Chapter 43: The Mountains Are Far Away
Lijin Village, a cottage door supported by two huge stone pillars, hangs three heads, and everyone in the cottage knows whose three heads they belong to. They are Yu Jinbiao, the owner of the big village, the owner of the second village, You Decai, and the third owner of the village, Hua Wanting.
Tao Sanshui's body trembled violently, and the hundreds of minions behind him trembled even more.
Not far away, there stood a gray-clothed man with a grim face, his dark eyes were as sharp as a blade, and every time he swept over everyone, it made people's hearts chill.
"Have you thought about it?" The man in gray said coldly.
"The villain and the owner of the cottage are willing to submit to the imperial court." Tao Sanshui knelt down, and hundreds of minions behind him fell to their knees.
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In Cuiwei Villa, there are brocade guards holding torches high and holding knives and guns everywhere.
"My lord, I've searched all over the lobby, and there is no one."
"My lord, I searched the entire embroidery building, but I found nothing."
"My lord, there is a mechanism under the main hall, and my subordinates have led people down to search for everything, but there is nothing."
"Adult ......"
Listening to the reports of his subordinates, Shen Yun's brows were deeply twisted into a knot, it seemed that he was still a step too late, and the other party actually got the news and fled in advance.
"Your Excellency, please look, my subordinates have found this." A chief flag officer dressed in a cyan cloud brocade suit unfolded a picture scroll in front of him, and on a huge lotus throne sat an extremely enchanting Guanyin Bodhisattva.
"Hmph, the White Lotus Sect demons are really everywhere." Shen Yun snorted coldly.
"My lord, since there is no one to find in this mansion, it is better to burn it down." A flag officer advised.
"Keep it and send someone to spy on it."
In the verdant and deep mountain forest, a group of people hurriedly walked. There were about five or six of them, all dressed in white and masked, all of them women. The one at the front was petite and looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old.
There was a tinkling of spring water, and a stream stretched in front of them, and the stream shimmered in the moonlight with fine scales like trembling silk.
"Young master, let's rest before leaving! No matter how fast the officers and soldiers of the imperial court were, they couldn't catch up here. An elderly masked woman in white said.
"WellβMr. May, where are we now?" The petite masked woman in white asked.
"Young master, after the mountain range in front, we will go out of Nanzhili and go to the boundary of Henan Mall." Manager Mei raised his voice as he spoke: "Xiaoling, Xiaoyu, you two go to stand guard and watch the wind." Xiaoyan, Xiaocai, one of you goes to fetch water, and the other goes to prepare something to eat. β
The voice fell for a long time, but there was no response.
"A bunch of unruly things, I can't control you when I leave the villa?" Manager Mei Huo Ran turned around and swept his sharp gaze behind him.
Suddenly, the fierce look in Manager Mei's eyes turned to horror, because what he saw was not a person, but a corpse, four corpses lying on the ground and bleeding from his chest.
Under the moonlight, a bewitching girl in red leaned on a mountain rock and played with a pair of six-edged steel Emei thorns in her hand. She smiled at Manager Mei: "Barren mountains and wild mountains, aren't you afraid to rest here?" How about I take you somewhere? β
Manager Mei didn't answer, and with a movement of his right wrist, a cold light flew towards the red-clothed girl like lightning. With a "poof", a flying knife with a blade as thin as paper and in the shape of a willow leaf was deeply inserted into the mountain rock that the girl in red had just leaned on, and the tail of the flying knife shook endlessly, but the girl in red was nowhere to be seen.
Manager Mei nervously pulled a long sword from his waist and watched around vigilantly. There was silence all around, as if no one had ever appeared. When Manager Mei's eyes looked at the young master, the young master looked behind her with wide eyes, and his eyes were full of horror. Not good! As soon as Manager Mei turned his gaze, he saw a sharp light and shadow slashing towards his upper body, and he didn't have time to think about it, and quickly backhanded the sword in his right hand, "Ding-" As soon as he intersected with the opponent's weapon, Manager Mei felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and immediately took a step back. The girl in red is like a very patient hunter, once she finds that the other party has a little omission, she quickly deceives herself to the side of Manager Mei, and the Emei stab in her left hand leads away the opponent's long sword, and the Emei thorn in her right hand pierces the opponent's lower abdomen like a snake out of a hole. Manager Mei reached out and touched her abdomen, feeling a hand of blood, she screamed, glared angrily, and rushed forward like a stormy wave, slashing at the girl in red with one sword after another, like a mad tiger.
