Chapter 20: Escape
The two Gong Fuchen brothers hurried to the north courtyard with a team of guards, and as soon as they came to the courtyard, they saw two maids kneeling on the side of the wooden corridor, and one of the attendants behind them was beating them on the back with a rattan stick.
The guards guarding Yun Ruowu knelt in the pool in the courtyard, where fish swam past their necks from time to time. Shangguan Guzheng stood back and forth with an angry face, and the Gong brothers hurriedly stepped up to meet him.
"Master, what's going on?" Gong Fuchen walked quickly to the stone steps in front of the wooden corridor, glanced at the maids kneeling on the ground around him, and asked softly.
Shangguan Gu snorted coldly, and shouted in his mouth, "Waste, it's all a bunch of waste!" His eyes were full of rage, and he glared coldly at the guard who was whipping the two maids, and motioned for him to whip hard.
"My lord spares his life... The maids and guards kneeling in the wooden corridor and pond begged, and they looked at Gong Fuchen with helpless expressions, hoping that he could intercede with them before Shangguan was alone.
Gong Fuchen hurriedly helped Shangguan Gu into the room, turned around and waved his hand to the guards outside the door, signaling everyone to retreat. He helped Shangguan to sit on the wooden chair and comforted him softly, "The young master is still on the sickbed, master, you must be careful of your body, if you have any orders, just leave them to us." ”
"Over to you? Hehe. Yuntian Sect can lose a person who is unconscious, what is the use of the old man keeping them? Shangguan Gu was so angry that his whole body was trembling, he leaned back on the wooden chair, exhaled a long breath of turbidity, and eased his nerves.
"Don't be stunned here, hurry up and find someone." Gong Fuchen glared at Gong Ming, who was standing at the door, and scolded.
"Yes" Gong Ming nodded, bowed his hand to Shangguan Gu, and hurried out of the courtyard with a few guards, and at the same time sent a large number of guards from the southern courtyard to act separately and carefully search for them along several streets outside the mansion.
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After Yun Ruowu came out of Shangguan Mansion, he walked west along the alley outside the north gate, looking around from time to time, worried that someone would follow him. At this moment, when he thought of the situation on Tianyun Mountain and Dongshan Mountain, he was shocked and frightened. He was taken in by Yun Aochen of Yufeng Academy in the mountains since he was a child, and he had never seen such a murderous scene, and all the people of the entire sect died tragically overnight, and Tianyun Mountain was even more in flames.
Since separating from Yun Shenghao, he carried the Baiyun Sword of the sect in his arms, looking for the whereabouts of his senior brother all the way, originally thinking that the two of them would find out the real culprit together and avenge the sect, but he never thought that he would encounter another accident as soon as he arrived in Dragon City.
At this time, his only thought was to find the caravan that came to Dragon City as soon as possible. When he entered the city, he hid the Baiyun Sword under the carriage he was riding, just because he didn't want anyone to know their identities, but he never thought that even if he quietly sneaked into Shangguan Junqian's carriage, he would still be targeted by that group of killers.
Yun Ruowu walked through a few alleys, and turned his head to the blue tile stone wall when he met people, deliberately not letting passers-by see his appearance. After more than half an hour, he finally came to Changle Fang in Longcheng West City, and carefully searched for the location of the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop.
On his way to Dragon City, he passed out on the side of the road due to physical exhaustion not long after, but was fortunately rescued by a team of merchants. During the days on the way, he learned that the group of merchants came from the Xixue Plain in the northern Xinjiang of Luofu, and sent a convoy of exotic goods to the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop in Changle Fang.
Longcheng West Market is composed of a number of large markets, which is the most prosperous market in Luofu, among which the most lively are Baihuafang and Changle Fang, which almost gather the treasures of the entire dynasty. This is also the place where the four great families wrestle, in order not to attract people's eyes, Yun Ruowu deliberately changed into a regular dress after leaving the Shangguan Mansion, just not wanting to attract attention.
"How can I find this?" Yun Ruowu came to Changle Fang from the north, and the streets were full of people dressed differently, and the entire road was tightly blocked. In the middle of the road, there are all kinds of floats and dancers showing off their graceful figures, and he has to move his feet little by little along the corners of the street.
Looking at the vast sea of people, Yun Ruowu didn't know how to look for it, he touched his right hand into his arms, and suddenly remembered that there was a jade pendant of good quality in the clothes that were on the wooden table in the room before leaving the house.
In order to find the Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop in Changle Fang as soon as possible, Yun Ruowu decided to take the jade pendant to the pawnshop and exchange it for silver taels, and by the way, he asked the court on the counter about the location of the song and dance workshop.
Yun Ruowu tiptoed, looked around, and saw the word "dang" hanging next to the stone building archway on the south side of Changle Street, his face showed a trace of excitement that he hadn't seen for a long time, and quickly squeezed through the crowd, and walked along the street towards the stone building archway.
After a while, he finally squeezed out of the crowd, walked quickly into the pawnshop, deliberately lowered his head, and walked through the hall straight to the counter, "I want to be this piece of jade." Yun Ruowu suppressed his voice extremely low, took out the palm-sized cyan jade jade pendant from his arms and handed it to the counter.
The courtier picked up the jade pendant and looked carefully at the veins on the carving, frowned slightly, and glanced at the inconspicuous short and fat young man under the counter, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and asked softly, "This thing is not something that ordinary people can wear, may I ask where the little brother got it." ”
"You don't care about this, how much can you do?" Yun Ruowu glanced around from time to time, pressed his head low again, and asked in a rough voice in a hoarse voice.
The courtier threw the jade pendant on the counter, and he glanced at the mediocrely short and fat young man in front of him again, and said with a disdainful expression, "Does the guest officer want to live or die for this thing?" ”
"Dead Dang"
Na Chaofeng nodded, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he already understood in his heart that the jade pendant in the young man's hand was not coming from the right way, he lowered the price, and said softly, "Ten taels of silver, no more." ”
"Okay" Yun Ruowu did not hesitate, hurriedly reached out to the counter, put all the silver taels taken out by the court, and when he turned his head and was about to leave, he threw a tael of silver to the courtier, and asked in a low voice, "May I ask how to go to the song and dance workshop at four o'clock?" ”
The Four Seasons Song and Dance Workshop is the largest song and dance workshop in Changle Fang, and the pawnshops on Changle Street all the year round know it, he carefully received a towel from the jade pendant, put it in the brocade box behind the counter, glanced back at Yun Ruowu, and said coldly, "Along Changle Street, through the stone building archway, continue to the south, about half an hour's footsteps, you can see a three-story dance workshop." ”
"Thank you." After Yun Ruowu learned the location of the song and dance workshop, he hurried out of the pawnshop, and when he stepped out of the threshold, he meowed out of the corner of his eye, and the word "Liu's" was faintly visible on the signboard, Yun Ruowu didn't care, and continued to go south quickly.
In the back hall of the pawnshop, the courtier took the brocade box and walked quickly upstairs, and the two elders at the staircase quickly dodged away. I saw that the courtier pushed open the door of the A-shaped wing room on the second floor with a happy face, and chuckled respectfully, "The shopkeeper, I got a good piece of treasure jade today." ”
A man about fifty years old, sitting on a wooden chair by the window, gently patted the cigarette ash scattered on his big belly, sucked the tail of the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, spit out circles of smoke rings in his mouth, and squinted at the cyan jade jade pendant on his left hand.