Chapter 52: The Mysterious Shadow
Princess An Le said coldly: "There is no need to be polite, this seat also wants to congratulate Your Excellency on your promotion to the position of Taichang Shaoqing of Dali Temple." Congratulations, but not in a friendly tone. Yang Guozhong didn't seem to care, he smiled, and said, "Princess Xie praised." ”
Princess An Le said: "Taiqing doesn't need to be called that anymore, Princess An Le is long gone, and this seat is now just Li Bao'er, the head of Qixiu Tingxiangfang." ”
Ye Suiyun thought secretly: "Sure enough, it's Li Bao'er, it's strange that she is still a princess, why does she say that the princess is dead?" Even though he was full of doubts, Ye Suiyun knew that even if he wanted to break his head, it would be useless, so he simply didn't think about it.
Yang Guozhong continued: "The lower officials also want to congratulate the princess... It should be Mr. Li's great improvement in skills, which is gratifying. ”
Li Bao'er asked, "What do you mean by this?" I don't really understand. ”
Yang Guozhong laughed and said: "If you can kill dozens of people in one fell swoop with the sound of the piano, you must have completed the 'Yunshang Heart Sutra' in charge." ”
Li Bao'er's tone was even colder, and said, "It's just a small skill of carving insects." I made you laugh. Although the words are modest, they exude a proud and exclusive energy.
Ye Suiyun thought about it, and sure enough, as he estimated, those craftsmen were not killed by Gao Jiangting, but he didn't know why Li Bao'er, as a disciple of Qixiu, wanted to frame his fellow disciples.
Li Bao'er said: "To get back to the point, Qian Zonglong of Saltless Island has agreed to deal with Qixiufang, and a few days ago he has sent Salt Lake Village to intercept Qixiu's cargo ship, but unfortunately this is a bunch of waste, and he returned with a lot of people. I didn't expect the disciples from other places to be so good, but a group of little girls, hum. Ye Suiyun remembered that day, if he hadn't made his own move, Shu Xiaoyu and the others would probably have been wiped out.
Ji Beiqing, who had never spoken, said: "Manager Li really has good means, and he can persuade Qian Laojiu to help, I know this guy too well, and he can be hard-tempered." I wonder how the manager made him obedient? ”
Li Bao'er said proudly: "Du Jixin, the second disciple of this seat, is his wife, and he naturally wants to listen to what this seat says." ”
Ji Beiqing nodded, and sighed: "Twenty years ago, in the last battle of Tianzi Peak, the eighteen masters of the Great Inner were killed by Nie Xiaotian's pair of dragon descending palms, and this Qian Lao Jiu was one of the three surviving people. Although so many years have passed, I believe that this person is still that hard-hearted, and he can subdue such a person, and Mr. Li is indeed powerful. ”
Ye Suiyun's heart was shocked, and he thought, "Could it be that my father's disappearance has something to do with Ji Beiqing?" Why have you never heard of the battle of Tianzifeng? He was anxious at this time, and always hoped that Ji Beiqing would continue to say something about his father Nie Xiaotian, but the people above changed the topic and stopped mentioning a word.
Li Bao'er asked: "It's not easy to control Qixiu, the last time I was able to intercept the cargo ship halfway, it was a coincidence that I learned the route of the ship, so that I could ambush them on their return route." If you want them to be really subject to me, you still need Yang Taiqing's help, I don't know when the 'Seven Show Waterway Map' will be available? ”
At this time, a voice asked, "As the head of the inner fang, can't he get this picture?" His voice was thick and deep, obviously deliberately speaking in a low tone, apparently unwilling to be recognized.
But Ye Suiyun immediately heard that the person who spoke was the guy who wore a hat and didn't show his true face in the inner hall of Fengxiang Gambling Village. At that time, it was he who explained the Battle of Junshan in detail, and he was also puzzled why this person knew his situation well. Hearing his words again at this time, Ye Suiyun couldn't help but be suspicious again.
Li Bao'er looked at the lake and replied: "Qixiu has its own rules, and the inner fang is not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the outer fang, even if it is this seat, there is nothing that can be done." ”
Yang Guozhong laughed and said, "The manager doesn't need to mind, Mr. Shadow is just curious and doesn't mean anything else." As for the waterway map, it will be delivered within three days at most. Ye Suiyun thought to himself: "It turns out that this mysterious person is called Mr. Shadow, and it is really mysterious." It's just that you are called a shadow, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the light, and sooner or later you will be revealed. ”
Li Bao'er said: "Taiqing doesn't have to worry about the things here, with this seat here, will there be any mistakes?" However, I heard that the matter of the Pure Yang Sect seems to be a little hindered. Although she is a woman, she feels that every word reveals pride and domineering. Ye Suiyun thought that this might be the character that a princess should have. And based on the traces he saw on the stone statue, he speculated that this Li Bao'er's skill was only no less than Gao Jiangting, and it was no wonder that he was so blind.
