Volume I: Supra 29 Monkeys
Jingxi sat on the bed angrily, reached out and took out a medicine bottle, poured out one and put it in her mouth.
After a long time, she breathed a sigh of relief, and took out a roast goose from the storage bag and gnawed on it.
"Eldest sister, who offended you again? What kind of pill was that just now?"
"I want you to take care of it! I guess you should be the happiest when I die!"
Jingxi was eating, and tears fell from her eyes. Xiao Yi didn't ask much when he saw this scene, so he could only quietly watch him lose his temper.
"Eldest sister, after all, don't make fun of this! Why are you crying while talking? Who bullied you? Or is it that the family is looking for fault with you? Let's be reasonable, and we have something to say! Don't cry by yourself, your body is your own, and it is you who suffers if you cry. It's a big deal that if we ignore it, we'll play back as a scoundrel and don't reason with them! As long as it's not too much, I'm sure I'll stand up for you!"
"Get out! you're being unreasonable!" Jing Xipi laughed out loud, turned away, and stopped paying attention to Xiao Yi. After a long time, she put aside the leftover roast goose, got up and conjured up a black tightsuit, turned her head to look at Xiao Yi and said, "I heard that someone in the imperial city has paid tribute to the fire fox incense, wait wait and accompany me in to investigate." Prepare the tools for going into the water, some people say that the little emperor threw the fire fox incense into the water, wait for you and I to go our separate ways, I will look in the palace, you are in the water ......"
Before Jingxi could finish speaking, a light pink stone appeared in front of her. The stone jumped lightly into her hand.
"This is fire fox incense, why is it in your hands?"
Xiao Yi roughly told the little emperor about stealing beams and changing pillars, and then told Jingxi to live here with peace of mind, and he wanted to go to the palace to do some things.
Soon there was chaos in the Beiji Palace, and the palace guards chased a black shadow all the way out of the noon gate. In the end, it was Huo Zhenhai, the general who protected the country, who immediately stopped this Xiaoxiao with a horizontal gun.
"Trespassing on the forbidden land, don't you catch it quickly? Don't you underestimate my Huo family's skills?"
"Huo family, haven't heard of it! Lao Tzu is not interested in delaying time with you, so hurry up and get out of the way for Lao Tzu. Otherwise, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless under the sword. The man in black shook the long sword in his hand and said coldly.
"Are you joking? Rushing out all the way, Ben will really admire your light work. But do you really think that a wooden sword can be defeated by my golden-eyed python gun?" As he spoke, Huo Zhenhai shook the spear in his hand, and the silver scale pattern appeared on the barrel of the gun, and the black spear tassel was made of a silver-threaded yak tail that was unique in ten thousand, and it was crystal clear in this moonlight. The head of the spear, the bright silver is covered with dark inscriptions, this is the ancestral blade of the Huo family, if you are scared back by a wooden sword this time, then the dignified Protector General's Mansion should also change the court.
"What a big breath, just a protector general, what can you do with Lao Tzu? Look down on Lao Tzu's long sword? That is your biggest miscalculation today!"
The man in black shook the ebony sword in his hand, jumped up, and stabbed straight at Huo Zhenhai's eyebrows. Seeing that the other party was suddenly in trouble, Huo Zhenhai did not block it, and stabbed at the rushing figure with a shake of the gun.
A military general like him, armed with a spear, if he still wants to block a wooden sword, it will be weak. The man in black saw that the spear was close to the door, so he pressed down with his horizontal sword, and turned over with the help of the rebound force. Before he could attack again with the help of his body advantage, Huo Zhenhai's spear was quickly withdrawn, and with a loud shout, a spear flower the size of a foot exploded violently in front of the man in black.
"Good means!"
The man in black swung his sword to block the gunshot, and several times of gold and iron rang out one after another, Huo Zhenhai's tiger mouth felt numb, and he secretly screamed in his heart.
The other party dared to touch himself with only a wooden sword, and the strength under this touch was three points stronger than himself. He didn't dare to imagine that if the other party took a weapon in his hand, he still had a chance of winning.
