Chapter 39: The Pavilion of Joy; Twenty-four ghosts
The clouds are light and the wind is light, and the days are orderly.
Yi Luochuan and Jiang Xuanrui and Wu Feng made an appointment to play polo with their classmates' friends, Jiang Xuanrui invited Yi Xiangxiang to watch the game through Jiang Jingshan, but was refused. Jiang Jingshan was not frustrated, after all, her current focus was on Yi Luochuan. But Jiang Xuanrui knew that Yi Xiangxiang couldn't come, and his heart was still a little empty for some reason. Of course, at that time he didn't know what this emptiness meant.
The polo match was very exciting, Yi Luochuan and Jiang Xuanrui and their team won very beautifully, this is the news that Yi Ruofu brought to Yi Xiangxiang after she came back. After Yi Ruofu's illness recovered, he regained his liveliness and activity, and shouted that he would also organize a women's polo game. Yi Xiangxiang didn't say anything, she was not interested in this now.
The family affairs of the Jiang family and the Yi family are settled verbally, well, it seems too casual to say that the Jiang and Yi families have reached a consensus. Jiang Chuanhong and his wife of the Jiang family and Yi Kangwen and his wife of the Yi family had a direct meeting between the leaders, and after careful consideration and discussion between the two sides, the matter was decided. Yi Xiangxiang, as the sister of Yi Luochuan of the party concerned, even knew about this matter before Yi Luochuan himself, because the day when the Jiang family came to the door was the day of Yi Luochuan's polo match.
In fact, there is no reason for the woman to come to the door to say goodbye, but the situation of the Jiang family is special, because Jiang Chuanhong can only come to the interview in person and solemnly.
Yi Xiangxiang was a little stunned when she saw the fate of her parents in ancient times, although her brother and Jiang Jingshan had known each other for a long time, but now this situation can be regarded as being forced to tie together, Yi Xiangxiang was speechless about it. But she doesn't have much say in this matter, but fortunately, Jiang Jingshan's character is not bad, otherwise she would really sweat for her brother. Of course, if Jiang Jingshan is not good, then for the sake of her brother's lifelong happiness, Yi Xiangxiang will also help to resist. But the same reason is that if Jiang Jingshan is not good, the Yi family will not accept this family business. Yi Xiangxiang was melancholy because this was a loveless marriage, which made her very depressed.
And Yi Xiangxiang was afraid that her brother would have a heart, so she "educated" Yi Luochuan in private, saying that if she didn't want to marry Jiang Jingshan, she would help find a way. Although Yi Luochuan is not an old-fashioned person, he still respects the orders of his parents, and he is afraid that his sister will cause trouble by fooling around, so he solemnly told Yi Xiangxiang that he is willing to marry Jiang Jingshan.
Jiang Jingshan is not to mention, she has nothing to be reluctant to, firstly, she has to use the Yi family's family affairs to jump out of the draft, and secondly, Yi Luochuan is also a beautiful son, no bad habits, and even the room has not been released yet, and now she has been admitted to the examination at a young age, which is an excellent family affair for her.
This made Yi Xiangxiang even more frustrated, not that Yi Luochuan refused to disobey her parents and made her frustrated, nor that Jiang Jingshan made this choice for the sake of actual "interests" that made her frustrated, but because they didn't care whether the two had feelings at all. Thinking about it, I may be like this in the future, when I get to the age of a blind date, I will marry after picking up the appearance and character, and I can't talk about feelings at all, Yi Xiangxiang was sad for several days. Forget it, let's see if we can convince the elders to let her fight the sword in the future! Yi Xiangxiang thought so.
The elders have decided this matter privately, but the scene still has to go. Lin was busy looking for a suitable matchmaker to come to the door to say goodbye, exchange Geng stickers, ask fortune tellers to arrange eight characters, etc., but these red tapes have nothing to do with Yi Xiangxiang, and she is not interested in this now.
