(742) Wind-blown sand

- For more than two years, Cen Chi and his party have walked in the Qingchuan Valley, where bandits and bandits are rampant and often common, and they have faced danger many times, all of which have relied on Gao Qian's superb martial arts to solve the siege, so he has added several scars to his body in the past two years.

But despite this, for Cen Chi, he is still determined to only treat this high potential at the head of the ten families as the eyes and ears of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Three years ago, when he learned of Lin Shan's death, Cen Chi also inadvertently discovered some other things in the Prime Minister's Mansion, which vaguely proved that the Prime Minister's power was having an affair with the killer group that murdered Lin Shan, which made Cen Chi disgusted the Prime Minister for the first time.

If Lin Shan was still alive, Cen Chi might be able to ignore this point of the festival, at most he would just leave the Prime Minister's Mansion; But if something really happened to Lin Shan, Cen Chi would definitely do whatever it took to make the Prime Minister's Mansion cut flesh and bleed.

This was the decision Cen Chi made when he left the Prime Minister's Mansion three years ago.

In the past three years, as the road under his feet has become farther and farther, but again and again he has only gained disappointment, this determination in his heart has become deeper and deeper. How could he have a good impression of a person sent by the Prime Minister to spy on him? As for Gao Qian's several adventures to save him from danger, in his opinion, it was just Gao Qian's fulfillment of his loyalty to the prime minister, and he was also ruthless.

Knowing that Gao Qian fed the horses, according to his careful and patient style, he would not be able to come back for a while, Cen Chi's face softened slightly, and he said casually: "He is really cautious as always, but it's a pity that he stepped on the wrong grid."

Fang Wuliuyun's eyebrows were raised, and instead of immediately trying to debunk another meaning that might exist in Cen Chi's words, he smiled and said, "It's not okay to be careful." If it weren't for those three horses, we might have been stuck here for a month. This place is so remote that if you lose your horses, not only will you not be able to find them back, but you will not be able to buy a few more. ”

After leaving the town where Lin Shan lived in seclusion, Cen Chi and his party galloped for two hours. At noon, they stopped under another unfamiliar town's teahouse, but this was not the place they planned to rest today.

As planned, they should skip the more remote town than the previous stop. They rushed to Shakou County, about 200 miles away, before dark, and then changed the horses into carriages. Re-energize and hit the road.

On the way from western Sichuan to Beidi, Cen Chi and his entourage originally traveled in a carriage, but they were robbed by rogues halfway. The target of the rogue looting was only property, and as soon as the other party came up, he directly slashed one of the wheels of the carriage with his sword, and then shaved off the roof of the car...... With the bravery of one person, Gao Qian successfully killed four rogues, but he had no strength left to protect the carriage. In the end, Gao Qian in turn snatched the two horses of the rogue, and the three of them rode on the horses before fleeing the scene.

It's just that in this way, after sleeping in the open for a few nights, it took Cen Chi more than two years to stabilize the toxins in his body. There are signs of rebellion again. In the past few days, his face has obviously been a little abnormal again, and he must try his best to reach the county seat with more comprehensive environmental facilities to make adjustments.

The reason why Cen Chi left the Prime Minister's Mansion three years ago was to find Fang Wu, and use his immortal technique of devouring fog and dew to dissolve the strange poison in himself, and at the same time, he also had the slightest idea of looking for the medicine ghost Liao Shi to seek a way to detoxify. But after these three years, in fact, Gao Qian and Cen Chi both know what the other party really wants to do. It's just that they still have room for each other's needs, so they haven't broken this layer of window paper for a long time.

Regarding this matter, although Fang Wu, a partial disciple of the Northern Fence School, had accepted Xiao Kuang's entrustment and was willing to assist Cen Chi all the way, in fact, he still maintained a neutral posture. He did not help Cen Chi deal with Gao Qian because of his teacher's relationship with the Beili School. It was not because the Prime Minister's Mansion gave him a few years of wine and meat that he helped Gao Qian, who was the head of the Ten Generals of the Prime Minister's Mansion, to monitor Cen Chi at a deeper level.

