Chapter 58: Assassination of the Provincial Capital
Upstairs, the girl in a blue cheongsam walked over lightly and added hot water to Li Changsheng's cup. Li Changsheng saw her eyebrows as slender and beautiful as willow leaves, connected to her sideburns, and looked heroic. Her skin was as white as frost and snow, and her lips were red and radiant. She looks fifteen or sixteen years old and has a delicate figure. Li Changsheng said thank you and stood up to look at Zhao Mengfu's landscape painting.
Zhao Jie was driving. When he heard his boss mention the wandering Taoist priest, his eyelids jumped and he nodded silently. He immediately straightened out his waist, looked cold and stern, and looked around the window like a knife. If it hadn't been for that accident, the boss wouldn't have spent a lot of money buying this bulletproof car from overseas.
It was the twentieth year of Guangxu's reign, and the boss was invited to attend the Northwest Governor's New Year banquet at the Bell Tower in the provincial capital. After the banquet ended late at night, Zhao Jie accompanied the boss down the clock tower. The eight strong black bodyguards waiting downstairs immediately stood up and surrounded them. These people are the guardians of the Qian family, and they are martial arts experts trained strictly by Zhao Jie himself.
The two were surrounded by bodyguards and came to the north gate of the Bell Tower, where a carriage had already stopped waiting. At this moment, the carriage window opened and a young man leaned out his head and said, "Dad, let's not hurry back. I want to play in the provincial capital for a few more days."
The young man is Qian Bao, the youngest son of Qian Sihai. Qian Sihai glared at him fiercely, but when he saw that he was still smiling and didn't care. Qian Sihai couldn't help but rage and said, "You're already an adult and still a playboy! You only know how to eat, drink, and have fun! Can't you seriously do something?"
Seeing that his father was angry, Qian Bao made a face and closed the window. Zhao Jie helped the boss into the carriage and drove it himself. He ordered eight bodyguards to ride around the carriage. Two bodyguards are in front of the carriage, and two are behind the carriage. There are two bodyguards on each side of the carriage.
There is no luxury in the carriage. Zhao Jie knows that the boss always keeps a low profile and is very simple in food, clothing, housing, and transportation. However, a 3mm thick steel plate was sandwiched in the wood around the carriage body, which could block arrows from afar.
Qian Bao sat in the carriage, looking respectfully at his father with a respectful expression on his face, but laughing at him inside: "With so much money in family, he was sitting in this carriage for ordinary people! Dad is really too stingy, he doesn't know how to enjoy life!”
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In fact, Qian Bao's own carriage was paved with ermine fur from Changbai Mountain in the northeast. This mink's fur is all snow white without a single mottle. His carriage emits a peculiar smell of golden phoebe wood from Vietnam, which is far more refreshing and refreshing than aloes. The small lamp hanging in the carriage uses deep-sea fish oil, which has a fire and no smoke, and has a fragrant smell.
The clock tower is in the center of the city. Although it is night at this time, there are still many carriages and people, making it very lively. The carriage moved slowly through the crowd, stopping from time to time.
After half an hour, the carriage left the bustling city center and arrived at the southern suburb of Linyuan Road. Qian Sihai was closing his eyes fell asleep. "Dong ,Dong ,Dong," a knock came from the carriage window. The window opened, and Zhao Jie, who was driving, leaned over and whispered, "Boss, we're being followed. Several strangers have been behind our carriage."
"Don't stop, continue walking towards the Zhiyuan Hotel! We are in the center of the provincial capital, and my father is the richest man in Shaanxi Province. Who dares to stand in our way?" Qian Bao sneered.
"Shut up!" Qian Sihai said to Qian Bao.
Then he said to Zhao Jie:"This is a suburb and it's sparsely populated. We don't know who the enemy is, but there's probably an ambush ahead. You send a bodyguard to the Bell Tower to find the governor for help. We'll immediately turn our way back."Qian Sihai ordered quietly. He has no doubt about Zhao Jie's judgment. Regarding danger, Zhao Jie and his bodyguards' intuition derived from years of fighting between life and death is more accurate than their own judgment.
Zhao Jie immediately sent a bodyguard on horseback to the clock tower to find the governor. There are 5000 security forces and many patrols in Xi'an. As long as the governor sends a pair of security patrols over, the gangsters will slip away quietly.
"Whoosh," a long arrow burst through the darkness, and the bodyguard who asked for help was shot through his body, fell off his horse, and fell heavily to the ground.
Zhao Jie pulled out his broadsword and shouted, "Be careful, everyone! The enemy is shooting arrows at us!"
As soon as his voice fell, he raised his broadsword to block a long arrow that was shooting at him.
Someone laughed loudly in the darkness and said, "You used two arrows to shoot a person to death! Divine Archer, you can change your name to bragging king in the future!" A strong man with whiskers, holding a hammer in both hands, laughed and jumped down from a nearby restaurant, landing on the top of the carriage. He wheeled the hammer and burst the brains of one of the horses pulling the carriage In the darkness, another long arrow flew, and the other horse pulling the carriage was also shot to death.
Zhao Jie lost his color in shock. He jumped into the carriage with a knife in his hand, and fought with the bearded bandits on the roof of the car, forcing him to spare no effort to smash the carriage.
This is a remote place in the southern suburbs. It is also night, and a few pedestrians on the road are screaming and fleeing. On both sides of the road, several bandits jumped off the roof and rushed straight towards the carriage, joining in with the bearded bandits on the roof. At this moment, there is bearded bandit on the roof of the carriage, and there are a group of bandits and bodyguards fighting fiercely around the carriage. In addition, there is a sharpshooter who stealthily attacks with arrows in the distance. In this kind of battle, the bandits are more skilled in martial arts and plan to attack suddenly. Although the bodyguards are all first-class experts, they cannot withstand the attack of bandits. In an instant, the bodyguards in front of and behind the carriage were killed. At this moment, at the sound of the bow string, Zhao Jie's left shoulder suddenly lost strength like a lightning strike, and a long arrow was being inserted into his left shoulder. The whiskered bandit showed no mercy and hit Zhao Jie on the back with a hammer, knocking him down from the roof into the dust.
A one-eyed robber standing beside a carriage quickly placed a knife on Zhao Jie's neck. He didn't speak from beginning to end, but now he said in a loud voice:"Mr. Qian, the richest man in Shaanxi, please get out of the carriage. I have something to say to you. If you don't come out, this person's life will not be guaranteed!"