Jiang Xuanrui couldn't be happy after knowing that his sister and his good brother were married, and all he thought about was Yi Xiangxiang's smiling appearance. This feeling of losing before he got it finally made him vaguely aware of his strange feelings for Yi Xiangxiang, but at this time, Jiang Yi and Yi had already exchanged Jiang Jingshan and Yi Luochuan's Gengxu, and he knew that he could only bury this strangeness in his heart.
Even if it is buried in his heart, his feelings will still be revealed involuntarily, and he often holds Yi Luochuan to send things to Yongle Ju in Yi Xiangxiang, calligraphy, paintings, books and posters, one by one. However, Yi Xiangxiang, who was emotionally slow, didn't know why Jiang Xuanrui was flattering her like this, and she thought that her future sister-in-law was getting close to her in the name of her brother. Yi Luochuan's elm head couldn't understand this even more, he also thought that the two families were about to get married, and Jiang Xuanrui deliberately got close. Poor Jiang Xuanrui, no one understands friendship.
If Yi Xiangxiang knew that she had inadvertently made a good son's love deep-rooted, she would definitely cut through the mess quickly, but unfortunately she didn't care too much about this, she was not interested in this now.
When the Yi family's eldest son was in the big house, news came from the second room, saying that the Wang family of Cuiming Courtyard was pregnant, and it was said that the good news would be reported when the fetus was secured, and Yi Xiangxiang understood why Yi Ruojiao and Yi Ruofan were so low-key recently. She thought about it for a while, and let people be placed in each courtyard, because she found that even in her own home, it was better to be the first to know some things. She asked Leqi to do it, and she didn't care about it anymore, because she was not interested in this now.
So what is Yi Xiangxiang interested in now?
A month later, all the major restaurants began to talk about a new killer organization in the rivers and lakes, called "Huanxi Pavilion", which was what Yi Xiangxiang was interested in.
In the Fusheng Pavilion of Xile Building, Yi Xiangxiang opened the window wide, lying on the edge of the window and listening to the people in the lobby downstairs.
"You know what? The killer organization called Huanxi Pavilion has another mountain bandit nest, it seems that it is still a mountain bandit nest in Qinling, and all the mountain bandits have been killed! A man in a yellow robe said to his companion.
When the purple-robed man next to him heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Qinling's?" Is it the one who is rumored to be the one in the village who eats human blood and human flesh? ”
"That's it, the whole village has been killed, and even the village has been burned to the ground!" The man in the yellow robe said.
"That's amazing, huh?" A handsome young man in green at the back table heard their conversation and interjected and asked.
The man in the yellow robe looked scared, and deliberately lowered his voice and said, "It's not! And before that, they had slaughtered a lot of bandits and burned a lot of cottages, which was really murderous! ”
"Brother, I don't like to hear what you say! The Huanxi Pavilion is full of cottages that kill people without blinking, and those that don't hurt people's lives, they have let them go. Your words have completely put the Pavilion of Joy in a place of injustice, but what they are doing is clearly righteousness! A bearded man with a big beard said that he should be dressed as a person in the rivers and lakes.
The man in the yellow robe choked up and said very dissatisfied: "Then how do you know that they will not assassinate others?" They're killers, and if you spend money, you can buy them to kill! ”
The bearded man snorted: "It's not uncommon for the Killer Pavilion to take money to kill people, why don't you condemn them?" Don't pretend to be a reasonable guest, in fact, you are just a cheap mouth. Besides, if they kill innocents indiscriminately, then everyone will inevitably be punished, you see those murderous demon sects, not also shouted and killed by people in the martial arts! ”
"You ......" The yellow-robed man was about to say something, but was interrupted by an old man at the other table.
"The two little brothers don't have to argue anymore, don't hurt the harmony. I don't know where Huanxi Pavilion came from, but after all, it was a matter in the rivers and lakes. As the little brother Tai said just now, if there is really an indiscriminate killing of innocents, I believe that not only the green forest heroes in the martial arts will stop it, but the court will not sit idly by. The old man who spoke had gray hair, but he looked energetic.
