Chapter 6: Cults
Summary of this chapter: Taishi rushed into the drug altar at night, and Liu Fuyao coincidentally entered the White Horse Pass.
A murderous knife mercilessly struck at the back of Tai Shi Chong's head.
"Bell!" Tai Shi Chong didn't even look back, and grabbed the knife with two fingers.
"Use a flying knife, pay attention to hand stability, knife accuracy, and concentrate qi on the tip of the knife, just like this!" Taishi turned around sharply and shot the flying knife towards Qian Gui. Qian Guideng's heart was cold, and he forcibly controlled himself from sitting on the ground. The knife skimmed, and when he touched the top of his head, he found that a hat was missing, and when he turned back, he saw that the hat was nailed to the city wall by the throwing knife.
"Untouchable, you dare to break ground on the head of Tai Sui, do you know who I am?" Although Qian Gui was jealous in his heart, he still said arrogantly with a strong face.
"I don't dare to say how to break the ground, but I can help you bury the ground." Tai Shi Chong hated this kind of ruffian hooligan, and he looked at Qian Gui like he looked at a dead man.
"Uncle, I am the chief of guard of Lord Hu Cha, the staff officer of Dongyan River, in this Luoxia Town, except for Lord Hu Cha, I have the final say!"
"With a chief of guard like you, it's a miracle that the staff officer has survived until now." Tai Shi Chong ridiculed.
Qian Gui glanced at Tai Shi Chong, paced to the front of the cloth shop, and swept his hand over the rows of dazzling cloth, brocade, silk, silk, satin, linen, and coarse cloth......
He paused, and rubbed his hand repeatedly on a brocade, which used a variety of colorful patterns to weave a blooming peony flower, which was like gold in ancient times, and it was expensive to see it.
"Thorn-"
The blooming peony flower was torn into two pieces, and then broken into several pieces, the stripped silk threads trembled in the air, and the withered petals fell to the ground and twitched.
"Little ones, scrap these cloths!" Qian Gui knew that he couldn't beat Tai Shi Chong, so he sprinkled his anger on the cloth shop. The doglegs swarmed up and revealed their distorted psychology.
"You dare!" Tai Shi Chong's horizontal sword stood in front of the store, and pulled out the Shenzhou sword, which was still stained with shocking bloodstains. He saw that the dogs hurriedly hid behind Qian Gui, so he slashed at Qian Gui without hesitation.
"Stop!" The young woman grabbed Tai Shi Chong, "You are a hero, we are the ones who suffer, and we can't stay from Luoxia Town." ”
The old lady also nodded.
Since the owner of the cloth shop has no opinion (or dare not have it), Tai Shi Chong will be nosy to "do justice" again. He suppressed his anger and withdrew his sword from its scabbard.
Now the doglegs are unscrupulous, cruelly dismembering the corpses of the pieces of cloth, daring those gorgeous cloths waiting with antidescent for people to wear them beautifully, but they are buried so miserably.
The old lady turned her back, and the young woman pursed the corners of her mouth, tears rolling in her eyes.
Finally, after Qian Gui tore a flower cloth, trampled it under his feet and spat on it, the young woman couldn't hold it anymore completely, and she fell on the table where the cloth was placed, crying so much that she had a cold image when she first appeared.
"Presumptuous! Drag her away! Qian Gui waved his hand, and the two doglegs forcibly dragged the young woman away, and took the opportunity to take advantage of it, Rao was so, and the young woman did not dare to resist, she sat down on the ground, picked up the broken flower cloth stained with footprints and saliva, walked to the back room step by step, and rinsed it with clean water. Tai Shi Chong stood outside the door and heard intermittent cries from inside: "This cloth was woven by my mother after three nights......
Tai Shi Chong could no longer control his emotions, drew his sword and threw it outside the store, and a human head fell to the ground.
"Lao Tzu wants to see what will happen if he kills you!" Tai Shi Chong's eyes were stained with a layer of blood.
Qian Gui no longer put on any aristocratic stands, and abandoned his subordinates in a panic and fled, Tai Shi Chong was willing to let him go, and flew to chase after him.
