It was late at night.

Shen Qiu stood alone on the shore of the lake on the Falling Moon Qintai.

In the past, he was supposed to practice martial arts in the Sword Jade Dream Realm, but tonight Shen Qiu didn't feel sleepy.

Qingqing was taken away, Song beggar scolding, and what happened in the hidden building.

The events of the past two days were constantly churning in Shen Qiu's mind, making it difficult for him to sleep.

There was starlight tonight, and a ray of moonlight, and the halo of the last quarter moon shone on the surface of the lake, as if a lamp was lit under the lake.

There was also a wind blowing, blowing on Shen Qiu's face, which was quite comfortable.

He had mixed feelings.

It has been almost a year since he came to this world, and even when he was the most miserable in Taihang Mountain, Shen Qiu's mood was not as heavy as it was at this time.

In the past, he always had wisdom and insight on his own, and saw the world from a superior perspective.

But if you don't respect something, that thing will spurn you.

Now the world in front of him waved a palm and slapped Shen Qiu hard.

Qingqing's abduction completely shattered the pride in Shen Qiu's heart, and the experience and insight of his previous life could not help at all in this matter.

He underestimated this river and lake too much.

Thinking about it carefully, he said that he wanted to walk the rivers and lakes, but he never even stepped into it.

That's a good thing, though.

"Acknowledging the existence of a problem is the first step to solving it."

Shen Qiu muttered to himself.

Speak to yourself.

"Shen Qiu, why don't you go to rest?"

A gentle voice sounded on Shen Qiu's side, and when he turned around, he saw that on the wooden bridge above the small lake, Miss Yaoqin was standing there, and there were two maids behind her.

One is carrying a lantern, and the other is holding a guqin.

"I'm thinking about something."

Shen Qiu moved his shoulders, and he said to Yaoqin:

"My heart is also full of evil thoughts, so I went out for a walk, why didn't Miss Yaoqin sleep? Staying up late can be bad for your skin. ”

"No wonder Qingqing always says you like to say weird things."

Miss Yaoqin chuckled.

She waved the beauty fan in her hand, and the two maids walked a few steps quickly, leaving the conversation space for the young lady and the young man Shen Qiu, and after the maid left, Yaoqin also stretched her body.

She was lying on the railing, still wearing a veil, and while shaking her fan, she said:

"But you're worried about Qingqing?"

"Hmm."

Shen Qiu nodded, and did not hide it, he and Yaoqin kept a common secret, although the two were not close in the past because of their identities, they were people who could be trusted.

"I heard from Uncle Song that you are inquiring in the Hidden Tower."

Yaoqin looked at the moon on the lake, and she whispered:

"That group of Five Elements Sect people, since they want to sacrifice Qingqing and those innocent women to the Demon Sect Demon Lord as filial piety, naturally they will not abuse them, but they will take good care of them.

So not only will the green girl not be in danger, but she may still be eating and drinking, her temperament is not admitting defeat, and she is also quite smart, and she will not let herself suffer. ”

Shen Qiu knew that this was Yaoqin comforting him, so he was silent for a moment and said:

"But Qingqing must be scared now. It's like when she and I were in trouble, and when I was unconscious, let that girl find a place of refuge for me on a rainy night.

She walked in the mountains and forests in the heavy rain for more than half an hour before she found a cave and dragged me there in the rain. ”

Shen Qiu lowered his head, he took a deep breath and said:

"That girl saved me, twice!"

Yaoqin lay on the railing and listened patiently to Shen Qiu talk about his experience with Qingqing in Taihang Mountain.

She was so smart, she naturally knew that Shen Qiu was hiding something.

For example, the mysterious mountain ghost, but she didn't ask.

Everyone has their own secrets, and it is dangerous to be hated and dangerous to venture into the secrets of others.

"I'll get her out."

Shen Qiu looked at the lake, he seemed to be saying to Yaoqin and to himself:

"There will never be anything like this again."

"Once you've made up your mind, there's no need to think about it."

Yaoqin gently shook the fan in her hand, and the wind blew her veil, and she said:

"Go to sleep, Shen Qiu."

"Do you want to stop talking for a while?"

Shen Qiu raised his head, looked at Yaoqin, and said what was in his heart, which made him much easier, so he joked:

"With such moonlight and beautiful women, it's a pity to go to sleep."

"You frivolous prodigal."

Yaoqin also pretended to be angry, this girl who was generous at sunset and had her own bearing also acted like a child, stomped her feet, and said to Shen Qiu:

"I haven't bothered with you about peeking at my face today."

"It's me, it's wrong."

