After the first year of Shunsheng's empress ascended the throne, the old emperor's Shanggan Palace moved to Feishuang Palace, at this time in the Zichen Hall of Feishuang Inner Palace, Shunsheng Empress was sitting on the dragon chair in the hall, wearing a black dragon robe at this time, holding her forehead slightly with both hands, and lowering her head.

There was a person kneeling in front of her, Mu Huchuan, who was now the commander of the Jianfeng Pavilion, the first intelligence agency of the Shunsheng Dynasty.

The empress has been known as a celestial since she was a child, but since she succeeded to the throne, she has become more and more lonely from the inside out, and Mu Huchuan, who is kneeling, does not even dare to glance at the empress who is close at hand.

"Mu Huchuan, where is the person I want?" The voice of the Holy Empress Shun was crisp, but it made Mu Huchuan, who was kneeling in front of the hall, feel a chill down his spine.

"Your Majesty, the minister has sent all the mobilizable forces of the Jianfeng Pavilion in Beizhou to find Bai Tongchen.... All the corpses of the Qinghe rebel camp have also been identified one by one, and there is no corpse that matches Bai Tongchen. Mu Huchuan said.

"I asked you for someone. The Holy Empress Shun said with a chuckle, stood up, slowly walked to Mu Huchuan, who was kneeling in front of the hall, leaned down and continued: "What's the use of you telling me this?"

Mu Huchuan hurriedly said: "For the time being, there is no news of Bai Tongchen. ”

"I raised you Prison Wind Pavilion to raise a group of waste that eats for nothing!" "The Holy Empress Shun said angrily: "On that day, you said that you had already sent 500 Prison Wind Pavilion Tiger Guards to infiltrate the hinterland of the Qinghe rebels, and 500 people couldn't even watch the whereabouts of one person!"

Mu Huchuan bowed down again and again, and said: "Your Majesty, the 500 tiger guards sent by the minister were all left, and all of them died in the rebel camp, and none of them survived. ”

The Holy Empress Shun attached herself to help Mu Huchuan, who was also kneeling on the ground, and even slightly bent her knees to pat the dust on his knees for him, and said while patting: "The first thing I did after I succeeded to the throne was to set up the Jianfeng Pavilion, I was only 16 years old that year, two years ago you were still an errand runner behind the ass of Wu Yue, the leader of the Tiger Guard, you want the official I give you the official, you want the Cai I give you the money, the salt industry in Nanzhou, the river transport, I want you to do it in the Jianfeng Pavilion, and now in the blink of an eye, you have become a commander." The Holy Empress Shun walked to the door of the hall with her hands in her hands, turned her back to Mu Huchuan and continued: "Now I ask you for someone only. ”

Mu Huchuan hurriedly knelt down on his forehead and said, "The minister will immediately send more people and horses to search with all his might." ”

The Holy Empress Shun turned around and slowly walked back to the dragon chair, and said, "I'm tired, stand down, and report the news immediately." ”

Mu Huchuan groaned, got up and slowly exited the inner hall.

After Mu Huchuan went out, the Holy Empress Shun said in a daze: "Bai Tongchen, Bai Tongchen, if you die, I can't pay you back." ”

Bai Tongchen only cultivated for another five days before he was able to get out of bed and move on his own, and in these five days, Bai Tongchen still didn't remember anything useful about his identity except for the words that the girl told him to give him a sword.

From Zhang Sandou's mouth, Nanbao Mountain is in Beizhou and Wolong Mountain bordering the place, Nanbao Village is in the middle of Nanbao Mountain, basically a place with no quarrel with the world, the whole village has only more than 30 households, there is a lake called Fu Whale on the mountainside in the south of the village, after the mountain and then three hundred miles to the north to the wild land, although occasionally there will be wandering North Mangzi will go south to rob, but few North Mangzi will take the road of Nanbao Village, even if it comes, every household in Nanbao Village will have a trick and a half, and the three or five Liumang are often not cheap here, and the whole small village seems quiet and peaceful。

Bai Tongchen was sitting on the edge of the Fujing Lake at this time, putting Xinglu on his legs, looking at the lake in a quiet daze, the reeds gently swayed and scattered the snow-white reeds when the early autumn wind blew, mixed with the fragrance of wild chrysanthemums, in this kind of place, it doesn't seem to matter who he is.

"Brother Gao!" A childish shout suddenly sounded from behind Bai Tongchen, Bai Tongchen smiled slightly, knowing that it was the little granddaughter of the village chief's family, the village chief's family had two granddaughters, the eldest granddaughter was eighteen years old this year called Xu Xiaoyi, and the little granddaughter was only nine years old and her name was Xu Xiaowan。

Bai Tongchen turned around and saw Xu Xiaowan holding a little green turtle in his hand, shouting all the way down from the grass, and Xu Xiaoyi behind hurriedly shouted to slow down.

Xu Xiaowan ran over and pounced on Bai Tongchen's back, poked her little head forward, handed the little green turtle in her hand to Bai Tongchen from behind Bai Tongchen, and said, "Brother Gao, look." ”

Bai Tongchen pinched the little green turtle in Xu Xiaowan's hand and put it in the palm of his hand, but he didn't think that as soon as he arrived in Bai Tongchen's hand, the little green turtle shrank its head and claws into the turtle shell, and it just didn't come out.

