Chapter 1 Supervising the Imperial History, Chen Liubai
The dust road of three lives is exhausted today, and the ambition is long.
In the first year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong withdrew the state and changed it into a county.
In the second year of Tianbao, at dusk in June, the capital of Henan Province, Chen Liucheng.
In the distance, the two of them each rode a horse, stepped on the wind and dust, and stopped at the gate of the White Mansion. Walking in front is a young man in his twenties, a resolute and heroic face is hidden under the tired look, and the beard that has not been taken care of for a long time is full of vicissitudes and hardships, this person's name is Bai Yijing, who is the supervision of the imperial history of the imperial court, and moved his family here two years ago for business trips.
Bai Yushi dismounted and greeted the man in black behind him, and said, "Please also ask Brother Wu to come in with me to wash up, let Humble Jing fry a few side dishes, you and I have two drinks, let me express my gratitude a little." The black-clothed man surnamed Wu looked younger than Bai Yijing, his face was thin, and his eyes were very sharp, he thanked him and declined: "Bai Yushi has arrived home safely, I have completed the task, my lord enjoys the joy of family, I still have to go back to the sect overnight to resume my life, and it is inconvenient to bother again." ”
Seeing him like this, Bai Yijing didn't force him to stay, took out two wine gourds from the side of the saddle and handed them to him, and asked: "This is the local Bai Gan of Langya County, you keep one pot, and bring the other pot to my brother-in-law." ”
Bai Yijing's righteous brother is named Qin Keji, known as the "Shield of the Sword Sect", he is a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, the two have the same temperament, they are both upright and upright people, they were righteous and righteous when they were young, and their feelings have always been excellent.
The young man surnamed Wu and Qin Keji are both members of the One Sword Sect, and they are from the same family, but the seniority in the sect is much lower than Qin Keji. Since the beginning of the Zhenguan period, the imperial court has such a rule: whenever an official goes out on business, depending on the size of his official position and the urgency of the affairs he does, he will arrange a number of disciples of the Yijian Sect to escort him. Bai Yijing was ordered to secretly inspect the whole of Henan Province this time, and he couldn't be too public, so he only took one person forward, this person's name was Wu Gang, an elite disciple of the One Sword Sect, and his ability to handle things and martial arts were excellent.
Wu Gang was not polite, took the wine gourd, thanked him, and rode away.
Bai Yijing handed the horse to the servant and stepped through the door. When the little man guarding the door saw that the master had returned, he hurriedly shouted loudly, and a little girl of four or five years old with pigtails ran out of the house, shouting: "Daddy! Daddy...... This is Bai Yijing's daughter, named Bai Rose. The loving father thought about his daughter, squatted down, opened his arms to greet his daughter, and the little rose took three steps and made two steps to pounce on her father's arms.
At the door of the hall stood a young woman, a boy of seven or eight years old, who was Bai Yijing's wife Fan and son Bai Fuzhi. He walked over and touched the boy's head vigorously and asked, "How is Zhi'er's homework lately?"
"The child is diligent every day and does not dare to slack off. Bai Poria replied obediently.
"Okay! Go back to the study to deal with business for my father first, and I will listen to your endorsement in an hour. Bai Yijing was deeply relieved and patted his son on the shoulder.
"It's dark, and it's never too late for my husband to finish dinner. The wife didn't want Bai Yijing to be so tired, so she persuaded softly.
"You and the children should eat first, the matter is urgent, and there is no delay. Bai Yijing put down his daughter and went straight to the study, it was already midday, and it was completely dark.
About an hour later, the night was very quiet, Bai Yijing stopped his pen and put the written fold into the envelope, and stamped his own stamp on the seal. Then he opened the door and called in the housekeeper and told him: "You go out of the city overnight, hurry up and hand over the things to the Yushitai." ”
After thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate, so he took the letter back. Bai Yijing pondered: In recent years, the Imperial Historical Observatory has also been a miasma, covering up the wind, this matter is very important, and it is more reliable to personally submit it to the Holy Lord early tomorrow morning.