Qian Gui was also cunning, running around the corner, making Tai Shi Chong scratch his ears and cheeks, but he couldn't catch up with him.
At dusk, Tai Shi Chong sat under the tree, the setting sun stretched his shadow longer and longer, he chased Qian Gui, and was sulking with his sword.
"Yo, guest officer, aren't you still eating at a high-end restaurant at noon? Why, you want to come to our beggars to experience life at night? A familiar voice sounded, and Tai Shi Chong looked back to see that the person who came was the beggar who was arguing with him on the sword.
"Alas, I have just experienced the life of a poor man......" Tai Shi Chong was nowhere to vent his sorrow, so he poured bitter water on the beggar.
"Sir, now that Qian Gui hasn't been caught, what face do I have to go back to the cloth shop." Taishi sighed.
"Ahem, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple." The beggar pointed to a fine house in the center of town and said, "That's the expensive house, but I really don't recommend you kill him, it's someone we can't afford to mess with." ”
"Sir's words are wrong, for the country and the people, he will not hesitate!" Tai Shi Chong arched his hand and gritted his teeth and rushed to the expensive residence.
Tai Shi rushed to Qian Gui's mansion, and found that there were many guards, and the main gate must not be able to enter, he climbed to a tree, overlooking the entire mansion, and found that there were twenty posts.
"Cut, the more guards prove that he is weak, it seems that there are some hidden secrets in this mansion." Tai Shi Chong thought to himself.
As the saying goes, there must be a reason for things to go wrong, and looking at the overall situation, there is only one side hall that is not guarded. Taishi Chong predicted that Qian Gui might live in the side hall that concealed people's eyes.
Taishi rushed down, intending to jump into the side hall, but a pair of hands reached out from the bushes and grabbed his ankles tightly, and he deviated from his predetermined trajectory and hung upside down on the tree like a bat.
"Don't move, I don't need you to meddle." A cold voice came from the tree, and Tai Shi Chong looked up to see that it was the young woman, who had changed into a frost face again, but there were still frozen tears on her face.
"Why are you here...... Hey, oops! Tai Shi Chong just wanted to talk, but he fell off guard.
The young woman clapped her hands: "I'm tired, I don't want to hold you all the time." ”
Tai Shi Chong sat on the ground aggrievedly, stroking the big bag on his head with one hand, and drawing circles on the ground with the other.
The young woman jumped down from the tree: "Come back with me." ”
"That's not good, the money is expensive, he harms the people, even if you let him come nonsense, other people may not be willing to be bullied."
"Other people are the same, in this Luoxia Town, people must be the first to look at Qian Guima, and you are the only one who doesn't know the height of the sky!"
It is true that the people of feudal society are not even qualified to live in a corner of peace, they can only obey the rules of the game and be humiliated to the point of numbness.
Tai Shi Chong silently lowered his head.
"I also hope that one day all beings will be equal and the world will be the same, but what can untouchables like us do......" the young woman sighed, "Let's go, let's go back." ”
"I'm not leaving!" Taishi said angrily, "I am also a husband with a three-foot sword, so I should relieve all the people from fire and water, your ideals, I will help you practice them!" ”
Between coming and going, life and death are regarded as nothing.
The young woman hesitated for a moment and grabbed Tai Shi Chong's shirt: "Take me." ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, Tai Shi Chong smiled freely, but the young woman looked a little weak.
It was dark, and the Qian Mansion was brightly lit, only the side hall blended into the night along with the people's residences outside the mansion.
Tai Shi Chong lightly climbed over the wall and stretched out his hand to the young woman, the young woman's hand hesitated in mid-air, and Tai Shi Chong snatched his hand without thinking.
It was a pair of slender jade hands, I don't know if it was because of the cold in late autumn, or because of the apprehension of going against the sky, those hands were very cold, like the boundless moonlight.
Tai Shi Chong and the young woman sat on the wall, this Qian Mansion was the most luxurious scenery he had ever seen in his life, but unfortunately it was not beautiful.
"I don't know your name yet." Tai Shi Chong said.