"What the old man said is that we should just have fun and talk about it, there is no need to make everyone lose their identity and anger." The man in blue next to the old man echoed with a smile.
The old man happily stroked his beard and asked the yellow-robed man, "I heard that the name of the leader of the Huanxi Pavilion has been infiltrated, what kind of "twenty-four ghosts" is it called?" ”
Yi Xiangxiang felt that this old man was very smart, just now he stood on the side of the bearded guest, and at this time he humbly asked the man in the yellow robe for advice, and gave the other party a step.
"Not really! The dragon girl and the fox fairy led by the twenty-four ghosts are still two women! Rumor has it that they are as beautiful as fairies, and I don't know if it's true or not. But I heard that the twenty-four ghosts are only protectors, not pavilion masters, this pavilion master is said to have two people, a man and a woman, and the female pavilion master uses piano silk as a tool! The yellow-robed man regained his sense of existence, so he began to talk again.
"Using the filament as a tool? Could it be a string lady? The bearded guest also knew that he had been too impulsive just now, so he asked modestly.
The yellow-robed man shook his head to show that he didn't know, but the white-clothed swordsman in the corner spoke: "There are not thousands of people in the rivers and lakes who use qin silk as weapons, but there are hundreds, so it cannot be concluded with weapons." However, the twenty-four ghosts are indeed not the masters of the Huanxi Pavilion, and they happened to pass by on the day of the burning of the village in the Qinling Mountains, and they went over to check when they saw the fire on the mountainside of the Qinling Mountains. I happened to see the legendary twenty-four ghosts leading people down from the mountain, talking to the black-robed man and the woman in green clothes waiting on the other side of the mountain. I see that the twenty-four ghosts and the rest of the people have great respect for the black-robed man and the woman in the green robe, and I think those two are the leaders. ”
"Can the young man see that the woman in Tsing Yi is a string lady?" The bearded guest asked again.
The white-clothed swordsman shook his head and said, "All of them wore masks and white veils, so they didn't see clearly. However, the string lady makes a rare gold and silver silk in the world, and the lady of the Huanxi Pavilion is rumored to use ink silk, and she is not the same person. ”
Golden black and silver silk is one of the rare weapons, but ink silk is more common.
Yi Xiangxiang leaned forward and leaned back with a smile when she heard this in the Floating Life Pavilion, this white-clothed swordsman just said not to make a conclusion with weapons, but at this moment he was making a conclusion.
Yi Xiangxiang looked down again, only to see the bearded guest shake his head and said: "I think it's really not the same person, and it's no wonder that the string lady is famous, and it's easy to think of her when she uses the strings." ”
Qing Xuan, who was standing behind Yi Xiangxiang at this time, had a black line on his face after hearing this! Blame me?
"Shaoxia has seen the people of Huanxi Pavilion?" The man in the yellow robe didn't care what the string lady was, and the point he got was that the white-clothed swordsman had seen the people of the Huanxi Pavilion.
"Yes, I've seen it from afar." The white-clothed swordsman replied politely.
"Didn't they see you?" The yellow-robed man asked again.
The white-clothed swordsman took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "I have seen it, the twenty-four ghosts are excellent in light skills, and they can rise from a little branch, and I can't hide this little bit of kung fu in front of them." ”
The yellow-robed man expressed a little disbelief at this time: "Then they didn't ...... you" The second half of the sentence didn't need to be said by him, and everyone guessed that what he wanted to say was killing people and killing people.
They looked at me from afar and left. Rest assured, they don't want to be so terrible as the rumors. The white-clothed swordsman said.
"Have you really seen them?" The man in the yellow robe still didn't believe that such a mysterious organization could be easily discovered. Although he is not a person in the rivers and lakes, he has never eaten pork and has seen a pig run, which killer organization can be found after killing people? It's not a pig again!
Pigs of the Joy Pavilion: We were found on purpose!
