Volume 1 Chapter 13 The Enchantress Offers the Antidote
In the evening five days later, the old house of Cao's in Tongchao Lane, Fuzhou.
"Grandma...... Chu Miyun, I'm back, open the door!" Cao Shubao rushed all the way to the gate of Cao's old mansion, and couldn't wait to dismount, and shouted at the door.
"Uncle Cao, why did you come back so soon?" Chu Miyun pushed open the door and greeted him, his face slightly pale.
"I came back in time. Cao Shubao gasped.
"I can see it, your face is very tired...... Chu Miyun patted his shoulder with his left hand, and continued, "How is it, is the matter over there resolved?"
Seeing Cao Shubao nodding again and again, Chu Miyun continued, "I know that as long as you cheer up, Daju is definitely not your opponent......"
Cao Shubao smiled and patted Chu Miyun's right shoulder with his left hand, Chu Miyun covered his right arm with his left hand, and his expression was instantly painful, "Ah......"
"What's wrong with you......" Cao Shubao was concerned at first, and then had a bad premonition in his heart, according to the usual situation, the elders knew that he was back, and they had already rushed up to ask questions, and hurriedly asked, "What about the people at home, why are they so quiet?"
Chu Miyun's face was painful, as if he was still trembling, and he lowered his head silently. Seeing this, Cao Shubao's heart and throat became rapid, and he hurriedly rushed into the courtyard. Chu Miyun silently followed with a guilty face.
Cao Shubao walked through the first corridor of the courtyard, pushed the door open, and saw two white lanterns hanging on both sides of the hall, with the word "lai" in big black on the top, the spiritual platform in the middle of the mourning hall was full of spiritual seats, cigarettes lingered, two bright white candles burned quietly, and the front one was impressively written "The ninth generation of the Cao family's eldest daughter-in-law Yunlian spiritual position......
"How can this be? how can it be ......" Cao Shubao kept muttering, his eyes glazed, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground.
"The day after I took the Qingyu Sword, the killers of the Yupu Regiment suddenly appeared, and when I rushed back, they had already killed everyone......" Chu Miyun squatted down beside him, and said with tears in his eyes, "It's all because I'm useless, I can't beat them, not only can't I take revenge, but in the end, I can only escape by light skills......"
When Chu Miyun said this, his eyes lost their former cleverness, and the two lines of hot tears could no longer flow uncontrollably.
"It's me, I'm sorry for the ancestors of the Cao family, and I'm even more sorry for grandma, the lives of more than 30 members of the Cao family were all killed because of me......" Cao Shubao said, kneeling and crawling to the spirit case and kowtowing three times, "Grandma, I'm sorry for you, if I hadn't been good at learning......
Looking at Cao Shubao, who was crying bitterly, Chu Miyun patted him on the shoulder, shook his head gently, took a deep breath and said, "Come with me!"
In the secret room of the Buddhist hall of the old mansion of the Cao family, Chu Miyun pointed to the incense case, and Cao Shubao looked at it, it was a string of Bodhi Buddha beads of the eighteen sons of red sandalwood.
"Grandma's Buddha beads are objects that she has never left in her hands......" Cao Shubao knelt down in front of the case, picked up the Buddha beads with both hands and looked at them carefully, and said sadly, "Grandma was killed here?"
"When I returned to the old mansion that night, there was already a river of blood, and I ran into a killer head-on, and I ......was defeated in a few moves," Chu Miyun recalled, his jaw trembling, "I sneaked back late at night, and I couldn't see a single living mouth, and then I found this secret room, and I only saw the seriously injured and dying grandmother......"
"Originally, I wanted to bring the Qingyu Sword back as soon as possible to protect everyone, but I didn't expect it to be late......" Uncle Cao clenched the Buddha beads in his hand and whimpered.
"Grandma told me before she died, in fact, the Cao family's intelligence network has long been targeted by the enemy country, this time the Snow Wolf Country sent the Yupu regiment to hunt you down, the purpose is to let you take the Qingyu Sword from the old mansion, and then attack when the source of the Cao family has no ability to resist, and then destroy the largest intelligence family in the Shun country in one fell swoop. ”
"I fell into the trap of the enemy country, didn't I?" Cao Shubao heard the truth, stood up with his eyes wide open, grabbed Chu Miyun's two arms and shook them, and asked excitedly, "I indirectly killed the Cao family?"
Seeing Chu Miyun's painful expression and thinking of his injury, Cao Shubao let go, turned around and stared at the Buddha beads in his hand, "It's all my fault!"
"I can't blame you, the enemy is so cunning, and there are many people, and they are ...... in the dark," Chu Miyun comforted.