At this time, Xu Xiaoyi hurriedly ran over from behind, panting and said: "Xiao Wan quickly got off Gao Gongzi, his body is just enough to withstand your fluttering and trouble, you are messing around and getting sick again at night." ”

Xu Xiaowan was born extremely weak, her father Xu Changbai went out of the mountain to Nanzhou to find a way to regulate her body, and never came back, her mother Jiang Zhiyu also decided to go out of the mountain to find Xu Xiaowan's father a year after she was born, and he also never returned, Xu Xiaowan often fell into a coma because of his weak body, and the old village chief tried many methods but still didn't work.

Xu Xiaowan pursed her lips and walked around to Bai Tongchen, Bai Tongchen turned around and smiled at Xu Xiaoyi and said, "It's okay, except for the head, everything else is completely fine." ”

Xu Xiaowan kept staring at the little green turtle in Bai Tongchen's hand, and said, "Brother Gao, is it that your martial arts are too high to scare it, why does it keep shrinking inside." ”

Bai Tongchen smiled awkwardly and said: "I don't have any martial arts, I don't need to understand just the dew in my hand." ”

Xu Xiaowan tilted her head, waved her fist and said: "My grandfather said, if my father is still here, he must be a very powerful master, Xinglu is better than my father's sword, you must be more powerful than my father, you are a high master." ”

Bai Tongchen touched Xu Xiaowan's head with a smile and said, "If I am a master, then I will definitely take Xiaowan to Nanzhou to find the best Langzhong to heal his body." ”

Xu Xiaowan giggled happily and said, "Brother Gao, this little green turtle gave it to you, if Xiao Wan can't get up from bed again, let it accompany you, and when you are all well, take Xiao Wan to Nanzhou." ”

Bai Tongchen looked down at the little green turtle with his head shrunk in his palm, and was stunned, would he really be a master?

Xu Xiaoyi came over and picked Xu Xiaowan up, and said to Bai Tongchen: "Master Gao, it's going to be cold, I'll take Xiaowan back first." ”

Bai Tongchen nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Xu Xiaowan lay on her sister's shoulder, obviously a little tired, waved at Bai Tongchen, and didn't speak, watching the Xu sisters slowly walk away, Bai Tongchen sighed softly, looked down at the little green turtle in the palm of his hand, but saw it slowly stretched out its head and stared at Bai Tongchen.

"You're such a strange thing, I'll give you a name. Bai Tongchen said.

The little green turtle nodded slowly, amusing Bai Tongchen, and he didn't know where Xu Xiaowan grabbed such a strange thing, as if he had aura, Bai Tongchen said: "Just call you Qingwan, Xiao Wan is also happy to know the designation." ”

The little green turtle seemed to be very satisfied with the name, and happily stretched out the four paws shrunk in the shell, Bai Tongchen only felt cola, but when he saw the four claws of the green turtle in the palm of his hand, he jumped down from the palm of his hand, and ran straight into the Whale Lake, only to see a ripple on the surface of the lake, and no longer saw the shadow of the green turtle, Bai Tongchen didn't even react, this is to let Xiao Wan know, the little girl must be angry.

got up and walked to the lake and looked at it for a long time, but I didn't see half a turtle shadow, so I had to shake my head, thinking that tomorrow I would have to let Zhang Sandou think about getting an identical one, so he turned around and walked back.

Back to Zhang Sandou's small courtyard, Zhang Sandou is routinely chopping firewood, the villagers of Nanbao Village each have their own division of labor, hunting, breeding, animal husbandry, chopping firewood and mountain procurement, and a special martial arts master every morning with a group of juniors in Nanbao Village to practice boxing, swordsmanship, etc., each has different things to do, Zhang Sandou because all aspects of talent are not outstanding, so do some work, in Zhang Sandou's words, this chopping firewood also has a move, so every time I see him chopping firewood, he is tied to the horse, a board and a glance.

"Brother Gao, you're back. Zhang Sandou saw Bai Tongchen enter the far door, shouted at the top of his voice, but saw Bai Tongchen with a sad face and asked, "What's wrong, brother, this is something I can't understand again?"

Bai Tongchen shook his head, and said what happened just now, Zhang Sandou, who listened to it, laughed, and said: "It's okay Brother Gao, Xiao Wan must have caught it from the spring on the southwest corner of the mountain, the eldest girl of the Xu family often takes Xiao Wan to collect medicine, there is a small spring over there, there are many of these things in it, tomorrow I will take you to catch one to fool the past." ”

Bai Tongchen took a breath of relief and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhang." ”

Zhang Sandou's swarthy face was red and purple by Bai Tongchen, and said: "I don't know what you delicate sons are doing with all these polite things, the work of raising your hands, hahaha, the work of raising your hands, that is what you said about the little Wang.... Little green turtle, it's like a psychic, I can't get it for you, and there are rude kings like me in that spring.... Blue tortoise. ”

Bai Tongchen looked at Zhang Sandou's appearance, and also smiled, and said: "Maybe it's a coincidence, but Brother Zhang compares himself with a turtle, which is a little ......."

Zhang Sandou waved his hand after hearing this, and said, "I can't say anything about you, I will continue to chop wood." Then he took up his horse and waved the axe in his hand.

Bai Tongchen was interested, and he hadn't seriously looked at the posture of three buckets chopping firewood, so he sat down on the wooden pier on the side and stared at it.

Zhang Sandou saw Bai Tongchen looking like a stealing teacher, and opened his mouth and said: "Brother Gao, don't look down on my wood-chopping move, Xu Changbai, the son of the village chief, relied on this trick to make a name for himself twenty years ago. As he spoke, he swung the axe in his hand with more and more force.

Bai Tongchen nodded thoughtfully, the father of the girl of the Xu family must have been a top master back then.