Chapter Twenty-Three: The Little Girl with an Umbrella
The inn went all the way west.
On the way from Kyoto to Hongcheng, Li Nianyun received a message from the sect, informing him that the Shuangchuan front line would suffer the most crazy invasion of the Tieli people, and the general Xiang Wu personally passed on the letter to unite the martial arts elites of the nine major factions to fight against foreign enemies. After Li Nianyun informed everyone in the inn of this matter, the shopkeeper was naturally willing to go to Shuangchuan with him.
But in the scholar's analysis, the Wanzang tribe must have made a lot of moves this time. And the scholar is very insistent on the shopkeeper going west, no matter what the war looks like, no matter how many people die in the empire and Tieli, at least ......
To find someone first, the scholar's sister, the public loses the glass.
In this matter, the scholar did not have any room for negotiation, because the letter crow in the past should have arrived a long time ago, but he did not receive a reply for a long time.
There has been contact between the scholar and the public for six years, and even in the coldest frost river, every once in a while, the scholar will return to Kyoto to communicate with the public ruri. They will leave the place and time of the next message in the letter, and even about the place and time, they use code words that only the two of them know, such as April 4, Nansha Chengjiming Lane, which corresponds to another time and another place, and the specifics are only known to these two people.
Therefore, for so many years, the military department, Tianji Pavilion, and the people in the court all knew that the scholar was in contact with the public delivery glass, but he was never able to find the whereabouts of the public loss glass. Second, even if it were intercepted, the content of the letter would only lead them to the wrong place at the wrong time.
But just over two months ago, when he returned to Kyoto to start arranging the martial arts conference, he did not receive a letter from his sister at the planned place and time.
The last letter was five months ago, and the letter five months ago indicated that Gongyu Liuli was in Nansha at that time, and she was going to find the last of the thirteen Gongyu treasure houses, in the Western Regions, west of Hongcheng is the desert, and west of the desert is the green shade of Xiachuan. Over the years, he also knew that after Xiang Wu took the public loss glass to find the first secret vault and obtained the umbrella of the Ten Thousand Changes, the public loss glass concealed a thing, only the scholar and her knew, the original core mechanism of the public loser, including the lark improvement design drawings, the giant city-breaking Nu car, and some other powerful mechanisms that were hundreds of years ahead of this era, were distributed in the thirteen treasure houses of the public loser, and the bronze mask was the key to open the treasure house, of course, the most powerful mechanism was the umbrella in the hands of the public loser.
Six years after separation, Gongyu Liuli has successively found the remaining eleven treasure houses, and the location of the last treasure house points to the Western Regions, that is, where the Wanzang tribe is located. This is also the reason why scholars insist on going west.
Because he didn't reply to the letter as planned, he was very worried, and because he had promised that he would take her to live the freest life in the world, and there would be no more entanglements with the empire. In a sense, Gongyi Liuli is the only relative of the scholar, and he is willing to give everything in order to achieve this promise.
Everyone knows how tragic the war will be on the frost river front, but the scholar understands that he has been fighting with the dragon general Xiang Wu for six years, and he knows very well the temperament of this great general, if it is not for a very difficult moment, Xiang Wu will definitely not show weakness. Therefore, at the suggestion of the scholar, Zhong Yunxiu, Li Nianyun, and Feng Zhan went to Frost River to support, the former two have strong healing abilities, and the latter has unparalleled speed to spy on the enemy.
The shopkeeper, the scholar, and the cook went to the green shade in midsummer, naturally to find the public loss glaze, and at the same time, they could also spy on the military intelligence of the Wanzang tribe.
When the inn drove through the western suburbs of Yeyang City, it was determined that the scholar's plan would prevail, in fact, in the future, although the leader was the shopkeeper, basically all the plans were decided by the scholar, and this lowly literati was very respected by the rest of the inn.
And this arrangement is also the first time that everyone in the inn has acted separately.
The cook is not worried about the wind exhibition. There are countless people in this world who can win the Wind Exhibition, but there is almost no one who can kill the Wind Exhibition. He was worried about Zhong Yunxiu.