"No, no......" Cao Shubao shook his head and said, took another deep breath, and said unusually calmly, "Chu Miyun, you have already helped our Cao family a lot, don't worry, I will be fine, you go first, I want to be alone here for a while." ”
Yupu Tuan, as the main person in charge of the assassination mission of the Snow Wolf Country, although she has destroyed the Cao family, the first wind media of the Shun people, in the Central Plains operation, but obviously has sent so many masters of the Yupu Regiment, Wen Taizhen, Tao Shiheng, Cao Shubao and others still fought back and escaped, safe and sound, such a result made her embarrassed in front of the real power of the Snow Wolf Country. "If these rookies in the Central Plains are really so powerful, then how should the assassination mission sent to me by the Snow Wolf King be completed, and how can the glory of the family be preserved......" This is the first time in the past ten years, Zhu Yuyue is afraid, these nights, she often feels that her breathing is unprecedentedly heavy, and it is difficult to sleep.
Half a month later, late one night, the underground secret room of Yihong Courtyard was the main hall of the Orthodox Taoism. She and ten of her top assassins from the Yupu Regiment surrounded the exit of the main hall of the Orthodox Sect, blocking the core members of the Orthodox Sect.
"Two hall masters, the little girl just wants to meet your sect master and convey the sincerity of the Snow Wolf King's cooperation!"
Yang Jin, the leader of the Orthodox Sect in red clothes, although he relied on the cultivation of the Orthodox supreme martial arts "Five Thunder Palms" four years ago, his strength has reached the realm of the Great Heaven, which has prompted the Orthodox Sect to rise rapidly in the Central Plains in just three years, but since he was hit by Zhang Mengbin's bloody throat, he can only use less than five layers of skill now, if he wants to recover to the peak, he needs to cultivate for at least half a year, unless he gets the antidote. He wanted to devote himself to detoxification and recuperate, so he announced a retreat and divided the affairs of the Righteous Daoist Sect into two parts, with the external affairs entrusted to Su Jun, the master of the Gray Clothes Hall, and the internal affairs to Sun En, the head of the Yellow Clothes Hall.
"Girl, our sect leader is in retreat, if you have anything to say to us, we will report it to the old man truthfully. Sun En, the man in yellow, said lightly, while carefully looking at this arrogant and delicate woman.
"Heh, I'm not coming from far away, I didn't expect the Orthodox Sect to be so rude to hospitality......" Yu Yuyue snorted and laughed, her eyes full of charm.
The gray-clothed man Su Jun was stunned at first, and when he looked around at the ten murderous assassins standing with their swords behind him, he came back to his senses and said sharply, "I said that the sect leader is in retreat, you can come back another day, otherwise we are welcome!"
"Hahaha......" Yu Yuyue waved her hand to stop the assassin who was about to move behind her, and after a sneer, she pretended to be Chu Chu and covered her mouth and said, "Anyway, if the little girl can't see the Sheep Sect Master, she will be very bored when she goes back, so it's better to stay and accompany you to relieve her boredom!"
A touching smile floated on the corner of her mouth, and her slender fingers slashed across the sword at her waist, and Qiang suddenly pulled out of its sheath, and the cold sword aura suddenly leaked out, like water, like moonlight!
Su Jun has been rolling in the rivers and lakes all these years and has rich experience, just by looking at the posture of the sword of the moon, he has already judged that this woman is an extremely terrible opponent. He took two steps back and drew his sword, and at the same time signaled left and right for his subordinates to besiege together.
"Bang Bang!" A sword qi was thrown out of the sword in Yu Yueyue's hand, and a huge table in the hall instantly turned into fragments, splashing everywhere, and the righteous Taoist people immediately dodged left and right. With the strength of her feet, her volley clothes flew towards Su Jun quickly, permeated with a murderous aura, and her whole figure was like a fairy from the abyss of the fallen Black Lotus, and her face was like a delicate thorny rose......
"Hey Yi" Su Jun's face was stunned, the opponent's strength, with a loud roar, rushed forward with enough strength, and at the same time, three or five of his subordinates also helped up, and Sun En also pressed the knife on his waist, ready to react at any time.
The moon swept in front of Su Jun, and with a wave of his hand, he knocked several righteous Taoist disciples away with sword qi, and then raised his sword and slashed at the top of Su Jun's head.
The two swords intersected, and an internal force was like force majeure, Su Jun instantly felt the blood in his chest churning, and his feet kept staggering back, and when he stopped against the wall, two taels of blood had gushed out of his mouth.
Seeing this situation, Sun En, the man in yellow, hesitated a little about how to deal with it. He didn't expect that Su Jun, like himself, was close to the middle heaven position, and he was actually injured by a woman like this in front of him, so it seemed that he should not act rashly.
The moon flew forward and landed between Sun En and Su Jun, glanced at Sun En, and the sword flower in his hand seemed to be unfinished, ready to make another move.