Yang Guozhong sighed and said: "According to the Ghost Shadow Kojiro of the Wa Kingdom who returned from the Empty Fog Peak, Li Wusheng almost died in the hands of Xie Yunliu, and the original plan to defeat the Pure Yang Sect was still disturbed by the kid named Ye Suiyun at the last moment, and Xie Yunliu was out of control. ”
"Is him again?" Li Bao'er couldn't help but sigh, and said in surprise: "I heard that even controlling the Beggar Gang and the Tang Sect failed because of him, is this person really three heads and six arms?" ”
Ji Beiqing continued: "I have fought with him in the next place, with all due respect, although this person is young, his martial arts have been extraordinary, if he can't get rid of it as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will be more troublesome in the future." The words were full of murderous intent.
Yang Guozhong laughed again and said: "What Manager Ji said is right, but it is still too late, Ye Suiyun at this time is afraid that he will be panicked like a lost dog, and he has already been chased by the government and does not know where to go." ”
Ye Suiyun's spirits were greatly lifted, and this was clearly to say that the Cui family extermination case he was carrying must have something to do with them. I didn't expect that I was going to help Qixiufang, but I accidentally found out about it, which is really kind and rewarding.
"Oh?" Ji Beiqing's voice raised, as if he was quite excited, and asked: "I haven't heard Taiqing mention this matter, and I would like to hear about it." ”
Yang Guozhong said: "With Mr. Shadow's move, it is not easy to deal with such a hairy boy who can only use brute force, and it is easy to come." ”
Mr. Shadow said: "Xie Taiqing praised, this Ye Suiyun came to Yangzhou all the way from Chang'an, and we have been watching, but he is ridiculous but he is at a loss. When he is about to arrive at Cui's house at the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, let's find someone to change into the same clothes as him, go and kill all the people inside first, and at the same time call someone to report to the government office, and when he enters Cui's house with his front foot, the people from the government will arrive with his back foot, plus he deliberately left a live mouth, and he can't wash it if he jumps into the Yellow River. Such a hairy boy has brute strength, but it is very simple to deal with, at this time, I am afraid that he will be too busy to take care of himself, and he will not have time to make trouble for us. He laughed out loud, but his voice was still unnatural, and he thought it was because he tried his best to suppress it.
The words only made Ye Suiyun tremble when he heard it. He couldn't have dreamed that there were such vicious and insidious people in the world, such cunning and unguardable means, he thought that with his skills, there was nothing that could not be solved, but compared to these people, he was really like a fool, at the mercy of others.
When everyone heard this, they were amazed and praised this count. Ji Beiqing sighed: "What a clever plan, Mr. Shadow is simply a living Zhuge ." ”
Mr. Shadow said: "Don't dare, don't dare, of course, the most important thing is Fang Gongzi, if it wasn't for him to make a move, how could he kill all the people inside in an instant, you must know that there are many good hands in the Cui family, in order to let the surviving child only see one person committing the murder, and he can't go in to help, so only masters like Fang Gongzi are the ones who have the most credit." ”
Li Bao'er asked, "Fang Gongzi is Fang Jun from Penglai Island?" ”
Ye Suiyun judged from the sound of breathing, knowing that except for the man who came here on his own boat and had been closing his eyes, one of the other people did not speak, thinking that it was this Fang Jun, who was pretending to be himself to commit the murder.
One person replied: "Don't dare, Xiao Ke is Fang Jun, the family teacher Fang Qian, and Mr. Li is polite." It's just a small thing, just a gesture. "The voice is soft and gentle, and it is really impossible to connect with the murderer just by listening to the voice.
Ye Suiyun's heart is like winter water, getting colder and colder, what makes him most angry is not how they framed him, but in the mouths of these people, killing so many people for no reason, they actually said it lightly, they didn't care at all, they didn't do anything great at all, and they were as if they had made a contribution. It's really mad, shameless to the extreme.
Although he was angry in his heart, Ye Suiyun also knew that the martial arts of these people above his head were all strong, so he was more careful, and his aura became weaker and weaker, and he secretly thought: "Brother Wei once said that Fang Qian is a strange person in the world, and he is one of the few martial arts seniors in the world who is qualified to be compared with his father Nie Xiaotian and his master 'Sword Saint' who has never met. I really didn't expect that the disciple who taught him was such a wicked person, and if he had the opportunity, he would have to try it with this Fang Jun. ”
Yang Guozhong signaled slightly, and everyone else got up and withdrew from the stone boat, leaving only Yang Guozhong and Li Bao'er, and the atmosphere suddenly seemed a little tense.
