Chapter 10: Bad News Arrives
After drinking chicken soup and resting for a while, Xiao Yi felt much better, watching the bell busy, Xiao Yi was thinking about his own business.
Suddenly, in his mind, a white figure flew in his direction from the guards at home, and after hesitating, Xiao Yi did not call anyone.
"Bell, a friend will come to see me in a while, you go outside the door to greet me!" Xiao Yi said to Bell.
"Yes, young master!"
After a while, the bell ushered in a woman dressed in white.
"You know I'm coming?" asked Liu Ruoshui.
"Girl, what's the matter with coming to me, you won't want to kill me, will you?" Xiao Yi laughed twice, but seeing that the woman was just looking at herself and not laughing, Xiao Yi's laughter turned into a dry laugh.
"It's not humorous at all!" muttered Siu.
"This is for you, red externally, white internal. The woman threw two bottles of Shimen's secret elixir to Xiao Yi.
"Well, thank you, girl, I don't know what the girl's name is. ”
Liu Ruoshui looked at Xiao Yi and looked at Xiao Yi with hair.
"It's inconvenient. ”
"Ruoshui. ”
"What?" Xiao Yi didn't hear clearly.
"My name is Liu Ruoshui. Liu Ruoshui was about to leave after speaking, but after thinking about it, he walked up to Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi was still about to speak, Liu Ruoshui had already turned Xiao Yi's body one hundred and eighty degrees, the woman put her hands against Xiao Yi's back, and a neutral and peaceful, slightly cool true qi spread from the woman's palm to Xiao Yi's back acupoint, helping Xiao Yi open up the meridians little by little and straighten out the qi and blood.
Xiao Yi felt the woman's true qi wandering, and he also closed his eyes and exercised his skills, returning the escaping true qi to the dantian.
About half an hour later, the woman's right hand turned Xiao Yi's body back, and raised Xiao Yi's arms forward with both hands, facing each other with her palms, and running her true qi.
The palm wound on Xiao Yi's chest was originally inflicted by Liu Ruoshui, so the cold qi left in Xiao Yi's body was recovered by Liu Ruoshui like a bird returning to the mountains and forests, but it took a lot of effort to repair the broken meridians.
The cold decreased, Xiao Yi's body no longer felt cold, and Xiao Yi slowly opened his eyes. On the other side, Liu Ruoshui closed his eyes, dressed in white, his long hair was as smooth as a waterfall, and his face was still veiled, and he could vaguely see the face of the country.
The two sat cross-legged and only a few feet apart, Xiao Yi could see the silk lines on the woman's face and neck, her eyebrows moved slightly, and the woman seemed to feel something, and her face was slightly red.
"Collect your thoughts, do your best, and don't be distracted!" the woman scolded.
Xiao Yi hurriedly closed his eyes, and the two of them exercised for two more weeks, making sure that Xiao Yi's true qi could operate intact on its own, and the woman stopped.
"Thank you Miss Liu for healing and saving your life!" Xiao Yi got up and said.
"You take the medicine again, it'll be fine after a few more days of pranayama, I'm leaving!"
"Miss Liu, stay!"
"What else?"
"Eh, just ask Miss Liu which sect she is from, what is she doing in the mountain city, but do you want to help?"
"The affairs of the sect should be kept secret, and as for helping, we will talk about it when you are healed. The woman walked away quickly.
At noon on the second day, in the pavilion outside the main hall of the Xiao family, the two of them were playing chess with black and white, and the young man was naturally Xiao Yi. The other was dressed in brocade clothes, probably in his forties, and it was the Emperor Fu Gao of Shancheng County.
There is no competition between the two of them on the chess board, Xiao Yi's chess path at this time is quite soft, and he is still slowly saving up his "momentum", and Lord Huangfu is even more tepid.
"Virtuous nephew, the imperial court has already made a will, and all the affairs in the rivers and lakes will be handled by Haoran Academy, unless there are people in the rivers and lakes who violate the law in the local area, they cannot be disposed of at will. This time, the official risked the penalty and lost his official position, and transferred you 200 hard bows and 100 hard crossbows. Huangfu Gao said.
