Chapter 33: The Loom
There was chaos in front of me.
Chaos is not darkness, chaos is an indescribable state, it seems to be empty, and it seems to be filled with all kinds of pictures.
He seemed to hear his father's voice, and seemed to see the scene of the civil and military hundred officials shouting long live, and in a blink of an eye he returned to his childhood, sucking his fingers freely in the arms of his wet nurse.
A cold light flashed, splitting him in the middle, he turned his head, and the cold light turned into a person,
is like Su Qing and Lu Qiaoer.
She opened her mouth, as if she was saying something to herself.
But the voice was too loud for him to tell.
And so everything returned to chaos.
But the cacophony gradually became clearer, as if to dispel the chaos.
He struggled to open his eyes, the light stung his eyes, and there was a faint tingling pain in his chest, which made him hum.
"You're awake. "There is humanity.
He took a deep breath and resisted the pain in his chest. His eyes gradually adjusted to the light in the room, and he blinked and saw Xue Qing sitting on the side with his sword in his hand.
"I never thought that one day I would wake up and see a man next to me. Yu Xiaoyao said with his teeth bared.
If Feng Lilong was here, he would probably fight with him for a while, regardless of whether he was injured or not.
But Xue Qing is Xue Qing, he just said lightly: "It's good to wake up." ”
Yu Xiaoyao lay on the bed, listening to the noisy voices outside, and asked, "How long have I fainted?"
Xue Qing said: "Half a day and one night." ”
Yu Xiaoyao smiled, "I thought I was going to die." ”
Xue Qing said: "The knife wound is not fatal. ”
Yu Xiaoyao touched his heart, which was tied with a thick bandage, thinking that the knife was too short, and Xiaoyu's strength was small, so it didn't stab him in the heart, "Then how could I pass out?" he asked.
Xue Qing said: "The knife is poisonous. ”
Yu Xiaoyao asked again: "Then how did I wake up?"
Xue Qing said: "There is an antidote. ”
Yu Xiaoyao smiled bitterly, Xue Qing has always been like this, there will never be half a sentence of nonsense, and he will never say a word more. He lay on the bed and moved his hands and feet, and when he saw that there was nothing wrong, he sat up from the bed.
"Why is it so noisy outside?" asked Yu Xiaoyao, rubbing her head.
Xue Qing stood up and said, "Everyone is here." ”
Yu Xiaoyao knew that at this time, instead of listening to Xue Qing's explanation, it was better to go out and have a look by himself, so he put on his clothes, pushed open the door and walked out.
The courtyard is still Li Yanyun's small courtyard, but there are many more people overnight, and you can see that they are all people from the rivers and lakes.
Hearing the door open, a few people glanced at the place, but then withdrew their gaze, obviously, they didn't gather here because of Jade Yao.
A boy dressed as a Taoist priest squeezed out of the crowd, walked up to him, looked at him twice, gave a salute, and asked, "Your Excellency is a free and easy jade?"
Seeing this little child, Yu Xiaoyao thought of Xiao Yu, and I don't know how that little child is doing now. He nodded, "It's me." ”
The boy turned sideways and said, "Sanren, please come with me." ”
Yu Xiaoyao couldn't help but ask, "Where to go?"
The boy said, "Go where you need to go." ”
Yu Xiaoyao was amused by his answer, and he took a step to keep up with the boy.
They crossed the corridor, walked through the courtyard, and came to the main hall, and as soon as they entered the door, Yu Yao couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Above the main hall, facing the main seat at the door, there are two people sitting upright, a monk together, it is now the Taishan Beidou of Wulin, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, Master Fajue, and the head of Wudang, Cangsong Zhenren.
But it wasn't these two people who surprised Yu Xiaoyao, but the gentleman-like figure sitting on the right deputy.
The commander of the brocade guard!
The conductor smiled and nodded at him, like an old friend he hadn't seen in years.
In addition to these three people, there are also seven or eight people sitting in the hall, all of whom are famous and surnamed figures in the Central Plains martial arts, not a hero, or the head of a major faction, Guo Yifei, the head of the Diancang faction, is also among them.
Seeing Yu Xiaoyao walk in, Cang Song Zhenren coughed lightly and said, "Yu Gongzi, do you know why we invited you here?"
