In the palace of the Han Kingdom, Xiao Suzi said: "Your Majesty, Shui Ruohan, the Qing of Dali Temple, has recently discovered that there have been a large number of strange snake bites in the capital, and I hereby meet Your Majesty." ”

Xiaoyaozi put down the case in his hand, looked at Xiao Suzi, and said with a faint smile: "This water master is really diligent." Xuan!"

"Your Majesty, Weichen Dali Temple Qing Shui Ruohan has a serious case to play the emperor. Shui Ruohan entered the hall and knelt down.

"Ai Qing is flat! Lord Shui, why bother Lord Cheng to come over in person to start the performance? Wouldn't it be more convenient to discuss matters directly tomorrow morning? I can also listen to the suggestions of other Qing families. Xiaoyaozi stood up and walked in front of Shui Ruohan, feeling bored.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has been in office for more than 20 years, and he has never encountered such a strange thing. More than 20 lives of the Huashan faction and the Wudang faction in the branch library in the capital were all killed overnight. According to the night patrol and the neighbors, there has been no abnormality in the two martial arts halls recently. What made Weichen horrifying was that there were a large number of purple spots, bruises, and blisters around the wounds of the deceased, and there was serous blood oozing from the wounds, and the skin or subcutaneous tissues ulcerated and necrosis, and the seven orifices were bleeding. After performing an autopsy, it is speculated that the deceased died from the mouth of the southern viper, the five-step snake. And this snake is unique in our north, and only the Five Poisons Sect can be easily controlled in the south, I heard Prime Minister Zhang Cheng say that a new round of Huashan sword discussion will be held in Huashan at the end of next month, I think about these things before and after, I feel that something is strange, and if this matter is discussed in the court, I am afraid that people in the palace will be panicked. So Weichen came to listen to the emperor's opinion. Shui Ruohan said slowly.

"Aiqing, since the other party is directed at the Huashan faction and Wudang, it is a martial arts dispute, we can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, don't care about it for the time being, and when they are both defeated one day, our court will send someone to preside over the overall situation and unify the forces of all factions in the martial arts, isn't it?" Xiaoyaozi said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen is worried that since this group of demons dares to do something under the emperor's nose, so bold, I'm afraid there are other things happening in the capital?

"Alright, alright! Xiaoyaozi took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "Xiao Suzi, you immediately draft an edict, this year Huashan on the sword will be changed to Huangshan on the sword, we just go to the place where the Yellow Emperor cultivated and became an immortal." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xiao Suzi immediately drafted the edict.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there's something wrong with this, isn't it? Huashan has been held for dozens of sessions, and if it is suddenly moved to Huangshan to be held, will it cause a sensation in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes?" Shui Ruohan became a little nervous.

"What's wrong? Is the surname Liu or Huashan in this world? Don't you know Xu Xiake's sentence: Don't you look at Yue when Huangshan returns? From now on, go to his Wuyue, and I will make Huangshan, the number one in the world, the fiefdom of the leader of the martial arts alliance! Which sect felt that it was inappropriate, and the widow sent troops to destroy him?

"The emperor atoned for his sins! The emperor atoned for his sins! Weichen knew that he was wrong!" Shui Ruohan was so frightened that he hurriedly lay on the ground and kowtowed again and again.

"You use your brains in the future, don't follow those old fools! You go down, I want to be quiet." Xiaoyaozi sat on the dragon chair and waved.

"Wechen retire!" said, Shui Ruohan shivered and retreated.

"Xiao Suzi, you went out of the city overnight and sent this robe to Hutong No. 6, Lingnan Road, Beijing, and handed it to your righteous girl. Go quickly, go back quickly!" Xiaoyaozi said, taking out a linen robe from the wardrobe and handing it to Xiao Suzi.

