Chapter Eighty-Four: All-Out War
Qing Zijin looked at the young man on the side and smiled, and said in a very kind tone: "I came here to pick up the goods to prevent the customers who transported medicinal materials from secretly selling them, this is my own goods, not selling them in a small way." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"Oh? Dare to ask which pharmacy the girl is going? The young man asked with a smile.
"From the Zhoujia pharmacy in Gelao Village, if you want to buy herbs, please go to the pharmacy to grab the medicine at the regular price." After Qing Zijin finished speaking, he turned over and dismounted, came to the tea shed and let Xiao Er fill the kettle on the carriage, then got into the carriage and drove towards the border city.
The young man turned around and came to the tea shed and said to the other three: "The car is indeed smelling of herbs, and the woman should be from the Zhou family pharmacy in Gelao Village, who came here to pick up the goods." β
"Pick up the goods? Aren't all delivery customers door-to-door? One of them asked suspiciously, looking at the carriage in the distance.
The young man sat down and said: "It is said that it is his own goods, in order to prevent the smuggling of customers, so I came here to pick up the goods in person, I think there should be no problem." The other three nodded, and that was a reasonable reason.
Qing Zijin drove the carriage all the way smoothly to the three forks, to the north is Huilong Town, to the south is the border city. Qing Zijin looked left and right, there were no suspicious people around, drove along the avenue to the border city, and when there was no one in front and behind, he drove the car to the woods on the side of the road with a whip, untied the rope and released Gu Tianying.
"Suffocate me." Gu Tianying stood up with his body propped up, stretched his limbs, looked at Qing Zijin and asked, "Where is this?" "I stumbled and turned all over the way, and my sense of direction was long lost.
"This is the avenue to the border city, and the border city is further south." Qing Zijin asked, "What are your plans?" β
Gu Tianying thought for a while and said, "With the skills of the two of us, it can't be a big deal at all. The most important thing now is to meet with the head of the Qingjiao first, and then send someone to find my master, the master of Cangzhuang, and the evil ones, and finally discuss how to rush to the Water Lotus Valley. β
"The most important thing is that don't forget, you still have poison in your body, you have to find a way to get the antidote from the Lu family." Qing Zijin reminded.
"If you don't say it, I really forgot about the poisoning." Gu Tianying scratched his head and said with a smile: "The thousand-year-old black gold flower has temporarily suppressed the toxicity, so you don't need to consider this for the time being." And it's useless to think about it, not to mention the two of us now, even if we meet the Qingjiao leaders safely, we may not be able to fight the Long family and the Lu family. β
"We can't fight it, we can steal it." Qing Zijin hasn't forgotten her old job.
"There's no need to discuss this now." Gu Tianying looked at Qing Zijin and said: "I am a wanted criminal now, with a carriage and a few boxes, I can't hide it at all, I will definitely not be able to enter the border city, and I have to trouble you to go and send a message to the head of the Qingjiao in the city." β
Hearing this, Qing Zijin paused slightly, she and Qing Yunguang had already broken off their relationship, and now let Qing Zijin go to him, obviously a little resistant.
"Zijin, I dare to say a word to you." Gu Tianying said boldly: "In fact, severing the relationship is just a unilateral decision made by you, in my opinion, whether it is the owner of Cangzhuang and Ziling, or the head of the Qingjiao and the master, they are still very concerned about you, you haven't seen the performance of the Qingjiao head when he found Leng Yanzhi in the branch village that day, his expression is in chaos, and the worry and longing are not something that can be pretended." Maybe there is some misunderstanding between you, but you should at least give them a chance to explain, just break off the relationship and walk away, and then secretly oppose them, can you be happy? β
Saying this, Qing Zijin turned his head sharply and glared at Gu Tianying.
"I'm just so impressive to help you analyze it, it's up to you to listen or not, I don't mean anything else." Looking at Qing Zijin's expression, Gu Tianying hurriedly raised his hand and said, "If you don't like to listen, just let me fart just now." β
Looking at Gu Tianying's innocent appearance, Qing Zijin couldn't help but glance at him, turned around and said, "I'll go to the city to inquire about the news, you just wait for me here, don't walk around." With that, he walked towards the south.
"Well, don't forget to bring me something to eat." Gu Tianying told him that he was really hungry.
Time is like sand in your hand, slipping through your fingers every moment. Gu Tian should rely on the carriage, waiting for more than two hours, until the sun is in the west, and the sunset hides the west sky, Qing Zijin rode a horse and drove back.
Gu Tianying turned over and sat up and stepped forward to greet him. After Qing Zijin dismounted, he threw a package to Gu Tianying. Smelling the aroma, Gu Tianying's stomach screamed again, and he hurriedly came to the back of the carriage and sat down, unwrapped the package and looked at it, there was a small jar of roast chicken steamed buns and a small jar of daughter red.
"Let's do it together." Gu Tianying looked up at Qing Zijin, only to find that Qing Zijin's face was not very good, "What's wrong?" β
"You eat first, I'm afraid you won't have an appetite if you say it." Qing Zijin said with a somewhat gloomy face.
