Chapter 424 (1/2)

Chapter 424: Buildings without Walls

In a rainy alley, Ning Que held up the big black umbrella over his head and glanced at his soaked black uniform .

It wasn't very difficult to kill these two people, but it was challenging to kill them quietly before the Imperial Court and the Military Minister started investigating them .

Huang Xing, who was burned to ash, was killed by his Fire Fu .

And Yu Shuizhu was killed by a Jing Fu .

Jing Fu was the most powerful Divine Talisman of Master Yan Se . He taught Ning Que it before he went to the Wilderness, but because it was very hard to understand, Ning Que didn't get it until he finished his penance and got out from the cave a couple of days earlier .

Using the Great Spirit, Ning Que made a Jing Fu that was just an imitation of what Master Yan Se did . It was far less powerful than the real Divine Talisman . But this trick was good enough to cut someone into pieces quietly in the rain .

In the dark night, Ning Que went to the Imperial Palace to have a word with Xu Chongshan, the Deputy Commander of the bodyguard and then he went back to the Lin 47th Street .

Sangsang was very worried when she saw Ning Que drenched .

Ning Que explained what had happened to her softly, went to have a cold shower and then started eating .

In the dim light from a candle, he stared at the name list Sangsang left two years ago and fell silent for a long time . It reminded him of Darkie, who died on the opposite side of the shop .

He also died in the spring and on a rainy day .

Before he was killed, he left a piece of oilpaper, where the names of all the people involved in the two ma.s.sacres were listed . And now after Ning Que killed Huang Xing and Yu Shuizhu, the people on the list were all dead .

But there were still two people who got away with it . Zhuo Er didn't write their names down, because both he and Ning Que were very clear who they were .

It was Li Peiyan, the Prince of Tang and the Great Zhenjun General Xia Hou .

Sangsang walked to his back and asked, ”Will you get into trouble?”

Ning Que answered, ”Even if that old general knows I did it, he couldn't

do anything . ”

Sangsang looked a little confused, ”But why did you kill them in such a rush?”

Previously before killing Zhang Yiqi, the censor and Chen Zixian, Ning Que always spent a long time doing some research to make sure that the Imperial Court didn't notice .

And he had been investigating Huang Xing and Yu Shuizhu, the two key figures in the ma.s.sacre at the General's Mansion, for a long time, but it was still a bit of a rush that he should choose to kill them today .

”Some people in the Imperial Court already guessed it was me who killed all the people . ”

Ning Que pa.s.sed the name list to Sangsang beckoned her to put it away . ”If I don't kill them today, it will become very difficult in the future . ”

Sangsang took the name list over and asked, ”If they still ask you to go to the General's Mansion tomorrow, I will go with you . ”

Ning Que shook his head and said, ”It is fine . I have sent a messge to the Academy and there will be someone accompanying me . ”

In the next morning, some officials from the Military Ministry knocked on the door of the shop even before the Hot and sour noodle slice soup stand was set up .

Ning Que was prepared for it . He pushed the door open and said to the official, who he had seen on Vermilion Bird Avenue the other day, ”The general wants to talk with me again?”

The official replied simply and nonchalantly, ”Please . ”

Yesterday, right after Xu s.h.i.+, the general, talked with him seriously, Ning Que went to kill another two people . It was like smacking the Military Ministry on the face . Therefore, Ning Que was not surprised at all when finding out that General Xu s.h.i.+ wanted to see him again . He only felt surprised that he called him to the Military Ministry today, rather than to the General's Mansion like yesterday .

After departing from the Lin 47th Street, several carriages ran to the north along the Vermilion Bird Avenue . They went past Jianshen Archway and went into a bamboo forest .

Ning Que looked out from the curtain and could vaguely see a patch of a large meadow behind the forest, which looked like the scenery in the Wilderness . He was very surprised .

The Tang Empire was founded

founded through lots of wars and its Military Ministry was the most important sector of all departments and the scarist place in foreigners' eyes, because it was in charge of the four armies at the country's borders and the Yulin Royal Guards .

This was the first time that Ning Que had come to the Military Ministry .

He didn't expect to see such a beautiful forest and a large meadow near the Vermilion Bird Avenue, which seemed to be very humble and simple, but it actually couldn't be more extravegant in such an expensive city like Chang'an .

He also didn't expect that the Military Ministry was not heavily fortified at all . There were no high walls nor watchtowers, but only about ten separate buildings hidden among the bamboo .

Those buildings of different height were scattered in the forest in a seemingly disordered way, but together it was a very harmonious picture . A stone path, wide enough for carriages to pa.s.s, winded through the meadow and connected the buildings together . The whole place was very quiet and impressive .

Hearing the sound of carriages rus.h.i.+ng on the stone path, several officials quickly moved away to give way to the carriages and darted some confused looks at them .

The carriages stopped in front of the highest wodden building .

Ning Que walked out of the carriage and looked up at the building . It had three stories and there was an attic on the top . It had the same dark roofs and black bricks, but the decoration on the roof was different from other buildings; its red beams were as straight as guns and its eaves were slightly curved like a machete .