Chapter 10: The Bride

"The bride, the bride, don't put your hijab up, don't be sad with tears. Sitting in a sedan chair waiting for Lang Jun, covering his eyebrows and smiling, how festive! ”

The moonlight appeared and disappeared through the wisps of black clouds, and the faint light pouring on the wing corners of the pavilion was like a woman's tears, and the distance was black and dark, mistaking the illusion of a mountain of corpses. Only near this sedan chair is bright, with a kerosene lamp in each hand, and lanterns are also hung at the four corners of the sedan chair.

At the front were two women, one black and one white, with green silk untied over their shoulders, and their dark red hairbands lifted by the wind and hung in the air. Holding a candle in his hand, the candlelight flickered, and he walked forward without hurrying out of his legs.

Two female voices with different timbres are singing, deliberately slowing down the speed of speech several times, and the dragging sound is elongated and echoed in the streets and alleys, without the accompaniment of suona, it becomes more and more cold.

If there are people on the road, they will definitely be scared to the point that their souls will fly, which is quite like the scene of a ghost wedding.

"The beauty on the sedan chair, I saw Lang Jun bend her eyebrows." Chen Wensheng held the candle in both hands, and his voiceless voice rose slightly.

Jiang Liuyue chuckled when she heard this, and hurriedly continued to sing, holding the candle with one hand and putting the other hand on her waist: "On the night of the candle, don't say anything, the bride, she will be ashamed." ”

Behind them was Yu Wenjue, who was riding a horse, and then behind was the sedan chair.

"Miss, are you festive... Don't you feel stumbling on the big night! Xiao Ling, who was sitting in the sedan chair, finally couldn't stop speaking, her voice trembling and panting loudly. Lifting the red hijab on his head, a kerosene lamp flickered on the table, eerie.

The song stopped abruptly, the horse kicked its hooves in fright and neighed hoofed, Yu Wenjue saw this and tightened the reins, leaned over to wrap his arms around the horse's neck, and stroked his hair a few times before he stabilized.

The cold wind fluttered in the robes, as if someone was following behind him, "Don't stop, keep singing." Chen Wensheng frowned and said to the woman in black holding a candle next to him.

"The bride... Newly married..."

After opening his mouth and singing a few words, two silver lights flew in front of them and shot towards them, Chen Wensheng saw this and pulled forward and sat on the ground, while Jiang Liuyue dodged with incredible softness, the candle in the hands of the two fell to the ground, making a crisp sound, and the dart crossed the sedan chair leaving two traces.

Yu Wenjue had already dismounted, the sword was out of the sheath, the edge was exposed, the three of them held the sword back to back, the sedan chair was placed on the ground, and everyone also drew their swords against each other.

Countless sharp weapons were sprinkled from the sky, Jiang Liuyue waved the white sword in his hand to slap this thing, and said with one hand: "It's not over, so many darts on the other side?" ”

It's not like a haunted culprit...!

A few more darts were thrown down from the top of the church, and a dark shadow swept over the roof of the church and faded into the darkness along the eaves.

said that it was too late, and Chen Wensheng's kung fu disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he chased after the black shadow.

Xiao Ling opened the sedan curtain nervously, poked her head out and looked around, darts were all over the ground, and there were a few darts on the sedan frame, she gasped: "If this sedan chair is not blocked, I'm afraid I will also be injured." ”

Here, Chen Wensheng chased all the way, the wind was whistling in her ears, and because of her light work, she saw a black shadow standing by the wide river in the distance after a while, hesitating. The black shadow saw Chen Wensheng chasing after him and threw two darts over, jumped forward, and flew into the rapid water.

This person is also very good at light skills, and he flies rapidly on the water. Chen Wensheng did not show weakness, a somersault landed steadily on the surface of the river, his body was as light as a swallow, and a cloud of mist spread behind him.

In a blink of an eye, he came to a bamboo forest, and the black shadow suddenly stood still in the forest, and the sound of rustling leaves came from the surroundings, and he was alerted to find that there was an ambush here, and he had rescuers. Suddenly, a large net fell from the air, and Chen Wensheng jumped up the tree and dodged the net.

I heard that there were at least seven or eight people in my ears, and I secretly pinched a cold sweat, if it wasn't her work to run away at this moment.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes watched her every move, and she stood on the tree and held her breath for a moment, observing her surroundings calmly. There was a sudden agitation, and a man in black came out in front of him, and he looked her in the eye without a trace of emotion.

The two were separated by two feet, and Chen Wensheng just looked at him silently and smiled slightly.

There was no trace of sadness in her smile, like a rose blooming in the cold rain, lonely, lonely, beautiful, and full of guard.