Li Nianyun said: "Don't worry, now that Miss Xiu is also from my Yunci Valley, the protagonist will not let the Tieli people touch a hair of her." ”
Ding Qiliang said: "If I come back and find that Ah Xiu is thin or injured, I will fucking go and demolish your Yunci Valley!" ”
"Hahaha, I don't believe this, I guess even you don't believe it yourself, okay, don't worry, the people around this protagonist won't die, your shopkeeper should have died several times, after meeting this protagonist, don't you also turn evil all the way?" Li Nianyun said with a smile.
Subsequently, everyone said goodbye to each other, without much to say, and finally fell on a cherished sentence and came back alive.
Fengzhan, Li Nianyun, and Zhong Yunxiu went to the northeast, and the inn continued to go west.
Also in this process, the scholar told Chen Hui and Ding Qiliang about what happened when he was a child, about him, and about Gongyi Liuli.
After listening to the story that was not too long, Chen Hui said: "Sir, don't worry, we will definitely find her, just right, in fact, after finding the running hall, I thought about finding a caster, if this building is the last work of the old man, then this is also Xiao Liuli's home, I will take her back, do what I say." ”
The scholar absolutely believed in the shopkeeper's words, which also made him feel a lot more at ease. It's just that I'm still faintly worried in my heart. At the imminent start of the war between the three countries, Liuli disappeared into a foreign land, which really made him feel strange.
The scholar and the public have been in correspondence with Liuli over the years, and they have never stopped, but he knows that the little girl's life is not good, and many things are not clear in the letter, and he also knows that the indifference to life and the indifference to life and death revealed by Liuli between the lines are all life that has made her have such changes.
It's just that he had to let Liuli leave him over the years, because he knew how jealous these countries were of the public losers, if it weren't for the public losers, the troops of the Chu State were so strong back then, and the Feng family's Fengshen bloodline was almost unmatched, but in the end they were defeated by the empire.
When a person has mastered the technology that can destroy a country, if he can't use it for this country, he will become the enemy of this country, and the scholar understands human nature too well, so he has to let Gongyu Ruri leave him.
If you find Liuli, you must listen to her talk about how she has lived all these years, the scholar thought.
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Qin calendar, twenty-four spring.
In the six-year wandering of the public loss of Liuli, Yeyang City, which is close to Kyoto, is the first stop, and in the southern suburbs of Yeyang City, it is also the second of the thirteen public loss treasure houses of the public losers. Regarding the cache of the Wooden Ox Flowing Horse Drawing (Note 1).
A ten-year-old girl with a red umbrella on her back walked alone on the lively street of Yeyangcheng, which was very eye-catching. Pedestrians looked at the little girl and noticed that the little girl was actually very cute, and occasionally smiled at passers-by. Half a bronze mask adds a quirkiness to the little girl's cuteness.
The security and folk customs of Ye Yangcheng have always been excellent. But there will always be some scum in the world.
Gong Ruri has also quickly adapted to the days of running in exile.,She easily mastered the use of the umbrella that looked ever-changing.,Occasionally met some people who tried to bully her.,The location is always in those places where few people go.,The advantage of this kind of place is that no one will know about doing evil.。
Gongyi Liuli likes this group of people to save her trouble, because it is indeed inconvenient to kill people in front of everyone. So after they die, the public will not collect the corpse and bury the corpse.
Because most of the dead were a bunch of villains and no one saw them, and because no one associated the deaths of these people with a ten-year-old child.
After leaving her brother Shen Xiaolie, she rarely went out and did not feel lonely soon, because of the freshness, she followed her brother's instructions, not to go to those places where there are too many people, and to eat at small stalls outside the city or in poor alleys, eating mostly local snacks.
But the little girl had never eaten any of these things, and she only thought they were very tasty. As for perching and resting, because even if she goes to the inn at her age, she will only let the innkeeper blow out, the reason is nothing more than that children should not go home to find their parents, etc., but fortunately, the umbrella is enough to create a small world for the public to rest.
Such a day, it is indeed not good, but as long as the new life throws away the worries of survival, there will always be some fun, she has been in Yeyang City for a long time, and has been to Tiangong Mountain full of Taoist priests to pray for blessings, and her small body can't even reach the incense burner, and she saw a good-looking Taoist priest surrounded by a bunch of women who were many years older than her, and asked him to go down the mountain, and the Taoist priest refused to live or die. When she saw it, for some reason, she was a little envious and smiled stupidly.