Yu Xiaoyao sighed and said, "You must think that I am a person from the Liuhe Knife." ”
Cangsong Zhenren shook his head and said: "The commander has made the truth of this matter clear to us, and you are also forced to be helpless, no wonder you are in this matter, Liuhe Dao is the culprit behind the scenes." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said: "Then I don't know what else is going on when I come down?"
The commander smiled and said, "I called you here because you are probably the one who knows the Liuhe Sword the most among all the people here." The next thing is to lend your hand. ”
Yu Xiaoyao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd, he didn't know why he was here at this time, and he didn't know what he said to everyone.
So Yu Xiaoyao simply shut her mouth and found a chair to sit down.
Fa Jue clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, everyone has arrived, so let's start." Commander?"
The commander nodded, stood up, and said, "Some of you here today may know why I'm here, and some may not know, before I get down to business, I want to say that I once did something for the Liuhe Dao. ”
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the hall.
Yu Xiaoyao was even more stunned, he didn't know why the commander suddenly told this secret.
The commander stretched out his hands to calm the quarrel in the hall and said, "You may have doubts about what I said, so I will invite someone to answer your doubts." As he spoke, he clapped his hands gently.
A round, fat figure walked out of the back hall, it was Li Yanyun who escaped last night.
Yu Xiaoyao finally knew where the antidote in Xue Qing's mouth came from.
But what he doesn't know is why Li Yanyun is still here?
The commander pointed at Li Yanyun and said, "This person is Li Yanyun, the master of Yanziwu, two days ago, he received a golden knife and asked him to come and take Yu Xiaoyao's head, he came without saying a word, and killed Elder Yan of the Wudang faction." Li Yanyun, is there such a thing?"
Li Yanyun's face was pale, his body was like a sifting chaff, and he nodded tremblingly.
The commander asked, "Then let me ask you, why are you willing to be driven by the Liuhe Knife to do such a thing as killing others, is it to save your own life?"
Li Yanyun smiled bitterly and said, "No." If I was trying to save my own life, how could I do such a stupid thing as killing Elder Yan. ”
The commander pressed step by step, "Then what are you killing people for?"
Li Yanyun shook his head and said, "I can't say. ”
The commander said: "If you don't say it, I'll tell you for you, is it because your family has fallen under the control of the Liuhe Dao?"
Li Yanyun suddenly raised his head, his face full of shock, "You... How do you know!"
The commander smiled bitterly: "How do I know? Of course I do." Because your family was secretly tied up by the Jinyi guard. ”
"What!?" Li Yanyun was shocked and angry, his eyes had become red, he suddenly jumped up and reached out to grab the commander.
But before Li Yanyun could reach out, the commander stretched out his hand, and a little black light was thrown out of his hand, hitting Li Yanyun's foot three miles, Li Yanyun snorted and fell to the ground.
The commander said lightly: "If you want to resent me and hate me, you can go, but you listen to me first." ”
Li Yanyun knelt on the ground, his eyes still exuding a devouring fierce light.
The commander took out a brocade box from his arms, put it in front of Li Yanyun, and said, "Open it and take a look." ”
Li Yanyun opened the box, and was suddenly shocked, the box fell to the ground with a broken hand, and a broken hand bone rolled out of the box.
"It's... It's..." Large beads of sweat came out of Li Yanyun's head, his lips trembled, his eyes were fixed on the severed hand, and he couldn't move half an inch away.
The conductor leaned down and gently picked up the severed hand, and he stroked the severed hand, his eyes revealing infinite tenderness.
"Rest assured, this is not your family's hand. The commander said.
Li Yanyun sat on the ground and gasped for air.
The commander said, "Because this hand originally belonged to my granddaughter." ”
Fa Jue closed his eyes and chanted a Buddha horn in a low voice, with a faint look of unbearability on his face.
The conductor picked up the brocade box, put the severed hand into it gently, his movements were very gentle, as if he was afraid of hurting the hand, and then he cherished the brocade box back into his arms.
At this time, he is no longer the commanding commander of the Jinyi Guard, but has turned back into an ordinary old man who remembers his granddaughter.
