Chapter Seventy-Four: Confucianism
Li Wei'an couldn't sleep all night, and as soon as he fell asleep, he saw Nan Huaijin looking at him angrily, for some reason, he was so scared, and when he woke up, he muttered: "Isn't it my life, afraid of my wife?"
I don't know where the wind blew down a few fallen leaves in the forest in front of Li Wei'an's eyes, he quickly got up, it was still dark, he looked at Nan Huaijin's position in the distance, but people were already asleep, Lu Qingxue lit a bonfire and accompanied him. It was his own cranky thoughts that caused him to be sleepless.
Thinking about it carefully, maybe it was what he said wrong last night, which annoyed her, and I will talk about it later, this kind of thing may be more appropriate for my father, he nodded secretly, and looked at the tent of the Yunzhou Iron Horse in the distance There are still night patrol soldiers, he took out a few dry cakes from the baggage, it was cold, but the people of Yunzhou were used to it, and they were not afraid of hardness, so they walked over and chatted with a few Yunzhou soldiers in their hands.
At dawn, the two met, Nan Huaijin saw Li Wei'an approaching, so he took two steps back and went around to get on the horse, Li Wei'an really felt that he really did something wrong last night, and he didn't know what the women in the Song Kingdom were like, he was also the first beauty in Yunzhou, although he was a man, he was nothing more than handsome.
The old Taoist priest pointed the way, as if he had a certain number in his heart, everyone followed him, walking on some wild stone roads, sometimes he had to walk around, walking through the mountains, walking for more than ten days, he had to step out of the realm of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, Ji Xiang's eyes were complicated, sometimes he stared at the Northern Liao Kingdom in a daze, looking at the old people from afar, and often asked for wine to eat.
"Senior brother...... Senior sister, what's wrong with senior brother lately?" Nan Huaijin asked, senior brother Ji Xiang is a drunkard, and what is said on the rivers and lakes is that after he went to the Northern Liao Kingdom, he fell in love with a woman, and he didn't know what happened, and when he came back, he was drunk every day, and even the peerless martial arts were no longer practiced.
Senior Brother is gifted, he is the first disciple of the master's sect, and he may inherit the master's position as the master of the Ling Tianmen sect in the future.
Lu Qingxue just shook her head, signaling her not to mention it in front of her senior brother, who knows why he went to the Northern Liao Kingdom alone at that time, maybe he was really infatuated with a Northern Liao woman, don't say this in front of him.
"Is it cold?"
Nan Huaijin turned around, it was Li Wei'an who rode over on a horse, he was skillful, he came to her side, holding a roll of animal skin clothes in his hand: "This is for you." ”
Nan Huaijin looked at him, lowered her eyebrows and turned around and said, "I'm not cold." ”
"Isn't it cold, then ...... you" Li Wei'an still wanted to say something, he looked at the woman's nose with a touch of red, she was clearly very cold, the fingers holding the reins were slender, white like jade.
The woman rode a Yunzhou horse, as if she was deliberately avoiding suspicion, and it was not like it, but she was avoiding him.
The footsteps did not stop, according to the words of the old Taoist, he arrived today when the sun set, as if the old Taoist priest knew where the magician was.
"Taoism is natural, you follow the old Taoist priest to learn skills, it is much more useful than learning some art of war from your father, you can eat everywhere you go, what the years, we Taoist priests don't have to worry about eating and drinking. "The old Taoist priest is very confident, as if he said that even Yunzhou is not as good as a Taoist priest's ability.
"Stinky Daoist. Li Wei'an only thinks he is bragging, this Taoist priest is like this, he talks like this nonsense all day long, except for his father and those old people, the juniors are just laughing a few times.
Li Zhongting is also very diligent these days, as long as the team stops, he will take people to pick up some dry firewood and branches, and build a bonfire.
"Today is finally here. ”
"I just don't know what kind of person the curse is, when the curse was given, Huai'er went to the master's gate, and he never went down the mountain, how could he be cursed?" Lu Qingxue rode a horse, her face was strange, she suddenly remembered the old man who died in the land temple at the beginning, Nan Huaijin called him Qi Bo, Lu Qingxue didn't forget it because Nan Huaijin herself often remembered.
"Huai'er may have come from the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the past. Ji Xiang said.
Perhaps, Nan Huaijin herself didn't know where she came from, she was very small at that time, she was so big, I only remember that Qi Bo led her all the way to the south when she was young, and I don't know why.
Nan Huaijin is not a Song person.
At least her parents, in the north.
Thinking of this, Nan Huaijin lowered his eyes, and several Qingyun disciples were so cold that they wrapped the black glazed cowhide on their bodies, and when they saw Nan Huaijin slow down, they said, "Senior sister, but it's cold?"
Nan Huaijin shook his head: "It's okay." ”
About to enter the city in front of him, Ruzhou City is the northernmost one in the sixteen states of Yanyun, the city walls are only more than two zhang high, and the Confucian soldiers guarding the town above are just some weak soldiers who look not mighty and tall, and there are no guards.
Under the banner of Confucianism, these Confucian soldiers have already seen the Yunzhou cavalry coming from afar, but there are more than 300 horses, but a piece of flying snow rolled up by iron horses, coming from west to east, one of the eight scouts in front of him is holding the Yunzhou Yunzi flag, and the other is holding the Lilong flag.
The cavalry did not enter the city, but stopped a mile outside the city, and the young guards Li Wei'an and Ji Xiang and others arrived, and only more than 100 sentry cavalry followed, and the rest of the 200 cavalry were camped outside the city.
