The east is slight, the morning sun dissolves gold, the banyan trees that can be seen everywhere are tall and straight, and the huge crown is soaked in the wet water vapor, green and green, more and more verdant.

The town woke up from the morning mist, and the occasional curling smoke rose silently from several dark yellow bamboo buildings, and the tranquility of fragrant bamboo rice was filled with it.

A shallow river turns and turns thousands of times between the rows of bamboo buildings, in the morning breeze, the riverside floats with a rhythmic sound of laundry, the ethereal sound of fish flying across the bottom of the river, penetrating the gurgling water, the cries of selling in the streets and alleys come and go, all are fresh and ordinary fireworks flowing.

Qu Tianxiong sat on the edge of the bed, his hands tightly on his knees, his face gloomy, and he was silent.

He didn't sleep all night, first defeated outside the town, and then gathered the remnants of the defeated army and hid back in the town, tossed all night, countless dead and wounded, but still nothing, inevitably decadent and obscure, after the decadence, but remembered a sentence to die and then live, in his opinion, things are far from a dead end, he can still fight, fight out a glimmer of life.

"Master, let's eat. The bamboo door rang softly, and Chang Sui came in with an ebony painted tray, and placed japonica rice porridge, assorted pickles, door oil baked cakes and half a salted duck egg on the Ruyi round table, and brought a copper basin to ask him to clean his hands and face.

Qu Tianxiong's hand was soaked in warm water, the fragrant honeysuckle rose and fell between his fingers, and he said slowly without any emotion: "What's going on with the princess?" ”

Chang Sui took a clean handkerchief, slowly wiped the water stains on Qu Tianxiong's hand, and said with a low bow: "Her Royal Highness the princess has been staying in that bamboo building and has never come out, but a team of people came out of that building at night. ”

"The more they looked, the more suspicious they became, and let the dead follow them all the way to see where they ended up. Qu Tianxiong glanced at the table, bowed his head slightly, picked out the duck egg yolk with chopsticks, put it in the japonica rice porridge, stirred slightly, and turned into a yellow and white piece, with a faint oil flower.

Qu Tianxiong has always been simple in food and clothing, just half a salted duck egg, a plate of assorted pickles, can eat half a pot of porridge, a few baked cakes, he sometimes wonders, he has worked hard to accumulate wealth and merit, what is it for, for food and clothing, he has never liked extravagance, can not spend a few silver; for children, his only righteous son, more simple than him; for women, although he has a group of wives and concubines, but they all have little affection, the only one who has entered his heart has entered the soil early, and the rest is just a scene and a moment of joy; as for the future official position, he was born in a businessman and worked for King Lin, but King Lin is cold and unkind, and there is no need to think about the future official position, it is not easy to live in peace.

Thinking that the road ahead was difficult, he lost his mind for a while, and suddenly felt that his hard work was really unreasonable, but he made a wedding dress for others in vain, and he drank a few mouthfuls of porridge before he settled down, and opened his mouth with a gloomy expression: "How many people are there in that building now." ”

Chang Sui frowned tightly, and said suspiciously: "Master, this matter is to blame here, all the people in that building have withdrawn this morning, and only the princess is left, and there is also a man." ”

"Man. Qu Tianxiong's slightly puffy eyelids twitched violently a few times, and he suddenly felt ominous, he put down his chopsticks with a "snap", and said in a deep voice: "Is it a living person?" ”

Chang Sui bowed slightly, his expression became more and more puzzled, obviously the appearance of that person was not expected by him at all, he hesitated, and said in disbelief: "That person's description is like, like Jiang Li, the young sect master of Tianyi Sect." ”

The words were amazing, Qu Tianxiong couldn't eat half a mouthful of food at all, frowned tightly, and hammered the table with all kinds of puzzlement: "Tianyizong, you can read carefully, is it true." ”

Chang Sui nodded hurriedly and said: "It's true, the romance of this young sect master is well known in the rivers and lakes, and his portraits are everywhere, although the villain is not from the rivers and lakes, he can also recognize him." ”

Tianyi Sect came to seize the Seven Star Map, and did not deliberately hide his whereabouts, Qu Tianxiong naturally knew it, but what he didn't expect was that the young sect master of this sect would have something to do with Luo Kui, in his memory, Luo Kui had never had anything to do with the Zhengyang Dao Sect, and the only time was that he didn't know what price he paid, and asked the Bloodthirsty Dao Bloodthirsty Sect to protect Huang Xuan.

Qu Tianxiong's eyebrows were frowned, the wrinkles were like knife carvings, he was quiet and silent for a long time, only to feel that there was a lot of strangeness in the meantime, and he couldn't figure it out, he slapped the table heavily, the porridge bowl jumped lightly, he sneered: "Interesting, this time the blood faction didn't make a move, but Tianyizong jumped out, the old man couldn't understand this cheap princess more and more, I didn't expect her to be so capable, hooked up with the young sect master of Tianyizong, I don't know what she promised, and I actually asked this person to help." ”

Chang Sui bowed slightly, smiled and whispered: "This young sect master has always been lustful. ”

Qu Tianxiong raised his eyebrows coldly with disdain, and sneered: "Lustful, then she has to be lustful too, Jiang Li has never seen anything stunning, and lustful will not be good for her." ”