"Obey, Your Majesty!" Xiao Suzi put away his robe, took the exit token, and quickly went straight to the No. 6 alley of Lingnan Road in the capital, and it was a beautiful girl who opened the door. She had a laurel wreath on her head, and the crown was crowned with five silver phoenixes, one of which was in the center and the other four were circumferential. The crown is adorned with small silver birds, and each side is decorated with a fan-shaped silver ornament. The overall ornamentation of the two heads is dominated by the phoenix, supplemented by the dragon, showing the layout of the phoenix on the top and the dragon on the bottom. The phoenix mouth holds silver wires, and the silver wires can hang down to the face. The phoenix crown is decorated with small multicolored pompoms. The tag consists of three silver medals of the same size connected by silver chains, and the silver medals are decorated with auspicious motifs. The lower end of the tag is equipped with a silver bell, which will make a pleasant sound when the head is shaken. A black linen dress looks particularly calm, the black linen is embellished with colorful bag embroidery, and the lower body is a multicolored crochet loose pants. From time to time, a white snake with black and white flowers sprang out from her half-colorful sleeves, the snake's snout scales and the scales between its nose were upturned to the back, its head was triangular, its back was black-brown, its head and abdomen and throat were white, and there were a few black-brown spots scattered with it, and it "hissed" and stuck out its tongue. Frightened, Xiao Suzi broke out in a cold sweat, took a few steps back, and immediately got goosebumps.

"Snake, snake......" Xiao Suzi screamed as she stared at the snake.

"I'm sorry, my little five was too naughty, I didn't scare you just now, did I? Don't worry, it won't bite without my orders. Come in and have a glass of wine, and suppress the alarm!" the girl grinned, touching the snake's head.

"No, no...... Yes. Hello, my name is Xiao Suzi, and I was sent by the emperor to deliver robes. Small...... Five...... Do you have four other snakes?" Xiao Suzi followed the girl in, looking around and around, afraid that a snake would suddenly emerge from nowhere.

When Xiao Suzi sat down, "Yun'er, Kou'er, there is a VIP visiting, hurry up and serve tea!" the girl shouted

Xiao Suzi looked left and right and saw no one, but he heard a "Okay, Miss!" from another room, but he also felt strange, thinking that this family was actually the owner who opened the door to welcome guests.

"Since the emperor sent you alone to deliver the letter, you must be his confidant. Let me introduce myself, my name is Yi Bifu, the leader of the Five Poisons Sect, and my father is the famous Righteous Spirit King in the past. This five-step dragon is my personal bodyguard, and if you are bitten by it, you will die within five steps. But you don't have to be afraid. Yi Bifu touched the five-step snake with its tongue stuck out and laughed softly.

"Sect Master, send a letter, what kind of letter to send?" Xiao Suzi was confused, touched his head and asked.

"Well, it's the clothes on your back!" Yi Bifu smiled as she pointed to the burden on Xiao Suzi's back.

"Oh, oh. Sect Master, is this a letter?" Xiao Suzi said as he hurriedly untied the burden on his back, opened the burden, took out the robe and handed it to Yi Bifu.

Yi Bifu slowly spread out the robe, and the robe was embroidered with countless elegant and delicate long diamond-shaped "many" character patterns. These patterns are posture, high on the right and low on the left, italics are slender, beautiful and clear, at first glance they look like oracle bone inscriptions, the glyphs are elegant and stretched, and the words are very musical. Xiao Suzi leaned over and looked at it carefully, and asked curiously, "Is this a letter?"

"Yes, this is a female book that has been passed down from generation to generation by our Yao people, and it is passed on to women but not to men, thinking that it is used for private messages and secret orders. Yi Bifu smiled as she looked at the long-legged texts.

"Sect Master, with all due respect, but the emperor is a man, he understands these patterns?" Xiao Suzi asked in surprise.

"The emperor once married a Yao girl, who was unfortunately killed while helping us quell the rebellion of the Yongzhou tribes. We Yao people owe the emperor a favor, so the patriarch decided to make an exception to teach the female book to the emperor. Hehe, at that time, we knew that he was the emperor, and we knew that he looked like a swordsman with a cloak of hair, a sword, and a wandering skeleton. Yi Bifu laughed.

As he was talking, two girls wrapped in black headscarves, black clothes on their upper bodies, and colorful pants on their lower bodies came over with tea and said with a smile: "Miss, the tea is ready." After that, he poured tea for Yi Bifu and Xiao Suzi, and stood behind Yi Bifu.

"Chloe, go to my boudoir closet and get a robe and needlework. Yi Bifu laughed.

"Yes, Miss. A girl stepped back.

"Yongzhou, the Yao people, I really haven't heard the emperor talk about it. Xiao Suzi took a sip of tea, held up his chin, and suddenly became interested.