This is the rule set by Li Chen, all Yunzhou soldiers, no matter which city they enter, even if it is the order of Emperor Liao, at most a quarter of the soldiers and horses will be transferred into the city, even the dark horses of Yunzhou Iron Cavalry, with these cavalry, only when people die, will the horses that are not dead be raised in Yunzhou City.
"Ruzhou City, we've arrived. Wei Zhengjue exhaled a breath of cold air, turned his head and said to Ji Xiang behind him, under the heavy snow, there are few passers-by in the city of Ruzhou, and the streets are neat, and when you look closely, you feel that this is the city of the Great Song Dynasty.
Nan Huaijin also looked around, there were few people around, she simply got off the horse and walked out into the street, the snow covered her leather boots, and every step she took had to fall into some snow.
"Let her play, I've been sitting for so long right away, Dao Chief, let's get off the horse too?" Ji Xiang said.
Daoist Wei didn't mind, Li Wei'an led the horse to the front early, he didn't dare to get too close to Nan Huaijin.
The city of Ruzhou is not as tall as Yunzhou, and there are many fewer people, and there is a long street, but there are only scattered seven or eight people rushing outside, and there are two large guards sitting outside the stone steps of the house gate, with a pile of firewood under their feet, and squatting down to warm their hands.
"Come with me. Daoist Wei said, he seemed to be very familiar with Ruzhou City, walking through the alleys.
Although Ji Xiang and the others were different, they still hurriedly followed, and the Qingyun disciples followed the footsteps, and everyone came to a remote garden on the edge of the city.
Everything in the garden withered, the heavy snow also collapsed half of the shed, and where no one took care of it, the stones fell to the ground, and Daoist Wei was stunned for a moment, but still stepped into the garden.
The Qingyun disciples were talking a lot, and Ji Xiang was also puzzled in his heart about what this Wei Daoist was doing.
Wei Daoshi is his old place again, when he first saw that person, it was in this garden, but unfortunately things are not people, not a few years, this garden has become dilapidated.
"The Taoist ......"
Ji Xiang just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Wei Zhengjue waving his hand, his hand was in his ear, as if he was listening to something, Ji Xiang had to tell everyone not to make a sound, Nan Huaijin was curious, how did Daoist Wei find the person who put the curse.
The wind of the heavy snow was not small, and the snow that rolled up the aisles on both sides fell on everyone, but since the senior brother had spoken, the atmosphere of the more than twenty Qingyun disciples had slowed down, and Shi Xiao stared at the old Taoist priest listening attentively, and his heart was also very strange.
The wind and snow scraped off a layer of fine soil on the wall, something moved in the rubble and rubble, but the sound was very subtle, the old Taoist priest chopped the side of the half-collapsed shed, the old Taoist priest found the direction, a retreat stepped on a large piece of earth wall three zhang away, the earth wall was broken by one foot, everyone watched, there was a blue and red snake, with a three-pointed head, winding out of the earthen wall.
The snake was not long, nor fast, and crawled over the rubble in front of everyone, crawling outward.
"Found it! This person is really not dead! He is still alive!" The old Taoist priest raised his eyes, the skin on his face wrinkled down, he was relieved, as long as he was still there, but he was surprised in his heart, how could this person survive, he didn't know, it was very strange.
"Daoist has found clues?" Ji Xiang asked, Daoist Wei had a smile on his face at the moment, obviously he had found the person he was looking for, and Li Chen's matter could be explained.
Wei Zhengjue nodded, and said, "You have to keep up with this long worm, if you hide again, you won't be able to find it." ”
This snake was originally sheltered from the wind and snow under the earthen wall, and it had already slept peacefully, and it was originally only a shrunken squirm at most, but now it was broken by Wei Zhengjue's foot, and the poisonous snake was frightened and crawled faster than usual.
Ji Xiang hurriedly followed the footsteps of Daoist Wei, and the rest of the people also hurriedly chased after him, this Wei Zhengjue looked at the age of seventy or eighty years old, and he was very stiff, but with light skills, he insisted on chasing the direction of the snake, and he couldn't slow down the distance of a few steps.
The snake couldn't climb far, and finally entrenched itself on the snow, staring at Wei Zhengjue who had chased it, spitting a black-brown snake letter in his mouth, although Ji Xiang didn't know what Wei Daoshi meant, he still raised the sword in his hand, but was stopped by Wei Zhengjue.
"Don't worry, this worm has a master, you have to save your junior sister, don't be rude. Wei Zhengjue's face was serious, not like a joke.
Ji Xiang thought about it, and didn't know what kind of character it was, this poisonous snake was obviously not a vulgar thing, looking at the three tips of the snake's head, he knew that it was a poisonous long worm, red, white, gold and silver, blue and purple can see the poison of the snake, this snake is blue and red, it must be extremely poisonous.
If one day can develop bruises, it is the poison in the mouthparts of this poisonous snake has been tempered thousands of times, and the toxicity is not what it used to be, the snake's head is like a dead leaf, and the patches on the body are blue and red and distinct, obviously not yet hot.
Ji Xiang couldn't help but think more, walking the rivers and lakes, even if his martial arts are peerless and extraordinary, he is never afraid of conspiracy and tricks, but if he eats a glass of water and wine in the inn, he must be afraid of poison in the wine.
What kind of character can raise such a poisonous worm and be good at spells, so why should he return his junior sister?
"Dao Chief, do you recognize this person?" asked Ji Xiang.
Daoist Wei nodded and said, "Don't worry, although I have raised some poisons, I am not bad, I am actually from the Central Plains." ”
"Then this spell is not from the secret art of the Liao people?" Ji Xiang frowned, he didn't remember what Daoist Wei said at the beginning......
"It's important to save people, the rest," Wei Zhengjue leaned his back and didn't want to say more, looked at the side of the alley and whispered, "Fortunately, he's here." ”