Fang Wu was only bent on seeking the Dao, but the Dao heart was weak, and he deliberately avoided the distracting thoughts that disturbed his state of mind.

But looking at this matter from Cen Chi's point of view, Fang Wu did not help anyone, and in fact, it still benefited him a lot. Although Fang Wu was unwilling to do anything to hurt Gao Qian, but in other aspects, he was able to help Cen Chi.

Cen Chi couldn't imagine that if Fang Wu also became the eyes and ears of the Prime Minister's Mansion, all his actions would really be hollowed out.

However, today, because of a familiar face, a certain thought that had been put aside for a while in Cen Chi's heart was brought up again. At the same time, he no longer wants to maintain this defensive but balanced relationship between him and the high potential.

Fang Wu didn't really want to break the little thought in Cen Chi's heart, and Cen Chi was still a little hesitant for a while, whether it was time to spread out the idea he had been thinking about for a long time.

The two sat quietly opposite each other for a long time, until suddenly a small wind swept into the tea shed, and the dry grass residue on the ground mixed with the sand ash and flew into the sky, and then poured down, Cen Chi looked at the wind and sand and squinted, Fang Wu subconsciously turned the tea cup on the table in front of him upside down.

Half a cup of tea overflowed half of the tabletop, and a pool of tea soup overflowed the edge of the table, dripping down.

Fang Wu's hand holding the tea cup was slightly sluggish, and Cen Chi's half-squinted eyes slowly opened completely.

"Old Dao, are you going to sigh to the sky again?"

"What do you want to say?"

Cen Chi and Fang Wu spoke almost at the same time, and asked each other a question. These are two questions with different motives, but they are almost expected from each other.

The two men looked at each other, and then fell silent together.

In the past, looking at the sand and dust that suddenly swept up in Siye, and the small tea shed that swept and pushed the flat ground and isolated, Fang Wu was indeed easy to gather his spirit in order to comprehend what he saw in front of him. In terms of the ideal idea of a cultivator like him, water is the lifeblood of Kundi, and wind is the breath of heaven, if you can feel more of it, it will be one step closer to the law of heaven and earth.

But at this time, Fang Wu didn't feel anything as Cen Chi said.

He just moved a few thoughts in his mind like an ordinary person, and then said slowly: "You have made a decision?"

When he heard the word "fate" mentioned in Cen Chi's words just now, he could roughly guess what the content of that decision in Cen Chi's heart was.

This thought had long been in Cen Chi's heart, and Fang Wu had already realized it. At this time, Fang Wu was not sure whether Cen Chi had made up his mind, and if he didn't have a false thought, he would not give an explicit choice, including the choice to give up.

Cen didn't answer and asked, "Will you help me?" This was the question he wanted to say the most, and he was eager to know the answer.

Fang Wuyi did not immediately answer this question. Just asked the same rhetorically: "Why don't you imagine that I might choose to help someone else?"

In this strange and desolate place surrounded by silver, gray and gravel, and sparsely populated, if there is anyone else who will make Fang have no intention of helping. This person is not Cen Chi, then it can only be another of their companions.

This should be extremely detrimental to Cen Chi's plan. If this really happens, it is the last thing he wants.

However, in response to Fang Wu's rather dangerous rhetorical question, Cen Chi's face did not change, he did not think about anything, and immediately said in a slow tone: "Even if you don't help me, you will never fail your promise with another person."

Fang Wu suddenly laughed and said softly, "If I am still the same as before. No one will help, do you think you can have a chance of winning?"

Cen Chi responded to Fang Wu again with a rhetorical question: "You take visiting the Tao to seek immortals as your business, so do you believe in the will of heaven or in my words?"

If there is a third person sitting at the table at this time, he will definitely be confused by the conversation between these two people.

