Chapter 45: Into the City
"In order not to arouse the suspicion of the gatekeepers, let's enter at the wrong time in batches. In general, the further back you go into the city, the higher the chance of arousing suspicion. Xu Ming, the three of you have a big goal, so the three of you should take the lead. Remember, every other hour, so make sure you keep the time under control. If the calculations are correct, the rest of the time is enough for us to do a lot of things. The film merchant paused, then turned to Qianji and said, "The second batch of you are going?" Qianji and the film merchant each brought one person, the difference is that although Qianji's cultivation is higher than that of the film merchant, it carries a Xi Yao who has zero sensibility. And although the cultivation of the film merchant is lower than that of Qianji, Yingxue also has a second-order cultivation. The film dealer took this into account, so he signaled himself to be the last.
"No, since you took over the command, it means that you can't have any more accidents, so I'm the last. Qianji glanced at Xi Yao, and after soliciting Xi Yao's opinion, he vetoed the film dealer's proposal.
"But you've just come back, and you'll need time to recover. "Since the film merchant said that the posture also has his own considerations, as for his own safety, there should still be nothing to worry about," this time, listen to me. ”
"You've really decided?"
"Yes. Looking at Shangying Shang's turbulent eyes, Qianji couldn't find anything to refute for a while, so he sighed helplessly, "Pay attention to safety." ”
"Of course. The corners of the film dealer's mouth are still the shallow smile that never changes easily, very casual but as if he can see through your whole person. "There should be no danger within a distance of the city gates, so you three should hide first. Remember to give the token to your priest and relay it to him to the meeting point. In this case, do you have any doubts?" the film merchant was still not worried about the elf triangle, and repeatedly instructed.
"Rest assured. The three of Yahiko glanced at each other, and the Shadow Merchant signaled that there was no problem with the three of them.
"It's time, Xu Ming, start!" Just as a few people were speaking, the carriage was slowly approaching the city gate.
"Good. Xu Ming's breath condensed, and the whole person became serious, "Sister, Yan'er, go!" With that, the three figures disappeared into the carriage, and it was vaguely seen that the carriage that the three of them had conjured at that time was approaching the city gate step by step. did not live up to everyone's expectations, but in less than half an hour, the signal of Xu Ming's success had been transmitted, and the film merchant signaled, "It's your turn." Qianji turned his head to see Xi Yao, who was already ready to go, and reached out to wrap his hand around Xi Yao's slender waist, and disappeared softly.
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"The people in the carriage come down and come down, and we're going to check for suspicious people. As calculated by Qianji, as soon as he approached the city gate, he was stopped by two small soldiers guarding the city gate, Qianji signaled Xi Yao not to act rashly, he came out and jumped on the horse pulling the cart, and looked at the two small soldiers condescendingly, "What? Unabashedly, the token hanging from his waist swayed in the wind, making a crisp sound.
"It's strange, it's not that the new patriarch has been supervising more recently, and he requires that every vehicle entering the city be carefully inspected. Otherwise, how dare we offend the master? The guards guarding the city were also stunned when they saw the token of Qianji, not to mention the pressure of Qianji without leaving a trace in the case of hiding the breath, which made the guards feel for a while that this was a sense of déjà vu of a character who was not easy to mess with, so they hurriedly came forward embarrassed and laughed.
"Now that I know the identity of the master, I don't want to let him go quickly. ”
"But master, we also have to do a routine, I don't know who else is in the car?" the guard rubbed his hands and kept pleading with a smile.
"This ....."
"Excuse me, we also want to eat. Seeing Qianji's frowning brows, the guards couldn't wait to let this great god in, but when they thought of their own jobs, they still pleaded in the third place.
"What's wrong?" Xi Yao listened to the conversation between the two inside, found the right time, opened the corner of the curtain and showed her face slightly, and said softly. What responded to her was not the reply, but the guard's dull eyes, Xi Yao was overjoyed, and finally did not waste the bewildering makeup she specially painted, a touch of green daisy was slightly outlined, and then under the action of mana, the blue amber-like clear eyes appeared, the delicate face of the slightly powdered delicacy, the two strands of hair hung straight down, and the rest were pinned into hairpins with a hairpin, and it was difficult to hide everyone's beautiful demeanor in every gesture, "The road has been delayed for so long, and if you don't go back, your father will be in a hurry." Xi Yao saw that there seemed to be a play, and continued to work hard.
"Okay, don't look at it, the master is still here!" Qianji broke the curtain that Xi Yao had raised with some dissatisfaction, and said coldly to a few people who had just come back to their senses: "Do you let the master in?"
"Master, please.." The guard, who had just recovered from his stupe, immediately shuddered and opened the door quickly, "How dare we stop you." The corners of Qianji's undisguised mouth twitched, and he didn't bother to care about anything more, so he got into the carriage and drove slowly into the city gate. After the carriage entered the city, Xi Yao breathed a sigh of relief, "Look at me out of the horse, a top two." ”
"Don't be poor, I'll clean you up when I'm free, and give a signal to the outside. Thousands of traces glanced at Xi Yao, who was overwhelmed with joy, and said helplessly.
"I know, you can't let me go for a while. Xi Yao said so, and also sent a signal that the unexpected face could come in, and glanced at the pocket watch by the way, "Fortunately, it didn't time out, but how do I feel, it's too smooth." It's a little strange that something so big has happened, and it's theoretically impossible to let us go so easily. ”
"If this is a trap, it can only be said that we will be in a dangerous situation next. But we didn't have a choice, because the other party should know that we were determined to come in. Qianji couldn't see the perfunctory in Wei Ping's eyes, so even if Qianji showed a flaw just now, these people would not hesitate to pretend not to see it and let the two of them in.