"Don't mind, I don't have an appetite for that." Gu Tianying tore off the chicken legs, stuffed them into his mouth, and said in a non-light voice: "Tell me quickly, what is the situation in the city now?" β
"Grapevine, saying that after the head of the Qingjiao sect separated from you, he was intercepted and killed by the three parties of the Long family, Lanbo Hall and Qingzhou Tiansha, and it is said that many people died, and then the forces of the three parties of the Long family in the entire Qingzhou began to carry out a comprehensive attack on Qingmen. Zhenbaotang and Qingmen also announced an all-out war with the Long family and other forces, and the entire Qingzhou rivers and lakes were in chaos. Qing Zijin frowned and said: "The city lord of the border city is obviously on the side of Lanbo Hall, and the people of Qingmen may have given up the border city in order to gather strength and judge the situation before counterattacking, and they don't know where to retreat." β
"Really?" Gu Tianying swallowed the food in his mouth with difficulty, and asked with some disbelief.
"Ninety percent is true, I have been to the branch village in the city to see, and there is no one from Qingmen. Moreover, the Treasure Hall in the border city is also locked, and the building has long been empty, and now the city is full of people from the Long family and Lanbo Hall. Qingzijin Zhengse said: "We can't go to the border city and Huilong Town, and Hucheng is also blocked by the Long family, and now there is only one way to go, turn to the northwest." β
"I didn't expect us to go so hard to come back, and we were actually encircled again." Gu Tianying took a bite of the steamed bun in his hand and was depressed.
"Don't complain, it's dangerous now, let's just get out first." Qing Zijin looked at the sky, got up and said: "After eating, you will go back to the box to sleep, I am still pretending to be a guest who delivers herbs, let's use this cart of herbs to make up the nonsense, and go to Ge Lao Village first to plan." β
"That's all there is to it." Gu Tianying carried half a roast chicken into the box, and Qing Zijin sorted everything out and drove the carriage to Gelao Village, northwest of the border city. Along the way, Qing Zijin found a lot of Longjia horses searching around, but they were mixed among the pedestrians, and there was a carriage of herbs that were the most hidden. Although the Long family is huge, it can't set up roadblocks like the government, and search pedestrians one by one, so they are in danger along the way.
By the time Qing Zijin drove to Ge Lao Village, it was already dark, so he first found a place where no one was there and released Gu Tianying, and bought him the coarse cloth clothes of ordinary people to change into. Then Qing Zijin drove the carriage to a small inn in the village, opened a room, and went upstairs to open the window. Gu Tianying, who was waiting for a signal outside, ran around his body with internal force, and he climbed in.
"I sleep in the bed, you sleep in the ground." Qing Zijin threw down a quilt, lay down on the bed with a robe, pulled out the Leng Yan Blade with a bang, nailed it to the bed board, looked at Gu Tianying and said: "Remember, if you turn over at night, you have to say hello to me in advance, if you dare to come to the frivolous Hu, my Leng Yan Blade doesn't recognize people." "There is no way for two people to live in one room, after all, Gu Tian should not be able to show up, if Qing Zijin opens two rooms by himself, it will inevitably be suspected.
"Don't worry, I'm the one who has a fiancΓ©e." Gu Tianying muttered in a low voice: "Besides, I'm not interested in a fierce woman. β
"What did you say?" Qing Zijin said with a cold face, women hate men who disrespect themselves, and even more ruthless men who don't even want to disrespect themselves, women have needles in their hearts, sometimes they are so contradictory.
"I didn't say anything." Gu Tianying laid out the quilt, fell asleep on the ground, and changed the topic: "Zijin, you said that the Long family and other forces are fighting in Qingzhou with such fanfare, will the imperial court stand by and let them continue to mess around like this?" "This issue is very critical, the imperial court generally does not interfere in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but a situation like this where several major forces are in a full-scale war has affected the lives of the local people in Qingzhou, and the imperial court will definitely not let it go. And once the imperial court makes a move, whether it is the Dragon Domain Pass or the Lanbo Hall, they all have to die down. No matter how powerful the rivers and lakes are, they are not the opponents of the imperial court after all, this is like the relationship between the underworld and the military, usually they don't care about you in small fights, but once you cross the line, you can be destroyed in minutes.
"Now the Long family has only announced the official start of war on the rivers and lakes, and there has been no too fierce confrontation." Qing Zijin blew out the candle, looked at the starry sky outside the window in the darkness and said: "And I heard that the battle situation on the northwest front is unfavorable, it seems that the fortress has been broken by the Mongolian army, and after a while, I think the imperial court will not have the energy even if it wants to ask." β
As soon as the northwest battle was mentioned, Gu Tianying quieted down. Qing Zijin knew that he had said the wrong thing, Gu Tianying must have remembered his father Gu Feng again, and deliberately yawned, Qing Zijin said leisurely: "It's not early, you hurry up and go to bed, you have to be wronged in the box for a day tomorrow." β
Gu Tianying hummed, lying on the ground and looking out the window, with a lot of thoughts, and it was difficult to sleep.