Chapter 130: A Journey into the Tiger's Den (1)
"Let's go!" I stood up before the rage burned me out.
"You're leaving?" The thief also stood up.
"Well, don't forget to drink the medicinal wine I gave you, otherwise you won't be able to do anything about stealing incense and jade." I turned and walked out of my hiding place.
The thief took two steps in front of me and dragged me to him.
"What are you going to do?" I looked at him in disbelief and felt that something was wrong.
The thief's expression became very strange, and his eyes turned red with fire, and he stared at me deadly.
"You let her go!" Innocence reached out to break the thief's hand, but the thief didn't move, not even blinking his eyes.
Because we were afraid that the movement would be too big to attract the guards below, the three of us were at a stalemate for a moment.
"Are you from the Xianyu Fox Clan?" The thief finally asked.
I glanced up at the sky, and suddenly I saw that the moon had somehow broken free from the dense clouds and rose into the middle of the sky. It is like the moonlight of water, sprinkled down, illuminating the roof of the entire high hall.
"You know that legend? Have you seen someone from the Xianyu Fox Clan? I stared at the person in front of me.
The thief looked at me for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "Boy, boy, you dare to come to Zhifu with such eyes, should I say that you are stupid, or brave?" ”
"Why can't Ah Shi come to Zhifu?" Innocent looked at me, and then at the thief, with a puzzled expression.
"There's someone on the roof!" At this moment, a soldier on night patrol suddenly spotted us, and he turned his head and shouted, and in an instant, all the guards standing in the outer circle of the high hall ran over with their swords drawn.
"Split up!" I spoke in unison with the thief.
I pulled Innocence and turned around and ran towards the west side of the high hall, while the thief flew to the east side.
One jumped over the roof, innocent and took me off. The guards of Zhifu quickly chased after them with halberds.
"Don't let them run!"
"Innocent, quick, go to the West Courtyard!" I can't go head-to-head with the guards because of my lack of strength, so I can only run all the way with speed.
Escaping to the west courtyard of the Zhifu, the innocent quickly found the gap that Tan Ji had mentioned earlier, and before the guards could catch up, we got out of the hole in the broken wall and escaped from the Zhifu.
In the next two days, the people of Xinjiang City were panicked, and almost everyone in the streets, alleys, palaces and temples was talking about one thing, that is, the evil ghosts who killed people without blinking entered the city!
He made a big fuss about the banquet of the Zhi family, killed seven famous swordsmen in one night, and it was rumored that this person had three heads and six legs, fangs in his mouth, and was accustomed to being in the dark night, breaking into doors, passing through walls, and eating people's hearts and livers. For this reason, the Marquis of Jin specially tripled the number of guards outside the palace, and Yin ordered 2,000 defenders to wear armor and weapons, and patrol and guard the major streets in the city day and night.
But since that day, the thief has not been seen again, and he has suddenly disappeared.
Although, from time to time, there are people who claim to have met a man with a ghostly appearance and sharp horns and fangs in the middle of the night, but I know that it is not true. Because of the real thief, the red hair is soaring, and his face is even a little childish.
In addition to the theft of the feet, another of the most ferocious things in Xinjiang City is that the people of Zhifu provoked the anger of the ghosts and gods by replacing wine with water during the sacrifice, and half of the people in a mansion were sick with strange diseases, including Zhiyan, the newly canonized son of the Zhi family.
There was such a big event in Zhifu, and Shi Mo was invited to ask God for divination early. In the end, the sacrifices to the gods were done three times, but the people in the house still did not get better. The reason for this is known only to me and Innocence. Most of the wine used for the sacrifice had entered the stomach of the thief, and the man in charge of guarding the cellar was afraid of losing his life, so he mixed water into the wine jar, but was found on the way to the sacrifice. But the strange illness in Zhiyao's mansion has nothing to do with the anger of the ghosts and gods, it is my fate that I have planted a hallucinogenic poison in the well water. Tomorrow, I only need to persuade Shi Mo to let me enter the mansion to eliminate the disaster for the Zhi clan, and then I can live in the Zhi Mansion openly and look for clues to the medicine man.
