Chapter Ninety-Four: The Great Burial (3)

Li Wan's words are exactly the same as knowing. Although Jin Qifa also thought so at the beginning, now he decided to say a few words for Xia Fanxing's "dangerous chess".

"Having said that, but Your Highness, the minister still thinks it's okay to give it a try. Mr. Liu's funeral temporarily united the forces of all factions in the city, and the sense of belonging of the villagers of Liyang was unprecedentedly high. Although we have more time than the time for the stars to return to the sect, if the current situation in Liyang is monolithic, it will be difficult to find a breakthrough to debunk Jiwen's conspiracy. If we drag on like this, we don't have much time. ”

Li Wan thought about it for a while, and suddenly smiled, "That's right, even if Zhiyunguan dares to go against us, my identity as a prince, this small city dares to make a mistake with me?"

"I only ask, Uncle Jin, if the sea does not come as you expected, if you want to go against us, you will ensure the safety of all of us. Li Wan said nonchalantly, "What do you want, you can do it." Then the king went first. ”

Moody and casual. These two points have been greatly confirmed by Li Wan's body. Xia Fanxing and Jin Qifa couldn't help but feel deep worries in their hearts. Now that Li Wan has put his mind on Yang Qing, it is just an understatement of such an important matter. However, there was no time to advise him, and it was difficult to persuade Li Wan to come back from the side effects of the Qingyan Pill.

Jin Qifa thought that he could only return to the capital and find another way to expel the medicinal power. He paused, and said with some embarrassment, "Your Highness, in order to intimidate the people of Tankaido in order for the incident itself to be intimidated, he may directly choose to cooperate with us against Jiwen. We prove that the phalanx is indeed yours. So... Now, the minister wants to borrow the dragon blood of His Royal Highness. As he spoke, Jin Qifa half-knelt down.

Li Wan glanced at the two of them in surprise. Xia Fanxing held the phalanx in both hands, and his head drooped slightly. The awkward atmosphere lasted for a while, and Jin Qifa's face did not change and maintained a kneeling posture.

Li Wan suddenly laughed three times and patted Jin Qifa on the shoulder. He helped him up and said, "You two... Isn't it just a little blood, is it? This king is not without it, come on, come on, give me the knife. Now that it's done, there shouldn't be anything else, right?"

Jin Qifa's heart sank, and he said in a solemn voice, "Yes, Your Highness." ”

Li Wan took the initiative to pull out the saber from Jin Qifa's waist and gestured it on his left hand. A spooky smile. He walked up to Xia Fanxing, who was holding his finger bone, and redrew it on his left index finger. The blood fell drop by drop, dyeing Xia Fanxing's two palms red. After doing all this, Li Wan smiled, threw the sword on the ground, took the gauze handed by Jin Qifa's hand, and walked slowly in the direction of the True Martial Palace.

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Night, punctual time.

In front of the coffin and the enshrined Emperor Zhenwu, there was a row of Taoist priests, singing the elegy of the Dharma sound passed down from the sect realm. The sides of the main hall were covered by huge white cloths, clinging to the coffin, and covered with a circle of everlasting candles. When the time came, everyone who came to pay their respects entered the venue one after another.

Since Mr. Liu Li has both the dual identity of an important minister of the imperial court and a Taoist priest of the sect, the setting of his mourning hall has been planned and arranged in a style between Taoism and the layman. The posthumous portrait enshrined at the feet of Emperor Zhenwu is a bust portrait of Mr. Liu Li riding on a black horse, and his head and face are not visible. Moreover, Mr. Liu's last words were reasonable, and he was unwilling to invite a special mourning group to come to his coffin and cry non-stop. So he was replaced by a senior Taoist priest of Zhiyunguan who was in Fayin**.

After about two quarters of an hour, the group of people to whom Xia Fanxing and Ji Yanliu belonged were finally able to enter the True Martial Hall to mourn. Although there is only one group of people in front of them, it is the Yang family brothers and sisters and Li Wan. But Yang Qing and Yang Xuan are really in love, if they don't remember Mr. Liu Li's last words, they can't help but cry, otherwise they can cry for more than half an hour.