She then found the vault, obtained the blueprints, and headed to the next vault, Anlian City. It's still the same, this Anlian City, which has the strongest sect of Buddhism of the nine major sects, almost half of the people worship Buddha. Although Qianfoshan is not as majestic and dangerous as Tiangong Mountain, it is still nine curves and eighteen bends. But there are many people who come to worship the Buddha every day. There are always a lot of pedestrians on the long steps.
The little girl walked to the Daxiong Treasure Hall and looked at many monks, the old monks and the little monks chanting Buddha, and thought it was very funny, so she followed a group of monks to chant the Buddha verses that she didn't understand at all.
The childlike appearance caused a bunch of people to laugh. Praise this little girl for having Buddha nature, and also leave the public to lose Liuli to eat vegetarian fasting together, during which the public lost Liuli heard a little monk complaining that the food was unpalatable, and wanted to go down the mountain to eat chicken, she thought it was very interesting, of course, she also felt that the food of Buddhism was really unpalatable. At that time, Gong Yi Liuli thought that if this group of old monks and young monks knew that they were killing people without blinking, would they still boast that they had Buddha nature.
Not staying long, she left Anlian. Because the third public loss treasure house has been found, and the blueprints of the Yunlin ship have also been obtained.
Gongyu Liuli went to Donghai City again, there is a Yunci Valley in Donghai City, which is located in a hot spring, she wanted to go and see, so she went. Yunci Valley in summer seemed a little stuffy, and when she arrived at Yunci Valley, she found that Yunci Valley was actually full of women.
Most of the female disciples of Yunci Valley, who were dressed in plain white clothes, thought that they had come to apprentice when they saw a little girl wearing pink clothes and carrying a small red umbrella. But although the little girl's voice was very childish, she said seriously, I'm here to play.
The serious appearance once again attracted the group of female disciples of Yunci Valley. Gong Ruri remembers that there was a beautiful woman who asked her if she wanted to apprentice. At that time, she actually wanted to stay. Because she is very envious of so many people who seem to be happy to live in such a fairyland-like place.
But in the end she refused, and the good-looking woman seemed to see the extraordinaryness of this little girl, so she did not say anything more.
Gongyi Liuli always remembers what her brother said to herself, and now she is a repeat offender who is being searched for by the three major countries.
She spent some time in the valley of Yunci, and met a young man who didn't look much older than her brother, who seemed to be very mischievous and was often lectured by the good-looking woman. She found it interesting. Then he left Yunci Valley and also left Donghai City.
Because the blueprints for the fourth treasure house and the Shock Frog have been found.
And so she traveled, and went to many, many places. I have been to Linhui City, Qinzhou City, Nansha Cheng, Fujin City, and I have also been to some places where few people go.
Only she had never been to Frost River, she really wanted to see Shen Xiaolie, and wanted to know how her brother was doing. She had already understood why she couldn't serve the Empire.
During her travels, she experienced seven imperial assassinations, or pursuits, because a little girl with an umbrella and a bronze mask was easily recognizable, although the correspondence between Gongyu Ruri and the scholar never revealed the location of Gongyu Ruri. But even so, there will still be times when they will be found by the Imperial army.
Fortunately, she has that umbrella, the umbrella that ranks second in the divine weapon spectrum. This umbrella allowed Ruri to kill everyone who came to hunt her down as a little girl. But there will also be dangerous times. It's just that the little girl seems to have a particularly strong tolerance for these pains, and she will be injured in some battles, and after being injured, she will be like a little wolf, find a place where there is no one, and quietly **** her wounds.
The same is true of Gongyi Liuli, a little girl in her teens, in a broken temple, in a bridge cave, in the wilderness, in a cave in the dense forest, quietly recuperating from her injuries, not crying or making trouble. It's like Shen Xiaolie, who returned home from Baiyang Academy in those years.
As soon as the injury was healed, she happily started the journey to find the treasure house of public loss, floating in this river and lake. One person, one umbrella.
