Zuo Qiyang spoke frankly, looking at Xing Fu's gaze extremely calm.

Xing Fu looked at him, but his eyes were full of disdain.

"Say it."

Xing Fu forcibly suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, gritted his teeth and said such a sentence, turned sideways, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and no longer looked at the other party.

Zuo Qiyang turned a blind eye to the obvious contempt in his attitude, he glanced at the direction of the tavern from a distance, and made sure that the two accompanying guards did not notice anything abnormal, so he leaned into Xing Fu's ear and said in a low voice: "You help me bring a message to Xin Zi." Tell her that Emperor Yan already knew that she was coming to Xijing, but the emperor was afraid of Dongyuan's power and was ready to draw a line with her. I had an argument with Emperor Yan about this, but to no avail, the emperor threw me to Gaoxiang and ordered me to trap Xin Zi here.

"So, you must tell her that if she comes to the south, she must come to Gaoxiang to join me first, and do not go directly to the Xijing Forbidden Palace, otherwise it will be extremely disadvantageous to her and me."

Zuo Qiyang explained his words to Xing Fu as clearly as possible.

Xing Fu listened with a stomach full of questions: "Xin Zi is going to the Forbidden Palace to find the emperor of Xiyou?" What is she going to do? Looking for protection? How did Emperor Saiyu know her intentions? What does it mean to be afraid of the power of Dongyuan? Something went wrong between you and that emperor? He relegated you to this Gaoxiang town? ”

Zuo Qiyang pursed his lips a little impatiently, and said, "I don't have the time to explain to you now, you just need to help me bring this to make sure that Xin Zi comes to Gaoxiang Town to join me, and remember not to let her go to Xijing alone." Saying that, he looked vigilantly at the table outside the tavern where he was drinking with the two guards, and added in a low voice: "Xin Zi passed through the Qubu from the north of Dongyuan, crossed the golden forest, and went all the way to Longwei Valley, and then should go directly to Xijing in the south, and from here to Longwei Valley there is a big road straight through, you follow this official road all the way to the north, you can naturally meet her." ”

Xing Fu looked at Zuo Qiyang suspiciously.

Thinking that he just said that he was thrown by Emperor Yan to a small town like Gaoxiang, and there was no one around him, and it was very inconvenient to act, but now he was very clear about Xin Zi's whereabouts, and even the details of whether she took the official road or the small road, the detour from Longwei Valley or directly over the Longji Mountain Range were unambiguous, if there was such a contradiction, which one should he believe?

But as soon as he wanted to ask again, he heard two cavalrymen escorting Zuo Qiyang shouting in the direction of the tavern, followed by the sound of swords colliding and tables and chairs moving, obviously the two of them had already gotten up and came this way.

Zuo Qiyang's face was gloomy and he looked in the direction of the tavern, his mouth responded, and finally he bowed to Xing Fu and whispered: "What I just said, please remember Brother Xing, I will thank you again after the matter is completed." ”

Without looking back, he went to the tavern.

Xing Fu had nowhere to ask a stomach of questions, but he could only turn around helplessly and disappear into the poplar forest again.

At this moment, far north of Longji Mountain and south of the Golden Forest, Xin Zi was sitting on a rattan chair under the eaves outside the door basking in the sun, looking leisurely at the river mussel forest that was shining red under the sunset.

Takemoto's leg has not yet healed, and the three of them have been traveling for days, sleeping in the open air, and after this Willow Wind Inn, I don't know where the next place to rest with peace of mind will be. So she discussed with Takemoto and Liyuan, and decided to have a luxury, slow down, rest in this inn for two days, and recuperate before getting back on the road.

Takemoto is a person who can't be idle, so he couldn't sit still after resting at the Liufeng Inn for a long time, and pulled Li Yuan as a "sandbag" to practice his sword. Li Yuan was very uncomfortable in the inn all day in front of the terrifying-looking blind shopkeeper, and as soon as Takemoto mentioned that he wanted to fight him, he readily agreed, and went with her to the open space behind the stable.

At this time, Xin Zi was left alone in front of the inn in a daze, and her thoughts were involved in the night when Jiamen was closed, and she wanted to pull it out but couldn't pull it out.

Here Xin Zi was stunned at the scarlet leaves, and was suddenly blocked by a figure, she looked up suddenly, and saw the blind shopkeeper holding a cigarette stick and sitting down beside him, and without saying a word, he lit a dry cigarette and smoked.

Xin Zi's bitter emotions that were originally picked up by memories gradually dissipated into the air with the wisps of green smoke coming out of the pipe.

She looked at the blind shopkeeper and smiled slightly, and was about to say hello, when her gaze slipped from the scars on the shopkeeper's face to his agitated cheeks, and finally stopped at the round scar the size of a wine cup under his throat.

Ever since she came to stay at this inn with Ah Brown and saw this scary-looking blind shopkeeper for the first time, this scar has lingered in her mind.

It's not because the size of the wound is shocking, but because as a doctor, she thinks that she has seen a lot of external injuries with Liu Siqi since she was a child, but she has never encountered a scar of this shape.

At that time, she couldn't figure out what kind of murder weapon could cause such injuries.

But now, after experiencing all the things in the city of Tokyo, looking at the injury in front of her, she only felt that she had fallen into the abyss in an instant, and she couldn't breathe.

The memories that she was reluctant to touch in her heart came out little by little, like an ice pick piercing into her heart, making the blood in her body coagulate little by little, and the coolness hit her whole body, cold to her fingertips.

The memory goes back to the night when she first stepped into the Tang Mansion, she came out of Mrs. Tang's room, saw the corpses all over the courtyard, climbed over a wall in a panic, came to the backyard of the Qi Palace, was forced to a meadow by a group of assassins from nowhere, and finally entered a deep dark room by mistake, walked down the stone steps, and came to a wooden door with the "Drug Supervision Department" hanging on it.

She pushed the door open and entered.

saw a scene that she never wanted to see or even recall in her life. I saw the clansman tied to a wooden frame, so emaciated that only bones remained, like a living corpse. I saw a two-finger-wide transparent tube stuck in the witch's neck, and a steady stream of purple blood flowing from the catheter.

The body was barely able to breathe, and the body was already close to exhaustion, and the blood flowing from the duct was intermittent and muddy.

Trapped in the dark room, unable to move, the blood in his body is being squeezed all the time. Such torture should not be inflicted on any living being at all.

Xin Zi's throat tightened, licked her dry lips, and only after a long time did she ask in a hoarse voice, "You were once captured by the people of the Dongyuan Imperial Court, right?" Tokyo, in the dark room in the backyard of the Qi Palace, the 'Food and Drug Administration' is a secret pharmaceutical place, do you know? (To be continued.) )