At night, the Weaving Cloud Temple allows the entire city and rural residents to come to mourn. Whether it is to join in the fun, to draw fresh, or to feel sincere grief for such a hometown celebrity, in short, the Zhiyun Temple is crowded. Fortunately, waiting in line is not allowed at the gate of the Weaving Cloud View Sect, otherwise it is estimated that there will be more people. Even so, a long queue lined up from the gate to the True Martial Palace, at least five or six hundred people.

Xia Fanxing took Ji Yanliu's hand and walked in with more than a dozen people around him, and by the way, he told her what he was going to do when he was hanging later.

The human form that came to mourn **, but the first few batches that could enter were people with status. Like Xia Fanxing, this group is basically Dao Gang elders and so on. Taoist funeral rites are simple, and they are also very fast. Soon it was Xia Fanxing's turn and Ji Yanliu's turn.

Xia Fanxing led Ji Yanliu and took six incense candles from Chong Hai, who was standing on the left side of the main hall to preside over the eulogy, and several of his disciples, three for each person. When Xia Fanxing went to fetch incense and candles, he deliberately paid attention to the expressions of the people who were standing among several people. He held his head high and his expression was solemn. Xia Fanxing was a little strange, took the incense candles, and without waiting for those disciples to light them for him, he directly put them in front of the cultivation of the sea, and bowed down to ask the people of the cultivation of the sea to light the incense and candles for him.

The two white whiskers of the sea trembled obviously, and a white flame ignited in the palm of his hand, brushing the three incense candles in Xia Fanxing's hand. Lowering his head, he only gave Xia Fanxing a look, and his expression seemed to be angry. A voice suddenly sounded in Xia Fanxing's ears, "Practice Sword Forest!"

A smile rose at the corner of Xia Fanxing's mouth. Pulling Ji Yanliu, he slowly walked to the middle of the main hall, knelt down, pretended to worship for a while, inserted the incense candle into the jasper vat in front of the coffin, and then walked out through the side door.

"Look, that's Ji-sama. As soon as I walked out of the door, there were many people standing on the secluded path who had participated in the condolences before. Ji Yanliu suddenly patted Xia Fanxing's shoulder and pointed to the person standing behind an ancient tree on the side of the aisle. The man's head was bowed, and his face was invisible. But Xia Fanxing could clearly see that he was Ji Wen.

The two glanced at each other, Xia Fanxing hesitated for a moment, and nodded reluctantly with a smile. Watching Ji Yanliu walk behind the tree.

Xia Fanxing set his eyes on Li Wan and Yang Qing who were standing next to a small tree. At this time, a disciple of Zhiyunguan wearing a Taoist robe suddenly came, and he said something in Li Wan's ear. But it seemed that Yang Qing also heard it, and her expression suddenly became panicked and heavy. Li Wan was a little angry, glared at him and said something, and the disciple hurriedly left. Li Wan immediately put his arms around Yang Qing, but Yang Qing kept saying something, because the environment was too noisy to hear. Li Wan looked a little anxious.

He hurriedly pretended to pass by unintentionally, took two steps to Li Wan's side, and focused all his attention on his ears:

"Brother Wan... Your hand is obviously so badly injured, why did you tell me it was just an ordinary skin injury!"

“...... I'm fine, Aqing, don't worry about it, okay?"

Although the two of them restrained their voices very low, Xia Fanxing still heard some of the conversation. He remembered that he had just been accused of blaspheming the Mourning Hall, so he walked quickly towards the Sword Perch Forest in the other direction.

He must have known about the phalanx and the poisonous soil. And these things, Chonghai knew, it was this Xia guard who poured the puddle of poisonous blood he expelled from Li Wan's body outside. It was at this time that Chonghai left the mourning hall, and he had to make it clear with Xia Fanxing!