Chang Sui thought of the appearance of the cheap princess, cold and damaged, not a little girl-like, my lord didn't know how many heels he had planted in her hands, the man really wouldn't like this kind of cold and hard girl, and couldn't help nodding again and again: "What the master said is, so what should we do next." ”

Qu Tianxiong picked a chopsticks and assorted pickles, and the food tasteless was tasteless, like chewing wax, Jiang Li is a leader in the younger generation, and he is also famous in the rivers and lakes, and his own face is tantamount to sending him to death, and the sect master of Tianyi Sect is the most protective of his shortcomings, and he can't afford to provoke him, he stared for a moment, and had an idea in an instant:" Whether the secret in the Seven Star Chart is in the hands of the princess, or in the hands of Su Zi, or in the hands of Du Heng, it is not yet known, so there is no need to provoke Jiang Li easily, just follow them all the way, and make plans when you return to Qingzhou. ”

"Wow. There is no need to face Jiang Li's disaster star, Chang Sui suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and said: "The affairs of Qingzhou have been arranged, so don't worry, master." ”

Qu Tianxiong bowed his head silently, suddenly a little flustered, Qingzhou is not as good as Hongxialing, Hongxialing can rely on the strength of the crowd to rob, but Qingzhou can only rely on conspiracy to steal, stealing is a technical job, ordinary people can't do it, he can't even get close to the house of the Shui family, let alone do it, the Shui family to the people of the Qu family, the only thing that is not defended is Qu Yuanshen, he thought of returning to Qingzhou, he had to beat his chest against his own son, and he had a headache.

"Well, keep an eye on the princess, and we'll follow them as soon as they're on their way. Qu Tianxiong said gloomily.

Chang Sui pursed his dry lips and said puzzledly: "Master, don't you need to hide your whereabouts." ”

Qu Tianxiong sneered: "What is there to hide, she knows the existence of the old man, and the old man also knows her existence, the two of us are fighting for a lifetime, there is no need to hide it, we just rely on our own ability." ”

Chang Sui gave a salute: "Oh, the villain went down and prepared." ”

Qu Tianxiong waved his hand weakly and continued to hang his head to eat.

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The room was as quiet as death, the bright candle under the window had long been extinguished, the candle tears had been stored in the celadon lampholder into layers of mountain peaks, and only a thin wisp of smoke remained on the Boshan stove, which was dispersed.

Jiang Li was dressed in a hibiscus shirt, lying next to his feet, one foot on the edge of the bed, and one hand holding the curtain, although the sleeping posture was quite indecent, but his face was peaceful, he breathed evenly, and slept peacefully and steadily, without the slightest defense.

The autumn-colored curtain suddenly trembled, the trembling was too violent, and between the swaying curtains, clusters of plain white and light pink hydrangeas also followed the vivid color.

Luo Kui pinched the collar of Yuebaizhong's coat, poked her head out from behind the curtain, lifted the curtain and hung it on the carved copper hook, looked around, and saw Jiang Li lying on the ground, salivating from sleep, she laughed and kicked Jiang Li hard: "Get up." ”

Jiang Li was still dazed and sleepy, turned over, looked at Luo Kui with confused eyes, and muttered: "Little demon girl, why are you so early, you have only slept for less than two hours in total, you are not sleepy." ”

Luo Kui took the lotus-colored skirt at the head of the bed and put it on, loosely pulled up her hair bun, and chuckled: "Don't be lazy, get up and pack up, have some breakfast, and let's leave for Qingzhou." ”

Jiang Li propped up her body, looked at her slightly pale face without powder, and smiled lightly: "So anxious, your injury, don't you have more days to recuperate, your face is still very ugly, no different from a dead person." ”

Luo Kui leaned over slightly, and half of the bloodless face fell in the bronze mirror, it was really not very good-looking, she touched her long dry hair again, and ran around outside for so long, how could it be good-looking, she shook her head and smiled, she had always relied on this face, so she said softly: "Don't raise it, let's go back to Qingzhou at the same time as Su Zi Du Heng and them, the rest of the things will be easy to do, let's slow foot, we must set off as soon as possible, and only if I go, the people of the Qu family will all follow, so the disciples trapped in the town will have the opportunity to get out." ”

Jiang Li got up quickly, put on the crimson robe neatly with his hands and feet, turned his head and sat in front of the bronze mirror, the jade comb shook lightly behind him, and he raised his chin at the falling sunflower in the bronze mirror.

Luo Kui shook her head helplessly and smiled, although she was clumsy, but she was just combing a man's hair in a bun, which was not difficult.

Unexpectedly, she combed it several times and changed several styles, but none of them were in line with Jiang Li's wishes, so she had to comb and dismantle, dismantle and comb again, until her arms were sore and numb, and she scolded madly in her heart.

After scolding for a long time, Luo Kui felt that it was not enjoyable enough, so he picked up the corners of his lips, pulled out a smile from Sensen, pulled his hand hard, pulled a strand of hair, and screamed miserably.

Jiang Li was about to have a seizure, but when he saw Luo Kui in the bronze mirror, he was carrying the strand of hair in his hand, and he was smiling on his lips, and he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, how dare he deliberately pick and choose, so he had to grit his teeth and hold his breath and keep silent.