Chapter Seventy-Two: A Bleak Encounter
When Yang Qianhui heard that Shui Linglong actually had a request for Gu Shengchao, her mouth grew in shock, and she couldn't believe it: "Is there anything that Elder Shui can't do?" ”
Shui Linglong did not feel ashamed, and said calmly: "There are people outside the sky, there are many masters in this world, if we all stop at the closed door to build cars, just like the frog at the bottom of the well, there is no longer the possibility of surpassing ourselves." There is no shame in admitting that others are excellent, but what is shameful is that others are good enough, and they always try their best to slander each other and show that they are right. She blinked her big eyes, looked at Gu Shengchao playfully, and asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" ”
Gu Shengchao felt a hot light shining on his face, and said with some embarrassment: "What Elder Shui said is extremely true, there is no end to learning, each of us must not slack off in this life, we must work hard in order not to be discarded by the rivers and lakes." I don't know how many sect leaders dare not teach their disciples for their own selfish interests, and finally cause the sect's kung fu to decrease from generation to generation, and end up falling apart and silently annihilated in the wind and rain, which is a pity. Only a big sect like Yunqi Palace, recruiting disciples and teaching kung fu with all its might, can flourish and be invincible. Gu Shengchao thought of the change in the Feng Wu swordsmanship, and finally he was complimented to Yunqi Palace, looking forward to learning something here.
Shui Linglong smiled and said: "Brother Shengchao has won the award, I hope so, I hope so, so I will go back to Yunqi Palace to solve Bai Pei'an's acupuncture points." ”
Gu Shengchao happily went along. Yunqi Palace built its own prison on a large scale, which was used to imprison and deal with disciples who violated the rules of the sect. The two walked into a dark cage, and Bai Pei'an was lying on a mat of unkempt withered grass, still maintaining the movements of being pointed. Gu Shengchao's meridians were retrograde, and the index finger and middle finger of his right hand were brought together to make the internal force point at Bai Pei'an's several key points, and he twisted his body a few times and sat up slowly.
Bai Pei'an looked up and saw that it was Shui Linglong, stepped forward and bowed down to his knees and hugged Shui Linglong's thighs and begged: "Elder Shui, I was forced, it was a few elders in the outer courtyard who threatened my family's lives, I was wronged!" ”
Shui Linglong raised her foot and kicked him into the corner, and said contemptuously: "Is it that we will investigate ourselves, and we don't need you to pretend." ”
Yunqi Palace interrogated Elder Zhu and Bai Pei'an, as well as a group of related people, etc., and the outer courtyard has been in turmoil recently, and many sect leaders are in danger, and all the students are going home on vacation. Yang Qianhui can't study, so they have more time to run the noodle restaurant. A few days later, Shui Linglong came to the noodle restaurant to find Gu Shengchao and asked him to prepare his luggage and go to Huaming City with them. In the past few days, Yang Qianhui has been proficient and can completely take charge of himself, and Gu Shengchao will not close down when he walks behind.
Shui Linglong and his entourage plus Gu Shengchao were six people, and they rode fast horses and galloped away, and arrived at Huaming City in more than ten days.
Gu Shengchao first found Jiang Wan and Ran Dengjia and introduced them to Shui Linglong to tell them about being deceived. Shui Linglong came this time mainly to collect evidence of Bai Pei'an's private unauthorized operation, how others bought the share capital is not within the scope of mediation, since Gu Shengchao opened his mouth, he will deal with it together, and convert the shares of the Jiang Wan clan in the Chamber of Commerce into silver and return it in full.
Bai Pei'an's wife Chen Qi will definitely not agree to the hard work, crying, making trouble and hanging herself in the Chamber of Commerce, Shui Linglong told her the seriousness of the incident, otherwise Bai Pei'an's life would not be guaranteed, so she honestly cooperated with the audit.
Jiang Wan's uncle Jiang Fanzheng naturally wouldn't give up, and took someone to Shui Linglong to make trouble, but he didn't want to be beaten half to death, so he was honest. Jiang Fanzheng did not give up, the hard did not become soft, knelt in front of Jiang Wan with a handful of snot and tears, telling the grace of nurturing in the past. Jiang Wan was not partial, and asked Ran Dengjia to gather all the clansmen who could be contacted together, and share these silver taels equally among each household. Everyone happily took the silver home, and Jiang Fanzheng was helpless, so he had to accept it in the end.
After Shui Linglong dealt with the affairs of Huaming City, she said goodbye to Gu Shengchao and led the team to rush elsewhere. Gu Shengchao found Jiang Wan and them again and asked them about their plans for the future.
Jiang Wan bought wine and meat this time, personally cooked a sumptuous meal to entertain the benefactor, and the three of them talked about the wine, Jiang Wan said: "The silver we got is not much, but it is enough to make a small deal, my father can create a career, and I believe that through the efforts of the two of us, the current situation can also be improved." ”
Gu Shengchao suggested: "It's not a secret, I met a few good friends in the capital cloud city this time, and the business of opening a noodle restaurant is not bad, if you can trust me, go to the capital with me to break through, first go to the noodle shop to get used to the life there, and when you have a better opportunity, you can make a big difference." ”
"However, is the noodle restaurant really short of manpower, I don't want to trouble you to be a useless waste." Jiang Wan had her concerns.
