Volume 1 There Are Guest Stars in the East Chapter 3 The End of Qingping, Between the Poor Alleys (3)
The peace meeting was set at three o'clock in the morning, and Ge Lan only got up at one o'clock. Last night, he finally got out of the Tiandao Temple in the dark, and he actually ran into a group of people dressed as white-clad and high-hat priests like himself outside the west gate, and by the moonlight, the white robes trembling like ghosts—but their breastplates were not tattooed with fire patterns, but a pair of green carp—and they were hurrying somewhere.
Ge Lan followed them for a while, this group of people just ran, didn't do anything, didn't say anything, if Ge Lan wasn't a newcomer, and understood that they were walking through the streets and alleys, but they were just circling around Tiandao Temple, it wouldn't take a long time.
The antidote was placed under a block of masonry inside the south city gate, and Ge Lan received a letterhead the day before he entered the city. This letterhead was sent by a flower pigeon, and in the past few decades, this letter has been shot into the wall, and some have been stuffed into the bag at some point, and Ge Lan is more and more sure that someone is reluctant to follow him day and night—in this case, it is not easy to send that person to be a spy.
After taking this brown-black pill, Ge Lan dared to sleep peacefully. As far as Yan Gui said, this medicine is taken once a month, and it will not last for five days, and after a delay of two days, it is approaching the deadline.
All in all, Ge Lan couldn't sleep for most of last night, and even if he slept until dawn this morning, he couldn't relieve his fatigue.
Fortunately, the maid had already prepared her robe and waited on the side. It is the season when it is warm and cold, and the clothes may not dry so quickly, which is about the new clothes. However, it seems that the Qingping Heavenly Army does not have the usual new taste, today's white robe is the same as yesterday's, and the feel on the gold velvet surface is not the same.
Ge Lan rushed to the main hall venue, it was exactly three o'clock, and the breakfast habit he had developed in Shizhou for many years made him hungry at the moment.
"Your Excellency the Special Envoy is so punctual. It was Xuan Chen Dahonglu who spoke, sitting opposite Ge Lan.
"Which of the masters of the Qingping Army is not clever and clever, and he is like a god, don't say that the hour is three quarters, that is, three quarters and three minutes, presumably Your Excellency the special envoy can also fulfill the promise. ”
Ge Lan knew this voice, it was the one who made noise outside the West Courtyard yesterday.
"Ahem......" Tang Yannian, the protector of the Western Army Code, wanted to clear his throat, but because he was old, he really coughed, two or three times, shaking the withered skeleton, like the sound of a tombstone turning, revealing the rotten smell of soil.
Tang Protector finally stopped coughing, "It's a matter of peace in Shenzhou, it's better to be sooner rather than later, sooner rather than later." The envoys of the five parties have all arrived, and they have also asked His Majesty the National Teacher to preside over the peace meeting. ”
Although the national teacher sits in the Taiwei Jiucun Cliff, he is nominally the national teacher of the world in China, and the arbitration between states and countries has always had to ask for the consent of the national teacher of the Inch Cliff. And today's peace meeting was personally convened by the great power teachers, if it were not for this, how could there be a scene of the five parties gathering.
The table was full of people, and their eyes were all set on the young man wearing the crown of a golden parrot with wings spread on his head. Today's great teacher, Ge Lan thought to herself, is such a handsome white-faced student.
It's just that as soon as he opened his mouth, "The way of heaven is obscure," the four words did not come from the mouth of his throat, but from the zenith of the earth.
"Humane but clear. People are born, old, sick and die, thinking and doing are all selfish. The voice was loud and wise, not in the least like that of a man worthy of a weak crown.
"So there is a dumping expedition in the world, so there are twenty-seven patriarchs of the way of heaven in the world, cutting mountains and rivers, and a rule, so there is a group of people walking in the world, for the sake of the heavens, for the benefit of people, for the peace of the country, for a thousand years, only for people, can be heard for themselves?"
What the national teacher said was full of clichés, but no one here dared to pout the corners of his mouth slightly, and all of them had quiet eyes, as if they were listening to the wisdom mantra.
"Now Taiwei is in the west, Xuan Chen is in the east, and Chengping has been peaceful for hundreds of years, who wants the war not to come out of the monarch hall, but from the pure Daomen——"
"Qingping said," the great master looked at Ge Lan and Tang Protector, his eyes were sharp, and his disappointment was greater than the blame, which made Ge Lan feel guilty as an outsider.