Yang Guozhong stood up from his seat and said, "The plan has been completed, just wait for the waterway map to arrive, you can win Qixiu, the princess should be vigilant." There was no respect in his tone, it was more like he was giving an order, and Ye Suiyun screamed strange in his heart.
Li Bao'er snorted coldly and said, "Now that you only have your master in your eyes, I really don't understand how Li Longji can trust someone like you?" Is it because you have a good cousin? After saying that, he sneered. Ye Suiyun didn't know that Li Longji was the name of the current emperor, but he was casually said by Li Bao'er. And Yang Guozhong's cousin in her mouth is Yang Yuhuan, the concubine who is now the most favored by the Son of Heaven.
Yang Guozhong said coldly: "In the rebellion of Empress Wei back then, the princess should have gone with the first emperor at that time, if it wasn't for my lord risking the danger to save her, how could the princess sit here in a good manner?" Besides, if it weren't for our mediation in the court, did the princess really think that the emperor would be completely unaware that Princess Anle, who had caused trouble in the court, was not dead? Li Bao'er took a deep breath and stopped talking, as if she had aged ten years in an instant, staring blankly at the lake.
Yang Guozhong said with a chill: "I hope the princess will be good for herself and understand her situation." In the next farewell. After speaking, he strode away, leaving Li Bao'er alone to sit on the water platform.
This paragraph sounds like an earth-shattering dialogue to anyone, and it is no different from the book of heaven to Ye Suiyun, he knows that there is nothing to hear, so he follows the old method, returns along the current, and is busy for a while, and finally climbs into the boat, picks up the bamboo pole and rows violently, and then docks on the shore when he is sure to stay away from the inner square. Ye Suiyun felt exhausted at the moment, lying on the sampan and panting, physical strength was secondary, in the critical environment, the mental consumption was the most intense. He thought that although it was hard, he had gained a lot this time, and he finally didn't work in vain, at least he learned that Qixiufang was in danger, and the most important thing was that the plot that framed him without a clue was also revealed, as long as he followed the clues to find it, he could clear his suspicion sooner or later. Thinking of this, the joy in my heart is mentioned, if it is not the dead of night, I really want to stand up and laugh three times to express my feelings.
At this time, Ye Suiyun was soaking wet, and a cool breeze blew, making him shiver all over, and a chill rushed up his back. It wasn't a feeling of being blown by the wind, but some kind of danger coming from behind it. Ye Suiyun calmed himself, slowly stood up, turned around and looked, standing quietly ten steps away, looking at himself.
Ye Suiyun was unharmed on the surface, but he was shocked in his heart, you must know that with his current skills, he can be quietly approached within ten steps without noticing, then it is conceivable that this person's strength will not be too far from his own. When he looked at it clearly, the person in front of him was the man in white who had been present just now but had not said a word, with a flame mark on his forehead, and his eyes still seemed to be slightly closed, as if he had not just come here, but had been standing for a long time.
The other party didn't speak, and Ye Suiyun didn't speak, he just wanted to see what this person was going to do? Secretly: "Don't think that you can scare people by putting on a master's demeanor." I don't believe you can stand still all the time. Sure enough, he couldn't think about it, the wind had moved, the man's hand was not a fist or a palm, forming a virtual grip, and it had flashed in front of him, Ye Suiyun was taken aback, this simple stretch of hand didn't seem complicated, but there was a hidden back, no matter how he dealt with it, he couldn't avoid the killing moves behind. Helpless, Ye Suiyun had to retreat backwards. But the placket on his chest was torn open with a thud, and an object inside fell to the ground, which was the iron plate printed with the word 'Hidden Yuan'.
Ye Suiyun didn't care about picking it up, so he calmed down, ready to resist the other party's next move. When the man saw the iron plate that fell on the ground, he was slightly stunned, then bent down to pick it up, took it in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, and suddenly asked, "Are you Ye Suiyun?" Li Fu has seen you? ”
Ye Suiyun was confused and didn't know how to answer. The man snorted coldly and said, "Always acting arbitrarily and recklessly, I don't know the severity." "I don't know if I'm talking about Ye Suiyun or Li Fu.
The man threw the iron card back to Ye Suiyun and said, "Just now I wondered who was so bold that he dared to hide in the water and eavesdrop, it turned out to be you." Obviously, he had already discovered Ye Suiyun's existence.