"My name is Liu Fuyao." The young woman said, looking at the moon.
Soar up to 90,000 miles!
But she didn't seem to have even traveled nine miles.
Tai Shi Chong was taken aback, she was actually from the Liu family.
The Liu family is the richest family in the North Bay, so rich that they don't bother to calculate their wealth, and the huge Qian Mansion is less than one-tenth of the Liu Mansion. Although the Liu family is wealthy, they have not done anything harmful, so their reputation among the people is not bad.
Liu Fuyao recalled: "Although the Liu family has a good reputation among the people, in fact, they have a lot of unclean trade with the Central Plains. I was originally the daughter of the Liu family, but because I couldn't get used to their way of doing things, I had a big quarrel with my father and came out of the house. The old lady of the cloth shop adopted me, and we depended on each other for our lives, although life was hard, but it was far better than the filth of Liufu. ”
Tai Shi Chong was in awe.
"Let's go." Tai Shi Chong jumped off the wall, and then shook Liu Fu next, and quietly touched the side hall.
The door was hidden, and when they entered, they found that it was a storage room, with various mop buckets and other mops piled up in a mess, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. Every step they took would stir up dust, choking Liu Fu's frown, she had always loved cleanliness, and kept patting the hem of her skirt, but the effect did not seem to be ideal.
"There's nothing here, it's futile to look for it, let's get out." Liu Fu shook her mouth and said this, in fact, she couldn't stand this environment.
Tai Shi Chong nodded.
With a "squeak", the wooden door let out another scream, and two pairs of feet touched the moonlight.
"Someone, quick, hide!" Tai Shi Chong pulled Liu Fuyao and hid behind several wooden boxes.
"Hurry up, the altar master is still waiting for us below."
"Don't be funny, why would the altar master wait for us nobodies?"
"You don't understand, the altar owner is afraid of leaking the news, so we can't hold a meeting until we are here."
"Don't talk about it, beware of the ears on the wall."
Taishi Chong poked out half of his head and saw them lift a piece of the floor and walk down.
After making sure that there was no one around, Tai Shi Chong and Liu Fuyao also learned to lift the floor in style, and there was a rope ladder below, and the two went down the ladder and found that there was a hole in it.
The few people just walked down a dark corridor with a large iron gate at the end, guarded by two guards.
The guards looked at a few people: "Why do I think you are so raw?" ”
"Hey, hey, big brother, we're new here." Several people nodded their heads.
"I don't care about this, password!"
One of them scratched his head and made a reminiscence: "Potato stew eggplant!" ”
"Enter!" The guards opened the door and let them go.
"See? The mantra is potato stewed eggplant. Tai Shi Chong said to Liu Fuyao.
"That's not right."
"What's wrong?"
"I should scratch my head first, and then talk about the password."
"Why?"
"The code is not only about words, but also about actions, demeanor, etc., which is also a way to prevent spies from entering." Liu Fuyao said.
Tai Shi Chong thinks this is very good.
The two swaggered over.
"Stop!"
The two stopped.
"New here?"
The two nodded.
"Password?"
Liu Fu scratched his head: "Potato stew eggplant!" ”
"Enter!"
The two walked in openly.
One Guard: "Eh, why do you say there are so many new arrivals today?"
Another guard: "Whatever, anyway, we're just low-level pawns, just do the essential work." ”
Tai Shi Chong and Liu Fuyao secretly followed those people, passed several levels, and saw a spacious stone house, there was an altar in the middle of the stone house, and a group of people sat around the altar.
"Those guards think we're from here, so why are we sneaking around?" Tai Shi Chong was puzzled.
"They are just nobodies, and they don't participate in the recruitment of personnel, but the people in the stone house can easily identify us, so it's better for us to hide just to be safe." Liu Fuyao was cautious.
Seeing the men enter, the guard said; "Lord of the altar, everyone has arrived."