On this day, before I had time to look for Shi Mo, I drove to my small courtyard without shirts.
In the courtyard, Wuxian always probed his brain and didn't let me talk to Wuxian, and in the end I had to take Wuxian to the muddy water. Last night, it snowed for a long night in Xinjiang, and the bumpy wasteland on the banks of the Hushui River was filled with snow, turning into a white plain with no end in sight. The ridges in the distance are white, and the old trees in the vicinity are also wrapped in white coats, and occasionally the wind blows, and the vertical strips on both sides are like waves. Thousands of tiny snow particles spun and flew in the air from the branches, and the sun shone on them, shining brightly, like stars falling between the sky and the earth in an instant.
"You're not here to enjoy the snow with me, are you?" I pulled on the sleeves of my shirtless shirt and walked deep and shallow in the snow.
"I wanted to come last night when it snowed, and I was afraid that you were already asleep, so I gave up until now." Shirtless bent down and pinched a ball of snow and threw it far into the frozen muddy water.
"Xinjiang City has been stolen so much in the past few days, you big swordsman probably won't be idle." I chuckled and walked along the shirtless footprints.
"Be careful of wrestling...... Wuxian glanced back at me, took the hand I was pulling on his sleeve, and held it in the palm of his hand, I struggled, but he held it tighter, "Father Qing sent me and Cheng Yin to search for the thieves together, but I don't need to do anything for this, and the people in Zhifu are desperately looking for it." Then let them find it! In my opinion, the thief has already left Xinjiang City at this moment. Three-headed and six-legged? It's up to them to figure it out. ”
"You saw him on the night of the thief's feast?"
"I saw it, but unfortunately I didn't hand it over. Don't you ask me why I'm here today? Shirtless stopped and looked back at me.
"Aren't you here to accompany me to enjoy the snow?" I tilted my head and looked at him with a smile, "Say, what's the matter with me?" ”
"You really don't know? There was a big incident in Xinjiang City yesterday, and more than 50 people died in Zhifu overnight. Shirtless let go of my hand and said in a deep voice.
"What? He's dead! My heart shrank suddenly, "How did you die?" ”
"Maybe someone drugged and poisoned it!" Wuxian continued to take two steps forward, "More than twenty fourteen or fifteen-year-old maids have died, and now the back door of Zhifu is still transporting corpses out of a cart. ”
A white light exploded in my head, and I sat down on the snow after the world whirled: "How can this be, I, I ......"
"You did this?" Shirtless turned and walked over to me, surprised.
I nodded, shook my head violently, tears falling uncontrollably: "I just let Wuxian drop some hallucinogenic herbs, they don't deserve to die...... Hongyun'er, what should I do? ”
"Now that I know I'm afraid, I would have asked you to stay away from Zhifu a long time ago, but you didn't listen to a word!" Wuxian squatted down, pinched my chin with his hand, and gently wiped the tears from my face, "More than fifty people have died crying like this, it seems that your courage is not as big as I thought!" If you promise me today that you will listen to me honestly in the future, then I will tell you what to do. ”
"Well, I'll listen to you." I nodded wildly, but when I thought about it, people were already dead, what else could I do? The remorse in my heart came flooding back, and my eyes blurred again in an instant.
"I lied to you." Shirtless leaned into my ear and whispered a few words.
"What did you say?" I was stunned and looked straight at him.
"I said I lied to you, those people in Zhifu are still alive, waiting for you to save them!" The corners of his mouth twitched, and he smiled playfully.
"Zhao Wuxian!" I didn't bother to wipe my tears, I threw myself forward, pushed him down on the snow, and smashed my fist in his face.
