Chapter 12 The Sorrowful Moon of Yanmen

"The sad moon in Yanmen is terrifying. Rong Yanmen, who is known as Wanli Zhi, wants to see me, what kind of expression do you think I have to make now to be appropriate? Xu Ruyu smiled strangely, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

Mei Yingxue chuckled like smoke, as if she was slowing down, her robe and shoes, so that people couldn't see any movement under her feet, and Xu Ruyu, who was suddenly floating by her side, sat side by side with him on the stream rock.

"Would you like to hear about the past of Silent Lake?"

In Shangnan, Xu Ruyu and Yiguanyuan discussed secretly day and night, and all the discussions were about the county policy, although there were some Jinghu involved, after all, there were not many, even celebrities like Shao Haitang knew very little about Jinghu, only knew that Jinghu had existed for hundreds of years, and it was only in more than 50 years after the collapse of the old dynasty that it gradually became known to the world.

Only the treetops of the jungle are still in the bright sunset, Xu Ruyu and Mei Yingxue sit side by side on the brown stream stones, Xu Ruyu silently looked at the small fish swimming in the stream, and after a while, he turned his face sideways to look at Mei Yingxue who was distracted, and asked, "Why don't you say it?" ”

"Ah......" Mei Yingxuexia's face was slightly hot, and she gathered her slightly chaotic mood, and said softly, "During the Zhaowu period, the inner court assimilated different races, and made the nine most powerful tribes in the world outside the Han nationality, such as Miao, Yi, Qian, Shi, Qiang, Rong, Di, Ba, and Tutu, change their surnames and return to the Han Dynasty. The royal family of the Nine Clans changed their surnames under the threat of strong force in the inner court. The surnames of the nine clans that disappeared during the Zhaowu period are collectively referred to as the nine surnames of Zhaowu, namely: Liu Guan, Jimo, Gongcheng, Guanqiu, Gonghui, Nanrong, Dongli, Donggong, Daxi, Chu Shi and other nine surnames. At that time, celebrities objected to Huaqiu's forced conversion of surnames, saying: "If you don't follow the previous system and customs, you won't last long." Xiang Huaqiu's remarks caused controversy among the people. Yuan Shi, the ruling official in the early years of Zhaowu, opposed this statement, believing that Xiang Huaqiu disturbed the people's hearts and was not conducive to the implementation of the decree, and should be strictly prohibited. Therefore, he suggested that, except for the official collection of books and the history books of the inner court, all poetry, calligraphy, art, work, hundred languages and historical books should be burned, except for the books on medicine and agriculture, which should not be burned and handed over to the inner court; It is forbidden to run private schools, etc. Emperor Zhaowu accepted Yuanshi's suggestion and ordered the book to be burned. Later, the Hanlin Bureau was ordered to rearrange the official collection of books and the history books of the inner court and distribute them to various places. This is the "Zhaowu Burning Ceremony" incident, which lasted for 38 years. ”

Xu Ruyu sighed and did not answer.

Mei Yingxue knew that his family was very knowledgeable, so she did not explain in detail, and continued: "Celebrity Xiang Huaqiu was originally the most famous book collector in the Zhaowu period, and his book collection was called Jinghu Pavilion. Spread a message to Huaqiu, and before the 'burning of the canon', a large number of classics were transferred. Xiang Huaqiu and his disciples spent their lives collecting the remaining rare book fragments among the people. There are a large number of cultivation techniques in the classics, and Xiang Huaqiu and his disciples did not have the energy to excavate them, but Xiang Huaqiu's scholar Che Jieqing found these cultivation techniques in these classics and sorted them out. At the age of eighty, he founded Jinghu with the sole intention of preserving these precious books. Jinghu has existed for more than 600 years. The disciples of Jinghu have traveled all over the world, and they have only one obligation to Jinghu, that is, to collect the remaining rare classics, and how many will remain in the world for more than 600 years? ”

Xu Ruyu smiled, sat cross-legged on the stream stone, put the standard saber on his lap, and said: "In addition to Jinghu, there is also a large collection of classics before Zhaowu, and I understand the intention of Yingxue Girl to come here. ”

Mei Yingxue raised her eyes to look at Xu Ruyu, saw his angular face, and said quietly: "Before Tianji Xueqiu gave up the power of Nanping, he had already copied a copy of the rare book of Tianji Pavilion preserved by Nanping County and handed it over to Jinghu. ”

Xu Ru said foolishly: Jinghu has gone through hundreds of years, and the purpose is no longer pure. sighed secretly, I didn't want to talk to her again, but I didn't want to brush my sleeves away, stunned, silent.