"Her name is Sakura Sakura, Sakura's Sakura, who is only fifteen years old, has become a little beauty. The conductor fell into memory, as if the elf's lovely little girl was standing in front of him, "To an old man, she is my treasure, my pearl in my palm." ”
But in July of this year, she suddenly disappeared, from the small building where she lived, like a puff of smoke, without a trace. On her dresser, there was an extra golden knife. ”
A cold glint flashed in the commander's eyes, "I also heard about that organization thirty years ago, and I knew that this was their mark, I don't know that after more than thirty years, they came out of that corner again, I don't know, I don't care, I only care where my Sakura Sakura went." ”
"So I sent all the brocade guards, even if I want to turn the Jingshi upside down, I must find my Sakura!"
"But I didn't find them, they did. ”
On the night after Sakura's disappearance, a man in a silver mask appeared, saying that Sakura was in their hands, and took out the jade pendant that Sakura had brought with him. ”
"They said that as long as I listened to them, they would never touch a single hair of Sakura. ”
"Of course, I was not willing to be manipulated by them, so while I did what they said, I secretly sent my most trusted subordinate, Yang Tianci, to investigate their whereabouts. ”
The commander looked at Yu Xiaoyao and said: "The next thing, Yu Gongzi also knows something, Yang Tianci passed a book to me, saying that if there is a clue, I will lead people to rush to the White Emperor City, and when I arrived at the White Emperor, Yang Tianci told me that Tang Qi is a silver-faced man, but he has not caught Tang Qi yet." ”
So I went with him to the inn, where I saw Tang Qi, his figure was exactly the same as the silver-faced man, and just when I thought I was going to succeed, the golden knife old six appeared. ”
Saying this, his face showed a look of pain, "As soon as the golden knife Lao Liu appeared, he killed Yang Tianci with one sword, and then, he took out this brocade box, threw it to me, and said, if I still secretly make small moves behind their backs like this, they will send Sakura Sakura back, little by little." ”
The last few words almost popped out between his teeth, and two lines of tears had flowed down his face at some point.
Everyone in the hall was silent, they were deeply moved by the story of the commander, and no one knew how much torment this old man's heart was suffering at the moment.
Li Yanyun lowered his head silently and muttered, "It turns out that you are the same as me..."
The commander took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and said: "I know that I can't fight them with my own strength, and many of your family members are also lost in the hands of the Liuhe Knife, so I fight for this old life, and I am willing to raise the power of the Jinyi Guard, and together with all the heroes of the rivers and lakes, we will jointly bring down the Liuhe Knife!"
Fa Jue nodded and said, "Exactly, the Liuhe Sword is an evil river and lake, its heart is not small, we can't sit idly by, today..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Yanyun suddenly screamed, jumped up more than a foot high, and fell heavily to the ground.
He curled up on the ground, his hands and feet twitching and stretching out, as if he were weaving cloth with a loom. One of his faces had turned a deep purple, his upper and lower teeth were clenched together, and the corners of his mouth were foaming at the mouth.
Jade Xiaoyao was closest to him, and he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, so he flew over and pinched his jaw to prevent him from accidentally biting off his tongue. The people in the hall immediately gathered around.
"Did he have a stroke?" someone asked.
Yu Xiaoyao shook his head and said, "No, it seems to be poisoned." ”
The commander suddenly said, "This... Could it be the legendary loom?!"
The loom is the poison that poisoned Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and it is also a prescription passed down from generation to generation in the Tang Dynasty.
Someone exclaimed, "Today is the third day!"
Yu Xiaoyao's heart was shocked, he knew what that person was referring to, today was the last day of the three-day period that the Liuhe Dao gave to Li Yanyun.
If you don't succeed, you die.
Seeing that Li Yanyun's whole body was twitching more and more violently, everyone showed a look of horror.
Is this the enemy they will face?
This poison is extremely rare, and it is an untold secret of the Tang Sect, where can I find the antidote in a hurry?
So everyone could only watch Li Yanyun slowly die in extreme pain.
"I have an antidote!"
Suddenly there was a shout from outside the door. When Yu Xiaoyao heard this voice, he couldn't help but feel a shock all over his body, and he almost subconsciously looked at the door.
A silver-faced man in a green robe stood at the door, and in the eyes of everyone, he gently took off the mask on his face, revealing the handsome face under the mask.
Tang Qi repeated his words again in a calm and powerful voice.
"I have the antidote. ”