But at this time, the two people who were talking in this state were extremely sober in their mental thinking. Because the decisions and choices they make involve more than just a trivial matter in small talk.

"Sometimes your thoughts are crazy, so I believe in Providence more......" After a little contemplation, Fang Wu opened his mouth and asked rhetorically: "Listen to the meaning of your words, it seems that you have a way to make Providence in front of me for me to choose?"

Cen Chi raised his shoulders. An incomprehensible expression appeared on his face, and finally he stopped asking questions, and said slowly: "Of course, you should know that one of the propositions of the Beili School is not to play this set of falsehoods. However, because of your faith. And now there is one thing before me that I must ask for your opinion, so I will believe it once. ”

Fang Wu didn't speak, but a look of novelty clearly flashed in his clear pupils.

Although he is a partial disciple who has been separated from the Beili School for several generations, he still has a much more careful understanding of this school with the significance of inheriting the ancestral school. The main disciples of the Beili School are extremely thin, and it is extremely difficult for the world to see it, and it is very surprising to make a Beili disciple change his adherence to the essential principles of the school, even if it is only once.

Next, he saw Cen Chi call the tea man, took three tea cups again, and made three hot teas. The three tea cups that had been used before were taken away, and the tea soup that had been spilled on the table was also wiped dry, and the qiē on the table seemed to be restored to its original position.

When the tea-making guy left, Cen Chi took out a white pill from the corner of his sleeve with great speed, and the end of his finger was hard crushed, and the powder fell--it landed in the teacup placed on the side of the table between the two teacups of him and Fang Wu--if there was no accident, that was the position where Gao Qian would sit when he came back after feeding the horse.

Rao is Fang Wu had already made some mental preparations, knowing that the person sitting upright opposite might make some big noise, but when he saw the white powder falling into the tea cup of the high submersible, he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart.

Fang Wuluo suppressed his voice and said, "You're actually going to start here?"

His words were more subtle, but in fact, he still couldn't bear to fulfill Cen Chi's wish so quickly. Although he is a cultivator, he cultivates the way of nature, the way of comprehension, and the ideal state in his heart is to be undisturbed by the world and to improve in harmony. If you have to make an exception once...... It's too sudden!

"What's strange?" Cen Chi had a smile on his face, stretched out his hand to pick up the tea that had been served, and shook it gently, so that all the powder that was slightly stained on the edge of the cup was absorbed and melted by the dark tea soup, "Maybe another team of rogues will come out and loot us, and no one will be nosy around." Although they are also human, they are likely to choose to avoid it as quickly as possible. ”

The implication is that he poisoned a person in the current public environment, even if this person is still his companion in the face, and it will not attract much attention in the end. In such a deserted place, the control of the government can almost be ignored, and if no chivalrous person happens to pass by, this kind of place is an unhindered place for killing people and goods.

Fortunately, the people here are generally poor, so everyone can get along without trouble. Unlike the three of them, when they just stepped into this windy and sandy land on the northern border a few days ago, it didn't take long for them to attract people's eyes and ears and then recruit bandits and loot.

Fang Wu sighed softly and said, "Since you have already done this thing, what choice do you have to talk to me about?"

"Actually. It's not ......" Cen Chi hesitated, and only halfway through his words, he saw a familiar figure coming over from the corner of his eye. He immediately cut off the conversation.

"What did the two gentlemen talk about?" The easy-going voice of the high dive came.

When he returned to the table after feeding the horses, Cen Chi just took the first step to withdraw his hand. So Gao Qian didn't see the somewhat strange movement of the tea cup in his chair.

Gao Qian only saw the big difference in the expressions on the faces of the two people sitting opposite each other on both sides of the brown wood tea table, and couldn't help but be a little curious: what could make the Taoist priest who had always shown a calm and relaxed normality look surprised, and Cen Chi, who had always been disturbed by the Taoist priest's accidental exit of the Taoist scriptures, looked calm?