The stone door of the secret room behind Su Jun suddenly creaked open, and Yang Jin's voice came, "Lunar Eclipse Sword, Yupu Regiment Master!"
"Sect Master!" Su Jun, Sun En, and all the disciples respectfully clenched their fists.
The red-clothed man Yang Jin walked out slowly with his hands behind his back, first glanced at the messy scene, then looked at the injured Su Jun, and finally his eyes fell on the snow-white woman in the bundle.
"Sect Leader Sheep, are you finally willing to show up?" said with a cold snort as she rolled her eyebrows.
"Master of the Gang Sect, as soon as you came, you injured my righteous Taoist people, could it be that they offended you somewhere?" Yang Jin asked knowingly with a dissatisfied expression.
"Where, where...... It was the little woman who was asking the master of the Su Hall of your sect to teach martial arts, and she was thanked for the mercy of the master of the Su hall!" After finishing speaking, she deliberately glanced at Su Jun, only to see him wipe the corners of his mouth with breathlessness before returning the sword to the sheath.
"Hmph!" Yang Jin glanced at the two of them left and right, dissatisfied with Su Jun's defeat, but then looked at the skills of the woman in front of him, and secretly sighed that he was very reluctant now, so he could only endure this breath and said with bated breath, "You want to see the old man, what is the matter?"
"Sect Leader Sheep, can you take a step to speak?"
Her well-behaved expression seemed to Yang Jin like a poisonous snake spitting out letters, he motioned for Su Jun to retreat for treatment, and then signaled Sun En to be on guard outside, then turned around and walked into the Shimen secret room. After signaling his Assassins to stand by and walk into the secret room after Yang Jin.
"Say, what are you looking for me to do today?" Yang Jin faced the stone sculpture of the swastika yin and yang fish enshrined on the candelabra of the orthodox sect, and turned his back to the moon and said.
"Returning to the Sheep Sect Master, in fact, it is the meaning of my Snow Wolf Kingdom King," Yu Yue looked respectful, "Actually, the princess has always been thinking about her father, so let the little girl come to ask you for the princess to say goodbye......"
As he spoke, he bowed deeply.
"Don't give me this set!" Yang Jin suddenly turned around and scolded, "Since she became the princess of the Snow Wolf King, I have no daughter like her, and the reputation of our Yang family is due to her!"
"Sect Leader Sheep, you are serious!" "Sect Leader Sheep, you are serious!" "The situation of the day, when the Hu army saw that the princess was dressed luxuriously, they had already expected her noble status, so they forcibly hijacked her, if it weren't for the fact that the king of my snow wolf country happened to arrive...... So the princess's move is really forced to be helpless!"
"Don't think that if you say this, you can change anything, cover up the murderous and vicious image and crimes of your wolf clan, hum!" Yang Jin sarcastically snorted again, "If I guess correctly, the mysterious death of many generals in the Dashun Army five years ago must have nothing to do with your Yupu Regiment, right?"
"Sect Leader Yang, since you talked about it, let's not talk about the two armies fighting with their own strange schemes, and casualties are inevitable......" Yu Yuyue knew that if she continued to say this, she would be speechless, and the purpose of this trip would inevitably not be achieved, so she cleverly changed her concept and said, "Let's talk about which one will suffer the heaviest losses after this battle, and which one will profit the most!"
Yang Jin raised her eyes and saw that she didn't speak, wanting to see what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.
Seeing that he was slightly relieved, he slowly stated the past of several major families in the Shun Dynasty.
Since the establishment of the Shun Dynasty by the Sima clan, the Shun Dynasty has continued to have a part of the power held by several founding officials to assist the royal government in governing the government, and the families of those great officials have gradually developed into powerful families after several generations of inheritance and accumulation. As the saying goes, there is no cold door in the upper grade, and there is no family in the lower grade. Until the "Yongjia Disaster", the most powerful families of this generation are the Wang family, the Xie family, the Heng family, and the Yu family, and the Yang family has advanced to the fifth family according to the imperial grace of the queen Yang Yanrong. The great family of the Shun Dynasty, whether it is in the court, business and martial arts, or from the appointment of talents, the management and distribution of household banks and even military deployment, have far-reaching influence. After the new emperor ascended the throne in the south of the Shun Dynasty, everything continued: Wang Maohong of the Wang family was the prime minister, Wang Chuzhong was the general, and one article and one martial arts complemented each other; the Xie family, Xie Anshi was the chief lieutenant, and the sister was the new emperor's concubine; the Heng family, Heng Yuanzi hung the title of the great Sima, held the tiger talisman, and was in charge of the soldiers and horses of the Shun Dynasty; the Yu family, Yu Zisong was the prince, and his niece was the current queen.
"I understand that the Yang Sect Leader is burdened with the burden of revitalizing the reputation of the Yang family, although he has been removed from his official position, you also want to make a difference through the Orthodox Sect, and you have not given many benefits to the important members of the court and the central government over the years, right?"