Mei Yingxue was clever, and she knew that it was difficult to move him in a few words. The inner court of the old dynasty set up the Tianji Pavilion, the division of the world hundred workers, representing the most advanced technical and theoretical level at that time, there are a large number of classics before Zhaowu. Tianji Xueqiu was in charge of Tianji Pavilion, the old dynasty fell apart, and the classics of Tianji Pavilion were divided by various families, and a considerable part of them were obtained by Tianji Xueqiu.

Jinghu accommodates Mei Yingxue under the door, probably because he sees that Yongyang Mei's family has Tianji Pavilion classics. Xu Ruyu glanced at her, and saw her quickly turn her head, thinking: She was looking at me just now?

"For 600 years, the quiet lake has been hidden on the back of history. A hundred years ago, Jinghumen people Chen Gui resisted the invasion of the Tutu fierce clan in Fanchuan for seven years, and was copied into the first master of defending the city in ancient times. With his prestige, his identity as a Jinghumen person is not known to outsiders at all, which shows how extraordinary Jinghu was at that time, despising secular reputation. The old dynasty fell apart, and Jinghu couldn't get rid of the shadow of the world, is it really for the Han unification you are talking about? ”

Mei Yingxue didn't expect him to ask such a question, she was slightly stunned, and then returned to normal.

Xu Ruyu didn't look at her expression, and said to himself: "The so-called Han Dynasty is not in the Rong family in Nanping, the Shi clan feudal system and the Gaomen Zhishi system implemented at the beginning of the old dynasty have gone through thousands of years, and gradually evolved into a family clan system, does Jinghu want to use Nanping County to reverse the history of thousands of years?" Or is the Han Dynasty in Jinghu's eyes the high gate and family of the Iron City? ”

Xu Ruyu suddenly jumped off the stream rocks and walked down the stream, the stream sank his knees, and the beating water droplets hit the green shirt, leaving a dark watermark.

There was a loud bang in the distance, followed by the sound of water like thousands of horses galloping. The dam was opened and the water was released, and the stream was flowing downwards like a tide. Xu Ruyu suddenly pulled out a long knife, cut the blade towards the water, and stood in the stream to listen to the huge tide in the distance.

The beating water droplets were cut in half, and condensed into two smaller droplets in mid-air and continued to be printed on Xu Ruyu's green shirt.

Mei Yingxue saw Xu Ruyu dissolving into the stream, and she wanted to step into the stream, and raised her left foot, and the stream gave birth to a weak but real resistance. Mei Yingxue gloomily retracted her slender feet, and her face was no longer proud and cold.

There was a dull sound, and the tide of the stream was violently hitting the mountain wall that was separated from the cloud stream. A moment later, there was another ring. The people who block the dam have ingenious thoughts, and they know that it is difficult to break through the mountain wall with a tidal surge, so they can only loosen it, and the dam body that is built can form more than two tidal surges by opening the dam and releasing water, which is really ingenious. Puji has such a master who is proficient in water conservancy?

Xu Ruyu slowly closed his eyes, and the knowledge of the five senses was full of swirling water whirlpools and rushing streams.

The mountain wall collapsed suddenly, and the huge stones fell into the narrow subsidence lake, and the mountain wall that was opened by the stream tide continued to expand, and the stream water continued to pour into the subsidence lake. At the other end of the subsidence lake, the source of the Great Dong River is also carrying out such a scene. The Great Dong River is connected with Yunxi with the help of the subsidence lake.

The tide continued to rush downstream, and the bed of the stream where Xu Ruyu was trembling slightly. Mei Yingxue thought to herself that she couldn't easily deal with the surging tide, so she swept up the naturally generated stone embankment and stood there. saw Xu Ruyu looking back and smiling, and the clear and bright smile reflected directly on her swaying heart. He knew, Mei Yingxue closed her eyes and shed a tear and turned away.

The corner of the stream is thirty paces ahead, and the situation of the cloud stream thirty paces away is not visible to the naked eye. Xu Ruyu's senses are supernatural, if there is no interference from the stream tide, the situation within a hundred steps is as clear as seeing it, and he is more sensitive to the qi of the master of cultivating Dan Xi, usually a third-grade master will be alerted when he enters within two hundred steps, and if he has a killing intention, he can expand to a longer distance. This is the wonderful use of the Water Stopping Heart Sutra after cultivating to the realm of the five senses.

The tide of the stream rushed around the corner, and above the tide stood eight sturdy men in black. The masters of Puji Island took advantage of the tide of the river to dive silently to a distance of thirty steps, and only the masters of cultivation on Puji Island had such a subtle method of resisting the tide.

Xu Ruyu smiled coldly, it was too late to escape at this time, Puji Island must be arranged in the near and far, and the task of these eight masters was to intercept themselves here.