Since he knew that the other party was extraordinary, Huo Zhenhai simply forced the other party back with a false move, and turned over and dismounted. Since the other party relies on the dexterity of the foot combat method, he will be restrained if he is still on the horse. Huo Zhenhai shook his gun and picked it up, the man in black swung his sword and pressed down, and as soon as the two blades touched, Huo Zhenhai took advantage of the situation and smashed it down with unparalleled power. With the momentum of the man in black pressing down, Huo Zhenhai's move can be regarded as a leveraged force, but the other party obviously did not use all his strength, seeing Huo Zhenhai's transformation, he also turned sideways to the side and narrowly avoided a blow. Huo Zhenhai saw that he didn't win the combo move, so he immediately picked up his spear and swept over, but the man in black took the lead in kicking out the gun, and the whole person flew out with the momentum of his gun. It's just that the direction in which he flew was running in the direction outside the noon gate, and the soldiers looked like this person was sent out of the siege by Huo Zhenhai.
"Little thief leave!" Huo Zhenhai aimed at the back of the man in black and pushed hard, and the iron cone the size of a gun fist smashed straight towards the opponent's waist. only heard a pop, and the other party was beaten to the ground with blood spurting from his mouth, and barely turned over and didn't move.
A group of guards surrounded him, pointing their blades at the man in black. In this case, even the best masters will not be able to escape. Huo Zhenhai picked up his spear and walked in front of the other party, wanting to see the other party's appearance. He is a brave general on the battlefield, and even if his opponent is an enemy, he can just fight himself with a wooden sword. Even if you want to kill each other, this last glance can be regarded as an acquaintance.
But just as he was about to bend over, the man in black suddenly opened his eyes, and a thick smoke suddenly burst out. A group of guards hurriedly waved their hands to block, and a few people were afraid that the thieves would get lost in a panic, so they simply stabbed out the blades in their hands. When the smoke cleared, everyone found that more than a dozen blades had been inserted into the soil, and the man in black who had just been lying on the ground was gone.
"What about the man, why did he get him to run?"
"Who saw his face? This thief must be apprehended!"
"I didn't see it at all, how can I arrest it!"
"There are no clues, what are you eating?"
"I saw that it was all dark, except for the bag on my waist, it was all black. ”
"Aren't we busy in vain?"
Just now I saw that there were two words on his bag, which seemed to be written Wuhua. Is this their gang?"
"I saw it too, it's Wuhua!"
After dawn, the news that the treasure was taken away from the palace has spread among the people. The other party was a man in black, armed with an ebony sword. He also had a bag around his waist with the word Wuhua on it.
Soon the news spread all over Beiji, and even spread abroad with the merchants. Almost every piece of news spread the word that this thief was superb, what was two feet tall, or there were five willows under the face scarf. The most amazing thing is that there is a version that says that this person is a woman with a strange fragrance, and this time the theft of fire fox incense is because of the daughter's family's obsession with spices.
But regardless of how many versions there are, there are three things that remain constant.
The man vanished into thin air, and remained in a black robe and masked. The most important thing is that he has a bag around his waist with the word Wuhua written on it.
Xiao Yi was very satisfied with the rumors in this street.
The mortal realm did not dare to be an enemy of the royal family, and as for the Xiuzhen realm, his message was to write the name of the Wuhua faction on the city gate. If someone really wants to covet the fire fox incense, they will also ask for it from the Wuhua faction. Moreover, a dignified Wuhua sect disciple, when he enters the palace, it is a joke that he can't get the treasure.
Xiao Yi returned to the secret room with the food box and told Jingxi what he saw and heard on the road. At the end, Jingxi nodded and said, "Now that the Wuhua Sect is scattered, no one will suspect that the dignified Xiuzhen Sect is looting everywhere." Looks like you're really good about this cousin. If he knew that you killed his family of three, I don't know what he would think of you. ”
Xiao Yi didn't speak, just turned around and took out a few bottles of imperial wine and placed them on the table. This is what the little emperor gave himself, which is different from what he stole before, these are all specially given to him by him.
"Eldest sister, bring the wine back when you go back. Don't give it to Senior Zhao all at once, a bottle of wine every day, you should be able to drink it until I go back. I want to walk around the neighborhood, and since I'm back, I'll go back and have a look. ”
Jingxi didn't make a sound, walked over and put the wine bottle into the storage bag, and returned to the bed to look at the portrait in a daze.
After a while, Jingxi said leisurely: "Let's go back and see the ruins." ”
"Hmm. ”
Xiao Yi got up and walked into the passage, and when he was about to disappear at the end, he suddenly heard the last thoughtless sentence.
"The tree is falling apart, isn't it?"
Outside Yecheng, the Royal Ancestral Temple.
