Chapter Twenty-Three: The Red Sun Rises in the East
Dongfang is white, and the guards of the ethereal building behind him are gone.
"The End of the World" is easy to use, and it will take a while to master and become proficient, but there is no need to rush it. The two stopped and meditated on the spot, and after a night of running, Du Xi'er couldn't hold it anymore.
After pranayama, the two of them returned the same way, but found that they had not been going north for more than an hour, but some to the northwest. At this moment, I went back to the south, but I was out of the dense forest in a few moments.
On the bank of Yunmengze, the sound of water is murmuring.
The sun rises in the east, and the sun shines brightly.
The two of them stopped and looked up, and there was a dazzling sunlight shining out from the eastern woods. Du Xi'er jumped into the treetops, and Dugujing stayed on the ground and looked up.
At this moment, from the perspective of Dugujing, there is a dense forest in the east, casting thousands of shadows, while the west is extremely dazzling. Du Xi'er, on the other hand, had an east-facing face bathed in sunlight and cast a long shadow behind her.
In light and dark, Du Xi'er seemed to be standing between black and white, and at the same time reversed the two colors on her.
Quietly looking at the people standing on the treetops, Dugujing didn't care about it, and Du Xi'er's beautiful face shining in the early sun of the east attracted all his attention.
I don't know how long it took, but it seemed that it was only a moment, and the distant sun rose off the ground, and everything just now disappeared and disappeared again.
Falling back to the ground, Du Xi'er's expression was cold, and her clenched hands had already shown her determination.
Dugujing didn't know what Du Xi'er was thinking about just a moment, and Du Xi'er wouldn't tell him that the early sun just now was very similar to the sunset of the Mid-Autumn Festival three years ago.
In the early morning, the sky was just dawning.
Outsiders from the south gate of the state city came to dress ordinarily, a man and a woman, two young people, the two of them were dusty but their hands were empty, and they did not carry any baggage, and the woman was generous and graceful, and the man walked with his hands behind his back, obviously very human.
It was Du Xi'er and Dugujing.
Dugujing was worried that the Ethereal Tower would set up ambushes at various city gates, but Du Xi'er was eager to find Qin Guiyu's whereabouts, and the two could only venture into the city.
The two bypassed the west gate and entered the city from the south gate of Lizhou City, and spent some effort to stay at the inn last night, but nothing happened along the way.
When I came to the inn, I found that there were really traces of someone entering the two rooms where I was staying, and the clothes I had changed were also messed up.
When they came to another room, the weapons were still there, and the two spent some time discussing them, and then had breakfast in the inn and left.
A mourning hall has been erected in Qianhe Villa, and countless high-rollers who have not yet left have written letters to inform the sect or their families of what happened in the state city.
Since last night, the news of the death of the alliance leader has been taken away from Lizhou City, and at the same time, there is also what happened in Qianhe Villa.
Outside Qianhe Villa, there were several more wine shops and teahouses during this night, and Dugujing was sitting in a teahouse with blue clothes at the moment.
Looking at the gate of the villa from afar, Dugu Jingbei came from it, just now he wanted to return home, but he was stopped by the guards of the villa outside the gate. It turned out that Duguze had ordered him to be forbidden to enter the villa, and since then, Dugujing has no background and no support, and now he is just a down-and-out guest.
Dugujing kept drinking tea, which made Dr. Tea's face different, and secretly said that if this young man wants to drink, he will go to the wine shop next to him, and come to my teahouse to drink.
Jianghu high-rollers do prefer to drink alcohol rather than tea, and the restaurants next to them are full, and many people even stand on the side of the road with wine bowls and talk loudly.
"Yo, isn't this the third young master who has been expelled from the house?
Dugujing didn't expect that there were also people in these idle people who knew him, thinking it was an old acquaintance, but he didn't expect to look up and see that he was a man with a disheveled face and a meaty face, and he didn't know him.
Seeing that Dugu Jing glanced at himself and ignored him, the man was full of displeasure, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, everyone, come and see, this is Dugu Jing, the grandson of the third young master of the dignified Qianhe Villa and the master of the martial arts alliance." Yesterday, he was expelled from the house by the leader of the martial arts alliance himself, and I heard that I wanted to go back just now, but I was kicked out by the guards of Qianhe Villa. He laughed out loud.
Some of the people around him also burst into laughter, and more of them showed greedy eyes, looking Dugujing up and down, as if they wanted to see where he hid the Xuanwu Twin Daggers.
Dugu Jing was silent, just because what he said was indeed right, and his heart was even more sad for a while.
Suddenly, a wine bowl flew and smashed on the door of the man's face, the wine bowl was smashed, and the man also fell to the ground with an "oops", and when he got up angrily, his face was already bloody and blurred.
A man who looked like a scribe on the side of the road withdrew his hand and said, "The lost dogs of the Water Ghost Gang also dare to go wild." ”
The Water Ghost Gang was originally called the Water Dragon Gang, because most of the gang members were good at underwater kung fu and robbed fishermen on Yunmengze, so they were shameless by the Jianghu people and called the water ghosts. Many years ago, he was exterminated by Dugu Ming and his people, and he no longer appeared near Yunmengze.
The man with a meaty face was obviously a master who bullied the weak and was afraid of the hard, and when he saw that Dugujing had no support, he spoke sarcastically, and now he was taught by the scribe but he didn't dare to say a word.
The scribe came to Dugujing with a folding fan in his hand and sat down, Dugujing felt a burst of heat coming, and his heart was shocked, but he heard the scribe say: "It turned out to be the third young master, who was clumsy in his eyes, and I hope to forgive me for not recognizing it just now." ”
Dugujing hadn't paid attention to his surroundings before, but when he looked at it at the moment, he found that the scribe was a middle-aged man, with a pale face and skinny hands, as if he was riddled with diseases.