"Thank you Uncle Huangfu for your help, I will return it another day!" Xiao Yi put away the white chess pieces and said with a straight face.
"Well, fortunately, the virtuous nephew was reused by the imperial court a few days ago and was named the special envoy of the five-grade salt transport, although the appointment of the official has not yet come down, but the official dispatched some bows and crossbows to temporarily protect the virtuous nephew. Huangfu laughed.
"Uncle Huangfu, please rest assured, once the danger here is removed, I will return it as soon as possible. Xiao Yat said.
After the two finished the game, Huangfu Gaocai took his leave under the escort of the guards.
Xiao Yi looked at the endgame between the two, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, since Huangfu Gao lent the bow and crossbow to the Xiao family, Xiao Yi finally had a second ally in the mountain city, and the first one was of course the old man Qi of the Qi family.
Thinking of the old man of the Qi family in the morning, Xiao Yi's smile converged. When he told Qi Lao about the speculation that Wangyue Sect was likely to have an innate level master who would come to the mountain city in the near future, Qi Lao's face changed greatly, and he changed his previous calmness.
"Is the innate realm really so terrifying?" Xiao Yi asked at the time, Xiao Yi had never seen an innate master, but when he saw Old Man Qi's gaffe, he was afraid that it would be more troublesome than he imagined.
"Virtuous nephew, what do you think of the old man's cultivation strength?" asked Qi Lao with squinted eyes.
"Uncle Qi is really pure, has strong external skills, and is experienced, and the little nephew is willing to bow down!"
"The old man told you that if you go head-to-head with the innate master alone, the old man will definitely not survive half an hour before he will be in a different place. ”
Xiao Yi's face changed, Qi Lao's awesomeness Xiao Yi had already understood, in all fairness, if the hole cards are all out, life and death, the one-on-one victory between himself and the old man is probably between three and seven, of course, the old man accounts for seven, and he accounts for three.
"Uncle Qi should not be modest, is there really such a big gap?" asked Xiao Yi.
"It's only going to be bigger, if you really want to resist the innate masters with the cultivation of the day after tomorrow, if there are ten or eight ninth-layer masters of the day after tomorrow, you can give it a try, but if there are five or six top masters in the nine layers like the virtuous nephew, it's almost okay, hehe!"
Xiao Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, that Jian San was the descendant disciple of the head of the Ten Thousand Swords Academy, which ranked first among the six major sects, and the same ninth-level non-precept monk was not Jian San's opponent at all.
Between himself and him, it is almost as difficult to find five or six such acquired masters than to invite an innate master! Thinking of this, Xiao Yi glanced at Qi Lao, this old man can suppress himself steadily, and he doesn't know how to practice.
"You don't need to look at the old man, the entire mountain city is Jian San plus you and I are eligible, Jian San will naturally not easily be the enemy of Wangyue Sect, virtuous nephew, your old injuries have not healed, although the old man is conceited, how dare he fight against the innate master alone?"
Yes, the innate realm is destined to be an invincible existence in the mountain city, and besides, his injury is not healed yet, so he can only outwit him, not fight hard.
Just when Xiao Yi and Qi Lao were worried about the upcoming enemy, Ji Shaoyan and his uncle Tong Qianjin finally slowly entered the city from the north gate of the mountain city.
"It is worthy of being the first big city in Qingzhou, and it is really interesting. Uncle Tong, let's go shopping first, I heard that there are a few streets in the mountain city that are very prosperous!" Ji Shaoyan said.
"Okay, listen to you!" Tong Qianjin is not the exception, similar situations are often encountered.
Besides, although Uncle Tong is strong in martial arts, he is not good at dealing with people, and this time the senior brother in charge arranged for himself and his nephew to come to the mountain city to do business, obviously to train Ji and nephew.
So the two walked to a bustling street, which is a main street in the mountain city, which was built by the Huangfu during his tenure, the street is more than ten meters wide, and there are stalls selling snacks and small objects on both sides. In the distance, there are rice shops, salt shops, pawnshops, cloth shops and so on.