Xiao Yi entered the ancestral temple and saw that the tablet of his father and emperor in the temple rebuilt by Xiao Yingfu was not placed on it, he just shook his head and smiled bitterly, and did not burn this place.
These dead things in front of me are simply used to deceive the living, and the people are gone, so there is no need for me to work and waste money again. The house in the back is very different from the previous layout, except for the location has not changed, everything else is far from my childhood memories. Even the surrounding trees were destroyed at the beginning, and the small trees that were replanted were not as thick as their wrists, and I don't know how many years it would take to regain their old luxuriance.
The only thing that hasn't changed in the precinct is a dry well, which is said to have been abandoned two years before he was born. The well was previously undamaged in the rubble, is now not landfilled, and certainly not in use.
Xiao Yi walked to the well, and the emperor's grandfather was most afraid of falling down, so he added a well protection stone. Now the size of the palm exposed at the mouth of the well can be seen vaguely.
The weeds at the bottom of the well are not high, and you can still see the dead branches and leaves at the bottom. A fluffy weed grew stubbornly in the rotten soil.
Xiao Yat found that there was a yellow wildflower in the weeds that was about to bloom, and life could work hard to reproduce in such a place, and it seemed that he was unwilling to be killed by the dust.
"Since you want to open up, then I'll help you find a good place. Xiao Yi stretched out his hand to remove the well stone and gently fell to the bottom of the well.
This rotten soil is already a little unbearable when it is watered by the rain, if it is not for Xiao Yi's martial arts, I am afraid that if he is a mortal, he will definitely fall.
He cut off a large chunk of dirt with his dagger and lifted the wildflower up along with the weeds and dirt around him. casually glanced at the dirt pit that had just appeared, and a small piece of metal was faintly revealed.
"What is this, how can it be in the well?"
Xiao Yi put the wildflower aside, waved his hand and used his spiritual power to remove the cover on the surface, and a black iron inlaid silver box appeared.
Xiao Yi waved his hand and took the iron box into his hand, this thing looked old, and the silver words embedded on it were already gray and black.
"Soul locking?"
No matter how Xiao Yi looked at it, he felt that this was a mortal's iron box, and it had nothing to do with Xiuzhen. To be on the safe side, he slowly poured his divine consciousness into the iron box, and once his divine consciousness penetrated through the gap, there was only a humanoid puppet inside.
Xiao Yi's divine consciousness was concentrated, and the specific form of the puppet gradually appeared in his mind. This is almost the same thing as his stand-in wooden man.,Although it's a little rough.,But it's really the substitute that the uncle in his hand handed over to him later.。 The body is almost carved, but the facial features are still blurred, and it seems that the carving has stopped at the end.
But why did this wooden figure stand for it be left in a dry well? Shouldn't it be carried with him and put in a storage bag?
Xiao Yihu opened the iron box suspiciously, and saw that it was indeed a palm-sized wooden statue inside.
"What kind of carving is this? Why don't you see any traces of a carving knife in the whole wood carving?"
This matter is related to his family, and Xiao Yi can't find Jingxi to discuss, so he has to put it in a storage bag. Grab some wild flowers and fly back to the well, Xiao Yi jumped to the roof of the ancestral temple.
There were a lot of weeds and small trees growing on this roof, which Xiao Yat had never seen before. I think this place was where cultivators lived at that time, and it wasn't a hassle to remove these things. Now the ancestral temple is full of mortals, and there are many people who have to get by, and none of them are members of the Xiao family.
After placing the wildflowers, Xiao Yat lay down on the glazed roof. The starry sky overhead is still a familiar starry sky, have you come home?
There was a sound of leaves in the forest, and Xiao Yi felt something jumping between the trees. Although this light skill is not a concealment method for assassination, it is also very flexible. Xiao Yi hurriedly held his breath, hid himself in the shadows, and secretly looked at the noisy woods not far away.
Soon the figure arrived near the ancestral temple building, but when he saw the other party flying, he grabbed the tiles of the wall, supported his arms, and jumped onto a ginkgo tree in the courtyard. The other party looked very alert, his tail hooked on the branch, and his body searched for something back and forth.
"What kind of master am I? I'm a monkey! No wonder I'm so good in the woods! This thing seems to be best at wandering in the woods. ”
Xiao Yi saw that it was not a person, and his heart relaxed a lot. He wanted to emerge from the shadows, after all, hiding from a monkey was a bit too exaggerated.