That kind of look almost shocked the man in black, such a swordsman whose heart was already as cold as iron.

Just for a moment when he was stunned, crimson sword light flowed out of Chen Wensheng's sleeve. Before he could raise his sword to fight back, the crimson had already reached him.

The man in black covered his broken arm, pointed his toes to the ground, and retreated!

Two more masked assassins surged up from behind, and the sword light rushed to the sky, and the sword held three sword flowers in the air, like a snake spitting out a core, and stabbed straight into her heart.

Seeing that it was bound to kill her, she threw several darts across the river, hitting the two assassins, and then the two screamed and fell to the ground, showing that the darts were highly poisonous.

Chen Wensheng looked back and saw that it was Jiang Liuyue, who was dressed in black, followed by two people in wedding dresses. She turned around, only to tap lightly, and disappeared into thin air! The other men in black put away their swords and wanted to retreat, but she appeared ten feet away.

But it was only a thousandth of a second, and the crimson sword light flashed on the chest of a man in black, and then quickly disappeared. The man didn't see anything, and suddenly he felt a pain in his chest. Bowing his head, a line of red blood flowed down.

Such a fast sword light...... It is worthy of being a Xuanyuan general!

There was only one man left in black. Before the two swords intersected, the two sword qi collided, making a "ding" sound, and the cyan sword was shaken out of his hand. The man in black was full of shock, this was the first time he had lost to someone else! Besides, the other party is just a woman. Turning around to escape, Chen Wensheng bent down and pulled out the darts on the black-clothed man who fell to the ground and threw it over.

No doubt hit the head, blood spurted and splashed onto the leaves.

At this time, three people from the other side of the river rushed over, and the four of them looked at each other and smiled at the mess after the fight.

Jiang Liuyue bent down and lifted the mask of the corpse, and everyone gathered around to feel that this person looked unfamiliar. Her slender fingers ran down the folds of her clothes all the way to her waist, and she held a cyan jade in her hand.

"Isn't this the jade pendant under Xuanyuan Shufei Lin Ru?" Xiao Ling snatched the jade and looked at it.

Yuwen Jue frowned and said, "Concubine Shu sent someone to kill you?" ”

It stands to reason that Chen Wensheng and Lin Ru have no grievances and get along quite well, so the reason for the bad motives is only to fall out of favor.

"Maybe it's because of Qianyuchen..."Chen Wensheng felt that these jadeites would definitely be useful in the future, so he squatted down and groped the waist of the corpse one after another, collecting a few pieces and hanging them on his waist.

The guards over there stood anxiously waiting for Chen Wensheng and the others, and suddenly it was dark in front of them, and a four-legged monster pounced on them, and its sharp claws cut through the throat of one of them.

"This! What a thing! "Look, the thing's tongue sticks into its throat and licks it.

When the monster was motionless and thought it was dead, they took it lightly, and four or five more such monsters came out of the darkness. In the process of fighting, the monster that was originally cut to death, was not dead, slowly got up and threw down his body, and rushed to the man's ankle and bit the man's hamstrings, so painful that the man fell directly to the ground, and the monster cut his throat with his claws, and was silent.

At the moment of breathing, dozens of people had already died in Huangquan, and the monsters gurgled and made terrifying sounds, grabbed the dead man, and walked to the corner of the alley not far away, where a strange figure stood vaguely.

He cracked the corners of his mouth and squatted down to touch the monster's head: "The dog is so good, go back and reward you with broth." He put the dead men in his hands in sacks and threw them on the wagon, and after a short hour of work, he rode away into the endless night.

A few oil lamps fell beside the sedan chair and emitted a faint light, the wind drifted by, the candles were about to be extinguished, and only the sound of horses' hooves flickered.

When Chen Wensheng and the others returned to the sedan chair location, they were stunned by this scene, the ground was covered with blood, they shouted the names of their subordinates, and no one responded. A faint voice came from under the overturned sedan chair: "Chen. General Chen. ”

Hearing the sound, the four of them hurriedly straightened the sedan chair, and the man lay on the ground and vomited a mouthful of blood, his weak hand hanging to the side.

Chen Wensheng knelt down, held the hand, and his voice trembled: "What happened after we left?" ”

"Draw... The leather... Many, much... Monsters that can't be killed. He opened his chapped lips and said word by word, and when he had finished speaking, he fainted from excessive bleeding.

Xiao Ling pulled down Yu Wenjue, who was wearing a wedding dress next to her: "Quickly help him to the inn." ”

Chen Wensheng, who was still deep in thought, was pulled away by Xiao Ling: "Let's go, Miss, don't get separated together." ”

Jiang Liuyue picked up the oil lamp on the ground that had not been extinguished, walked in front, and lit up the four people on the road. After the people left, birds cried near the sedan chair and hovered in the sky.