Yi Xiangxiang closed the window with a smile, afraid that if she listened to it again, she would laugh out of her abdominal muscles. She turned around and said to Qing Xuan: "Look at it, in this case, in two days, the fame of the twenty-four ghosts can be used to scare disobedient children, and the nature is equivalent to the big bad wolf!" ”
She remembered that when she was a child, when she was disobedient and had a temper tantrum, her grandmother would say, "The big bad wolf is a disobedient child, be careful that the big bad wolf comes to catch you!" "I believe that in a few days, twenty-four ghosts will be able to replace the big bad wolf.
Qing Xuan helplessly looked at his young lady who was about to speak, when the figure of the fox fairy jumped in from the outer window, and he heard a coquettish voice: "It's not that the young lady said that she wanted to do this!" ”
"I'm using the art of war! Did I give you the "Art of War" without memorization? I'm screaming all over the place! Directly hitting Qishan will definitely make people guess that we are people who have a grudge against Qishan, and as soon as the elimination method comes out, the chance of us being exposed is very high. In this way, all the way to sweep all the things that should be swept will not be suspicious! I don't believe you, I'm talking about Qishan downstairs! Yi Xiangxiang motioned to Qingxuan and the fox fairy to listen carefully.
Qingxuan and Fox Immortal are both martial arts practitioners, and they are even more deaf and clear-sighted than ordinary people, and sure enough, they heard a strong male voice say: "If only we could serve Qishanzhai to the end, it would be good!" ”
I heard a voice reply again, as if it was the voice of the yellow-robed man just now: "General Yuwen hasn't attacked Qishanzhai, so there is no hope for it." ”
The two listened to these two sentences, and when they looked at Yi Xiangxiang again, they found that she was stunned, and they couldn't help but want to roll their eyes.
"Fox fairy, why are you here?" Yi Xiangxiang asked after finishing speaking.
The fox fairy poured himself a glass of water and said, "There is news from Kyoto that the fourth prince, Zhao Zixiu, has begun to prepare to go south to Tongzhou. ”
It takes a month and a half to travel from Kyoto to Tongzhou by dry road, but it only takes 20 days for the waterway to go straight down the canal, which is to add the delay time, and Zhao Zixiu will be able to reach Tongzhou in about a month.
"Sure enough, it's not for the birthday party!" Yi Xiangxiang said with a smile, Zhao Zixiu will never waste time on the dry road, he will definitely come by water, so he set off ten days in advance in addition to the delay, he doesn't want to increase his relationship with Mr. Yu earlier, right?
Qing Xuan frowned and said, "Fortunately, we acted in advance, otherwise we might just bump into each other!" ”
"Now there are more than a dozen villages, located in the north and south of the Li Dynasty. Now that this action is down, it should not be speculated that it is related to Qishan. Yi Xiangxiang thought for a while and said.
"Miss, when are we going to Qishan?" The fox fairy said excitedly, she had been waiting for this day for a long time.
Not only the fox fairy, but also Yi Xiangxiang herself, including Mo Wen and Qingxuan, and even Yasha, have been waiting for this day for a long time!
The feud between the first three and Qishanzhai is needless to mention, and the fox fairy and Yasha in the twenty-four ghosts are all survivors after the previous Qishan robbery and plunder, and they were ruined by the people of Qishanzhai, which is also the reason why Yasha never showed mercy in torturing the sixth child before.
Back then, the family members of Fox Fairy and Yasha also cut off the reins of the carriage according to Yi Xiangxiang's method and were desperately sent out by the guards, and then the two of them were found by Mo Wen and joined the Huanxi Pavilion.
Huanxi Pavilion is a new force that Yi Xiangxiang manipulated and presided over behind his back, and Mo Wen and Qingxuan personally set out to establish. Yi Xiangxiang asked Mo Wen to recruit a lot of criminals who were killed by traitors in a year, as well as all the concubines and concubines who were abandoned by the family, and selected a group of wanderers who had fled, organized these people together, and repeatedly tempered them according to the training methods that Yi Xiangxiang moved out of modern times, so as to create Huanxi Pavilion.
