Chapter 3: Juveniles
It's the beginning of summer, but the spring cold has not faded. The water in the pond www.biquge.info the pen fun pavilion exudes a cold air at night. Wu Yan thought to himself, even if he didn't drown, freeze to death, or fall to death, he would definitely be so embarrassed that he would attract the heartless laughter of the person.
The official who caused the accident stabilized his figure, ignoring the girl who was hit by himself, and his figure disappeared into the night. But passers-by couldn't help it, so they could only watch and wait for the miserable sound of the girl falling into the water in the cold night.
The girl, who was about to enter the water, suddenly stretched out her left hand towards the edge of the pool, as if waiting for someone to pull her out of this dangerous situation. But there was no one around her, and how could there be a hand in the void to hold her.
Suddenly, a child shouted, "Daddy, why didn't this sister fall into the water? What kind of martial arts is this?"
The childish voice of the child was particularly clear in the quiet night at this time, and even the clerk at the door of the nearby shop looked over. I saw that in the light and shadows, the girl in the aqua blue dress was facing down and her feet were up, as if she was being pulled by someone, and the toppled figure stopped falling above the water, only the long black hair slipped from her shoulders, stirring the silent water, causing ripples and disturbing the falling blurred light.
While Wu Yan's figure stagnated in the air, he had already controlled the balance of his body, and his upper body, which had been tilted and fallen, was propped up, and his feet slowly fell to stabilize his body. The trees by the pond were windless, the branches and leaves swayed suddenly, and her face was full of swaying mottled light and shadow, and only the eyes were crystal bright in the light and shadow, as if they could pass through the night sky and stars. The pool water was lightly touched by her, as if there was an aura to support her, because after she tapped the water surface, she jumped easily, and turned over gracefully, she had landed safely on the royal road, only the pond water still refused to subside, countless water waves rippled all the way away, all the way to refract the light, rippling like a demon mirror.
This thrilling, coupled with Wu Yan's petite stature, looks even younger. Such a young girl escaped by herself, so passers-by only said that she was skilled. Wu Yan knew that she had attracted the attention of passers-by, so she quickly hid herself in the shadows, and waited until the passers-by dispersed slightly, then she walked out of the shadows, and stretched out her left hand, and something shot straight back into her sleeve like a silver snake in the light, making a slight sound as it passed through the air. Wu Yan looked at the opposite road, remembered what he had just experienced, and was just about to calm down and breathe a sigh of relief, but he heard the sound of horses' hooves coming quickly, and in an instant, he was already rushing behind him.
There has never been anyone on the royal road, let alone at night. The other party galloped on his horse, and the horse galloped like a fly. By the time he noticed the witch face on the royal road ahead, he had already been castrated. He pulled the reins to restrain the horse's galloping momentum, shouting loudly, "Get out of the way!!!
When Wu Yan turned around when he heard the sound, the fast horse was already within a few steps. She leaned back, as if she was afraid that the horse's hooves would step on her face in the next second. After hesitating, she actually forgot to dodge to the side, and the only knee-jerk reaction was to wave her left hand, and the silver light that instantly flew out of the sleeve of her left hand wrapped around the horse's hooves in front of her, which turned out to be a silver soft whip.
The soft whip strangled the horse's hooves that were about to cause danger, and extended forward, wrapping around the pondside trees on the left again. She relayed the force, and her body moved, and she was already standing in a safe place on the right.
Between the light and shadow, Wu Yan's mind flashed over the experience of when he was studying in the Tianshan Mountains, every time he wanted to skip class, he also used a soft whip to entangle the trees next to the high wall and climb out of the high wall, so that the elder was so angry that he stomped his feet under the corner of the wall, so that every time the little woman was teaching, she couldn't help but scold, whenever this time, Wu Yan was the most uncomfortable person in the hall, because this was a thing that made people want to laugh but had to try their best to control their laughter. But this time she missed, and the smug smile that flashed on her face did not flood for a moment before it immediately added a hint of surprise.
The horse had been castrated by the trees before, and its hooves were entangled with whips, and the first two hooves were strangled painfully. Frightened, it screamed in pain and struggled with its hoof, as if trying to get rid of something unknown from its hooves. This old energy made it unable to pay attention to the reassurance and instructions of its owner, not only tore the trees slightly, but also strangled its hooves even more painfully, and importantly, it pulled a whip and the witch face on it towards itself.
Before Wu Yan could stand in a safe place, he suddenly received a sudden old force on his left wrist, and before anyone could parry it, he had already been pulled over, pulled into the horse's hooves, under the horse's belly.
The change was only instantaneous, and Wu Yan's mind went blank this time, forgetting that he was already in danger again. But what made her happy afterwards was that there was a gust of wind in the shadows, and there was clearly a flutter of light hooves, but it seemed to be silent in the pan, and someone rode a horse behind her. Wu Yan only felt a pain in her wrist, so painful that she couldn't grasp the sleeve whip, the whip slowly fell from the sleeve like a dead snake, and at the same time, a powerful arm had passed through her armpit, lifting her whole person into the air, driving the horse forward a few steps, and taking Wu Yan away from that dangerous place.
