Chapter Twenty-Four: Dragons and Snakes Mixed
"Hiss-huh~...... Pain hurts pain ......"
It was past noon, and the dining room at the back of Washington was filled with all kinds of side dishes, and Lu Zhu helped set the plates at the table.
Hua Qingzhi sat next to the tea couch in a wheelchair, looking at her father who was twitching from time to time, her eyes were quite worried, and she wanted to step forward to help but didn't know how to help.
Hua Junchen leaned on the tea couch and had changed into his usual household clothes, but the cuffs and trouser legs were rolled up, and there were no less than dozens of red marks on his arms and legs.
Night Terror Hall sat in front of him, holding the bone-setting medicine wine in his hand, and helped to rub the medicine quite filtily, because he was a little hard, he was afraid that Uncle Hua would be too careful, and he also comforted him:
"I remember that in Honghe Town, when my father-in-law taught me to practice knives, I was ruthless, and I shook the wooden stick in my hand at the time when I was two fingers thick, and I shook it to beat, and it was even worse to remember the wrong action, and I could basically sleep on my stomach at night.
"At that time, I didn't complain, but my stepfather said, 'In front of my father, you can make mistakes countless times, but in front of your opponent, you can only be wrong once in your life', now that I think about it, I am really glad that if my father-in-law had half doted back then, I would not have been able to go so far now......"
Hua Junchen has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so he naturally understands the rules of martial arts, and the master has said it a hundred times, but he may not have the memory to fight for a long time.
But Hua Junchen's background is too high, just like Dongfang Liren, there are a bunch of famous teachers, but there are few who really dare to fight, so they have become what they are now.
Today, he was ruthlessly educated by the Night Terror Hall for two hours, Hua Junchen's perception can be said to be more than he has pondered for decades in the past, and at this time, looking at the Night Terror Hall, there is no estrangement after discovering his identity, his eyes are like looking at his intimate son-in-law, and he sighed lightly:
"It's a pity that when I was young, I didn't meet a good master, and the seniors invited by the family also taught seriously, but because of the fame of the Hua family, they only praised and didn't scold, there was really something wrong, and it was just a euphemistic reminder. If I've been practicing like this since I was a child, I'd be a great grandmaster now......"
Night Terror Hall smiled: "Uncle Hua is very talented, but his lack of experience in the rivers and lakes has led to too many inapplicable movements; As long as you can eat today's swordsmen thoroughly, there is not much of a problem with ranking among the top swordsmen, and they are only a little bit away from the great grandmaster. Practicing martial arts is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, it is difficult for me to stay in Washington all the time, and Uncle Hua will still have to work the details in the future. ”
When Hua Junchen heard this, he remembered that Night Terror Hall was not a son-in-law who came to the door, but an uncle, and he was destined to return to the Southern Dynasty with his daughter in the future.
Although they have been with each other for a short time, Hua Junchen has been yearning for the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and he is really a little reluctant to give up his son-in-law, who is flawless in all aspects, and sighed softly after a little silence:
"When are you going to leave?"
Night Terror Hall thought that this 'guys' was referring to him and Qinghe Yunli.
If he enters the palace the day after tomorrow and gets the Minglong map, he will definitely have to run before the incident, otherwise the entire Beiliang will besiege him, and he thought about it:
"There are still many things in the Southern Dynasty, and it may not take long to leave, but if there is a chance in the future, I will definitely visit Uncle Hua again, I just hope that Uncle Hua will not be disgusted by then."
Hua Junchen felt that the night terror hall came to the door again, that is, he came to the city with more than 100,000 soldiers, and asked him, the head of the Hudong family, to help debate the scriptures, as a native of Daliang, his heart was really a little heavy, he smiled bitterly, got up and said:
"Let's not talk about it, let's eat and have two drinks together."
The Night Terror Hall put down his belongings, pushed his wheelchair to the table, and then sat down in the lower seat.
Hua Qingzhi heard that the Night Terror Hall was going to leave soon, and she was inevitably disappointed in her heart, but the general trend was like this, no matter what the Night Terror Hall did, it was impossible to stay, and before leaving, she was very satisfied when she saw the old and young talking so harmoniously, and she took the initiative to pick up the wine jug and help her father pour wine with the Night Terror Hall:
"Dad, I'll have two drinks with you too."
Hua Qingzhi's legs have been inconvenient and weak since she was a child, and the doctor will definitely not let her get drunk, but Hua Junchen is about to change from a father to a grandfather, and it is natural to give him a glass of wine before leaving.
"The wine is full of gold...... Well...... Hmmm......"