Because Fang Wu had already roughly determined the matter that Cen Chi was thinking about in his heart, at this time, when he saw Gao Qian again, his eyes unconsciously became a little strange.

Fang Wu was silent, but Cen Chi took the initiative to get up, and greeted Wen Yan: "You can also sit down and rest." It's all you doing all the way, and I can't help much, so I just moved my two mouths and just asked the guy to add you new tea. ”

"There's Mr. Law." High Diving is seated as promised. smiled and said: "Escorting Mr. along the way, it is Gao's position, and he definitely doesn't dare to slack off."

Cen Chi didn't say anything more about gratitude. Along the way, the high divers have claimed to be the following people, and they have been traveling abroad for another three years. Cen Chi also felt more deeply that sometimes it is indeed a good skill to be high. The key is that he wants to create obstacles to the high potential as much as possible, so gradually he also holds his own identity, even if this identity actually depends on how much face the real head of the high potential and the prime minister in Kyoto gives.

Cen Chi only raised his hand and made a "please use" gesture.

Gao Qian bowed slightly. Picked up the teacup.

Fang Wu, who was sitting on the side, lowered his gaze slightly at this time.

……

It wasn't until the Commander Li Gai slowly walked to the bottom of the house and raised his hand to give an order, that the Commander's Mansion Wuwei, who had several rows of arms and crossbows and had already set up preparations for shooting, lowered his crossbow head slightly, and at this time, Mo Ye's forehead was already oozing sweat drops.

Subsequently, she and Wu Shu were "invited" into the study room of the mansion to review office affairs.

They were really invited into the study, and Li Gai didn't seem to be angry, but Mo Ye vaguely felt that it was because he didn't take them seriously at all, this was the friendly treatment of the strong to the weak.

The moment he walked into the study, the warm sunlight seemed to be scraped away by the door, and Mo Ye's back felt a slight chill, and he felt that there was something vaguely strange about the whole process.

Li Gai had already sat down behind the desk, he raised his hand and pointed to a small table a few steps away from him, and said to the tall and short two people standing at the door of the study like wood: "You drink tea first, suppress the shock."

It seems that the Commander's Mansion is fully armed, and even the person in charge of serving the tea is a military guard with a wide sword at his waist, and he doesn't say any polite phrases, he puts down the teacup and goes out.

In fact, the Commander's Mansion usually does not have any idle guests, and the daily work of the Mansion will more or less involve some documents that need to be kept secret in the city defense matters, such as the internal structure of the Wolf's Tooth Siege and the frequency of personnel transfers, such information has always been limited to a few people. As a result, there was no need for servants in the Command.

And as long as you know the original intention of setting up the military guards inside and outside the Commander's Palace, it is not difficult to understand. In the event of an emergency, all of them must have the ability to participate in the battle, and some of them are also responsible for changing positions at any time. If necessary, a guard guard can immediately be transferred to a sentry post to take on reconnaissance work.

Mo Ye and Wu Shu didn't expect that after their whereabouts were exposed, when they were almost detained, the first words that Commander Li said to them would be so polite and gentle.

Neither of them moved for a moment.

Mo Ye quickly thought that when the middle-aged man in front of him brought them a willow leaf just now, the movements between his palms looked so gentle from a distance, but when the leaf flew in, she could clearly feel the strength carried between the leaves, like a sword pressing in front of the eyelashes.

Or should that be called killing intent?

But if he didn't hide just now, would he really end up with a leaf through his head?

"Mo Ye, what are you thinking?"

The middle-aged man sitting behind the desk spoke again, this time, his words were only directed at Mo Ye and her name was revealed.

Mo Ye was slightly stunned when he heard this, and secretly thought: Since you don't know who I am. Why did you do it just now?

But Mo Ye was afraid to show this to the person behind the desk, so when she thought about it, she had lowered her eyes slightly in advance. For fear of being noticed by the other party.