"Hehe, we are Yongzhou, Hunan, a paradise, clear mountains and clean water, birds and flowers, pastoral wonders, spring beauty and forest show, cooking smoke, bustling people. The Yao people live here, and the women have the habit of singing in the hall, and often get together to sing and read and teach the female book while being a female celebrity. The activities of women singing and learning Nüshu are called "reading paper", "reading fans", and "reading handkerchief", and form a unique Nüshu culture, dressing and walking are their own set of epistolary secret words, because of long-term isolation from the world, extremely mysterious, the world does not know. Yi Bifu finished reading the female book on the robe and said with interest.

"I can't read these strange words, I don't understand them at all. Xiao Suzi picked up the robe and looked at it carefully for a while, and there was no word he knew, and he asked curiously: "Sect Master, this female book is really strange." Can you tell me the story of this nüshu?"

"How do you want to know this?" Yi Bifu stared at Xiao Suzi curiously.

"Oh, one day the emperor gave me two "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and "Historical Records", telling me to study more in the future and give him advice in the future. Hee-hee...... If you don't understand something, you want to ask, and you can ask the master for advice. Xiao Suzi clenched his fists and smiled.

"Miss, bring the robe and needlework. The girl took a robe and needle and thread and gave it to Ev.

Yi Bifu looked up at Xiao Suzi and smiled, while embroidering Nüshu on the robe with a needle and thread, and told Xiao Suzi the story of Nüshu: "According to legend, the origin of Nüshu was adapted by Yao Ji from the Book of Heaven.

Who is Yao Ji? Yao Ji is the daughter of the Queen Mother, and her name is Ji Ji. Later, because he went down to visit the world, he was infatuated with the beautiful scenery of Pumei Village in Shangjiangwei, so he secretly lived. Because the fairyland of the Queen Mother is called Yao Chi, she tells mortals: Her name is Yao Ji.

Yao Ji is not only beautiful and beautiful, but also smart and clever, and is deeply favored by the queen mother. Usually Yao Ji's words and deeds are lively and willful. What she wants to do, no one dares to stop her, even the queen mother has to give her three points. One morning, the palace maids had not gotten up, but Yao Ji had already finished freshening up. Open the xia tent, push the window to open the house, only to see the world is a bright mountain and pure water, birds and flowers, the countryside is strange, the spring is beautiful and the forest is beautiful, the cooking smoke is curling, the flow of people is bustling, and it is much freer than the heavenly palace. Yao Ji wanted to leave.

Yao Ji is bored in the Heavenly Palace, looking for a quiet place to relax. Now the beauty of the Nether was unfolding in front of her, which stirred her heart. She decided to go there and find out what to do. So Yao Ji left the Heavenly Palace, stepped on the auspicious clouds, and went down to a place, which turned out to be a vast and sparsely populated hinterland of Du Pangling, a beautiful water town, this is Pumei Village. Yao Ji and the people of the Nether do not speak the same language, but mortals are very particular about etiquette. Especially the girls are all ingenious, smart and capable. Although the language barrier is different, they all get along very well.

The girls in the world are good at describing flowers, weaving flower belts and quilts. The embroidered shoe flowers, edge flowers, and headscarves they embroidered were even more gorgeous and wonderful than the colorful glow in the sky. The girls put on their own woven colorful clothes, as bright as the sunshine like fairies. Yao Ji admired them so much that she fell to the ground, so she worshipped them as teachers. Yaoji thinks that the sisters here are good at everything, but they are uneducated, illiterate, unable to speak, and unable to read. Yao Ji wanted to help them improve their ability to remember romances, so she returned to the Heavenly Court and brought down a complex set of heavenly books. Although the sisters want to learn, they are illiterate. Yao Ji simplified this esoteric book one by one, combined it with female red embroidery, and read and sang it in the local local language, so that these sisters who looked like fairies could read and write, compose poems and paintings, and read and sing freely. Since then, this changed book of heaven has been passed among women, and men disdain it and do not know how to use it, so it is named Nüshu. Unexpectedly, this nüshu later became a set of subtle and practical passwords. ”

"Thank you, Master. Hehe, it turned out to be a mythical story. Xiao Suzi smiled and took a sip of tea.