Gu Shengchao smiled: "There is really a shortage of people, it is just right for you to go." ”
Jiang Wan discussed with Ran Dengjia, and finally agreed to Gu Shengchao's invitation. Their family didn't pay any salutes on the four walls, so they bought two horses and followed Gu Shengchao on the journey to the capital. They were not in a hurry along the way, and on this day they came to a small town, and it was raining heavily and the roads were muddy, so they stayed at the inn and waited for the sun to clear before leaving.
At night, the rainstorm stopped, and the drizzle was still sparse and endless, and Gu Shengchao practiced alone in the guest room. He found that his perception ability had not improved much recently, perhaps because he was busy in the noodle restaurant and had delayed his practice, so he calmed down and carefully observed the changes around him.
Gu Shengchao's perception was like mist in a drizzle, drilling through the cracks between doors and windows, probing all living beings that could breathe.
The breath behind the counter was low and steady, obviously a guy who had dozed off and fell asleep inadvertently. The neat row outside the room was the horses of the travelers in the stables. On the fence of the stables, a breath was passing quickly, and it was the mischievous kitten who had tasted the wind and rain, and was hurrying home. The breath that crossed the wall and curled up outside the wall should be the sigh of the homeless. The streets and alleys with no one can no longer capture other breaths, like fog, empty.
Suddenly, a crisp bell sounded, and a breath on the street broke into Gu Shengchao's perception. That is a person, a breath with deep internal strength, and only this kind of breath that is absent but restrained is a real master.
When the innkeeper heard the sound of the bell, he suddenly woke up and ran upstairs to hide in a guest room. Gu Shengchao Nahan, what kind of bell can make this person so frightened and flee in the wilderness.
In Gu Shengchao's perception, three breaths came behind the master, and those three breaths were close to each other, slowly moving forward with the person in front. Among these three aura, there was one that seemed familiar, but it was unpredictable for Gu Shengchao to confirm. He was inexplicably panicked in his heart, and hurriedly went out of the door to follow.
At this moment, the drizzle is still there, and a man in black at the front holds a bell in his hand, and he picks it up and shakes it twice after walking for a while. Behind them was a black cloth covering the three people, only their calves could be seen, and zombies followed the man in black.
In the deserted alley, a person suddenly appeared, blocking the road like an iron tower. The man was a burly man, with a large hand like a dustpan, and in the other hand he held a sharp knife with blood stains on it, which should be a local butcher. He said angrily: "Where did the mongrels come from, the corpse is not in the wilderness, what is the reason for running to the city to deliberately scare us?" ”
The man in black was not in a hurry or impatient, Shi Li said: "The road is slippery in the dark, they are inconvenient to walk, and the road in the town is smooth and borrowed, and I hope to forgive me if there is anything wrong." ”
The butcher was still angry: "It's okay to borrow it, throw the bell away, we are upset when we hear it." ”
The man in black and Qi said: "They are all dead, and their souls have nowhere to rest, so they can only follow the bell and follow me, and invite this strong man Haihan." ”
"Fart, you know how to scare us, I have killed pigs and sheep a lot, and I have not seen any undead come to me to seek shelter, get out of the way." The butcher didn't believe the man in black's words, and his big fan-like hand grabbed the front of the man in black's chest.
When the man in black saw the big hand grabbing it, he took half a step back and reached out to hold the butcher's wrist, and twisted it sideways. The butcher seemed to be strong, but he couldn't stand steadily, staggered forward a few steps, and almost fell. The man in black saluted again: "You have to be forgiving and forgiving, and please ask the strong man to avoid it, let me wait to borrow it." ”
The butcher couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, so he pounced in anger and stabbed the man in black in the chest with a sharp knife in his hand. The man in black unhurriedly looked at the tip of the sharp knife that had touched his clothes, then he dodged sideways, grabbed the butcher's hand holding the knife with one hand, and pinched it slightly, and the butcher's sharp knife fell into the palm of the man in black. The butcher pounced too hard, and he couldn't hold it under his feet but still rushed over, and the man in black hooked his toes, and the butcher lay firmly on the ground, his face and mouth were full of mud.
"I'll fight with you." The butcher rolls over and rolls up his sleeves to play for his life.
The man in black didn't see a step under his feet, so he came to the butcher, he sprinkled some powder in front of the butcher with his left hand, and the bell in his right hand shook slightly, "Don't be crowded on Huangquan Road, but line up by the bridge." The man in black said that he ignored the butcher and walked slowly forward.
Strange to say, the butcher looked stupidly at the three people under the black cloth as he walked past him, and then followed behind, his legs as if they were tied with sticks, and walked straight up. The man in black took out a piece of black cloth and threw it backwards, covering the butcher right on.
Gu Shengchao felt that the butcher's tyrannical aura just now suddenly became docile, as if he was originally like this.
The bell in the black-clothed man's hand sounded intermittently, leading the four behind him out of the town and in front of a dilapidated mountain temple.
At this moment, the drizzle has stopped, and the half-crescent moon emerges from the cracks in the clouds, and then disappears into the dark clouds.
The two walked out of the mountain temple, each holding a torch in their hands, and one of them arched his hand and said, "My lord, have you brought all the goods?" ”
"I brought it, and I met a blind troublemaker halfway, and I also sent it too." The man in black said that the clouds were light and the wind was light.
The other lifted the black cloth, and all three were women, except for the butcher.
Gu Shengchao was sure that no wonder the aura of one of them seemed familiar, it was the girl he had been thinking about for a long time, Ding Ying. He couldn't help but be stunned, every time he met Ding Ying, it was always in such an unexpected way, with surprise and desolation.