Ji Shaoyan is the son of the head of Wangyue Sect, he has been pampered since he was a child, but he rarely goes down the mountain, so he likes to be lively the most, as for the wine, he naturally has a lot of involvement, Ji Shaoyan took his uncle and the two of them to go shopping for nearly two hours, and he drank and listened to the music before he had some fun.
Ji Shaoyan shook the folding fan, humming an unknown song over and over again, and walked towards the Tang family. Ji Shaoyan is well-dressed, clothes, folding fans, hostas and even swords are worth a lot of money, plus the tower-like Tong Qianjin, although there are people on the street, but they all deliberately avoid the two.
At this moment, there was a commotion on the opposite side, and the flow of people was surging towards the two, Ji Shaoyan looked into the distance, and it turned out that there was a person dressed in rivers and lakes running towards this side on horseback, looking at his embarrassed appearance, he was obviously injured.
When the man passed by, the crowd avoided one after another, and just when Ji Shaoyan hesitated to teach the guy on horseback a lesson, a thin man accidentally crashed into Ji Shaoyan's arms.
"I'm going to die!" Ji Shaoyan raised his hand to push the thin man away, and glared at the thin man fiercely.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the small ones didn't mean to, you adults have a lot of them!" the thin man apologized
", next time you go out with your eyes. Ji Shaoyan kicked the thin man, and his squirming side was vividly expressed.
By the time the two of them corrected, the horseman had already moved away towards the joint.
Ji Shaoyan shook his head, and continued to walk forward with a disappointed face, and after taking a few steps, Ji Shaoyan felt that something was wrong. He touched his arms.
"Damn, where are my tokens and silver tickets!" Ji Shaoyan's face changed greatly, as if he remembered something, and he hurriedly chased in the direction of the thin man behind him. But people on the street can chase after it.
What Ji Shaoyan didn't know was that he had been targeted by this thin monkey-like person more than an hour ago, and it was no wonder that the two of them were defenseless, this thin monkey was also a person with a great background.
"Thin Monkey" has an extraordinary background, and he is a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes, but it is not a good reputation, this person is the "flower thief" hated by everyone in the rivers and lakes, and he is the number one person in the Demon Sect, called Yang Yan, known as Flying on the grass. Although he has been hunted down by heroes in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, his cultivation is not low and his light achievements are outstanding, so he has been at large until now.
Although Yang Yan is evil and hateful, there is no precedent for stealing in the past, only blame Ji Shaoyan for being recognized by the core disciple of Wangyue Sect early, Yang Yan was hunted down and killed by Wangyue Sect in his early years, and when he saw the core disciple of Wangyue Sect at this time, he naturally wanted to make a fool of himself.
Not to mention that the thin man stole the waist card given by the head of Wangyue Sect, there is no room for loss, that is, a piece of waste paper was stolen, if it is near the Jizhou Mountain Gate, with Ji Shaoyan's temper, the whole city can be turned over.
Regardless of the chickens, flying dogs and jumping in the market, Xiao Yi was slowly moving in the Xiao family's house at this time, and a set of Tai Chi boxing was played several times, the white crane flashed its wings, the twin peaks pierced the ears, it was like a seal, and the cross hand was practiced, one by one.
On the other side, the little maid who served Xiao Yi was playing a set of boxing techniques awkwardly, this is the introductory boxing method that Xiao Yi taught a few days ago, after all, he is his own person, and he has to know some kung fu in the rivers and lakes anyway.
In the distance, a figure quickly ran in his direction, the man was in disarray, and there was a wound on his left shoulder that was bleeding.
Xiao Yi slowly retracted his fists, looking at Xiao Quan in the distance getting closer and closer, his expression gradually became serious.
"Young Master Yi, master, second master, he was killed, and it was all the subordinate guards who were not favorable!" As soon as Xiao Quan opened his mouth, Xiao Yi's face changed greatly, his chest was bored for a while, his right hand was clenched into a fist, and the wound on his waist gradually deepened with blood.
"What, what's going on? Who did it?" Xiao Yi said angrily.