The moment his feet were in the air, Wu Yan reacted suddenly, and his blank brain forcibly stuffed into his consciousness and resumed his thinking. The arm under the armpit is the arm strength that only a man can have, and the warm body temperature is spreading to his skin through the thin shirt, and the night breeze on the cheeks is even colder. She was about to see the person who had come to her aid, when she felt the cold night breeze on her cheeks instantly retract, and the arm easily unloaded herself, allowing her to land defenselessly. Wu Yan stood firm and turned around, and the man who rescued him, along with his horse, was in the darkness of the night, silent and shadowless, as if a ghostly ghost.
"I don't think the horse can be ridden. The voice of the man in the shadows slowly sounded from behind Wu Yan, and he said to the undead man who was still trying his best to calm the frightened horse, "This horse has been collected by the forbidden army patrolling the city, so there is no need to delay here, you can find another fast horse and join me again." ”
It was the voice between a boy and a man, which had washed away the childish innocence of a child, but it had not yet had the ruthlessness of a man. Wu Yan turned his head to see that he was still in the shadows, and only a corner of his gray-green robe was unwillingly flying in the night wind, stained with blurred lights. His words were unusually soft, but when the startled man heard this, he did not have any objections, immediately let go of the reins, abandoned the horse and jumped, and after the figure flipped to the ground and knelt, he left quickly without saying a word.
Wu Yan saw that the horse's hooves were still wrapped around his whip, and he was about to step forward to pick it up, but he heard the man in the shadows behind him say to himself, "If you have confidence in controlling this amazing horse, or if you have your own skills, you might as well stimulate it again." ”
Wu Yan leaned forward and was very unambitious, and he had no room to fight back or even struggle, so he could only watch his beloved silver whip lying on the ground, but he didn't dare to do anything at all. Not far from the royal road, the light of the torch was approaching, and the person holding the torch had a faint reflection of the cold light, which was from the black armor worn by the forbidden army patrolling the city.
This group of forbidden soldiers was about a dozen people, two in a row, walking in a heavy foot, but the speed was not slow, only one person was wearing cotton armor, riding a horse unhurriedly, like the head of this group of forbidden troops.
The man behind him seemed to say to himself, "It's finally here." ”
It's just that his tone is vague and he can't hear the intention clearly, I don't know if he is looking forward to the arrival of the forbidden army, or if he doesn't want to alarm the forbidden army. Wu Yan only saw the man's face at this time,
It was still a young man's face, with handsome eyebrows and thin lips. And the most eye-catching, the most unforgettable thing is his eyes. This young man's peach-like eyes, when looking at people, make people feel like they are in a bright spring evening, there was a rain in the afternoon, the rain has not dried, the sunset rolls a water vapor, the air is mixed with the smell of moisture, warmth, grass, trees, mud and flowers, which makes people feel a little intoxicated for no reason.
But soon this intoxication disappeared, and the young man's face was covered with a trace of indifference, the previous illusion of gentleness seemed to be a person's own illusion, and this deliberate camouflage gradually tended to be natural as the city patrol forbidden army approached, as if this indifference was innate. Wu Yan didn't expect that a person's face could instantly transform into such a complicated expression, and he couldn't help but look at it a few more times. But the boy didn't look at her again, just turned his head to look at the streets on either side.
The streets on both sides of the royal road have been mounted by black-robed city guards, and the sound of horses' hooves is chaotic, and the noise of the night market is reduced to silence, and the passers-by on the street avoid it as if there is no one.
Wu Yan looked around, and saw that these people were coming towards the royal road together, knowing that their purpose was to come to himself and the young man on the royal road at this moment, seeing that the young man was still calm as before, without any movement, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked the young man, "Are you the first prince of Emperor Sulphur Ming?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yan looked at his expression carefully, and sure enough, he saw that the young man's originally calm expression had changed slightly, and there was a trace of surprise in his eyes when he looked at him, and he even opened his mouth to respond, saying, "How do you think that I am the prince." ”
The tone seemed to be a tacit inquiry, but the young man didn't know if it was to cover it up, his thin lips curled, and he smiled as if he was not smiling, as if he was smiling, which was even more difficult to determine, after all, this was just Wu Yan's speculation.
- Able to walk the royal road at night, either the emperor and the prince or the person with the emperor's order. But this young man is so young, and he has not alarmed the forbidden army patrolling the city to strictly investigate and guard, except for the prince, who else can do such a secret as if no one is secret. The reigning emperor of Dayong at this time was Xia Hao, the emperor of Sulphuming, who was forty-five years old and had only four sons under his knees. This time I came to Dayong, and Wu Ying brought good healing and tonics. It is precisely because the emperor's eldest son, Xia Zihai, accidentally fell from a horse and was injured in a recent spring hunt, and stayed in the South Imperial Garden to raise his leg injury. Therefore, even if Xia Zihai returned to the capital to Jiankang and his injured leg had healed, it was impossible to joke about his body, and he would not choose to travel in a carriage, but still ride the horse himself. If the eldest prince is excluded, there will be only the second prince Xia Ziyan, the third prince Xia Zihe, and the fourth prince Xia Zicheng left, who will be among these three people?
But no matter who it was, whether he guessed right or wrong, he was so calm about the forbidden army that came to him, which showed that he was very sure that he could deal with this group of people. But what about yourself, and how do you deal with it?