"In this world, what is not a mythical story? Every person who has reached the pinnacle in the world is a mythical figure full of legends, and so is your emperor, if you don't believe it, we will wait and see. Yi Bifu said as she folded the robe that had just been embroidered with women's books and put it in the bag and tied it, "The letter is back, you can take it back and hand it over to the emperor." ”

"Okay!" With that, Xiao Suzi put the burden on his back and hurried back to the palace.

Back at the palace, Xiao Suzi opened the burden with a smile, took out the robe, opened the robe with both hands and said, "Your Majesty, please take a look, this is the sect leader's reply." ”

"Put it on the table and look at it. Xiaoyaozi smiled.

"Hehe, it turns out that the emperor asked me to deliver a letter? On the way, I kept wondering why the emperor wanted me to send clothes? Your Majesty, why don't you just say that you will send a letter?" Xiao Suzi said as she spread out the robe embroidered by Yi Bifu on the table.

"Hehe, I'm afraid I'll scare you. Xiaoyaozi joked.

"Your Majesty, you must be tired, I'll give you a beating on the shoulder. Your Majesty, there must not be many people in the capital who can understand this female book, right?" Xiao Suzi said as he massaged the emperor's shoulder.

"In today's troubled times, wars are continuous, rivers and lakes are fighting, there are still people who cut off the flying pigeon's biography, and there are still people who talk about it and worry that the wall has ears, where can I feel at ease? Xiaoyaozi's thick eyebrows tightened.

"Your Majesty, don't worry too much! Xiao Suzi will be the emperor's confidant in the future, and he will definitely repay the emperor's kindness with death!" Xiao Suzi knelt down and said.

"Hehe, get up quickly! Of course I believe you!Otherwise, how can I send you over alone to deliver the letter?" Xiaoyaozi smiled and helped Xiao Suzi up.

"Your Majesty, I heard from the sect leader that you have lived in the Yao tribe in the past, it must be very fun over there, right?" Xiao Suzi asked with interest while getting up and thumping the calf of the emperor who was sitting on the chair reading the robe.

"Well, it's really fun over there, and I'll have a chance to take you there later. I remember that at that time, a few Yao brothers and I would catch and skin the snakes we encountered in the wild, and then cut them into pieces and cook them. Because the snake meat is so fragrant, the big guys have to rush to eat it. Sometimes, several people have a difficult argument, and they will even knock over the pot and spill the snake meat all over the ground, don't mention how delicious the snake meat is. The old people in the clan often laugh at us as a bunch of gluttonous ghosts, haha...... It was the happiest time I've ever had, carefree, and there was nothing cold and deceitful at all!" Xiaoyaozi smiled.

"Hearing the emperor say this, I really want to go over there and eat snake meat. Xiao Suzi listened and swallowed.

"If you work hard, you'll have a chance. Yongzhou is a good place. Yongzhou was called Lingling in ancient times, according to legend, Emperor Shun, one of the five emperors of the first ancestor of China, surrendered to the three seedlings "south patrol hunting, collapsed in the wilderness, buried in the south of the Yangtze River nine doubts, is for Lingling. ("Historical Records of the Five Emperors") derogatory Yongzhou Tang Dynasty writer Liu Zongyuan left "The Snake Catcher Said": The wild of Yongzhou produces strange snakes, black and white, touching the grass and trees, and dying. To bite people, there is no one. Go back and quickly flip through the "Historical Records" I gave you, you must learn it by heart. Remember: snake meat is delicious, but it's very poisonous. The people of the Huashan faction and the Wudang faction branch in the capital were all bitten to death by this five-step snake, which is not easy. ”

"Understood, Xiao Suzi, thank the emperor for the order. Xiao Suzi thought that he had understood the emperor's intentions.

"What do you understand? There are so many things you don't understand. You are still very early, remember to read the "Three Kingdoms" and "Historical Records" every day, and return it to me after reading it. Xiaoyaozi patted Xiao Suzi's head and smiled.

Zao Wou-Ki, Peony, and Wang Badong returned happily to Qingfeng Villa.

"Xianggong, you're back! I heard that Xianggong destroyed the extraordinary gate in one fell swoop this time, congratulations to Xianggong!" Hua Gu immediately pounced, hugged Zhao Wuji and smiled.

"Where, where, it's still thanks to the help of the Wang Badong brothers, the wind demon and the two gods, Lei Li, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy. Zao Wou-Ki looked at the bat demon, but he became modest.