The stream protrudes with a slight disturbance, and it quickly flows against the current towards the rushing stream.

Twenty steps, ten steps, five steps...... The eight black-clothed men standing at the head of the tide were three in front of five behind, and their sharp eyes all fell on Xu Ruyu's body, a narrow bladed long knife, the cloud pattern of the blade flashed with cold light, and they only waited for the moment they reached to launch an earth-shattering offensive.

At that moment, the tide of the stream suddenly stagnated. The tide of the stream was clustered, the water waves rushed to the sky, and the black-clothed man who had suddenly undergone a great change knew that it was not good but had no time to get out, and the colossal Dan in the potential sky-high waves surged towards the eight people. The Dan Sutra, which fuses the natural tidal force, penetrates into the bodies of the eight people and gives a blow that is not weak. The eight of them were all first-class masters of Puji Island, and they forcibly pressed down their injuries and jumped in the air to avoid the bad luck of being swept under the water by the tide.

Although the right blow is with the help of tidal force, Xu Ruyu's loss is also huge. No longer had time to avoid the tide of the stream, Xu Ruyu saw the tide coming, swung his knife and slashed directly, Pei Ran Dan took off his knife and hit the tide head, the head of the stream bypassed Xu Ruyu in two ways, and closed behind Xu Ruyu. The stream swirled and merged under Xu Ruyu's feet, forming a huge whirlpool. Xu Ruyu followed the swirling current, rising more than two feet high.

The eight people were falling in mid-air, and when they saw Xu Ruyu coming out of the water, they were all shocked.

Xu Ruyu smiled coldly, subconsciously bit his lower lip, and the second wave was pouring out from the corner in the afterglow, and if he didn't skim ashore at this time, he couldn't avoid the second wave. What can be done after going ashore, although the eight masters have suffered different degrees of internal injuries, but they are not enough to be fatal, with the ferocious style of the Puji bandits, they will definitely entangle themselves regardless of life and death, so that the masters who are hurrying from all around will besiege them in the center.

Xu Ruyu glanced at Mei Yingxue, who was reading alone on the shore, her back was slightly thin and elusive, and her clear fingers were as clear as jade and lightly clasped the scabbard.

Xu Ruyu stepped out with his left foot, and stepped on the shoulder of a man in black strangely, without looking at the person's face as earth-colored, and his right foot touched the person's head, and the sound of the skull cracking was completely muffled by the loud sound of the stream. At the same time, the long knife in his hand turned into a white rainbow and penetrated into the chest of another person, who was about to return the knife to protect his chest, and when he was dying, he showed a surprised look, not understanding how Xu Ruyu could launch a killing move on his hand at the same time.

In order to avoid the huge tide, the loss of Dan breath is very huge when swinging the blade to split the waves, and at this time, in order to win quickly, he naturally spared no effort, Xu Ruyu pulled out a long knife that attacked behind the long knife seal, and a person who sealed the knife to protect himself staggered.

Two more long knives attacked, Xu Ruyu turned over and sank flat, his feet forked, and the tips of the two knives were struck. The two of them fell backwards like kites with broken strings, falling into the second cluster of streams that followed.

Xu Ruyu's back touched the water, and when he saw the remaining four black-clothed men half-kneeling into the stream, he ignored the waves that were rushing down under him, knowing that they had a means of surviving under the huge tide, and if he was swept into the huge waves with them, it was possible to be planted in their hands.

Unable to take care of the consequences, Xu Ruyu took a deep breath, ten thousand thoughts turned into one thought, one thought suddenly became no thought, the Dan breath in the Danfu dantian suddenly poured into the right hand Taiyin Lung Sutra, at the moment when the huge waves covered the top, Pei Ran Dan Jin shot out, and then curled up his body and sank into the monstrous tide.

When Xu Ruyu was lying flat on the water, Mei Yingxue suddenly turned around, her eyes were clear, and through the rolled tide, she watched Xu Ruyu make a shocking blow, and the clear brilliance stopped her waist and sank into the bodies of the four black-clothed people, and the brilliance cut the tide and "snorted".

Mei Yingxue jumped twice like a light feather, and she was already floating on the tide. Mei Yingxue couldn't help but admire when she saw Xu Ruyu motionless embedded in the tide, galloping rapidly with the tide flowing down Yunxi. Puji Zhao Weixu laid a net around him, and he was afraid that he never expected that Xu Ruyu would escape by the tide. Even if he expected it, even a grandmaster-level master would not be able to easily stop Xu Ruyu, who was integrated with the tide.

After traveling more than 50 miles with the stream, Xu Ruyu saw that he was far away from the encirclement of Puji, and came out of water and stood side by side with Mei Yingxue at the head of the tide. Mei Yingxue's pretty face was cold, and before Xu Ruyu could speak, suddenly three sharp turns, her clothes fluttered, and she was already standing on a boulder. Immediately after that, it floated up the boulder.