Shen Qiu pretended to clench his fists and leaned over, and said to Yaoqin:

"Xiao Sheng knew that he was wrong. But speaking of which, Miss Yaoqin, you have been wearing a veil since I saw you, this is a custom in Suzhou? Or is it something else? ”

Seeing Yaoqin silent, Shen Qiu felt that his question was a bit Meng Lang, so he said again:

"If it's inconvenient to say, I haven't asked."

"Not really."

Yaoqin looked up at the stars and moon in the sky, she sighed, played with the tassel beads under the beauty's fan, and said:

"It's just that when my mother died, she confessed to me, and she said that my face was quite similar to hers, and I was afraid that there would be ominous things in the future. Since I was a child, I have always carried a veil and painted the ground as a prison, and I will never go out of this moon platform. ”

"Is that so?"

Shen Qiu nodded.

This Yaoqin girl was born with a beautiful national color and fragrance, and she has a graceful attitude, and she has been in trouble since ancient times, and it is understandable that she does not want to provoke herself and this huge businessman.

He actually had another question in his mind, and after a moment of silence, he asked again:

"I was in the Taihang Mountains, and I heard Qingqing keep talking about you, and since then, I have had questions. Miss Yaoqin, why don't you call you by your last name, but by your first name? Shouldn't you be called Su Yaoqin? ”

"Nope."

Miss Yaoqin smiled, it seemed that it was not the first time that such a question had been asked.

She said softly:

"My name is Yaoqin. I don't have my father's name, but my father has made it. ”

"He loved my mother very much all his life, and after my mother passed away due to illness, he changed my name to Yaoqin according to my mother's last wishes, which is also my mother's milk name.

She... Out of the land, it is a foreign woman, and she has no surname. ”

"I see."

Shen Qiu was surprised, and he couldn't help but sigh:

"Uncle Su is really a person with deep affection."

"yes."

Yaoqin waved her fan, and Shen Qiu also stopped asking.

There doesn't seem to have been such a deep conversation between the two.

"It's late at night, Miss Yaoqin, I'm going to rest, and you should rest early."

Shen Qiu hugged Yaoqin and turned around to leave.

"Shen Qiu, wait."

But she didn't take a few steps, but she was called by Yaoqin again, the girl stood up straight, she seemed to be thinking, and when Shen Qiu turned around, she saw Yaoqin looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Actually, when Uncle Lu brought back Qingqing, he also brought back one thing."

Yaoqin was silent for a long time, and then said:

"But that thing is not ordinary, and if it is revealed at will, it will inevitably invite trouble.

Uncle Lu and my father both said that that kind of thing could only be left to Qingqing's future husband, or other descendants of the Great Chu royal family. ”

Yaoqin paused, and she said to Shen Qiu:

"But I have also observed during this time, and today I heard you talk about the old things of Taihang, and I know that you and Qingqing have a deep relationship, and they are really like brothers and sisters.

If you want to rescue Qingqing tomorrow, it's a matter of death. Perhaps, bringing that stuff will make you lucky.

Come with me! ”

Yaoqin lost all her gentleness at this moment, just like a strong woman in her previous life, with an awe-inspiring aura, and her tone became more solemn.

This made Shen Qiu feel that her mood was solemn at this time.

He followed Yaoqin into the Qintai corridor, this corridor leads to the mountain behind the Qintai, Qingqing had also told Shen Qiu before, there is the forbidden land of the Qintai, it is the ancestral land of the Su family, and you can't enter it casually.

Shen Qiu noticed that after walking out of the corridor, on the stone path leading to the small mountain, there were some people in black clothes, armed with weapons, and wearing black masks patrolling.

Those people are all slaughtered, and their actions are quite disciplined, not like people in the rivers and lakes, but like people in the well-trained army.

Could this be the private soldiers of the Su Mansion?

"These are the people of Momen."

Yaoqin walked up the stone steps and explained to Shen Qiu:

"They have always stayed away from the rivers and lakes, they were originally internal guards of Chu, and after the death of the Chu country, they were sponsored by my father, so they also changed careers and started business.

You people in the rivers and lakes must have heard of Tianji Pavilion, right? ”

Shen Qiu nodded, and he said:

"I've heard Qingqing talk about it, it is said that Tianji Pavilion specializes in selling exquisite organs, building mansions for people, and also doing pawnshop trading, with semicolons in various places, and has a strong reputation, which is the best choice for people in the rivers and lakes to store secret treasures."

"It's like a bank in this day and age."

The second half of this sentence was said by Shen Qiu in his heart.

Yaoqin was weak and a little out of breath on the mountaineering road, she slowed down her pace and said to Shen Qiu:

"This Tianji Pavilion is a merchant shop run by the Mo family."

"The Mo family is quite good at management, and the business of Tianji Pavilion is getting bigger and bigger. Because my father helped them, he and I have been friends with the Moon Merchant for many years.