Pushing open the door of the inn, the four of them let out a long breath, and their eyes that had not seen light for a long time narrowed slightly,

Seeing this, the proprietress hurriedly beckoned the shopkeeper to come over to help people: "My lord, what do you need?" ”

"Fetch me two basins of hot water, prepare a clean dress and towel, and then prepare some food and drinks." Chen Wensheng nodded and commanded.

After helping the person to the bed, Yu Wenjue took off his bloody clothes, cleaned the wound and bandaged it, and Xiao Ling helped hand the towel to get hot water. The other two sat on the chair and rested for a while, Chen Wensheng took off the bloodstained gauze coat, put it between his arms, and briefly combed himself in front of the bronze mirror on the table.

After a long time, I saw that the frowning eyebrows of the person on the bed were stretched, and the rapid breathing gradually calmed down, and I felt that there was no major problem, so I prepared to go downstairs to eat.

Xiao Ling and Yu Wenjue went downstairs with dirty water, and there were only three people left in the house, one was unconscious, and the two were staring at each other.

A few strands of green silk hung down on his sideburns to cover his eyebrows, Chen Wensheng played with the white and red mask in his hand, and turned his head to look at Jiang Liuyue, who was cleaning up the silver dart: "Don't you consider taking off the mask, Jiang Liuyue?" ”

This person even wore the mask of sleeping on his face from beginning to end, and he did not feel panicked. Seeing the finger pinching the corner of the silver dart, he paused, thinking that he was going to be rejected, and sighed. Unexpectedly, Jiang Liuyue raised her other hand and picked up the towel on the table to wipe it clean, then lowered her head and took off the half of the mask she was wearing on her face.

The peach blossoms on the top have small retro words and light-colored crescent curves under their eyes, and their clear and clear eyes are filled with a touch of warmth, and a shallow pear nest seems to be smiling.

Seeing the corners of her mouth inadvertently rise: "What? Stunned? ”

"The reason I've been wearing a mask is because of these unsightly words?" Chen Wensheng subconsciously opened his mouth and asked. It is estimated that these words cannot be erased, and in desperation, I can only wear a mask to cover them. If it were her, she would also choose to wear a mask for the rest of her life.

"Not so. These words have stayed with me for as long as I can remember, and they all say that I am an ominous child. It's true in the back, this mask given to me by my coming-of-age master deliberately blocks this face, how beautiful is it. ”

In fact, this face would look better if it wasn't covered, this sentence was like a fish in the throat, and only a few words were spit out for a long time: "Good-looking..."

Jiang Liuyue chuckled, put the mask back on to cover the small half of her face, put the cleaned silver dart into her sleeve, and patted Chen Wensheng's shoulder: "Heh, let's go down to eat." ”

For her own face, even she herself is not satisfied, how can other people's words be sincere and comfort her. Zeng tried to dig up that piece of tender meat, but after being found by Guiguzi, he blamed him: Since it wants to be beautiful, there are thousands of ways, digging with a knife, and there will be a scar on the face.

The face of the mask on his face comforted himself: "How long ago happened, now I live a chic and comfortable life, why do you think about so many things in the past." ”

"Well, yes, just live in the moment and be happy." Thinking that this was reasonable, Chen Wensheng nodded yes.

Pushing open the door and the two of them went downstairs, they saw four or five people standing in front of Yu Wenjue and Xiaoling, scolding loudly, the wooden barrel next to them was overturned, the blood in it flowed all over the ground, and the hot meals on the table also knocked over a few bowls, some of which fell to the ground, and the dishes and chopsticks were all over the place.

Yu Wenjue clenched his fists, and he could feel how annoyed he was at the moment, Xiao Ling hugged his waist tightly behind him and cried: "Don't fight, don't fight." ”

"I asked you to come here to catch the murderer, forget if the murderer is not caught, there are nearly 30 people who went out, except for the four of you, only one is left, and he is still a person whose life and death are uncertain. Can you do it? ”

The boy gritted his teeth and looked at the two red-clothed people in ragged clothes in front of him, as if he was looking at the enemy.

"This boy is angry." The proprietress walked over and smiled awkwardly, "It's all your own people, don't have internal conflicts, now you have to think about how to catch this murderer." ”

Jiang Liuyue slowly went downstairs, and her voice interrupted the proprietress 's words: "Tomorrow's formation, with the inn as the center." ”

Chen Wensheng walked up to Xiaoling and helped the overturned bucket up, "Don't make any noise first, sit down and eat." ”