"Qingping Dao," the national teacher said again, whispering softly as if to himself, "It is a side branch of the Heavenly Dao, and it should support justice and benefit the common people." What you are doing now, can you really afford the word "Heavenly Dao?"
After finishing speaking, everyone was silent for a long time, about to confirm that the national teacher no longer had any more follow-ups, and Tang Protector finally coughed twice, "Your Majesty, the way of heaven is obscure," he hugged his fists to the sky, respectfully and solemnly, "My generation is not the way of heaven, not the emperor, and what I do is not something that the father and son of the secular monarchs and ministers can measure." ”
The old man shook his head.
"If my generation is unclear, we will ask and understand, and mortals will be afraid if they don't know. ”
"Since my Qingping Dao was founded by my ancestor Bojun, what I am seeking is the true and pure grace of the Heavenly Dao, and the emperors and people in the world should regard it as a flood of fierce beasts and evil Gu and demon arts.
"Tang Protector," the man who spoke was a man in a silk cloth, about the same age as Ge Lan, "I don't know how Xuan Chen is, at least in Taiwei, which Qingping Daoist is not a brocade cloth and jade food servant." What kind of calculation is Master Yan's plan, Your Excellency doesn't know in your heart?"
When it came to Master Yan, the man deliberately glanced at the Great Master.
"Qingping Dao ignores the righteousness of heaven, and what he does is nothing more than the evil devil's way, taking human blood and human life as a guide, gambling on the dragon vein of the national fortune, doing evil deeds, and sooner or later playing with fire and self-immolation, resulting in disaster to the country and the people. For the monarch, the world is the most important, and there is no reason to care. The woman sitting next to the man in the scarlet robe continued to criticize. Behind her was a slender masked servant girl with a delicate mask wrapped in glittering white silk around her neck and wrists, but through her ears and fingers, she couldn't help but notice her frighteningly white complexion.
"Qingping Dao and the Heavenly Dao Orthodox Sect are in the same vein, and they study secret thaumaturgy, so that they will not be so unbearable as Madame's way. The great master, who had been listening quietly, interjected. The woman smiled politely and nodded.
"It's too small and rich to dare to deal with it so calmly," the woman glanced at the man in silk next to her again, "I Xuan Chen is a small state in a corner of peace, and I can't afford to raise such a tiger." ”
After speaking, she shook her head and looked meaningfully at Da Honglu in the distance, whose face was full of anger at being bullied.
It is worth mentioning the arrangement of the seats for this peace meeting: with the great division as the center, on the left are the woman, the silk clothes, the big Honglu, the first two Ge Lan do not know each other, one of them is the wife of Yang Chengbing, the Marquis of Xuanchen Greedy Ling, Yao Zhaofu, the wife of Ningguo, the other is the son of Xie Ti, the general of Taiwei Zhengdong, Xie Longyi, the son of Yinglin; on the right of the great division is Tang Protector, Ge Lan, Cui Shangshu - that is, the one who lost his temper in the West Courtyard yesterday, he and Zai Siqing were both sent by the Xuanchen royal family.
At this time, Da Honglu was about to make a difficulty, and the words "greedy and traitor" were only exited, and suddenly there was a roar on the top, which shocked everyone to look up. Zai Siqing was even more shocked and rolled down from the seat, and he was shocked again.
Around the same time, a masked man in black burst into the hall, unable to distinguish the man or woman from his figure. The man in black grabbed Ge Lan, who had black yarn wrapped around his hands, and he was not thick from the outside, but with one force, he actually lifted Ge Lan, a seven-foot-tall man, from the chair in the air.
The arm spun in an arc in the air, and Ge Lan fell to the ground, "Run." The man in black pulled him closer, but whispered the two words in his ear. The voice was a man's, and Ge Lan hadn't heard it yet.
All this happened in an instant, and it was almost as soon as the man in black finished saying "run away", and the rest of the people at the meeting came back to their senses from the roar just now.
Except for the Great Power Division. At this time, he had already drawn a long bow, and the bowstring and arrow feathers were all illusory things that flashed with thunder, accompanied by a scorching smell, and it was rattling, "Who is coming!", although the great master asked, the hand that took the arrow had been loosened, and the man in black kicked Ge Lan away, and his body also took advantage of the momentum to rush to the right, but the arrow was like a long eye, stretched out a few electric lines, and swished to the right, hitting the left leg of the man in black.