"The matter of my sheep family, it's not your turn to be a yellow-haired girl to comment on the beak!"
"Hahaha, it seems that the little girl is unfortunate enough to be right......" Yu Yuyue pretended to be shy, and continued, "I guess what the next thing the Yang Sect Master will do is to try his best to secretly help his granddaughter return to the royal family safely and smoothly, after all, she is the last hope of the Yang family......"
"What the hell are you ...... Yang Jin turned around in surprise, he didn't expect the woman in his twenties in front of him to be so thoughtful, and her thoughts were all seen through by her, looking at her and saying, "Hmph, if you have anything to say to the old man, just say it, don't beat around the bush!"
"Okay, Sect Master Sheep is happy now!" Xue Yuyue straightened up, looked at Yang Jin and said, "I, the king of the Snow Wolf Country, said that the princess misses her daughter very much, so you can rest assured that the princess must be kept safe no matter what!"
Yang Jin originally wanted to send people from the Zhengdao Sect to secretly protect Sima Ru, but the court and people from several major families were staring at the Zhengdao Sect, and the residual poison on her body was not cleared, I was afraid that it would be difficult to hide Sima Ru's identity and secretly send her into the palace. When Su Qiyue mentioned this, it was exactly what he wanted.
Seeing his slightly moved contemplation, he continued, "But if the princess wants to restore the glory of the royal family, I'm afraid that someone in the four major families will definitely get in the way, so I hope that the Yang Sect Master can agree to join hands with us to defend!"
"Are you trying to borrow the power of my righteous Taoism to secretly sabotage the relationship between the four major families and cause infighting between the government and the opposition?"
"The Sheep Sect Leader is wise!" said with a bow, "The four major families have been grudging with each other for a long time, but there is no decent fuse, as long as we cooperate inside and outside, and we have clever plans...... When the time comes, you will turn the tide and repel foreign enemies, plus the princess will return, won't the sheep family be the only one?"
"That's a good word, who knows if you wolf people will cross the river and tear down the bridge?" Yang Jin's face turned pale.
As if she had expected it, she took out a small medicine bottle from her bosom and handed it to both hands, smiling, "In order to show her sincerity, the little woman is willing to offer the antidote to the blood and seal her throat first, and provide a reliable piece of information that is of great importance. ”
Yang Jin took the medicine bottle, opened the stopper and sniffed it, looking back and doubting, "This medicine ...... Does it really work?"
"Sect Leader Yang, don't worry, the person who researches poison has made a package ticket, this medicine is taken with one pill of water every morning, and after seven days, the remaining poison on your body will be gone!"
"The master next to Heng Yuanzi is your secret chess?" Yang Jin nodded, and asked casually.
"In that way, the old man can consider separating the four major families, but my Yang family has been loyal for generations and will never participate in treason!" He nodded with a smile when he saw Yu Yuyue, and said softly.
"Don't worry, you didn't directly participate in what Yuputou was going to do, it wasn't treason, and my wolf clan would definitely arrange a good show for you to make meritorious contributions to the dynasty again!"
"Then tell me the news you brought!" Yang Jin knew that the so-called femme fatale was referring to the woman in front of her, so she turned her face to the side and said with a straight face.
"The person who spread the news that Heng Yuanzi has a Qilin treasure map in his hand is Sima Dao, the king of Huiji. He originally wanted to use this as bait to lead the Zhengdao Sect and the Heng family to intensify the contradictions, and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, but you always killed the son of Heng Yuanzi in order to save the princess, and Sima Dao was in the arms, so he fortunately dragged the Xie family, the Wang family, and the Yu family into the water, so that the common people weakened each other, so as to expand their own henchmen in the court......!
"How can this be reasonable, in vain the old man is sincere to the king of Huiji...... If the Orthodox Sect really wants to keep a treasure map, how can it rely on Cao Yun and salt sellers!" Yang Jin slapped the table and said convincingly.
Seeing that he didn't look like a lie, he continued, "The Sheep Sect Master is really loyal, but it's a pity that this will be the king's desire for profit, and your loyalty is not human!"
"Okay, I promised you, I will arrange the deployment as soon as possible, and you will remember what you said!" Yang Jin withdrew his hand with a look of determination.
"Of course, although I am a woman, I have always been honest!"
Although Yang Jin desperately wanted to save the reputation and reputation of the Yang family, he was very cultivated, and he never thought of really betraying the country, he hated Sima Dao for turning his back on him, and it was true that he wanted to take revenge on the four major families, but he was sure that the Yupu Tuan and the Zhengdao Sect were just using each other, and he was imprinted in his heart with the true idea that he would finally get rid of Yu Yuyue and the Yupu Tuan.