The girl in red is like a flat boat in a huge wave, floating left and right, and can always dodge the opponent's stormy attacks in danger and danger. Mr. Mei's five fingers trembled slightly, and the long sword pointed obliquely, quickly drew a circle, provoked sword flowers, and stabbed at the key points of the girl in red in the real and the real in the void. This is a blow she used all her strength, blocking the opponent's dodge with a false move, and taking the key point with a real move.
"Hum-" When the long sword stabbed the girl in red's chest, it let out a trembling buzzing sound, and the other party's body turned into nothingness like a reflection in the water.
Mr. Mei's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. Suddenly with a pain in her back, she turned her head, and the girl in red floated behind her like a ghost, and stabbed the Emei thorn in her hand deeply into her body. Her vision began to blur......
"Young Master, I have done everything I can, and I hope you will forgive me for the mistakes I made before. It's a pity that I can't serve you anymore......" she muttered silently in her heart, smiling at the girl in red.
"It's broken!" The girl in red seemed to read something from her serene eyes, and quickly pulled out the Emei thorn. Lunging down on the petite figure, he raised his hand and ripped off the veil that had covered her face. An ordinary frightened little face was revealed.
"Who are you?"
"I, I'm not her, they made me do this, don't kill me...... Woo woo ...... "The little girl sat on the ground and began to cry bitterly.
"Sure enough, I fell for the golden cicada's plan to get out of the shell." The girl in red said hatefully.
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On the Xishui River, a small boat with a sail went down the river, moving fast.
A masked girl in white clothes, about twelve or thirteen years old, sat on the bow of the boat with a snow-white fox in her arms, and looked at the river in front of her.
"Young master, it's windy outside, you better go into the cabin!" A masked woman dressed in white came out of the cabin and said to her.
"Aunt Cui, you said that when Master saw me, how would he punish me?" Her water-shearing eyes, which even the stars in the sky had eclipsed, were a little dull now.
"Young Master, you are the most beloved disciple of the Old Holy Lord, how could she bear to punish you?"
"But this incident has caused the Holy Sect to lose a lot......" The young master's neck drooped, and his eyes became gloomy.
"No matter how big the loss is, is it still the old holy lord's big loss back then? Quite a year ago, when the old Holy Lord held high the banner of righteousness in Shandong, I followed her, and I was twelve years old like you at that time. Later, due to the mobilization of heavy troops by the imperial court to besiege the cottage, the old holy lord was outnumbered, and the people around him died and surrendered, leaving me alone to accompany her. We were in a lot of trouble during those days, and we were much more miserable than you are now. If the old Holy Lord is like you now, and you are discouraged at the slightest setback, how can there be a great picture of the Holy Sect now. β
As soon as he said this, the young master's eyes gradually lit up.
"Aunt Cui is right, as long as there is still a breath, I can make a comeback." She touched the little white fox's smooth, brocade-like fur. He said to himself: "Little thing, I have only learned your cunning, and now I have learned one more than you, and that is patience." β
She raised her head, her eyes full of confidence again: "Aunt Cui, what's the place ahead?" β
"After the front river bay, it is the boundary of the lake, if everything is smooth, you can enter the Yangtze River in less than a day. The old Holy Lord is now developing the cult in the Wuchang area, and if we go there, we will definitely meet her old man. β
"Master, I'm here." The young master hugged the little white fox and took a long breath with his eyes closed.
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Luzhou outside the city of Jinyi guard tent.
"Miss Shisu, you have to hold the sword like this, so that you can exert the strength of your waist." Ning Zuer seriously corrected Miss Zisu's posture with a sword.
Miss Shiso made a few movements and asked, "Is that so?" β
Ning Zuer smiled but did not answer.
"Am I stupid?" Miss Shisu asked angrily.
"No matter what you do, it's so beautiful." Ning Zuer said with a smile.
"Wow, don't think I can't hear it, you're scolding me around the corner?" Miss Shiso raised her pink fist and slammed it at him.
"Good sister, spare me! I didn't expect you to understand. Ning Zuer hugged his head and ran away.
"You also said, see if I can't clean you up." Miss Shiso chased after her with a long sword.
This scene was seen by Yang Muyun, who came out for a walk, and he only felt a blockage in his heart, turned his head and prepared to go back. A handsome little scholar appeared in front of him, it was Su'er.
"You see them flirting, don't you feel uncomfortable?" Su'er's words were like a knife that poked into Yang Muyun's heart.