"Hmm." One of them stood up from his seat and looked around, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to discuss our plans for the future. Nowadays, the North Bay area of our country is bounded by the Yan River, which is led by Xiang Qingtian, the main general of the East Yan River, and the sea madness of the West Yan River. The sect leader issued an order for us to infiltrate the two forces with the drug altar, intensify the contradictions, and cause them to lose both, and then we will reap the benefits of the fisherman and sit in the North Bay. ”
"The Sect Master is wise!" There was a cheer.
"It's him!" Tai Shi Chong was taken aback, the person who spoke was actually Qian Gui, "Isn't he the chief of the guard of the Dongyan River staff?" To do such a disobedient thing! ”
"This place is not good for long!" Tai Shi Chong said, "Let's go out first!" ”
"It seems that this money is a chess piece planted by the sect next to the staff officer, and their sect leader is really a good plan." Liu Fuyao said.
"So, should we creep out quietly?" Liu Fuyao asked.
"On the contrary, the plot in a general novel is that the more careful you are, the more you will make noise......"
"So what?" Liu Fuyao looked back, but there was no longer Tai Shi Chong's figure.
"Stop!" Qian Gui broke off his drink, and Liu Fuyao was so shocked that he looked up and found that Tai Shi Chong actually walked out of the door in front of everyone.
Liu Fuyao covered his face.
"Hey, you don't take our drug hiding altar too seriously, you can come when you want, you can leave if you want, you think it's a vegetable market!" Qian Gui felt that his face was not even worthy of sweeping the floor.
Tai Shi Chong didn't answer, so he ran away.
Qian Gui gritted his teeth: "Catch him for me, life or death!" ”
The hidden drug altar suddenly poured out, and Tai Shi Chong pulled out the Shenzhou sword, and fought and retreated. Most of the members of the drug hiding altar are civilians or ruffians in the North Bay, and their own strength is not enough, so they can only fight a good battle at most.
Suddenly, a figure rushed out of the crowd, this person was wearing a black robe, embroidered with several blood-red patterns, his face was covered with half a red face mask, and he was killed with a black steel whip in his hand.
The masked man took a few steps back and let out a loud shout, his hands conjuring a pair of red claws, wielding a flaming chain. The iron chain rushed towards Taishi, smashing the stone walls along the way, Taishi Chong couldn't dodge, and was directly hit by the iron chain to hide the poison altar.
Tai Shi Chong was unconscious for a few seconds, and when he woke up, he found that he had returned to the side hall. He was about to escape, but the masked man appeared behind him again, tied Tai Shi Chong tightly with iron chains, and then carried him on his back, climbed over the wall, stepped on the beam, and disappeared without a trace in a short time.
Besides, Liu Fuyao was here, and when she saw everyone going to catch Tai Shi Chong, she couldn't help but raise her heart to her throat. With her current force, it is obviously impossible to save people, and if she doesn't get it, she will put herself in it.
What to do? Liu Fuyao stood up and paced in the stone house. In the empty stone house, Liu Fuyao heard something hunting, and always followed behind her. She looked back again and again, but found nothing.
"Brush-brush-"
Liu Fu shook his head and felt numb, and hurriedly grabbed behind him, and caught a note pasted on her back. She unfolded the note, which read in wild style: "Push away the stone wall where we are hiding." "Obviously, it was Tai Shi Chong who left it.
Liu Fuyao touched the stone wall suspiciously, and found that it was loose, and it seemed that the wind was blowing in outside.
Sure enough, as the note says, maybe this is a hidden exit.
Liu Fuyao couldn't help but feel annoyed, since this guy had already found the exit, why didn't he go out with her, but instead he wanted to be a hero.
"Gala Qua La-" A loud sound came out accompanied by Liu Fu's action of pushing the stone wall, and she couldn't help but think to herself, if Tai Shi had not led away Qian Gui and the others, this sound would probably attract the attention of the entire drug hiding altar.
Liu Fuyao's heart rose with emotion.
She pushed open the stone wall and found the rooster singing, it was dawn, and the long-lost sun bathed her. It's a strange town, but it's all too familiar to Liu Fuyao.
This is the capital of the Dongyan River, the seat of Liufu, and the most prosperous place in the entire North Bay - Baima Pass.