"Since Jinghu wants to return the favor of Tianji Xueqiu, why do you want to remind me?"

"The people of Jinghumen travel the world and are not bound by Jinghu, I don't owe Tianji Xueqiu any favors." Mei Yingxue frowned lightly and said.

"If you have a killing intention against me, then I will die without life, I don't know who designed this plan, a hundred secrets." When the eight black-clothed people appeared on the tide, as long as Mei Yingxue stood behind her and restrained her, she would not be able to use the stream to carry out a sneak attack, and break the tacit understanding of the eight-person joint attack with a hard encounter, and Xu Ruyu's ability would also pay a considerable price, even then it may not be possible to eliminate the eight people, let alone easily escape by the tide. If Mei Yingxue had a killing intent against him, then he would really be dead.

"Rong Yanmen is waiting at Zuimeng Peak at this time, whether you want to go or not, you decide for yourself, I just pass the word on his behalf." Mei Yingxue's eyes were slightly constricted, and her handsome face was solemn.

Xu Ruyu thought for a moment, still ignorant of where Zuimengfeng was, and chuckled: "Yingxue will not deceive me. Just now Rong Yanmen was proud of his identity, and he disdained to deal with me in person, at this time, I am afraid that I have remorse, if I go to see him at this time, he is going to kill, am I not sitting still? ”

"You can guess at once that the enemy will take advantage of the tide, so you can meet it head-on. These eight people are all good hands with Rong Yanmen, and he is afraid that he will have heartache for a while. I need to help Rong Yanmen this time because of my teacher's order, I hope you don't blame me. Mei Yingxue smiled, as if she had expected Xu Ruyu not to care.

"How? I heard that he founded the Sorrowful Moon Halberd in the year of the weak crown, and the Miracle Skill List ranked it alongside the Gu Family's Falling Flower Halberd and the Xu's Chiyou War Halberd as the world's three major halberds, which shows that he is a peerless figure in the world, and of course I yearn for a while with him in my heart, but not at this time. If it is not bad as expected, the Lishui River Valley is also within the calculation of Rong Yanmen. Rong Yanmen looked at me too highly, and he actually took time out of his busy schedule to deal with the small Lishui River Valley. ”

Mei Yingxue said with a smile: "When I went back to Jinghu a few years ago, the sect master and Tianji Xueqiu commented on the contemporary young Junjie, and they said that the world would only despise General Qingfeng. Rong Yanmen was also present at that time. I thought I was looking down on you, but now I find that it's not enough. Rong Yanmen once sent his men to visit Huaiyu Mountain, and when you said this, he really had a calculation for the Lishui River Valley. ”

Xu Ruyu's face changed slightly, and he said: "Thank you Jinghu for abiding by the detached posture, please tell Rong Yanmen, if he can intercept my return, he will naturally meet me." With that, he walked along Yunxi in the direction of Fuzhou.

Mei Yingxue stood there stunned, watching Xu Ruyu's figure disappear into the mountains and forests. I don't know when, there was a man standing beside her, with a blue silk shirt and body, a slender figure, plump and handsome, and there was a faint tiredness in his eyes.

"He went in the direction of Fuzhou?" The voice has a faint loneliness.

"Yes, he is not in a hurry to return to the Lishui Valley."

"The manpower of the sneak attack on Yunqiao Village was jointly sniped by the Xiangfan Society and the Qingyan Army, and the Yunqiao Village was still in the hands of the Xiangfan Society, and Xu Ruyu's whereabouts were really difficult to predict. Eight guards were killed and injured five times in an instant, and in this mountain forest, even if I personally took action, I might not be able to keep him, and the ridiculous miracle list only listed him in the eighty-fourth. Your master is right, the world will only despise him. ”

"Please tell my master, what Jinghu entrusted, Yingxue will do it, Yingxue will return home from now on, and he will no longer be able to take care of his old man."

"Do you think he can make a big wave in the southeast corner? Two years ago, I planned to subvert Donghai County and hand it over to Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang to implement, and I was born to practice. Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang did not know how to change at the right time, and in the end, they were taken by Xu Ruyu and achieved his prestige. The two years of practice have come to an end, and I am about to return to Nanping to resume my duties as the right governor. I thought it would be as lonely and boring as before, but in two years, the world has changed like this, and it is really getting more and more exciting. ”

Mei Yingxue thought that the Mei clan was also in decline by the calculation of the person in front of her, and her heart was slightly frightened, and her expression became more and more cold. said: "Say goodbye here." "Drift away, into the growing twilight.

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