Ye Suiyun couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?" I don't know if I should consider you an enemy or a friend. ”
The man said: "I am neither your enemy nor your friend, Ye Suiyun, you just need to remember that it is not time to deal with Yang Guozhong." You can do Qixiu a favor, but you can't hurt Yang Guozhong. ”
Ye Suiyun shook his head and smiled: "I don't understand what you say?" And why should I listen to you? ”
The other party said: "Now it is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Ye Suiyun, the leader of the beggar gang, is the best in the world, and he will teach a trick under it, and see how many catties and taels Your Excellency has." "As soon as the last word 'two' came out, he had already stretched out his five fingers, stretched out his hand, and just a simple single palm, in Ye Suiyun's eyes, it seemed that one palm became two palms, two palms became four palms, and then four changed to eight, eight changed to sixteen, and instantly turned into thousands of palm shadows, overwhelmingly pressed.
Ye Suiyun was worried, sullen all night, he didn't like it when he heard the other party's commanding tone, and he was quite unreasonable to say that he would fight, and he would stop when he said it, which made him even more angry, and the thought flashed in his heart: "Do you really think that I am afraid of you?" The heart moved at will, the true qi of the autumn rain swam all over the body in an instant, the arms were falsely reported to the waist, the right hand was slanted upwards over the top, and the whole move was done in one go, and the countless palm films in front of him were like thunder and thunder, and the right palm slammed out, attacking the center of the opponent's palm power net.
Ye Suiyun has already seen that he is holding thousands of hands and holding people with anger, for ordinary people, in the face of such an offensive, I am afraid that he can only retreat, or he can't even dodge. But it was precisely because the opponent's palm pounced on him, the cover was huge, and it seemed to seal every direction, but it also dispersed his own strength. Therefore, as long as you are not afraid of its momentum and only attack the seemingly strongest point, you can break this move, of course, you must have the strength to be stronger than the opponent.
With a loud bang, the man took a step back, slightly surprised. Ye Suiyun slowly withdrew his hands from top to bottom, exhaled a breath, calmed down, and obviously won a step.
But the strange person was not angry, but smiled lightly, Ye Suiyun was even more confused, obviously he had the upper hand, but now I really don't know whether I should be happy or not.
The man laughed for a while and said, "What an invincible dragon descending palm in the world, plus the autumn rain trick, I have learned it today." ”
Ye Suiyunqi said: "Your Excellency seems to know everything? ”
The other party said: "Do you know, you are the first person to defeat me in more than twenty years. ”
Ye Suiyun didn't know who he was, and he wasn't very happy when he heard this, but he did admit in his heart that this person's martial arts were so high that he might not lose to Xie Yunliu. Fighting against such a person, I am not completely sure, but I just happened to see the flaw in the trick just now.
Sure enough, the other party said: "Descending Dragon Palm, even though the Autumn Rain Trick is powerful, what surprises me even more is your mind and insight, which can see through my 'Void Phantom Thousand' the first time." After a pause, he continued: "You don't have to be angry at the tone of what I just said, otherwise how can you provoke you to compete with me with all your might?" ”
Ye Suiyun said with a smile: "So that's the case, Your Excellency can just say no." ”
As if the other party hadn't heard, he pondered for a while and said, "Getting back to business, do you know, everything Fang Qingya knows is what I told him." ”
Ye Suiyun's mind froze when he heard this, and he immediately recalled that Fang Qingya had indeed told him before his death that the reason why he learned that Xie Yunliu had returned to Middle-earth, and where the life-saving letter to resolve the misunderstanding was, was all told to him by a mysterious person with an iron mask on his face. Not to mention that this person is from the Hidden Yuan Society. Ye Suiyun snorted: "It turns out... Originally.. It's you, you're a member of the Hidden Yuan Society? "From the reaction of the other party when he saw the iron card just now, he can already vaguely guess it.
The man nodded and said, "It's just that Fang Qingya's death was indeed something I didn't expect. What do you think? Now you can take my word for it, right? ”
Ye Suiyun nodded and said, "In that case, why do you still want to protect Yang Guozhong?" ”
The other party said: "These things are so complicated that it is difficult to describe them in detail for a while, but you will know about them later." Ye Suiyun helplessly thought that this person was the same as Li Fu, and he refused to tell himself what he wanted to know, could it be that all the people in Yin Yuan would talk like this?
was depressed, and said in a crisp and pleasant voice: "The famous 'Immortal Smoke' came here in the middle of the night, but why? ”
Ye Suiyun and the others couldn't help but turn their eyes, and saw a girl in white, holding a sword in both hands and carrying her back at her waist, with an elegant and beautiful temperament, it was the lovely girl of the 'Haoqi Seven-Star Envoy' that Ye Suiyun had seen in Yangzhou City.
Ye Suiyun glanced at the strange man beside him, and thought secretly: "It turns out that his name is Immortal Smoke, what a strange name." ”