Dugu Jing said calmly: "Thank you seniors for breaking the siege, forgive the younger generations for their shallow knowledge, I don't know what the seniors call them?"
The spring breeze blew without the slightest heat, but after the scribe sat down, there seemed to be a bonfire lit around him, but he saw the scribe open the folding fan with slightly trembling hands and slowly fan his mouth: "The unknown people in the rivers and lakes, a lonely soul and a wild ghost, the third young master doesn't know." ”
Since the other party didn't want to say it, Dugujing didn't force it, but the other party appeared suddenly, and at the same time he was secretly vigilant in his heart, he thanked him again and counted the scribe's wine money in his own account.
The scribe looked remorseful, and said with a smile: "I knew that if the third young master paid the bill, I would have drunk a few more bowls, and I would have lost a loss." ”
Dugujing couldn't help laughing and said, "That junior accompanies the seniors to drink a few more cups." ”
The scribe laughed heartily and said yes.
After three rounds of drinking, the scribe suddenly asked, "What happened in the Ethereal Tower last night, does the third young master know?"
Dugu Jing pretended to be stupid and said that he didn't know.
The scribe said: "Last night, the drunkard Cheng Cheng and the arrogant two of them had an inseparable fight. ”
Dugujing continued to pretend to be stupid: "But the two people in 'drunk and infatuated pipa music, arrogant sword and sleeping in the rain and snow'?
The scribe said: "That's natural, but the two of them smashed a lot of things in the ethereal building, and Le Zhengshang was really angry and vomited blood." The ethereal building is also said to be a safe place in the world, but now it looks like this. ”
Dugu Jing said: "The fame is still not to be underestimated, but these two people are indeed strong in martial arts, and it is not surprising that the shopkeeper is difficult to deal with, but what kind of enmity do these two people have to do in the ethereal building?"
The scribe exclaimed, "The third young master really has a unique vision. Cheng was addicted to alcohol, but he was addicted to alcohol at night and stole alcohol, which woke Zhang Kuan up. This Zhang Kuan is also called insolence, how can it be good? The two of them just started to move. After speaking, he said: "Such a big thing, the third young master doesn't know about it?"
Dugujing sighed and said: "The seniors don't know, they haven't been in peace for a while since they left the house, and they haven't slept all night, how can they have the heart to take care of the idle affairs of the ethereal building." ”
The scribe nodded, "I see." There are still secrets in this, and the third young master must not know about it. ”
Dugu Jing said curiously: "Oh, can you tell me about it?" This curious look is real, and it has not been faked.
The scribe shook his fan and said: "I heard that Le Zheng used a jar of wine to set out Cheng Shi's words, according to what Cheng Shi said, someone broke into the Ethereal Tower at night last night, and coaxed him to say that there was good wine in the Ethereal Building, so these incidents occurred." I heard that there are two people, a man and a woman, who are about the same age as the third young master, what does the third young master think?"
Dugu Jing pouted and said: "Regardless of whether what the old drunkard said is true or not, if I am a senior, I must ignore him far away, this person must not be able to have a deep friendship, and it must be extremely unreliable to be able to speak with a jar of wine." ”
The scribe laughed: "Yes, yes!"
Many bowls of wine were in his stomach, and the scribe's eyes were red, and his pale and bloodless face and bony hands looked extremely terrifying, and at this moment he smiled and cast strange glances at others.
The scribe didn't care, stopped laughing and said, "I don't know what the third young master did last night, and he didn't sleep all night?"
The suddenness of the question made Dugujing stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "The things that everyone in the rivers and lakes knows, they have been turned over all over the guest house in the next place, which is really shameless." ”
When he said the words "shameless", Dugujing raised his voice, although he didn't know if those people were also around, but he was still a teenager, and he just wanted to scold the other party.
The scribe said: "I don't know if those shameless people are returning empty-handed?" The scribe also learned Dugujing's tone, and raised the volume of the words "shameless".
Dugu Jing said: "Naturally, I returned empty-handed. ”
The scribe said: "In this way, there were rumors yesterday that the Xuanwu Double Dagger was in the hands of the Third Young Master, is it true or false?"
Dugujing was silent.
The two looked at each other for a long time, the scribe suddenly laughed, and Dugujing also laughed for a moment, and the matter seemed to be revealed and stopped from mentioning.
The scribe seemed to say to himself, "But I don't know where the woman who broke into the ethereal tower that night is." ”
Dugu Jing said strangely: "Didn't the seniors say that there were two people, a man and a woman, and they were only interested in that girl?"
The scribe suddenly shook the folding fan vigorously and said, "What's going on this day, it's so hot, maybe it's too old to drink." Third Young Master, thank you for your hospitality today, we will have a meeting later. ”
Then the scribe got up and left.
After the scribe left, it was like a heat wave receding, and a cool breeze blew all around. Dugujing stretched out his hand and wiped his forehead, full of sweat.
After the scribe left, the crowd around him began to stir. Dugu Jing didn't know if the scribe had any thoughts about the Xuanwu Twin Daggers, but there must have been a lot of people who had ideas in the four places.
Dugujing slowly took out a piece of broken silver and slowly put it on the table, and as soon as he put it down, he immediately used light skills to escape and left.
The people around looked at each other, and no one chased after each other.
A dilapidated house outside Qianhe Villa has been obviously deserted and uninhabited for many years. When the scribe entered the house, there were more than a dozen people waiting.
The scribe said: "Dugujing must be the one who broke into the ethereal building last night, and today he not only wants to catch Du Xi'er, but also get the Xuanwu double dagger." ”