Chapter 13: The Unidentified Man in Black
Those royal sons are still children, just the purest and simplest hearts, they are young and ignorant, childish and unscrupulous, open-mouthed, naïve and maliceful, which also reflects the revenge on the Central Plains behind the benevolence of the Chu people to save them and the shamelessness of the cannibalism of the princes of the Central Plains.
The Chu people are the descendants of the fire god Zhu Rong, the fire god Zhu Rong passed down eight surnames, one of which passed to the bear, because the Chu people did not belong to the blood of the Shang Dynasty, they were expelled by the Shang Dynasty army, driving them to the more remote jungle like a hunt, they migrated all the way south, and finally stopped in the Jingshan area to multiply. There, they learned fishing and hunting, intermarried with various tribes, understood the pronunciation of "Sanmiao", and the mediocrity and Ba people taught them survival skills, they cut off their tattoos, communicated in barbarian language, while barely passing on the Central Plains culture, while absorbing the experience of the wilderness, brought the Central Plains Ding food habits to the warm and humid Jianghan Plain, and invented the Chu style mustache with slender and powerful conical feet and a high belly.
In order to return to the Central Plains, Mane Xiong led the Chu people to help Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen, to oppose Shang, but before he could succeed, he died in the position of fire master. At the ceremony of the Great Partition of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou forgot about the Chu people. It wasn't until King Cheng of Zhou remembered the efforts made by Mane Xiong when he founded the country, so he canonized Mane Xiong's grandson Xiong Yi as a viscount and named the country "Chu". There are many thorns in Jingshan, the word "Chu" symbolizes a person trekking among the bushes, hard work, the fief given to the Chu people is a small place with Danyang as the center, the son of a man is fifty miles, small and small.
On the day of the Qishan Alliance, Xiong Yichao met Zhou Tianzi, sitting in a firewood cart, wearing shabby robes, so poor that he only offered a peach wood bow to drive away ghosts and a godly bud grass. "Wei Nu Jing Chu, living in the southern township of the country", the Zhou Dynasty subconsciously regarded the Chu people as barbarians, and asked Xiong Yi to guard the fire with the king of Xianbei.
Since Xiong Yi's death, the monarch of Chu has changed from a subservient and submissive attitude towards the Central Plains to a rebellious attitude. King Zhao of Zhou went south to attack Chu, fell into the water and died; The four generations of monarchs of the Chu State were in the Jianghan area, and the road was blue, and the mountains and forests were ready to go; Xiong Qu, the fourth-generation monarch of the Chu State, declared to the world: "I am a barbarian, and I do not speak to China." "I am a barbarian, I claim that the king does not need the division of the Zhou Dynasty, the recognition of the Central Plains, and the Zhou Dynasty, compare myself with the son of Zhou Tianzi, and make my three sons kings. With a self-esteem and self-improvement force, the state of Chu took advantage of the declining authority of Zhou Tianzi, they attacked Yangyue in the east and Yongguo in the west, and rose rapidly.
The state of Chu is like a child discarded by the Central Plains, resentful and admiring the Central Plains. On the one hand, he proved his strength to the world, unwilling to submit, unwilling to assimilate, disdainful of being recognized, kept a distance from the Central Plains civilization, and confronted each other; On the one hand, they hope to be recognized and yearn for the Central Plains civilization.
The galaxy is vast, the pines and cypresses are frosty, and there is silence everywhere, and it is almost ugly.
Jing Xianyin and Rui Xuan were masked, dressed in black suits, and they waited at the back door of the Zhengqing Mansion of the Jin Kingdom with a few dead soldiers in the same costume.
"Jing Xianyin, Miss Fan hasn't come out yet." Rui Xuan looked at the back doorway.
"Don't worry, it's not ugly yet, calm down."
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And just like that, they waited a little more in the bushes.
"Bang, bang, bang, four watches." The street shouted more.
When it finally came to the ugly, Fan Yu hadn't come out yet.
"Miss Fan hasn't come out yet, I should go in and find her." Rui Xuan was about to jump off the wall, but his arm was grabbed by Jing Xianyin.
"Don't worry, Zhengqing Mansion is so big, how are you going to find it?"
"I have my own way, so don't worry." After speaking, Rui Xuan jumped into the wall.
Zhengqing Mansion is a large mansion with six entrances, the mansion is symmetrical in the central axis, there are corridors between the east and west halls, there are Daiwa spells together, there are bluestone paving under it, the winter wind is cold, only the pine and cypress in the courtyard are evergreen, and there are many pine trees in the courtyard of hundreds of years. There are also garden rockeries and artificial ponds in the backyard. The front yard is the place where Zhengqing discusses and works, the backyard is the place where Zhengqing rests, the east chamber is for men to live, and the west chamber is for women, Rui Xuan is directly sent to the west chamber of the backyard.
There are several women's residences in a huge mansion, and it is impossible to find them one by one. Rui Xuan hid an "oil gourd" in his sleeve, the oil gourd is a kind of cricket, which can be chirped in winter, this is a cricket that Rui Xuan gave to Fan Yu to raise in Chu for a long time, close to Du Heng grass rich in oil, and eat the feed prepared by Chu for a long time, and can already identify the smell of Chudi's unique feed, I hope Fan Yu still carries the sachet he wears.
Rui Xuan released the oil gourd, and the oil gourd jumped towards Xu Lu's room quickly, Rui Xuan avoided the patrol of the family soldiers, and followed it to Xu Lu's room.
Rui Xuan quietly opened the window and sneaked into Xu Lu's bedroom by the moonlight, the room was filled with the scent of vanilla, as well as the wood fragrance of the wooden furniture, warm and comfortable, the moonlight sprinkled on the hanger of tulle, as if outlining the girl's graceful figure, gurgling like flowing water, looming. Through the moonlight, you can faintly see some musical instruments of the drummer, and you can still see the smiling voice of the woman who usually plays and sings freely......
Rui Xuan wondered why Fan Yu lived here, the furnishings here were like a happy residence.
Rui Xuan slowly approached the bed, and he could vaguely see the woman's graceful curved side face, but the surroundings were too dark to see whether it was Fan Yu's face at all. Rui Xuan opened the sweat pill, intending to directly make her unconscious, and then look at her face clearly.
Unexpectedly, it was too late, it was fast, a sword slashed across Rui Xuan's side face, fortunately Rui Xuan reacted quickly, otherwise it would be his own neck that was scratched.
It turned out that there was another man in black in the bedroom, this person was tall, a head taller than the eight-foot-tall Rui Xuan, the black cloth covered his face, revealing a pair of sharp eyes like blades, he didn't say a word and came directly towards Rui Xuan, Rui Xuan didn't bring a weapon, so he had to dodge.
The two masters quickly compared in the small bedroom, the sword light was like a flying silver snake every few millimeters off Rui Xuan, the sword qi was pressing, and he almost stabbed it.
Who is the other party and why is he ambushed here tonight, there are always questions that come to Rui Xuan's mind, the purpose is Fan Yu? Or is it their group of secret agents of the Chu State......
Rui Xuan dodged a few moves, and the other party's skills were on par with Rui Xuan, in the Chu State, Rui Xuan's skills were already superior, but the other party could make a few moves with him, and the moves were fatal, and the other party was also a first-class master.
The sword light is staggered, and the black shadow writes smoothly on the window screen, but it is silent, only the sword light can be seen, but the sword itself cannot be seen.
Rui Xuan felt that it was not a way to go on like this, he had to end it quickly, and the longer the time dragged on, the more people would be discovered.