This man is too observant. And he is accustomed to taking the lead after grasping the overall situation, and has a rather good style of playing tricks on his subordinates.

The key point that made Mo Ye's heart extremely jealous was that she didn't want to cause trouble in front of him, because the trouble she caused and the punishment that she turned into in the end were likely to fall on Wu Shu beside her. And the man in front of him. is not only Wu Shu's boss, but also a boss who can punish his subordinates with his own hands.

After Mo Ye lowered her head slightly, she heard the boss speak again, and said slowly to his subordinates: "Xiao Wu." Kung Fu has improved, not bad. ”

When I came into the study, I heard Li Gai say three words, the first sentence was very polite, and the third sentence was to praise him, a subordinate who had just violated the order of the Commander's Mansion.

Mo Ye could feel it. Wu Shu, who was close to him, had a slight rhythm of breath and a half-beat.

Before she could hear Wu Shu speak, she saw a martial guard walk in outside the door, and she didn't need to tell the commander behind the desk in the room, she raised her hand and handed Wu Shu something directly. It was the row that was wrapped around the big willow tree.

Once Xingzi loses the pressure of external force, the wiring harness that was previously ejected out of the hole will naturally shrink into the box. When the guards in the mansion took the line from the tree, its appearance immediately returned to its place. In fact, when the Wu Wei who climbed the tree blade saw this scene, he also felt strange in his heart, but this kind of personal affection was not often shown on his face during working hours.

Because Xingzi was handed directly by Wu Wei, instead of just resting on the small table next to him like the two cups of hot tea, Wu Shu could only immediately reach out and take it.

Holding the line in the palm of his hand, Wu Shu habitually wanted to stuff it into the wristband, but at this moment, his movements suddenly stagnated, and then his hand holding the line merged with the other hand......

Just as he was about to bow down, he heard a voice from the other side: "Today you brought outsiders, I only treat you as a guest."

Wu Shu's expression was sluggish, Mo Ye could hear this, but his mood was slightly slow.

Regardless of what he meant by the strength of the leaf that came out of his hand before, but when he said this sentence at this time, it at least meant that he really let go of his hostility and oppression at this moment. Nanzhao inherited the three-character virtue of the previous dynasty, one of which is "rite", which also contains the gift of hospitality, and the moral spirit of the dynasty is ad hoc, and jokes are not allowed.

But there was a kind of silence in the study at this time, as if both sides were waiting for each other to speak first, and the atmosphere seemed a little strange.

After a while, it was finally Wu Shu who spoke, and he said in a deep voice: "My lord, today's actions are all planned by one of my subordinates. If an adult wants to punish his subordinates, the subordinates are willing to bear the responsibility of a crime, and they have no resentment, but they don't want to affect innocent people. ”

"The guest is the master...", Li Gai did not express his position immediately, but said slowly: "Since I treat you as a guest, don't keep the pestle at the door."

When Wu Shu heard this, he looked hesitant, but he still didn't move or speak.

However, Mo Ye beside him suddenly moved, walked to the table and sat down, and then looked at Li Gai who was sitting at the back of the desk, but she didn't speak.

At this time, the slightly strange atmosphere in the study room may have to be resolved by a person who accepts the courtesy of the master of the study.

It's like a person who hasn't smiled for too long, and every inch of skin on his face seems to freeze, but when he is finally willing to laugh, he suddenly feels that it is not so difficult to show a smile. As long as a smile floats on the face, the smile will soon bloom into every inch of the face.

As soon as Mo Ye sat down, the atmosphere in the study seemed to change suddenly, becoming much more relaxed and casual.

In fact, the few people who looked at each other just now were not so tense, but at that time, the atmosphere reached a critical point from loose to slow, but they have not been able to break through the past, so everyone will feel a little anxious.

Not long after Mo Ye sat down, Wu Shu also sat down.

At this time, Li Gai, who was sitting behind the desk, spoke again, and continued: "I want to listen to your own explanation, why do you want to peep when I am practicing?"

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