Shatu people turned their eyes and looked at the bustling streets and shops around, the greed in their eyes could not be concealed.
Yan Liqiang knew exactly what was happening here. When he passed by the pharmacy, he just glanced at the Shatu people indifferently and walked over.
Not far from Jiulong Bridge, that is, behind this lively street, is an old residential area for Chinese people. Because this residential area is close to the Shatu people's settlement area, it is just across a river. It's okay during the day, but at night, Shatu people often come to Jiulong Bridge to cause trouble. Especially in the past two years, Shatu people have become more and more intense, so many people living in this residential area have moved away one after another in recent years. The rooms in this residential area are almost the cheapest in Pingxi City.
But after a moment of transiting in this residential area, Yan Liqiang saw a small courtyard that was listed for rent. Without much effort, Yan Liqiang paid an inexpensive price and paid a year's rent. He didn't find any bad guys. He rented the small courtyard that they couldn't live in from an old couple who made tofu.
After renting the yard, he was busy buying some daily necessities. After working all morning, he also prepared his first place in Pingxi City.
After having lunch in the city, Yan Liqiang left the city in the afternoon.
At the entrance of the city gate of the west gate of Pingxi City, the wanted portrait of the mountain wind has been posted, and a large number of people were gathered around and watching. Yan Liqiang gathered in the crowd and heard a scholar-like person shaking his head under the portrait, "The wanted murderer is serious about the mountain wind, regardless of whether he is alive or not, anyone who can kill this thief will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold, and someone who can provide clues to hiding this thief will be rewarded with ten taels of gold..."
Hearing the reward of 100 taels of gold, the crowd of onlookers exclaimed and everyone was talking.
"What's going on? What's wrong with this person?"
"Don't you know, this man is a giant bandit who kills people without blinking. A few days ago, he almost destroyed a wealthy family in Qinghe County. Last night, the mountain wind was in the plum garden in the city, killing a rich young man. Now the police yamen in the city are in a mess..."
"How did he slip into the city?"
"Who knows..."
The mountain wind on the portrait is much more similar to the one I painted in Qinghe County before. The vicious face of the mountain wind, the triangular eyes on the face and the black mole have already reached the level of criminal investigation portraits. It seems that the level of painters in the county town of the criminal arrest yamen is much higher than that in Qinghe County. However, the white-painted portraits drawn with a brush dipped ink, and the real sketched portraits, especially those drawn by Yan Liqiang, who can be regarded as professional criminal investigation painters, is not an ordinary difference.
Listening to the discussions around him, Yan Liqiang smiled in his heart, then retreated from the crowd, easily checked out of the city gate, and returned to Wuyang Village!
Just that afternoon, Yan Liqiang continued to go up the mountain and began to practice his archery skills for a while.
Chapter completed!