"Forget it, I'll make other arrangements for this matter, you go and call Fu Zhi, I'm going to check his homework. ”
Not long after the housekeeper left the room, Bai Yijing heard a noise in the courtyard, as if someone had knocked something over, followed by a sound of footsteps rushing towards him, and he was about to get up to see what was going on. There was a loud bang, and the door was kicked open, and this man was so great that he kicked one door to pieces, and it shattered directly, and half of the other door fell off and hung on it. At the doorway stood a man, dressed in nightclothes, wearing a terrible ghost mask, and carrying a bleeding machete in his hand.
"Who are you, what are you going to do!" Bai Yijing asked the man in black angrily. At the same time, as if by juggling, he hid the envelope on the table in the cuff in the blink of an eye.
"Murder, robbery. The man sneered, and the yin and yang strange qi said.
Bai Yijing didn't say anything more, quickly untied the sword hanging on the wall behind him, and stabbed it with the momentum of the wind. The man in black took a good stance, and when the sword was about to come, the horizontal knife was slashed, and the iron sword was cut open by the big sword.
Bai Yijing didn't expect that the manpower was so great, he was shocked, he hurriedly stabilized his body, and came diagonally, the sword collided again, a burst of sparks splashed, Bai Yijing was shocked to the point that his mouth was numb, and the sword in his hand almost fell off. After another three or five rounds, Bai Yijing roughly understood the number of the opponent's knife techniques, this person seems to be thin, but he has practiced hard kung fu such as "Qianniu Jin", paying attention to steady and steady fighting, strong and heavy, but not flexible enough.
Bai Yijing grasped this point and deftly drew his sword, like a snake. It often starts with a straight stab, but when it reaches the front, it becomes a chop, and when it is diagonally stroked, it becomes a digging and picking when it reaches the front.
After a few more rounds, the man was completely led and beaten by Bai Yijing, and the man in black became more and more impatient the more he fought, gradually messing up the road and being forced into the corner.
At this moment, there were a few more screams in the courtyard, followed by the howling and crying of children, Bai Yijing was very worried when he heard it, and the situation was so critical that he could not be entangled anymore, only to see him kick twice on the side wall, get up with the help of volleys, and attack condescendingly.
The corner of the room is narrow, the big knife is inconvenient to shake, the man in black subconsciously moved two steps to avoid it, Bai Yijing's sword was originally a false move, the movement of the man in black was in his arms, and before his body landed, he took two steps to the right in the air with the remaining momentum, and the iron sword in his hand also changed from straight to oblique splitting, and the man in black didn't have time to make any noise, a sword light from his left eye to his right shoulder fell on him, killing him on the spot, Bai Yijing grabbed the door and went out.
When I went out, I saw the corpses of my servants lying on the ground, and the flowers and leaves were beaten everywhere, full of dilapidation and a mess. The only two remaining young men stood guard at the door of the bedroom with knives and fought the trapped beasts. Bai Yijing was sad and sorrowful, he really didn't know who had such a deep hatred with him, or rather, in fact, he had already guessed it, but he didn't want to believe it, and he couldn't believe that the other party's power was so big.
Bai Yijing understood the momentum of the other party's undying, and he was not a bandit who robbed the house at all, so he no longer hid his clumsiness, and rushed towards the bedroom with a few arrows, the cold light of the long sword in his hand flashed, mixed with the sound of breaking the sky, and he killed two people in a row in an instant, blocking in front of the little guy.
Bai Yijing yelled: "Take the lady and the child first!" and then entangled with the remaining black-clothed people. Although he is not a disciple of the One Sword Sect, he often learns martial arts with his righteous brother Qin Keji, and he still knows some of the core essence of the swordsmanship of the One Sword Sect.
After fighting for more than ten moves, both sides stopped taking advantage of the gap and tested each other, but no one dared to make a rash move. At this time, the door also flashed open, and the two little girls each held a baby, leading Bai Yijing's wife and children to run towards the back door.
"Papapa" A few rhythmic clapping sounds came from the courtyard, Bai Yijing followed the prestige, and saw that there was a person in the courtyard standing there alone leaning on the plane tree, wearing the same ghost mask, mixed in the night.