"Then what is the purpose of this person, provocation?" If this is really the case, it is a little unpredictable what the other party thinks. The other party can't be stupid enough to put their opponent in.
"Who knows, we can only respond to all changes now, so let's hurry up and go to the round. I guess it's almost the same on the film dealer's side. ”
"Is this the Fragrance Pavilion?"
"It should be good. Sure enough, as soon as the two of them stepped into the inn, they saw Xu Ming and the three of them composing poems and wine in the inn hall. Just as he wanted to go over there, a shopkeeper came over, "Guest officer, are you going to eat or stay in the hotel?"
"Please give us two pieces to go to the room, and prepare some good wine and food by the way. Xi Yao Yingying stepped forward and handed a few pieces of broken crystal stones to the small second-hand. The shopkeeper replied repeatedly, "What a coincidence that the guest officer came, there are only the last two rooms left in our upper room." The guest officer waits, and I go and command. "The shopkeeper walked down quickly, and the two of them couldn't go directly to Xu Ming and the others, so they sat down at the next table, gave Xu Ming a look in his eyes, and said, 'Why?
'Everything works fine. It should be about the same on the film dealer's side. (Single quotation marks indicate transmission)
"Guest, here's your key, and some of our signature dishes here. The shopkeeper's coming over interrupted the communication between the two, and Xi Yao took the key handed by the shopkeeper, "I'm really bothering you." He gave him a few pieces of broken crystal and sent him away. "Well, there's something to tell you. ”
"Two rooms, what about the film dealers who will come in a while, and what about the elven priests?" Xi Yao asked Qianji.
'Do you have any rooms over there?'
"In this way, let Ming and Yan'er have a room, and I will have a room with Mi Meng, who will come from the elf clan for a while, and I can save one." Because I was worried that if they rearranged the room, people would find out the clues, so they could only adjust it slightly, and at the same time ensure safety, so after weighing it, Xu Yun decided to take Mi Meng with herself, and let Xiyan follow Xu Ming to be safer, not to mention..... Anyway, I can save a room.
"We also set aside a room here, let the film dealer Yingxue, the three people of the elf clan crowd it." It can only be like this' Qianji didn't know Xu Yun's concerns, so after hesitating, he still had to say so. Xu Yun saw that there was no objection, so he spoke up. "Hey, I've been back for so long, why hasn't my stupid sister come back yet? Because he was worried that there would be eyeliner everywhere here, Xu Yun did this to lay a foreshadowing for the night to fight the room first, so that there would be suspicious forces who didn't understand. 'Yan, don't stop acting, you really have the strength to look at it. 'Qianji's head wrinkled slightly, because there was an unknown force hovering around, but it was impossible to clearly discern the direction.
“.... But my sister-in-law's sister is coming?" Xiyan choked for a few seconds, obviously still not familiar with the title, and almost blurted out, but fortunately, he still suppressed it very sensibly.
"No, this little sister of my family can be regarded as married. Xu Yun naturally realized, "You must know that among the three people in our family, my little sister is the least worry-free." ”
"Sister, don't worry about your little sister and brother-in-law here, let's think about when you can get married. Xu Ming also answered.
"Stinky boy begging for beating, you, I'm not trying to manage the livelihood of the whole family, I want to ..... back then" Xi Yao couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, feeling that this person is addicted to acting, how do you feel that the chat is still quite happy, especially Xu Yun's complaining tone and small eyes, I almost believed it. Xi Yao sighed that the three of them were helpless, and as soon as they picked up the chopsticks and touched the plate, they felt that something was wrong, the smell of the dish was not unusual, and there was nothing strange about anything else, but how could it just feel wrong. "Don't move, I always feel like something is not quite right." Qianji, who received Xi Yao's signal, also paused, and looked at the things in front of him. The chopsticks of magnolia wood, although the carving is not exquisite, but it is elegant and beautiful, the plate is white jade, and the signature dish is amaranth, which is an aged wine, which is packed in a celadon cup, how to say it. Xi Yao picked up a vegetable with chopsticks and put it in the bowl, took a closer look, and couldn't help but gasp, where is this amaranth, this is ghost white grass! Ghost white grass likes moisture and cold, so it grows in a relatively cold and humid area all year round, how to say it, the original grass itself is not toxic, but if you eat it by mistake, there will be some vertigo effect, but in this situation in front of her, Xi Yao can't help but sigh that the layout person is really ruthless. Magnolia and ghost white grass will catalyze a kind of toxicity, and it is packed in a white jade plate to make the toxicity come with a double superposition effect, the most hateful thing is to match it with a celadon cup, which can maximize the toxicity and integrate it into the human body unconsciously, and this poison will not attack a few days ago, so people will not notice what clues there are. Xi Yao hurriedly glanced at the table on the side, fortunately, the three of them chatted energetically, but they drank all the wine in the cup and did not touch the source of the poison itself, so it was fine. Qianji saw Xi Yao's mood change, 'Is there anything wrong?'
'Very clever means, the source of poison is this kind of ghost white grass that looks like amaranth, and the chopsticks of magnolia flower wood, and the white jade plate celadon cup together is a kind of poison, just touching the chopsticks and wine glasses is fine, but the plate and vegetables must not be moved. Qianji frowned slightly when he heard this, but he also immediately notified the three people who were still chatting on the side, Xu Yun was also clever, "Come on, come on, I'll celebrate my brother and sister, let's drink, don't get drunk and don't return!" The three of them simply threw the chopsticks and vegetables aside, and put the wine glasses on the table. Qianji quietly put down his chopsticks and asked Xi Yao: "What's the matter, you don't have an appetite?"
"Appetizers, you don't let me drink, how can you call appetizers, it's not fun at all!" Xi Yao put down her chopsticks and pouted at Qianji, "I'll just drink a little bit..."