Night Terror Hall listened attentively with a wine glass, and after waiting for a long time to see that Uncle Hua didn't hold it out, he was a little embarrassed, and wanted to open his mouth to relieve the scene, but where did he hold it back?
Fortunately, Hua Qingzhi answered with a smile: "Don't persuade you to drink full of gold bottles, you can have a few times of joy in life." The Ming Dynasty is the end of the world again, and the intestines are broken, the west wind and the leaves are cold. ”
Hua Junchen's literature is not as good as his daughter, and his martial arts are not as good as his son-in-law, and he feels that he is purely making up the number of people living in the world, but he still praises:
"Wonderful, it seems that I am studying well in Guozi......"
Hua Qingzhi smiled, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, in the past, it was very delicious to see her father and uncle drinking, and she didn't have any precautions, this sip of wine went down, and the fishy spicy went straight to the Tianling cover, only to find that this thing is more difficult to eat than medicine, it is directly:
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
Seeing Hua Qingzhi's posture, Night Terror knew that it would be like this, and reacted very quickly, and hurriedly helped to smooth her back:
"Drink slowly, the girl's family is so arrogant......"
"Ahem......"
Hua Qingzhi's face was flushed, tears choked out, and she patted her chest and held it for a long time before she eased her breath.
And Hua Junchen was actually ready to appease his daughter, but he was preempted by the Night Terror, his eyes were a little complicated, and he felt that he was a little redundant sitting here, so he just shook his head and sighed, and drank by himself.
In the living room, the atmosphere is happy.
Hua Qingzhi didn't drink a drop of wine in the past, and after taking a sip and knowing that it was powerful, she didn't dare to join in the fun, but chatted very quietly, and when she was halfway through the meal, Hua Ning suddenly ran over from outside and said at the door:
"Miss, Wang Gongzi suddenly came over, saying that he wanted to see you."
"Huh?"
Hua Qingzhi was a little puzzled when she heard this, but she was still ready to leave the table to take a look.
And the Night Terror Hall remembered the phantom medicine in the cloud glass yesterday, this Wang Jiwen should be the mastermind behind the scenes, and naturally got up to help push the wheelchair at the moment:
"Uncle Hua, you drink first, and I'll send Miss to meet the guests."
Hua Junchen naturally didn't ask about these young people's interactions, but only bowed slightly.
In the alley on the side of Wanbao Tower.
Wang Jiwen, dressed as a scholar, stood in front of the gate of Washington with a folding fan in his hand, turning his head from time to time to look inside the mansion to observe the situation inside, and there was an entourage standing behind him, looking like he had made a big mistake.
Grunt......
When the sound of wheels rolling came from inside the mansion, Wang Jiwen quickly sorted out his expression, made an anxious appearance, and saw the wheelchair pushed out of the corner, so he said urgently:
"Miss Hua, are you okay?"
“?”
Hua Qingzhi saw Wang Jiwen's anxious and panicked appearance, and she was inexplicable in her heart:
"I'm fine, why did Wang Gongzi say this?"
Wang Jiwen was a little disappointed when he saw that Hua Qingzhi really didn't look like something was wrong, but in order to clear his suspicion, he still made an angry look, raised the folding fan and knocked on the door of the entourage's head:
"Well, it's all my negligence. Didn't I bring a box of frozen faces to Miss Hua yesterday? Let this idiot do it, and he sent me the box for my father......"
"Huh?!"
Before Hua Qingzhi could react, the night terror hall behind her looked incredulous, looking at the distressed Wang Dacong.
And Hua Qingzhi was naturally puzzled: "Take the wrong one?" Or I'll ...... that box."
"No, no, no."
Wang Jiwen was afraid that Washington would suspect him of druggedness, so he came over to take the blame afterwards, and said nonsense:
"My father and my mother are both old, and they are usually not very harmonious, so I thought about asking my father to send a box of frozen face cream to my mother, and I also added some 'dream-like disillusionment' ...... from the western Xinjiang."
“……”
Hua Qingzhi heard that Wang Jiwen, a dutiful son, actually drugged his father and mother, and sat up a little straighter, and asked with strange eyes:
"What is it like a dream?"
"It is a good medicine, which is said to make people see what is in their hearts; For example, if I like a certain girl, and when I see that girl after using it, the other person will become different from usual......"
In order to match the two, Wang Jiwen can be said to have taken great pains, and found that Hua Qingzhi was not hit, so he began to tempt Hua Qingzhi to try.