"I heard earlier that Bai Yushi liked to be a ranger when he was a teenager, and he practiced good kung fu, and sure enough, the fight just now was really exciting. A trembling and terrible sound floated over. If the voice of the person who broke into Bai Yijing's study belonged to the cold and gloomy system, then the voice of the person in the courtyard was more like a voice from Senluo Hell.
As soon as the words were finished, a ghostly figure suddenly came, Bai Yijing didn't dare to be careless at all, he concentrated on raising his sword, and the three-foot frost in his hand plunged straight into the man's heart. He was overjoyed in his heart, this man did not dodge or dodge, but let himself be stabbed firmly.
"No, I obviously stabbed him, why can't I feel any resistance from the muscles?" Bai Yijing was a little flustered. "Could it be a ghost?"
His sword stabbed down as if it were like a ...... It's like piercing a blank piece of paper, it's more like piercing the reflection of a person in the water, the water ripples, and the reflection also disperses.
Just when Bai Yijing was distracted, there was a whistling palm wind in his back, and before he could make any moves, he was slapped alive, staggered two steps and almost planted on the ground, only to feel that his throat was itchy, and a mouthful of red blood spurted out.
"When did that person get around behind me? I didn't even notice it!" Thinking of this, Bai Yijing was in a cold sweat.
"I'll take care of Bai Yijing, you go after his wife and children, don't let one go!" The poignant voice sounded in his ears again.
Bai Yijing wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and cheered up, only to see that the figure in black shook, leaving a burst of afterimages on the spot, and in a moment his palms came to his eyes again, eating a trench and growing wise, Bai Yijing did not make a real move this time, pretending to use his palm to counteract, and sure enough, he was empty again, he took two steps back before he could close his palm, and the man in black suddenly appeared in the place where he was standing just now, and naturally he was empty.
Bai Yijing thought to himself: "If I hadn't taken these two steps back, I'm afraid I would have been slapped again." ”
The two of them shook a shot like this and then changed places, you and I fought back and forth for more than 30 rounds, during which Bai Yijing was hit with three punches and two kicks, but he did not suffer any fatal injuries.
At this time, there was a fight in the backyard, I am afraid that the lady and they were caught up by the thieves, Bai Yijing was anxious, and one bowed down to the roof, and then "swished" and kicked out dozens of tiles one after another, and the person at the bottom moved left and right, and his body was very chic, but there were too many tiles, and he was in a hurry, and he was still inevitably hit three or five times.
When Bai Yijing saw that the man was hit, he didn't dwell on it, jumped along the ridge of the roof to another roof like a raccoon cat, and hurried forward on the roof until he jumped into the backyard and came looking for his wife and children. But he said that the man was not in a hurry to chase him just now, patted the dust on his body slowly, and walked leisurely towards the backyard, as if playing a game of cat and mouse.
Bai Yijing is still a step late......
The wife was lying in a pool of blood, the devil's butcher's knife was about to reach out to her son, and the daughter was huddled in the corner of the courtyard trembling...... At that moment, Bai Yijing seemed to be stunned and stood in place, he vaguely saw that his son Bai Fuzhi seemed to be waving to him when he fell, and he seemed to see the panicked and high-spirited self when he first became a father eight years ago.
After the pain of the heart like a knife, only the anger of the heart is full of anger, the anger of the crown, the anger of the eyes split. During the fight in the front yard, Bai Yijing's hat hairpin fell off at some point, and his hair fell out, but at this time, there was no wind and automatically, floating in the air like teeth and claws, reflecting his pale face, which was very terrifying. He rushed over like crazy, slashing at each other, with no rules to speak of, and after a scuffle, the only three men in black were killed.
Bai Yijing also hung colors on his body, he put down the long sword in his hand, walked over and picked up the frightened Bai Rose, gently wiped the tears on his daughter's face with his sleeve, grinned at her, slowly soothed the child's back, and said softly: "Okay, okay, daddy is here, daddy is here......"
Bai Yijing's strength in his hand increased, and he coldly slapped his daughter on the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious. He overturned the large stone tank used to store water in the corner of the courtyard, turned it upside down and hid his daughter in it, and put a stone underneath it so that it could be ventilated.