Without waiting for the man in black to land, the next arrow was already on the string, "Right foot." The great master said coldly.
The man in black was shocked when he heard this, and slapped his left palm on the ground, and his body, which was about to touch the bottom, suddenly jumped up again, and straightened up in mid-air.
The sound of the bowstring twisting was still in his ears, and the second arrow had already whistled out, only to see the man in black throw dozens of marbles from his arms, all of which were on the path of the thunder arrow to his right leg, people moved, arrows moved, marbles moved.
Jingle bells!
With more than a dozen crisp sounds of metal colliding, the man in black popped out his hook with his right hand, hung on the door beam, and with the force of a kick on the ground, with the door beam as the axis, he flew backwards like a swing, passed through the door, and was about to swing onto the roof.
At this time, the arrows of the national teacher also chased to the door, and there was a bang on the ground, and the thunder arrow passed through a few marbles, and the jingle bell turned into a crackle, and more than ten fireworks climbed like sesame blossoms, and finally there was a crisp sound of gold and stone, and the thunder arrow fell in response, but only saw a piece of bamboo, more than two feet long, and the whole body was scorched black.
At about this time, the rest of the people came back to their senses from the second shock: Zai Siqing was stuck under the table, he wanted to put the chair back, but his stomach hit the table, and in the end he didn't sit or sit down, so he could only send his body to the opposite side, trying to get out of Cui Shangshu's seat; Mrs. Yang and Gongzi Xie were more clever, and the battle at the front door was in full swing, so they both retreated to the side in unison.
Tang Protector is even more impressive, Lao Dang Yizhuang said that he is such a good man, I saw him trembling and pulling himself out of the chair, suppressing the violent cough, turning the cane horizontally, dancing in the air, the skinny arm is surprisingly steady, and finally the pestle downward, with a muffled sound, the old tree roots and vines actually grew in the masonry ground, all the way around the twist, straight to Ge Lan who was kicked to the ground by the man in black.
Rao was like this, the hook was still one step ahead of him, and just as the tip of the man in black was about to disappear from the door frame, another hook shot out from outside the door.
Ge Lan lay on the ground, defenseless, grabbed by the hook and pulled out of the door, and when Ge Lan swung to the farthest point and the rope was straightened again, the man in black had already fallen to the eaves, retracted his hook and claw, and threw Ge Lan farther away by inertia.
It's just that the old roots of the Tang Protector are not slow, and they go all the way through the courtyard and chase them to the front hall. The momentum of that flick had passed, and Ge Lan hit the lintel of the front hall with his back and fell down from the ground, but the old root was so strong that it went straight into the beams of the house, penetrated through the roof, and shook off the green glazed tiles on the ground.
Back in the hall, what a great teacher, when he saw the man in black on the roof, he opened a magical power.
I saw that his eyes were shining with golden light, and his right hand immediately drew an arrow into the bow, and the thunder played in unison, and the bowstring was full in an instant, and the thunder arrow blasted a big hole in the roof and went straight to the jaw of the man in black.
Through the big hole, everyone in the hall saw that as it is today, black clouds are rolling wildly, and thunder and lightning are dormant.
The cluster of arrows slashed across the black-clothed man's chest, revealing a large patch of snow-white and reddish flesh, and was about to pierce his neck, when the black dragon peeked out of the clouds.
With a roar, a purple lightning bolt fell from the sky, slashing at the man in black, and penetrated into the big hole in the roof, and the small thunderbolt turned into powder in an instant in the thunder.
Seeing the thunder falling, the national teacher didn't care that the man in black was still the envoy of the heavenly army, threw away the longbow, supported the sky with both hands, and performed a barrier technique, Tang Protector also waved the cane in his hand, and the old tree root had to climb the golden blockwall and form another barrier.
Ge Lan barely stood up from the rubble, and across the courtyard, he saw the lightning bolt smashing into the main hall, and in an instant, the Tiandao Temple turned into a sea of fire.
Glenn ran out as hard as she could. The black dragon hung in the sky, and stabbed another bolt of lightning at the center of the Tiandao Temple, and the divine fire burned. The empty rosette in the courtyard seemed to have a god to worship.