This time you went to save Qingqing, and I also asked for the help of the local Moxia, but there were not many of them, although Uncle Song also asked the Yi Family Dart Bureau to help, but we don't know the inside story of the annex, you have to be careful. ”

"I know."

Shen Qiu saw that Yaoqin was struggling to climb the mountain, so he wanted to help, but Yaoqin refused.

She is not a child of the rivers and lakes, and she still attaches great importance to this male and female defense.

The two walked in the mountains for a quarter of an hour, Yaoqin's breath was already scattered, and the delicate woman became weak when she spoke, but fortunately they had arrived.

Halfway up the hill, a stone cave was dug out, square, and an iron gate was blocked, and in front of the gate, there sat a Mo knight dressed in black, wearing a mask, and carrying a sword.

Seeing Shen Qiu and Yaoqin coming, the chivalrous man raised his head and glanced at Shen Qiu.

Shen Qiu felt that his eyes were sharp, and he seemed to have seen through them.

"Uncle Hei, I haven't seen you for many days."

Yaoqin adjusted her breathing, and she said to the Mo family knight who was sitting at the door of the cave:

"I'll take what is here."

The knight nodded, but didn't act immediately.

He looked at Shen Qiu again and said to Yaoqin:

"He's the one you chose?"

"Not really."

Yaoqin Says:

"It's just that it happened suddenly, Shen Qiu needs that thing to defend himself, and after the matter is over, he will put it back here."

"He can't!"

The man in the Momen shook his head and said to Yaoqin bluntly:

"His true qi is too far from martial arts, and he can't suppress the ferocity of that thing at all. If it can't be suppressed, it will be difficult to hold and use, and if you force it, it will be counterattacked by fierce energy.

You're not helping him, you're hurting him. ”

This slap in the face made Shen Qiu quite embarrassed.

But he had nothing to say, his martial arts were indeed average in the eyes of the master, and the person in front of him was undoubtedly a master, although it was much worse than the mysterious person he met in the hidden building.

This "black uncle" gave Shen Qiu the feeling that it was even more dangerous than facing Cha Bao.

There is already a kind of momentum when the mountain ghost is holding the Chengying Sword.

"Uncle Hei, you will believe me once."

Yaoqin persuaded and said:

"Let's let Shen Qiu give it a try, if he really can't do it, I won't mention this matter again, how about it?"

The man hesitated, then he stood up, dusted his body, and took out a strangely shaped key from his sleeve.

He said:

"Even if it is your request, it is inconvenient for me to refuse, this is your family heirloom, I am just taking care of it on behalf of the master, if you want him to try, then try it."

I'm at the door, and if something happens, I'll take you and the others out of the cave immediately. ”

Uncle Hei advised:

"You young man is also measured, if you feel that you can't submit, don't try it. If you are injured and your foundation is destroyed by that murderous thing, then your martial arts path will be broken tonight. ”

"Click"

He turned the key, and with the beating sound of gears, levers, and springs, the black iron door that sealed the cave in front of him slowly opened to both sides.

This surprised Shen Qiu.

The iron door of this mechanism cast by the Mo family is similar to the automatic door in the previous life.

Is this the miraculous trick that has been passed down by the people of the rivers and lakes?

"Come with me."

Yaoqin interrupted Shen Qiu's curiosity to observe the door, she stepped into the cave in front of her, Shen Qiu followed behind, inside the mountain wall, there were lights hanging on the stone walls on both sides.

After walking hundreds of steps along the square cave, the eyes suddenly opened up.

There was a waterhole in the cave, and on the stone in the center of the waterhole, there was a red wooden platform, and Shen Qiu looked at the wooden platform.

There, there was a knife that was cold and cold, and it seemed to have starlight.

"The treasure of the Chu country, the seven stars shake the light."

Yaoqin stopped at the exit of the passage, and she said to Shen Qiu:

"This knife, also known as the broken army, is a great culprit.

It is one of the 'supreme twelve weapons' on the arsenal spectrum of the hidden building, it is rumored that when the Lin'an Palace was burned, the shaking knife was lost, except for the accident in the tenth year of Zhengding, this murder knife has not appeared in the rivers and lakes for 14 years. ”

Yaoqin accentuated her tone, and she reminded:

"This knife is a treasure that belongs to Qingqing by nature, but the girl is not good at martial arts, so she is destined to have someone who holds this knife to protect Qingqing for life.

Shen Qiu, if you want to hold the knife to save Qingqing, I want you to make an oath in front of this spirit knife to protect her for the rest of her life, which must also be Uncle Lu's wish. ”

She said in a cold voice:

"If you disobey, you will die by this sword!"

"Do you dare?"