Xia Fanxing walked briskly, and saw Ji Yanliu and Ji Wen with their heads hanging down as if they were talking enthusiastically about something, but this was a strategy arranged by the two of them, and it was difficult for her to take the initiative to go forward and talk to a man. However, Ji Wen's eyes seemed to float on Li Wan and Yang Qing under the moonlight not far away. After seeing him coming, Ji Wen raised his head in a rare way and smiled at Xia Fanxing. Despite the doubts in his heart, Xia Fanxing still smiled and hurried to his own way.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the Sword Habitat Forest, Xia Fanxing suddenly felt as if his neck was tightly locked by something. The feeling of suffocation rises all at once, to a point where it is very uncomfortable, but it does not hurt. Xia Fanxing felt that his feet had also left the ground, and he was dragged into the depths of the forest by something, the surroundings were silent, and his vision could only see the dim moonlight in front of him.

But Xia Fanxing didn't panic at all. He knew very well that this was just a kind of Kaidao to vent his popularity in a hurry. Since he sent a message to himself and asked him to go to the Sword Habitat Forest, it would definitely not really kill him. In this way, it is nothing more than venting anger.

So it's better to make the old man feel refreshed. Xia Fanxing smiled secretly, no longer suppressing the discomfort on his neck, making an intermittent "cough" sound in his throat, and at the same time pretending to be panicked, panting heavily, shaking his feet wildly, trying to make his expression panicked.

The sword perch wood forest is full of ancient trees, and the moonlight can't penetrate into the depths. However, after a while, Xia Fanxing suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, and a white light flashed, and then it became very faint. He saw that under this sword perch, there was a stone tablet, on which only one word was written, "Wu".

Then he fell to the ground with his butt, Xia Fanxing smiled bitterly and rubbed his waist, and sat there without looking back. The white light disappeared, and Tankai appeared in front of the stone tablet with a torch. The short old man's face was angry, and his eyelids were trembling. Xia Fanxing was full of expressions of slaughter. Chonghai didn't know how to make a majestic opening statement for a while, and coughed heavily. I was just about to spit the phlegm in my throat on the ground, and I remembered what this place was. Immediately raised his head again, and slammed into the distance, and the thick phlegm flew to the forest meadow a few feet away.

Xia Fanxing couldn't help laughing. Chonghai immediately blew his beard and glared, "What are you laughing at!"

He quickly waved his hand and swallowed.

Seeing the way the people of the Sea Dao were pondering their words, Xia Fanxing cautiously tentatively said, "Dao Chief, why don't we open the skylight and say something bright?"

"Since you say so. Chong Hai sat in front of the stone monument, his eyebrows furrowed, staring at Xia Fanxing, and his face was full of wrinkles. The old man gritted his teeth and said, "Boy, you are new to the city, you may not know. Poor Dao doesn't like to be threatened or play intrigue with others in his life!"

"Alas, Daoist, forget it. Didn't you want to teach me a lesson when you asked me to go to Jin Dao Chang that night?

"Dead boy... What evidence do you have, there is no basis for what you say!" Tan Hai obviously felt a little poked at the handle, but immediately stiffened his mouth back.

"That's it, not to mention the old sesame rotten grain, although it was only a few days ago. Xia Fanxing muttered and continued, "You asked the juniors to come here, why, we should all know in our hearts, right?"

"What's the matter? You obviously know that there are highly poisonous Gu worms on the ground outside the True Martial Palace, and that is what I drew blood for His Highness's treatment! Hey, that finger bone, it is absolutely impossible for His Highness, and his three fingers are still kept with me. Boy, what do you want to do? I think that Zhiyunguan has no grievances with you, and it should also be without grievances and hatreds! Why do you want to get along with me? If this matter is exposed, the reputation of Zhiyunguan will be greatly damaged, and the yamen and even the imperial court may pay attention to it! What good will this do you!"

Xia Fanxing was just about to speak, but Chong Hai said aggressively, "Besides, how many times have I told you? Weaving Cloud View has nothing to do with this matter! Our investigation has obtained preliminary results, and most of the perpetrators may be disciples of the Lotte Society, but Poor Dao absolutely does not know about this matter! You don't want to push the assassin on our Weaving Cloud Temple!"