He grabbed my fist in the palm of his hand, and I gritted my teeth and pumped it out twice, but like an ant shaking a tree, I couldn't move at all. "You let go of me, why are you scaring me!" I half-sat on him and asked aloud.
"If you only scare me, I won't scare you?" He snorted, and gently hooked his feet to press me under him, "As soon as something happened to Zhifu, I guessed that you did it." I've told you so much before, and you didn't listen to you at all! Say, "Where were you on the night of the Zhifu feast?" Did I just walk with my front foot, and you brought that innocent kid into it with your back foot? ”
"I ......" Speaking of the banquet that night, I suddenly remembered the glass of wine that Zhiyan poured on his back, and my angry heart immediately extinguished, and I said, "I didn't go to the banquet, and I came back after drugging Wuxie." ”
"Lie!" Shirtless let go of my hand and sat up: "You were on the roof that night, right?" ”
I stood up, patted the snow behind me, and pretended to be relaxed: "I can't hide anything from you!" Well, I saw the move you made to defeat Cai Ren, it's really powerful, I'm afraid that Prime Minister will look at you differently in the future. ”
"That's not all you see, are you?" Wuxian stood up and walked forward.
I hurriedly rushed up and stretched out my hand to stop in front of him: "Zhiyan, that stinky boy, I will definitely find an opportunity to help you teach him a lesson in the future, you don't need to be sad for such a person." ”
"Sad?" Wuxian sneered, and hugged me in front of him with a big hand: "He is Zhiyao's son, his father smashed me with meat sauce back then, and now he pours me a body of sake, I will have to clean up this father and son sooner or later." It's just you...... Don't look at me with such pity, I don't feel pathetic. ”
"I don't have ......"
"You have, your eyes can't fool me."
I reached out and grabbed his hand around my waist and said, "I want to help you, I don't know good people." ”
"You listen to me carefully, no matter what plans you and the innocent kid have to hunt and practice medicine, it's better to cut it off now! I won't let you go, I'll do what I have to do, you don't have to do anything, just stay where I can see. The snow reflected the sun's dazzling white light, and his deep eyes narrowed slightly, and his tone was tough, but his expression was a little sad.
I don't need to do anything...... This is the first time I've been told that I don't need to do anything.
"Girl, don't look at me like that, I'm afraid I'll ......" Before he could finish his words, he leaned down and kissed me deeply.
I stared at the snowflakes flying in the sky with wide eyes, the tip of my nose and lips were full of his smell, my heart pounding in my chest, and I shrank as if I wanted to break free. But the hand he held at my waist, the heat on my lips, seemed to have an unknown power, and I had nowhere to escape but to let myself indulge in unbearable dizziness.
Then, I felt his soft lips pressed against my earlobe. "I'm the first to do that, right?" He muttered softly.
I woke up abruptly and pushed him away fiercely: "Zhao Wuxian! ”
"Really?" He asked, unrelentingly.
"It's not." I turned my head and walked back quickly.
"Who is it? Wu Feng! "He walked up to me in a few steps, and he looked terrible.
"No, a ruthless and cold-blooded man."
After I finished speaking, Wuxian suddenly froze, and he didn't speak, which made me feel more and more embarrassed, so I lowered my head and walked back on my own.
"Ahh He chased after him.
"Huh?"
"You're not leaving, you're not going to leave me, are you?"
"I ......"
"What I just said is serious, no matter what I do in the future, you don't bother to help me."
"Are you sure?" I turned my head to look into the unshirted eyes, and I knew how much ambition was hidden there, "I may not only be practicing medicine and winemaking, but what I can help you achieve may be something you dream of." ”
"I know I probably know what you're capable of better than anyone else in the world, and you don't need to confirm that with me anymore." Wuxian took my hand and walked forward step by step, "Don't plan for me, stay, grow medicine and make wine for me!" ”
"I don't plan to marry again in my life."
"yes, I know."