Yang Muyun is now invulnerable.
"What are they doing, what are they doing with me?"
"Then why don't you catch up, why don't you turn around and leave?" Su'er still doesn't give up.
Yang Muyun looked at her very strangely, rubbed his nose, walked past her, and only dropped a sentence: "The ancients said, 'If you don't see each other, how ruthless is affection.'" ββ
"Huhβyou're going to drop your book bag? Don't you know that 'the mountains have trees and branches, and the mountains are pleasing to the kings and the kings don't know.'" 'What?' β
Yang Muyun looked back in amazement.
"Yang Muyun, if I were you, I would try it with Ning Zuer to see who was good, and then snatch my beloved back." Su'er didn't know if he was sarcastic or cheering him on.
Yang Muyun shook his head and smiled bitterly. People are flying together like wings, and they are already in love with concubines, so is it interesting to do this again?
He returned to his tent, and Duan Xiaoqi greeted him and said, "My lord, Lord Shen wants you to prepare, His Royal Highness King Yu is coming to see you." β
"Huh? When? I mean, when will His Royal Highness arrive? Yang Muyun asked hurriedly.
"Lord Shen said that after about an hour, it should be less than half an hour now."
"Quick, Duan Cheng, come and help me clean up."
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Zhu Qiyu was wearing a black gauze winged crown, wearing a big red dragon round-necked prince's robe, and frowned at Yang Muyun, who was lying on the bed and was "seriously ill", only to see that Yang Muyun's face was sallow, his lips were pale and bloodless, his eyes were black, and his eyes were blank......
"Your Royal Highness, you are here, cough ...... Ahem......" Yang Muyun struggled to sit up, but Duan Xiaoqi hurriedly stepped forward to support him.
"Yang Qing's family doesn't need to be polite, I heard that you are in good health a few days ago, why are you so sick when you see it today?"
"Don't hide it from Your Highness, the day before yesterday, the official went out and felt a cold, but I didn't expect it...... Cough...... Ahem...... When I came back, I had a fever that didn't stop, and today I got worse and worse, and I couldn't get up to greet His Highness, hoping that His Highness would forgive my sins. β
"Yang Qing's family, you saved this king and the princess, this king is grateful, I want to, I want to ......" Zhu Qiyu was silent for a moment, "I wanted to take the Qing family into Beijing together, now you take care of your illness first, and then talk about the matter of entering Beijing later." β
"The lower official has betrayed His Royal Highness's kindness, and he is terrified...... Cough...... Ahem...... Your Highness, on the way to rescue Your Highness, the lower official found this ......" Yang Muyun took out a yellow jade pendant from his arms with great difficulty and handed it over, "Your Highness, you see-"
Zhu Qiyu held the jade pendant in his hand, the jade pendant was crystal warm and moist all over, without a trace of impurities, and it was made of the best sweet topaz. The jade pendant is engraved with lines on both sides, and in the middle is the word "Yu".
Zhu Qiyu was silent for a long time, and returned the jade pendant to Yang Muyun: "This is something that this king has carried with him since he was a child, and now give it to Yang Qing's family!" If you can come to the capital, take this thing to find the king! β
"Xiaguan thanked His Royal Highness King Yu......" Yang Muyun struggled and bowed.
Shen Yun led a group of brocade guards to send the sullen Zhu Qiyu out of the camp gate, and the sedan curtain of a big red sedan chair in the honor guard lifted a corner, and Zhu Xiyuan, who was wearing a phoenix crown and a phoenix pattern, moved lightly from the sedan chair and stepped out of the sedan chair.
"Her Royal Highnessβ" Everyone around them saluted in unison.
Zhu Xiyuan ignored them and came straight to Zhu Qiyu's side: "What about Yang Muyun?" Why didn't he come out with you? β
"He's sick, he's very sick, and he can't return to Beijing with us."
"When I left, he was fine, why did he suddenly get sick, and he was very sick." Zhu Xiyuan's beautiful eyes glanced at the direction of the camp gate: "No, I have to go and see him." β
"Stop-" Zhu Qiyu accentuated his tone: "Xiyuan, please pay attention to your identity." A princess of Daming who has not yet left the cabinet shows up to see a young man, in front of everyone, where is the royal face? What is the imperial system? β
"Brother Wangβ" Zhu Xiyuan was speechless.
"If you really want to see him, go back to Beijing with me to see the emperor, and ask the emperor to summon him to the capital.