Chapter 4 Childe Lingers Fragrance

Qinghe County, green houses stretch, low houses, small courtyards, chasing children in front of and behind the house, smiling and watching the children playing. Qiē seems to be so peaceful, and the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of ordinary people are all condensed in the middle. They may not have gorgeous clothes or a rich life, but they still have their own happiness. Don't ask for high-ranking officials to be prominent among the princes, don't ask for thousands of family wealth, as long as the family is safe, then what else can you ask for, the people are so easy to satisfy.

The long street seems to be very empty, there is no shuttle crowd, the whole county town is not a prosperous place, only the area near the center, there are tall houses, Zhumen stone lions, green tiles and red walls. This is the most prosperous place in the real Qinghe County. In the place close to here, there are many merchants, who come here not because the people here are rich, but because there is the Qinghe Cui clan, the head of the five surnames and seven hopes. This large family has been entrenched here for hundreds of years. During this period, the ups and downs, the shaky wars failed to make this behemoth fall, and it still stood in the center of this Qinghe county. The things that the big family needs are undoubtedly numerous, so these businessmen are given the opportunity to live a prosperous life by relying on this high-ranking family.

But at this time, the lord of Qinghe County is no longer as calm as he was in those years before, just because of a post he received a few days ago, a provocative post.

That day, the top of the entire Qinghe Cui clan, the few remaining elders in the family, opened their eyes in the early morning. They were all furious. For on top of their couch, a small throwing knife pierced a letter. They were silently pierced in their sleep. How could they not be frightened and frightened if they had not sent such a letter. But they want to take off their heads, and they will not die in vain?

After composing himself, he unfolded the letter, only to be rekindled with a nameless anger, because the content of it was incomparably angry in their hearts.

"Wenjun's family has been inherited for thousands of years, and has been passed down from generation to generation. Let the ancestors occasionally get a treasure, called the white jade moon pearl, which can shine at night. The room is like daylight, and I can't help but be fascinated. Seven days later, when the moon comes to fetch it, Jun Su Yada. I don't want to disappoint me! - Chu Liuxiang respects. "The handwriting is beautiful and timeless. It looks unusually delicate. It seems to be from a woman's hand, and she calls herself Chu Liuxiang, and this name also seems to be like a woman, so it is even more unacceptable to this gang of old guys who have always been masters, a woman has actually dared to ride on the head of the Qinghe Cui clan? So these people all gathered at the most important place of the Qinghe Cui clan, the ancestral ancestral hall, and began to discuss how to deal with this matter. All of them are poor, and all of them are seventy or eighty years old. These people experienced the rise of the Sui Dynasty. It also witnessed the fall of the Sui Dynasty. Some of them were also important ministers of the Sui Dynasty, and some even held high positions during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. In short, now the entire Cui family can't find anyone with a higher status than them. Although it has retired. But in the Cui family, even if they are the patriarch, they have to pay three points of respect.

"Who the hell is this man? surnamed Chu, there is no such big family! An old man said, holding his goatee.

"It doesn't have to be from a family, maybe it's a descendant of the Hidden World School!" The other old man had gray hair, but his eyebrows were white.

"No matter who dares to provoke the dignity of our Qinghe Cui clan, they will definitely want them to look good!" There was also a fat old man, snorting and yelling.

"Want them to look good? Who are they? And if you really make a bad deal with this mysterious person, and they want to kill you, will you be able to hide from it? Goatee whispered.

"So, what do you say? You can't just swallow it, can you? In three days, they will come to pick up the white jade moon pearl. This thing has been passed down in our clan for thousands of years, and it is something left by our ancestors, how can it be handed over? The fat old man retorted.

"Of course we can't hand it over, not only will we not hand over the things, but we also have to see what kind of goods this Chu Liuxiang is." The white-eyed old man said hatefully.

"What, you still want to catch him?" The fat old man asked positively, since he had the intention of catching this Chu Liuxiang, then he must be on his side, so he asked this question very actively.

"Of course, no one has ever dared to despise our family so much, if we don't catch this thief, how will the rest of the family view us? What is the face of Qinghe Cui? The white-eyed old man nodded and said heavily.

"In that case, then inform Ah Man of them!" The fat old man said.

"Rest assured, you'll be ready for anything. There is also the storage of the real white jade moon bead in another place, and replace it with the one we imitated before. The white-eyed old man not only laid down manpower, but also thought of the bag drop plan.