Seeing the black-clothed master coming over in an orderly manner, Bai Yijing's eyes were full of grief, and he whispered faintly: "I know that I am the enemy of you, but the family is going to be here today, can you tell me before I die, who I lost!"
The man scoffed, "Wait a minute, ask Hades yourself." ”
followed by a swift kick, Bai Yijing also returned his feet in the air, his legs just touched, the man turned into an afterimage and disappeared, and when he appeared in front of Bai Yijing again, the two were only a fist away, Bai Yijing had not retracted his legs, and a move swept the fallen leaves towards the man, and the man in black disappeared again......
"Double Phantom!" Bai Yijing exclaimed, he suddenly felt bad, and was about to withdraw, but when he saw a cold light coming from the sky, he didn't know when the person appeared, and he didn't know when he pulled out his sword, none of this mattered, and when Bai Yijing came back to his senses, the sword had already stabbed him in the shoulder.
Bai Yijing, who was in severe pain, let out a muffled snort, the sword was originally coming at his neck, but the light in the corner of the courtyard was insufficient, and he went astray.
Bai Yijing pressed the wound tightly, collapsed on the ground and slowed down for a while, staggered to his feet, spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm on the ground, and said abruptly: "Do you think that killing me will be the end of the matter? Paper will never be able to contain the fire, and in the future, there will be thousands of supervising the ambitions of the wolf such as the imperial historian to find out and show it to the world. ”
Gong Shengming, Lian Shengwei, and Bai Yijing did not speak loudly, but they were sonorous and powerful, and the mountains and rivers were magnificent.
After finishing speaking, Bai Yijing clicked on his three major acupoints from top to bottom, only to see that his clothes inside and outside swelled up like a blow, and his face became redder and redder like charcoal fire, until he could emit light, like a lantern in the night.
Bai Yijing's clothes were shattered into pieces of cloth, collapsing everywhere, his naked upper body emitted hot smoke, the meridian bones crackled, and the terrifying aura in the sky was like a killing god coming to the world.
Where had the man in black seen such martial arts, and he was so shocked that he didn't know what to do for a while.
This was originally a kind of secret art that was not passed on in Bai Yijing's hometown of Jiannan Shu, called "Seeing Death as if Suddenly Returning" - relying on igniting one's own essence and blood as a sacrifice, the evil martial arts that improved the internal strength in a short period of time often killed one thousand enemies and self-inflicted eight hundred, and it had to be when the difference between the martial arts of the two sides was not large, and over time, this kind of evil art that was fatal but not ingenious faded out of the sight of the rivers and lakes, and only a little Sichuan and Shu families knew a little bit.
Bai Yijing turned into a rainbow light and rushed towards the man, rolling up the dust all over the courtyard, the man in black had not seen anything, and suddenly felt that his internal organs seemed to be pressed by a thousand heavy objects, which was actually the power of Bai Yijing's punch, but seeing that the man was thrown out like a sandbag, pierced the door, crushed the tables and chairs, and fell hard in the house, Bai Yijing roared and chased after him, found the man in black who vomited blood in the mess, picked up the man's ankle with one hand, and was about to fall to the wall, the man in black took out a small box from his chest in a panic, and pressed it indiscriminately, and at the same moment, Bai Yijing collapsed on the ground and did not move......
The man in black spat at Bai Yijing's corpse and scolded angrily: "Dog thing!" Then he picked up the small box just now, and said to himself: "The first person to die under the 'Dense Rainy Tianluo', you are not wronged." ”
The murderer limped out of the back door of the White Mansion, waved his hand at the dark place on the street corner, and before entering the White Mansion, he had made all the preparations, in order to prevent Bai Yijing from escaping through the back door, he had already set up an ambush! After a while, two people wearing the same night clothes and ghost masks came out.
The man's face was full of embarrassment, and he gasped for breath, and commanded them: "Go and see if there is any room alive, and then ...... Burn here!"
When the two of his men entered the door, the man removed his mask, and it turned out to be an unusually young and delicate cheek.