It's just that Xiao Yi hasn't made any moves, but the monkey is the first to climb down the ginkgo tree. Using all fours together, he ran to the main hall of the temple in a few clicks, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.
Out of curiosity, Xiao Yi also jumped lightly to the ground, quietly walked around the main hall gate, and when he peeked in, he saw a monkey rummaging on the offering table and selecting fruits.
"This monkey dares to steal his mouth anywhere. Xiao Yi smiled bitterly and walked out slowly. Although his movements were light, he was still discovered by the elves inside.
The ape felt a figure shake in the doorway, and hurriedly jumped behind the offering table and hid. It's just that it moved too much, and kicked over a gilded silver plate containing fruits.
"Boom la la ......"
The sound of falling utensils and offerings alarmed the Taoist priest on night duty on the side, who was dressed and cursed as he pushed open the door.
"Don't let people sleep well? In the middle of the night, I will make trouble for Daoye. Who's making trouble in there? Isn't it Xiao Wu? As I said, this fruit cake will be set up for a day, and I'll give you these little cubs tomorrow. Why did you come in in the middle of the night and steal your mouth? I don't know the rules so much, I won't let you come over again. ”
A twenty-seven-eight-year-old Taoist priest came to the door and squinted his eyes in disgust. He saw no figure except for the cakes and fruits scattered on the ground and a slowly rolling gilt offering plate.
Deliberately stepped forward to pick up the fallen debris and put it back in place, he lit a bunch of incense and inserted it into the incense burner that had long been extinguished. Suddenly lowered the table curtain, only to find that there was no hiding inside. The Taoist priest bowed to the tablet, turned around suddenly, and found that no one was lazy outside the temple gate. Only then did he grab an offering grape and throw it into his mouth, chewing it and swearing as he walked out.
"Little bunny, count yourself as fast as you run. I'll sue your dad tomorrow and see how he cleans you up when he goes back. The Taoist priest returned to the room, and soon there were bursts of shouts.
Xiao Yi hugged the ape and gently fell from the beam of the room, listened attentively, and confirmed that the other party was asleep, so he took his hand from the ape's mouth.
Xiao Yi was very wary, after all, apes were wild and had not been trained, at least they were not familiar with him. Once he lets go of his hand, it is normal for this little guy to bite into himself. But to Xiao Yi's surprise, the monkey not only didn't bite himself, but also didn't even run away.
It stared at Xiao Yi curiously up and down, and sniffed close to Xiao Yi with its nose.
"I don't have anything to eat. If you want to eat it, you can eat it, and here's everything for you. Xiao Yat placed the ape on the table and pointed to the offering with his chin.
The ape carefully carried a few fruits into his arms, but kept twisting his head back to pay attention to Xiao Yi's movements. When its arms were full of fruit, he turned around and returned to Xiao Yat. The monkey lowered his head and held a meeting to check for a long time, and finally selected a plump and moist peach from his arms, cleaned it repeatedly with his small paws, and finally handed it to Xiao Yi's mouth.
"What are you doing? You steal things to honor me? You are so sensible? You must not have been domesticated by monkey tricksters, right? I have said that this thing is all yours, you can eat it yourself, I am not hungry. Xiao Yi smiled and avoided Peaches, but he didn't want his action to be exchanged for a monkey's anxious look. Seeing that Xiao Yat refused his kindness, the little guy simply dropped the peaches and took out a bunch of grapes from his arms. This time, it didn't pick, and directly blocked the grapes covered with hoarfrost to Xiao Yi's mouth. Xiao Yi was just about to say no, when his mouth opened, two grapes were stuffed into his mouth.
Yat pushed out the grapes with his tongue and raised his hand to block the ape's paws. Laughing: "Don't do this! you're looking for the wrong person for violence." If I do it, you're really no match for me. ”
Seeing that the grapes were also rejected, the ape looked at Xiao Yi suspiciously, and then looked at the fruit in his arms suspiciously, it seemed to understand something, and its face showed a human-like expression of pity. He threw a handful of fruits on the table, put his paws in front of his mouth, and with a puff of cheeks, he spat out two half-red fruits.
It rubbed the two fruits on the fur on its body and respectfully held it in front of Xiao Yi. This move made Xiao Yi even more crying and laughing.
"So you still have some goods in stock! I said I wasn't hungry. Thank you for your kindness, you can keep this thing for yourself. I won't rob you. Xiao Yi stretched out his hand and was about to push it away, when suddenly he was startled by the fruit in front of him.
"Enhancement Fruit!"