Speaking of which, the people who can exist in the Huanxi Pavilion are all people whose conduct and martial arts have been affirmed, and the training level set up by Yi Xiangxiang also has a human nature test, she doesn't want to cultivate a bunch of evil people, so she has also put a lot of effort into controlling this. When Yi Xiangxiang established the Huanxi Pavilion, it was clearly stipulated that those who did not pass the training must voluntarily eat and break the dust and forget all the things related to the Huanxi Pavilion. The Pavilion of Joy will give a sum of money to those who fail the training, allowing them to fend for themselves.
Yi Xiangxiang, as the real pavilion master, rarely shows up because of her identity, Huanxi Pavilion is a killer organization after all, if it is found that the family members of the court officials have raised killers, it will be a big trouble.
Now the rumored black-robed man and Tsing Yi woman are Mo Wen and Qing Xuan. They are the masters of Huanxi Pavilion on the surface, but in fact, they are just to cover Yi Xiangxiang. Of course, although Yi Xiangxiang's existence in the Huanxi Pavilion was very transparent, no one ignored it, because the people who actually entered the Huanxi Pavilion in the end knew that although their pavilion master was a woman who didn't know martial arts, he was a person who gave them new hope.
The people who entered the Pavilion of Joy all had blood feuds on their bodies, or had suffered other injuries, and it was because they were more resilient that they were able to create a new life.
The twenty-four ghosts are the most prominent existence in this group of people, and their experiences are also different, but they have passed the most tests and are also the ones with the highest kung fu, so they have become the protectors of the Joy Pavilion. Among these twenty-four people, the dragon girl, the fox fairy, the yaksha, the judge, the bull head and the horse face, the erlang, the seven lang, the punishment of the heavens, and the nine people of the evil spirit, led the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white, a total of nine departments, the division of labor of each department is different, but there are also general similarities.
The dragon girl and the fox fairy are in charge of the red and orange departments, mainly responsible for intelligence, flower street willow lane, restaurant inns, and even the backyard of high-ranking officials, etc., there is no one they can't insert, or use beauty, or use means, in short, with Kyoto as the center, radiating all over the country, and trying their best to get first-hand information. Linghua Lingwu is the person they trained, and was transferred to Moxi by Yi Xiangxiang, and then to Kyoto, and now works under Yi Hanxi.
The Yaksha and the Judge were in charge of interrogation and sentencing, and the Killer Organization naturally took on missions in secret, and when the Joy Pavilion was not as famous as it is now, they had actually begun to take over the murder business in private. The judge needs to judge and consider the target who is killed, first of all, whether the opponent deserves to die, whether killing the opponent will affect anything, and so on...... Of course, the cards on the face of Huanxi Pavilion are not to kill people in the court, Yi Xiangxiang knows that no matter how powerful the rivers and lakes are, they still have to weigh two pounds against the court.
The bull head and horse face are responsible for the training of the subordinates, Erlang and Qilang are responsible for the main killing characters, Xingtian and the evil spirit are mainly responsible for the external links and negotiations on the bright side, and the evil spirit is also good at poisoning, and the dust of the Huanxi Pavilion is configured by him according to Mo Wen's description.
The reason why Yi Xiangxiang asked the twenty-four ghosts to join the operation to exterminate other cottage bandits was mainly to let them make a name for themselves and lay the groundwork for attacking Qishanzhai in the future.
There are only a handful of people who escaped from Qishanzhai, and if they go directly to Qishan to destroy them, it is easy to be counted out by those who have a heart. It was Yi Xiangxiang who asked the judge to find some murderous copycat bandits, and let the twenty-four ghosts take people to pick them, the purpose was to naturally pick up Qishan. Qishan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the main force of Huanxi Pavilion is bound to come out of the nest, and Yi Xiangxiang will make the twenty-four ghosts famous in advance!
Yi Xiangxiang once said that it is difficult to have joy without revenge, which is the reason for the existence of Huanxi Pavilion.
"Gather everyone, in half a month, let's enter Qishan!" Yi Xiangxiang smiled and spoke, like a blooming poppy.
It's not a good life
Non-red-faced, not thin-hearted, cool-hearted