"Yes, yes! We will drop the bag, let him pick it up, and then lay a net to make sure that he will never come back! The old man with the goatee also agreed.

"Not only in our mansion, but also in the entire city, we must lay eyeliner, and we must master any wind and grass!" The fat old man thought a little.

In this way, Qinghe County, Qinghe Cui's family began to arrange, a team of strangers who had never been seen before in the mansion, wearing leather armor and holding long knives, ambushed in the mansion, and countless eyeliner disguised as ordinary people, spread all over the entire Qinghe County, making the cold city actually a little more popular.

Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it has been three days, and this day is April 15, which is a full moon night. A full moon rises slowly above the eastern mountain, and the bright moonlight is like water, sprinkled on the earth. The moon is bright and the stars are sparse on the horizon, and the breeze is coming, blowing the sparse trees in the courtyard, and it is rattling. The yard was quiet, and even the insects, which had been low and noisy, had muffled their singing that night. Because in these bushes and grasses, there are completely armed people in ambush, and all of them have a faint murderous aura emanating from them, although they are very indifferent and very slight. But the sensitive insects still felt it, so they all fell silent.

The moon gradually rose, and the people hidden in the courtyard all held their breath, a pair of sharp eyes like wolves, staring at the tall house in the center of the courtyard, the house with carved beams and paintings, which was the ancestral ancestral hall of the Cui family, and the most important place for their clan. On weekdays, there is a special person to take care of it, and now it is surrounded by a family nursing home.

Of course, these people are only on the surface, in order to confuse the upcoming enemy, the real killing move is those people hidden in the shadows, these people are the power of the Cui family hidden in the dark, I don't know how many difficulties have been helped by the Cui family in these hundreds of years, and how many enemies of the Cui family have been secretly eliminated. It can be said that each of these people has no less than ten lives in their hands, and each of them is a person who can die willingly for Cui's family. This is the true essence of these big families. The baptism of war again and again did not defeat them, all because of these people, their status to the Cui family is like the army of the Tang Dynasty to the Tang Empire.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, it was already midnight. But there was still no movement at all, which made the few old men guarding the ancestral hall unable to sit still, didn't the enemy come? They don't believe it, because in this day and age, in their long memory, those who have real skills will never do anything that they don't believe in their words, because they are proud and conceited. But now at this time, the enemy has not yet appeared, and there must be a deep meaning.

Just when they couldn't bear it anymore, suddenly, a burst of fire rose into the sky, in the backyard of the Cui family, where the female dependents lived, a fire burned fiercely, the fire soared into the sky, thick smoke billowed out, in this moonlight, you can see white smoke rising, red light illuminating half of the sky.

"It's out of the water!" A shout from the family made several old men who were still in shock react.

"Don't act rashly, this may be the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" The old man with the goatee said.

"But let him burn down the backyard of our Cui family like this?" The fat old man is a little undecided, he was a two-faced man when he was an official in the past, and he was left and right, so he couldn't make up his mind many times. And at that time, the Cui family's talker was a man of great talent, and he didn't need to make up his mind. So when it's his turn to make an idea, he often changes his previous decision because of some things. This also determines that he can only be an executor, not a decision-maker.

"We don't have to worry about this, naturally someone will take care of these things, we just need to catch him now, as long as we catch this Chu Liuxiang, then we will win, even if he burns down the entire Cui family's ancestral house, we still win." If we don't catch this guy, our Cui clan's reputation will be swept away in dust all at once, even if we keep the burning yard, what can we do? The white-eyed old man saw clearly.

"Since both brothers said so, then that's it. By the way, where is our real white jade moon bead hidden, and it won't be found, right? The fat old man hadn't been involved in the bag drop before, so he didn't know the specific situation, so he asked worriedly at this time.

"Don't worry, that thing, not only did we drop the bag, but we also specially sent two of the best guards, Ah Man and Wild Wolf, to take care of it, and nothing will happen." The white-eyed old man replied.

"That's good!" The fat old man was relieved, and then the three of them sat down and waited quietly.

Not long after they sat down, a wind whistled, not sharp, and rattling through the air.

The sound of the wind came, focusing everyone's attention, and an arrow flew towards the ancestral hall, and then with a '......' sound, it was nailed to the pillar of the ancestral hall, and the feathers on the tail of the arrow were still trembling slightly. (To be continued......)