And Night Terror Hall can also see at this time that this Wang Jiwen is most likely the employer who spent 3,000 taels of silver to hire him to seduce Miss Hua, and thieves such as the Five Monsters of Snake Peak and the Three Heroes of Mangshan should also have something to do with this person.
After figuring out the cause and effect, Night Terror Hall was really speechless, and he didn't know how to evaluate this great intelligence.
After all, after this set of spicy-eyed serial calculations, except for making Uncle Hua's reputation shocked, and by the way, killing a few waves of thieves for the people, it didn't play any practical role at all, and it can be said that all the effort was used on the knife handle.
But let's say that Wang Jiwen is tossing blindly......
Hua Qingzhi was sitting in a wheelchair, and when she heard Wang Jiwen's description, her heart moved slightly, and she subconsciously glanced at the night terror hall behind her, and asked:
"What if you see someone you don't like?"
Wang Jiwen saw Hua Qingzhi, who has always had a quiet personality, and was able to ask this sentence curiously, so he knew that his plan was almost stable, and responded:
"When you see someone you don't like, the other person will naturally become very ugly or very fierce. Originally, I wanted my father to give it to my mother, and then my mother used it, and saw my father's graceful appearance when he was young...... Alas, anyway, I just want them to get back together......"
Hua Qingzhi nodded thoughtfully, turned her head and said:
"Hua'an, the box of frost for you, you ......"
Wang Jiwen saw that Hua Qingzhi had been given to Hua'an, and he felt that this could be done in his heart, so he hurriedly said:
I hurried over, just to remind Miss Hua so that Miss Hua wouldn't be accidentally tricked. What was sent, how could there be any reason to go back, I will leave first, and then I will meet. ”
After finishing speaking, Wang Jiwen ran away with his entourage.
"Huh?"
Hua Qingzhi still wanted to save a few words, but Wang Jiwen has always been in a hurry, and in the end, he forgot it, and was pushed back to the house by the Night Terror Hall, and asked again:
"That 'dream-like disillusionment' is really as powerful as Wang Gongzi said?"
Night Terror Hall has experienced it personally, and knows that it is indeed powerful, but it is not sure whether it likes people or not, but awakens the inner desire, which is purely a flirtatious gadget between husband and wife.
Seeing that Hua Qingzhi was curious, he smiled and said:
"Is Miss interested?"
Hua Qingzhi was naturally interested, and wanted to try her to see if the Night Terror Hall would become ugly or good-looking, but she asked the Night Terror Hall directly, the intention was too obvious, and she just said softly at the moment:
"I haven't seen it, I'm just curious, I've already asked you to take it to coax the girl, how can I come back. Let's go back and continue eating. ”
"Hehe......"
……
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On the other side, outside the blue water forest.
In the spring of March, there are many people who come out to play, and it is common to see a pleasure boat carrying a scholar or a family on the river, going back and forth between the wide river.
Among the dotted boats, an inconspicuous small pleasure boat, carrying a family of young and old, drifted slowly on the river, and there was a child's laughter inside:
"Wow! Daddy is so good, he doesn't look like a master, he didn't catch a ...... after fishing all afternoon."
"Dad has been fishing for decades, and he must be better than him......"
"Fishing is the way to nourish the mind, and what you seek is to calm down and concentrate your mind, and you are as utilitarian as you, but you are inferior...... Eh! Hook, hook! ……”
……
On the small pleasure boat, Qiu Tianhe and Xuanyuan Tiangang threw fishing rods from the window of the cruise ship and were happily competing in fishing, while their daughter-in-law was eating melon seeds and watching a play inside.
Luo Ning stood at the stern of the boat, because she had never given birth to a baby, and now she has a father-in-law, she is a little addicted to taking a baby, at this time she is dressed as an ordinary lady, and she is dangling around with a little girl with pigtails in her arms, quite a bit of gentle and motherly demeanor.
Xue Baijin stood beside him, holding a bamboo pole to support the cruise ship, and waited for Qiu Tianhe to pull up the two-inch-long small fish before he spoke:
"The Bishui Forest is surrounded by dark whistles, and the stone pile is the strictest, and if you want to touch it, you can only walk by the river. Zhongsun Jin must be among them, but he doesn't know the exact location, if he encounters it, it will be a vicious battle, and he must arrange a retreat first......"
After Qiu Tianhe untied the palm-sized fish, he got up and came to him:
"Zhongsun Jin is good at the mechanism formation, and he puts on the defensive in the blue water forest, and it is not so easy to rush. I feel like I'm going to have to think about it again......"