"Batman, how is it? See, as soon as the master got out of the horse, he immediately returned!" Wang Badong touched his nose with his hand and smiled at the bat demon.

"Hehe, a great achievement, it is indeed gratifying! Congratulations!" the bat demon clenched his fists and laughed.

"Let's raise a glass and celebrate tonight!" Zao Wou-Ki said with a smile as he raised his hand.

"Okay!", "Good idea!" Wang Badong brothers responded one after another, only Peony was silent, and the bat demon saw it.

"Don't be too happy, there is still a tricky thing now, yesterday according to the report of the snow concubine flying pigeon in the palace of the capital, the emperor Liu Tong has died, a new emperor, Zhang Chengxiang They have been assassinated, the murderer does not know who it is, Wulian is also imprisoned in a heavy cell, and the palace has lost control. Feng Ye is still in retreat and cultivating the Dafa of Transformation Yuan, and the master is also recuperating his body. Look, what's going on now?" Hua Gu looked sad.

"Sister Hua, I think we'd better wait for your brother Feng to get out of the customs. Wang Badong said lightly.

"Sister Hua, it's better to fly the pigeon to pass the book to Zhuxian Mountain, let the wind demon and Lei Li come back, plus me and you, Zhao Wouji, and the five of us go to the capital to find out, it should be no problem. The bat demon looked at Zao Wou-Ki and said confidently.

"Brother Bat, this is a good idea, so it's decided! I'll fly the pigeon to pass the book right away! How is your injury? Can you go to the capital?" Hua Gu looked at the bat demon and nodded.

"Sister Hua, don't worry, my injuries are almost recovered, it's okay. The bat demon smiled.

"What about me?" asked Peony on the side.

"You and Brother Wang Badong will stay in Qingfeng Villa and help my master find some medicine residue. Hua Gu smiled.

"What kind of medicine residue?" Peony looked at everyone confused.

"It's to help my master catch some strong men and fierce men for her to absorb essence. Hahaha......" Wang Badong blurted out, and everyone laughed.

The right arm and the red tassel rushed directly from Nanchang Fengcheng to Longhu Mountain, and rushed to an inn in Longhu Mountain at dusk to stay.

Hongying put down her luggage, leaned on her right arm, and said with a joking smile: "Xianggong, there are almost tigers on this Dragon and Tiger Mountain, is there really a dragon?"

Holding the red tassel with his right arm, he smiled and said: "Ying'er, it's really hard to say whether there is a dragon in this Dragon and Tiger Mountain, we will know when we go." In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, the founder of Zhengyi, had been alchemy here, and the dragon and tiger appeared, and the mountain was named after Longhu Mountain. ”

"Huh...... Maybe you'll be able to see the dragon this time. Hongying smiled, and her right arm also smiled.

In the evening, the right arm led the red tassel down to the first floor of the inn to eat, and when he just sat down, he heard a white-haired old man at the next table drinking wine while shouting: "Those who have become great careers and university inquirers in ancient and modern times must pass through three realms: the west wind withered the green trees last night." Go up to the tall building alone and look at the end of the world. This first realm also. The belt gradually widened and did not regret it, and it made people haggard for Yi. This second realm also. The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in the lamplight. This third realm also. ”

The right arm felt curious, and when he leaned over to see that this gray-haired old man was very much like the old angler in Yunyan Lake in Qiyun Mountain, wearing a hat, a straw coat, and straw sandals, walking against the wind and riding the waves, so he smiled and said: "Old man, have we met somewhere? I feel that we are familiar with each other. ”

"Childe, we've met?" You must have recognized the wrong person, right?" the white-haired old man ruffled his loose hair and looked up at his right arm.

"I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person! I'm sorry!" The right arm found that the white-haired old man had a thick red sun tattooed on the left side of his face and a faint white moon tattooed on the right cheek, and was startled, and quickly apologized again and again and returned to his seat.

"Hahaha...... Last night the west wind withered the green trees. Go up to the tall building alone and look at the end of the world!" The white-haired old man raised the jar of wine again and drank it while shouting, and when he finished drinking a cup of tea with his right arm and suppressed the shock, he found that the white-haired old man had disappeared, and he felt even more strange in his heart.