In fact, I have friends. She can't stay in one place for too long, as long as she finds the treasure house of that place, she has to leave, and after a long time after leaving, many relationships fade. When she was in Lianqing, she met a runaway girl, who was about the same age as her, and she was thirteen years old that year.
Tang Suoye is also thirteen years old. The two genius girls met in Lianqing, and to the surprise of the public loser, the Tang family's two thousand gold, actually admired the public loser very much. Over the years, she has learned one thing, the public loser is the evil family. It is different from the dragon general Shen Chaoya. The first loyal general is obviously guilty of the same crime as the public loser, but the judgment in people's hearts is completely different.
The public loser is a rebellion, but the previous generation of dragon generals is...... There are unavoidable reasons. The public loser Liuli did not complain, because after knowing that history, she understood that the public loser and the Shen family were originally world friends. The ignorant are only the ignorant majority.
So when Tang Suoye revealed his admiration for the Gongluo family's tricks without any scruples, the third friend in Gongluo's life was harvested. She cared about Tang Suoye's friendship very much, and so did Tang Suoye, so the two exchanged the most core skills in the family.
But again, in order not to cause trouble to Tang Suoye, she couldn't stay in Lianqing City for too long. After finding the treasure house of the public loss and obtaining the blueprint of the tiger car, he left, but fortunately, there was one more person who could be contacted by letter.
The days of traveling around Great Qin slowly became less interesting. Because the novelty wears off quickly. She goes somewhere, finds what she's looking for, leaves, and repeats. Even she began to look forward to the hunt of the Imperials. At least it makes the days less boring.
Gong Defeat Ruri thought, when will the war in the north be over? When will my brother come back from Frost River?
At the age of thirteen, she grew taller and thinner, and gradually felt the horror of loneliness.
When the long night was invading, when she suddenly woke up, when she saw another father holding his son's hand home in a remote village, when the sun was setting, when she saw her own narrow and lonely shadow, she thought of all these experiences.
suddenly envied the Taoist priest who didn't want to go down the mountain, the greedy little monk, and the naughty man in white. also envied his brother Shen Xiaolie, at least there should be many people around his brother. She also heard that the Tieli people were beaten and retreated, and knew that it must be her brother's credit.
What is it like to be pampered by the stars? The little girl often tilted her head when she was alone, looking at the sky and thinking about this question.
Later, she became more and more proficient in the use of the umbrella, and she became more and more comfortable in the face of those who came to hunt her down.
Even if she grows taller and thinner, she is still a little girl, and she always shows a sweet smile to the people who come to kill her.
And then she'd say, hey, let's play the game. Pretend that you will have a lot of partners, and pretend that you are the little princess who is held by the stars. Pretend they're here to play with themselves, not to ...... Murderous.
The game always ends quickly.
It's the same picture every time, she is smiling like a flower, holding a red umbrella, but her eyes are empty. The surroundings were all scattered, broken, broken, corpses, and blood in a patch.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Qin calendar, Gongyi Liuli had been traveling in the rivers and lakes for four years, and she came to Fujin City to find the twelfth treasure house and the design of the thunder owl. I should have seen some interesting people and things that had nothing to do with me, as I did in the previous dozen or so places, and then found what I was looking for, and then left here.
She thought so, such a day might have to wait until her brother left the frost river and left the empire.
Until she saw a little boy, actually as old as her, dressed in tatters, a little beggar, and she had seen many beggars in her days of travels to the empire.
It's just that this little beggar in Fujin City has very beautiful eyes, and she can't help but look at it for a while. Then she saw the most ordinary thing, the battle between beggars. It was probably the beggar leader of the East End who brought a group of beggars to bully this little beggar.
She watched from afar, not helping.
Blue and purple arms, broken bowls, timid dodgy eyes, and shabby ragged clothes, this is the first impression of the little beggar by Gong Ruli.
Somehow, as if she was enchanted, she wanted the little beggar to resist. So she came to this box in Fujin City the next day, wanting to see if the little beggar would resist.
She was disappointed in the results. The little beggar didn't even scream, just silently beaten, enduring the bullying. She was unwilling, and she didn't know why. But for many days, this is the result.
So she found a dagger and put it in the little beggar's broken bowl while he was asleep.
(End of chapter)