Xue Baijin was actually a little hesitant, if she bumped into Zhongsun Jin in the wilderness, she was not too afraid, and she was ten percent sure of escaping if she couldn't beat it; But when you go to Chong Zhong Sun Jin's lair, the difficulty is completely different.
With Zhong Sun Jin's ability, he will inevitably deploy a thousand heavy formation mechanisms in the blue water forest, even if the restrictions on her are small, there will be interference; Zhongsun Jin fought at home, if he couldn't win against her, then the martial saint would be in vain for so many years.
But after hard bargaining, it was not easy to buy the exact news from the Blue Dragon Society, and if you retreat in the face of difficulties, the money will be lost.
Xue Baijin held the boat and thought secretly, but before he could think of a countermeasure, his eyes suddenly moved, and he looked at another merchant ship two miles away.
Seeing this, Qiu Tianhe also glanced at it and asked:
"Something is wrong?"
Xue Baijin didn't speak, closed his eyes and listened carefully to the wind on the river, and at the same time quietly approached the boat.
After closing a certain distance, the sound of a familiar conversation came into the ears of the merchant ship in the distance:
"Tomorrow night, let's set fire crows to test and make a big move, attracting the masters of the imperial city to cover Bai Sheng. If Zhongsun Jin is not here, let's go in and try our luck, and if Zhongsun Jin is here, we will run away immediately......"
"It's good to get the Minglong map, don't be too greedy, it's so tightly guarded, you won't be able to get out if you go in......"
……
Xue Baijin relied on the peak background of the Martial Saint, and after listening carefully for a while, he slowly pulled the cruise ship away, and said in a low voice:
"There's a wave of peers over there."
Since Qiu Tianhe knew the news of the elixir, he knew that there must be peers, and they all got the news from the Blue Dragon Society, and it was not strange to meet him when he stepped on the spot, he quietly asked:
"What's the way?"
"I don't know, I only heard a 'Bai Sheng', and there doesn't seem to be a master with a name in the Northern and Southern Dynasties."
"Kashiwa ......"
Qiu Tianhe frowned and thought carefully for a moment, his heart moved, and he said in a low voice:
"When I was walking on the Tianqi Road, I heard this name, my full name seems to be 'Xing Baisheng', nicknamed 'Flower-faced Fox', a character from the snow field, only in his early twenties, and he has not been out of the rivers and lakes for a few years, and he is known for his handsome appearance and good at deception.
"Last year, the flower-faced fox did a vote in Shuofeng City, and it is said that he deceived a certain big man in Shuofeng City into bankruptcy, and then he was caught by Beiyunbian, skinned and torn off his bones to make a flag, I didn't expect this person to be alive......"
There are many crooked sects in the Northern Liang Sect, and there are not a few masters who specialize in abduction and stealing, but because they can't be on the stage, their reputation usually can't spread to the rivers and lakes of the Southern Dynasties.
When Xue Baijin heard this, he nodded thoughtfully:
"This group of people should be Xing Baisheng's helpers, and tomorrow they want to make trouble in Bishui Forest with a plan to make trouble in Bishui Forest, and cover Xing Baisheng to go to the palace to steal the Ming Dragon Map. We can let them be the first birds, and wait for the opportunity to sneak in when the mess is made. ”
When Qiu Tianhe heard this, he really admired Beiliang Xiaoxiao's courage in his heart, but after thinking about it, he said:
"Why don't we go to the palace too? The emperor is not there, and there are these people to attract movement, and it is easier to get the Minglong Diagram than to grab the elixir. ”
Xue Baijin pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "If you find Zhongsun Jin, you will definitely be able to find the elixir; And sneaking into the Imperial City, I don't know the exact location of the Ming Dragon Map, and it is possible to turn the Imperial City over with a bamboo basket to draw water.
"You only have one hands-on opportunity, and you can only choose one of the two places; As long as there is chaos tomorrow, the chance of getting the elixir is greater than stealing the dragon map. ”
Qiu Tianhe pondered for a while, felt that this was indeed the case, and asked again:
"Then this group of people ventured into the imperial city, and they were not afraid of bamboo baskets to draw water?"
"There are countless strange people in the rivers and lakes, each with their own magical powers, and they must be sure if they dare to go; Of course, it is also possible that there is no way to take Zhongsun Jin, so he retreats and goes to the palace to try his luck. ”
After Xue Baijin finished speaking, he was afraid that he would stay too long and be noticed by Bi Shuilin's eyeliner, so he continued to drive downstream along the river......
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No. 27 exam subject three,You have to practice in the town exam room for three days.,It's been updated very late these days.,If you really can't catch up, you can make up for it during the National Day.,I'm really sorry or2!
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