Seeing that the old man was still talking nonsense with his eyes open, Xia Fanxing shook his head and sneered, "Indeed, it can be said that the person who committed the assassination cannot be regarded as a monk of the Cloud Weaving Temple, and it may indeed have nothing to do with you." But does the Dao Chief know who helped dig up the poisonous dirt below?"

"Two stinky workers, I don't know where to go now!" said Tankai indignantly.

"Let me tell you, the two of them are indeed disciples of the Lotte Club. But now it's for us. Xia Fanxing's expression gradually became surprised and panicked as he looked at the sea, and continued, "These two stinky workers organized an assassination that night. And your cronies around you have also received this task from Ji Wen, Dao Chief, you also know it, right? It's just that they are greedy for profit and want to disobey Ji Wen's order and directly kidnap His Highness. That's what you didn't expect, right? It's a pity they failed. So he was frantically pursued by the yamen for several days, and in desperation, he came to His Royal Highness to ask for guilt. And His Highness was kind and spared them. ”

"So, Tankai is long. Even if what Givan asked you to do wasn't as serious as theirs, then you wanted to give us a dismount, right? Don't play stupid anymore, I, Your Highness, everyone knows that you know about it. But fortunately, Zhiyun Guan, as the first Taoist sect in Liyang, has his own opinions, rather than obeying the words of Yamen and Master Ji like Xuanmo Guan and Lotte Society! ”

Tan Hai stepped forward and said word by word, "Lord Guard, what do you want to do with the Cloud Weaving Temple?"

"I think you're really smart, or you're a thief! Now, I want to ask you, no matter where that phalanx came from, what are you doing this for? Or is there something else?"

"For the people of Liyang, for the people of the world, for the Tang Dynasty, and for the end of this troubled era that is about to come, even if it makes a small contribution. Xia Fanxing said righteously.

The old man sighed, "It's not that simple. I know what you mean, though I don't understand how you know about all the shameful things that Gwin has done. After all, he is too cautious. ”

"In the past three years, the poor Zhiyun Guan has never had a clear attitude towards the yamen. Whether it's like the metamorphosis or like you. This is the old man's century-old foundation, and it must not be buried by the power struggle of Giwin and the people behind him. ”

"Like Xuanmo Guan, he sent people to recruit believers for him in the surrounding cities of Liyang, and there are many small Taoist gangs, who have no morality at all, and even participate in the so-called Tianqi Sect's actions, stealing outside, where are the disciples of the Daomen..."

"However, I didn't choose to expose them either. The risk is too great..."

Xia Fanxing patted Chong Hai's shoulder and said firmly, "As long as Dao Leader you follow our strategy, the Weaving Cloud View is huge, luring the snake out of the hole, and then please enter the urn and control Ji Wen, I believe that all problems can be solved!"

With that, he recounted his plan to trap Geven.

There was relief in Tankai's eyes, followed by disappointment, "It's useless, kid." Not to mention whether a little trick like yours can fool Giwen. Even if we did announce Ji Wen's crime in Liyang, it would be nothing more than a drop in the bucket. ”

"Why did you say that, Daoist?"

"The first point is that in the past few years, Ji Wen has been in line with the intention of not eating the grass next to the nest, and has penetrated the forces of the Tianqi Sect into the surrounding cities and counties except for Liyang. If we had moved him, it would have caused a riot of believers in serious circumstances. Secondly, and most importantly, it doesn't work to bring down a long Skiewen......"

"Because the one standing behind him is Lord Yang Xiangyang, the Duke of the Patriotic Kingdom!"

In an instant, Xia Fanxing's thoughts flew farther and farther with the sparks on the torch, and finally suddenly extinguished, turning into the final ashes and results - Yang Guozhong, Yang Guozhong... Is his speculation really correct?

He suddenly held Chonghai's hand tightly and repeated excitedly, "No matter who it is, no matter who it is... Whoever ......"

"Yang Guozhong... No matter who it is, we have to stop them!"